Hey everyone! Thanks for continuing to read my story. And an extra thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far. I feel like this is the chapter where things start to really take off!


Students poured out of the classrooms in droves as the lunch bell rang. This was the moment she was dreading the most. No scenario involving a cafeteria and hundreds of teenagers is ever good. She waited in line for what seemed like forever to get some of the crap they were serving for lunch. It was marginally better than prison food. Marginally.

She found an empty table and ate her food quickly by herself. No one sat next to her. Partly because she was the spooky new girl, but also because she was wearing a sign on her forehead that said 'don't mess with me.' She looked around, but she didn't see Isaac. She did, however, meet eyes with Erica, the girl from chemistry. She quickly looked away, but the girl approached her within seconds.

"Look who's sitting alone," Erica said, smirking. "You know whats funny?"

"I have a feeling you're going to tell me," she replied.

"That also happens to be my seat too."

"Oh really? Well, you wan't to hear something else thats funny? Your eyeliner makes you look drunk."

Erica leaned in closer to Rina, her eyes wild with rage. "Now look jailbait, I know that you think you're all hard and shit because you shared a cell with a bunch of chicks or whatever, but this is my school and-"

"Erica," a calm voice said sternly, causing the girl to spin around.

"Yes Ms. Morell?" she said, all sugar and spice.

"You might consider taking a different approach to getting to know new people," the councilor stated. "And you might also want to reflect on the days when you were the girl sitting alone."

The look on the girl's face was priceless. Knowing she couldn't start anything in front of a teacher, she backed off, deciding to sit with a buff black guy instead.

After that altercation Rina decided to take the time to wander around the school grounds. Outside there was what she was sure were considered the "weird" kids sitting on the lacrosse field and hanging out on the bleachers. The school was surrounded by forest, just like the rest of the town. Outside was a bit cold for spring, but she stayed there for the duration of the lunch period. Once the bell rang, all of the other kids went back inside the building for the remaining classes. She wasn't in a hurry to get to English, so she lagged behind. Soon it was just her on the field. And then it wasn't.

Rina could hear a second heartbeat coming from a distance. She spun around only to see a tall, dark haired man, who looked to be about 24. 'Creep,' she thought. 'Who hangs around a high school.' Thats when the feeling hit her again. The man was definitely a werewolf too, she could sense it. Their eyes met briefly. And like that, he was gone.

On an impulse, she grabbed her backpack and ran towards where he was standing. He was nowhere in sight. She tried to seek out his smell to track him, but since she wasn't part animal, that wasn't a skill she excelled at. She did, however, manage to get enough of his sent to be able to identify him and possibly other wolves later.

It was dark and ominous in the woods, and she had wandered pretty far. She knew she should head back before things got out of control. She turned around and started heading back to the school. Thats when she started to hear footsteps. Not those of the man from before, but different footsteps. She peered through a group of trees and saw a man coming towards her. She ran the other direction after spotting him. She could run much faster then the man, who was definitely a normal human. This led her to the conclusion that whatever he wanted from her was definitely of the criminal variety.

As she was running her foot got caught on something. All of a sudden her foot was caught in some sort of trap. She couldn't break free in time and the man caught up with her as she was writhing on the ground in pain. He grabbed her and pulled her closer to him. He was completely slimy and fowl, and when he touched her, she could sense the evil in his intentions.

"It's more fun when you make it a chase, isn't it?" the man whispered heavily in her ear, the heat from his breath making her shudder in revulsion. He pinned her to the ground and tried to undo the button on her shorts. If it weren't for the trap she would have been able to fight back, but the grips were too strong. She managed to dig her nails into the side of his neck, blood trickling down as he yelled. "You're not a good little girl are you?" he snarled in her face. Rina looked up to face her attacker. She had managed to grab ahold of his hand, breaking it with her strength. He screamed in pain as he jumped off of her.

"You crazy bitch, I will kill you," he shouted.

He grabbed her again. But this time she was faster and put both of her hands on his chest, sending out a bright blue shock of electricity that sent him flying backwards.

"Not likely," she said as she got back on her feet. She had managed to rip the trap out of the ground. It was now dangling from her leg as she ran towards the man. The fighter in her came out as she punched him several times. Then, out of nowhere the man was ripped out of her arms by a figure that moved so fast it looked completely blurry. She heard a loud snapping noise and then saw the man collapse to the ground, his neck twisted in a gruesome manner. When the figure slowed down, she could see that it was the werewolf from before.

"Don't come closer," she screamed, standing her ground. Her hands were glowing bright as she sent out pulses of electricity around them to show that she was not joking. She had read all about what electricity could do to werewolves.

"I'm not going to hurt you," the man said. He took a slow step forward, his werewolf face changing back to his human one while his claws retracted.

"Who are you," she asked sternly, sending a huge shock up her hands to intimidate him.

"My name is Derek Hale," he answered obediently. "Now its my turn to ask a question. How did you do that?"


Rina tried to explain what she was to her rescuer as best as she could, but it was hard, considering she still didn't know fully. She had figured out how to use her powers by herself for the most part. With determination and a little help from the internet one can pretty much do anything. But the full extent of her powers was still a mystery. She didn't know what she was truly capable of. And she sure didn't want some strange werewolf knowing either.

"It's like I can harness the energy from other sources and feed off of it. Then it courses through me, until I finally let it out," she tried to explain.

"That's interesting," Derek said. "What kind of sources?"

"All sorts of things: machines, lights, electrical stuff mostly," She had already told him too much, but she hadn't really encountered many other supernatural beings before, and it made her almost excited. "It has to do with electromagnetic waves I think."

"You should be getting back," Derek said. "People will notice if you randomly go missing during the day."

"Yeah," she said, still shaken from the whole experience. "But what about this guy."

"Don't worry, I'll clean it up. Make it look like an animal did it," he said non-ironically. "Police have been looking for this guy anyway. Do you know how to get back?"

"Yeah, I remember," she said as she headed for the school.

"And keep your mouth shut about this," the man called back.

"Yeah," Rina replied. Quickly the girl turned around. "Thank y-," she began to say, but he had already disappeared, along with the body. She knew next to nothing about this Derek who had helped save her, but her instincts told her she should be careful.

Rina made her way back into the school to find the hallways completely empty. She looked down at the clock on her phone and realized that the period after lunch was almost over. She looked back up and was startled by what she saw. The chemistry teacher from before was standing at the end of the hallway, staring at her.

"Ditching on your first day? That shows real dedication to your academics, doesn't it? And you've somehow managed to get dirty too. I don't even want to know how."

Seeing as she couldn't exactly talk about what just happened in the woods, this was going to be a hard situation to get out of.

"Just needed a bit of a break I guess," she replied. "If you're not in class, aren't you ditching too?"

"Watch your tone. That 'break' is called lunch and it doesn't extend into the next period. And this is my prep hour, not that I need to explain myself to you. You can join me in the library for detention," he said, slipping her a pink sheet of paper.

"Isn't there some kind of three strikes rule around here?" Rina asked sarcastically.

"I have a feeling this is going to be a trend with you, so we might as well skip strikes one and two."


Check back tomorrow for some serious Isaac/Rina time! As always, feel free to leave a comment. I'd love to hear what you think!