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Chapter 02: A Not So Ordinary Life?

Over the years Elizabeth had worked out how to tap into the magic from a distance and whenever Derek had gone werewolf and been injured she had pulled his spine back together. On the odd occasion she had, had to travel to him to help him. Derek and Laura left Beacon Hills after Hale House burnt down, due to Kate Argent going against her family code, they went to New York where Elizabeth had been living. Elizabeth had gained friends, friends that she trusted enough to become her family, her pack. Elizabeth's friends had included two werewolves, one her beta, and the other had at one stage been an omega before gaining her trust, the rest humans that she had come to trust and love she never gave up on them.

After Derek arrived back in Beacon Hills, he held off on contacting Elizabeth about his Uncle having bitten her nephew as it hadn't clicked until Scott had told him his name. Elizabeth had said she'd be back in town but didn't know when as she had thing to do. It took her months to return and when she did she'd gone to Hale House first out of instinct before finding her way to Derek's new loft. Derek was waiting for her beside his car.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Derek questioned, watching as she got out of her car and locked the door pocketing her keys.

"That's how you say hello to me these days?" Elizabeth retorted wrapping her arms around him and giving him a hug. "I'm sure, he has to know,"

"You're going to want to do it aren't you?" Derek questioned, unlocking his own car and motioning for her to get in.

"I think we'll have to," Elizabeth answered, pausing briefly before she continued. "Knowing my nephew like I do there are just some things that he needs to be shown. He's always been a strange kid, but Stiles a little bit stranger from memory,"

"He's a spaz, if that helps?" Derek laughed, something she hadn't heard in a while.

"A tad, tell me what you didn't tell me over the phone last time we talked?" Elizabeth questioned, running a hand through her hair before pulling it up into a messy bun.

"Scott is strong, stubborn...in love with an Argent," Derek trailed off the last statement had made Elizabeth look at him with questioning eyes. "Allison is different,"

"Allison Argent...Chris' daughter. I met Allison in the street one day, saved her actually and told her to never tell anyone," Elizabeth said, taking a deep breath before she continued. "She's not like Kate is she?"

"Not like Kate, she's one of Scott's pack," Derek said as he drove them to Scott's house. "There's a lot I haven't said and there's a lot that Scott needs to be the one to tell you,"

Elizabeth put her hand on Derek's as they arrived outside the McCall house. It looked like only Scott was home, which was what Elizabeth was hoping. Both of them sniffed the air and then Elizabeth laughed, the laugh was what had caught Scott's attention while he had been looking in the fridge for something to eat.

'Stay here, you'll know when it's time,' Elizabeth sent the message straight to Derek who nodded watching as she got out and walked up the front steps. Scott opened the door as she reached the porch.

"Ace, what's going on?" Scott McCall questioned looking at his Aunt as she stood in the door way of his family home.

"Aren't you happy to see me kiddo?" Elizabeth questioned, looking at her nephew as Derek walked up behind her. "Derek, let me tell him," It had taken Derek all of thirty seconds to leave his car.

"Tell me what?" Scott questioned as Derek stood almost menacingly behind him her. "Stay away from my Aunt,"

"Scott, it's not like that kiddo. I've been a werewolf a long time, and something else a lot longer," Elizabeth answered, glancing behind her at Derek almost causing from Scott's point of view an immense amount of pain. "Sorry Derek,"

"Why are you saying sorry to him?" Scott was curious watching as the older man collapsed on the front porch but not before Elizabeth grabbed his arm. "Wait...what did you just say?"

"Werewolves can't heal everything," Derek muttered, he sounded almost devastated before Elizabeth waved her fingers slightly and he could feel his spine pulling itself back together again. "I've known your Aunt since I was three years old, like you've known Stiles,"

"That doesn't explain what just happened then," Scott growled, he was angry at her for lying to him for as long as he could remember.

Elizabeth closed her eyes briefly and when she opened them they flashed red confusing Scott as Derek was the only Alpha that he knew. Elizabeth let out a low growl telling him to back down as Derek leant on her trying to regain the balance that she had taken from him. Scott was very confused as Stiles suddenly raced up the stairs behind them.

"Stiles was it?" Elizabeth tilted her head to the side as she saw him.

"Hi...sorry do I know you?" Stiles replied, and then looked between Elizabeth, Scott and Derek.

"This is my Aunt Elizabeth," Scott answered, he wasn't entirely sure how to explain why Elizabeth and Derek were together. "Ace you still didn't answer my question,"

"And he's here because?" Stiles questioned, raising an eyebrow at his best-friend.

"I think we all better go inside, your mom's still at work," Elizabeth explained, motioning for them to go inside and sit down to wait for them. "Derek, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to do this," Derek was slightly confused by what she was saying.

"Why did you turn up now?" Derek was curious as to why she had turned up no one had called her, well he had called her but she hadn't said when she'd be back.

"I always know when you need me," Elizabeth laughed looking at him as she spoke, it was all she could do to stop herself from saying any more.

"What did you mean by you don't know how much longer you can keep doing it?" Derek went back to his original reason for confusion.

"Every time something happens to you...it's like I have to restart it again, tonight was no different," Elizabeth answered before the two of them walked inside and joined the two teenagers.

Elizabeth sat on the lounge that was vacant while Derek leaned against the wall. Scott looked at his aunt, then at his best friend and then finally at Derek. Scott took a deep breath before he started to open his mouth Elizabeth spoke.

"I know about everything that's been happening in Beacon Hills in the last few years," Elizabeth paused briefly before she spoke again. "I'm...well..." Elizabeth let her eyes do the talking instead.

"Woah! She's a...she's a..." Stiles stuttered, pushing back in his chair and almost tipping it over.

"Yes, Stiles I'm a werewolf and I know that you know that Scott and Derek are. You've never been a great liar," Elizabeth laughed before she gained her composure and spoke again.

"Wait your eyes, they're red," Stiles said suddenly, the words falling out of his mouth like Scott had wanted to moments earlier. "Who did you kill? Are you going to kill us?"

"Stiles, mouth closed. I didn't kill anyone, there are other ways of becoming an Alpha. I'm also not normal," Scott was starting to get it, it was something that Derek had said when Jackson had attacked them as the Kanima. "I can help you, but you need to promise me that you will behave,"

"She's serious," Derek said and nodded to her getting her to do it again. "Elizabeth, the only way to make them believe is to show them,"

"Are you sure?" Elizabeth questioned, Derek nodded at her in reply, she didn't really want to do it again. "Scott, I need you to hold him this time," Elizabeth said as Derek stepped away from the wall slightly while Scott stood up but didn't take hold of the older man like his Aunt had asked. "Scott!"

"What?" Scott growled, rolling his eyes at her as she glanced at Derek and waved her fingers slightly something that Scott hadn't noticed the first time around.

Derek's knees went weak again and he started to collapse falling forwards towards the coffee table and not backwards towards the wall. Stiles looked at Elizabeth and then at Derek who was now doubled over with Scott struggling to hold him up. Scott was curious as to what exactly had happened to Derek that was so bad that he couldn't heal himself.

"What happened?" Scott couldn't help himself he had to know, but he still wanted to know what his Aunt was. "And what are you?"

"Werewolf and a witch, yes you heard me," Elizabeth answered, knowing that Scott could gage whether or not she was lying. "Before the fire, Derek's uncle tried unsuccessfully to kill him...yes he's been doing that a lot even though he needs him," Elizabeth shrugged sitting down before she continued. "Derek knew what I was and I knew that I could help him,"

"Your Aunt had already become a werewolf at that stage," Derek said grimacing through the pain that was trying to course through his body. "Elizabeth," Derek's eyes flashed similar to the first time that she had helped him.

"Take a deep breath, this may hurt more this time," Elizabeth paused before she spoke again. "Because we've done it twice I need to do it differently this time, I'm sorry," she kissed the side of his head as she lay her hand on his back and closed her eyes at the same time. "Take a deep breath,"

Stiles and Scott both watched as Elizabeth's hand didn't move from his lower back. Derek did as he was told yet still winced when he started to feel his spine moving. Stiles looked as though he wanted to take notes on what was happening. Scott elbowed him motioning for him to check to make sure his mother wasn't coming, she may have been aware that he and Derek were werewolves but she didn't know about his Aunt, her ex-sister in-law.

"Derek, take a deep breath you need to," Elizabeth whispered again, moving her hand slightly before putting a little pressure and then letting her fingers spark. "Derek," Elizabeth growled not hearing him breathe.

"Scott...your mom's coming," Stiles managed to get out, turning away from the blinds as Elizabeth and Scott picked Derek up and moved him.

"I'll go the back way with him," Elizabeth told them, before Scott shook his head and motioned to put him on the back porch.

"You have to see mom," Scott told her, Elizabeth but her lip she wasn't exactly ready to see her ex-sister-in-law.

"Scott, I haven't seen your mother in three years," Elizabeth said, thinking back to when she had last been to visit before she had decided to return. "Derek, I'll see Melissa and then I'll get you out of here,"

"Ace, you can't tell mom," Scott said as they walked back into the house and close the door making sure that Derek was out of sight. "Mom, what are you doing home?"

"Elizabeth," Melissa said, before stepping forward and hugging the young woman. "You should have called,"

"I know, but I wanted it to be a surprise," Elizabeth answered, smiling at her and returning the hug. "Sorry I've been absent, I've just had a bit going on," Elizabeth wanted Melissa to tell her that she knew about what Scott was.

"A lot has gone on here too," Melissa said, motioning for the two teenage boys to leave the room.

"Mom..." Scott started to say, before Elizabeth interjected with a sorry look to her face.

"I know what Scott is,"

Scott glared at her, before Stiles dragged him out of the room and towards the kitchen. Scott protesting that he wasn't hungry and that his Aunt shouldn't be telling his mother what she knew about them. Stiles was surprised that his mother was as calm as she was with everything that was happening.

"You know my son is werewolf," Melissa questioned, Scott standing in the kitchen listening to every word she was saying. "Your nephew,"

"Scott, I know you're listening," Elizabeth mumbled under breath before she spoke to Melissa. "It's something that I can sense...other werewolves know when they're near one," Elizabeth paused taking a deep breath before she continued to talk. "Do you remember when you first met my brother, you said there was something different about me,"

"I do remember, were you?" Melissa questioned, Elizabeth nodded she had been a child when her brother and Melissa had met.

"I'd only just been turned...I was seven or eight years old, it was an accident," Elizabeth told her, taking a breath as Scott barged into the room with Stiles behind him.

"You turned when you were a child? How is that possible?" Scott growled, as Derek sat hunched over in pain on the back deck.

"It was an accident, we were playing and I scratched her – my mother asked your grandmother if your Aunt could stay the weekend," Derek said answering Scott's question at the same time as Elizabeth told them. "It was a full-moon that weekend and my mother wanted to make sure that she wouldn't die,"

"I'm also...well I don't really know how to put this," Elizabeth said as she glanced towards the back door and then at Scott as if to say a little help here.

"Mom, Ace is a witch...yes the magical kind," Scott blurted out, before he looked at his watch to see what the time was. "Ace, don't you have somewhere to be?"

"I do, I'm sticking around for a while so there will be plenty of dinner opportunities," Elizabeth said, before she motioned for Stiles to to give her a hand out the back.