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Ashlee's p.o.v
I scream, covering my mouth. I scramble away from her body, looking at it in horror.
There, Erica sits. Face sucked of all it's colour, her skin a pasty white. Her hair is frazzled, blonde sitting up in every direction. Bites along her neck, the blood long dried to her skin and clothes. Her throat is slit perfectly straight, it looks like that was the wound that finished her off. Her eyes are hollow and grey. Dead. She's dead.
I burst into tears, leaning my head againist the ground.
"No, no, no." I sob, shaking my head. "No, Erica?" My voice cracks and I sound as weak and broken as I feel. I'm so caught up in my tears, I don't hear the growling in the other room, the hissing, the slashing of flesh. "No, no, no. Erica..no." I cry.
The bathroom door is kicked open, the lock busting with it. Derek gets to me before Peter or Scott can.
"Ash, you okay? Ash?" Derek asks me, holding me tightly. But I can't speak, my throat is blocked with tears and grief. "Ashlee? Baby?" He asks, looking at me with worry and concern.
"Derek.." Peter says, seeing what's got me so wrapped up and drowning in emotion. He looks over at his Uncle, and his eyes fall to the body in the corner. I see the wind get knocked out of him when he sees his dead beta. He lets me go, moving over to Erica. Scott replaces his spot in the blink of an eye.
"Hey, Ash, don't look at her, just look at me, alright?" Scott says, holding her shoulders. I nod, starting to cry again. Scott pulls me close to him and hugs me tightly. I hug him back even tighter, squeezing my eyes shut so I don't have look at Erica or Derek or Peter. I don't think i'll ever be able to forget what Erica looks like right now, it's horrible.
"H-how..how did you..f-find me?" I manage to say.
"Stiles traced the phone you called from, got an address. We came as soon as we could." Scott tells me. "We took out 2 inside-"
"N-no, there's more." I panic. "We have to-to go." I stress. Peter and Derek turn to me. "There's a whole f-family, they're all staying here." I say. "They're gonna c-come back, we have to leave." I stress. I don't think I could handle seeing any of them end up like Erica. Erica was hard enough..but losing my brother or one anyone else I really care about..I couldn't handle that, i'd break, i'd fall apart. I'd die on the inside.
"Derek?" Peter asks him, looking at the alpha for direction.
"We need to go, now." He says. He lifts Erica into his arms, standing up. Scott nods and helps me to stand up.
"Can you walk?" Scott asks me. I nod and try, it causes alot of pain, but I grit my teeth and get through it. My pain is the least of our concerns right now. The three of us, and Erica in Derek's arms, move for the door.
"Derek?" I say, my voice broken and quiet. Derek stops, looking at me. "I'm so sorry..I tried.." I say, some tears falling. "I tried to..to save her." Derek looks at me sadly. He leans in and kisses my forehead.
"I know you did. And she knows too. You tried, it's okay." He says. I nod againist his forehead, trying not to completely burst into tears. "I love you Ashlee." He says. A small smile comes to Peter's face, he's happy Derek finally told her. Scott just kind of stills, unsure of what to say. I'm surprised by the confession but I know there's only one thing I can say.
"I love you too Derek." I say with a sad smile.
"Come on, let's go home." Derek says and I nod. We get out the door and I see the 2 vampires they killed. They're younger than any of the ones Erica and I saw. That also means they're probably weaker. We need to get the hell out of here before they come back-
"That was beautiful, really." Comes Natalie's voice. She comes in the front door, her husband at her side and, who i'm guessing is, her brother behind and another vampire behind them. Derek growls. "But you hurt my family, now i'm gonna kill your's." She says.
It happens so fast, Erica's laid down and i'm pulled the side. Then Scott, Peter and Derek are roaring, going after the 4 vampires, all with their fangs bared, ready to spill the blood of the other species, of their enemies.
Claws meet skin. Blood flies. Derek has gone after Natalie as she's the strongest and he's the alpha, they are the most evenly matched. Scott chooses to take on her husband, Matt, as his strength is the next top. Peter fights the two younger vampires by himself. I watch Matt's claws meet Scott's cheek. I watch Natalie stab her claws into Derek's side.
I can't just stand back and watch anymore.
It takes alot, it hurts alot, but I force myself to intervene. There's 4 vampires, and there was only 3 wolves fighting. I ram into the 4th vampire, ripping him away from Peter as the beta was trying to fight 2 at once.
The vampire easily gets the upper hand on me, attacking me, punch after punch. It makes me dizzier than I already am, weaker than I already am. I lay on my back, pinned down, a vampire above me. I can hear the growling of the other wolves and the hissing of the other vampires.
"Ash?!" Scott yells, trying to get away from the vampire he's fighting. He can see i'm quickly losing. I panic when I see the vampire above me bares it's fangs and hiss right in my face. I howl in pain when pain when I feel those fangs comes down in a bite to the side of my neck. Derek sees this happen to his girl. And he flips. The wolf roars, tearing right out of his clothes and dropping down onto 4 strong paws. There it is again, a wolf instead of a man. The exact same angry black wolf from the beach with Gerard.
Derek feels that anger again, just like he did at the beach. He sees his family being hurt. He sees his beta laying on the floor dead in the corner. He sees his Uncle being attacked. he sees a man he loves like a brother being torn at for the sake of saving his sister and avenging Erica, because she meant alot to Scott too. He sees the girl he loves being bitten into, having her blood stolen from her. And he snaps, he shifts easily into the large creature he truely is on the inside. He lets his wolf out. He lets his wolf take over.
The vampire currently sucking the life out of the me, looks up to see the huge black wolf. Scott's panicking, trying to rip away from the vampire he's fighting to get the pther vampire away from me. But when he sees Derek, in his wolf form, part of him feels better.
Derek lets out a painfully loud and furious roar. He lurches forward, leaping off four muscled paws to tear the vampire away from me. I cough, throwing my hands over the bite mark to my neck to slow the bleeding while it heals. It heals slowly because it's a ampire bite, but it will heal. Natalie gets distracted when she realises the wolf has taken down her younger brother. And she watches with sorrow as the wolf wraps his massive chops around the vampire's head and rips it off without a second thought. Derek's just so angry, it's not just this either. These vampires were trying to hurt his sister too, his human sister that got out of this life. There was no way he was letting them live, but after seeing them hurt his pack, his family..Derek knew they had to die bloody and painfully miserable.
Peter takes the distraction as an advantage and tackles Natalie to the ground. Peter holds her down, stabbing his claws into her throat and letting her blood stain their carpet. Derek takes out the other younger vampire as well, until it's just Matt. But Matt's with Scott and knows he couldn't beat Derek. I see what Matt's thinking, just by the way he looks at Scott.
"No!" I yell, scrambling to my feet. But both Peter and Derek are faster than me. Scott's like a little brother to the two Hales and they won't let him get hurt either. Derek bites down on Matt's left arm, holding him still. Peter grabs his right arm, helping restrain him. I limp over to Scott, finally feeling the skin on my neck start to rekindle and heal. Scott's about to kill the husband, the one he knows was part of hurting and torturing his sister. But he stops. Scott turns to me.
"You should finish this." He says. I feel weak, I don't even know if I could. "For Erica, and Cora, and for you as well." Scott says. "You should finish this." He says again. I think about it for a moment. I look after at Matt, looking into his evil, dark eyes.
I remember the way he sat back in that chair and shocked us.
I remember the way he smiled when Natalie cut us and hit us.
I remember when he took part in beating us.
I remember when Erica begged for mercy and he only turned the dial up and made her cry out in pain.
And out of everything, when I look at him, I see the man that haelped murder my pack sister and then was going to try kill me, my family and then go after Cora and her family too.
I didn't even realise i'd walked over to the man until i'm holding him by the throat. I'm weak but the pain and hurt I feel, the adrenaline, it shines through and helps me hold out for a few moments. I flick out my claws on my other hand. I let his throat go to push my chin up so he's baring his neck to me.
"This is what she felt." I say before slowly sinking my claws deep into his neck and dragging it across his throat. There's alot of blood and he squirms and yelps in pain but I don't care. I watch, just like he did to Erica, as he hurts and bleeds and then after a couple minutes..dies. Derek and Peter let his dead body fall to the ground after that. He slumps to the floor alongsie his poisonous and torturous family members. I feel weak again, and sore. I lean againist the wall, sliding down it until I sit on the floor. I look at all the bodies and then at my family. My eyes finally fall to Erica again and it only takes seconds for me to start crying.
Derek hears and looks over at me. He walks over and sits down beside me, settling his large wolf head againist my chest. My jaguar feels comfort from having him so close like this, especially in my time of emotional turmoil. I grip his fur and let myself be as close to him as I possibly can as I continue to cry. Erica was as important to me as she was to Derek, she was actually more important to Derek, he had a stronger wolf connection with her, beta to alpha. Scott goes to his sister's side as well. He hugs her close, letting Derek help comfort me too. Peter goes to Erica, lifting the poor young girl into his arms.
"Come on Ash, let's go home to our family." Scott says to me quietly. I sniff, letting both males go and nodding. I wipe my eyes and Scott helps me to stand up. We leave the house, the seemingly perfectly normal house on a perfectly normal street in a perfectly normal town in the country of Bali. The 5 of them. Me, weakened and bleeding but healing. Scott, standing strong and walking me walk. Peter, holding Erica in his arms, we're taking her home to be buried, like she would want. And Derek, still in his huge black wolf form, on the other side of me. We're leaving, we're putting this place behind us and we're going home, back to our family.
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