A/N Felt bad for the very short chapter so here you go. Hope you enjoy. Reviews are not necessary but are greatly appreciated!

Chapter 3

Tessa was tense the entire drive through Beacon Hills.

She had just left the realtors office with her new apartment key. A fake id and a few counts of credit card fraud if she was ever caught made it easy for her to move from place to place. She had paid for a 6 month lease on the apartment above a laundry mat across the street from the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic.

She couldn't help the shock she felt at the cleanliness and the decent up keep of the one bedroom apartment. The walls were a very light tan color with a dark brown laminate flooring made to look like hardwood. The one counter top not holding the sink and dishwasher was the only thing separating the kitchen from the living room. The bedroom was down the hall straight back and to the left while the bathroom was directly across from it. The apartment had come fully furnished with the exception of the bedroom but a quick call to the local furniture store and the land lord had led to a very comfy queen size bed being delivered. Tessa hefted her four suit cases up the stairs and began to unpack and prepare for the funeral which was in about two and a half hours.

Tessa felt satisfied with her outfit choice. Not only was it funeral appropriate but it hid her weapons nicely. One throwing dagger was strapped to both her wrists while two more were resting on her inner hips and the last remaining dagger was snug in her right boot. She studied her reflection in the mirror and knew she was ready. Gerard's number was up. She couldn't help the smile tugging at her lips as she pulled out of her parking spot in front of the laundry mat and headed towards the funeral.

Tessa was shocked at all the cameras and police presence. It quickly vanished when she saw her Grandfather and two other men making their way across the parking lot. She was at the far end choosing to park where no other vehicles were. She had assumed all the vehicles on the other side of the parking lot were here to morn the loss of the spawn of evil but quickly realized most of them belonged to the circus of the media.

She stepped from her vehicle and took in her surroundings. She watched the media snapping photos and gently jostling one another to get better shots from behind a barricade, the police keeping them back, her Uncle hugging his father, and behind a statue movement. She looked but what she thought she saw wasn't there until the Sheriff marched purposefully over and grabbed two teenage boys from their hiding spot.

"What is up with this crazy town." she mumbled to herself as she made her way to the grave sight. The police didn't give her any trouble and allowed her through. Within ten feet of the small remaining Argent family everyone looked up at her. It took everything Tessa had to meet Gerard's gaze and keep herself expressionless. He however couldn't school his shock. "My God." He huffed before taking Tessa in his arms. She stood there stiffly allowing the real monster to embrace her but not returning the affection. "Who is this?" Victoria, her Aunt hissed icily. "Tessa?" Chris asked bewildered. "We can talk about this later." Tessa sighed taking a seat in the back row as far away from her family as possible.

Tessa couldn't have told you a single word that was said during the services. The entire time she sat staring at the back of Gerard's head reminding herself that cameras and witnesses were everywhere to not use her dagger and slice his throat. Finally it was over. She stood up and her Uncle rushed over. "Please follow me to my house. We have a lot of questions…" Tessa nodded letting him know that was agreeable. Before anyone else could stop and talk to her she marched to her car and waited for the rest of them to get in their vehicles so she could follow.

The red Chevy Tahoe pulled into the driveway and stopped. Tessa parked by the curb so her exit wasn't cut off and went into the house. She followed behind two of Gerard's goons who had been at the funeral into the kitchen where food was laid out on the counter and table. She couldn't summon her appetite. Good thing to because as soon as Allison was sent upstairs the interrogation began.

"Where have you been, what happened?!" Chris demanded anger, hurt, fear, and caution crossing his features. Tessa could see Gerard standing in the kitchen doorway waiting for her response. "I came home that night from a party and found them like…" Tessa let her voice choke up. She couldn't let Gerard know she saw him, not yet anyway. "I freaked… At the hospital I overheard the nurses say something about in patient treatment so I bailed." She continued spinning her lie so perfectly she almost believed it herself. "I wasn't going to some mental house while my parents murderer ran free. So I've been trying to find whoever or whatever did it. So far no luck. Then I heard about Kate and decided too many people are getting away with killing our family. They need to pay!" Tessa seethed balling her fists and begging herself to stop glancing at her Grandfather and wondering if she could put a dagger between his eyes at this angle.

"Oh they will pay." Gerard agreed letting anger seep into his tone. "Sir, no disrespect but we can't have a liability for this operation. How long has it been and how much training has she had?" Goon number 1 popped off sticking his finger in her face. Tessa saw the perfect opportunity to release a little anger and prove she could be let in. With lightning quickness she grabbed the mans extended arm while stepping forward and bent it back so hard she felt herself dislocate his shoulder. In one fluid motion she had her left wrist dagger in her hand and pinned underneath Goons chin whom had gone down to one knee due to the pain of the shoulder injury.

A twinge of guilt shot through her as her Uncle Chris actually took a step back from her. "Anyone else want to question her usefulness?" Gerard asked pointedly sounding proud and bored at the same time. The room remained silent other than a hushed groan from Goon. "Saddle up gentlemen. We've got a werewolf to catch." He ordered giving Tessa a nod to instruct her to let his co Hunter go. With disgust she followed his order. "The game has begun." she told herself and couldn't stop the smirk that tugged her lips. Gerard returned it with a small smile of his own.

"If you only knew you bastard." She snarled inwardly as she followed the group out to the vehicles. Once again she found herself behind the Hunter Caravan as they headed to an area a man had been mutilated inside an ambulance.

Tessa couldn't bear having her back exposed to the evil bastard so she choose to stay at the rear of the Hunting party. They were in the woods hot on the trail of the werewolf who had attacked the ambulance. She happily let everyone got ahead of her as they ascended a small slope. As she drew closer she could hear growling which was quickly replaced by a male voice crying out in pain.

Tessa ran up the slope that quickly turned from dirt to rock and took in the awful scene. Her Uncle had his shock stick and was electrocuting the werewolf who had apparently triggered a snare. She checked her surroundings as Chris fired off questions at the now shifted back wolf. Her breathe caught as she saw Derek which she recognized from the picture in his file and a teen hidden behind a tree.

They made eye contact with her briefly and she could see them tense preparing to bolt. A quick glance around informed her everyone's attention was on the suspended wolf. Tessa slightly shook her head hoping they would trust her to not reveal their hiding spot.

….he wasn't alive I swear." She heard the fear in the wolf's voice as he pleaded with her Uncle and Grandfather. "Gentleman! Take a look at a rare sight. You wanna tell them what we caught?" Gerard called out raising his voice for everyone to hear. "An omega." Chris replied in a confident, business tone. "A lone wolf. Possibly kicked out of his own pack, a survivor of a pack that was cut down, maybe even murdered, or possibly alone by his own choice." Gerard continued as if he were teaching a class and not out in the middle of the woods.

Tessa kept her eyes briefly on her grandfather and started watching the two wolfs hiding. "Certainly not a wise choice." Her attention returned to her grandfather at the change of his tone. It went from informative to below 40 degrees and her stomach plummeted. She couldn't hear anything or move anything. Everything happened so slowly. Derek was holding the younger one back as he tried to come to the Omega's aid both watching in fear and anger. Tessa watched her Gerard swing the sword and felt her empty stomach heave as he sliced the terrified wolf in half. She didn't know if Derek and the other wolf were using their super hearing but she looked straight at them and whispered "I am so sorry."

"No code. Not anymore. From now on these things are bodies waiting to be cut in half!" Gerard's glacier voice instructed. "Because I don't care if they are wounded and weak or seemingly harmless, begging for their life promising they will never ever hurt anyone, or some desperate lost soul with no idea what they are getting into, we find them we kill them. We kill them all!" Tessa didn't wait around anymore. She shook her head knowing she shouldn't have been surprised at his black soul. Sadly she realized as she headed back to her car that a black soul was a compliment. This man didn't have one and never did.