Hi! I'm back! I've been really shitty at updating, but I promise I'll do better. I had a touch of writer's block for a bit. So, yeah. Also, I really hope you all won't hate me after this chapter. I liked it, but there's a twist... :) Lalalalalalala.
A week had passed since Derek had returned to Beacon Hills. The pack was finally getting back into the swing of school after their abrupt "camping" trip to Mexico to save their friend. Derek and Peter had called a meeting with the elusive Braeden to discuss tracking down Kate. Everything had been going pretty well until she had brought up the subject of money. "That's my price and my final offer," she said to the two men. Vivian stood next to the couch they were sitting on. She had decided she wasn't going to school that day.
"That's a ridiculous amount of cash, no deal. Lower it, or we won't be needing your services," Peter said and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Fine. I don't care. The Calaveras are paying me good money to do the same thing that you're asking me to do. The only fair way to get me to do that is to pay more because the Calaveras are a very powerful group of hunters as you all know," she countered.
Peter rolled his eyes in annoyance and leaned back more on the couch. He sat up straight again and opened his mouth to speak, but before he could, Derek spoke first. "We'll pay it," he said while looking down at the table. He looked back up at Braeden. "We'll pay the money."
"Derek!" Peter retorted, but Derek paid no attention.
"Good," Braeden said. "I'll get started now then and I'll see what I can dig up so far." And with that, she turned and left the room.
As soon as the door closed behind her, Peter jumped up and started pacing. "Are you insane? We need that money, Derek. Considering all those bonds are gone and neither of us can get or hold a job!" He stated.
Vivian walked over to Peter. "Calm down Peter, the reason she's tracking down Kate is to—"
"Get the money back!" Peter shouted as he cut her off and gripped her upper arm tight. "I know that!"
"Let go of her Peter," Derek said lowly as he stood and grabbed his shoulder, whipping him around and staring him down with glowing yellow eyes.
"What's this?" Peter questioned, his demeanor going from anger to almost teasing. "Your eyes."
"Yeah, I know," He muttered begrudgingly.
"What happened?" Peter asked and shrugged Derek off of him.
"I don't know, but I have a feeling Kate does and I will pay any amount of money to find out," he said plainly.
Peter shook his head and, without another word, walked up the stairs and slammed the door.
Vivian looked at Derek who was pinching the bridge of his nose. "Hey, it's going to be fine. Everything always turns out okay," Vivian said as she walked over and draped her arms around his neck.
"Yeah, sure…" he muttered back to her as he wound his arms around her waist and let his shoulders relax a little.
"Let's just chill out the rest of the day. We can kick Peter's ass later, but you look tired and I know that I'm tired considering that girl showed up banging on the door at six this morning…" Vivian muttered and rolled her eyes.
Derek chuckled. "Yeah, sounds good," he said and took her hand, leading her over to the couch where they sat the rest of the day watching crappy reruns of shows that neither of them could name. They deserved a bit of normality for the time being, though.
Vivian sat in class, looking around, sighing heavily. She really didn't want to be there that day and she wanted to cuddle back into bed with Derek and sleep the whole day without no one bothering them. Her eyes landed on Scott and Stiles first. They were looking out the window at the lacrosse field nervously. Try outs were after school today and they were afraid they wouldn't get on the team and Scott was afraid he wasn't going to be team captain. Apparently there was a freshman who was awesome at lacrosse. She looked at the front of the room at Lydia and someone she had never seen before. She looked like she was struggling with the problem on the board in front of them. Lydia leaned over and said, "You can borrow my notes later." Kira was just leaning back in her seat, tapping her pen and chewing on her lower lip as she bounced her leg up and down.
Vivian turned and looked at Scott and Stiles. "Who is the new girl, do you know?" She asked them, curiosity getting the best of her.
"That's Malia," Scott said.
"She's Peter's daughter," Stiles continued.
Vivian's eyes widened. "What? Why haven't I learned about this?" She whisper yelled at them.
Scott shrugged. "She doesn't like him… at all…" he said. "She's happy to be reunited with her dad, but she doesn't like him. She knows he's evil, bitter, manipulative… He's just…" He shrugged. "You know Peter."
"He's an asshole, bottom line," she said and shrugged. "But why is she here? How did she find him?"
"Lydia. That was her agreement with Peter if he helped her with her powers some. She came to the battle last week and that's the first time we saw her. She's been staying with Stiles because she won't stay at the loft and since you've been staying with Derek and hanging with him and not us…" He smirked and Vivian rolled her eyes, "It probably just hasn't come up, you know?"
"Yeah… That's just… Wow… Peter has a daughter?" She said and shook her head before turning to look back at Lydia and Malia.
"Yeah, and get this," Stiles said and Vivian turned back around. "She's not a werewolf, but a were-coyote."
"A were-coyote?" She questioned and he nodded.
Vivian was forced to turn back around as the teacher tapped the board and started talking about.
After class the pack and Malia started walking down the hallway. Stiles started to talk about a message he had received on his phone. There had been a triple homicide of a family. He wanted to go check it out, but Melissa had told Scott that she wanted them to stay out of it; that there was nothing supernatural about the investigation. They all had to talk him out of trying to go and the moment that Scot said something about "lacrosse try outs" he quieted himself and just nodded. Lacrosse came first for them.
That afternoon after school, Vivian decided that she really hadn't spent much time with her friends. Derek and her had been together all week and she decided to give him some space and let him do his thing while she watched the lacrosse try outs with Kira and Malia. Malia was actually getting along with the pack pretty well. Kira was twisting an extra lacrosse stick in her hand. Scott had handed it to her in case that he needed it. He said something about his not being up to date, but it was his "lucky one" so he had to use it at try outs. The three girls watched as the boys lined up on the field and Scott and Stiles were put in front of the goal. The first in line was Liam, the freshman that was a beast at lacrosse. He got ready and flew pass the two boys before scoring a goal. Malia clenched her fists and stood, beginning to boo. "That was cheap! Do over!" She shouted.
Coach looked up at her as if she was crazy. "No!" He shouted.
"Come on! You know that wasn't a good play! Let them try it again!" She continued. "I put five on Scott and Stiles!"
Vivian and Kira looked up at her with raised eyebrows before looking back at Coach who shrugged and smirked. "Liam! Get back here, you're going again," he said as Liam ran to the front of the line. He got ready again, Scott and Stiles were locked on him. When he came at the two of them, Scott ran at him, and flipped him. Liam landed with a loud thud and cried out in pain from the ground. "Well shit!" Coach shouted along with a few other curse words. He grabbed the ball and chucked it into the stands out of frustration and Kira gasped before grabbing it with the lacrosse stick.
Coach raised his eyebrows at her as Scott tapped his shoulder. "I think that Liam needs to go to the hospital, I can take him," Scott told him.
"Okay, that's fine. Hurry it up, McCall. Liam, get back to me tomorrow and rest that leg of yours," he said before turning back towards Kira. "Hey! Throw that back!" He shouted. Kira looked at the ball in the net of the stick and then tossed it back at Coach who almost dropped it. "Get dow here!"
Kira and Vivian walked down as Malia stayed in the stands. Scott and Stiles were helping Liam up and off the ground. "Scott, do you mind if I go with you?" She asked.
"Uh, sure that's fine with me," he said.
"I have to go help Malia study some," Stiles said. "She's having a lot of problems understanding all the math that she needs to learn. Considering she hasn't gone to school since she was in sixth or seventh grade… that's a lot…"
"Okay, that's fine. Vivian and I will be at the hospital with Liam and one of us will let you know what's going on later tonight once we find out what's wrong with his leg."
The three left for the hospital and within fifteen minutes found their way there. They took Liam straight to the ER and waited outside his room. Scott listened into the conversation going on within the room.
"I know… I wasn't playing smart…" Liam said to the doctor.
"I always tell you that you have to be more careful," the doctor said.
"I know, but I was put up against two juniors. There was no way I could have done what I did twice," he said and sighed. "Are you mad?"
"No, Liam. But your mother is going to be. You getting hurt in lacrosse, she's not going to be too happy that I got you into it in the first place," he said with a small chuckle.
"Yeah…" Liam muttered and gave a weak smile to the doctor, or, as Scott was realizing, his parent of some sort.
Scott stopped listening in and squeezed his eyes shut before walking away. Vivian sighed and followed closely behind him. "You know it's not your fault, Scott," she told him as she fell in step next to him.
"How do you know? You weren't on the field when it happened," he stated softly.
"I know because I was watching. You didn't use any of your wolf abilities. He wouldn't just have a hurt leg at this point, Scott. He could most likely be dead if you had used any of the sort of strength that you know you have," Vivian explained.
"I still feel guilty for it," he murmured. Vivian sighed as Scott's phone rang. He picked it up and answered it with a simple, "Hey, Lydia." He was quiet for a moment and his eyes widened. "Yeah, bye." He looked at Vivian. "We have to go find that boy who was a survivor from that triple homicide last night." He started walking down the hallway and suddenly heard a scream. "Mom…" He muttered.
Vivian and Scott took off running down the hallway and made their way to where they had heard the scream. They found Melissa pinned to the ground with Sean leaning over her with glowing white eyes and sharp fangs protruding from his mouth. Scott growled and he looked over. "I'm. Hungry," was all he said. Scott ran towards him and he quickly jumped off and ran down the hall.
Scott and Vivian went straight to Melissa. "Are you okay, mom?" Scott asked quickly.
"Yeah, fine…" she said breathlessly. "Go get him you two…"
They both nodded and stood running towards where they had seen him run. They heard a door shut and saw a small trail of blood by the door leading to the roof. They went towards it and heard a shout and then ran up the stairs. There was Sean, choking Liam by the edge of the roof. "Sean! Stop! We can help you!" Scott shouted. "You don't have to do this!"
"I don't need any help!" He shouted back. "I just want food!"
Scott ran towards him and Sean pushed Liam over the edge. Scott ran to try and catch him, but Sean tackled him and pinned his arms down. Liam hung onto the edge and breathed heavily. Vivian ran over and tried to get Sean off of Scott but Sean just pushed her away and when she went at him again, punching him in the back, he growled and pushed her off. Liam screamed suddenly in pain just as Sean let go of Scott and stood looking directly at Vivian. She didn't have a weapon on her, the one time she doesn't of course. "Sean, please… We can help you find out what happened to your family…" She said.
Sean was about to jump at her when his eyes went wide and he started to back away. Vivian turned around and behind her was a man with no mouth. He had a hatchet in his hand and looked from Vivian to Sean. Sean turned to run and Vivian knew immediately that this was the man who had killed his family. She swallowed and went for the hatchet that he was clutching in his hand. The Mute looked down at her and glared. He fought to get his weapon back and kicked her back. Vivian stumbled and Scott looked from her to Sean. Vivian saw Liam sitting and clutching his arm. "Get Sean! I can deal with him!" Vivian yelled to Scott. He looked at her worriedly. "Go!"
Vivian ran at the man again who swung at her but she ducked out of the way. Why was he after this kid? What did he mean to him? "Trust me, dude, you do not want to mess with me…" Vivian muttered.
He just looked at her, an almost amused look in his eyes. He grabbed her arm that had his wrist and twisted it around her back. Vivian gasped and went to elbow him in the stomach, but he drove the hatchet deep in her shoulder. She wasn't the one he was after, he didn't want her dead, but it wasn't his problem if she bled out.
Vivian screamed out in pain as he took the hatchet from her shoulder. He pushed her to the ground and tilted his head at her before looking up and following where Sean and Scott had gone. Vivian tried to crawl towards him with her one arm, the other hurt too much to move and was bleeding bad. Liam looked at her and cursed as he slowly went towards her. "Stay still, please…" He muttered.
"S-Scott…" She muttered and gasped at the sharp pain in her shoulder. Her vision was beginning to get blurry. There was a shout from the other side of the roof and Vivian squeezed her eyes shut.
There were footsteps running towards them again, but Vivian didn't know who it was. "She's lost a lot of blood," Liam said, his voice shaky. "We could get her down to the hospital."
"I don't know if she'll make it…" Scott muttered, looking at the blood that had pooled and soaked her shirt.
"What do we do? We can't let her die," Liam shouted.
Scott was quiet, but Vivian felt someone take her arm. There was a sharp pain and she wanted to scream and curse, but her body wouldn't allow her.
Liam watched with wide eyes as Scott bit into her with his fangs as he had done with him. He bit down on his lip and Scott pulled away as he stood and stepped back, wiping the blood from his mouth. As realization hit him from what he had just done he kicked at the wall and looked at Vivian and Liam. "Fucking shit…"
SOOOOOOOOO yeah. He bit her. How do you think that's going to blow over with Derek? Come on people, it had to happen at some point, you knew it was coming... MALIA IS OFFICIALLY IN. So what does that me for all of you Stivian (Viles) lovers... Well, I don't even know yet. We shall see. LIAM. I love Liam. Dylan Sprayberry is just... yes. Anyways, enough fangirling. How are you all liking Apat of the Pack so far? I PROMISE I'M BETTER AT UPLOADING. Review (if you want to) favorite and follow (only if you like the story) and as always, Thank you so so so soooooooo much for reading!
xxKellyn
