"an alpha pack? a literal pack of alphas?" aneksi asked dumbfounded and folded her arms together while staring at the symbol.
"yes." peter sighed as he rubbed his face with his hands. derek pulled a smile; he had grown familiar with her repeating questions now and her questioning. peter however, hadn't met her before. "a pack with alphas only. how is that hard to understand?"
"it's bizarre. several alphas in the same pack? how does that even work? there must be some sort of leader. they are, after all, alphas." she continued, aware of how she was pissing peter off.
isaac simply nudged her as he suppressed a laugh, making her shut up about it now. she nudged him back and raised her eyebrows in a challenging way.
"okay, stop. we're supposed to be serious." isaac laughed and ruffled her dark hair. "i mean, we're a target now. or, derek."
"yeah, but you know how much i hate dramatic endings or pauses. and this guy..." she reminded them, pointing at peter. "seems like a guy who could definitely pull a dramatic sentence. i mean, more dramatic than derek. and that's bad enough."
"who is this girl anyway?" peter asked for maybe the tenth time now.
"i'm your doom." she whispered with a weak smirk and wiggled her eyebrows once.
"i'm gonna' kill her." peter said as he raised his hands in the air, as if showing how absolutely done he was with the teenager.
"too bad you can't. she's stronger than us." derek smiled and crossed his arms together. he and aneksi then fist-bumped each other, naturally almost.
"that's right, old man. dare to near me and i'll snap your neck with one hand." she partly joked and pursed her lips to prevent a grin from growing on her face.
peter stared at her with many emotions. it was evident he wanted to just knock her down, just once so that he could feel happy and release the frustration she brought. aneksi tilted her head to the side, aware of what a pain she was being.
"isaac." derek said quietly. isaac nodded once before wrapping his arms around aneksi's legs.
"hey!" she exclaimed whilst he threw her over his shoulder. "okay, put me down now." she demanded, but he just smiled and walked away from there.
"you know i would, but peter doesn't have much patience and you're tired." he retorted, putting her down in a forest near her house. "besides, we have some ice cream to eat and a movie to watch, don't we?"
"you really are annoying too." she narrowed with her eyes at him and stepped on a small branch.
"good, then we're annoying together. i have to leave something to scott first, and then i'll come to your house." he smiled before cupping her face and kissing her softly but briefly.
"okay." she nodded, and when he turned around to walk, she grabbed his collar carefully and collided their lips again.
isaac chuckled and happily smiled down at her. aneksi watched as he left while biting her lip, and then turned around herself to walk. she didn't make it far though, because a few steps forward someone blocked her way.
"hi again." the masked woman said. aneksi swallowed hard and flicked out her claws, but the woman raised her palm as if being a stop sign. "no need for that. i just want to talk."
"that's a first." aneksi muttered and reluctantly flicked them back to nails.
"you did very well during the final fight with jackson and gerard. and you saved isaac's life."
"stop talking to me like that. i'm not a student in some fancy school, alright. i bet you're not much older than i am."
"if that's what you want." she shrugged and folded her arms together slowly.
"what i want is for you to tell me who you are, who i am. i want to know what i dragged myself into, what i wanted. i want to remember." aneksi ranted angrily. the woman cautiously sat down on stump, most likely raising her eyebrows. exhaling, aneksi sat opposite to her and intertwined her hands against her lap.
"you'll get your memories back, don't worry about that. at the moment, we just want to see what you do and how you react to things. and how you discover your powers. and i really liked how you talked to peter, despite him being an old alpha and all." she laughed a bit by the end.
"but what do you want from me? what was the point with turning me into this? i have a hard time to believe that it's because you wanted me involved with scott's supernatural world."
"i can't say that yet." she sighed quietly and shook her head. "you'll get an answer to all your questions eventually, that i can promise."
"i'm never going to kill anyone, in case that's what you guys need. i don't think i'll ever be able to take someone's life." she stated severely, fiddling with a leaf. "it's too much. sure, i can fight a kanima, but killing someone... no."
"you really are pure and good. we didn't think you'd be able to kill. you have better morals than that. but let me ask you this; if it's isaac's life we're talking about, would you still not do it? let's say he'll die if you don't save him by being a bit brutal. still wouldn't do it...?"
aneksi stared at her before speeding up, a hand against her cold throat, and pressing her against the nearest tree. she hissed and tightened her grip of her neck.
"shut up." she murmured with a menacing tone in her voice. "i swear, if any of you even thinks about laying a finger on him–"
"i didn't mean it like that." she coughed and didn't make any resistance. "i was just asking."
"just asking? if you plan to hurt him just to provoke me, i'll rip out each one of your throats before you can even blink. and yes, i'm aware of what i'm saying and i mean every word of it." aneksi growled, releasing her grasp.
"you're lucky i like you and that i'm the one watching over you." the masked one stated with a calm voice. "anyone else in our team would've been on their way to plot isaac's potential death. but i won't."
"why not?" aneksi scoffed and licked her sharp fang before it grew back into a normal tooth. "how can i trust a single word coming out of your mouth? i can't do that. i'd be stupid if i did."
"i guess you can't. i wouldn't trust myself if i were you, so i understand."
"you said you were the one to watch me. are you even allowed to talk to me?" aneksi asked with a frown and crossed her arms together.
"actually, i'm not, except for when i'm told to. so i better leave, but first i'd like to say two things. one, you'll hopefully figure out your other abilities soon. they'll probably come very naturally, when you're not expecting it. second, i believe you'll find erica and boyd. you have stronger senses than any of your werewolf friends, so keep trying. but try and think of school too."
"that was a lot of information, can you just wait for a second and–" she started, but a branch snapping from a distance caused her to glance behind her shoulder. when she averted her eyes back in front of her, the girl was gone — as if she was never there. "you have got to stop doing that, it's getting freaky!"
"who are you talking to?" isaac laughed once he reached her. "and why are you still out here?"
"oh, i was talking to myself." she lied with a silly hand wave. "aneksi, you have got to stop doing that. it's freaky."
"okay..." he mumbled with a confused smile and started walking towards her house, both of them ready to sit and do absolutely nothing for as long as they could.