Part 1: Discoveries

Addison had to admit that she was disappointed when she didn't 'wolf-out' after putting the moonstone necklace on. She thought she found where she belonged. However, the incident did help her realize that although she wasn't a werewolf or a zombie, she did know where she belonged. She was Addison; and as cliche as it sounded, she was a cheerleader and the cheerleader who helped unite those Seabrook initially pushed to the side.

When she found out Zed had stolen her necklace rather than simply finding it, Addison had been disappointed too; of course, that disappointment had come before finding out she wasn't a werewolf. Although she was disappointed, Addison came to understand why Zed had done it. Even if he wouldn't admit it, he'd been scared for her to find out the truth––worried she'd face the torment he had when zombies began integrating into Seabrook.

Eventually, she and Zed worked things out. Every relationship had bumps in the road that would either push people apart or help bring them closer together if they worked through it. They'd worked through it and it made their relationship stronger.

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The remainder of the school year passed in normalcy. The werewolves decided to officially join Seabrook as students in the high school and in both the middle and elementary schools as well.

As the next school year began, Addison was ready to take on her role as cheer captain as a Sophomore. Before her, Bucky was the only other Sophomore to take on the cheer captain role; by passing the role to her, she became the second while he became the student body president for his senior year of high school.

As cheer captain, Addison hoped to bring more people together. While not all the wolves decided to stay on the team, several did and Addison was more than happy to have them join. Stacey, Lacey, and Jacey––who had asked everyone to call him Kevin since it was his real name––were less than thrilled to have Addison as the cheer captain, but she didn't care.

CHCHCH

Life as a Sophomore wasn't much different than it was as a Freshman. The real difference came with Addison being cheer captain and the one leading the cheers for Zed and the rest of the football team at the games.

CHCHCH

About a month into the school year, Addison got an assignment about family history. She decided to do some digging on her own outside of what she learned from her parents. Her grandma, Wilma Buchanan, whose husband had his ear bitten off by a zombie, had two children, Addison's mom and Bucky's dad. As the only grand-daughter, Addison inherited her grandma's things when she passed.

One Sunday night, while her parents were out for dinner and a movie afterwards, Addison decided to retrieve her grandma's things from the basement. She already knew some of her family history from the stories her parents told and she'd documented that information in a word document, but she hoped to learn more from her grandma's things.

The first thing Addison came across was an old photo album from her grandparent's wedding. Addison wasn't sure why it wasn't somewhere more easily accessible in her house, but shook that thought from her mind as she began looking through it. Addison couldn't help but smile as she looked through the pictures and noticed the features she shared with her grandma.

There were a handful of other things Addison spent a couple minutes looking over before she reached what looked like her grandma's diary. Addison was certain she had never seen the diary before. Sure, she was only ten when her grandma passed, but the book didn't look familiar in the slightest. She took it out to begin looking over it.

For several minutes after taking her grandma's diary out, Addison flipped through it without reading it. She wanted to look at her grandma's handwriting and simply take it in. After a few minutes of flipping through the pages, Addison finally settled on an entry to read and found her brow furrowed as she read it.

'I'm glad that to this day I still haven't told Ben the real reason he couldn't meet my father––the real reason he never did meet him. Today, we spent hours in the emergency room after a rogue zombie bit his ear. I dread to think what he would have thought if he ever found out the truth about my family. He would have viewed them as monsters as well. I know Ben isn't the most open minded person in the world, and it hurts to think what his reaction would have been. However, I love him and I can't risk losing him.'

'What?' Addison thought to herself as she finished reading the entry. Her Grandma Wilma, a monster? It made no sense. As a million thoughts raced through her mind, Addison flipped back a couple pages.

The sentences Addison skimmed over made her even more confused. She flipped through it trying to find answers and found an entry her grandma wrote from a few days after Addison was born.

'Although Bowen and Missy never showed signs of inheriting werewolf genes, I'm concerned about what Addison's snowy white hair might mean.'

"What!" Addison exclaimed aloud as she stopped reading the entry. "Was Grandma Wilma a werewolf?" she asked herself. Even as she spoke, the pieces began clicking together in Addison's mind.

Werewolves had names with a 'w' in them the same way zombies all had a 'z' in their names. Could her grandma's name being Wilma mean she was a werewolf?

"It doesn't make sense," Addison spoke, still not fully believing it as she flipped back near the beginning of the diary. It seemed Grandma Wilma started writing in it soon after she and Grandpa Ben got married.

Addison got lost in her grandma's diary as she read it. For the next half hour, Addison was oblivious to the world as she read the secrets her grandma documented in the diary. Addison's great-grandpa, Wilma's dad Weston, was a full blooded werewolf while Wilma's mother was a human.

As a half-werewolf, Wilma was able to hide the fact that she was part werewolf from everyone her whole life. She dyed her hair a lighter color since color stuck to the brunette part of her hair, but not the nearly white part. Because of that, not even her mom's family ever knew the truth about her father.

Throughout her adult life, Wilma had made sure to keep her werewolf side a secret. She knew the sort of persecution she would face if anyone discovered her secret. She'd seen it in how Seabrook dealt with zombies.

In the diary, Addison read an entry about how her mom and Uncle Bowen never showed any signs of being werewolves. Wilma made clear to document her relief that her children looked completely human. It all meant that Wilma didn't need to reveal the truth.

At first, Addison didn't want to believe what she read despite the evidence otherwise. She didn't want to find that her grandma had kept so much about her life from the entire family her whole life because she was worried about the persecution she would face. However, Addison had to believe it after reading an entry about how Wilma had carefully chosen a name with a 'w' in it for her son in case he ever exhibited signs of being a werewolf.

Addison found another entry from soon after her mom was born.

'Bowen hasn't shown any signs of being a werewolf. His hair is all dark brown like his father's without the tell-tale white patch to indicate that he has any werewolf in him. I decided not to give my precious daughter a werewolf name. Ben liked the name Missy, and since 'm' is just an upside down 'w' I thought it could still work well.'

"How'd you keep this all hidden, Grandma?" Addison asked. She flipped forward to one of the last entries her grandma wrote before her untimely heart attack which lead to her death.

'I fear I'll have to come clean in the near future. Addison will be turning ten soon and I feel she'll be ready to learn the truth then. Although she hides her white hair under a wig, it has to mean something. It's the same color as the patch of white hair all werewolves have. I'll need to show her how to embrace and control her werewolf side. Not that it takes much before she first becomes one. It's after she's become a werewolf for the first time that she'll need help learning control.

'I want to be there for Addison the first time the mark, ^, is drawn on her cheek to allow her to fully embrace her werewolf side. I need to be there.'

As Addison finished reading the entry, she felt tears well up in her eyes. Her grandma hadn't been able to help her. "Wait, the marks," Addison spoke, recalling how all the werewolves had similar marks to the one her grandma had drawn in her diary on their cheeks. Did she need that to 'wolf-out'? Could that have been why she didn't become a werewolf by simply putting the moonstone necklace on?

With a renewed determination, Addison turned back to the box of her grandma's things. She found something that looked almost like stamp ink, although the box was bigger, and upon closer inspection, it was exactly what Addison needed.

While searching, Addison also found her Grandma Wilma's moonstone necklace. With both things in hand, Addison made her way over to her makeup table in her room. She set the ink down to put the moonstone necklace on first. As she did, it glowed slightly. Addison furrowed her brow and reached for the ink box to draw the symbol on her cheek.

"Now's the moment of truth," Addison spoke, taking a deep breath then leaning in close to her mirror to carefully draw the symbol. After drawing it, Addison closed her eyes. When she opened them and looked up to look at her reflection, her eyes were no longer blue, but instead glowed yellow. She turned her head to the side and moved her hair out of the way to see her ears came to a slight point like the werewolves' did. In addition, her nails were dark and came to a somewhat rounded point almost like claws. "This is so weird," Addison spoke, finding she had two fangs in place of her normal teeth.

Yet, although it all felt weird, it somehow felt right as well.

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After a few minutes of looking at her glowing yellow eyes, Addison blinked to return her eyes back to normal. "What now?" she asked herself, as though the her in the mirror would have an idea. She had no idea how to really control when her eyes glowed yellow and when they were normal. Her next thought was texting Zed. She had to let him know what she'd discovered.

Addison also needed to know how everything with her werewolf-ness worked. Werewolves began to enter the 21st century since their acceptance into Seabrook. While not all werewolves took to technology such as cell phones, Wyatt was one who had.

Addison decided to text Zed and Wyatt to ask them both to come over to her house.

CHCHCH

Zed and Wyatt approached Addison's house from opposite directions, but arrived nearly simultaneously. "Why do you think she wanted to talk to the two of us together?" Zed asked as the two met outside her house.

"I don't know. She's your girlfriend," Wyatt shrugged.

"But I'm not a mind reader," Zed replied, reaching out to knock on the door.

"Zed," Addison greeted him with a hug. "Wyatt," she added. "Come in, both of you," she spoke, making sure she kept her fangs hidden as she spoke.

"What's up, Addy? Why'd you need to talk to both of us?"

"Yeah," Wyatt agreed.

"Follow me," Addison said, turning away from the two beckoning them to follow her upstairs to her room where she left her grandma's things.

"What are you wearing the moonstone necklace for again?" Zed asked as the three made their way to Addison's room.

"That's what I needed to talk to you both about," Addison began, turning around to face them. "I'm part werewolf," she spoke, smiling to show them her fangs.

"Wow," Wyatt and Zed spoke together as they looked wide eyed at Addison's fangs.

"How?" Zed asked.

"Why didn't you transform the first time you put a moonstone necklace on?"

"My Grandma Wilma wrote about it in her diary. I was reading it to find out more about my family for that class assignment. My Great-Grandpa Weston was a full werewolf. It looks like no one in my family after my grandma showed signs of being a werewolf. It skipped showing up in any other of my family members besides me.

"And I think it might not have worked because I'm not really the great alpha. I'm more of a normal werewolf and needed this mark to be able to transform," Addison explained, pointing to the symbol she drew on her cheek.

"That does make sense," Wyatt agreed.

"What did you need us here for?"

"You were the first person I wanted to tell when I––when I transformed for the first time. And I need a werewolf to teach me how this all works since my grandma isn't here to teach me."

"Yeah, how does it work?" Zed asked, sitting down on the edge of Addison's bed and waiting for Wyatt to tell them what they needed to know.

"All right," Wyatt agreed. "I'll play the role of teacher." Wyatt paused and took a deep breath. "Welcome to 'Being a Werewolf 101'. Addison, please take your seat next to Zed," he joked.

Addison laughed as she sat down next to Zed. "What do I need to know?"

"What do you want to know?"

"Can I make my fangs go away the way I can control when my eyes glow and when they don't?"

"No, not the same way. Your moonstone gives you the power to fully wolf-out, but the symbol is important too. You need to be without the moonstone and symbol for you to appear human. Controlling your eyes glowing or being normal is pretty easy. You really just need to think about whether or not you want them to glow and be yellow as a part of going full wolf.

"Full blooded werewolves can never go very long without their moonstones and the symbols because it's a risk to our health, but since you're part human and went what––fifteen years?" Addison nodded. "Without ever going to full wolf, I'm sure you'd be fine without it for extended periods of time."

"Wow," Zed spoke. "It's actually really interesting the differences and similarities between zombies and werewolves."

"Yeah," Wyatt agreed.

"For now, we need our Z-bands to live normal lives, but you can't live without it. They work in different ways but with the same result," he noted. "Sorry, go on."

"No, you're fine. I don't have much more to add. Although most of the time werewolves only make their eyes turn yellow and glow when they feel threatened or are getting ready to fight and not just at any normal time. The adrenaline rush helps with the transformation."

"Okay," Addison nodded. "I think I've got it all. If I have any more questions about it, I'll be sure to ask you," she added as she stood and led the way back downstairs.

"See you tomorrow at school," Wyatt waved as he headed out a few minutes later.

"See you in the morning," Zed spoke, placing a kiss on Addison's cheek. "Gar gar giza," Zed added.

"Gar gar giza," Addison replied before Zed turned to make his way home. Addison was sure there would be drama when she showed up to school with fangs, but that was a problem to face in the morning. She headed back to her room and put her grandma's things back into the box and set it next to her desk before getting ready for bed.

A/N: As a sort of explanation, I know Zed had a poor reaction the first time Addison was going to try and become a werewolf in stealing her necklace. However, I feel like after their conversation at Prawn, he's accepted who he is which would make him more willing to accept the fact Addison is a werewolf and have a reaction more similar to the way I wrote it here.

I also know that the way I have the symbol typed out is different from what the werewolves actually have, but it was somewhat similar and something that I could actually type.

This is something I decided to write this because while watching the movie, I thought Addison might not have become a werewolf because Zed's Z-band drained all the power from the moonstone necklace. Her touching the moonstone during 'One for All' threw a wrench in that theory, so I changed it a little and wrote this.

The official title of this story comes from an episode of the show Mako Mermaids which has an episode called 'The Truth About Evie.' Mako is the sequel/spin-off of H2O which was one of my favorite shows during my childhood, so there's where the title came from in case anyone's curious.

Anyway, this was something I really wanted to write and I hope you enjoyed it. I'd love to know what you thought and what could have been improved. Please be respectful and constructive with any criticism. I appreciate constructive criticism, but being rude and flaming about it doesn't help me become a better writer so any other fics I write can be better.

Thanks again for reading. Part 2 coming soon.

-CrazyHayniac