Teen Wolf=not mine.
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."
― Oscar Wilde
Second period rolled around and Isaac watched as Snow came into class laughing at something someone was telling her. He saw the guy he'd nearly attacked walk in behind her. He felt the anger from before come back.
"You're not going to wolf out are you?" Stiles asked him leaning across the aisle.
He turned to look at him. "No." But he could taste the lie in the words. What the hell was wrong with him? The full moon wasn't until later that week.
"Hola, padawan and my future baby daddy," Snow said as she slid into the seat next to him. A smile curled the corners of her lips up and her eyes danced with laughter.
"What's up with you and Michael?" Stiles asked. Isaac glared at the other boy.
"He asked if it hurt when I fell." She rolled her eyes. "Seriously, lame pick up line. I asked him what he thought was attractive about calling me a follower of Satan? He was little slow and asked what that had to do with falling. My IQ may have dropped several points in the last five minutes." Isaac felt some of the anger drain away at her mocking words.
Stiles laughed. "So what did you and Allison do on Friday?"
"She joined Frost and I for Zombie Movie Marathon. For a badass hunter girl, she's kind of squeamish."
"Zombie Movie Marathon? Why didn't you invite me? I love zombie movies. I feel unloved, unwanted. My heart is broken." He made a puppy dogface at her and she spontaneously patted his arm.
"You are totally invited next time. So, what did you do all weekend?"
"Scott tried to get a tattoo, but it healed. He's going to ask Derek how to make it permanent."
"A tattoo of what?" She grimaced and leaned down to massage her feet. "Should have broken these in before wearing them to school."
Isaac turned to face the board when the late bell rang, but he heard her unzip her boots. Then, her foot was in his lap. "Isaac, help me get this thing off." She wiggled her foot impatiently on his leg. Looking at her face, he found a mischievous grin on her face and a twinkle in her eyes.
Stiles said, "Two bands around his arm. It was awful. I hated it."
"You're ridiculous," Isaac said as he slid his hand around her calf and pulled the boot off with the other.
"Among other things." She took the boot and plopped her other foot in his lap and he pulled it off. "Did you tell Scott that?"
"Yeah," Stiles grinned. "He looked like a kicked puppy." Snow shook her head at the boy. Isaac gripped her calf to get her attention and she turned back to him. He handed her the other boot staring at her.
"That feels so much better," she said wiggling her toes in his lap. She closed her eyes as he grabbed her foot to stop the movement, but his fingers massaged the arch instead of pushing it away as he intended. She moaned softly under her breath. His heart rate increased as he stared at her
"Isaac?" Stiles hissed at him. "Your eyes." He ignored the other boy.
"Miss Morgan. Mr. Lahey. Perhaps you could save that for when you are alone," the teacher's voice interrupted.
Snow's eyes popped open and stared straight into his. "That's not exactly what we do when we are alone," she said her eyes never leaving his. The class laughed and the teacher rolled her eyes before starting the lesson.
"Regardless, perhaps you could turn off the hormones, take your foot out of Mr. Lahey's lap and focus on math." Snow blushed and removed her foot before turning to face the board.
Stiles tossed a piece of paper at him when the teacher turned her back. Isaac opened it. All it said was, "Resistance is futile." He tossed it back at the silently laughing boy's head. Beside him, Snow cut him a curious look, but returned to taking notes without asking.
Later that evening, she drove herself to Derek's loft to meet up with Frost. Apparently, they were going to help him and Isaac do something. She hadn't really paid much attention while on the phone with her sister as she was trying to decide what to wear. She'd settled on a pair of skinny jeans, converses, and a blue green shirt that said, "I'm not a minion of evil. I'm upper management." Plan Seduce Isaac was killer on her feet and they still ached a little from the boots. Still, she smiled as she thought back to what happened in math class. Lydia had suggested that little ploy with the boots during first period. That girl was scary smart, because if the glowing eyes were any indication Snow had started to get under his skin. She smiled to herself as she pulled the car into the warehouse where the loft was located.
She rode the elevator up to the loft to find Isaac about to leave. Derek and Frost stood close together. They kept giving each other looks out of the corners of their eyes as they looked over the map on the table with Isaac. Occasionally, their hands would brush against each other. Frost kept smiling. Snow tuned out the conversation as she stared happily at her sister and Derek.
"Peter's still looking in the north industrial district and I have a few more warehouses to check in the south one. You still have some buildings left to check in the old business district?"
"Yeah," Isaac said grabbing his leather jacket and heading for the door. "Snow, you coming with me or going with them?"
Snow's grin refused to leave her face as she looked between Derek and Frost. Suddenly, she launched herself at Derek wrapping him in a hug and said, "Thank you." Derek's face looked shocked as she released him and started walking backwards towards Isaac. "I'm gonna go with Isaac. Don't behave while we are gone." She said the last as she reached Isaac. She grabbed his hand and dragged him towards the elevator almost skipping as she went.
"So your sister and Derek?" Isaac said when they reached the street outside.
"Yep! Doing the nasty." She waggled her eyebrows, but never lost her shit-eating grin.
"Explains why the loft smells like lavender Febreeze and sex."
She burst out laughing looping an arm through his elbow as they walked. "I guess Febreeze doesn't work. We'll have to keep that in mind for the future." Snow suggested causing the werewolf to give her an admonishing look.
"Stop that or I'll send you home." She stuck her tongue out at him. He rolled his eyes but laughed at her antics.
"What does sex smell like?" Snow asked him curious. He chose to ignore that question.
"You're creepily happy about Derek and Frost especially since Derek said he broke her heart."
Snow's expression fell and Isaac felt the sadness in her. "He did. Just not the way he thought. They weren't together then, but you could tell they were in love with each other. Even when they were fighting…it was like they more alive when they were together. Derek was so cold and distant when he first came, but the longer he and Frost spent together it was like she broke down all his walls. But Jack was in the way."
"Jack?"
"He and Frost were dating when Laura and Derek came to help me. I didn't like him and rightfully so. He was a murdering rat bastard who was using fairy dust to drug my sister into being his sex slave."
"Shit." Isaac said. "The same fairy dust that you accidently used on Derek?"
"Yeah, Derek didn't know about Jack drugging her so he thought she really loved the bastard. He killed Jack on a full moon because what he was doing was exposing the supernatural community. There are people who exist to make sure that doesn't happen. Their methods are very thorough when they clean up a PR mess like that. Like whole towns suffer natural disasters clean up. Derek understood what was coming and he did the only thing he could to prevent it." She shuddered beside him. "If you think werewolf hunters like the Argents are bad, trust me when I say the hunters the Fae send are worse. And they have worked too hard to make mankind believe they don't exist to allow anyone to screw that up."
She knew so much more about the supernatural than he did. He wondered what she saw in him that made her chase him so intensely. He hadn't even been a werewolf for a full year. "I didn't know that." She shrugged her shoulders like it wasn't that big of a deal.
"Anyway, he must have thought she was going to push him away or something, because he just up and left. Laura didn't even know where he was. She left a few weeks later. That's when Frost started going through the withdrawal. Fairy dust is an addictive drug for us and it was bad. But not as bad as what came afterwards." Her breath grew ragged and he smelt the saltiness of tears. He slid his arm out from hers and put it over her shoulders drawing her into his side. "She realized what Jack had done to her I think she felt like she'd willing participated in her own rape, Derek the man she loved left her, and she...wasn't herself then or for a long time afterwards. About a year later, she tried to commit suicide. I found her and it was awful. There was so much blood and she was screaming." Snow curled into his side and he felt the wetness of her tears as she shared the painful memory. "My mom sent me away because I spent weeks stuck as Cwn Annwn afterwards. About year ago, I came back and she was just wallowing in misery. I lost it and yelled and screamed and cried. The next day she came out of her room a smile plastered on her face and her hair washed with clean clothes on. I knew she wasn't really better, but she tried so hard to be for me. My mom left again after that." She drew in a breath and wiped the tears from her face. "Then, this morning it was like someone had turned the clock back four years. She needs him and he needs her. I'm just glad to have them both back. They're my family. Both of them."
Isaac nodded in understanding. "Derek and Scott are mine, now. I wouldn't want anything to happen to them." She stepped away from his side and smiled a watery smile at him. Tear drops sparkled on her lashes as her blue eyes slowly lost their sadness.
"Sorry about that. I'm not usually such as sob story." He just gave her an understanding look. There were more layers to her than an onion. She linked her arm through his and they continued down the street. "So what are we doing? I missed that part of the conversation."
"I'm looking for Erica and Boyd."
"The missing members of your pack? I saw their posters on the board at school," Snow asked. "The alpha pack took them?"
"Yeah that's what Peter told Derek & Frost."
"Peter who killed Laura?" Snow asked eyes narrowed. "It's probably good I haven't seen him." Isaac felt the anger in her words. He remembered her saying that Laura helped her find her anchor.
"He creeps me out. Apparently he died and then did something to Lydia when he bit her to nearly drive her crazy so she would help resurrect him last March."
Snow stopped and said, "Now I really want to slather him in Crisco and make a werewolf candle. Or trap him barefoot in a room covered in Legos. Or taze him repeatedly in the crotch."
"Whoa, there Satan. You're being a bit creepy." He said as he turned to look at her, but the laughter in his eyes suggested he thought otherwise. "Or just violent."
She smiled as she stepped in close to him, her eyes on his as she stood on her toes and leaned up close to his face. She braced herself on his chest and said, "Don't worry that's not what I want to do to your crotch."
She started to back away, when his arm around her back stopped her. He leaned in next to her ear, his breath sending a shiver along her spine, and said, "Good, because that's not what I want to do to yours either." He was gone before she could put her blown mind back together. When she looked up, she saw that he stopped about ten feet away. "Hurry up, Snow. There are a few buildings I want to check tonight." She grinned at him and skipped back to his side looping her arm through his again.
"Lead the way."
Several hours later, they completed searches of several empty business buildings with no success. There were still a few more on his mental list to search that night, but Snow needed to take a bathroom break.
"You want me to come with you? Or you could just find a spot somewhere…" Isaac asked as Snow hopped from foot to foot.
"Not happening," she cut him off. "I think I can pee and get a coffee by myself. I'll call you when I'm done and catch up to you." She refused to pee in an alleyway or an abandoned lot.
"I don't know if I'm comfortable with you walking around in the dark by yourself, Snow." He looked at her petite frame and frowned. Why had he never noticed how small she was?
She rolled her eyes at him. "I'm part Tuatha De Dannan and I can become Cwn Annwn. I'll be fine."
"You weren't fine when your leg became a barghest chew toy."
She frowned at him. "I'm going to pee. By. My. Self!" Her blue eyes shot daggers at him. She put her hands on her hips.
He muttered about stubborn hardheaded girls. "Fine, but call or scream if something happens."
"You, too." She grinned as her eyes sparkled with laughter before turning and running back down the deserted street towards the gas station they past by earlier. He watched until he couldn't see her anymore cursing himself for not going with her the whole time.
"Dammit," he said under his breath running a hand through his curls. "You're not supposed to feel this way about her." Especially since he'd nearly wolfed out a third time today during cross-country practice when the same guy from the hall and math asked Stiles for Snow's number. Thank God Scott had been there again. When had she gotten this far under his skin? He ruffled his hair again. Checking to make sure his phone was on. He sighed. Forcing himself to ignore the urge to run after her, he turned and headed to the next building he planned to search.
"Come on Isaac. Answer the damn phone," Snow said as she paced outside the gas station. She hung up and started back down the street to where she had left him. That was the second time she'd tried calling and she'd sent him ten texts, which he hadn't answered. "If you ditched me, I am so going to kick your ass, Isaac."
Halfway there, a horrible feeling crawled into her gut. "No, no, no." This was the same feeling she'd gotten the day she found Frost attempting suicide. She quickly texted her.
You ok?
A few seconds of mental torture and she received a reply.
Fine with Derek. You?
She let out the breath she was holding.
Yeah. Fine.
Still the horrible sinking feeling wouldn't leave her. She tried calling Isaac again. "Pick up the freaking phone!" When it went to voicemail after the third ring, she took off running. He wasn't where she left him. "ISAAC! ISAAC!" Her breaths became shallower and she could feel a full-blown panic attack setting in. She sank to the ground trying to drag air into lungs that no longer cooperated. Then, she felt herself shifting into her Cwn Annwn form as her conscious brain blanked out.
"That was strange," Frost said as she looked up from the glow of her phone at Derek.
"What?"
"Snow just sent me a text asking me if I was ok."
"Did you answer her?" He took a few steps away from her as he checked the warehouse for any signs of Erica and Boyd.
"Yeah," Frost said a furrow appearing between her eyes. "I asked her if she was ok and she said she was fine."
He walked back to her. "But?"
"I don't think she is."
"Then, call her and make sure," Derek suggested as he brushed a wayward strand of black hair behind her ear. She leaned into the touch for a moment as a smile tugged up the corners of her lips. He bent down and pressed his lips to her. She immediately opened up her mouth and the kiss became more heated. He pulled away from her and said, "I'm never going to get enough of that."
"Good to know." She reached up and gave him another fiery kiss before pulling away reluctantly. "Later," she promised when he tried to tug her back. She dialed Snow's number and he watched her expression darken as the phone went to voicemail.
"What are you doing?" he asked as she opened up an app on her phone.
"Finding her cell." She gave him a look as she headed towards the door to the warehouse. "I'm one of those parents who have no problem invading their pseudo-children's privacy by making sure I can track her phone's movements."
He snorted. "Our kids are screwed."
She stopped and looked at him eyes shocked. "Our kids? Shit, I'll come back to that after I find the one I already have." He just smirked at her and pulled her under his arm.
"Snow's tough and smart and she's with Isaac."
"Yeah, but she panics when people she cares about are in danger. It's worse since…" she trailed off.
He nodded as he pulled out his phone and tried Isaac. He didn't get an answer.
"Isaac's not answering either." He frowned.
They reached the car and she mapped out the location of Snow's phone with her phone's GPS. Breaking more than one traffic law, they arrived at where the GPS said Snow's phone was at. Putting the car into park, they both got out. Looking in all directions, he didn't see anything, but could smell Snow's scent and a very faint trace of Isaac that blew away with the night breeze. Frost's face appeared paler than usual. "Where is she?" His eyes flashed red as he looked for anything to clue them in. A warmer pile of something on the ground caught his eye. Walking over to it as Frost dialed Snow's phone, he heard a ringtone play from it. Bending down he moved the ripped clothes to find Snow's phone underneath.
"No," Frost said as she came over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. He reached up and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"There's no blood. She must have changed forms quickly to rip her clothes like that," Derek said a furrow appearing between his eyes. Where was Snow? And why had Isaac's scent been so much fainter?
"Can you track her?" Frost asked as she crouched down beside him.
"No, she must have slipped into the in-between."
"What about Isaac?" she asked.
"I don't think they were together. I smelt a faint trace of him when we first got out the car, but it faded quickly." He stood pulling in a breath. Other than Snow's fear, he didn't get any other impressions of violence on this street. Whatever happened to Isaac, it didn't happen here.
"She must have felt something was wrong. That's why she texted me. She thought it was me, but I think it was probably Isaac." Frost looked around the area a frown on her face. "But it didn't happen here. I don't feel the right kind of energy for something violent to have happened."
"But where?" Derek asked more himself than her.
"What do we do?" She looked up at him in complete trust and faith that he would figure this out. It swelled his heart and gave him a boost of confidence despite the fear that he'd sent Isaac out unprepared for the alpha pack.
"Let's head back to the loft. If something happened to the two of them, they would head back there. I'll call Scott to look for them and have Stiles check the police scanner." She grabbed Snow's phone and clothes as they headed back to the car. Before she could walk back to her side, he pulled her into his embrace. She leaned into it. "The head of this alpha pack knows who Anand is. I don't think he would be stupid enough to kill Snow. He's survived this long by playing by her rules."
"I know, but what about Isaac?" she asked.
"I don't know."
Fucking hell. His chest was burning and there was a girl standing over him as he came in and out. He growled in pain, but when he realized the girl had dark hair instead of white he asked, "Snow?"
"Quiet," she snapped. He ran a hand down his side and felt sticky wetness and burning pain. "Snow?" He asked again frightened that she would be in the same condition as him.
"No there's no snow." She muttered as she hoisted him up to lean on her shoulders.
He struggled to keep his mind focused. "Not that snow, a person, a girl."
"There was no one with you." He struggled to remember where he'd seen her last.
"She was with me and then…" He trailed off. She'd gone to pee. He stumbled pulling down on the girl who fought to stay up right.
"Stay with me we're almost there."
"My neck." He ran a hand along the wounds on his nape.
"From their claws. It's how they share memories."
"But I don't remember anything." Did Snow ever come back? Was she ok?
"It's also how they steal them." Would they use his memories to find her if she hadn't? No, they didn't take those memories he still had them. He had to believe she was safe.
They made it to a bike and she said, "Listen to me. No matter what happens you hold on. Ok? You hold on tight." Isaac nodded barely holding on to his consciousness as she took off. The wind whipped around them both and the sound of the motor lulled him as he leaned onto the girl. He felt himself losing consciousness when a howling that sounded like it was right in his ear snapped him back to reality.
"Did you hear that?" he said. Listening for it again, he didn't hear the howl but he heard the slap of feet on pavement. "I hear someone. Someone's coming." He sat up straighter and turned to look behind them. At first all he could see was mist and darkness and then a figure took shape. Someone or something ran after them catching up to them. "FASTER!" he yelled. The girl gunned the engine. He heard the sound of claws on the back fender and the girl compensated to keep the bike from going to the side. A slash from the other direction forced her to adjust the bike again. Looking back as they pulled away, "Two of them." It didn't take long for the two to catch up again and force the girl to swerve dangerously to avoid the swipes of their claws from each side. Isaac ducked as a claw flew over his head. Somehow one of them got ahead of them and caught their legs with a swipe of the claw.
Isaac braced for impact as the lights of a semi lit up the street in front of them. The girl barely swerved around the vehicle. He looked back ahead and screamed "NO!" as a wall forced the girl to break and skid dangerously to a stop. The two alpha werewolves appeared at the end of the alleyway.
"Remember what I said before?"
"Hold on?"
"HOLD ON." She gunned the engine and went straight towards the alphas. One of them crouched on the ground and the other used his back to launch himself into the air. Isaac heard the mournful howling again only softer and not as loud in his ears. "Did you hear that?" He asked the girl who didn't respond as she slammed on the breaks and turned the bike feet from the werewolf's landing spot. Gunning the engine again, she sped off down another alleyway straight at a large glass window. "WHOA!" She never slowed down plowing through the glass.
As the bike landed, his vision started to fade to black as the girl yelled, "Isaac, stay with me! Isaac!" Then he was on the ground and the sound of screeching metal filled his ears as pain racked his body. A soft barely audible howl broke over the sounds, but he was beginning to think he must be imagining them. He struggled to get up, his vision blurry and pain racking him with every movement. Several feet away the bike and the girl lay on the floor. She was moving so she was alive. As he pushed himself up, he saw the two alphas step in through the broken window. He watched them unzip their jackets and toss them aside while walking towards him. Then, one crouched down and the other came up behind him and slammed his hand into the back of the first. He watched in shock as they merged together into one massive alpha. It roared and he tried to crawl away.
A flash of glowing white crossed his vision and he heard a matching growl. Stopping and looking up, he saw Snow in her Cwn Annwn form standing between him and the alpha. Her red ears stood straight up and her hackles raised. A low sinister growl answered the alpha's roar. She crouched low and waited teeth bared as the alpha paused. Apparently, it didn't find her very threatening, because it continued towards them. In that moment, Snow disappeared and reappeared just behind the alphas leg where her jaws closed around it just under the knee. Flesh tore and she jerked backwards spitting out a chunk of flesh. He felt himself smiling despite the situation. She really was vicious and violent.
The alpha let loose a roar and swiped claws at her. She disappeared just before the claws reached her, reappearing in front of the alpha and attacking the other leg ripping the knee cap off with a vicious snap and twist of her jaw. The alpha staggered to his knees but swiped claws at her again and caught her digging them along her back leaving five ragged lines in her fur from her tail to her head. The white fur quickly turned red with blood as she stumbled backwards. The alpha struggled to its feet trying to follow her despite the damage to its legs. She crouched low to make another attack at it. But her movements were slower, and he knew she wouldn't escape again.
"Snow!" He yelled desperately as he struggled to get up and protect her, but he collapsed back to floor on his elbows.
"Isaac, get down!" He dropped completely and something behind him fired and hit the alpha squarely in the chest before emitting a bright flair of light. He tried to protect his eyes from the light as he sought out Snow. When the light cleared, the alphas were gone, but Snow stood up on two legs, stumbling towards him. He blinked his eyes. Blood covered her face and her white hair fluttered like a halo around her face even though parts of it dripped red and stuck together with more blood. Then, Snow dropped beside him. His eyes trailed from her worried blood covered face down to her body. Covered in nothing but blood, she looked like a goddess of war and death.
"Snow," he whispered bringing his eyes back to her face meeting her blue eyes that glowed faintly. "Not the time for getting naked."
There were tears in her eyes as she moved his jacket open to see the ragged claw marks on his side. "Anytime is good time to get naked with you," she said as she forced her lips into a wane smile. Her skin seemed pale under the blood and her mouth grew tight in pain.
"Snow?" he asked trying to sit up again.
"I thought I told you to hold on," the girl's voice forced him to remember he wasn't alone. He turned from Snow to look at her and then back to Snow who seemed to notice her for the first time. Moving his head made his vision swim and then, his vision went black. He fell backwards as Snow screamed his name.
"Scott," Derek said as the other boy answered the phone. "I need you to look for Isaac and Snow." He grew silent as the other boy asked what happened. "I don't know. We found Snow's phone and clothes. We think she changed so I can't follow her scent. Isaac wasn't with her." Scott asked him where. "Start at 30th Street and Danver Ave. Is Stiles with you?" Their phone was put on speaker.
Stiles said, "I'm here."
"Can you find a police scanner and see if there's anything coming in?"
"Hold on, I stole one from the station." Scott snapped at Stiles to watch the road. "Scott, grab that bag and get the scanner."
"Thanks for helping, guys, " Frost said holding the phone between them as Derek drove back to the loft. Derek turned a narrow eyed gaze at her. She had to stop doing that. She shook her head at him to let him know they could talk about it later when he started to say something. He turned back to the road realizing he was starting to damage the steering wheel from the white knuckled grip he had on it.
"They're our friends," Scott voice said.
Static filled the phone and then he heard chatter from the scanner coming through the phone. "Dispatch to all units in the vicinity of 24th street and Alexander Ave. 10-33 reported."
"Copy that, Dispatch. Unit 765 in route."
"Copy." The volume diminished.
"What's a 10-33?" Frost asked.
"Alarm sounding, audible." Stiles answered.
"You don't think it's them do you? Is that close to where Derek told you to go?" Frost asked the boys.
"Not really. It's a few miles out from there. We'll check it out, Frost," Scott said. "Where are you headed?"
"Back to the loft," Derek said. "They might go back there."
"We'll call if we find anything."
"Thanks." Frost said again and hung up the phone.
"You shouldn't do that," Derek said.
"They don't know what it means and it gives me some way to keep them safe if one of my mother's pets show up." She gave him a look. "I think you forget sometimes that they are still kids and we are the adults. It's our job to keep them safe."
"I don't forget. They just don't listen. Kind of like this woman I know."
"Oh, I listen," she said. "I just treat it as a suggestion and ignore the stupid ones."
He growled at her, and she laughed lightly despite her worry.
Snow knew she didn't have much time before she lost too much blood to help Isaac. It was a good thing he couldn't see her back before he passed out. The claw marks drained blood from just below her neck all the way to curve just above her butt. Every move shot pain and pulled at the ripped flesh. The alphas would pay for that if she ever found them. That and what they'd done to Isaac.
An alarm started blaring and lights flashed making her head dizzier. Looking at the girl who had obviously helped Isaac, she said, "Thank you. I owe you a debt."
The girl nodded in understanding as she looked at Snow. Whoever she was, she understood the weight of those words coming from Snow. The girl's eyes became unfocused and began to glaze. Snow regretted what she was about to do, but she had to protect Isaac first. "I can only get one of you out of here. I'm loosing too much blood and I won't be able to come back for you. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. Take him," she said and then her eyes rolled up in her head before she dropped unconscious to the floor. Sirens in the distance lessened her guilt a bit as Snow struggled to pull Isaac up. He was dead weight and she nearly blacked out from pain herself as she pulled him into her arms. He was too big and she far too small for her to carry him so she was going to have to drag him. She stumbled to her knees as she tried to keep him up. She needed to hurry before they were all unconscious on the floor of this warehouse.
"Not an option, Snow," she told herself. It was too vulnerable to stay here. The alphas could come back and finish what they started. Though her bites would heal much slower than other wounds, she didn't trust that to slow them down. "You're going to owe me a Starbucks coffee and chocolate pie for breakfast everyday for the rest of our lives," she whispered to Isaac as she let her magic out from the box she kept it locked inside of herself. Her skin began to glow and she rose to her feet as it gave her a surge of adrenalin. She pulled him up with her as much as she could with her arms wrapped under his and hands clasped together in front of his chest. "You're going to take me out on a real date that doesn't end up with me having a broken leg or bleeding to death or you almost dying. I like hiking and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in case you need ideas." The world around her changed as she opened up a faerie trod and she felt herself weaken. She stumbled backwards onto the glowing path. "And that's just for saving you from the alphas." She almost fell as the bitter cold of the in-between sucked at her. "For opening the trod naked, well, I expect to have wild crazy hot werewolf sex in the very near future. We got a deal, Isaac?" He didn't answer, but it helped her stay focused as she pulled him. She continued to tell him things she liked and disliked to keep herself from passing out in the in-between.
Finally, after what felt like an eternity of freezing cold and burning pain, but she knew was barely a few minutes, she felt the end of the path behind her as her vision blurred and she felt her magic fading. With a pop, she collapsed back into reality. Isaac's weight unbalanced her and she went backwards landing with a scream of pain onto her damaged back. He landed on top of her still cradled in her arms she refused to release until she knew they were somewhere safe. Frost's frightened face appeared above her and she knew she could let go. Letting the darkness take her, she blessedly stopped feeling anything at all.
A/N: I wanted to play with adding some of the season 3 canon events into the story while keeping the plot line, I've established. Let me know what you think.
Also, this chapter is dedicated to LoveSuperman whose review and our conversation helped me think through a few things that ended up in this story.
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