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Adrian Harris stood in his dark classroom at the high school cleaning his chalkboard. Setting the eraser down, he grabbed his coat and began to pack his things up for the evening. He noticed a crumbled piece of paper on his desk and picked it up, opening it. On it was a list of all of his family members with red X's by their names. His name appeared at the bottom without an X. He suddenly became fearful, grabbing the piece of paper, began to leave. He then heard a loud growl behind him.
"Please don't kill me" Harris begged.
"Do you know who wrote that list?" the voice said behind him.
"Laura - Laura Hale" Harris breathed.
"Do you know why she was looking for you? I know why. Turn around, Adrian. Turn around and I'll show you" the voice said. 'Turn around!"
"No. Please" Harris begged once more.
"Look at me. Look at what you've done!" the voice demanded before throwing chair at the chalkboard. Just another chair was about to be thrown, Derek appeared and grabbed Harris.
"Get down!" he yelled. The two of them looked up and saw that the Alpha was gone. Suddenly sirens and lights appeared outside of the window of the school
"This is the police. You're surrounded. No one leave the building" a cop said. Derek looked at the door once more. He lost his chance to get the Alpha and to end everything.
Derek ran down a dark road with the cops right behind him. He had no clue where he could go or run. All he knew is that he had to run faster.
"Repeat, suspect is on foot. We're in pursuit, heading northwest" the sheriff told his men as they followed Derek.
Derek ran faster when suddenly another car appeared and he slide to the ground and quickly got up running in the opposite direction. Inside the car sat Chris Argent on the phone with Kate.
"He's on foot. Just ran into the Iron Works" Chris told his sister on the phone watching Derek run from the police.
"Wait, wait. Did you say on foot?" Kate asked quickly.
"Yeah, into the Iron Works" Chris told his sister.
"Running?" Kate asked once more.
"Yes, running!" Chris said before hanging up.
"If he's on foot, then who the hell is driving his car?" Kate exclaimed putting down her phone. Her eyes glared at the car in front of her. "Let me guess Derek, you got your witchy girlfriend to do it" she sneered. "How adorable."
However, she was wrong. In the Camaro wasn't Charlie, but instead was Scott and Stiles. The Camaro sped down the street with Kate in hot pursuit.
"Faster?" Scott asked.
Stiles turned and looked behind him and saw the car that was right behind him. "Much faster." Scott pushed his foot down on the pedal harder increasing the speed.
The sheriff and his men quickly got out of their cars, believing they had Derek cornered.
"Come on, get the dogs" Sheriff Stilinksi yelled. The dogs were let loose and ran in the direction of Derek. Derek quickly ran and then turned sneering at them, his eyes flashing blue. The dogs quickly retreated back to the police.
"What the hell?" the sheriff asked.
Meanwhile, Scott continued to speed away from Kate's car.
"Scott, I don't think you're grasping the concept of the car chase here" Stiles exclaimed as the car got closer and closer.
"If I go faster, I'll kill us" Scott shot back.
"Well, if you don't go faster, they're going to kill us!" Stiles yelled. Scott quickly turned and the car went in the opposite direction.
"They're gone" Stiles stated. He turned on his wakkie talkie to any news on Derek.
"All units, suspect is on foot heading into the iron works" they heard his dad say. The two teenage boys looked at one another.
Derek quickly walked through the iron works to find an exit when suddenly a blast hit the machine he was by causing a flash of light. He looked around, but couldn't see anything. Once his vision cleared, he saw Chris Argent with a gun pointed right at him. He quickly ran for cover as the hunter shot at him.
"Hey Chris!" Charlie yelled appearing out of nowhere. She threw her arm in the air sending Chris Argent flying against the wall of the iron works.
"Charlie what the hell are you doing here?" Derek yelled at her.
"Saving your ass as usual" she shot back as the Camaro sped towards them.
"Get in" Stiles yelled. Derek and Charlie quickly ran to the car as Chris began to fire bullets at the two of them.
"What part of laying low don't you understand?" Scott huffed.
"Damn it, I had him!" Derek yelled.
"Who the Alpha?" Stiles asked.
"Yes! He was right in front of me, and the freaking police showed up" Derek complained.
"Whoa, hey, they're just doing their jobs – " Stiles protested. Derek looked at Stiles glaring angrily.
"Yeah, thanks to someone who decided to make me the most wanted fugitive in the entire state" Derek glared at Scott.
"Can we seriously get past that? I made a dumbass mistake. I get it" Scott huffed.
"Dumbass mistake is an understatement" Charlie glared. "The cops have been bothering my grandmother and I'm suppose to call the cops and tell them if I'm involved in any of this. You screwed up big time."
"Why the hell are you even here?" Derek said turning around and sneering at her.
"Well considering you don't want my help, I figured the teenagers would and actually appreciate it" she shot back. "You're welcome for saving you!"
"I told you not to get involved" Derek exclaimed.
"What are you going to do about it Derek?" Charlie snapped leaning forward. "Huh? Kiss me again to shut me up."
Stiles and Scott look at one another. Stiles could barely contain his excitement over the sight of Charlie standing up to Derek.
"You know if you two want us to pull over so you can get a room…."
"Shut up!" Charlie and Derek said together glaring at Stiles.
"All right" Stiles rolled his eyes. " Lets get back to our problem. How did you find the Alpha?" Derek looked at the teenagers silently.
"Derek they asked you a question" Charlie sneered.
"Can you try to trust us for at least half a second?" Scott snapped.
"Yeah, both of us" Stiles sneered. He saw Derek glare at him angrily and Charlie grabbed him by the shoulder pulling him to the backseat. "Or just him. I'll be back here."
"Look the last time I talked to my sister, she was close to figuring something out. She found two things. The first was a guy named Harris" Derek began to explain.
"Our chemistry teacher?" Stiles said moving forward.
"Yes" Charlie piped in.
"Why him?" Scott asked frowning.
"I don't know yet" Derek shrugged.
"What's the second?" Scott asked.
"Some kind of symbol" Derek replied showing them a piece of paper. The symbol had a wolf and a sun on. Scott sighed angrily causing Derek to frown. "What? You know what this is?"
"I've seen it on a necklace" Scott began. "Allison's necklace."
Charlie spent the majority of the next day at the high school. She kept a close eye on both Stiles and Scott. At times she felt that something was watching her, but no one was ever around. She assumed if it was the Alpha, she would be dead once more and if it was Derek, she wasn't sure why he would still be keeping an eye on her especially since he told her he didn't want her involved in anything. The end of the day bell rung snapping her out of her thoughts. She waited at Stiles's jeep until he got out. The moment Stiles's saw her his face went from confusion to excitement, and then a long glare.
"Where have you been lurking?" Stiles asked her.
"I don't lurk, I sneak" Charlie smirked. "I've just been keeping a close eye on you two throughout the day. You're welcome."
"Scott and I don't need a babysitter. We've done fine on our own, besides you're the one that got her throat slashed the other night. Shouldn't someone be looking after you?" Stiles shot back.
"Having magic is a pretty cool thing" Charlie smiled. "Did Scott get the necklace?"
"Not yet" Stiles shook his head. Charlie sighed and gently hit her head against the jeep. "But I have another plan" he told her. "The other night after you and Derek got not killed, someone sent a text to Allison that was from Scott."
"It wasn't him was it?" Charlie spoke.
"No he never sent a text to Allison. I think that if we can trace that text, we can find our Alpha" Stiles exclaimed. "Or at least maybe a lead on where it could be."
"Stiles that's brilliant" Charlie smiled. "Let's go!"
"You are so much more corporative and nicer than Derek. How do you even stand to be around the guy?" he asked.
"The sex is good" she shrugged. Stiles stared at her in shock. "I'm kidding" she laughed. "Derek's my best friend. I accept every part of him."
"So you guys haven't slept together?" Stiles asked. "But you two have kissed…."
"Let's go!" Charlie yelled rolling her and getting in the jeep.
"I'm rooting for you two in some sick kind of way" Stiles shot back. "Just trying to be supportive. God!"
"You sure your dad won't arrest me?" Charlie asked as she and Stiles walked into his room.
"All you got to do is tell him how you weren't involved" he replied sitting down at his computer. "Easy as pie." Charlie shrugged, but nodded. She had this strange feeling someone was watching both her and Stiles and turned around. There stood Derek in the corner. Before she could say anything to the teen, the sheriff was heard.
"Hey, Stiles!"
"Yo, D—Derek" Stiles said turning around and seeing Derek behind him. Derek put a finger to his lips and motioned for Stiles to handle his dad. "I, um –" the teen stuttered going out of his room and closing the door.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Derek whispered.
"I told you I'm helping" Charlie whispered back. "I'm not going to sit around and wait for something else to happen."
"Well what if something happens to you?" he shot back.
"Derek I can protect myself" she frowned.
"You shouldn't have to. It's not your job to protect yourself" Derek told her.
"And it's your job?" Charlie snapped.
"Yes" Derek nodded.
"Why?" Charlie crossed her arms.
"We are not having this conversation right now" Derek growled as Stiles walked back into his room.
"I'm sor - oh!" Stiles said as Derek slammed him against the door.
"Derek stop" Charlie snapped.
"If you say one word" Derek growled.
"Oh, what, you mean, like, "Hey, dad, Derek Hale's in my room - Bring your gun"? Stiles said. Derek slowly relaxed. "Yeah, that's right. If I'm harboring your fugitive ass, it's my house, my rules, buddy." Stiles said hitting Derek on the shoulder. Derek nodded after a moment and stepped back, letting the teen go and straightening his jacket. Stiles did the same thing to Derek before walking away. The werewolf slightly lunged at him.
"Oh, my God!" Stiles gasped walking over to his desk and sitting down.
"Scott didn't get the necklace?" Derek asked.
"No. He's still working on it. But there's something else we can try. The night we were trapped at the school, Scott sent a text to Allison asking her to meet him there" Stiles explained.
"So?" Derek shrugged.
"So it wasn't Scott. God she's so much nicer about things and willing to put the pieces together" Stiles sighed.
"I do try my hardest" Charlie smiled. Derek glared over at Charlie. "Oh don't be such a sour wolf. It won't kill you to be nice for once."
Derek sighed and turned his attention back to Stiles. "Well, can you find out who sent it?" he asked.
"No, not me. But I think I know somebody who can" Stiles replied.
Charlie sat on Stiles's bed one her phone while Derek sat in a chair reading a book, when one of the kids Scott and Stiles's went to high school with, a boy named Danny came over.
"You want me to do what?" Danny frowned in confusion.
"Trace a text" Stiles said simply.
"I came here to do lab work. That's what lab partners do" Danny protested.
"And we will, once you trace the text" Stiles sighed.
"And what makes you think I know how?" Danny asked.
"I - I looked up your arrest report, so –" Stiles replied awkwardly.
Danny sighed and rolled his eyes. "I - I was 13. They dropped the charges." Charlie looked up and frowned at him. What the hell did a thirteen year old need to hack a computer for? And she thought she had a strange time growing up.
"Eh…" Stiles shrugged.
"No, we're doing lab work" Danny shot back sitting down. Stiles began to type on his computer, clearly annoyed.
"Who are they again?" Danny asked looking over at Charlie and Derek
"Um, my cousins – Miguel and Sophia" Stiles replied. Derek looked up from his book and stared at Stiles. Charlie just shook her head in disbelief.
"Is that blood on his shirt?" Danny asked. "And haven't I seen her on the news for something?"
"Yeah. Yes. Well, he gets these horrible nosebleeds. She's just got one of those faces" Stiles replied quickly. Hey, Miguel." Derek looked slowly up from his book at Stiles. "I thought I told you, you could borrow one of my shirts" he said looking over at Derek. Derek shut his book and stood up, walking over to Stiles's dresser, taking his shirt off in the process. Charlie looked at him and then quickly back down, mentally yelling at herself.
"So anyway" Stiles said turning his attention back to Danny. "I mean, we both know you have the skills to trace that text, so we should probably – "
"Uh, Stiles?" Derek interrupted him.
"Yes?" Stiles said turning around to face Derek.
"This - no fit" Derek said holding a shirt. Charlie looked over at Stiles and Danny. Danny was staring happily at Derek shirtless. She put her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing. Danny was enjoying the view.
"Then try something else on. Sorry" Stiles said to Danny. He noticed Danny staring at Derek and Stiles' mouth dropped. He looked over at Charlie who was grinning and on the verge of laughing. Derek put on another shirt, one with orange and blue stripes.
"Hey, that one looks pretty good, huh? What do you think, Danny?" Stiles asked.
"Huh?" Danny asked snapping out of his thoughts.
"The shirt" Stiles replied.
"It's - it's not really his color" Danny said honestly. Derek took off the shirt once more to look for another one.
"You swing for a different team, but you still play ball, don't you, Danny boy?" Stiles smirked.
"You're a horrible person" Danny glared at Stiles.
"I know. It keeps me awake at night" Stiles smirked. "Anyway, about that text."
"Stiles! None of these fit" Derek growled loudly. Stiles tried to keep from laughing as Danny smirked.
"I'll need the ISP, the phone number, and the exact time of the text" Danny replied quickly. Stiles grinned like an idiot over at Charlie. She rolled her eyes at him as the teen threw his arms up in the air since he got his way. She went back to looking at her phone, not noticing Derek's continuous glances at her.
An hour later Danny was able to finally trace the text to who sent it and Derek finally was able to find a shirt, much to Danny's dismay. Charlie and Derek stood behind the teenage boys to see the origin of the text. The red head's eyes grew at the sight of the name of the sender.
"There. The text was sent from a computer. This one" Danny told the group.
"Registered to that account name?" Derek frowned.
"No, no, no, no. That can't be right" Stiles said quickly. Charlie kept quiet while looking at the name of the account. It didn't make any sense. The account was registered to Melissa McCall, Scott's mother.
Stiles, Charlie, and Derek sat in the jeep in front of the hospital. Stiles was on the phone with Scott, but didn't mention anything about his mother's computer. Scott was able to get the necklace from Allison.
"Did you get the picture?" Scott asked.
"Yeah, I did, and it looks just like the drawing" Stiles replied.
"Hey, is there something on the back of it? There's got to be something. An inscription, an opening, something" Derek said grabbing Stiles arm for the phone.
"No, no, the thing's flat. And, no, it doesn't open. There's nothing in it, on it, around it, nothing. And where are you? You're supposed to be here. You're first line" Scott replied.
"Man, you're not going to play if you're not here to start" Scott told his best friend.
"I know. Look, if you see my dad, can you tell him - tell him I'll be there, I'll just be a little bit late, okay? All right, thanks" Stiles told Scott.
"You're not going to make it" Derek spoke as Stiles hung up.
"I know" Stiles nodded sadly. Charlie felt bad for the kid. He was really excited about the game, Charlie could tell.
"And you didn't tell him about his mom, either" Derek raised an eyebrow.
"Not till we find out the truth" Stiles replied.
"Not a bad plan" Charlie nodded.
"By the way, one more thing" Derek looked over at Stiles.
"Yeah" Stiles looked at Derek. Derek grabbed him and slammed his head against the steering wheel.
"Oh my god!" Charlie exclaimed.
"Oh, God! What the hell was-"
"You know what that was for. Go" Derek yelled. "Go!" Stiles glared angrily and got out of the car slamming the door.
"I'll go with him" Charlie said getting ready to get out of the jeep. Derek grabbed her arm in an attempt to make her stay.
"Charlie…" Derek began. She leaned forward and kissed him softly. She pulled away leaving him surprised.
"Just trust me. I'll be fine" she whispered.
"I'm sorry" Derek began. "For everything."
"Well you're going to have to do a lot more than apologize" she smirked. "I'll be back."
"That kiss earlier….I didn't do it to shut you up…It meant something to me" Derek spoke again. "Once this is over, we should probably talk about everything."
Charlie licked her lips. Derek's words surprised her. She nodded quickly got out of the car. Derek smiled slightly still feeling the tingling sensation from the kiss on his lips. Maybe there was hope for the two of them.
"Yeah, I said I can't find her" Stiles told Derek on the phone walking down the hallway. The hospital was deserted. Charlie had gone off to find anyone, but it appeared no one was there.
"Look, ask for Jennifer. She's been looking after my uncle" Derek replied. Stiles saw Charlie walked around the corner shaking her head. She couldn't find anyone.
"Yeah, well, he's not here either" Stiles told him looking through the empty hospital room.
"What?" Derek asked.
"He's not here. He's gone, Derek" Stiles said.
There was dead silence on the phone for a moment. "Stiles, Charlie get out of there right now - it's him! He's the Alpha! Get out!" Derek yelled. Stiles pulled the phone down from his ear and looked at Charlie terrified.
"Stiles what's wrong?" Charlie asked. She saw him looked over at something. Behind her stood Peter. It hit her. Peter was the Alpha all along.
"You must be Stiles" Peter smiled. "Hello again Charlie." Stiles and Charlie quickly moved away from him and turned to run.
"What are you doing here? Visiting hours are over." Peter's nurse stood right behind them glaring evilly at them. They were in between two psychopaths.
"You - and him. You're - you're the one who - Oh, my - and he's - Oh, my God, I'm going to die" Stiles said flustered freaking out about being in the middle of two werewolves. "Charlie we're going to die!" Suddenly Derek appeared and knocked the nurse out with her elbow, causing her to collapse to the floor.
"That's not nice. She's my nurse" Peter looked at his nephew.
"She's a psychotic bitch helping you kill people" Derek said. "Get out of the way" he looked at Charlie and Stiles.
Charlie grabbed Stiles's arm. "Aw, damn" he before the two of them dropped to the ground to get out of the way.
"You think I killed Laura on purpose?" Peter asked walking towards Derek. "One of my own family? " Derek growled loudly at Peter causing his eyes to flash bright blue and his fangs appear. He jumped against the wall and towards Peter who grabbed him and slammed him against it. Charlie grabbed Stiles to move him out of the way as the two werewolves fought one another.
"Stiles get her out of here!" Derek yelled struggling with Peter. Peter grabbed him and slammed him to the floor. Stiles grabbed the witch and pulled her up the ground and the pair quickly fled the scene.
Peter looked down on Derek and grabbed his throat with his hand pulling him up and dragging him across the floor. "My mind, my personality were literally burned out of me. I was being driven by pure instinct." He dropped Derek to the floor and went over to his nurse grabbing keys out of her pocket.
"You want forgiveness?" Derek asked punching his uncle in the face. Peter grabbed him once more and kicked him across the hallway of the hospital.
"I want understanding. Do you have any idea - What it was like for me during those years?" Peter asked as Derek tried to get up. "Slowly healing, cell by cell. Even more slowly coming back to consciousness. Yes, becoming an Alpha, taking that from Laura pushed me over a plateau in the healing process." Derek tried to hit Peter once more, but he grabbed his fist crushing it with his bare hand. "I can't help that. I tried to tell you what was happening. I tried to warn you" he said before throwing Derek through the window of one of the hospital desks. Derek groaned in pain and attempted to crawl away with Peter right behind him.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god" Stiles exclaimed as he and Charlie ran out of the hospital. "Oh my god he's the Alpha! Derek's comatose uncle is the freaking Alpha! What are we going to do?! Charlie what are we going to do!"
"I need to go get him" Charlie responded. Stiles grabbed him to keep her from running back into the hospital.
"You'll get yourself killed and then Derek's going to kill me for getting you killed. Lots of killing will happen and no one wants that!" Stiles protested. "We need another plan" he said letting her go. "We can't both die. I'm too young and you are way too good looking to die!"
"Stiles calm the hell down first" Charlie yelled. "We don't need two people freaking out."
"Did you know about this? Did your witchy juju pick up on this?" Stiles exclaimed. "We are going to die! Derek is probably getting shredded right now."
"Hey don't talk like that!" Charlie snapped. She stood in front of him for a moment, silent. "Stiles what we're going to do is get in your car and we need to get to the school. Scott doesn't know and once Peter's done doing whatever it is he's doing to Derek, he's going to go after Scott and god knows who else. Now pull yourself together or I'm going to smack the crap out of you." Stiles started at Charlie wide-eyed, fearful of her threat.
"I'm not going to let anything happen to you I promise" she told him. "I can try to protect you and Scott from Peter, but we need to go now!"
There you have it! A nice long chapter for you guys! I'm really proud of how this turned out. Thank you as always for all the reviews, alerts, and favorites. I continue to look forward to hearing from you all regarding your thoughts. I've been enjoying writing this story and I hope you all have enjoyed reading it thus far. Season 4 starts tomorrow and I am really excited to see how everything will play out. I am planning on continuing this story into season 2 and so on. Read and review! Next chapter will probably be up in a few days!