Ch. 3 Pack Mentality
"So you both killed them" Stiles stated as we walked into the school, I looked at Stiles and Scott.
"We don't know we just woke up" I said to them "We were sweating like crazy and we couldn't breathe, we've never had a dream where we woke up like that before"
"Really, I have." Scott and I looked at him "It usually ends a little differently"
"A, I meant we've never had a dream that felt that real," Scott started.
"And B, never give us that much detail about you in bed again" I groaned out while Scott nodded his head agreeing with me.
"Noted" Stiles said "Let me take a guess here"
"I know, you think it has something to do with me going out with Alison tomorrow" Scott interrupted "you think I'll lose control and rip her throat out" Stiles shook his head.
"No, of course not" Stiles told him, Scott and I sent him a look "yeah, that's totally it" Scott let out a breath.
"Hey, it's going to be fine, alright" Stiles added "Personally I think you guys are handling this, pretty freaking amazingly" Stiles told us.
"It's not like their is a lycanthropy class for beginners class, we can take" Scott told me.
"Yeah not a class, but maybe a teacher" I stated.
"Derek?" Stiles questioned "I think you are missing a part where we got him tossed in jail"
"Yeah, I know" I told him "but...chasing them, dragging them to the back of the bus, it felt so real" I told them while we were walking through the hall.
"How real?" Stiles asked while looking at us.
"Like it actually happened" Scott explained and I nodded as we walked out of the school,we came to a sudden stop as we looked at the scene in front of us, the school bus beaten up and all bloodied on the inside.
"I think it did" Stiles said while looking at us.
Scott and Stiles went through the hall looking for Alison while I looked for Jackson. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and I ran into a flat hard chest. I landed on the ground on my butt while rubbing my nose.
"Sorry" I looked up and saw Jackson I smiled and gave an inward sigh of relief.
"Uh, no it's fine I wasn't looking where I was going. Sorry Jackson" I explained. He gave me a small smile and he helped me up and I gave him a small thanks. I went towards where Scott was and he still haven't found Alison yet.
"Calm down Scott" I told him but he went to a locker and punched it, the locker door came off it's hinges. I rubbed his back and he came off the locker and we turned the corner only to have Scott bump into someone, I saw the smiling face of Alison.
"Hey, Scott we'll meet you in class" I said while pulling Stiles with me to class.
I sat taking notes in Mr. Harris' class and listened to Scott and Stiles talking behind me.
"Maybe it was mine or Chelsea's blood on the door" Scott said.
"Could've been animal blood" Stiles stated "maybe one of you guys caught a rabbit or something"
"And did what?" Scott asked him.
"Ate it" Stiles responded
"Raw?" Scott asked looking horrified.
"No, you stopped and baked it in a little werewolf oven" Stiles told him, with his voice dripping with sarcasm "I don't know you guys are the ones who can't remember anything"
"Mr. Stilinski" Mr. Harris said from the front of the class "If that's your idea of a hushed whisper, you might want to pull the headphones out every once in a while" he told him "I think you and would benefit from a little distance, yes?"
"No" Stiles whined and Mr. Harris pointed them to their new seats.
"Let me know if separation anxiety gets to be too much" Mr. Harris said while they moved to new seats.
"Hey, I think they found something" A girl yelled and we all hurried over to the window, we watched as the medics rolled a body to the ambulance.
"That's not a rabbit" Scott told Stiles, I let out a small scream as the man twitched. I backed away from the window next to Scott.
"Stiles...I think we did that" I whispered horrified.
Scott, Stiles and I walked through the lunch room, they carried their trays over to a table and I sat down, pulling a bag of cherries out of my bag.
"But dreams aren't memories" Stiles stated as he sat down on my left.
"It wasn't a dream" Scott told us as he sat down across from us "something happened and we can't remember what"
"What makes you guys think that Derek even has all the answers?" Stiles asked.
"Because, during the full moon he wasn't changed" I told them "He was in total control, while we were running in the middle of the night attacking some totally innocent guy"
"You don't know that" Stiles stated.
"We don't not know it" Scott said and I put a cherry in my mouth "I can't go out with Alison, I have to cancel" I looked at him wide eyed.
"no" Stiles and I said at the same time.
"You're not canceling" I firmly told him.
"You guys can't just cancel your entire life" Stiles added "We'll figure this out"
"figure what out?" Lydia voice asked as she sat down her tray, I looked at the boys confused.
"Me helping them with their homework" I said and she nodded.
"why is she sitting with us?" I heard Stiles ask. Lydia's group soon followed and sat around us.
"Love!" I squealed when Danny sat down.
"Hey boo" He said laughing while sitting down.
"Get up" Jackson said to the guy at the head of the table.
"How come you never ask Danny to get up" He asked and Danny and I looked at him.
"Because he doesn't look at his best friend's, girlfriend's coin slot" I told him and Danny nodded and gave me a small high five and Lydia glares at the guy.
"So I hear them saying it's some kind of animal attack, probably a cougar"
"I heard mountain lion" Jackson told us.
"A mountain lion is a cougar" Lydia said.
"Isn't it" I said acting dumb.
"Who cares" Jackson said "That guy is probably some homeless dude, who was going to die anyway"
"I think they actually found out who he is" Stiles said while he showed us a video.
"We know this guy Chels" Scott said and looked at me.
"You guys do?" Alison asked.
I nodded my head "Yeah, when we lived back with our dad he was the bus driver"
"Can we switch topics..like what we gonna do tonight" Lydia looked at Scott and Alison "I mean you guys said you were hanging out"
Alison tried to speak up "Actually we wer-"
"How about bowling" Lydia interrupted, she looked at Jackson "you love bowling"
"Yeah with actual competition" Jackson replied.
"How do you know we aren't actual competition" Alison said and looked at Scott "You can bowl, right?"
"Kind of" Scott answered shyly.
"Is that a kind of or a yes?" Jackson asked.
Scott got angry "Yes, In fact I'm a great bowler"
"Yeah not buying it but you know what sounds fun to do right now is stabbing myself in the face with this fork" Jackson said. I looked at Jackson and took the fork from his hand while Lydia smiled at me gratefully.
"Just give them a try Jax, you never know they might just surprise you" I told him, he looked at me and sighed then nodded his head. I looked towards Lydia,
"There you go sweets, you now have plans tonight" I told her.
~After School~
I stood behind a tree, next to Scott as we waited for the police car to drive off. Scott stepped out and I followed, he stood and looked at the house.
"I know you can hear us" I told him and we let out a sigh "We need your help" Scott and I moved up to the porch and stood in front of the door, it opened and Derek walked out. "Okay, we know we were apart of you getting arrested, and we basically announced you being here to the hunters. Also, don't know what happened to your sister, but we think we did something last night. "I let out a breath "We had a dream about someone but someone else got hurt and it turns out that, that part of the dream might have actually happened"
"You guys think you both attacked the driver?" Derek asked and we looked at him.
"Did you see what we did last night?" Scott asked.
"No" Derek told him.
"Then can you at least tell us the truth?" I asked "Are we going to hurt someone?"
"Yes" Derek responded bluntly.
"Could we kill someone?" Scott asked.
"Yes" Derek repeated.
"Are we going to kill someone?" I asked.
"Probably" Scott and I looked at him in shock, Scott moved across the porch to lean against a pillar, "Look, I can show you guys how to remember. I can show you how to control the shift even on the full moon. But it's not gonna come free" He told us.
"What do you want?" Scott asked.
"You'll find out" Derek told him "But for now, I'm going to give you what you want. Go back to the bus, go inside, see it, feel it, let your senses- sight, smell, touch- let them remember for you" We both looked at him.
"That's it, just go back?" Scott asked.
"Do you want to know what happened?" Derek asked us.
"We just want to know if we hurt anyone" I told him, Derek shook his head.
"He doesn't, he wants to make sure she doesn't get hurt, but you on the other hand I don't know" I looked at him for a brief second before looking at the ground. Derek's eyes soften then he spoke softly "Peter" I looked back up at him and I slightly nodded. I then looked behind me and saw Scott gone I sighed.
"Chelsea, look at me" I slowly looked back at him, "He hasn't moved from that room you know that"
I nodded "I know but lately I've been feeling an emotion that's not mine and besides yours and Scott's the only one I could feel was Peter. The emotion that I'm feeling is anger, it's like every time I look at an Argent all I feel is this extreme anger like...like I want them dead." I explained. Derek looks at me wide eyed and then he is thinking about something.
"What's Peter's emotion right now?"
I looked at him then said, "Sadness, he just wants his family again" I said looking at the ground while letting a tear out. Derek lifted up my chin to make me look at him and he wiped away the tear, I looked at him sadly, then he glanced down at my arm.
"Did your burns not go away?" He asked. I looked at my arm sadly and shook my head.
"No, but it's okay, because it's a symbol for me." I told him.
"What kind of symbol?"
"survivor and Hope. When they pulled all the bodies out after you got me out, I was hoping they would at least pull someone else out of the house after they got Peter out." Derek nodded and put my arm down.
"You should get going don't want to be late for your curfew" I groaned.
"I forgot about that" Derek chuckled and I went up to him and gave him a hug. He tensed up at first but then he relaxed and buried his face in my hair.
"I'll avenge our family don't worry. Now go before you're late and your brother comes back and steals you" I let out a small laugh and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Bye Der"
"Bye Flash" I looked up at him and smiled then took off for home.
~Home night~
I went up the stairs and heard Mom going past Scott's room and was going to say good night when she realised he wasn't there. Mom started walking towards where mine and her room was when she heard a thump coming from Scott's room. She picked up the bat and went in there and saw someone climbing through the window and almost swung and almost hit Stiles.
"Whoa! Whoa! It's just me!" Stiles screamed
"Stiles!" Mom screamed out.
"What's wrong with you!? God does anyone in this house even play baseball"
Scott came rushing in the room and saw Mom, Stiles, and I standing in there "What's wrong?"
"Can you please tell your friend to use the front door" Mom explained.
"But we locked the front door, he wouldn't have able to get in" I told her.
"Exactly" She told us and I made an 'Oh' shape with my mouth.
"By the way do any of you care that there is a police inforced curfew?" Mom asked.
"No" We answered. Mom looked at us and then put the bat down,
"Ok, I think that is enough parenting for one night" She said while going to her room.
"What are yo doing here?" I asked Stiles.
"My dad just got a call from the hospital, the driver succumbed to his wounds" Stiles explained.
"succumbed?" Scott asked,
"Scott" Scott looked at me. "It means he's dead" I saw Scott's eyes turn yellow and he went out the window, I followed him and we went to Derek's place.
"Derek! We know you're here" Scott yelled. "I know what you did"
"I didn't do anything" Derek said his voice echoed around the house.
"You killed him" Scott responded.
"He died" Derek explained.
"Like your sister died?" My mouth dropped open, and I looked at Scott and hit him in the shoulder. He looked at me with an hurt expression then he remember Laura was like an older sister to me.
"My sister was missing" Derek explained "I came here looking for her"
"You found her" Scott stated.
"I found her in pieces!" Derek yelled "being used as bait to catch me and Chelsea" Scott looked at me and I looked at him with another hurt expression.
"I think you killed them both" Scott growled at him "and I'm going to tell everyone, starting with the Sheriff" Derek came down the stairs and roared at Scott while I flinched. They traded a few blows and Scott ended up in the living room where he threw Derek into another room.
"That's cute" I heard Derek say, then I also heard some popping movements and I'm guessing that he shifted too. I went into the living room and found them both fighting again. I shifted into my full wolf form and stood in between them and I roared. They both looked at me and we all shifted back.
"You guys done?" I growled at them.
"I didn't kill him, none of us did" Derek told us "It's not yall's fault and it's not mine"
"this!" Scott yelled and came to stand in front of him "This is all your fault, you ruined our lives"
"No I didn't" Derek told him.
"You're the on that bit us" Scott hissed.
I stood in front of Derek "No he didn't" I hissed out.
"What!?" Scott yelled.
"He's not the one who bit us" I repeated, Scott ran his hands on the claw marks on his chest and then fell back on the couch behind him, after I saw that I was worried and I guess Derek sensed it and he held me back.
"There's another" Scott stated and Derek and I nodded.
"It's called the Alpha" Derek told him "You,Chelsea and I are betas, this thing is more powerful, more animal than any of us" Derek told him. "My sister came here looking for him, and now I'm trying to find him. But I don't think I can do it without you two" We both looked at him in shock.
"Why us?" I asked and Derek looked at the both of us.
"Because, he was the one that bit you Scott, and he activated Chelsea's wolf gene" Derek stated.
"I had a wolf gene?" I asked Derek. He nodded and said, "Remember when you were out in the woods when you were younger and you saw a black wolf with red eyes" I slowly nodded my head "It bit you right? That wolf claimed you as one of our so it passed down our wolf genes to you and all you needed was a bite and you were one of us"
I looked at him in shock "Talia" I whispered.
Derek looked at me and nodded "Yeah my mother looked at you like you were one of our family members, you gotten so close to all of us especially Peter and Cora, until that one fateful day with you and her with the water" I flinched at that memory and I looked at Derek sadly.
"Chels" I heard Scott say. I looked at him "We better get going before mom starts to look for us" I sighed and nodded and gave Derek a hug, which he gave one back and kissed my temple "Come by here tomorrow, I want to give you something, besides that tattoo you got on your back" That got Scott's attention,
"You have a tattoo!" He exclaimed. I looked at him and nodded,
"Not without a price though, you have to have the tattoo burned on your skin now instead of just a needle and ink. So keep that in mind when you want a tattoo when you're older Scott" I said while walking out and started to head for home.