Chapter 8
SCOTT'S POV
I get into the Jeep and Stiles pulls out onto the road. For the first few minutes we are both just lost in our own thoughts. Then Stiles asks,
"So what do you think man?"
"I think I need to talk to Derek." I reply, picking up my phone. I dial his number and wait for him to answer.
"Hello."
"Derek, hey, do you know what's going on around here?" I ask
"Not really, but I probably know more than you." He replies
"There was a body found in the Beacon Hills Reserve today, we went to check it out and I don't recognize the scent. There's a new wolf in town."
"Yeah I know." Derek says "It's an alpha, a female, but that's about all I know. I don't know why she's here or what she wants. I ran into her in the woods near my family's old half burnt house. Her name is Chloe, she has blonde hair and she's really young, I'd say about 17. I didn't believe her when she said she was an alpha, so she showed me her eyes. I can't imagine what she went through to become an alpha at such a young age."
"That's right on the edge of the Reserve. So it was her that killed that man in the woods."
"Probably. Look, we'll keep an eye on her and find out why she's here. She didn't seem like a threat to us. Anyway the full moon is coming up, are you ready? I heard about Allison." Derek says.
"I'll be fine. I'm worried about Allison though. How did you find out?" I ask
"Issac told me and he asked me if I knew anything about who attacked her." He replies.
"Do you know anything." I ask
"I might know something, but now is not the time to talk about it." He states dryly.
"What, what do you know?"
"Later Scott, and be careful." He says and hangs up. I look down at my phone and then over at Stiles.
"What the hell. He knows something about Allison's attack and he just says 'this isn't the time to talk about it'. What am I suposed to do with that?" I say in exasperation.
"I don't know man, but somethings not right." Stiles says. A minute later he pulls up in front of my house.
"I'll see you tomorrow at school."
"Yeah, bye." I say as I get out of his Jeep.
My mom's not home so I start running in the direction of Allison's house. When I get there I see that her car is already here, so I jump right up onto the roof next to her bedroom window. I sit down with my back against the house.
ALLISON'S POV
When I get home my dad is waiting at the door. This can't be good.
"What's up dad?" I ask as I walk up the front steps
"I was just waiting for you. I was watching the news and there was a body found in the Beacon Hills Reserve. Another 'animal attack'." He uses air quotes around animal attacks. Coming from a family that has hunted werewolves for hundreds of years, we know how these people were really killed.
"Oh no, that's terrible." I say trying to act like I don't already know.
"Allison, I want you to remember our deal. We aren't hunting anymore. It's a terrible thing that has happened but we are going to stay out of it this time. I don't want you out in the woods anymore. No more hunting OK."
"OK. Don't worry dad. I'm not going to hunt werewolves anymore." I reply. Oh dad if you only knew. I'm one of them now. I'm a whole different kind of hunter now. No, I don't believe that. I don't have to let the monster take over. I will control it and I won't hurt anybody.
"OK good." He says but I saw something flash in his eyes. Disbelief, suspicion, I can't tell what.
"I'm gonna go to bed dad goodnight." I reach up on my toes and kiss him on the cheek.
"Goodnight honey."
I get up to my room and grab a tank top and some sleep shorts and go into the bathroom to take a shower. When I'm finished in the shower I dry my hair and brush my teeth.
I walk over to the window and open it. I'm not surprised to see that Scott is already here. I grab the blanket at the foot of the bed and climb out the window. As I walk over to him, he lifts his arm for me to sit with him. I sit down next to him and spread the blanket over both of us and he puts his arm around me and pulls me close.
"So, Derek says that there's a new alpha in town. She's probably the one that killed that man in the Reserve today." Scott says. Allison sighs.
"Lets not talk about it anymore tonight."
"OK."
"Can we just sit here like this for a while?"
"Of course." Scott says. As we sit there I rest my head on Scott's shoulder.
I'm not sure how long we sat there for but I know I fell asleep. I wake up as Scott picks me up and carried me back into my room. He lays me on my bed and kisses me on my cheek.
"I'll be outside if you need anything." He says and then he's gone. I fall back to sleep quickly.
