This chapter has been a long time coming and I am so sorry about that, I promise that I am working as hard as possible to get another one as soon as I can. Don't ever start extracurriculars, take extra classes, and get a job kids, you will never again have free time. Without further ado (or excuse making on my part), the song is "Come and Goes (in Waves)" by: Greg Laswell. Enjoy!

Chapter 19: "Comes and Goes (in Waves)"

"It comes and goes in waves, I

Am only led to wonder why

It comes in goes in waves, I

Am only led to wonder why

Why I, why I try

This is for the ones who stand

For the ones who try again

For the ones who need a hand

For the ones who think they can"

"So can you help him?" Allison finished as a wounded Peter looked between her and Isaac and then back at the short freshman between them. "Why didn't Scott come to see Derek himself?" Suppressing the urge to expound upon multiple insulting adjectives in his anger, Isaac firmly kept his mouth closed as Liam spoke up for the first time since walking in the door. "Because I don't want him to." Peter looked the boy up and down for the first time from where the older psychopathic Hale was lying on the sofa recuperating. "I like this one." Rolling over and groaning in pain as his muscles knit slowly back together from the wounds dealt to him by the mouth-less assassin, Peter sat up and stood with a painful stiffness. "Derek will be back before the moon's pull becomes too strong, in the mean time want a drink?" The idea of Peter as a generous host had Isaac glaring at him within seconds, "Is it poisoned?" Liam looked up at the older teen boy in shock at the question while Peter laughed creepily and Allison's gaze narrowed as well. "Leave them alone Peter." A familiar growl came from the doorway and Peter frowned as the freshman spun around and caught sight of the tall gruff adult. "Alright, alright you big wet blanket."

Isaac turned around at the familiar presence of the adult while Allison grinned slightly and smirked at Peter, "Boss is home?" The psychopathic Hale made a face at her before limping out of the room and up the stairs muttering about how he was still the boss. "Shut up Peter." Derek growled after him and there could be heard a feral snarl back from the older Hale which made Liam cringe and shudder. "Who's this?" Derek continued turning his attention from the couple to the younger boy and sniffed the air suddenly with a frown, "Why did you bring a new werewolf into my home?" Liam frowned at that one and Allison rolled her eyes at the man's dramatic nature while Isaac snorted in an attempt to withhold his anger at the subject. "Scott pulled a you and made a Beta, meet Liam." The freshman looked up at Isaac with shock and shuddered again as the influence of the full moon hit him, "He bit you?" Allison nodded while Isaac turned towards Derek with one final glance at Liam and the moon in the window behind him.

Although the moon was full, it had been months since he had lost control because of it. With the assistance of Argent's exercises not to mention living with Scott, normally the epitome of control, he had taught himself how to control it or at the very least suppress it. "Can we talk about this later? We don't have much time." Derek gave him and Allison a pointed look that affirmed that they would indeed be discussing this before turning to Liam and jerking his head towards the stairs. "Come on, I've got some chains and something I want you to try." Following him upstairs with Isaac's hand on Liam's shoulder, Allison following behind the three Beta wolves as the group went up into one of Derek's spare rooms. "Where was this room when I lived here?" Isaac whined earning a glare from Derek as the older man mouthed, "Later," before turning to the closet and pulling out chains as well as a small circular object."This is a triskele, it is held while chanting 'Alpha, Beta, Omega' over and over again. We will try this first and then turn to the chains if this fails." Liam looked worriedly over at Allison and Isaac as his icy blue eyes flashed gold momentarily and he frowned. "You can't hurt us, we're bullet proof." Allison reassured him with a smile as she interlaced her fingers with Isaac's and he grinned at her before turning back to Liam. "We'll be fine. Just worry about keeping the human half of you in control and listen to Derek."

Stepping back, Isaac leaned against the wall and Allison leaned beside him as they watched Derek work with Liam. "He's good with the young ones." She admitted aloud and Isaac snorted before tilting his head as he watched the pair a moment more before replying, "When they're not his own." What he had dealt with while Derek's Beta ranged from such simple things as sleeping on the floor while he had lived with the Alpha to being hoodwinked to attack innocent people like Lydia at a single order. It was just like living with a well-meaning Gerard Argent and then seeing them become the caring and gentle leader that they hadn't been capable of when you were there. Knowing that words were not going to be enough, Allison just squeezed his hand tightly and leaned into him slightly; she may not have been there at the time but that didn't mean that she didn't feel his pain; she had to both live with the real Gerard Argent and live with what he had convinced her to do.

"Derek?" A familiar female voice called startling the two teens leaning against the wall and distracting Derek from where he was concentrating on chaining up the quickly talking and shaking Liam. Isaac pointed at Derek and gave him a stern look reminding him about Liam while Allison moved towards the doorway and looked down the hall catching sight of Braeden standing there looking confused. "Where's Derek?" She asked as she pounded towards them and Allison raised a hand to stop her before she ran into the room. Stepping out of the room fully, she closed the door behind her and shook her head as she pointed downstairs and Braeden reluctantly led the way downstairs. "There's a new wolf in there that is going through his first transformation and we should really leave it to those men to handle." Braeden looked more than a little offended by the idea that she couldn't handle it and Allison shook her head, "You may be a very able mercenary but this is one of the strongest werewolves that either of them has seen. Let's just play it safe." Even then it appeared as though she was going to still argue about leaving Derek in there with him being so weak when Allison finished with her final last ditch attempt, "You don't want another scar."

Pivoting on her heel, Braeden stomped downstairs and Allison slipped back into the room and took her place beside Isaac as he moved to go assist Derek with the chains. "Damn is this one strong!" Derek yelled as he held onto one of the chains and Isaac grabbed the other tightly and pulled back as a means by which to hold him back. "Need a hand?" Allison grinned at him and he nodded while Derek tried desperately to hold on but appeared weakened substantially since the last time she'd seen him in action. "I've got it Derek. Go talk to Braeden, she's downstairs. I may have offended her." He stepped back with a sigh of relief as she took the chains from his hands and turned to Isaac and nodded at him. The teen nodded back and he and Allison both quickly leapt into action as they tied the chains together before they stepped back and Isaac stepped in front of Liam as Allison crouched beside him and the wolf in front of him growled and snarled. "Liam, listen to me. This isn't you. Breathe, Liam, breathe." His teeth bared and his eyes flashed yellow as he repeated this message while Allison warily watched him with her own eyes flashing from brown to yellow and back again.

Liam did not calm, he appeared to grow even more enraged and Allison stepped forward wearing the same facial expression her father had over the years whenever he had faced off with the supernatural fearlessly. As her eyes flashed yellow and then orange, Allison's mouth formed a thin line as flames danced across her fingers capturing the wolf's attention and causing him to snarl in her direction. "Liam, focus on the flame and come back." Moving the flame back and forth across her knuckles in a hypnotic manner that caused his eyes to follow and his head to do the same, like a hypnotized snake. Slowly his eyes closed, his head nodded forward and he passed out. "How'd you do that?" Isaac breathed out in surprise as the flame evaporated into thin air and her eyes returned to their normal chocolate brown. Turning to him she looked at him with surprise in her own eyes as she shook her head. "I…I…I…have no idea. I've never done that before." Pulling her into a hug, he held her while she trembled slightly in fear of what she hadn't known she was capable of. "Breathe Allison; you were protecting him and us. Huangs cannot harm an innocent creature." Isaac's words did nothing to soothe her as she continued to shiver before adding, "Unless they lose control and they become ruled by their human side. I lost control again, I cannot lose control."

The taller boy looked down at the top of her dark hair and sighed, "We all lose control but this Huang, this beast, is a part of you. It still is yours to control and I know you can do it."As she pulled away, he pressed his lips to her forehead and smelled the fear that sometimes still affected her on her long, tired days. "I thought the darkness was gone after you closed the door in your mind." She flinched at how perceptive he was and she blushed as she looked up at him and then back down while biting her bottom lip in her worry. "It sometimes comes back, it's just cold, dark, and it terrifies me. It's worse than losing control, far worse." Pausing she looked up at him with the fear obvious in her chocolate brown eyes as she looked up into his gray-blue ones and added, "It's like a reminder of being dead." Isaac wasn't one to tease, after all he wasn't all that witty, but she made him want to try to be rather than see her like this. "Which time?" He finally choked out and winced at how callous it sounded but she chuckled weakly anyways. No matter how terrible that line had been, it was a distraction. It was always him that brought her back from the feeling of death to the warmth of light. Definitely was part of that connection that Deaton had seen long before they had even begun to realize the extent of their relationship as friends then and lovers now.

Liam murmured suddenly bringing them back out of their private movement and into the real world. Turning to look at him, Isaac and Allison looked back at each other and increased the number of chains wrapped around the boy's form as an extra precaution. Leaning back against the wall in exhaustion, the pair grinned at each other like idiots while Liam continued to slumber. The second Allison scooted closer to Isaac to rest her head on his shoulder, Derek came barging through the door looking disheveled and with lipstick standing out obviously on his lips and neck. "It got unnaturally quiet." He began while the two teens starred at him recognizing exactly what the two adults downstairs had been up to within seconds. "We've got it covered, go back to Braeden." Allison replied as he starred at the sleeping werewolf in shock while Isaac smirked and added, "Wouldn't want to keep her waiting." Snorting at that, Derek continued to gawk at Liam before shaking his head as he stomped out the door muttering about "Creepy phoenix powers." The girl harrumphed at that as she used one combat boot to slam the door behind him before she snuggled back up against Isaac's side.

Nodding off for about an hour, the two teens were awoken by a much more satisfied looking Derek as he came in to check on the pair and ensure that Liam wasn't going to wake up any moment, escape, and wreck havoc on the already supernaturally afflicted Beacon Hills. "Isaac? Allison?" The man whispered earning a one eyed glare from Allison and a humming noise from Isaac as his eyes remained closed. "Wake up you two, we've got a few questions for you." As he walked out the door, the pair began to stretch and move about. "The floor is just as comfortable as I remember it being." Isaac snarked as he allowed Allison to get up first before following suit as his joints cracked in rebellion. Glancing over at Liam, the two slipped out the door and downstairs to where Derek and Braeden were standing around the kitchen table. "It's alright, we won't bite." Braeden reassured them and the two warily walked up to the table and stood there waiting to hear what the pair thought of what had occurred between them and Scott. "Start from the very beginning. What happened with Scott? Tell us everything."

I WILL post one more chapter before the week is out, hell it might even be tonight, but it WILL be posted and I, as always, hope that you read, enjoy, and review!