Magic Bullet

Kenzie's POV

"I can't believe you got into a fight with our daughter in the house!" I yelled at Derek because when I'd gotten off my shift tonight he told me all about the fight with Scott after Lia had told me first. "You put her at risk"

"She was perfectly safe"

"What if Scott had caught her scent and in his rage attacked her, did you even think about that?"

"I wouldn't have let that happen!" he yelled back at me. "I kept him as far away from her as I could and it wasn't like I did anything to warrant the fight, he wrongly accused me for the bus drivers death and I retaliated to protect Lia" I huffed and turned walking away from him since this wasn't going to get us anywhere, Derek and I were too stubborn when we fought to back down. "Kenz you know I'd never put you or Lia in danger on purpose, I couldn't live with myself if I did especially after her" he added making me stop and turn my head knowing who he was speaking of and it made my heart pang in guilt.

"I'm sorry Derek I just…I couldn't bear it if something happened to Lia or to you, you two are all I have left" he walked up to me and wrapped his arms around my waist pulling me to him.

"I know because I feel the same way, so I'm sorry too" I sighed since I could never stay mad at him.

"I hate you" I mumbled stepping back and he laughed.

"I know you do" he pressed a soft kiss to my temple right as I yawned. "Let's go to bed, your tired, I'm tired and our daughters already passed out" I looked over at the separate kids room where I could hear Lia's soft adorable snores and thanked heavens that she was such a heavy sleeper.

I climbed into the bed while Derek flipped off the light then walked over to the bed pulling his shirt over his head giving me a pretty nice view of the rippling muscles of his upper arms and the hardness of his abs and couldn't help the small smile once again thanking the heavens that this beautiful piece of man was all mine.

"Stare much?" he smirked as he climbed into the bed.

"I have full legal right to stare at my husband" I wiggled my left ring finger in his face showing off my engagement ring and wedding band.

"Mmhmm" he nodded with a smile before I was suddenly pulled towards him and he'd pressed a searing kiss to my lips.

"I thought we were going to bed?" I whispered against his lips as we parted just in inch for air.

"We are in bed" I laughed shaking my head at him as I wrapped my arms around his neck and swung my leg across his hips to straddle him, he reached for my t-shirt but I quickly slapped his hands away.

"Uh, uh no touching" I smiled down at him and he returned my grin and settled his hands behind his head content to watch and let me lead…for now at least, my smile widened and I grasped the hem of my shirt and pulled it up slowly revealing my skin inch by inch just enough to be teasing which I knew was working as I could feel him growing harder and I swirled my hips sliding myself against his length.

By the time I pulled my shirt off and tossed it over my shoulder he'd had enough and with a growl he dug his fingers into my panties and pulled shredding the black lace making me glare down at him.

"Derek those we're my favorite"

"I'll pay for more" he growled out as he flipped me off him and back onto the mattress then moved over me pushing his boxers down in the process before pushing in and the moment I felt him inside me my eyes closed gripping onto the arms I'd been ogling a minute ago meeting his thrusts with my own but in the back of my mind I recollected that he hadn't put a condom on.

"Don't cum inside me" I warned him through a moan and he nodded against my neck holding me tight as we moved in perfect practiced synchronization and I could feel myself building and it only got worse when I felt his hand move between us to simulate me even more. "Oh god…Derek" I moaned out loudly and mentally smacked myself since I didn't want to chance Lia waking up to this so I bit into his shoulder a little to quiet myself tasting blood as I bit down a little harder when he reached the perfect spot inside me and it pushed me over the edge and I cried out around his shoulder and he stopped moving pulling out of me quickly before he too came and I felt bad that I'd orgasmed and he hadn't.

"Nice bite" I heard him say through my hazed thoughts of pure ecstasy and I smiled admiring the bite mark on his shoulder before he flipped himself over onto his back beside me.

"Do you want me to finish that for you?" I asked nodding down to his erect member.

"It's okay, so long as you got off that's all I care about" he kissed my forehead and I didn't realize how much I was tired after work and then that because as soon as he pulled me towards him into our usual sleep position with my head on his shoulder I was out.

A little bit later I woke up needing to pee but was suddenly aware that I was alone in the bed so I sat up pulling the sheet to my chest looking around the motel room for Derek but couldn't see him and there wasn't any noise coming from the bathroom so I flipped on the bedside lamp and saw a note so I reached over and picked it up.

Kenz,
If your reading this you woke up during the night, I heard the Alpha howl…gone to track, I should be back by breakfast
Derek xoxo

I sighed putting the note back onto the bedside table then stood picking up my discarded shirt from earlier and slipped it back over my head, it was one of Derek's old t-shirts that I'd stolen and just never given back so it fell below my ass covering it and did my business before climbing back into the bed and fell back to sleep.

Derek's POV

I followed the howl to the last place I'd heard it and caught the scent of blood seeing a few droplets on the ground so I bent down and run my fingers over it seeing it was still pretty fresh so I looked around before I felt watched snapping my head up to the roofs and saw the Alpha perched on the edge and as soon as I met it's eyes it moved climbing up further turning back to growl before taking off so I leapt to my feet and went after it.

I was half asleep when I'd heard it growl content with Kenz in my arms so I was already pissed that I'd had to get out of bed but I wasn't passing this chance up to get this asshole so I'd scrambled out of the bed, dressed quickly before I'd written a note in case Kenz woke up then ran straight here so I wasn't letting him get away.

I jumped over stuff in my way before launching myself up the side of the building he'd been on using the exposed pipes and ledges to get me up onto the roof before I ran along following the Alpha as he jumped between the roofs just seeing him jump across to another so I leapt off right as a gunshot went off and I went down rolling off the roof groaning as pain flooded my back.

I groaned pushing the pain back and tried to stand but the moment I put weight on my left arm I felt even more searing pain making me go back down sliding up to lean against a wall before pulling up my sleeve and saw a bullet wound…it was smoking blue smoke which only meant one thing…wolfsbane and my mind went straight to Kenzie and Lia they couldn't see me like this.

Kenzie's POV

I woke up to an empty bed again but this time the sun was up shining into the room but I still looked around just in case but Derek was still gone but I trusted that he was okay, I moved up the bed a little frowning down at my left arm as it felt so stiff meaning I'd probably slept on it wrong so I stood up and jumped into a nice hot shower to ease out my muscles before getting out and pulled on some clothes before walking into Lia's room seeing her sprawled out on the bed with the covers half off making me laugh.

"Come on Lia, you gotta get up for school"

"Mm don't wanna" she grumbled as I walked over and picked her up carrying her out into the main room and sat her down at the table as she sleepily rubbed her eyes as I went over to the kitchenet and grabbed a bowl pouring out her cereal and milk placing it in front of her. "Where's daddy?"

"He left early this morning, don't worry you'll see him tonight" she frowned at this but I ignored it as she went on to eat her cereal so I went back into her room and pulled out some clothes so that once she was done with breakfast she could dress and I could get her to school on time.

I'd managed to get her to school and get back to the motel but Derek still wasn't back so I pulled out my phone and called him but it just rang out which angered me since I hated it when he didn't pick up.

"Derek answer the damn phone, call me back I'm getting worried" I hung up then sighed and sat down at the table seeing Derek's research that he was doing by going through everything we'd been told by Laura before she went missing…the most agonizing was the symbol she'd gotten since we had no idea what it was or standard for.

I pondered through all this before it was time to get ready for my shift at the hospital and changed into my scrubs seeing it was nearly 3:00 meaning Lia would be getting off school soon and with no contact with Derek I didn't know if he was picking her up so I drove over to her school seeing the kids all running out towards their parents and looked around for him.

"Mommy!" I turned seeing Lia rushing over so I put a smile on my face to hide how worried I was getting. "Is daddy home yet?"

"Not yet he's caught up with something so you're gonna have to come to work with me and he'll pick you up okay" she smiled and nodded since she loved coming to the hospital since the last time apparently Melissa had let her play with her stethoscope and it entranced Lia.

I drove over to the hospital calling Derek three times on the way there with still no answer so I let it go leaving him another voicemail telling him I had Lia and that he needed to pick her up before I got out with Lia and I walked into the hospital towards the front desk throwing an apologetic look at Melissa as I pulled Lia behind the nurses desk into the back office area.

"Sorry I know it's against policy but Derek's caught up and I don't have anyone else to watch her" I apologized rubbing at my arm which was still annoying me a little with the elbow area a little numb with pins and needles.

"It's fine Mackenzie really, the other nurses don't mind especially since she's such an angel" I scoffed a little but was glad my daughter had Derek's charm.

"Okay Lia your gonna wait in here okay, you sit here and I brought my computer so you can play games okay but keep the volume off okay" I put my laptop down on one of the break tables and logged in for here. "Thanks so much for this Melissa"

"It's fine really" she replied and held out a lollipop to Lia who took it.

"Thank you" I smiled at her manners before I quickly got to work taking over the rounds doing the usual nursing stuff checking up on patients and updated pain medication on those who needed it but I noticed how late it was getting and was getting really scared now since this just wasn't like Derek.

Derek's POV

I couldn't believe what I was doing going to Scott for his help only to get pushed onto his idiot friend but he was with his girlfriend at her house which was the best chance to find the bullet since I needed it to heal this…the cure is the poison with wolfsbane, I shrugged out of my jacket to look at the wound again to make sure it was still progressing slowly and wasn't reaching my heart yet I know I should call Kenzie but I didn't want her to worry about this she already had so much to worry about and after last night I wanted to avoid her thinking about my death as long as possible if this goes that way.

"Hey try not to bleed out on my seat okay we're almost there" Stiles suddenly said.

"Almost where?" I asked since I hadn't told him to go anywhere.

"Your house" he sighed like it was the obvious answer but my head snapped up since that was the last place I should be right now since it's the first place anybody would look for me.

"What no, you can't take me there"

"I can't take you to your own house?" he exclaimed and I really wished I could just rip this kids head off he was so annoying.

"Not when I can't protect myself" I replied and he rolled his eyes pulling over.

"What happens if Scott can't find your little magic bullet, are you dying?" he asked turning in his seat towards me.

"Not yet, I have a last resort" I replied vaguely but actually had two, one cutting off my arm or two sucking it up and calling my wife.

"What do you mean, what last resort?" he asked but I didn't answer and pulled up my sleeve again seeing the black veins had spread and it was still bleeding. "Oh my god what is that?" he exclaimed looking away. "Oh is that contagious, you know what you should probably just get out"

"Start the car, now" I told him.

"You know I don't think you should be barking orders with the way you look" he argued and I chose to ignore that dog joke. "In fact if I wanted to I could probably drag you little werewolf ass out into the middle of the road and leave you for dead"

"Start the car or I'm gonna rip your throat out…with my teeth" I threatened so not in the mood for this crap, he stared at me before rolling his eyes and started the car again driving back out onto the road.

I leant back once again pulling my phone out of my jacket pocket scrolling through my contacts until I found Kenzie's and hovered over the call button wondering if I should call…I'd want her to if the roles were reversed but I locked the phone.

It was starting to get dark and after about an hour this kid pulled over again calling Scott as I felt my breaths start coming out short as sweat beaded down my forehead and I was starting to loose patience with these kids.

"What am I supposed to do with him?"

"Take him somewhere, anywhere!" I heard Scott reply on the other end of the phone call.

"And by the way he's starting to smell" I looked over at Stiles with a glare.

"Like what?"

"Like death!"

"Okay take him to the animal clinic" Scott said after a pause.

"What about your boss?"

"He's gone by now, there's a spare key in the box behind the dumpster" Stiles sighed and held the phone towards me so I took it.

"Did you find it?" I asked pressing the phone to my ear barely holding onto consciousness.

"How am I supposed to find one bullet, they have a million, this house is like the frigging Walmart of guns"

"Look if you don't find it then I'm dead, alright?"

"I'm starting to think that wouldn't be such a bad thing" he replied and I bit back the growl.

"Then think about this, the Alpha called you out against your will he's gonna do it again and this time you either kill with him or you get killed" not to mention my wife who'd kill him when she found out for not finding the bullet. "So if you want to stay alive then you need me, find the bullet" I told him then hung up and handed Stiles back his phone before grabbing my own since I didn't have any other choice since I didn't have that much time left.

"Who are you calling?" Stiles asked me but I ignored him and pressed call on Kenzie's name listening it to it ring for a second before she picked up.

"Derek thank god, I've been calling you all day" I closed my eyes at the sound of her voice taking it in just in case. "Derek?"

"I'm in trouble Kenz" I replied and heard her breaths pick up.

"What trouble, where are you?"

"I was shot…I need your help"

"Where are you?" she repeated.

"I'm near the westside entrance to the preserve, blue Jeep"

"Blue Jeep?" she asked.

"I'll explain more when you get here" I wanted to ask about Lia but didn't want to say too much in front of Stiles.

"Okay, okay just hang on I'll be there soon" she replied then hung up and I pulled the phone away from my ear.

"Who's Kenz?" Stiles asked and I looked over with a glare.

"Don't call her that" I snapped at him since only I ever called her Kenz.

Kenzie's POV

Oh my god, oh my god…I kept saying this as I rushed back towards the nursing station for Lia seeing Melissa sitting at the desk and she looked up with a smile but it fell when she was my frantic expression.

"What's wrong?"

"It's Derek, he's been hurt and I have to go" her eyes widened.

"Oh god is he okay, do we need to send an ambulance?" I shook my head.

"No, no it's not that bad but I have to go…Lia" I called and she came out.

"Okay but maybe I should keep Lia here, I don't think you'd want her to see Derek injured" I frowned hesitant but she was right since I had no idea what condition Derek was in but did I trust her with Lia…I watched her for a second before nodding since it was my only option.

"You sure?" I asked and she nodded. "Okay thank you Melissa" I added then knelt down to Lia's level. "Your gonna wait here with Melissa okay, your dad called and he needs my help so you wait here and we'll be back soon okay"

"I want to come?" she argued so I reached out and tucked her hair back.

"You can't, it's okay and your dad and I will be back I promise but you have to stay with Melissa and be a good girl okay, I love you" I kissed her forehead before standing.

"We'll be fine and I'll cover your round"

"Thank you again Melissa, I owe you so much" I replied then left running out to the Camaro jumping in with the key straight into the ignition and peeled out of the parking lot like I was on grand theft auto.

The ride felt like it took forever but I finally spotted and blue Jeep and pulled up behind it getting out and rushed over to the passenger side where I saw Derek's silhouette and opened the door seeing the teen in the drivers seat jump ten foot but my focus was on Derek as he looked sickly pale and his eyes were closed.

"Derek hey…hey look at me" I cupped his cheeks and his eyes opened seeing me and a small smile graced his lips. "How long has he been like this?" I snapped at the kid who looked generally confused and terrified. "How long?!"

"Uh an hour or so" he stuttered out nervously.

"Derek where is it, where'd you get shot?"

"M…arm" he replied and I looked down towards his arms seeing the wound on his left over his elbow and it was bad.

"Oh my god" I now knew why I'd been feeling pain in that arm all day. "Why didn't you tell me sooner!" I snapped at him.

"I didn't want you to worry" he replied seemingly more alert now which was kind of a good sign.

"Derek Hale I could throttle you" I yelled at him. "Don't move I'll be back" I ran back towards the Camaro and opened up the glove compartment pulling out the first aid kit I insisted we kept in there then ran back over. "Okay just stay calm okay, I'm gonna clean it out then I'm gonna get you out of here"

"No…no" he shook his head.

"What?"

"Scott he's finding the bullet, it's the only way" I sighed since we were putting Derek's life in the hands of a teenager…one who didn't even like Derek.

"Okay what's the plan?" I asked as I cleaned out the wound then wrapped it to stem the blood flow a little since finding the bullet wasn't going to help if he continued to bleed out.

"Animal clinic…he's meeting us there" I sighed nodding my head.

"Okay I'll follow behind you guys" I said then looked over at the teenager the one still watching us as if we were the most interesting beings on the planet. "You drive fast and if he dies I'll kill you" his eyes widened nodding as I closed the door pressing my hand to Derek's cheek. "You die on me Derek Hale and I'll bring you back just to murder you myself"

"I know" he smiled weakly before the kid drove and I ran back to the Camaro getting in and followed them to the animal clinic.

Once there I helped Derek out of the Jeep letting him lean on me as the kid got the key and opened up one of the sliding doors letting us in and I led Derek over to a pile of dog food bags and got him to sit down with his back against the wall.

"Does Nordic Blue Monkshood mean anything to you two?" Stiles suddenly asked reading from his phone and I groaned since that was just perfect.

"It's a rare form of wolfsbane" I informed him.

"He has to bring us the bullet" Derek added.

"Why?" the kid asked.

"Because he's gonna die without it moron" I snapped glaring at him before I helped Derek stand back up and went into the exam room pushing Derek to lean against the metal table as I started going through the draws and cardboards for something…anything to help slow the spread.

"Okay I'm gonna ask…who are you?" the kid asked.

"Mackenzie" I replied turning to him before sharing a look with Derek and he nodded since there was no point hiding it now since this kid would no doubt tell Scott and I'd still be here when Scott got here anyway. "Mackenzie Hale"

"Hale?" he asked then looked over at Derek. "You have another sister?" I scoffed walking towards Derek.

"He's not my brother" I remarked loving the confused look on the kids face right now and even Derek had a small smirk knowing I was prolonging this kids torture over who I was. "I guess you'd say Hale is my married name, I used to be Mackenzie Lupe"

"Married…your married!" he exclaimed looking at Derek.

"Oh you must be the smart one" I crooned like I was talking to a baby. "Which means your Stiles" I pointed out remembering Derek mentioning Scott's not so but thinks he's a genius friend Stiles, he nodded before both our eyes turned to Derek as he pulled off his shirt and despite his condition I took in my husband's sexiness for just a second before I was at his side unwrapping the bandage frowning since it was worse and had almost reached the top of his arm meaning it wouldn't be long before the infection reached his heart and he was dead.

"You know that really doesn't look like anything some echinacea and a good night's sleep couldn't take care of" Stiles said and I rolled my eyes.

"When the infection reaches his heart, it'll kill him" I shot at him with a glare.

"God positivity just isn't in your vocabularies is it?" Stiles asked as Derek weakly walked over to the cabinets and started going through them like I had but there wasn't anything useful. "You two are perfect for each other" he added sarcastically and I glared at him again. "As well as couple glaring" I rolled my eyes.

"If he doesn't get here with the bullet in time, last resort…" Derek replied opening up a draw.

"Which is?" Stiles asked him.

"Your gonna cut off my arm" Derek replied holding up a surgical saw and my whole body tensed up.

"Whoa, whoa babe slow down" I went up to him and grabbed the saw off him since I was not letting him do this, there had to be something else. "There's…there's gotta be something else"

"Kenz there's nothing else, I'm running out of time" he replied leaning his forehead against mine so we were eye to eye with each other.

"God…okay" I replied putting the saw down on the table and slid it over to Stiles since I was gonna need to hold Derek down, he picked it up and pressed down on the trigger.

"Oh my god, what if you bleed to death?" Stiles asked groaning at the sound the saw made while I tied a piece of tape around Derek's arm and cut off blood flow.

"It'll heal if it works" Derek replied but I still wasn't sure about this, not that I cared he only had one arm if it meant he was alive but that still didn't mean I liked this.

"Urgh…look I don't know if I can do this" Stiles argued. "Why can't she…you're a nurse" he added looking down at my scrubs.

"I have to hold him down" I shrugged. "Why not?" I asked him but I knew since nobody should have to see this much less be the one chopping off an arm, especially a kid.

"Well because of the cutting through the flesh, the sawing of the bone and especially the blood!" Stiles exclaimed.

"You faint at the sight of blood?" Derek asked exasperatedly.

"No but I might at the sight of a chopped off arm!" Stiles exclaimed and I felt an ounce of sympathy for him.

"Alright fine either you cut off my arm or I'm gonna cut off your head" Derek threatened breathlessly and I knew we were running out of time so if I had to do this I would.

"Okay you know I'm so not buying your threats anymore" Stiles argued but Derek reached out grabbing the front of his shirt and pulled him forward. "Oh god, okay alright sold totally, I'll do it, I'll do it" Stiles stuttered but Derek started heaving before leaning over the side and threw up black blood. "Holy god, what the hell is that?"

"It's his body, trying to heal itself" I replied stuttering myself at the sight as it meant we really had no more time.

"Well it's not doing a good job of it" Stiles groaned sickened at the sight.

"Now, we gotta do it now" I told him getting into position with one hand holding down Derek's to the table while I leaned my whole weight into his back.

"Look honestly I don't think I can"

"Just do it!" Derek yelled and I closed my eyes leaning my forehead against his cheek hearing Stiles begrudgedly agree reeving the saw again.

"Oh my god, okay oh my god here we go!" he pressed the saw below the tape.

"Stiles!" we heard and we all looked up.

"Scott?" Stiles said right as Scott came into the back from the main entrance.

"What the hell are you doing?" he exclaimed seeing the saw and Stiles immediately stopped chuckling in relief as I stood up straight letting Derek up.

"Oh you just prevented a life time of nightmares" Stiles prayed in relief.

"Did you get it?" Derek asked looking at Scott and he reached into his pocket handing Derek the bullet before he looked over and noticed me but didn't say anything as Derek held the bullet up.

"What are you gonna do with it?" Stiles asked him.

"I'm gonna…I'm gonna…" Derek said before his arm dropped letting go of the bullet and it rolled away but my eyes were on Derek as he collapsed.

"Derek!" I knelt down beside him grabbing his face between my hands. "No, no, no Derek hey wake up!" I tapped his face. "Come on wake up, Derek!"

"Scott what the hell are we gonna do?" Stiles asked falling down beside me.

"I don't know!" Scott exclaimed having gone for the bullet. "I can't reach it"

"He's not waking up!" Stiles exclaimed as I continued shaking him, slapping him anything to get my husband to open his eyes. "I think he's dying, I think he's dead!"

"He's not dead!" I yelled at him and he jumped back in fear which told me my eyes were glowing with fear. "Derek Hale you wake up do you hear me, don't do this to me…to Lia!" I didn't care what I was revealing right now. "Now you wake up, do you hear me!"

"I got it, I got it!" Scott yelled and I sighed.

"God I'm sorry about this" I said before bawling my fist and pushed him square in the jaw as hard as I could with a little bit of werewolf strength thrown into the mix and his eyes snapped open.

"Give me that" he said seeing Scott with the bullet straight up and took it from him as we all helped get him standing, he quickly bit the top of the bullet and emptied the black powder out before pulling a lighter out of his pocket and lit it making me lean back from the smell as it was god awful as it sparked before letting off a blue smoke and Derek quickly gathered the purified powder into his hand hesitating just for a second before pushing it into the wound yelling out as he once again fell back writing in pain as the wound healed and closed up without a trace it was ever there.

"That was awesome, yes!" I looked back at Stiles with a glare since he was seriously messed up before I went over to Derek and helped him stand again pulling the tape off his arm.

"Are you okay?" Scott asked him.

"Except for the agonizing pain" Derek shot back sarcastically making me smile.

"I'm guessing the ability to use sarcasm is a good sign of health" Stiles said and Derek shot at glare at him.

"Okay we saved your life which means you're gonna leave us alone" Scott suddenly said making me turn back to him since he couldn't be serious right now. "You got that and if you don't I'm gonna go back to Allison's dad I'm gonna tell him everything-"

"Your gonna trust them?" Derek asked cutting him off. "You think they can help you?"

"Why not they're a lot freaking nicer then you are and I don't even know you!"

"Yeah we can show exactly how nice they are" I spat at him.

"What do you mean?" Scott asked looking at me. "Who are you?" he added and I rolled my eyes.

"God I'm only explaining this one more time, my name's Mackenzie Hale and no I'm not his sister I'm his wife as shocking as that sounds now just shut up and come with us if you don't then I'll drag you out" I spat at him before walking out with Derek following me.

"She's as charming as he is" I heard Stiles say and laughed heading out to the Camaro getting into the driver's seat since Derek wasn't completely well enough to drive.

Scott finally came out and after a few words shared with Stiles he came over and got into the back seat before Derek got in and I drove us over to the hospital heading for the long term care unit stopping and got out with Scott following us.

"What are we doing here?" Scott asked but Derek and I both ignored him as we headed towards the building with him falling into step behind us as we walked into the building and found our way to his room…it hadn't changed in six years as his condition hadn't changed in any way.

Derek opened the door and we stepped inside, my breath quickened seeing him sitting in a wheelchair head to a side staring blankly at a wall still as comatose as the last time we were here…we probably should have visited by now but being here now was too much.

"Who is he?" Scott asked us.

"My Uncle, Peter Hale" Derek replied and I reached down taking his hand squeezing it since we haven't seen Peter in six years not since we left for New York, we'd call for updates but haven't seen him in person until now.

"Is he like you's…a werewolf?" Scott asked and I looked over at the way he singled out werewolf to just us since what the hell did he think he was…this kid was gonna die if he didn't come to terms with what he was sooner than later.

"He was, now he's barely even human" Derek deadpanned so I squeezed his hand again in support and comfort since this was hard on me so I couldn't imagine how he felt standing here. "Six years ago my sister, Kenzie and I were at school, our house caught fire…thirteen people were trapped inside" Derek added and I looked down forcing myself not to cry at the memory of my parents.

"He was the only survivor" I breathed out biting my bottom lip since there was no way I was gonna cry in front of this kid.

"So what makes you's so sure they set the fire?" Scott asked us.

"Cause they're the only ones that knew about us" Derek shot at him.

"Then they had a reason" Scott replied and my head snapped up with a glare and almost a snarl.

"Like what?" I spat at him angrily. "You tell us what justifies this" I added grabbing Peter's wheelchair and turned it towards us making Peter's head move to the opposite side showing on the burns covering the entire right side of his face.

"They say they'll only kill an adult and only with absolute proof but there were people in our families that were perfectly ordinary in that fire, this is what they do and it's what Allison will do" Derek added getting our point across but I knew it was falling on deaf ears since he was nothing but a love sick puppy dog for this Allison bitch.

"What are you doing, how did you get in here?" a nurse suddenly said at the door behind us.

"We were just leaving" Derek stated taking my hand and we left with Scott following us out and we dropped him home before I returned to the hospital walking in seeing Melissa sitting at the nurses desk with Lia next to her and felt so bad since her shift had finished almost half an hour ago.

"Melissa I'm so sorry"

"It's alright" she smiled then watched as Derek came up behind me. "Are you okay Derek?" Derek looked down at me and I shook my head saying I hadn't told her anything so he could make something up.

"Yeah just got into a minor car accident wasn't watching where I was going and stepped out in front of a car but jumped out of the way just in time and fell on my arm the wrong way popping it out of the socket, could've been a lot worse" I smiled secretly at his lie.

"That's why we cross at pedestrian crossings Lia" I smirked looking up at Derek and Melissa laughed.

"Alright we'll I'll leave you to it"

"Thanks again Melissa really"

"It's no worries honestly I loved watching her makes me miss when my son was that little" she replied and I forced out a small smile. "Well goodnight" we nodded and watched her leave.

"Alright go home and rest" I told Derek fussing just slightly.

"Yes ma'am" he mock saluted and Lia laughed.

"Don't encourage him Lia, your dad's in big trouble"

"Ooh is he gonna get a timeout?" she asked.

"I don't know do you think he deserves a timeout?" I asked her and she nodded eagerly.

"He gets no ice cream or chocolate which leaves more for you and me"

"Sounds good to me" I replied and Derek rolled his eyes at us before he swooped down picking her up.

"I think someone needs to go to bed, they forget who's in charge around here" Derek smiled throwing her over his shoulder.

"It's mommy" Lia replied and I laughed even harder.

"Alright you two get out of here I gotta get back to work before I get fired"

"Okay mommy we'll see you later" Lia laughed and I smiled.

"See you later" Derek repeated with a smile and kissed me quickly before he started to walk out.

"Hey babe" I called and he turned just in time to catch the Camaro keys I threw at him. "You'll need those"

"Smartass" he shot at me before walking out and I rolled my eyes before getting back to work ten times quicker to make up for loss time.

Third Person's POV

"The one that attacked me was big, it had width and power but the one I shot was lean and fast" Kate informed her brother pacing beside the fireplace of the Argents living room.

"Well that would either be Derek Hale or Mackenzie Lupe" Chris replied looking up at his sister from his seat on the couch.

"Are we sure?" Kate asked him.

"Mostly" Chris shrugged taking a drink out of the scotch glass in his hand.

"Well how do we know it's just the three of them?"

"We don't yet" Chris replied keeping the knowledge that Derek and Mackenzie had a child to himself for now since there was no way of knowing whether their child was a werewolf even with two werewolf parents and since he didn't trust his sister, Kate leaned down beside the fireplace and turned the gas on. "But if either of them are alive they'll lead us to the Alpha"

"Take the pack leader then take the pack" Kate smirked standing up straight.

"And we do it according to the code" Chris told her with a pointed look.

"You and the code" Kate scoffed.

"It's there for a reason Kate" Chris said almost glaring at his sister with authority.

"Of course" Kate replied striking a match before looking up at her brother. "I always play by the rules" she added after throwing it back into the fireplace igniting a flame throwing a wink at Chris which of course he didn't see having looked away.