Under the Moon

Chapter 3: The Return

They hadn't meant to be out, it was the full moon tonight, and the Wolves of the team usually tried to stay home; but their last case was a tough one and Garcia had insisted, and everyone knew better than to say no to her. So here they were, at a bar, resisting the moon's lure; which they could do, but didn't like it. Didn't like that unscratchable itch that came with resisting, and tried to avoid doing so if it wasn't necessary.

Derek was on his second drink, contemplating a third, and pulling back the urge to go over to the group of men who were flirting with Garcia, JJ and Emily and growl at them until they went away. Spencer and David were at the table behind him and Aaron, bickering over desserts oddly enough.

"You okay?"

Derek blinked and looked across the table at Aaron who was looking at him with worry.

"Yeah" Derek cleared his throat, "I'm good"

Aaron's eyes narrowed just slightly, but doesn't say anything else, he was used to Derek's occasionally…oddness.

"Definitely getting another drink" the Alpha thought when he drowned the rest of his coke and rum in one gulp after hearing the women giggle.

He gets up, asked Aaron if he wanted another glass, when he got a declined he headed to the bar. He's waiting for his order when the door opened and a man stumbled in. Derek only noticed him because of both the man's scent and his hyper awareness was higher than usual. He turned to face the door, and leaned back against the bar.

The man was dirty looking, clothes old and too big on him, his appearance gained some of the customers' attention. He was shivering, and pale beneath the dirt. Derek's nose flared as he caught the scent of the city, forest, illness and underneath it all was the smell of Wolf. The Alpha's eyes flicker to his brother, Spencer had also noticed the man, as did the rest of the team. The Omega's nose was also flaring, his eyes curious and cautious, he then looked at JJ. The blonde had moved until she was in front of Emily and Garcia.

Derek looked back at the man who had slumped against a nearby table, cautiously, another man came up to the stranger.

"You okay man?" Derek heard the man ask.

"Got….to…warn…."

The stranger trailed off with a whimper and his fingernails clawed at the table, very sharp fingernails.

"Hey!" said the man to the onlookers, "some call an ambulance!"

Derek started to make his way over, intent on getting the stranger away from his brother, Pack and the rest of the humans, when it happened. The stranger growled and shoved the man away; the man scowled, and opened his mouth to snap at the man. The stranger titled his head back and roared, skin shifted as bones cracked and rearranged, fur sprouted and body grew.

Derek was suddenly running across the bar, shifting in mid-leap at the Rogue.

~.~

It was chaos. People screaming and running, some towards exits while others have taken cover, JJ grabbed Emily and Garcia and shoved them underneath the nearest table, the two humans flinching when Derek is thrown into the bar. The people who were hiding behind the it, shrieked and ran away.

"Spencer!" JJ called from beneath the table, Emily' and Garcia's hammering hearts loud in her ears. "Spence!" JJ called again.

"JJ!"

Spencer appeared, Aaron and David next to him, expression a mixture of horror, disbelief and confusion, but at least they were unharmed and moving.

"I'll help Derek with the Rogue" JJ said, getting right down to it, "get everyone out of here and call Kuma"

Spencer nodded, and she started crawling out from beneath the table, "JJ, no!" said Garcia, grabbing hold of the blonde's arm.

"I'll be okay" JJ smiled, gently she removed the woman's hand and with another smile, crawled from beneath the table and shifted.

~.~

"I'll be there, just hang tight Spence"

Kuma hung up his phone, cursing up a storm as he headed out the door, not bothering with shoes. When he got outside, he threw his head back and howled a long tone. Then he was running, taking alleys and back roads, eats twitching at the answering howls. When he finally, finally, arrived at the bar, people were running out the front door while other people gathered curious as to what was going on. A Wolf; dark brown fur, appeared beside him, and a familiar car is pulling up. Kuma ignored it as he pushed through the running humans and into the bar, the Wolf close behind. Inside he shifted and leaped at the Rogue. Jaws clamping down hard on its arm, the Rogue snarled and swiped at him, he doesn't let go, even as a dark furred Wolf leaped upon the Rogue's back. The Rouge snarled, and reached back with a free hand, grabbed the Wolf and threw him off his back and into the wall. Kuma yelped when his hind leg was roughly grabbed and twisted. Suddenly he's being slammed down onto the floor, he's slammed again before a light brown almost blonde Wolf and the dark brown Wolf tackled the Rouge. Ignoring the pain, Kuma gets back up and goes for the legs, the dark furred Wolf joining him

The Rogue roared and swiped and kicked them away. The wolves went flying; crashing into tables, growling the Rogue turned his attention to the two humans cowering underneath a table. The Rogue is nearly upon them, when three shots rang out, the Rogue stopped then turned around.

Aaron kept his gun trained on the Rogue, and it took all he had to remain unmoving when the beast started toward him. He fired again, getting the chest but it didn't stop Rogue who kept coming. Suddenly two Wolves were between them and another leaped and latched onto the neck. The Rogue snarled and clawed and shook, trying to get the Wolf off. The Wolf hung on, gripping tighter and tighter.

There was a loud snap, silence, then the Rouge fell and didn't get back up.

~.~

Kuma panted, staring down at the dead Rogue. Movement at the corner of his eye had him turning his head to see Derek had shifted into his second skin and was now cautiously approaching the human that had distracted the Rogue. He was still armed, the gun still trained on the Rouge.

"Hotch? Aaron?" Spencer stopped his approach when the man looked at him, eyes disturbingly blank, "It's over" said the Omega, "it's dead, you can put the gun down"

Aaron looked back the Rouge, then back at Spencer when the gun was gently taken from his hands, meanwhile, Derek had made his way over to the table now that Spencer had an handle on Aaron, he kneeled down and looked at the rest of his team, he was alarmed at how shaky Garcia was, but didn't touch her.

"Hey" he said softly, gaining their attention.

"D-D-Derek" Garcia said, her eyes flickering with too many emotions for the Alpha to figure out.

"You're naked" Emily stated, her expression was distance.

David jumped when the light brown wolf came over and nudged him with her nose as she snuffled him.

Derek's lips curled, "Yeah, it happens"

The bar door opened and two people strolling in, a man and woman, they were dressed in plain clothes and didn't seem bothered by the giant wolves or the dead beast "Alpha Kuma" said the woman, "we have the crowd outside contained"

After shifting into his second skin, Kuma nodded, "Alright, get these people out of here, usual protocol, we'll handle the Rouge"

"Yes Alpha" said the woman, before she and the man stared gathering and helping the stunned and shock people that Spencer was unable to help escape out the bar during the fight.

Kuma watched them before going over to Derek who was speaking in soft tones to the three humans, "Usual protocol?" he asked the other Alpha when the Wolf looked up at him.

Derek looked over at his JJ, who had yet to shift, the Wolf's ears twitched. Then over at his brother who was able to get Aaron to sit down on the floor, the Omega looked at his brother, and having heard Kuma's question; nodded. Derek looked back at Kuma.

"No, we'll handle it"


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