AN: Updated Hale Pack List at the end of the previous update (10 A). Erica POV's will return in Chap 11.

Sorry it took so long, I found writing Agent McCall more difficult than I had anticipated. I'll try to get 11 up before MOONDAY, but I make no promises.

Disclaimer: I do not own TW or the characters, just my AU/AR. (and MY OCs). Also FYI, this is un-betaed, so all the mistakes are mine

Alpha She-Wolf

Chapter 10

Part B

About a year ago, the FBI started getting anonymous tips from Beacon Hills. The tipsters spoke of cult activity, of murders, of disappearances, of corruption, of endangered children, of violent crimes against a child and more. The tips were so overwhelming that Agent McCall and his team was forced to open an investigation on Derek Hale and his known associates.

Derek Hale: His past was filled with stressors associated with the making of a psychopath. His father died when he was six, in a hunting accident. Then, at sixteen, most of his family was killed in a fire. A few years ago it was proven that the fire was arson committed by Kate Argent (an older ex of Hale's) and covered up by multiple individuals in the community. Hale had been sexually abused by Argent, and Argent had killed his family. Rafael would have felt badly for the kid on that alone; but the hits just kept on coming. The only survivors of the Hale Fire were Derek, his two sisters and his Uncle. The Uncle had spent nearly a decade comatose, and Derek and his sisters had moved to New York to start over. Laura Hale flew back and forth between New York and California to look after the family business, and during one of these trips to California she went missing, her body showing up in the woods of Beacon Hills, cut in half. The official report said animal attack, but McCall didn't buy it, someone had killed Laura Hale. He suspected Kate Argent, who moved back nearly around the same time Laura had been found dead. Its unclear when Derek came to town but he was accused of his sister's murder by McCall's son and the Stilinski kid, and became a person of interest in her death until Stilinski cleared him of all charges a month later. It concerned McCall that Scott and Stiles had accused this Derek Hale of murder one week, and only a few weeks later were hanging out at his apartment, helping him build his estate and recruiting new people to join their group. It also concerned him that Kate Argent's death and Peter Hale's missing status happened in the intervening weeks and no one questioned it at all. Had Derek Hale killed the woman who killed his family, after she tried to kill his uncle and succeeded in killing is sister? Did Rafael's own son help Derek in his revenge and was now bound to the man through blackmail?

The case got more interesting when examining Derek Hale's immediate family.

Cora Hale: Hale's younger sister, who followed wherever he led. She was not in town for the suspicious events involving Kate Argent, but she did show up around the time that Hale started recruiting. Rafael didn't know if she was unaware of any crimes her brother had committed or if she was just an obedient sister who did what her brother told her. Either way he doubted an interrogation of her would yield any useful information. She was either in the dark or loyal to a fault.

Peter Hale: Hale's Uncle was supposedly catatonic before he disappeared from the hospital. Then he shows up eight months ago, seemingly healthy and claiming to be the biological father of Malia Tate. Tate's father had been murdered around the same time Peter had appeared, so the timing was suspect. Had Hale and his uncle killed Marcus Tate? Was Marcus Tate trying to get his child away from Hale and was killed for his trouble? DNA tests confirmed that Peter Hale is Malia Tate's biological father; did Peter kill his paternal competition? There was no evidence against Peter, only suspicion. They barely had enough to arrest Derek last night, McCall wanted to arrest Peter too, he suspected that if this was a cult Peter was Derek's number two and would keep Derek's followers in line while Derek was arrested.

Malia Tate: Her mother and sister were killed in a car accident when she was eight and she had lived with her father until she went to college at Hale College. The girl fell in with Hale's cult and soon her father was dead, leaving the cult and the Hale family itself her only family. If McCall had to guess, the girl was trapped in this mess, the only person that could have pulled her from it was dead. McCall intended to help her.

The more McCall and his team complied dossiers of each person associated with Hale, the more they found suspicious. Almost all of them had pasts that made them vulnerable to a man like Derek Hale.

Vernon Boyd: Boyd's nine-year-old sister Alicia was kidnapped and murdered when he was twelve. His father had left the family years before, so Boyd was left to take care of his grieving mother. His mother quickly turned to alcohol and drugs to deal with the loss of Alicia. The day of Vernon's graduation from high school, his mother was found dead in an alleyway from a drug overdose. The kid sold what he could, buried his mother and made his way to Beacon Hills for college. He was a smart lonely kid, looking for a place to belong, and Hale found him.

Braeden Deaton and Marin Morell: The connection between the Deaton family and the Hale family was mysterious. It seemed to go back generations. Most notably Alan Deaton and Talia Hale were best friends growing up. The tips had reported the local vet Alan Deaton was spotted meeting with Hale and his group around town, until his mysterious death. Alan Deaton's death was still an unsolved case, and McCall didn't know what to make of it. Was it the cult killing a member? Or was it what the Sheriff's report speculated "an killing brought on by fear of a supposed cult in our town" like the Reyes and Tate murders were ruled? Alan's daughter and his younger sister left town after his murder, but recently returned to Beacon Hills, and were living on Hale's Compound. Did Hale threaten them to come back?

Aiden Jones and Ethan Jones: There wasn't much on theses kids. They were dropped off at a Los Angeles fire station when they were days old, and taken in by a local family. The local family was associated with a gang. Most of the gang was wiped out when the twins were teens and soon they were the wards of a man named Deucalion. Last year, Deucalion and two of his associates were found dead and the twins were the beneficiaries on the three insurance policies. Did Hale force Aiden and Ethan to kill their guardians in order to join his cult? Or was it the work of the serial killer that was active around the same time: Jennifer Blake?

Isaac Lahey: Isaac's mother died under suspicious circumstances when he was still in diapers, and when he was a preteen his older brother was killed overseas. Based on the hospital records of Isaac, his older brother and his mother McCall guessed that Mr. Lahey was beating his entire family for years. At fourteen Isaac's father shot Isaac once in the chest before turning the gun on himself. Fortunately, a neighbor called the police at the gunshot and paramedics were able to save Isaac's life. Unfortunately, after his recovery, Isaac was left at the mercy of the foster care system until he was eighteen. As soon as he graduated high school he left his hometown to take advantage of the academic scholarship that Hale College had offered him. Eventually he found a family in the Hale Cult, and if rumors were true was in a relationship with Rafael's son and a cult member named Allison.

Daniel Mahealani: Daniel lived a normal, worry-free life in Beacon Hills with his parents until his senior year of high school. Mahealani had been openly gay to everyone but his family. The rumor is that once a photo of him and his then boyfriend made it on a social media site, many of his family members saw. Within weeks, his parents had moved away from Beacon Hills refusing to take Danny with them and the family had cut him out of their lives. Danny lived with the Whittemore family until college and they paid the tuition that his scholarships did not cover. He joined up with Hale during his first year in college.

Lydia and Sarah Martin: Lydia and Sarah Martin were anomalies. There was no family trauma; Sarah's divorce from Lydia's father had been relatively amicable, and had been over for a decade and a half. They were both beautiful, highly intelligent women and it baffled McCall what about the Hale cult drew them in. The only thing he could think of was Lydia's psychotic break after an animal attacked her. Lydia had been involved with the cult since nearly the beginning; Sarah had been an outsider until her romance and wedding to Peter Hale. Now the women were apart of the Hale family, and if Hale was able to make two smart women involve themselves in a cult, then chances are McCall would not get any information from an interrogation with them.

Scott and Mellissa McCall: The fact that his wife and son were involved with this cult upset McCall to no end. Scott and Melissa had cut off all contact after the accident and Mellissa divorced him. He hadn't meant to hurt Scott, he had just been drunk, he wanted his family back but Mel and her precious Sheriff had told him to leave town and leave them alone. Now, they needed his help. Maybe if he saved them, they would be grateful and he would get his family back.

Allison McCall-Lahey: In the official record she was born Allison Smith, and changed her name to McCall-Lahey around the time her relationship with Scott and Isaac Lahey began. Based on interviews around town, and school records her real name was Allison Argent and the Argents had disowned her for her involvement with two men. Rafael did not know what to make of this girl, was she brainwashed by the cult into leaving the Argent family? Was her involvement with them Derek Hale's final "Fuck You" of revenge to the Argents? Or was it true that her parents disowned her? After all, that scenario was plausible, after finding out his son was in a relationship with two people Rafael almost didn't want to see the boy again.

Rosalyn Perez: If this were a cult, then it would be enough to get Ms. Perez in serious trouble with immigration. She was a U.S. citizen, but only recently. Perhaps that would be enough to get Ms. Perez to cooperate with his investigation? He could lie and threaten that he had the power to send her back to Colombia, and that could get him some solid evidence. He didn't love the idea, but he needed testimony if he was going to make these charges stick and based on the photos of how she arrived at the embassy all those years ago and the cartel she informed on, Rosalyn would do anything to not go back.

The Stilinski's: Everyone knew the Stilinski's story. Hell, Rafael lived through it with them. He and John used to be friends, back when Rafael could hide his drinking problem. But then Claudia died, and Rafael got angry about how much time Scott and Mel were spending with John… and the rest is history. Needless to say Stiles and John did not like him, yet frustratingly enough everyone in town loved them. It had been nearly impossible to get some of the Sheriff's deputies to help serve the warrant on the Hale Property, betraying their sheriff. Rafael would be lying if he said he didn't get some smug satisfaction from serving John the suspension paperwork. The man and his son had stolen his wife and child from him and were now playing happy families with them and some orphans.

Jackson Whittemore and Kira Yukimura: McCall did not understand why these two were in the cult at all. They both had both parents alive and well, and both families seemed to be upstanding people. They were the only couple in the cult who frequently left Beacon Hills, so McCall figured their tie to the cult was based on the safety of their friends (Kira was close with Malia Tate and Jackson was Danny Mahealani's best friend) rather than devotion to whatever Derek Hale preached. Perhaps if he could promise the safety of their friends Jackson and Kira would provide testimony?

After days of surveillance, McCall was convinced that there was something not right with this group of people. Based on the closeness of the Derek Hale's followers and the suspicious activity happening around Beacon Hills, Rafael began to think that the anonymous tips had merit. So last night, he served the warrant, arrested Hale and tore apart their freaky little compound. Today he would interview them all and he would finally get the solid evidence for arresting Hale he needed. Rafael had served a warrant granted by a sympathetic judge who was willing to take all their circumstantial evidence into account. But if he didn't find some concrete evidence soon on Derek Hale, the monster would walk free.

If you had asked him last night, Agent Rafael McCall would have told you he had an open and shut case on his hands. A case that would put a cult leader in jail for a long time, that had evidence that would convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt: putting Derek Hale away was the right thing. Now that he stood in front of the evidence wall and looked at it all at once, he wasn't so sure that he'd get a conviction. He was sure of Hale's guilt still and sure he wanted to take him down, but the evidence he was sure he had kept disappearing.

As he spent the day interviewing the adult cult members, his team interviewed townspeople about what they have seen. The town seemed divided on if Hale was running a cult or not. The problem was that 70% of people interviewed thought they were all kind, friendly people that happened to be close friends; that the town gossips had exacerbated the issue. Some admitting that yes, living on that estate together was a bit odd, but it didn't make them criminals, and was understandable the way they were treated by some people in town.

There wasn't much Rafael could do about most of Hale's followers. He had brought them all in for questioning, and made all the threats and promises in the world to them to get them to talk. Aside from a sarcastic comment from both Stilinski's and a few eye rolls he had nothing to go on. Their damned lawyers had exposed all of his threats as empty ones, and after that he had nothing to compel them to talk. In the end they were all adults when they joined up with Hale. He couldn't force them to talk.

But Hale had made a mistake. At the end of January, he recruited his first underage member, Erica Reyes. And suddenly weeks after she's first spotted with members of the cult her parents went up in flames. All recent signs and surveillance showed that Hale was in a relationship with Reyes. Had Hale killed her parents to get her to start sleeping with him? If McCall could prove that, he could put Hale away for murder and/or statutory rape.

There were also four children that recently were adopted by cult members. If he could interview them maybe they would let something important slip. He could get Hale on endangering the welfare of a child. The children would go into foster care, and their adoptive/foster parents would get some jail time…and that was sort of regretful. But seeing Derek Hale in prison and getting Mel away from Stilinski were more important than anything. The bust of an actual cult would finally give him that promotion he needed, and if Mel went to jail for a bit maybe she would see that he had done it to protect her and Scott from a cult and she would come back to him.

From the conference room, he could into the holding cell area where Hale was staying until his hearing tomorrow afternoon. After seeing how worse for wear Hale was this morning, Rafael had felt victorious. But now Hale looked serene after talking to his lawyers and watching Rafael glare at the evidence board when he wasn't interviewing cult members. The bastard knew that there was a chance he would walk.

He needed to interview Ms. Reyes and the children. They were his last hopes of getting any solid evidence against Derek Hale.

"Lisa, is Ms. Reyes in the interview room?"

"Yes Agent McCall."

The look Derek Hale sent him worried him. If Erica Reyes held the key to his destruction why did he have a smile on his face when he heard she was being interviewed?

The interview with Erica Reyes and her attorneys was horrible. She gave him nothing, and kept insisting that Derek never took advantage of her, that everything they did was consensual, that it was none of his business but they didn't have sex until a month and a half after she turned eighteen. Then her attorney read him the riot act. How his investigation had no evidence, how the search he had conducted last night was overly invasive and illegal, that he had traumatized children, that he had a major conflict of interest and that they would be airing all of these grievances in front of a judge.

Had he mentioned that Joanna and David Whittemore were representing the cult? Suddenly it dawned on him that Jackson Whittemore's empty threat about having his badge wasn't so empty after all. They were right, no federal prosecutor could try this case with the hasty way he handled it, and his vested interest in seeing Hale go down for this, especially with there only being circumstantial evidence against Hale. The Whittemore's would tear the case apart.

He was in deep shit.

"Now if you would please bring our client Mr. Hale in from his cell? Judge Greenberg has granted a supervised visit between him and Ms. Reyes." David Whittemore said. "I trust there will be no more interviews today."

"I wanted to interview the children." McCall said. "Why would any judge allow a cult leader to see one of his victims?"

"Suspected cult leader Agent McCall." Joanna Whittemore said. "So far you have yet to prove this group of individuals participates in any kind of activity indicative of cult behavior. As far as the judge is concerned, you misrepresented evidence to her colleague yesterday to get your warrant just to harass your ex-wife's friends and family."

Rafael sputtered, how in the hell did they get Judge Greenberg* to buy their bullshit? There was a reason he requested Eva Greenberg to preside over this case until he was able to get his day in federal court. She was the most un-corruptible person he had met, and the most respected judge in Beacon County. How had they gotten to her? Did they threaten her family? Was it too late to request a different judge for Hale's hearing tomorrow and Stilinski's on Monday?

"As for the children," David Whittemore said, "Their parents request that another Agent lead the questioning as they are uncomfortable with you."

McCall glared at him. "Fine. Reyes and Hale can talk, I'll find my partner and she can interview the children."

The Whittemores smiled. "Fantastic." David said, standing up and gathering his things. "I'll go tell the Stilinskis and the Hales the news while Joanna supervises the visit. Remember Erica, only five minutes."

"I won't need long." Ms. Reyes said. "I just need to see that he's okay for myself."

McCall ordered a deputy to bring Hale to the interrogation room and he went in search of his partner. She had been keeping her distance from this case as she was against it, she kept telling him that he had been going to fast and had no evidence. She even refused to help serve the warrant and interview the cult members. He kept insisting she would feel differently if her family (she had a brother and a nephew living in town) was involved in a freaky cult. She simply laughed at him.

"Agent." He said, finally finding her outside the police station. "I need you to run point on the interview of the cult's children."

Catlyn King* rolled her eyes and put out her cigarette. "You traumatized them last night and you'd figured I should get a crack tonight? Rafe, when are you going to get that there is nothing illegal going on here?"

"There's something going on Cat, this entire case doesn't feel right. I'm missing something."

"Yeah, you are missing something Rafe. But not because there is something illegal, but because you're too drunk to use your brain and see." Cat sighed and walked into the station, "I'll few ready in a few minutes."

Rafael McCall wasn't surprised at his partner's tone. They worked well together, but they never got along outside of work. She hated his drinking and he hated that he had a female partner. But, the way McCall saw it; he only had to work with her until he got promoted.

He made his way into the room where he could observe Reyes and Hale's chat. It wasn't a privileged attorney client meeting so he could listen in all he wanted. The trouble was, they weren't saying anything. They were sitting across the table, holding hands. Their lips were moving but no sound was coming out.

Something about observing the pair unsettled McCall. But seeing the two of them together frightened some primal part of him. His instincts screamed for him to run, he felt that these two people were dangerous if he got too close. And he swore he saw both their eyes change color as they whispered to each other.

He shook it all off, he was seeing things. Maybe Cat was right; his drinking was affecting his abilities on this case. When the interviews were over tonight he resolved to go to the hotel and sober up before the hearing tomorrow.

"Sorry you two," Joanna Whittemore said, "Time's up. Derek, David will see you at your hearing. I would be there, but it seems the FBI are not through with their interviews just yet and your hearing was moved to today at five. Judge Greenberg didn't see sense in coming in on a Saturday or having you wait until Monday. So in a few more hours we'll know if you can go home tomorrow or not."

McCall left the observation room and made his way to the conference room in anger. He saw Cat ordering a few junior agents around and prepping for her interviews. "Why did no one tell me that the Judge changed Hale's hearing date and time?" he yelled at the junior agents.

"We gave you a note while you were interviewing your son, sir." Agent Turner said, as she went to rummage through his things, eventually handing him a post it note. "Here it is, you placed it under the folder."

Judge G changed Hale hearing to today at 5.

"Rafael, people don't interrupt interviews with non-vital information." Cat said, picking up her notes and heading to the interview room. "Stay here and drink some coffee, you reek of alcohol and you have to be in front of a judge in an hour." She whispered to him as she passed him.

This day was not going the way he had planned. At all.

"Excuse me sir." Agent Crabbe said before following Turner and King out. "There's a man here, to see you. He says his name is Henry Maxwell** and he's with Child Protective Services."

McCall was confused, he hadn't called in CPS, he didn't have anything to give them yet. "Send him in please."

AN: So just in case I cant get chap 11 edited and what not before Monday: I wish you all a happy season 4 premiere day. Fingers crossed this season isn't as emotionally traumatizing as 3B was.

Also I have posted the first chapter of a Stiles/Erica fic, it was the fic that won my poll a few months ago, and based off an anon prompt. I planned on posting it after this fic was finished, but that was when I thought Alpha She-Wolf would be finished before season 4 started.

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Footnotes:

* Greenberg and King families have both been mentioned before as being supernatural. Greenberg's are fae and Kings are were-cats.

** yeah, same Maxwell thats after Julie.