Chloe's POV

The car came to a stop. I looked to Elijah for instruction. He smelled the air.

"No one else is here," he said.

I tilted my head up and caught the scents of the Bae family. A hissing growl escaped my throat that made Elijah jump.

"No," he warned.

But Nate's instructions?

He started up the car again.

"We aren't waiting here for them. We don't want to seem like an ambush. Where is the nearest place to stay?"

Why did he keep trying to have conversation with me?

"Ok Stonewall," Elijah huffed. "Out."

He pointed at the car door. Orders. I got out and stood rigidly.

"Come," he ordered.

I followed Elijah as he walked through the backyard to the tall grassy field behind.

"Stay lookout here," he instructed. "DO NOT attack without permission."

"Yes sir," I sat down on a rock facing the empty odd home.

Elijah sat with his back to mine, watching the field. I listened to the beating of his heart.

Simon's POV

We swept the grounds quickly and couldn't find Chloe. Dad wrapped up the search because our unconscious friends needed to get to the hospital too.

We sped to the hospital and got them admitted through the ER. A nurse was patching up a nasty bruisd on my head and checking me for a concussion when Matt wheeled in on a wheelchair.

"How is everyone?" I asked.

"Tess and I needed stitches but should be fine. Your unconscious buddies should be fine, they're all awake."

I shifted nervously, why didn't he say anything about Derek?

"Hold still," the nurse said to me as she shined a light in my eyes.

"What about...?" I hesitated, I didn't know if they admitted him under a different name.

Matt sighed, "Its touch and go still. He is still in surgery."

Another nurse appeared in the doorway.

"Come along Mr. Merch we need to get you fitted to crutches."

Matt nodded. Before he wheeled away he looked at me and said, "Keep prayin for him. Thats all we can do for now."

I did, I hoped with all my heart that Derek would be alright. The nurse cleared me as ok and dismissed me to the waiting room. I found Dad and sat next to him and Tori. Dad gave me a strange look.

"What?" I asked.

He cleared his throat. "Care to explain what exactly you two were up to back there?"

Tori quickly shook her head.

"Tori used me as a magic battery," I lied partially. I had used her.

I couldn't tell if Dad saw through me or bought it. He stared off at nothing quietly.

Time Skip. Let's say two hours.

A gray haired doctor approached us.

"Your son's in a room now," he said. "You can go see him. But he's heavily sedated."

We were lead to his room. Derek laid there sleeping, blankets were covering him so we couldn't see the bandages.

"We're keeping him for observation," the doctor said. "He's still in a risky state. Please leave him be, don't mess with anything."

The doctor left with Dad to fill out paperwork. I sat beside him, feeling relief and worry. He should be ok but he wasn't out of the woods until it healed.

I looked at Tori, "Can we help him?"

"Tori shouldn't heal again," Tess shook her head. "His body needs to heal naturally from something like this."

I looked at Matt for support. We couldn't leave Derek here and try to find Chloe. We needed him on his feet.

Matt looked at Tori then Tess, "Well Tori could at least use her magic to examine him and get an idea of where he is at."

Tori nodded and came over, she muttered something similar to earlier and held her hand over him.

"What do you think he meant about Chloe being in a car?" I asked Matt.

He shrugged, Tess looked like she didn't know the answer either.

"I think a better question," Jeremy spoke up. "Is why did he let us go to the pack when he knew she wasn't there."

Jeremy had a fair point but it wasn't like Derek to hide information like that.

Before anyone responded to Jeremy, Tori pulled her hand back from Derek.

"If he doesn't get magic healing, it'll take weeks to heal. We all knew Derek won't sit around waiting for that."

Tori and Tess started debating whether or not to use magic to help heal him. I was distracted by something hitting my foot. I looked down to see a neatly folded paper. I picked it up and unfolded it. It read, 'getting closer, have a good lead. give me a few days.'

It must have been from Liz, she has a lead on someone with a spell that could help me and Tori.

"Do you want him changing into a wolf in the middle of this human hospital?" Tori asked her. "Because that's what is going to happen. He can't handle sitting around, it drives him mad."

Tess threw down her final card in the argument, "I think his father should be the one to decide. Not you."

Frustrated, Tori sat down beside me. I passed her the note and we all waited for Dad to come back to make the final decision.

Half an hour give or take time skip

Dad came back in, "Tess."

"We wanted to talk to you about-" She started.

"-It can wait." Dad interrupted. "We have a problem."

"What?" We all chimed in.

"Before I left, I put up a perimeter spell around the property. It was breached earlier today."

"By who?" Matt asked.

Dad shrugged, "I didn't have time to put up more than the basic spell. I have no idea who or where."

"Do you know how long they were there?" I asked.

"That's the other troubling part," Dad continued. "I never got a second breach from them leaving. So they either tore down my spell or are still there. Waiting."

I stood, "Some of us need to go back then."

Matt held up a hand, "Whoa, hold on."

"He's right though," Jeremy added.

Tori, who had been surprising me with her dedication to Derek, spoke up as well.

"Kit, we need to fix Derek before we worry about our waiting attackers."

"Excuse me?"

"She's right Dad," I nodded. "We can't leave him here like this for weeks. We need to fix him up. He'll go nuts and do something stupid if he has to lay here forever."

Dad nodded. "You're right."

"Kit," Tess started but Dad held up a hand and cut her off.

Tori went to work with a smug look on her face. Happy that she outdid Tess. I liked this change of heart Tori though, she finally cared about us and what happened to us.