Author's Note: So I went to see the new Transformers (AWESOME!) and I had the idea to make Sam a wicked cool militarist. She's a woman who likes guns. Deal with it.

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"How do you do it?" Sam stood up and looked at Scott. She felt the air around her shift as he walked in. "Sorry. How do you do it?"

"Do what?" she asked in confusion.

"Make Derek a living, breathing sap?"

She laughed at that. "Since when did he become a sap?"

"When he met you."

"What's the real reason you're here, Scott?"

Scott sighed. "I need you to get Derek to go with me."

"Go where?" He bit his lip. "Scott, what'd you do?"

"I got my Alpha to tell me who he's been talking to. He thinks there's a chance the Alpha's somewhere in the next three towns. We're going to do some reconnaissance."

Sam looked at her friend a moment before stomping out the door. Derek was burning wood. He turned around when the door slammed. He caught Sam's hand when she shoved at him. Confusion was in his eyes. Then her hands started flying and he knew he was in trouble.

"What the hell, Derek? You went to see Scott's Alpha?"

Derek looked at Scott. The boy shrugged. He obviously didn't know that Derek hadn't told Sam.

"Derek!"

He looked back at her. She was fuming. "I didn't tell you because you'd act like this."

"How would you expect me to act? I asked you to keep me in the loop on this. Laura is both of ours."

"What happened to her being yours?"

She shoved him harder than she had before. "Don't you dare turn my words against me."

"I don't know what you want anymore!"

She laid into him then. It would have gotten worse if Scott hadn't grabbed her from behind and spun her around away from Derek. The older man was in complete shock. She had never attacked him before.

"All right! That's enough! We don't have time for you two to be laying into each other like this. Sam, I think you need to go to my house to cool off while Derek and I go search this thing out." He said.

"There's no way in hell you're going out there." Sam said.

"Try to stop me." Derek threatened. He was angry now and that was rare with her.

Before Scott could even move, Sam was behind Derek shoving him towards the fire. The only thing keeping him inches from it was her grip on the collar of his jacket.

Derek stared into the bright flames and literally gulped. Fire was his worst enemy. That and electricity. How she had moved that fast was beyond him but he figured he better do something before things got out of hand.

"Tell her I said I give in." he said.

"Sam, he says he gives in. we won't go." Scott relayed the message rather quickly. No one ever knew what Sam was going to do but killing Derek was an ideal objective.

Sam jerked him back to her. "I asked you not to leave me out of the loop and here you are trying to keep me at bay. I thought we were equals. I guess not." She let him go.

When Derek turned around, she was gone. He rubbed his eyes. This was getting rougher and rougher. Sam's emotions were getting harder to tame. If they didn't get moving soon, she was liable to kill him.

"What are we going to do, Derek?" Scott asked. "She's clearly not herself."

"Of course she's not herself. She's a mother whose child has been taken away from her." Derek growled.

"What about you? How are you feeling?" He shook his head. "That good? We'll get her back. We have to."

"I know. My only fear is that Sam will kill the person when she finds her."

"Do you blame her?"

"No, because I'm going to do the same thing." Scott laughed as Derek doused the fire. "Have you checked out Sadie in all this?"

"Yeah, she's clean."

"No one's clean until I check it out." Scott held up his hands. "Let's get going. I hate leaving her like this but she won't listen."

The seventeen-year-old rubbed the back of his head before following his mentor to the black car in front of the house.