A/N: I do not own TeenWolf or any character, plot piece, etc., from the TV series.

"I… um… I need to get back to class." I stuttered as Kate Argent stared me down.

"Oh I think you have some time." She grabs my backpack and pulls it off my shoulder, dropping it on the ground behind her. "So, how well do you know Derek Hale?"

"I don't, uh, We aren't…" My voice trails off as Kate shakes her head.

"Oh I think you do. C'mon honey, you wouldn't lie to little old me would you?" I wrapped my arms around my stomach and stepped back, pressing myself into the jeep. "My brother saw you with Mr. Hale at the gas station, remember? And he said you two looked as if you were pretty close. And now you are hanging out at his house, taking shots at his visitors" She steps closer to me bringing her face level with my own. "Now let me ask you again. How well do you know Derek Hale?"

"You were… You hurt him… I only wanted you to stop." The words stumbling out of the mouth.

"I think you know what I'm asking you Macie." The smile on her face made my stomach twist into knots. "How. Well. Do. You. Know. Him."

The voice in the back of my head was telling me to say something clever, don't show her your fear but the sickening smirk on her face and murderous glint in her eye had me cowering in fear. "I don't understand what you mean. Please, just let me get back to class."

"Now I would like to do this the easy way so why don't you just tell me everything you know about our little friend, okay?" The smile dropped from her face. "Now talk!" She screamed, slamming her fist into the jeep next to my head.

I held back the scream that was crawling up my throat. I wanted to run but there was no where close enough, she would be able to stop me. Not to mention she probably has a gun on her. Would she shoot me? In broad daylight? In the parking lot of the school? The look in her eye told me that she would.

My mind was racing, trying to find some answer to give her that wouldn't get Derek or myself into more trouble. I was at a lose. My only option was to beg. Just as I opened my mouth to do just that, the sound of tires screeching brought both of our attention to a red SUV heading towards us. Kate took a step away from me as Chris Argent stepped out of the car, his face contorted in fury.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Chris yelled at her as he stepped between us.

"She knows. She is the key to taking him down." She laughed as she pointed at me. "For all we know she can be the other Beta!"

"Look at her Kate! She is just a scared 16 year old kid! Allison is here! You are way out of line!" He grabbed my backpack off the ground, his voice lowered. "We have a code. You need to honor that! Who cares what she knows, she is just a kid." He turns his back to her and hands me my bag. "I'm sorry for the misunderstanding." Kate screams in anger, kicking the tire of the SUV.

Chris walks me away from the parking lot, away from Kate, towards the entrance of the school. "I'm sure you realize it's in everybody's best interest that this whole encounter is forgotten." I only nod my head in response. "Good. And I apologize again for Kate, sometimes she let's the pressure of the job get to her." Again I just nod my head. Once we reach the doors he steps in front of me, I keep my eyes on the ground. "And maybe for your own benefit you should rethink the company you keep. A lone wolf like Derek isn't the kind of… person… a nice girl like yourself should hang around with.'' I slowly lifted my gaze to meet his, "You don't want to give Kate another reason to come looking for you." He doesn't look at me the way Kate did, no anger or hatred, but it still was intimidating but not in the way Derek was intimidating. He holds my gaze for a moment before turning his back to me.

My head was still spinning when I met up with Scott and Stiles. I tried my best to act like nothing was bothering me but I don't think it mattered. They were too preoccupied with everything going on with Scott to notice. Apparently in class Coach really laid into him and Stiles said his heart rate was off the charts just when he thought that Scott was going to shift, Allison brought him out of it. Stiles says she's his anchor to humanity.

Does Allison know? I mean she has to right? Even if she doesn't know about Scott, she has to know about Derek. Does she know that her family killed his? They killed Cora and she was our age. She would be our age if she wasn't burned to death when she was ten. Cora. My silent friend. She always picked out the best books.

No, Allison wouldn't kill Cora.. she wouldn't be okay with her dad killing her. I may not be Allison's biggest fans but there is no way she could be apart of mass murder… I don't think.

Stiles texted when I was in my last class of the day. He said that he was going to test Scott one more time to make sure he had control. I just told him to make it quick because we had to be at the Shelter by four.

If her father told her to, would Allison kill me? Or Stiles? Scott? Kate already wants to kill us… well maybe just me but still she does.

I was waiting in the jeep after class for the boys when Stiles texted me and said Mr. Harris gave them detention. Stiles keyed some guys truck and blamed it on Scott and let him get his ass kicked for it as his last attempt to see if Scott had control over his shifting. It was going well until Mr. Harris caught them. So I went to the shelter without them.

I had the dogs out back when Scott approached. "It's about time you got here." I laughed throwing a ball and watching all the dogs chase after it. This was probably my favorite part of the job. I've been out here for about two hours but I didn't mind, all the puppies were loving it.

"Macie, why is Derek's car out front?" Scott walked past me and headed to the door.

"What? I didn't even know he was here!" I ran after him into the building.

We ran into one the examination rooms and I was shocked at what I saw. Derek had Dr Deaton tied to a chair, his face was bloody.

"What are you doing?" Scott yelled as he ran to help.

"Scott! Macie! Get out of here!" Derek punched him across the face, knocking him out.

"Stop!" I ran to Derek and pushed him away from him.

"Look when he's conscious he can keep himself from healing but unconscious he can't!" Derek looked right past me to Scott.

"What are you talking about? Are you out of your mind?!" Scott yelled. I knelt down and checked on Dr. Deaton. He had some bruising and cuts on his face but other than that he seemed okay.

I glared up at Derek. "Why are you doing this?"

"Do you want to know what the spiral means?" He grabbed a piece of paper off the table. It was a picture of a dead deer with a spiral carved into its side. "It's our sign for a vendetta. For revenge! It means he won't stop killing until he is satisfied."

"You think he's the alpha?" Scott screamed at him.

"We are about to find out." Derek's claws extended and he went to hit Dr. Deaton again.

Scott growled and shifted. If you blinked you would have missed it. He grabbed Derek's arm and pushed him away from our boss. "Hit him again, and then you'll see me get angry." Scott looked down at his claws before back up at Derek. He turned his head to the side, cracking his neck. His facial hair started to recede and his claws retracted. His eyes flashed golden before going back to normal.

I'm not going to lie. It was really hot.

Derek just stared at him, shock crossed his features before he just scuffed and started pacing the room. I walked over to one the desks and grabbed cotton balls and some antiseptic.

"Do you have a plan?" Derek asked impatiently.

"Just give me an hour." Scott walked over to me. I was cleaning the blood off Dr. Deaton's face. "Is he going to be alright?"

Derek answered before I could. "He's fine." I rolled my eyes at him. "Okay, I'll give you an hour. Then what?"

Scott ran a hand through his hair. "Just meet me at the school… in the parking lot." Derek let out a sigh of frustration and left the room. "Macie, call Stiles and tell him we have to go to the school." He headed in the direction Derek went. "Tell him to bring bolt cutters and a flashlight."

I finished cleaning Deaton up and pulled out my phone. "Yo sis. Whats crack-a-lackin?"

"Stiles, Scott and I are coming to get you. Derek beat up our boss because he thinks he is the alpha."

"I'm sorry. What did you just say?" His voice no longer holding the playful tone he had when he answered.

"Just get ready Stiles! I'm not even sure what's going on but Scott said to bring bolt cutters and some flashlights."

"You gotta be kidding me." He mumbled to himself. "Alright fine." Just as I hung up Scott and Derek walk back into the room. Derek goes over to Dr. Deaton and throws him over his shoulder.

"Hey! What are you doing?" I stand in front of him, blocking his exit.

"Let him go Mac. He's not going to hurt him." Derek glares at me sending shivers down my spin. I step out of his way and he walks out without a word.

"Why did you let him do that?" I yelled.

"Macie just calm down okay. We made a deal. He said he wouldn't hurt him but he wanted to keep an eye on him." He put his hand on my shoulder. "Trust me, he'll be okay."

We got into the jeep and headed to the house. Stiles was standing outside when we got there. He threw the supplies in the back and hopped into the driver seat after I crawled into the back. "Alright so can someone explain to me what is going on?"

"Head to the High School. Derek said he questioned Deaton earlier about the spiral thing I was telling you about, and when Deaton said he'd never seen it before Derek could tell he was lying."

"Wait how could he tell?" Stiles asked.

"When someone is lying we can hear it in their heart beat, it usually skips a beat or speeds up a little."

"So you believe him. You think Dr. Deaton is the Alpha?" I asked at the same time Stiles asked, "So why are we going to the school?"

"No, there is no way he is. I mean I should be able to tell if it was him… I don't know." He ran his hand through his hair. "Derek told me that I was linked with the Alpha and you guys said that a wolf howls to signal his position to the rest of the pack. So I figured if we went to school, which is a somewhat remote location, I could use the speaker system to amplify my howl and hopefully whoever the Alpha is will hear and come for me."

"What are you gonna do if he doesn't show?" My voice heavy with doubt. This didn't sound like a good plan to me.

"I don't know." Scott shrugged.

"What are you gonna do if he does show?" Stiles asked turning into the school parking lot.

"I don't know okay! I just needed to think of something fast so Derek would stop trying to kill my boss!" Scott jumped out of the car as Stiles parked.

"This is a terrible idea!" Stiles called after him, helping me get out of the jeep.

"Can you think of something better?" Scott challenged.

"Well personally I'm a fan of ignoring a problem until eventually it just goes away." Headlights appeared in front of us as Derek pulled in. Stiles rolled his eyes in annoyance as he got out of the car.

"Where's my boss?" Scott asked frantically.

"He's in the back." The three of us stepped closer to the car to look in the window. Dr. Deaton was laying across the back seats, his arms and legs bound with rope and tape across his mouth.

"Oh, he looks comfortable." Stiles said sarcastically. Scott pulled on the sleeve of his shirt and they headed towards the entrance of the school. Stiles turned and looked to me when he noticed I wasn't following. "Macie, what are you doing? Let's go." My legs wouldn't move.

"Actually, I wanna stay here and keep an eye on him." I gestured to Dr. Deaton. Stiles just knitted his eyebrows and turned back to the school. As soon as the doors closed behind them I turned to Derek. "Kate Argent cornered me at school today."

His eyes doubled in size as he rushed over to me. "What? What did she do? Did she hurt you?" His worried gaze traveled up and down my body.

"No. She didn't touch me, I'm fine. She just kept asking me how well I knew you. I never really answered her and then Chris showed up out of nowhere and told her to leave me alone. Then he basically threatened me to stay away from you."

"Hr threatened you?" All of a sudden a sound that can only be described as a cat being choked to death filled the air. "You've gotta be kidding me." Dereks shook his head as the noise died down. "They are such idiots." He mumbled when it was quiet again.

"I think that was supposed to be a howl." I couldn't help but laugh.

"That was not a howl." He smiled at me. "A howl-" I couldn't hear anything else he said because the air filled with noise again. This time it was a rawr, so loud and so powerful you could see the foundation of the school building tremble. Birds flew out of the tree line. I covered my ears until it was quiet again. "They are such idiots!" Derek repeated but this time in anger.

When Scott and Stiles came back to the parking lot with smug smiles on their face. Derek let them have it. "I'm gonna kill both of you! What the hell was that? What are you trying to do attract the entire state to the school?"

"Sorry. I didn't know it would be that loud." Scott shrugged sheepishly.

"Yeah it was loud! And it was awesome!" Stiles sang with huge grin on his face.

"Shut up.'' Derek threatened.

"Don't be such a sourwolf." I laughed at Stiles' comment earning the famous Derek glare.

"What did you do with him?" Scott asked pointing to Derek's car.

The car door was cracked open and the back seat was empty. "I didn't do anything. Ask her she was with me the whole time." Before I could say anything a vicious growl came from the darkness and Derek spewed blood from his mouth. An ear piercing scream rip through my body as Derek was lifted into the air, his body twitching, blood now pouring from his mouth.

Someone grabbed me and started dragging me away from the scene before my eyes. I watched as the Alpha threw Derek's body and it collided with the side of building before falling to the ground. Lifeless.

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