Killing the Past

As I jumped to the ground floor I saw Aideen walk away from the window, not even seeing me off, which was weird in her part. I needed a plan and I needed one now. If Aideen couldn't wait, we needed to take care of this. I ran through the woods and came to the old Hale House where I found Derek sitting on the porch. "We need to take care of this," I blurted in a fit.

"Take care of what?" he responded as I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"Austin, we need to kill him now, I mean you're an alpha. With your strength and Scott's and mine, we can take him." I started pacing the ground in front of the house.

"We can't just go in there, it will cause this whole mess and get the cops involved and we will be right back where we started a few weeks ago."

"A few weeks ago, you were traped under your house because you let Kate get you, damn it."

"I did it to protect you three."

"It was a stupid mistake, you didn't think Derek! Imagine if Aideen was the one getting caught or I, and you really think we would do that before thinking?" I blurted with a growl.

"I supposed your right, but if we want to take care of your cousin, we have to make a plan. It would be best to catch him off guard." I looked at my phone seeing I had a text.

"Do you know how hard it is to catch him off guard? I have tried basically all my life…that is, when I thought he was good," I sighed as Derek jumped up.

"Don't you dare do this! Don't think of him as family, Justin. Think of him as a danger to anyone and everyone you know and care about. He will get to you like this," he snapped pushing me back as I snapped out of my thoughts.

"Yeah, you're right and we will…crap, I'm late! We are not done talking about this," I pointed to him before I ran through the woods. I came out into the west end of town and made my way to the bakery, I had totally forgotten about work today and this was the fourth time this week.

"Your late," Reg sighed as I ran through the doors.

"I know, I know, I'm sorry. Please don't tell my mom," I begged as he laughed and patted my back.

"Don't worry, she won't find out since I haven't told her you being lat the other three times. But the next one I may not let you slip."

"Thanks dude, you are a lifesaver." He chuckled before leaving. A couple of people I knew from school were sitting at the booths talking over cakes and things while all the regulars where coming in buying the usual and my shift ended rather quickly. When the new girl Arianna showed up I was a bit relieved.

"Are you Justin?" she asked walking in the door a little nervous.

"Yeah, you must be Arianna," I smiled shaking her hand. "Now it's pretty simple, all you have to do is when people walk in you ask…"

"For here or to go," she smiled as I looked at her impressed.

"Yeah, that's right," I smiled at the brunet, she was kind of pretty and adorable at the same time…and what was I thinking I was engaged! "Ok, let's see if you know this…a regular walks in and since you're new you don't know the regulars yet, what do you do?" I leaned against the showcase of cupcakes as she closed her eyes.

"If they have asked for a pick up then I ask for the name and go to the back and check the receipts that match the name. Then ring them up," she crossed her arms as I became more impressed.

"I have never talked to someone who was so well known into this."

"Please I studied this stuff," she smiled as I laughed causing her to smile. "Your mom said you were handsome but you are really gorgeous," she smiled as I tried hiding mine.

"Thanks, but back on subject. Now Mrs. Daphne is coming today at four to get the wedding cake for her son and soon to be daughter-in-law and she may need help getting it to the car, are you sure you can do this?" I asked as she looked at me with no problem.

"Please, I have been carrying boxes quadruple my size," she smiled as I nodded believing her.

"Ok, well I trust you, here are the keys make sure you lock up and stick them in the lockbox next to the door when you leave."

"Thank you, the shop is fine," she smiled as I walked for the door laughing. I've never seen a high school girl so happy to work before, plus this was the first time a chick ever worked in my mom's shop. I walked home thinking.

"Wait, was Arianna hitting on me?" I gasped trying to recap the incident of when she walked through the door. "Oh my God, Aideen, if…chill dude, she's not going to find out I am still smooth sailing," I sighed in relief as I walked up the stairs and into the house. "MOM! I'm home and I just recapped Arianna on how to run the place," I screamed locking the door behind me.

"She's not home! She went on a date with someone by the name of Stilinski!" Austin screamed through the house sending an awkward chill down my spine. As I walked into the kitchen my cousin walked onto the balcony and looked down at me. "Have fun chewing on a bone?" he asked as my brows furrowed. "Your little fiancé, I'm sure you marked your territory by now, I can smell it all over her."

"You pig," I said under my breath and I knew he heard me.

"Yeah and did she tell me, she tried killing me," he crossed his arms as I looked at him. "I was only getting your revenge since you were too coward enough to do it."

"You made a grave mistake Austin. Her family was innocent and you robbed them of that child," I snapped.

"Oh not you too! I mean my own family turning on me? That hurts Justin."

"She didn't deserve to die, Austin."

"Her mother killed your father!"

"No she didn't!" I barked. "Kate Argent did, my dad had been tricked by her, Aideen's mom loved my dad and went to stop Kate, I saw the gun go off and it lit Aideen's mom's face, not Kate's."

"Bullshit, you know your little whore is feeding you this, and you are just taking it in."

"Kate told me herself before Peter Hale killed her!" I snapped looking at him as if I was ready to attack. I had enough of him and as I made my way into the kitchen he cleared his throat.

"Happy Birthday," he smirked as I looked at him funny.

"You know my Birthday isn't for another week," I sighed as he threw a bunch of papers into the air. I got mad at him for giving me more work to clean up but I could feel my heart stop as a note landed on my feet. I read the exact note that Laura had left me in the back cover of the book she gave me for my birthday. I caught a few pages seeing the great ship Titanic on one and words describing her on another. My heart had stopped the second the empty cover hit the marble floor.

"What did you do?" I growled looking up at him as he smiled.

"I told you never to fall in love." I couldn't take it anymore, I threw what papers I had in my hand on the ground and ran up stairs grabbing my cousin by the throat and pinned him to the wall. "You remember how this ended last night?" he asked with a smile as I punched his stomach. He soon grabbed my shoulders and pushed off the wall slamming me into the closet door. He started punching me in my rib cage each blow breaking more and more of my ribs. My claws came out and I ripped his entire back open as he roared in pain kicking me in the chest as I rolled down the stairs. Austin jumped down and picked me up by my throat and slammed me into the ground. I could feel the warm blood forming in my mouth. I swung my hand but he grabbed it and punched me in the face.

"Such an amateur at this," he chuckled kicking me in the face as I tried getting up. He became weak from where I clawed him and I stood up and kicked his chest watching him fall to the ground. "You better watch your fiancé boy," he snapped as I picked up the papers and book cover, this was my favorite book and now I had to tape every single page back in, it wasn't fair and Austin was making my life a living hell. I climbed into my room weakly and placed the ripped apart book on desk, I checked my shelf for any other book damaged and luckily they were all in tack, I had started to feel better since my body started to heal, the only problem, I had at the moment was I still tasted my own blood. A felt a pinch in my neck and some sort of liquid travel into my blood stream. I backed away and found my cousin holding a syringe

"What did you do?" I asked feeling weaker than before as I fell to my knees.

"Don't worry, I just placed a little wolfsbane into your system, you won't die, but you'll feel funny for a while," he smiled before punching me in the jaw as I hit the ground hard. I watched him walk out of my room throwing some of my things on the floor as he left and soon enough I fell into black.