A/N: Hello, all! So, I recently published new chapters for WJC and TLC, so I figured that I could work on this story. I've been swamped with school, but it is Friday (at the moment that I'm writing this author's note, so…FREEDOM! Haha…), so there is that aspect. I am also very pleased to announce that I have finished Season 1 of Teen Wolf! Yay! Most of the time I watched it, I was either jumping at jump scares, or getting frustrated with Derek for "lurking". Or just appearing/disappearing very quickly. And saying, "I DON'T LIKE YOU!" every time Peter and Kate came on screen. Ugh…those two. Anyways, I now feel like I have a better grip on some of the characters, so hopefully that comes across in this story!

DISCLAIMER I DON'T OWN TEEN WOLF AND NEVER WILL I JUST WANT TO PUNCH JACKSON IN THE FACE SEVERAL TIMES!

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DuskWolf713: Hey! Thank you so much for your reviews! I thouroughly enjoyed both of them! I'll try to put more Stiles in, but Scott's kind of trying to take over the entire story…he's kinda good at that. ;) And thanks-I like the group I put in too!

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CLIFFHANGER ALERT!

Please enjoy "The Beta From Forest Grove" Chapter 3!

"All right…let's see if I can do this without face-planting."

Once Amber was standing, she listed a bit to the right, before Liam caught her, gently propping her back up. "You all right?" he queried. Amber nodded, throwing a grateful smile his way.

"Yeah…I haven't been standing for a few hours, though, so…"

"More like a day or so. You did sleep for a whole day, almost." Stiles murmured. "I mean, it's like four in the afternoon right now, so…"

"Stiles-I think she knows that." Lydia responded. "It is growing darker." The older boy (older than Amber, at least), rolled his eyes. Before he could really get into it, Scott cleared his throat. "If we're going to head out for a while, it should probably be soon. My mom doesn't want us out too terribly late." The others nodded and began to exit the room, Liam sticking close to Amber in case she fell over, since he was already behind her. The group then headed out of the house, heading towards the forest. Since they didn't know exactly where Lisa's Pack was, Scott told everyone to stick close, so that no one would get ambushed on their own. Isaac and Liam ended up more in the front of the Pack, whereas Scott and Derek pulled up the rear. The girls-and Stiles-were in the middle, sandwiched between the two groups. They weren't going terribly fast, but still quick enough that Amber's beta felt that it was actually running. When they had first set out, she had begun to feel all of the feelings she had felt the last time she was running well up inside of her, and she knew that everyone-everyone meaning every werewolf-could hear her heartbeat speeding up. It came as a shock, then when she felt a gentle pressure against her hand. She snapped out of her daydream to look down and see a large hand covering her much smaller one, the warmth spreading from it to her own body, and a presence that she recognized as another wolf gently pressing against her mind, reassuring her that she was not on the run again, but just on a run. After about a minute or so, Amber was able to relax, and she slowly lifted her head to see Isaac smiling down at her. "Better?" he queried. Amber nodded, shyly smiling back at him. "Thanks." she murmured, softly squeezing his hand. He squeezed it back, before leaning over her right shoulder. "We won't let anything happen to you-trust us. We will watch over you and keep you safe." His words were quiet, but she could hear them very clearly, since his head was resting on her shoulder. Isaac was a warm presence against hers and her thoughts, and that, combined with his words and his Beta gently rubbing against her mind, allowed her to calm down and stop her Beta from panicking. "Thanks, Isaac." she smiled gratefully. Isaac grinned back at her in response, before slowly releasing her hand and moving up towards Liam, in the front of the group.

After a little while, they had arrived alongside the river that flowed through the forest. Scott had already called ahead to Isaac and Liam, and the entire group paused by the river. Both Stiles and Amber sat down on rocks nearby, trying to catch their breath, while the others stood around them and talked. "It's nice to get out and about…I haven't been able to run in a long time." Malia murmured happily, leaning her head against Stiles's legs. Most of the others agreed, nodding. They had been fighting a lot of supernatural creatures recently, and none of them had been able to fulfill their wolfish urges lately. "Yeah-I'm just glad that there aren't any supernatural creatures around trying to kill us…well, except for your sister's Pack, of course. But they don't seem like they could be that big of a threat, to be honest." Kira murmured, smiling at the younger girl. Amber chuckled, grinning up at the older girl. "Well, it does have two Alphas who want to murder my guts if I don't join them, and then the entire rest of the pack hates my guts and will follow their Alphas' lead to kill me. You should see them all in the morning-they all turn into Derek."

"You mean glarey and snarky?" Stiles teased.

"Yes-and growly and grumpy. I never actually tried to talk with them until after noon."

"So, you're basically comparing me to twelve different wolves?" Derek queried, a dark glare on his face (but his lips were quirking up at the same time). Amber nodded, smirking at him as she did so. "Yep. You're better looking than them all, though." The others burst out into laughter, not even trying to contain it. Amber grinned over at Derek, who was glaring directly at her. She got the message loud and clear:

Once we start running again, watch out. I will be coming for you.

She knew that he wouldn't really be that rough with her, but she still was going to be running for it as soon as they started going again.

Lisa and her Pack were not as far away as Scott and the others thought. They had rented a few rooms in a nearby hotel, and were currently meeting in Lisa and Jax's room. There were ten members of the Pack, and they all were ready to do whatever their Alphas told them to do. They didn't like Amber at all.

"So, she actually said no?" one of them asked.

"Yes, she did. She was somehow able to resist my Alpha urge and leave with those brats. The longer she stays with them, the more she will be able to resist me and join someone else's Pack. The longer she stays away from us, the less control we will have over her."

"Is that so bad? The rest of us don't really like her all that much, so why would it be that bad if she left the pack?" another Pack member queried, looking nervously at Lisa. The Alpha huffed gently. "My sister is mentally deranged, and will start to assert her own non-existent authority if she's away from us. My father and mother never truly understood how pathetic she truly is, and how to treat her like the idiotic mental freak that she is. If she is not in our Pack, she might start thinking that she actually has people who care about her."

"Wait…how is she mentally disordered?"

"We found out that she was on the autism spectrum when she was six. That basically means that her brain is completely screwed up, and she's not even human-or werewolf, for that matter."

"But wouldn't being a werewolf mean that she wouldn't have autism?"

"I never said that it made sense-I just know that that it happened. My parents treated her like an actual person, rather than the idiotic bastard that she really is." Lisa sighed. "We need to get her back before that idiot and his pack actually think that she is an actual person."

By the time they arrived back at the McCall house, it was nearly ten o' clock at night. By that point, Amber was exhausted, and Stiles was dead on his feet (He had been running with the wolves for almost six hours, after all). Everyone except for Isaac took off for their own homes, Stiles promising that he would be over early the next morning to hang out with Scott and talk through solutions for Lisa's Pack. When their friends finally left, Scott, Isaac, and Amber all went upstairs. They quickly got ready for bed, and then crawled into bed. Running around for six hours had exhausted them all, and they were ready to sleep for days.

Amber was having a bit of difficulty falling asleep, though. It wasn't that her room was cold, or that her nightgown was tangled, or anything else like that. It was just that her brain wouldn't shut down. She sighed, rubbing her eyes as she rolled over again. "Why does this keep happening?" she whispered, trying to keep quiet. Scott and Isaac were both tired, and she didn't want to wake them up. She could deal with her insomnia on her own.

Again.

She sighed, closing her eyes again to try to fall asleep. Every time she tried, she would end up seeing something that had happened to her as a member of Lisa's pack. She sat there for about an hour, before coming to the conclusion that she wasn't going to be able to be get any sleep that night.

Amber had closed her eyes and fallen into a light doze when she heard her door open. She wasn't sure exactly who it was that was coming into her room, but she figured that it would be better to pretend like she was asleep. A few seconds later, she felt a hand rest on either of her shoulders. The warmth of the hands comforted her, and she let out a deep breath. She could now tell who was sitting next to her, and their scents-while still odd to her-helped as well. "Can't sleep?" a deep voice whispered.

"…Not really." Amber uttered, her eyes barely flickering open before closing again. The two older boys chuckled, rubbing their hands over her arms. "Sorry to keep you up…you guys are probably more tired than I am."

"Hey-it's all right. We don't mind helping you at all." Isaac murmured. He was sitting to her left, and she could feel him moving over towards her. Scott was sitting on her other side, and she knew that he was moving as well. "Why can't you sleep?" he queried. Amber sighed, not really wanting to talk about it. Once she realized that the boys wouldn't speak until after she did, she finally responded, "Whenever I close my eyes, I see everything that happened to me during my time in Lisa's pack…and everything that they did. I can't…I can't forget it." She heard both of the boys sigh, before Scott squeezed her left shoulder. "I think we can help you with that. Just keep your eyes closed." Amber nodded, trying to relax. She didn't hear the boys speaking anymore, but she began to feel two presences on her mind. She briefly fought against them, before she heard a quiet voice saying, "Let us in, Amber." She recognized the voice as Scott using Alpha authority, and sighed, finally allowing Scott's Alpha and Isaac's Beta to interact with her Beta. The two werewolves immediately moved straight for the source of memories that was giving her the most trouble. Isaac's Beta went around blocking her connection to the memories, and soothed the areas that were sore and painful (because of the memories). Scott's Alpha, however, ducked behind Isaac and began shutting down the memories. As they did so, Amber fell closer and closer to sleep. She was still surprised that Scott and his Pack were being as nice to her as they were, but everything they were doing was definitely helping. By the time the two boys drew completely from her mind, she was very nearly asleep. Scott rubbed her bare shoulder, before slowly moving off the bed. "Good night, Amber." he whispered, quietly heading towards the door. Isaac stuck around for a couple seconds, watching her fall closer to sleep. "Thanks, Isaac." she whispered. Isaac smiled down at her, briefly rubbing his hand across her cheek. "You're welcome, Amber. Now-go to sleep. Scott and I will be here if you need us." Amber briefly struggled against sleep and tried to open her eyes, but Isaac simply leaned over and pressed a soft kiss to each of her eyelids, forcing her to keep them closed. "Sleep. Scott and I are watching over you…sleep." As he watched, Amber finally drifted off, leaning her head into his hand on her cheek as she did so. Isaac smiled, slowly levering himself back up into a standing position as he did so.

"Sleep, Amber. Your sister's Pack won't hurt you again. We won't allow it."

A/N 2: Welp…that was a lot of fluff. Like, cavity-inducing fluff. I am sorry if this chapter was not up to snuff, but I have a bit of an excuse…I've been working on this since 10pm (it's now almost 4am…) and I had way too much caffeine today, so… ;) I have a bit of an excuse. I'm also sorry if Isaac was a bit OOC…I'm still getting a handle on his character…plus, like I said, I've been writing this for six hours, so… :D Haha…hopefully the next chapter turns out a bit more coherent!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you all soon!

God bless,

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