Andy

I saw River sitting on his own outside on the picnic table. I walked over to him, and sat down beside him.

"Did Kai send you to talk to me?" River scoffed.

"Why would Kai send me?" I retorted. "Are you angry at me now too?"

"No," he sighed. "I'm not angry at you. I'm not angry at Kai either, just confused."

"Confused?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Yeah," he nodded. "Kai is making a huge deal about it!" he sighed.

"I don't want to get in the middle of it, but personally, I don't see what the big deal is." I shrugged.

"I know!" River exclaimed. "I mean, I get that it was stupid but it isn't a big deal!"

"Maybe be if you tried talking to him about it," I explained. "He would understand."

"No way," River shook his head. "I am not having one of those girl-to-girl talks with Kai." he retorted.

"And what are we doing right now?" I laughed. River opened his mouth to protest, but closed it. His argument was invalid.

"Fine," he grumbled. "I'll talk to him." I pulled out my phone, and texted him. I watched Kai check his phone and then leave the group of people he was with and make his way over to us. Kai sat down next to me on the other side. I got up and walked away from the two. I'll let them have there talk by themselves. When the bell rang, River and Kai were laughing and joking around like their normal selves. They walked off campus together. At least their back to normal. All that moping was terrible. Out of habit, I looked around for Stiles's jeep before remembering that I don't live there anymore. I smiled. It was nice living with Stiles and his dad, but I'm glad that I'm back with Derek. Stiles's jeep wasn't in the parking lot anyways.

Melody

"What?" I muttered under my breath. My heart beat raced. Our real parents? My breathing increased. I felt like someone had clawed at my insides. Anger started to rise in my chest. After all these years of hell, why did they come now, when mine and Andy's lives are finally starting to turn around?

"We're your parents," the man repeated. "We've come for you and Andy." I noticed that scratches on their faces.

"You've already tried with Ethan and Aiden, haven't you?" I retorted.

"Yes, but they can make their own decisions. They are old enough. You and Andy however, are not. You need a guardian."

"They do have a guardian." Derek interrupted the woman.

"And who is that?" she scoffed. "You?" she laughed.

"Yeah," I nodded, walking over to Derek and standing next to him. "He is."

"He's just some beta, Melody." the man scoffed.

"Derek isn't just some beta," I hissed. "He's protected Andy and me and saved our lives multiple times, which is more than you have ever done for us."

"Melody, we are your parents. You belong with us," the woman insisted.

"You aren't my parents." I spat. "You gave up that title when you handed us to that alpha." I snarled. "That pack was horrible. They ruined us. You see my eyes?" I hissed angrily, changing the color of my eyes so they could see. "They are not supposed to be blue! They are supposed to be yellow! That pack ruined Andy and me. They forced us to be killers!"

"They forced you to be strong," the man scoffed.

"Strong isn't killing people." I insisted. "I will not leave with you." I told them. "I'm staying here, with Derek." I pressed closer to him.

"You'd rather stay with a beta, in a weak pack, then with your parents, who are alphas to a stronger pack?" she retorted.

"I don't care about power. I care about my pack. My current pack. We've got each others back. We won't abandon each other like you abandoned my brothers and me." I snarled.

"Melody, I think you are under the impression that we are giving you and Andy a choice. Derek, you will give the two of them to us,"

"You aren't going to make me go with them, are you?" I asked Derek.

"They are your parents,"

"They can't prove that!" I insisted. "I've never met my parents, and the last time they saw me was when I was four months old. They can't prove that I'm their kid, or that they are my parents. Derek, please don't make me go with them!" I pleaded.

"You didn't let me finish," he retorted. "They are your parents, but I'm not going to force you to do anything you don't want to. If you don't want to go with them, than you can stay here."

"You will give them to us," the man threatened.

"Melody and Andy aren't just belongings that I can give away. They are people." Derek scoffed.

"They can't force us to go with them," I smiled. "On all our papers that Sheriff Stilinski filled out, he put you as our guardian, Derek. Our official last name according to those papers, is Hale. You are mine and Andy's guardian. They can't take us." I turned to them. "You can't take Andy and me. Derek is legally our guardian. Two of our pack member's fathers are in law enforcement. You even try and force me and Andy to go with you, I'll call them." I threatened.

"I think we can take care of a few police officers," the man grinned, his fangs showing.

"Why now?" I asked them. "After all of these years, why have you come now? For eleven years, I was forced to train as a killer. You didn't care about Andy and me then. Why now, after we've found the perfect pack and started pulling our lives together? We go to school, Andy's got actual friends, he even made a sports team. We don't need you coming into our lives and fucking that up." They looked shocked at my language, but I kept going. "So if you suddenly want to be the parents that you should have been, you'll leave right now before Andy get's home from school and forget about us. We've never needed you before, so we don't need you now." Something seemed to have shifted in the woman's expression.

"We didn't know that you felt that way. You seem happy here. We'll let you stay," she smiled.

"But," the man protested but she silenced him.

"Take care, Melody." with that, she walked away, forcing the man to follow her. I stood there for a few moments after they closed the door and hugged Derek tightly.

"They aren't going to give up that easily," Derek sighed.

"I know. I don't want to go with them, Derek." I cried into his shirt.

"You don't have to." he said softly. "Melody, I will not let them take you and Andy against your will."

"What if they're willing to kill you to get what they want?" I shuddered at the thought.

"Then I will take one of them down with me." he insisted. "I will fight for you and Andy. I'm sure the rest of the pack will too. You are part of our pack, not theirs."

"Thanks Derek," I hugged him tighter. I have to warn Andy. They know that he is at the school.

"Andy has to know," Derek said, reading my mind. "School's almost out, and those demonic ninja's will be out soon. They were looking at Scott when the sun went down, so they'll be after him next. He won't like it, but I'm going to follow him around, to make sure he is safe. You go and warn Andy about your parents."

"I will." I nodded, grabbing my jacket.

"Melody?" Derek called after I opened the door.

"Yeah?" I turned back to face him.

"Be careful, alright?" he asked.

"I will." I smiled. I closed the door behind me and started walking towards Andy's school. It was passed three, so their school was already out. I stopped walking. Something across the street caught my eye. Andy's two friends, Kai and River, were following Maddy. I moved the hair away from my ear, listening in to their conversation.

"How much farther is it?" Kai asked.

"Not far." Maddy told them. "After this, you'll be just as fast and just as strong as Andy." What is she talking about?

"I knew that he was on something." River scowled. "There's no way that he could play that good."

"Are you sure that we should be doing this?" Kai asked nervously. "I mean, if Andy is on some sort of drug, that doesn't mean that we should do it too."

"Kai, don't you want to play better?" River scoffed.

"Of course I do," Kai insisted. "But not like this. I wanna play and be better because I practiced and tried hard, not because of some drug."

"I guess you're right." River sighed.

"I was testing you." Maddy told them.

"Testing us?" River frowned.

"Yeah," she nodded. "I wanted to see if you guys would actually go through with it, even though it was Andy's secret. Andy isn't actually on something. I was testing to see how good of friends you were."

"That's a fucked up way of doing it," River scoffed.

"Whatever." she shrugged. "I gotta get home. Good news, you both passed." By the way she walked away, I could tell that she was hiding something. I'll warn Andy later, I'm going to follow her and see what evil she is up to. I stayed behind her for a block, not wanting to get too close. She turned down an alley. When I got to the alley, I slowly walked down. Maddy was talking to a few other people there. I hid behind some boxes, listening in.

"I thought you were supposed to bring the boys, River and Kai?" One of them scoffed.

"I almost had them," Maddy told them. "River was totally going to come. But Kai talked him out of it and they both left."

"You should have forced them," one of them growled.

"They were too far away for me to force them." Maddy scoffed.

"You'll have to deal with Duke and Vicky," another one laughed.

"Who has to deal with us?" I heard a woman scoff. I gasped when I saw who it was. It was my mother, the one who had come to Derek's loft. My father stood next to her. No, they are not my parents. I do not even know them.

"Maddy," the man, Duke hissed. "Where are the two boys?"

"I'm sorry," Maddy told them. "They wouldn't come with me. They still don't trust me. Not like they trust Andy."

"That is exactly why you were told to bring them!" Vicky spat. "If we have Andy's two closest friends, he will join us. Melody wouldn't be in a pack if Andy isn't in it, so we would have her too. But that plan will not work if you fail to bring the two boys!"

"I'm trying." Maddy apologized.

"Try harder," Duke snarled. He stepped towards her, and snapped her arm. Maddy cried out in pain, falling to her knees.

"You are still weak," Vicky sneered, kicking her over so Maddy lay on her back. "Why we even brought you into this pack is beyond me." They started walking away. The rest of the pack just stood, daring not to say a thing. No one stepped forward to help her.

"I. Am. Not. Weak." Maddy hissed, pulling herself to her feet. Seeing this as a threat, Duke and Vicky turned around, snarling. I expected Maddy to claw at them, but she didn't. Instead, she started walking away.

"Where do you think you are going?" Duke scoffed.

"Away from here." Maddy spat.

"You'll be without a pack." Lily laughed. "You really will be an omega,"

"Maddy, you won't survive as an omega." Duke said seriously. "Where exactly do you think you'll go?"

"We aren't the only pack in town." she said dryly.

"You mean Derek's pack?" Vicky laughed.

"Derek isn't the alpha," Maddy scoffed. "Scott McCall is."

"A teenager. Alpha to a pack of other teenagers, an adult and a child." Duke sneered. "That pack is weak."

"I suppose she would fit in nicely, seeing as she is weaker than they are." Vicky retorted. "Do you seriously think that they would accept you? Ethan and Aiden are still omegas because they were turned down by their own siblings. What makes you think they would let you in?"

"I didn't slaughter our old pack," Maddy scoffed.

"Do you seriously think they care about your old pack?" Vicky laughed. "No, Melody told us straight up that she hated that pack."

"You've spoken to them?" Maddy frowned. "I thought they were not supposed to know you were in town?"

"We're the alphas," Vicky spat. "We decide when they can know when we are here. If anything, Maddy, Ethan and Aiden did Melody and Andy favor. Melody said that she prefers her new pack. They aren't angry at them for that. But you? They don't trust you. They would never let you into their pack,"

"Well, Andy could,"

"Andy?" Vicky frowned. "I think someone took their little assignment too seriously." she laughed.

"You had two assignments," Duke scoffed. "Lure those boys to us so we can turn them, and get close to Andy so he'll trust you." That bitch! I knew that she didn't really care about my brother!

"You're starting to like him, aren't you?" Vicky sneered.

"So?" Maddy scoffed. "I think he might actually like me back,"

"Andy doesn't like you." Vicky interrupted. "If he finds out what you did, he'll hate you. He doesn't know now, but things always find a to unravel themselves. Secrets tend to find a way to be heard." I had never seen an expression on Maddy's face like that one that was there now. It was like all the hope had been drained from her face. She looked as if she were about to cry, something that I had never seen her do. What did she do?

"We can forget this ever happened," Duke told her. "You can either stay with us, the better, stronger pack, or you can leave and take your chances as an omega. Just keep in mind that once you leave, there is no coming back." he warned. Maddy sighed, and took a step forward. Duke smiled. "I knew that you wouldn't leave. You crave power. You wouldn't survive as a weak omega." Maddy didn't say anything. Duke turned to the rest of the pack who had all been dead silent the entire time.

"You all know what you should be doing." Vicky barked before Duke could speak. "Go and do it." They scattered, leaving only Duke, Vicky and Maddy in the alley. Maddy started walking away too but Vicky grabbed her from behind and pinned her against the wall by her throat.

"Vicky," Duke started but she silenced him.

"I don't trust you," Vicky spat in Maddy's face. "Not after all this shit that you started. I'll tell you what you are going to do. You'll go do whatever the hell it is that you do at night, and the tomorrow? You'll force those two boys to follow you, and once your close, the others will take over. You'll get close to Andy, get him to trust you."

"Andy does trust me." Maddy coughed.

"We'll see." Vicky hissed, releasing her. Maddy fell, coughing. I heard something behind me, and turned to see what it was. Three werewolves, and they had already spotted me. I didn't have time to run before they closed in around me. I extracted my claws, and snarled. They came at me. One of them swung at me, but I ducked to miss it. One of the others grabbed my arm and pulled it back. I cried out in pain. It got the attention of Duke and Vicky.

"Well, well, well," Duke chuckled. "I guess Melody decided to join us after all." I tried to struggled free but One of the others had grabbed my other arm. The third one had his claws at my throat.

"We'll just kill this outsider, and get it over with." he snarled.

"No!" Vicky hissed, pulling him away from me. He flew backwards and hit the wall behind him. "Don't you nitwits know who this is?" she spat.

"This is one of them," Duke sighed. "Melody. Our daughter."

"Our apologies," said the man who was flung backwards. "We didn't know."

"Clearly," Vicky spat.

"Let me go!" I snarled, trying to pull myself free.

"We aren't holding you prisoner," Duke scoffed. The two betas released my arms. "You're our daughter," he said sympathetically.

"No." I spat. "I am not." I turned to leave, but the two betas stood in my way.

"You've come to join our pack," Vicky said slowly.

"No," I said quickly. "I would never, ever join your pack. I've got a better one,"

"Better?" Vicky laughed.

"We may not be the strongest pack, but at least i know that I can trust them. Now, I'm going to leave." I turned to walk away but the two betas were blocking my path.

"You aren't going anywhere." Vicky hissed.

"I thought I wasn't a prisoner." I narrowed my eyes.

"You aren't," Duke told me. "After we're finished with us, you'll want to leave your old pack." The two betas grabbed my arms again and pulled me closer to the two alphas. I looked over at Maddy but she wouldn't look at me. She kept her gaze on the ground.

"Do whatever you want." I seethed at the alphas. "Derek will find you, and he will kill you."

"I don't think Derek will be a problem." Vicky smiled, walking around until she was behind me. I felt her claws at the back of my neck. A shiver ran down my back at her touch. Hopelessly, I did the only thing that I could do. I howled. Derek came to my rescue once, hopefully he'll do it again! I thought as Vicky's claws plunged into the back of my neck.

Dun, Dun, Dun! What do you think is going to happen to Melody?