Derek, Scott, and I stood atop the video store, staring down at the police below. Jackson and Lydia were there, as the only witnesses to whatever happened, Stiles was there too, after showing up with Sheriff Stilinski. None of the humans knew what happened like we did, the Alpha killed the man in the video store, that much was obvious to us.

"Starting to get it?" Derek asked without taking his eyes off the scene below us.

"Uh, I get that he's killing people, but I don't get why. I mean, this isn't standard practice, right? We don't go out in the middle of the night murdering everyone, do we?" Scott said, turning slightly to look at Derek.

"No. We're predators. We don't have to be killers."

"Then why is he a killer?"

"That's what we're gonna find out."

As we walked away I sniffed the air "Male, in his thirties probably."

Scott turned back to look at me "Who?"

"The Alpha."

Shock wrote itself over Scott's face and Derek turned to look at me "How do you know?"

I glanced down and jumped when I saw the red lines running over the roof. Vendetta. "It's an Alpha thing," I whispered.

. . .

I climbed up the stairs of Derek's house, ignoring the two boys standing behind me, talking. A minute later Derek followed me up and Scott left.

I plunked down on Derek's bed, watching him as he paced back and forth and nearly smiled when he finally turned to look at me.

"What are you still doing here?" I sighed and leaned back on his bed "Alina, Jason's girlfriend from Romania, got here this morning. She's moving in with us and I don't plan on being there while Jason welcomes her." I shivered.

A small smile played at the corner of Derek's lips.

"I'm staying in the woods tonight, just was gonna keep you company for a while," I said looking up at him.

"No," Derek said simply. "You are not staying in the woods. You are staying here."

I raised my eyebrows at him and nodded reluctantly "Alright…"

I stood up and watched as he sat down. I pulled off my shoes and dropped my jewelry into them before sitting down again, this time in Derek's lap.

He raised his eyebrow at me, but I just laughed.

He grabbed me around the waist and pulled us down to lie on his bed. I turned in his arms and smiled at him. I laid my head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. Before long we were both asleep.

. . .

The next morning I listened to Mr. Harris rant about the students who were averaging below a C, which I was not one of, thank god because Jason would kill me. I only started to pay real attention when he asked about Scott and Jackson came in the room, looking paler than usual.

I glanced over at Danny as Stiles started talking to him.

"Um, did Lydia show up in your homeroom today?" Stiles asked, leaning forward.

Danny sighed "No."

"Can I ask you another question?"

"Answer still no."

"Does anyone know what happened to her and Jackson last night?"

"He wouldn't tell me."

"But he's your best friend."

Danny shrugged sadly.

"One more question."

"What?" Danny asked, starting to sound irritated.

"Do you find me attractive?"

Danny frowned and I whipped around to look at Stiles, who just then fell out of his chair from leaning forward too much. I placed my head in my hands and shook it slowly back and forth at the stupid emanating from Stiles.

. . .

After school I went straight back to Derek's, my body shaking the whole time. I walked in the front door to see him working out, doing pull ups on the door frame to the living room. He dropped to the ground and began preforming pushups then one handed pushups. He froze and looked up at me.

I smiled at the Beta as he stood up, though my body was still shaking. He stepped up to me and wrapped his arms around me, a look of concern on his face.

"Something bad is about to happen here," I mumbled, shaking.

He tightened his grip and forced me to look up at him "Calm down, nothing's going to happen."

I froze and turned to look at the doorway, then took a step back, closer to Derek's chest. I pulled him by the arm to the back room and listened as the front door was kicked in.

"No one home," a man's voice said.

"Oh, he's here. He's just not feeling particularly hospitable." A woman's voice responded. I knew that voice, it was Kate.

"Maybe he's out burying a bone in the backyard," said yet another voice.

"Really? A dog joke? We're going there, and that's the best you got? If you wanna provoke him, say something like, "Too bad your sister 'bit it' before she had her first litter. Too bad she howled like a bitch when we cut her in half!" Kate yelled the last few words.

Derek roared and I shifted fully, my clothes falling to the ground. Derek threw the closest man into a wall and ran out to hold himself up against another wall. He jumped over the stairs into the first man and knocked him to the ground as well. He stood in the doorway, staring at Kate as I loped up next to him, my eyes gleaming their unusual color. Kate pulled out this staff thing as Derek lunged at her. He rammed right into it and fell to the ground shaking slightly.

"This one grew up in all the right places. I don't know whether to kill it or lick it."

I lunged at Kate and received the same round of electricity Derek had. I fell to the ground whimpering as my fur sparked blue. I felt the absent moon's power come over me and the electricity vanished, leaving me just quivering on the ground.

Kate walked slowly, following the crawling Derek as he went over to the couch. Derek used it to pull himself closer to his feet and lunged at her again, only to receive more electricity.

Kate laughed "Nine hundred thousand volts. You never were good with electricity, were you? Or fire. Which is why I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. And, well, maybe we can help each other out. Yes, your sister was severed into pieces and used as bait to try to catch you. Unpleasant, and frankly, a little too Texas chainsaw massacre for my taste, but quite true. Now, here's the part that might really kick you in your balls- We didn't kill her." Derek gave her a look "You think I'm lying?"

"Wouldn't be the first time," Derek said through his teeth, still shaking.

"Tsk, sweetie," Kate crouched down next to Derek and grew steadily closer as she spoke. "Well, why don't you just listen to my heart and tell me if I am. Okay? We didn't kill your sister. Do you hear that? There's no blips or upticks. Just the steady beat of the cold, hard truth." Kate stood up and took a couple steps away. "Found bite marks on your sister's body, Derek. What do you think did that? A mountain lion? Why aren't we helping each other out? You might as well admit what you've been guessing all along, which is The Alpha killed your sister. And all you have to do is tell us who he is, and we'll take care of it for you. Problem solved, everybody goes home happy." Derek refused to look at her. "Unless You don't know who he is either. Wow. Guess who just became totally useless?" She turned her back to Derek and I saw him take off. She swung back around firing bullets at the spot he had just been. When she realized he was gone she turned on me. "He left you, little mate." She pointed the gun at me.

I snarled and let out a sinister smile "You can't hurt me, not without insulting my mother."

Her eyebrow raised "And who might she be?"

My eyes flashed silver "Think of the moon wolf, little huntress." I jumped to my feet and took off after Derek, who was waiting at the tree line for me. He gave me a weird look before we ran further into the forest, further than the hunters would see.

. . .

I didn't find out what happened at the school until I got texts from Scott, Stiles, Allison, and heard about it from Jason that night. I was shocked to find out about the Alpha's deception, even more shocked that he could have come up with such a plan to use an innocent creature for his own gain, but it shouldn't have. I should have expected something like this.

Pandora yipped slightly at the window. I turned a little to see Derek climbing in slowly. I watched him sit down on my bed and give me one of his blank looks. I smiled "What are you doing here?"

He looked at me carefully "I wanted to make sure you were alright."

I frowned and ever so slightly shook my head. I lifted up the right side of my shirt to show him a red burn mark from where the electric rod hit me in the side. Derek frowned and stood up. He walked over to where I was sitting and pulled me to my feet. He gently pulled me over to the bed and forced me to lie down on my stomach. Then he pulled up the back of my shirt to look at the little pinpricks and red marks where the electricity had jumped in and out of my body. He leaned in close to one particularly dark spot on where the rod had hit my side. I looked up at him and saw a few red marks over the collar of his shirt. I rolled over and pulled him onto the bed next to me. I sat up and looked down at him, before pulling up the bottom of his shirt. Red marks, similar to the ones on me, covered his torso. I touched one of them softly and smiled when he winced a little.

I leaned close to the spot and laid a gentle kiss on it, then leaned back and watched at it healed, along with most of the others.

He looked down at the place where the spots used to be then back at me with an obvious question in his eyes.

"Moonlight's kiss," I mumbled before laying another kiss on a place where there were more spots.

Soon all the spots were gone and I lifted up my shirt to show him mine were fading as well.

I turned away from him and swung my legs to hang off the bed. I felt the bed shift as he sat up and felt his arms wrap around me. He stuck his nose in my hair and we just sat there, all the while enjoying each other's company and now familiar scent.

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