Skye's POV

"I lied before, Derek hasn't gotten back to me in days" I muttered looking up at Scott, he frowned reaching out to touch my shoulder.

"I'm sure it's fine, he'll get back to us" I nodded but didn't believe him.

We started running back towards the wreak where we'd left Stiles all by himself and I cursed the stupidity of that but then we ran straight into him and any sympathy for leaving him behind left my mind as my body acted on instinct and I threw him to the ground before I'd realised it was him.

"God damnit Stiles!" I yelled as he groaned in pain.

"Ah why are you yelling at me?" he spat glaring up at me, I rolled my eyes but grabbed his hand and helped him to his feet. "I think I found something" Stiles added once back on his feet.

"So did we" Scott informed him as Stiles motioned forward and we followed him walking back through the woods, going to find whatever it was that Stiles had found and it didn't take long for us to come up to a large rock formation, Stiles brought us around to an opening into a small den.

"It's a coyote den" Stiles told us.

"Werecoyote" Scott mumbled and Stiles turned confused.

"Don't ask" I replied shaking my head as Stiles walked farther into the den and picked up a small blue jacket.

"You see this, this is Malia's remember it's the same one she was wearing in the photo" I nodded but then looked around.

"We shouldn't be in here"

"What do you mean?" Stiles asked turning around.

"She's not going to come back now, we just invaded her home our scent's going to be everywhere" I replied shaking my head because in normal nature coyote's don't like wolves and I guessed that went the same between werewolves and werecoyotes.

"If she's not going to come back here, where's she going to go?" Stiles asked but I shrugged.

"I don't know" Scott replied.

"Can you two track her now, you think you got her scent?" I nodded.

"Maybe" Scott added. "But I'm better at this when I'm a full wolf and I'm still worried that if I do it, I won't be able to turn back" Stiles sighed.

"The door's still open"

"If I can't get to Derek, we're gonna have to find someone else to help" I cut in looking up at Scott. "This is basically a crime scene right, I think it might be a little out of Deaton's league" I added turning back to look at Stiles.

"And more in my dad's" he nodded sighing.

An hour later the scene was swarming with cops as they surveyed and processed the den and I couldn't help but feel wrong about giving them the idea, we were invading someone's home and with Malia being a coyote, the animal instinct inside her would tell her not to come back.

I watched as the Sheriff walked out of the den holding a blanket in his hand and shared a few words with my dad before they made a beeline towards us.

"You're sure it was her?" the Sheriff asked us in a whisper.

"We looked her right in the eyes" Scott replied.

"And they glowed just like ours" I added looking up at my dad since he seemed angry and I'm guessing it was because we we're out here this late at night.

"It makes sense Dad" Stiles cut in looking at his father.

"But it wasn't a girl, it was a four legged coyote right?" he asked sounding like he didn't believe us and if I hadn't seen it I doubt I would have either.

"Well okay but yeah see that's the point that we don't exactly have figured out yet" Stiles replied shaking his head a little.

"Okay but if it was a full moon and she did change while her mom was driving then anything could've happened" I added putting emphasis on 'anything'

"Horrible things could've happened, ripping, shredding, tearing things" Stiles cut in backing me up.

"Which is probably what caused the accident" Scott inputted and our dads looked doubtful still even though us three we're all in agreeance with each other.

"Think about it dad, all right they're driving, Malia starts to change she goes out of control, the mom crashes and everybody dies…"

"Except for Malia" I added cutting Stiles off.

"She blames herself alright, goes off running into the woods and eventually becomes trapped inside the body of a coyote" I rolled my eyes at Stiles because that made us sound crazy.

"That makes sense" his dad muttered and my eyes widened.

"Really?" I asked surprised as he shared a look with my dad.

"In a Chinese folktale" Stiles' dad exclaimed.

"Kids this is…this is insane" my dad added, I sighed looking at our dads shaking their heads at us.

"We need this kept quiet, the three of you not a word, I don't want anyone hearing about this and I especially don't want Mr Tate hearing about this" I heard a heartbeat pick up so I looked up and saw Scott staring off behind our shoulders at something, I turned to but saw nothing so I turned back to him and touched his shoulder. "Scott, Scott!" Scott turned around looking at Stiles dad.

"Sorry" he apologised before quickly glancing back at the spot he'd been staring at. "What did you say?" he asked but then the sound of squeaking breaks caught my attention making us look up seeing a car park with someone getting out, it was Scott's dad with Mr Tate.

"Ah hell" Stiles dad muttered before they walked towards us as Scott shuffled nervously. "Mr Tate" he nodded towards the man looking down at the blanket in the Sheriff's hand before he took the blanket from the Sheriff and held it tight in his hands.

"Mr Tate?" Agent McCall asked as I glared at him before my dad led me away.

"It's hers" I heard Mr Tate mutter before my dad was getting my attention.

"Skyler!" I looked up and saw his eyes we're angry.

"I know I'm sorry but we thought we could help and we have"

"I told you I don't want you doing stuff like this Skye, just because Scott and Stiles do it doesn't mean you have to follow"

"They're my friends dad" he sighed.

"I know but I've already nearly lost you once to all this madness and I won't do it again" I nodded avoiding his eyes. "I know you can't change what you are now but you're not getting yourself killed because of it"

"Okay dad I get it" I muttered then looked up.

"Alright go home" he kissed my forehead before walking back over to finish his job, I sighed walking towards Scott and Stiles and we went home, them dropping me off again at an empty house since no doubt my dad wasn't coming home tonight and I went upstairs to change then collapsed on my bed again but this time let myself fall asleep.

"Here's where we found the den" Stiles explained to Allison, showing her the map of the trails at school the next day. "It's right in the middle of the hiking trails"

"Well that could narrow it down" Allison replied nodding. "Coyotes travel in fixed trails but I think Skye's right about her not going back to the den, Coyotes don't like wolves and they're really smart if they don't want to be heard they actually walk on their toes" I smirked satisfied that I'd been right about something.

"Coyotes tip-toe?" Stiles asked her.

"They tip-toe" she replied just as the bell rang then looked up. "I got to go but send me the pinned location"

"Okay" I said as Allison walked away then sat down and pulled out my notebook, a pencil and my phone and checked the messages but there was still nothing from Derek which made me sigh but then looked up when I saw Scott talking to Kira so I brushed my hair away from my ear and listened in.

"…about the Bardo, my explanation was kind of all over the place, so I did some research and printed it out for you" I watched as Scott nervously rubbed his neck as she looked in her bag.

"Ah you didn't have to do that"

"It only took a couple of hours" I tried not to snigger because she seemed to really like Scott.

"Wow you really didn't have to do that" Scott replied smiling at her a little.

"I swear I printed it out"

"Kira, you forgot all the research you did for that boy you like" I put my hand over my mouth to stop myself from laughing at Scott's expression as Kira turned from her dad back to Scott as she handed him the stack of papers as I focused back on Mr Yukimura as he started class. "All right, everyone let's get started, we were just talking about internment camps and prisoners of war, there's a passage in our reading that I'd like to go over in more detail, who would like to come up and read aloud for us?" he looked around the room. "Mr Stilinski, how about you?" I looked up frowning as he called Stiles' name.

"Oh maybe someone else could" Stiles replied nervously.

"Everyone participates in my class, Mr Stilinski" Mr Yukimura replied and Stiles groaned.

"Okay" Stiles slowly got up and went to the front of the class, taking his place at the podium and I watched as he hesitated looking down at the page before he began to grip the sides turning his knuckles white with the force.

"Stiles?" I stood up and saw Scott getting up beside me. "You okay?" Stiles began to breathe heavy and clutched the podium again so Scott and I went up each grabbing an arm. "We should take him to the nurse's office" Mr Yukimura nodded so we led Stiles out of the room and into the boys bathroom.

"Stiles look at me, man is this a panic attack?" Scott exclaimed as Stiles ran over to the sink, clutching onto it.

"It's a dream, it's a dream this is just a dream" Stiles muttered.

"No, it's not" I spoke up going over to him. "This is real, you're here, you're here with us" I paused and tried to think. "Okay what do you do, I mean like how do you tell if you're awake or dreaming?" Stiles paused as he tried to find the words. "Come on Stiles breathe"

"Your fingers, you count your fingers you have extra fingers in dreams" Scott held up his hands.

"How many do I have, hey look at me, come on Stiles look at my hands and count with me" he held up one finger.

"One" Stiles counted, Scott held up another. "Two"

"Keep going" I said because it was working.

"Three…Four"

"Five" Scott said counting with him as he held up fingers.

"Six…Seven"

"Eight"

"Nine…Ten"

"Ten" I exclaimed. "Ten" I saw relief wash over him as Stiles returned to normal and fell to the ground so we sat with him.

"What the hell is happening to me?" Stiles asked.

"We'll figure it out" I said touching his shoulder. "You're going to be okay"

"Am I, are you?" he looked at Scott. "Scott you can't transform, Allison's being haunted by her dead Aunt and I'm straight up losing my mind, we can't do this, we can't we can't help Malia, we can't help anyone"

"We can try" Scott replied. "We can always try" the bell rang not seconds later, I turned to Stiles.

"We don't have to go anywhere yet, if you're not up for it" Stiles nodded but suddenly I heard a growl and turned to Scott but it wasn't him. "Did you hear that?" Scott quickly got up and left the bathroom while I stayed with Stiles.

"What did you hear?" Stiles asked getting him.

"A growl" I got up to and once I made sure he was okay, I followed Scott's scent to the locker room and he explained what the hell just happened. "She went after Kira?" I asked Scott as we walked down the hall, Scott had followed the sound into the locker room where he found Malia going after Kira. "Why would she go after her?"

"I don't know" he replied shrugging his shoulders.

"Why she would even come here?"

"Maybe she got mad at us going to her den and was after us" I frowned at that.

"Maybe" we stopped and noticed Stiles and the Sheriff standing down the other end of the hall talking.

"I believe there are a lot of things I don't understand yet" I heard the Sheriff say as Scott and I listened in. "But that doesn't mean that everything and anything imaginable is suddenly possible, now are you 100% sure that this is a girl and not an animal?"

"Yes, because Scott and Skye are sure" Stiles paused and turned, seeing us standing at the other end of the hall he turned back to his dad so we couldn't see his lips. "You guys been listening?" Scott and I both nodded, even though Stiles couldn't see us but that wasn't the point, we saw the Sheriff sigh.

"All right, let's get this figured out, come on" he grabbed Stiles by the shoulder and lead him towards the locker room with Scott and I following, Police were all around including my dad who I tried to avoid but to no luck.

"Why is this becoming a habit Skye?"

"What!" I exclaimed. "This one isn't my fault, I didn't go looking for trouble this time" he rolled his eyes.

"Get to class" he walked away and I groaned before walking back over to Scott and Stiles.

"I think I know what she was looking for" Stiles said gesturing to holes in his bag before he pulled out the doll that had been in the car.

"You took the doll from the car?!" I exclaimed then hit him over the head.

"Yeah I thought you guys could use it, you know for like her scent" I rolled my eyes at Stiles' stupidity.

"Where did you get that?" we looked up and saw Mr Tate standing in the doorway of the locker room and he was staring at the doll in Stiles' hands then he marched and grabbed it from Stiles hands. "Where did you find this, it belonged to my daughter" the Sheriff walked over and positioned himself between Mr Tate and us.

"Mr Tate, I don't know how you heard about this if you got your own police scanner or what…but you can't be here" the Sheriff tried to push him forward out of the room but paused then lifted away Mr Tate's jacket revealing a gun holstered to his side.

"I have a permit" Mr Tate said

"California schools are gun free zones, permit or no permit, you need to leave Mr Tate now" he began pushing the man from the room but he got free, turning to the Sheriff in anger.

"You find that animal, you find that thing" he exclaimed before leaving the room and I frowned sharing at look with Scott and Stiles because if he only knew what he was saying.

"We need to find her first" they nodded and after school we went to Deaton for any ideas on how to catch Malia.

"Xylazine" Deaton walked back into the examination room setting down three vials on the table. "It's a tranquilizer for horses, for a werecoyotes expect it to work within seconds, I only have three so whoever's shooting needs to be a damn good shot?"

"Allison's a perfect shot" Scott informed him

"She used to be" Isaac replied with his arms crossed in front of him, I turned around and gave him a look.

"She can do it"

"If we manage to find the thing" Isaac added and I rolled my eyes because he was mister negativity today.

"Okay, what is the point of him?" Stiles exclaimed pointing to Isaac "Seriously, I mean what is his purpose aside from the persistent negativity and the scarf what's up with the scarf anyway it's 65 degrees out"

"Look maybe I'm asking a question no one here wants to ask, how do we turn a coyote back into a girl when she hasn't been a girl for eight years?" I frowned and looked up at Scott because Isaac kind of had a point on that one.

"I can do it" Scott replied but had hesitation clear in his voice.

"You can?" Stiles and I both asked.

"You remember the night that Peter trapped us in the school" we nodded. "In the gym he was able to make me turn using just his voice, Deucalion did the same thing in the distillery"

"This is a Werecoyote, Scott" Deaton cut in making us turn to him. "Who knows if it'll even work if you can find someone who can teach you?"

"That's why you wanted me to call Derek first" I replied nodding and crossed my arms to fight off the familiar ache in my chest when I said Derek's name, Scott sighed nodding.

"Yeah I could try it on my own but right now I'm too scared to even change into just a werewolf"

"We need a real Alpha" Stiles spoke up and Scott looked over at him with a small glare. "You know what I mean an Alpha who can do Alpha things you know, an Alpha who can get it going you know, get it…"

"Up?" Isaac offered and I couldn't help laugh.

"Great" Scott muttered. "I'm an Alpha with performance issues" I laughed again but stopped trying to sober up as Scott glared at me.

"Sorry but come on Scotty that's funny" he just continued to glare at me so I stopped. "Kill joy" I muttered to myself.

"Is there anyone else besides Derek who could help?" Deaton said getting back to the topic at hand here and looked at me but I shook my head.

"No red eyes here anymore and I don't know how to do it either" I flashed him my yellow eyes.

"I wouldn't trust Peter" Isaac replied cutting in and I turned to nod at him before looking back at Scott and Stiles.

"Maybe the twins?" I supplied.

"They're not Alpha's anymore" Deaton replied and my eyes widened in shock that Derek and I weren't the only ones who lost our Alpha spark. "After what Jennifer did, almost killing them it broke that part of them"

"Yeah but what if they know how to do it?" Stiles replied and I shrugged at Scott because it was an idea, I still hated the twins but if they could help then it was worth a shot.

"Nobody's seen them in weeks" Scott said but I looked up at Stiles since that wasn't exactly true.

"Well actually that's not totally true" Scott looked up at him.

"Lydia" I added nodding at Stiles.

Stiles texted Lydia to get the twins and I told them to send them to Derek's loft which I'd been maintaining in his absence then Scott, Stiles and I met up with her before heading to the loft and I opened the big steel door frowning at the loft and crossed my arms over my chest again as Lydia, Stiles and I walked in.

"They said they'd meet us here" Lydia said but then we heard Scott grunt, I spun around and saw the twins beating him up before they tossed him to our feet, I grabbed Stiles and Lydia quickly moving them out of the way.

"Stop it" I heard myself say as they continued to hurt him each taking turns to hit him, Scott fell to the ground and one of the kicked him in the face making him spit up blood so I stepped forward and let out a warning growl.

"I thought you guys were gonna teach me to roar" Scott groaned from his place on the ground.

"We are, you do it by giving in" Ethan replied.

"Giving in and letting go" Aiden added smiling down at Scott. "That's how Deucalion taught us control" he bent down and picked Scott up by his shirt.

"Hey you know that's funny" Stiles said cutting in. "I've actually tried something like this one time using a heart monitor and lacrosse balls but you're right, beating the living crap out of him is probably a lot better" he added with his usual level of sarcasm and I rolled my eyes at him.

"That's actually the plan?" Scott asked the twins. "You kick my ass?"

"You're afraid to turn" Ethan exclaimed.

"We're gonna make you" Aiden informed him.

"You turn, then you kick our asses" Ethan added.

"And then you roar" Aiden turned to Scott, roaring with his fangs out and eyes turning a piercing blue like Derek's which made me look away as the ache returned forcing me to cross my arms like I was holding my heart in my chest.

"You don't think you can let go with us?" Ethan asked as Aiden returned back to normal then they started throwing Scott in-between them.

"You think you're going to hurt us?" Aiden asked. "Come on, McCall, give it your all"

"We can always heal" Scott went for a punch but Aiden blocked it hitting him instead and I winced. "You're an Alpha, you want to roar like one, you've got to give in full throttle, you've got to be the monster become the beast, become everything you're afraid of"

"That's what gives you power, it gives you strength" Ethan told him and Scott went for another punch but they deflected it again sending him back down to the ground.

"Giving into it doesn't make you the bad guy" Aiden said and I frowned bouncing on my feet anxiously as this was hard to watch but it had to be done for Scott to learn how to roar.

"So long as you can control it" Ethan added.

"Sometimes control's a little overrated" Aiden kicked Scott right in the stomach.

"Come on, Scott fight back" I whispered begging him to do something.

"What if I can't control it, what if I can't turn back?" Scott asked them spitting up more blood.

"Then it takes over" Ethan replied walking over to him. "You become Malia, you get further and further away from being human, you turn into an animal or worse-"

"You turn into Peter" Aiden finished for him, Scott scowled at the comment then got up and he yelled running towards them but Aiden grabbed him, picking him up and throwing him on the table then began to punch Scott repeatedly, I growled and went to intervene but Ethan stopped him before I could "What, I thought we were helping him"

"You help too much" Ethan said as he pulled his brother off Scott, I pushed past them and kneeled beside Scott looking him over, he was staring off into space and it seemed like Aiden had almost knocked him out.

I sighed as Scott turned his head and spat out blood which landed on the floor and I glared at them because I was the one that had to clean all this blood up, they all left and I told Stiles I'd run home since it wasn't that far and I cleaned up the loft before looking around letting the ache in my chest to worsen but I didn't care.

I walked over to Derek's bed and sat down staring around sadly before grabbing my phone and dialled his number but it went straight to voicemail and I sighed loudly running my fingers through my hair.

"Derek I really need you to call me back, if you're…" I choked up. "If your done with me then I think I deserve to know…bye" I hung up then pulled my knees up to my chest and let myself break down.

Once I was out of tears I stood looked around one last time before I let closing the steel door then ran home fighting back even more tears as I got home and walked in seeing my dad sitting in front of the TV with a beer in his hands.

"Hey kiddo" he looked over smiling but it fell when he saw I'd been crying. "What's wrong?" I walked over and sat beside him.

"What's wrong with me?" I asked him and he looked at me puzzled.

"Uh is this one of those teenage trick questions" I laughed a little as I brushed some hair out of my face because my dad has never been the type to talk about feelings and I knew it's where I got it from. "Is this about Derek?" I nodded then watched him put down his beer than put an arm around my shoulders pulling me beside him.

"He hasn't called me back in days and I don't know what's wrong with me that he'd suddenly not call" he shook his head.

"There is nothing wrong with you Skye, you're a beautiful, intelligent young lady and if he can't see that then he doesn't deserve you sweetheart" I smiled.

"Your my dad which means you're supposed to say that" he chuckled squeezing my arm.

"Don't worry so much kiddo, your world doesn't need to revolve around one boy when you could have a million" I looked up shocked that my dad had just said that. "I'm not saying run around with every guy you find and get yourself in a sticky situation but be open to something else" I frowned looking down.

"I don't think there is anybody else for me" I admitted and he looked taken aback by that.

"You fall in love more than once kiddo, do you think your mom was my first girlfriend?" I laughed shaking my head smiling. "You still have so much time before you have to worry about finding the right one Skye and when you do you might have suffered a few heartbreaks but at least then you know when you've found your one, so don't fret so much kid" I nodded and hugged him tightly. "Now want to join the old man" I nodded again then moved out of his grasp but we stayed up and watched the game and I couldn't help feeling happy just being normal for once.

The next day we all met up at the entrance to the woods ready to track down Malia and figure out a way to save her because it felt like something we needed to do and helping people made all the crap we've been through over the last few months worth it.

"Anyone else think we might be doing more harm than good?" Lydia asked, getting out of the car

"We're trying to keep a father from killing his own daughter" Scott replied.

"Actually we're trying to keep a guy from killing a coyote who is actually his daughter who we don't know how to change from a coyote back to his daughter" Isaac detailed and I frowned shaking my head.

"And again with the not helping" Stiles said with a scoff, I rolled my eyes then turned to Allison.

"Did you bring it?" Allison nodded and reached inside her trunk, pulling out a rifle. "Good now all we need is-" I was cut off by the sound of a gunshot and Scott and I both looked at each other before hoping onto his dirt bike since my bike wasn't built for forest travel.

We sped through the woods and the trees we're going by so fast that I could feel my heart beat racing with adrenaline and was about to tell Scott to slow down when we heard Isaac scream which caused Scott to crash and we both rolled to the ground clutching our hands over our ears.

"Isaac" I looked up and saw Scott hesitate. "Go!" I yelled at him. "I'll find Isaac, you find Malia" he nodded then took off so I turned around to find Isaac.

I followed the scent of his blood and found him with Allison but what caught my attention was Isaac's leg trapped in a bear trap, I ran over and looked at it then up at Isaac who met my gaze.

"Isaac, are you okay…oh god sorry stupid question" I muttered desperately and shook my head.

"Skye calm down" I looked up surprised.

"Isaac" I felt tears start to pool in my eyes. "Isaac I'm sorry" he met my eyes with confused ones.

"What are you talking about?" I frowned shaking my head.

"I'm sorry for not being a better friend and a poor excuse of a pack mate, you we're right when you said it was my fault Erica and Boyd are dead, I kept Derek distracted and I've been so caught up with my own desire that I didn't see it, so I'm sorry" he looked up with teary eyes.

"It wasn't your fault Skye, I never should have taken my anger out of you so I'm sorry" he replied frowning at me but before either of us could say anything we heard what only could be described as a true Alpha howl and I felt my eyes heat with power and looked up at Isaac to see his was the same as he screamed and broke the bear trap freeing his leg.

"Yes now that's what I'm talking about Scotty!" I exclaimed throwing my fist in the air then looked down at Isaac who nodded up at me and I smiled feeling like finally we could move on and work to being close again since we we're Derek's original pack and while he was with Scott now it didn't matter we'd always be connected by that.

"Skye I meant it I'm sorry" I nodded.

"I know and I'm sorry too" I replied then held out my hand. "We good" he took it smiling.

"We're good" he agreed nodding his head.

I flashed him one last smile before leaving him with Allison and ran to find Scott finding him at the car wreck and laying between us was a naked human girl and my eyes widened when I realised Scott did it and this was Malia.

A/N: I know there isn't much Derek/Skye scenes but I promise there will be shortly.