Great chapter from Pokemon.

Killing the Past

I had a feeling our best chance to run away was tonight. After I left Derek's place I drove home and ran immediately to my room. I packed enough clothing for two days and made my way downstairs, but I had no clue my mom was up.

"Where are you going?" she asked as I stopped in front of the door.

"Nowhere," I sighed as she ripped the bag from my hand.

"Justin, tell me what is going on! Should I be worried, because your white as a ghost."

"I'll be home in two days," I sighed, as she looked in my eyes.

"You two are running away, aren't you?"

"It's the only way, Mom. Once we're married, her dad can't do anything about it."

"How are you getting away from him without being caught?"

"Derek and I killed someone," I rolled my eyes as she dropped her bag.

"You didn't?" "NO! Not really, we made it look like we did using my shirt. No, nothing like that, I promise you," I begged as she still looked uneasy. "Can I please go now?" I asked as she handed me back the bag.

"I'll call the school and tell them you're sick and I'll collect your missing work," she kissed me and I walked out of the house. I threw the bag in the trunk and drove to the Argent's house. My heart was now in my throat and I was freaking out. I sat on the back road that faced Aideen's window. I couldn't honk without attracting any attention so I sat there, waiting for her to see me. About half an hour later I saw movement in her window and I could tell it was her. But something was wrong. She looked panicked. I lifted my phone to call her and right as I highlighted her name my phone started to ring. I smiled as her picture came onto my screen.

"Hey, you ready?" I asked as I received what sounded like her crying. "Aideen, what's wrong, what happened?" I demanded as I still received silence.

"We've…got…" she mumbled making it impossible to make out what she was saying.

"Speak up," I demanded feeling lightheaded. There was still silence on the other line and I felt sick. "Is it your dad?"

"Uh-huh," she sniffed.

"Aideen tell me what is going on?" I barked but my phone began vibrating indicating I had someone on the other line. I looked at the screen and found it was Derek. "Aideen, I'm going to put you on hold, Derek's calling," I quickly sighed before changing the conversation. "Hello?"

"Well your plan is fully in action."

"What do you mean?" I asked as Derek sounded exhausted. "Dude, are you ok?" I asked a little concerned.

"No, her dad's here and I know he's on my tail but I can't see him."

"He was supposed to go after you tomorrow."

"Well he didn't, did he, Sherlock?" he barked angrily at me.

"Fine, wait there, I'm on my way."

"NO! Take Aideen and get the deed over with. I can hold him off."

"That's what you said all the other times."

"Justin, I am not going to fight you about this! Now do what I told you!"

"Derek, it's not right. I can't leave thinking you may be dead by the time we get back."

"Then I wouldn't have died in vein would I?" he hissed panting to try and catch more air. I heard a gunshot go off giving me a small headache.

"You there? You ok?"

"I'm fine. He's been shooting warning fires for the past ten minutes," he panted.

"Well go hide in the cellar, no one will be able to find that place."

"I can't he…" I heard nothing but silence now.

"Derek? Derek you still there?" I barked getting no response. My heart had sunken completely when the operator came on. I switched back to Aideen who sounded like she had been crying. "Aideen, this is all my fault. If we never said…"

"No, Justin, you do what you need to we don't need to get married right away," she sighed.

"I'll have Stiles pick you up ok?"

"Just hurry and get him."

When she hung up I started two more phone calls. "Hello?" Scott yawned on the other end.

"Hey, we have a huge problem, Derek's in trouble. Just go look for him in the woods. I'll be there too, so whoever finds him call the others. And be careful, Aideen's dad is there." I didn't let Scott respond so I hung up and called Stiles. I told him the same thing but added to call Jackson and tell him and pick up Aideen.

After I hung up, I shifted my car into drive and sped off toward the woods. As I got out of my car I heard two gun shots go off, my heart jumping with each fire. I jumped into the woods but I was slowly moving. I smelt gun powder mostly, but I picked up on Derek's scent so I followed it as best I could.

I found Derek's phone lying next to a small creak...dead. He must have gotten it wet. The gun fire sounded again and it sounded closer to me, but I was determined to find Derek. I followed his scent some more and it ended up bringing me back to his house. "This doesn't seem right," I whispered slowly walking up the old wooden steps listening to it creak under me. A gunshot broke the silence again it sounded further away this time which gave me some relief. I pushed the door open and walked in. "Derek, you here?"

I called out, but got a silent response. I ran up the stairs and walked in the only two safe rooms. No one was here, this place was giving me the creeps since it was empty, it never had been empty. I made my way down the stairs when a two by four slammed me in the face forcing me down and causing everything to go black.

When I opened my eyes my face stung and I tried wiping the crusty blood away when I found my hands were bound to the stair posts. "Well, look what we have here," a man's voice echoed through the house. I saw him standing in front of me, but it was too dark to see who exactly it was. "I knew you were one of them, but an alpha? Now that's interesting," he chuckled walking closer to me. The moonlight shown through illuminating his face showing me it was Aideen's dad.

"Look, it's a full moon," he pointed out the window holding a baseball bat, I didn't look instead I starred at my feet wishing this was a nightmare. "I said look at it," he barked lifting my head with the end of the bat.

"You've read too many fairytales Mr. O'Conner." I growled as he smirked. "I know how to control myself, so your just wasting your time," I added as he turned and walked into living room of the house which was right in front of me.

"That's what I feared, so I brought you something," he smiled holding up what looked like lei, but I really couldn't tell until I could hardly breathe. The closer he got the more difficult it became. I noticed it was no ordinary lei...

It was wolfsbane.

With what strength I had I jumped up and kicked his chest causing him to fall backwards. He got up looking angry with me and hooked the wolfsbane lei around his shoulder. He grabbed his bat and got in my face, the scent from the flowers caused my body to go weak. He backed up a little and took the bat in his hands swinging. The sound of crushing bone came from my leg as I dropped to my knee and he smiled a little satisfied.

He dropped the lei around my neck which caused me to feel useless and nauseous. It took longer for my leg to heel but when it did I stood back up still feeling horrible from the wolfsbane. "Now, who killed the jogger?" he asked lifting my head with the bat. I growled and his face turned white from my eyes. "Strike one," he sighed swinging the bat slamming it into my stomach. I coughed trying to get through the pain.

"Let's try this again. Who killed her?" I still gave him no response. "Strike two," he side slamming the end of the bat in my throat, causing more pain than I could ever imagine.

"I'm shocked…" I groaned spitting out some of my blood as he looked at me curiously.

"About what?"

"Your allegedly a great hunter who is said to go by the book, and yet you are doing exactly what Kate did. Every one's right. You're a worthless old drunk," I smiled as he dropped the bat and walked away. I felt pretty satisfied and I started to work on getting my bonds untied. I stopped at the sound of a cocked gun.

"First off, a hunter is allowed to torture a wolf when they won't corporate. Secondly I am still great at hunting. And thirdly, you answer my question or it's Strike three," he smiled aiming the gun at my head.

"Strike three," I smiled as he dropped the gun and pulled the trigger, a loud bang pierced my ears and a sharp pain came from my thigh. I whimpered a little as I tried standing. He placed the gun in his holster and picked up his bat again and slammed it across my face. I felt a stream of blood pour from my hair line and crawl down my cheek.

"Now, are you going to answer my question?"

"You might as well kill me."

"Oh really?" he smiled shooting again hitting my other leg. I howled trying to get help. I knew I was done for, but I feared for the rest of the pack. "No one's coming, Justin," he smirked firing two more times each bullet hitting my biceps, I wanted to collapse into a ball but the ropes holding me up forced me to stay. He threw the gun down and slammed me in the stomach with the bat again, and once more in the face before he walked for the door.

"Good luck healing Kid. I'll tell Aideen something," he shrugged before walking out and closing the door behind him. I closed my eyes and blacked out.