Derek arrived home the following morning after going around Beacon Hills for any trace of Sophia's sister. Of course he kept her in the know of how he was getting on but something was slightly off with Sophia since last night. He reckoned it was because of what happened the night before and then how they hardly came in contact last night. It was confusing for him too. But he also noticed how sad she got when Derek had told her that he couldn't catch any of her scent and suggested that maybe she had planned for no one to able to find her. He understood that she would probably be very confused and hurt making him think maybe he should have stayed with her last night but he couldn't have an episode of her arriving to school late again after spending the night with him, so he decided to leave her on her own for the night to give them some space.
Climbing up the steps to his loft, he slipped his phone into his jeans pocket and pulled open the door with much force. Coming inside and slamming the door shut behind him, a figure came out from the shadows wincing as they did so. Derek frowned at the sight of his uncle who was now stumbling towards him, dark black liquid running down his chest and he was panting heavily like he was injured.
He collapsed down against the table as Derek came over noticing the military tomahawk lying on the table; he picked it up in his hands examining the object before placing it back down. Taking a lighter out from his back pocket he wondered round to Peter "The axe was laced with wolfs bane. I don't know the species so going to have to burn it out"
Derek flipped upon the lighter and the flame from the lighter shone in Peter's face "I think I can handle a little fire" Peter replied huskily. Derek gave him a fake smile amused that his uncle thought he would be using a small lighter to burn it out when in reality he was using a blow torch. He brought the blow torch up to the lighter his smile vanishing quickly and Peter had a look of horror on his face "Oh hell no"
Derek brought the blow torch up to his uncle's chest and began burning the wolf's bane out of him trying to block out the yelling what was coming out of Peter. After a few minutes of burning out the entire wolf's bane out of him, Peter fell down onto the floor below them as Derek stopped putting the blow torch away.
His breathing was still heavy and his chest was moving up and down quickly with every breath as Derek came over to his body, holding out his hand for his uncle to take. Grabbing hold of his hand, Derek strongly pulled Peter up from the floor and back onto his feet the two now stood opposite each other.
"He said he was after you" Peter stated to his nephew who gave him a confused look.
"How does a guy with no mouth say anything?" Derek replied back sarcastically.
Peter turned towards the table where he picked up a strange glove like object off the surface and motioned it towards Derek "With this"
Sophia and her friends made their way over to their usual lunch table in the cafeteria, lunch trays with different foods and drinks were in their hands, a conversation flowing between them and every so often they would burst into laughter at something one of them said, they were literally the best of friends.
Taking a seat down onto their table, Sophia laid her lunch tray out in front of her and opened up her chicken salad bowl and grabbed the plastic folk off the tray. Stabbing the fork into the salad, she began to eat the contents of it whilst listening in to her friend's conversation.
"I don't get how you can eat that healthy crap" Kelsey said to Sophia and Emily who were tucking into their salads whilst Kelsey and Gabriella had gone for a burger and fries instead.
"Have to eat healthy to get the body" Emily answered pointing her fork at Kelsey with a proud smile causing the three of them to laugh.
"I have got the body I just prefer things what actually taste nice" Kelsey defended plopping a frie into her mouth and shrugging her shoulders.
"Or look nice" Gabriella added the four of them laughing louder at themselves as they continued eating.
"Speaking of nice there's Liam" Emily teased her friend for the second day in a row, Kelsey and Sophia couldn't help but laugh at how obsessed Emily was with teasing Gabriella over her encounters with a freshman. "Hey Liam come over here"
Emily beckoned him over with a cheeky grin laying her fork down onto her tray and the three girls excluding Gabriella watched him wonder over whilst Gabriella laid her head on the table in embarrassment. Liam hesitantly made his way over to the group of girls a nervous look registering on his face surprised at the fact that four girls who were two years older than him and way popular than him wanted his attention.
"Hey girls" Liam said shyly tightening his grip on his backpack straps his eyes rolling over to Gabriella who had now picked her head up from the table and was looking at him his heart beat began to rise immediately at the girl "Hey Gabriella"
"Hey Liam" Gabriella said awkwardly giving him a small wave.
"You look pretty today" Liam muttered out, loud enough for the girls to hear in which they did, Kelsey and Sophia covering their mouths in shock at what he said that whilst Emily smirked at Gabriella who was sat there feeling more awkward than before.
"Um thanks Liam" Gabriella replied back glancing away from Liam to avoid any more embarrassment.
"You guys should come to a party tonight" Liam proposed to them in which they all stared at him questionably the first time all of them had heard of any party what was happening tonight, they were always the one to know of any party and even sometimes were the ones to throw them .
"What party?" Sophia quizzed the boy.
"The party what's happening tonight everyone's invited" Liam answered back grinning madly.
"We'll be there" Emily responded for the four of them giving him a big grin as she finished off her salad and gave a cheeky wink to Liam who blushed at the sudden female attention he was getting.
"Cool I'll text you the address Gabriella" Liam waved to them as he walked off away from the group of girls on the table to find his own friends whilst a group of guys now joined the girls at the table.
A tall boy with dark blonde short quiff like hair and blue eyes took a seat down next to his girlfriend, Emily wrapping his arm round her shoulders giving her a peck on the lips as his other friends took the remaining spare seats on the table. "What's up ladies?"
"We're going to a party tonight" Kelsey announced to the boys pointing to the four of the girls who had smiles on all of their faces.
"Where's our invite?" One of the other boys with dark brown hair, tanned skin and a light form of stubble over their jaw spoke up.
"Just crash it, you idiots" Gabriella snapped at the boys still a little embarrassed by what happened with Liam.
"Sounds like a plan" Emily's boyfriend Zack smirked high fiving his friends and bringing Emily closer into his body who squealed excitedly.
Parties on a school night never ended well. *~*
At the end of the school day, Sophia and Emily made their way back to Sophia's to get some food and get themselves ready for the party. Sophia was very anxious due to knowing she was going to have to lie to her best friend about her sister's where abouts and that she would have to break somewhat of her promise to Derek about not going out and getting wasted. It wasn't like she could get out of the party when she happened to be friends with the popular girls and guys of the junior year. Plus she wanted to have fun and try to forget her drama with her sister just for one night and it would be good to hang out with people her age rather than people older who she normally did at the clubs.
Once the pair arrived at Sophia's she grabbed them some snacks and drinks whilst Emily waited in Sophia's room. Carrying a different assortment of snacks and two bottles of vitamin water, Sophia made her way into her bedroom where Emily was going through her closet, her eyes wondering over the different items of clothing and pairs of shoes what were at the bottom.
Perching the food and drink down onto her dressing table she took a seat on the bed and Emily span around to her holding up an item out of Sophia's closet. In her hands she had a bright red square neck cut out short dress and she held it up against her body titling her head at Sophia. "What do you think?"
"Look's great on you, you can borrow my gold heels" Sophia answered her as Emily grinned finding the heels Sophia was on about and she took both the items and laid them down on the bed before going over to the snacks.
"What are you going to wear?" Emily asked her friend opening up a packet of chips and dipping her hand into the bag.
"I've got something in mind" Sophia said simply giving her a smirk as she rose up from the bed and was about to go over to her closet when the sound of her phone ringing stopped her from doing so. Pulling her phone out of back pocket of her ripped skinny jeans, Sophia glanced at the caller I.D 'Derek Hale'.
Her breathing hitched in her throat releasing she had totally forgot Derek had wanted to see her tonight. Smiling apologetically at Emily she excused herself out her bedroom, closing the door behind her and going downstairs so Emily couldn't hear her conversation.
"Hey Derek" Sophia said down the phone finally answering it and bringing it up to her ear.
"Hi, I've just got to go out somewhere but I'll be able to come round after that, if that's ok?" Derek replied back and Sophia felt an uneasy feeling her stomach knowing she was going to have to say no to him.
"Uh yeah about that…" she mumbled but it was loud enough for him to hear.
"Unless you have other plans?"
"Yeah I'm actually going to a party tonight, someone at school is throwing it and everyone's invited so I can't really miss out" Sophia told him honestly hoping he wouldn't get angry or upset with her.
"Thought you weren't going to get wasted anymore?" Derek said harshly.
"I won't get wasted. It's a school night, I'll just have a couple of drinks and that will be that. Why are you trying to act like a responsible parent when you're not?" Sophia answered back in the same tone a little bit taken back to how harsh Derek was being with her.
"I'm not, I'm just trying to look out for you" he paused clearing his throat before speaking again in a softer voice "Just be careful, ok? There's some axe murderer going round and it's a full moon, just stay safe"
"I will Derek, it's just a teen party, it will be fine" Sophia reassured him or more likely herself as she knew how crazy the town could get on a full moon after experiencing a number of times when her sister's boyfriend would have to learn his control.
"If anything happens though or whatever, you call or text and I'll be straight there to pick you up" Derek said sternly wanting to make sure that she could rely on him to protect her if anything happened or if she felt unsafe.
"Of course, Derek" Sophia sighed wanting to forget this supernatural crap for just one night "Look I'm gonna get ready, I'll speak to you soon"
Sophia hang up the phone quickly not wanting Emily to have to wait anymore otherwise she would start getting suspicious. Climbing back up the stairs, Sophia came through into her room where Emily was now sat curling her hair with Sophia's curling iron in front of her dressing table mirror.
"Was that your sister?" Emily asked her not even bothering to look at Sophia as she was too busy perfecting her hair.
"Uh" Sophia said uncertainly not wanting to have to lie to her best friend but she couldn't exactly tell her the truth either.
"I just presumed as she isn't at home, where is she?"
"She's visiting our Grandma but she'll be back later tonight" Sophia lied to her best friend stepping over to her closet and pulling out her party outfit, hiding her face in between the closet doors hoping Emily would buy her lie and not ask any more questions.
Thankfully Emily stopped talking and quickly changed the subject back to the party as Sophia laid her outfit choice and shoes down onto the bed beside Emily's who now came round to glance at Sophia's choice. A mint blue wrap skort, a black cropped bralet, a gold triangle necklace and a pair of cut out leather black ankle boots lay on the bed.
"S-e-x-y" Emily sung to her best friend making Sophia roll her eyes and laugh at her pushing her away playfully causing the girls to laugh more.
All of Sophia's worries went away just like that.
After ending his conversation with Sophia on the phone, he slipped his phone into his pocket, grabbing something off the passenger seat beside him and climbed out of his car before unlocking it and making his way to the entrance of the sheriff's station building.
Entering through the door, Derek was met by the sight of the busy sheriff's station, a woman was sat at the front desk, many sheriffs were assembled in their offices behind closed doors working on cases and Derek thought back to all the times he had been sat in this sheriff's station over the past few years.
Sheriff Stilinski popped his head out of his office door calling Derek over to him and breaking Derek out of his day dream. Nodding at the sheriff he wondered over to his office and came inside, closing the door behind him and laid down the object Peter had shown him hours before onto the Sherif's desk.
Sheriff Stilinski picked up the object in his hands examining it with his eyes puzzled "I still don't get how this guy has no mouth. H-H-How can he eat"
"Peter didn't get a chance to ask he was fighting him off with a military tomahawk buried in his chest" Derek said his voice filled with sarcasm.
"Who runs around with a tomahawk?" The sheriff whispered to Derek trying to be quiet about this not even realising the door had now flung open and the deputy had now joined the two of them.
"I carried one with me for I.E.D removal in Afghanistan. It's for military" Jordan Parrish the Deputy told them coming more into the room and he pointed down to the object in the sheriff's hand "So was that"
"Do you know what it was used for?" Derek asked the deputy eyeing him and the sheriff.
"This one look's like it's been modified" Jordan replied looking down at the object and then back at Derek.
The Sheriff looked at Derek who nodded back at him before he walked over to the door closing it behind the deputy looking at him "Show us"
Meanwhile after a long hour or two of getting themselves ready and getting Kelsey's older brother to drop them off at the party address, Sophia and her friends had finally arrived at the party. The four of them wondered over to the large crowd of people who were rushing through towards the door of a large grand lake house on the outskirts of town. Sophia couldn't help but worry about what Derek had said on the phone as she took in her surroundings. It was a full moon, some axe murderer was wondering around Beacon Hills and Sophia was stuck at a party where everyone would be intoxicated and out of control. Somehow she couldn't help but feel like she had a bad feeling about tonight.
Shrugging away her doubts, Sophia linked her arm through Kelsey's as they came up to the door of the lake house and Lydia Martin a senior stood behind it giving everyone a fake smile as they entered her lake house. Sophia over the past years had heard many rumours of Lydia going slightly insane but recently they had calmed down but she never returned to the queen B she once was.
Going through into the house, teenagers had already made their selves at home, people were scattered around couches and chairs, some were stood around dancing and cheering to the music someone had set up on a stereo and the volume was at an obvious high, most people had red cups in their hands filled with alcohol, bottles of wine were being opened everywhere.
Sophia's friend's cheered loudly at the atmosphere making their way over to Zack and the other guys they hung around with who were already consuming drinks. Emily flew into Zack's arms and he held onto her tightly handing her a cup whilst one of Zack's friends, Ben handed a cup to Sophia and she took it questioningly not really wanting to drink tonight due to what Derek had said on the phone earlier.
Back at the sheriff's station, Derek and Sheriff Stilinski watched from behind Jordan Parrish who was sat the Sheriffs desk on the computer trying to figure out how the object had been modified since he was showing signs of being an expert in this category due to being in the army.
"Okay I think I got an I.P address" the deputy informed them causing the Sheriff to lean closer to him.
"That means you can find it right?" he asked and the deputy nodded still typing away at the laptop screen.
"Definitely. Especially if-"the deputy paused the glove began moving unexpectedly a strange beeping noise coming out of it.
"What was that?" Derek spoke up as another beep filled the office.
The deputy looked between the laptop screen and the object, his eyes stopped on the screen after a few seconds, a name appearing on the screen. "Think I found a message"
BENEFACTOR.
"Does anyone recognise the handle, benefactor?" the deputy said raising one of his eyebrows up in confusion as another messaged appeared on the screen.
"Money transferred, what does that mean?" Derek questioned now leant against the desk on the other side of Parrish.
"That means this guy is just not a killer" Sheriff Stilinski stood up from his position as Derek and Parrish glanced up at him "He's an assassin"
Sophia and her friends had now scattered themselves around in a circle dancing along to the music that was being played, Emily, Gabriella and the other guys already slightly tipsy whilst Sophia and Kelsey were the ones who managed to stay sober for once. Sophia couldn't stop worrying about what really was going on in Beacon Hills tonight and if Derek was actually okay. She knew he could defend himself but she couldn't help but worry about him.
"Yo Sophia" she heard her name being called loudly over the music as one of Zack's friend's Josh flung his arm around her waist and began kissing her cheek sloppily due to his drunken state.
"Ew Josh" Sophia screamed throwing her face up in disgust at the wet marks he had left all over her face as he stumbled around a bit clearly dizzy and out of it.
"Why have we never got together before, ay? My good looks and yours, it would be like a firework" Josh drunkly rambled to Sophia chuckling at his own words whilst Sophia pulled a disgusted face and pushed him away from her with force causing him to fly down onto the couch behind them.
"Josh shut up your drunk" Sophia yelled back at him hitting his knee with her clutch bag and all he could do was continue laughing at the situation what really wasn't funny at all.
Sophia gazed around at her location, Emily and Zack were now against a wall kissing and groping each other publically, the other two boys Sophia was friends with were singing loudly to the song playing on the stereo, Kelsey was holding up a drunken Gabriella who looked like she was going to pass out any moment and of course Josh was also in the same state on the couch.
Not feeling like she was having any fun at all and that this was becoming all too much for her, she left her group of friends knowing that they probably wouldn't notice that she had left and made her way outside for some fresh air and to calm herself down a bit. Exiting the party out of the door she had come in from, Sophia exhaled loudly into the chilly night air wrapping her arms around her body trying to stay warm in the minimal clothing she was wearing.
She contemplated calling Derek right there and then accepting his offer from earlier of coming to pick her up if she needed him to. However, she didn't want to have to rely on Derek for everything, she didn't want to come across as clingy and she didn't want to have to explain herself to her friends of how she left the party with a ride home from Derek Hale.
The sound of someone in pain caused Sophia to jump out of skin not expecting someone else to be outside her. Curious of where the hell the sound was coming from, she quietly walked over to a row of bushes at the end of the drive way of the lake house. Perching behind them, she glanced through the holes in the bushes noticing a man with a long brunette hair and a thick beard clutching his stomach in pain. It wasn't long before Sophia realised what was really happening to him.
Claws grew out from his fingertips, the man's eye colour changed to a golden yellow like she had seen in her sister's boyfriends before; this man in front of her was a werewolf and he was beginning to lose control. Fearing for her life all of a sudden, she crept closer towards the bush making sure she was well hidden from him and hoping that he wouldn't sense her presents.
Much to her surprise, she heard the sound of a pair of heels walking across the road side and they came to a halt just as the man began to shriek out in pain again, it sounded like he was being strangled. Biting down on her bottom lip, Sophia peered over the bushes her jaw dropping in fear at the sight of a young girl she recognised from school strangling a delivery guy with some wire looking material and it wasn't long before his head rolled off his neck onto the floor.
Gasping at what she had just saw, Sophia quickly ran away from the bushes and out of sight between some cars hiding away from the murderer in front of her eyes. She felt disgusted at the dead body and head she saw lying on the road side. Something she really didn't expect to see at a party but this town was full of surprises.
Quickly she pulled her phone out of her clutch bag and searched through her contacts with shaking hands after the incident. After reaching the name she wanted, she pressed call and brought the phone up to her ear the ringing tone loud in her ear.
The ringing had only been going on for about ten seconds but to Sophia it felt like ten minutes until the ringing stopped and unpredicted voice answered it one what wasn't Derek's like she had hoped for.
"Hello?"