Skye's POV

I was just about to get ready for bed when I heard a few knocks on my window making me look up and my eyes widened when I saw Derek perched on my roof so I quickly got up and slid the window open letting him get inside quickly.

We'd been seeing a little more of each other around town the last days after our eye-opening kiss in the rain and I was ashamed for going behind my dad's back but there was definitely something here so for now we we're sneaking around meeting up in the woods.

"Derek what the hell are you doing, if my dad sees you he's gonna-" he cut me off pressing his lips to mine and I sighed kissing him back before leaning back.

"Don't worry, I know how to sneak past hunters Skye" I rolled my eyes.

"Although I'm happy to see you I doubt this is a social call, what's wrong are you okay?" he nodded but I could tell there was something wrong. "What's happened?"

"Can you sneak out with me, we need to get Scott the Alpha's killed someone else" my eyes widened in shock.

"Yeah go I'll meet you down the street in ten minutes" he nodded then slipped out my window again, I quickly changed clothes and slipped my dagger into my boot and grabbed the Glock-19 from underneath my bed and slipped it into the back of my jeans before I grabbed my blue leather jacket and pulled it on to cover it.

I stacked pillows underneath my covers to make it seem like I was asleep then slipped out my window and climbed down the drain pipe then sprinted down the street towards Derek's familiar Camaro and jumped in.

"Let's go, my dad might leave any minute too" he nodded and sped away from the curb, we went to Scott's and Derek went ahead to his bedroom breaking in his room and it didn't long for him to return with Scott whose eyes widened when he saw me.

"Skye, what are you doing here?" he asked looking between me and Derek confused.

"I heard about the Alpha's latest attack and thought I'd tag along" he still looked at me confused but nodded then got in.

We drove to the video store which was already swarming with paramedics and cops so we parked around the block and walked then climbed up onto the roof quietly so that we weren't caught stalking a crime scene.

I was stood next Derek behind Scott who was kneeling on the edge of the video store roof watching Jackson yell at the Sheriff about wanting to go home like a three year old throwing a tantrum and I rolled my eyes staring down at the scene unfolding before I heard Stiles calling out about the coroners wheeling out the Alpha's latest victim.

"Starting to get it?" Derek asked Scott making me turn towards him.

"I get that he's killing people but I don't get why" Scott replied then looked back at Derek. "I mean this isn't standard practice right, we don't go out in the middle of the night murdering everyone, do we?"

"No" Derek replied staring out at the scene below us. "We're predators, we don't have to be killers" I smiled and squeezed his hand which was entwined with mine hidden from Scott's view.

"Then why is he a killer?" Scott asked him.

"That's what we're gonna find out" Derek turned and we walked away letting go of each other's hands.

We got back into Derek's Camaro and we drove towards the old Hale house and even though I really didn't want to considering what I learnt about the Argent's probably being responsible for the fire that killed Derek's entire family and every time I thought about it, it made me wonder if my father had also been involved.

"You know I have a life" Scott spoke up as we walked in.

"No you don't" Derek replied and I sniggered quietly as I sat down on the steps watching their arguing going back and forth.

"Yes I do!" Scott exclaimed. "I don't care what you say about him making me his pet or…"

"Part of his pack" Derek corrected cutting him off.

"Whatever I have homework to do, I have to go to a parent/teacher conference tomorrow because I'm failing chemistry" Scott replied looking up at Derek.

"You wanna do homework or do you wanna not die?" I rolled my eyes at Derek's reply because he definitely didn't sugar coat the situation, Scott rolled his head. "You have less than a week until the full moon, you don't kill with him he kills you" honestly what logic is that.

"Okay seriously who made up these rules?" Scott asked him angrily.

"It's a rite of passage into his pack" Derek argued with him.

"You know what else is a rite of passage?" Scott asked confusing me. "Graduating from high school!" he exclaimed loudly. "And you don't have to kill anybody to do it!" I rolled my eyes at him. "Why can't you just find himself, why can't you just sniff him out when he's a human?"

"Because his human scent could be entirely different, it has to be you!" Derek exclaimed sounding like he was getting fed up with Scott's arguing. "You have a connection with him, a link that you can't understand, if I can teach you to control your abilities you can find him"

"So if I help you, you can stop him?" Scott asked.

"Not alone, we're stronger in numbers a pack makes the individual more powerful"

"How am I supposed to help if I have no idea what I'm doing?"

"Because he's going to teach you!" I snapped cutting in because even I was getting tired of this back and forth arguing.

"Do you remember what happened that first night you were shot in the arm, right after you were hit?" Derek asked him.

"Yeah I changed back" Scott replied shrugging his shoulders obviously not seeing the connection.

"Mm-Hmm and when you were hit by his car, same thing right?" Derek asked walking down the stairs towards Scott as he nodded. "What's the common denominator?" Scott shook his head so Derek grabbed his arm then bent it back and I heard the sickening sound of the bone breaking making me wince as Scott cried out in pain.

"What is…what the hell are you doing!"

"It'll heal"

"It still hurt!" Scott groaned painfully glaring up at Derek.

"And that's what keeps you human, pain" Derek replied then pointed to Scott as his hand visibly healed and he wiggled his fingers. "Maybe you will survive" Derek turned and walked upstairs.

"Scott you need to start taking this seriously otherwise you're only going to get yourself into trouble and I really don't want to see you get hurt" he sighed but didn't reply and left leaving me alone in the house.

I looked around rubbing my arms as I took note of all the destruction and burns then looked upstairs where Derek had disappeared to, I frowned then made a move to leave myself but realised I didn't have my bike and would really rather not trek through the woods in the pitch black while the Alpha's out there killing people.

I looked towards the ceiling then hesitantly walked up the stairs being careful where I put my weight in case it wasn't stable then looked to my right where I'd seen Derek disappear down the hall.

"Derek?" this house was actually pretty creepy when you think about it, I followed the hall towards the end to the door where I saw light coming out and pushed the door open hesitantly at first and saw Derek perched on a filthy old mattress. "You know I need a ride home right?"

"Yeah I was just keeping up the act in front of Scott" I nodded since that was one of my conditions to this little fling we we're doing, I didn't want anybody to know in case it got back to my dad or the Argent's.

"Well he's gone now and I really need a ride home because I don't know how long my dad is going to be fooled by the pillows stuffed underneath my blanket as me" he nodded then stood up and walked towards me.

"Alright I'll take you home but first" he crashed his lips to mine and I laughed because I'd been wondering how long it would take him to use the fact that we we're alone to his advantage.

"Just couldn't wait could you" he shook his head then grabbed my waist and lifted me up so I wrapped my legs around his waist. "Oh god I should not be doing this" he nodded his head but we kissed again, and again. "Okay we need to stop" I pushed back on his shoulder forcing his lips away from mine otherwise I'd never stop kissing him.

"Alright I'll take you home" he let me drop back to the ground, I smiled and pecked his cheek before grabbing his hand after he grabbed his keys and we walked out to his Camaro.

He parked in a little alleyway not far from my place in case my dad was home but I really didn't feel like leaving his presence just yet so I turned and grabbed his hand playing with his fingers a little as I looked up into his green eyes.

"Do you think we're doing the right thing?" I asked suddenly and he squeezed my hands.

"I know being with you feels right Skye" he reached his hand up and brushed some loose hair behind my ear. "At the moment all we need to worry about is us and making this work, when the times right maybe we can work around to letting others know about us but right now I just want you all to myself" I smiled and nodded.

"Me too" I replied watching him smile then he pulled me into a long deep kiss that sent all my doubts and worries away for now, I didn't know if we'd last that long but I hoped we did because the more time I spent with him the more I wanted to know and the more I let myself feel something for him. "I better go" he nodded then watched me leave as I got out and sprinted towards my house climbing back up the drainpipe and into my bedroom climbing straight into bed and fell asleep with a satisfied smile on my lips.

I pulled up into a parking space in the schools parking lot then climbed off my bike pulling my helmet off shaking out my curls then looked over at Allison getting out of her car so I quickly ran over to her and pulled her into a hug.

"Happy Birthday Ally!"

"Shh" she whispered looking around the parking lot. "I don't want people to know"

"Come on seventeen isn't that bad" I laughed making her smile.

"Yeah but the rumours are and I'm really hoping to avoid all that this time" I nodded knowing what she was talking about.

"Yeah but you just have to not let it bother you"

"Easy for you to say you're a genius and didn't have to repeat your freshman year" I shrugged smirking but it fell when I looked down and saw her necklace.

"When did you get that? " I pointed to it, she looked down smiling as he held it between her fingers.

"Uh my Aunt gave it to me" I frowned but quickly hid it behind a smile.

"Well its cool, see you at lunch" she nodded then walked ahead of me, I shook my head thinking about what ulterior motive her Aunt had to giving Allison that necklace since I knew it was tied and acted as a family crest to the hunting side of her family so I knew it wasn't a coincidence that her Aunt had given it to her.

I walked into school heading to my locker to dump my bike helmet but sadly ran into Stiles who ran up to me in that spastic way of his then spent the next few minutes trying to catch his breath leaning against the lockers and it was getting really annoying.

"Oh for the love of…spit it out Stilinski"

"Did you hear about what happened at the video store last night?" I nodded my head and grabbed my chemistry text book.

"Yeah I saw it and I saw that Lydia and Jackson had been there" he looked surprised. "Anything else or can I go to class"

"We're you there with your dad, do the hunters know-"

"God you ask too many questions" I cut him off then closed my locker. "I wasn't there with my dad but yes I'm guessing the Argent's and my dad know about last night, now will you shut up" I added then rolled my eyes as I walked away heading to chemistry.

"Just a friendly reminder" Mr Harris said starting the lesson as I sat at my usual lab table and Stiles went to his following me in. "Parent/teacher conferences are tonight, students below a 'C' average are required to attend I won't name you because the shame and self-disgust should be more than enough punishment" Mr Harris stopped at Stiles' lab table who was highlighting ever line in his text book. "Has anyone seen Scott McCall"

Stiles looked up with the highlighter cap in his mouth but then Jackson walked in late and every head turned to watch him walk to his lap desk then Mr Harris went over to him putting an arm around his shoulder and talked to him quietly, Jackson nodded then Harris walked back towards the front of the class.

"Everyone start reading chapter nine, Mr Stilinski try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs it's chemistry not a colouring book" I smiled as I watched Stiles spit the highlighter cap out of his mouth and rolled my eyes chuckling under my breath then I started reading.

"Hey Danny, can I ask you a question?" I heard Stiles say so I looked up and saw him leaning forward in his seat so that he could talk to Danny who was sitting in front of him.

"No" Danny replied and I snickered.

"Well I'm going to anyway" Stiles insisted. "Um, did Lydia show up in your home room today?" Danny sighed.

"No"

"Can I ask you another question?" Stiles asked him again.

"Answer's still no" Danny replied making me chuckle again.

"Does anybody know what happened to her and Jackson last night?" I rolled my eyes at Stiles' question because I thought it'd been pretty obvious what happened.

"He wouldn't tell me" Danny replied.

"But he's your best friend" Stiles argued and Danny didn't reply and just shrugged. "One more question?"

"What?" Danny snapped.

"Do you find me attractive?" I put my hand over my mouth to stop the burst of laughter and shook my head at Stiles' ridiculous question, then when Danny didn't answer I saw Stiles leaning forward on his stool before falling off and spastically righted himself making me laugh even more.

I was walking down the hall after my next class finished but caught sight of black leather and black hair slipping out a back entrance to the school so I quickly ran hoping to catch up with him but when I ran out the door and looked around I couldn't see him, I sighed then spun around but came face to face with green eyes.

"Derek!" I exclaimed quietly and watched him smile.

"Did you want something?" I rolled my eyes at his reply.

"I guess not" I replied then brushed past him to walk back inside but he grabbed my hand stopping me.

"Hey where are you going?" I smirked shaking my head at him.

"So what are you doing here?" I asked him crossing my arms accusingly at him.

"I was talking to Jackson"

"Probably threatening more like it" he rolled his eyes at me.

"I was merely just asking him what he saw last night" I nodded.

"And?" I asked him generally interested.

"He swear he didn't see anything but he was scared by something"

"Why didn't you use your werewolf mojo and see if he was lying?" he laughed and shook his head.

"I did, I listened to his heartbeat but it was hard to tell the difference given he was already scared but I'm pretty sure he saw the Alpha" I nodded my head then looked up when the bell went off signalling the start of the next classes. "You feel like ignoring that and coming with me" I frowned knowing my dad would kill me.

"Uh I shouldn't but why not" he smiled then grabbed my hand and led me over to the back part of the parking lot where his Camaro was hidden, I hopped into the passenger seat and he drove off skidding his tires in the process making me laugh as he always persisted in doing that whenever he drove off from anywhere.

"What?"

"Nothing" I laughed and he looked over at me with an amused look.

"So what do you wanna do?" I shrugged my shoulders.

"I don't really care" he nodded then pulled off the road and I recognised the familiar path up to his house.

He pulled up around the back of his place and got out so I followed getting out and up through the backdoor to his house looking around nervously just in case someone had followed but saw nobody so I closed the door then turned back to the interior.

"So…uh what are we-" I was cut off by his lips and I smiled into the kiss wrapping my arms around his shoulders as his wound around my waist and lifted me up so I was forced to wrap my legs around his waist as he pushed me up against the wall.

I grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his head momentarily breaking the kiss just long enough to get it off before we reattached our lips kissing with such frenzy and passion that I almost forgot to breathe until he pulled back breathing harshly then moved his lips to my neck as I run my fingers through his hair desperate for more so I quickly moved my hands to the waistline of his jeans and pulled his hips closer then started for the belt buckle but he suddenly stopped and stilled my hands.

"Wait" he whispered quietly causing me to look up and saw his eyes we're towards the door. "Go upstairs now" I frowned confused. "Now!" he ordered quickly putting me down so I didn't wait for an explanation and ran upstairs hiding out of sight just in time since I heard the front door being kicked in.

"No one home" my eyes widened at my dad's voice and I sunk further back from the stairs.

"Oh he's here" my frown increased at the sound of Kate Argent's voice. "He's just not feeling particularly hospitable"

"Maybe he's out, burying a bone in the backyard" I rolled my eyes at the new younger hunter's voice as that wasn't even a funny joke.

"Really, a dog joke, were going there and that's the best you got?" Kate asked him voicing my thoughts. "If you wanna provoke him say something like, too bad your sister 'bit it' before he had her first litter" I shook my head in anger because that was just horrible. "Too bad she howled like a bitch when we cut her in half" Kate added yelling the last bit and was answered by a loud growl followed by a scream of the younger hunter.

I peeked around the corner just in time to see Derek leap over the banister of the stairs and kicked my father in the chest sending him backwards and knocked him out making me wince as I knew he's gonna be pissed about that one later then Derek charged at Kate but I saw her raise the electric prod and zapped him, Derek fell to the ground groaning and writhing in pain making me angry towards Kate and fight the urge to ran down and slap her across the face.

"Wow" she cooed looking down at Derek. "This one grew up in all the right places" I frowned thinking what she meant by that. "I don't know whether to kill it or lick it" I bawled my fists in anger because if she even tried it she was going to get a bullet between the eyes.

I felt my phone start vibrating in my pocket so I quickly pulled it out and hung up on Stiles before looking back down the stairs towards Kate and Derek who was trying to crawl away from her but she kept stalking after him with a satisfied smirk on her face that I so wanted to slap off her face right now but knew I couldn't reveal myself without revealing why I was here in the first place.

They went out of my view and it made me worry especially when I heard the sound of the electric prod going off again then Derek's groans as he rolled back over into my view convulsing and wincing in pain as Kate laughed holding up her cattle prod.

"900,000 volts" I held my hand over my mouth to stop myself from screaming out for her to stop since she was going to kill him if she kept this up. "You never we're good with electricity?" she asked him. "Or fire" she added laughed again and I bawled my fists in anger.

I had a strong feeling it had been Kate responsible for the Hale fire since the other night when Derek took me and Scott to see his Uncle and he revealed that he was sure it'd been an Argent to set the fire and because I've always thought she was borderline psychotic and that just proved my theory.

"Which is why I'm gonna let you in on a little secret and well maybe we can help each other out" I rolled my eyes because why would Derek help her, help us. "Yes your sister was severed into pieces and used as bait to try to catch you, unpleasant and frankly a little 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' for my taste but quite true" she chuckled again. "Now here's the part that might really kick you in the balls, we didn't kill her" Derek didn't reply. "You think I'm lying?"

"Wouldn't be the first time" he finally spoke up and I frowned thinking about what he'd just said, did he know Kate personally.

"Sweetie" Kate replied clicking her tongue and my frown increased not likely the way this was heading or sounding. "Well, why don't you just listen to my heart and tell me if I am okay?" I growled out angrily. "We…didn't…kill…your sister" I frowned and wondered what Derek had heard.

Derek's POV

I listened to Kate's heartbeat the entire time she admitted the hunters didn't kill Laura and it didn't waver once but I knew better than to believe a word Kate said especially after what she did, I looked up with an impassive face.

"Do you hear that, there's no blips or upticks, just the steady beat of the cold hard truth" she stood up and walked away from me. "Found bite marks on your sisters body Derek, what do you think did that, a mountain lion?" she chuckled again closing the prod in her hands. "Why aren't we helping each other out, you might as well admit what you've been guessing all along which is the Alpha killed your sister and all you have to do is tell us who he is and we'll take care of it for you, problem solved everyone goes home happy" I didn't reply because I didn't have an answer to give her. "Unless you don't know who he is either" she scoffed then laughed. "Wow guess who just became totally useless"

I saw her reach for the gun on her waist so I quickly stood and ran out the front door and as far into the forest as I could before I turned back glaring towards the direction I'd run from then my eyes widened when I realised I'd forgotten about Skye and left her there, I knew she could defend herself but if they found her there she'd be questioned

"I can't believe you left me" I spun around and saw her running towards me and I sighed in relief.

"Sorry, I had to get away from Kate" she nodded as if understanding but she'd never be able to understand and I didn't want her to.

Skye's POV

After I watched Derek flee as Kate shot at him, I hid until she had gotten my dad and their other accomplice to wake up then they left so I quickly ran myself slipping out the back door and ran in the direction I hoped Derek had gone and saw him looking back towards where the Hale house was.

"I can't believe you left me!" I exclaimed glaring at him, he spun and almost seemed to sigh in relief.

"Sorry, I had to get away from Kate" I nodded knowing it would've been his instinct to flee.

"Well not where I was expecting that to go" I laughed then looked him up and down. "By the way nice one knocking out my dad" he chuckled.

"Sorry about that to, the anger just took over and-"

"Eh don't worry about it, it was actually kind of funny to watch and with the amount of times he's beaten me down he deserved it" he frowned and I realised how that might have sounded. "Not like that, training and sparring mostly" he nodded but didn't seem any less upset. "So what now?" I asked to change the subject.

"Well it's probably not safe going back to the house so I should probably just drop you off at the school and we'll…do this another time" I sighed but nodded but then I realised what tonight was.

"Shit the parent teacher conferences" I looked down at my phone for the time. "Mine are in ten minutes and my dad's probably on his way there already nursing one hell of a headache"

"I'll drop you off" I nodded but then thought better off it.

"No you can't, my dad's gonna be there and the Argent's too, they can't see us together"

"I'll drop you off a block away" I sighed knowing that was a better option but still risky, then again what Derek and I were already doing was risky so I nodded then followed him cautiously back to his house pulling my hood up over my head to hopefully cover my face in case Kate stuck around.

He ran inside to grab a shirt then came back out quickly and got into the driver's seat then drove towards the high school dropping me off a block away like he promised and I quickly jumped out thanking him then sprinted towards the school but was already too late and saw my dad walking out looking angry.

"Where the hell have you been Skyler Bethany Venandi?"

"I can explain dad" I replied but then realised I couldn't.

"Well I'm waiting for this explanation for why you left school today"

"I was…I had a…" I stuttered over my words coming up completely blank but before he had another chance to question me there was a scream from across the carpark and we looked up as everyone started running and scattering away from something.

I saw my dad grab his gun from his ankle holder so I grabbed out my dagger but he stilled my hand and shook his head then moved across the carpark, I looked around trying to see what everyone was running from but couldn't see a thing.

"Allison!" my head snapped up at Scott's voice and saw him just barely pull Allison out of the way of an oncoming car that would have run her over, I ran over to them at the same time Allison's mom did but kept my eyes towards the carpark but then two gunshots went off making me flinch as I looked up and saw Mr Argent with his gun out.

He then walked towards what he'd shot as did mostly everyone else and what I saw laying dead in the carpark had not what I'd been expecting at all, it was just a dead mountain lion but I doubt it being in the carpark was a coincidence, the Alpha trying to cover it's tracks.

A/N: Please review and let me know what you guys think so far and if you're interested in more of this story.