A/N.
Hallo again. I really don't have an excuse for the hiatus other than I needed to sort out where I wanted this story to go. If there are things that I seem to forget, please remind me, I tend to get really focused about the same people and forget to write other people into the story.
Thank you so much to GFM and Izi Wilson for their reviews.
GFM, hon, you are not the only one suffering from heartbreak, but I think I dare to reveal that there will be a season three sequel if people want to read it.

Chapter sixteen.
Till death did us part.

"I have lived with you and loved you, and
now you are gone. Gone where I cannot
follow, until I have finished all of my days."
―Victoria Hanley,The Seer and the Sword

"When you loved someone and had to let
them go, there will always be that small
part of yourself that whispers, "What was
it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"
―Shannon L. Alder

You either die a hero, or live long
enough to see yourself become the
villain.

At the Argent house.

Chris POV.

He watched as his wife and father yelled at each other. They had just gotten the news that it was Gerard that had blown the Hale lair to pieces, leaving the Alpha and his two beta's buried in the ruins. They had also just found out that Scott McCall had died from burns, where the boy was buried they didn't know.

What pained him was that he knew that Derek would want revenge, most likely kill all of them.

He groaned and caught the two other's attention and he decided to speak.

"We need to know how and when they'll strike. Right now they are blinded by grief and we can surprise them. However I think it will be an incredible stupid move that will only make us end up like Kate. They'll expect us to come now, so don't come now," he finished and walked out of the house.

Derek POV.

He looked pained at his uncle and then back to Isaac.

It had been three days since they had told Isaac that Scott had died and to be honest, the Alpha had never witnessed so much grief. The young wolf had screamed and howled and tried to get pass them and to Scott. It had lasted ten minutes and then all fight had left the pup and he had been sitting on the same couch since then.

"Isaac," he softly called, not moving from his place by the wall.

The teen looked back up at him with empty eyes before sighing and looking down at his hands again.

"Why did you do it?" he asked.

Derek is confused until Peter whispered in his ear, "Why did we bring him back."

The Alpha sighed and moved to sit on the couch beside his only beta, "Because we thought that he would survive, that he was strong enough."

The beta looked at him and whispered broken, "He was scared, so scared that he would die, that you would leave him again." The wolf look down again, "AND YOU DID!" he screamed before running to his room, leaving Derek stunned and Peter sighing.

"He'll come around," Peter said and Derek moved to sit beside his uncle.

"How? We knew they were close. Mates are for life Peter, he'll never find someone else." He looked down the hallway where Isaac had disappeared.

"Let's face it, he's never coming back," he whispers and squeezes his eyes shut as a tear rolls down, quickly followed by another until he's a sobbing mess in his uncle's arms and he hears the man whisper "I miss him too."

Isaac POV.

He slammed the door closed behind him and hid his head under his pillow and screamed. Outside the door and down the hallway he could hear his Alpha's sobs, feel his pain and loss.

And it was too much.

He frowned when he felt a piece of paper hidden under his pillow and pulled it out in the light. Tears prickled out of his eyes when he recognized Scott's handwriting, it was sighed to him, his name was written carefully and neat in the middle of the paper and when he opened it he couldn't stop the cry of pain from escaping him.

My dearest love, Isaac.

I'm sorry for what you're going through
right now and I wish that it could have
ended differently.
I had a sense that this time it would
not end well for me.
That this time I wouldn't come back.
I have written another letter for all
three of you, but where it is I cannot tell.

I'm truly sorry Isaac for not giving you a chance
to say goodbye, but I believe that at some
point we'll see each other again.

Yours beloved, Scott A. Hale.

He knew he was crying. At the time he was done reading he was crying so loud that he wondered if the two other wolves could hear his pain.

He squeezed his eyes shut and returned the letter to where he had found it and dried his tears away. He needed and wanted to say goodbye to Scott, the teen deserved it and Isaac needed it.

Opening the door to his room again, he silently walked out to the living room and just as he was about to open the door to get out, a voice made him stop.

"And where do you think you're going?" he turned around to look at Peter; the man had his arms crossed while he starred the beta down.

"Out to say the goodbye that I wasn't allowed to say before," he snapped and immediately felt bad when the scent of pain became pungent in the room, making him remember that he wasn't the only one that lost Scott.

"Sorry," he whispered and slid down the side of the door, hiding his head in his hands.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked through his finger at Peter that was crunching in front of him, the older man's face was tight and his lip was bitten bloody.

"You are not fully healed yet; the loss of a mate will slow everything down for your body, that's why if one part of a mated pair die, the other will normally die too. We brought you back because we thought that Scott would survive." Peter looked down and Isaac could see his entire body shake.

"You lost a mate, I lost a son and Derek lost a beta and a brother." Peter's eyes darted over to where Derek was hidden underneath a quilt, "But the Argent's are coming and we can't fight then alone. I'm afraid that I can't let you go out to say goodbye to him, so stay here okay," Peter raised his eye brows and Isaac nodded, letting the older man walk away from him and down the hall.

Derek POV.

He ignored his uncle's conversation with Isaac and pulled the quilt tighter around his body.

Where did he fail? When did everything go so wrong that his brother had to die? Hadn't his family suffered enough pain and misery?

He sighed and slowly sat up in the couch and noted that Isaac was sitting leaned against the door, an expression of despair on his young face.

"Sorry," he croaked to the beta, catching his attention.

"I should have seen it sooner," he continued, "Should have smelled it on you. In a way I did. I should have tried harder to save him."

'I should have saved him before it even got bad' he thought.

He sniffed and barely held a howl a pain back. He had lost a pack mate but Isaac had lost a mate, he knew the pain that Isaac was in was not small, how he was not crying and screaming anymore was a wonder.

Isaac POV.

He swallowed when he felt a surge of pain come from his Alpha and looked down.

"He didn't want you to know," he answered, not commenting on the part where Derek said he should have tried harder to save him.

"He was scared, scared and broken. He feared that this was how it was going to end, that he would have to leave you all alone. That he would leave his father and Alpha alone."

The Alpha looked back at him and Isaac could see the question in his eyes.

"Why not you?"

He smiled sadly before answering, "Because I died with him."

Derek goes back to hiding under the quilt and Isaac stayed leaned against the door, memories of the past flooding his overworked mind.

He blinks the sleep out of his eyes as the whimpering sound continued. He searched the dark room with his senses, trying to locate the source of the sound before another sharp sound makes him flinch.

"No!"

He turned around to his companion in the bed and sighed sadly. It wasn't the first time and highly doubted that it would be the last.

Scott was prone to suffer from night terrors and nightmares, some of them were mild, others… not so much.

He carefully removed the pillows, sheets and quilt from the bed, past experience had taught him that it only got worse if Scott got tangled up in the sheets.

After that he steeled his own emotions and tried to get behind Scott so when the older beta would start trashing and screaming, he wouldn't hurt himself or Isaac. As soon as his hands make contact with skin, Scott went wild; Isaac dodged a claw and closed himself off from the snarls and screams that came from his mate.

Working quickly, he yanked Scott up against his chest and locked his arms around Scott's and just held on while he tried to bring the scared wolf out of his nightmare.

"Shhh Pretty, it's okay, everything's fine, please wake up…" he continued until he realized that nothing he tried was working and with a heavy sigh he flashed his claws and stuck his claws into Scott's side, the screams of horror turning into a scream of pain and Scott was yanked out of his nightmare.

Scott comes back gasping and panting and Isaac can sense the older wolfs panic for a couple seconds before he realized where he was and that he was safe again.

"Izi?" he croaked and turned his head to nuzzle his head against Isaac's chest.

The younger beta remained quiet and retracted his claws and began petting Scott. He sighed and laid both of them down on their side on the bed before he finally spoke.

"You can't continue like this anymore Pretty. Talk to Derek, tell him you're scared to that he'll end up becoming the Alpha Peter was."

He felt Scott stiffen in his arms and a whimper escaped his lips.

"He already knows enough. Don't want him to see me weak again," Scott whispered quietly.

Isaac sighed again. He knew that their Alpha was unaware of their relationship and he was sure he knew the reason why his Pretty was so scared to tell him why. Scott was afraid that Derek, his brother, would disown him because he liked boys and not girls but… he suppressed a snarl for the sake of an almost sleeping Scott, the older beta deserved as much sleep as he could get.

He shook his head again and looked at his phone. The last thing he wanted to was to go to school, but they needed to know what the Argent's were planning, if they wanted revenge. This time he couldn't suppress the snarl and he could see Derek jump slightly before the Alpha's head peaked up to look at him.

"Calm down Isaac, breathe," he coaxed from the couch but Isaac was already lost to the wolf.

Derek POV.

He berated himself as he jumped out of the couch and pressed Isaac against the wall; the beta snarled and snapped his teeth at him. Derek let his eyes bleed crimson and growled low and dangerous in his throat. The action brought Isaac back again and the Alpha could see the horror and grief and pain in the remaining betas eyes.

He pulled his wolf back and took Isaac in an embrace, letting both of them sink down on the concrete floor, the beta wailing and screaming in his Alpha's arms, Derek just mumbled, "I miss him too you know." And let a tear or two slip past his guard as he help his beta tight.

A/N.
How do you want Isaac's day at school to go?
Hope this was the small hiatus worth, I'm looking with all my might that I can find a beta soon.
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