As you can see, maybe or maybe not, I'm cleaning up and working on other stories... gotta pass the time until next season somehow, right? LOL

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(just to keep this story rolling and fit everything from the fb game and TV show in, spring break does not start RIGHT after the Rave…)

"You've been pretty quiet all day." Cat observed, walking into Scott's room.

He shrugged, looking up from the text book he was reading. "Yeah, thought I would catch up on my homework but oddly enough, it's all done."

She gave him a sheepish smile as she closed the door behind her. "I was trying to distract myself."

"Is my mom gone?"

She nodded, moving to sit on the edge of his bed. "Are you mad at me?"

He tossed the textbook on the floor, grabbing her hand and tugging her towards him so she was lying against him. "Why would you think that?"

"Because you've been so quiet." She responded. "I thought maybe you were that pissed off that I showed up."

"No." He told her, "Not at all. If you weren't there, Allison's mom may have killed me. I'm just-" He stopped and sighed. "Friday night was just… bad on so many levels."

"Want to talk about it?"

He was silent for a long time as he trailed his fingers through her hair, playing with the silky strands. He wasn't even sure where to start. "Can we just lie here like this for a while?"

She glanced up at him with worried eyes before nodding, wrapping an arm around his middle. The fingers in her hair were almost hypnotizing and she felt herself on the verge of sleep when he began speaking.

"Allison was there last night."

Her eyes opened as she realized what he said. "What?"

"Allison was there. With Matt. I told her to go out with someone else and she did, with Matt, last night. I saw her right before I was hit by the car and she told me her dad and grandpa were outside with the other hunters, ready to take down the Kanima."

"How did they know it was there?" she asked, pushing herself up into a sitting position.

"Allison. How else? They know it's Jackson now and they're going to kill him."

She frowned, having trouble believing that Allison would spill everything. "So Allison told them? Why?"

He nodded "Because she said she had no choice. People were dying."

Cat groaned. "And that's exactly why you guys were there to try and stop him. Why can't she just trust you?"

"That's what I said. But I never got a chance to fix anything, Victoria hit me."

"I want to punch her in the face." Cat sneered. "How dare she. She almost killed you, she was trying her hardest to kill you and that's unforgivable."

"You can't do much, Cat. Don't worry, it'll piss her off more when I show up to school looking completely fine."

"And what would Allison say when she finds out her mom tried to kill you?"

"She won't." Scott firmly stated. "Allison is not to know, do you understand?"

"You don't have to talk to me like I'm four." Cat muttered.

Scott sighed, reaching over to take her hand. "I'm not trying to but she doesn't need to know."

"Fine." She said with a roll of her eyes, clearly not happy with his decision.

"How do you feel now that Derek knows about you?" He asked in an attempt to change the subject.

Her nostrils flared in anger. "Well considering he's your pack leader…"

"Cat-" He began but she cut him off.

"How could you not tell me?"

"You did know." Scott told her, looking guilty. "It's what really made you all catatonic. You found out and lost it so when you came out of it and had memory loss, I couldn't do that to you again. It's the last thing you wanted but it was what I had to do to stop Jackson, it's only temporary."

"No, it's not." She told him. "You're stronger with a pack. How do you walk away from that after?"

"I just will."

"Derek said I would make one hell of a werewolf and it got me thinking."

He looked at her sharply, his eyes narrowing. "You're not taking the bite."

"I meant about why he thinks I would. When you were bitten, your asthma was cured, right?"

Scott hesitantly nodded, wondering where she was going with this.

"And Erica's epilepsy was, for the most part, right?"

Another nod.

"Do you think it would cure me?"

He frowned. "But you don't have a disease."

"Yes, I do. It's called knowing too much and making me go insane. So if it could cure you guys, heal whatever caused you're asthma or her seizures, wouldn't it cure whatever was in my brain that triggered this whole psychic thing."

He contemplated it, wondering if it worked like that. "Even if it did, I can't let you get the bite still. It could kill you."

"Like I'm not already going to an early grave?"

He dropped her hand and stood up, running his fingers through his hair in frustration. "You seriously can't be thinking about it."

"Why not if it helps me live longer?" She cried, crossing her arms over her chest defiantly. "Maybe I want to be around longer. Maybe I want to be with you as long as possible. Maybe I don't want you always having to worry about me getting hurt because that's all I've been good for lately. Going crazy from what I've seen and getting hurt. Look at me, I'm one big bruise lately, how could I not even just a little, think about this?"

"Because you've seen what it does to me." He exploded, really angry now. "I almost died last night and as a result, you almost did too."

"But if it cures me, I wouldn't have to worry about that." She argued back.

"But I would have been dead if not for you being there. Who's to say Derek would have gotten there in time without your help."

"He's your alpha," She threw at him. "I'm sure he would've eventually."

He ran his hands through his hair, letting out a noise of frustration. "Don't throw that in my face Cat. I had to do what I thought was right."

She stood up, moving to stand in front of him. "You were already an alpha, Scott. Don't you remember when Derek said that? You were an alpha of your own pack and each and every one of us were willing to follow and help you by any means necessary."

"And that would've gotten you all killed, don't you see that?"

"So you turn your back on us instead? And then hide it from me?"

"How have I turned my back on you, on any of you?" He yelled. "I'm trying to protect you all. I said I would and I'm doing it the only way I know how."

He had never outright yelled at her but she was too mad to even care at that moment. "Does Allison know?" She asked.

"No. It's temporary. I hoped to be done with the pack before any of you but Stiles even knew."

"I'm your girlfriend." She said, her voice level and calm. "And according to Allison, she's your girlfriend and how is it that neither of your so called girlfriends knew, 'cause quite frankly, I have no idea on who really is your girlfriend anymore."

"How can you even say that?"

She shot him a look of disbelief. "Think about it." She turned to leave when he called her back.

"Where are you going?"

"For a walk."

"It's dark out."

"So?"

"You can't go out by yourself." He told her.

She turned around and glared at him, stomping over to him and grabbing his arm. She didn't care how invasive she was being at the moment, she was too angry. "You even think about following through with that thought and I'm done. I'm walking away from all this, I'm done with you. Following me is one thing but even entertaining the thought of locking me in my room is too far."

"Stay out of my head." He snapped, pulling away.

She stepped back, giving him a look of disgust before turning and walking out of his room, moments later, slamming the front door as she left the house.

She hadn't gotten more than a block when she realized she was no longer alone. She turned to look at Isaac as he came loping up to her with a raised eyebrow.

"Take me to Derek." She said.

"Changed your mind?" he asked.

"I have questions, he has answers." Cat snapped.

Isaac hesitated before nodding.

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"I must admit Catalina, I wasn't expecting to see you so soon."

Cat raised an eyebrow at Derek as she looked around the abandoned subway car. "But you were expecting me?"

"I figured you'd come around when you were ready to yell at me about Scott being in my pack."

"Did you hold him at gunpoint until he said he would?"

Derek actually gave her a small smile "No."

She shrugged. "Not my issue on what stupid choices he makes. I have something else to talk to you about."

He motioned for her to sit in a chair, sitting down across from her as he leaned forward, intrigued by what she was there for.

"You told me that you thought I would be one hell of a werewolf."

"You would. You're small, everyone would underestimate you plus you're a seer so lethal combination. But I don't know if you'd be just a beta."

She cocked her head to the side with a small groan. "You must be kidding."

He shook his head. "Truthfully, the way you carry yourself, reminds me a lot of my sister. She was an alpha."

"I wouldn't want to be an alpha." She whispered.

"Why?" Derek asked.

"I don't want the responsibility."

"Then why are you here Catalina?"

She nervously bit her bottom lip. "Scott's asthma was cured when he was bitten, right?"

The Alpha nodded.

"And Erica's epilepsy was, Kanima not included, cured too right?"

Another nod.

"If I was bitten, who's to say that it wouldn't cure the visions?"

He looked closely at her, not moving, not talking, just staring and eventually, she began to fidget under his gaze.

"Are you worried that you'll lose them or that you won't lose them?" He finally asked.

She shook her head, looking up as she bit her lip. "I don't want them."

"Why?" Derek asked. He wasn't judging, he was curious.

"Because I don't want to die." She calmly told him.

"Why are you so sure you're going to die?"

Cat sighed, taking another look around to make sure none of his pack was around still. "My mom was the same way as me. She killed herself when I was young because she couldn't deal with it. It drove her crazy and I don't want to end up like that."

"She died because your father and his church made her believe she was evil."

Cat shot him a puzzled look and he shrugged. "Isaac told me about the fight between you and your dad."

"Of course." She muttered.

"You're not evil, Catalina. As long as you remember that, it won't consume you. It won't drive you crazy."

"You don't know that." She exploded. "You don't know what it's like to see all this stuff in my head all the time, whether I want to or not and sometimes it hurts me, it physically hurts me. I was thrown across a room last night because of Scott, I was poisoned because of what happened to him. I don't want it anymore."

Derek leaned back, contemplating his next words. "You're right, I don't know that but I can't promise that it will go away if you were a werewolf. It could backfire on you and you could become a stronger seer."

"I want it to stop." She whispered.

"It's not that easy, it's never that easy and it's up to you whether you want to risk it or not. Something tells me though that no matter what happens, you have people who aren't going to let anything happen to you. Some people's loyalty and devotion to you is kind of sickening."

Cat raised an eyebrow at him, gracing him with a small smile. "You have that too." She reminded him. "Your pack?"

He shook his head. "Because I'm their alpha, you did that all on your own."

"Are you really going to let Scott go when Jackson is taken care of?" She asked.

"I don't want to." Derek told her. "But he's as stubborn as me. If he wants out, he'll find a way out."

"You don't have to be such a hard ass all the time. It's okay to let people in."

"No. It's not. That's how people get hurt."

"You trust no one?"

He shook his head with a scowl.

She reached a hand out to him. "Can you trust me for a minute?"

He stood up and stepped away from her. "No. I have no problem with what or who you are Catalina but I'm not letting you into my head."

She pulled her hand back with a shrug. "That's fine. I was just curious. Thanks for the talk. Think Isaac can walk me home?"

He nodded. "He likes you. Even if you don't ever become one of us, I think you're destined to be with one of us."

She made a face. "Destiny, what a bitch."

"Agreed."

She turned to leave but stopped and turned back to him. "No skin." She promised, jumping at him and wrapping her arms around his waist in a hug. He stared down at her in bewilderment, his hands held up, not hugging her back.

"Everyone needs a hug." She told him with a shy smile as she hurried out of the car and returned to the street where Isaac was waiting for her.

"Get what you want?" He asked.

She shrugged. "For now. So should I worry about you stalking me?"

He smiled. "I'm just keeping an eye out for you, picking up McCall's slack."

"So you heard our fight?"

He nodded motioning for her to start walking. She let out a sigh as she did.

"And you're not afraid of me now that you know what I can do?"

"Why would I be?" He asked. "You accept me as I am. But I have to ask, you ever pick anything up from me?"

She blushed and looked away.

"What?" Isaac pressed.

"When you were choking me. In that moment I understood why you made this decision. I would've made the same one as you."

Isaac grinned down at her. "I see why Erica speaks so highly of you."

"She's happier now and that's all that matters. I may not have liked Derek to begin with but I'm beginning to understand. All of it.

"What do you think you're going to do?" He asked.

She shrugged, looking into the distance. "I wish it worked for me the way it did for everyone else, then I could just touch myself." She stopped and wrinkled her nose as she realized what she had just said. "Okay, forget I said that."

He grinned at her. "I don't mind if you touch yourself."

"Perv." she muttered, shoving his shoulder. "I meant I could just find out what I'm going to do anyways and do it. It's a lot to think about. Do I want to take the risk and maybe, just maybe make it worse? And if it gets worse how the hell am I supposed to cope?"

"With your pack. We're family, we help one another out."

She glanced sideways at him. "Derek says he could see me as an alpha, that I remind him of his sister so I don't know how long I'd be part of the pack. I mean, can there even be more than one alpha? I don't know how it works. Not to mention, I don't want to go around biting people to make my own pack. I just- couldn't."

He stopped just down the street from The McCall house. "This is where I let you go."

She nodded with a small smile. "Thanks, for everything Isaac."

"You going to be okay going back in there with that douche?"

She laughed. "I'll be fine, I'm tired now anyways."

She leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek for all his help and he wrapped his arms around her, turning his head at the last second so she kissed his lips instead. She was shocked and about to pull away when she realized that kissing him was actually very nice and was about to wrap her arms around his neck when he pulled away with a small smirk.

"Good night Cat." He turned, disappearing into the darkness and she stared after him a part of her still in shock.

When she finally gathered her bearings, she walked the rest of the way to the house, slipping inside and into her room without so much as a goodnight to Scott, her lips still burning from when Isaac had kissed her.

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