A/N~ Suspension of disbelief alert. One- Scott is going after his mom to pick her up from work, when it had been established earlier that Derek had seen her leaving the hospital presumably going home from work. For the sake of storyline argument we're going to say that Scott figures his mom's car didn't work and her phone is dead. So being the good son he went to pick her up, help her with the car… Please return to your regularly scheduled programming. ~A

Chapter 22

The next day Derek and Issac are in the Loft. The light streaming in the windows would be blinding if it weren't for the fact the windows were filthy. The pair were having a serious discussion about who in the Pack the young Beta trusted, and why. Issac stared at his Alpha with a slightly confused expression as he asked, "Why are you asking me? I always figured the Alpha's had an instinct for this sort of thing."

"You have experienced more hardship than almost anyone else in the Pack," Derek explained, "And the kinds of things you endured if they don't destroy you, have a tendency to give you incredible insights into which people are trustworthy and where the danger will be coming from in certain situations. So who in the Pack do you trust and why?"

When he surprisingly says instantaneously, "Stiles, Allison and Scott," the Alpha had to ask, "Why?" and with well hidden hostility, "Especially, why he would trust Allison?"

The Beta explains, "She has something to prove now, she messed up, she knows it. Now she has to prove to herself and everybody else that she's not that person, that she's nothing like her aunt or the rest of her family." He explained in his best clinical, logical tone, Then he added with a deadpan expression, "Plus she's really hot."

To his credit Derek's mouth did not hang open but the expression on his face of surprise and consternation, had Issac snort in laughter before explaining in another dead pan delivery, "What? I may be a werewolf but I'm also a teenager, the hormones are still raging."

The Alpha suddenly roared with laughter, as the Beta stared at him with a small smile before Derek's phone rang. Derek glanced at the screen on his phone and smiled as he answered, "Were your ears burning McCall? We were just talking about you."

The smile fell as the Beta spoke on the other end of the call. "Where?" Again a brief pause as the other young man spoke. "We'll be there in a few minutes. Don't leave him alone."

At Issac's questioning look the Alpha grabbed his jacket and said, "Stiles was in an accident, he's in the hospital."

~O~

That same day; Allison woke up to discover her father never actually came home the night before. She tries his cell phone and his beeper only getting his voice mail. Then she used an app on her phone to track her fathers phone, only to discover that he apparently never left the Sheriff's department.

Getting a little desperate with worry the teen drives back over to the Sheriffs Department. She remembers the deputy who seemed not only to be in the know about werewolves but more than capable of handling even an Alpha like Kali. Which is more than most professionally trained Hunters could take on alone.

She finds the deputy alone in the squad room filling out paperwork. When she asked the young man what he was still doing there. Jordan explained, "We're a bit shorthanded right now and most of the other deputies have families." he said with a shrug. "Really I'm one of only two of the deputies that don't have a family. Anyway what can I do for you, Ms. Argent?"

"My dad, never made it home last night. Normally I wouldn't be worried, but considering the other group that was here, especially the woman and the other crazy who's running around, killing people… I have to admit to being very worried. I know there's nothing that you can technically do for the first 24 hours but do you have like video surveillance or something to show whether he actually left last night."

"Yeah just a second," Parrish said as he got up and went and collected a couple of files. One Allison saw had her father name at the top. The other was a thin notebook and the deputy looked at that one first. He located a code and began typing from the notebook directly into his computer and a quad view display of what appeared to be the impound yard behind the department was displayed and sitting there among several other vehicles including a few small boats and ATV's was her fathers SUV.

Now even more concerned the deputy pulled a chair up beside himself and had Allison sit beside him as he opened her fathers file and looked for the release time from the file. He explained as he searched through the same thin notebook, and put several codes in.

"We've been trying to get an upgrade to the system for months but the town fathers are reluctant to loosen the purse strings." the deputy explained absently as he continued to concentrate on his computer skills, "We have pretty good coverage on the impound yard because of the danger of theft and inside the building for security but around the outside is spotty at best."

The young man stopped talking as he pulled up video that was a couple of minutes prior to his listed release time. After a moment or two it showed a sober looking Chris Argent leaving the police station, seemingly unconcerned. Another angle showed him heading around the side of the building undoubtedly heading for the impound yard and his SUV. The computer then shifted back to the view of the fenced in yard, only her father never appeared. He had never made it back that far.

A few minutes later it showed Decaulion and one of the Alpha Twins heading outside with the other Alpha Twin picking the pair up in a nondescript sedan in front of the building. Which was a small relief, not only was Kali still locked up but the Alphas were apparently not involved in her fathers apparent disappearance.

Although she was fairly sure he wasn't supposed to leave the phones unmanned, the Deputy came out to the side of the building her father was last seen walking around. She tried his phone again a little desperately. They hear its faint chirp and after a couple of minutes of redialing and searching, they discover his phone about a hundred yards from the Sheriff's Dept. in shrubbery nearby. About that time it comes over the radio that EMT's have been called and are transporting a teen identified as the Sheriff's son to the hospital. Apparently he's been in an auto accident.

~O~

Derek, Issac, Kenzi, and Dyson are at the hospital. As well as Scott and strangely enough Allison. Scott is clearly agitated and pacing back and forth in the waiting area. It is only when Derek gets in front of him that the others realize the young Beta's eyes are glowing golden. The Alpha convinces Scott to tell them what happened in the hopes that talking about it will calm the teen down a bit.

Scott takes a deep breath and explains, "I found Stiles on my way to pick up my mom from work. Stiles Jeep had been flipped on its side, and he was laying on the road a few feet away. I'm not sure if he was thrown clear or managed to crawl out of the wreckage. He was unconscious when I got there and he didn't wake up on the way to the hospital."

"I…my mom will skin me when she finds out I moved him, and the Sheriff will have a cow that I disturbed a site of a traffic accident. But I had left my phone at home and I couldn't find his and I couldn't just wait for someone to pass by. Not on that road. So I just flipped the Jeep back up and stuck my bike in the back and drove him here." He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed before opening them to reveal his own dark colored eyes.

He continued, "They say he has some fractured ribs and a concussion, nothing too serious. Only thing is I haven't been able to find my mom. Stiles dad isn't answering my many attempts to get hold of him, and Stiles is going to freak out when he hears about it. His dad has been his whole life and still is mostly."

Derek nods and reassured the Beta, "I'll take care of it." Before heading down the hall towards the nurses station.

A/N/N~ In hindsight did anyone else ever get the creepy feeling when they said that last line from my previous note that you were the one being programmed and they were telling you to get back to being programmed? Just me? Oh well, please return… uhh, yeah never mind. ~A