A/N~ A couple more chapters after this including the epilogue, and then I may be able to move on to other projects. After a little bit of a rest to recharge the creative juices. Is it bad that I'm still recovering from the hurricanes? Prayers for Puerto Rico though seriously. Thank you all for continuing to read, enjoy and review. Love you guys. ~A

Chapter 28

The dark druid instead of answering the Alpha, scolds the out of town fae. "I don't remember inviting you?"

Bo sasses, "We sort of have a carte blanche,"

Ignoring the implication of the statement the Darach shakes her head with amusement and say, "You seem to have involved yourselves in the wrong kerfuffle, here."

Kenzi actually snorted at the word and said, Seriously are you trying to use a slang word of the day or are you just trying to sound older than you are. No one has ever used that word in a sentence in their entire lives..

Vex is facing the Alpha Pack's Alpha as he agrees, "Quite right. By the way the Morrigan sends her regards."

Decaulion actually looks a bit worried and goes a little gray at that comment. The dark druid laughs though and says, "It doesn't matter once I've completed my revenge. I'll finish with your little family."

"Then who knows," she said looking at Bo and Vex and said, "Maybe I'll go after your families or the people you care about."

"Yeah good luck with that," Vex responded with sharp amusement. Only those who knew him somewhat recognized the slight hint of yearning in his voice.

"Kill Decaulion and Derek and maybe I'll still let your parents go," the Darach said.

Kenzi told her honestly "I don't really care about the Alpha over there. Truthfully he's kind of a douche but we already know you're not letting the elders go. That's okay though like Derek said. It's a matter of trusting Stiles or trusting you. I think I will go with Stiles every single time."

"What do you know little wolf?"

"That after all that's happened you wasted power on healing Duke's eyes when you should have just killed him yourself and now that the eclipse is in full swing you don't even have the power to kill him yourself." Kenzi said in a surprisingly harsh tone. "You might as well give up now. Either way you're not getting out of here."

"I've got a better idea," said Scott. He then drew up all of his anger and fear for his mother and forced himself into the mountain ash circle and eventually he felt the shield collapse under his hands like an overfull balloon, destroying it. Just as the eclipse ended. His eyes changing to Alpha red as he does. Derek looks on impressed as the younger werewolf does this.

"That works too," Kenzi says with a wicked little smile.

"You can't kill me what'll happen to your parents. You'll never see them again," she says with a breathless little laugh.

"Stiles is already there and helping Kenzi stares at her phone screen. The glow lighting up her pale face in a blue glow that was actually pretty bad ass Dyson thought.

Seeing Scott's doubtful expression, the Darach gave a wicked smile at the continued perceived weakness of the baby Alpha. As he agreed, "You're right I can't kill you."

"I however, have no problem doing the deed., Decaulion says harshly before he slashes the Darach's throat. He then continues to vent his anger on the woman's body as the eclipse continues to wan.

~O~

There was a sudden scuffle and scramble at the entrance of the root cellar. As the earth continues to rumble and crack around them. Allison cried, "Can't hold it anymore."

Suddenly a silver bat appears and is lodged under the framework of the roof of the cellar. The roof of the root cellar is now less than half the height it used to be. The purple crackle of arcane energy flashes from the vat along the timbers that supported the ceiling and then spread out into the surrounding earth. The strain could still be heard in the surrounding earth as it continued to groan and creak. The supporting structure continued to stand strong though the cracking of the timbers stopped. The rumble and falling earth stopped and the collapsing of the earthen ceiling stopped.

With cries of relief everyone in the cellar hugged. Stiles though only had eyes for his father. Issac, free of the restraint of the eclipse, as it waned. Now easily snapped the handcuffs and worked to get Mama McCall free.

"Always said aluminum was better." The Sheriff said, totally ignoring the sheen of purple arcane energy that dances across the surface of the metal bat as it supports the wooden beam. Opting instead to pull his frail looking son into one of his famous bear hugs. He doesn't notice the oophing noise that Stiles makes or the increased pallor of the teen as his father pulls him closer.

Stiles gets a phone call from the new baby Alpha and reassures his best friend, "We're all fine. Everyone is okay but could you maybe bring a ladder?" His normally pale face even more pale than usual, and dotted with perspiration, not that anyone else had noticed yet.

~O~

Scott agrees to do that for his best friend as he turns and tells the anxiously waiting out of towners and mate the news. They're fine they'll probably need a ladder to get out, but other than that they're in fairly good shape according to Stiles at least."

"You and she had one thing in common revenge, how about walking a different path for a while. One called redemption."

Derek agrees and adds, "How many lives have you destroyed for whatever the fae councils have given you and usually more for their own agendas and not what the Packs may or may not have deserved." The Alpha said as he looked at the shattered older Alpha.

"My mother once told me you were a good man where there were so few good men who worked for the Council. It's time you worked your way back to being that man. Become that man again."

"You're free to go Decaulion." Scott tells the older Alpha, and with that the now sighted werewolf stumbles out into the moonlit night.

Meanwhile the four fae have gone outside to have their own discussion. Kenzi wants to know why Vex and Bo are really there. "The Morrigan sends her regards. What's that supposed to mean?"

"Vex hardly ever does anything unless there's something in it for him." Dyson agrees.

Bo and Vex then explain the deal with the Morrigan with Bo thoughtfully leaving out the sex and torture aspects that have been part of Vex's life for the past many years.

Dyson agreed, "I thought there was something familiar in the pictures of Claudia the bone structure of Stiles mother looked very similar to the Morrigan, just maybe a slightly older version of the Queen of the Dark Fae."

"Why didn't you tell me?" Kenzi asked.

Dyson said, "I thought you would have noticed you saw the same pictures I did. I just thought you didn't say anything to the boy for fear of freaking him out even more than he already was about fae, magic, and being a Spark."

"Ok good point." Kenzi said. "Why is Vex involved?"

"I do this, I'm out from under the Morrigan for good although she doesn't seem to believe that," The Mesmer said with wry amusement. "Who knows maybe I'll join you in being unaligned succubus."

"Heaven help us all," Dyson said under his breath. As he drew his mate closer to his side in a possessive gesture.

"Maybe we can use it as blackmail against her so she'll never mess with us or Stiles again," Kenzi said her brows knit, setting her mind to working out the details of the idea.

"I don't really think that's going to be a problem," Vex said. "The Morrigan has stayed away this long I have a feeling she and the mother probably had already made an agreement between them. An agreement that she has kept for years. I don't really see a reason for her to break it now. Do you?"

"We'll see." the younger werewolf said thoughtfully.