I finally got out of the bathroom stall and went to the sink and splashed some cold water on my face and took a deep breath. Scott needed me and what he was going through was much more important than my past history with Jackson. I took a deep breath and looked in the mirror and plastered a smile on my face. I walked out of the bathroom and got a tardy for being 10 minutes late to my AP history class.

I got to math which I had with Danny and he took his usual seat next to me.

"Hey Katie, I heard about what happened this morning, are you okay?"

I nodded.

"Yeah I think it's just my time of month or something, but I'm better now thank you, you're a great friend Danny"

He shook his head, "No I'm not. If I was I wouldn't be friends with Jackson anymore, you know I'd choose you over him any day right Katie? You're my family."

I smiled for the first time today. I loved Danny.

"Danny I love you and that means I'm not gonna make you choose between us. Jackson may not deserve your friendship but he needs you."

He gave me his perfect Danny smile and then turned around when our teacher Ms. Dean started class.

Thankfully school was finally over; I walked out of the school towards mine and Scott's bikes and saw him talking to Allison. I'm glad that those two worked things out. After Allison left school in a black Tahoe which I'm guessing was her dad driving, Scott turned around and his face was covered in utter terror. I dropped my bike lock and jogged over to him.

"Scott! You okay? What's wrong?"

He just looked down at his feet. I grabbed his arm.

"Scott! What is it?"

He muttered. "I can't believe. It can't be. This can't be happening"

I snapped my fingers in his face.

"Scott!"

"Allison's dad is a werewolf hunter"

My face went pale. Of course Scott meets a great girl and her dad is trying to kill him, literally. I grabbed him and led him to the bikes and told him we needed to get home and talk there. And tell Stiles. Once we got home I went straight to the kitchen and Scott straight to the front room couch. He plopped himself down and I went to make us some tea. Herbal tea helps calm down humans so hopefully it works the same with werewolves. I made him and myself a cup and carried them both out to the front room. I handed him his cup and told him to drink it. Then I heard Stiles frantically ringing the door bell and pounding on the door. I placed my cup down on the stand next to the couch and jogged to the door to let him in. After Stiles was in Scott told us all about how there's werewolves hunters out there, and of course Allison's family had to be one, and how Derek saved his life. Stile's still didn't like him. Mainly cause he was scared of him. As he kept reminding us.

The next day at school things were starting to get back to normal. Well as normal as having a werewolf as a best friend could be. Scott, Stiles and the rest of the team were heading onto the field for lacrosse practice and I took my usual seat on the bleachers by myself. I had some homework to do so I pulled out my math book and got to it. I looked up when I heard Allison say my name. I waved to her and gave her a small smile. Which quickly disappeared when I saw Lydia behind her. She shot me a death glare and I just rolled my eyes.

"Do you wanna come over and sit with us?"

Poor Allison, she just wanted everyone to get along.

"Thanks but I need to finish this homework, but thank you"

I felt bad. Allison gave me a weak smile and Lydia gave me a look of winning. I looked back down to my homework and kept working. Stiles was as always on the bench but Scott was playing during practice and against Jackson. I decided to take a break and watch. just when I did less than 10 seconds late Scott brought Jackson down to the ground. and we all heard something pop. All of us stood up. Lydia ran to Jackson and I noticed Scott and stiles run off the field and go towards the locker room. I grabbed up all my stuff and threw it in my bag and ran towards the boys locker room.

"Scott! Stiles!"

Then I heard a loud noise. I ran around the corner and came face to face with a transforming Scott and Stiles was holding a fire extinguisher and was in the corner in the fetal position on the floor.

"Scott stop it! "

Then he turned towards me and started to walk my way.

"Scott don't you see what you're doing stop! We're here to help you!"

Right as he was about to attack me I screamed and Stiles hosed him down with the fire extinguisher. Then Scott came back to it. He had no idea what had happened. Stiles and I knew then that we were way over our heads.

Scott and I got home and I could feel the tension. He didn't trust himself to be by me. Melissa was at the hospital again and we didn't have to work at the animal hospital so I said we both should make dinner together. We made mac n cheese and French fries. We're very healthy in the McCall household.

"Scott, I'm not afraid of you. You are my best friend. We're gonna get through this. We'll help you control it and let you have a normal life"

"What if I can't? What if my normal life is gone? What if I hurt someone? What if I hurt you or Stiles? Or what if I bite you or someone?"

The last part scared me. I didn't even think of that. I knew I didn't want to be bitten but I was not gonna tell Scott that. Not now. But it scared me. Not him but turning into a werewolf. I grabbed Scotts hand across the table.

"Scott. You are gonna be fine. Everyone is gonna be fine. Your gonna learn how to control it. I think we should talk to Derek."

Scott almost dropped his fork

"You wanna do what ?"

"Look Scott, Derek is the only werewolf we know and he can help and we need all the help we could get "

He knew I was right so I he just nodded in agreement and we continued eating.

After dinner we went upstairs to work on homework and by that I mean I was helping Scott with all of his homework. Scott is really smart if only he applied himself. I sound like his mom right now. We were going over econ for the past hour when thankfully Stiles skyped us. Scott was sitting at the computer and I was leaning down next to him. We were skyping and then the computer started to go fuzzy. It kept freezing. Then Stiles started to type something to us.

Stiles typed: it looks like something is behind you.

Before we knew it Derek had Scott pinned up against the wall and I was on the floor. I quickly got up and tried to pull Derek off of him

"Derek let go of him!"

"I saw you on the field!"

I then started hitting Derek which obviously did nothing he barely moved.

"You're not playing in the game on Saturday if you do I'll kill you"

As fast as he came Derek was gone and Scott and I were freaking out. Scott more than me cause his life was threatened and we had no idea what to do.

The next morning before school I went for a run in the woods. I was wearing a gray tank top, black leggings that went just past my shins, my black gym shoes and a black zip up hoodie. I loved going for long runs by myself just to clear my mind. I loved them even more now because since Scott was bitten this is the one thing that I haven't changed. And I knew if I told him I was running in the forest by where he got bit he'd never let me go outside the house again.

I was running through the forest when I felt like someone was following me. I quickly picked up my pace. I was running so fast that I was almost completely out of breath. When I noticed where I was it was the old Hale house. Well what was left of it anyways. I noticed that whoever I thought was following me was gone. I walked around the property. The house was very big , very old and very beautiful , what was left of it. I walked onto the porch and then tuned the knob and walked into the house. I was walking around the first floor looking at touching everything. It was so sad. I researched the hale fire after stiles told me about it. Everyone in his family died but Derek and his uncle was in a coma.

"You have a problem with trespassing?"

I jumped and turned when I saw Derek Hale standing in front of me.

" Uh sorry I was just going for a run and ended up here "

" I can see that and you just thought you'd come in ?"

" I didn't know anyone was home but I'm glad you are. I wanna talk about last night "

"What about it ? It doesn't concern you."

" Scott is my best friend and we live together. This concerns me more than anyone. You can't just make him stop living his life. That's not fair to him!"

He got closer to me.

"Life isn't fair. Would it be fair to you or Allison or a stranger that he lost control on them and hurt them?"

I knew he was right. Scott couldn't live with himself if he hurt someone.

"That's why your gonna teach him to be in control"

"Oh am I?"

"You bit him it's the least you could do"

He was silent for a minute.

"Fine. But he can't play in that game, you know that"

I sighed and cradled my head in my palms. I knew he was right but I wanted Scott to stay normal still. He deserved that.

"Derek? How strong will Scott be ?"

"Stronger than anything you've ever come up against"

I looked down.

"Can you help me defend myself ?"

Derek looked at me like I was dumb as hell.

" Look I'm not an idiot I know I'm no match for Scott especially on the full moon but I'm not gonna be a sitting duck either. I need to know the basics on self-defense. And I want you to tell me everything you know about werewolves. I –Scott, Stiles and I need to know what we're getting ourselves into. We need to be prepared"

"You'd do that for Scott?"

"He's my best friend. I'd do anything for him"

"Come back here tomorrow night at 10. Well start then"

"Thank you Derek!"

I was trying to contain my smile. I knew Scott wasn't keen on trusting Derek but I knew we needed his help. I started to walk out of the house when Derek grabbed my arm and turned me around to face him. Our chests were almost touching. I could feel his warm breath on me. Derek was easily 6'2 and I was 5'7. I'd never felt so small. I could feel him staring at me and I just kept my head down.

"I'm trusting you to keep what I tell you with Scott and Stiles only. No one else can know. Can I trust you?"

I looked up to him. Our eyes met and our concentration never broke. His eyes were gorgeous. I could look at them all day and night.

"Trust is gained Derek and I haven't proven myself yet in order to gain yours but I'd like to"

He looked at me with shock and confusion. I don't think he expected that as a response for me. Or me to ask for his help. I don't think any of this is going the way he expected.

"You just did. "

I was confused.

"What? How?"

"Your heartbeat. Your were telling the truth. It remained constant the entire time. "

"You could hear my heartbeat?"

He nodded and gave me a slight smile.

"Yes, and so can Scott. "

"I knew his sense were heightened I didn't know they were that much"

"I guess you have a lot to learn"

I blushed.

"Yeah I guess so, I'm gonna go now I don't wanna be late for school. Bye Derek and thank you again"

He just nodded his head and I turned around and walked out the door. I was so happy. Derek was going to help me help Scott. Anything I could do to help him was all I wanted. I then started to run back home. I looked down at my watch and saw it was 6:54 and I had to leave for school at 7:40 so I decided to run home pretty fast.

After about a 20 min run I was back home. I opened the front door and kicked off my shoes and went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. I went to the cabinet to grab a glass and then went to the fridge to grab the pitcher of water. I poured my glass of water bent down to put it back in the fridge . when I closed the door and I jumped when I saw Scott standing there. Just staring at me.

"Jesus Scott you scared the crap out of me"

"Why do you smell like Derek?"

"What?"

"Why. Do. . like. Derek.?"

He asked again enunciating every word

"I went for a run and ended up at his house . wait...you can smell him? Like his own personal...scent?"

"Why did you end there ? After last night what were you thinking ?!"

Scott was starting to get hostile and it was something I've never seen before. Well besides when he almost attacked me in the locker home.

"Scott it's not a big deal, he's gonna help us. Teach you how to stay in control."

"Help me?! How is he gonna help me!? By attacking me again!?"

"You attacked me and Stiles and we're still trying to help you! Because that's what friends do, they don't give up on each other and we're not giving up on you! And yes maybe asking Derek for help isn't the best thing to do but it's our only option right now."

That brought Scott back to it. The cold hard truth.

"I'm sorry Katie, I know you guys are just trying to help. I don't know what's wrong with me"

"Scott there is nothing wrong with you, your still the same charming and amazing Scott McCall that you've always been. You just have some new abilities."

He chuckled

"Only you could find something positive in this"

"I'm a glass half full kind of girl"

I said as I gave him a side hug and jogged up stairs to take a shower.

I got dressed and wore a pair of dark semi flared jeans, my black converse, a grey lace tank top with a purple zip-up hoodie and my black leather jacket on top. This was going to be an interesting day. Scott was gonna tell coach he couldn't play and tonight was the first night Derek was gonna help train me. Now I needed to figure out a way to make that happen without telling Scott or Stiles.