AN: Here is the 2nd Chapter of the day! (Technically. I was going to post last night but fell asleep). Since last chapter was basically just excerpts between the scenes I wanted to finish this one before I posted both. The Tyler that is mentioned is the one Chris mentions in Codebreaker (I'm guessing the hunter that works as a deputy)

I'm just going to say pay attention because from this point on there are some details that can't be missed, in this chapter and the next.

Ch 9

"Peter is the alpha."

"I know I had a, let's say official, encounter with him last night."

"He's the one that clawed you up?" Laura asked

"How do you?" Derek asked confused as to how she knew what happened at the school.

"Rebecca filled me in on the basics." Laura told him

"Oh.."

"Are you okay?" Laura asked

"Shouldn't I be asking you that? I'm not the one that just came out of a coma…fuck, you just came out of a coma…"

"Derek"

"You're alive Laura, you're alive, they kept saying you'd wake up but I wasn't completely sure."

"I am, I'm alive little brother."

"I'm sorry, I'm soo sorry, I was an asshole,

"Oh God Der…I don't blame you I could never blame you." Laura told him

"You don't?" Derek asked

"Of course not, I blame myself."

"Why? It's not your fault."

"I didn't notice you were drowning, I didn't know about Kate, I should have known, I'm your big sister I'm supposed to protect you and I failed, I failed you." Laura told him tearing up

"Laura you were the best sister I could ask for. You didn't fail me, not in the least."

"I was the one that failed as a brother I got too stuck in my ways

"I listened to Ellie instead of you and I should have never done that." Laura stated

"Well she made a very compelling case and I didn't defend myself as I should have, I should have stood my ground but I didn't want you loosing anyone else and if that meant dealing with her I had to suck it up."

"Stop making excuses for me the things I accused you of were awful."

"You called me an emotionless manwhore who only cared about sucking and fucking." Derek told her, sure it had hurt when she had called him that but at the same time it wasn't far from the truth. In those years, he used sex as a distraction, a way to stop thinking about the mess that was his life.

"Don't remind me." Laura told him, she felt awful about everything that had happened and the names she had called him.

"What I mean to say is that you weren't wrong, it took you screaming it at me to make me realize what I was doing." Derek told her

"Yeah but I could have talked to you about instead of bringing it up during a fight."

"We weren't exactly talking during that time, all my time was spend either at Rachel's, at Gabe's or at a bar finding someone to sleep with." Derek told her

"While I went to work, stopped by the coffee shop and went home, damn we were predictable no wonder it was so easy to fool us."

"Add in the miscommunication and…Paul." Derek commented

"Fucking Paul." Laura muttered

"I did, it was nothing special you didn't miss anything." Derek joked

"That is just so messed up." Laura said,

"Thankfully you never slept with him or that would have been something a little too incestuous for us."

"Don't remind me." Laura said shuddering a little bit, there were some things that should not be shared between siblings, sexual partners was one of those things. Thinking about Paul made her think of the big fight and before anything happened there was something she had to do.

"I want to apologize for that night."

"Laura."

"Let me please, that night I got home and I saw you together and I lost it. Everything that had happened in the weeks leading up to that just came to head, the break up with Oliver, my fighting with you, Ellie's snide comments, the supposed evidence was all there and I blamed it all on you. If I had opened my eyes I would have seen you were as confused as I was, maybe more even, but I just blinded by everything else, can you forgive me?" Laura asked

"Laura I forgave you a long time ago, but can you forgive me? I was an idiot. I blew things out of proportion all the time; I didn't talk to you when I should have, I stormed out more than once a week too wrapped up in my guilt to see that you were suffering just like me. At least I had the idiots who put up with me you only had Oliver and Ellie. Then you lost Oliver and just had Ellie and that would drive anyone mad."

"I forgive you too, so are we good now?" Laura asked

"We're getting there." Derek told her

"Come here you big good, I love you little bro." Laura said hugging him as much as she could considering she was in a hospital bed.'

"I love you too big sis."

"Let's change the subject, something a little lighter how's Stiles?" Laura asked smiling at him

"He's good, happy you're awake." Derek said

"He's good huh?" Laura asked smirking

"Not you too, I don't like him like that, the three of you just can't get that though your heads huh?" Derek muttered

"Three of us?" Laura asked

"Gabe, Rachel and yourself."

"Well, we are the three people that know you best so we must be on to something."

"We are just friends, that's all we will ever be."

"You do realize that even though my abilities are a little off I can still tell when you are lying."

"Laura, please." Derek pleaded with her.

"Okay I'll drop it, for now." Laura told him, she could tell he wasn't ready to admit it and honestly if she kept pushing he would end up retreating back into the shell or he would start ignoring Stiles. Considering Stiles was bringing back the old Derek, it wouldn't be a good thing to make Derek wary of Stiles.

"I appreciate that." Derek told her

"What are we going to about Peter?" Laura asked

"Stiles and I have a plan." Derek told her

"What plan?" Laura asked

"I'm pretending to be on his side to figure out what his endgame is until you can get out of here and are back on your feet."

"Are you certifiably insane? He will kill you if he finds out!" Laura exclaimed

"No he won't."

"Derek he's not the same Peter we knew, the guy actually killed me what's going to stop him from killing you?"

"He needs a pack if he kills me there's even less of a chance of Scott joining him."

"I don't like this." Laura told him

"Neither does Stiles." Derek told her

"Be careful Der, please." Laura pleaded, she had just gotten her brother back she couldn't loose him, not now, not ever.

"I promise." Derek said

"Sheriff Stilinski here"

"Sheriff? It's Rebecca."

"Dr. Wills what can I do for you?"

"I just wanted to let you know that Laura is awake." Rebecca told him stopping John in his tracks.

"She is?"

"Yeah she woke up last night." Rebecca told him

"Was my son there?" John asked, that would explain why he missed the game last night.

"Yeah he and Derek were the first I called."

"That explains why he wasn't at the game." John muttered

"Yeah he told me about that, sorry I just figured he'd want to know first thing."

"Yeah and he'd go there without telling anyone, honestly you are giving me some peace of mind I thought something might have happened to him."

"No nothing like that." Rebecca said lying a bit, technically Stiles had met the alpha that's why he had missed the game but the sheriff didn't need to know that.

"Well thanks for telling me I have to get back to work."

"Of course sheriff, talk to you soon."

"Talk to you soon."

"Whoa there buddy be careful." Stiles told Derek as he came inside the room via window

"I'm fine, how are you?" Derek asked

"Great just great, how are you really?"

"I hate this, I hate having to go along with him as if I believe all his bullshit lies, I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, he's going to catch me eventually." Derek said sitting down on the bed and putting his head in his hands.

"This was your idea, you're doing great and it's just a few days left until she's completely back on her feet and we can you know?"

"Sneak her out of the hospital?" Derek asked

"Yeah that, so he doesn't even suspect she's alive?"

"He figures since he got the alpha powers she must be dead, I've been using a lot of half truths considering she did die, according to Rebecca she was dead, she was just revived. He keeps apologizing for it so I'm guessing he doesn't suspect she's alive."

"Good point." Stiles muttered

"Is Scott okay?" Derek asked after a few moments of silence "I wanted to help but I couldn't break my cover."

"He's fine don't worry, you worry about Peter, I'll worry about Scott….and Jackson."

"What did he do now?" Derek asked, Jackson was a constant thorn in their side.

"The Argents have taken an interest in him, add that to his give me the bite or I'll expose you and you've got the Jackson problem."

"Leave Jackson to me." Derek said

"You can't hurt him." Stiles said

"Can I scare him? It's just so easy." Derek said

"You have to convince Peter to let you deal with Jackson."

"I can do that." Derek told him

"I know you can, want to stay here tonight?" Stiles asked

"If Peter..." Derek started before Stiles interrupted him.

"I know but I'm scared for you whenever you are with him, He basically killed Laura I don't think he'd have any remorse killing you, hell look at what happened the night of the school." Stiles told him

"Oh."

"I'm just worried you know?"

"That's why I can't stay here, if Peter finds out I'm staying here he'll figure something is up and you'll be caught in the crossfire. That can't happen." Derek told him

"Just be careful alright?" Stiles asked as Derek reached the window

"I'm always careful" Derek said

"Hey come on Jackson you're way too pretty to be out here all by yourself." Stiles told him and Jackson walked towards them catching Argent' s attention. So it was Stiles' comment that got Jackson to listen, very interesting. He removed the thing in Jackson's car and started it up

"Hey boys told you I knew a few things about cars." Chris said then he got on his SUV and left. He grabbed his phone and left a message in his sister's phone. "Kate, call Tyler and tell him to meet us at the house it's time for a meeting."

Derek reached the apartment tired out of his mind. He had no idea what to do. He didn't want to go near Laura for fear of Peter following him there and finding out about her. If he went to Stiles it would be basically the same thing, plus Peter would figure out Derek wasn't really on his side. He had no idea how he was going to deal with the Jackson issue, but thankfully Peter didn't care about him so he had let Derek handle it. Everything was a mess, and things felt off. Suddenly he knew what he had to do. He grabbed his phone and dialed a number he knew by heart.

"Phoenix speaking."

"Hey Rae."

"Hey stranger how are things over there?"

"Tough, Peter is the alpha."

"You're shitting me."

"Sadly no I'm not but I didn't call for that."

"Then why did you call?" Rachel asked confused

"Is your brother around?"

"Yeah he's around what for?" Rachel asked, Derek and Oliver hadn't really talked in a long time so why was he asking for him.

"I need to talk to him about something."

"Is it about her?" Rachel asked

"Rachel, please." Derek pleaded

"Okay let me get him for you." Rachel said and a few minutes later Oliver had the phone.

"Oliver here."

"Hey man."

"Hey Derek, what's up?"
"I debated whether or not to call but I figured in the end, if it was me, I'd want to know."

"Laura?"

"She woke up Oliver, my sister woke up." Derek said completely shocking Oliver; he expected to hear that something bad had happened, that she had passed, he did not expect to hear that the woman he still loved had woken up.

"Oh."

"Yeah so I just taught you should know, she's still weak but she's improving, Rebecca said she's going to try to get Laura discharged in two weeks at most."

"Thanks for telling me."

"You're welcome man, I have to go talk to you guys soon."

"Yeah and thanks for you know."

"Anytime." Derek said as he hung up the phone.

"So what was the urgent call for?" Tyler said coming into the room.

"I don't know he just left a message telling me to call us and ask you to come over." Kate told him

"Jackson is not the second beta." Chris said coming into the room.

"How do you figure?" Tyler asked

"Tested him today, in a way. What's one of the first things new werewolves are taught?" Chris asked

"How to be obnoxious?" Kate joked

"This is not a joke Kate."

"You're testy right now…so tell us oh knowledgeable one what is the answer." Kate mocked

"They are shown to control their emotions, especially fear."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Tyler asked

"Jackson lives in fear, he is fearful of everything he does, and when I was testing him I could feel the fear radiating from him and I'm not even a wolf."

"So what?" Kate asked

"When have you seen someone from the hale pack showing fear? They might feel it but they never show it. Plus there's another thing."

"What thing?"

"Stiles and Scott showed up just as Jackson was going to say something. Stiles then told him to come with them and it was like a switch was clicked because Jackson started walking towards the jeep."

"You think Stiles Stilinski is the second beta? The kid is more spastic than anything! If there's one thing that we know about the wolves, is that they are graceful."

"Exactly." Chris said

"Okay I'm confused." Kate commented

"You mentioned his mother in a previous conversation we had, it got me thinking."

"His mother wasn't a wolf." Tyler commented

"No she wasn't but no one can deny that she was a part of the Hale pack which means she knows how the wolves are." Chris told them "she most likely left all her knowledge to her son."

"He knows what we look for." Kate muttered

"He knows how to hide in plain sight." Chris told them

"What about the scratch on Jackson?" Tyler asked

"He definitely knows about the wolves, and he knows we are hunters, my guess knowing Jackson is that he wants the bite." Chris answers

"Which means we can still use him to lead us to the alpha." Tyler commented and Chris nodded. Kate didn't agree with them, as always. They were too passive at times for her, she had her own plans to find the second beta and then the alpha and they were not screwing those up.

"Stiles, there's just so many questions."

"Like what?"

"If someone wanted to avenge the Hales why did she or he go after Laura and Derek and why make it look like some kind animal did it? When that cougar ended up in the parking lot I checked with animal control, you know that the instances of wild animal reports are up 70% over the past 2 months, it's like this has gone crazy and ran out of the woods."

"Or something is scaring them out."

"You know I miss talking to you, it's like we never have time to."

"Dad I have to make a phone call I'm sorry, I'll be right back." He had to tell Derek or Scott about this, Peter was going to either go after the Argents or go after Derek himself.

"I miss it, and I miss your mom." John drunkenly stated stopping Stiles in his tracks.

"What you say?" Stiles asked

"Your mom was so much better at this than me. She probably would have cracked it already, she was close enough."

"What do you mean?"

"She was investigating the fire, she didn't think it was an accident and she was close to figuring something out when she got sick, then Joe came back from the dead and the issue was pushed aside."

"Joe stayed here till mom died maybe they worked on it." Stiles muttered basically to himself, Joe and his mom would sometimes stop talking when he came into the room and when he left he told Stiles he had a few things to figure out before he came back, no the words he used were before he could come back. Maybe there was a clue in his postcards he'd have to reread those.

"He was a good friend he cared for your mother like the sister he never had, and he helped with you when I couldn't deal. I'm sorry son, I'm so sorry." John stated putting his head in his hands.

"What are you sorry for?" Stiles asked

"I wasn't there for you, your mother died and I was too stuck in my own pain to notice yours." John reached for the bottle but Stiles grabbed it instead.

"Thanks."

"How you doing?" Rebecca asked coming into the room

"You know when you screw up so bad you don't know where to start fixing things?" Laura asked

"You started fixing things with Derek that's good." Rebecca pointed out

"Yeah it is, sadly Derek wasn't the only one I hurt."

"A guy?" Rebecca asked

"Oliver, met him in New York and he was the reason I got through the trauma of the fire, and then I stopped listening to my gut and listened a bitch instead."

"Being stuck in a bed will do that to you, it makes you think about everything you've done and what you would do differently."

"Yeah I accused him of cheating on me, I think I just wanted to push him away."

"Leave him before he left you?" Rebecca said

"You sound like you're speaking from experience."

"I am."

"What happened?"

"Life happened, we met in high school, he was the exchange student from Ireland staying with my family. He was wonderful, sweet, smart, talented, and an accent to die for and we fell in love."

"He sounds perfect. What went wrong?" Laura asked

"His parents came to visit one time, they didn't like me or well they liked me well enough I just wasn't good enough for their Sebastian."

"Why?"

"Werewolf politics you know how they are. He was born a werewolf, and while I was a Hale and that brought some power and influence, the wolf gene didn't pass to me so I wasn't a wolf."

"That's awful."

"I remember it got your father so pissed off , he and Lilah spit out every curse word they could think of when they find out."

"I can imagine." Laura said, she didn't have a lot of memories of her dad but from the things she does remember and Aunt Lilah's comments about him she knew he wasn't one to stand for something he thought was unfair.

"Bas kept saying he didn't care what they taught but the little seed of doubt had been planted and then came college, he was in Europe studying and I was in med school so we parted ways."

"Do you still love him?"

"I have no idea, there are days I think I do, and other days I like to think I'm over him."

"If you could do it over would you?" Laura asked

"I would, which is why I'm going to give you this piece of advice, if this guy is your one and only fix things, otherwise it might be too late."

"Thanks." Laura said softly

"It's my pleasure, now I have to go check on my other patients I'll be back to check on you later."

"Stiles you have to help me!" Scott shouted before Stiles could even say hello.

"What's wrong man?"

"Peter is on a date with my mom."

"Oh shit, that's not good."

"No it isn't, he wants to turn her."

"Fuck!"

"Tell me about it, I need you to create a distraction."

"What kind of distraction?"

"Anything you can think off."

"I think I've got something just don't get mad at me for it okay?"

"As long as my mom doesn't get hurt you're free to do whatever you want."

"Remember you said that."

"I will just hurry!"

"This is it? This is the place?" Jackson asked

"Go ahead." Derek said hiding how nervous he was he told Stiles he could handle Jackson and he could that wasn't the problem, the problem was selling it. It had to work perfectly or Peter would suspect something was up and then they were all fucked, without lube.

"Is it safe? I don't want rafters falling on my head." Jackson bitched and Derek had to resist the urge to roll his eyes at him, entitled rich kids pissed him off to no end. Jackson was petrified but didn't have the balls to admit it and Derek knew it.

"Go in." Derek said as Jackson started moving forward. Suddenly the floor creaked and Jackson looked back scared but Derek just did the go ahead motion.

"What's in here?"

"Everything you want." Derek said as Jackson opened the door

"It's going to be alright, trust me." Derek muttered walking up next to him and putting his hand on his shoulder as he pushed him inside the house and closed the door behind them.

"This house, it's the same house." Jackson muttered

"What'd you say?" Derek asked

"I've dreamt about this place. I remember the staircase, I remember these walls, I remember everything." Jackson said confusing Derek even more; Jackson had never been to his house. Of the group Stiles was the only one that knew the Hale House before the fire. Jackson had never been here, but he had to ask just to make sure.

"You've been here?"

"No, never, I dreamt it." Jackson said as Derek kept coming closer "There's no one else here and no one else coming?" Jackson asked, Derek let his claws come out and suddenly Jackson started basically whimpering. This guy was just pathetic.

"Please don't okay? I'll shut up, I'll never say another word again, and I'll leave Scott alone. Please, you can't do this! Please!" Jackson begged and Derek wanted to stop the act but he couldn't, not now, Laura's life was at stake with this plan. If it failed things would fall apart so if it caused Jackson a few tears he was sorry about that. Plus he hadn't forgotten the comments Jackson had made that night at the school.

"Please I don't deserve this." Jackson cried

"I think you do." Derek lied

"No!" Jackson screamed

"Look around you, wouldn't there be someone here to save you? There's no one here, and there's a reason. No one cares that you drive an expensive car, no one cares that you have the apparently perfect life and no one cares that you're captain of the lacrosse team!" Derek shouted, this time he actually meant it, if you wanted people to care about you; you had to show them you cared. You had to be real with them and Jackson was as fake as they came. Life was a bitch, people like him, Laura, Gabe, Stiles or hell even Scott got the short end of the stick when it comes to life but people like Jackson get everything they could ever want.

"Excuse me, Co-Captain." Scott said appearing at the top of the stairs and jumping down all of them in one jump. This was not good. Scott stood in front of Jackson and wolfed out. All Derek could think was if it's a fight he wanted it's a fight he'll get. He turned into his beta form and suddenly the gunshots started. All three of them ended up in different places. He didn't know where Jackson went but he could see Scott was hurt. Damn it!

"Run!" Derek screamed and when Scott didn't even get up he noticed the wounds. He got up and pushed Scott up, Scott had to get home safely or at least get to help safely. He had to create a distraction, scratch that he had to be the distraction.

AN: That's Co-Captain! Hope you liked it! Hopefully Formality will come soon, we are almost at the end of season 1!

*edited/updated june 18