Chapter 06: Wait For You
By the end of November, Allison and Aiden had both been killed by Nogitsune and Oni. Isaac left with Argent to keep the Nogitsune from coming back to life. Isaac didn't know how to deal with Allison's death so he had Argent had left town and gone to France. Ethan had disappeared after being told via text that he had a place in Elizabeth's pack for all of his attempts at helping her nephew.
'Ace, we need your help. Derek's missing,' Scott had sent Elizabeth a text after a couple of weeks of not being able to find Derek who had gone missing after the Nogitsune. Elizabeth had replied telling him that she'd be back as soon as she could she just had things to take care of first.
When Elizabeth returned to Beacon Hills she found that Derek was slowly losing his werewolf powers. Elizabeth ran into Derek's loft, running straight into Peter before pushing out of the way. Elizabeth's brother, Scott's father was also back in town – he hadn't left since she had. Elizabeth had been gone while Kate had taken him, Scott had desperately tried to call her to get her to come back once they had found him.
"Not now Peter," Elizabeth growled running over to Derek just as he was about to collapse. "Derek, hey take a deep breath,"
"What are..." Derek muttered, taking a deep breath as he grabbed hold of Elizabeth.
"Take my hand," Elizabeth held her hand out to him, as he did so she felt something wasn't right inside of him. "Derek, what happened?"
"I don't know... Kate," Derek was confused, how had Elizabeth known to return to Beacon Hills again.
"Derek, close your eyes. You need to relax your spine it's pulling itself apart again." Elizabeth whispered, Peter looked at his nephew and then at Elizabeth having heard what she was saying. "Peter, back off,"
"Now, what did you do?" Peter questioned his eyes flashing blue at her, Elizabeth closed hers before looking up at him with bright red eyes. "He was fifteen years old when they found him,"
"I said, back off," Elizabeth growled before returning her attention to Derek. "Close them, you need to," Elizabeth took her free hand and pushed her fingers into his spine. "Wait a minute fifteen?"
Derek howled as Elizabeth pressed into his back, Elizabeth did it again this time letting the magic course back through his spine to pull it back together. Derek's eyes flashed yellow, which was the part that surprised Elizabeth the most. Elizabeth pulled Derek closer to her and tried harder to get his spine back to place.
"Look at me, Derek you need to relax. Your werewolf side was, what was helping but with that going..." Elizabeth trailed off looking at Derek as she spoke. "Where did they find you?"
"Mexico...You don't know if you can do it," Derek paused before continuing. "That's why you came back, you need to be closer to me," Derek winced as he felt things moving around in his back. "I spoke to my mother,"
"You did what?" Elizabeth questioned, pulling her hand away from him and essentially pulling away from him. "Your eyes,"
"Spoke with my mother...I found out something which terrified me, and also something from when we were children. Peter used her claws," Derek told her relaxing as what Elizabeth had been doing finally started to take. "Deucalion, that's why he left so abruptly, he realised that you had gotten stronger...he turned you,"
"Are you sure?" Elizabeth questioned, sitting down and pulling Derek down next to her.
"He's sure," Peter said having heard the entire conversation between the two of them. "Elizabeth,"
"What do you want Peter? I can't help you ever," Elizabeth told him, her voice almost to the point of growling at him. "You're the one that did this to him in the first place,"
"And Deucalion turned you, my sister took the memories of what happened," Peter told the two of them as he stood leaning against a pole. "She wasn't sure that it would hold, because of what you are,"
"Can it Peter," Elizabeth said, as Scott ran into the apartment – he wasn't about to knock when his Aunt was back. "Scott, slow down,"
Scott looked at Elizabeth, cocking his head to the side he hadn't said a word. Yet his aunt some how knew that he wanted to say something to her. Derek shook his head at him, they couldn't tell her about the list that they had found. Elizabeth patted the seat beside her and motioned for Scott to sit down. Derek and Scott went through everything that had happened since she had been gone with Cora. They told her about Isaac being injured, about Stiles being the Nogitsune and everything. Elizabeth told them that Argent had asked about helping to be Isaac's guardian if he couldn't be. Derek told her that Argent had used Elizabeth's name to stop him from killing him.
"Okay, you three need to tell me what the hell is going on now," Elizabeth said as Derek moved to stand up, Elizabeth grabbed his hand and pulled him back down again.
"There's a dead pool...every supernatural creature in Beacon Hills, every one except you," Derek said, reasoning that the reason that Elizabeth wasn't on the list was because she didn't live in Beacon Hills. "But you haven't always been in Beacon Hills, but you have always been one of us..."
"Derek, you know she hid," Scott said, and then his eyes landed on Peter.
"Not exactly, I hid what I was. I don't know how," Elizabeth said, it was the truth she could hide what she was to some extent but she didn't know how she did it.
"We have told you what we know," Peter said, Elizabeth looked at Peter and raised an eyebrow at the older man and then looked out the window. "Scared of a full moon?" Peter had been listening to everything, some of Elizabeth was still a mystery to him.
"Hell no, everyone has an anchor remember," she smirked, Derek looked at her and smiled. "Your mother told me that," Elizabeth paused again looking between the three men and went to speak again but found Scott talking instead.
"I'm her anchor," Scott said, remembering that she had told him that before she had left the last time. "She's mine," Scott looked at her and shrugged at one point he had been his own anchor, in truth he was still his own anchor but they need not know that.
Derek looked at Scott and then at Elizabeth and raised an eyebrow at her. Elizabeth stood up and pulled both the boys up with her before dragging them into Derek's room and closing the door behind them. Scott looked at his and then at Derek, wondering if Derek was going to tell her that he was in a relationship.
"Tell me about the new supernatural beings that seem to be popping out of the wood works?" Elizabeth said, pushing Derek onto his bed and then sitting on it and motioning for Scott to do the same.
"Kira, you know she's a kitsune; Liam, is a beta; Malia is a werecoyote and Peter's daughter," Scott said, watching as Derek didn't move from where he was. "Oh and we think Parrish is something,"
"Parrish? The Deputy?" Elizabeth questioned, before she backtracked to Liam. "Liam, is a beta? Scott what did you do? Wait Peter's daughter?" Peter just nodded that was about as much as they were going to get out of them. He had opened the door and was leaning against the door frame listening to them.
"I bit him to save his life," Scott answered, looking away from his aunt as though he was ashamed of what he had just said. "If I hadn't bitten his wrist, he wouldn't be here,"
"You bit his wrist on the roof of the hospital, where you put him," Derek said as he finally put the pieces together. "That's why I smelled his blood on the roof. The full moon's tonight, have you and your friends worked out how to help Liam and Malia?"
"Taking them to Lydia's parents boathouse," was the only answer that Scott gave Derek before he looked at his watch and realised that he had to go. "It worked last time, and it will again...I hope, I have to go,"
"Yeah and I do too, I promised your mom I'd have dinner with her at the hospital," Elizabeth said giving Scott a hug and then turning to face Derek and giving him one and a kiss on the cheek whispering. "I'll work it out, I promise," Elizabeth said before she and Scott left the loft.
"Elizabeth, what's happening to Derek?" Scott questioned as they stepped into the elevator and closed the doors going down.
"I don't know, but whatever it is – it's making it harder for me to help him from so far away," Elizabeth told him, she needed to work out what it was. "Before the you found the Argent's bestiary, I had a fascination with all things supernatural and not because of who I am,"
"You were genuinely interested, I'll see you tomorrow?" Scott questioned, only it came out more like a statement.
"Yeah, you'll see me tomorrow," Elizabeth said as the two of them went their separate ways. "Wait Scott, was Derek really fifteen when you found him?"
"Yeah...it was weird, I'll tell you about it tomorrow,"
The next day Scott and Elizabeth talked, Scott telling Elizabeth what his father had said to him about why he left. Elizabeth and Scott talked about Allison and how much she had meant to him. She already knew just how much Allison had meant to all the teenagers. Scott also explained about how when they had found Derek he was fifteen years old and was confused about his house and where his best-friend was.
"Derek freaked out at the animal clinic, Deaton and Lydia were there," Scott said pausing before he continued. "They said he kept repeating your name and then he took off,"
"That explains why I felt something was different a few weeks ago," Elizabeth sighed, Scott looked at her and realised that she was feeling guilty over not returning sooner.
"It's not your fault. Stiles' dad said that Derek asked about you too. We really don't know what was going on, just that he was scared," Scott looked up at Elizabeth as he took her hand. "Did you know that he still had trouble on the full moon at that age?"
"Yeah, I knew...that's why he would have been saying my name," Elizabeth replied, running a hand over her face. "I need to work out what is happening...I'll figure it out some how,"
"Oh and there's these things called berserker's that are trying to kill us all. Ace...stay with my mom," Scott said as he didn't want her getting her like the rest of them had managed to do at some stage. "Derek, was only fifteen for something like twenty-four hours,"
"Kiddo, I'll be okay. You know I will," Elizabeth smiled at him, pulling him into a hug. "It's you and Derek that I'm worried about,"
"Ace, what if we can't stop it? And can you stick around to help with Liam?" Scott questioned, hugging her back and almost not wanting to let go as he thought she would leave again.
"Not planning on going anywhere for a while," Elizabeth laughed pulling away from him. "And I'll only go wolf if it's necessary,"
"Ace, do you know what's happening to Derek?" Scott was curious, he knew that he knew that something was happening.
"I have a couple of ideas, but I need to research it more...and Deaton won't know," Elizabeth stated, as from what they had already said Deaton didn't know about the regression to begin with. "When I do work it out, Der'll be the first to know,"
Scott and Elizabeth talked about the order that the dead pool was going in. He told her that even though her name wasn't on the list there were variables that he didn't like and that if she could help Deaton in anyway then she should. As they were talking Stiles, Lydia, Malia, Liam and Kira turned up – they hadn't had a chance to properly introduce Elizabeth to Malia, Kira and Liam.
"What was so important that we had to meet here?" Stiles questioned, as the five teenagers arrived at the location that Scott and Elizabeth had sent which just happened to be reserve.
"Ace's idea. We needed to talk and she likes to run when she talks," Scott shrugged, as Malia, Liam and Kira looked between them.
"Who's she?" Malia questioned, pointing directly at Elizabeth as she spoke.
"Elizabeth McCall...Scott's aunt," Elizabeth replied as her eyes inadvertently flashed red and purple as she felt something happening.
"Ace?" Scott grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes. "Your eyes, what is it?"
"I don't know, it could be nothing," Elizabeth said blinking to try and get her eyes to go back to normal.
"Ace...take a deep breath," Scott hadn't let go of her arm and didn't know what else to do. "What do I do?"
"Nothing," Elizabeth growled low before her eyes returned to their natural state.
"What are you?" Kira questioned, looking directly at her as she spoke.
"Werewolf and witch...and yes my eyes are red because I'm an alpha," Elizabeth replied, with a shrug as she felt something else but stopped her eyes from changing.
"She' not just any Alpha...she's like Scott," Stiles said as though he was actually proud of it which surprised both Elizabeth and Scott. "What? What did I say?" Scott and Elizabeth looked at each other and laughed.
"You can't let anyone know about her, she's not on the list," Scott said before he watched Elizabeth run off. "Okay that's new, Malia go see where she's going,"
Malia looked at Lydia who nodded, so Malia took off after her leaving the other teenagers standing in the middle of the reserve. Elizabeth stopped suddenly and turned around to face Malia who only stopped when she was about to run into her. Malia took one look at Elizabeth and ran back towards where Scott and the others were and she didn't know why.