Aria rattles it around in her head. What do wolves have to do with this? Did they introduce them back to the Beacon Hills area? Was Scott and Stiles hunting down wolves? It's 3 AM and she's still pacing in her room. She opens her laptop, typing in wolves.

She's so stupid.

So so stupid.

How could she skip a grade and be this stupid?

"Werewolves." She muses aloud, clicking on the link. She racks through the list. Higher hearing. Well that explains Scott catching her lie so easily. Her heart was the giveaway. Aria prints out the articles. She leaves them in her printer and goes to bed. Tossing the idea around in her brain.

Were there werewolves in Beacon Hills?

Aria reads the articles as soon as she wakes up. She tears through them, highlighters and sticky notes dotting along the pages. She finds something called wolfsbane, it burns werewolves. She grins to herself as she looks up 'places to buy wolfsbane.'

She finds a little shop on the edge of town called, Mystic Sun. She scribbles down the address on one of the sticky notes, then hurries downstairs. Stiles and her father are sitting at the table, eating toast. She grabs a piece off the plate.

"Hey sweetie-" Her Dad starts.

"Can't talk, gotta go!" Aria quickly says, shoving the toast in her mouth and bouncing out the door.

"At least that hasn't changed." Her Dad chuckles, though Stiles is shooting a worried look towards the door.

Aria plugs the address into her GPS, nearly speeding. She pulls into the nearly deserted parking lot, looking at the address once more to make sure this was it. It was more of a shed, a chimney came out of the roof, that almost looked like it was about to tear through the roof.

She enters and a bell rings.

"Hello?" She calls out warily.

"Hellllo!" An eccentric elderly woman pops up from behind the counter, "Oh my! What a pretty little thing you are! Don't get a lot of people like you around these parts! Just a bunch of gothics and emos!" She chuckles, putting her frail hands on the counter, "Name's Agatha, what can I do for you deary? Love potion? A tasty little thing like you doesn't even need one though, eh? You trying to curse some bitch who stole your boyfriend-?"

Aria laughs, walking up to the counter, "No to all of the above, actually. Um, I was wondering if you had some, wolfsbane."

Agatha leans against the wall, "Wooooah-hoo, there dearie, you thinking you're dealing with some wolves? I'll do you a solid right now, free piece of advice, my treat. Get out of here as fast as you can. They will eat a pretty thing like you up in a heartbeat. Like Little Red Riding Hood."

"Kind of the purpose of the wolfsbane actually.. do you have any?" Aria asks again, clearing her throat and shifting nervously.

"Of course I do." Agatha leans back and rummages through the large wall behind her. She grabs out a large jar of wolfsbane, "Here it is, fifteen bucks, hon. Won't charge you for that advice."

Aria hands her the fifteen bucks and grabs the jar, "Thank you."

"Take my advice, hon. Get outta here. Werewolves are something you do not want to mess with."

"Got it." Aria says, turning on her heel and getting out as soon as possible.

Agatha had to be crazy. There are no werewolves.

When Aria gets home, she sees that Scott is over as she pulls into her driveway. She thinks up a plan. She hurries into the kitchen, placing the glass jar on the counter. She grabs a small bowl and mashes up some of the wolfsbane as she starts a kettle of water.

In a few minutes, the kettle starts screaming and she grabs it quickly, pouring it into two cups with adjacent tea bags. She sprinkles the wolfsbane into each of the drinks. She walks upstairs, knocking on Stiles's door. She hears a commotion until he opens the door.

"Hey Aria, home already?" Stiles asks, "Wasn't expecting you for another hour."

Aria holds up the two cups, "Just made some tea." She pushes her way into the room, "Here you go, you look parched." She hands a cup to Scott and then hands one to Stiles.

"Travelling abroad has made you worry about dehydration, I see." Scott jokes.

Aria shrugs, sitting on Stiles's bed, "Just made some tea, you guys sounded busy so I just thought, why not give them some too?"

Stiles takes a sip first, "Mmm, tastes good, did you add something to it?"

"Secret recipe." Aria says with a smile.

Then it's Scott's turn.

It all happens so fast Aria's not sure if she hallucinated it or not.

His lips touch the brim, the tea touches his lips, a loud hissing comes through the air followed by a scream. The glass hits the floor and Aria stands up quickly. Stiles starts shouting, "What did you do?!"

He pushes her out of the room.

Aria's left standing in the hallway, her chest moving rapidly up and down. "Scott's one of them." She breathes. She runs down the staircase, grabbing her coat.

"Aria wait!" She hears them shouting frantically after her.

She runs because she wants to live.

She jumps into her car and tears out so fast she can barely breathe. Aria grabs her cellphone, dialing Lydia, before Lydia can say hello, she interrupts her, "Lydia, oh my god, I need to get out of Beacon Hills, I'll be at your house in a few minutes."

"Aria what's going on?! ARIA? Are you listening to me! Don't do anything stupid-"

Aria hangs up the phone. She notes on the passenger side the wolfsbane jar, she's surprised she grabbed it in her panic to get out of there.

She opens it and grabs a handful, shoving it into her pockets.

She pulls into Lydia's driveway to see her standing outside, frantically talking on her phone.

"Hang it up." Aria says, grabbing Lydia by the arm and pulling her into her house. Lydia hangs up the phone.

"Aria, what is going on?"

Aria pulls Lydia into her living room. She reaches into her pocket, grabbing some of the wolfsbane, she puts it into Lydia's hand. Lydia closes her fingers around it, "What is this, some hippie mumbo-jumbo?"

Aria sighs with relief, falling into the couch, "You're not one of them."

Lydia sits next to her, "Aria..."

Aria stands up quickly, "You knew! YOU KNEW!"

"Hey, don't feel so bad about it. You figured out about it a lot sooner than I did - about three months for me, you, like, a week? Come on, cut me some slack. Knowing is the worst part, trust me."

Aria grimaces, racking her hands through her hair, "They're real, Lydia. They're monsters. Have you read any children's book? The wolf is never the good guy."

"They're all good, Aria."

"They?"

Lydia goes mute.

"There's more of them?!"

"It's called a pack actually."

Aria feels light headed and she sits down. "Okay, I can barely handle one, lets not add an entire fucking PACK to that!" She shouts, then she gets quiet, "I'm sorry.. it's just.. my brother, in so much danger." She breathes.

"He's not in danger. Well, I mean.." Lydia grimaces.

Aria looks at Lydia, "What are you talking about?"

"You'll pass out if I tell you."

"Tell me."

"There's another pack in town, actually. They're called Alphas.. they're um, Aria? Hey, earth to Aria? Oh hell I told you that you'd pass out." Lydia grabs her phone, dialing Stiles, "Yeah, yeah she's here. She kind of just passed out. I may have accidentally told her about the Alphas - hey! Don't get all snippy with me! If you had told her this all to begin with I wouldn't have some passed out chick on my couch okay! So this is your fault! .. Okay, okay, I'll see you guys in a few."

"Well we have to kill her." Derek Hale says, "Humans can't know about us. And she's obviously not handling it so well."

"Yeah, that's my sister, you're talking about bucko." Stiles says, standing in front of Derek, "If you're going to try to kill her you're going to have to get through me."

"You act like that'd be difficult." Derek snarls.

Stiles and Derek engage in an intense glare-off.

Scott seperates them, "Come on guys! Now is not the time for this! We have to wait until she comes to, okay? We can't make rash decisions right now!"

"Killing my sister is not an option!" Stiles shouts at Scott.

"What if she tries to kill us?!" Derek shouts, pushing Scott, "Then what? Huh? You going to sacrifice your life for a girl you used to make mudpies with?"

"She can't even kill a spider, do you really think she's going to kill a human being?!" Stiles shouts over them.

Derek turns to glare at Stiles, "We're not human though."

"On the bright side, she's a humanitarian." Lydia pipes in, though the three men quickly turn to glare at her, "Not the right time?"

Aria begins to come to in the upstairs bedroom, she feels a cool rag against her face, she opens her eyes to see Issac Lahey. "This wouldn't be so bad to wake up to." She coos.

Issac smirks, "Likewise. You feeling okay? Here, drink some water."

Aria pulls herself up, setting the cool rag aside, she drinks the water, "I'm just happy I didn't hit Lydia's hard wood floor, that would have sucked. Passing out in general, kind of sucks. Figuring out the kid I grew up with, is some kind of, wolf, kind of sucks. So basically, this day, pretty sucky."

"SHE CAN'T LIVE!" Aria hears shouted downstairs.

Issac glances over at the door, he gets up, closing it and locking it. Aria suddenly feels afraid, pushing herself against the headboard.

"Afraid of me, now?"

Aria swallows hard, she reaches into her pocket, "Prove that I shouldn't be." She holds it out to him.

Issac walks over to her, sitting on the edge of her bed, "Just remember, I'm still that cute kind of hunky guy."

Aria bites her lip as she drops it into his hand.

It burns him. He hisses, "Son of a bitch." He drops it onto the floor and Aria drops her head, sighing.

He looks over at her, "Disappointed?"

Her eyes meet his, "Just a tad bit." She admits.

Issac looks down at his hands, "As expected."

Aria's heart is beating so fast and she knows that he can hear it, and it bugs her. "Can you really hear when I lie?"

Issac smirks, turning to look at her again, "Pretty much, yeah. Your heart jumps whenever you lie."

"So much for sneaking out."

"Just call me and I'll distract Scott until you can sneak out."

Aria grins, sitting up until she's next to him, "You're not that scary, ya know, for a wolf."

He bumps her shoulders, "Yeah? And you're not that scary, for, ya know, a human."

Next Chapter going to outline what Aria's fate is going to be!

Is Derek going to accept her or hunt her down?

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