A/N~ Ok just to clarify. There have been a couple of comments I have made about the fact that Allison is an older teen. According to wikipedia and Mr. Davis, Allison is a year older than all the other teens, she is 17 when everyone else is 16. I thought I should mention this because I mention it again in this chapter. Also apologies for the late post, this set of posts were a little bit of a challenge for me to write. Hope you are continuing to enjoy the story. ~A

Chapter 27

"I found it," Issac called softly before adding uncertainly, "I think."

Allison ram to his side. Issac could literally hear the instability of the earth around the hole in the ground, The werewolf took her arm holding her back and keeping her away from the edge. even as he heard Stiles on the other end of the cell phone the older teenager held, give a warning about the entrance.

There was no ladder down into the dark but Allison called down, "Is anyone there?" The response from the darkness below was immediate and a bit chaotic. The pair realized that apparently the Darach had taken the ladder with her. An effective way to help prevent her prisoners escaping, the pair agreed.

Issac jumps down and catches Allison as she follows him into the root cellar. She nearly drops the flashlight she's carrying as she sees her dad tied to one of the support beams but manages to set it down before running to him and hugging him. She then pulls out a knife and starts cutting the bindings that secure him to the wooden beam. Both teens are happy to see the Pack elders alive and relatively unharmed.

Stiles voice is heard in the background. Issac realizes that the Sheriff is secured to another of the beams by his own handcuffs. When the older man tells them that the Darach took his keys. Issac is about to simply pull the handcuffs apart when he realizes his claws aren't unsheathing. They all then realize that the lunar eclipse had already started and that the werewolf no longer has his preternatural powers available to him.

Melissa sees how freaked out the teens are and says soothingly, "It's okay we just wait her out, The eclipse only lasts a few minutes no more than an hour at most right? We just wait till its over." The last word had barely left the nurses mouth when the cellar began to rumble ominously around them.

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Mama McCall, and the other occupants of the cellar, looked around as the confined area continued to rumble and dirt began to fall at an ever increasing rate. The Pack members began to notice that the roof of the root cellar seemed to be collapsing around them as the lunar eclipse continued.

Issac quickly stood back up and tried to hold the beam up, by supporting the ceiling across his own shoulders. "Allison hurry up and get them free." he demanded as he immediately felt the strain of trying to support what he was sure was at least a cubic ton of earth on his own thin currently non werewolf powered thin frame. He had only his own strength of will to work with and he was determined to get these three parents and Allison out of here.

He had only a second to think that these three were actually good parents compared to his own and he was going to make sure they made it back to their kids if possible. He had forgotten the fact they were all still trapped in this hole until someone came along with a ladder.

Then Chris Argent was there beside him also trying to help support the beam closer to the central structure. The young blond werewolf tried to tell the older man to get out when he noticed Allison there beside her father and Issac realized he no longer had the breath.

Allison admitted the words Issac didn't have the energy to say, "Can't hold it." He glanced over at where Mama McCaLl knelt next to the Sheriff. The older man was still secured to the central beam which was beginning to crack loudly and ominously.

The older woman had ducked her face into the older mans shoulder. Issac said weakly as he felt the weight of the beam pressing him down, thinking he had failed, "I'm sorry."

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Meanwhile, Scott is facing off against Decaulion, when the Darach appears. The teen is literally pushed to the side as the woman engaged the older werewolf. Barely seeming to use any of her power except to enhance her strength as she and the blind werewolf, fight.

To call it fighting was a nice way of saying the Darach used the Alpha as a punching bag. Scott had heard from the girls what had happened at the loft. Apparently the dark druids need for revenge had only partially been avenged with the death of her former lover and the near deaths of the Alpha Twins. Of course he was fairly sure that she didn't know they were only near deaths, but that was neither here nor there.

The younger werewolf had to admit that right now the Alpha cut a rather pathetic figure. According to Dyson it really shouldn't have been possible for the hunters to have blinded the Alpha the way they did. Fae heal over time, It may take awhile but it had been years and yet the Alpha was still as blind as ever with no end of it in sight, no pun intended.

This gave the teen a spark of an idea, again no pun intended. It was an idea that Stiles would have appreciated though. The Darach had her arm raised no doubt to deliver the killing blow when Scott spoke, "It seems a shame,"

The older woman looked up at him, clearly startled. Scott was certain she had even forgotten he was there at that moment. "It seems a shame," the teen repeated and then continued, "That he can't even see the killing blow coming or see your face as he dies, so he knows who did this to him." A shrug of his shoulders to seal the deal and he waited for her inevitable reaction. He had been around Stiles enough to know when to stop and let the other guys own imagination take over. The Spark sometimes didn't know when to stop.

Scott however had been learning the fine art of subtlety from his mother since he was younger and had watched her dealing with everything from ego inflated doctors, to repairmen with their own version of the little woman syndrome and had to say while Stiles was a master manipulator. His mother was better and had more experience at manipulating in a more subtle fashion.

Blake smiles pleased with the idea of the Alpha seeing his defeat, and lays her hand on his head. The caress is almost affectionate but the pain the Alpha experiences as his sight is returned makes even Scott cringe in sympathy for the older man.

The Darach quickly throws up a mountain ash barrier around herself for protection, when the trap was sprung. The idea had been for the older woman to use as much of her personal power as possible.. Healing the Alpha of Alpha's after their rather lengthy battle had done that. So when Derek and the quartet of out of towners showed up, she was vulnerable.

Even weakened as they are by the lunar eclipse she doesn't stand a chance against all of them. It doesn't seem to affect her bravado though as she taunts them from behind the barrier. Jennifer tells the, "Just let me go. Let me kill Decaulion and she'll tell them where to find the parents."

Kenzi reminds them, "She can't afford to let the parents go. The Pack elders are the last part of her agreement with the Nemeton, if she breaks that agreement she loses it all, including the glamour."

"There is another way, if an Alpha gives me his power, " she says looking at Derek avariciously I can break the agreement with the Nemeton and keep my power, or at least enough of it to maintain my glamour. I can let the parents live. Without me they all die."

Derek actually laughs as he replies, "So basically, it's a matter of who do I trust more to keep a bargain. You or my mate. I think I'll go with my mate on this one."

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Cora and Lydia are actually helping Deaton with the two Alpha twins. The vet despite his own herbal concoctions is still feeling the pain from his earlier ordeal While Cora helps Ethan out to the lobby to sit in the supremely uncomfortable plastic chairs. Aiden teases the Banshee, "I knew it, I knew you liked me..

The strawberry blond reluctantly agrees but tells the brash werewolf, "I would like you better if you weren't the bad boy and could at least try to be a little more monogamous." The Alpha Twin seems a little too loopy to understand the reference and instead he kisses her palm and holds it close rubbing his cheek against it like a cat scent marking his human..