I woke up in the middle of the school hallway, with Stiles and Scott shaking me awake. My whole body burned, as if I was enveloped in fire, and a strange plant rested on my chest. It was a type of mistletoe that grew on the back of a rock dragon and only sprouted berries on the full moon. The leaves were a startling purple-blue color with berries that literally shone. I grabbed the plant, ignoring the two boys, and crushed the berries onto my wound. The liquid vanished into my skin and my flail chest healed.

I looked up at the two boys "What happened?"

Scott avoided my eyes "Derek joined the Alpha."

I felt tears appear in the corner of my eyes "Peter is going to die, even if I have to kill hunters to do it."

Both boys exchanged looks of shock at my words, but nodded.

"Scott is going to watch Allison, I'm going home and you should too," Stiles said.

"No. I'm going to patrol town. I will call you if I find any trace of them." With that, I stood up and walked out of the building, the last thing that happened before I passed out tormenting me.

. . .

Derek and Peter disappeared into the shadows that night; I couldn't find them anywhere, not even Derek's house.

The next day I was walking with Allison and Lydia through the woods, half listening to the conversation.

"Before I forget, I wanted to ask if you're okay with something. Jackson asked me to the winter formal." Allison said with a haughty expression.

"Did he?" Lydia replied with a slightly jealous tone.

"Just as friends. But I just wanted to make sure you're okay with it first."

"Sure. As long as it's just friends."

"Well, yeah, I mean It's not like I would take him to the coach's office during lacrosse practice to make out with him or anything."

Lydia suddenly looked slightly constipated "About that…"

A little while later Lydia and I watched as Allison screwed a flash bulb on the tip of one her arrows. Of course, neither of them knew what it was.

"What does that do?" Lydia stared down at Allison, as if nothing had just happened.

"We're about to find out." Allison stood up from the ground and knocked the arrow. She pointed it at a tree a couple yards away and released. When the arrow embedded itself into the tree it released the flash and sparks, which cascaded over the tree.

"What the hell was that?" Lydia asked softly.

"I don't know."

"Well, that was fun. Any more lethal weapons you want to try out?"

Allison stared out into the forest and I heard a subtle crunching noise. I heard Scott's heartbeat and smiled so softly neither of them noticed.

"Hold this," Allison said, handing the bow to Lydia.

"What? Why?"

"Because I thought I heard something."

"So what if you heard something?"

"So, I want to find out what that something is. Don't worry, it's probably nothing."

"Well, what if that nothing is something and that something is something dangerous?"

"Shoot it."

I nearly started laughing at that, as if Scott would be able to get anywhere near Lydia with me around, even when he is in crazy full moon mode.

Allison walked off into the forest and I turned to look at Lydia and smiled evilly.

"What?" she asked, looking kinda scared.

"You're going to regret kissing Scott," I said in a sing-song voice.

The fear melted away to mock anger "Oh, shut up!"

We talked about random stuff for a moment before the subject turned to the dance on Friday.

"So who are you going with?" Lydia asked, while looking me up and down.

I shrugged "No one has asked me."

"Why?" Allison asked, walking up behind me.

I shrugged "I dunno, I guess I'm scary."

Allison hooked her arm around my waist and Lydia shook her head "They probably think you already have a boyfriend."

I flinched visibly at Lydia's words and started to walk away "Not anymore."

The two girls fell silent and I could practically feel them going over candidates in their brains.

. . .

I was lying in bed, surrounded by puppies once again, when I received Scott's text saying that Jackson was in trouble. I vaulted out of bed ant threw myself out the window, running all the way to Derek's house. I scaled the back of the house and stopped next to Scott, who was listening to Derek yell at Jackson below us.

"And no one cares that you are the captain of the lacrosse team."

Scott and I walked to the top of the stairs and Scott said "Excuse me, Co-captain."

Scott jumped down in front of Derek, landing wolfed out. I shifted myself and jumped down after him and landed on Derek's chest, knocking him to the ground. Derek shoved me off him and stood up to glare at Scott.

"Move," he growled, ignoring me.

"No."

"Fine, I'll kill you too."

I grew angrier at the man and my eyes, which I had been holding at their normal blue, turned Alpha red, which I didn't know I could do. The light casted by my eyes fell over the faces of all three men and I Alpha roared, causing both werewolves to flinch. I heard a wiz and I lunged to the ground, but that didn't stop a bullet from lodging itself into my spine. I threw myself over Scott and got the full force of the bullets into my back. This time I roared in pain.

I felt Derek pull me to my feet and saw Scott get hit with a single bullet. Derek pulled him to his feet as well and forced us down the hall. I saw him open the door and walk into the gun fire.

We ran miles into the woods, pain rippling through both our bodies. We collapsed in foliage somewhere and I heard him mumble something. I howled, it was of pain and loss, before I passed out as well.

Later I had a vague recollection of being carried and a soothing voice telling me that Scott was safe and it would be alright. But, even though I was groggy, I knew that it wouldn't be alright, because I watched Derek walk to his death and couldn't do anything about it.

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