Sorry that it has taken so long to update, yet again. Punctuality is not my forte evidently. To the Guest that reviewed the last chapter, I have indeed stuck very close to the story line but I promise to change that up in the next few chapters just wanted to rebuild that base and get all the ducks in a row before returning to originality but I promise I am indeed getting to it, promise! This chapter's song is "Playing with Fire" by: Brandon Flowers, enjoy!

Chapter 13: "Playing with Fire"

"Playing with fire

You know you're gonna hurt somebody tonight

And you're out on the wire

You know you're playing with fire

Perhaps this calling is the channel of invention

I will not blush if others see it as a crime

However dangerous the road, however distant

These things won't compromise the will of the design"

By the time that Stiles had Scott on the phone, Allison was back on her feet and completely healed from her head butting the window episode. "Let me at her!" She yelled at Isaac as he stubbornly shook his head knowing that she would forgive him for this later on. Not letting her go, he listened to the phone call closely enough to recognize that Derek and Kate were going to some vault under the school. "She's mine!" The huang screamed and Isaac turned his attention back to the lithe huntress in his arms. "Please, Allison." When he said her name, she stopped struggling momentarily and looked up at him with physical pain in her eyes. "I need to get her." Isaac knew the kind of anger that was boiling inside of her, he'd felt it too, but he knew better than to let her lose control like this, she'd regret it the second she calmed down. "Is this the huang talking or you?" Allison looked up at him and smirked maliciously before leaning forward with the fire already building around her as her whole form went from skin, bone, and sinew and became flames and heat. "Why don't you tell me?" The fire creature screeched as Allison lost control completely and Isaac let her go screaming in pain as his clothes were scorched to tatters and his skin was burned by the contact.

"Allison!" Stiles yelled as the flaming woman dashed by and the human ran off after her even as Isaac continued screaming and whimpering in pain as he writhed in agony on the floor in between the flames. Suddenly there was a cloud of white foam covering his form and the ground around him and he cried out again in renewed torment as it made contact with his charred and blistered skin. "Isaac?" The wolf tried to answer Stiles but couldn't manage more than a hoarse cough. Hearing Argent's voice in his head reminding him of how the change caused the healing process to kick in, Isaac shot out his claws with a drawn out moan at the effort and dug them into the palm of his hand and felt his eyes turn yellow as he went from screaming to roaring in pain. Somewhere, not too far off, the huang heard his cries and Allison used the momentary distraction to wrench back control from her other half before sprinting back to Scott's house screaming Isaac's name and not caring that she was waking up the whole neighborhood in the process. "Allison?" Isaac coughed weakly as the healing kicked in and his body relaxed into the foam covered floor with a final whimper of pain. "Yeah she went that way, don't worry Scott will take care of her."

Just like that she was there, tears streaming down her face as she stood just out of reach and stared at his burned scarlet skin in horror at what she had done. Stiles leapt up at the sight of her and comically wielded the fire extinguisher like it was a weapon that actually had a chance of holding her off. Pushing past him, she knelt by Isaac's side and reached out a hand to touch his scarlet colored and blistered flesh before remembering what her touch had brought last time and jerking her hand away at the last moment. Her tears, however, dripped onto his burns and he sighed in relief at the feel of the cool liquid on his still steaming skin. "I'm sorry." She sobbed and he shook his head as he managed to hoarsely whisper, "Not your fault. Lost control, I did once too." Looking up at him she hiccupped away another sob and shook her head, "Two scratches are nothing compared to this." Allison determined her voice heavy with guilt and shame over what the huang half of her had done when she lost control.

Sitting up with an effort, she gasped at his motion until she saw that the burns had gone from ugly flaming red patches that were still smoldering and blistered to little pink patches of new skin in a matter of moments. "Do you normally heal that fast?" She asked her voice surprised as she watched Stiles reach a hand out to help him up. Never before had she wanted to help him so badly but she was terrified that she would do more harm than good, that she could even hurt him so badly made her never want to use her flame again. "Not usually." Isaac replied lost in thought as he sat up without Stiles help and looked down at his, now, completely healed skin in awe. Staring at her in awe as the answer finally came to him he grinned despite being in pure agony because of her moments before. "It's your tears! They can heal like we can take away pain." Allison somehow doubted that, that was something good and she just didn't believe that any part of her was good right now. Standing up on his own with only a slight grunt at the effort, Isaac turned towards her and didn't even hesitate as he grabbed her arm and pulled her up. "I know they can, I'm not wrong Allison." Slipping out of the room, he grabbed an un-burned to shreds shirt and pants from his room before changing and returning to Scott's room in a matter of seconds. Stiles, considerate as ever, butted in before Allison could reply and ordered, "Scott still needs us so let's go already!"

Rushing to the Jeep, Stiles leapt into the driver's seat and barely gave Isaac and Allison enough time to squeeze into the front and back seats respectively before barreling off. "Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket in this thing?" Allison groaned as she was thrown backwards and into the back door with a yelp of surprise. "Not on the record, but I've never burned nor stabbed my boyfriend so I think it's forgiven." He fired back and Allison's big brown eyes welled up at that as she pulled her knees into her chest and managed a pained and whimpered, "I'm sorry for that, I've never been more sorry for anything in my life" before Isaac, who was so unused to Stiles coming to his aid that he had been shocked into silence, finally spoke up and growled at Stiles, "Don't." Before turning to Allison and his expression softened as he reached out and touched her shoulder with only concern and not fear in his eyes. "It's okay. It's not your fault, it's okay. We all lose control sometimes and you healed me so it's like nothing happened." She flinched away from his touch and he frowned even as her heart sunk in fear that she might hurt him again, "It doesn't make it okay, I might do that again and I, I can't let that happen."

Opening his mouth and then shutting it quickly, Isaac unbuckled and climbed carefully into the backseat with her as Stiles muttered complaints about not wearing seat belts and being a cop's son. Pushing back the waves of fear that assaulted him the second that he entered the smaller backseat, the wolf shoved them into boxes just like Argent had taught him because she was more important than his fear right now. Once back there, he wrapped his arms around her from behind and just held her close as her body trembled in fear and guilt. "You won't hurt me again. This was my fault; I saw it coming and held on rather than let you go when I should have. It's okay Allison, you've done nothing wrong." At that admission she looked back at him and whispered the words that her mind kept repeating it, "But what if I'm like your father? What if I continue to hurt you and you just take it because you won't let go?" Isaac shook his head, "I know you won't, know why?" As she shook her head he leaned forwards and pressed his lips to her forehead gently before whispering the words against her skin, "Because he never said sorry." As she finally relaxed and wrapped her arms around him in relief he continued in a breathy whisper that she barely heard, "There's no won't let go either, I physically can't."

"Here!" Stiles yelled in obvious relief as he leapt out of the car as Isaac and Allison untangled themselves and jumped out after him before the trio ran towards where the sound of the fighting was. The trio rushed up in time to see teen Derek being smacked about by one of the two berserkers while an injured Kira, Scott, and Malia stood cornered against the wall barely able to stand by the other. "Go find Peter!" Scott ordered and Isaac turned to Stiles, "You heard the man, go!" Gripping his aluminum bat tightly, the human gaped at the teen wolf beside him and looked at him with confusion in his eyes as he asked, "What are you doing then?" Allison replied in Isaac's stead with daggers already in her hands as her boyfriend's eyes glowed yellow and he bared his teeth and flexed his claws. "We're going to save the Alpha."

Dashing forwards in unison, the two worked together like a pair of matched superpowered heroes, Isaac went to attack and parry using his claws the same way that Allison used her daggers. It was like watching a well trained pack as they distracted both beasts from the injured wolves, coyote, and kitsune. Stiles ran off and could be heard crashing into Lydia, after a quick exchange the two rushed off towards the front of the school. Scott limped over to where Isaac was hanging back while Allison stabbed away on the other side and Isaac shook his head at his Alpha and gestured for him to go back before launching forwards again while Allison danced back out of the Berserker's reach carefully with her eyes starting to glow yellow. "Stand back, we've got this!" Allison hissed at Scott from around the berserker as her hands started to glow with flame but she looked down at them and extinguished the flames with an effort. A sudden howl distracted the Berserkers and caused them to stand down with the one Allison and Isaac were working pausing only to knock the boy with his club for a last time before the duo ran off towards the front of the school. "What the hell just happened?" Isaac growled from where he lay where he had fallen and bared his fangs in a grimace of pain as he stood up as the healing kicked in slowly and it caused him to almost fall until Allison caught him. Her unafraid touch made Isaac smile as he stood up and grinned at her with his human teeth and eyes shining their human gray-blue hue. "Thanks."

Turning towards the school, Scott started towards it before turning back to help Kira and pulling her along without a glance backwards. "Um Scott?" Malia interrupted him with more than the normal amount of confusion in her voice; spending years as a coyote does that to a person who is reintroduced into the human world so violently and suddenly. "Who's this?" The Alpha turned around in time to see what Malia, Isaac, and Allison were already looking at. There stood Derek his wolfish features still bared and his eyes glowing an abnormal yellow. "Derek?" Isaac asked aloud and his former Alpha grinned a wolfish smirk. "That would be me." Scott looked at him with wide eyes and just shook his head as if to rid it of the metaphorical mental cobwebs of confusion. "Derek?" He asked in confusion and the older wolf looked at him with a foreign kind of sarcastic amusement gracing his voice as he replied in a somewhat pissed off manner. "No, the other Derek. Obviously it's me." The older man looked as though he was going to keep talking except a roar of what sounded like physical anguish from Peter echoed throughout the courtyard and caused the whole pack to turn and rush over to the huge hole in the ground that had appeared near the sign.

Being the least injured, Isaac and Allison assisted Malia while Scott held up Kira and Derek led the way for the rag tag band of teenagers. Drawing near to the man made hole, which turned out to be a staircase going down into the depths of the earth. Claustrophobia was one thing when he could see the enclosed space; it was twice as bad when it was where he couldn't see light or sky or anything like that. Part of Isaac just wanted to remain outside of that unnatural creation and let the rest give him a quick summary when they emerged. But Allison needed him because even though she could easily hold up Malia on her own, she needed something to anchor her and give her control over the huang half that wanted to go and attack the demon that was her Aunt Kate. "Will you be alright?" She asked and he looked at her, barely able to hide the panic from his eyes as he managed a fake reassuring smile at her and nodded before facing forwards. Even though his racing heart rate gave away his growing panic and the fact that he wasn't so alright, Isaac knew that Allison was letting him get stronger this way and nodded again as he steeled his nerves before taking on the first step down towards darkness and walls closing in. "Breathe." Allison ordered and he obeyed taking in deep breaths and focusing on her steady heartbeat and the sudden appearance of light on the edge of his periphery.

Glancing over at it, he was momentarily too surprised by its appearance to remember to be afraid, she hadn't let herself tap into her inner fire since the whole burning episode an hour or so ago. Not that an hour was an exceedingly long amount of time, mind, but considering how affected she'd been by the whole episode and the fact that she hadn't employed it during the fight with the berserker when it had worked so effectively the first time. She held it awkwardly though, like she was scared of losing control of it but before Isaac could comment on it they were already at the bottom in a rather large open space. "It was all a diversion!" Peter screamed as he stood with his back towards the group that has just entered and yelled at Lydia and Stiles who looked more than a little frightened by the adult wolf in front of them. "What was a diversion?" Derek interrupted earning him the full attention and glare of Peter, "Someone took it, all 117 million!" The rest were confused but Derek seemed shocked, "All of it?" The recently reverted wolf asked and Scott butted in, "117, what exactly?" Isaac and Allison had already picked up on the fact that it had to be monetarily related and weren't surprised at all when Peter replied, "Bearer bonds, the whole Hale family fortune gone, what a tragedy!"

Derek rolled his eyes at his uncle as he appeared nonplused by this new information. "Glad to see that you're so excited about my return." He added sarcastically as he turned around and led the pack back upstairs and into the light. "I'm glad to see you're back to normal." Stiles called after him and Derek grumbled about annoying human teens and how it was a miracle that Scott could handle having him around. Ignoring him and helping Malia to Stiles' car, Isaac turned back to look at Scott and asked, "What now?" His Alpha looked at him with exhaustion visible in his gaze as he held up Kira with one arm and shrugged. "Go on home." Isaac nodded towards Allison and Scott nodded in understanding, he'd let his mom know that Isaac would be staying over there tonight. Who knew what had happened between them but Allison looked as though she was scared of hurting him and was, therefore, hesitant to call forth a flame or touch him with any amount of force behind it which reminded Scott of the battle and the way that the two had fought together so seamlessly despite this. "And Isaac?" Scott called after him and his adopted Beta turned around and looked at him with only respect in his eyes despite his exhaustion and his desire to just get to Allison's apartment as quickly as possible and from there into the soft bed with her warmth beside him. "I see how Argent's training helps now. Keep it up, okay?" The taller boy grinned at him with pride, this was the equivalent of a father praising his son to him and Isaac felt a foreign warmth fill him. "Okay."

What'd he say?" Allison asked as she walked back over from where she'd been talking with Lydia about getting everyone into vehicles. "That maybe training a werewolf hunter style isn't such a terrible idea after all." She grinned up at him with a sad smile before her brown eyes looked down at the ground and she scuffed her boots against the ground in a most un-Allison like nervous manner. "You've earned it; you've become a great fighting partner. I just wish I could be as in control as you." Isaac shook his head at her before pulling her away from the pack and right under a street lamp before cupping a hand under her chin lightly and forcing her to look up at him. "You are the best partner that I could ask for. You are in control, we all have our slip ups and we've gone over this, it was my fault earlier tonight. Allison Skylar Argent, you could never be like Kate or my father, you have too big of a heart for that." He would have kept talking if her lips hadn't crashed into his forcing the words back down his throat. "Thank you." She whispered just inches away from his lips and he smirked pecking them once more for good measure before pulling her back towards the cars and the rest of the pack. "I'll even prove it too you, you beautiful brave fiery hot archer, after we get a nice long sleep." Her giggles made him smile as she wrapped her arms around his middle and hugged him close with a sigh of relief. "I would definitely like that, hotshot. Think I can get a little preview beforehand?" His fake groan made her laugh harder as he pulled her the rest of the way into Lydia's back seat and kissed her hard but slow with a smile as she practically squirmed with pleasure at the contact. "Fine, I suppose we'll have time for that boss."

That's that then, next chapter should be up by next week if all goes as planned. As always, read, enjoy, and review!