AN: 2 months...fuck I'm sorry I really am (if interested the reasoning's for the lateness are at the bottom) this chapter was tough man especially since it's not one of my favorite episodes but I'm truly sorry for the lateness it won't happen again if all goes well I should be back to posting every week or at least every wk ½. Ohh before I forget I updated chapter 4 (pack mentality) because I had forgotten one of Derek's friend well not really but he crept up on me this past month and I had to add him. I also changed something about Rebecca (Laura's doctor) that's in chapter 2. So yeah if you would take a quick look at that it would be great.

No mention of the scene means it happened like in canon

Ch 7

"Ready to go back to school tomorrow?" Derek asked going into Stiles' room.

"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be ready to go back to a place where we almost died a few days ago, leaving you here alone." Stiles muttered

"You're worried." Derek stated

"I don't know why it's not like you're still wounded, the alpha is out there and so are the hunters…nope no reason to worry at all." Stiles remarked

"Stiles." Derek remarked showing what he thought about Stiles' worries in just one word.

"Derek." Stiles answered with the same conviction as Derek.

"I promise I'll be careful, I'll stay out of sight, I just need to get out of the house, and I need to see Laura."

"I understand I'm just worried, I know you probably think I'm being ridiculous."

"It's been a long time since someone has worried about me, well someone other than Rachel & Gabe." Derek stated

"Well get used to it." Stiles told him which caused Derek to give him a small smile. "Speaking of Rachel did you tell her about your injuries yet?" Stiles asked

"Yes I did I told her yesterday... See this is why I don't want you two meeting."

"Because we worry about you?" Stiles asked

"No idiot, because you haven't met and you're already ganging up on me." Derek told him smirking at Stiles.

"Imagine when we do meet, it will be glorious." Stiles said smiling

"For you maybe, for me? not so much."

"Can't wait, any news on the breaking the bond thingy?"

"Not from what I can find here, which means I have to call New York." Derek said grimacing a bit.

"Why the face?" Stiles asked

"The only person who might know this or at least where to find it is our researcher, Oliver Danvers."

"Rachel's brother?" Stiles asked

"He wasn't just Rachel's brother." Derek told him

"Wait Oliver as in Laura's ex?" Stiles asked finally understanding Derek's reluctance to call.

"They are one and the same, I can't exactly call and ask for help from the guy who got his heart broken by my sister..."

"I see your dilemma..." Stiles commented

"Although..." Derek started to say before he trailed off and grabbed his phone.

"Although what?" Stiles asked

"You know how you say Lydia makes herself look like a dimwit on purpose and how she is actually really smart?" Derek asked

"I didn't say dimwit."

"It was implied, well let's say one of my friends is like that, he knows a lot more than he lets on and let's just say if anyone knows about this stuff other than Oliver it's him." Derek told Stiles as he dialed a number he knew by heart.

"You've reached Gabe leave a message after the tone."
"Cut the crap man I know you are there."

"Derek?"

"No, it's the abominable snowman of course it's me idiot."

"Well I wouldn't know considering you've contacted me twice since you left NY, great way to treat your best friend man."

"It's not as if I have a lot of time plus I have to be careful with everything going on."

"I hear you, I'm guessing what we talked about last time is still the same." Gabriel said asking about Laura's condition discretely.

"Hasn't changed but it might soon so here's hoping."
"That's good man I'm glad to hear that." Gabriel said and he was glad, he might not be Laura Hale's biggest fan but he knew how much Derek loved his sister.

"Why are you using the fake answering machine trick?" Derek asked

"Sorry, it's just Gina keeps calling about wanting to catch up."

"Sucks to be you man, that's what you get for dating her in high school."

"Don't remind me, now I'm guessing this isn't a purely social call."

"I need your help."

"I figured as much, what is it you need wolfie?"

"Do you know if there's any way to break the call of an alpha? Stop yourself from doing or feeling what he wants you to do or feel?" Derek asked

"Why are you asking me when you could call our resident nerd!wolf and get the answer from him? I'm sure he'd give you at least 3 different books about your topic, I mean the guy literally got his major in all this."

"I can't ask Oliver we haven't really talked since the break up."

"Yeah it sucks when your sister breaks the heart of the researcher doesn't it? But I still have no clue why you called me, you could have called Rae and that gets you access to her brother's books."

"Because I know that as much as you hate to admit it, no one knows more about the werewolf race, especially bitten wolves, than you." Derek told him, he then looked at a picture of Scott and Stiles in the desk and decided to try another tactic "Gabe he's 16, he didn't ask to be a wolf and he didn't want it, he still doesn't want it. The alpha is trying to get him to kill his friends."

"Killing the old pack to transition into the new one."

"Something like that."

"Your friend Stiles is involved isn't he? Rae mentioned he was best friends with the new wolf."

"That's right."
"He's right there with you isn't he?" Gabriel smirked "Oh right you're staying at his place while you heal, I remember now."

"Shut up, Can you help or not?" Derek asked, he got enough shit about Stiles from Rae he didn't need it from Gabe as well.

"I'm sending you the eBook downloads to some of the books on the topic I don't know if you'll find the answer but..."

"Thanks man, take care."
"You too dude, seriously, I don't want another freak out from you know who because you managed to get shot again or get all clawed up."

"I'll be okay."

"You better be."

"So, did he have the information we need?" Stiles asked

"He sent me a couple books to read through, he's not certain but he thinks they can help."

"That's good right?" Stiles asked

"Yeah it's progress."


The coffee shop was empty when Joe Hale walked inside and sat on the table in the corner. A few minutes later the coffees arrived as well as his informant. It had been a long day full of dead ends, he needed this piece of news to pan out or he'd be even more stuck than he already was.

"What do you have for me?" Joe asked

"Information that you might find interesting." Bradley stated while taking a drink from his coffee, he was being coy and if there was anything that Joe hated it was people being coy with him, especially with something like this.

"You either cut the crap or I'll show you what I can do when I'm mad, I've had a long day Bradley and I don't need any more shit." Joe said keeping his tone neutral which made the threat much stronger, word out there said you shouldn't make J. Hale loose his temper but even worse than that was when he kept his voice neutral and didn't loose his cool. That's when you should watch yourself.

"You're bluffing you won't do anything in public." Bradley commented

"Am I?" Joe asked then took a sip of his coffee and leaned back in his seat letting Bradley see his eyes flash red for a few moments before speaking "tell me Bradley do you see any other people in this coffee shop other than you or me, do you see any cameras?" Bradley started looking around and realized that other than himself, a barista and Joe, the coffee shop was completely empty, and the only cameras in the place pointed away from him "You're not the only informant I've got and don't forget you're here with a dead man, so really who would believe you if you were to talk about this?"

"You've made your point Hale." Bradley muttered trying not to show how much the situation unnerved him, although Hale probably could smell it on him with how close to the full moon they were.

"I'm glad we understand each other, now what do you have for me?"


"I was having an asthma attack?" Scott asked

"No you were having a panic attack but thinking you were having an asthma attack actually stopped the panic attack…Irony." Stiles commented

"A panic attack?" Scott asked

"I used to get them after my mom died, they're not fun are they?" Stiles asked

"No they are not, how do you deal with them." Scott told him

"I haven't had them in a long time, when my mom died I used to get them a lot and my uncle Joe taught me how to get past them and how to deal."

Stiles couldn't do it, he couldn't… He had no idea what was wrong he just knew his mom was gone forever, she wasn't coming back, he didn't know what was wrong with his dad, what if he lost him too? What would he do then…He couldn't breathe why couldn't he breathe?

"Stiles…Stiles look at me...focus on my eyes, on my voice." Joe said basically running into the room and sitting in front of him.

"I can't..." Stiles said

"Yes you can, just breathe in, breathe out, I'll do it with you." Joe said holding on to Stiles hand and breathing in and out …after a few minutes Stiles started breathing normally again.

"What was that?" Stiles asked

"It's called a panic attack, sometimes our feelings get the best of us or life has this way of beating us down, they are very suckish I know but you just need to learn how to overcome them."

"How do you stop them?" Stiles asked

"Just remember to breathe and try to keep your mind blank, which I know can be close to impossible in those moments but you never know if you don't try, start thinking of other things if that doesn't work. The most important part is remembering to breathe, even if you feel like you can't."

"Will they ever go away?" Stiles asked afraid of the answer

"They will, just probably not right now, why did you get this one?"

"I was thinking about mommy and daddy, I miss them."

"Come here brat." Joe said hugging Stiles and kissing his head as Stiles teared up.

Scott, who had started talking again, pulled Stiles out of his thoughts.

"I looked at her, and it was like someone hit me in the ribs with a hammer.

"It's called heartbreak about 2 billions songs are written about it."

"I can't stop thinking about her."

"You can think about this, her dad's a werewolf hunter, you are a werewolf it was bound to become an issue." Stiles told him but Scott just stared at him "that wasn't helpful, Dude I mean yeah, you got dumped, it's supposed to suck."

"That's not it, I could feel everything in the room, the emotions, the noises, everything."

"It's got to be the full moon, we'll lock you up like we planned, that way your alpha boss can't get to you either."

"I think we need to do a lot more than that."

"Because if you get out you'll be killed by hunters?" Stiles asked confused

"No, if I get out I think I might kill someone."


The moment he was done with passing the information along Bradley left. Joe was busy reading over the files he was given to notice Sebastian coming over and sitting down in the seat Bradley had just vacated.

"Bradley left?"

"The worm left the building as soon as I was satisfied with the information he gave me." Joe told him

"I thought he was going to shit himself, I could smell the fear from over there."

"Intimidation is a wonderful tactic that gets us where we need to go." Joe stated

"Would you have really ended him though? From what I gather his information is always top notch."

"Yes and the bastard was catching up to that, so it's better to bring him back to earth. He might be a great informant but there are other great informants out there."

"True, just remember not to get rid of anyone in this shop, blood stains are a bitch to get out." Sebastian joked

"You are incorrigible." Joe muttered

"And proud of it. Are we done for today?" Joe asked

"Yes that was all the meetings I had planned, I just need to send a postcard before we go back to the apartment."

"Of course you do, so was his information good this time?" Sebastian asked

"Why don't you take a look?" Joe said passing him the files, which Sebastian started to look through, a few minutes later he looked up to Joe smirking at him.

"Is this what I think it is?" Sebastian asked

"Part of it at least."

"That's good right?" Sebastian asked

"Yeah it's progress." Joe told him


"He was lucky to have gotten the tiny little taste of Allison Argent's world that he got."

"It just felt so right with him, and then he started acting all strange, and I don't know what's real and what's fake. "

"Sweetie he's a guy, you can't believe anything."

"It's just the whole thing with Derek Hale the other night and then Scott saying he didn't know him but then why was Derek there?"

"Wait, back up, Scott knows Derek? Might have killed his sister Derek? Are they friends?" Kate questioned, if Scott knew Derek that might be good for them to know.

"No, not really, Derek is apparently just Stiles' friend, at least that's what he said."

"How about you tell me everything Scott said about Derek."

"What do you mean by everything?" Allison asked

"I mean everything."

"It wasn't much he doesn't like mentioning him a lot, I think he's a little jealous of him."

"Why would Scott be jealous of Derek?" Kate asked

"Because of Stiles, apparently they were friends when they were younger and when Derek came back they must have picked up where they left off... Scott said they are spending a lot of time together and he was there during the whole thing the other night at the school."

"Derek was at the school with you guys?" Kate asked, now this was new information, if Derek had been there the night of the alpha attack maybe he was the alpha's new target. Talking to Allison was proving to be very useful.

"Yeah he was, well in a way, he was hurt badly... According to Scott and Stiles whatever or whoever was attacking us got to Derek first."

"Was Scott worried about Derek?"

"Not really, he didn't want Derek to die but he didn't seem to preoccupied with Derek. Stiles was the one worried out of his mind."

"How could you tell?" Kate asked intrigued

"Stiles is always talking and while he was talking that night, he wasn't really making any quips or extra comments, plus he wouldn't leave Derek's side and I think I saw him glaring at Jackson more than usual."

"Wasn't Jackson the one who suggested calling the cops."

"Yeah but I felt like it was more than that, I don't know that's just what I saw."

"Do you know anything about Derek's sister?"

"Laura?"

"Yeah did Scott and Stiles get along with her?"

"Scott only mentioned her once or twice, but he said she was really nice, he was really sorry she had died. Apparently she got along really well with Stiles I think Scott mentioned Laura used to babysit Stiles and sometimes Scott."

"Yeah it's a pity what happened to her." Kate said not meaning a thing about what she said. Laura was a werewolf, she was a monster, she deserved what she got.


Derek was sitting in the chair next to Laura's bed, catching her up on everything that had happened recently.

"So that's basically everything that has happened, we are trying to find a way to free Scott from the alpha's command, Gabe sent me a few books so I'm going to check those out. It gives me things to do while Stiles is at school; good thing is I'm almost completely healed. Rebecca says that if everything continues to go well I should be completely fine by tomorrow or the day after it. She's a good person and I don't know why but she seems familiar you know? Well you need to wake up so you can help me out with all of this. When I got here I said I would find the alpha then go back but to be real, I don't think I can leave again." Derek told the unconscious Laura, but before he could continue talking his cell phone rang.

"Derek thank god," Stiles muttered

"What's wrong?" Derek asked

"Scott escaped! He's out there, acting all weird and asshole-y and I think he could really hurt someone."

"Did he hurt you?" Derek demanded

"No he didn't hurt me I was outside the door, the handcuffs didn't completely work and he just ended up jumping out the window, I heard a loud noise so I went in to check and he was gone."

"Okay stay there, I'm going to look for Scott." Derek told him

"I'm not staying here I'm going to look for him."

"Stiles! He's under the influence of the moon he's not your best friend right now, he's a wolf under the command of the alpha."

"I don't care, he wouldn't leave me alone I'm not leaving him alone."

"Suit yourself but if you see him call me immediately try not to approach him or at least stay at a close distance."

"Roger that!"

"Bye." Derek said hanging up then he turned to Laura on the bed "Stiles is crazy which you probably already know, so I have to go help him out or the idiot will get himself killed. I'll come see you later. I love you sis." Derek was in such a hurry to leave that he didn't notice how his sister though still in a coma, had moved a finger.


"That one Stiles?"

"Another friend of Allison's"

"Are you gonna tell me about that talk you had with her?"

"You tell me something first. That night you came across those two Betas, one of them was smaller right?"

"Hmm."

"Was he just smaller or could he have been younger, too?"

"You think Stilinski's kid is the other beta?" Chris asked

"Allison mentioned how apparently Stiles and Derek's friendship picked up where it left off and that they have been a bit inseparable according to Scott. Before Laura was killed Stiles was spending all his time with her, see a pattern?"

"As you said they are childhood friends that isn't that strange."

"If he were anyone else maybe, but you have to add all the things we know right now, Allison's comments about how Stiles was extremely worried about Derek the night at the school, how they seem to be inseparable, and perhaps the most important one of all."

"Which is?" Chris asked

"You factor in who his mother was and how she and the Hales, especially Joe, were inseparable and you've got too many coincidences."

"You're not implying what I think you're implying right? Because they were 100% platonic."

"Oh please everyone knows that, even I know they saw each other as siblings, what I'm saying is that family is very important to them and what's more family than pack?" Kate told him

"You might be on to something."

"Plus no matter what anyone tells me I refuse to believe there wasn't something off about that woman."

"She was human." Chris told her

"I'm not entirely convinced of that, she wasn't a werewolf that's for sure but what if she was something else, and what if her only son inherited that?"

AN: Reason for the changes
Gabriel Evans – He snuck up on me and declared himself Derek's male best friend and while I was writing season 2 he actually gained an important part (same for season 3). So I knew I had to add him. I will just say he has to do with Lydia, Isaac & obviously Derek.
Rebecca Wills – I changed the relationship with Roy from married to just roommates because it fit better to what I was trying to do with the story, the flow and all.
Btw the cast list will be up on my tumblr (killianthehero) later so you know who's who of the original characters I've mentioned (and who's who of the hales and such)

AN 2: Lateness

Wow I suck, and not in a positive life affirming way… I'm soo sorry about that I just fell of the wagon for this fic, Reasons for lateness:
My Captain Swan family
2nd to last semester of college so you know not much Maii time
Got sucked into the entire VA/Bloodlines Series (seriously recommend if you haven't read them!)
I have to do service hours for my school that takes care of my Friday mornings and sometimes I have therapy on Friday afternoons
I went to build a house with my school (I ached in places I didn't know I could ache)...
Actual Family - love them but they can be a bit overbearing at times
Writer's Block - I got so stuck with this chapter it's not even funny..
so yeahh that took my time.. Good news we are reaching the ends of season 1, updates will come faster in season 2 (because Ironically while I wasn't writing this chapter I wrote a lot of season 2)
If I ever take too long to update just go to my tumblr and tell me to get my ass off tumblr to write…use force if necessary =P

*updated june 18