My sincere apologies for my utter lack of posts. Honestly, I forgot about this story but now I shall return.

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The show must go on...

Derek's POV

How had they gotten out before us? Crap. They must have got out whilst we were having out silent debate.

"Where you two off to?" Clay drawled smiling knowingly, the dude was starting to get on my nerves. I looked at Chloe, knowing as it was her plan she would most likely answer, not to mention she was the polite out the two of us. I had to clench and unclench my fist before I could properly pay attention. I hated my lack of control but if something was actually happening to Rae then it meant they were back. They would try to get Chloe, I couldn't fail her twice.

"I am going and you aren't going to stop me. You can come along if you want, don't even think about trying to stop me. I will put you on your ass. Yes, that includes you Derek," she stared evenly at us I held my hands up in surrender I wasn't going to stop her, not like I actually could.

I chucked her the keys to show my surrender, but I moved to open the door she wasn't going without me. She rolled her eyes at my movement before raising her eyebrow at the older couple.

"Well, as you are under Pack protection, we have to come with you." Elena stated plainly, getting into the back seat whilst Chloe took the front bringing the car to life.

Tori POV

"Now, where were we, Simon?" I had to prompt him to start speaking everyone was suspicious of us already it wouldn't look good to give them a reason to target us. I know I could wipe them easily but Zoey and Jeremy had the supernatural benefit of strength.

"Did you just break my spell lock?" The little woman asked me, staring accusingly. The great Paige Winterbourne the rebel of coven witches looking disapprovingly at me, it was just too much. I had to smile the poor joy of feeling in control for the first time in a week relaxed me.

"Yes, indeed I did. Replaced it shall we say." I answered ignoring the frown that appeared on Simon's face when he noticed Chloe and Derek gone, I swear him and subtly didn't mix at all. Savannah perked up at this staring at me like I had some how grown two heads.

"Yours proved too easy break, mine will be better. " I stated, after she had questioned my motives. Actually, it was a default mode like the perimeter spell that I had cast before locking the doors. I allowed the blonde duo to go out the door before I nodded to Derek, they will protect Chloe and him if the threat turned out to be real.

"How did you do it, without casting?" Savannah asked, seriously was this 20 questions. I had to remind myself that we wanted these people to help us. I don't know how they could actually help us, we can look after ourself in a fight.

"You mean the muttering magic words shit?" I asked ignoring Dad when he scolded my language. Savannah smirked slightly at my response, I think I would get along with her just fine. "No I don't need to speak Hebrew, Greek or whatever other language you use. Simon does though." I added unable to resist the dig about having better powers.

"Interesting" was spoke at the same time Simon tried to defend himself.

"Hey, my spells have saved your ass more than once so knock it off." He argued, he was always touchy about the whole more powerful part. Especially as he was in the programme as well but ended up with what seemed like little power.

"My bad. Couldn't resist" I called smirking still. "What has me being able to do spells without muttering gibberish got to do with anything?"

Paige was the first to speak whilst Savannah looked like she wanted to ask something .

"It helps us decipher what they did to you in the lab. The full extend of your powers, how they could effect us." She answered honestly I'll give her that. I felt Dad tense next to me obviously displeased at how this conversation was going. What did he expect? We are genetically altered freaks.

"If we are a threat to you, that's what you mean correct?" I know that's what she means but I wanted her admit it. Everyone seemed to tense at my blunt statement as if they didn't want to acknowledge how this little meet and greet could go.

"A threat to everyone, we've already had people trying to expose us to humans we are not about to let that happy. Doesn't mean we would kill you per say but " Savannah shrugged before letting her sentence draw to a close. They looked at us as if they expected us to do something.

"Good to know. Honesty is too hard to come by nowadays" I smiled winking at their dumbfounded expressions.

"I've never heard of a witch that could do spells without incarnation." Adam muttered mostly to himself, he glanced at Paige who shook her head.

"Savannah?" Simon called drawing her from her musings, she glanced at me I shrugged he continued. "Logan and Kate say you're the most powerful witch they know. "

Her face contorted in confusion obviously baffled to what he could be leading to.

Sighing I got to his point, "Basically, he wants to know if your full witch." He glares at me muttering that he can speak to himself, seriously? The idiot obviously thought I couldnt comprehend that, he was just so slow at getting to the point. I took a breath remembering Chloe's warning to play nice.

Savannah was laughing slightly at us, "Times like this I'm thankful you didn't have kids Paige," the witch then joined in the humourous laugh whilst adding that Savannah was enough at the time.

"In answer to your question, that was so delicately put no I'm not full witch." She did that on purpose, why can't people just be frank I mean call a spade a spade people. Just answer the question straight.

"So what are you?" The question was directed from Dad, who had been quiet during the whole exchange his patience with us was almost saintly.

"I am a hybrid, half witch half sorcerer not to mention the demon blood from my mother." She smiled wickedly "what about you Tori? Obviously, you're not pure witch."

I glanced at Dad he wasn't the man who I had called Dad for the first 15 years of my life but he was trying to make it up to me.

"I am a genetically witch sorcerer cross-breed, pleased to meet you" I said dramatically bowing, hearing Simon scoff beside me I put him in a binding spell. Reasoning that it was better this way no blood shed could follow because he couldn't annoy me.

Derek POV

We arrived at the address that Brady had given Chloe, she parked quickly at got out the car before I had even un done my belt. Thankfully, Clay and Elena also seemed to be startled at the sudden bolt.

I rushed out the car as quickly and quietly and possible, I looked at the house searching for Chloe.

I spotted her talking to someone well it was a ghost just a short while to my left, she turned hearing my approach. I watched her face as she listened it grew stony meaning she didn't like whatever she was hearing. I raised an eyebrow.

"He says that they have her tied up in the second bedroom, they are expecting us apparently." She explained whilst wiping her hands through her hair a nervous habit.

"Well we'd hate to disappoint them. Wouldnt we darling?" Clay drawled smiling at Elena who in turn grinned as a response. I listened to the movement in the house trying to distinguish the amount of people in there. Rae was a half demon I wasn't expecting any less than 4 human guards and at least one supernatural - the one in charge.

"There are at least 7 people in the house. 4 upstairs and three down." I muttered to Chloe, a habit I had, momentarily forgetting that she could now hear it too.

"I know." She whispered quietly, watching me carefully as I tried to cover up the remains of guilt that I felt.

"Okay we need to do this quick and clean." I stated, before Chloe imputed her idea.

"We need to take them out, all but one hopefully the supernatural in charge. Otherwise the rest will alert the waiting team." I nodded my agreement whilst Clay looked on in disbelief.

"You don't truly believe that there are just the six? Seriously Macho, I was hoping you had brains." She said causing Elena to laugh at the scowl that crossed her mates face.

"Six people for one girl? What a waste of resources." He uttered in disbelief.

"How do you know there are more?" Elena questioned, I answered first.

"There are always more. Trust us we know from experience" my tone was clipped and cold as I answered not taking my eyes off Chloe. Thankfully, she didn't push the issue further, it was one story I didn't want to relive.

"Where the ghost dude go?" Clay asked Chloe the question that I had been about to. She shrugged replying that he had disappeared, as ghosts do.

We finally agreed on the strategy to get Liz to scope out the place, hopefully finding out what they were using to communicate with. I waited patiently as Chloe closed her eyes in concentration. Whilst paying attention to the movement of the house aware of any people passing the windows. He was about to suggest they wait for a while when Chloe's eyes flickered open as she greeted her ghost friend.

Liz was quickly debriefed as soon as Chloe had apologised repeatedly for banishing her earlier. All we had to do was wait for Liz to come back to us with the information we needed. In the mean time we found a coffee shop down the road.

Clay and Elena grabbed a table whilst I waited in line with Chloe, she looked exhausted. I questioned her health but she just insisted that she was just worried for Rae. I snorted trying to make her understand that if it was too dangerous we were leaving Rae where she was. Chloe glared but didn't say a word, great that meant she would be thinking of escapes and ways that she can do it on her own.

When i was about to protest whatever she was thinking the server asked what we wanted. I ordered as politely as possible whilst trying ignore the seisure like I batting from the server. I watched as Chloe tried to prevent herself from laughing at the irritated expression I was certain my face clearly displayed. It unnerved the amount of attention I had received since the achne cleared. It didn't matter what anyone thought of me just the blonde that stood beside trying her best to control her glee.

She deserted me to go and sit down, leaving me to fend for myself as she gave me my order back as well as scribbling her number on the side of it. I scowled at this, was Chloe invisible to these people. Glaring at her smiling face I stalked to my table, obviously I was wrong about the amount of embarrassment one day could cause me.

"How could you leave me!" I demanded as I passed the coffees out, giving Clay the cup that had been intended for me. However the benefit of having the same taste in coffee meant I could swap them without him noticing. Well, it would of been aside from the number scrawled clearly in what looked like lip gloss.

Chloe looked innocently at me as if to ask who me? I glared she knew full well what I was on about.

"Who is Mandy? And why does it say that she is free anytime?" Clay asked staring at the cup as if it could give him the answers he had requested.

Chloe, glanced curiously at the cup. "She even gave you her number how kind." Chloe said adding sugar to her hot chocolate.

"Are you going to let her down gently?" Elena asked amused at Clays expression, he was always disinterested in the opposite sex unless of course it was her and Kate but for two complete different reasons.

"What do you think darling?" He drawled before holding the cup with a napkin.

"Such a heart breaker. To think of all the hearts you must have broken, " Elena teased before drinking her decaf coffee.

He interacted with Elena, with a sense of familiarity and unreserved manner. It almost seemed as he understood her brain process before she made it spoken. The feared Clayton Danvers, had a soft side who knew ? We didn't have to wait long before Liz appeared.

"She says that as standard they are using walkie talkies, she managed to find them all. There was one in each room, before we go in she was wondering she wanted us to hide them to increase the chances of going undetected." The idea was good but could she hide them all without them getting suspicious I questioned and was rewarded with the optimistic of Liz.

"We still need to decide how to do it." Chloe muttered,

"We could split into groups of two, divided and conquer. One group goes in the front and takes the downstairs whilst the other takes the back door wiping out the top floor." Elena suggested.

Whilst I contemplated the idea,I saw the clogs in Chloe's head twirling.

"No. absolutely not." I growled, I wasn't going to let her out my sight again.

She raised her eyebrow skeptically at me daring me to go on. My gaze remained un wavering.

"No." I emphasized nothing was going to separate us I was adiment. However, what I didn't factor was the 3:1 ratio of the little democracy I had found myself in.

Clay's POV

The plan was simple, in we go get blondies friend then get out. Oh yeah no one seemed to think it a clever idea to tell me that they had guns? Nope. Ok then.

The mutt was moping that we agreed with little blondies tactics, she was right after all. As far as we knew they thought she was a defenceless necro, liz had apparently hid all the communication devices. A clean cut op, get in get out. I was specifically told not to kill anyone just knock them unconcious, blondie repeated it to more than once I gave her my word seriously I didn't kill humans just mutts. Well only humans that were a threat towards me and my family.

Blondie had words with the mutt before she went in,

"See you soon." She called over her shoulder as we watched her enter the house. We heard shouts from within the house, the plan was I went through the front to back up blondie whilst Elena and the mutt went around the back.

I opened the door bracing myself for the onslaught that was bound to happen, even if my entrance was not as dramtic as I would like when catching my prey but still I had the element of surprise. After a minute nothing, no sounds in the house other than the heavy breathing of someone upstairs.

As I swung the door wide it bounced off something and I moved so it could shut itself

The scene before was shocking to me, it just didn't register. Five men, all in pure black miltary style outfits, were sprawled all over floor all knocked out cold but alive. That's when I noticed the 9mm handgun one of the bodies was holding. No one told me they would be handling fire arms, that meant that they didn't know or the mutt was leading us into a trap.

My intional assumption would of been a trap but not when I considered the pained expression on the mutts face, so they obviously hadn't known. I didn't see the blonde in the jumble of unconcious bodies, her scent lead out the room towards the stairs Elena and the mutt had just entered.

"Where is Chloe?" I questioned me whilst looking up the stairs, obviously he already has his answer.

I ignored him, we needed to stay on task worry about blondie after we have secured all the guards. "5 unconcious in the living room, carry fire arms, something you forgot to tell me mutt?"

He swore under his breath and made to run up the stairs, I grabbed him by his collar and had him pinned against the wall with a loud bang.

"Well done Clay, now they know we are here." Elena scolded, watching the staircase incase of an attack.

"Get your hands off me!" The mutt had the audacity to growl, to growl at me. Seriously, what happened to the fear that the sight of me installed in these mutts? No respect, with all the technoology these days they assume that I created it

"Not until you answer my question. Did you know there was going to be guns?" I asked throttling him didn't even flinch, no exression crossed his fave other then a calm mask.

"Do you reall believe that I would let Chloe, come into a house with -" he was cut off by a whimper from upstairs "Chloe!" He muttered before twisting my wrist around with a sudden amount of force that made me release him. Then I was pushed into the far wall as he bolted up the stairs.

"For a smart guy you really are stupid at times." Elena muttered before walking up the stairs.

"What? You know just as well as I do that mutts don't care about anyome but themselves." I gruffed out whilst trying to nurse my bruised ego.

"Yes but he is not most mutts." She sighed before following the mutts scent along the landing. Sprawled along the carpet in a similar manner as the unconcious bodies down stairs more lay decorated by what I presumed was a broken table and vase as well as sprinkled petals.

At the end of the landing Derek stood glowering at a figure that was tied to chair wearing what looked like oven mitts. What was that about?

"Where is Chloe?" He growled at her as he ripped the masking tape off her mouth with one swift movement leaving a mark around her mouth. I suspected that this was the Rae we was meant to be saving, by the glares the two was giving each other it wasn't a wanted activity.

"What are you doing here Derek." She spat his name like it was the most disgusting thing in the world.

"Where is Chloe?" He growled now the face of stone showed no reaction to her.

"Chloe ? Why would I know where she is? Last time I checked she was locked in a cage." She taunted, she couldn't mean our cage could she. The anger that splashed across his face was evident as he picked her up by the ropes that bound her to the steel chair, she squealed loudly her eyes turning black.

"I'll ask you once more Rachelle. Where is Chloe?" He shouted at her, it was quite entertaining to watch the mutt loose control. However, this wasn't going anywhere I decided I'll give him three minutes before I intervened.

Blomdie couldn't have gone far, especially if we heard her not only moments ago.

"I don't know! Put me down you psycho!" She screamed kicking her legs out, like that was going to do anything.

"Now, now hasn't anyone told you not to anger an angry werewolf?" I drawled drawing their attention to me. "Obviously not." I continued walking into the room to look out the window.

"Who are you?" The copper girl asked from her chair.

"Me?" I questioned faking ignorance.

"No the other creepy dude that just walked through the door. Who the fuck did you think I was talking to you dumb blonde." She yelled even more so when Derek let go of her.

"Oh, who am I? I am a psycho." I declared whilst smiling at the her as she lay on her back because the chair had toppled.

"He is pack of the Pack. Rachelle." Derek stated before leaving the room. Probably finding blondie.

I sent a questioning glance at Elena, she nodded once now time for information.

"The Pack! Derek! Where are you going? Don't leave me with these freaks!" She screamed as he left the room.

"Oh darling, I don't think she likes us." I said mocking being hurt whilst righting up the flipped chair, with the copper girl in it of course.

"Now why would anyone be afraid of us?" She asks as she enters the room completely and shuts the door behind us.

"Now Rachelle , I can call you rachelle can't I? Yes good." I startes before handing the questioning to Elena.

"Right we are just going to ask you a few questions"