Chapter 3: Pack Mentality

Alice was sitting on the roof top, watching Scott and Allison run to the bus she, rolls her eyes, thinking that, being in love was the most stupidest thing, but it was also romantic as well. She lays back on the concrete roof and looks at the stars, enjoying her peace. But the scent of blood reaches her nose as she heard her brother's heart quicken, as Allison's beats in fear, she sat up, jumps off the roof, lands on her feet and ran to the bus.

"Allison?" she calls out banging on the door, Allison stumbles to the door, fear married her face, "Alice! Help! Help me!" she scream, her bloody hand bangs on the door. "Open the door! Allison open the door!" Alice bangs her hands on the door, she nods.

Opens the door and Alice jumps onto the bus, Allison cowers behind her, griping Alice's leg as she saw her brother wolf out. "Scott enough!" Alice shouts at him. Scott just growls at her, and charges at them, Alice covers Allison with her body and everything went black.

~8~8~8~

Alice jumps awake in her room cover in sweat and the need for air and a terrible headache, she looks around, frighten and half hoping it was a dream, pain erupts in her back, side of her neck, her hip and her arm. She got up from her bed, turns the light on in her bath room and looks in the mirror.

Blood stains on her skin and in the places that hurt the most. Alice ran out of her bath room, found her phone a the charger, unlocks it and saw there was a new picture in her gallery. Alice felt her whole body stiffen with fear; a dark blur and red neon eyes. God what happen to her last night.

~8~8~8~

"So you killed her?" Stiles asks Scott as the three walk into the school, "I don't know, I just woke up, I was-" Scott went to tell him, "Sweating like crazy and couldn't breath?" Alice asks him. "Yeah how did you know?" he asks her.

"Cause the same thing happen to me." Alice tell him. "Really, cause I have, usually ends a but differently." Stiles tells him, Alice shot him a glare. "Okay, A: we meant was we've never had a dream that felt that real before." Alice states as they walk through the hall, "And B: never give us that much detail about you in bed ever again." Scott states

"Noted. Let me take a guess here though." Stiles states, "I know, you think it has something to do with me going out with Allison tomorrow, like I'm going to loose control and rip her throat out." Scott states. Alice just looks at him. "No of course not." Stiles tries to be on the positive side, Scott and Alice look at him. "Yeah that's totally it." he mumbles, "But, Ally, how where you in my dream?" Scott asks her. She shrugs, "I don't know. The last thing I remember from the dream was, shielding Allison from you and I woke up in pain." she tells him.

Leaving out the fact that she has a picture of a creature with red eyes on her phone. "Hey come on, everything's going to be fine, personally. I think you both are handling this amazingly. You know it's not like Lycanthropy beginners class you guys could take." Stiles informs. Alice sighs, pulling her pack-back more onto her back. "Yeah, not a class, maybe a teacher." she mumbles, the two look at her. "Who, Derek?" Stiles questions her, she shrugs. Stiles shoves her a little.

"Don't you remember the part that Scott and I got him toss in Jail?" he asks her, "Yeah I know Stiles, but seeing Allison frighten, covered in blood, protecting her from my brother. It felt so real." she states, "How real?" he asks, "Like it actually happen." Scott states. They walk outside and saw the back of a bus door torn open, blood everywhere and Police force was inspecting it. The three teens look at the scene in shock, "I think it did." Stiles states. The twp teen wolves look at him in shock then back at the bus as Stiles looks at them.

What in the hell happen the other night?

~8~8~8~

They walk through the hallway, both Alice and Scott panic, "She's probably fine." Stiles tries to clam them down, "She's not answering his text." Alice tells him as they look around the hallway. "You know it could be a coincidence, alright." he tells them. Alice looks at all the faces and saw. "Just help us find her ok?" Alice asks of him and the twins walk faster down the hallway, no sign of Allison anywhere. Alice could hear the sound of Scott heart beat accelerating as they turn the corner.

Scott leans against someone's locker as he starts to shift, "Scott you need to breath." she tells him, he let out a shout and pushes the locker, giving it a horrible dent and broke it off it's hinges. Alice rubs his back as he realizes what he did. "Back away, slowly." she tells him and they pulled away from the broken locker and accidentally bumps into someone, making them drop their books, they turn and saw it was Allison, alive and not a scratch on her, she smiles at them.

"You scared the hell out of me." she tells him, Scott smiles as Alice sighs with relief. "You're okay." Scott states and they kneel down helping Allison gather her book, "When my heart starts beating again, yeah." she states. She notices that Scott was staring at her non-stop. "What?" she asks, "We're just happy to see you." Alice answers for him, Allison nods at her with a smile. "Attention students, this is your Principle. I know you are all wondering about the incident that accord that night to one of our buses." the Principle starts as they stood up. "While the police work to determined what happen. Classes will proceed as scheduled." Allison smiles at Scott.

"Save me a seat a lunch?" she asks him, ruffling the side of his head, "Yeah." he answers still smiling, "Later Alice." she walks away. "Later." she mumbles they watch her leave the saw Jackson working on his now broken locker. He then turns to them, "What are you looking at, ass wipe?" He growls at Scott. "Nothing worth mentioning, Jackass." Alice answers and walks away a smile forms on her lips as Scott walks with her, the twins trying not to laugh.

~8~8~8~

Later in science class, Alice sat next to her brother as Stiles sat behind them at a different table. "Maybe it was mine and Alice blood on the door." Scott suggest, "Or an animal's blood, you know maybe you caught a rabbit or something." Stiles points out."Highly doubt that, the blood smelt human, with mine and Scott and others." Alice points out.

"How can you be sure?" Stiles asks her. "I have a strong nose, Stiles and I'm pretty sure I would smell a rabbit." she tells him. "What if we get you close to the bus, could you recognize the smell?" Stiles asks her. She shrugs, "I don't know, maybe." she answers him. "Mr. Stilinski, is that your idea of a shush whisper, you might want to pull the headphone out one in a while?" Mr. Harris asks Stiles, as Alice play innocent. "I think you and Mr. and Ms. McCall would benefit from a little distance, yes?" he states.

"No." Stiles whimpers, but they got up and move to different seat, Alice was still next to her brother as Stiles sat in the back, "Let me know if the separation anxiety gets to be too much." Mr. Harris tells him. Stiles scoffs as the twins sat in front of Jackson, who had a smirk on his face. Scott just sighs. "Hey, I think they found something." a girl shout, everyone rushes to the windows and saw, police men wheel a stretcher to an ambulance with a deeply wounded man. He jumps and screams at the sight of Scott and Alice, making everyone jump with fright.

"Ok." Stiles mumbles as the twins back away from the window, horror in their eyes. "Ok, ok. This is good, he got back up. Dead guys can't do that." Stiles tries to cheer up Scott, "Stiles... I did that." Scott tells him, Alice rubs his shoulders.

~8~8~8~

Scott, Stiles, grab their trays of lunch and sat at an empty table. "But dreams aren't memories." Stiles tells him, "They can be Stiles, from time to time." Alice tells him as she sat next to her brother. "But it wasn't a dream. Something happen last night and we can't remember what." Scott tell him, "What makes you two so sure that Derek has all the answers?" Stiles asks them.

"Because, during the full moon, he wasn't change. He was in totally control." Scott states, "Maybe that because he was born with it Scott, we were bitten." Alice throws in, "Anyway, we were running around in the middle of the night, attacking some innocent guy." Scott tells her. "Whoa hang on, I was protecting this innocent guy, cause I woke up cover in my own blood." Alice reminds him, "Ok let me rephrase; I was up in the middle of the night, attacking some innocent guy, but hurt and wounded my sister in the process." Scott states again.

"You two don't know that." Stiles tells them, "We don't not know it." Scott shot back. Alice pat his shoulder. "I can't go out with Allison, I have to cancel." Scott decides. Alice shook her head. "No, you're not canceling, ok. You can't just cancel your entire life, we'll figure it out." Stiles tells him, Alice groans. "Figure what out?" Lydia asks as she sat next to Alice, the three look at her in shock and tries to come up with an excuse. "Just homework." Alice answers, as people gather to their table. "Why is she sitting with us?" Stiles asks them, Scott and Alice shrugs. Allison sat next to Scott as a girl sat on Stiles left and Danny sat on his right.

"Get up." Jackson tells David, "Why don't you ever ask Danny to get you?" he asks him, "Because I don't stare at his girlfriend's coin slot." Danny tells him. Jack pushes David out of the seat and seat close to sat close to Lydia. "So I hear they're saying that it's some kind of animal attack, probably a cougar." Danny starts up a conversation. "I heard mountain lion." Jackson states, "A cougar is a mountain lion." Lydia throws in everyone expect Alice looks at her, "Isn't it?" she quickly saves.

"Who cares, the guy's some homeless creeper, whose going to die anyway." Jackson states, "That's where you're wrong Jackson, you weren't playing attention to his clothing." Alice throws out, he looks at her. "He works for the school, that bus with all the blood." she states and gave him a glance, "That was the bus he drives, he must of got caught in the middle." Alice throws out, "Yeah she's right, look." Stiles shows them the video, saying that the victim was Garrison Meyers and he was taken to a local hospital where he was staying.

"Wait, we know this guy." Scott jesters to him and Alice, "You do?" Allison asks him, "Yeah, we use to take the bus, back when we were living with our dad, he was the driver." Scott tells them, Alice gulps down her saliva. "Can we talk something, slightly more fun please?" Lydia asks them, Alice sighs and drowns out their conversation; her mind wonder back to Mr. Meyers and what happen to him the other night.

Mini Flashback

Alice was wolf out, her shoulder bleeding from bit marks, her body over Mr. Meyer and she let out a whimper when large claws slash out her back, "Run!" she tells him, then a hand grips her arm, claws digging in, she let out a howl and was thrown into a seat and everything went black.

End of Mini Flashback

She sighs, garbing her bottle and starts to drink, "In fact, I'm a great bowler." Scott shot at Jackson, Alice spits out her water and it hits Stiles in the face, everyone looks at him as Alice cover her mouth, Stiles glares at her and she gave him a nervous smile, sinking into her seat.

~8~8~8~

"You're a terrible bowler!" Alice shouts at her brother, "I know! I'm such an idiot." Scott mumbles, "No argument there." Alice tells him, "God it's like watching a car wreak. First, it turn into the whole group date thing, and out of nowhere comes that phrase." Stiles sums up. "Hanging out." Scott states, as Stiles groans and Alice shivers. "You don't hang out with hot girls, it's like death. Once it's hanging out, you might as well be her gay best friend and you and Danny start hanging out." he complains. "How is this happening, I either killed a guy or I didn't." Scott states.

"I don't think Danny likes me very much." Stiles realizes, "Asked Allison on a date and now we're hanging out." Scott went on. "Am I unattractive to gay guys?" Stiles wonders. Alice just looks at each one when one talks, "I make first line and the team captain want to destroy me and now, now I'm going to be late for work." Scott walks on as Alice and Stiles stop. "Wait Scott, you didn't – am I attractive to gay guys?" Stiles calls over him, he sighs and looks at Alice.

"What did you think?" he asks her. She just looks at him and ran after Scott, "Scott, wait up!" she ran up to him.

~8~8~8~

They both arrive at the Clinic and walk through the back door, "Sorry." Scott tells Deaton, "You both are all of two minutes late." he tells him, "Didn't want you to think we were slacking." Scott tells him. "Scott, Alice. I guarantee you two are the least slacking kids in this town." he tell them, Scott smiles as Alice giggles a little as she place her stuff down, She then notices sheriff Stilinski at the door, Scott froze. But as he opens the door and a husky walks with him.

"Hey I see somebody is ready to get their stitches out." Deaton tells the husky. "Hey there, Scott Alice, you two staying out of trouble?" Stilinski asks them, Alice smiles. "More or less." she answers as Deaton pulls the husky onto the table. "Hey listen, while I'm here. You mind taking a look at those photos that satromino can't determined an animal, I'm not exactly an expert." Stilinski asks. Deaton took the envelope from his and pulls out the picture. "Ah, this is the guy that was attack in the bus?" he asks him, making Alice and Scott to look at them.

"Yeah, we found wolf hair on Laura Hale's body." he states, "A wolf?" Scott asks them, Stilinski looks at him. "Uh, I think I read somewhere that wolves haven't been in California for 60 years." Scott states as Alice stood next to the table where the husky was laying.

"True enough, but wolves are highly inventory. They've wondered from another state, driven by serve. A strong enough memory." Deaton states, "Wolves have memories?" Scott asks, "Yeah, longer term memories. If isolated by a primal source." Alice throws in. Scott looks at her. "What? I like to read about wolves, what's you're excuse?" she shot at him, "See this one here." Deaton shows the picture to the twins. "Those are claw marks, a wolf would go for throat, the spinal cord, with it's teeth." Alice points out.

Deaton smiles at her, "So what do you think, it's a mountain lion?" Stilinski asks her, she shrugs as he took the photos back. "I have no clue." she mumbles. "A wolf could, base on it's pray, hobbling it, tearing at the ankles." Deaton states as the dream plays in the Scott's mind; he grab Allison by her ankle dragging her back towards him. "And then the throat." Deaton adds in, Alice gulps.

~8~8~8~

After work, Scott heads to the hospital and Alice headed for Derek's, she parks next to his black cameo and walks up to the house. "Derek." she calls out, no answers. "Derek I swear to god if you sneak up on me..." she mumbles, "You'll do what?" he asks her as he appears right next to her, making her jump. "God damn it Derek, I hate when people sneak up on me." she mumbles, he chuckles and he lead her inside. "So I must ask, did you hear about what happen to the bus driver." he asks him, "I have." he states, as they walk upstairs.

"Then you must realize that Scott and I were there at night when he was attack and yet have no memory of it." she went on, "Perhaps." he states, "Thanks for that." she sighs and took a seat on the air mattress. "I may be starting to remember what happen to him." she states, pulling out her phone, scrolling to her gallery. As she got to her picture, she saw Derek kneeling down in front of her, she jumps and fall back onto the mattress.

"Oh god, you're enjoying this, aren't you." she mumbles under her smile. Derek towers over her, and cages her in. "Just a little." he admits. "Jerk." she mumbles, then held her phone to him, showing Derek the picture of the black blur with the red eyes. "You know something about this, don't you?" she asks him, he just looks at her. "Your silence tells me yes you do, but that look in your eyes say you have no idea who this is suppose to be. Am I right?" Alice asks him, he sighs and smirks. "Do you always make it a habit of reading people?" he asks her, moving close to her.

"Maybe, it's a hobby for me." she answers him. "Do you make it a habit of scaring the girls you like and towering over them while they lay on your bed?" she asks him. "Maybe, it's a hobby for me." he tells her, she giggles. A car pulls up to the house as a police man got out; Alice and Derek got up and looks out the broken window.

They watch him walk out of the car and walks to the house, Derek looks at the dog, his eyes glows and the dog started to bark furiously, Alice could hear the policeman's heart quicken with fear, he ran back to the car and took off, Alice let out a breath of relief."Please tell me you don't do that on a daily bases?" she asks him, he looks at her.

"You know what, don't even think about answering that, I don't want the answer." she growls at him, he chuckles, then she moves a bit forward looking out the crack window. He follows her gaze and saw her brother Scott standing there. "I know you can hear me, I need your help." Scott tells him. Derek looks over at Alice, she nods at him and they walk downstairs.

Derek opens the door, showing Scott standing on the porch, Alice and Derek walk out of the house and stood in front of him. "Ok, I know I was part of you getting arrested and that we basically announce you being here to the hunters and also don't know what happen to your sister." Scott tells him, Alice leans against the wall with her arms cross. "But I think I did something last night, I had a dream about... someone. Someone else got hurt, and it turns out that, that part of the dream actually happen." Scott tells him, "You think you attack the driver?" Derek asks him, "Did you see what I did last night?" Scott asks him. "No." Derek answers him.

"Can you at least tell me the truth, am I – are we going to hurt someone?" Scott asks him. "Yes." Derek answers, "Can we kill someone?" he asks again, "Yes." Derek answers. "Are we going to kills someone?" Scott asks again. "Probably." Alice and Derek said in a union. Scott leans against the beam as Alice walks over and comforts him. "Look, I can show you how to remember. I can show you how to control the shift, even on a full moon. But it's not going to come for free." Derek tells them, "What do you want?" Scott asks him.

"You'll find out, but for now. I'm going to give you want you want – what both of you want. Go back to the bus, go inside, see it, feel it. Let your senses, your sight, smell touch. Let them remember for you." Derek instructs them. "That's it, just go back?" Scott asks him. "Do you want to know what happen?" Derek asks him, Scott looks at him, "Just want to know if I hurt him or Alice." Scott tells him. "No you don't. You want to know if you'll hurt her, or if you hurt Alice in the process." Derek spoke of Allison. Scott just looks at him, turns away and wraps his arms around Alice. She sighs, returning the hug.

~8~8~8~

Later that night, Stiles drives his jeep up to the closed gate bus barn, they got out and stood in front of the gate. Hey, no just me and Alice, somebody need to keep watch." Scott tells Stiles, "How come I'm always the guy whose keeping watch?" he asks him. "Because, Scott and I were are the ones that need to get on the bus and we need someone to keep watch for us." Alice tells him, griping his arm gently. She let his arm go, "Okay why does it feel like, Scott's batman, you're Robin and I'm Alfred. I don't want to be Alfred all the time." He complains.

Alice looks at her brother and they look at him in a confused matter, "No one's Batman and Robin, or Alfred any of the time." Scott tells him, "Not even some of the time?" Stiles asks. "Just stay here." Alice orders him, "Oh My God, fine." Stiles whines and walks back to the jeep, Alice looks at the gate, took a few steps back. Did a running start and jumps over the gate and lands on her feet in a cat matter. "Show off." Scott mumbles as he climbs the gate, "I heard that." she tells him walking to the bus, Scott jogs and caught up with her. They both look at the bus, Scott took a breathe, closing his eyes and remembering that he was sleeping in his bed, then a howl in the distance, he clutches his sheets breathing heavy. He tosses and turns, sweating and shot up, fang bared and his eyes glowing.

Alice took a deep breathe, then closes her eyes, remembering last night; she was laying in bed then heard a wolf howl, she shot up, shifted into her wolf, got out of her bed and climbs onto the roof, seeing her brother running, she growls and chases after him. They both open their eyes and look at each other, Scott flexes his hand and she wraps her hand around his tightly, Scott grips her hand in response, thanking her for the sisterly support. They both slowly walk up to the bus, stepping over the over the yellow tape and in front of the bus door.

Scott raises his free to the door and press his hand to the glass; Allison was screaming for help, covered in blood. Scott stiffens, Alice just rubs his arm, "Let your senses take over." she whispers to him, he nods. Pushing the door open and they both step onto the bus. Alice and Scott grip the seat, remembering that Allison was being pulls back, but then Meyer was the one being pulled back, reaching towards Scott, and Alice jumps and became Meyer's shield; Alice lets go of Scott's hand and allows herself to remember everything.

Flashback

She jumps through the torn door, roars at the creature attacking Meyer, he turns. She jumps around in front of him, taking out her phone, taking a picture and became Meyer's shield the creature roars at her, telling her to move.

She growls at him, refusing to listen to him, the creature growls at her, then bites her on the shoulder, she let out a yelp of pain, but refuses to budge from her spot.

He pulls away from her, raise his claws and lashes his claws at her back, scratching deeply, she yelps again, still refuses to move. Meyer looks at her, "Run." she whispers to him, then looks up at her brother. Then the creature, grips her arm, digging his claws in.

She yelps again, but she turns around and bites the creature arm that held hers it roar and throws her in a seat, she it her head against the window, blacking out from the impact.

End of Flashback.

Stiles honks his horn, a light gets the twins attention, "Time to go." Alice tells him and they took off running, they got off the bus, ran to the gate, Alice over the fence as Scot, jumps over a car and over the fence, landing in the grass as Alice lands on her feet. They got in the jeep, "Go, Go, Go!" the twins tell him as Alice jumps in Scott's lap. Stiles starts the jeep and took off from the bus barn. "Did it work? Did you two remember?" Stiles asks them, "Yeah, we were there last night, and the blood, lot of it was mine and Alice's." Scott states.

"So you did attack him and your sister." Stiles states, "No, We saw glowing eyes on the bus." Alice states, "They weren't mine, it was Derek." Scott states, Alice looks at him. "What about the driver." Stiles asks him. "Alice and I were trying to protect him." Scott tells him, "Wait, why would Derek want you to help you two remember that he attack the driver." Stiles asks him, "That's what I don't get." Scott was confused, "It's got to be a pack thing." Stiles states.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks him, "Like an initiation. You do the kill together." Stiles tells him, "Because ripping someone's throat out is a real bonding experience?" Scott sarcastically asks. "Yeah but you didn't do it, which means you're not the killer. And that also mean..." Stiles sums up for him.

"I can go out will Allison." Scott smiles, "I was going to say it means you won't kill me." Stiles states. "Oh yeah, that too." Scott adds. "It wasn't Derek, Scott, the eyes were red, Derek's glow blue." Alice tells him, Scott looks at her. "How can you be so sure it's not him." he asks her. "I just am, alright, call it a woman's intuition." Alice looks out the window.

~8~8~8~

Scott went with the Allison on the double date as Alice ran to Derek, she walks up the porch and enters the house, "Derek, please be here." she calls out to him, a hand was place on her shoulder, she turns and saw it was Derek. "I was just about to leave for some gas and to hospital." he tells her, "Can I come with you, I need to see him." she asks him, Derek nods, they walk to his car, got in and drove off. "I remember what happen that night." she tells him, "Really?" he asks her.

"Something attack Mr. Meyer, but I got in it's way, it tries to order me to move, but I didn't budge, so he bite my shoulder, lash out on my back, grabs my arm, dug his claws into my arm and throw me against the seat, making me hit my head and I black out after that." she informs him, he looks at her. "Wait you said you defied it, not listen to any of his orders?" Derek asks her, she nods. "How did you even get there?" he asks. She sighs, "I was resting in my bed, but the wolf howl and my inner wolf was alerted of something bad happening. So I shifted, saw Scott run off and I chase after him." she states. Derek sighs.

"Oh yeah, bad news. Scott and Stiles thinks it was you that attack Mr. Meyers." Alice lets him know, Derek sighs again. "You're brother is-" Derek went to say, "The biggest idiot of all times?" she asks him, while looking at him. She then nods, "Apparently so."

"You aren't telling me anything I haven't already told myself, wolf boy." she tells him, Derek looks at her, "Wolf Boy?" he asks her, she shrugs. "It fit, if I do say so myself." she said with a smile, "Fine, then I get to call you something." he tells her, she smirks at him. "That only seems fair, what do you want to call me?" she asks him, he shrugs. "I'll think something." he tells her and pulls up at the gas station.

"You go get the gas, I'll be here." she tells him, he nods, get out and went to put money in the pumper and puts the pumper into the tank. Alice went to pull out her phone, but then two SUV box them in, one red and the other sliver. Alice looks at the front and saw Chris Argent step out with a few of the hunters from the other. She sunk back against her seat. Derek just place his hand in his pockets. She looks between Derek and Chris, then Derek pulls out the pumper and closes the tank. "Nice ride." Chris walks up to Derek's cameo.

"Black cars though, very hard to keep clean." he states, rubbing his hand against the hood, "I would suggest a little more maintains." he reaches over and pulls out the window wiper, "When you have something this nice, you want to take care of it, right?" he states wiping the window on Alice's side.

"Personally, I'm very protective of the things I love." he wipes away the soapy water as Derek looks at Alice then back at Chris. "That's something I heard from my family. And you don't have that much of these days, Do you?" Chris states, making Derek clutch his fist. "Derek don't listen to him, he doesn't know what happen to your family, the truth behind the fire, it wasn't your fault." she whispers to him, making Derek slowly unclutch his fist.

"There we go. Now you can look through your wind shield now, see how it makes everything so much more clearer." Chris states, placing the window wiper away and went to leave, he turns to leave. "You forgot to check the oil." Derek calls out to him. Chris stop. Alice looks at him from the car. Chris turns around, a smile on his face. "Check the man's oil." he tells his men, one of them pushes off the SUV, and smashes in Derek's window. Alice stiffen in her spot, heart quickens.

"Looks good to me." he states, Chris just smiled. "Drive safely." Chris tells him, they got in their SUVs and drove off into the dark, Alice pants as she took deep breaths to calm herself down. Derek opens the passenger door and kneels down beside her. "You okay?" he asks her, she nods. Swallowing her fear, "You handle that pretty well." he pets the side of her head.

"Derek hold me, please." she begs him. He nods, holding her in his arms. She trembles slightly, she listen to his heartbeat, it's steady and wonderful rhythm. Her heart slows down into it's original pace and she relaxes in his arms, "Feeling better?" he asks her. She pulls away from him, smiles at him and nods. "Yeah, I really needed that, thank you, Wolf boy." she smiles, Derek laughs. Standing up and closes her door, cleans out the glass and they headed for the hospital. He turns on a song and Alice started to hum to it. Alice pulls out her phone and scroll to the picture with the creature the other night that attack her to get to Mr. Meyers.

~8~8~8~

They arrive at the hospital and were in Mr. Meyers room, "Open your eyes." Derek tells him, Garrison didn't move a muscle. "Open your eyes." he tells him again. He opens his eyes, "Look at me." Derek orders him, he slowly looks at Derek and Alice. "What do you remember?" Derek asks him, Garrison moves his hand out reaching for Alice. She took a step back, afraid to take his hand. But she inner wolf tells her to do it, she sigh, took a breath, walks followed and gently grips his hand.

Mr. Meyer smiles at her as she returns the smile with tears forming in her eyes, then he looks at Derek, "Hale." he whispers, Alice looks over at Derek. He was confused, "How do you know my name?" he asks him. She looks back at Garrison, pulling his hand to her chest. "I'm sorry." he tells Derek. "How do you know me?" Derek asks him. "I'm sorry." Garrison tells him again laying his head back down. "Be strong Alice. Be strong." he mumbles. Tears stream down her face as she let out a shaky breath, "Remember. What I always told you." he states.

She sniffles, "Take two step back, before you're ready to make that jump." she states, as she swallow a lump. He smiles as he let go of her hand, she backs away from him and next to Derek. He grips her hand, webbing his fingers with hers and they both left the hospital.

They drove away in silence, as Alice lays her head on Derek's shoulder, allowing her to cry in silence. He pulls up to her house, and they walk to the porch, "Thank you again for today Derek." she said, standing in front of him. "Don't worry about it." he tells her. She smiles at him, leans up and perks him on the cheek. He smiles a bit as she pulls back, "What was that for?" he asks her. "That was the first step, for me to think that you are worth it." she tell him, she smiles at him.

"You really are a mystery, Alice." he tells her. "I know, that's how I keep them coming." she states and walks to her door, then looks at him after she opens her door. "See you later Wolf boy." she smiles, "Later, Lily." he smiles. Her smile turn sweeter and she enters her house.

Alice was in her room, finishing up her homework for the pass hour and after her mum tells her she was going to sleep, then a sound came from Scott's room. Alice got up, got out of her room and saw her mum moving slowly to Scott's room. She enters Scott's room, grabbing Scott's bat as Alice had her head pop into the doorway as the two scream in fright as Melissa and Stiles frighten each other. "Stiles, what the hell are you doing here?" she asks him.

"What am I doing? God, do any of you even play baseball?" he asks her as Scott runs into his room, turning on the light, Alice stood in the doorway. Melissa looks at him, "Can you please tell your friend to use the front door." she asks Scott. "But mum, we lock the front door, so he wouldn't be able to be in." Alice add, "Yeah exactly." she mumbles. "And by the way do any of you even care that there's a police enforced curfew?" she ask her children and Stiles. "No." Scott, Stiles, and Alice answers. "No, alright then. That's about enough parenting for me for one day." she tosses the bat on Scott's bed.

"So good night." she tells them, "Night mum, love you." Alice calls over her and smiles then Scott then pulls up a chair in front of Stiles, "What?" he asks, "My dad left for the hospital 15 minutes ago. Its the bus driver." Stiles tells him, Alice stiffens. "They said he succumb to his wounds." Stiles informs him, Scott looks at him in shock. "Succumb?" he asks, "Scott... he's dead." Stiles puts it simpler, Alice leaves the scene opens her window and took off for Derek's.

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"Derek! Derek!" Alice shouts, running up the stairs, "I'm here." he states as he enters the room, "Scott's coming, he's convince you killed Meyers." she pants, Derek walks up to her and grips her shoulders. "Breath okay? Just breath." he tells her, she nods and took deep breathes.

She then looks up into his green eyes, finding herself suddenly lost in them, Derek's eyes trail to Alice's lips and they inch close to each other. But as their lips were going to touch, "Derek! I know you're here!" Scott shouts, making Alice jump away from him and blush from embarrassment, he groans in frustration. "I know what you did!" Scott shouts, "I didn't do anything." Derek calls out. "You killed him!" Scott growls. "He died." Derek states, "Like your sister died?" Scott question him, "My sister was missing, I came here looking for her." Derek points out.

"You found her." Scott continue up the stairs. "I found her in peaces! Being used as bait to caught me." Derek tells her. "I think you killed them both. I'm going to tell everyone, starting with the Sheriff." he walks up to the second floor, Derek speed walks up to him as Scott turns around. Derek throws him down and Scott tumbles down the stairs, Alice walks over to the railing, she saw Scott shifted and roars at Derek. Alice watches Derek jumps down the stairs and, they grab at each other and Scott throw Derek through a wall. "Derek!" she shouts then runs down the stairs, and next to Scott Derek rushes himself off. Then stood up, "Huh. That was cute." he mumbles.

He took off his leather jacket toss it to the ground, he shifts, growls then roars at Scott. His eyes flash blue, Scott walks through the hole, ready to attack Derek, but a sudden weight lands on his back, Alice roars at Scott from behind him on his back, Scott struggles, trying to get Alice off his back, he grabs the back of her shirt and throw her off of him.

She lands on her feet, she looks at him, shifted and growls at him. She didn't know why but she had this uncontrollable instinct on protecting Derek from her misguided older brother, Scott charges at Derek, Derek grabs his shirt and slams him up against the wall twice and throws him against the table. Scott rolls over the table and lands on the ground.

Alice charges at her brother, he stood up, dodges all of her attacks. He went to slash at her, but Derek grabs his wrist, and pouches him in the chest, sending him flying back and onto the ground. Scott crawls over to the table, pulling himself up and growls at Derek. Who was standing in front of Alice in a protective matter. He then jumps over the table, kicking Scott in the chest, sending him flying back. Scott quickly pulls himself to his feet. Derek went to hit him again.

But Scott quickly moves out of the way and Derek kicks and rolls off the wall. Scott grabs a broom and whacks Derek in the back, sending him flying back. Scott went to hit him again, But Alice kick him in the chest with both of her feet, sending him flying back. She lands on her hands, keeping herself from loosing balance, then did a forward flip and lands on her feet in front of Derek. Scott charges out her, she grabs his through and slams him against the ground three, she lets his throat go, Scott rolls over.

Derek stood up and kicks Scott in the belly. Sending him over the furniture. Scott jumps back up on top of the furniture, growling his sister and Derek, who growl back at him. Scott jumps at Derek, But Alice lashes at Scott, scratching his chest. Scott fell to the ground, pressing his hand to his wound. He shifted back to his human self. Alice and Derek shifted back as well, they turn to Scott who was on the ground. Scott then pulls himself up.

"Derek didn't kill him! I didn't and neither did you, it's not your fault and not Derek's." Alice shouts at him. "This?! This is all his fault! He ruined our lives!" Scott pushes himself off the couch and stood in front of her, "No it's not." she growls at him, eyes flashes yellow.

"He's the one who bit us." she states, "No I'm not." Derek tells him. "What?" Scott shouts, "I'm not the one who bit you or your sister." Derek informs him. "Scott, look at your chest." Alice informs him, Scott looks down, he touches his bloodied chest and remember everything from the other night. His chest healed from the scratch and he collapse onto the couch, looking up at the two. "There another." he states. "It's called an alpha, it's the most dangerous of our kind. You, Lily, and I are betas." he tells him.

Scott looks at his hand, "This thing is more dangerous and powerful. More animal then any of us." Derek tells him. Alice looks over at Derek, "My sister came looking for one, now I'm trying to find him. But I don't think I can do it without the both of you." Derek tells him.

"Why me? Why my sister?" Scott asks him. "Because he's the one that bit you and your sister, you're park of his pack now." Derek informs him. Scott looks up at him, "It's both of you, Scott, Lily. It you he wants." Derek sums up. Alice sighs running her hand through her hair, "Well one foot after another." she states. Scott walks home from Derek as Alice leans against the wall.

"Thank you." Derek stood next to her, "For what?" she asks him. "For standing by me." he states, webbing his fingers with her. She smiles and looks at him, "Where would you be without me?" she states, he chuckles. "You think that the Alpha will try again don't you? Call us out against our will." Alice asks him, he sighs. "Yes, I do believe so." he answers, "And that you will train us to not only control the shift, but resist the Alpha's call." she went on, looking up at him.

"Yes." he answers, "But of course there's a catch." she states, he chuckles. "There's always a catch, where would life be if there wasn't a caught?" he states. She rolls her eyes at him.

"But if you're free anytime, I would like to take you out to dinner and get know you better." he tells her, she looks at him, "Are you that determined to win my heart?" she asks him, Derek looks at her, "Maybe, is it working?" he asks her. She scoffs and looks away with a smile. "You still have a few more steps to take, but dinner would be nice, nothing fancy." she tells him, "Deal." he agrees and she walks away, her hand slips through his and she was gone.