A/N: So, guys! The day you have all been waiting for! Karen is going to finally find out! If you have any ideas after this chapter of what you think should happen, PM me or post it in a review! I hope you guys like this evolution of Karen's character! God Bless, Rachel.
(Karen)
"Tell me what?"
"Tell you, my dear, the truth of everything that has been happening in Beacon Hills in the last few months," Gerard said.
"What do you mean?"
"I'll tell you, but you have to sit down first," Allison says to me.
"Okay."
"So you know the night that you, Scott, and Stiles went into the woods looking for the body?"
"Yeah?"
"Scott was bitten by an Alpha. A werewolf. Peter Hale was that Alpha and he was trying to get revenge on our family because Kate was the one who burned their house down. Peter bit Scott and made Scott his Beta. When we were attacked at the school that was Peter. He was trying to make Scott join him. He's the one who attacked you. He thought that it would make Scott be willing to help him, if you were in danger. Then, the night of Winter Formal, Peter bit you and Lydia. But, you guys are something different. You didn't turn like Scott did," Allison was continuing on like she didn't need to breathe, "Then, Peter brought you with us so that Stiles would help him locate Derek, whom Kate had kidnapped. I saw him. I shot arrows into him and Scott because I felt betrayed, but then Kate wanted to kill them and Peter killed her."
"Hang on, are you saying that Derek is a werewolf?"
"Yeah," Allison said slowly, "Why?"
"That actually makes sense. Explain the whole werewolf thing. Like what they look like."
"Okay, well, they have fangs and their eyes glow, different colors for certain things."
"What colors," I ask remembering my dreams.
"Blue, red, and yellow. Blue is for a Beta who has killed someone close to them. Red is for and alpha, and yellow is for a normal beta."
"Okay, so what color are Derek's eyes?"
"They used to be blue. Like electric blue, now they're red because he killed Peter and became the Alpha."
"What color are Scott's eyes?"
"Yellow."
"Okay, I don't feel so good," I say sitting carefully back down on the table. Allison walks towards me and wraps an arm around me.
"Is there anything else you need to know?"
"What does all of this have to do with Mom dying?"
"She was bit by Derek. When a hunter is bitten, they have to kill themselves. It's in the code."
"Okay, so we're hunters?"
"Yes. But we don't just hunt people, we have a code."
"What is it?"
"Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent."
"We hunt those who hunt us," I translate.
"Exactly."
"So what do we do? I'm not an Argent."
"Sweetheart," Gerard said, "You are as much an Argent as anyone in this room."
"Our family has a surprisingly progressive custom. The men are the warriors, they do the most fighting. But, the women are the leaders. They decide what the family should do. Allison is now the head of the family since she is almost 18."
"What?" Allison whirled away from me and looked at Chris.
"Yes, sweetheart. You are now the head of the family. So go upstairs, take a shower, you and Karen get some sleep and we'll talk tomorrow."
"Okay, come on Kare. Let's get some sleep."
Allison and I went up the stairs and took showers and climbed onto her bed. Gerard came in and gave Allison and me letters from Mrs. Argent.
Mine said:
Dear Karen,
I'm so sorry that this happened and you have to learn of the supernatural world by my death. I wanted to tell you myself one day, so that way you could be trained under me and I could help you and Allison to be amazing leaders of the Argent family. I want you to listen to Allison and Chris. They will guide you in what to do to help end the death in this town. Be safe and remember that I love you like you were my own.
Love,
Mama Argent.
Allison and I read our letters while holding hands. Allison's was significantly longer than mine, but I'm sure Mama just gave her more important information because she was now the head of the family.
Now, we knew what we needed to do. Allison and I curl up together and decided that we should go to sleep.
(Scott)
It's like a flip has switched on Allison and Karen. We got the news the next day in a very short text from Karen.
Mrs. Argent is dead.
We had no idea how to respond and Stiles being Stiles did what he could. He drove straight to Allison's. I wasn't going to go over there because I knew that Chris and Gerard weren't going to let me anywhere near Allison. It makes me worried that Karen didn't even call us. I get that she wouldn't want to leave Allison, but why was she avoiding us?
(Stiles)
I drove to the Argent's house. I knocked on the door and when Gerard answered the door I shivered a little.
"I'm here to see my sister."
"Well, young man. Come on in. She should be coming downstairs any moment."
Karen descended the stairs a few minutes later, Allison's hand clasped in hers.
"What do you want, Stiles?"
"I just came to see you. I wanted to make sure that you were okay. You never text me with important news."
"I just didn't feel like calling," Her cavalier attitude wasn't the only thing that was making me worried. She and Allison were still holding hands, but Karen's voice sounded cold and distant.
"Kare, can we talk alone for a few minutes?"
"Anything you have to say to me can be said in front of Allison." The look in Karen's eyes was unlike any I had ever seen from her. This petite girl, who sunbeams envied, was dark and cold, almost like the dark side of the moon.
"Karen Madeline Stilinski, what the hell is your problem?"
"Frankly, my dear brother, you are. Now, if you'd be so kind as to leave." With that Allison and Karen turned around, almost as if they were completely in sync, and ascended the stairs. Gerard stepped back into the room and pushed me towards the door. I was so stunned at the fact that the girl walking up the stairs was my little sister, that I just let him.
Karen has never once walked away from me without saying 'I love you'. Never. I'm really worried now. What could she possibly be so upset about, other than Mrs. Argent's death that she would completely blow me off like that. I need to talk to Scott. I'm not letting my sister turn cold and evil like Allison's aunt. Not on my watch will my sister become a cold-hearted woman.
(Allison)
I knew that Karen was hurt by the fact that Scott and Stiles had been lying to her for months, but even I was a little shocked that she walked away from Stiles without her ritual 'I love you'. I didn't ask though, because I understood. She had just had this major bombshell dropped on her. The man that she was dating was a werewolf, her best friend that was practically her brother was a werewolf, and she had just lost another important mother figure. She was having just as hard a time with this as I was. I didn't know what I could do to help, but I knew that I would do anything possible to help her get her sparkle back, just as soon as we killed Derek Hale. I knew that would help her see things a little more clearly.
(Karen)
It physically hurt not to say 'I love you' to Stiles, but I knew that if I did, he would think that we were okay. We had been together for 17 years and he had never once lied to me for such a long time. The longest he had ever lied to me about anything was the fact that he had threw my favorite book in the pool because Scott and Jackson told him that a plastic grocery bag was waterproof. Obviously, it was not. It was a book that Mom had given to me. It was a "Felicity: The First American Girl" book. The author had even signed it. Mom had made Dad drive three hours one way to get that book signed.
I actually have the book still. It's in a box at my house. I just don't know how to feel about Stiles, Scott, and more importantly, Derek.
I love Derek, but he is the reason that I lost another Mom. What do I do?
