Summary: Ever had that annoying habit of asking what ifs when you're down? Making up random scenarios in your head and wondering what the outcomes would be for each one? If only we could run our lives according to what we come up with. If only, in a perfect world, maybe. If only Derek hale hadn't tossed me aside like I meant nothing at all….yeah…if only.

A/N: Okay so I am very happy to say that thankfully two people have reviewed and that alone has persuaded me to write another chapter today! ^_^ You see?! Reviews= quicker updates! And right now I'm not working so look out when I do xP I might be too tired and might need EXTRA motivation…..just saying, take advantage guys! Hehe =P Anyways we are drawing closer to the end of season one, but don't worry it does NOT mean the end of this story quite yet =P Still got a whiles to go lol ;) Special thanks to the two that reviewed, howling4hale and ShaanBey!

Third Person's POV

The cell phone of a seventeen year old girl rang clear as day in her tiny bag. Had it not been for her superhuman hearing, she might have missed the sound over the loud music. Michelle had been far too busy looking for Scott over the sea people and was just about to answer when suddenly screaming could be heard. She sprang into action. She lowered her hand, her phone still blaring in her palm. Frantic blue eyes searched the crowd for signs of trouble. She looked to her phone, seeing Connor's name flashing against the tiny flip phone. She quickly answered it, her heart hammering in her body so loud she could barely hear over the phone.

"Hey is everything okay? You weren't answering? Why do you sound so shakey?" the boyish voice of the fifteen year old asked.

"C-connor! I lost Scott and Allison!" she shouted out. "I think something happened! I can smell b-blood." Ever since her friend has been killed by hunters, the girl had never felt so well about the smell of blood.

"Calm down, we're on our way, okay? Look you have to-ah!" The boy suddenly sounded in pain, causing the girl to go further into panic as she called his name.

"Connor!" she could hear a voice over the line.

"S-something's wrong…I-I don't know what it i-is." He stuttered, trying to tell the little red head and blond at once. All their hearts racing, the boy drew in a shaky breath. "Look, get back here. We need to regroup. We'll worry about Scott later, we need to find Kira, something's wrong." The blond merely nodded, taking off her bothersome heels again and just tossing them to the side as she full on sprinted towards the woods.

Wolves have always been pack creatures, and werewolves are no different. They work together as a pack to tackle bigger prey that they can't take down alone. They communicate through yips, whimpers and howls. So as Scott lay there, listening to the dogs in the vet clinic bark and howl, he suddenly had an epiphany. He needed help. He needed Kira and Derek. With Kira on his side, he had her pack as well. Then Derek knew his Uncle, he'd be his best shot at taking him down. If he knew the truth he'd help him, or so was the teen's train of thought. Scott made quick work of getting to a high enough ledge, making sure he himself did not fall as he felt his inner wolf slowly creep out. He set his yellow, iridescent eyes on the filling moon before tossing his head back into a powerful howl.

After his howl, Scott scampered off the ledge and to the trees, listening for any signs of Derek. He looked around, using his ears as satellite dishes to ensure he wouldn't miss a sound. Just when he was about to call it quits, a howl he somehow knew belonged to Derek rang out. He sprinted into action, his heart rate picking up as he ran towards it. Soon, two legs wasn't fast enough, and he found himself on all fours, rushing off towards the location of the sound. Scott looked around, confused as he found himself near the Hale House. He listened for anything, realizing where the sound resonated from, he made his way to go in, stopping when he heard something. A separate howl rang out, followed by another two. Those kids. Kira's pack. Scott would have smiled, it had work. They were calling out to him, or possibly trying to locate their missing pack mate. It didn't matter, help was help. If they could find Kira, it made things easier. Scott shook his head and went, cautiously, into the gated tunnel, towards where he felt Derek was located.

Kira Kendricks had had a pretty normal childhood when she was very little. Or as normal as a werewolf life could get. She had two loving parents, each with stable jobs. She played with kids close to her age and, though she found herself feeling lonesome when her parents were at work, she was still happy. She could remember being nine years old, her birthday was in a couple more months and she was excited to invite the Hales like she had last year. However, this time her father had mentioned that the party would be extra special.

"Daddy? How come it's extra special?" the tiny girl had asked her proud father. The man had just smiled and turned to look over at his wife, the woman was glowing and only looked more beautiful with that pearly white smile.

"Because sweet heart, we are going to all announce as a family that…" he paused to grin at his wife again who walked up to him to place a hand on his shoulder and another over her stomach.

"Kira, sweet heart…..you're going to be a big sister." She smiled at her little girl. The little girl had evidently looked confused at the start before an infectious smile took over her chubby face.

"I'm gonna be a big sister?! Oh my- yes!" she hugged her mother tightly before letting go to hug her father and jumping in place. "I'm gonna be a big sister! Ima be a big sister!" she shouted over and over and then stopped, staring to look at her dad, eyes wide.

"What's wrong fire cracker?" her father taunted.

"Will he be like us?" the little girl whispered, looking around as if someone could listen into the conversation they were currently having in their kitchen. Both parents looked confused at each other before the mother took over.

"Yes…sweety, but why is that a-" the woman was cut off by the little girl's bouncing.

"Yes, yes, yes! My little brother or sister is gonna be cool like me and Derek!" she shouted out, jumping about the house. The mother let out a relieved sigh before giggling at her daughter's antics. She turned to stare at her husband and frowned upon seeing his slightly upset expression.

"What's wrong Joshua?" the woman asked, the man just shaking head and smiling at her.

"Nothing, Amanda. Why don't I go bring that little fire cracker of yours down for lunch." He encouraged, kissing the woman's forehead tenderly. She tried to smile, nodding, knowing better than to bother arguing with her husband when he got in his moods.

"Kira, honey?" He spotted the little girl jumping on her bed, grin still there.

"Yes daddy?" she replied, flopping down on her bum on the bed.

"Sweet heart, you're very close to that Hale boy huh?" he bluntly asked.

"Which one daddy? You have to be more specific!" the little girl laughed at her father lightly, the grin still on her face. The man just frowned for a second, grabbing her nose lightly.

"Derek you smart alec." She grinned at her father, moving his hand from her face, blushing as she did so.

"Yeah, why?" she asked, smiling softy at her father now.

"Do you…like…him?" the man's enhanced hearing allowed his to hear the slight flutter of her daughter's heart and he found himself frowning at the blush on his cheeks.

"No! He's just my friend, Daddy!" again, the man continued to frown at her daughters slight change in heart beat, this one signaling she was lying.

"Ki-" he sighed. "You're getting so big." He whined and the girl laughed at her father.

"Course! I can't be your baby forever Daddy!" she giggled, rolling her eyes. The man found himself swallowing the lump in his throat. "That's why mom's having a baby, duh!" she continued to giggle. The man tried to smile and found himself pulling her to him.

"Yeah...but you'll always be my little fire cracker." He whispered to her, kissing the top of her head. The little girl pulled back to smile at him.

"Always! And you'll always be my big daddy alpha!" she exclaimed, and he frowned.

"You know you can't tell pe-" he was cut off.

"Oh, I know! I haven't Daddy!" she smiled and he sighed.

"I won't be alpha forever, you know?" he smiled, tucking back a loose brown curl. The little girl frowned, stopping his hand.

"How come?" she asked worried and the man just stared at her.

"Because one day you'll be alpha and you have to protect your pack." He smiled.

"Aren't you going to protect us?" the little girl's eyes began to gather with tears. "Daddy, are you leaving again?" he frowned, feeling guilt weigh him down before he cleared his throat of the emotion. He shook his head.

"No, honey. I'll always protect you." He smiled. He suddenly realized he couldn't get himself to talk about his eventual passing with his daughter. Everyone died at some point, he was no exception, and his daughter needed to understand what would happen when he did.

"You promise?" the little girl tried to smile.

"Any time you need me, I'll be there." He smiled at her and she grinned, tossing her arms around her father and kissing his cheek.

"And your momma too! Let's not forget her!" the hazel eyed beauty smiled from the door. The girl nodded, beaming.

"And Derek and the other Hales!" she grinned, and again, her father found himself frowning.

"They aren't pack though sweety." He frowned and his wife in turn frowned at him. What was he getting at, trying to get his daughter away from her closest companions?

"Yes they are! Derek said his pack is my pack, too! And that he'll always protect me no matter what!" the little girl grinned, determined.

"Look Ki-" again he sighed, running his hands through his hair when he saw his wife just staring with her arms crossed. "When you're older you'll be nice and strong and you'll be alpha and he'll be a beta. You'll be stronger than him and you won't need him." Her father tried to get her to understand.

"But….I do daddy…he's my best friend." The little girl frowned and the father went to argue again, this time the mother intervened, shooting her husband a quick glare.

"What your father means, Kira baby, is that one day you'll have responsibilities okay? That's all. Your daddy is just mad because he doesn't want boyd near you." She laughed and the little girl rolled her eyes, giggling as she spoke.

"Oh, daddy! I'll always be your little fire cracker!" she grinned at him, and he smiled sadly at her. "And you'll always be my daddy! Even when I'm alpha, I'll protect you!" she grinned at him, and the father found his eyes shine with unshed tears as he swallowed back his sorrow and hugged her. Yes, she was much too young to know what it meant if she was alpha.

A dark, bruised ad bloody man smiled at the memory of his little girl. He loved her, he really did. His little fire cracker was all he had left to his mate. His son and her was all he really lived for. When his brother came into the picture and then his niece, he knew he had to pull himself together to be a good alpha like his late wife knew he could be. But now? Now look. He was wasting away in the corner of a dark cell. His daughter was somewhere in here, he could hear her screams. He was hoping that soon she'd escape, but listening to the stuttering of his little girl's heart was killing him faster than the wolfsbane bullets that riddled his broken body. He smiled.

"Be a good alpha, Ki….I love you." He whispered as his eyes closed and the air left his lungs for the final time.

Derek had had his head bent down for some time now. He had been getting quite the beating from this asshole and had to silently watch as Kira's body sounded a light buzzing from the small sparks of electricity coursing through her again. The brute finally relented on the Hale boy, claiming he'd return shortly. As he walked out he shut the machine off of Kira and walked out the room.

"Kira." Derek's hoarse voice called out. He patiently waited, his heart breaking as he refused to acknowledge that she was dying. Her heart beat was slowing, hardly even beating anymore. Derek whimpered as he lowered his head. "Kira..." he whispered her name, ashamed he'd failed to protect her. This was because of him. Kate was a crazy bitch, and the only reason she hadn't just killed her was to torture him. He knew Kate was toying with Kira because she was tied to him. Her dying was his fault, he concluded, he concluded with a slump of his whole body.

Meanwhile, Kira had take refuge in the dark recess of her mind. She knew what was happening and she found her mind filled with thoughts of green eyes and a smiling face. She recalled all the faces she was leaving. She suddenly found herself wishing dying was like in the movies, where you see a deceased love one tell you it would all be okay. She wished someone would just point her into the direction of the light. Part of her didn't want to leave, fearing leaving behind her loved ones, but the other part of her wanted to escape the pain.

Suddenly, there it was. That bright light she had been fantasizing about. This is it, she thought grimly. She found it getting closer and closer, scaring away the darkness. Darkness isn't an object, rather the absence of light. She remembered. The light was going to make things better. She was just making it brighter. Things would get brighter in better. She told herself, a mantra in her head as she closed her eyes. When she opened them, however, she was met with the dingy wall of dungeon she had been in for the past week. She suddenly recalled being in pain, she suddenly remembered that she was currently in pain and just continued to stare at the wall. She thought she was dying?

""Be a good alpha, Ki….I love you." She thought she heard. Her eyebrows knitted together.

"Daddy?" she whispered, unsure.

"Kira?" Derek had thought he heard Kira's voice and thought to call to her, hopeful. Her body remained the same and he sighed. Suddenly, a howl tore through the walls. He lifted his head and looked around. That was Scott! As soon as he realized this he tugged lightly on his chains and looked to Kira. "Kira! Kira that was Scott! We need to call back!" he waited for her reply, but there was none. He shook his own head, he needed Scott to find them now! She was dying! With new found strength, Derek lifted his head and let out his own mournful howl sound out. He waited, hoping his howl would transpire something out of her. He saw nothing.

"Kira come on, they're gonna find us soon, hang on!" he called her. He suddenly heard her heart rate pick up and he smiled, for a brief second he felt relief flood his system only for it to take a turn for the worst. At the rate her heart was beating suddenly, he feared she would suffer a heart attack.

Kira could feel something coursing through her veins, the pain still there, but she could already feel her wounded hip fully healing. She let out a breathe and felt something awaken in her veins. Up until that point, Kira had been deaf to any sound around her, but a chorus of howls rang out and she felt something stirring inside. She opened her mouth to return the howl, but stopped when she realized what it was. She was alpha now. Her father was dead. Her body slumped against the table. She wanted to mourn for the loss of her last parent until she realized she had to remain strong for her friends and new pack. She tried to get herself to move, but found her body too heavy.

"Scott!" she heard someone shout, trying to figure out who it was. Vaguely, she recalled that Derek had been with her through most of this ordeal, she figured the voice belonged to him.

"Derek! Oh my god- yes! It worked!" she distantly heard the relief in the boys voice, but she still didn't move. "Hold on!" there was the distinct sound of metal breaking and then Derek whispering harshly at him.

"Quiet! Kate just left, but there's another hunter still here. Check on Kira! She needs help! M-make sure she's still alive!"

"Alive? W-hat?!" Kira heard the quick shuffling of feet towards her and she felt herself being rolled over. "Oh my god! Kira!" she felt something at her pulse point and she lifted her hand to push him away. "WHa-"

"Scott hide!" Derek shouted. The hunter came back and went straight to Kira's torture device, turning it on. This time, she let out a growl, eyes still shut tight.

"Sit still princess, I'll play piñata with you in a sec." Derek glared heavily at him, his claws just itching to dig into him, but he restrained himself. "Ready to have some more fun?" The brute asked of Derek, who just continued to glare. "To be honest…..my knuckles are kind of hurting….so I brought some help." He showed Derek the thick wooden bat. "I need to warn you, I used to play in college." When the man went to hit Derek, Derek grabbed the bat with his free hand, glaring and growling at the man.

"I brought a little help to." Derek growled at him. The bald hunter turned back to look at Scott who glared at him. The second the hunter turned, Derek upper cut him with all his might, tossing the horrid hunter towards the stone wall and knocking him unconscious. "Hit that switch!" Derek commanded Scott, motioning near Kira's table of torture. Scott did so, and Kira stopping gritting her teeth. Her breathing going even.

"She's okay!" Scott called to Derek. "Hey Kira, I am so glad you're alive." Scott smiled, her eyes were still closed as she groaned in response, Scott frowned at that, turning to Derek. "She going to be okay?" Scott took a whiff of her. "She…..she smells different." He said confused as he broke her free of the metal cuffs.

"Scott help me with this." Derek said urgently as he took off the electrical wires taped to his side, his left hand still chained up. Derek had to make sure Kira was okay, they needed to get out before Kate kept her promise about killing Kira when she got back.

"No." Scott said stubbornly as he walked over to the older beta.

"What?!" Derek said agitated.

"Not until you help me stop Peter." Scott spoke evenly.

"You really wanna talk about this right now? Kira needs help!" Scott turned to frown at the girl whom he had just released from her confines, she still had yet to get off the table and just laid there with her arm draped over her eyes.

"He's going after Allison and her family. He's going to kill them." The boy's voice did not waver. "I'll get Kira help, the rest of her pack are looking for her, they'll take her away."

"So what?!" Derek shouted at him. His only concern was on Kira. "What she needs, is me! I don't give a damn about the Argents right now, Scott!"

"So tell me how to stop him."

"You can't! Alright?! Now-" Derek was getting frantic, pulling violently on his chained arm. "I don't know when Kate is coming back, but she's gonna kill Kira when she does so- get me out of this right now!" Derek emphasized by pulling on his remaining restraint. When the boy remained calm, Derek lost it further. "Get me out right now!"

"Promise you'll help me."

"You want me to risk my life for your girlfriend? Huh?! For your stupid little teenage crush that means absolutely nothing?!You're not in love, Scott! You're sixteen years old! You're a child!" Derek shouted and Scott just nodded. Part of Kira was aware of what he was shouting and she vaguely wondered if Derek was really just talking about himself, or her even.

"Maybe you're right. But I know something you don't. Peter said he didn't know what he was doing when he killed your sister right?" Kira's interest peaked.

"Peter killed Laura? He's the alpha?" Kira's broken and gruff voice asked. They all turned to look at her and she looked at them through tired eyes.

"Remember this?" Scott ignored her for now and turned to show Derek the picture of the deer. "You know who got this from the vet? Who sent it to Laura? It was Peter's nurse, Derek. They brought her here so Peter could kill her become the alpha and that's why you're gonna help me kill the alpha!" Kira was breathing rigidly now. Peter killed his own niece, Peter killed her Uncle, and he's the reason for her father's death. Kira tried to stand now.

"Just…tell me you'll help me and I'll help you take off your-"

"If he doesn't help you, I will Scott." Kira stood sitting on the table now. He smiled, happy. The sound of creaking and metal clinging to the ground got their attention. Derek wore an angry expression.

"I'll help you, but you," he pointed at Kira. "need to stay away." She shook her head, flashing her eyes.

"I'm strong enough now." She whispered, angry. Scott gasped at her red eyes.

"You- you're alpha now?" she nodded.

"My father's dead." She whispered.

"You're still weak! You almost died, stupid! You're going to call your pack and they're going to come and get you somewhere safe!" she growled.

"Look! Whatever, but we gotta go!" Scott interrupted.

"I'm helping and that's-" before she could fully stand, she crumpled to the ground.

"No…you're going to get help." He continued to argue and she just glared.

"Whatever! Just…get me out of here." She whimpered. He nodded, finally, something they could agree on.

A/N: Okay, so this chapter was suppose to be out in two days, but reviews made me feel like writing! Hint, hint! Okay! Review plz! ^_^