Chapter 9:

Audrey Mendler

Audrey shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Apparently a death had occurred just in the Beacon Hills High parking lot. A twenty-three year old girl names Carrie Hudson had been murdered. She looked at Violet, who actually had a few scars on her neck. How could she not see it earlier?

"What happened?" Audrey asked her quietly as the teacher continued her lecture.

Violet looked at her, "What do you mean?"

Audrey pointed to her own neck, silently mapping herself the scars on Violet's body. "Right there. They look like claw marks."

Violet pulled on her jean jacket collar and flicked her hair onto her shoulder to hide it. "Ms. T is coming." She whispered, ignoring the subject. Audrey just shrugged it off.

Violet

As soon as class ended, Violet stood up and zipped through the crowd to avoid Audrey. Her questions were getting to her and as soon as she finds out about her, she wouldn't be prepared as to how Audrey would react. She wouldn't even know how she would respond.

She spotted Amber with Garrett. "Hey." She said as she approached them.

"Hide your claw marks." Amber hissed. All three of them walked away to an isolated table in the courtyard. Violet tugged on her collar more.

As soon as they sat down, Amber lifted up the sleeves on her arms. There were scars everywhere. Garrett cocked an eyebrow, "Amber, are you okay? What's going on?"

Amber huffed in reply, "Derek Hale did it. He's seen Audrey, and she has seen him. I think her memories might start to kick in soon."

"Then what do we do?" Violet asked.

"We'd have to tell her and show her about her powers soon," Amber shrugged, "It's our only way. But, that's not all. There's another supernatural being that might be added to the dead pool. Here, I'll show you." She slipped out her phone from her pocket and showed Violet and Garrett the text from the Benefactor.

BENEFACTOR: new wolf in town.

Garrett's eyes gleamed at the text. He whispered, "I think I know who the Benefactor is talking about."

"Liam." They all spoke in unison.

Violet shook her head in frustration, "I knew something was up when he and Audrey were talking this morning. Audrey told us that she got attacked that night by the lake house by a wolf. It must've been him."

"But the thing is, does Audrey know that Liam is a werewolf?" Garrett asked.

"From the looks of it, I don't think so." Amber said, "She would've told me by now."

"So is Liam in the dead pool or not?" Garrett asked.

Amber shrugged, "I'm not sure. But, think of it this way! The faster it takes for him to get killed, imagine the amount of money he will then be worth."

Garrett and Violet exchanged a look. They already knew that they are going to start a plan. All three of them together.

Liam Dunbar

"So, you and Audrey, huh?" Mason asked as he checked the number of pounds on each weight. Liam tensed and looked at him.

"What do you mean?" Liam asked.

Mason scoffed, "It was pretty obvious that you kind of took her for a quickie this morning. Getting some action already, yeah?" He nudged him in the chest, but Liam ignored him by placing weights on the handle bar.

"No, it's not like that," Liam said, "She has a boyfriend anyway."

"Wait, they're still dating?" Mason asked and groaned, "I thought Jance was single. Fuck."

Liam started his bench pressing, "Yeah."

Mason started talking about Garrett, how the guy borrowed his hoodie and never returned it. Apparently, he had led Mason to the wrong location. Mason continued, ". . .Unless the dude lives in some backhoe, there's something he's not telling us."

Liam continued his bench pressings with his 180 pound weights. All that was on his mind was control and Audrey, and the game of course. He didn't comment.

Mason continued his lifts nonchalantly, "And then there's this other dude, man, he's. . . He's been acting really strange. Running to school for no reason, disappearing at parties. . . Used to be my best friend."

Liam added more weight to increase his strength, not even listening to a word he's saying. He already knows he's been acting strange lately, and he knows why, "Uh-huh."

"And, he was apparently on steroids." Mason added. There it is, Liam thought. He glanced at him, knowing he had crossed the line.

"What?"

"You're not actually going to try and lift that, are you?"

Liam sat up and realized how crazy he was at the moment. One-eighty pounds with an additional ninety pounds on each side. He couldn't do that even if he transformed into a werewolf.

"Are you alright?" Mason asked, bending down to reach his eye level, "I mean, is this about the game tonight?"

"I'm fine," Liam replied. But, he wasn't so sure himself, "It's just a scrimmage."

"Well, you know who you're playing, right?"

"Yeah." Lie, "I mean no. I guess I missed the announcement." Truth.

"Liam," he said with a little fear, "it's your old school. Devenford Prep."

Liam looked at Mason, trying to process the news in his head. Him going against his old school. He dreaded to see his old playmates again. Especially, he didn't want to see the new Devenford Prep captain, Brett. He rose from his seat and left. He couldn't take it anymore.

He was angry— angry at himself and angry at the world. If he wasn't such a screw up in his old school, he wouldn't have been in this mess. But then again, he wouldn't have met Audrey, but by now, he hated her. Well, not exactly hate her, but he hated the fact that she was slowly ruining him. He felt lost of his control at the thought of her now.

Liam threw his bag by his small cubby area, looking for his lacrosse stick. But, it was gone. Suddenly, he heard a noise softly screeching within the room. He then made contact with a man.

Derek Hale

Derek finally received his chance on meeting the boy who had also fallen for Audrey Mendler. He knew it ever since he saw his reaction when Audrey held his hands this morning. He remembered when the old Audrey used to do that to him when he was in his full moon phase.

"Is this yours?" Derek asked. Without a response, he broke it in two, throwing it at Liam.

That was it. That tied the knot to all the other bad things he had experienced today. Liam charged at him, but with his strength, Derek shoved him up on the lockers. This boy does not know who he is messing with.

"You're right," he told Scott, "he is angry."

With Scott using his newly-given alpha power, he calmed Liam down with his mind. Derek released him onto the ground. Just on cue, the bell rang. Scott informed him to get to class.

A grin slowly appeared onto Derek's face. He was amused by the fact that Scott was already becoming a pro at being alpha. Also, a funny memory of him and Audrey had popped in his head.

"What are you smiling about?" Scott asked.

"You're gonna be good at this." Derek replied.

Scott scoffed with shock, "Are you kidding? I'm totally unprepared! Do you remember how you could teach me a few things? I think right now I could use a full-on training manual!"

Derek argued mentally. He knew Scott would become a true alpha the moment he bit him. Just compare him now from at least two years ago.

"So. . . Who is the shifter you dated?" Scott asked, changing the subject.

"You don't want to know." Derek sighed.

"Do you still love her?"

Derek paused in a pensive moment. His eyes slowly blanked out as all the memories of them together came flooding back into his mind.

Audrey and Derek were running around in the woods as he showed her new pathways and secret areas that Derek and Peter had found over the years. Right now, they were in an isolated cabin by a lake on a bright full moon night. Derek tried to prevent his growling in front of Audrey.

"You're not going to kill me." Audrey said nonchalantly as she sat cross-legged in front of him while he was chained with wire and steel. He was locked up pretty good. His breaths were growing deeper.

"How. . . How are you acting so, so calm in front of me?" Derek asked as his voice began to change, "I can kill you anytime now."

Audrey tilted her head and just stared at him. Her expression didn't change, "Then kill me now."

"It's bad enough that you're looking at me this way." Derek huffed, "I was going to tell you soon, when it was the right time. But, I don't know how you found me here."

"I actually thought you were going to see a girl when I saw you running all the way here," she said, "But, I trusted you. I then heard some screaming and I thought you were in trouble."

"It's you that's in trouble." Derek said as his transformation continued to evolve, "Audrey. Leave now. I'm going to kill you!"

She shook her head. Stubborn, he thought. She then reached up to him and laid her hand on his cheek. It stung on him, but in a nice, tingly way. Her touch was soothing and soon enough, he was normal again.

"Thank you." He said.

Derek looked at Scott and gulped. Audrey was his everything. She was even his first when they did it for the first time. He nodded solemnly. Next, he walked out and looked for Liam, who was casually at his locker.

"Hey, Liam." Derek approached.

Liam closed his locker harshly as his eyes pierced into him. However, Derek wasn't afraid of him. He was just a freshman anyways.

"What?" He spat.

"Listen here," he said, getting close to him. He whispered, "I need you to take care of Audrey. Protect her. She's in really bad hands right now. Her life, it's filled with lies, excluding us. So do it, before I kill you."

Liam stared at him intently, wondering why he was telling him this. He even wondered how he knew Audrey.

On the contrary, Derek was too anxious. He needed Audrey safe at all times, "Just do it and I won't kill you. I could've done so in just a second back there, in the locker room."

Liam's eyebrows furrowed, "This is just too creepy. You're ordering people to protect Audrey? I'm protecting her anyway. She's. . . She deserves to stay alive if any one of us has to get killed in this school.

"Who are you anyway? Some Audrey Mendler stalker? I'm gonna tell her she has this creepy guy on her trail 24/7."

Derek pushed him against his locker. His eyes glowed to a gleaming yellow, "Don't, or I'll kill you."

Liam tensed up at his sudden movement, nodding ferociously like a bobble head. They're both set on protecting someone so special to them.

A/N- I just want to say thank you for all the support people have been giving me! I do read all my reviews and I do check my story stats, which are pretty high for having this account for like five days. I've had a total of 3k+ views and I am so happy to just see it keep rising each morning i wake up. Now, some gueast reviews, I cannot reply back to you directly because of having no account (it's a guest review duh). So, I'm here to thank one of my readers, who leaves a nice review in a lot of these chapters.

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