A/N: Thanks for reading more coming. There's 26 chapters written so far. I also know no other languages so any the Latin mention was taken from google translate.

Chapter 17: Actual Pain

As Elizabeth opened her eyes, Derek noticed they had gone a violet colour which he hadn't seen in a long time. Scott had never seen her eyes stay the violet/purple colour only flickering. Deaton nodded to Elizabeth, as he went back to looking through his bag.

"It's not just a single bullet," Elizabeth said as she focused on what she could feel. "Buck-shot," Elizabeth said as small pieces of silver made their way slowly to the surface and to her hand. As the pieces slowly moved Theo's eyes changed to gold and his teeth to fangs as he roared and squirmed in pain.

"Hold him still!" Deaton said turning around as he saw Theo's legs kicking in the air. "If he moves any more something could go wrong," Scott and Liam grabbed hold of Theo's legs again and pushed them down onto the bed.

"Theo, try and stay still...I know it hurts," Elizabeth said as the pieces of the buckshot slowly flew into her hand.

Theo growled something incomprehensible and grabbed onto both Derek and Elizabeth at the same time as the final piece of buckshot came out. Elizabeth took the hand that she had gathered all the pieces of buckshot in and took a good look at it, they were silver it was a wonder he wasn't dead. Elizabeth handed them to Deaton who had gathered the necessary ingredients to formulate a form of a cure.

"Scott, what can you smell?" Deaton questioned, even he could pick up the faint aroma from the mistletoe and wolfsbane plus a third ingredient.

"Other than the mistletoe and wolfsbane, and a fruity smell," Scott said, causing the three werewolves to smell the air again. "What the hell has a fruity smell?"

"Belladonna...or deadly night-shade," Elizabeth answered, that was something that she didn't want to touch at all. "Deaton, how do I get that bullet out without touching it when it comes out?"

"If you can, do you think you can put it straight into the pan?" Deaton replied, holding up the pan that the rest of the buckshot was in and moving towards Theo to apply the cure. "We still have to burn out the wolfsbane."

"Are you sure you got all the buckshot out?" Derek questioned, Elizabeth nodded but she wasn't entirely sure that she had.

"I think so," Elizabeth replied, before she went back to concentrating on getting the bullet out and moving it to the pan with a thud.

"Ace..." Theo mumbled before Elizabeth sat on the bed beside him again. "Hurts so fucking much," Theo mumbled trying not to squirm too much.

"I know, just hold on a little bit longer," Elizabeth smiled at him, pulling him towards her as Derek, Liam and Scott let go. "Take my hand," Elizabeth held her hand to him making him take it causing him to hold it tightly as Deaton applied the cure to the open wounds on his side.

As they waited for the cure to take effect Liam walked out of the room and leaned against the wall before sliding down the floor. Scott walked out of the room to his beta and saw him sitting on the floor, so he sat beside him. Derek looked between Elizabeth and Deaton as the older man motioned for him to get a lighter to burn out the wolfsbane portion of the poison. Elizabeth kept hold of Theo the more he squirmed and tried to push her away.

"Theo, look at me," Elizabeth growled her eyes glowing red as she spoke to try and get him to calm down some. Derek returned with the lighter and started burning away at the wolfsbane.

'You'll have to tell Scott sooner or later about him,' Derek was silent as they spoke to one another so that Scott couldn't hear the conversation.

'I know, but I can't exactly go hey Scott guess what? Theo's part of the family...' Elizabeth answered as she felt Theo's body start to calm down.

'Yeah, well he took us being together okay,' Derek laughed, looking to Elizabeth as he did so and then at Deaton and Theo. "Theo, this is going to hurt like a bitch," he stated, Theo nodded in understanding it couldn't hurt more than it already did.

When they had finished doing what they could they noticed that he still wasn't healing as fast as what he should be now that they had taken out the poison. Deaton questioned whether or not they had gotten every little thing out.

"Honestly? I think I did. But I don't know, we're going to have to take him to the hospital," Elizabeth answered, Theo shook his head looking between Elizabeth and Derek. "Theo, we have too...I'm not sure that I got it all out, it's why you're not healing,"

"I don't want," Theo mumbled, looking away from both of them.

"I know, but you don't want to die. So we're going," Elizabeth said stubbornly as she sat him up and pushed him towards Derek. "You help him, and I'll get the two in the hallway sorted,"

"Fine," Theo grumbled as Derek held him while Elizabeth got up from behind.

"Ellie, you have to tell him," Derek said watching as Elizabeth walked from the room so he and Deaton set about getting Theo up so they could get him to the hospital.

"Tell me what?" Scott said sticking head around the corner as Elizabeth pulled Liam to his feet.

"Theo's family..." Elizabeth muttered, Scott raised an eyebrow at her wondering exactly what she was going on about. "Family...I did more than become his guardian...it was the condition I gave him,"

"You did what?!" Scott questioned, looking at her as Liam stepped backwards when Derek and Deaton walked out of the bedroom with Theo between the two of them.

"Adopted the kid, Scott he has no family...when Liam brought him back do you know what Theo did?" Elizabeth questioned as Deaton and Derek took Theo out to Elizabeth's car. "He called me, I was in a hotel room and he was scared...he doesn't get scared,"

Scott thought about what Elizabeth was telling him and listened to her heartbeat which had stayed steady the whole time. It was then that Scott remembered the phone call that Theo had made in the cottage – Elizabeth had told him not to listen in on part of it. Scott looked between Derek and Elizabeth wondering why they both hadn't said anything.

"Can we talk about this later? Elizabeth is going to need to reset the spell," Deaton questioned, as Elizabeth, Scott and Liam joined them at the car.

"I think I'll have to slightly alter the spell though," Elizabeth said choosing to ignore Scott's questioning for the time being.

"Do you think you can?" Derek questioned, as he got in the drivers seat and Liam climbed in beside Theo with the older boy resting his head on his shoulder. "Scott go with Deaton, Liam just try and make him not in so much pain,"

"I'll try," Liam took hold of Theo's hand and watched as his veins pulsed black as he took on some of it. "He'll be okay won't he?"

"Yeah," Elizabeth answered even though she was slightly unsure of what was happening. "Just get us to the hospital in one piece Der, and I'll work on the reworking the spell,"

"Theo, stay with us," Liam almost cried as he spoke, seeing the older boy in so much pain wasn't something he liked.

"Liam, you need to let go of his hand, don't take on everything," Derek said as he drove to the hospital.

While they had been driving Scott called his mother and told her that they needed someone with medical experience to help Theo. When they arrived Melissa was waiting in the ambulance bay with a wheelchair, even though the boys were quite capable to carry him in themselves. Elizabeth looked at Deaton and motioned for him to stay with her for a second.

"Can you help me with this?" Elizabeth asked holding out a spell that she'd been working on. "This is the English translation, and the Latin translation," there was also various herbs that would be needed to make it last.

'Purge the minds of those who wish to do us harm,

Of memories dark and grim,

Make them forget what they have seen,

replace them with the image of human'

(Expurgate volentibus animis nos mala

De tenebris et memoriam truci,

Et obliviscatur eorum quae ipsi vidimus,

et pone principes pro eis imagini hominis,).

Deaton read what Elizabeth handed him and nodded they should be able to pull it off together if everything went according to her plan. Deaton headed back to the clinic to gather the ingredients and to get Mason who he had been teaching. Elizabeth made her way inside to where Melissa had taken Theo with Liam, Scott and Derek.

"It's slowly fading...I need to re-cast it," Elizabeth spoke quietly to Melissa who had a feeling that was what was happening and why they had brought Theo to the hospital. "We did what we could at home,"

"But there's something still inside him, she and Deaton couldn't get to it," Scott said as his mother pushed Theo into one of the examination rooms.

"What happened? Everything that happened leading up until now," Melissa said as she helped Theo on to the bed.

"Theo and I went running in the preserve...we've been doing it every morning, he was in wolf form..." Liam spoke quickly as all the details ran through his head of what happened that morning. "We heard a noise behind us and the next thing I knew..." Liam trailed off he couldn't form the words for what had happened next.

"Liam, take a deep breath," Elizabeth said as Melissa had a look at what was going on with Theo's side. "Mel, I think there's a piece of silver buck-shot still in there,"

"Excuse me," Melissa said looking towards Scott who nodded and then at Elizabeth. "A buck-shot, you think a hunter did this?"

"We do," Derek said as Elizabeth nodded to Scott motioning for him to get Liam to sit down and use his claws to find out exactly what happened that morning. "Scott do it,"

Liam looked at Scott and shook his head before he looked at Theo who nodded at him, he had to do it if they wanted to know what had happened. Liam walked over to the chair in the corner, while Elizabeth stayed by the bed watching to see what Melissa was going to do. Derek put his hand on Theo's shoulder taking some of the pain again as Scott followed Liam to the chair.

"We're going to have get an x-ray to see exactly what we're dealing with, I'll get Doctor Geyer," Melissa said she knew that the doctor would keep things to himself when it came to his son and his son's partner. "You two keep him calm," Melissa motioned to Theo who had started to slightly squirm again. Melissa left the room in search of Doctor Geyer.

"Theo, look at me," Elizabeth said in a low voice as held her hand out for him. "Concentrate on me," Elizabeth looked to Derek and started speaking to him. 'If we don't get it out soon, I don't know what's going to happen,' Theo took hold of it and focused as much as he could on her.

'Ellie, we'll get it,' Derek replied just as quietly as she had as the three turned their attention to Liam and Scott in the corner.

Scott had his eyes closed and claws stuck in the back on Liam's neck searching for exactly what he wanted to see which was the early morning run. Images of the two boys running through the preserve, one as a wolf the other human. He saw two humans and heard something yelled before he saw a bullet which they knew was coated in belladonna, and the buckshot with fragments of mistletoe and wolfs-bane. Scott pulled his claws from Liam's neck grabbing the young beta as he fell forward.

"Two humans shot at them as they were running, they missed Liam but got Theo," Scott said looking to Elizabeth and Derek as Melissa and Doctor Geyer returned. "Mom, I know what happened,"

"Scott, enlighten us?" Melissa said as Doctor Geyer walked over to Theo and Derek removed his hand from his shoulder. Elizabeth went to move her hand but found Theo holding it tighter.

"Theo got hit by buck-shot, and a bullet...Ace got the bullet and most of the buck-shot out..." Scott replied looking to his mother who nodded she'd told Doctor Geyer to not be too surprised by what he was told. "We think some of the buck-shot is still there though,"

"Okay, look we'll take him to get an x-ray and surgery to see if we can locate it," Doctor Geyer replied as Theo's eyes went wide, Elizabeth motioned for Liam to take Theo's hand and calm him down before his dad took over.

While Theo was in surgery, Elizabeth met up with Deaton, Mason and Corey who had tagged along not wanting to leave Mason's side when he heard what had happened to Theo. Deaton explained that Mason had been learning everything he possibly could about the supernatural world, and was on his way to becoming a druid. Mason still wasn't entirely sure what Elizabeth was capable even though none of his friends had faced any huge threats in the recent months.

"Look Mason, you don't have to believe me, but you do have to trust me," Elizabeth said, taking a deep breath as she realised what she had said from the strange look that Mason was giving her.

"Mason, she's part of the reason that no one has tried killing us," Corey said, he was grateful that no one had tried while they tried to do their senior year. "I trust that she can do it,"

"Thank you Corey," Elizabeth smiled at him as she looked at Deaton who was mixing the necessary ingredients to make it work. "Mason, the convergence points of the telluric currents/ley lines are what I use to make spells last longer..."

"To make a long story short, the spell that was cast failed at some point during the night she needs to recast it," Deaton explained as Elizabeth pulled a couple of extra things that would be needed.

"And I'm hoping that with Deaton's help it will last longer this time around, and I've slightly altered it," Elizabeth paused taking a deep breath before she continued as she double checked that everything was ready. "The spell on Monroe will stay the same, with this one added onto it,"

"The candles and the bowl of herbs needs to be lit on fire at a certain point," Deaton said as Elizabeth handed the two boys a piece of paper with the words De tenebris et memoriam truci highlighted. "When we get to the end of the highlighted line you need to light the candles and the herbs on fire,"

Corey and Mason looked at one another nodding in understanding as Elizabeth put her phone to silent so that she could concentrate. Deaton, Mason and Corey did the same thing, realising that it needed to be completely silent within the clinic for the spell to take effect. The second the phones were on silent Elizabeth motioned for Deaton to begin with her. Elizabeth closed her eyes briefly and allowed them to glow purple and together the four of them managed to make the spell work being amplified once again by the telluric currents.