Skyler's POV

Being grounded was beyond boring and I definitely wasn't used to it since it was a rare occasion for my dad to care enough to ground me but after skipping school and not telling him what I'd been doing he had grounded me until further notice or until I told him what I'd been doing which obviously I couldn't so I was stuck dealing with my punishment while he was out almost every night with Mr Argent and the other hunters trying to find the Alpha.

I was sitting at my desk getting some long forgotten homework done when I heard my phone ringing so I jumped up and onto my bed picking up the phone and answered it.

"Hello"

"Hey little sis, heard about your act of rebellion" I rolled my eyes at Jake's voice.

"It wasn't an act of rebellion" I argued but he just laughed. "What do you want Jake?"

"Ouch here I thought you'd be happy for some of my comic relief while you're on lockdown"

"You interrupted me doing homework"

"Well consider yourself saved" he replied confusing me. "Will you come downstairs and let me in, I left my keys back in my dorm by accident" I jumped up and headed towards my window and saw him sitting on his bike out the front smiling up at me.

"Oh my god your back" I hung up the phone then raced downstairs throwing the door open then jumped into his arms. "What are you doing here?" I was ecstatic to see my brother but knew this wasn't just a social visit since him and my dad haven't spoken in a while.

"Dad called and told me what's been going on here" my eyes widened because the most I'd gotten out of dad was what I'd already knew and that wasn't from him, it was from Derek.

"Dad called you?" he nodded then walked towards the kitchen dropping his duffel bag then headed to the fridge opening it.

"Yeah surprised me to with the way we left things the last time but dad called so here I am"

"What about school, your classes?" he shrugged and grabbed a beer out of the fridge cracking it open.

"I'll catch up and my mate is going to send me his notes" I frowned thinking about that because he'd gotten out yet dad called and he still came running home. "So tell me about you, what really caused you to skip school, aren't you miss goody two shoes" I rolled my eyes but smiled.

"Just felt like I needed a day off" I shrugged but he just gave his big brother look that said he knew when I was lying to him.

"You know dad didn't just call me back to help with the hunt, he's worried about you Skye and frankly I'm starting to as well, this isn't like you" I shrugged turning away from him so he couldn't see the guilt in my eyes.

"Yeah well it's not like dad really gives a damn in the end does he"

"Dad cares Skye, it's just different now that mom's gone"

"That doesn't excuse his behaviour Jake, we lost mom too yet we don't treat each other like we're not even here and it took doing something that he thinks is going against his authority to actually make dad notice me"

"Come on Star you know that's not true" I sighed knowing I wouldn't get anywhere because Jake and I we're a lot alike and when it came to dad we were both just loyal soldiers in the end when it came to defending family.

"Whatever, you wanna just order some pizza and hang out watching horror movies all night or do you have to meet up with dad somewhere" he frowned so I knew his answer.

"I gotta meet up with dad and the other hunters, so rain check but we'll do it soon okay" I nodded then watched him quickly change shirts and take his duffel up to the room we'd set up for him then he was gone.

I decided to grab something to eat but realised we didn't have any food in the house and was sure my dad couldn't ground me longer for going grocery shopping so I grabbed the keys to Jake's car since I needed the space to put the food then left heading to the store.

I started loading up my cart with the basic necessities then finished quickly and paid before I headed back into the carpark throwing the food into the backseat then looked up when a flash ran past me before he briefly stopped and I saw Scott.

"Skye run" he quickly came back and grabbed my hand then dragged me with him down the levels.

We ran until he pulled me behind some cars and we hid, I motioned for him to tell me what the hell we we're running from but he shook his head and held his finger to his lips then looked down frantically and I realised his heart was beating wildly and knew only one thing could make Scott nearly piss his pants.

I grabbed my dagger out of my boot and his eyes widened as he shook his head mouthing 'No' at me, I rolled my eyes and shrugged then peeked over the hood but couldn't see a thing so I went to stand but he pulled on my arm.

"No wait here, I'll come back for you" he whispered then took off around the next level and I heard him start to jump on the cars causing the alarms to go off and I nodded smiling as that actually was a smart idea but before I could praise him even more a hand suddenly covered my mouth and I screamed into it.

"Shh it's me" I looked up and saw Derek so I relaxed as his hand let go then he looked up and shook his head before disappearing so I quickly got up and followed him just in time to see him jump on the hood of a car and grab Scott slamming his back onto it. "Your dead!" I smirked at that thinking back to the time I'd tried to instigate a fight with him and he'd pinned me up against and tree and muttered those same words in my ear.

He jumped off the car then walked towards me but passed right by me without so much of a glace my way and I knew it was a front for Scott so that nobody knew Derek and I were…were doing whatever it was we were doing.

"What the hell was that?" Scott asked quickly following him.

"Said I was going to teach you, didn't say when" I sniggered as I followed them.

"You scared the crap out of me!" Scott exclaimed and I laughed harder especially with Derek's reply.

"Not yet"

"Okay but I was fast right?" Scott asked him gesturing pretty dramatically with his hands.

"Not fast enough" Derek replied without stopping walking.

"But the car alarm thing, that was smart right?" I nodded my head smiling at Scott because that had been pretty smart.

"Until your phone rang" Derek remarked again and my smile fell.

"Idiot" they both looked at me, one with a glare and one with a smile and nod.

"And you left Skyler behind, if I had been the Alpha he wouldn't have hesitated to kill her or worse bite her" I looked up at Derek and frowned knowing that was true because either one would end up with me dead.

"I can protect myself" I replied glaring at him.

"Yeah but that was…I mean…would you just stop, please!" Scott suddenly exclaimed and I watched Derek sigh before he stopped and turned to face him. "What happened the other night, Stiles' dad getting hurt, that was my fault, I should've been there to do something, I need you to teach me how to control this" I shook my head because it wasn't all his fault and it's not easy to learn control if a werewolf can ever be in complete control.

"Look, I am what I am because of birth, you were bitten teaching someone who was bitten takes time, I don't even know if I can teach you" I frowned at that because if that was the case then it didn't leave me a lot of options.

"What do I have to do?" Scott asked sounding desperate.

"You have to get rid of distractions" Derek replied then reached over and grabbed Scott's phone off him. "You see this?" he turned the screen to face Scott to show him he had a missed call from Allison. "This is why I caught you, you want me to teach you get rid of her" I frowned not liking that because one it was very hypocritical coming from Derek after what we're doing and two because Allison really seemed to like Scott and I didn't want her to get her heart broken but it was also a smart idea considering neither of us could really keep these boys around in the long run of things.

"What just because of her family?" Scott asked and cast a look at me.

"Hey don't look at me like that" I crossed my arms across my chest and glared at him, Derek shook his head at the both of us then turned and threw Scott's phone against the wall smashing it to pieces.

"Wait, wait, wait…whoa!" Scott exclaimed in protest then glared at Derek.

"You getting angry?" I frowned since that didn't seem like it was going to help. "That's your first lesson, you wanna learn how to control this, how to shift you do it through anger by tapping into a primal animal rage and you can't do that with her around"

"I can get angry" Scott replied looking ready to rip Derek's head off already.

"Not angry enough!" Derek yelled. "This is the only way I can teach you, now can you stay away from her at least until after the full moon?"

"If that's what it takes" Scott shrugged.

"Do you want to live, do you wanna protect your friends, yes or no?" Derek continued.

"Yes" Scott replied enthusiastically. "If you can teach me, I can stay away from her" I frowned knowing that was a total lie.

I watched Scott leave after finding his car and grabbing his food that he'd dropped then headed towards my own car and picking up the discarded keys but turned when I felt a presence behind me and knew it'd only be Derek.

"You know that was really hypocritical" he shrugged then moved into a kiss but I pulled back.

"What?" he asked stepping back.

"I don't think I can keep sneaking around like this, my brothers back in town and lying to my dad is one thing but lying to my brother…" I watched him sigh.

"I understand Skye" he turned to walk away so I grabbed his hand.

"It's not you Derek because honestly I wish it wasn't this hard, I wish that we could be able to do normal things like go on dates, make out in public or even in the privacy of my room but we can't and I know that if we continue doing this then it's just gonna get harder down the road to let go"

"Skye it's okay" he brushed my hair behind my ear. "I'm not going to pressure you, I said that remember" I frowned looking down.

"God why does this have to be so hard" he chuckled then cupped my cheeks and lifted my face.

"It's does because of who we are, we're meant to be sworn enemies yet all I want to do is strip you down and take you right here" I blushed and shook my head slapping his chest.

"You can't say stuff like that Hale" he chuckled again then lifted my face and pressed his lips cautiously to mine at first but when I didn't pull away it became more passionate and soon I was pressed up against the hood of another car that thankfully wasn't my brothers.

"You only have to stop me" Derek whispered pulling away.

"God no" I replied and watched him smirk before pressing his lips back to mine as we made out right here in the middle of the carpark like some horny teenagers but I didn't care at the moment and any protest that had been in my head was pushed back into the dark corners of my mind because when Derek kissed me nothing else mattered.

By the time we'd had our fill of kissing and forced ourselves to stop I had to stop myself from laughing when I pulled away and saw Derek have to re-adjust the front of his jeans to hide the fact he was aroused.

"Your such a tease" he groaned.

"Well as much as I'd love to continue, if I don't get home before my father does I'll be grounded for the rest of my life" he frowned.

"Sorry for getting you in trouble the other day" I shrugged walking towards the Corvette.

"No biggy, my dad never stays angry at me long so I shouldn't be on lockdown too much longer" he nodded then watched as I climbed into the car and started the engine. "I'll see you around" he nodded smiling then leaned his hands on the car before leaning down further and we quickly kissed one last time before I left and headed home to an empty house.

Monday morning I was walking out of my bathroom to get dressed when I saw a note casually tapped to the inside of my window making me frown as I walked over to it confused as to how it had gotten there.

Skye,

I need your help with something after school, meet me in the back part of the parking lot after school, if you can but if not text me and I'll understand

Derek

I looked out my window towards the street but couldn't any sign of him and wondered how the hell he'd gotten this up here without my dad or brother noticing but then shrugged and got dressed into some dark blue jeans, black t-shirt and pulled on my favourite blue leather jacket and combat boots slipping my dagger into them before heading downstairs.

"Hey sis" I smiled seeing my brother sitting at the kitchen table eating cereal out of a bowl. "Thank you for getting food last night, I wouldn't have survived without food" I laughed and grabbed my pop tarts and threw some in the toaster.

"Where's dad?"

"I don't know, he came back with me last night but then left early this morning again" I nodded eating some of the pop tart after they popped out of the toaster. "Has he been doing that a lot"

"Every morning since we moved here, I'm amazed he's even functioning with the amount of sleep he gets a night" Jake nodded sighing and shook his head. "Well I better get to school, see ya later Jake" I grabbed my helmet and keys then went out into the garage getting on my bike then pulled out and headed to school.

I pulled into the school parking lot then swung my leg over and hopped off then pulled my helmet off and shook my hair loose earning a few whistles and cat calls from a couple of teenage half-wits nearby making me smirk as I headed towards school.

"Come on sexy come sit on my-" I rolled my eyes then turned back towards them.

"Keep dreaming boys because girls with arses like mine do not talk to boys with faces like yours" I replied cutting that horrendous pick up line off and watched as their cocky smirks fell, I flipped my hair over one shoulder then continued walking into school and towards my locker to put away my helmet.

"Oh come on!" I looked up at the sound of that shout and saw Scott quickly making his way down the hallway towards the history classrooms, I rolled my eyes then grabbed my French notepad and closed my locker heading to my own class.

After class I was heading down the hallway to my next class when I saw Scott and Stiles come out so I quietly walked up behind them and caught the conversation they we're having and shook my head because they really could be idiots especially when they talked about this stuff when anybody could walk up.

"…I have to be able to control it"

"Well how's he gonna teach you to do that?" Stiles asked him.

"You boys are not very smart you know" Stiles jumped and spun then glared seeing it was me.

"God how can you be so quiet" he groaned.

"Years and years of practice" I laughed then looked to Scott. "You just need to trust Derek Scott, he knows what he's talking about"

"He doesn't seem like he does" Scott protested and Stiles sighed.

"Okay, when are you seeing him again?" Stiles asked him.

"Just told me not to talk about it, just act normal and get through the day" Stiles stopped him.

"When?" he urged.

"He's picking me up at the animal clinic after work"

"After work" Stiles sighed and rubbed the back of his head. "All right well that gives me to the end of the school day then" I frowned.

"To do what?" I asked him confused.

"To teach him myself" Stiles replied then walked away.

"God luck with that Scott" I hit him lightly on the shoulder then walked away myself.

Later that day I walked into the lunch room and saw Allison and Lydia sitting at a table and thought about the fact that I haven't spent much time with Allison lately because I've been sucked into werewolf business so I walked towards them and sat down with a smile.

"Hey" they both looked up with smiles, Lydia's more forced then Ally's.

"Hey Skye" I smiled at Allison then grabbed the apple out of my bag and started eating it.

"So what are you reading about?" I asked her gesturing to the book in her hands since I've been seeing her with it all day.

"The beast of Gevaudan" she replied and I fought the urge to choke on the bite of apple I'd just eaten. "Listen, 'A quadruped wolf-like monster, prowling the Auvergne and South Dordogne areas of France during the year 1764 to 1767, La bete killed over 100 people becoming so infamous that the King Louis XV sent one of his best hunters to try and kill it'"

"Boring" Lydia cut in.

"'Even the church eventually declared the monster a messenger of Satan'" Allison added.

"Mm still boring" Lydia said again and I rolled my eyes.

"'Crypto zoologists believe it may have been a subspecies of hoofed predator, possibly a mesonychid'"

"Slipping into a coma bored" I bawled my fist underneath the table because Lydia was seriously starting to get on my nerves and I couldn't understand why Allison even hung out with her, she was so self-centred.

"'While others believed it was a sorcerer who could shape-shift into a man-eating monster'" Allison finished and I frowned knowing about this part of the Argent family history because it was my history too.

"Any of this have anything to do with your family?" Lydia asked her.

"This" Allison replied with a smile. "'It is believed that La Bete was finally trapped and killed by a renown hunter who claimed his wife and four children were the first to fall prey to the creature' his name was Argent" I smiled and thought about the part they left out, her ancestor wasn't alone in hunting La Bete, my great ancestor had been his right hand man and helped take down the beast but that was always left out of the history books.

"Your ancestors killed a big wolf, so what?" I glared at Lydia and knew I'd never like her.

"Not just a big wolf take a look at this picture, what does that look like to you?" Allison flipped the page then turned the book to face Lydia and I watched as her eyes focused in on it and seemed to go into a trance so I peeked around at the book and saw the illustration of a Werewolf with bright red glowing eyes and knew she was flashing back to the incident she had seen at the video store, she must have seen the Alpha.

"Lydia?" I asked trying to get her attention away from the book. "Lydia!" she snapped out of her trance and looked up at us.

"It look's like a big wolf" she replied and any worry I had for her depleted. "See you girls in history" she got up and left leaving me rolling my eyes.

"So how'd you find out about this?" I asked Allison but already knew the answer.

"I'm studying it for our project in history, Kate gave me the clue" I nodded then finished the rest of my apple. "Your families name is mentioned in here to, I guess that's why our families are so close" I smiled and nodded at her.

"As far as my dads told me our family's have always been close so I guess that makes sense"

"Scott?" I looked up and saw her looking up at Scott's fast retreating figure rush out of the lunch room. "Scott?!" she stood up and grabbed her books. "I'll catch you later Skye" I nodded and watched her run after him and chuckled to myself.

"So much for catching some girl time" I muttered to myself then looked up when I felt eyes on me and saw a boy staring at me from across the lunch room, he smiled and waved so I waved back to be polite but it was beyond creepy so I gathered my books and bag then stood up and walked out heading towards my locker.

I spun the lock around putting in my combination then opened my locker and a note fell out, I frowned then bent down and picked it up before looking around nervously then opened the paper and saw familiar handwriting.

Skye,
I haven't heard from you, is it a yes or no to your accompanying me after school
Derek

I sighed quickly folding the note back up then grabbed my phone out of my pocket and scrolled through my contacts and found the alias I used for Derek which was 'viridioculos' which translated to green eyes in Latin.

It's not really a good idea but if it's important to you then pick me up after school – Skye, I pressed send just as the next class bell went so I grabbed my econ book then shut my locker and headed towards class sitting down in a seat just as Stiles and Scott wandered in at the same time Allison did.

"Hey Stiles, sit behind me dude" Scott whispered so Stiles tried to sit in the seat behind him but Allison beat him to it and Stiles was forced to sit in the seat behind me as Allison took the seat behind Scott smiling at him unaware that Scott was meant to avoid her.

"I haven't seen you all day" Allison spoke up leaning forwards in her seat talking to Scott.

"Uh yeah, I've been super busy" Scott lied and I hid my smile as I played with a pencil rolling it around on the desk.

"When are you going to get your phone fixed, I feel like I'm totally disconnected from you"

"Uh soon, real soon" I zoned out of the rest of the conversation since it didn't really interest me in the slightest and focused in on Coach Finstock as much as I could.

"Now let's start with a summary of last night's reading" Coach Finstock began, I raised my hand along with half the class. "Greenberg put your hand down, everybody knows you did the reading how about…uh McCall the reading" Scott looked up at him.

"Last night's reading?" Scott replied.

"How about the reading of The Gettysburg Address?" I chuckled at his response.

"What?" Scott asked.

"That's sarcasm, are you familiar with the term 'sarcasm' McCall?" Scott looked over at Stiles.

"Very" I rolled my eyes at them.

"Did you do the reading or not?" Coach asked him leaning back against his desk.

"Um…I think I forgot" Scott replied.

"Nice work McCall it's not like you're not averaging a D in this class, come on buddy you know I can't keep you on the team if you have a D, how about you summarize the previous night's reading" Scott didn't reply. "No how about the uh…night before that, how about you summarize anything you've ever read, in your entire life"

"I uh…" Scott stuttered so I looked behind me at Stiles and saw him looking down at his phone rubbing his neck which I took as he was getting anxious or nervous, I looked back at Scott and could see he was getting angry.

"No, a blog, how about uh…how about the back of a cereal box no, how about the adults only warning from your favourite website you visit every night, anything?" after a few seconds of silence from Scott coach continued. "Thank you McCall, thank you, thank you, thank you for extinguishing any last flicker of hope I have for your generation you just blew it for everybody thanks, next practice you can start it with suicide runs unless that's too much reading…" I zoned coach out as I looked at Scott with worry since anger usually triggered a werewolfs shift but groaned quietly when I saw he was holding Allison's hand underneath the table.

"It's her" I heard Stiles tell Scott after class was released and I quickly caught up with them thinking back to that incident and was kind of angry because I could never have that, not with Derek at least.

"What do you mean?" Scott asked him after looking around.

"It's Allison, remember what you told me about the night of the full moon, you we're thinking about her right, about protecting her?"

"Okay" Scott replied hesitantly.

"Remember the night of the first lacrosse game, you said you could hear her voice out on the field"

"Yeah I did" Scott agreed with him.

"Well so that's what brought you back so you could score and then after the game in the locker room, you didn't kill her, at least not how you we're trying to kill me"

"Wait what, when?" I asked completely confused.

"Long story" Stiles muttered then turned back to Scott. "She brings you back is what I'm saying"

"No, no, no but it's not always true because literally every time I'm kissing her or touching her-" Scott protested.

"No, that's not the same, when you're doing that you're just another hormonal teenager thinking about sex, you know?" Scott looked away with a goofy smile on his face. "You're thinking about sex right now aren't you?"

"Yeah" Scott laughed. "Sorry"

"That's fine…" I rolled my eyes.

"Boys" Stiles turned to me.

"What your gonna tell us you don't think about sex"

"No I don't, I don't have time to think about boys" I remarked but my mind drifted to Derek and couldn't help the smile.

"Oh yeah well why do you have sex eyes, who you thinking about?" I wiped the smile off my face and glared at Stiles.

"That's none of your business Stilinski" I snapped.

"Could you two stop for five seconds" Scott cut in stopping our bantering.

"Anyway as I was saying back in the classroom when she was holding your hand that was different okay, I don't think she makes you weak I think she actually gives you control, she's kinda like an anchor "

"You mean because I love her" Scott replied then did a double take of what he'd just said and I couldn't help a small smile because underneath the whole instinct to be offended that Scott 'a werewolf' is in love with my old childhood best friend who is 'a hunter's daughter'. "Did I just say that?" he asked us.

"Yes you just said that" Stiles replied.

"I love her" Scott stated again with a bright smile on his face.

"That's great, now moving on…"

"No, no, no really, I think I'm totally in love with her" Scott replied cutting Stiles off and I rolled my eyes at them.

"And that's beautiful, now before you go off and a write a sonnet can we figure this out please because you obviously can't be around her all the time" Stiles cut in getting Scott's attention back to the issue most important here.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah sorry, so what do I do?" Scott asked him back, Stiles sighed loudly.

"I don't know, yet" he replied then started dancing around spastically then stooped and looked up.

"Oh no, your getting an idea aren't you?" Scott asked him.

"Yeah" Stiles replied smiling mischievously.

"Is this idea gonna get me in trouble?" Scott asked him.

"Maybe" Stiles replied nodding his head at Scott.

"Is this idea gonna cause me physical pain?"

"Yeah definitely" Stiles agreed and I laughed. "Come on" they walked away and I rolled my eyes walking towards my locker to grab my stuff since I had the rest of the afternoon free.

I grabbed my helmet and stuffed the books I needed for homework into my backpack then headed out to my bike but saw a familiar black car waiting right beside it and as I walked closer the window rolled down and I saw Derek smiling up at me with aviator shades on making me laugh.

"That supposed to impress me?" I asked him.

"Maybe" he smirked. "Get in I'll drop you back here later for your bike" I looked around hesitantly but then quickly ran around and hopped in before he peeled out of the carpark quickly speeding as always.

"So where exactly are you taking me?"

"I need answers" he replied confusing me. "And I have to see my uncle for them"

"Isn't he comatose?" I asked feeling a little shameful for pointing it out since no doubt my family had been partially responsible for the fire.

"Yeah but he might be able to give me a sign at least" I nodded.

"So why do you need me for?" I asked after a few quiet seconds.

"Seeing him is never easy and I need your help to keep me calm"

"And how do I do that?"

"You do just by being near me" I frowned not sure how that does anything to help but thought back to what Stiles had said about Allison being like an anchor to humanity for Scott so maybe Derek was thinking I was like that for him. "I told you I think your my mate Skye and that means that you have the ability to keep me calm and I know it works, you calm me down as soon as I catch your scent" I frowned not sure if that was a good thing or not since I'm still hesitant to accept the whole being mates with a werewolf.

"Okay then" I replied taking his hand and squeezed it then smiled when he looked over a little shocked that I'd instigated affection.

"How was school?" he asked so I quirked an eyebrow towards him.

"Is that your way of subtly asking whether or not Scott stayed away from Allison?" he rolled his eyes at me.

"It's me asking how school was" I laughed at his reply.

"Schools, school boring as ever if you remember"

"I vaguely remember" he replied and it got me wondering what he was like in high school. "But since you brought it up, did Scott stay away from Allison?" I rolled my eyes.

"He did" I replied choosing to leave out Econ.

"Are you sure?" I looked up and saw he was glancing at me every few seconds from the road and I knew he was trying to use that built in werewolf lie detector thing.

"Don't use your werewolf mojo on me, it's not fair" he looked up then smiled.

"Werewolf mojo?" I rolled my eyes then let go of his hand glaring out the window.

"Hey don't be like that and I wasn't using my…" I looked up glaring at him. "Skills against you"

"Sure you weren't" I replied rolling my eyes. "How does that work by the way?" he looked over with a small frown and I knew we were back to the hunter/werewolf thing and it was justified since I was a hunter. "You don't have to tell me" I added turning to look out the window.

"The biggest tell is your heartbeat, it's jumps or upticks when a person lies" I looked back towards him and recalled Kate mentioning something like that at his house that day. "What?"

"Nothing" I turned away.

"Your lying to me" I rolled my eyes but smiled. "Your easiest tell is you look away" I scoffed then turned back and looked at him.

"Do you know Kate…personally?" he frowned and this time he was the one to avoid eye contact.

"Why would you ask me that?"

"Just something she said that day at your house, it sounded like you two did"

"We did once but it…it uh didn't work out" he replied and I sensed this was a sore topic.

"Because she set the fire" he looked up shocked again.

"How do you know that?"

"I'm perceptive Derek and I know Kate is psychotic on her best days, I've grown up beside the Argent's remember" he sighed nodding his head.

"It's my fault for getting involved with Kate and I'm the reason my family is dead" I frowned shaking my head.

"I don't believe that Derek, Kate manipulated you it's what she does best and I'm pretty sure she's doing it to Allison right now" he pulled into the hospital carpark and turned off the ignition.

"Maybe" he replied then looked up at the long care facility.

"Come on, I got your back always" he looked back at me with a small smile then got out of the car so I followed and fell into step with him again as we went inside and down the hallways towards Peter Hale's room.

Derek walked in slowly as I hesitated by the door and watched him walk over to his Uncle and turn his wheelchair so that Peter was facing him then sat down on the bed before he looked up towards me, I tried to offer him a smile as I walked in and sat next to him then took his hand in support before he turned back to his Uncle.

"I need your help, if you can hear me, I need you to give me a sign, blink, raise a finger, anything just…just something to point me in the right direction, okay?" Derek looked back up at me so I squeezed his hand before he looked down seeming to be reeling back deep down emotions before he looked back up towards his Uncle again. "Someone killed Laura, your niece, Laura?" Peter didn't even blink and I frowned thinking how awful it must be not being able to move. "Whoever he is, he's an Alpha now but he's one without a pack, which means he's not as strong" Derek paused for a second. "I can take him" I looked up a little worried and I'd gladly admit that because Derek was becoming important to me. "But I have to find him first, look if you know something just give me a sign, is it one of us did someone else make it out of the fire, just give me anything, blink, raise a finger, just anything" he paused again but then let go of my hand and stood up. "Say something!" he exclaimed, grabbing the sides of the wheelchair.

"Let him go!" the same nurse as before exclaimed as she ran into the room. "You think after six years of this, yelling at him is going to get a response?"

"You got a better method?" Derek asked her and I could hear the anger and frustration in his voice so I grabbed his hand hoping it'd calm him down.

"Patience he'll respond if you give him the time"

"I don't have any more time" Derek replied pulling on my hand leaving the room.

Derek dragged me outside and I looked up noticing a few snowflakes falling from the sky and smiled despite what I'd just witnessed because I loved the snow and it was something I definitely missed from the small snow showers I'd experience in Seattle and living in New York I'd seen a few small snow storms.

"Skye?" I looked down from the sky towards Derek and realised I'd stopped.

"Sorry" I apologised making him smile before we continued walking towards his car and went to get in but we both noticed a piece of paper stuck to his windshield wipers. "What is that?" I asked as he grabbed it and flipped it open, I watched him frown then look up and take in our surroundings which made me do the same but I didn't see anything. "Derek what is it?" he shook his head then nodded for me to get in so I did.

He quickly turned the key and sped out of the parking lot leaving me more confused so I turned to him expectantly but he was refusing to even look at me so I grabbed his hand which was on the gear stick and made him look at me.

"What was it?" he frowned then showed me the piece of paper, it was an article on a dead deer with a spiral carved into its side and I was confused by the spiral again. "What's it mean?" I asked looking back up at him.

"It's the same article that led Laura back here and I think I know who sent it to her"

"The Alpha?" I asked and he nodded. "Where are we going?" I asked looking up seeing we weren't heading back to the school.

"I need to talk with someone else, I think I know who the Alpha is" my eyes widened as I gestured for him to continue but he didn't elaborate so I sat back in my seat and just went along for the ride.

"What are we doing here?" I asked as got out of his car and walked up towards the entrance into the animal shelter behind him.

"We're talking to the vet" I frowned quickly catching up with him as he walked in and towards the back exam room.

"Scott you're late again, I hope this isn't getting to be a habit" I heard someone say as we walked back then saw the man look up and noticed Derek and I in the door frame instead of Scott. "Can I help you?"

"I hope so" Derek replied. "I want to know about the animal you found with the spiral on its side?"

"Excuse me, what animal?"

"Three months ago, the deer" Derek reached into his pocket and pulled out the paper that was on his windshield then he showed it to the vet. "You remember this?" I looked at Derek confused as to why this mattered.

"Oh yes, it's just a deer and I didn't find it they called me because they wanted to know if I'd ever seen anything like it" the vet replied.

"What'd you tell them" Derek asked him.

"I told them no" the vet replied almost nervously.

"Did you hear that?" Derek asked walking toward Deaton looking every bit the predator that he is.

"Hear what?"

"Derek what are you doing?" I asked him and tried to reach for his hand but he pulled it out of my grasp.

"The sound of your heartbeat rising" Derek said ignoring me.

"Excuse me?" the vet asked stepping back looking afraid now.

"It's the sound of you lying" Derek grabbed him by the collar and threw him on the table before he began hitting him a few times making the guy pass out.

"What the hell are you doing?!" I yelled, trying to pull Derek away from him but he was too strong.

"Don't you get it, he's the Alpha"

"Are you insane you can't just beat up someone you suspect of being the Alpha" I argued.

"Watch me" I glared at him then reached into my boot and grabbed my dagger.

"Stop this or I swear I'll stab you Derek"

"You won't" he goaded me.

"Don't make me" I glared at him.

"Just trust me Skye" he replied then grabbed the vet and tied him to an office chair as I stared on angrily conflicted because on one hand I should have put Derek down for hurting someone but if he was right and this guy was the Alpha then he should be my focus not Derek.

We waited only a short while for this guy to start regaining consciousness and started looking around frantically aware of what was going on.

"Are you protecting someone?" Derek asked him from the shadows where he'd taken up residence after finishing tying this guy to the chair.

"All right the key to the drug locker is in my pocket"

"I don't want drugs, I want to know why you're lying" Derek replied grabbing him and I itched closer on instinct moving the dagger about in my hand.

"I don't know what you're talking about" the vet stuttered, Derek spun him around and picked the chair up off the ground. "What are you doing to me, what do you want?"

"I want to know who you are and who you're protecting!" Derek yelled right in his face.

"What are you guys doing!?" I heard someone yell making me turn and saw Scott run into the room.

"Scott get out of here" the vet yelled as Derek dropped the chair then punched the vet in the face again.

"Stop, stop!" Scott yelled putting his arm out in front of Derek.

"Look, when he's conscious he can keep himself from healing but unconscious he can't" Derek replied.

"Are you out of your mind, what are you talking about?" Scott exclaimed.

"You wanna know what the spiral means Scott, it's our sign for vendetta for revenge it means he won't stop killing until he's satisfied!" Derek yelled at him

"You think he's the Alpha!?"

"We're about to find out" Derek replied then lifted a hand to strike the vet again but Scott grabbed his arm in full blown wolf mode then threw Derek's hand back forcing Derek to take a step back and Scott looked at his hand as his claws retracted.

"Hit him again and then you'll see me get angry" Scott said completely back to normal, I stared at him in shock because since when did he have that much control over his shifting.

I stepped forward just in case the two werewolves started going at it but Derek looked too in shock that Scott had shifted on the fly like that, so I walked over and took his hand to calm him down as much as possible even though I was angry at him as well.

"Derek you can't do stuff like this around me" he looked down at me with a frown. "I know you wanted me here to keep you calm but understand it's my instinct to take you down when you hurt people"

"Skye believe me I know that this guy is hiding something" I frowned looking back at the vet and Scott who'd begun patching up the cut on the vet's face from Derek's fist.

"There are better ways to handle this Derek" I replied looking back at him as Derek started pacing by the door.

"Do you have a plan?" Derek asked Scott.

"Just give me an hour" Scott replied.

"Then what?" I asked cutting in.

"Meet me at the school, in the parking lot" Scott replied looking at Derek then at me angrily.

Derek sighed and glanced at me so I nodded for him to go leave the clinic for now because two testosterone filled werewolves in one room while both angry couldn't be a good thing and I had a feeling Scott wanted to talk, Derek walked out and Scott waited a bit before turning to me probably waiting for Derek to be out of earshot.

"How could you let him do this Skyler, I thought you we're one of the good guys" I rolled my eyes at him and crossed my arms.

"I'm a hunter Scott"

"And you stood by and let him to this" he gestured to the vet then threw the gauze he'd been using to the table.

"Look Derek is just trying to get revenge for his sister and I tried to stop him but believe me you don't want to get in the middle of a werewolf when their angry"

"Why are you defending him!" Scott yelled.

"I'm not defending him Scott, I'm merely stating a fact that although I'm a hunter I'm still human and I like my neck not clawed out thank you very much" I stormed out of the animal clinic then angrily started kicking the ground because Scott was kind of right, I'd stood by and did nothing.

Scott came out a few minutes later and looked at me then towards Derek who'd been standing by his car the entire time and it only took a few seconds before Stiles pulled up in his crappy jeep.

"Alright bring him to the school and Skyler don't let him hurt him" I rolled my eyes but nodded then watched them leave before I looked up at Derek then nodded and he headed back into the clinic to grab the vet who was still unconscious but when he came out I saw he'd wrapped the vet in a least a whole role of duct tape.

"Really?" I asked and he shrugged then threw the vet into the back seat of the Camaro none too carefully so I glared at him. "Derek!" he walked around to the drivers side.

"Let's go" I inwardly growled and rolled my eyes but walked over and got in before he started driving towards the high school and it was a long awkward ride.

We pulled up in the main school parking lot and saw Scott and Stiles already here getting stuff out of the back of the jeep, I rolled my eyes at Stiles holding a flashlight and a pair of bolt cutters as Derek and I got out.

"Where's my boss?" Scott asked us.

"He's in the back" Derek replied and the two stooges walked to peek through the back window and saw the vet who was still out cold and duct taped.

"Oh, he looks comfortable" Stiles pointed out before they turned and headed towards the school building.

"Wait hey, what are you doing?" Derek asked them.

"You said I was linked to the Alpha" Scott replied looking back towards the school building but then turned again towards us. "Skyler stay here, make sure he doesn't do anything"

"Uh since when am I Derek's babysitter" I spat back angrily.

"When you decided to let him beat up Deaton" Stiles replied so I glared and flipped him off. "Real mature Skye" he added then they disappeared into school, I sighed then walked to the front of Derek's car and jumped up onto the hood.

"Hey watch the car!" I laughed rolling my eyes at Derek who came and leant up on the car next to me. "I'm sorry for getting you involved with this"

"Well it wasn't exactly a fun evening" I replied wrapping my arms around myself shivering a little since I'd left my jacket in my locker and didn't fancy going to get it.

"Your cold, here" I felt Derek's leather jacket being laid over my shoulders so I turned and smiled up at him as I slid my arms into the sleeves.

"Thanks" I replied lifting the collar up to cover my ears and took a quick whiff of the smells imbedded in the jacket and sighed smiling when I smelt Derek's unique pine and woodsy smell but a shrill sound came from the school.

"You've gotta be kidding me" Derek muttered.

"What the hell is that?" I exclaimed.

"It's Scott, he's trying to howl" he replied.

"Howl, that sounds like a cats being strangled to death" Derek chuckled under his breath but then a loud howl came from the building shaking it and Derek and I both jumped up glaring towards the school because that wasn't a smart idea.

"I'm gonna kill both of you" Derek exclaimed pointing at them when Scott and Stiles came walking out of the school. "What the hell was that, what are you trying to do attract the entire state to the school?"

"Sorry" Scott replied smiling. "I didn't know it would be that loud"

"Yeah it was loud and it was awesome" Stiles sang.

"Shut up" Derek remarked and I looked up at him.

"Don't be such a sourwolf" Stiles replied and Scott hit him before looking behind us towards Derek's car.

"What'd you do with him?"

"What?" Derek and I replied at the same time and turned seeing no vet in the back seat.

"We didn't do anything" I added looking back towards Scott and Stiles but then I heard Derek gasp so I whipped my head back around to see blood and the black substance he puked up before began to pour out of his mouth as he was lifted up in the air by the Alpha. "DEREK!" I screamed and started towards him but Stiles and Scott each grabbed one of my arms and pulled me towards the school. "No we have to help him!" I exclaimed but they ignored me.

"We can't" Stiles replied still dragging me away but I turned just in time to see the Alpha throw Derek towards the school and he hit the side of the building then fell to the ground without moving before Scott and Stiles pulled me into the school building and slammed the doors shut.

They held onto the doors as I moved to lean against the nearest wall clutching my knees to my chest as the tears started pouring down my face because Derek was just killed right in front of me and I'd done nothing to help, he was dead and would never know how much I lov…liked him.

A/N: Please let me know what you guys think so far please. Review ;)