A/N.
Way earlier than I expected but I just needed to get this out, I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you to SnowEmber1 and guest for their review.
To guest: I plan on writing Stiles more into the story after this chapter. Thanks for reminding me. Derek will still have to tell him what happened to Scott. The pack is parted, and many don't know what happened to Scott after Theo killed him or even that he died.
To your question on if Stiles father is dead or even hurt at all, I will answer that Theo lied, but he still said that he didn't include Scott in his pack. So the sheriff isn't dead and at the moment Stiles doesn't know what Scott did but it will come.

Chapter fifteen.
Battle lines drawn.

"There's a difference between playing
and playing games. The former is an act
of joy, the latter — an act."
―Vera Nazarian,The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Isaac POV.

He knocked softly on the door and waited for a response. His mind going back to the last time he had seen Scott come to school with bruises on his face. It was a week before they ended sixth grade.

He waited for him to come, he was already late and Isaac knew that they couldn't afford to come late for a talk with Stiles again; the spaz would just give them hell on earth. 'Still better than my father' he thought bitterly.

His face lit up when he saw Scott come on his bike but it turned to a frown when he saw the teen limp over to him, a purple mark on his face and Isaac could see that he couldn't open his left eye.

"Pretty," he called concerned and Scott's eyes met his.

"Hey Izi, come on let's go get Stiles," he said as he dragged him on and into the school. Isaac let himself be led until they reached the janitor closet and he pushed Scott inside it.

"Enough Scott, no more lies. Who's hitting you?" he asked agitated. When he lifted his hand to touch Scott's jaw, the young teen flinched away from his touch. He pulled his hand back like he had been hit himself.

"Pretty," he asked concerned.

Scott looked down but Isaac could still see the tears that rolled down his face, his heart breaking for the other boy.

"Come here," he said and pulled the smaller boy into an embrace.

"Come in."

He slowly opened the door and stepped into the room, his eyes immediately finding Scott sitting against the wall in a corner, his cheeks tearstained.

He smiled sadly and walked over to sit beside the boy he loved, raising a hand to dry away the tracks of tears, holding Scott's face still with the other.

"Talk to me Pretty," he tried to start.

"My mom called right after we fell asleep, laid a massage, it said that, it said that my father's coming to visit." Scott said and looked up at him with pleading eyes, "Please don't make me go back Izi," he said and the younger beta felt arms squeezing his middle.

"Two things I've done wrong in life," Scott whispered, "Being gay and having killed an innocent."

Isaac sighed and knocked his head against the wall. He knew Derek was just as lost as he was as to how they could get Scott to heal, but this just topped the cake. They couldn't let Scott go near his father, a man that didn't deserve the title of being a father.

He looked down at Scott who had laid his head in his lap and was looking up at him with big blue eyes. He smiled and leaned down to press a kiss to the boy's nose, making Scott snort and laugh quietly and turned his head away and hid it in Isaac lap, pushing down.

Isaac gasped at the sudden pressure and his legs jostled.

"Pretty," he hissed, and tried to get control over his rapidly filling out dick before Scott noticed.

"What," Scott whispered and looked up at him with an innocent smile on his face. Isaac knew what he was doing but for now he would give Scott what he wanted, or at least the illusion of it.

"You know very well what I mean. Get your hands off my dick," he answered with a strained voice.

Pretty just nodded and looked down at Isaac's crotch with an expression saying "How did they end there."

He took hold of Scott's hands and dragged them away, flashing his eyes at the other beta.

"Scott, you can't avoid this. I'm calling Derek up and then we tell him that your father's back in town." He hissed the word father.

All signs of arousal was now gone and Scott stared at him in panic, "No, you can't. He'll just," Scott looked down at the floor, "He'll just hit me too," he whispered almost too quietly for Isaac to hear.

But Isaac was stunned. Did Scott really think that Derek, their Alpha would hit him because he was attracted to the same sex?

The answer was clear in the blue eyed beta, yes he did.

Isaac took a deep pained breath, and when he let it out a small whine escaped too, Scott looked up at him in concern, his eyes shining brown again.

"Scott, how can you think Derek will hit you when the only thing the man has said is that there will be no sex when he's in the house? You're his beta. You may not be a True Alpha anymore Scott but that doesn't matter to us. To Derek you'll always be the brother that kept refusing him, the brother that has now accepted him." He smiled and reached an arm around Scott and pulled the teen close to him.

"And to me. To me you'll always be the best, always be my little pretty darling."

Scott smiled sadly up at him, "I don't believe you."

Isaac shook his head and looked up just to see Derek walk into the room and felt Scott press his body closer to his. Derek looked at them before he sighed.

"I called an old friend of my mother. She says that an Alpha can't force a wound to heal but when I explained what had happened to Scott, she agreed that things had to be taken care of fast. She said that if I could make the wound hurt a little, then the healing process might kick in by itself."

He didn't sound happy.

And then the reality of Derek's words hit him.

Derek POV.

He let the words sink into the two beta's heads. Isaac was the first one to react, with eyes blazing golden he crunched in front of Scott, his lips pulled back in a snarl and he looked like he was ready to jump at the Alpha.

Derek let his eyes bleed crimson and gave a snarl himself, forcing Isaac to back down with a whine.

Scott's reaction was much more silent, much quicker. In a flash the beta had jumped his Alpha and sent Derek to the floor with a bang.

Derek released an angry growl and pinned Scott under him, snarling and pressed his teeth close to the teen's neck. With a whine he could feel Scott relax under him and he slowly relieved some pressure and settled on straddling the younger beta's hips.

He pinned Scott under his crimson eyes, not once letting them stray.

The tense air was broken when Derek's phone began to ring. He sighed and got off Scott, gently pushing the beta over to Isaac who immediately began to hush the stressed beta.

"What," he snarled; this was the last thing he needed.

"The kind of big thing that has been roaming town and then went away?!" a nervous voice said and Derek recognized it as Hayden, one of the chimeras that had left Theo.

"Yes," he prompted and made a swinging mothing with his hand that she couldn't see.

"Well, it kind of came back, and is currently on a killing spree through town. Malia said I shouldn't call you unless really urgent."

Derek heard a high pitched yell and then Hayden spoke again, this time faster.

"I think this is urgent. Bring Scott, bring people," she said before hanging up.

He tried to take deep calming breath as he felt his phone crack in his hand. He turned his head against the two betas. Scott was sitting against Isaac.

"Change of plan. I don't want either of you in battle but it looks like I have little choice. Isaac, call in a pack meeting on behalf of me and Scott. Scott, you stay with me."

Both betas nodded and Isaac left the room the call the other in the pack, leaving Derek alone with the beta that had just attacked him.

"Scott, I accept it if you don't want to fight, but we have to tell the pack. Right now the only people who know that you have lost your Alpha status are me, Isaac and Malia." He stopped when Scott looked up at him with a stricken face expression.

"They didn't feel me?"

Derek sighed, "Scott, you were already a beta again when Theo killed you, but I know what you mean, they should have felt something when you died, you were still pack. I felt it, Peter felt it."

Scott huffed and Derek could see a mask take form.

"Peter bit me, we still have a bond."

Derek nodded, the pup was right.

"Are you ready for people to see it? The beast is stronger than any of us combined."

Scott's eyes shot up to look at him, his eyes huge.

"Beast?" he asked.

Derek sighed again and mentally face palmed himself.

"Yes, the beast. It have been gone since two days after Theo killed you, we thought that it had left, but now Hayden says that it has returned. We need a plan and we need a pack." He said and he let his eyes bleed crimson.

Scott nodded just as Isaac returned, phone in his hand.

"We meet early tomorrow. Everybody's coming, "

Derek nodded and took a deep breath, returning his attention to Scott.

"Are you strong enough to fight?" he asked.

He could see Scott look around him and then his eyes fell on Isaac.

"He fight, I fight. My chest doesn't hurt," the teen answered, making Derek roll his eyes.

"Is it the truth?" he said with command in his voice. Scott whined and nodded, baring his neck slightly to the right.

The Alpha nodded and turned around to face Isaac, the beta still looked a little angry at him but for now there wasn't time for that and he knew it.

"Explain what the beast is to Scott, calm him down," he ordered and smiled a little when the beta nodded and walked over to stand beside Scott, lowly saying "Come on Pretty," making Scott blush and shoot a nervous glance in Derek's direction but the Alpha merely laughed a little and left the lovers to themselves.

A/N.
Next chapter are the meeting about the beast. The pack will learn about Scott and feeling will be revealed.
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