Phase 1 ( Peter )
Peter knew that no one was going to like his solution, but that was all part of his plan: look like the bad guy. He would offer a worse solution than the one he really believed in so that when it came time to choose, his actual plan wouldn't seem as awful.
This was the annoying thing about people. They didn't care how efficient a plan was: if it involved death, they refused to go through with it. People like Scott. They wanted to do what was 'right', but Peter knew better. There was no right and wrong in this relative world.
There was only what prolonged your life and what shortened it.
Peter was almost relieved that he didn't have to worry about those kind of things anymore. He could vaguely remember a time from before the fire when worrying about other people was still a thing he had to well...worry about.
He had done some foolish things back then. Things with little to no personal gain.
Now he was smarter. Everything he did had a motive.
He would have felt sorry for Derek, (having all those confusing emotions interfering with his better judgement was probably difficult) but Peter just couldn't find it in him to feel at all.
The plan he'd told the boys was one that would undoubtably work, and in his opinion would have created the least amount of danger to all of them, but was shot down immediately due to its immoral nature. He had guessed they would react this way though.
He remembered how predictably they had responded to the suggestion.
"You aren't going to like it." He had warned them, but they still pushed to hear it.
"Why? What do you think we should do?" Isaac finally said something from his place on the space heater.
"Oh yeah, I forgot you were here...Isaac was it? I see you were foolish enough to stick with Derek instead of leaving with your pack mates. Or were you just too scared Derek might get angry at you and show you how much like your father he really can be." Peter got the response he wanted.
Isaac stood up, fists clenched and teeth grit.
"Don't talk about my father like that or-"
"Isaac. Stop. He's trying to rile you up can't you see that?" Derek talked down to the boy as if he really was his disappointed father. Peter doubted that Derek even understood he was doing this to Isaac.
"And, I'm doing a pretty good job of it if I do say so myself." Peter picked at his teeth with his little finger. He was in the middle of freeing a piece of corn from in between his molar and incisor when Scott caught his attention.
"Hey, maybe you didn't hear Derek, but no one wants you here and we've still got you outnumbered. I came to find my friends who were taken, not to listen to you insult the ones that are still here."
Peter saw Isaac look up when Scott had called them friends.
Derek definitely didn't know what he was dealing with.
That Isaac kid had to go.
"Okay. Back to the plan." Peter was getting bored of being threatened.
"It's fast and easy. And If you do this, you can find the Alpha's headquarters without having to risk one of your 'friends'." Peter said the word with a curled lip.
"I didn't think you cared!" Stiles placed a hand over his heart.
The little shit was so sarcastic.
"What is it?" Scott really was getting impatient.
"We have Derek bite someone, make a new beta. We keep it around a couple days to build some trust then send them out in the woods, tell them to howl at the moon and wait for us to show up. The alphas find them and bring them back to their base and one of us follows them using the Beta's scent. Simple. We know where their base is, no one gets hurt, we use our extra time to come up with a plan of attack."
They all looked horrified at the idea.
"I warned you you weren't gonna like it."
"We can't just put an innocent person in danger!"
"Why not?" Peter asked, but knew the answer.
Because they were naive teenagers who still believed the world could be fair.
"Peter," Derek looked at him, "Im not adding any more pack members until my current ones are found. Any other ideas?"
"Yeah, preferably ones that don't involve human sacrifice?" Stiles added.
Peter did have another plan. But he wasn't going to voice it in front of the whole group. This one would have to wait until he could get Derek alone. His moral compass always pointed more north when the McCall kid was around.
"Nope. Not any that don't also involve one of you possibly dying."
He was being honest. They weren't going to find a way to do this without sacrificing someone somehow. He figured they would choose one of their own before a stranger, but it didn't hurt to try and he had been pretty bored.
He had said what he came to say. He was just waiting for the correct social cue so he could make his exit.
Isaac gave him one,
"I guess we're back to square one then?"
"I'll be around if you need me," Peter walked to the stairs and turned back around, "Or if you change your mind." He said the last part directly to Derek.
He was tempted to wink, but decided that would be a very sociopathic thing to do and those kind of moves hadn't one him any points in the past.
He was almost out of the house when he heard Stiles from down below.
"Well that was helpful. Anybody else feeling helped?"
Peter smiled.
He couldn't wait for the day he was strong enough to rip that kids tongue out.
He tuned in to the rest of the conversation before he left.
Derek saying, "I don't want to say it, but he's right."
Peter smirked.
Obviously.
"There's no way we're gonna do this without risking someone."
Peter had heard enough. He left the old hale property and found a cab to bring him home, satisfied that he'd gotten into Derek's head.
Phase 1 of his plan was a success.
Tomorrow would come phase 2 a longer, but albeit worth it process: get rid of Isaac.
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