Chapter 13: This Means War
Meanwhile in Beacon Hills things weren't quite working out they had thought they might. Scott and co had convinced his father that he had left until his father had questioned his mother. The only thing that Rafael knew for sure was that his little sister wasn't in town and was hoping that it stayed that way. Theo and Liam were at the Zoo, which was part of the plan to lure the hunters away from the armoury. Theo stopped Liam from killing Nolan he didn't want the young beta to be like him. That night the McCall house was shot up, with Melissa being injured as she was caught in the cross-fire.
"Ace," Scott mumbled as Malia sat beside him, they had to call his Aunt. "Call Ace,"
"I will, go and see your mom," Malia told him, taking his hand in hers. "You need to see her,"
Malia took Scott's phone from him, her phone had died and they all had Elizabeth's number. Scott looked behind him at Malia as he walked into his mothers room. Malia nodded, and went into his phone and found Elizabeth's number calling it.
"Scott?" Elizabeth questioned seeing his name flash up on the screen as she sat staring out her hotel window.
'Malia,' Malia answered before she looked up and then back at the floor. 'You know something bad is happening, don't you?'
"I do, and I'll be there I promise, but that's not why you called is it?" Elizabeth replied, running a hand through her hair and almost jumping as Derek placed his hand on her shoulder. "It's Melissa isn't it?"
'Scott's house was shot up, she was in the cross-fire. She's okay, but Scott's scared,' Malia spoke quickly, listening to Elizabeth's heart beat over the phone.
"Tell Scott that I may be able to do something, but I need time, explain what you found?" Elizabeth said, pulling Derek down next to her and putting her head on his shoulder. Braeden had since left them realising that Derek and Elizabeth's connection was stronger than she thought. "I'll be back soon,"
'It's called an Anu...' Malia trailed off as she realised that she could now hear breathing from two people. 'Hurry up,'
"Anuk-Ite, if I can find anything I'll call Scott," Elizabeth said pausing before she continued. "Malia, promise me that you'll keep them safe, Malia,"
'I will,' Malia said, hanging up as Scott walked out of the room and straight past her.
Elizabeth looked at Derek, they had to do something. Elizabeth put her head on his shoulder, they were both stubborn and had things to do before they could return to Beacon Hills. Derek nodded at her, they had to do something. Scott did the one thing that no one was expecting and contacted Deucalion asking him for his help.
"I heard," Derek pulled her face towards him. "There's more isn't there?" Derek kissed her before looking at her again. Elizabeth looked at him, wondering why it had taken him so long.
"There's always more, home is being over run. It's worse than I though they're all turning against us Derek, we have to stop it...I felt it when I was home last time," Elizabeth spoke quickly, she knew they had to find and hide the wolfs-bane but at what cost? "Took you long enough," Elizabeth kissed him back smiling. "You know, wolves mate for life?"
"I know," Derek said as the two of them stood up and pulled her up with him. "But we're not just any old wolves,"
"They have a secret weapon," Elizabeth said as she realised what he had just said to her. "Oh yeah, the evolved and the magical,"
"Exactly, and we need to find Isaac," Derek said suddenly as they started to pack up their belongings. "Well you find him, and then meet me at the location I told you about,"
"Me? Why me?" Elizabeth questioned, raising an eyebrow at him as he tossed her jacket at him. "Also I told Ethan and Jackson that they need to get back too they've been tracking other werewolves,"
"Because, I need to do it and if the FBI get me I don't want you in the cross-fire," Derek explained, as she tossed his jacket back at him how they had ended up with each others jackets they didn't know.
"Okay, just be careful," Elizabeth sighed before Derek told her to check the jacket pocket, when she did she found that he'd already bought her a ticket to Paris, France. "You decided on this before hand didn't you?"
"I had to," Derek shrugged and sent her an apologetic smile. "I promise I won't get severely injured. You're starting to freak out, I can tell," he laughed walking over to her and wrapping his arms around her. "Relax,"
Derek had as he had predicted almost gotten caught by the F.B.I, Stiles had somehow managed to convince them to let him a student in the pre-FBI program tag along. Elizabeth had found and convinced Isaac that he needed to return to Beacon Hills with her and Derek, for Scott. That was the reason they were going back in the first place. Argent had discovered that Elizabeth had been everywhere that Derek had been – but didn't reveal that fact to anyone.
"You came back for Beacon Hills?" Scott questioned, looking at Derek and then at his aunt who had turned up behind them. "Wait Elizabeth when did you get here? You can't be here," finally it dawned on him that Isaac was standing with them. "Isaac?!"
"Hey, I have a plan! You have yours. I have mine," Elizabeth said with a shrug, before adding. "Plus there isn't a lot of lore on my kind,"
"We came back for you," Derek said before both of them were hugged tightly by Scott, after Scott was done hugging the pair of them he took hold of Elizabeth's hand.
"What kind of plan?" Scott questioned, raising an eyebrow at her. "Also when?"
"I know Lydia told you not to look at the Anuk-Ite, and she's right. But it won't kill you...I have a plan that I hope will work," Elizabeth said ignoring Scott's last question before she continued. "I'm hoping that I can manipulate her like I did Ethan, if not I should be able to use something else,"
"She's already been manipulated by my father," Argent said, Elizabeth had already thought of that which was why she had her back-up plan.
"That's why I have a back-up," Elizabeth said as she looked around the group. "I can manipulate people just like your father...maybe worse," Elizabeth admitted, she wasn't exactly proud that she could do it. "Not something I'm proud of...I can only do it when someone I care about is in danger,"
"In this case it's the whole of Beacon Hills," Lydia said looking to Elizabeth as she spoke. "I'm right aren't I? The vision changed..." Elizabeth simply nodded at her.
Elizabeth looked to Deucalion and raised her eyebrow at the man who had turned her. Deucalion simply smiled at the young woman. Elizabeth smiled at him and her eyes flashed purple and then red before going back to normal.
"You think that you can help?" Deucalion questioned moving to attack Elizabeth to see just what she could do now.
"Of course I can," Elizabeth said grabbing his hand and twisting it behind his back. "When people don't know about me it works to my advantage,"
"And when those know about you, how does that work?" Deucalion replied as he flipped Elizabeth over and she landed on her feet. "I see you've learnt,"
"Being me does that for a person," Elizabeth answered, taking a deep breath before she let go of his arm.
"Wait how did you get back into Beacon Hills without anyone knowing?" Malia questioned, she was confused as to how the three werewolves had done it.
"Hid...well hid the essence of what we are," Elizabeth said, as she looked at Malia and then back at Isaac and Derek.
A few hours later and the group was at the High-School. Scott and Elizabeth gave Theo instructions to save Liam, Mason, Corey and his mother who were at the hospital. Lydia and Stiles went on a rescue mission to save Jackson and Ethan. Isaac had gone with Sheriff Stilinski to get Parrish out of Eichen House, and then with him to the station to free Rafael and then to the hospital. Monroe shot Scott with a yellow wolfsbane bullet, Elizabeth and Derek took him into to one of the labs so that Derek could burn the wolfsbane out. The second that Derek had burned it out he heard a voice that he recognised. Elizabeth stayed with Scott until he was ready to move to fight the Anuk-Ite. Once he was good Elizabeth left him to see where Derek had gone.
Elizabeth walked up to Monroe as she was telling hunters to put a bullet into Derek's head. She wasn't scared of what they could potentially do to her, but considering they didn't know what she was that was her advantage. Elizabeth smiled at her before her waving her hand slightly and pushing the two hunters away from Derek.
"You don't want to do that," Elizabeth smiled at Monroe her eyes glowing purple before flickering to red and growling at her. "Trust me sweetheart, you really don't want to do that,"
"What are you?" Monroe questioned, her gun aimed straight at Elizabeth's head as she spoke.
"Something," Elizabeth replied as she started to put her spell into effect one that would permanently alter the way that Monroe saw the world. 'Post hæc mulier quae visa sunt saeva memoriam obliterare famam haec cogitationes illorum ex corde et reponere iam caput cum his volo.' (Alter the cruel memories this woman has seen, erase these thoughts from her heart and head replace them now with those I wish.) Elizabeth smiled as the spell took effect and Monroe lowered her gun as the stone crumbled away from Peter. That was the sign that Scott had defeated the Anuk-Ite. Elizabeth and Peter attacked the two hunters before turning to Monroe who was backing away from her. "Give me two more seconds, I have one last spell that I need to do,"
Elizabeth then raced to the library to Scott and found that thought he had defeated it, it had almost cost him his eyes as they weren't healing and he wasn't letting Elizabeth kick start the healing after she had cast the spell that she had hoped would work. Derek took her hand and led her away from Scott, Derek had told him if he didn't start healing them himself then they would never heal. Lydia had looked at Scott and then at Stiles and realised what Malia had to do. Isaac was standing slightly behind them, listening to them as he thought about Allison - she should have been with them. Isaac had left Sheriff Stilinski, Parrish after they'd gotten Rafael.
"Kiss him," Lydia looked to Malia as she said it, Malia looked at her with a confused look and they could tell that Scott was too.
"Next time you hear a dead girlfriend, don't look please," Elizabeth said, as Malia leant forward and cupped Scott's face in her hands and kissed him.
"What?" Derek questioned, how had she known that's what was going to happen.
"It's what the Anuk-Ite did, turns into the people you cared about and gets you to look at it," Elizabeth explained, it was something that she hadn't had a chance to tell them and knew that Lydia hadn't either as all she had said was don't look at it. "Oh and Stiles thanks for the attempt at warning Derek, we knew about it,"
"Isn't it weird that her cousin and his aunt?" Lydia questioned looking at Stiles as she spoke, Stiles had no idea about what was going on. "You don't know, do you?"
"Lydia..." Elizabeth trailed off with a smirk as both Scott and Malia realised what their friend had said.
"It was bound to happen sooner or later," Scott shrugged, in all honesty he'd thought it was going to happen sooner than it had.
"We just took the long way," Elizabeth laughed, before kissing Derek and walking back over to Scott and pulling him up and hugging him tightly. "Next time, please let me kick-start it,"
"Fine," Scott muttered hugging his aunt back and realising that they needed to find Liam, Mason, Theo, Corey and his mother. "Where's mom?"
"She's at the hospital, she was there with Liam," Lydia answered, that hadn't been part of the plan but it was how things had ended up.
The group left the High School and headed outside, watching to see what people would do when they left. Mostly they smiled at them the occasional person looked at them scared but then a smile would appear on their faces. Elizabeth smiled to herself it was working, she didn't know how but it was.
"It worked...it actually worked," Derek was slightly surprised by it, but not as much as the teenagers before them. "Tell them what you did,"
"I was able to work a spell that was amplified by the natural elements, and some of the ley lines so that those who wanted to do harm to us would immediately forget what they had been told about us the second they saw us. To them we would just be human and not the supernatural," Elizabeth said pausing as she thought of another way to put it. "In other words, say Peter had gone wolf on them - they would see it for a split second but then it would be as though nothing had happened," she just happened to leave out that both of them did go wolf before she cast the last spell.
"So your saying essentially - they think they're normal, and they go on not believing in the supernatural," Stiles said as he processed everything that Elizabeth had just told them.
"Pretty much," Elizabeth said thinking for a second before Scott interrupted her.
"What about Monroe? She's the one that we have to worry about," Scott said, he was slightly worried about what his aunt had planned for her.
"Oh I got inside her head a little, played with her memories...turned the beast into an actual bear and replaced Scott with Parrish..." Elizabeth said before she realised that she had better warn the younger man. "Sorry...Lydia would you mind?"
"Of course not," Lydia smiled and pulled out her phone before dialling Deputy Parrish and leaving a message asking him to call her. While Lydia made the call Derek and Elizabeth slipped off leaving the teenagers to do their thing.
As they were walking towards the cars, Stiles realised that Derek and Elizabeth had already disappeared which caused him to wonder out loud where they had gone. Scott had simply laughed at his best-friend, he really didn't want to know what the answer to that question was going to be. Lydia gripped Stiles hand pulling him down to her so that she could kiss him, after all it had been a few months since she had seen him.
"I have one question, was Elizabeth with Derek the entire time?" Malia questioned, looking between her friends as they stopped short of the cars.
"Not the whole time, but a lot of it. She had to check on what was left of her pack," Scott answered, pausing briefly as he thought he heard a noise before he heard his aunt.
'Stop listening Scott!' Elizabeth laughed, she didn't need her nephew's prying ears.
"Oh God, I think we should leave...now..." Scott stuttered, as he fumbled with the handle of Stiles Jeep.
'He's going to think we're actually,' this time it was Derek's voice that Scott heard, he seemed to be the only one listening.
"Ugh," Scott grumbled, as yanked the door open and climbed in shutting it tightly and slumping against the seat.
"Dude, we just won and you're grumpy?" Stiles questioned, raising an eyebrow at his best-friend as he climbed in the Jeep beside him, no one was arguing with him as Malia and Lydia had purposely climbed in the back seat with Isaac between them.
"Don't ask...can we just go to the hospital to check on my mom?" Scott questioned, Stiles shrugged before starting the Jeep and driving off.
After they had left, Elizabeth and Derek broke out in laughter before they kissed again and found themselves with Ethan and Jackson not too far away in the car-park. Ethan gave her a half smile, while wrapping his arms around Jackson. Though Elizabeth only met Jackson the once back in London she could see what the two had was something else.
"If you need somewhere to stay, I have an apartment uptown," Elizabeth laughed, watching as Jackson's eyes went wide. "What, I can see you two want somewhere to go,"
"I'd take it before she changes her mind," Derek said as they climbed in the car that Stiles had left behind. "Now where were we?"
"Right here," Elizabeth muttered, kissing him again - something that she hadn't really thought was going to ever happen. "Come on, I need to see the new kids faces when they see Isaac,"
'Not at the hospital, Liam said to meet at the clinic,' Scott hit send on the text to Elizabeth as they left the hospital. He hugged his mother, which was interrupted by Argent the second that his mother saw him.
"Head to the clinic, we should beat them there," Elizabeth said, before she read out the text that Scott had sent her. "Scott said, 'Not at the hospital, Liam said to meet at the clinic,' so that's where we're going," Both of them wondered if Deaton would be there, neither had seen him since they had been back.
"Right," Derek rolled his eyes, why they were trusting the word of a sixteen year old they didn't know.
"I know, kids what sixteen/seventeen? Just drive," Elizabeth laughed, she was really wondering what the conversation was that they were having about her and Derek.
"Just what reaction were you hoping to get from them?" Derek questioned, starting the car and heading out of the car-park towards the vets.
"Exactly the one Scott gave. It's fun creeping him out, admit it is," Elizabeth stuck her tongue out at him and looked out the window. "I just hope what we did holds,"
"It will, have faith in yourself - isn't that what you tell me?" Derek replied, glancing at her as he put a hand on hers.