AN: Here it is! The final chapter in season 1.. It's been a long ride; hopefully season 2 will go smoother. I just hope you've all enjoyed this story. Even those of you that don't review, I hope you have all been enjoying it. Without further ado I give you the last chapter of Right here with you.
Ch 11
"You're going to kill me aren't you?" Stiles asked
"Why would I kill you Stiles? You're my perfect leverage; neither Derek nor Scott will do anything against me as long as I have you in my grasp. Call your friend, tell Jackson where she is, that's all you get."
"What are you doing here? How did you find me?" Derek asked
"We'll get to the how late, as to why were are here, well we're here to rescue you dumbass." Laura told him
"I don't think I've ever been happier to see your face."
"Yes I know, I should win a best sister award or something." Laura joked
"Enough kidding around let's find a way to get you down from there and out of here." Rebecca told them.
"And you're a Mac guy, does that go for all werewolves or just a personal preference?"
"Turn it on. Get connected."
"You know you're really killing the whole werewolf mystique thing here. Look you still need Scott's username and password, and I'm sorry but I don't know them."
"You know both of them."
"No I don't."
"Even if I couldn't hear your heartbeat, I would still be able to tell that you're lying."
"Dude I swear to god." Stiles started to say before the felt the cold metal of the car colliding with his cheek.
"I can be very persuasive Stiles, don't make me persuade you." Peter warned
"You okay sir?" Collins asked John
"Not really, we still have to find out who the woman with the necklace is, and to top it all of a teenage girl was attacked at a school dance."
"Let's go over what we know." Collins told him
"So far we don't know who or what attacked the Martin girl, the only one here is Jackson and he claims he has no clue what happened. We know that according to Jackson Lydia's date to the formal was Stiles. Stiles hasn't answered his phone and he isn't here at the moment. I've tried calling Scott but he's not answering either."
"Maybe they are together?"
"It's Scott and Stiles chances are they are together."
"Maybe Stiles hasn't found out about Lydia, I'm sure he'll get here later, you can question him then. "
"You have a point, Ask Rodgers about Stiles' Jeep will you? He's the one in charge of seeing if it's in strange places."
"Okay I'll localize him for you."
"What happens after you find Derek?"
"Don't think Stiles, type."
"You're going to kill people aren't you?" Stiles asked
"Only the responsible ones."
"Look if I do this you have to promise to leave Scott out of it." Stiles told Peter, he couldn't do anything about Derek so he would focus on Scott. Peter was not coming close to his best friend.
"Do you know why wolves hunt in packs? It's because their favorite prey is too large to be brought down by one wolf alone. I need Derek and Scott, both of them." Peter said, seemingly getting annoyed with Stiles.
"He's not going to help you."
"Oh he will, it's a vicious circle really, he will because it will save Allison, Derek will because it will save you, you will because it will save Derek and Scott…Scott who is your best friend, who you know so well you even have his username and password."
"His username is Allison? His password is also Allison?" Peter asked completely unimpressed.
"Still want him in your pack?" Stiles remarked but Peter just blew him off.
"I wasn't the only one that heard that right?" Rebecca asked
"No you weren't but I don't know who it is." Laura commented
"It's Scott." Derek told them before letting out a howl of his own.
"Scott is on his way here then that's awesome." Laura said as Rebecca's phone rang.
"Laura can you check who it is?" Rebecca asked as Laura checked the phone, it was a text from Astrid. Allison called she's with her family; probably with Kate someone needs to go get her.
"Becca you think you can handle it from here I have to go take care of something." Laura told them ignoring the confused look her brother sent her.
"Be careful." Rebecca called out as Laura left.
"It's loading... I can't exactly make it go faster can I?" Stiles commented when Peter glared at him.
"Wait what? That's where they are keeping him? His own house?" Stiles asked acting surprised and he thanked his lucky stars that the phone was apparently still in the cellar.
"Not at it, under it."
"What's under it?"
"The tunnel and basement I used to escape the fire. I know exactly where that is." Peter told him and suddenly they hear a howl. "and I'm not the only one."
"What does that mean?" Stiles asked trying to stall Peter from leaving.
"I think you know exactly what that means. Give me your keys."
"Careful she grinds in second." Stiles muttered but Peter just destroyed the keys.
"So you're not going to kill me?"
"Don't you understand yet, I'm not the bad guy here."
"You turn into a giant monster, with red eyes and fangs, you threaten the people I care about and you're not the bad guy here?"
"I like you Stiles, since you've helped me I'm going to give you something in return, do you want the bite?" Peter asked completely shocking Stiles
"What?"
"Do you want the bite? If it doesn't kill you, and it could, you'll be like us."
"Like you."
"Yes, a werewolf, would you like me to draw you a picture." He said as he came closer to Stiles "that first night in the woods I took Scott because I need a new pack it could have just as easily been you. You'd be every bit as powerful as him, as both of them, no more standing by their side, seeing Scott become stronger and quicker, more popular, watching him get the girl. You'd be equals, maybe more." Peter said as he grabbed Stiles' arm. "Yes or no?"
"I don't want to be like you." Stiles told him taking his arm back.
"You know what I heard just then? Your heart beating slightly faster over the words 'I don't want'. You might believe that you are telling the truth but you are lying to yourself, now since you're not going to help me further I have something for you." Peter said getting something out of the trunk of the car.
"What is that for?" Stiles asked fearing the answer
"Here I thought you were the smart one. This is zip tie I need to make sure you don't go anywhere. Now put your hands in front of you." Peter told him as he extended his claws in a threatening move.
"I won't do anything I promise." Stiles said
"It's too bad I don't trust you plus don't forget I know you're lying. If you don't cooperate I might feel inclined to hurt a certain nephew of mine and we wouldn't want that would we?" Peter threatened, causing Stiles to shut up and cooperate. The last thing he wanted was for Derek to get hurt because of him.
"That's much better." Peter said when he finished tying him up, then he got a rag out of his pocket and tied it around Stiles' mouth "We can't have you screaming for help now can we?" Peter said receiving a glare from Stiles
"See this is much better isn't it? No more of your useless yammering on and on. " Peter told him as he closed the trunk of the jeep.
"Don't worry Stiles I'll take good care of Derek and Scott.. I might even spare Scott's girlfriend I have to keep him happy don't I?" Peter remarked then left the garage leaving Stiles to wonder how he was going to get out of this one.
"You getting it now? It's what they do they can't help it."
"All of them?" Allison asked
"Yes Allison even Scott." Kate stated then Allison saw someone standing in the middle of the road
"Kate, watch out!" Allison screamed as Kate hit the breaks just in time.
"Let's see who it is." Kate said as she and Allison get out of the car.
"Hello Kate long time no see." Laura said
"Laura Hale, how are you even alive?" Kate asked
"You guys cut up the wrong girl and while it served for your purpose of bringing my brother back to Beacon, you didn't kill me so you didn't win." Laura said
"We'll see about that, maybe we'll kill both you and Derek just like we cut up your friend." Kate mocked and in that moment Laura made her move in what was basically the blink of an eye Laura was holding a knife to Allison's throat.
"I might not be an alpha anymore but I've still got enough power to kill your niece, it would be the perfect payback wouldn't it? Luckily for Alison she's a good friend of Stiles, and Scott loves her so I don't want to hurt her but if you don't cooperate I might be inclined to spill some Argent blood."
"You were never that ruthless Laura you don't have the guts." Kate mocked and Allison couldn't believe the words that came out of her aunt's mouth she knew Laura wouldn't hurt her but Kate's response shocked her.
"You do not want to see how ruthless I can get. Now tell me where my brother is or you'll see how ruthless I can be." Laura said pricking Allison so a little blood came out.
"He's underneath your old house." Allison shouted playing the part of the willing hostage.
"Allison shut up." Kate screamed as Laura lowered her knife.
"I knew Scott had good taste, Now if you don't mind i'm going to help my brother but I'm taking your niece and your car call it insurance." Laura told Kate as she and Allison get into the car. Once they are inside and Kate can no longer see them, Laura hands Allison a kit from her bag.
"What is this?" Allison asked her
"It's a bandage for your neck, sorry I had to do that." Laura said
"Don't worry about it, did everything go according to plan on your side?" Allison asked
"Yeah Rebecca and Scott are with Derek right now."
"Scott is with you?" Allison asked
"He must be over there already, I didn't wait to see him because I came to get you but yeah he came of his own volition and I'm thankful because between you and me, we were having trouble with the shackles."
"Your strength is not what it used to be?"
"I'm recovering...slowly. The shackles were made to hold us during the full moon, those of us not in control that is, so they are tougher than they look." Laura told her explaining the situation.
"At least you're recovering."
"True, I hope you didn't mind my little rescue masquerading as a kidnapping."
"Trust me I was relieved when I saw it was you, I have no idea what Kate's plan is but I'm sure it's nothing good."
"I figured you'd be safer with me right now."
"Why?"
"Because Kate has a big target on her back, Peter is completely off the rails and the only person left to kill is Kate so yeah right now you're safer with us, now what went wrong on your end?"
"My dad was at the dance, Scott and I were at the parking lot and they basically forced him to reveal himself and they just got me out of there. My parents wanted Kate to take me to Washington but she didn't do that."
"Well let's thank god for that."
Scott followed the howl that lead to the Hale house. He found the tunnels and went inside not knowing what he would find but ready for anything. He needed Derek to help him get rid of Peter and he even had an argument planned out with Deaton's info if Derek wasn't cooperating. What he found was a brunette woman trying to help Derek, what was going on?
"Scott, you're Scott right?" Rebecca asked
"Yeah I'm Scott what is going on."
"I'm trying to help Derek but I'm human which means as I'm not as strong as you guys so you'll have to help me out with this."
"If you guys could figure it out before the hunters come back that would be great." Derek muttered
"First I've got to know something." Scott said
"Oh you have got to be kidding me." Derek replied
"You need to tell me how to stop Peter." Scott said
"You want to talk about this right now? Isn't it bad timing?" Derek asked
Laura and Allison came into the light in the middle of the bickering.
"Allison are you okay?" Scott asked
"I'm fine Scott."
"Scott help Derek get down from there, you saw Allison is okay now do it." Laura told him
"You really are alive, I mean I Stiles told me but it's a bit on the crazy side you know?" Scott said as he helped Derek unlock one of his shackles. Once his hand was free, Derek could get the other one free as well.
"Explain." Derek said as Rebecca passed him his shirt and jacket.
"Technically she's my hostage I had a bit of a showdown with Kate figured with Peter on the loose she's be a bit safer with us. Plus it gives her an alibi with her family if she's seen with us."
"Why would she be safer with us?" Scott asked
"Why would she need an alibi?" Derek asked at the same time as Scott.
"Oh right you guys don't know. Who do you think told us where you were?" Rebecca told them.
"What?" Derek asked confused, an argent helping them out? How?
"You didn't think this whole rescue thing was out of the blue did you? It was planned down to the last detail, Allison and Stiles with the help of Gabriel were the masterminds behind it all." Laura told Derek then turned to Scott.
"Kate is enemy #1 right now which reminds me we need to get out of here and figure out what we are going to do…where's Stiles?" Laura asked she thought he would have already arrived here.
"He's not here yet?" Allison asked
"Nope and Astrid only got a message from you." Rebecca told them
"The last time I saw him he was dancing with Lydia at the dance, sorry." Scott said
"He wasn't at the hospital. I mean I was only there a few moments but I didn't see him." Allison said
"Why would he be at the hospital?" Scott asked
"Because of Lydia, she was attacked, Jackson brought her in." Allison told him
"Peter." Derek grumbled
"Do you think he figured it out?" Allison asked
"No I don't think so, he still thinks Derek was on his side remember? He wants Stiles for something." Laura said
"But Stiles is human." Scott told them confused at why Peter would want Stiles.
"Stiles is also the smartest of the group he's the brain behind everything and he's extremely loyal, being human doesn't mean a thing." Derek stated
"I know that I was just saying it's Stiles." Scott said trying to hide the fear in his voice. If his best friend got hurt he would never forgive himself.
"Someone give me a phone." Laura said as Scott passed her his phone from the table
"Come on Stiles, answer the phone." Laura said
"This is Yoda Stiles, to the phone I cannot come, so after the beep a message must you leave."
"You guys stay here and find somewhere to hide, Peter is probably going to come here if he's not on his way already. We need to beat him, he can't continue living like this killing everyone that pisses him off."
"Where are you going?" Allison asked
"I'm going to go help my find my best friend, Derek you know what to do." Laura said running out of the basement.
"You've got your crossbow?" Derek asked Allison
"Yes" Allison said showing it to him, she was thankful Kate told her to bring it.
"And I've got two potions." Rebecca said as she showed them to Derek.
"Good we are going to need it all." Derek told them as they left the room.
Laura was walking through the basically vacant parking lot, the scent had led her here, she just hoped her senses weren't too screwed up that they led her to the wrong place, right now she needed them to work. That's when she spotted it, Stiles' Jeep, so she ran towards it.
"Stiles are you here?" Laura whispered but all she got in response was a muffled response.
"I'll get you out don't worry." She told him as she looked for a way to open the car, on the floor next to one of the wheels were Stiles' keys, part of them were smashed so she needed to find another way of opening them, Stiles was going to kill her.
"Sorry about this Stiles," She said as she ripped open the door to the trunk. Thankfully the door did not fly off the hinges but they would still need to fix it to get it to close properly again. She found him lying there bound and gagged. She quickly removed the gag from his mouth.
"Did he hurt you?" Laura asked
"No he just used scare tactic and said he didn't want me running away so he tied me up and locked me inside." Stiles said as Laura tried to break the zip-tie.
"What did he want?" She asked
"He wanted to find Derek, I pretended not to know where he was and then used Scott's phone's GPS to find him." Stiles said
"Ugh I hate zip ties they are impossible to break." Laura complained
"Laura you're a werewolf, what don't want to break a nail?" Stiles joked as Laura glared at him
"Seriously?"
"It hurts like a bitch plus it won't help I got something better." Laura said taking a small knife out of her boot and cutting his binds.
"You still have that?" Stiles asked
"You gave it to me and I had it on me when I was admitted so I found it inside my jacket." Laura said smiling "we need to go."
"Can we pass by the hospital to see Lydia, I'm worried about her."
"I'll drop you off go pick up a few things we might need to defeat Peter and pick you up from there."
"You do realize we don't have a car right?" Stiles said
"Yes we do. I commandeered Kate Argent's SUV." Laura said
"You are amazing." Stiles said
"I know this." Laura told him
Stiles walked into the hospital to see his dad walking towards him.
"You're lucky we're in a hospital because I'm going to kill you."
"I'm sorry dad my jeep was stolen and I had to walk here when I found out."
"What? Jackson claims you were Lydia's date so why weren't you with her."
"We were dancing and she started looking around and I figured she was looking for Jackson so I let her go and that was the last time I saw her. I came out of the bathroom and I was thinking of going home when I heard the commotion that Lydia had been taken to the hospital so I went to where I parked my jeep and it wasn't there. So I started walking."
"You walked alone from the school to here? Are you crazy? Are you looking to get hurt?" John shouted he couldn't believe Stiles could be so reckless.
"No dad of course not! I was just thinking I needed to get here. Is she gonna be okay?"
"They don't know. Partially because they don't know what happened, she's lost a lot of blood but there's something else going on with her."
"What do you mean?" Stiles asked stammering and fearing the worst.
"The doctor's said it's like she's having an allergic reaction. Her body keeps going into shock." John told his son. "You say you didn't see her but do you have any idea of who or what could have attacked her?"
"No, I have no idea." Stiles told him after a few seconds, his son was definitely lying to him now.
"What about Scott?"
"What do you mean? What about him?" Stiles asked, why was his dad asking about Scott.
"Did he see anything?" John asked
"What are you...is he not here?" Stiles asked, if Scott wasn't here then where was he? I'm not the only one, that's what Peter had said, Peter had been talking about Scott, shit.
"I've been calling him on his cell phone and I've gotten no response." John told him, and considering the phone was in the Hale basement he wasn't going to get one, Stiles thought then exchanged a look with Jackson who was standing in front of Lydia's room.
"I don't think you're going to get one." Stiles muttered
"Stiles just go wait with your friends okay?"
"Dad just tell me, you know it has something to do with the Hale case."
"Don't talk so loud, you do realize I'm elected to this job right? I can't have people thinking I tell my son everything."
"If I help you figure this out you'll be reelected."
"You know what? That girl in there has nothing to do with six-year-old arson case."
"When did you decide it was definitely arson?" Stiles asked, so his dad was on the right track that was good, right?
"When we got a key witness, and no I'm not telling you who it is." John told Stiles, his dad really did know him too well "but yeah, point is we know it's arson and that it was probably organized by a young woman."
"What young woman." Stiles asked, his dad knew Kate was behind it but he probably didn't know it was Kate.
"If I knew that she'd be in jail." John said, so he definitely didn't know it was Kate.
"Was she young then or is she young now?"
"She's probably in her late 20s all we know is that she had a very distinctive pendant."
"What the hell is a pendant?" Stiles asked
"Stiles do you go to school? It's a necklace, now I have to go answer this call." His dad told him as he left Stiles standing there.. What necklace could he be taking about? As far as he knew Kate didn't wear a necklace.. Wait a minute, Allison's. Necklace! The one with the Argent crest on it. That's what his dad was looking for; he seriously needed Laura to get back here so he could tell her what he found out. He needed to get to where Laura was picking him up.
"Hey where are you going?" Jackson called out.
"To find Scott." Stiles answered.
"You don't have a car." Jackson told him
"I'm aware of that, thank you."
"Look I can drive." Jackson started and Stiles stopped him before he could continue.
"Look just because you feel guilty all of a sudden doesn't make it okay alright? Half of this is still your fault."
"I have a car you don't, you want my help or not?" Jackson asked
"You brought the Porsche?"
"Yeah." He answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"I'll drive." Stiles told him grabbing the keys, but before they could go further Argent and his goons stopped them.
"Boys I was wondering if you could tell me where Scott McCall is?"
"Scott? Haven't seen him since the dance." Stiles told them, it was technically true. "You Jackson?"
"I..uhh..I.." Jackson stuttered
"Oh for the love of god." Stiles muttered, yes they were screwed.
Stiles and Jackson were thrown into two gurneys in an on call room as Chris closed the door.
"Let's try this again, where is Scott McCall."
"Any news?" Rachel asked as Astrid came back from a call
she had just received.
"Derek is okay, Allison, Scott and Rebecca are there with him and they subdued a hunter. Kate is on the way there as is Peter. Laura was headed for the hospital she's going to pick up Stiles and go to the house." Astrid told them repeating what Laura had told her.
"So the showdown is definitely happening?" Nate asked
"It is." Astrid answered
"Let's hope they can get rid of Peter." Gabe commented
"And let's hope there's no casualties. Except Kate she can die for all I care." Rachel said taking a sip from her beer.
"I'll drink to that." Oliver muttered as they all took a sip from their respective drinks trying to forget the fact that the people they cared about where in trouble and they couldn't do anything to stop it.
"Let me ask you a question Stiles, have you ever seen a rabid dog?" Chris Argent asked as Stiles felt his back collide with the wall.
"No but I'll add it to my To Do List if you let me go." Stiles snarked and once again Chris was reminded of how much of his mother Stiles had in him, but he couldn't think of that right now.
"Well I have and the only thing I have been able to compare it to is seeing a friend of mine turn on a full moon. Do you want to know what happened?" Chris asked
"Not really, no offense to your storytelling skills." Stiles answered
"He tried to kill me and I was forced to put a bullet in his head." Chris said poking Stiles head "the whole time he laid there dying he was still trying to kill me like it was the most important thing he could do with his last breath. Can you imagine that?" Chris shouted
"No, it sounds like you need to be more selective..." Stiles started but was unable to continue because of Chris' hand hitting the wall next to him.
"Did Scott try to kill you on the full moon? Did you have to lock him up?"
"Yeah I did! I handcuffed him to the radiator." Stiles shouted back and Jackson stared at him, he had no idea about that, he didn't know Scott had to be detained. "Would you prefer I locked him in the basement and burned the whole house around him?" Stiles shouted with as much emotion as he could muster, this was the man whose family had caused Derek and Laura to loose everything. Now he had to gall to even allude to the wolves being the bad guys? Stiles wasn't going to let that one stand. Argent chuckled, he actually chuckled like an entire family dead was a laughing matter and Jackson just looked horrified.
"I hate to dispel a popular rumor, Stiles, but we never did that." Argent told him, oh god he didn't know, how could he not know?
"Oh right, Derek said you guys had a code, I guess no one ever breaks it." Stiles said mockingly.
"Never." Chris muttered and he looked worried looking back at Tyhurst.
"What if someone does?" Stiles asked baiting Argent.
"Someone like whom?" Argent asked him
"Your sister perhaps." Stiles told him basically confirming what Chris had feared for a while now.
"He is right, your psychotic sister burned my house to the ground with my entire family inside, did you know she blocked the entrances so they couldn't get out?" Laura said appearing at the door.
"You're alive." Chris Argent said shocked
"You guys need to stop being so shocked, you cut up the wrong bitch it happens. Now let Stiles and Jackson go." Laura told him
"I need them to find Scott McCall." Chris Argent told her
"Quid Pro Quo, you let them go I tell you where Kate is going and you deal with her and let myself and Derek deal with the Alpha."
"How do I know you don't want to join the alpha?" Chris asked
"Show of good faith, here are the keys to the SUV your sister was driving, I know the alpha and your sister are both headed to my old home, and I can tell you Scott, Derek, Rebecca and Allison are already there." Laura said putting the keys on the table.
"Allison is there?" Chris asked
"I figured she'd be safer with us than with your psychotic sister considering Kate is the Alpha's next target." Laura told him
"Let them go." He told his men and then turned to Laura "I'm trusting you for this, you better not cross me."
"Likewise, Stiles, Jackson let's go." Laura said and marched out of the room with the boys.
"Where are we going?" Jackson asked
"We need something to defeat Peter with any ideas?" Laura asked
"Know where we can get the ingredients for a Molotov cocktail?" Stiles asked
"I knew I liked you for a reason." Laura smirked
"So it's not just for my dashing looks?" Stiles smirked back as Laura rolled her eyes
They made their way out of the tunnel with Scott holding up Derek and Rebecca Allison bringing up the rear. They made their way up to the house panting as they walked.
"Hold on, hold on. Something doesn't feel right." Derek told them
"What do you mean?"
"I mean something doesn't feel right." Derek said "it's kind of like getting out of there.. It was kind of like."
"Yeah like it was I don't know how to explain it." Rebecca started but unable to say the words either.
"I hate to agree but it does seem.." Allison started
"No don't say too easy! All of you shut up! People say too easy and bad things happen. You think finding you was easy? Getting away from your dad?" He said directing the last one at Allison "none of this has been easy, so if things are going right for like two seconds can we just not question it? Can we all just shut up and thank God that we finally have the tiniest bit of luck for once?"
"Fine you're right, let's go." Derek said as they continued on the path to the house, they were walking when Derek got struck by an arrow. They saw Kate and another hunter shooting at them
"Now the leg." She told the guy as Derek received another arrow in the leg.
"Flash-bow."
"Scott, watch out! Avert your eyes!" Derek shouted as Kate shot Scott with a flash-bow arrow, Allison reacted and shot the hunter next to Kate with 2 arrows, while Rebecca threw a potion at Kate that caused her to loose her sight for a few seconds letting her grab Derek and move him away from Kate just in time for him to remove the arrow.
"Get up let's go." Derek told Scott as Allison helped Scott get up. They started running towards the house with Kate coming closer and closer. When Derek couldn't run anymore he shouted at Scott.
"Scott go!"
"Allison!" Kate screamed at her
"What are you doing Kate, Why are you hurting them?" Allison asked
"They are monsters I'm doing the world a favor. I told you we were going to catch them." Kate mentioned pointing her gun a Scott.
"Catch them does not mean killing them! I won't let you do this." Allison screamed and Kate looked towards her companion and he grabbed Allison to stop her from doing anything. "Let me go!"
"You'll learn, I caught them now I'm going to kill them." She said shooting Derek in the stomach, Rebecca ran towards him in order to help him "See not that hard." then she turned to Scott "It's a pity, I really do love those brown eyes."
"KATE" Chris screamed
"Hello big brother"
"I know what you did, put the gun down." Chris told her
"I did what I was told to do."
"No one asked you to murder innocent people. There were children in that house, ones who were human. Look at what you're doing now. You're holding a gun at a 16-year-old boy no proof he spilled human blood. We go by the code." Chris told her then said a phrase in French.
"We hunt those who hunt us." Allison muttered
"You're too soft you've always been too soft, they were monsters they deserved to die and the humans were even worse they were friends with monsters. I say all wolves and their allies should be eradicated. This is why I was always dad's favorite, I got what we had to do." Kate told him clicking the trigger on her gun when she heard the click of another gun triggering. Chris had his gun pointed at her just as Derek and Rebecca got closer to the scene.
"Put the gun down." He said shooting at the tree next to Kate completely shocking her "before I put you down." Kate lowered her weapon as the sound of a door opening broke their tension.
"Allison, get behind me." Chris said as they all pointed their weapons at the open door, Chris and Kate had their guns pointed at the door while Rebecca had the remaining potion in her hand with Derek and Scott standing next to her.
"What is it?" Allison asked
"It's him, he's here." Rebecca told her
"It's the Alpha." Scott said
Suddenly they could see movement as they were all pulled into a circle and the hunter that came with Kate dropped dead. Allison's crossbow fell to the side; Chris Argent got knocked out, as did Rebecca, leaving only Kate standing.
"Come on! Come on!" Kate started screaming and before she knew it Peter Hale was in front of her and the gun was pushed out of her hand. He broke her arm and grabbed her by the throat and pushed her inside the house. Allison ran inside to see Peter holding her aunt by the throat.
"She is beautiful Kate and she looks like you only not as damaged. So I'm going to give you a chance to save her, prove that there is someone in this world that you do care about."
"I'll do anything just don't hurt her." Kate pleaded
"Apologize, say you're sorry for decimating my family, for leaving me burned and broken for six years. Say it! Say it and I'll let her live." Peter told her as she felt his claws starting to break through her skin.
"I'm sorry." She said looking at Allison; if there was one thing she regretted in all of this it was that Allison had to see this. She was going to die she knew it the second she felt his claws on her neck. She had just hoped Allison didn't have to see it, that's what she was sorry about. Her last thoughts were a silent apology to her beloved niece, as she fell to the ground dead.
"I don't know about you Allison but that apology didn't sound very sincere." He said as he started walking towards her, then Scott and Derek appeared at her sides allowing her to run outside and get away while the betas fought the alpha.
"Dad wake up Dad!" Allison screamed to no avail. She went over to Rebecca and managed to wake her up.
"Are you okay?" Rebecca asked
"I'm fine but they are fighting inside and my dad won't wake up." Allison told her
"Leave him to me I'll keep him safe." She said grabbing the unconscious Argent and moving with him a few meters down to hide behind a tree.
"You know this isn't exactly an all-terrain vehicle." Jackson muttered as Stiles drove towards the Hale house.
"Did you pay for it?" Stiles asked
"No." Jackson answered
"The shut up!"
"Both of you shut up and Stiles eyes on the road." Laura commented,
They got to the house just in time to see Scott get thrown outside the window and see Peter coming after him ready to change into alpha form.
"Peter!" Laura shouted pulling the focus from Scott and towards her.
"Laura you're alive." Peter muttered
"Surprised?" Laura asked looking as Derek came out of the house to stand next to Scott and Allison.
"It all makes sense now, why Derek agreed to join me, he was protecting you and your secret."
"It's what family does, we protect one another we don't try to kill the other members of our family." Derek told him
"You're surrounded Peter, just give up." Laura told him as Peter looked around on one side were Scott, Derek and Allison and on the other Stiles, Laura and Jackson. What they didn't realize was that Peter had Rebecca's potion, he smashed it to the ground leaving them blind for a few seconds. When they recovered visibility they realized Peter had grabbed Stiles and was holding him as a shield.
"Stiles!" Laura screamed
"Let him go." Derek said
"Why would I? I know the second I let him go you'll kill me or at least try to, jury is still out on whether or not you can." Peter commented then put his claw on Stiles neck "He really is a great individual and would be the perfect member of my pack." then he muttered to himself "Lydia, Stiles, Scott, Jackson."
"Leave him alone." Scott said from his place next to Allison and Jackson, who noticed Stiles was looking directly at him, Jackson mouthed "What" and Stiles looked directly at the bottle in his hand. Stiles wanted him to throw the Molotov bomb at Peter just like they planned, but how could they when Peter was holding Stiles.
"Here's the deal, you idiots let me go and I won't harm your precious Stiles." Peter told them
"We can't let you do that." Laura told him; before anyone of them noticed what he was doing, Stiles had the Molotov bomb in his hand and looked at Allison who nodded
"Allison GO!" Stiles shouted at her as she shot an arrow at the bomb. It blew up and Stiles fell to the ground unconscious because of the blast. In that moment Peter transformed into his alpha form.
"Stiles!" Laura screamed as she ran to him, she had handed her own bomb to Scott who threw it at Peter the moment Laura ran to Stiles.
When he saw that Peter wasn't near Stiles Jackson threw the other bomb at him weakening him even further as Peter fell to the ground once again burned up but this time because of his own actions. Allison ran towards Scott who was still in wolf form and kissed him as his face went back to being human.
"Why did you do that?" Scott asked
"Because I love you." Allison responded as Chris and Rebecca walked up to the group, Chris was holding his head as if he had a headache but overall he was okay. They saw as Derek approached the barely alive Peter and Scott ran up to him.
"Wait! You said the cure comes from the one that bit you."
"We don't know for sure it's a myth." Derek told him.
"But it could be true! If you do this I'm dead…" Scott pleaded "Derek! Allison, her father, her family…what am I supposed to do? Please let me do this."
Derek looked conflicted; he turned to look at Laura who was holding on to an unconscious Stiles, she nodded telling him it was okay. Derek turned back to Peter.
"You've already decided, I can smell it on you!" Peter told him as Derek raised his hand and killed him. He could feel the power flowing through his veins. He turned around to see everyone looking at him.
"I'm the alpha now."
When Stiles woke up he noticed a few things, first he was in his own bed, no idea how he got there, and second everyone was staring at him. Laura was seated on the edge of his bed, Derek was staring at him from his place by the door, and Allison and Scott were seated at his desk.
"You're awake, finally." Laura commented then turned to Scott "Scott can you go tell Becs Stiles woke up?"
"Sure thing." He said as he left the room.
"So what do you have to tell me that you needed Scott out of the room?" Stiles joked but was ignored when no one answered his question.
"How are you feeling?" Laura asked
"My head is pounding." Stiles commented
"Never do that again." Allison told him
"You scared us especially since you wouldn't wake up." Laura said
"How long was I out?" Stiles asked
"The whole night, it's 10 am right now." Derek said speaking up for the first time in the conversation.
"What happened?" Stiles asked
"After you did your stupid, idiotic, reckless." Derek started before Stiles interrupted him
"Tell me how you really feel."
"You could have died Stiles! You told them to blast the bomb when Peter still had you in his grasp, and then you weren't waking up so excuse us for being worried about you." Derek ranted as he put his hand through his hair and started looking anywhere but at Stiles.
"I'm sorry, all I was thinking was that we couldn't let him get away." Stiles said looking directly at Derek as if they were the only ones in the room. "Yes it was stupid but it was our chance."
"Don't forget it was also idiotic and reckless." Derek replied with a small smirk.
"It's me after all did you expect anything else."
"You might have a point there, you do have a knack for those kinds of things." Derek said smirking at Stiles now looking straight at him.
"So what happened after my reckless act?" Stiles asked suddenly remembering Laura and Allison were there too.
"Scott threw my bomb and Jackson threw his so Peter was weakened to the point where he fell down. Scott and Allison kissed and Derek killed Peter. Argent got the idea of putting the necklace on Kate so when the police found the body they connected her to the murders." Laura said giving him a spark notes version of the events.
"Then we brought you back here and the Hales stayed here while Scott and I were made to go home as to not arise suspicion." Allison told him.
"My dad let you stay here?" Stiles asked
"He spent all night at work." Laura told him and Stiles nodded, that made sense. Then he remembered something else.
"What about Lydia?" Stiles asked
"Scott and I went to visit her in the morning to check out the wound." Allison said
"Was it completely healed?" Stiles asked
"The opposite, the doctor said she would be fine but she was healing at a normal rate." Allison said
"She's not a werewolf." Laura told him
"Then what the hell is she?" Stiles muttered but no one could give him an answer, then he remembered something Laura had just said and looked at Derek, "Wait you killed Peter, that's why Scott is pissed isn't it?"
"Bingo." Derek said his eyes flashed red for a few seconds before they went back to their normal green color.
"So you're the big bad alpha now?" Stiles joked
"Something like that." Derek replied just as the door opened and both Rebecca and Scott came inside.
"What do you say I get you checked out Stiles? Make sure there's no damage?" Rebecca asked
"I'm all yours doc." Stiles answered as the four extra people in the room left to let the good doctor do her job.
A few hours later Stiles and his dad were sitting down watching a tv show when Stiles was struck with a singular thought.
"Why do you hate him so much?" Stiles asked
"What are you talking about?" John asked confused as to where his son's train of thought was.
"Derek, why do you hate him?" Stiles asked again
"I don't hate him." John said
"Dad you are always looking for thins he might do wrong or something to justify your dislike when he has done nothing wrong! I just want to understand what he did to you that was so awful."
"Remember how your mom had to get another job?" John asked shocking Stiles because his dad never mentioned his mother, except when he was drunk and John Stilinski wasn't drunk at the moment.
"Yeah what does that have to do with anything?" Stiles asked
"Just humor me, why did she leave that place?" John asked
"She didn't feel like working there anymore she said they were too close minded or something so she resigned."
"She didn't resign, she loved that job more than anything."
"What happened?"
"She got fired for speaking badly of the owner's best friend."
"What?" Stiles asked confused, he had never heard that version of the story. His mom was a wonderful cook; no one in his or her right mind would fire her without a good reason.
"Ben Miller, he was best friends or at least in good terms because that bastard had no friends, with the owner of the restaurant and when your mom started spouting off about him she got canned, it didn't matter that she was the best cook in that place she still got told to leave." John said then took a drink of the whisky on the table. "You really want to know why I can't stand to look at your 'friend'?" John asked
"Yes I do want to know." Stiles told him; after all he already started this conversation it was too late to back out now.
"He's an ungrateful little bastard. Your mom did everything to protect him, she lost her friendship with the woman that was basically her sister, she lost her job, a job she had worked incredibly hard for, and because of the things she spouted about Miller she was blacklisted for a while so she couldn't find another job, she opened her home to the kid, whenever he couldn't go home he came here. She spent basically 16 years protecting him even after she was basically banned from going to the Hale house."
"Banned?" Stiles interrupted
"She had a big fight with Ben, this was before the job thing and everything that came after it, never understood what it was about. The gist was she stopped going over there, it was the reason Laura and Derek always came here instead of us going over there." John said
"How does all this make Derek ungrateful?" Stiles asked because so far all it did was confirm his thoughts that Derek's father was the spawn of Satan and that his mother had been the best human being in the world.
"They left in the middle of the night a day after the funeral, you think I don't know how much that hurt you and your mother? You didn't stop crying for two days...two days Stiles! Then your mom died and they couldn't even come to the funeral, hell they couldn't even make a damn phone call!" John shouted getting agitated at the conversation, they had opened their home to the kid and they had just gotten what was basically a slap in the face in return.
"That's not just Derek's fault dad, I love her but that's also Laura's fault. Yet you treated her like a daughter while you treat Derek like he's not worth your time."
"Your mom loved Laura but she defended Derek to her dying day, then there was the whole not coming to her funeral, I'm sorry but I don't think I can get past that especially seeing Joe's face when he realized his kids weren't coming." John said exasperated not realizing what he revealed to his son.
"Joe is Derek's father? What?" Stiles asked confused, if there was anything he was expecting from this conversation it was certainly not that.
"I meant Laura." John told him
"No, you said kids not kid dad. Joe is Derek's father? Derek doesn't know does he? Does Laura know?"
"Go to your room Stiles." John replied not answering his questions.
"Dad you can't leave me like this I need to know."
"This doesn't concern you."
"Yes it does! Derek is my friend and I need to tell him."
"You can't say anything Stiles."
"But dad!"
"No Stiles!" John shouted going inside his room and shutting the door behind him, leaving Stiles just standing there thinking about what had just happened, thinking about the turn the conversation had taken at the end.
Laura was walking back to the apartment when she saw Allison sitting alone in the park.
"Allison, are you okay?" Laura asked as she approached her carefully, Allison's hands started wiping her eyes in a way to appear as if she hadn't been crying.
"I'm fine, happy everything worked out."
"It's okay to miss her and mourn her you know?" Laura said as she sat down next to Allison.
"She destroyed your family how can you say that?" Allison asked shocked.
"She murdered my family, yeah she did, and she turned my brother inside out, she transformed him from a sweet, caring brother to an emotionless guy who used sex as an escape from his problems, or well that was until he came back to Beacon Hills but that's a story for a different time. What I mean that yeah she did a lot of shitty things but that doesn't take away the fact that she loved you. You said it the other day and you told Scott that when you were growing up she was like an older sister to you right?"
"Yeah she was but what does that have to do with anything?" Allison asked
"That is everything, that is how you have to remember her. Don't hurt yourself by only remember psychopath Kate, remember her as your cool aunt Kate. The one who loved you unconditionally, forgive her." Laura told Allison.
"How do you do that?" Allison asked
"Do what?"
"Just completely forget your own prejudice to make me feel better?" Allison asked confused because here was a woman not that much older than her telling her to forgive the person who had basically screwed up her life.
"My mother." Laura said speaking quietly
"What about her?"
"She was a wonderful person, sweet, kind, intelligent and she was a pretty good alpha despite the fact that she was never supposed to be one. She was pretty amazing but she had one flaw."
"What was it?" Allison asked, honestly curious about why Laura was telling her this.
"My father was the alpha of the Hale Pack and he was pretty amazing at it despite being so young, he was the golden boy only few people disliked him and he had this smile that just would light up the room, him smiling was one of the last memories I have of him."
"He died?" Allison asked
"He was killed in a car accident, a drunk driver sent his car tumbling down a hill and the car ended up blowing up with him inside of it, I was 2 years old and my mother was pregnant with Derek, He was 21 years old and my mother was 20."
"I'm sorry." Allison said as she placed her hand on top of Laura's allowing her to continue her story.
"After a few months my mother married Ben Miller, at first he was a good guy or at least he pretended to be. For the first years everything was pretty good, when Derek was 5 and I was 7 my mom got pregnant with my little sister Cora, and everything went on as if nothing had changed. By the time Derek was 9 my step-dad started treating him differently. A few comments here and there but they were things that you don't really think twice about. " Laura commented looking straight ahead at the trees. "It was until he was 12 that I noticed my brother sneaking out of the house and noticed how he hated staying home alone. He started spending a lot of time with the Stilinskis."
"That's where his friendship with Stiles came from?" Allison asked
"In a way, both my parents and Stiles' mom were best friends so we've always been in each other's lives, I was Stiles' babysitter and Aunt Lilah was Derek's godmother."
"Then why was it so strange that Derek was spending his time over there?" Allison asked
"He spent more time over there, it's not normal for a 12 year old boy to not want to be home so I did some investigation of my own and discovered that the bastard was being both physically and verbally abusive to my little brother, but since he was a wolf he healed quickly so there was no proof. At first I thought my mother had no clue so I started asking Derek about the bruises in places where I knew my mom could hear but she never did anything."
"That's awful." Allison muttered between his stepfather and what she suspected happened with Kate she was beginning to understand why it was so hard for Derek to trust people.
"Back to the point of the conversation is that I love my mother but she just stood by and watch her husband be cruel and cutting to her son and that's something that took me a while to forgive, after she died I was torn between being mad at her for that and for being dead that I could never properly mourn her, it was my best friend at the time, Oliver, who told me to forgive her and to focus on the good because most of the time it outweighs the bad." Laura said as she finished her train of thought "So forgive Kate and remember the good not the bad, I mean you don't have to condone the bad she did but try not to focus on it. You will be the only one that ends up hurt if you do that."
"Thanks." Allison replied truthfully. It felt liberating to be able to mourn the Kate she knew instead of the Kate everyone saw.
The sheriff opened the door to find Derek Hale standing in his porch.
"Stiles isn't here at the moment you'll have to come back later."
"I'm not here to talk to Stiles." Derek said
"Then why are you here Mr. Hale?" John asked
"I need to talk to you." Derek said
"Okay then talk." John said as he stepped aside to let Derek come inside the house and John sat on the couch as he waited to hear what Derek had to say.
"I didn't know" Derek said as he sat down on the couch chair next to John's couch.
"Didn't know what?" John asked
"I didn't know that she had died." Derek told him
"What?" John asked
"You said I was ungrateful, that I didn't care about aunt Lilah but I did care, I cared a lot, she was more of a mother to me than my own mother at times and she was the only adult who I felt cared whether I lived or died." Derek said looking at his hands, John turned to look at him completely confused with the turn of the conversation. How could Derek not know?
"Then why did you do the things you did?" John said
"After the fire I was overcome by guilt, it was all my fault, everyone I loved got hurt, my entire family was dead with the exception of Laura, and Peter was stuck in a vegetative state and all because of me. Because of who I trusted."
"The fire wasn't your fault it was Kate Argent."
"I know, I've always known." Derek said pulling out a crumbled up note and put it on top of the table, John grabbed it and read it; it said Thanks for the info sweetie! Did you enjoy the show? Did it get you fired up? Love Kate.
"What is this?" John asked putting the note back on the table.
"She left it inside my gym bag, I found it a day after the fire." Derek said putting the note back in his pocket. "I was 16 years old and she was the hot older woman who gave me attention in a time when I desperately needed it. I thought I was special, the hot substitute wanted to spend time with me, but all she wanted to do was use me to get to my family, which she did."
"That wasn't your fault." John told him
"Yeah it was or well I believed it was at the time. After the funeral I was numb, Laura decided we needed to leave and I didn't say a word, I figured everyone was better without me. I didn't find out she was dead until a year after it happened."
"Why?" John asked
"I was doing some cleaning up and I stumbled upon the note by accident."
"So you had no idea we had sent it?" John asked
"No clue, Laura had hidden it from me, she had decided we weren't going to go back and knew I would want to go so she never told me."
"Was that what created the rift between you two?" John asked
"On my side it was part of it, her friend being the other part, and on her side she found out about Kate and I thought she blamed me for everything. We fought a lot during that time. First about Kate, then about a wk later I found the note and that lead to another fight and it just kept on escalating to the point where I was spending all my time living on my friends' couch. We spent weeks with only a few words exchanged between us, the weeks turned into months then she came here. She had this thing were she sent me an I'm fine everyday so the day she didn't send anything I filled up my car and came here." Derek said
"Even if you two weren't talking?" John asked
"She's still my sister. I love her." Derek told him and in that moment John's respect for Derek Hale grew exponentially. Here was a 22-year-old guy who had grown up too fast, whose childhood wasn't the best at times, and didn't have the best relationship with some members of his family. Suddenly he saw the 16-year-old Derek who had just been told his entire family was dead, the 14-year-old Derek who didn't mind hanging around Stiles regardless of their age difference, the little boy that Lilah considered a second son. Most of all he finally understood what his Lilah kept saying; Derek is definitely Joe's son. Yes he is reckless at times or he seems to get into trouble a lot but that was a bit of a front that hid the fact that the guy had a good heart underneath it all. Looking at him right now he could see Joe, his old friend, he couldn't keep ignoring that.
"I'm sorry." John said
"Sorry? For what?" Derek asked confused
"I'm sorry for what happened to your family, sorry to what happened to your relationship with Laura but most of all I'm sorry for the way I've treated you since you came back."
"It's no problem." Derek muttered truly at a loss about what to say.
"It is a problem because I wasn't fair to you, I took out my anger at your sister and your mother at you and you didn't deserve that. I told myself I would always be fair and I broke that promise with the way I treated you so for that I'm sorry." John said holding out a hand to Derek
"Thanks." Derek muttered still not knowing what to say but returning the handshake.
"I think Stiles is probably on his way home right now, you can wait in his room if you want." John said, he still wasn't completely on board with his son's friendship with Hale, Derek; he had to start calling him Derek, but baby steps.
"Of course sir." Derek said before going up to Stiles' room.
"Did I just hear my dad say sorry to you?" Stiles asked as he saw Derek come into his room.
"How long have you been here?" Derek asked
"I came in through the window, wanted to try it since you seem to do it flawlessly."
"How did that work out for you?"
"It's alright, but I'll stick to my door it's better." Stiles remarked as Derek let out a small laugh.
"You are so crazy."
"It's true, I would tell you I'm ashamed of it but I'm not, now no changing the subject what was that I heard?" Stiles asked
"I just came over to talk about what happened." Derek said
"So you guys just talked it out?" Stiles asked incredulous
"Yes Stiles we just talked, cleared up a lot of misconceptions, I'm not saying I'm your dad's favorite person but I think things will be better from now on."
"Glad to hear that, does that mean no more sneaking in to see me?" Stiles asked before he could think it through. He liked it when Derek came in through the window, or he had to sneak out to meet him somewhere, it made him feel special. Which is on his list of things he doesn't want to think about too much.
"If you really want me to I guess I could make an exception." Derek told him and not for the first time he was really glad Stiles wasn't a wolf, he doesn't know how he would explain the leap his heart did when Stiles had asked that.
"Aww you'd do that for me?" Stiles asked
"It's nothing really we wouldn't want you going any crazier right?" Derek told him trying to downplay it.
"Wisely said." Stiles replied and he looked like he wanted to say something else but kept quiet so Derek decided to put him out of his misery.
"I know you want to ask Stiles."
"What does it feel like?" Stiles asked as he sat down in the bed
"Different. It's very different." Derek said sitting down next to Stiles "I don't know yet if it's a good different or a bad different I just feel different, I can feel the power surge through my body but I'm still not completely sure it's me you know?"
"Do you regret it?" Stiles asked
"I did what I had to, Laura wasn't strong enough to do it yet, Scott wouldn't be able to handle it and we couldn't keep Peter alive…he was too far gone." Derek told him, as he whispered the last part, Stiles put his hand on Derek's shoulder.
"I'm sorry you had to do that." Stiles muttered
"What's done is done there's no changing it..." Derek told him looking at Stiles when he said it, there was something off about Stiles like he wanted to admit to something but didn't know how to say it. "Are you okay?"
"Am I okay? You're the one that had to kill his uncle, wait does that make you Simba and Peter Scar, then I'm definitely Timon you know skinny and sarcastic while Scott is probably Pumba, Lydia is Rafiki because she knows everything, Allison could totally be one of the lionesses she's badass like that, probably Vitani with the whole changing sides thing, and Laura could be Zazu or one of the lionesses maybe Kiara but that would make her your kid and that's weird so I think we're sticking with Zazu." Stiles rambled trying to distract Derek.
"Stiles, you're rambling" Derek told him now he was sure Stiles was hiding something, Stiles never rambled, yeah he talked a lot but it was never really rambling. The only time he remembered Stiles rambling like this was when he was they were younger and aunt Lilah wanted to know who ate all the cookies or when Stiles didn't want to stop talking in fear that he'd spill the beans so to speak.
"Am I?" Stiles asked trying to act oblivious.
"You just compared all of us to Lion King characters, what's wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong."
"Stiles." Derek said putting as much emotion into that one word as he could.
"Derek." Stiles responded with the same fervor.
"If you don't want to tell me that's fine but it's making you even crazier than usual."
"Arggh, Fuck it, I'm sorry I can't keep this quiet any longer, Ben Miller is not your real father."
"I know." Derek stated
"You know?" Stiles asked
"I've always known."
"How?" Stiles asked
"The dates never added up, I don't look like my mom I mean sure I have some of her features, but overall, I don't look like her and I look nothing like Ben, I mean from far away you could guess we were related but we are nothing alike in appearance or personality so there's no way we could be related, sometimes the stories Peter told or the stories either your mom or my mom told they didn't add up. Plus there's the whole thing about how I know Laura is 100% my sister she's a full sibling instead of a half-sibling like Cora was."
"So you know who your dad is?" Stiles asked
"I don't even know his name I just know he was also Laura's father and that he died before I was born."
"What if I told you I knew who he was, and that he wasn't dead?" Stiles asked
"What?" Derek asked shocked
"Are we all ready to go?" Sebastian asked leaving the apartment and closing the door behind him, they had just cleaned out the apartment putting the few things they had in boxes and storing them in the car. It was time to move to a different location.
"We've got all the information we need, the cafe is all packed up right?" Joe asked
"Yes, all traces of us in it are now gone and the new owner gave me a good sum of money for it, we're all set on that aspect." Sebastian told him handing him his half of the money, it was a good thing these transactions were done in cash it was a lot easier to split the money in that way.
"Perfect."
"So we're we headed now?" Sebastian asked
"Home we're going home." Joe told him smirking, they were finally going home, Sebastian could see Rebecca again and he could be reunited with his family. Things were going to get interesting.
AN: Thanks again for your support during this fic.. The sequel will be called By Your Side. Please remember to review tell me what you liked what you didn't like etc.