Chapter 3:

Isaac's P.O.V.

"Calm down, I'm sure she'll come in." Erica said, placing her hand on my shoulder as I fidgeted in the hallway by Steph's locker. I'd been waiting for near twenty minutes and she still hadn't shown up yet and we only had five more to go until first period started.

I heard someone running up the hall and snapped my head to look in that direction, seeing the small frame of Steph hurrying towards her locker. She skidded to a stop in front of me and avoided looking up at me as she opened her locker.

"Steph." I said, reaching out and touching her shoulder. She flinched slightly and I retracted my hand. "What happened last night?" I asked quietly.

"He went Alpha." She whispered, finally turning around to face me; her fringe falling to the side and exposing her face. Erica gasped and I felt my eyes widen as I looked down at her small battered figure.

"What did he do to you?" I asked as she rummaged around in her locker, pulling out a couple books.

"I don't know, I blacked out. All I remember is seeing him as an Alpha before everything went black."

"You saw an Alpha?!" Stiles whisper-yelled as he came bounding over. Steph jumped and dropped her book, but I caught it before it hit the floor and handed it back to her. "You know about lycanthropy?"

"We'll talk at lunch, right now we have biology." Erica butted in before half of us split to go to our classes. Steph saw Derek outside in the parking lot and gave him a small wave, making him smile. The only reason he came here was to see if Steph showed up after I voiced my concerns to him once we had dropped her off home.

I noticed Steph had walked a few feet in front of us and Jackson slapped the books out her arms as he came up the hall, making her flinch. I growled and shoved him back and away from her, positioning myself between them; staring down at Jackson.

"Easy there, wouldn't want her finding out." He smirked.

"She already knows dumbass." Erica remarked, getting between us. "Now back off." Jackson glared and looked behind me.

"First my mother, now the pack. What else do you fucking want?" he spat before walking away. I heard a small sniff from behind me and turned around to see Steph's blue eyes filled with tears. I leant down to her level and moved her fringe to behind her ear so I could see her face.

"You have a free period after this, don't you?" She nodded and retrieved her books that Boyd had picked up for her. "Wanna get some ice cream with me?" I asked, hoping it would make her feel better. A small smile touched her lips and she nodded again.

I saw Erica and Boyd share a look, but chose to ignore it as Steph took my hand that I'd held out for her and made our way to biology.

End Isaac's P.O.V.

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Isaac waited for me beside my locker as I shoved my rucksack in it, not wanting to carry it around when we went out. I heard him chuckle as I was struggling and his large hand came round and pushed it in for me before closing my locker door. He held his hand out to me and I grabbed it before we started walking down the hall towards the exit of the school.

I saw Jackson coming up the opposite way of the same path we were taking and shuffled closer to Isaac, making him glance down at me before wrapping his arm around my shoulders and pulling me right next to him so my side was pressed against his. Jackson sneered at me before stumbling back as Isaac shoved him with his shoulder as we went past him.

"Wait until Derek finds out you told the secret." Jackson snarled.

"Tell me how well that works out for you." Isaac smirked, continuing to walk towards the double doors with me glued to his side. I looked up at him as we successfully made it out the school and began walking down the street. Isaac looked down at me and smiled. "Don't worry about it, Jackson will probably get his arse kicked, Derek likes you."

"I think that's a good thing?"

"Yeah, especially with your dad being an Alpha; Derek's strong enough to protect you." He replied. "He called you cute last night, I'm not meant to tell you. But I can't believe that word came out his mouth." He chuckled.

"Why is that funny?" I asked, blushing lightly. Isaac smiled down at me.

"Because, if you knew Derek from before; you wouldn't think he would say something like that. He can be very broody and switch moods in seconds."

I hummed in response and wobbled slightly as the paving stone I stepped on moved. Isaac's arm tightened around my shoulders to steady me as I grabbed the side of his shirt when my arm went around his waist.

"I've noticed you're a little clumsy." He smiled.

"Yeah, I'm not the most graceful…" I said quietly.

"Maybe not, but it makes you cute." His lips twitched up in a smile as I felt my cheeks warm from a blush.

"Sorry, I'm not a graceful werewolf like you are." He snorted slightly and I looked up at him.

"I'm not graceful, trust me. I can be clumsy at times, especially when I get distracted during training with Derek." He replied.

"Well, you're not as clumsy as me. No one is, I have a talent in it." Isaac laughed and hugged me to his side before looking down at me when we reached the ice cream shop.

"You do have use of jokes." He teased, holding the door open for me.

"Only with people I'm comfortable around, like you." I replied, smiling a little. "Thank you." I walked through the open door and he followed in behind me. His large hand pressed against my lower back as he walked slightly behind me towards the counter where a middle age woman stood.

"What do you want?" Isaac looked down at me, grabbing my hand as I was reaching for the money in my back pocket. "Nuh uh." I blushed lightly.

"Strawberry please." I said quietly.

"Sweet like you, huh?" he winked before facing the woman to order. I felt my cheeks burn from the blush that was most likely flushing them and felt Isaac gently tugging on my hand a few moments later. "Get out your head and come back to reality love." He smiled, leading me over to a booth where he sat opposite me.

A minute later the same woman from the counter came over and placed our ice cream on the table.

"Can I just say; that you two are adorable together." She smiled before going back to her place behind the counter. I blushed again and dipped my head down slightly to hide it from Isaac.

"You can't hide from me." I felt him gently grasp my chin and tilt my head back up so I was looking at his smiling face. He sighed softly and lightly ran the pad of his thumb over the bruise on my cheekbone. "We'll stop this, I promise."

"You'll get hurt, all of you." I said quietly. "He lets his rage control him and it makes him unstoppable."

"No, there's always a way to stop him. I don't want him to end up killing you."

/

I let a small laugh out as Stiles literally tripped and fell into the chair at the table in the cafeteria, making him flash a crooked grin at me. Isaac placed a packet of chips in front of me and I gave him a smile.

"Thank you." I said, opening them. He sat beside me as we waited for the rest of the pack to arrive while I began chewing on the crisps.

"What do we need to talk about?" Scott asked as him and Allison were the last to arrive. I glanced over at Jackson who was completely ignoring me, but I was okay with that; at least he wasn't taunting me yet.

"Steph said something about seeing an Alpha." Stiles spoke up for me. Everyone's heads turned to me. "So, I'm guessing you know about werewolves?" I nodded.

"I know about you guys too." I said quietly. "Derek's your Alpha, but my father's one too."

"And because it's the full moon Friday Derek agreed with me that she could maybe stay round your house for the night Allison." Isaac said, looking at the dark haired girl beside me.

"Of course she can!" Allison smiled. "I'd love to have you stay round mine, plus if your dad does come looking my family will defend you."

"Thank you." I smiled softly.

"Stop with the pity act." Jackson snapped. "You act so quiet and vulnerable, grow the hell up."

"Maybe the reason for that would be because of you." I said, gripping the edge of the table until my knuckles turned white. "You think you have it hard, but you know nothing of what I go through every night I go home; and you being an arse on top of that makes it a whole lot worse. I've done nothing to you."

Jackson stood abruptly, making his chair almost fall over, and I shrank into Isaac's side; making his arm wrap around me and pull me closer as I grabbed hold of his shirt in my fists.

"Jackson, stop it!" Lydia exclaimed.

"You, you've done nothing?" he laughed humourlessly. "Really? Then how come my mother worries more about you than me, huh? Every night she brings you up, wondering how you're doing, if you're okay." He rambled, waving his hand for emphasis. "It's all about you. Just fucking stay out of my life!"

"What do you think I've been trying to do?!" Tears filled my eyes as I looked at the angered werewolf. "I cut off my ties with you and your family, but she still hunts me down. I just wish she'd stop so you'd leave me alone!"

I squeezed past Isaac and went to run out the cafeteria when Jackson chased after me, making me whimper. I heard someone collide with him and glanced back to see Boyd pining him to the floor as Isaac ran over and pulled me into him, hugging me securely. I buried my face in his chest so no one could see the tears. Isaac's hand came up and cradled the back of my head before moving as I heard a scuffle break out on the cafeteria floor.

I peeked under his arm and saw Jackson trying to shove Boyd off him, but the larger boy wasn't relenting. I also saw a crowd of people start to come over, hoping there as a fight and curled into Isaac more; uncomfortable with the fact that I would soon be crowded by people.

"It's my fault." I whimpered, making Isaac look down at me. His expression saddened and he ran his thumbs under my eyes, wiping the wet tears away; but more replaced them.

"It's not, you stood up for yourself. I'm proud of you for doing that, Jackson just needs to control his temper better." He said quietly.

"Get off me!" Jackson yelled. I whined quietly and Isaac pulled me out of the cafeteria. I heard a couple people following us and looked back to see Allison and Erica.

"It's okay; we wouldn't let him hurt you." Erica smiled softly, moving my hair off my face as Allison rubbed my back gently. "Plus, Derek won't be very happy with him; not that it would make a difference anyway but still."

"You're safe with us." Allison smiled.

Jackson's being a bit of an arse isn't he? :P Oh well, what do you think will happen on the full moon? Leave a review :) x