Thank you for being so patient and so excited to continue to read this. Please review if you believe that I am going off track in any way since this is all new territory from the original TV series. The song is "Gasoline" also by Halsey. Enjoy!

Chapter 23: "Gasoline"

"Are you deranged like me? Are you strange like me?

Lighting matches just to swallow up the flame like me?

Do you call yourself a fucking hurricane like me?

Pointing fingers cause you'll never take the blame like me?"

The sound of the tinkling glass breaking followed by a loud crash as the aluminum car door was flung into a nearby tree startled the two teens in the front of the car as they turned around to see the younger teenage boy rolling across the ground to cushion his fall and then leaping into a fighting stance with claws and teeth bared and eyes glowing yellow. "Dammit Liam!" Isaac cursed with his own eyes flashing to gold as he slammed on the brakes and whipped his head around in time to see one berserker stop to deal with the teen and the other continue towards their car. Opening her door, her eyes already glowing orange, Allison ordered "Call Scott, I'll distract the berserker." The boy rolled his eyes as he picked up his phone and hit the speed dial for his annoyed roommate and Alpha. "Why do I always get stuck with the dirty work?" He muttered to himself as the phone rang and a pissed off Scott answered three rings later, "What?" In response the Beta rolled his eyes and withheld a growl of annoyance. "Berserkers. Off a dirt road in the north woods. Backup would be nice." Within three sentences he summarized the entire situation and was not about to wait for a response as he hung up and tossing the phone in the passenger seat as he opened his door himself with his eyes glowing bright in the dark. Running towards the fight he bared his teeth and his claws with a final growl of complaint, "I hate the dirty work."

Dashing in next to his girlfriend, he glanced over at her for an order and was unsurprised to see her fully consumed in flames and engaged in burning the berserker whenever it got too close to her or Liam who was off attempting, and failing, to take down the other nightmare. "I've got Liam." He assumed without actually being ordered and Allison nodded in response before returning her attention to the bloodthirsty beast in front of her as he sprinted around her and leapt onto the back of the other berserker. It gave a war cry rather than a screech of pain as his claws latched in between the bone coverage and hit the form of the human still inside. "He's mine!" Liam roared at Isaac while he was thoroughly still occupied riding the back of the berserker like a rodeo cowboy. "Sure, you don't want a hand?" Isaac managed as he tried his best to hold on to the beast with just his claws and brute strength. The loud growl from the pissed new Beta was enough to make the older boy shrug as he released the beast and leapt deftly onto the branch above him with a sigh of relief at actually making his landing, his acrobatic skills were far worse than his shooting had been at first. "All yours!" Turning away and hearing the sound of Liam getting thrown back into the tree and growling like a true wolf, the Beta turned to help the huang only to find that she had already taken out her target.

"That putting to sleep trick is more than a little creepy." The wolf pointed out to the huang and she just glared up at him and he nodded understanding what she was not saying; it may be creepy but it sure as hell was effective. "Liam won't last much longer without it." She told him as the girl strode past with the flames receding and leaving just a girl, in clothes that miraculously had not burned up, who was determined to help the younger angrier werewolf from further agony. Nodding Isaac flipped off of his perch and landed on all four limbs with ease before launching himself onto his legs and ran after Allison. Her eyes were still glowing golden and his claws bared as he planned to assist her until a flame flicked out at his chest causing him to yelp in pain. "I've got this. Only engage if he won't go down." Rather than follow her order completely, he kept his wolf form and continued along behind her, at a safer distance, before looping behind the thoroughly distracted berserker who was entirely occupied with attacking Liam and tearing the young wolf to bits. "Berserker, it's me you want!" Allison called her voice sounding odd to Isaac causing him to cock his head in confusion until he realized it was not just Allison's voice but also the voice of the huang.

The creature turned towards her with a growl as Liam laid there his golden eyes squeezed shut in pain and his body covered in huge gashes. Debating between helping the huang or the boy, taking out the bigger threat became Isaac's priority as he turned to stand prepared behind the beast as his leader danced the flames across her hands and the beast began to lull nearly immediately. Deciding based on this that the situation was completely under control; Isaac changed his mind and turned to Liam. "Liam?" He called into the darkness and a pair of bright-blue eyes stared back at him from a bloody broken body of a boy lying prone on the ground. "You're going to hate me for this but..." Isaac let his statement of fact trail off as he closed his fist and punched his young friend in the stomach with the least amount of force necessary to force him to change. "I'm sorry, Liam." The teen continued as Liam's screams of pain turned into a roar and Isaac watched with pity in his fully human eyes as Liam began the painful healing process.

Before he could completely ensure that Liam was going to heal alright, however; Isaac was tackled with excessive force of a man with glowing red eyes. "Scott, get off of him!" Allison ordered with a glare at the Alpha that made Isaac's pack leader step back in fear of her. Isaac stood up with a wince and glared at Scott before double checking that Liam had begun to heal. "You'd be better served helping him get Liam able to walk. My father will be here soon to destroy these berserkers for good." The Alpha did not like to be ordered around, not even when Derek was an Alpha; his moral code did not extend to following orders from others, especially those from his ex-girlfriend turned huang and badass huntress. "It's your fault that he got hurt!" Scott roared at Isaac and Allison narrowed her eyes to retaliate but she was beaten by Isaac stepping up and staring his Alpha in the eye. "Yes, it's my fault for helping him when you were too busy. I'll take the blame for my actions but you need to too."

Despite knowing that Isaac was right about his role in the attack and Liam's subsequent injuries, Scott walked around Isaac and picked Liam up, like he weighed nothing at all, and carried him down to the torn up car. "Dad said that he would give us a ride when he gets here. Our job is only to keep them asleep until then." Isaac heard what she wasn't saying, he always heard what she wasn't saying and he knew that they had more than one job; the other was to ensure that Kate, no matter what she was, didn't take them away or chase after the unsuspecting Scott or wounded Liam.

"Kate?" He asked aloud and she looked over at him with a look of pain at that knowledge. That was all the answer that he needed to confirm that his intuition was right; nothing was more painful than the look of someone that had to face their own family. It was a look he had worn sine he was a child and that his brother had had to wear for far longer than he. There was a difference though, because Allison was not beaten yet despite the scars she bore already both internally and externally because of her aunt. She wasn't a victim like him who never rebelled; she was a badass who refused to give in despite the odds stacked against her, despite dying. "I'm no stronger than you." Allison spoke up surprising him with how easily she was able to read him; it made him wonder if she and he hadn't become more connected than Deaton had anticipated. "Some of us get kicked to the ground and grow harder and stronger when the scars heal." Isaac explained as he unconsciously touched his chest where many scars met together and formed the imprint of a belt buckle itself dented permanently onto his skin. "You aren't either if you're standing in front of me able to trace yours."

Turning away from him to hide her tears as they began to pool in her eyes, she double checked on the still sleeping berserkers. Isaac knew that he couldn't comfort her and she was in no place to comfort him any further, this was their life and they had to deal with their wounds on their own whether they wanted to or not. It helped though, knowing that he had lived through pain like hers; he gave her faith that she could too despite being scared out of her mind. Dancing the flames across her knuckles quietly in front of the first beast to ensure that he dozed longer, Allison was unaware that time had passed until she heard her father's familiar voice threatening in a low tone. "If you totaled my car Lahey, those berserkers waking up will be the least of your fears."

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