"Where is she? What have you done with Katherine?!" Stiles yelled as one of the hunters opened the basement door.
He then roughly pushed Stiles in, who tumbled down the stairs. Suddenly Stiles heard whimpering and backed up into the wall, unsure what was down there. He fumbled against the wall and soon found a light switch and flicked it on. He then soon Katherine and Boyd strung up, with tape covering their mouths.
"Katherine?" Stiles questioned, inching towards her...
"So how are we going to track them?" Isaac questioned as he and Scott entered the locker room.
Scott tore open Stiles locker and threw Stiles shoe at him.
"How come you get a shirt and I get a shoe?" Isaac whined.
"Scott we need to talk" Derek announced walking into the room, with Peter following closely behind.
"Holy..."Scott whispered, amazed.
Meanwhile, Stiles walked towards Katherine shushing her as he reached for the wire.
"Ow" He hissed, realising the wire had electrocuted him.
All of a sudden the lights flickered on and Gerard walked down the stairs.
"They were trying to warn you that the bonds were electrified" Gerard stated, standing in front of Stiles.
"What are you doing with them?" Stiles asked.
"Just holding onto them seeing as we can't torture Derek's location out of them. Much too loyal" He explained.
"Okay, then what're you doing with me?" Stiles questioned.
"Because Scott can find me you know? I have a very pungent scent. He could find me even if I was buried at the bottom of a sewer, covered in urine and fecal matter" Stiles admitted.
"You paint a very vivid picture, Stilinski. Let me paint you one. Scott finds his best friend bloodied and beaten to a pulp. How does that sound?" Gerard countered.
"What are you 90? I could-" Stiles was cut off by Gerard punching him so hard in the face that he fell to the floor.
He then proceeded to punch Stiles many times in the face, causing Stiles face to start bleeding. All this time Katherine had been getting angrier and angrier and managed to find the strength to pull the wires away from her. Once she was free she leaped onto Gerard and started punching him.
"Go Stiles, now!" Katherine shouted at him.
"What about you?" Stiles questioned.
"Forget about me, run!" Katherine insisted.
Suddenly Gerard pulled out a dagger and stabbed Katherine multiple times in the stomach. She fell to the ground.
"You'll pay for that little wolf" Gerard taunted walking up to her.
"Gerard! Where are you?" Chris called from upstairs.
"I'm just coming up" He shouted as he walked from the room, leaving Katherine a bloodied mess on the floor.
"So Jackson's dead?" Derek questioned after Isaac had told him about what happened at the game.
"We need to act quickly, times running out" Peter suggested.
"You're right. Where's Katherine, we'll probably need her help" Derek admitted.
Scott and Isaac looked down feeling guilty, not wanting to look at Derek.
"Where is she?" Derek asked them again.
"She...she got taken with Stiles" Scott informed them.
"And you didn't think to tell me that? She could be dead, you idiot!" He yelled.
"Look we'll figure something out" Scott told him.
Back in the Argent's basement, Katherine was still bleeding heavily on the floor. She was almost unconscious when the door opened. Chris slowly walked down the stairs, he talked about something to do with the electricity affecting the werewolves but everything was too blurry for Katherine to concentrate.
"Sometimes you can be surprised with what side you end up on" Chris announced as he turned the dial on the electricity off.
Boyd looked at him confused, and cautiously tore the wiring away from him.
"Why are you helping us?" He questioned.
"I don't condone the killing of innocent teenagers" He told him walking back up the stairs.
Boyd quickly rushed over to Katherine who was still on the floor.
"Hey, Katherine. Are you okay? Can you stand?" He asked.
"Yeah, I think so" She replied, trying to get up.
Boyd pulled her arm over his shoulder and took them both out of the house.
"Do you think you can make it back to the Hale house from here?" He asked.
"Yes, are you still not coming?" She questioned.
"Sorry, my decisions already been made" He told her.
"Alright, but you better call me, like all the time" Katherine insisted, pulling him into a tight hug.
"I promise" Boyd replied, pulling back and running off into the woods, leaving Katherine to slowly hobble back to the Hale House.
"Alright, you look up what you can about the Kanima and I'll look for Katherine" Derek announced to Peter who was researching on his laptop.
"What? Derek I'll need your help, you can't go" Peter retorted.
"She could be dying!" Derek shouted at him.
"Didn't I tell you I could look after myself?" Katherine smirked from behind Derek.
"Katherine? What happened?" He asked.
"Lots of punching and stabbing, you know the usual" Katherine joked, pulling out a chair to sit on.
"Are you okay?" Derek questioned.
"Yeah, I just...need some time to heal" She replied.
He pulled up her shirt slightly and saw numerous stab wounds across her stomach.
"Gerard did this to you?" Derek said angrily.
"We have bigger problems right now" Katherine explained.
"Alright" Derek announced, touching her shoulder and walking back over to Peter.
Twenty minutes later they had received a call from Scott telling them that Jackson was in cased in some sort of cocoon.
"Here's something...It says that Jackson's shape right now is just his Beta's form...he's turning into something bigger and badder" He explained.
"That has wings..." Derek trailed off.
"Oh hey look someone made an animation" Katherine announced, pointing to it on the laptop.
"Maybe it's less terrifying if we-" Peter was cut off by the ear splitting howl that came from the animation and Katherine knew she was never going to get that picture out of her head.
"We should meet them halfway" Peter suggested closing the laptop lid.
"Okay, Scott get him out of there" Derek ordered him over the phone.
"Alright I'll meet up with you guys" Katherine said, getting up from the chair she had been sitting on.
"Where are you going?" Derek questioned.
"I need to talk to Stiles, make sure he's alright" Katherine told him.
"We have bigger problems than Stilinski remember?" Derek sighed.
"He's my friend Derek!" Katherine shouted, annoyed.
"Look, I'll be there okay? Be careful" Katherine advised, before running off into the woods.
"Ugh, dad I said I was fine!" Stiles shouted from where he was sprawled on his bed, as someone knocked on the door again.
"If this is about Lydia then-" He cut himself off mid sentence seeing that it was Katherine standing behind the door.
"Katherine! Oh my god, are you okay?" He exclaimed.
"I'll survive" She replied.
"Can I come in?" She questioned.
"Oh, um, yeah sure" He stuttered.
"Does your face still hurt?" She asked.
"No, it's fine" Stiles lied.
"You know I can tell when you're lying" Katherine laughed.
She walked up to him and touched his arm and suddenly black veins started coming up her arm. Stiles gasped when he felt the pain from his face fading.
"How-how did you do that?" Stiles asked.
"Werewolf perks. Derek's been teaching me" She explained.
"So Lydia was here earlier?" She winked, trying to change the subject after smelling the change in Stiles emotions when she mentioned Derek.
"Nothing happened" He admitted.
"What's all this stuff?" She asked.
"Uh presents...for Lydia's birthday" He told her, embarrassed.
"Oh Stiles, you have it bad don't you?" She chuckled, sitting down on his bed.
"I think I'm getting over it slowly...she loves Jackson" He admitted.
His phone buzzes again and he picked it up annoyed.
"It's Scott, he wants me to find Lydia and bring her to help him" He explained.
"That reminds me I better be going" Katherine sighed getting up from the bed.
"What? Please tell me you're not joining in the fight?" Stiles questioned outraged.
"We're already down one Beta, we need everyone we can get" Katherine explained.
"You know what your problem is Katherine? You don't care about getting hurt" Stiles shouted, stepping closer to Katherine.
"But you know how I'll feel? I'll be devastated, and if you die I will literally go out of my friggin mind. You see, death doesn't happen to you, Katherine, it happens to everyone around you, okay? To all the people left standing at your funeral, trying to figure out how they're going to live the rest of their lives now without you in it" Stiles continued.
Katherine backed away, freaked out by seeing Stiles like this.
"Ugh, Katherine I'm sorry..." He trailed off.
"I'm going to be fine Stiles...but I need to help them" Katherine told him.
"You mean you need to help Derek" Stiles said spitefully.
Katherine shook her head angrily and walked out of the room. Stiles sighed and collapsed down onto his desk chair.
"They both left huh?" The Sheriff said, walking into Stiles room.
"Yeah" Stiles sighed.
"So is there uh...anything there with either of them?" He asked.
"No...Lydia's in love with Jackson and Katherine...I don't really know..." Stiles trailed off, remembering what he said earlier.
"What do you mean?" He questioned.
"Well when she first came to this town I thought...I don't know, something might happen, but now...I think I left it too late" He admitted.
"Another boy huh?" The Sheriff questioned.
"Something like that" Stiles sighed.
Meanwhile, Katherine was helping Isaac to bring Jackson's body into an abandoned warehouse and they laid him onto the ground.
"Where's Peter and Lydia?" Scott asked.
"They're not coming" Derek said, opening up the body bag and revealing Jackson.
"What? You're not here to save Jackson are you?" He realised.
"Gerard has been controlling Jackson and is planning to make him much stronger. We can't help him" Derek explained.
"No Gerard would never let something this out of control live" Chris announced.
"You're right. Something like that is better off dead" Gerard admitted, walking towards the group.
Derek took this as conformation that he needed to kill Jackson and let his claws out, but suddenly Jackson shoved his claws into Derek's chest and threw him to the other side of the building.
"Derek" Katherine shouted, running over to where he had fallen.
She could hear the sound of arrows and bullets and realised other people had joined the fight.
"C'mon Derek, wake up" Katherine said, shaking him.
He soon woke up and jumped over some pallets with a roar, with Katherine cautiously following. She knew she would be weaker than usual due to her wounds. The fight went on for a few minutes with all the wolves trying to slash at the Kanima but not making much of an impact. Suddenly it managed to claw at Derek's stomach and he fell to the ground, paralyzed. Isaac got up and was about to run over to him when Allison showed up in front of him and stabbed him numerous times in his chest and back and he fell to the floor too. She then proceeded to stalk towards Derek.
"Allison!" Scott shouted, running forward.
Suddenly Katherine turned up behind her and grabbed her arms, shoving the knives she had to the ground and growled at her. The Kanima came towards them but stopped immediately when Gerard indicated him to do so.
"What's going on?" Allison questioned.
"He's doing what he came here to do" Scott explained.
"You're dying" Isaac realised.
"Science doesn't have a cure for cancer yet...but the supernatural does" He explained, looking at Derek.
"You must get on with what must be done Scott" Gerard hinted.
Scott started to walk over to Derek who could only look up at him helplessly.
"No, don't! Gerard will kill me after, he'll become an Alpha!" Derek explained.
"Sorry, but I have to do this...me and Allison we'll be able to be together again" Scott exclaimed.
"You see Derek you're the only piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit" Gerard smirked.
"Stop!" Katherine shouted.
"Let him go Scott...or I'll kill her" Katherine continued, putting her hand over Allison's throat and squeezing it.
"You won't" Scott said, calling her bluff.
"I will" She insisted, squeezing tighter.
"No, you won't. I know you...you won't kill her. She was one of your best friend's not long ago" Scott explained, pulling Derek to stand in front of Gerard.
Knowing that he was right and she couldn't do it, she changed back to her original position of holding onto Allison's arms and looked down to the floor, feeling she had failed to protect her Alpha.
Scott jerked Derek back so his mouth was open and Gerard impaled himself on Derek's teeth, using his bite against him. Derek gasped and fell back to the floor in pain.
"Derek!" Katherine shouted running over to him and pulling him up so that his head lay on her lap.
Gerard held his arm up in triumph for everyone to see. Suddenly they all started to notice black blood oozing from the wound.
"What did you do?" Gerard demanded, looking at his arm.
"Everyone said Gerard had a plan, well so did I" He announced.
Gerard opened his pill case and looked at them, horrified. He took some into his hand and squeezed them, realising what had happened.
"Mountain Ash!" He screeched.
Suddenly he flinched and black ooze started to erupt from his mouth and he dropped to the ground.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Derek asked, looking at Scott.
"You might be an Alpha, but you're not mine" Scott explained.
Gerard then crawled on the ground in agony and yelled for the Kanima to kill everyone.
Suddenly Stiles jeep crashed through the building and hit the Kanima, head on.
"Did I get it?" Stiles questioned.
The Kanima jumped onto the jeep, seemingly unharmed, causing Stiles and Lydia who was beside him to jump out of the car, screaming.
"Jackson!" Lydia screeched, standing in front of him and pulled a key out of her pocket.
He seemed to recognize it and reached out, starting to turn back to his normal form.
While Jackson was distracted by the key, Derek scrambled up and leaped in front of him digging his claws into his stomach, while Peter does the same to his back.
Katherine and Lydia both gasped and Katherine looked away, too upset with what was happening. When it was over Lydia ran back over to him, trying to hold him up. Derek backed away slowly and put his hand onto Katherine's shoulder, trying to comfort her.
"Do you still?" Jackson asked her quietly.
"I do. I do still love you" Lydia admitted.
He then fell into her arms, with the key falling to the floor as well.
Katherine turned away and buried her head into Derek's shoulder. He hugged her and she silently cried, mourning her friend. Lydia lowered Jackson to the ground crying, as Allison and Scott held hands.
"Where's Gerard?" Allison questioned, seeing he had disappeared
"He can't be far" Chris answered from behind her.
Lydia walked away from Jackson's body, tears running down her face as Stiles stepped forward about to comfort her. Suddenly all the wolves started to hear a heartbeat and realised that Jackson wasn't really dead. Katherine turned around to see Jackson rising from the floor as he pushed his head back and roared his eyes blue. Lydia, overjoyed rushed over to him when he had shifted back to his human form. She then pulled back, amazed that he was alive. Katherine ran over to him as well, pulling him into a tight hug.
"Don't you ever do that to me again!" Katherine said to him, hitting him lightly.
"Hey!" Jackson laughed, happy that he and everyone else was alright.
Later the next day, Derek, Katherine, Isaac and Peter all wandered up to the Hale House and were surprised to see a symbol on the door.
"You haven't told them yet, have you?" Peter questioned.
"Told us what?" Isaac questioned.
"There was a reason why Derek was so desperate to get a pack, it adds to an Alpha's power" Peter explained.
"Why do you need more power?" Katherine asked, confused.
"When a new Alpha arises...people start to take an interest" Derek admitted.
"What does this symbol mean?" Isaac asked, pointing to the door.
"It means their coming" Derek told them.
"Who is?" Katherine questioned, worried.
"Alpha's. A pack of them" Derek exclaimed.
"And they're not coming, they're already here" Peter announced.
Author's Note: Hey everyone! I'm really sorry this took so long, but my laptop charger broke so I haven't been able to get on my laptop for days. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the extra long chapter:) Also I just realised that this story is starting to become a bit of a love triangle...oops. Next chapter is going to be set in the summer between season 2 and season 3!
