Rachel's POV:

It had been a few days since shit hit the fan. Finding out Chris was my father, which made Allison my half sister and all the shit in between. On top of all this Derek is still MIA, plus Allison and now Stiles are acting weird, like they know where he is. In spite of all of this we are still getting ready for the dance, which is tomorrow.

Stiles came running into the room the other day hooting and hollering about how he got a date with Lydia for the dance. I was completely flabbergasted and thrown off by the sudden date, but it was quickly explained to me by Allison. I guess it was a way of Allison getting back at Lydia for kissing Scott. Man you miss a bunch of drama when you are stuck in your house.

I was asleep at home refusing to wake up on this Friday morning. I just wanted to sleep, sleep, sleep some more and you know, sleep. Mom says it's because I'm trying to heal, but we all know it's cause my body is shutting down slowly. However, I don't dare correct her. The ongoing pain that fills her eyes as she sees me everyday is enough to make me feel guilty for even having the thoughts.

This fine morning I felt the side of my bed dip and wondered who on earth was sitting in my bed. My hopes caught up to me thinking it was Derek. However when I rolled over and opened my eyes I saw Jackson's fake smiling face looking at me.

"Shit."

"What?" He asked looking at me with concern.

"Well obviously I died, and apparently I should have not said fuck as much as I did because I was sent to hell. Dangit, and I tried so hard." I said sarcastically.

"Nice McCall, I see your impending doom has not stripped any of your snarkiness away."

"Nope," I said popping the 'p'. "If anything its enhanced it." I said and he rolled his eyes. "What are you doing here?" I said looking at him and looking at the clock. "And at this ungodly hour." I said with a groan covering my eyes with my forearm as I let out a groan.

"It's noon." He says to me. "And your mom wanted me to give you breakfast." He smiles pointing at the tray.

"So you're telling me, my mom called you, got you out of school, just so you could come to my house and give me food?" I asked.

"Well no, I came at my own will. I just, well," He paused for a moment, and tried to gather his thoughts. "Listen, I know that I'm a jerk to you and your brother, but you have always fought back with me, and honestly I see you as a friend. I'm sorry this all is happening to you, and I want you to know that I am going to be there for you during the dance, if you need anything, or need to go home let me know." He was being sincere.

"Well I'll be damned. You are turning into a girl! That was so weird." I said with jitters noticing the hurt in his eyes by my actions. And I knew that he was being serious. "Sorry, sarcasm is my armor. Thank you, and thank you for agreeing to take me to the dance. If the situation was not going to end the way it is going to I think we could've possibly been friends." I said looking at him, willing the tears that burnt my eyes not to fall.

"Don't go that far McCall." He said with a sarcastic grin. "I'll be here at 6 tomorrow. The dress they got you is going to look hot on you." He said with a wink and then left. I'm obviously living in an alternate universe, Jackson was just nice to me.

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Saturday finally arrived and Allison and Lydia were helping me get ready. We started early knowing that I was going to need to take breaks every once in awhile. Everytime I called time outs they gave me hurt looks, trying to sympathise with me but I just brushed it off. I had been feeling worse today and was wondering if today was going to be it. If today I would end up in the hospital on machines, or if I would just die. It scared me more than I thought it would.

I had prepared so long for this, wrapping my head around the fact that my life was not meant to be long and full of adventure, but short and full of love and pain. Teaching those around me that you can smile through the shit. Did I do this? Did I achieve this? All I wanted right now was Derek. I wanted to hold him and cry, but there was no more time. Was I going to die without saying goodbye, or that I loved him? The thoughts came crashing down in a wave of pain and Allison noticed something was wrong.

"Rachel?"

"I don't wanna die." I croaked out, then sobbed. I felt my body being crushed with someone else's then footsteps all around. My nasal canals swapped out by my mask to supply more oxygen faster. I was layed down and two bodies were on either side of me. I suddenly noticed the voices who were speaking, my mom and brother had entered the room at one point and were sandwiching me in between them. Once I calmed more I heard Lydia huff.

"Well now we have to redo her hair and makeup, were going to be late."

"Mom, I don't wanna go." I told her.

"You should honey, you should have fun."

"No, I have a bad feeling. I don't wanna go." I said to her again and I could see the fear in her eyes.

"Do we need to go to the hospital?" She asked me. I took a second to mentally check my body to see if I needed to go in but I shook my head.

"No, it's just a feeling, in my gut." I whispered.

"Ok, why don't you and I stay home and watch movies." She offered and I shook my head.

"You have work. I'll be ok. I just don't want to be out in a crowd." I told her and she looked at me with sympathy. Scott gripped me in a hug in the awkward position on the bed.

"You yell if you need me, I ll have my wolf ears on." He told me quiet enough that no one heard. No one else fought me. They all left to the dance and even Jackson came inside to give me a hug and a kiss.

"I really wish I got to see you in the dress Ray. But you still look gorgeous." Once again tears fell and he held me for a few minutes before they parted.

I was figuring that I was going to fall into a peaceful sleep. However, not more than an hour later I woke up to red angry eyes.

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"Rachel." He said while tucking some hair behind my ear, me frozen on my bed. "So nice of you to join me." He said with a menacing smirk.

"What do you want?" I asked him trying to find strength in my voice.

"Well what you want of course dear, Derek." He said and suddenly I was scooped up and I attempted to fight him, with one quick turn my head went into the wall and darkness took over.

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I woke up to voices, Styles and the alphas voices to be exact.

"What do you want?" I laughed in my head thinking that that was exactly what I asked him not to long ago. Man I hit my head hard.

"Derek."

"I don't know where he is." Stiles said flatly.

"You're lying. Bring me to him and no one gets hurt." Suddenly they started arguing and Stiles yelled at him as I heard teeth go into flesh. I was waiting for the burn that never came and when I opened my eyes I saw the alpha leaning over me biting into Lydia.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" I screamed out.

"Oh, you're awake. Well you can come with us." He said to me. He made a deal with Stiles to allow someone to get Lydia an ambulance before dragging us away.

I was going in and out of consciousness, but the next thing I heard was fighting and Derek's voice.

"Rachel, wake up!" He yelled out to me. I noticed everyone around me. Allison, Chris, Derek, Stiles, and Scott. They were holding vials of liquid in them waiting to throw them. I was in someone's arms and when I turned I noticed the red piercing eyes looking into mine. He was holding me up to his body as a shield against them.

"You think this will end? It will never end Derek. They will always haunt you! You need an alpha, you need me." he yelled.

"No, we don't we can figure this out on our own. Put her down. NOW!" Derek yelled. I heard crackling behind me, sounding like leaves being stepped on. Looking up I noticed Chris was gone and probably behind us.

"No no no," The alpha said suddenly. "You just signed her death certificate, dad." He said and then white hot pain erupted into my back. I looked up and made eye contact with Derek. He looked so hurt. He looked so lost. I wanted to reach out to him, but I was dragged away by someone and laid on the ground.

Allison was at my head cradling it calling an ambulance as they started attack the alpha. When it was time for Scott to kill the alpha Derek stepped up and did it himself.

Somehow I knew deep down it was better this way. Scott couldn't live with the thought of killing anyone, he was protecting him. Well at least I hope.

With that there was a flurry of ambulances, people and yelling. Derek had replaced Allison and was now at my head. Chris at my side apologizing profusely for what happened.

"It's ok." I said to him. Looking at the guilt on his face. "I'm ok." I said reassuringly.

"Rachel, you have to stay with us." Derek protested.

"I'm ok." I said to him.

Then the whole world shifted as I was lifted onto a gurney and into an ambulance. Derek was with me the whole time. After they found Kate the charges immediately dropped on him and he was a free man. He would not leave my side. Darkness over took me many times and the pain subsided.

I was told once that meant I was dead, or at least on my way there. But what if it didn't. I was bitten. What if I was healing? Then the pain hit at full force and my body jerked up. They restrained me and brought me into the hospital which we had finally arrived at.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw my mom. She was on the floor crying and yelling for me. I wanted to hold her. Then there was nothing, just black darkness, it welcomed me into its arm like an old friend.

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Melissa's POV:

When I saw the gurney roll in Derek in tow, I noticed the girl laying on the bed. It was her, it was Rachel. Derek looked in pain and I knew this was bad. I grabbed the nurse's station as I sunk to the floor and arms enveloped me. Scott was by my side, tears streaking down his face. We sat in that embrace until Sheriff Stilinski, Stiles, Allison, Chris and Jackson joined us. We all made our way to the waiting room.

An hour had passed and then a doctor appeared.

"Argent, McCall." He called and we stood.

"Mr. Argent, I am so sorry we did everything we could but there was no saving Kate in the end of it. She passed away due to complications in the surgery." Chris looked down at his hands and I gripped onto one of them, knowing at this time we both need comfort.

"Ms. McCall, Rachel suffered from major blood loss and her lungs has almost completely stopped functioning, along with the concussion she received from the blow to the head. Rachel may not make it through the night."

"Wait, hold on, blood loss, concussion?" I asked wondering if she fell down the stairs. I knew something happened tonight, I just thought it was coincidence that there was a major incident at the Hale house and Rachel collapsing.

"Ma'am, Rachel was attacked by Kate Argent, she received what looks like a bite wound on her upper right shoulder." I was floored. I squeezed Chris' hand reassuring him that I didn't blame him.

"What can we do?" I asked clearing the shock from my voice.

"Well we are running tests, but Kate maybe a match for Rachel, they are related." I gasped at the thought of Rachel getting the lungs of the women who tried to kill her and many others. We all nodded and the doctors left to run more tests.

Another hour passed and the doctor came bursting through.

"She is a match, Rachel just started failing so if we are going to do this we need to do this now." He told me. I had no time to think, I had to answer.

"Do it, give Rachel Kate Argent's lungs." At that he nodded and rushed back through the halls. I was thrusted papers and signed quickly. We saw the team rush past and there was Rachel in the middle of the chaos. Someone was on top of her gurney doing compressions to keep her alive. Then they were gone. I turned to look at the room, all face staring at me, complete silence as we took in all the news of tonight.

Emotions hit me like a wave and my knees buckled. Someone had caught me and I was not expecting it to be Derek. But he sunk down with me and I notice the tears streaming down his face as well.

"She's a fighter. She will fight." He told me with a bold voice and held me while I cried and we waited to see if she won this fight.

An: I hope you all enjoyed and that's the end of season one! I am posting this from my phone so I can't do review responses but I will make up for it on the next chapter! Review follow favorite! Thankyou for all your continued support!