Chasing the night
to make it right
oh and you had it
caught like a rabbit

Rinse me down – Bombay Bicycle Club

Melissa was understanding when Scott explained why I went straight up to my room and crawled into bed, making a little nest out of my covers. Even under all of the material, my werewolf hearing picked up what they were saying downstairs, "Poor girl," Melissa was saying, "do you think that she wants to go in tomorrow, after what happened today?" I didn't, I didn't want to go back to school again, I wanted to see Derek instead.

I heard Scott coming upstairs and into my room so I looked up as much as I could from my cocoon. "Elysium, the full moon's tonight so I was wondering if you wanted to go to Derek's with me? Its where we usually go every month so.." I got up as quickly as I could, which was difficult considering I had to untangle myself first, and hugged him, silently thanking him for everything he had done for me. "Well we have to go now, so we can tell mum that we're having ice cream and a movie at Stiles' house?" I nodded and we went downstairs and ran to Derek's.

o.O.o

Every werewolf I knew was at Derek's, Scott and I were the last to arrive because everyone else lived in the old house, which I still found creepy. "Do you need anything Elysium? Chains?" Peter held up a bag, filled with things to hold us back when the moon would be at its peak. I scoffed and shook my head and pointed to the woods.

Because it was getting dark already and I didn't want to be caught off guard by the change, I walked into what must have been the kitchen and stripped quickly. I willed myself to change, feeling the pain of my bones moving into different positions and my body contorting but it didn't last long, soon enough I was a wolf, comfortable in this skin more than my human one. I padded back to the guys.

DEREK P.O.V

Elysium made a beautiful wolf, and even though that wasn't the first time I had seen her like that, it was like a whole new experience. Her fur shimmered like it had under the sun, but the moon seemed to make it glow. No wonder her family wanted to remain a secret, hunters would be after her fur, simply to show it off. Elysium's eyes were red, like mine, alpha eyes. No wonder, she was the last of her pack, of course she would be the alpha, there was no one left to have a higher position. But I didn't like her eyes - they seemed too harsh a colour for someone so gentle.

She was looking solely at me with those eyes, her head cocked to the side. I think she wanted me to run with her so I smiled and shifted, my red eyes matching hers to a T. Before we both left for the forest, I looked back at the others, checking to see if they would be okay but they were all looking at both of us, Peter with a knowing smile on his face. I hated him sometimes.

ELYSIUM P.O.V

As a wolf, I was definitely more confident. That's probably why I asked Derek to run with me, I would be way too frightened to ask him with words, as a human. Regardless of the other three, even though one of them was my adopted brother, I only had eyes for Derek. Even shifted, he was still beautiful and in that moment I knew that I was attracted to him, and that the feeling was mutual. As I noticed that he was indeed following me into the forest, I let out a gleeful bark and ran into the trees, away from the Hale house.

Knowing that Derek would try to outsmart me somehow or try to overpower me, I laid in wait for him behind a conveniently placed bush, hiding underneath the leaves to mask my scent. Knowing that it worked effectively against my family, I smiled internally when he didn't notice me. I jumped onto his back and bit at his ear playfully, wanting to give chase. He knew that I had gotten the better of him; he stopped abruptly, without any warning. Not knowing what he was planning to do, I stopped too, only to have him pick me up from his shoulders and place me on a low tree branch before running off – quickly.

Growling, I swiftly jumped down and onto the floor and started running in his direction, entirely focused on his scent. I didn't bother about anything else; I just had to get to Derek. It was only when I couldn't follow his scent anymore that I stopped, realising that he had just used my move against me. Tricky bastard. I knew that I had to be on my guard at that point so I slowly backed up, ears perked, until I was flush against a tree.

Derek's growl made me whip my head around, trying to look for him and determine where the noise had come from. It took me a while to realise that – I got knocked down by a huge force barrelling into my side. Derek. Growling back at him for tricking me, I snapped at him but playfully, I did not want to fight him. Instead of answering in anyway, he ran off again, leaving me in the clearing, on my own again.

This time however, instead of running headfirst into it, I waited patiently, tracking his scent mentally through the forest. When I was sure that he had stopped, probably wondering why I wasn't following him, I took off.

SCOTT P.O.V

We had heard Elysium and Derek playing in the woods all night, Peter occasionally chuckling at the growls that one of them made. When I asked him why, he just smirked at me and tapped at his elongated nose. All night we had to endure the sounds both of them were making, pacing up and down the staircase, waiting for the moon to set and the sun to rise so that we could convert ourselves back to our normal selves.

When morning finally came, the pair actually found their way back to the house, Derek human and Elysium still as a wolf. Before I could ask Derek what had happened, Elysium came up to me and nuzzled my de – clawed hand affectionately. This was weird behaviour from her, granted, I didn't know her as a wolf but still.

When she came back into the room, a huge beaming smile adorned her face, the first real one I had ever seen her wear. It just made her look ten times better; obviously Derek was the reason behind the smile. So I asked what I wanted to before, "what happened to you guys, you were going on and on all night," Seriously, I had a headache.

Elys just continued to smile, completely oblivious to my words but Derek answered: "nothing." Before walking upstairs and away from us all.

I'm sorry I didn't update yesterday but Fanfiction wouldn't ley me upload any documents. Anyway, here's chapter 6!

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- Effie