Okay, I know this is 3,000 words shorter than my first chapter, but this is all that I could conjure up at the moment. I think it's alright... but I know I could have done better. *shrugs*
Disclaimer: Yada, yada, yada... You guys get the drift. Nothing is mine, except my own characters and ideas.
Isaac notices Derek getting his big trunk of torture out in the open. Erica, Boyd, and the blonde boy are silent as Derek is removing chains and other devices he'll use to lock them all up. Isaac rummages thru his trunk and sees a triple spiral. The said boy asks what it is and Boyd responds that it's a Triskelion, meaning that it represents different things to different people: past, present, future or mother, father, child.
"You know what it means to me," comes Derek's snarky reply.
"Alpha, Beta, Omega," Boyd replies quickly.
Derek nods in approval, "That's right. It's a spiral – it reminds us that we can all rise to one or fall to another. Betas can become Alphas, but Alphas can also fall to Betas or even Omegas."
Isaac stands up straighter and replies, "Scott's an Omega."
"Scott's part of our pack now," is Derek's reply.
The standing blonde looks around the deserted train station and snaps, "Really? Where is he now?" He turns to look at Derek with a smug look written over his face.
"He's looking for Jackson. But don't worry; he's not going to have it easy tonight either. None of us are. There's a price you paid for this kind of power – you get the ability to heal, but tonight you're going to want to kill anything you can find."
Erica speaks up, "Well good thing I had my period last week then." She tilts her head to the side and places a hand on her hip.
Derek lifts up a round, metal, torturing device and smiles smugly, "This one's for you."
Isaac laughs quietly, silently thinking of Meladee and her being at Lydia's party tonight. Please be okay. I can't be there for you tonight.
Going through my whole closet, I decide that I can't find anything to wear to Lydia's party. Grumbling, I pick up my phone and call Jules. It rings three times before she picks up.
"Yellow?"
I shake my head at her 'hello' and reply, "Hey girl… I need help finding the right outfit for Lydia's party tonight. Can ya help me?"
"Yup! You know I love putting clothes together. Come to my house and I'll let ya rummage through my closet."
Smiling, I shut my closet door and pick up all of my things, heading outside to my car. I retort, "Okie doke artichoke." With that I snap my phone shut and drive to Julie's house.
Sitting down on Jules' bed I wait patiently while she throws heaps of outfits onto her wooded floor. I shake my head at all of her choices:
*Pink lace V-neck, lace beige blazer, and a blue jean skirt
*White skinny jeans, green tank top, and a brown cardigan to go with
*Dress with three solid colors starting from the top – white, army green, and black.
Eyebrows up, I say sarcastically, "You taking me to a fashion show or something? I only wanted one outfit ya know, not three." I move my feet back and forth and giggle at her twisted smile.
"Okay, okay. I couldn't decide on what to put together, so I put three choices down for you, smartass. Now choose which one you want to wear."
Hopping off the bed I skip to the three colored dress. I point like a child and shout, "I want this one! And those shoes you always wear with this outfit. I love those white ruffled heels of yours." I head to her bathroom and start on my makeup – not too much. I sit down on the toilet as she does my hair and hum a song. Pulling back I shriek, "What the hell Julie! You burnt my ear! It's bleeding isn't it? Isn't it!? Oh God, I'm going to die!" I flail my arms around as Julie laughs.
"You're over exaggerating, Mels! Calm down. You're not going… to… die! HA! HA!" She clutches her side as she hunches over the counter laughing. "Come on, you're fine. Let me finish this last bit of hair. Then you can get dressed and then you can help me."
I glare at her, but calm down all the same.
An hour passes before we are ready to head to Lydia's. We jump in my car, since she drove us last time. I turn the engine on and pull out of her driveway.
"Is Isaac going to her party?" Julie perks up.
I turn the music down a little and reply, "Nah, he said he's rather stay home."
"Well seeing as he's not with Lydia, he's with you, wouldn't you think he'd want to be with you no matter where you two are at?" is her reply.
I shake my head, "I don't mind. He said that he has to babysit his neighbor's kids anyways. It's not going to kill me Jules. Really, I'm okay with him not going." I smile at her for a brief second and turn my head back to the road.
When we arrive at Lydia's, music is blaring all around us. No one is here either, and I mean no one. I guess they didn't want to be at the 'crazy' one's house, now would they? I mentally laugh at their hypocrisy. Given the chance they would have gladly gone to one of Lydia's parties. But now that she's 'psycho', they wouldn't be caught dead at her house.
Not even Jackson is here. Though why would Jackson show up anyways? They're not together, let alone talk to one another at school anymore. I asked Lydia once if she and Jackson were doing okay at school during lunch and she flipped her hair back and snapped 'Yes, we're doing just fine thank you'. Then she just walked off. Just like that. She didn't say anything else like she normally would. I mean, I know I'm not her best friend, but when she and Jackson got into it at school she always came to me, Allison, or Julie. And now she doesn't do any of that. I'm worried for her.
"There's Scott, Allison, and Stiles," replies Jules.
We walk over to them and I ask, "So, are we going to just going to stand here and watch how shitty Lydia's night is going to be or are we going to do something about it?"
"We have completely ignored her for the past two weeks," Allison points out.
Scott replies, "She's completely ignored Stiles for the past ten years!"
"Hey, I take offense to that!" says a surprised Stiles.
"Guys," we three girls remark simultaneously.
Both Scott and Stiles look to one another and sigh. Scott nods, "I guess I can call the guys from the Lacrosse team…? They'll be down to party, maybe."
"When we were at that one gay bar club thing for Danny, I met some lovely lady- I mean men- I mean she-men! They'd be glad to help out a girl in need," responds a confused Stiles.
Jules cracks up, "You picking up transsexuals now hun? Wait, weren't you always worried that gay men didn't find you attractive? And now all of a sudden they do? Awe! Our little Stiles is coming out of his closet!"
I smack the side of her head and laugh as she almost falls.
The next thing I know the doorbell is ringing and people are showing up. People from school, the men Stiles was talking about wearing dresses, and even people I've never seen have shown up at her party.
I pull Stiles aside and whisper, "Those are the men you were talking about? Wow… okay yeah. They seem cool I guess. And was that the night when Danny got hurt? And is Jackson going to show up tonight?"
Stiles gives me a hesitant look before responding, "You know about what happened at the bar? How?" He points at me, as if a light bulb went off in his brain. "Isaac! He told you didn't he? Oh hell, okay. Well at least now I don't have to keep it a secret from you."
"Only Jules. You can't tell her okay?"
He holds out his hands and replies, "Okay, not her. Got it! Yeah, he will be here. I'm hoping Jackson doesn't show up, but I doubt my wish will come true."
I've lost Jules sometime during the night. Scott and Allison are looking at one another from across the pool and I shake my head at their stupidity. Geeze, you guys love each other! Who cares what people think? Rolling my eyes, I sway side to side to the background music. I see Stiles hanging by the punch bowl and swoop down beside him. I pick up a cup containing the pink liquid and drink it quickly and down a few more before tapping Stiles on his shoulder. He looks quizzically at me for a moment before I drag his out onto the patio to dance with me.
"Dance with me, yeah? Jules left me and Isaac is with Derek. And you know Scott wants to be with Allison. Lydia… well she's off doing God knows what… please?" I give him a shy glance and do a little jig when he gives in.
He shakes his head, "Meladee you are one weird girl. Only one dance okay? I told Scott to meet me over here after he notices Jackson."
I giggly girlishly and wrap my arms around his neck and sway to the music with him. He rolls his eyes, laughs, and then twirls me around. We're having fun for a few minutes until Scott comes over and says that Jackson has finally arrived. Splitting apart I tell Stiles and Scott that I'm going to search for Julie. We separate.
I find my best friend slumped against the mahogany couch drinking on the pink punch. I take the drink from her grasp and gobble down the rest. I then slump down beside her in a daze, like I'm drunk, and lay my head on her shoulder. I sit up abruptly and yawn, "I'll be right back Jules I need to pee." I make my way upstairs, looking at every picture hanging on the white wall. Lydia's perfect little family.
Opening up the bathroom door I see a boy hunkered over a blonde bimbo. Rolling my eyes I pull the door halfway shut when I suddenly stop. I know that body… Isaac… I cock my head to the side and I whisper out, "Isaac?"
The boy turns around and I'm knocked back, breathless. Sadness engulfs my whole being. How could he do this to me? He tells me he loves me and yet here he is making out with Erica. Yeah, you're 'just friends'. More like make out buddies. "How… how could you do this to me," escapes from my numb lips.
Smirking, he replies, "You were nothing to me then and you're nothing to me now. You think that I really love you? Don't make me laugh! How could I turn down this body?" He gestures to Erica and she leers in my direction. "She's better then you Meladee – hotter even. She's better at sex too – she's a frisky little thing in bed." Isaac throws his head back and howls loudly. "You will never be more than my toy; pawn."
I shake my head, tears running down my stricken face. Backing up against the hallway's wall, I yell, "I hate you! I hate you! I hate-"
"Mel! Meladee calm down. It's okay it's not real. You're hallucinating Mel – here drink this."
Is that Stiles? I fall into his outstretched arms and hold on to him for dear life. He hugs back, gently pushes me away, and hands me a water bottle. I stare at it curiously but gulp it down nonetheless. A few seconds roll by before I glance in the direction of the bathroom. I let out a shaky breath, "It felt so real Stiles! How did you know water would help? And why am I all wet?"
Stiles glances at his wet clothes and replies, "I went for a swim, can't ya tell? Haha. Scott figured it out – werewolf powers. I gave some water to Julie and asked where you were. She said you went to the bathroom and here we are. There was something in the punch, according to Scott. But let's get to the others, okay?" He holds my hand while we go back downstairs to find the others, aka. Scott and Julie. (Allison left sometime during my hallucination).
I glance in the direction of the living room and notice that they are in there. I tap Stiles' shoulder and point in their direction. Scott says something about the punch being spiked with something when we get closer to them. Jules gets up from the couch and lunges at me, pinning her petite arms around me in a death grip.
I laugh hesitantly and hug back, "Jules, hun, I can't breathe…" I don't know if she heard me or if she's ignoring me, but she still holds on tight.
"I had the most horrible-est nightmare ever! It was you and me and bad people and they said that only one of us could go free; that one of us had to die. And then they disappeared and Isaac was cheating on you with Erica and you were all horrorstruck. And then I… and then you… you died!
I smile and soothe her, "Julie… Jules, breathe, hun, breathe. Stoles told me the juice was spiked and made us all hallucinate. We can talk about this later okay?" I pat her back, calming her down some.
Her sobbing subsides and we hear a commotion outside near the pool. "What's going on?"
We rush outside to the sound of someone yelling "Help, I can't swim. I can't swim!" My eyes widen and I shout, "Don't just stand there and laugh at him! Help him! Someone-"
Jackson goes to the side of the pool and drags the boy out. The said boy being Matt.
Matt, what happened? He glares in our direction and stalks out of the house. Sirens are then heard everywhere. "The police are here!" yells a random dude I've never seen before. I get pushed from behind and almost fall over, but Jackson, who I'm sure is out of his mind right now, grabs my arm and says harshly, "Don't want to get trampled now do we?"
Clenching my jaw I snap, "Yeah, thanks Jackson." Yanking my arm free I make my way to the front yard and what I see before me astounds me to no end. A scaly, lizard-looking thing is beside Matt, swishing its tail around him wildly. Scott mysteriously arrives out of nowhere with Stiles and Julie and he whispers, "That's what Jackson is. And it looks like Matt is the master."
Jules eyes me with a dumbfounded look and it l seems as if she's going to faint on me, but instead she lashes out, "What the HELL is going on here? And Mels, so help me God, you better tell me the damn truth! I know this time I'm not dreaming. You're going to tell me everything, missy!"
Scott and Stiles give me a terrified look and I shrug, "Calm down Jules, I'll tell ya, okay? Just don't kill me with anything." We dash to our cars, saying we'll call each other later, and head in different directions.
Julie and I make it to her house in less than ten minutes, when it normally takes about 20 or so minutes to get back home. We're in her room laying on her beige, furry carpet staring at the ceiling in a daze.
She turns on her side and asks the question I never wanted her to ask, "What going on Mels? Really, no lies."
I sigh, roll over to face her and tell her the truth – all of it. I start at the part with Isaac telling me that he's a werewolf; that that's why he and I haven't talked to one another the past month or so. I tell her about Scott being one, Erica, Boyd and Derek being a wolf. I tell her that I don't really know what Jackson is because he was bitten by Derek, but somehow managed to turn into a crazy lizard-looking thing and is being controlled by Matt. I tell her how Jackson is killing random people and that Isaac's dad was one of them – but it's really Matt doing the killings because Jackson doesn't know what he's doing. I tell her about my hallucination last because it felt so real and that her hallucination about Isaac cheating on me gave me the chills because it's like we're on the same wavelength or something.
She's waiting patiently for me to finish and by the time I'm done telling her, her mouth is hanging wide open and her eyes look like they're about to pop out of her head.
A few minutes pass by and I'm getting nervous. Maybe that was too much on her. Oh my gosh! She's having a mental breakdown! I'm about to have a mental breakdown when she smiles suddenly and giggles. "What…?" I ask stupidly.
"You're having sex with a werewolf! Oh my God how was it? Was it rough, or soft or was it any different from regular sex? Oh wait, you were a virgin before having sex with Isaac… never mind."
This catches me off guard so I fall back on the carpet and laugh my ass off. "You're something else, you know that Jules!? And here I thought you were going to break on me. You're okay with all of this though?"
Julie nods frantically and replies, "Yeah, I mean, you know I like reading books about the supernatural and all about wolves and vampires. The only difference is that in my books werewolves are nice and in reality some are nice and some are bad. But Derek Hale is a werewolf too? I knew he didn't get those looks from nothing. Oh Mels! Do you think you could hook me up with him?"
"I don't even talk to the guy, let alone even know him," I reply back. I shake my head at her eagerness. "You really are okay with all of this though…? You're not lying to me?"
She fakes a faint and laughs, "Honest Meladee. I'm perfectly okay with all of this. Just be careful. And that means that I will have to be careful as well. Dang!" She shrugs, "Oh well! I will have a hot werewolf by my side…" Julie looks away daydreaming.
I stifle a laugh, "Yeah, you keep dreaming, hun. Derek doesn't notice any girls at all."
"But you said that you didn't even know the guy. How would you know if he doesn't look at girls?"
"Stiles."
Her mouth makes an 'O' as she looks away and huffs out of anger.
Derek has his pack all chained up. They're snarling, the wolf trying to come out of their bodies. He stops near Isaac and finishes securing his bonds.
"How do you do it?" Isaac questions.
Derek looks up at the Beta and replies, "You need to have an anchor. Mine is anger – I focus on all of my hatred and that lets me take control of my wolf." He pulls once on Isaac's chains to make sure that they're secure, but come to find out, it loosens. He then realizes that these chains won't hold his pack for much longer.
A few minutes roll by before the moon rises even higher. His pack is getting restless – Erica and Boyd are going bat-shit crazy. Derek tries to tighten their bonds, but to no avail. Erica snaps in his direction and Boyd tries to swipe Derek's side with his elongated claws.
A long crash is heard and Derek curses under his breath. Isaac has broken free and is going to kill someone. Fuck! Erica uses this short moment to break free from her chains. She lashes out at him and pounces, pushing Derek away a few centimeters.
By this time Derek is pissed. He is losing his hold on his pack. Boyd finally breaks free from his shackles when Derek manages to lock Erica back up. Derek can either forget about securing Erica and catch Boyd before he escapes or secure the girl and let the other wolf go. Before he can decide what he's going to do, Isaac bursts through the train door and tackles Boyd.
Finally managed to control himself. Good.
The Beta and Alpha secure their friends in no time.
"So you can control it?" Derek wonders aloud.
The boy nods and replies, "My dad is my anchor. So is Meladee, Derek. I tried to tell you that the last time we talked… but I couldn't find the words. I can't stay away from her. No matter what you try to tell me, it's not going to work. I love her Derek – I always have."
Derek smirks, "Yeah, I didn't think you would stay away from her. I could smell her on you the second you walked in here. Ha-ha! Just make sure you stay on top of your game. If you were in Scott's position I would tell you to stay away from her. But, seeing as Meladee isn't a hunter, I don't care. Just keep your mind focused."
With that both of the wolves wait for the full moon to pass them by.
Later on into the night, when the moon has settled down and the other wolves have left to go home, a girl walks inside the abandoned train station and blows a purple powder into the Alpha's face. The said wolf falls down, unconscious.
The red head lugs the male inside the Hale House and stops near a pile of chopped floorboards. Peter Hale's deranged body is seen inside a dark hole. The girl slings his arm in Peter's lifeless hand and arranges the complex mirrors around to let the moon beams hit inside the eerie hole, bathing Peter with bright, crystalline light.
The 'dead' body is now grasping Derek's arm for dear life, causing Derek's eyes to fly open. His eyes go from red to his natural color. Seconds later, Peter bursts from the dank grave, restored and fully alive. He breathes out, "I heard there was a party," and smirks, "Don't worry, I invited myself."
Derek is left in his house; alone. His uncle left a while ago, with the beautiful, red head hot on his heels.
Okay, so... this chapter was short. I know. :/ If you guys have any suggestions or anything of the like, you can always drop a PM to me... or comment in the review box. *shrugs* Doesn't matter. That's if you want to. I mean, I know where I'm going with this, but you guys can always help in giving my hints or something. Like what would ya like to see? Stuff like that - and I could incorporate it inside the story.
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