An: Everything happened as in canon except for the scene where Scott is looking for his phone that one hasn't happened yet and Stiles has no idea Scott was at the Hale house.
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Ch 10
"So do we have everything now?" Sebastian asked when he came inside the apartment he shared with Joe above the coffee shop.
"Look at the file." Joe muttered and Sebastian grabbed the newest folder in the bunch, when he started reading he realized what it was."
"Is this what I think it is?"
"Everything." Joe told him with a rare smile on his face "Every single person involved in the fire, the planning of the fire, the aftermath of the fire, who showed them how to go inside the house, money transactions, photographic proof of the people involved, photos of Miller meeting with Gerard. My hospital records, the money trail that leads from Gerard Argent to Dr Tramaine you know the dear doctor in charge of my case, the sedative they used to make it look like I was dead in order to put me in a casket and send me across the world. Hospital records of the day they admitted me to the hospital and the formulas they used to manipulate my memories. Payments to the doctors to say that I was insane in order to keep me sedated for years and then admitted into the psych ward. Stalker images of my kids in New York." Joe ranted showing Sebastian the different things in the folder "who their friends were, where they worked, their schedules, everything." and the pictures did how a lot, they showed Gabe and Derek at a bar, Rachel and Astrid shopping, Oliver and Laura at dinner, Nate, Astrid and Rachel watching Gabe and Derek playing pool, Ellie looking at Derek from far away. "They were stalking my kids, they wanted to know the exact moment one of them left for Beacon Hills, and there's phone records that show that they got a call when Laura went back to Beacon, not only all that."
"What else is there?" Sebastian asked
"I confirmed it."
"So they did kill her it wasn't just a common illness?" Sebastian asked, both of them had suspected that whoever was behind all this was also behind Lilah's illness and death. It was one thing to suspect and the other to have confirmation.
"Here is everything, how they created this toxin especially for her."
"Wait what?" Sebastian asked
"They created it from her blood, then made the formula or strain whatever it's called that gave her the cancer, it's why we couldn't smell the sickness."
"Because it hadn't been there." Sebastian said
"Yeah and we also have here the transactions of who paid for all of this to be done." Joe told him as he showed him the last paper in that particular file.
"Victoria Argent." Sebastian realized
"Victoria Argent, the same one who basically took care of my hospital stay."
"What do we do now?" Sebastian asked
"Sell the apartment and the coffee shop." Joe told him smirking
"Finally."
"Don't you just want to kick those people in the face?"
"I can think of one."
"Promise? Because if I thought you'd be that much fun I'd let you go." Kate mocked then walked over to where Derek's things were and started going through them "All right, let's see, nothing, nothing, nothing. God I hate this detective crap."
"Are you going to torture me, or are you just going to talk me to death?"
"Oh sweetie I don't want to torture you, I just want to catch up. Remember all the fun we had together?" Kate told him, seeing if he would react.
"Like the time you burned my family alive?" Derek asked
"No, I was thinking more along the lines of the hot crazy sex we had." Kate said walking towards him until she was right in front of him "but the fire thing yeah that was fun too." She said as he tried to get out of the chains "I love how much you hate me. Remember how this felt?" Then she licked his abs causing him to react once more and try to get at her. He hated her more than he hated anyone in this planet, more than his hate for himself. There was a reason he had thrown himself into sex once he realized it could help him forget. There hadn't been a trace of Kate anymore and now he felt as if he were back at the beginning. He needed to get out of there before she broke what was barely mended in the first place.
"Sweetheart I really don't want to torture you." She said walking away as the door opened "but he does." Then she went out where she had come from and the guy started cracking his knuckles and smiling at Derek. Oh this was going to be great.
Stiles was getting a dress Lydia asked for when he saw Peter talking to Allison. That was not good.
"Allison, hey Allison!" He said as he approached them, Allison turned to look at him and he could see the thankful look in her eyes.
"Yeah Stiles?"
"Lydia needs your help with something over at the dressing room." He said pointing to an area far from where they were.
"I'll go right now don't want to keep her waiting." Allison said hurrying off
"I was talking to her you know?" Peter commented
"And now you're done talking to her." Stiles told him
"Oh really?" Peter asked
"Yes really, you're not going to go near Allison or Lydia, or I swear I'm going to end you."
"You? You're going to kill me?" Peter asked incredulously
"Damn right. You come near the people I care about and you're a dead man."
"You're a bratty kid and I'm an alpha werewolf you can't kill me."
"I'm pretty handy with a gun and I bet I could get Allison's father to give me some wolfsbane bullets." Stiles threatened, he was the sheriff's kid he obviously knew how to handle a gun and spastic as he was in other areas of his life, give him a gun and 9 out of 10 times he'd hit the target. He'd fail the 10th time to make sure people continued to underestimate him.
"You're not scared of me that's either brave or stupid, either way I'd rather have you on my side."
"I'll never be on your side." Stiles told him
"You will be, because Derek is on my side and you care about him too much to be in a side that's opposite his, you wouldn't want to see him hurt."
"If you do anything to him I swear I'll fucking kill you."
"Such language, I wonder what your mother would say if she saw her little boy saying such things."
"Don't you dare bring her into this."
"Please I probably knew her a lot better than you did."
"Get out of my sight or I'll scream and attract a lot more attention than you need right now."
"So you're not just a pretty face, I'll see you around Stiles." Peter said as he left, Lydia and Allison approached him just as Peter left.
"What was that?" Lydia asked
"Just some creepy perv forget about him." Stiles said looking at Allison
"Thanks for that by the way." Allison said
"It's no problem, you're my friend and I protect my friends. Did you girls find a dress?" Stiles asked
"Not yet, there was nothing good enough here so were going to try another store." Lydia told him
"Lead the way." Stiles said
Collins walked into the Sheriff's office and closed the door behind him, it seemed it was all he did recently.
"You've got something for me Collins?" John asked
"This just came in apparently Peter Hale went missing."
"Peter Hale is in a vegetative state." John told him
"I know that's why I came here as soon as I got the information. Both his nurse and Peter Hale are missing." Collins mentioned
"As in kidnapped?" John asked
"I'm not sure but well there's a camera that..."
"Spit it out Collins."
"It shows Peter Hale walking out of the hospital."
"Peter Hale? Walking?" John asked incredulous
"I know it sounds insane and if I hadn't seen the images with my own eyes I wouldn't have believed it either."
"Do you have the images?" John asked
"Here they are sheriff." He said handing him the file on Peter Hale and sure enough the first thing in the folder where security camera pics of Peter Hale looking like he never got burnt and walking out of the room.
"What is going on in this town?" John muttered
"I wish I knew sir, I wish I knew."
Stiles was waiting for the girls to come out when his phone rang, it was Rachel. He looked around to make sure no one was around then answered the phone.
"Hey Rachel."
"Stiles thank god you answered is Derek there with you?"
"No I'm shopping with Allison and Lydia."
"When was the last time you heard from him?"
"Now that I think about it... 2 days ago I didn't see him yesterday but I saw him the night before. Why?"
"I can't get in touch with him, he's not answering his phone, or the one in the apartment."
"Have you asked Gabe?"
"He hadn't heard from him either, maybe he's with Laura?"
"No I was with Laura last night and according to Rebecca, Derek hadn't been there all day."
"What if something happened to him?"
"Fuck."
"What is it?"
"I just saw Peter, he was after Scott's girlfriend but I stopped him and he made a comment about Derek." Stiles said putting a hand through his buzzed hair.
"What comment?"
"He basically alluded to the fact that I wouldn't like it if Derek got hurt."
"Do you think he did something to him?"
"This is the man that killed Laura, if he found out Derek is not actually on his side then I don't know what he would do to him."
"Do you think he'd kill him?"
"No, he needs Derek so he wouldn't kill him but."
"But there are a lot of ways to hurt him without killing him."
"Exactly, ugh this is such a mess, I told him to be careful, I asked him not do anything stupid.."
"I'm going to see if there's any way for Gabe to locate him maybe if he and Astrid work together they can try one of those locator spells."
"Please keep me updated, if anything happens here I'll let you know."
"Thanks, Stiles we'll find him of that I'm sure, talk to you soon."
"Yeah I'll we'll talk soon." Stiles hung up the phone unaware that Allison had heard the conversation. So Stiles was involved in this as well? And if Stiles was involved... Was Scott? Allison was pulled out of her thoughts by Lydia.
"We found them the perfect dresses." Lydia told Stiles
"That's good." Stiles answered
"Are you okay?" Lydia asked
"I'm fine."
"No you're not, who was that on the phone?"
"Be careful Lydia it's beginning to sound like you care."
"I don't, I'm just curious about why you all of a sudden changed moods drastically." Lydia said although they all knew she was faking, she did care and that shocked her.
"Derek is missing." Stiles said, he knew that Lydia would not stop pestering him about it so he better come clean.
"Derek Hale?" Allison asked
"Yes Derek Hale, what other Derek do we know?" Stiles said
"Calm down Stiles it was just a question." Lydia told him
"Sorry Allison, it's just...that was Derek's best friend from New York she hasn't heard from him in a while and neither has his other best friend. I haven't heard from him in two days so I'm worried."
"I'm sure he's fine, he probably just needed a few days to himself and that's completely normal." Lydia told him
"Yeah maybe."
"Let's go pay and we can go to lunch, I know a place that serves the best curly fries in town and its salads are great too." Lydia told them
"Yeah let's go." Stiles said grabbing the dresses Lydia and Allison were going to buy "thanks." He said softly
"It's nothing." Lydia replied
"Allison you coming?" Stiles asked
"Yeah I'm coming." Allison said walking behind them as they talked, she couldn't help but think about what she'd heard. Stiles was really worried about Derek, even Lydia dropped the facade a bit because of it, Allison knew where Derek was she had just seen him. Should she tell someone? Kate said they were dangerous but what if she had been wrong. What if what her family was doing was wrong?
After shopping and eating lunch Stiles dropped by to see how Scott was doing and found him freaking out in his room about his missing phone.
"I need my phone to talk to Allison, I left her hanging when Peter came by."
"How did you even loose your phone?" Stiles asked
"No clue, I had it yesterday during the fight and then nothing."
"What fight Scott?" Stiles asked and all he could think was please don't let this be what he thinks.
"I went over to the Hale house ok and there were hunters and its all a blur, now can you please help me find it."
"Scott do you know where Derek is?"
"He walked into gunfire." Scott admitted
"What the fuck Scott!" Stiles screamed
"What"
"You're worried about fucking Allison when the Argents probably have Derek!"
"He was going to kill Jackson!"
"No he wasn't!"
"I was there Stiles, I saw him."
"So what! You don't know what was really going on!"
"What are you talking about?" Scott asked finally looking up at his best friends face.
"Derek was pretending to be on Peter's side! We needed to wait till Laura was fully recovered before taking on Peter, it's too dangerous for Derek to take him on by himself."
"He should have asked me."
"Peter still has a connection with you and we couldn't risk that you dumbass!" Stiles shouted
"Laura is alive?" Scott asked
"Yes she's alive and now damn it Scott!" Stiles shouted
"I'm sorry okay I thought he was the bad guy."
"He's not the bad guy! What have I been telling you all this time, you've got to start listing to the things I say Scott!" Stiles continued shouting "This changes everything, I need to talk to Rachel and see where we are with the spell, and tell her it wasn't Peter but the Argents who have him."
"You thought Peter had him?" Scott asked
"Yes we thought he had figured things out and that he had taken Derek but its much worse."
"How can this be much worse."
"Because it's the Argents! They burned down the Hale house or did you forget that? A house filled with innocent werewolves and humans. Scott I love you, you're my best friend but I can't look at you right now." Stiles told him then grabbed his things and stormed out. A few minutes later he reached his house ready to just go to his room and call Rachel see where they were with the spell when his dad stopped him.
"Stiles, there's someone here to see you." John said
"Who?" Stiles asked
"She's waiting in your room, I have to get to work see you later."
"Later dad." Stiles muttered as his dad left the house, he walked up to his room and opened the door to find Allison Argent sitting in his bed. What was she doing here?
"Allison? Scott isn't here."
"I know I came to see you."
"Don't take this the wrong way but why? Are you okay?" Stiles asked
"Not really there's a bunch of new information inside my head and I don't know what to do with any of it."
"You thought I could help?" Stiles asked
"What do you know about werewolves?" Allison asked completely shocking Stiles. That was the last thing he thought she would ask.
"A lot, so you better get comfortable because this is going to be a long conversation."
"So I see Patrick didn't get anything out of you, give him time you'll crack." Kate commented
"I'll never tell you anything." Derek told her
"Why don't I just tell you what we know and you tell me if we're on the right track."
"Go to hell." Derek said
"Okay here's the thing we are still thinking about who the second beta might be, we are now between Jackson and Stiles." She told him and at the mention of Stiles' name Derek's eyes hardened. If she went anywhere near Stiles he would kill her, tear her apart limb from limb.
"You see Jackson has a little scratch on the back of his neck and we know he knows about the wolves. He's so obvious really, it's the reason Chris isn't keen on the idea of it being Jackson. He says there is not enough evidence. I say the brat is just a coward you know?" Kate said then realized she wasn't going to get a reaction from Derek by talking about Jackson; she had to try another tactic.
"Stiles on the other hand, now that one I can totally believe. He's the smartest of your group, he's clever, can think on the spot and he doesn't show off. Plus he's got the protection of his father being the sheriff and no one wants to go after the sheriff's only son. He knows how to hide in plain sight; I mean no one ever expects it to be the sidekick am I right? I wonder how he'd react to certain things, I would love to know what makes him tick." Kate goaded pronouncing the last phrase slowly.
"If you go anywhere near him I swear to you, you'll regret it." Derek threatened
"Oh sweetie do you look like you're in the right spot to be making threats?"
"I don't care I just know if you get close to him or hurt him in any way I will end you, I'll rip you apart limb from limb."
"It's hard to kill someone when you are dead. Goodbye Derek." Kate laughed as she left the room, closing the door behind her to drown the threats Derek was spewing out right now.
"So they set fire to a house filled with innocent people? And that time at my house Scott was looking for a bullet?" Allison asked
"Yeah luckily he found it in time."
"Kate's an awful person, she said you didn't need to be a psychopath to be a killer that you just needed a reason but this, she's a psychopath." Allison muttered walking around the room then looked at Stiles "there's more isn't there?"
"Yes but I can't say anything about that, I can't break that trust." Stiles told her, he might have told her everything else but he couldn't say a word about Derek and Kate, it wasn't his story to tell.
"I want to help." Allison told him
"What?" Stiles asked confused
"I want, no I need to help. What Kate is doing is not right, I want to help you and the Hales." Allison said
"Why? I mean don't get me wrong but this is your family, Scott mentioned Kate was like a sister to you. "
"You're the only one that has told me everything, Kate told me vague things, Scott and my dad haven't told me anything, but you did. The first time I asked you told me the whole story objectively and I know that wasn't easy. You care about Derek, a lot." Allison said and Stiles turned to look at his hands "and you don't care about a lot of people I mean you care about Lydia, Scott, your dad, Derek and his sister but I don't think you really care about anyone else well I want to believe you care about me."
"I do, you're my friend and you make Scott happy which is good enough for me." Stiles told her truthfully. He'd admit he had some reservations about Allison before today but after this, he completely trusted her.
"That means a lot actually because your Scott's best friend and well you're my friend too...but what I was saying before was that if Derek is on your list of people to care about then he must not be a bad person. Plus no one deserves this so I want to help in any way I can." Allison told him but before he could answer his computed chimed, incoming conference call. The conference call of course, it was the reason he was home, Allison coming had sidetracked him but he remembered he'd organized a conference call to see what to do about Derek.
"Allison I need to ask you something very important and I want you to think it through."
"Ask away."
"Do you want to form a part of the group or well the word is actually pack but right now we'll call it group. Think about it, you can still get out of this, your parents have no idea you know and Kate doesn't know you came here, you can get out of this mostly unscathed."
"I want to help you guys."
"Completely sure? There's no going back after this and there's no turning back, as of right now I can tell them I have an informant but I won't give out a name and we can keep it like that."
"I'm done being useless, I want to help."
"You understand this means you're on the side of the pack, the werewolves?" Stiles asked for the last time.
"Don't worry that part is very clear. I'm sure of my decision Stiles, trust me."
"I do, well here's how this is going to be played I'm going to have a conference call to tell them what we know of Derek and his location, probably figure out a plan to help him, while I'm okay with you they don't know you all they know is that you're an Argent."
"Want me to stay out of sight until I'm mentioned?" Allison asked
"Pretty much yeah."
"Deal."
"Okay let's do this." Stiles said as Allison took a seat next to his desk, then he hit accept on the request.
On one screen was Rachel with who he guessed were Gabriel and his sister Astrid he remembered because he thought her name was awesome. The other screen was Laura's hospital room and it was Laura and Rebecca sitting on the bed.
"Stiles lovely to see your actual face." Rachel commented breaking the silence
"Likewise Phoenix, we should probably do introductions." Stiles commented
"Okay I'm Rachel for those that don't know me, & as you can probably guess this idiot next to me is Gabe and the blonde on my other side is Astrid."
"Pleasure to meet you both I'm Stiles obviously."
"The pleasure is all our Stiles we've heard a lot about you." Astrid commented
"I'm Rebecca Wills, I'm the doctor in charge of Laura and an old family friend of the Hales." Rebecca said introducing herself to the New Yorkers
"And I'm Laura Hale although I think you all knew that." Laura said quietly shocking Allison who mouthed at Stiles she's alive? And Stiles send a note card that said long story explain later, that is Laura.
"Okay we are all here because of Derek and his most recent disappearing act." Stiles told them
"We tried doing a locator spell but he's too far away." Gabriel said
"Don't worry I know where he is and who took him, good news it wasn't Peter, bad news it was Kate and her merry band of hunters."
"That bitch!" Screamed Rachel
"If you don't mind me saying this how do you know?" Astrid asked
"I have a reliable source but I can't say who it is right now." Stiles told them
"How reliable is this source?" Laura asked
"Scott was there the night Derek got taken, he said he got shot and that Derek walked into gunfire but that the bullets were normal bullets." Stiles told them
"Why was Scott there?" Rebecca asked
"Misguided attempt at "saving Jackson", Jackson was getting too close to exposing everyone to the hunters and well we couldn't let that happen." Stiles started explain before Laura interrupted him.
"Does this have to do with your plan about Peter and Derek pretending to be on his side?" She asked.
"Derek told me to leave Jackson to him, his plan was just to scare Jackson into keeping quiet. It wouldn't have been hard considering Jackson is terrified of Derek since that time Derek scratched him when he got shot by Kate. The thing was that he was going to scare him and then let him go but Peter probably told Scott about it and well Scott went to defend Jackson." Stiles explained
"Then the hunters came." Rachel said filling in the blanks.
"Pretty much." Stiles nodded
"Do you think this source is trustworthy?" Gabriel asked
"Yes." Stiles answered without hesitation earning a smile from Allison.
"Are they involved with the hunters?" Astrid asked
"In a way." Stiles said keeping it as vague as possible then he seemed to have a silent conversation with Allison who grabbed her chair and sat next to Stiles in front of the camera.
"It's me." Allison told them
"Allison Argent?" Laura asked shocked that an Argent was helping them, what was going on?
"Whoa an Argent? How do we know this isn't a trap?" Gabriel asked
"Because before last night I had no idea werewolves even existed. " Allison said but before Gabriel could comment Allison went on "I know you have no reason to trust me or trust that I'm not working with my aunt but can I explain why I'm here first, then you are free to decide for yourselves if I'm trustworthy or not."
"Very well go on." Gabriel commented as Astrid and Rachel shared a secret smirk, this girl had guts they could give her that; this was turning out to be very interesting.
"My family moves a lot, I always thought it was my dad's job, and ironically in a way it was but I'll get to that later. My dad sells guns to the sheriff's department and that's why there are always weapons at the house so I didn't think twice about them. Then Kate came to town and things started getting weird."
"What do you mean?" Astrid asked
"Both my dad and Kate lied about what had happened to her car the night she came to town, Scott told me it was probably nothing so I let it go, Kate told me to investigate our family's history and she gave me the necklace with the family crest. Then the night at the school happened, the text from Scott that wasn't from Scott, his behavior that night, the feeling of being completely and utterly weak."
"Feeling weak is the worst feeling in the world." Gabriel commented somberly then made a notion for Allison to continue talking.
"Yeah it is, well I broke up with Scott because I didn't feel safe and I was talking to Kate like I normally did after a break up and at first she acted as always even teaching me how to shoot a tazer gun, until I mentioned the night at the school. Scott had told me before all of this that he didn't know Derek that he was just friends with Stiles, I was musing out loud and made a comment about how I was confused about why Derek was at the school with us and Kate got weird. She started asking me if Scott knew Derek and I told her all I knew which was what Scott had told me; that Derek and Stiles were friends when they were younger and that they had reconnected. I told her how I thought Scott was just jealous, how Stiles was worried about Derek the night at the school and then she kind of made an excuse and left."
"Crap." Rebecca muttered
"What's wrong?" Stiles asked
"They think you're the second beta." Rebecca told the,
"Scott said they were thinking about Jackson for that one." Stiles told her
"Then I'd bet you anything the two of you are their two choices for the second beta and they are probably leaning more towards you." Rebecca told him
"Have they seen me? I'm a clumsy mess of limbs." Stiles commented
"Aunt Lilah." Laura muttered.
"My mom?" Stiles asked.
"Your mother was a part of the Hale pack for most of her life, if you add that to what they know about your friendship with Derek and if anyone knew how to hide new abilities it would be you." Rebecca told him.
"Yeah that makes sense but we can deal with that later right now it's about Derek, let Allison finish her story." Stiles told them.
"Okay after that I heard my dad and Kate arguing about me and Kate discreetly left some things out for me knowing I would try to find out what they were. I tried them out and found them to be this weird kind of weapons that I know I had never seen before. I went to talk to Scott that night but he had to leave and I got tired of waiting for him to come back when I got a call from Kate she took me to some tunnels and then she told me the family secret. She opened the door and there he was hanging from two chains." Allison told time getting more agitated as the story went on "I didn't recognize him at first because he was, what did you call it?" She said turning to Stiles.
"Wolfed out."
"Yeah and then she sent volts through his body and his face changed back for a few seconds and I realized it was Derek. She was there talking about how they were monsters and she was treating everything like a joke while sending god knows how many volts through Derek's body." Allison said her eyes watering a bit as Stiles passed her a tissue. "Then we left the room and she told me my parents don't think they were going to tell me at least not yet. Then she said that she saw natural talent in me, but if natural talent means torturing people I don't want it. She told me to act normal and that I was going to help her find the second beta. "
"Fuck." Gabriel muttered about a minute after she finished. For a second there he left the frame and there was a loud crash heard before Gabriel came back and sat down.
"You okay Gabe?" Astrid asked
"She just practically confirmed that my best fiend is getting tortured by miss psycho bitch! The one who burnt down his house and basically created all of his issues so no I'm not ok." Gabriel told his sister, Stiles paid close attention to the way he talked about Kate and realized that Gabe most likely knew about Kate and Derek. The thing was that Stiles wasn't sure Derek knew that Gabe knew so he must have kept it hidden.
"Calm down Evans you think this isn't hard for me to hear? For Laura? For Astrid and Stiles? Look at Allison its hard enough for her to tell the story and she doesn't really know Derek! Now calm down." Rachel exclaimed and Gabe muttered something underneath his breath as he sat down.
"Okay I'm calm and forgive me if I sound rude but that still doesn't really tell me why you decided to side with us." Gabriel commented
"Stiles, it was all because of Stiles."
"He convinced you?" Laura asked
"No, we were shopping with Lydia for the formal when this creepy guy came up to me and started talking, I later found out he was Peter, and Stiles came by and practically saved me by making me go over to Lydia and after a few words with Stiles the guy left. Then when I came out of the dressing room I heard Stiles on the phone and he kept saying Derek was missing. He just sounded so worried and depressed that I got even more conflicted. I came here and Stiles told me everything. He told both sides of the story, what Peter had done, what Kate did and was still doing, I knew I'd come to the right place for answers. Stiles is the only one with the guts to tell me everything and not just one side but both sides. As I told him before I don't know Derek I don't presume to but he's in Stiles list of people that are important to him so I knew I had to do something. I'm not going back I've made my decision I'm on your side." Allison told them and of course the first to speak was Gabriel.
"I believe you."
"You do?" Allison asked, she had thought he was going to be the last one to believe in her, not the first.
"Did they tell you what my twin and I are?" Gabriel asked
"No, not really." Allison admitted
"We're witches and while I admit I'm not great at it, there's one thing I'm really good at...and that's reading auras and well people, and either you are an expert at masking which I doubt or you are being truthful."
"Thank you." Allison told him
"Glad to see you take after your father instead of your mother Allison." Rebecca told her
"Thanks I guess." Allison said confused about the comment but now was not the time to ask.
"I trust Stiles and Gabriel's judgment and you seem legit so Astrid and I believe you." Rachel commented and Astrid nodded along.
"Well I can't believe I'm saying this especially to an Argent but I do believe you, and I can tell you do want to help my brother. Plus from what I've heard Scott is crazy over you so that works too." Laura commented
"Now that we got that out the way lets plan this rescue." Stiles said and they set forth to plan how they were going to get Derek out of there.
"Unfortunately, Derek, if you're not gonna talk I'm just gonna have to kill you. Say hi to your sister for me. You didn't tell her about me did you? The truth about the fire?" She asked coming closer to him once more, he wouldn't look her in the eye so she just continued talking "Did you tell anybody?" She asked and he kept looking at the ground, technically the only person he had told was Stiles, Laura and Rachel had found out on their own. "Oh sweetie that's just a lot of guilt to keep buried."
He finally looked her in the eyes, as she continued talking "it's not all your fault you got tricked by a pretty face, it happens!" She mocked him laughing at his pain "handsome young werewolf mistakenly falls in love with a super hot girl who comes from a family that kills werewolves. Is that ironic? Is it ironic that you are inadvertently helping me track down the rest of the pack, again?" Kate mocked and Derek looked down again, "we're just a little bit of history repeating." She said as she walked away stopping at the table "history repeating, it's not Jackson is it? Or Stiles? Jackson's got a little scratch on the back of his neck and Stiles has everything to be a werewolf, the history, the attitude, everything but neither of them are in love with Allison. Not like Scott."
"Dr Wills you're sure you can sneak Laura out?" Rachel asked
"Yes I'm positive about it." Rebecca told her
"Laura you sure you're okay to do this?" Stiles asked
"Everything is working fine with my body Stiles don't worry, my senses are at an 8.5." Laura told him
"Okidoki then here's what we got so far, Rebecca will sneak out Laura and you'll head to the tunnels to free Derek, Allison and I will be at the dance that way if anyone suspects we'll have an alibi." Stiles told them
"What about Scott? He can't go to the dance." Allison asked
"He'll find a way to be there and Jackson will be there too so that's alibis for us, after the dance Allison and I will meet you at Rebecca's apartment and we'll see where we go from there."
"Why not our apartment?" Laura asked
"I don't know if Peter knows about it but I don't want to risk it." Stiles told her.
"It seems like a solid plan, what's the backup?" Rachel asked
"If for any reason Stiles or myself don't make it to the apartment we'll contact Astrid." Allison said
"What if you can't?" Astrid asked
"Then we hope for the best. We've got 3 hours till the dance." Stiles muttered
"I'm going over to Lydia's to get ready, my parents already think I'm there so it would make no sense to go home. I'll see you at the dance?" Allison asked
"Yeah, where is Jackson picking you up?" Stiles asked confused
"Lydia's place, I think my dad scares him." Allison muttered.
"He is very easily scared." Stiles commented
"True, bye everyone." She said waving goodbye to the group in the conference then leaving.
"Who is your date Stiles?" Rachel asked
"Lydia, now if you don't mind I have to get everything ready I'll send you a text when we reach the school." Stiles told them waving goodbye.
"Let's hope everything goes according to plan. " Gabe commented as a closing statement before the call disconnected, Stiles really hoped everything went according to plan.
Stiles was getting ready to go to the dance when Scott showed up in his room causing Stiles to jump.
"Dude, don't scare me like that." Stiles told him
"Sorry I just needed to talk to you before the dance."
"Okay then talk." Stiles told him, he was mad at Scott but he was still his best friend.
"I'm sorry." Scott muttered
"What did you say?" Stiles asked
"I said I'm sorry, I'm sorry about the way I acted with Derek and the Argents and I'm sorry about the way I've been acting about Derek since he got here, I know he's not a killer or a bad guy I just i guess I... I was jealous." Scott admitted
"What? Why?" Stiles asked
"Because he got back and all of a sudden it was Derek this or Derek that, he was your friend, your best friend when you were younger and I just i didn't want to loose you." Scott told him looking at his hands.
"You idiot." Stiles said laughing
"What?"
"You thought Derek was going to replace you?" Stiles asked
"Well yeah."
"No way in hell man, I mean sure Derek is a very good friend but you knew what?
"What?"
"He's no Scott.. He's not my best friend, that's you and that will always be you no matter what you get that?" Stiles told him
"Yeah I get it, you're my best friend too."
"I know that duh, are you going to the dance?" Stiles asked
"Yeah I have to talk to Allison. I'm getting her back."
"That's my boy!"
"You think I can?" Scott asked
"Damn right! Now get out because I have to finish getting ready so I can go pick up Lydia." Stiles told him
"Right! Good luck I have to go get ready too." Scott said "We are okay right?"
"We are great dude." Stiles said as Scott left the way he came in.
"Are you ready?" Rebecca asked coming into Laura's room.
"Yes, are you sure about this? You could loose your job." Laura asked
"If I loose it then I loose it, this is much more important. Family is more important than a job." Rebecca said unhooking all the machines Laura was connected to. "This was everything that was on you when I found you." She said handing Laura her things.
"Okay let's do this we don't have much time." Laura said as she put on her clothes, she was wearing jeans, a tank top and a dark jacket. In the bag with that held her accessories were two of her most prized possessions, her triskele necklace her mother had given her when Laura had turned 18 and a ring Oliver had gotten her when they hit their one year anniversary.
"Okay you just need to sign these papers that way as far as the hospital is concerned you were discharged the right way." Rebecca told her passing her the papers, which Laura signed automatically.
"How is this going to work?" Laura asked once she was ready to go.
"First rule act normal, almost no one came into your room so you most likely wont get easily recognized, we are going to drop these at the desk, the nurse on call right now is a friend of mine she won't ask questions and she knows I had a long day so it's believable that I could have forgotten to drop them off earlier."
"You've done that before?" Laura asked
"Once or twice, now after that we are just going to walk out the door and into my car."
"Just like that?" Laura asked
"Just like that, if you act like nothing is wrong people have no reason to suspect otherwise, and have the potion in my car so it's not as of we are carrying the substance out of the hospital."
"You're brilliant." Laura said amazed
"I do my best now let's go."
Stiles got out of the Jeep and went over to Lydia's side to open the door for her; he helped her get down when they encountered Jackson and Allison. He and Allison shared a knowing look as Lydia turned to Jackson
"Jackson, you look handsome." Lydia commented
"Obviously it's Hugo Boss." Jackson said pompously as he and Allison walked into the school.
"I don't care, I don't want compliments, i will not fall prey to society's desire to turn girls into emotionally insecure neurotics who pull up their dresses at the first flattering remark."
"Well I think you look beautiful." Stiles told her truthfully taking her by surprise.
"Really?" Lydia asked giving him one of those rare real smiles
"Definitely, Jackson doesn't know what he's missing." Stiles told he then extended his arm for her to grab, which she did. Just as they walked into the school, Stiles sent a text to Rebecca We're at the School.
"So how are we going to do this?" Tyler asked Chris
"We aren't going to hurt the kid just get him away from Allison, he'll lead us to the alpha of that I'm sure." Chris told him getting his weapons ready
"So we're going to the school?" Another hunter asked coming into the room
"Yes we are going to the school. Everyone get ready we are catching the alpha one way or another." Chris told them
"Show time?" Tyler asked
"Show time.. Let's do this, remember to stick to the code."
Jackson had taken Allison to dance right in front of where Stiles and Lydia were sitting. He was an asshole and Stiles could not for the life of him see what Lydia saw in him.
"You wanna to dance?" Stiles asked
"Pass." Lydia said looking around.
"You know what let me try that again." Stiles said standing up then turning to Lydia "Lydia get off your cute little ass and dance with me now."
"Interesting tactic, but I'll stick with no."
"Lydia get up okay, you're going to dance with me I don't care that you made out with my best friend for some weird power thing. I don't.. Lydia I've had a crush on you since the third grade and I know that somewhere inside that cold lifeless exterior there's an actual human soul. I know because I saw it earlier, you saw that I was worried so you willingly ate at what was basically a fast food restaurant just so I would feel better. And I'm also pretty sure that I'm the only one who knows how smart you really are, and that once you are done pretending to be a nitwit you'll eventually go off and write some insane mathematical theorem that wins you the Nobel prize." Stiles ranted and after a few seconds Lydia responded
"Fields medal."
"What?" He asked confused as he saw Lydia getting up
"Nobel doesn't have a prize for mathematics, Fields medal is the one I'll be winning." She said as she pulled him into the dance floor. Stiles cheered he couldn't believe that had worked. Scott smiled at his best friend dancing with Lydia oh shit Coach saw him.
They were all reunited in Rachel and Oliver's apartment waiting to hear something about the group back in Beacon Hills. Rachel was cuddling with her brother and Astrid had her head in her boyfriend's lap as they watched Gabe pacing through the room.
"You're going to burn a whole in the ground." Rachel called out
"How can you all be so calm? A lot of shit is going down and we are here across the country waiting to hear from them." Gabe pointed out
"Stiles and Allison are at the school already and both Laura and Rebecca are out of the hospital everything is going according to plan." Astrid told him
"Just sit down man there's not much we can do from here except wait." Nate told him.
"Sit down or I'll make you sit down." Astrid muttered
"I hate waiting." Gabriel said sitting down on a couch chair.
"We know, we all are worried, all we can do is hope everything goes according to plan." Oliver told him getting up, grabbing a beer from the kitchen and giving it to Gabe "it's for your nerves." Oliver told him as he went back to where he was sitting and put his arm around his sister.
"Thanks." Gabriel whispered but Oliver just nodded as they all sat in silence, it was the waiting game.
Stiles and Lydia were dancing, when he noticed she kept looking around, as if looking for something, or someone. That's when he noticed she was looking at Scott and Allison dancing. Jackson, she was looking for Jackson.
"You okay?" Stiles asked feigning ignorance.
"I just need to take a little air." Lydia said
"You mean you need to go find Jackson." Stiles told her
"I'm sorry." Lydia started to say before Stiles interrupted her.
"It is what it is, don't worry about it." Stiles commented
"You're an awesome guy you know that right?" Lydia asked
"Yeah I'm a blast, the club can't even handle me right now." Stiles joked
"Thanks, for the dance and for what you said." Lydia told him giving him another of her rare smiles.
"Anytime Lydia." Stiles said as she left to go look for Jackson and he was left alone with only his thoughts.
Derek was hanging in the cellar just thinking about everything that had happened, he was just counting the moments until someone came to kill him. He wondered if Kate would do the honors it had seemed like she was desperate to kill him. He just hoped she didn't find out about Laura. He was worried about Scott but he knew Laura would take care of him, as would Stiles. Then they would find a way to defeat Peter. He was pulled out of his thoughts by the door opening, they were here to kill him, and he just hoped it was quick.
Two women came into view and when his eyes adjusted he saw whom it was, it was Laura and Rebecca.
"Laura?" He asked
"Hey there little brother, ready to get out of here?"
"How?" Derek started to say but was interrupted
"Long story let's just work on getting you out of here." Rebecca said disconnecting the electricity and removing the cables from his torso.
"Now how do we get you down from there?" Laura mused out loud, the chains were meant to hold them during the full moon so they weren't exactly easy to remove. They just had to free on of his arms and then he could get free of the other one on his own.
Lydia came onto the field just as the lights started turning on, that wasn't scary or anything, where was he? Where was Jackson? Suddenly a figure started coming towards her.
"Jackson? Jackson is that you?" Lydia asked then she heard it someone was screaming her name, Stiles.
"LYDIA! LYDIA RUN!" He screamed running towards her, Lydia turned around too late, the guy's face was too close and she thought she saw fangs, that was her last thought before she blacked out and fell to the ground.
"Don't kill her.. Please." Stiles pleaded, he couldn't believe he was pleading with Peter but Lydia was hurt and it was entirely his fault.
"Of course not, just tell me how to find Derek." Peter told him
"What?" Stiles asked, this was not good, he couldn't let Peter kill Lydia but he couldn't lead him to Derek especially since it would endanger Laura and Rebecca as well as Derek.
"Tell me how to find Derek." Peter told him again running a claw next to Lydia's face.
"I don't know that how would I know that?" Stiles asked pretending not to know, he knew the tactic wouldn't work but he needed to stall.
"Because you're the clever one aren't you? And because deception has a particular scent Stiles." He said getting closer to Stiles face, damn wolves and their no sense of personal space, think Stiles, think. "Now tell me the truth or I will rip her apart."
"I don't know I swear to god I don't know." Stiles said thinking about what to say next, Scott would know what to do, Scott of course! Scott's phone was missing.
"TELL ME." Peter shouted starting to loose patience with Stiles
"Okay okay, look I think he knew."
"Knew what?" Peter asked
"Derek, I think he knew he was going to get caught."
"By the Argents?" Peter asked
"When they were shot he.. He took Scott's phone." Stiles told him, it was a plausible idea right? As long as they didn't take Scott's phone out of the cellar Peter would still believe Derek was there.
"Why?" Peter asked
"They all have GPS now, so if he still has it and it's still on, you can find him." Stiles told Peter, he just hoped by the time Peter found him that they would be long gone.
AN: Wow that was long, like I said in my tumblr I honestly did not expect it to be that long, and it included every single character in this fic, or even a mention of them, did not plan that either. once again the graphics are in my tumblr (killianthehero)
Hope you guys liked it! Honestly this is one of my favorites of the ones I've written so far. Please remember to review!