Chapter 6: Heart Monitor
Alice and Scott walk into the car garage, Scott was carrying groceries. "Why couldn't you carry the bags again?" Scott asks his sister. "Because, mom wants me to punish you and I'm punishing you." she tells him, he sighs, following her to her car, she went to unlock the door, until the milk rolls out. "Crap." Scott mumbles. Then chases after it.
She giggles walking after him, it rolls under a car, the twin stop at the car. "Will there went the cow." Alice jokes, Scott shot her a glare with a smile. Then the milk rolls back, claw marks in the container and they both heard growling from the other side. The twins jump into action and spread out into the garage, Alice sticks to the shadow. Staying out of sight. Then she pulls out her phone, plays music on it, place it down and snuck off into another part of the garage.
She uses her wolf vision and saw the shadow making for her phone, Alice conceal her beating heart, she shifts and quietly snuck up on the shadow. It swung at her, but she dodges in time and kicks him off he's feet. Alice kneels over the man, one hand griping his hand, the other grips his throat and she place her foot on his wrist, pinning his hand to the ground. She smiles, "You're dead, Derek." she states, he smirks at her. "Impressive, you conceal your heart from me and threw me off your trail with a distraction." he adds. "I'm a natural talent, now go catch my brother." she tells him, getting off and pulling him up. He kisses her cheek and took off.
Alice grab her phone then heard car alarms go off, Alice turns off her music, place it into her pocket and took off running towards the sounds. She then saw Derek lift her brother from his hiding spot and slams him against the hood, "You're dead." Derek tells him.
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"What the hell was that?" Scott shouts at him, as the three walk through the garage. "I said I was going to teach you, I didn't say when." Derek tells him as they walk up to Alice's green SUV Alice picks up the groceries.
"You owe us milk Derek." she mumbles, unlocking the back of her car and placing them in. "You scared the crap out of me." Scott shouts, Alice closes the back, "Not yet." Alice mumbles. "Ok, but I was fast, right?" Scott asks. "Not fast as your sister." he states, she smirks. "But the car alarm thing, was smart right?" Scott asks. "Until your phone rang." Derek adds, Alice leans again her car. "Yeah but that was, I mean. Would you just stop! Please!" Scott shouts at him, his voice echos. Derek looks at him, standing next to Alice. "What happen the other night, Stiles's dad getting hurt, my sister getting attack. That was my fault, I should have been there to do something. I need you to teach us how to control this." Scott tells him.
"Look Derek is what he is, because of birth, you and I were bitten. Teaching someone who was bitten takes time." Alice tells her brother, Scott glares at her. "I don't know if I can teach you." Derek tells him. "What do I have to do?" Scott asks him, "You have to get rid of distraction." He tells him, then taking his phone then show him the screen. One missed call from Allison, "You see this? This is why I caught you. You want me to teach you, get rid of her." Derek informs him, "What just because of her family?" Scott shot back at her, Derek took Scott's phone and smashes it against a pillar.
Alice face palms as Scott was now in shock, "You getting angry? That's your first lesson. You want to learn how to control this, to shift. You do it through anger. By tapping into a primal animal rage and you can't do that with her around." Derek raises his voice.
"I can get angry." Scott said in a low voice, "Not angry enough, this is the only way I can teach you, and for me to do that, you have to stay away from her." Derek shouts at him, "Can you stay away from her, at least until after the next full moon?" Derek asks of him. Scott glares at him, "If you stay away from Alice." Scott shot back at him, they exchange looks and back at Scott. "Fine." Alice growls at her brother, "Do you want to live? Do you want to protect your friends? Yes or no?" Derek asks of him. "Yes. If you can teach me and stay away from my sister, I'll stay away from her." Scott agrees.
Alice scoffs, she knew her brother was lying, so she gave him his keys and he took off. "He's lying, you know." she states as they walk to the exit. "Yeah I know and I know you won't stay away from me." Derek states, she looks up at him "Do you want me to stay away from you?" she asks with a smile, he looks down at her. "No, I would go mad if you did." he answers her as they were out of the garage. "Good, cause if you said yes, I would still be there to bug you have to death." she answers him. He chuckles, she webs her fingers with his.
"Is this where I kiss you now?" he asks of her, she giggles. "Derek do you know how many times we were interrupted?" she asks him, he nods. His inner wolf growling. "For instants." she went to start, but her phone rang. She looks at Derek, with an understanding look on his face. "I see." he states, Alice giggles and answers the phone, "Hello?" she answers, "Alice, where are you?" Stiles asks her. "I'm with Derek, why?" she asks him.
"I just wanted to make sure you were alright, you're family to me." he tells him, "Aw, that's sweet Stiles, you're like a brother to me too." she smiles. "Okay, just please get home safely." he asks of her. "Yeah sure." she tells him. "Okay bye." hung up her phone. "What did Stiles want?" Derek asks her. "Stiles just wanted to make sure I was alright." she tells him. He pulls his hand from her's wraps it around her waist and pulls her against his chest.
She laughs as Derek stares at her lips, Alice's laughter dies as she notices were his eyes were. She leans up, pushing her lips close to his. But suddenly pulls back something washes over her, she pants, griping Derek's arms. "Alice? What's wrong?" he asks her, subconsciously she raise her finger to Derek's shoulder and slowly drew a spiral. He looks at her hand in shock, then back at her. "What happen?" he asks her, stroking her cheek. "I felt so much anger just now, it wash over me, like a wave wanting to drown me." she tells him, then looks at her hand, "I trace something didn't I?" she asks. Derek said nothing. "It was a spiral, wasn't it?" she questions him. Derek nods.
"Just like the one on the roof, same shape, same feeling." she mumbles. "It has a meaning for werewolves, for vendetta, for revenge." she states, Derek looks at her in shock. "You can't hide anything from me Wolf boy, I peace the puzzle together." she tells him, "Come on, lets get to my house." she tells him and they took off.
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They waited in Scott's room, as he enters, in fright, Scott closes his door, looks it, ran to his window, closes it as well, pulls the blinds, keeping through them, he sighs, then turns on his lamp. He then jumps to see Derek in his chair and Alice sitting on his bed. "You seriously need to stop doing that." he asks of Derek, "So what happen? He talk to you?" Derek asks him, "Yeah we had a nice conversation about the weather. No he didn't talk." Scott shot at him, "Well did you get anything off of him? An impression?" Derek asks of him.
"What do you mean?" Scott asks him, Derek shot up from the chair, "Remember your other scenes are heighten, communication doesn't have to be spoken. What kind of feeling did you get from him?" Derek informs him. Alice looks at her brother, "Anger." he answers. "Focus on you?" Derek asks him. "No, not me. But it was definitely anger, I could feel it, especially when he drew the spiral." Scott tells him. Alice rose from the bed. Standing next to Derek.
"Wait the what, what did you just say?" Derek asks again, making sure he heard her right. "He drew the spiral on the window of Alice's car, in a condensation, you know." Scott states, Derek and Alice exchange looks. "What? You two have the look, like you know what it means." Scott asks them. "No, it's nothing." Derek states as he walk pass them. "Wait, wait wait a second, you can't do that." Scott stops Derek from leaving, "You can't ask me to trust you and just keep things to yourself." Scott complains.
"It doesn't mean anything." Derek tells him, trying to leave. Alice walks up to Scott, "You bury your sister under a spiral, what does it mean?" Scott asks him. Derek just looks at him. He sighs then opens the door. "You don't want to know." Derek tells him and leaves. Alice lets out a frustrated growl, then lays down next to Scott. "So what are you going to do tomorrow?" she asks him. "Stay away from Allison." he mumbles. She sighs, "Stay away from Allison." he mumbles.
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Alice walks with Scott as he mumbles "Stay away from Allison." a few times. They went up the stairs, but Alice grabs his shoulders and turns him around. "Stay away from Allison." he mumbles as they went to a different hall, "Stay away from Jackson." Alice pulls Scott down another hall. "Hey Scott." Lydia smiles at him, "Oh come on!" the twins complain, then ran to their first class, saw Stiles who was upset about his dad. Scott nods and they walk over and sat in the desk near him. "Still not talking to me?" Scott asks him.
Stiles said nothing, Scott sighs. "Can you at least tell me your dad's okay, I mean it's just a bruise?" Scott asks, "Soft tissue damage? Nothing? That big?" Scott was trying to win his best friend back. Alice just watches this sad and painful display happen, "You know I feel really bad about it right?" Stiles still refuses to talk to him. "What if I told you I'm trying to figure this whole thing out, and that I went to Derek for help?" Scott asks him. "If I was talking to you, I would say, you're an idiot for trusting him. But obviously I'm not talking to you." Stiles tells him, the bell rang and Scott and Alice pull out their needed supplies, as they set them on their decks, Stiles turns around.
"What did he say?" Stiles asks him. Scott smiles as Alice smirks a little, working on her class work.
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"He wants you to tap into your animal side and get angry?" Stiles asks them, Alice nods "Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you do that, you try to kill someone and that someones usually me." Stiles states, Alice looks at him. "Besides you of course." he adds, she smiles.
"I know, that's what I mean, if he teaches me, I have to able to control it." Scott states, "Well how is he going to teach you that?" Stiles asks him. Scott shrugs. "I don't know. I don't think he does either." Scott tells him, Stiles threw his head back a bit. "When are you two seeing him again?" Stiles asks them. "He told me not to talk about it, just act normal, get through the day." Scott tells him, Stiles place his hand on Scott's chest, Alice smirks, knowing that look on his face.
"When?" Stiles asks again. "He's picking us up at the animal clinic, after work." Scott informs him, "After work, alright that gives me the end of the school day then." Stiles mumbles, "To do what?" Scott asks him. "To teach you myself." Stiles tell him, then walks off, Alice follows him. "You want to steal it or should I?" Alice asks him, "You steal it, I'll get the other one." he tells her, "You got it." she states and they split.
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They sat at lunch, away from Allison, Alice sat her apple as Scott was hidden behind a book, "I think the book is making it obvious." she tells him, "Besides, she's reading anyway." Stiles points out, Scott looks over his worlds history book from time to time. "Did you come up with a plan yet?" he asks them, "I think so." Stiles takes a bite out of his apple, "Dose that mean you don't hate me?" Scott asks him, "No, but your crap as infiltrated my life, so now I have to do something about it."
Stiles tells him, Scott peeks out of his book a little, Alice took a pic of it, without them noticing. "Plus, I'm a better Yoda then Derek." he states, Alice snickers as she buries her face in her arms. "Okay, yeah you teach me." Scott tells him quickly. "I'll be your Yoda." Stiles phrases for him, "Yeah, you'll be my Yoda." Scott looks at the book, Alice giggles to herself, "Your Yoda, I will be." stiles quotes, Alice recorded that. 'Blackmail material' she mouths, saving it into her phone. "I said it backwards." he states.
"I know." Scott states, "Un-huh. Yeah, still hate you." Stiles chuckles, grabs his books and bag, along with Scott's book and walks out of the lunch room, Scott hurries after him. Alice did as well. Scott then books it for the boys restroom. "Well, this is not going to be easy." Alice mumbles, biting into her apple. "Hey Alice, I'm quite curious." Stiles tells her. "About what?" she asks him, "Why did you control your shift?" he asks her, Alice swallows her apple bite.
"I don't know, whenever I thought of Derek or was around him, I just shifted back." she answers him, taking another bite, "Really?" he mumbles. She nods, enjoying her apple.
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Stiles, Scott, and Alice walk onto the field, Stiles was carrying two Lacrosse sticks and sat on the bench, "Now put this one." stiles gave him a wrist band. "Isn't this one of the heart rate monitors for the track team?" Scott asks him. "Yeah, I barrow it." Stiles tells him. Scott raise his eyebrows at him, "You stole it." Scott phrases, "Temporary and appropriated. Coach uses it to monitor his heart rate with his phone while he jogs and you're going to wear it for the rest of the day." Stiles informs him, "Isn't that Coach's phone?" Scott asks, Stiles smiles and looks at Alice.
"That I stole." Alice answers. "Our heart rate speeds up when we go wolf, when you're playing Lacrosse or with Allison or whenever you get angry." Alice informs him, "Maybe aside from that is learning to control your heart rate." Stiles adds. "Like incredible Hulk." Scott adds, "Kinda like the Incredible Hulk, yeah." Stiles states. "Yeah, like the incredible Hulk." Scott said again. "Will you shut up and put the strap on," Stiles tells him.
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Stiles duct tape Scott's hands tightly together, behind his back, "This is exactly how I want to spend my free period." Scott informs him, Stiles picks up the Lacrosse sticks and bags then starts to back away from him, Scott turns around. "Are you ready?" Stiles asks him. "No." Scott answers, Stiles stood next to Alice and gave her the other Lacrosse stick. "Remember, don't get angry." Stiles reminds him. Stiles get the monitor ready and nods to Alice.
They started hitting Scott with balls in the belly, the chest, in the chin. Alice looks at the phone, heart rate 120. "Okay that one kinda hurt." Scott mumbles, "Really? Remember you got to think about your heart rate and about staying calm." Stiles reminds him as Alice leans against her stick. "Okay, stay clam." Scott dodges a ball, "Staying clam, staying totally clam, there no balls flying at my face." he mumbles and a ball hits him in the shoulder, making him stumble a bit and groan in pain. Alice looks over and saw Jackson noticing the display.
"Oh. Son of a bitch!" Scott shouts, catching her attention. "You know what I think my aim is actually improving." Stiles mocks him as Alice rolls her eyes at him. "I wonder why." Scott growls a little, she looks at the phone again, 130. "Ah, bu, bu. No getting angry." Stiles reminds him, "I'm not getting angry." Scott mumbles and Stiles hits him again.
And a few more times, the monitor rose even higher, "Stiles, Stiles stop." Alice begs him, dropping her stick and ran to Scott when he falls to his knees. She knees in front of him and grips his shoulders. "Scott, Scott you need to breath." she tells him, he tore free from the duct tape and claws at the ground right next to her, she heard his heart beat go down and pants. He then collapse against her lap. "It's okay, you're okay." she tells him, petting his hair.
Stiles knees down beside her, "Scott, you started to change." Stiles tells him, "From anger, it was more then that. It was like, the angrier I got, the stronger I felt." Scott tells him. He then rolls over, laying down on his back and using Alice's lap as a pillow. "So Derek is right, it's anger." Stiles states. "I can't be around Allison." Scott mumbles. Alice cradles Scott's cheeks, "Just because she makes you happy?" Stiles asks her. "No because she makes me weak." Scott answers. Alice sighs, looking over at Jackson, who had a startled look on his face.
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"Alright so you stay away from her for a few days, you can do that." Stiles tells him as they walk into the locker room and to their lockers. "But is a few days or is it forever?" Scott asks him, "You know this whole 'woman's make you weak thing' is a little too spartan warrior for me. It's probably part of the whole learning process." Stiles tells him.
"Yeah, but you've seen Derek. I mean the guy was totally alone before my sister came along, what if I can never be with her again." Scott states, then leans against his locker. "Well if you're not dead, it could be a good thing." Stiles tells him. "I'd rather be dead." Scott went into the pity-party, "You're not going to end up like Derek, alright, we'll figure it out." Stiles assures him. "Kay." Scott said softly, feeling the tears come on. "Come on, lets get out of here." Stiles tells him, Scott grabs his bag and slugs it over his shoulders, "Something smells terrible in here anyway." Scott mumbles, pulling his hood out of the way.
"Really, in a boy's locker room, that doesn't make any scenes at all." Stiles states, "No, it's like something rotting or dying." Scott asks, As they left the locker room, Jackson come out, looking more sickly then very, he ran up to the sinks, pulls off his shirt and the bandage, then he started to cough. A black clawed hand tries to claws it's way out, but then he looks again and saw that the hand was gone, he pants, scared out of his life. Then saw Alice standing there, he quickly turns around and faces her.
"This is the boy's locker room." he tells him, "I know, but I'm here for you." she tells him walking up in front of him. "What do you want?" he demands of her. She took his arm, lead him to the bench, sat him down, sat behind him and took something out of her pocket. "This will feel a bit cold." she warns him and rubs something on the claws marks. "What is that?" he asks, "Penicela, it's an ointment that helps heal cuts and wounds." she tells him. And rubs another dose in the second claw mark. "Why are you doing this?" he asks her, "I'm not doing this out of charity or pity, Jackass. If you want to kick both mine and my brother's asses to reclaim your stupid dignity and pride, you have to be a full strength to do so." Alice informs him, getting the last claw mark.
"Is that vanilla I'm smelling?" he asks her, as she places the small cap on the container and placing it away, "Yes, mix with lavender and honey, to lease the pain a little." she tells him, placing a big square bandage on the claw marks. "How do you know that?" he asks her, "Because. I make it." she tells him getting up and washes her hands. "Wait, wait you made this stuff?" he asks her again, she looks at the mirror, "Yes, and now that I've help you, you'll stops seeing things and looking like you're going to puke." she tells him, then walks out of the locker room. "Why? Why help me?" he asks her, she stops, turns and looks at him, "Elementary school, the third grade, think on that." she tells him and walks out of the locker room.
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"Lets go." Coach said after he slams his books on his deck. "Sit sit sit, we've a lot to cover today." he tells every one that hurry into his class, Alice sat in the row next to Scott. "Hey Stiles, sit behind he dude." Scott whispers to Stiles as Allison aims for that spot, but she beats him there. Alice smirks to herself. "Hey." She mumbles to Scott, "Hey." he mumbles back to Allison. "I haven't seen you all day." she tells him. "Yeah, I've been busy." he lies to her, "When are you going to get your phone fix, I feel totally disconnect from you." Allison tells him.
"Uh, soon. Real soon." Scott lies to her again, Alice sighs, writing in her notebook. "I change lab partners by the way." she informs him, "To who?" he dares to ask. "To you, dummy." she tells him, "Me. I mean, are you sure?" he asks her, Alice tries not to laugh. "Yeah, that way. I have an excuse to bring you home and study." she tells him. "Oh." he said in a fear tone, "You don't mind do you?" she asks him, "I just, I don't want to bring your grade down." he tells her. Alice almost snap her pencil. "Well, maybe the grade you. Come to my place tonight. 8:30." she asks him. "Tonight?" he asks. "Yeah, 8:30." she whispers. Coach slams a book on top of the stack of books, "Alright, let's settle down." he tells them, Scott turns back around. "Okay, let's go over a quick summery of last nights reading." he tells them class.
Alice and another girl raise their hands. "Greenbreg, put your hand down everyone knows you did the reading. How about, McCall." he states. Alice and Scott look at each other then back at him. "Which one?" they asks, Coach sighs. "Scott McCall." he tells the twins, "What?" he asks him, "The reading." he tells Scott as he stood in front of the teacher's desk. Alice looks at her brother, with worry. "Last night's reading?" Scott asks him. "Nah, how about uh, the reading of the Ginsberg address." he asks Scott, Alice glare at Coach. "What?" Scott asks even more confused, "That's sarcasm. You familiar with the term, sarcasm, McCall." Coach asks him, "Very." Scott looks in Stiles's direction, who was smirking with a nod. "Did you do the reading or not?" Coach asks him again.
"Um, I think I forgot." Scott answers him, Alice looks at her brother from the corner of her eye, then back at Coach. Her hand gripping the ledge of the desk. "Nice work McCall, it's not like you're averaging a D in this class." Coach leans over Scott's desk a little. "Come on buddy, you know I can't keep you on the team if you have a D, how about you summarizes previews night's reading." Coach asks him, Alice could hear both her and Scott's heart beating starting to quicken. Scott shock his head, "No? How about the uh the night before that?" Scott still said nothing, Alice's eyes started to flicker between light brown and glowing yellow. "How about you summarize anything you've ever read, in your entire life." Coach raise his voice at him.
Alice's claws dug into the desk slowly, "I... I..." he tries to speak, "A blog?" Coach asks again, "How about the back of a cereal box? No, how about the adults only vids, the website you visit every night? Anything?" Coach presses him, Alice took deep breaths to calm down, but it wasn't working anymore. "Thank you McCall, thank you." Coach then slams his hand down on the teacher's desk. "Thank you McCall! Thank you for extinguishing any last flicker of hope I had for generation! You just blew it for everybody. Thanks, for acting you'd start suicide runs." Coach continues to shout at him.
When Alice was going to shift, a familiar scent reaches her nose; Colonel and his voice. "Alice, focus on my voice, nothing else, just me." Derek whispers to her, she took a deep breath and her mind wonders to Derek, her heart slows to it's original pace, eyes now light brown, and her claws shrank. She lets out an exhausted sigh and leans back in her chair, then notices that Scott's heart calms down as well, she looks over and saw Allison's hand intertwined with his. She smiles to herself, looking over at Stiles, he looks at her, seeing her clam. Stiles sighs. She giggles and went to work.
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The three walk out of class, Stiles and Scott on each side of Alice. "It's them." Stiles tells him, the twins look at him. "What do you mean?" Scott asks him, "It's Allison and Derek, remember what you told me on the night of the full moon? You were thinking about her, right? About protecting her." Stiles tells him, "Ok." Scott states. "And Ally, when you were going to shift on game night, Derek held you in his arms and you calm down to a point where you pass out?" Stiles asks her, she looks at him. "Yeah..." she answers. "Scott same night, when Allison went into the locker rooms, you didn't kill her. While, not like you with me and Ally." Stiles states, the twins look at him."Guys, they're what brings you back, that what I'm trying to say." Stiles puts in simper words.
Alice felt her heart jumps, now believing that Derek is what keeps her human. "That may be true. But everytime I'm kissing her or touching her." Scott adds. "No, that's not the same, when you're doing that. You're just another hormonal teenager thinking about sex." Stiles tells him, then the twins mind wonder. "You two are thinking about sex right now, aren't you?" he asks them, Alice looks at him. She clears her throat and looks away, blushing from embarrassment. "Yeah, sorry." Scott answers, "That's fine, back in the classroom, when she was holding your hand or when Derek was talking to you or something, that was different. Ok, I don't think that Allison makes you weak, I think Allison gives you control, kinda like an anchor." Stiles sums up.
"Cause I love her." Scott answers, Alice looks at her brother. "Exactly." Stiles, "Did you just say that?" Alice asks him, he looks at her with confusion on his face. "Yes he just said that." Stiles answers. Scott looks away from Alice with a little smile on his face.
"I love her." Scott said again, "That's great, now moving on." Stiles tries to moves the subject. "No no no, really. I think I'm totally in love with her." Scott was still amazed. "That's beautiful, now before you go off and write stoic please? Because you obvious can't be around her all the time." Stiles reminds him. "Yeah yeah yeah, sorry." Scott pulls himself together. "Wait, are you saying that I'm..." Alice struggles to say the word. Stiles looks at her and pats her shoulder, "Yes, Ally. You are in love with Derek Hale." Stiles tells her. Then a blank look was on her face, Scott wave his hand in her face; no reaction.
"Wow." she mumbles. "So what do we do?" Scott asks Stiles. "I don't know yet." he tells them as Alice pulls herself back from shock. Then the look happens, "Oh no, you're getting an idea, aren't you." Scott mumbles, Alice hid behind Scott and peeks from over his shoulder. "Yeah." Stiles mumbles. "Is this idea going to get me in trouble?" Scott asks him, "Maybe." Stiles answers, "Is this idea going to cause him physical pain?" Alice asks, "Yeah definitely, come on." Stiles turns and walks away, Scott grabs Alice's hand and they walk after him.
"What are we doing?" Scott asks him as the three walk up to a truck and a boy got out of it. "Okay stand right there, do you have your keys?" Stiles ask Scott, he reaches into his pocket and pulls them out. "Perfect. Now hold them up like so." Stiles instructs him, making Scott hold up his key. "Now whatever happens, just think about Allison, try to find her voice, like you did at the game, got it?" Stiles tells him, Scott nods. "Ok, just keep holding it." Stiles tells him and pulls Alice along. They walk up to the truck, Stiles then ran his keys along the surface of the truck.
Alice and Scott were in shock, but Stiles kept pulling her along. They move away from the truck and stood in a good spot. "Okay, Ally. Whatever happens, just try to find Derek, his voice or his heartbeat, okay?" he tells her, she took deep breath and nods, Stiles smiles and turns to Scott. "Hey hey hey, dude, what do you think you're doing to that truck, bro?" Stiles drew the boys attention. Alice knew what was going to happen, she buries her face into her hands as Scott was now getting beaten. She fought against every fiber in her body that was telling her to go and help him; her mind wonders and listens to Derek's heart beat, it sooth her raging inner wolf.
Then Mr. Harris came out and broke up the fight, "What do you idiots think you're doing?" he ask them, Scott looks at Stiles and Alice, Stiles held up his phone his heart rate went down and Alice didn't shift either as she was peeking in between her hands. Mr. Harris gave Scott and Stiles detention, but Alice was off the hook for now. She headed to the animal clinic and rush through the front door. "I'm here." she calls out, Deaton walks out to the front. "You're here three seconds early." he tells her, she smirks. "I know, just want to be here and ready." she tells him walking through the gate.
He smiles at her, "Well, then I suggest you get to work." he tells her, she nods. "Yes sir." and she went to work.
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"Come here Cladson, time to take a bath." she tells the pug, he looks at her with a whimper, "I know you hate the bath, but think about that one certain dog you've be eyeing from time to time?" she asks him with a smirk. He looks away telling her, he had no idea what she was taking about. "Don't play dumb with me, I've seen you eyeing Penny with that long gaze look in your eyes." she throws at him.
He scoffs, knowing he was caught, "You know Penny love a dog with shinny clean fur coat." she tells him, he turns and looks at her, ears raise with an 'are you serious' look on his face. "It true, so you still don't want a bath?" she asks him, he barks once. "Alright lets go." she states taking him to the bathtub and clean Cladson, after she baths him she tries him off then places him back in his cage, "Alright, I got you you're favorite brand of food, along with clean and cold water." she informs him, he barks three times. "You are most welcome. Good night." she rubs his head, closes his cage, locks it and went to Deaton.
"How is he?" he asks her, "He's doing better, a lot better." she informs him. "Good that's good." he states and the front bell rang as someone came in. "Scott you're late again. I'd hope is isn't getting to be a habit." he states, filing out the files. They both turn and saw an unlikely face to show. "Derek?" Alice asks, walking up to him and stood in front of him. "What are you doing here?" she asks him. "Alice, you know this man?" Deaton asks her, she looks at him. "Yeah, I've ran into him from time to time." he tells her, then she looks back at Derek. "Can I help you?" Deaton asks Derek, "I hope so." Derek mumbles.
"I want to know about the animal you found, the one with a spiral on it's side." Derek states, Alice looks at him in shock. "Excuse me, what animal?" he asks him, sounding nervous. "Derek, please tell me you're not suggesting..." Alice starts. "Three months ago, the deer." Derek took out a peace of paper, unfolds it and shows him the picture of the dead deer with a spiral in it's side. "You remember this?" Derek asks him, "Ah yes, it's just a deer." he states, Alice moves away from Derek and stood to the side in front of Deaton. "And I didn't find it, they called me because they wanted to know if I ever seen anything it." he tells him.
"And what did you tell them?" Derek asks him. "I'd told them no." Deaton answer, Alice heard his heart sped up a bit then looks at Derek. He drops his arm that held the paper and walks slowly to Deaton. "Did you hear that?" he asks him.
Deaton slowly backs up as Alice kept her eyes on Derek. "Hear what?" he asks as was standing on the other side of the table. "The sound of your heartbeat raising." Derek tells him. "Excuse me?" Deaton asks of him, "It's the sound of you lying." Derek clarifies, then he grabs him by his coat and pulls him over the table, "Derek!" Alice shouts at him.
~8~8~8~
Deaton awaken to consciousness, he was tied to a chair, hands bound behind him, he struggles the bindings and heard muffled voices, he turns and saw Alice arguing and shoving Derek away from her. "Don't you dare try to make me understand something I already know!" she growls at him, "It's him, he know what the spiral mean, that means it's him." he snaps back. "That doesn't prove anything, just because he knows what the spiral, doesn't make him the one!" she snaps back, he rolls her eyes at him. "God! You're so stubborn." she growls at him, turning away. "Are you protecting someone?" Derek demands of Deaton. "Alright, the key to the drug locker is in my pocket." Deaton offers, "I don't want drugs. I want to know why you're lying." Derek demands of him.
"I don't know what you're taking about." Deaton tells him, Derek turns him around and lifts up the chair, "What are you doing to me?" he asks, frighten of Derek. "Derek, stop!" Alice shouts at him, now getting angry. "What do you want?" he asks him, "I want to know who you are and who you're protecting." Derek tells him, Alice eyes now flash eye. "What are you doing?!" Scott jumps into the scene. "Scott! Take Alice and get out of here!" Deaton tells him.
Derek set the chair down and knocks Deaton out. "Stop! Stop!" Scott defenses Deaton. "When he's conscious, he can heal himself, but unconscious he can't." Derek informs Scott. "Are you out of your mind, what are you talking about?!" Scott shouts at him. "You want to know what the spiral means, Scott? It's our sign for vendetta, for revenge. It means he won't stop killing until he satisfied!" Derek informs him. "You think he's the Alpha?" Scott snap back at him.
"We're about to find out." he tells him, he went to strike with his claw, but Scott stops him, fully wolf out and growls at him, Derek looks at him in shock. Then he was shove back and saw both of the McCall twins, wolf out. And return to their human state, Scott clutches his fist and glares at Derek, Alice just glares at him. "Hit him again and you'll see how angry both me and Alice can get." Scott threaten him.
~8~8~8~
Alice sat on the table as Scott dab a cotton on Deaton's cut cheek and Derek paces behind them. "Do you have a plan?" Derek asks Scott walking up to him, "Give me an hour." Scott tells him, "And then what?" Derek asks him. Alice looks between the two boys, "Meet me at the school, in the parking lot. Alice go with him, so no trouble happens." Scott tells them, she gave a silent nod, hops off the table and Derek follows her to the cars, "You ridding with me?" he ask her, "Well who else is going to keep Deaton safe from you?" she shot back at him. Getting in the car, Derek sighs, knowing she wasn't going to let him live it down.
~8~8~8~
Derek and Alice drove in silence, Alice stares out the window. "You're still mad?" Derek broke the silence, she sighs. "I would be lying if I said no." she answers him, "Look, Alice. I'm sorry, alright? When he was lying about the spiral, I just reacted." he tries to tell her. She looks at him, "Look, It's just, if the Alpha strikes again, anything could happen." Derek said in a worry tone, she looks at him.
"I know it's not Deaton, the Alpha is full of rage, pure vengeful rage and I can't feel that from him." Alice states. Derek shot her a sideways glance, "What makes you so sure?" he asks her, she turns to the window again. "I just feel it in my gut." she mumbles they then arrive at the school, he pulls up into the parking lot. The two exit the car and stood in front of Stiles and Scott, "Where's my boss?" Scott asks him, "He's in the back." Derek tells him, Scott looks in the back seat and saw Deaton unconscious still, tied up and duct tape over his mouth. "Ah, he looks comfortable." Stiles sarcastically states.
Scott pats his arm and they head for the school, "Hey, what are you doing?" Derek asks him, "You said I was link with the Alpha. I'm going to see if you're right." Scott tells him and they both enter the school. Alice sighs, walks to the back of the Camro and sat on the truck. Derek walks over to her and right next to her. "How long are you going to stay mad?" he asks her, she sighs. "I'm not mad anymore, just confused." she answers, Derek looks at her, "What if he's not the Alpha?" she asks him. Derek looks away. "I don't know." Derek answers her. "Well that's reassuring." she giggles, he smirks a little then looks up at her, Alice looks down at him, smiles softly at him and leans down close to him.
Derek leans up a bit, their faces inch closer, but the moment was ruined yet again when the sound of a choking cat rang out over the intercom. Derek made a face, "You've got to be kidding me." he mumbles, leaning against her shoulder, Alice looks away, covers her mouth, trying not to laugh.
Then a stronger louder howl rang out, Alice felt a surge of energy flow through her, Derek pulls away from her and she jumps off the car and stood next to him, eyes glowing golden "Whoa." she mumbles.
~8~8~8~
"I'm going to kill both of you." Derek points out as Stiles and Scott walk out of the school, grins on their faces, "What the hell was that? What are you trying to do, attract the entire state to the school?" he questions them, "Sorry I didn't know it would be that loud." Scott tells him. "Yeah it was loud and it was awesome." Stiles brag. "Shut up." Derek puts plain and simple to Stiles, "Don't be such a sourwolf." Stiles tells him, Alice bit her lip, holding back a laugh,
"What did you do with him?" Scott asks him, "What?" Derek and Alice turn back to the car; the passenger door was open and the seat was push open. "I didn't do anything." Derek tells him, Alice could hear heavy breath, a fifth heartbeat and the pure rage.
She growls softly to herself, her guard fully up, then she heard the heart beat was heading towards Derek. Before she could process anything, she shoves Derek out of the way and the claws ram into her back, blood waterfalls from her mouth as she was lifted up off the ground. "Alice!" Scott shouts as Stiles pulls him away from her. The Alpha then throws her to the wall, she collides with her side and hits the ground with her injured back, she held a blank look in her eyes. Her mind couldn't wrap around what just happen. She begins to fade in and out of conciseness, the last thing she saw was Derek running towards her, then darkness took her.
