Just as Derek said the next morning, after breakfast, he and Peter led the wolves in a training session in the reserve behind the house. What I thought would be a long and difficult process of getting everyone in tuned with their fighting styles turned out to be quick and easy. It seems that Deucalion taught Ethan and Aiden to fight in such a way that they really didn't have any weak points to exploit. They were even able to still be able to join together to form their larger wolf form; it seems that it was more of a twin thing than an alpha thing.

Even more so, during their time with the alpha pack, one of their jobs was to watch Derek and the pack train so that they could learn their weak points and use it against us. While this news was definitely upsetting at first, it turned out to be a great benefit; now with Ethan and Aiden's agility and speed, mostly all of our weak spots were covered. If anyone should try and attack us the wolves would be more than ready.

As for the human members of our pack, Allison and Chris were teaching Lydia and Danny some weapons training and even some hand-to-hand combat. Which it turns out, Danny is very good at; it seems that when Danny came out to his parents his dad, knowing how closed minded some people can be about him being gay, signed him for boxing and kick-boxing lessons so that, if need be, he could protect himself better in a fight. This along with lacrosse training has made Danny a force to be reckoned with.

Allison has Lydia working on some smaller combat training with knives that she can easily hide, but I've been researching banshees and their abilities. As it turns out, banshees are able to use their screams as a weapon against an attack. According to one of Talia's books, banshees can release a scream so powerful it could bring a fully-shifted alpha to their knees. What's even more impressive is that the book states the scream wouldn't harm the banshee's pack members. Now all we have to figure out is how to get her to tap into that energy, which is something that she'll have to figure out on her own; much like with my spark.

After the pups looked as though they were getting adjusted to each other's fighting styles, Derek and I decided to go and pay Deaton a visit. We both found extremely odd that Deaton would allow Scott to pretty much poison Danny and Lydia to get them to accept the bite; especially considering how hard it was for Scott to accept what he is. Why would he force that on someone else?

When we got to Deaton's he didn't look that pleased to us; well mainly me, but I guess that was because of what I told him the last time I was here. I honestly expected him to refuse to see us or at the very least tell us he wouldn't speak to us without Scott or Chris present. However, he just calmly told us to follow him back into the back office so that we could have some privacy.

"So, Derek, Stiles. What can I help you with today?" Deaton asked after we had all gotten settled down in his office.

"Ethan, Aiden, Lydia showed up to the house with a battered and bruised Danny." Derek said plainly. That's one thing about Derek when he's upset; he's very blunt and straight to the point.

Deaton looked surprised, but I don't know if it was because Danny was attacked or because they ran to Derek and I in search of help and not him.

"Really? What happened to him? Is he ok?" Deaton asked.

"He's alive." I said. "Despite being force feed blood from an alpha wolf for God knows how long and then attacked by said wolf. He's alive, scared and confused as to why this happened. And frankly, Derek and I are the same way."

Deaton honestly looked confused as he stared at Derek and I.

"Look, I don't know anything about Danny getting attacked, and I definitely didn't advise Scott to feed him his blood."

"Then why did Scott tell them that he got the idea from you. Aiden and Lydia said according to Scott, you told him that feeding them his blood would make them have to get the change. According to Scott, this whole thing was your idea and it almost cost Danny his life in the process." Derek growled at Deaton. I looked over and Derek's eyes were alpha red and his claws were ripping the fabric on the chair he was in. Deaton obviously noticed as well; he went from looking nervous to downright terrified.

"Ok, Scott did come to me and ask me about that, but I told him that it was stupid and dangerous to do something like that. I told him that wasn't something a good alpha would do and he dropped it! I swear I didn't know that he was going to go through with it." Deaton was practically begging us to believe him, but something didn't seem right with me.

Deaton is supposed to be an emissary; his job is to protect the pack no matter what. If Scott came to him about something possibly doing something that would extremely dangerous to the pack, why didn't Deaton tell them? I mean, it's what I would do and I'm still pretty much an emissary in training. Deaton's been doing this for years, and he didn't think to warn Scott's pack that they were possibly in danger? Something's not right here, and from the way Derek is looking at Deaton, I'm sure that everything he's saying is a lie.

"Werewolf, Deaton! I'm a werewolf, you can't lie to me!" Derek growled, making Deaton jump in his seat; the alpha eyes and claws were back in full force; if Deaton didn't start telling the truth and soon, Derek would probably full-shift and go after him.

"You may have told Scott that it was dangerous, but you told him something else too. What was it?" I asked. Deaton looked at me and Derek, probably trying to gauge if he could get out of here without getting injured, or in Derek's case, killed. Finally, it looked as though he realized that he was caught.

"Ok, I'll tell you the truth. Scott did come to me with the idea of feeding blood to his pack, but he didn't come alone. Lydia was with him; she's the one who found it in one of the books she has. I don't know where she got the book though. Scott's original plan was to just give Danny a lot of his blood all at once; that would've killed him straight away. I convinced him that doing small doses would be a better plan of action."

Lydia was in on it? Well, that explains why she didn't show any signs of being sick like Danny was; but why would she do this? Danny is supposed to be her friend; I don't understand.

"Why would Lydia do this?" Derek asked Deaton, who then sighed before speaking.

"Why else? Power. It's the one thing that Peter and Lydia had in common, the need and want of pure power. Peter has let his thirst for power go for the acceptance and love of a pack; Lydia doesn't care about that. And Scott; Scott was convinced that if Danny became a wolf then, Jackson would join his pack to be with him. Scott is angry, and he feels as though you and your pack have taken Stiles away from him; he's desperate to either get Stiles back in his pack or destroy yours."

Would Lydia really hurt Danny for the sake of power? I mean I know that Lydia likes to be in charge and is extremely bossy, but I never thought that she could be this hateful and vindictive. And then Scott, I don't understand why he can't see that Derek and I are together and that there was no decision to be made about what pack I'm in; it always has been and always will be the Hale pack. It's strange, but I've finally come to the realization that the friendship that Scott and I is gone. He's let his anger and hate towards Derek and Peter overshadow everything else in his life and I refuse to continue to let it affect mine.

"For what it's worth," Deaton said, "I'm truly sorry that I didn't stop them from doing that to Danny. I let the idea of a "true alpha" affect my better judgment."

Derek and I soon left Deaton's to head back to the house; Derek told him that he could stay in Beacon Hills provided that he stay out of pack business and don't cause any trouble. On the way back to the house Derek and I are trying to figure out how we're going to tell the pack that Lydia had a hand in what Scott was doing and how they were going to react to it. We can only hope that no one else gets hurt in this mess.