++++++ I do not own Teen Wolf or any affiliated characters apart from my OC. All rights belong to Jeff Davis ++++++

Nine

She'd been sitting there in the bench near the school parking lot for twenty minutes before Sheriff Stilinski and Stiles showed up. Rose had been playing Angry Birds to pass the time and the moment she saw them pull up, she bounced up and waved.

Stiles grinned, jumping out of the car to grab his stuff and run over. "Hey."

"I gotta talk to your dad for a minute," Rose smiled after she kissed him.

"Don't," he frowned, "I spent the whole afternoon been lectured about safe sex-it was incredibly embarrassing."

Rose giggled. "Sure it was. I'll see you soon." Stiles kissed her again and the two teens could practically hear the sheriff rolling his eyes at them.

"Do I need to talk to your mother?" the sheriff frowned when it was just him and Rose.

Rose shook her head. "No, Sheriff Stilinski. Stiles was saying something about you working late because you and your department is overworked transferring records from like fifty years' worth of cases onto the computer database."

"Yeah," the sheriff frowned. "Why do you ask?"

"Cause I need a job and no one will hire me cause they know who I am," Rose answered. "Look, I'm really good with computers, sheriff," she added, seeing the look on his face. "I don't care if you give me scraps, I just want something to show my mum I'm not who I used to be. I want to show this whole town I've changed, including Stiles."

"Really?" he asked. The sheriff sighed and paused for a bit. "Okay, Rose. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday after school til eight. Sunday's ten till two. We'll try this out for a month and see how it goes. I can't promise the pay will be glamorous-"

Rose squealed in delight and hugged him. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"For the record, kid," the sheriff smiled. "I can see you've changed, your mum can too. Stiles knows it just as much as we do. You really freaked him out when he found you."

Rose stared down at the ground. "I know…when I got attacked and was lying there thinking I was dying, I kept seeing his face. The police thought I was loco lying there grinning like an idiot, covered in blood."

"You are crazy," he replied.

She grinned. "Thanks again, sheriff."

"Go sit with your mum," he told her. "And be there Monday, we can sort out the paperwork and show you what you need to do."

Rose grinned and went to find her mum in the stands.

"You ok?" Melissa questioned.

Rose nodded. "Yeah, I just landed myself a job."

She raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Where?"

"Sheriff's office," Rose grinned. "They've got all these records they need put on the computer system and I told the sheriff I could do it."

"Really?" Melissa asked. "Good on you, honey. I didn't think it would take you this long to settle back into everything but I'm so proud of you. You and your brother. You both seem to be in a good place."

Rose put her head on her mum's shoulder. "Thanks mum. Took me a while but I think I got here in time."

Melissa wrapped her arm around her daughter and kept it there for most of the game. Rose never really understood lacrosse. Beacon Hills was a lacrosse town, some places had football, other's had soccer or even hockey but lacrosse was just weird to her.

Scott was tearing his way through the field. The whole game his heartbeat was a little faster than it should be. Rose knew that the slightest thing would cause her brother to change and then it would all be over. Maybe Derek was right.

I can't watch this, Rose thought, looking down at her hands through most of the game. The cheers of the crowd tore through the field, when Rose looked up, the winning goal had been scored by Scott.

"Where's your brother going?" Melissa frowned as the two of them watched Scott run from the field.

"I'll go see," Rose answered. She jumped up and over the side rail, landing on her feet before running over to Stiles. "Scott's transformed," she gasped.

Stiles grabbed Rose's hand and the two of them ran off towards the school. "If you have to, would you fight your brother?"

Rose nodded. "I can control mine, Scott can't. If I can shock him into changing back, better."

Following Scott's scent, the two of them found him in the boy's locker room with Allison. She smiled a little when she saw them. "Hi, Stiles, Rose."

"Hey," they both nodded.

Scott had this sheepish look on his face as Allison walked out. "I kissed her."

"We saw," Rose answered, crossing her arms.

"She kissed me," he added.

"Saw that too," Stiles replied. "That's pretty good, huh?"

Scott paused. "I-I don't know how but I controlled it. I pulled back. Maybe I can do this. Maybe it's not that bad." He was hopeful, Rose couldn't help but grin.

"So, the medical examiner look at the other half of the body we found," Stiles said, pulling the two were's back down to earth.

"And?" the twins asked at the same time.

Stiles sighed. "Well, I'll keep it simple. Medical examiner determines killer of girl to be animal, not human. Derek's human, not animal. Derek not killer. Derek let out of jail."

"Are you kidding?" Scott gasped.

Rose slapped herself in the head.

Stiles shook his head. "No. And here's a bigger kick in the ass. My dad I.D'd the dead girl, both halves. Her name was Laura Hale."

"Hale?" Scott practically shouted.

"Derek's sister," Rose groaned. She crossed her arms. "We got to think of something. We already know that Derek isn't the one that bit Scott."

"He's not?" Scott asked her.

Rose shook her head. "He's a beta, not an alpha. Only alpha's can pass on the virus. Plus, the scents not the same."

Scott paused. "Hang on, the scents not the same? What do you mean that scents not the same?"

"The scent one body and the scent on Scott and Derek's scent aren't the same," Rose declared, "which is why you should have come and spoken with me before you had Derek thrown in jail. He was going to help train you, Scott, to control how to be a wolf. That's what I was doing there the other day, I knew the body was there because I smelt it and Derek didn't kill her."

"How do you know all this?" Scott shouted.

"So you're actually willing to let me help now and listen for a change?" Rose asked.

Scott nodded.

Rose ran her hands through her hair and closed her eyes. When she opened them, they flashed bright blue.

Scott stumbled back as he watched her pupils turn into slits and her whole body shift starting with the layer of black fur over her body and ending with two ears and an actual tail. "What the hell?"

"Werewolf met werepanther," Stiles spoke up.

"This is why I smell so different to you," Rose told him. "Me cat, you dog." She shifted back but kept her ground. "Any questions?"

++++++ Okay, so I've been giving some thought to Rose. We all know that Scott is a true alpha through strength of character and force of will and I would like the same for Rose. Scott's eyes turn red like all other alpha's but I would like something different for Rose. Something that isn't red or blue or golden, maybe violet or silver or something different entirely. Please, let me know what you think ++++++