I held my breath while the phone was ringing, Derek was still crying in pain and clutching my knees as his bones continued to pop and shift. We were out of options and time I prayed they would help us.

I was about to give up hope and hang up when the phone was answered. "hello" said a woman's voice.

"thank god, please tell me your the werewolf pack. I'm a necromancer please help us."

"calm down and speak slower, who are you and how did you get this number."

"I'm Chloe and I got this number from a werewolf-"

"which one?"

"I don't know he attacked us and now he's dead and Derek is banged up pretty bad and he's changing and we're both scared and Derek is being sick again and his arm's broken please help us." I nearly screamed that last part I was panicking now and Derek was looking worse by the second.

"Alright Chloe I need to really calm down where is Derek now."

"he's right here he's lying on my lap. Oh god there's more blood"

"Chloe tell me where you are and we'll come get you."

"you'll help us?"

"yes now tell me where you are."

I told her where we were

"right you need to get undercover if anyone spots you they might call the police."

"there's a ally way just east of the park."

"okay try and get to there we will come for you."

"what do I do if Derek changes."

"keep him calm as best you can."

"alright I'll try and get him up now. Crap this phone is about to run out of battery"

"its alright we'll be with you soon."

I put the now useless phone in my pocket and tried to move Derek. I have idea how long it took us to get across the park and into the ally way but finally we made it. Derek slumped to the floor he looked more wolf like than human. Fur had sprouted and his teeth and jaw had lengthened. I remembered the last time he had nearly changed and gently peeled off his shredding and blood coved shirt and sweat pants. It took another couple of hours for the change to finish. Finally in the small hours of the morning a dark brown wolf now slept peacefully across my legs his head resting on my chest. I had started to drift off when a voice called gently down the ally way.

"Chloe"

"we're here." I called back.

A man and a woman walked towards us, they were both wearing simple T-shirts and trousers.

She had longish blonde hair while he had short hair.

"my name is Elena, we spoke on the phone I take it that is Derek"gesturing at the brown wolf that was still sprawled across me though he was starting to wake up. He looked at me and then at the two new people he growled softly. A warning.

"it's okay Derek they are going to help us."

"yeah if don't settle down mutt we might just leave you here."

"Clay shut up."

"what do you mean leave us, you said you'd help." I asked scared and worried. I reached for Derek who now struggling to stand he whimpered as he put to much weight on his bad leg and fell back against me.

"now look what you've done Clay just shut up and put the bodies in the trunk"

"the mutt could attack." he grumbled.

"He can't even stand how can you even think he would attack besides he'd never attack unless we were attacked first." I shouted. Every emotion and worry flooding through me. Would Derek be okay, would they leave us, would Tori and Simon be okay, would we survive?

"everyone one calm down. We're not going to leave you. This is what's going to happen, Clay you will put the dead Mutts in the trunk, Chloe me and you are gonna carry Derek to the car and we're going to Stonehaven and then we'll sort everything out. That sound good?"

both Derek and I nodded.

"alright then lets get a move on."

a quarter of an hour later, Derek and me where in the back seat Clay and Elena where in the front and the dead guys were stuffed in the trunk.

"it's okay if you want to get some sleep." said Elena after I tried and failed to stifle a yarn. There was nothing I could do for Derek, his arm was still broken well his leg seeing he was still in wolf form but the bleeding seemed to have stopped and Clay and Elena both said it would be a bad idea to change back while we were on the road so for now at least I didn't have to worry about him or keep watch. I shifted till I was comfy and then when Derek snuggled down beside me I fell asleep.

I have no idea how long I slept for but the sun was high in the sky when I awoke to Elena saying that we were there. The house we had pulled up at was in one word HUGE and there was a man outside waiting for us. I opened my door and Derek hopped down not putting any weight on his front right paw but managing to hobble. "come on inside and lets get that paw fixed shall we." said the man.

"that's Jeremy he's the Alpha of the pack." Elena whispered to me as we made our way inside.

"I'll just get my medical bag, Chloe is it?" I nodded. "we have a spare bedroom upstairs if you'd like to rest while we sort out your friend." he said kindly.

"Thank you but no, I always stay with Derek when he's changing, or trying to change since this is the first time he's managed it."

"that could be a very dangerous thing." he replied concern written in his face.

"not with Derek he'd sooner hurt himself than me, and I'm not leaving him." at that I sat down beside Derek looked him in the eye and said "change."

instantly he began shifting and changing, bones cracking and snapping, and fur residing. Ten minutes and a load of surprised looks later Derek was laying on the floor looking like hell but human.

"you look bloody awful mate." I told him jokingly.

"yeah well you look as bad as I feel." he replied wincing as he pulled himself up into a sitting position while Elena dropped a blanket over his waist.

" Well it's nice to meet you Derek." said Jeremy.

Derek looked round like he only just noticed we weren't they only ones in the room. Upon looking at Jeremy he lowered his eyes and replied very soberly "thank you for helping us Sir."

"At least the mutt knows his place." Clay grumbled.

"enough Clay, Derek may I see your arm." he said as he sat by Derek and me. After Derek presented him arm while trying to not to cry out Jeremy soon declared "we'll need to break your arm again as you changed not long after your arm was broken it started to mend it's self which wouldn't have been a problem if you were in human form but since you weren't the bone has healed in the wrong position, but we do have painkillers so it shouldn't hurt that much."

"Thank you."

"and then you can tell us how you single handedly killed two mutts." Clay stated.

Me and Derek shared a look. "that sounds fair."

Jeremy rummaged through his medical bag before he pulled out a handful of pills and handed them to Derek with the instruction to chew and swallow. Derek chomped them all down and nodded to Jeremy who with the help of Elena began pulling at his arm. Derek gulped and looked away turning his head into my neck. I heard the snap of his arm and felt a very sharp pain in my neck.