Like stated in the previous chapter, we're going to give this a try. Here's the normal chapter and readers can message me for the alternate version if they want.

"Are you ok?" Jeremy asked panicking. "How many fingers am I holding up?"

I tried to focus on what I thought were his fingers.

"Uh three?" I guessed.

His worried sigh told me my guess was wrong.

"You win," he snaked an arm under my shoulder to stand me up. "We're going back. You need help, I don't know how to patch a head wound."

"Jeremy!" Came from the distance, footsteps started approaching.

I tried to walk towards it and started slipping in the snow.

"Chloe!" Jeremy hissed. "Hold on a second."

The footsteps came up to us.

"What on earth are you two doing out here?" It was Elijah's voice.

"Does that really matter right now?" Jeremy asked. "She needs help, she hit her head hard."

Elijah grabbed my chin gently and tilted my head around. His face came into focus more.

"You're bleeding pretty good but it's not a deep cut. You'll be alright by tomorrow. I'm more concerned that you are burning up."

"She changed again," Jeremy answered for me.

"Again?" Elijah finally took a good look at Jeremy and saw all the cuts bruises and dried blood. He might have put together that we fought but I wasn't going to try to clarify anything right now. "Jesus you two. Lets get you both out of the cold."

Elijah went to grab me from Jeremy, probably to carry me back. But I refused to be the damsel in distress. Plus Jeremy needed my heat.

"No," I said to Elijah. "Jeremy's got me."

He raised an eyebrow but didn't argue. We started walking back towards the motel.

"What on earth happened while I was gone?" He asked.

"The short version," I said. "Is I changed, Derek and Jeremy fought. Jeremy found me and stayed with me when I changed back."

Elijah held the door open for us. I could tell he had a lot of questions but knew they could wait. The carpet felt thick and crunchy under my feet. I just realized that I wasn't wearing shoes.

"How mad is he still?" Jeremy asked Elijah.

Elijah smiled, "Yeah, I wouldn't go in the same room as him yet."

He opened our motel room door for us. Jeremy and I sat on the edge of the bed while Elijah grabbed the medical kit. I hissed in pain as he disinfected and bandaged my forehead.

"You're lucky you're just dazed and didn't get a bad concussion," Elijah said. "Wolf or human, you shouldn't have left the motel." He started cleaning up the blood on Jeremy and looked back at me. "And raising the dead, Chloe? What were you thinking? They aren't corpses you can control."

"I didn't do it," I interrupted.

Elijah was genuinely surprised. I don't blame him, it would make sense that the necromancer did it. Jeremy hissed as Elijah wiped the blood off his nose. Before Elijah could say anything, we could hear shouting come from the hall. A door slammed and our door flew open.

Derek's eyes landed on my bandage, he growled at Jeremy, "Oh you're dead."

"Derek," Elijah shouted before Derek made a move. "Stop being a child. Maybe make sure she's okay first?"

He glared at Elijah for giving him orders but came over to me and pulled me onto his lap.

"Are you ok?" He asked me.

I nodded, "I hit my head on a semi floor. Jeremy didn't hurt me."

Derek took a deep breath as some of the tension left him. He held me tightly and forgot Jeremy was there for a moment. It clicked in his head that I was human again.

"I'm so sorry I wasn't there to help," he said.

"I'm alright," I promised.

"You were brainwashed last time you changed," Derek said. "What if this brings some of it back?"

"Then we deal with it as it comes," Elijah said.

Jeremy flinched again as Elijah put disinfectant on a cut. Derek's fingers curled into a fist.

"Derek," I put my hand on his. "You can't keep punishing him for what happened. One punishment is plenty."

He forced his hand to relax, "Ok."

Elijah stood, "If you all can behave, we can go back to everyone else."

We joined everyone back in the other motel room. Tess nearly ran me over when she came to give me a hug.

"I'm so glad that you're ok," she said as she hugged me tightly.

With so many people in the room, all the seating was pretty much taken. I sat down on floor in front of the dresser and Derek sat beside me. He was going to be glued to me, I could tell. To my surprise though, Jeremy sat on my other side. He looked over at me and smiled, he was trying to show no fear of Derek.

"Ok," Kit stood. "So we removed the spells done to Tess' home but we aren't too sure about removing stuff from the house still. If anyone wants to take their stuff, we recommend extreme caution and check it a dozen times for any traces of tracking spells or tracking equipment. We want this Edison Group crap to be done and over with. It's about time you kids had a normal life."

"What about Matt's-" I started.

"No," Kit interrupted. "I'm not having you kids join a half demon in some vampire hunting."

Matt, who was leaning against the windowsill behind Kit, rolled his eyes, "It's their decision. They're old enough."

"No they aren't," Kit shook his head. "If they can't even get along without our supervision, what makes you think they can fight monsters together?"

"What makes you think you can speak for all of them?" Matt rebuttaled. "You're only the father of two of them."

That tripped up Kit, he didn't have a quick comeback.

Matt looked over at me, "What are you guys thinking?"

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life jumping from safe house to safe house," I said. "I want to have something to do again. Some sort of goal or purpose."

"School," Kit suggested.

I shrugged, "What's the point of school? I'll never be allowed to lead a normal life even with a diploma."

Matt looked around at Simon, Derek, Jeremy, and Tori, they all nodded agreeing with me. Even Kyle and Liz.

Kit threw up his hands in defeat, "I guess I'm out numbered here."

Matt smiled, "I guess so."