Katherine sighed as she flopped down onto the couch, exhausted.
"Hey, Katherine, you in here?" She heard Stiles call out.
"Over here" She said, raising her hand.
"You look terrible" He told her.
"Rude, much?" She replied.
"You're exhausted, you can take one day off" Stiles suggested.
"No" She stated.
"Look you've been working so hard at school to get your grades up and then every day the moment you get here you spend all day looking through that damn laptop" Stiles explained.
"Hey! Don't have a go at the laptop" Katherine retorted.
"...I mean how does it even work? What are all these wires for?" Stiles said curiously about the grab the laptop.
"Try not to think about it too much Stiles, you might hurt yourself" She joked.
"Ha. How does it even get all the CTV feeds from America?" He questioned.
"Illegally" She replied.
"Is that why you're not staying with me and my dad anymore? Cause if we told him why you were doing this I'm sure he would-" Stiles was cut off by Katherine.
"We're not telling your dad, Stiles. He's just going to worry...and anyway aren't you glad I've moved out? Now it's easier for Malia to sneak in and out at night" Katherine smirked.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Stiles told her.
"Sure...so how is your relationship with our resident coyote going?" She questioned.
"It's good" He said with a small smile.
"Oh c'mon, I want all the juicy details" She said, sitting up.
"No way" He laughed.
"Alright then, I'll ask Malia, I'm sure she'll be happy to share" Katherine announced.
"Okay, okay. How about you, me and Malia go to that cafe you like tomorrow?" Stiles asked.
"You know I can't" She told him.
"C'mon Katherine, when was the last time you even went out expect for school and food?" Stiles inquired.
"And clothes. Don't forget the clothes" She replied.
"Please! I know Malia would like it, I think you're the only girl she actually likes in the pack" Stiles admitted.
"I'm going to take that as a compliment" She laughed.
"Okay, I'll go with you guys" She continued.
"Result!" Stiles exclaimed.
"But you've got to help me look through the CTV feeds" She told him.
"Ugh, okay" He sighed.
"You look at the left ones, I'll look at the right ones" Katherine suggested.
After twenty minutes, Stiles' nervous twitches were getting on Katherine's nerves and she decided to give up.
"Hey, I was still looking!" Stiles exclaimed.
"I think it'll be easier to do it on my own" She explained.
"...Do you want me to stay here?" Stiles asked.
"No, it's getting late you're dad will be getting worried" Katherine suggested.
"Have you really found nothing on him all month?" He questioned.
"Nothing what so ever" She sighed.
"We'll find him Katherine, it's just a matter of time" He told her, kissing her on the head.
"Tell your dad I said hi" Katherine said as Stiles got up from the couch.
"Sure, we're definitely still on for tomorrow?" Stiles checked.
"Yes" Katherine replied with a small smile.
"Alright...hey, I've never even asked where you got that laptop from?" Stiles realised.
"A friend owed me a favour" She told him.
"He had lots of these just lying around?" Stiles asked.
"He's a computer geek, his happy place is making things like this" She explained.
"Okay...I'll see you tomorrow" Stiles waved as he left the loft.
Looking back at her laptop she groaned. It had been a month and there was still no sign of Derek anywhere. Where was he?
"Hey guys" She smiled when she saw Stiles and Malia outside the cafe the next day.
"Hi Katherine...Oh, um your hair looks nice today" Malia said when Stiles nudged her.
"Well that looked forced. Why are you complementing me?" Katherine said, trying not to laugh at Malia's pained face.
"I'm trying to help her with people skills, you know compliments etc" Stiles explained.
"Right...it's working wonderfully by the way" Katherine winked.
"Please make him stop" Malia whined.
"Stiles stop being an idiot" She stated.
"Hey!" Stiles retorted.
"Don't make me get the spray bottle out" Katherine warned, referring to the spray bottle that she had been filling up with water and spraying Scott with when he got too bossy.
"Oh sh you" Stiles said, walking into the cafe.
They quickly ordered, Malia choosing what Stiles had wanted and started to talk about the pair's relationship.
"I've got to admit first of all I was a bit sceptical about you guys, but I've got to admit you make a good couple" Katherine smiled.
"Thanks Kat" Stiles replied.
"I thought you were a werewolf, not a cat?" Malia asked, confused.
"It's a nickname" Katherine explained.
"Oh..." Malia trailed off.
Suddenly Stiles phone bleeped and he looked down to see a text.
"Who's that from?" Malia questioned.
"Scott...he's says he's found out whose shells were at Derek's loft!" Stiles exclaimed.
"What?!" Katherine asked shocked.
"He says it's from the Calaveras...who the hell are they?" Stiles inquired.
"There these people who locked Derek and Peter up a few months ago, they were looking for someone" She told him.
"Do you know where they live?" Stiles asked.
"Yes. We're going on a road trip to Mexico" She explained.
The next day they were in Mexico at the Calaveras place. Katherine slowly walked into the middle of the crowd, trying to blend in. She soon spotted a group of teenagers and walked over to them, and started dancing with a boy. She saw the security guards talking into their radios and looking around, obviously looking for the pack. She spotted Malia and Kira dancing on the other side of the dance floor and her mouth dropped opened when she saw them dancing with each other, hands sliding up each other's body.
"What?..." She heard Scott trail off behind her.
"Are they even friends?" Katherine asked.
"Nope" Scott replied.
"Looks like you're getting replaced buddy" Katherine laughed, stopping when she saw Scott's face.
"I'm joking! I'm sure they're just...yeah I don't have an explanation" Katherine continued.
"Heads up, two coming are way" Scott told her.
Katherine quickly turned around, punching one of the guys in the face and kicking his legs, so that he fell to the floor. Angrily, she kicked him in the face, knocking him out.
"C'mon, let's finish this" Scott told her, indicating for Kira and Malia to follow them.
They walked through one of the now unguarded doors and cautiously wandered down the corridor. They stopped suddenly when they saw smoke pouring out underneath one of the doors.
"Guys, cover your nose and mouths!" Katherine cried, hoping they could walk past it.
All of a sudden the smoke was poured down on them from above, surrounding them.
"It's wolfsbane! Kira, get out!" She heard Scott shout.
Katherine slowly fell to the floor, coughing as she fainted.
"Hey, guys they're waking up" Stiles said as she woke up.
"Ugh, what happened?" Scott asked, groggily.
"They don't have him. They don't have Derek!" Katherine realised.
"We know. But right now they've got Lydia" Kira told them both.
"Lydia?" Scott questioned.
"What do they want with her?" Katherine inquired.
"We're not sure" Stiles admitted.
"We need to get out of here...we need to find her" Katherine insisted, standing up and trying to pry open the doors, Scott joining her.
"We've already looked for a way out...I think a lot of people have" Kira explained, indicating to the scratch marks on the walls.
"I say when that door opens again, we take out whoever's standing in the way and run for it" Malia suggested.
"What about Lydia?" Kira questioned.
"What about her?" Malia retorted.
"We're not leaving without her" Katherine exclaimed.
"Why not?" Malia insisted.
"Because we don't leave without people. Remember, we talked about this? Rules of the wild kingdom don't apply to friends" Stiles explained.
"Is that what you would do as a coyote, leave her for dead?" Kira inquired.
"If she was weak and injured, yeah. If hunting had been bad that season, I would eat her. Then I'd leave" Malia told her.
"Mmm. Believe it or not, that's progress" Stiles admitted.
"Guys, no one's dead yet! And that means they want something" Katherine announced.
"But if the Calaveras don't have Derek, that means they didn't take him from the loft, right?" Kira asked.
"Maybe he left on his own" Malia suggested.
"He wouldn't just leave" Katherine exclaimed.
"Maybe someone else took him" Scott explained.
Suddenly men barged into the room, taking Scott and Kira, and a angry Katherine into another room with chairs connected to wires.
"Great..." Katherine sighed, as they forced her and Scott onto the chairs and strapped them in.
"Let her go. You've got me, just let the others go" Scott pleaded.
"Let me explain what's going to happen. This fox has an immunity to electricity and that's why she's going to turn the dial on the Alpha...if she doesn't, I turn the dial on the other wolf" One of the men explained, indicating to Katherine.
"No, I'm not doing this!" Kira insisted.
"Are you sure? One of your friends has the power to heal fully from this...the other not so much" The man told her.
"What are you doing? Is this a game to you?" Scott argued.
"This is a test, lobito. Let's see if you pass. We're going to ask some questions. You answer them, nobody gets hurt. You don't answer, we turn on the dial" The woman in charge, called Araya explained.
"Do what they say. Okay. Whatever they want. I can take it" Scott told Kira.
"So...We don't know where Derek is. We want to find him as well. You know who took him" Araya explained.
"What? How would I know that?" Scott questioned.
"That doesn't sound like an answer to me" She told him.
"We don't know, why do you think we came here?" Katherine interjected.
"Kira, turn the dial" She ordered.
"No..." Kira trailed off.
"Should we turn the dial on Katherine instead?" She questioned.
"No! No, do it Kira, do it" Scott exclaimed.
"Let's start at one" The woman suggested.
Slowly Kira turned the dial up, causing the electricity to flow through the wires, electrocuting him. As the dial got turned up higher, Scott started to groan in pain.
"Tell me! Who actually has Derek? Who had a reason, a vendetta particular to the Hales?" Araya asked.
"I said I don't know" Scott argued.
"You don't know because you haven't figured it out yet. Think!" She told him.
"Tres" The man ordered, making Kira turn the dial up again.
"Who has the power? The power of a shape shifter?" She inquired.
"I don't know!" He shouted.
Araya pushed Kira out of the way, turning the dial onto the highest setting.
"Say the name Scott!" She ordered.
"Kate! Kate Argent" He realised.
"So you're just letting us go?" Scott questioned.
After they had the information the Calavera's said they would let them leave.
"I sent four men out to where Kate was rumoured to have been seen. None of them came back. Let's see if you can do better" Araya explained.
"We will" Katherine told her.
"So...what now?" Stiles asked as Araya left.
"She thinks she knows where Derek is" Scott told them.
"She does? She going to tell us where?" Katherine questioned.
"Uh, actually she's giving us a guide" Scott admitted, as someone on a motorbike drove up to beside the jeep.
"You know her?" Stiles inquired.
"Braeden" Scott stated.
"Who's Braeden?" Malia asked.
"She's a mercenary" Katherine explained.
"Right now, I'm the only one who's going to take you tola iglesia" Braeden told them.
"The Church?" Lydia questioned.
"What's The Church?" Stiles asked, confused.
"It's not a place you'll find God" Braeden smirked.
"Okay, I'll ask. Who's Kate Argent?" Malia questioned once they were on the road.
"Uh, I'd like to know too" Kira admitted.
"Well we were at her funeral so I'd like to know how she's still alive as well" Stiles exclaimed.
"She was Allison's aunt and a total sociopath" Katherine told them.
"You don't have to tell us if you don't want to" Kira suggested.
"Uh, yes they do" Malia argued.
"You need to know" Scott replied.
"Kate was the one who set the fire that killed most of Derek's family" Katherine explained.
"Some of the survived, like Cora and Peter" Scott added.
"A very angry, psychotic Peter" Katherine retorted.
"He's the one who turned me" Scott told them.
"And the one who finally caught up with Kate and tore the bitch's throat out" Katherine said gleefully.
"And we saw her buried" Stiles interjected.
"No. We saw a casket, remember? She wasn't in it. The Calaveras heard that Kate had been killed by an Alpha's claws. They wanted to make sure she was really dead. Her body was healing. More and more, as she got closer to a full moon. She was coming back. So they switched out the bodies. If a hunter is bit, they have to take their own life before they change. The Calaveras, they treat the code like law. They make it their responsibility to enforce it" Scott explained.
"Good for her, I wouldn't do it either" Malia told them.
"Would you kill twelve people to get out? Because that's what she did" Katherine retorted.
"So she's a werewolf now?" Kira asked.
"I don't know. You know there's a saying, sometimes the shape you take on reflects the person you are" Scott explained.
"What kind of shape is a sociopathic bitch?" Katherine asked sarcastically.
"I'm guessing you really don't like this woman" Kira stated.
"That's an understatement" Katherine replied.
Suddenly the jeep started to swerve and Stiles had to stop the car.
"What happened?" Braeden asked them.
"I don't know, it felt like we hit something" Scott told her.
"Scott we need to get there by night, it's too dangerous otherwise" Braeden insisted.
"Go" Katherine told him.
"I can't just leave you guys out here" Scott replied.
"Someone needs to find Derek, please Scott" Katherine pleaded.
"Dude, we'll figure something out. We always do" Stiles exclaimed, as Scott and Braeden drove off on her motorbike.
"Maybe we should just walk?" Lydia suggested.
"Hey! I will never abandon this jeep. You understand me?" Stiles retorted.
"Work faster Stiles. There is something out here with us" Malia told him.
"I thought I was the only one who felt that" Katherine admitted.
"Anything?" Kira asked them as it got dark.
"It's too hard to see" Malia stated.
"We should have brought another flash light" Katherine suggested.
Kira walked behind them and held her sword in front of the jeeps front lights, reflecting the light into the nearby mountains.
"Do you see that?" Kira questioned, seeing something in the distance.
Malia roared and ran off with Kira quickly following.
"Okay, time to go" Katherine told them, and started hitting the jeep with the spanner.
"Hey! Hey, what...how did that actually work?" Stiles asked as the engine turned on.
"It's the method I used to use with my old T.V, does the trick every time" Katherine smirked, as Malia and Kira rushed over to them babbling about something that attacked Malia.
"You, please don't do that ever again" Stiles told Malia as they drove off.
"Do what?" Malia retorted.
"I thought you were running" Stiles explained.
"I was running" Malia stated.
"No, I mean I thought you were leaving" Stiles exclaimed.
"I wouldn't leave without you" Malia told him.
"Really?" Stiles asked.
"No I would never leave without you...or Katherine" Malia admitted.
"Those two I would leave" Malia exclaimed, annoying Lydia.
"Uh...that's progress, okay?" Stiles insisted.
"We're here!" Katherine announced once she saw the temple.
They all jumped out of the jeep and ran towards some figures emerging from the ruins. Katherine was able to see Scott and Braeden carrying someone but couldn't quite make out who it was.
"Is that him? Is that Derek?" Malia asked.
"Sort of" Katherine sighed, as the teenage Derek lifted his head.
Author's Notes: Woo, we're on season four guys! I'm thinking of maybe spreading teenage Derek's arc over a few chapters and adding quite a few of my own scenes to episode 4x02. Tell me if you guys would like this idea:) I've decided I'm definitely going to take this story to the end of Season 4 as well! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, as always please review:)