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Derek was waiting for her outside Scott's house, leaning against the old oak tree in the front yard. He watched her leave the house and smell hard for him. She walked over to him and stopped a few feet before him.

"Would you have stopped him?" Derek asked as he nodded towards the direction when his Camaro was parked. He wanted to have this conversation away from Scott's keen ears.

"The Alpha?" asked Noelle as they kept an easy pace towards Derek's car. She could feel Derek's body heat radiate the small space between them as they walked. "I wouldn't have let him kill Scott, if that's what your asking. Not that I think by any means I am a challenge for a deranged, psychotic, mass murdering Alpha werewolf."

Derek didn't say anything for a moment as the approached the car. " You know what the spiral means?"

"That your not the only werewolf in Beacon Hills with a revenge driven agenda?"

"This is only going to get worse." Derek told her as he opened the driver side door. He watched get into the Camaro, and briefly remembered the last time they were in his car. He slid into the leather seats and shut the door. " He actually has a plan."

"Well, I guess the only thing worse then a deranged, psychotic, mass murdering Alpha werewolf is a smart deranged, psychotic, mass murdering Alpha werewolf."

"That helps." Derek scoffed at her comment.

"Trying to find the humour in every situation." Noelle told him as he pulled out of his parking space and onto the street. " Brightens my day considerable."

"How bad was Scott?"

"Horrible." Noelle looked at Derek, shaking her head. " He stood literally, four feet from the Alpha and carried on a conversation like they were sharing stories over tea. Then when he manages to get to the car, he sits in it. Doesn't drive off, but sits and waits. Like bait."

"He doesn't get it, does he?" Derek asked, rubbing one hand over his face. He needed Scott to learn faster, be smarter and act quicker. He needed Scott to grow up and stop pouting over being forced into this life.

"He's going to get you killed."

"Don't you mean us?" Derek looked at her, and watched as she raised an eye brow.

"I prefer to get killed over my own stupid mistakes. I don't need Scott's help." Noelle shifted under Derek's gaze. He was looking at her in a certain way and she didn't like it they way it made her feel. " Just take me to fifth street. That's where I parked my car."

"So, what did you learn from your little visit to the Argent house?" he asked her as he stopped and turned onto another street. The roads were empty as anyone with half a brain was home sleeping.

"That Scott doesn't know how to take the shirt off before the bra." Noelle flashed Derek a smile, as he chuckled. " Kid's hopeless."

"Seriously."

"There is tension between Kate and Chris. She wants to push harder to flush the two Beta's out, hoping that the Alpha will appear. Chris wants caution, and stealth. Victoria thinks Kate is here with ulterior motives. All want the Alpha dead." Noelle summed up the conversations she had heard between the Argent family members over the two weeks since Kate's arrival.

"Interesting." Derek mumbled, as he made another turn to another street. " Kate isn't trusted by her family."

"To many werewolf deaths without proper cause. Course, she hides it well but it was only a matter of time before Chris would start to suspect." Noelle said as she caught his eye.

He frown as he spoke to her." You seem really familiar with the Argent's. Especially Kate."

"Had a few run in's with them." Noelle tapped the scar on her face, before continuing. "Courtesy of Kate."

"She likes leaving lasting memories." Derek said as he pulled up next to her truck. As she reached for the door handle, he grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him. "Are we ever going to talk about what happened in here last time?"

"I didn't think there was anything to talk about." Noelle frowned, and look down at Derek hand on her arm. She could feel his heat through her jacket. Having him this close to her was making her head spin.

"I think there is." He said as he pulled on her arm, bringing her closer to him. Her body shifted, as he let go of her arm and brought his hand to her waist. Her face was close to his, and he could feel her hot breathe on his face. He tilted his head to kiss her when he felt her body turn.

She was out of the car before he could grab her again.

"Not happening." Noelle bit out as she opened her truck and got in. She wanted distance between them and needed it fast.

"Running just proves my point." he called out after her.

"Go fuck your self, Hale." She practically snarled at him as the truck started and she reversed away from him.

Derek watched her pull a u turn and head down the street away from him.

Stiles parked his jeep in the deserted parking lot of the Beacon Hills Veterinarian clinic and got out. Scott had called him ten minutes earlier asking him to come to the clinic, he needed a favour. It concerned Stiles what the favour might be when Scott told him to bring a flash light and a lock cutters.

He really didn't have a good feeling about this.

The front door was unlocked when he tried it despite the close sign hung in the door's window. He walked into the clinic and made his way to the back where Scott had told him he would be.

Walking into the examination room, he was stunned at what he found. Scott was wiping blood off his bosses face with a cotton pad, and Derek leaning against the brick wall, starring him down. Scott's boss, was duct taped to a chair in the middle of the room.

"You forgot to mention the hostage situation on the phone, Scott." Stiles glared at Scott who shrugged at his statement.

"Wasn't my idea." Scott cast a dark look at Derek who didn't bother with a response. He had almost gotten the blood off of Dr. Deaton's face. " Derek thinks the Alpha is my boss."

"Is he?" Stiles asked, shrinking back from the veterinarian. He cast a second look at the unconscious man. Could this really be the source of their trouble?

"He could be. Scott won't let me find out." Derek snapped from the corner.

Scott shook his head." I'm not going to let you kill him."

"You have to kill him to find out?" Stiles asked looking from Derek to Scott and back again. He ran his hand through his hair and down his face. Nothing these days was uncomplicated." I don't do good with blood."

"No, just give him a deep enough wound to see if he heals or not."

"By not he means, if Deaton is human he'll bleed out, and if he's the Alpha he's turn."Scott clarified for Stiles. " I have a plan. I need your help."

"For what?" Stiles asked, wishing he never picked up the phone.

"Drive me to the school?" Scott asked throwing the blooded cotton pads in the garbage. He moved to the door of the examination room. " Derek is going to take Deaton to the school. We are going to meet him in the parking lot."

"I can't wait to see what this plan is." Stiles muttered as he headed out of the room and towards the front of the clinic. As he made his way back to his jeep, he pulled out his phone and called Noelle's number.

Scott followed him to the jeep, listening to the to conversation between Stiles and Noelle. He waited till Stiles hung up before talking. "Since when did you become friendly with Noelle?"

"I wouldn't say friendly." Stiles replied getting into the jeep and starting it. He backed out of the parking lot and onto the street. "But I think she likes me more then you."

"How do you figure that?" Scott asked as he put on his seat belt. Stiles stopped a red light and Scott looked at his friend.

" Cause she thinks your a fucking idiot." Stiles shot a smile at Scott. He rather enjoyed being preferred over Scott. " And I happen to have her number in case of emergency. You clearly don't."

"She said that?"

"Word for word, I believe." Stiles confirmed as he turned onto the street with the school. He pulled into the parking lot of the school and parked in one of the teacher reserved parking spots. The school was dark, empty and just slightly eerily at this time of night.

He got out of the jeep and met Scott at the back hatch. He opened it and pulled out the lock cutters he took from the shed and his flash light. "So, what's your brilliant plan?"

"Your going to get me into the school, and I'm going to call the Alpha out. Derek will watch Deaton and when he doesn't transform into the Alpha, Deaton is cleared." Scott explained as Stiles shut the jeeps hatch.

"Your an idiot." Stiles told him shaking his head as he walked around the jeep."This is horrible plan."

"You have a better idea?" Scott asked moving around the jeep.

"Well personally, I am I fan of ignoring a problem in till it goes away." Stiles told him as he watched down the road.

Two sets of head lights came down the street towards the school. Noelle's truck pulled into the parking lot first and she back into a parking space closer to the road. Derek's Camaro pulled up behind Stiles's Jeep.

Derek got out of the car and looked at Noelle who was walking towards them."What are you doing here?"

"Stiles called me." Noelle told him. She was interested in seeing if what ever stupid plan Scott had would work." Where's the would be Alpha?"

"In the back." Derek replied as all three of them looked into the back seat of Derek's Camaro to see Deaton duct taped and bound, still unconscious. Derek looked at the little wolf who was leaning over the hood of his car to see into the car to look at Deaton. "You have a cell phone?"

"It's the twenty first century."

"Well he looks comfortable." Stiles cast Derek a disgusted look and moved towards the school.

Derek called after Scott. There was a bad feeling settling down in his stomach. Scott should have just let him handle this situation his way. It was contained, here standing in the school parking lot with two teenagers and a semi friendly wolf with an agenda he felt vulnerable." What are you going to do?"

"You said I'm linked with the Alpha." Scott turned back to Derek. He watched the older werewolf lean back against the car and cross his arms. He hated Derek for putting him in this position. " I'm going to see if you are right."

Noelle watched Scott and Stiles disappear into the school. She moved to stand beside Derek, leaning against the car. The vagueness of what Scott and Stiles were trying to accomplish left her with an eerie feeling.

"Don't scratch my paint." He told her as he looked down at her. He was slightly nervous about what exactly Scott was planning on doing, as the little shit wouldn't tell him back the clinic. "Why does Stiles have your number and I don't?"

"Because I gave it to him, and not you." Noelle replied as she stared straight ahead at the school.

"Don't you think I should have it?" Derek asked as they waited for whatever Scott was going to do. " It would make it a lot easier to track you down if I had it."

"It bugs you, I gave to a human and not you." Noelle smirked as she felt Derek tense at the accusation.

"It bugs me that you gave it to Stiles."

"Maybe I like Stiles better." Noelle told him as she moved a piece of her hair out of her face and behind her ear.

"You want to put that to the test, little wolf?" Derek asked looking down at her with a smile.

She looked back at him, frowning. " Go fuck yourself."

"You say that an awful lot." Derek laughed and shifted his weight around. He stopped laughing when he heard the sound of a dying cat blaring through the school speakers. The high pitched noise hurt his ears.

"Seriously?" asked Noelle covering her ears from the offending noise. "What the fuck is he doing?"

"He's trying to call the Alpha here." Derek shook his head, his eyes full of anger. "You have got to be kidding me."

"He has to know how stupid this is." Noelle perked up, her slouched body becoming tense and she started to move around the parking lot. The eerie feeling was growing in her gut. If Deaton wasn't the Alpha then Scott was going to bring him down on them without any planing with poor human Stiles in the way. And if Deaton was the Alpha, Scott was still putting them in the position were they were at a serious disadvantage. "Tell me knows how fucking stupid this is."

As if duct tape and rope were going to keep an Alpha down.

"I'm going to fucking kill him." Derek growled out, his eyes glowing in the darkness.

The sound of more defined, deeper wolf howl echoed throughout the school and it's grounds made Derek's tall frame stand at attention, he too now searching the shadows around for the Alpha occasionally looking back at the unconscious vet in his back seat.

Noelle scented the air, checking off the normal smells in her head. She could see Derek moving around the car, his eyes looking around them for the same thing she was searching for.

"You still think the vet is the Alpha?" she asked him, her eyes never leaving the shadows around them.

"It was a guess. He knows more about us then he let's on." Derek told her, as he moved closer to her, checking the car to see if Deaton had stirred. " I don't by the good doctor routine."

The howl ended and Derek waited, facing the schools front doors for Stiles and Scott. Noelle could feel his anger and she checked the back seat of the car once more. The vet was still out.

Stiles and Scott left the school and made their way towards Derek and Noelle. Scott had a satisfied look on his face, like he had proved something. Noelle wasn't sure if he what he was proving was that the vet wasn't the Alpha or if he was a big wolf like Derek.

"I'm going to kill both of you." Derek snapped, pointing at the two teenage boys. His body was rigid with anger. " What the hell was that? Were you trying to attract the whole state to the school?"

"Sorry, I didn't know it was going to be that loud." Scott sheepishly confessed, more then a bit proud of himself.

"Man, it was loud. It was so loud!" Stiles said looking at Derek. "And it was awesome."

"Shut up." Derek told them, his voice more normal then before. Noelle picked up a hint of worry in his tone and began to search for the cause of it.

"Don't be such a sour wolf." Stiles said, shaking his head. He leaned against the jeep and prepared himself for one of Derek's lectures.

Scott moved forward, searching the car beside Derek. " What did you do with him?"

Noelle moved further away from the group, trying to tune out their chatter and listen to what was around them. She couldn't smell anything different but they were the ones that were upwind. She needed to focus harder.

"What?" Derek asked turning around to see the car door open, and the back seat empty. "Noelle, where's the vet?"

"The vet?" Noelle turned around to face them, hearing her name. Seeing the door open to stared at the car for a moment." I looked not even three minutes ago and he was there, still unconscious."

"Well, he's not there now." Stiles told her, looking from her to Derek, as if he was searching for hints of guilt. It was clear from Stiles hostile stance he was not a Derek Hale fan. " What did you do to him?"

"We didn't do anything." Derek growl back. He didn't like the accusation in Stiles's tone. He kept his fucking word to Scott about not harming the vet in till they saw if Scott's little plan panned out.

It happened before Noelle could call out. The Alpha was that fast, that quiet. It was on Derek before her feet started to move, it's claws deep into his back and around his spine. She didn't call out, for fear of startling the Alpha into ripping out Derek's spine made the words die in her throat. Werewolves in all their healing glory could not regrow a spine.

The Alpha held Derek up by his spine lifting the man a good four feet in the air. Derek had never been so vulnerable in his life, the pain so intense he couldn't speak as blood sputtered out his mouth. All he could do was hang, lifelessly on the Alpha's claws and hope he would survive.

Her feet made a decision before her brain did. Instead of carrying her off into the shadow's or even her truck leaving the two beta's and a human to deal with the crazed Alpha, her body propelled itself towards Scott and Stiles, knowing that right now Derek was beyond help.

Noelle moved towards them, closing the distance between them fast, motioning with her hands for them to run. Scott had the higher chance of surviving this little encounter as the Alpha wanted him alive. Derek was already half dead and she was an Omega, good as dead. Then there was Stiles, the lone human who Noelle was willing to bet looked like a tasty little snack for the Alpha.

Pushing herself between the Alpha and the boys, Noelle felt the impact of the Alpha's back hand before she saw it connect to her face. Her body sailed through the air and landed hard on the pavement a few feet from her truck.

Seeing the Alpha swat Noelle back like a bug hitting a windshield propelled Scott brain to life. He pulled hard on Stiles's arm as he feet started to move towards the school. As they ran, he pushed his friend in front of him, hoping that if the Alpha came for them that his body would protect Stiles even for just a moment.

The Alpha tossed Derek's body against the school wall, and he lay there motionless on the grass bleeding out. His eyes wide as they took in the scene before him. Scott and Stiles fleeing in terror towards the school and the little red headed wolf peeling herself up off the pavement. Blood smeared down her creamy face from her mouth, orange eyes glowing in the darkness. He wanted her to run away. Instead, he watched her stand on shaky legs and force the change.

His stupid little wolf was going to fight an Alpha.