So, after Scott's date, seemed he stormed off and attacked Derek. Something she had hoped wouldn't have happened for a good while. Well at least a good while after her own confrontation with said person. Turns out... that there actually was a third werewolf, and it being the alpha. Kagome also knew things were only to get... more exciting now.

That time she did smack him upside the head. She couldn't believe her cousin some times. The only thing that was positive about that week was that she managed to take her tests and hopefully pass them. There were no 'episodes' to mention that weekend, which meant they all got to relax and actually enjoy it. Kagome slept in that weekend, which she hadn't got to do since she first moved in with her aunt and cousin.

So one could only hope that it lasted a little longer, sadly, Sunday night a howl ripped through the night. Throwing her hands up into the air, as she felt Scott getting ready to leave, she rolled over and buried her head under her pillow. A week, she couldn't ask for more cause then that would be selfish. And who would want her to be selfish? Apparently this alpha didn't want her to be.

The next morning she had asked if everything was alright. She mentioned hearing gunshots, Scott explained that there was a woman, but nothing more than that Mr. Argent came and picked her up. So as she poured herself a simple bowl of cereal, and spoke up, knowing that her aunt was still sleeping.

"I want you to be careful then." he nodded his head and the two of them continued eating their breakfast, and she didn't miss at all how he seemed to be excited to get to school.

"So, what is it about today, that you're near bolting out the door to get to school?" he threw her a lop sided smile and swallowed what he had in his mouth.

"Allison and I are studying together tonight."

"You sure that's a good idea?"

"Wha..."

"If this woman that was shooting guns last night was picked up by Allison's dad, it's good to say that she's part of the family." she stressed family, hoping that Scott would catch on to what she meant.

Rolling her eyes when all he did was shrug his shoulders, Kagome finished her breakfast and cleaned her dishes and put them away. If he wasn't going to use that head of his for other things than thinking about Allison, lacrosse and curing himself, then who was she to point out the obvious for him? Besides, he was old enough to figure things out, meaning she was not going to draw it out with bright colors for him to see the picture.

A month, her cousin had been bitten and had been dealing with this for a month now. She in turn over stressing herself for the same amount of time because of not only her cousin but because of school, the killings had Kouga which in turn Sesshoumaru breathing down her neck. Oh yeah, besides the alpha not calling Scott to partake in any bond killings, Kouga had made contact with Sesshoumaru who in turn called her.

Let's just say, she managed to keep him from telling her mother who would most likely make her come back all the way to Tokyo. She had the urge to bang her head against something to knock herself out to wake up later and hope that all that happened in the last month was nothing more than a dream. A really, really, weird dream.

"I'm gonna head out to school. The only place that's normal anymore." she ignored the pointed look her cousin gave her, high school drama was something she could handle without causing her stress. After everything she had been through and was going through now, a little high school drama would be like... a walk through an amusement park.

"Just put your dishes in the sink, I'll take care of them after school." the ride to school was, relatively quiet, peaceful and relaxing. It totally threw her off and made her nervous. A sort of, calm before the storm sort of feeling. It reminded her of all those times when the traveled in the past, they would be walking along the well worn paths during a sunny day and then out of the blue a demon would demand whatever shards they had. It made her twitchy.

That morning, the teachers handed back the tests she had taken last Friday, and it helped her to relax. She had actually done well, passing. She was still unused to the grading method they did here, A's, B's and what B+ or whatnot. So she went through her tests to see what she had wrong and what she had right. With all of them, she had less than half wrong. In fact, it didn't exceed to be more than five that were wrong.

She was jumped after her third class by one of her classmates, turns out Casey had shared what had happened last week during the weekend. Damn, she should have made up a gag order that depicted that her friend was not allowed to say anything. At all.

"So, I heard on the weekend that you had a run in with a super hot guy last Tuesday. Why didn't you say anything last week?"

Kagome groaned as her friend continued to hang off her back. "Perhaps your reaction should be an indication as to why I with held the information."

"You rhymed! Do it again!"

"Well, she does have a point, you can be over enthusiastic about such things." Miles piped up as they walked down the halls. Her friend finally letting go of Kagome to also walk.

"So, does this mean our little Kagome finally has someone of interest?" Kagome blinked when a finger poked her in the cheek.

"Please, not you too!" letting her head drop, she let out a quiet whimper when Casey patted her on the back, mouthing 'Sorry', when she looked up. "All. Your. Fault." a sheepish laugh and shrug was all she got in return.

The rest of the day was followed as such, her friends soon learned about her short conversation with Derek and hadn't let her up on it. All she needed now was for Scott to catch wind of it. Then again, he was more focused on the fact that he was going to get to spend time with Allison alone after school. Not a whole lot would ruin his cloud nine.

She was unaware that the subject of her friends question just so happened to be in the school, looking for her cousin and was struggling to listen in on a conversation between Allison and Lydia to one with herself and her friends about last week.

"Come on! It happened last week, let's leave it there."

"That still doesn't mean why you didn't mention how hot he was!" a short gasp was heard. "Oh! What's this, is Kagome actually blushing?" the voice was teasing.

"NO! It's a flush of anger! An angry flush! Can we please just drop the subject? I know him through my cousin, I met him only once. That's it! End of story!" the voices soon moved out of his range, and he was able to focus better on Scott's girlfriend from his position. He was able to learn that the fool was going to spend his time after school at the hunters house, which would actually prove useful to him. He could find the bullet that had been used, and hopefully counteract it's affects before he dropped dead.

All parties moved towards the parking lot, all not knowing what was going to happen in the next few minutes. Kagome waved goodbye to her friends and met up with her cousin who was wearing a goofy grin on his face.

"Looks like someone's excited." she sang as she approached her own bike.

Scott looked up, his grin growing when he saw Kagome also unlocking her own bike from the stand. He could help but shrug his shoulders and stand up. He was about to comment or say something to what she said when a horn went off in just a few feet away behind them.

Both looked towards where the commotion was taking place. Scott's heart picked up it's pace when he saw Derek standing in front of Stiles' jeep, swaying before he dropped. A quick glance at his cousin showed that she had a frown on her face and when she started to turn towards him he took off. This was so not good. Why was he even...

"No, no, no, no, no, no. Not here." running up to Stiles' jeep he looked at his best friend, who in turn was observing the others that were standing around.

"What the hell?" he made his way to Derek and crouched down, frowning at the fact that he showed up at his school at all. Allison could see him, or worse, Kagome.

"What are you doing here?" he was taking his appearance in, noticing right away that he was panting, pale and looked like death warmed over.

"I was shot." the answer to his question came out breathy, like Derek was having a hard time breathing at all, let alone to talk.

"He's not looking so good dude."

Horns continued to honk behind them, all wanting them to hurry up and get out of the way. But for some reason, Scott was worried for Derek, well not worried, more like, slightly concerned. If whatever was used on him could affect him so, then there were chances that it would pretty much affect him in the same way.

"Why aren't you healing?" maybe it just took a longer time to heal. He was hoping beyond hope that that was all it did. Make them weak and then a few days later, boom. A clean bill of health.

"I can't. It... it was... a different kind of bullet."

Before he could say anything, Stiles opened his mouth. There was nothing else to say to what happened next, other than that.

"Was it a silver bullet?" the fact that his best friend sounded excited, was a little disturbing.

"No, you idiot." if Derek could have growled at Stiles, Scott was sure he would have done it then and there, smacking him upside the head. But then he remembered last night.

"Wait, wait. So that's what she meant when she said you had 48 hours." he turned back to Derek, who was still having trouble breathing and could barely hold his head up.

"What? Wh-who said 48 hours?"

"The one who shot you." there was a moment of silence over them when Derek tensed. His eyes shut almost as if he were in pain, but when they opened they glowed that blue, like before he had shifted to fight against him last week.

Scott reared back slightly, this was not good. What was he thinking? Whipping his head from side to side to make sure there was no one close, he moved in closer to talk to Derek once again.

"What are you doing? Stop that!" this was not something he wanted Allison to see, especially with her father being the one who shot him just a few weeks ago. The people in their cars were growing more impatient and continued to honk their horns.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you. I can't!" it was snarled from between clenched teeth, Derek's eyes kept flashing between his normal gray to bright blue.

Getting a strong grip on his arms, Scott told in a firmer voice, "Derek. Get. Up." He actually helped the older male up onto his feet, as the older male pulled his lips back and breathed through his teeth, obviously in pain with the effort.

His eyes kept flashing, and Scott moved behind him and helped him to his feet, and got Stiles to open the passenger side door. Who by the way, did not look happy about the situation. At all. While closing the door, Scott pursed his lips and took the time to observe the others that were stuck behind Stiles. He could still hear Derek struggling to catch his breath, and from the corner of his eye, sort of curl in on himself, most likely from the pain of getting into the passenger seat.

When he finally was closed the door, he turned when he heard Derek was talking to him, Stiles standing next to him.

"I need you to find out what kind of bullet she used."

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"She's and Argent! She's with them."

"Why should I help you?" he was growing more and more angry and anxious the longer they stayed. There was also a more likely chance that Allison would spot Derek and him talking.

"Because you need me."

Glancing back, he saw Allison getting out of her car and start towards them. Not only that, what he said was true. Derek was the only one that could help him better understand all of this, and the alpha seemed to want him to help with killings. So his options for teachers was either one, or the other.

"Fine. I'll try." stepping away from the car, Scott turned his attention to Stiles who had now climbed in behind the wheel. "Get him out of here."

While starting up his jeep, Stiles threw him a mild glare and shifted gears.

"I... hate you so much for this."

Stepping further away from the vehicle Scott watched them drive off, Derek slumping in his seat and Stiles looking less than happy for the situation. He looked over to the bike stand to see that Kagome was looking at him curiously but he waved it off. She nodded her head and started her way back home. Looking up, he mentally cursed when Allison made her way towards him.

"Hey, what's he doing here?"

"Stiles was just...um, giving him a ride. Uh, long story." he hoped he could play this off right.

"I thought you said that you weren't friends with him." he could see she was slightly confused with what was going on, not that he could blame her. He was also wondering about the sanity of the world.

"No! Not... really. Uh... um... We're still studying together right?!" please change the subject, please answer the question. PLEASE! Forget about Derek! "So... I'll, meet you back at your place?" he could tell that the situation that Derek being there still confused her, but she smiled lightly and agreed.

He smiled and leaned down to kiss her before rushing off to his own bike. Quickly freeing it from the chained lock, he stood up and caught Jackson's gaze, accusation and knowing easily written on his face. This was so not what he had in mind when he woke up this morning. Especially when he was going to study will Allison in a short bit. Not only that, Kagome knew he hadn't told her the entire truth about last night, he wondered and slightly dreaded what she had in store for him.

Kagome herself had already put two and two together. Alpha called in last night, gunshots and apparently, Derek ended up taking a bullet. Why Scott didn't mention it... left her wondering what went through that little brunette head of his. It was a sort of love-hate relationship he had for Derek. Well, not the love part. It was more of a sort of rivalry. He needed the guy for a mentor and to answer all his questions, but also seemed hell bent on getting rid of the older werewolf.

But, she would be having that conversation later. She didn't make anything for her aunt so she would be making extra super and make a quick trip to the hospital to give the woman her share of dinner. So that meant she had to get on that right away. Pulling in the drive way, she she leaned her bike against the back door, and made her way into the house.

Tossing her bag onto the sofa, she made her way into the kitchen and started on dinner, she figured spaghetti and salad would be good. Turning on the radio, she danced about as she cooked dinner. She was just glad that no one was home to see her like this. And soon enough, she was preparing a separate plate for her aunt when her cell started to ring.

Leaving the plate, she went to her bag and fished it out, seeing that it was her cousin.

"Ah! Hey Scott, what's up?" she moved back into the kitchen to finish her aunt's plate.

"Uh, yeah. I'm calling to say that I'm staying over at Allison's."

"I figured. You have been talking nonstop about studying at her place tonight." wedging her cell between her ear and shoulder so she could wrap the plate up.

"No. I mean as in, staying for dinner."

"Oooo~! So that means your meeting the parents! Have fun!" she heard him whimper lightly before he hung up.

Slipping her cell into her jeans pocket, and grabbed a light jacket and made her way to her bike. Placing the plate in the basket in the back, she climbed on and made her way to the hospital. The sun was quickly sinking and the air was fresh and crisp.

She smiled when she rode her bike up to the front entrance, making sure to keep her bike was out of the way. Grabbing the plate, she made her way, and her smile only grew when her aunt looked up.

"I'm here to relieve you of a night of vender food."

"Usually Scott brings me supper. Why the change?"

"Ah, his study session at Allison's turned into a dinner date with the family." her aunt let out a light laughing squeal delight. "Speaking of dinner, I'm gonna head back home and eat my own share. I'm starving."

"Be careful, and thanks for the save!"

Kagome waved her hand as she quickly made her way back to her bike. The thought of the dinner she made back home just waiting for made her stomach protest at it's empty state. Before she could make her way though, her cell went off again.

Furrowing her brows, she pulled out her cell and frowned even more when she caught sight of the caller id.

"Stiles?"

"Ah! Hey! I was wondering if you could come over to the vet's! There's been an accident. But don't worry! I'm fine! Everything's fine! Well not everything or I wouldn't be calling..."

"Stiles! Take a moment and breath. Scott's at Allison's so what happened?"

"Can you just come over? We'll... I mean I'LL! I'll explain everything?" she heard something in the background that sounded like another person. Obviously he wasn't alone.

"Yeah, give me a few minutes and I'll be there." she hung up before he could reply. Slipping her cell back into her pocket, she pushed off and quickly made her way to the vet's. She had a feeling this wasn't something she could take her time with, Stiles only spoke like that when something important was going on.

Like she had promised, she arrived five minutes later, panting lightly as she ditched her bike and made her way to the back where light could be seen. Making her way to the back entrance, which was nothing more than a loading garage, she knocked on the door, shifting from one foot to the other as worry and anticipation coursed through her entire being.

She stepped back when the door was jerked open and Stiles stood there for a moment, almost not believing that she was there.

"Stiles, what's the... What are you doing?" she couldn't help but ask when he suddenly gripped her wrist and yanked her inside and pulled her further into the building, obviously leading her somewhere.

"You said you knew how to deal with poisonings and toxins. Right?" he paused before a door, blocking the glass that allowed to see into the room behind it.

"Yes, what does that have to do with why I'm here?" she gave up on trying to see the reason why she was there and looked him in the eye.

He opened his mouth to say something, but closed it and pulled her into the room instead. What greeted her was not what she had in mind. She merely raised a brow when Derek Hale looked up at her. Nope, that was not what she thought could be her reason of being there. Not a topless, wounded and bleeding Derek Hale.

Her eyes zeroed in on the wound and she frowned slightly as she made her way over to him, disregarding everything else but the bullet wound in his arm. She saw how the veins in his arm was dark, like they were being burned from the inside.

Purification. She knew the signs no matter what form they took.

"What happened?" she took in the glowing blue of where the bullet was still imbedded in his arm. When all she got was silence she rolled her eyes as she began to roll up her sleeves. "Well, I can see what happened."

She moved in closer to Derek, ignoring his glare. She did pause however when her hands moved to grab his arm.

"Trust me, I've done this before. I'm going to try and make this as quick and painless as possible." her eyes narrowed at the point of origin, tsking when she saw that the bullet was still in his arm.

"Stiles, I'm going to need a pair of tweezers or something to get the bullet out. Now!" she looked at the silent teen as he took this whole thing before him in. While waiting for the tool to help pull the bullet out, she ran a hand up the length of his arm to see how far it had spread.

The further up his arm, the deeper below the skin it went, and it was almost near his heart. She'd have to work quickly.

"Here." she didn't even bother to look up, simply presenting him a hand.

Grasping the slightly warmed metal tool, her fingers moved the tool till she held them properly. With her free hand she gripped the arm and pulled so that the wound opened up slightly so she could pull the bullet out. An arm snapped around her waist and tightly gripped her hip as she pulled the bullet out, causing discolored blood to flow.

Tossing the bullet and tweezers onto the metal operating table at her side and placed a free hand just over his heart. Letting it hover there, she called forth her abilities to help heal him. But it was more than just that. She had to draw out the blood that was beyond saving, reverse the purification on the blood that could be saved and repair the damage the had been done. And on top of that, try and numb the pain he was in.

"This will feel... off. But I'll go as quickly and painlessly as possible." she remembered how Inuyasha had described it once. Like someone was pushing the tainted-purified blood from inside. It burned, but a tingling numbness quickly replaced that and when the whole thing was done and over with, he felt stronger than ever for a short while. But Inuyasha was a half demon, Derek was a werewolf, so she wasn't sure how it would be for him.

When she started, she heard Derek hiss slightly and drop his head to her shoulder while the grip he had on her tighten painfully so. But she ignored all that and let her aura try and sooth the pain as much as she could.

"So, you uh, did this before?" at Stiles question, Kagome gave a rueful smile.

"In another life." she started to drag the hand that she had over his heart over his shoulder and down his arm back towards the wound slowly, making sure her abilities were thorough while doing so. When she reached the wound, she kept her hand there to keep the poison from spreading once again while her other hand did the same process from the hand up.

When they met up, she pushed everything out through the wound and when it was all out, his own abilities pretty much instantly healed it. She swept her hands over his arm again, making sure that all traces of the poison and affected blood were no longer in his system.

"There. How do you feel?" she stood there, as Derek panted against her shoulder and neck, while waiting for an answer, she asked Stiles for something to clean up the blood. Taking a wet cloth, Kagome began to wipe away the blood from his arm as he caught his breath.

She and Stiles whipped around when Scott rushed to the door, were Derek slowly lifted his head to look at him over her shoulder.

"Kagome?! What are you doing here?"

AN: Sorry for the long wait, I hope this update makes up that it though! If not... I got Chocolate Chip Internet Cookies! X3