Chapter 5: The Tell

Alice walks to the movie store and enters, "Hello?" she calls to the Clerk, he turns and looks at her, "Hey, you here to rent a movie?" he asks her, "No more like return." she states, states holding up to three movies. "Ok, just put them in the slot and find another if you want." he tells her, she nods placing them in the slot and started to look around. "Hmm, something that Scott and I will like." she mumbles, the front door opens, Alice didn't even bothering looking. "Can somebody help me find the notebook?" a familiar voice calls out.

Alice then looks over and saw that her and Jackson were the only people in the store, Alice's guard went up. She slowly walks down the isle way, then she smelt the scent of blood, she follows the scent. Her heart was hammering in her chest as the scent stronger, she turns the corner and saw the man was leaning against the movie shelve, his throat rip out. She looks up and saw Jackson freak out as well, he back away from the dead man, hitting the ladder and the power started to flicker, she looks around. Then growling reaches her ears, she walks pass the dead man and Alice stood next to Jackson. The Alpha was in the store, red eyes starting at Jackson. Alice grabs his arm and they took off, they hid behind a shelve, Alice hand her arm press against Jackson's chest.

Keeping him close. She slowly peeks out from the isle, she uses her wolf vision to get a better look. The Alpha ran pass and she pulls back, her eyes turn back to light brown. "Is it out there still?" he asks her, she nods. "Oh god." he whines. Then some movies fell down next to Alice, she took a calming breath and pulls out her knife holding it close to her chest. Then the shelves started to collapse against each other, Alice rolls out of the way as Jackson got trap under one.

She turns around, seeing the Alpha hover over Jackson. She took her chance and jumps on it and stabs in into the back one or twenty times. It let out a howl and struggles to pull her off. It then slams her to the ground. She groans. The Alpha turns back to Jackson and looks at his neck where Derek dug his claws in then turns back to Alice and grip her throat, tightly.

She could hear him chuckling at her, -I'm impress, you're more stronger than I excepted, Alice. But I wonder if you can disobey me the next time I call you out.- he growls at her, she just gags, clawing out his hand, needing air. -You don't know the truth of why I do this and if you did, you would join me.- he talks to her through his thoughts. He then lets go of her throat. She coughs as air rushes back into her lungs and the Alpha then ran out, Alice rolls over. And stood on her two feet, "I got to get you out." she states and pulls the shelve off and Jackson crawls out from under it. She lets the shelve drop and stood next to him and they both look at the broken glass window.

~8~8~8~

The police and ambulance showed up, Alice sat next to Lydia, her legs to her chest and wrap her arms around her knees and was laying the her hand on her knees, not saying a word as Lydia strokes Jackson's hand. "Paul lets get this area lock up" Stilinski orders; Stiles looks over and saw Alice, Lydia and Jackson as Jackson argue with the man. "No way." he mumbles. "Why can't I just go home?" Jackson complains. "I hear ya. But the EMT says you hit your head pretty hard, they just want to make sure that you don't have a concision." Stilinski informs him.

"What part of I'm fine, are you having a problem grasping, ok I want to go home." Jackson argues with him, Alice started to stand, not liking Jackson's attitude towards Stilinski. "And I understand." he starts.

"No you don't understand, which can of blows my mind since it should be a pretty basic concept to grasp for a Minder wage with a renegade cop like you, okay now I want to go home!" Jackson blows up in his face. "Hey!" Alice grips Jackson's shoulder, turns him around and punches him across the face, sending him to the ground. Lydia ran to Jackson side. "Are you crazy?!" Lydia shouts at her, "Shut the hell up Lydia! I can put up with you making fun of me, but my friends that's one thing I will never put up with!" she shouts at him, ready to give him another.

But Stilinski grabs her arm and pulls her back away from him, "Alice you know better." he tells her letting of arm as she pace with anger, "He has no right to talk to you like that." she states. He smiles at her and place his hand on her shoulder, making her look at him.

"Hey I'm grateful that you're looking out for me, but try not to let that protective nature of your get you into serious trouble alright?" he tells her. He gaze softens a bit and she nods. "Oh whoa is that a dead body?" Stiles asks, they turn and look at the arm that was hanging out. Stilinski looks at Stiles and he sank back into the car. "Everybody back up." he tells them. Alice sank back into the crowd and manages to leave the crime scene un-notice. She then jumps to the top of the store and found Scott and Derek there, "Starting to get it?" Derek asks Scott. "I get that he's killing people, I don't get why." Scott tells him, as Alice walks into the conversation.

"It's not stander practice that for sure." she states, standing by Derek, "We don't go in the middle of the night, murdering people, do we?" Scott asks Derek. "No, we're predators, we don't have to be killers." Derek tells them, "Then why is he a killer?" Scott asks him. "That's what we're going to find out." Derek said and walk away. Scott follows after him. Alice went to follows them, but looks up at the moon and touches the claw marks in her neck.

The Alpha's words ring in her head, -You don't know the truth of why I do this, why I must and if you did, you would join me- the words ring in her head, she then sighs and walks up to catch up, but she stops. Alice looks to the ground and saw that a large spiral was somewhat carved into the ground under her boots. And the feeling it gave off; anger, so much anger. She shivers a little then ran and caught up with Derek and Scott.

~8~8~8~

"You know we have a life too." Scott complains, "Oh, no we don't." Alice tells him as he walks up the stairs behind Derek. "Yes we do." he shot back, her and Derek turn and look at him, she lean against the railing. "I don't care what you say about him making us his pet or..." Scott tries to form the words. "Part of his pack, Scott. Get it right." Alice complains, rubbing his temple. "Whatever, I have homework – we have homework to do and I have to go to a parent teacher conference tomorrow, because I'm failing chemistry." Scott shouts at him.

"I'm already done Scott and I have A pluses all around, I'm good with being what I am." Alice states and sat down, feeling wipe. "You want to do homework? Or do you wanna not die?" asks him, Scott just sighs. "You and Lily have less then a week til the full moon, you don't kill with him, he kills you. Both of you." Derek informs him. "Ok seriously? Who made up these rules?" Scott asks him, "It's a rite of passage into his pack." Derek informs him, "You want to know what else is a rite of passage, graduating high school and you don't have to kill anyone to do it." Scott argues.

Alice groans. "Why can't you find him yourself? Why can't you just sniff if out when he's a human?" Scott asks, "Because his human scent can be entirely different, it has to be the both of you. You both have a connection with him, a link that you can't understand." Derek tells him. "If I can teach you both to control you abilities and find him." Derek states, Scott was silence for a moment. "So if we help you, you can stop him?" Scott asks him. "Not alone, we're stronger in numbers, the pack makes the individual more powerful." Derek tells him. "How am I suppose to find him, if I have no idea what I'm doing?" Scott asks him, "Because I'm going to teach you, Alice do you remember that first night you were shot in the arm?" he asks.

"I change back." she answers, looking up at him. "Scott what about you when you were hit?" Derek asks Scott, "I change back." Scott answers, "Hmm-mm, and when you were hit by his car, same thing, right?" Derek asks him, walking down the stairs, Scott nods. "What the common denominator?" Derek asks, Scott shrugs, Derek grabs his hand and crushes his hand. Scott grunts in pain, falling to his knees. "What the F are you doing?" Scott groans. "It'll heal." Derek tells him. He let go of his hand and moves away, "It still hurts!" Scott growls at him "And that's what keeps you human. Pain."

Derek tells him as Scott's hand pops back into place, he flexes his fingers. "Maybe you will survive." Derek tells him, walks up to Alice and pulls her into his arms. "Hey where are you taking her?" Scott growls at him, Derek turns and looks at him. "To lay her down and let her get a good night rest." Derek tells him. Scott stood on his feet, "Scott it's alright. I don't have the strength to even move at the moment, I'll meet you at school tomorrow." Alice tells him.

Scott kept his eyes on Derek and left. Derek walks up the stairs, into the room he was staying in and gently place her on the mattress. Derek then lay beside her and holds her in his arms. "Derek, tonight in the movie store. The Alpha, he spoke to me." Alice mumbles, Derek looks at her. With concern, "What did he say to you?" he asks.

"That he was impress that I was strong enough to disobey his orders and that I don't understand why his doing this and that if I knew the truth I would join him." she mumbles again, falling to sleep. "Anything else?" he asks. Alice didn't responded. Derek looks at her and found her asleep in his arms and snuggles closer. He smiles at her and held her close in his arms. He listens to her heartbeat as it beats in a perfect rhythm, he stroke her long dark brown hair and fell asleep to a perfect dream.

~8~8~8~

"Lily, come on wake up." Derek shook her awake. Alice cracks opens her eyes and looks at him, "Good morning, Lily." Derek tells her. "Morning, what time is it?" She asks him. "Almost time for school to start." he tells her. Alice shot up, making Derek to jump back a bit. "I need to get home, grab my bag, change my clothes and hurry to class." she mumbles as tries to stand. Derek chuckles and helps her get home, Alice brushes her hair, pulling it up into a ponytail, brushes her teeth, changes her clothes, grabs her bag, then jumps down from the roof and lands next to Derek's car.

"Impressive, are you sure you weren't a supernatural creature before you became a werewolf?" Derek asks her, she smiles and hops back into the passenger side. "Promise I wasn't, just an ordinary human girl." she tells him. He chuckles at her and drives her off to school. Derek drops her off and promise to pick her up. The drove off, she ran to class, right before the bell rang.

~8~8~8~

"Just a friendly reminder, conferences are tonight." Mr. Harris tells his class. "Students below a C average are required to attended. I won't name you because of the shame and self-disgust, should be more then enough punishment." he tells him. Stopping in front of Alice and Stiles's table. "Has anyone seen Scott McCall?" he asks, Alice was taking notes as Stiles was marking with a yellow marker. She looks up at him and shrugs. Then he place his hand on her shoulder.

"Alice if you need to take some time off from school, just let me know." he informs her, "I'm fine, really." Alice tells him with a smile. He nods at her and pulls away, then Jackson walks into the classroom, pale as snow and a red mark on his cheekbone. Mr. Harris walks up to him and place his hand on his shoulder. "Jackson, if you need to leave early for any reason, let me know." Harris informs him, Jackson nods and Mr. Harris walk away, "Everyone, start reading chapter 9." he states. Everyone got out their book and started to read, "Mr. Stiles, try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs, it's chemistry. Not a coloring book." Mr. Harris tells him. Stiles sighs, spits out the cap and it lands in his hands.

Alice shook her head and went back to reading. "Hey Danny, can I ask you a question?" Stiles whispers to him, "No." Danny answers. "Will am going to anyway. Um did Lydia show up at your home today?" Stiles asks him. "No." Danny answers. "Can I ask you another question?" Stiles asks, "Answers still no." Danny tells him, "Dose anyone know what happen to her or Jackson last night?" he asks. "Alice should know she was there last night and beside... he wouldn't tell him." Danny answers him, Stiles looks at Alice, who was taking her notes.

Then back to Danny, "But he's your best friend." Stiles states, Danny just shrugs. "One more question?" Stiles asks, "What?" Danny was getting mad from the questions. "Do you find me attractive?" Stiles asks, Danny was silent, saying nothing.

Stiles leans too much forward into his chair, making him tumble forward a bit, Alice looks from her book and at Stiles who scrambles back into his chair, she rolls her eyes and went back to reading.

~8~8~8~

Alice place her books in her lockers and as she closes it, Stiles slams himself up against the lockers next to her. "No." she answers, without even looking at him, "You don't know what I was going to say." he complains. "Hey Ally, I have a question, what happen to you that night in the movie store, before I arrive." she tells him, "Ok, so you do know what I was going to say." he mumbles, she rolls her eyes.

~8~8~8~

Later in the locker room, Jackson washes off his face in front of the mirror. He touches the back of his neck where Derek clawed him. He then walks to his locker, sprays on his axle and closes his locker. But then he saw red light in the showers, he stiffen and slowly back up. The two red light came closer and turns out to be from someone's headphone, Jackson relaxes and went to turn and saw Derek standing there.

He jumps back against the lockers, "I don't know where Scott is." Jackson quickly tells him, "I'm not here for Scott, I'm here for you." Derek tells him. "Why me? I didn't do anything? why not the McCall girl, she was there too?" Jackson asks, stuttering, like a frighten rabbit.

"I'll get to her, in a minute, but you saw something, didn't you?" Derek questions him. "No. I- I didn't see anything." Jackson tells him. "What was it? Hm? An animal? A mountain loin?" Derek questions him. "I didn't see anything. I swear, I'm not lying." Jackson tells him. "Then clam down and say it again." Derek instructs him. "Say what? that I'm not lying?" Jackson asks. "Tell me you didn't see anything. Slowly." Derek tells him.

Jackson to a shuddered breath, "I didn't see anything." Jackson said slowly. Derek listens to his heartbeat, "I'm not lying." Jackson states, tying to be clam. "Do you know where I can find Alice McCall?" he asks, Jackson shrugs. "She's probably getting question by Stiles in between classes." Jackson tells him. Derek nods his head.

"One more thing." he grips the top of Jackson's head, he closes his eyes as Derek turns his head and examines the claw marks. "You should really get that check out." Derek informs him, letting go off his hair and leaving.

~8~8~8~

As Alice ditches Stiles and his questions and she walks to her next class, but as she pass a storage room, a hand covers her mouth and an arm wraps around her waist and pulls her in. she struggles against them. Then steps on their foot, jams her elbow into their ribs, took their arm and twisted it behind their back. "Ow! Lily it's me!" Derek shouts, she sighs, letting go of his arm and shoves him a little.

"Stop doing that Derek, you're going to get hurt on of theses days and it will be your fault." she tells him, he rolls his shoulder a bit. "Where did you learn to do that?" he asks her. She shrugs, "Some crazy old man taught me when I was a little girl and I pick up quickly." she tells him. He nods, "You want to ask me what happen that night?" she ask crossing her arms. "Yeah, anything else. Aside from the Alpha talking to you?" he asks.

She sighs, "Yeah, there is." she states, turning around, shrugs off her jacket a bit and shows him the five claw marks in the back of her neck. Derek gently touches the her neck, "The Alpha did this to you?" he asks. She nods, keeping her heartbeat steady from the fact Derek was running his fingertips lightly against her neck. "Yeah and after that I had a dream, of your house before the fire." she states. He pulls his hand away.

"And you didn't tell Stiles this?" he asks with a smirk. Alice pulls her jacket back over her shoulder, turns and looks at him, "You think Stiles knows everything about Werewolves?" she questions him, he shrugs. She rolls her eyes at him. "Anyway, I have to get to my last class and I can hang out with you today." she tells him, walking to the door, Derek presses himself to her back, making her stiffen. "I'll be by to seen you soon." he whispers to her and nibbles on her earlobe, earning a small moan from her. "You are so evil." she mutters to him. Derek chuckles at her, she then pulls away from him, got out of the storage room and heads for her last class, all sexually frustrated. After school was over, Derek was waiting for her, she hops into his car.

He stops by her house really quick so she could drop off her stuff and headed to Derek's place. Alice sat on the table and saw Derek take off his jacket and shirt and was just in his pants. "Oh god." she jumps and looks away. He caught onto this and decides to tease her. Derek walks up to her, "See something you like?" he asks her, "It's called respecting someones privately." she states, resisting to look. "You mean, you never wanted to sneak a peek, not even a little?" he asks, caging her in.

Her breath quicken as did her heart, he took her hand and press it against his chest. Alice gave in to temptation and slowly looks down at his abs, "God, you's a horrible tease." she mumbles. Derek smirks to himself, opening her leg and standing in between them, Alice ran her hands up to him neck.

"I want you so much, Lily." Derek mumbles to her, she smirks. "Then what are you waiting for?" she whispers to him, cupping the side of his face as her other was press against his six pack. Derek slowly leans towards her, his lips inches from hers. But Alice looks away from him, her eyes were alerted. "What is it?" he asks her, she looks at him, "Kate's here." she warns him, Derek picks up Alice, ran to the back room. He set her down and press himself against her as they heard the door being kick open.

Kate and two others walk in. "No one home." one states, "Oh, he's here. He's just not feeling preternaturally hospitable." Kate states, "Maybe he's out, burying a bone in the backyard?" one poorly jokes, Alice shook her head. "Really? A dog joke, we're going there and that's the best you got?" Kate question him, her looks away from her, biting his lip. "If you want to provoke him, say something like, too bad your sister bit it before she had her first litter." Kate starts.

Alice heard Derek growling softly. "No Derek, she just trying to get under your skin." Alice whispers to him, gripping him close to her. Derek held Alice tightly in his arms. "Too bad she howl like a bitch when we cut her in half!" Kate hit the nerve, Derek roars, letting go of Alice.

He throw the man back, knocking him unconscious, he jumps from the stairs to the wall, growling at the man and Kate. Derek jumps from the stairs, grips the window frame and kick the man's chest, sending him to the ground. Derek drops to the ground, glaring at Kate, who was smirking at him. And unknown to them, Alice snuck of the back and hid in the shadows.

Alice peeks out into the room and saw Derek on the ground in seconds as Kate pumps him full of electricity. "Wow, this one grows in all the right places. I don't know whether to kill it or lick it." Kate states as Derek rolls over. Alice growls and steps out, "How about neither." she drew both Kate and Derek's attention. "And you are who?" Kate asks walking over to her, "Leave her alone, she as nothing to do with this." Derek tries to pull himself to his feet.

"Oh but she does, so I'm going to ask again, who are you?" Kate was in front of her. "Someone that you don't want to mess with." Alice whispers to her, in a sudden move; Alice grabs Kate's shoulders, knees her into the gut and right hooks her across the face, making Kate stumble. Kate looks at her with surprise, then touches her lip and saw it was bleeding. "You fucking bitch!" Kate growls, charges at her.

Alice ready herself, she dodges Kate's rod, she swung at Alice again. But Alice grabs her wrist and disarms her rod from her. Alice then twirls the rod. "Is that the best you got?" Alice provoke her, Kate growls and charges at her, Alice twirls around and hit Kate in the back, pumping her full of electricity into her. She screams in pain, falling to the ground. "Wow, how many volts is that? 800,000? 120,000? no, if 120,000 it would kill you and if 800,000 it would make your legs go numb for 3 hours." Alice mumbles to herself as Kate tries to stand. Alice hit her shoulder, pumping her of more electricity. Kate falls to the ground, twitching.

Alice snaps her fingers, "I got it, 900,000 volts. Wow, all this for one werewolf? You're more twisted then I thought." she states. Looks at the rod, tosses it to the ground and smashes it under her boot. Then grabs Kate by her hair and pulls her to her feet. Derek pulls himself to the couch as Alice makes Kate. "Now tell him the truth!" Alice orders her. "Tell him that you didn't kill his sister." Alice tells her, Kate just twitch.

"We... didn't... kill... your... sister." she states, Derek listens to her heart, "See Derek, they don't know who killed your sister." Alice tells him, he just looks at her, feeling stupid. Then Alice drags Kate away from him, pulls her to her feet. Alice turns around to look at her, eyes glowing yellow. "We don't know who the Alpha is, so do me a favor and drop dead." she growls, left hooking her and knocking her out cold to the ground. Alice sighs, walks over to Derek and pulls him to his feet.

"Come on we have to go." Alice tells him, took his hand and they took off running. They ran a good mile from them and they stop, while panting Alice looks at Derek who was eyeing her. "I know, I had to, alright." she states and started walking, she stops, sighs. Walks back to Derek, grips his hand and pulls him along with her, "Where are we going?" he asks her. "I'm taking you to my place, you can stay there for a few, I don't care." she states pulling him along. Derek smiles a little.

They reach her house, Derek jumps up to the roof, crawls to her window, Alice enters through the front door, runs to the kitchen, grabs some food from the fridge, closes it, ran to her room, opens and closes the door, sets the food on her desk. Runs to her window, opens it and lets him. He climbs in, "Thanks for letting me stay." he thanks her, she smiles at him. "Anytime, look I have to get to the conference. Because Scott wasn't at school today and I have to take over for him, I should be back within an hour." she informs him.

He nods at her, "Okay, if you need a shower, it's here and please don't trash my room." she tells him. He chuckles, "Okay and again thank you." he states. She shrugs, "Anytime Wolf boy." she ruffles his hair and left him in her room. She walks down the stairs and saw her mother ready to leave. "Hey mum, you ready?" she tells her, Melissa looks at her and smiles. "You're always being the responsible one." she states, stroking her cheek, Alice smiles at her and they took off for the school.

They arrive and enter Mr. Harris room. "Ah, Mrs. McCall and Ms. McCall, thank you for coming." he states and they took a seat in front of him, "Ms. McCall, how are you doing?" he asks her. Alice smiles, "I was never rattled, I'm okay." she tells him. "You're daughter has nerves of steel." Harris tells her Melissa, she smiles at Alice. "So lets get started?" he asks them, they nod, "Lately Scott's mind has been somewhere else, as has his body. Personally I think it has something to do with his home situation." Harris states.

"There's nothing wrong with what happens at home, what do you mean." Alice states. "Specifically, of an authority figure." Harris states. "Yeah, I'm the authority figure, so." Melissa states. Alice could hear her heart speed up. "Sorry, allow me to clarify; I mean the lack of a male authority figure." he rephrases. Melissa nods, "Our lives are better without him in the picture." Alice growls, Harris looks at her. "Does Scott feel the same way?" he asks her. Alice looks at her mother, "Yes, I think so, I hope so." She tells him, looking away. "But he's going through some difficult changes." Harris states.

"He just needs a little extra attention, a guiding hand through the crucial stage of his life." he states, "He's got me." Alice spoke out, Harris looks at her and nods, showing her a sign of respect. "I would also like to talks to you about Alice as well." Harris pulls out Alice's folder. She perks up, "Nothing bad I hope." she asks. Harris smiles at her.

"No, She's a brilliant girl, a born leader some would say, even corrects me on mistakes I make, but she's not taking an advantage of her full abilities and that she's seems distance from the others students, other then from Scott and Stiles." He states. Melissa didn't know what to say. "When dad was thrown out of the picture, I knew that I had to help mum with the house, so I work hard on my homework, had to get two jobs work, work myself to death, so when I got my license, I knew I could do more, so I became second mom around the house." Alice tells him, they look at her.

"All the pressure on one child? Surely you couldn't handle it." he states, "No, I refuses to have friends because they'll die around me from just being near me." Alice looks down at her lap, playing with her fingers. "Like Cassie, Mr. Ford, and Mr. Meyers, I have to be strong for them and not break, no matter how much I'm terrified." she states pulling out her phone and looking out the time, "Alice this is some heavy guilt you've been carrying, is she taking therapy?" Harris asks Melissa.

"No, I'm not, I have friend, that shares my guilt and is helping me deal with it." she states, "Is this a good friend of yours?" Melissa asks her. "He's a friend who hasn't died yet." Alice states with a smile on her face as a tear fell down her cheek. She quickly wipes it away.

~8~8~8~

"Is he answering you?" Melissa asks her, Alice shook her head. Then they walk up to the Argent, "Excuse me, you're not Allison's parents, are you?" Melissa asks them. "I'm Scott's mom and I'd hate to say it, but he's not answering his phone either." he tells him, "You're his mother?" Chris states, "You say that as if an accusation?" she states, "Well, I would recline it as a source of pride, since he basically kidnap my daughter today." Chris accuse.

"How do we know skipping school wasn't you're daughter's idea?" Melissa shot back. Then Alice step in. "Okay, lets not kill each others, what's today?" Alice asks Chris, "Allison's birthday." he answer, she sighs. "God that's why they're not here." she mumbles, "What?" Victoria asks her, "I have a theory; you've been moving from place to place and Allison's didn't like the fact people would make fun of her age, so Scott maybe wanted to be nice and give her a fun day, maybe that's why they skip school." Alice states, they look at her as she pants.

"You know that make a lot of sense, is your daughter a genus or something?" Victoria asks Melissa, she smiles. "No, just really smart." she states, then Alice looks over to the parking lot, "They're right there." Alice states, Melissa turns and looks at them and heads for them. "Where exactly have you've been?" Melissa fumes at Scott, Alice looks at her bother with sympathy.

"Nowhere mum." Scott tells her, "Nowhere, meaning school." she shouts at him. "Kinda." he states, "It wasn't his fault, it was my birthday we were just hanging out." Allison tries to explain, "Allison. In the car." Chris tells him daughter. Then someone scream, Alice immediately ran to the source, "Alice!" Melissa calls out to her, she ignore her and walks between cars and running people, she heard heavy footsteps heading her way, Alice's eyes glowed yellow and saw a mountain lion jump her.

Sending both of them to the ground, she let out a scream as she wrestled, the cougar bit her arm and lashes at her shoulder, she let out a yelp and punches it in the rib, it yelps as it tries to run away, but Alice got up and jumps the cougar, putting it on a headlock. "Go to sleep, go to sleep." she mumbles, the cougar stop struggling and went limps, purring as it was sound to sleep. Alice pulls her arms away from the cougar's throat and sat next to it, rubbing it's ear, "Good kitty." she mumbles, then she heard Chris walk up to them, she looks up at him, her eyes still glowing. "You didn't kill it, Why?" he asks her. She pants.

"Because I choose not to, it didn't nothing wrong except frighten a few people, that hurt themselves, it was lost and scared so please. Don't kill it." she begs him, Chris looks at her then back at the cougar, "You could of kill Kate, why didn't you?" he asks her, she sighs. "I know I could of, but I'm a predictor, I'm not a killer, it would go against what I believe in." she answers him, "What do you believe in?" he asks. "I believe in protecting my friends." she answers him, he nods at her as people gathered around, Alice's eyes turn back to light brown.

"Everyone back up." Stilinski tells the people, he looks down at Alice and the cougar, "Please call animal control." she mumbles to him, he nod, pulling out his phone. Melissa and Scott push forward to the area and ran to Alice. "Oh my god, are you okay?" she asks her with horror, Scott was right next to her. Alice nods, hiding her wounds. "Yeah mum, I'm fine, really." she tells her. Then Animal control came and took the sleeping cougar away. And everyone went home. Alice walks up to her room, enters it then closes it behind her and was wrap in Derek's strong arms.

"Derek I'm fine." she tells him as he nuzzles against her good shoulder, "I heard you scream, and smelt your blood, what happened?" he asks her. Alice pulls out of his arms, "A cougar was on the school ground, it jump me, lash at my shoulder and bit deep into my arm, but I manged to put it to sleep." she tells him, walking to her bathroom, peeling of her shirt and running cold water.

"Now Chris, Kate's brother, Allison's father, he is now convince that I am a werewolf and he asks me questions." she pulls out a hand towel, damps it and clean off her wounds. "What did he asks you?" he asks, helping her. "Why didn't I just kill the cougar? Why didn't I kill his sister, and what is it that I believe in." she tells him as her wounds now heal, "What was your answer?" he asks pulling her in his arms, "The cougar did nothing wrong, it was just afraid and lost, killing Kate would of gone against everything I believe in and what I believe in is protecting my friends." she answers him.

Derek smiles at her and nuzzles closes to her, "I'm glad you're ok." he mumbles, she smiles, "I know and now I need to change and get ready for bed, school tomorrow." she tells him, Derek nods at her, letting her leave his arms and pull out her Pj's. She playfully pushes him out of the bathroom and quickly changes and steps out of the bathroom, she then stretches, turns off her bathroom light and her bedroom light, leaving her night stand light on, she crawls to the bed and looks at Derek.

He smiles at her and crawls into the bed with her, she lays against his clothed chest. He then turns off her lamp and holds her in his arms. "Thank you Derek, for being here." she mumbles to him, he smiles at her. "Anytime, Lily." he mumbles at her, she smiles and nuzzles against chest, being song to sleep, by his beating heart.

Derek stroke her hair, listening to her breath and her heartbeat and protects her with his strong arms as he too fell asleep.