Chapter 10: Believer

Scott, Stiles and Malia did as Elizabeth suggested and started to try and get their friends, their pack back together. Scott believed that they needed Elizabeth's help to get them all together, but Mason was doing his best to help them at the same time. Elizabeth didn't leave Beacon Hills as fast as she she said that she was, instead she hid out at her apartment and cloaked her appearance. Lydia's mother had her committed to Eichen House out of fear for her safety. Parrish managed to get Elizabeth to visit Lydia in Eichen House before she left, Lydia's mother Natalie didn't know about what she was capable of doing.

"Natalie, I can help Lydia," Elizabeth said as she walked into Lydia's room after Natalie had kicked Stiles out again. "Just trust me please," Elizabeth smiled at her, Natalie looked curiously at her as Elizabeth put her hand to Lydia's shoulder. 'Lydia, sweetheart you're going to be okay,'

'You don't know that,' Lydia answered she was still completely out of it while Elizabeth kept her hand on her shoulder. 'I can't help my friends,'

'Yes I do and yes you can, you know how? Because you're strong,' Elizabeth sighed as she took her hand away from Lydia and looked at Natalie. "She will be okay, Lydia's stronger than she looks,"

Natalie looked at Elizabeth before Elizabeth walked from the hospital and met up with Parrish in the parking lot. Parrish looked at Elizabeth and then towards the eerie building behind them. Elizabeth pulled him aside towards his car.

"She's okay, she's scared but she's okay," Elizabeth paused before she continued. "Don't ask me how I know this, it's complicated...but Parrish, look after Lydia,"

"That's why I asked you to see her," Parrish said, looking to Elizabeth as his eyes changed – she closed hers and looked up at him with her eyes glowing purple. "What are you?"

"A werewolf, and a witch...hybrid...and Scott's aunt," Elizabeth said, that was something they hadn't told Parrish about her. "Take my hand, I'll show you," she held her hand out to him and forced him to see something he hadn't seen before. "Sorry, freaks people out a little the first time,"

"What did you just do then?" Parrish raised his eyebrow at her as he pulled his hand away from hers.

"Showed you what everyone else sees when you're in your supernatural state," Elizabeth said pausing before she continued. "I need you to make sure they stay safe. Please? And call me if anything happens that you think they can't deal with,"

"Elizabeth, okay. But where are you going?" Parrish questioned, as it clicked in his head what Elizabeth had said about showing him what everyone else saw.

"I have things outside of Beacon Hills to take care of. I'll be back soon, Argent's here to help also," Elizabeth answered, taking a deep breath before she continued to speak. "Look, I've been what I am for a long time...I was a witch before I became a wolf..." Parrish nodded in understanding before the two bid farewell and Elizabeth made to leave Beacon Hills and head back to Texas where she had found one of her pack.

'Scott, text me or call me if you need me...I'm heading to Texas,' Elizabeth sent Scott a text as she got in her car as her phone beeped at her telling her that she had a text.

'Elizabeth...dead people are turning up alive. Liam,' Elizabeth read the message and looked at Parrish, clearly confused.

'What do you mean dead people are turning up alive?' Elizabeth texted back as Parrish walked over to her car. 'I'm calling you,'

'Ace, stay in town please? I can't do this without you,' Scott sent Elizabeth a text as he was with Stiles trying to get them back together.

Elizabeth called Liam's phone as he was at the school library with Mason and Corey. Elizabeth left Liam a message telling him to tell Scott everything that he had told her as he hadn't answered his phone. Little did Elizabeth know, Mason was telling Liam the same thing. Elizabeth called Scott after leaving the message on Liam's phone.

"Scott, you need to trust yourself. And tell Theo that I will kick his ass if he hurts you again," Elizabeth said as she could hear Theo in the background talking to Scott telling him that they were on the same side.

'Ace, I'm putting you on speaker,' Scott said holding the phone away from his ear. 'You're going to want to hear what she has to say,'

"Theo Raeken, if I hear again that you've harmed them I will personally come and kick your ass again," Elizabeth said as she started the car and left the Eichen House parking lot. "As for your little friends, the same goes for them,"

'You can't do anything to us,' Theo stated, his voice clear as day his heart beat saying otherwise as Scott listened to it he smirked slightly.

"You'd be surprised at what I can do..." Elizabeth took a deep breath pausing before she continued. "Why do you think it took you longer to heal, I'm not a beta,"

'She's not a beta, she's like me,' Scott smirked, Elizabeth let out a laugh before Scott continued. 'Just take her advice...Thanks Ace, I'll see you soon,' Scott and Elizabeth ended their conversation with Theo standing gobsmacked looking at Stiles and Scott.

Elizabeth drove out of Beacon Hills leaving Scott and Stiles to get their friends back together so that the wound on Scott's chest/side would heal. Stiles couldn't believe that it still wasn't healing but then he remembered the school cross-country trip where Scott didn't heal because he blamed himself for Derek dying.

Once Elizabeth had left Beacon Hills she had intended on driving to Texas to where her pack member was but had ended up driving straight back to Derek. Braeden had stayed in Beacon Hills, promising Derek that she'd meet up with him again when she had a chance. Elizabeth drove to Derek who was still in the hotel that she had left him in he'd been waiting for her to return before they moved on again.

"Hey you," Elizabeth laughed as she managed to startle Derek who was asleep on the hotel room sofa. "Sorry,"

"Hey," Derek yawned looking up at her as she stepped into the room. "Did you get them sorted?" he questioned, motioning for her to join him on the sofa.

"I think so, or at least I hope so," Elizabeth answered, yawning in response to his yawning. "I haven't slept since I left..."

"Ellie, " Derek sighed, pulling her towards him the second she stepped towards him. "Tell me about it, and then sleep,"

"Der...there's something stranger than normal going on back home. But they can sort it out, I have faith," Elizabeth answered, taking a deep breath as she fell onto the sofa next to him. "Also, there's chimeras...Scott's keeping me informed though and trying to put his pack back together,"

"Get some sleep...we'll continue working later," Derek laughed as he felt Elizabeth's head fall onto his shoulder. "They can do it, but I think they might need us sooner than they think,"

"Derek, you know I hate you sometimes," Elizabeth laughed before she got comfortable on his shoulder. "You know they have to learn to do this themselves. You're the one that told me that,"

Elizabeth fell asleep next to Derek only for them both to be awoken by a multitude of text messages from Scott, Stiles, Liam, Malia, Kira, Parrish and Melissa. Scott and Stiles were sending the same texts to Elizabeth and Derek hoping that at least one of them would answer. While Liam was sending them to just Elizabeth, as was Malia, Kira, Parrish and Melissa. Elizabeth had never given her number to Malia or Kira they had managed to get it from Scott.

'Did Scott tell you what they're doing?' Melissa sent a text to Elizabeth wondering if she knew exactly what her son was doing. 'Ace, Derek, we're breaking Lydia out of Eichen House...if we don't we'll all die,' That was Scott's message to the two of them, it's the one that had them the most concerned. Stiles, Liam, Malia and Kira were all telling her that it was a bad idea. Parrish was questioning if she was sure that Lydia was going to be okay. The only thing that both Derek and Elizabeth sent back was was 'Trust each other,'.

"Are you sure you don't want to go back to them?" Derek questioned, as they both read all the text messages that they had received.

"They'll be fine, probably hate us for not going to help them. But they need it," Elizabeth replied with a shrug as she ran a hand over her face and yawned.

"How do you even know that?" Derek yawned, looking at her and then at the laptop that they had been looking at.

"Scott's stubborn...like the two of us, and he won't let anything happen to his friends," Elizabeth answered before her attention was on the laptop before them as well. "They'll save Lydia,"

A few days later they received a phone call from Argent telling them that Beacon Hills was getting more troubling by the minute, but he didn't know how that was possible. More like Elizabeth received a call as Derek decided he didn't like receiving the millions of text messages from them and decided to get rid of his phone so that only Elizabeth could contact him. Argent told them that they knew that Parrish was a hell-hound, and that there was also a creature called the Beast of Gevaudan. Braeden contacted them to tell them that Malia's mother had found her, but that Malia had planned to kill her.

"Ace, you were right...the pack is back together and it's healed," Scott left a message on Elizabeth's phone after failing to get hold of her. "And, Ace we have a bigger problem...I'll shoot you an email about it later," Elizabeth listened to the message that Scott left and sighed before messaging him back saying that Argent had told her about it.

'Hey kiddo, hows Lydia? And if you're going to tell me that you have a problem with the Beast, it's okay. Argent told me about it, he's also on top it. Parrish will be able to do something though he may not have the confidence – you need to give him that. Ace,' Elizabeth sent the text back to him and closed the phone looking at Derek who was more focused on the laptop and trying to determine where what he was looking for was situated.

'Ace how do you know?' Scott sent back before reading a second message from Elizabeth telling him that hell-hounds were more like guardian's than anything else.

"Make him understand that a hell-hound isn't the cause of death, they're the guardians that's why he's collecting the bodies of the dead," Scott read the text from Elizabeth out loud to the group as they stood discussing what to do about Mason.

"Wait so a hell-hound is a guardian?" Lydia questioned, Argent and Gerard had told her something similar when she had been with them. "Parrish is a guardian, that's why it chose him..."

"I think that's what she's getting at," Scott said looking at Lydia as all eyes fell on them as they looked at Corey who was still reeling from the fact that the dread doctors had taken Mason.

That afternoon Lydia took Parrish to the nemeton and told him about what Elizabeth had told them about hell-hounds and what their purpose was. Lydia explained that they had all come to trust Scott's aunt as she had been able to help them on more than one occasion. Scott and Liam went to the high-school and met with Theo and Tracy, and Deucalion who was hiding in the shadows. Scott could sense something but didn't tell Liam about what he could.

The next day things went a little differently to what they had planned. Malia was trapped in the McCall house with her mother and managed to kill her mother. Sheriff Stilinski took Lydia to the hospital as the Beast had roughly put his claws to her throat. They managed to defeat the Beast, like they had hoped that they would. Theo had been sent underground to the Skinwalkers by Kira, who had also returned to them to learn to control the Kitsune inside of her.