Chapter 11: Alpha Pact
Stiles was smacking Derek, trying to wake him up, "Derek, Derek! Derek, come on!" Stiles shouts, nothing happened. Stiles drew back his hand, balls it into a fist, as he went to punch him, Derek grips his hand and stops the punch. Derek looks around the elevator, "Where is she?" Derek asks. "Jennifer? Gone with Scott and Alice's mom." Stiles tells him, "She took her?" Derek asks him.
"Yeah and if that's not enough kick to the balls, Scott and Alice left with Deucalion. So we got to get you out of here, the police are coming right now, we got to get you the hell out of here." Stiles tells him, "Whoa. What about Cora?"
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Issac stops the SUV, "You see the twins?" Issac asks, Rosalie looks around. "No, but I do see the Agents." Peter glares at Chris and Allison and Matthew. "Correct if I'm wrong, the last time you saw them, wasn't it when you were a Alpha, and you killed Kate and were set on fire?" Rosalie asks, she looks back and saw Peter was gone. "Fuck." she unbuckled herself and both her and Issac got out. "Where are the others?" Allison asks.
"We don't know, Scott, Stiles, and Alice went back for Derek and Jennifer, we had to get Cora out." Issac informs them, Rosalie ran into Matthew's arms and he held her tight, then Derek's car drove up next to the SUV. Derek steps out of the driver's seat, "Where's Scott, Alice and Stiles?" Allison asks him, "Stiles's is still at the hospital, he's going to hold off the cops for us." he tells them, opening up the back and pulling Cora into his arms, "We have to go right now." he states, walking over to his car. "What about Scott, Melissa and Alice?" Chris asks him, "Jennifer took Melissa." Derek informs them, setting Cora in the back.
"What about Scott and Alice?" Rosalie asks, Derek shot her a look, but didn't answer as her question, "Derek, where's Scott and Alice." she snaps at him, he stops on his track and looks at her.
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Stiles sat in the chair was the sun was up, waiting to be questioned, he then looks over at a familiar and unwelcome face, "Just perfect." he sighs as the FBI agent walks over to him, "A Stilinski at the center of this whole mess, what a shocker. Think you can answer some questions without without the usual level of sarcasm?" the man asks him, "If you can asks the questions without the usual level of stupid." Stiles tells him. The man smiles at him, "Where's your dad and why hasn't anyone been able to contact him?" he asks Stiles, "I don't know I haven't seen him in hours." Stiles tells him, "Is he drinking again?" he asks him, Stiles looks at him in confusion.
"What do you mean again? He never had to stop." Stiles states, "He did have to slow down, is he drinking like he use to?" he asks. "Alright, how about this, next time I see him, I'll give him the field acerbity test, we'll do the alphabetic, start with F and end with U." Stiles shot back the insult, the man just smiles at him, but he smirks a little, "How about you tell me what the hell happened here?" he asks, I don't know what happened, I was stuck in the elevators the whole time." Stiles tells him.
"You're not the one who put the name on the doors are you?" he asks the teen, Stiles looks up at him in confusion, "What name?"
Back at the elevator, the doors close and revealed a name sprayed onto the door.
"Argent."
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Cora laid on the bed, coughing, struggling to breath. Black blood on her lips, "She's dying isn't she?" Issac asks him, "I don't know." Derek answers. "So what are you going to do?" Issac questions him, "I don't know." he answers, Issac ran his hand over his hair. "You want to figure something out?" Issac asks again, "Cause while, Scott, Alice and Stiles are out there, trying to help people from being killed, you're sitting here, doing nothing!" Issac snaps at him.
"Do you realize how many people Jennifer has killed? Erica and Boyd are dead, Cora is dying and you are sitting here, doing nothing!" Issac shouts. Derek said nothing, "Why did you do this to us Derek? Was it all about the power? Were you bored? Were you lonely?" Issac asks him, "Maybe." Derek finally looks up at him, Issac steps away from him, ran his hand over his hair and walks to the door. "I told Cora I wouldn't leave, I'll help the others when I helped her." Derek tells Issac. "There's no time!" Issac shouts at him and opens the doors. "The full moon's coming, the sheriff and Melissa are going to be dead, so I'm going to try and help them." Issac pulls the door open.
"You can sit here, prefect the art of doing nothing." he said and slams the door shut, "I wouldn't take it personally. Anger is just a tool, he's using it to excuse, shifting leagues from one Alpha to another. From you to Scott and Alice." Peter tells him, walking down the spiral steps. "They're not Alphas yet." Derek tells him, "But they're on their way, aren't they?" Peter states, with a smirk of course. "It must be a shocker realizing that Alice is becoming an Alpha. Not just any Alpha, but a Supreme Alpha." Peter looks over at Derek. "A little over a year ago, she was at first a rebellious Beta, to an Omega and now becoming a Supreme Alpha. They grow up so fast." Peter states. Derek glares at him.
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The it was the afternoon, Derek grips Cora's arm, taking away her pain, "Careful." Peter warns him. Derek pulls away from Cora's arm and slowly flex his shaking hand, "I know, going too far can kill me." Derek pants a little, "That's not exactly what I meant."
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At the same time, Chris and Allison pulled out their weaponry, Stiles was surprise that they had this much weapons. "I'd thought you guys retired." Stiles states, "Retired, yes. Defenseless, no. make sure you're phone's on if you hear from Scott or Alice, let us know immediately." Chris tells him as Stile pulls out his phone, "Yeah, I think that's going to be unlikely." Stiles grumbles, he eyes Allison, "Both of you remember, they're trying to do what's right." he tells them, then Allison looks at the door, Chris turns and looks at Issac, Rosalie, and Matthew. "I can't shout a gun or use a crossbow, but..." Issac flicks out his claws, "I'm getting pretty good with these."
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"I've heard it's something only an Alpha can do and with good reason." Peter tells him, "Which is?" Derek asks him, "You know normal wolves won't abandon an injured member of the pack, they care for it, they bring it food from a kill and they regurgitate it in the mouth of the injured wolf, they even give it physical and emotional comfort by intensely grooming it. In a way, they can do more than just ease pain, they can be instrumental in healing their own." Peter informs him, "If you're trying to tell me I can save her, just tell me." Derek snaps at him, wanting Peter to get to the point already. "I'm telling you. I've heard it's possible." Peter states. "How?" Derek asks, "It's that spark of power, that makes you an Alpha, when you take her pain, she draws on the power the provides you with those special gifts, the power that heightens your senses, your strength, the power to transform your body as an Alpha. You have that bit of extra. That spark that intensifies your color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red." Peter states.
"If I can save her..." Derek starts, "If...if. I didn't say it works everytime, it could just easily kill you." Peter looks out the big window, Derek looks over at Cora and then press his lips together. "How do I do it? By taking away her pain?" Derek ask him, Peter smirks softly to himself, "And then some, because there's a cost."
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Lydia sat in front of her mirror and looks at the strangle wound across her neck, "Okay, honey, this is not a problem, have gotten a share of hickeys in high school, I develop some panted cover up methods." her mother tells her, pulling out some make-up as Lydia eyes her wound. She then place her hand on her mother's "If you don't want to go to school honey, you don't have to." she tells her, "That's not it, it's just. Someone tried to strangle me and I survive. I don't need to hide that." Lydia said proudly. Her mother set down the make-up and was proud of her daughter's bravery, "No. no you don't, but we're still going your hair, right?" she said with a smile, "Of course we're doing my hair." Lydia smiles at her mother and giggles a little.
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Later on, Stiles informed Lydia of Scott and Alice's whereabouts and what happened at the hospital, "I don't believe it, Scott and Alice can't be with them, they can't be." Lydia argues, "You didn't see the look on Alice's face, it was..." Stiles couldn't find the words, "Then what can I do?" Lydia asks him, "I get that I'm some kind of human guilder to death, but... I don't know who to turn it off or on yet. All I know is that she tried to kill me because of..." Lydia stops short as she realizes something. "Because of what? Hey, Lydia, what?" Stiles asks her.
"When she called me a Banshee, she seem surprise, but what if that's not why she tried to kill me?" she states, "Then why did she?" he asks her, "That's what we need to find out."
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Back at the Loft, Peter looks down at Cora, Derek went to walk over next to her, but Peter place his hand on his chest, "I can understand not seeing a down side to this, as you haven't been Alpha of the year, but think about what else you'll be loosing." Peter tries to warn him, "I don't care about power, not anymore." Derek states, "What about the power to fight back, Kali still stands the full moon is tomorrow night, and if you couldn't beat her as an Alpha, how do you think you're going to far as a Beta?" Peter asks him. Derek just looks at him, "I don't care." Derek reminds him, "What if, this was exactly what Jennifer was hoping for. She would know the only way for you to save Cora, is giving up your power, maybe that's what she was going to have you do that the hospital." Peter states.
"Why?" Derek asks, "So you wouldn't be able to face the Alphas without her, she wants you to come to her, all about of her little plan to get you on her side, so Alice can join her as well, because, with a Supreme Alpha on your side, your odds of winning are through the roof."
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Stiles and Lydia burst into the councilor's office, seeing Heather's best friend there, Morrell wasn't there, so Stiles went to find out what Morrell knew, "What are you doing?" she asks him, "Trying to find her." Stiles tells her, "Those files are private."
"Yeah, she right." Lydia agrees with her, "These are yours." Stiles tells her, "Let me see that." Lydia takes the file from her, and opens to the drawing of the tree. The tree got there attention, "Lydia that's your drawing." Stiles states, "Yeah I know it's a tree." she states, "Yeah, it's good too." Heather friend adds, "Thank you." she tells her, "No, that's the same one though." he stood up. "Same what?" she asks him, "The one I see you draw in class." he tells her, "It's a tree. I like drawing trees." she tells him, "No, but it's the exact same one." he walks over to her and pulls out her notebook from her bag, and saw her picture after picture, after picture, same tree.
"Ok, you can have my session, you have bigger issues." Heather's friend tells them and she left, "What is this?" Lydia asks him, Stiles turns to the last picture and turns the notebook upside down. Now he knows where his dad, Scott and Alice's mom, and Allison's dad were being kept;
The Nemeton.
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"The Nemeton, that's were she keeping them, it has to be." Stiles tells Lydia, "Stilinski!" the FBI agent shouts out, Stiles sighs with annoyance and turns to Lydia, "Go to Derek, he and Peter, they been there before. So they'll know where it is, tell them it's the root cellar, alright. They'll know." he tells her, she nods and took off. Stiles turns to the FBI agent.
"Did you know your dad's car is in the school parking lot and has been since last night?" he asks the teen. "No, what does that mean?" Stiles asks him, "It means he's officially missing."
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Stiles and the agent sat in an empty classroom, "Stiles why do I get the feeling that you know something that can help us find your dad?" the agent asks him, "If I did, why would I not tell you?" Stiles shot back at him. "If it meant helping your dad, why wouldn't you?" he asks him. "So you're asking me what I wouldn't not tell you?" Stiles states, "First, I have no idea what you just said, second, how about you just help me help you." he tells the teen. "I don't know, had I help you, help me tell you, that would help you, if I don't know it?" Stiles spoke in circles, "Are doing this on purpose?" the agent asks him. "I don't know anything, okay, can I just go?" Stiles now spoke sense. "Where are your other friends?" he asks the teen, "You mean Scott and Alice?" Stiles asks him.
"I mean Scott, Alice, Issac Lahey, Allison Argent, these twins, Ethan and Aiden. I've been told your whole little click didn't show up at school today." he states. "I don't have a click." Stiles throws at him. "Stiles, come on, there's been a pretty disturbing amount of activity in this county in the last few months. Several murders tied to this school. I don't know what's going on here. But it's serious." he tells Stiles as he looks out the window. "Hey. And your dad is missing." he tells Stiles as looks back at him, but drops his head. "Okay, fine, but I don't want you going home alone. You have someone you can stay with, tonight?" he ask Stiles as he stood. "He's with me." Deaton walks to the doorway, the two looks at him.
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Lydia stood at the door as it was open, Peter stood there and the two lock eye contact, "You." she whispers, "Me." he stares at her, "You." she said again. He sighs, knowing she hasn't forgiven him for driving her half insane and making her use Derek to bring him back from the dead, than again, who would?
"Me." he said again, "Derek, we have a visitor."
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Morrell ran through the woods, trying to out run the Alpha pack that was chasing her. Scott and Alice walk along side Deucalion as he spots a firefly, "It's a firefly." Scott tells him, "Unusual for this region." he states, Alice looks at the firefly. "It's because of Jennifer, isn't it? Just before all this started, a deer crash into Lydia's car, the cats went crazy in the animal clinic, birds flew into the high school it was all her, wasn't it?" Alice asks him as Deucalion looks over his shoulder at her. "They say animals can sense natural disasters when they're about to happen, maybe they can sense supernaturals ones as well." he tells them, Alice looks at him with wonder, "Does her scare you?" she asks him, "She concerns me, if she's welling to kill that many innocent people for her cause. People like your mother and Stiles's father." he states.
Scott exchange looks with Alice and they look back at him. "Are you willing to kill innocent people?" he asks him again. "I'll kill every living thing that gets in my way."
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"You don't know where it is, but Stiles said you been there." Lydia tells them, "We have, but after a few memorable experiences there, Talia. Derek's mother, my older sister decided that she didn't want us going back, she knew how dangerous it was and took the memory of it's location from us." Peter tells Lydia, "But then how are we suppose to find it?"
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Morrell ran as hard and fast as she could, the twin were catching up, Morrell can to an opening and saw no paths, so she turns around, thrust her hand into the air and making a circle of mountain ash. Ethan and Aiden ran up to her to kill her, but were push back by an invisible force, Kali then soon arrived and the three circle her as she was protected by the mountain ash circle.
Not long after, Deucalion, Scott and Alice came walking to them, "How did you know, Morrell, that we come for you?" Deucalion asks her, "Because, Jennifer and I are the same and I knew that you've been suspicious of us and what we can do." she tells him, "With good reason, we know you sent that girl, the one that help Issac." Kali circles the mountain ash. "What was her name?" Deucalion asks, "Breaden." Alice's eyes lite up that the name. "And I sent to her to do what I've always done, maintain balance." Morrell tells them. "What do you know what Jennifer?' Kali demands of her, "Nothing more then you know." she tells them and looks at the McCall twins.
"This isn't you Scott, nor you Alice. Go back your friends, back to your mate." she tells them, "They can decides what's right for themselves." Deucalion tells her, pointing his cane at them, "Not with all the information, have you told them everything you've done, how you piled up bodies in a narcissistically psychotic effort to form your perfect pack. Bodies the include Ennis by the way." Morrell tells them making everyone, besides Alice look at Deucalion, "You don't seem surprise, Alice." Morrell states, she looks at the Druid. "No, I've learn from Deucalion these last few months is that he doesn't approve of weakness and so it must eliminated." Alice states.
"It's just as Alice said, My brother saved him, he was alive went Deucalion went in to see him. He wants you to go after Derek, Kali to force his decision. If Derek joins the pack, it pave the way for Scott and Alice." she tells him. "The lies people with tell when they're begging for their lives." Deucalion states, "Ask him." Morrell tells Kali, Deucalion pulls the cap off the end of his cane and throws the tip at her shoulder. She staggers a bit and steps out of the circle, her foot drags after and collapse to the ground. They three went to attack her, but Scott and Alice to her side, "Back off!" Alice growls that them and they stop in their tracks, Scott then pulls out the can and toss it the side, Alice applied pressure to her wound.
"We're not going to let them kill you." Scott tells her, "But if you know something, if you know where they are..." he went on, "The Nemeton, you find that, you'll find Jennifer. Find the Nemeton."
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"It has to be on a turret current or maybe at the access of two energetic, but that's where Derek took Paige to die." Stiles tells him, "My dad and Gerard were there once, but Gerard said it was years ago to remember where it was and my dad obviously isn't...here to tell us where." Allison states, "Yeah, mine either." Stiles throws in, "So how do we find this place?" Issac ask, Rosalie looks over at Deaton, knowing he was thinking the same thing.
"There might be a way, but it's dangerous." Deaton states, then he looks at the five teens. "We're going to need Scott and Alice."
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Scott and Alice meet up with Deaton and Stiles at his jeep. "How did you guys find out?" Scott asks them, "Lydia, you?" Stiles asks them, "Morrell, none of the other Alphas know where it is." Alice tells him, "So if this works, are you two going to tell them?" Stiles ask them, "I went to Deucalion to find out where your dad and our mother is, and I did, so no, I'm not." Alice tells him, Scott just sighs. And Alice said as well, "But we can't stop Jennifer without them." she adds. "How about we concentrate on finding your parents first." Deaton throws in.
They two nod at him, "So what's the plan?" Scott asks them. "Essentially, you, Stiles, and Allison, need to be surrogate sacrifices for your parents." Deaton tells him, "We die for them?" Scott asks his best friend. "But he can bring us back. You can bring us back, right?" Stiles looks at Deaton. "You remember the part when I said it was dangerous? If it goes right, you three will be dead for a few second. But their something else you need to think about, this is a dangerous thing for more reasons then one, you'll be giving power back to the Nemeton, a place that hasn't had power for a long time. This kind of power is like a magnet, it attracts the supernatural, the kind of things that a family of Argents can fill the pages of the Beastiary with. It draws them here, like a Beacon." Deaton tells them.
"That doesn't sound any worse than anything we've then anything we've already seen." Stiles tell, Deaton looks at him, "You'll be surprise at what you've yet to see." Deaton tells him, "Is that it?" Alice asks him, Deaton looks at her, "No. it will also have an on the three of you, you would be able to see it, but you'll feel it, everyday, for the rest of your lives. It will a kind of a... darkness around your heart and permanent, like a scar." Deaton tells him, "Like a tattoo." both Alice and Scott answer.
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Derek sat next to Cora as she thrash around in the bed, pain racks her body, "It got to be now, I don't have a choice." Derek states, "You always have a choice, it's whether or not you can live with the consequences; facing Kali as a Beta." Peter tells him. "But it's not just not the full moon coming, it's a lunar eclipse. We'll all be powerless." Derek states.
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Deaton and Rosalie empty the last of the ice bags into the tub, Scott and Alice argue on who goes first, Scott won. So was upset, but he told her that he was her older brother, and he loves her too much for her to do the ritual. Alice couldn't argue so she back down and let him do it, and the four walk back into the room, "Alright, what did you bring?" Deaton asks them, Stiles went first. "I got my dad's badge, Jennifer kinda crush in in her hand, so... I tried hammering it out a bit. Still doesn't look great." Stiles states, Alice place her hand on his shoulder and gave him a small smile. "It doesn't need to look good if it has meaning." Deaton tells him.
"Is that an actual silver bullet?" Issac asks Allison asks her held a small silver bullet in her hand, "Yeah, my dad made it, it's kinda of a ceremonial thing . When one of us finishes learning all the skills be a hunter, we forge a sliver bullet as a testament to a code." she states, with a small smile. "Scott?" Deaton asks her, he raise his head, then looks at Alice, who nods at her. Scott then looks down at his close hand and reviled a watch. "Our dad got mom this when she first got hired at the hospital, she use to say it was the only thing in their marriage that ever works." Scott tells him, Alice smiles a bit that the memory.
"Okay, the three of you will get in and each of us will hold you down, until you are essentially... well, dead. But it's not someone that holds you under, it need to be someone to pull you back. Someone that has a strong connection with you, a kind of emotional tether." he tells them, Alice shot a quick look at her brother, Lydia went to walk to Allison. "Lydia, you go with Stiles. Alice, you're with Scott." Deaton tells the two girls, Lydia looks over at Stiles as Scott looks at his brother.
"Are you sure, I mean, Scott and I both have to go under." Allison states, Deaton said nothing and everyone looks at Allison and Issac and the two look at Scott. "It's okay." Scott tells them, Alice reaches down and grips his hand, Scott grips her hand in comfort for having a caring sister like her.
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The three teen strip down into minimal clothing, approaching the tubs, each one holding the objects of their attachments to their parents. Then they step into the tub, every hair on their bodies stood up, sending goosebumps down their spines as they sat down, Lydia, Issac and Alice stood right behind them. "By the way, if don't make it back and you do, you two should probably know something, your dad's in town." Stiles tells the McCall twins. They exchange looks with each other.
Their dad sat in Scott's room, holding a picture of Scott, Stiles and Alice as they first started high school, the rim of his eyes all red for the worry of his ex-wife and children.
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Derek strokes her hair out of her face, then gently grabs her hand and readied himself for what is to come, Peter watch as Derek started to take away her pain, all of her pain. He roars to the heavens as his furious red eyes turned to a steel Beta blue.
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Alice felt her heart rack with pain, she tightly grips her shirt and pants, "Derek." she mumbles, Matthew steadies her, asking what happened, she didn't answer, but readied herself for the ritual to start, she pulls off her jacket, giving it to Deaton to hold and place her hand on Scott's trembling shoulders, Lydia and Issac did the same. Then after Scott took a breath, Alice forces him under. Alice looks over at Issac and Lydia, then back at her brother and saw his eyes open to his golden Beta yellow.
