#12

"Scott, I don't think you're grasping the concept of a car chase here," said Stiles as he glanced back at the glaring head lights. Elie sat in the back seat, both hands tightly gripping the seat belt.

"If I go any faster, I'll kill us!" Scott explained without taking his eyes off the road.

"Well, if you don't go faster, they'll kill us!" Stiles snapped back in frustration. Scott didn't say anything but changed the gear and slammed his foot down on the pedal. As the car tore through the deserted road, the headlights fell back.

"They're gone!" said Stiles as he looked back at the empty road. Scott and Elie turned around to look too. They were all puzzled by the abrupt end of the chase and Stiles turned on the transistor to listen in on the police radio. When they realised that Derek was in trouble, Scott put his foot down on the pedal and sped along the empty road.

They got to Derek just in time and as Scott swerved to stop the car to let Derek in, Stiles climbed on to the back seat next to Elie, and Derek ran towards them and jumped into the passenger side. The hunter continued to shoot at them as they sped away. Blue sparks flew as bullets rained around the car. Oh, my God, they're shooting at us! Elie panicked but kept her mouth shut and tried not to scream, while she held onto the seat belt as if it was a life line.

"What part of laying low don't you understand?"

Scott lashed out at Derek as they sped away from both the hunters and the police.

"Damn it! I had him!" Derek returned the question with an angry outburst, and Stiles butted into the conversation by leaning forward and sliding between the front seats.

"What? The alpha?" he asked Derek.

"YES! He was right in front of me and then fricking police showed up!"

"Oh, well, hey, they're just doing their jobs…" as usual, Stiles got defensive when Derek got mad at the police. Stiles tended to take any and every insult against police personally.

"YEAH! Thanks to someone who decided to make me the most wanted fugitive in the entire STATE!"

"Can we seriously get past that? I made a dumbass mistake!"

"All right! How did you find him?" Stiles asked in an attempt to change the subject, somewhat forcefully back to alpha. Derek just grunted and looked away.

"Can you try to trust us for like half a second?" said Scott pleadingly.

"Both of us." when Stiles chipped in, Derek glared at him.

"Or just him. And I'll just be back here with my sister." Under the stare, Stiles backed down and sank into the backseat next to Elie.

Derek glanced at Elie who was sitting behind Scott for a second, then at Scott and began to explain.

"Last time I talked to my sister, she was close to figuring something out. She found two things. First was a guy named Harris."

As soon as they heard the name Harris, Elie and Scott looked at each other through the back mirror. Stiles shot forward between the front seats, shoving his face in front of Derek again and asked;

"Our chemistry teacher?"

"Why him?" Scott also asked but Derek said that he didn't know why yet.

"May be he's a vampire?!" Elie suggested from the back. The three of them went quiet, and Elie wished she hadn't said that out loud.

"Why not? We have werewolves…" Elie mumbled.

"Well I wouldn't be surprised if he was one…but a vampire?" said Stiles.

Ignoring Elie's Harris-the-vampire theory, Scott asked Derek about the second thing that his sister had found out. Derek rummaged through his pocket and took out a folded piece of paper.

"This…a kind of symbol," he said as he unfolded it and held it up. Elie leaned forward and peeped at it. It was a rough pencil sketch of what looked like a crest with some sort of animal. As soon as Scott saw it he groaned and mutters something under his breath.

"What? You know what this is?" Picking up on Scott's reaction, Derek demanded an answer.

"I've…seen it on a necklace….Allison's necklace." said Scott as he punched the steering wheel. Stiles and Elie just looked at each other, not knowing what to say. Why did Derek's sister have a sketch of Allison's necklace? Was there something between her family and Hale family?

Next day at lunch, Elie found Scott sitting by himself looking gloomy so she walked over and sat down in front of him.

"Hey Scott, did you get the necklace?"

"Not yet." As soon as Scott answered, Stiles came with his tray and sat next to Scott, asking the same question Elie had just asked.

"Did you get her to give you the necklace?"

"Not exactly" Scott grumbled and looked down at his food. He didn't feel like eating at all.

"What happened?" Stiles asked as he took a bite out of his chicken nugget. Scott sighed and explained what had happened.

"She told me not to talk to her. At all."

"So she's not giving you the necklace?" Stiles asked the obvious and Elie kicked him under the table.

"She's not giving me the necklace!" Scott snapped out of frustration.

"Well, did you find anything else out?" Ignoring Scott's moodiness, Stiles continued to pry. Scott sighed and said,

"Just that I know nothing about girls and that they're totally psychotic. No offence Elie."

"None taken." Elie took a bite of her apple and shrugged it off.

"Okay, I came up with the Plan B just in case anything like this happened."

"What's Plan B?" Scott sighed but asked anyway.

"Just steal the stupid thing," Stiles answered as matter of factly.

"Can we at least try getting to Harris?" Wanting to avoid the Plan B, Scott brought up an alternative but it was quickly shot down by Stiles.

"Well, good luck stealing the thing… Anyway, I've got to go…Harris paired me up with Matt so I have to go meet him in the library…." Elie explained as she stood up.

"Okay…see you later." Stiles said with his mouth full of chicken nuggets. Scott didn't say anything but just waved. Just before leaving the boys, Elie turned and said,

"Oh, by the way, I'm picking up Dad's car from Bobby's after school so I'll get the groceries done…you want anything?"

"We need more pop-tarts." Stiles said after gulping down his water.

Elie pulled up the drive way and honked to get Stiles to come down and help her carry the groceries.

As Elie was opening the boot, Stiles leaned over his open window.

"I can't come down right now but I'll send OUR COUSIN MIGUEL down to help," he yelled while winking furiously. Before Elie could ask who the hell Miguel was, and what was wrong with his eyes, he was gone.

So she was shocked when Derek came down to help her.

"YOU are Miguel?" And for some reason, he was wearing Stile's ill-fitting T-shirt. He looked uncomfortable and she could see that he was seething. Oh no. What did HE do now?

"Don't ask," Derek said as he took the grocery bags from Elie. She quickly grabbed the rest of the bags and followed him into the house.

"Um…thanks for your help." Elie said as they walked into the kitchen.

"No problem." said Derek. She had expected him to go back to Stiles' room as soon as he put down the bags in the kitchen but he hung around watching Elie walk to and fro, putting the groceries away. She knew he was watching her and it made her nervous, but she tried really hard and pretended not to notice. But she couldn't stand the awkward silence so she casually asked Derek what Stiles was up to.

"He's getting one of his friends to trace the text that was sent to Allison that night."

"Oh…right…" and that was it. So she thought of something else to talk about. The weather? Or life as a wanted fugitive? She had no idea what to talk about. So she put away the rest of the groceries in silence, as fast as she could, and when she was done she turned around and said,

"Um….I'm going to make some coffee…do you want some?"

"Sure," said Derek. So she put the kettle on and grabbed the coffee jar and two cups.

"By the way, why are you wearing Stiles' shirt?" Elie asked as she poured hot water into the cups.

"Don't ask." said Derek as he sighed.

"I could get you one of my Dad's if you want. It might be a better fit…" Elie suggested as she handed him his coffee.

"That would be great, thanks."

Elie put down her coffee and told Derek to wait. She walked up to her Dad's bedroom to look for a T-shirt that he won't miss. She rummaged through the drawers and found a khaki T-shirt that he hadn't worn in ages, so she grabbed it and headed back to kitchen. But before she went downstairs, she stopped by at Stiles' room, and opened the door.

"Hey Stiles, you want something to drink? Hi Danny, what about you?"

"Hot Milo," said Stiles without taking his eyes off the computer screen.

"Hi Elie, um coffee would be nice," said Danny.

"Sugar? Milk?"

"Um one sugar and no milk thanks."

"Okay."

When Elie walked back into the kitchen, Derek was looking at the photos on the fridge as he drank his coffee.

"Is this your mum?" Derek asked as he pointed at one of the picture.

"Yup." It was one of her favourite photos of her mother. She looked beautiful and happy. In the photo, she was laughing and holding oatmeal covered Stiles (aged 3) and Elie in her arms. She thought about her everyday but she hardly talked about her with anyone because even after all these years, it still hurt to admit that she was gone. So she quickly handed him the T-shirt to avoid talking about her mum.

"Here, try this. It should be a better fit than that,"

"Thanks." Derek took it and put his cup down to change. The minute Elie realised that he was taking his shirt off in front of her, she quickly turned around and started making the drinks for the boys. She had already seen him shirtless that night at the Animal Clinic, but she had been freaking out too much to feel embarrassed and besides she didn't want him to think that she was staring at him.

When the drinks were done, Elie put her cup and the two cups for the boys on a tray and took it upstairs. Derek put his empty cup in the sink and followed Elie to Stiles' room.

"Here you go boys," Elie gave them the drinks and sat down on Stiles' bed and asked.

"How's it going?"

"It's almost done," said Danny. Derek sat in the chair by the wall and picked up a book. Elie and Stiles talked about the chemistry assignment and Harris as they drank their drinks and Danny continued to work on the computer. Elie noticed that he kept glancing at Derek, and she realised that Stiles may have used Derek as bait to get Danny to trace the text.

When Danny finally said he was done, the three of them gathered around him. He showed them the screen and when Elie saw the name, she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Registered to THAT account name?" asked Derek.

"No, nonononono, that can't be right." Stiles blurted out as he stared at the screen in disbelief.

Elie stared at the name [Melissa McCall] and wondered what the hell was going on. I thought tracing the text would bring us closer to figuring out who the alpha was. I'm 100% sure that Melissa isn't a werewolf so who had access to her email account? Elie looked at Stiles who looked as confused as she was.

"Yeah, I did and it looks just like the drawing…" said Stiles. Derek suddenly grabbed Stiles' wrist and pulled the phone closer to him and shouted at Scott through the phone as Stiles whimpered in pain.

"Hey, is there something on the back? There's gotta be something…inscription? An opening? Something!"

"No, no the thing's flat, and no it doesn't open. There's nothing in it, on it or around it. Nothing!" Elie heard Scott say before Stiles yanked his phone back from Derek. She couldn't hear what Scott said after that but from what Stiles was saying from this end, she figured that he was talking about the game.

"I know. Look, if you…you just see my Dad, can you tell him…tell him I'll be there… I'll just be little bit late, okay? All right. Thanks."

"You're not gonna make it," said Derek as soon as Stiles hung up.

"I know," Stiles sighed.

"Stiles! I told you! You should go to the game! I can look into this on my own!" said Elie.

"We've already talked about this!" Stiles outright refused to go to the game and leave Elie alone with Derek. There was no way that he would leave her alone with him. He knew Elie hated being treated like some sort of a damsel in distress, and knew that she could kick ass but that was only if she was fighting a human. They were up against werewolves, for crying out loud! So he was not going to take any chances. He was not going to lose her. If anything happened to her, it would break Dad…and I could never live with that.

"And you didn't tell him about his mum either," said Derek and interrupted Stiles' thoughts.

"Not until we find out the truth."

"Shall we?" said Elie as she got out of the car. If they hurried, may be they could make it to the game…well not for the whole game but may be for the second half….and may be Finstock would let Stiles play. She was angry that he didn't think she could do this. What did she have to do to prove to him that she didn't need to be protected like some….some fricking PRINCESS! She was fuming outside the Jeep when she heard Derek say,

"By the way, one more thing," and he slammed Stiles' head against the steering wheel.

"What the hell was that for?!" yelled Stiles as he covered his face with his hand in pain.

"YOU know what that was for. GO." Ignoring Stiles' cries Derek pointed at the hospital entrance.

"I can't believe this…You think that I can't handle something like this on my own? You could be at the game! You know how much Dad was looking forward to this!" said Elie as they walked out of the parking-lot. When Elie mentioned the Sheriff, Stiles stopped for a moment and said,

"Well, I only made the team because of the pink eye epidemic, not because I was good enough to be in first line."

"Stiles…."

"Right now, I just want to get to the bottom of this before Scott finds out his mum was somehow involved in this."

"…..So what's the plan?" Elie asked.

"Well, if someone's using the computer, you pretend to faint and while that person is fussing over you, I'll check who was on duty when the text was sent." Stiles explained.

"Pretend to faint? THAT'S your plan? They're professionals! They'll know as soon as they see me that I'm faking it!"

"I'll only need few minutes so may be stop breathing?"

"Stop breathing!? For FEW MINUTES? Are you serious?"

"Well, can you think of something else?"

"…..fine. But be quick."

She couldn't come up with anything else so she reluctantly agreed to go along with Stiles' plan. But when they walked in they were surprised to find the place empty. No one was sitting behind the reception area and the place was eerily quiet. As they walked along the deserted corridor, Stiles called Derek. They walked past the reception area and headed towards the rooms. She heard Stiles tell Derek that they couldn't find Melissa…or anyone. He walked into one of the rooms and Elie continued to walk along the corridor. She never really liked the hospitals anyway but the silence and the emptiness was creeping her out.

As Elie turned the corner, she saw a man with scars on the side of his face standing in the middle of the corridor. She was about to ask where everyone was, but he smiled and placed his index finger to his lips. Something about his smile was bothering Elie and when his hand slid into his pocket and brought out a familiar looking silver letter opener, she realised who this man was. I have to warn Stiles! Elie quickly turned around to yell out when the man quickly grabbed her from behind and pushed her against the wall. She was terrified but her instinct took over and she was about to knee him in the groin when he chuckled.

"…I wouldn't do that if I were you." He whispered in her ear, as he gently stroked her cheek with his hand. His hand slowly slipped down to her neck and she felt his claws pressing against her skin. It wasn't cutting into her skin yet, but she froze when she realised that one wrong move and he would rip her throat. Elie was desperately looking for a way to warn her brother when she heard him talking to Derek over the phone in one of the rooms.

"He's not here either. He's gone, Derek."

Elie was dragged along the corridor by the alpha and as they turned around the corner, Stiles was just backing out of a room. When Stiles saw Peter loom out of the corner, he was startled by him but when the man came into his full view and saw that Elie was being held hostage, Stiles freaked out.

Stiles slowly lowered his phone and the man smiled and said;

"Hello, you must be Stiles." His voice was soft and gentle but it sent a chill down Stiles' spine. He still had no idea who this was but the only thing in his mind was to get Elie away from him. She looked terrified but she was frantically mouthing something, but he couldn't figure it out. When he looked completely blank, Elie rolled her eyes and gestured with her arms for him to 'GO AWAY.' Ignoring his sister, Stiles took a step closer and begged,

"Please don't hurt her! If you need a hostage, take me. I…I'll be your hostage. Just…don't hurt her…PLEASE!"

When Elie heard this she couldn't hold it in any longer. She was not going to let Stiles be captured by the alpha. She would rather die than see him come to harm.

"NO! Stiles! Run for it!" Ignoring the claws, Elie screamed at her brother. She was expecting the alpha's claws to dig into her skin but instead, he chuckled again and said,

"This is so touching."

Stiles looked around in panic, hoping to see Derek come running; but when he turned around, all he saw was a red haired nurse instead. He hadn't hung up the phone yet so he was sure that Derek was listening to what was going on. Come on Derek, I need you!

"What are you doing here?! Visiting hours are OVER." the nurse said in a menacing tone. Something about the way she said it made him think and Stiles looked at the nurse, and then back at the man and it dawned on him.

"You….and…him! You're the one…Oh my…and he's the….Oh my god, we're gonna die. WE ARE GONNA DIE…" Stiles began to panic as he put two and two together and realised who was behind the text and more importantly who was holding Elie hostage. It was getting harder to breath, and he felt the panic attack come on, but Derek suddenly appeared and elbowed the nurse in the face, knocking her out cold with one blow.

"That's not nice. She's my nurse," said the alpha. He didn't raise his voice or show anger but somehow his gentle tone and manner was way more terrifying.

"She's a psycho bitch helping you kill people. Get out of the way." unfazed, Derek barked at the alpha and Stiles. As soon as he was told, Stiles crouched down, ready to get out of the place once his sister was free.

"Now, let HER go." Derek demanded.

"Oh, you mean this one? I like her. She's feisty. You know, she came at me with THIS?" said Peter as he threw down the silver letter opener. His other hand remained wrapped around Elie's throat. Stiles quickly slid across the corridor and grabbed the letter opener. He looked around to see if anyone was watching, but both Derek and the alpha had eyes locked on each other so he gripped it tight and waited for an opportunity.

"I'm serious. LET HER GO." Derek growled as he continued to glare at his uncle.

"You think I killed Laura on purpose? My own family?" the alpha walked towards Derek, without taking his hand off Elie's neck. As she was dragged along the corridor, she looked down and saw Stiles with the letter opener and she frantically shook her head. When the alpha stopped, she looked up and saw Derek grow fangs and his eyes turn icy blue. He howled loudly before charging at his uncle, who threw Elie down the floor to grab Derek. The two of them began to fight in the middle of the corridor, banging and crashing around the place. Stiles crawled towards his sister and shielded her from the debris as he dragged her out of the corridor.

As they ran out of the hospital, Elie looked back and said,

"We…we can't just leave Derek in there!"

"Why not?! They're family! They'll work it out!" Stiles tightened his grip on his sister's wrist to stop her from turning round, and continued to head for his Jeep. The only thing in his mind at this moment was to get his sister as far away from the alpha as possible and let Scott know that Peter Hale, Derek's uncle was the alpha.

A/N: Sorry I didn't update last week…I got stuck with extra shifts at work and I just didn't have anytime. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter and hopefully I would be able to update over the weekend or early next week. As always, thank you for reading, following and reviewing my story! :) Kallie, thank you for your review! (You weren't logged on so here's my thanks!)

Also, sorry for posting the same chapter twice, instead of updating this new chapter! Thank you to the readers who pointed out the mistake! I appreciate it! :)