Chapter 9

Derek exploded right next to Stiles.

"Derek, calm down!" Stiles yelled when Jackson and Isaac stormed into the room. They grabbed their alpha and pressed him against the wall.

"Calm down, Derek!" Jackson repeated.

Anna screamed. She was in pain. Her teary eyes kept staring at the alpha. The present of a turned alpha woke her instincts. Her body wanted to turn but she resisted. Her body was aching, her head ready to explode. Her eyes burned.

"Get him out of here!" Stiles ordered. "Boys - now!" He yelled. Anna's muscles flexed, she pressed her nails into the sheets. Stiles tried to hold her.

Isaac and Jackson had a hard time bringing Derek out of the room but they eventually did it. He had already turned back but he was still furious. They could hear him growl.

Stiles was standing next to Anna, grabbing her shoulders.

"Anna, it's ok. Calm down. Shhh… it's ok, Anna." He whispered.

Anna shook her head. "The bracelet…!"

Stiles looked around but he could not find it. The last time he had seen it, Derek had had it but he probably wouldn't keep a bracelet full of wolfsbane with him. He went outside, were Lydia was standing, watching Isaac and Jackson trying to keep Derek calm.

"Where's the bracelet, Derek?" He asked his alpha only to regret it a second later.

"Are you kidding me, Stiles?" Derek yelled. "She is so not getting it back!" He added, fixing his eyes on Stiles like he was ready to rip his throat out – with his teeth.

"Derek, she is in pain. Gimme the pendant." He begged his friend but he refused.

"Do you really want her to turn right now? Since she hasn't turned in a gazillion full moons?" Stiles reminded him of Anna's condition.

Derek growled. Isaac grabbed his shoulder again.

"Lydia…" He pressed her name and Lydia pulled the bracelet out of her bag. Stiles grabbed it and ran back to Anna. He held it close to her nose and she started coughing and choking.

"It's okay…" Stiles said calmly while holding her shoulders.

"No… it's not." She whispered, looking terrified.

"She hasn't turned in nearly three years?" Peter was surprised. "Like not even on a full moon?"

Derek sighed.

"How?" Peter wasn't sure if he was disappointed or impressed. The pack was sitting in the loft after Anna had fallen asleep and Derek had been able to leave the hospital without destroying or killing anything or anyone.

"Wolfsbane and moonstone." Stiles summarized it for Peter.

"You know you have to kill her, right? We have to talk to the Argents or I could do that for you…" Peter proposed.

"Peter. One more word…." Derek growled. Even though he would not kill her, Peter was right. She was dangerous. He thought about Boyd and how dangerous he had been after he hadn't turned in a few months. She hadn't turned in a couple of years. If she would stop using wolfsbane she would turn into a ticking time bomb. She would be stronger than all of them. Even Scott and Derek together. The Argents would be pretty angry at them. He couldn't tell them - not yet. But he eventually had.

"That would be something you like, right Peter? Kill a weakened alpha to become one yourself." Scott hissed. He hadn't been at the hospital because he had not been sure how Anna would react to have two alphas and a pack around her when she is not able to defend herself and he had been right. Good thing, he hadn't been there otherwise Anna might have turned.

"Wouldn't be the first time…" He snapped back. That was too much for Derek. He exploded again, throwing Peter against the wall. "Don't you dare talking about Laura." He growled, punching his uncle right into his face. He stopped a few seconds later when Peter's lips and cheeks were bleeding.

"We are not going to kill her. She will move back to Marysville and we will never see her again." Derek decided.

"You want to leave her all by her own? Derek, you can't be serious!" Scott didn't believe what he had just heard.

"I am! She has always been strong – she had always had the best self control. She didn't turn in a couple of years and if there's no wolf around she won't. She will be weak because of the wolfsbane – it could kill her so she won't risk it." Derek explained himself.

"Derek! She could also die from the wolfsbane! You can't just leave her like that!" Stiles said.

Derek looked sad. His mind hadn't realized what had happened during the last hour. He still couldn't believe it.

"We can't leave her alone, Derek." Stiles whispered. "I know you can't!"

They had left her at the hospital but Melissa had promised to check on her every hour or so.

"Of course I can't! She is still part of my family but she is dangerous around me – around the pack and around Scott!" Derek said enraged.

"But she is not around Lydia and Stiles." Isaac noticed.

Stiles knocked at her room at the Beacon Hills hospital and opened the door. Anna was sitting on her bed, packing her bag.

"Hey…" he greeted her. "Stiles, right?" She answered. "Yup… and this is Lydia." The redhead followed Stiles into the room. "Yeah, right. The girlfriend of the pretty guy, aren't you?" Lydia nodded.

"What is it about the two of you? Having relationships with werewolfs?" Anna said in disgust.

"What the Hale?" Stiles screamed. "I don't have a relationship with one of them!" He explained.

"Wait – but I can smell a wolf all over her." Anna was confused.

"Yeah, well she is with Jackson. But they had been before he was turned." Stiles explained.

"But I can smell at least one of them all over you!" Anna answered, leading Lydia to raise an eyebrow. Stiles' face turned red

"Ah,… Isaac…" Stiles sighed. "He is sleeping in my bed at the moment. He is a bit special about the whole nuzzling thing." He defended himself. Anna tried to identify the different scents.

"And you're close to Derek and another one… another alpha?" Anna asked, her eyes widened.

"Man, you're good at this, aren't you?" Stiles was surprised. "Scott is my best friend and a true alpha. He is somehow part of the pack."

"Like you?" Anna was even more confused.

"Yeah. We are. Lydia here – well, she is a banshee and I am the human pet of the pack." Stiles smiled.

"A banshee? Really? This keeps getting worse!" Anna's stomach turned.

"Sorry, a bit too much?" Lydia asked, worried about the young woman who now had the face color of Hulk.

"Yeah, kinda. Sorry, but why are you here again?" Anna asked.

"We wanted to check on you since we thought Derek would be too much for you right now." Lydia explained.

Anna smiled. "I'm okay. Thanks. It was… I have things under control now. Think the stuff the Doc gave me, had woken my instincts. I'm fine." She told them.

"Sure? We could bring you home, you know." Stiles proposed.

"Thanks, Stiles. But… I am fine." She repeated. "You can tell Derek I will call him tonight, when I'm home, ok? Still have his phone. I think I have to explain a lot to him so… just tell him, I'll give him a call." Anna had decided to tell him the truth. The way he had looked had her – sickened by her conditioned and in total disgust. She had to tell him why she hadn't turned and why she didn't want to be a wolf anymore. She had to tell him why she stopped looking for him and his sister. Why she stopped looking for her family.

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