Despite mom's worry, Isaac and I got to school early. He decided since he had the time he should go meet with Coach to make sure he was on the right track for Econ. I threatened him with bodily harm if he wasn't because I spent way too much time tutoring everyone for him to fail. Really by everyone, I just mean him and Scott, although Allison was falling behind in some subjects.

I noticed a black Camaro in the parking lot so I went to find out if Derek was there. I heard his voice coming from my English class, which reminded me that the teacher knew something weird was happening in Beacon Hills. I couldn't help but listen in and I became more annoyed by the second at how gentle he was being with her. Usually, he's super gruff and surly to everyone. Stupid Derek. I was even more annoyed when she introduced herself sounding all charmed and innocent, ugh.

Isaac appeared at my side seemingly out of thin air. His eyebrow rose and he smirked as if he just caught me, which I suppose he did. I flicked him anyway because he knew I couldn't do the eyebrow thing and it drove me nuts.

"Did either of you bother checking your phones at any time in the last 24 hours?" Stiles called out to us making us both yip in surprise. Which totally let Derek know that we were there, sure enough, he stepped out of the classroom looking at us as if we were little kids. And that we were in trouble. I don't know what made me do it but I just had an undeniable urge to stick my tongue out at him, so I did.

"No, we were busy," I said flipping my hair which was seemingly the wrong move because both Derek and Stiles' eyes suddenly focused on my neck.

"It looks like it," Derek said stoically "Didn't know you guys were getting so close,"

Both Isaac and I started sputtering in protest even though it didn't look good. Someone stepped up close to me from behind and tucked one of my curls behind my ear. He leaned down "Looks like I got you into trouble," he said not really caring that people were looking at us and that I was as red as a tomato "This weekend was fun," he whispered smirking at Derek like it was a challenge, and walked away.

"Thanks a lot, Aiden!" I called out in exasperation. I decided to try to ignore what happened even though Derek and Stiles looked very grumpy and Isaac….Isaac had this weird look on his face like he just realized something "Any way you were saying something about a phone call?"

Stiles' eyes hardened a little as Derek glared at Aiden's back "Yeah, another person went missing last night," he told us. I could tell he wanted to say more but he clearly didn't want to look at me "Come on Coach is going to kill us if we're late for track." Isaac told him we'd be there in a second and turned to talk to me but Derek beat him to it.

"So that guy? That's who you're with now?" He asked.

"No, that is not who I am with. He offered me a distraction for the weekend and I took it," I told him defiantly "I've been getting weaker all summer and I needed to….stock up on energy," I was trying to put it delicately but by the way Derek's nostrils flared I think all he heard was "I had sex with a random dude because I needed power, but too bad for you Derek your junk is obviously not good enough" I was extremely annoyed with the look on his face so quite childishly I added "Plus you're getting all cozy with my English teacher so your one to talk,"

His mouth opened in shock "I'm not…."

"Oh please you used the same shtick with me, won't be long till she's in your bed," I hissed at him. He looked like he was about to protest so I grabbed Isaac and drug him along with me "Bye Derek," I called out.

"Oh jeez, he's going to kill someone," Isaac groaned "Probably me. He thought that we…that you and I were…and we couldn't say we….wow that was awkward," He said. I let out a chuckle, as soon as I got away from him my mood was back to being great.

"Suck it up Layhey, you're late to get dressed," He groaned and left for the locker room.

I waited outside for everyone since I had worn running clothes to school. I knew Lydia would freak out if I wore them all day so I had extra clothes for after. Plus I liked listening to locker room talk, most of it was obnoxious but sometimes you find out some really interesting things. Like Stiles talking about virgins.

"Missing and presumed dead because he's probably a virgin, Scott. And you know who else is a virgin? Me. I'm a virgin, okay? And you know what that means? It means that my lack of sexual experience is now literally a threat to my life. Okay, I need to have sex, like, right now. Someone needs to have sex with me, like, today. Like, someone needs to sex me right now!" I giggled at the panic in his voice.

Then I heard a locker door slam "All right, I'll do it," was that Danny?

"What?"

"Come to my place at 9:00. Plan to stay the night. I like to cuddle" Awe.

"Oh. That was so sweet. Are you kidding?" Stiles asked really touched.

"Yes, I'm kidding,"

"Okay, you know, you don't toy with a guy's emotions like that, Danny. It's not attractive, all right?" I laughed again. Poor Stiles.

Coach suddenly shouted "Mr. Lahey, happy to have you back. Not happy that you're late,"

"Sorry, coach," Isaac said not sounding sorry at all.

"I'll remind you all, cross-country is not optional for lacrosse players. I don't need you turning into a bunch of fat-asses in the off-season," Coach paused "So work on that," The boys started to come out and Isaac stopped next to me.

"No fat asses here that I can see," I said to Isaac pretending to check him out and winking. He just smiled and shook his head "I'll meet you out there, I'll just be a second,"

When Stiles came out I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and gently pushed him against the wall. "Ar-Arielle hey," He said surprised

"You know Stiles," I said pressing against him "I would have totally taken your virginity if you had been a good boy," I told him and then kissed him soundly. When I pulled back I smirked at him "Oh well," I left him sputtering behind me.

I didn't get far before I was pulled back into another hallway. I was surprised to find Aiden grinning at me "Hey," he said and then traced my lips "Don't tell me I'm losing you that quickly," he said amicably. I grinned back at him.

"No, it's my mission to make him regret what he did,"

"Well, that's good. I had way too good of a time this weekend to stop there," He told me tilting my head so he could bite where he had left the hickey on my neck. I whimpered pressing against him. He stilled as he looked down the hall. I froze as I saw Derek standing there glaring with his fists clenched. I went to push Aiden off when he grinned at Derek and turned to kiss me hard, hands pulling out my ponytail and running his hands through it. I forgot for a second what was happening and when I pushed him off I was blushing. He grinned at me and pecked my lips going to meet his brother who was waiting for him. I turned a little, scared to look, but was relieved when Derek wasn't standing there still. I swear one of these days I was going to have a heart attack.

I could hear Coach yelling outside so I ran to the field to start stretching. We all started to get in a position to run when the twins stepped around Isaac. He got the same weird look he had earlier mixed with panic. I was about to ask him what was wrong when Coach blew his whistle "Pace yourselves! Come on!"

Isaac leaped up panicking. Scott grabbed him by the shoulder as we both said his name worriedly. "It's them," he said and took off running.

Scott shouted "Isaac, wait! Isaac!"

"Scott! Go! I'm not as fast as you!" I told him even as I took off myself. I was fast but not werewolf fast.

I was a little ways away when I saw Ethan and Aiden holding Isaac down "Ethan, I always forget, how many bones are in the human body?" Aiden asked his brother. Luckily Scott was ahead of me.

"I don't know. Let's count." Ethan said sadistically and then raised his arm to punch Isaac. Scott got there right before and punched him in the nose.

"That's one," He said cockily. All four boys had fangs, claws, and glowing eyes out on display. Of course, I had been with another werewolf. I was debating what to do when we heard a girl scream. The boys froze and I figure it was safe to leave them and went to check out what was happening. We booked it over the hill and we all stopped when we saw the body tied to the tree by the neck, his head was caved in on one side. Another sacrifice.

"It's him, isn't it?" Stiles asked Scott who hesitated before he shook his head yes.

"Hey, get out of the way. Get back. Get this area cordoned off before they trample every piece of evidence." The Sheriff yelled as he came running up the hill about 15 minutes later. His partner yelled for everyone to get back "Get these kids out of here!"

"Dad, just come here. Look, look. Look at it. It's the same as the others, you see?" Stiles told him frantically.

"Yeah, I see that. Do me a favor. Go back to school, yeah? Coach, can you give us a hand here?"

"You heard the man. Nothing to see here. Probably just some homeless kid."

"Coach. He was a senior," Scott told him.

"Oh. He wasn't on the team, was he?"

A girl came running up screaming the kid's name frantically. Officer Tara had to hold her back. The sheriff motioned for us to go, and I obliged I was already tearing up at the whole scene.

"You see the way the twins looked at him?" Isaac asked.

"Yeah, you mean like they had no idea what happened?" Stiles replied.

"No, no, they knew," Isaac said, he was acting a little erratic.

"The kid was strangled with a garrote, all right? Am I the only one recognizing the lack of "werewolfitude" in these murders?"

"Oh, you think it's a coincidence they turn up and then people start dying? What about the fact that Arielle went away with one of them for a weekend, and nothing happened? The second they get back someone dies." Everyone paused at the thought.

"Well, no, but I still don't think it's them,"

"Scott. How 'bout you?" Isaac asked him and Scott crossed his arms.

"I don't know yet." Stiles made a sound of disbelief "Well, he's got a point. Seriously, dude, human sacrifices?" Scott asked Stiles.

"Scott, your eyes turn into yellow glow sticks, okay? Hair literally grows from your cheeks and then will immediately disappear, and if I were to stab you right now, it would just magically heal, but you're telling me that you're having trouble grasping human sacrifices?" He asked obviously frustrated.

"That's a good point too," Scott agreed, looking at Isaac apologetically.

"I don't care. They killed that kid, they killed the girl that saved me. I'm gonna kill them too." Isaac called out vehemently. I started to go after him when Isaac collapsed and I sank to my knees holding my ears.

Scott and Stiles came running to help us "Arielle what is it? What's happening?"

"Derek," I gasped out. I got up stumbling and Stiles steadied me "I have to go,"

"Arielle you can't miss class again," Stiles tried to reason with me.

"I'm sorry, I have to go." I pushed him off of me and ran as fast as I could to school. Once I was in the car I went way past the speed limit to get to Derek's loft, luckily for me, the police were too busy to deal with speeders today. I felt immediate guilt.

I had just got to the stairs of his loft when I heard an angry roar "Know me? You've never seen anything like me. I am the Alpha of Alphas. I am the apex of apex predators! I am death, destroyer of worlds! I am the demon-wolf!" all the hairs on my body lifted at the sound of his voice, I was terrified but I had to get to Derek. I had reached the top of the stairs hearing something metal clank against concrete, I saw a group of people briefly but my eyes were drawn to Derek lying in a pool of his own blood.

"Derek!" I called out desperately running to him to hold his head up.

"Arielle you shouldn't be-" I was pulled backward by my hair. I was so mad I took the offending hand and used the person's momentum to flip them over me. The nurse from the hospital. I blocked a punch from her before I was grabbed from behind again but this time my arms were locked across my torso. I was lifted kicking and yelling over to a man who was obviously blind, his eyes white and milky.

"Let me go!" I snarled angrily and managed to kick the guy who was holding me in the nuts. Unfortunately, he just squeezed me harder so I could barely breathe.

"Now, now Ennis gentle," The man told my captor. Then the man grabbed my face. "Who are you? You have a glow about you…..I can almost see you," He said in awe turning my face this way and that.

"None of your Goddamn business," I managed to hiss out.

His lips pursed not satisfied with my answer "Do you know who I am little one?"

"Oppenheimer?" I questioned sarcastically as I could "Mr. Death destroyer of worlds?" He chuckled.

"Feisty. I am Deucalion, the Alpha of Alphas," he told me threateningly.

"Yes, I heard the speech Son of Prometheus,"

"Smart too." He said holding one of my curls "I swear I can almost see you. What are you?" He asked.

"Human," I gasped out

"Don't lie to me," He growled. Then he tilted his head to the side as if hearing something in the distance "Unfortunately I have other business to attend to. We can continue this conversation at a later date."

The one holding me dropped me onto the ground where I kneeled gasping for breath. They turned to leave and were almost out the door when I got my some air back "Sorry, I'm going to have to decline your invitation,"

He shot me a smile "We will see," Then they were gone.

I crawled over to Derek and Cora "How's he doing?" I asked her taking his head and settling it on my lap so I could stroke his hair comfortingly while I drained some of his pain and pushed my healing into him.

She glared at me "What are you?"

I was surprised Derek hadn't told her, and that she didn't remember seeing my wings at school "If Derek wants to tell you he can," she looked like she wanted to snap me in half "Help me get him into his bed,"

She reluctantly got up and helped me somehow get him into his room. I sat him on his bed and pulled off his shirt. My eyes welled up when I saw the hole in his stomach, and that was after his and my healing had kicked in. I grabbed a towel and put it under his back to soak up the blood. I heard Cora protest as I started taking off his pants. "It's nothing I haven't seen before," I told her. She decided to leave the room instead of replying.

I had been concentrating on healing him for about half an hour when Derek woke up. "Arielle,"

"Hey Der, just relax okay? Your internal wounds have healed but the outside ones will take a little longer." He ignored me and started to get up groaning.

"What are you doing here?" He asked seriously.

"I heard your howl," I told him eyes tearing up again "I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner,"

He shoved my hands away from their place around his wound "You shouldn't have come, you shouldn't be here." My brows furrowed.

"What?"

"The Alpha pack knows about you now, they know you are something. Do you think that he will just ignore your presence after he finds out?" he asked me angrily.

"I don't care, Derek," I told him just as angrily "You were half dead when I came in!"

"They wouldn't kill me! They want me in their pack! You put a target on your back for no reason." He glared at me and I glared right back "Get out," He told me.

"Der-,"

"Get out!" he shouted at me and it made me jump up in surprise.

"Derek, come on let me help you," I told him moving my hands in a calm-down motion. He reached out and grabbed my wrist twisting it harshly.

"Get out and don't come back," He growled. I blinked back tears at the fear and hurt I felt right at this moment. I wrenched my hand away from him and ran, tears spilling down my face. It started to pour as I got into my car. I tried to reach Isaac but he wasn't answering. So I called Stiles.

"Arielle?"

"Stiles….would you mind if I came over?"

"Uh no, I suppose not. You okay?" he asked me.

"I don't know,"

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"Stiles?" I called out when I got to his house.

"He's upstairs," said the Sheriff who came out of the kitchen to greet me "How are you, Arielle? I'm sorry you had to see that today,"

I shook my head "It could have been worse…..I could have been the girl who was screaming because she saw someone she knew,"

He nodded understandingly "Hey….do you know what's going on with Stiles? He's been more erratic than usual, he says he's been taking his Adderall but it doesn't seem to be working very well," I blushed.

"We sort of broke up," He blinked at me in surprise "We're working on being friends right now, I think," I told him.

He nodded again "I hope you two work it out, it's nice having you around. I have to go to work, I don't know if I'll be back tonight."

I grinned at him "You can't get rid of me that easy Sheriff," He smiled and shook his head as I ran up the steps to Stiles' room. "Stiles?"

He poked his head out of his room and motioned me inside. As soon as I was in he started babbling to me all of this stuff he had found out about dark druids and the sacrifices and that Lydia the Doc and he thinks that Harris was taken to be a sacrifice.

"Harris? Why?"

"Because the Dark Druid or the Darach has moved from virgins to warriors,"

"Huh, so that means your safe then," I said grinning at him. He looked at me seriously and grabbed my hand to pull me to him.

"You know I care about you right? Like a lot? I was stupid, I know that and I am so sorry." He pulled me close enough to kiss me and I let him. He maneuvered me onto my back on the bed and kissed me softly. Just as he was gently moving his hand up my shirt he froze.

"What? What's wrong?"

He brought his hand up so we could see it and it was covered in blood "What the hell Arielle? What is this from?" He asked lifting my shirt up to see where the blood was coming from. He turned a little green "You have a hole in your stomach," He said jumping up to go to the bathroom to either grab stuff to help me or to throw up. I looked down in mild surprise to see there was, in fact, a hole in my stomach.

Stiles came running in "So I think I figured out a new power sort of, at least an upgraded one," I told Stiles nonchalantly as I poked my wound.

"Don't do that!" He said batting my hand away from the wound, pressing a wet washcloth causing me to hiss "What's this new power?"

"Before I was able to mostly heal small things you know, solely by using my own energy, now though I think I can take some of someone else's wound if it's more serious,"

"Whose wound is this?"

"Derek's"

I felt him tense "Derek got hurt this bad and let you take it?"

"He was passed out so he didn't get much say, Stiles. Plus I didn't even know that I had taken it till just now,"

"How did you not notice this?"

I shrugged hissing as he pressed on a particularly sore part "My adrenaline was going and I was upset and angry that he basically threw me out because the alphas saw me,"

Stiles sighed exasperatedly "Arielle are you serious? You are supposed to be lying low! And Derek kicked you out? What's that all about?"

"I dunno but….you aren't going to like what's about to happen," I groaned and flipped over lifting up my shirt from my back and he groaned again at what I presumably assumed was another hole. He started to administer the same attention to my back. My phone rang and I answered it containing my groan "Hello?"

"Arielle?" Isaacs's voice floated through the speaker nearly breaking at the end.

My head popped up and Stiles pushed it back down "Umph, Isaac what's wrong?"

"Derek. He threw me out. He even threw something at me. If I hadn't ducked then it would have shattered in my face."

"He what?" I snarled angrily getting back up just to be pushed down again by Stiles "Where are you? Are you okay? Can I come to get you? You can stay at my house."

"Uh well, I just sort of ran…and I ended up at Scott's house," This time I did sit up despite Stiles' attempts at preventing me.

"Why Scott? Why didn't you just call me? You know my parents won't mind if you stay with us, they absolutely adore you."

"I know, I just ended up here first is all and…..I already asked if I could stay here."

I was baffled "Is this because I wasn't there today? I am so sorry Isaac if I had known everything that was going to happen I would have stayed at school,"

"No of course not. I just think I need to be here right now."

We both paused "Okay. I guess…let me know if you need me,"

"Of course. Night Ari." I looked at my phone dejectedly as I hung up, I wonder what was happening. Stiles moved my arms up so he could finish bandaging my torso. He finished it off and flopped next to me tiredly.

"You're fixed up as best as I can manage," he told me.

I looked at him. Taking in his messy hair and his arms held limply at his sides still showing off how toned he was. I just wanted to be comforted. I leaned over and kissed him softly. His eyes widened in surprise but he kissed me back just as gently.

"You don't have to of course, but I know something you can do that will help even more," I told him. He was confused until I moved to straddle him still being tentative, giving him all the time in the world to protest. His hands immediately went up to my hips.

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"You want to have sex with me?"

"Only if you want to," I told him shyly.

His Addams apple bobbed nervously as he licked his lips which made me lean down to nibble where his tongue had been. He groaned softly and turned us over. He hovered over me hesitantly and I just laid there watching him letting him make the next move. He bent down to kiss me gently, his hands caressing down my sides until they reached the hem of my bloody shirt and worked it over my head. He looked down at me in my bra and with the gauze wrapped around my stomach.

"I'm sorry this is messing up the image," I said nervously

A small smile worked its way across his face "It isn't ruining anything. This is just the real you. The warrior who helps others even if it hurts her. You are beautiful no matter what," I felt tears well up and so I brought his face down to mine to kiss him.

I took off his shirt and we both fumbled for each other's pants laughing softly at the other's eagerness. We finally got to some semblance of undress and I was hovering over him again kissing down his throat, over his pecs, down his abs which I couldn't help but lick which made him twitch everywhere. I pulled off his boxers and looked down at him, he was perfect. I had to taste him. I gently nibbled his hip bones which made him buck upwards. I smiled and held them down as I continued. He groaned as I got closer, hands tangling in my hair. I licked the tip of his penis, he moaned as I slowly took him in my mouth and gently sucked. I looked up when I heard mumbling and saw him fervently trying to list all the current players of the Mets. I took this as a good sign that I was doing something right and continued my administration until he frantically brought me back up to kiss me.

"Umm as good as this is I really don't want to be embarrassed at how short this is going to be so if you could hold that amazingness for another time I would be both grateful and disappointed," I giggled. That was so typical.

"How about you lead?" I said falling to my back again, wincing slightly at the twinge of pain in my back. He eagerly sat up on his side to look at me. He hesitantly moved his hand towards my breast but changed it for my side instead. I chose to say nothing and let him work up to it. He leaned over to kiss me, slowly massaging his way to cupping my breast. He paused when he got there so he could see if I had any objections. I didn't.

He started to fondle me playing with my breasts and then my nipples, watching me closely to see what I liked. I was getting more worked up and I really wanted more so I cupped his face and brought his mouth to hover over my breast. I felt his ragged breath, unsure of what to do when his tongue shot out to lick my nipple. My back arched and he took that as a good sign obviously, because his mouth was on me sucking and nipping as his hand traveled down to my underwear. He kept up his ministrations with his mouth as he pulled off my underwear and kneeled between my legs. He palmed my core and moaned at the heat. He gently explored the area with the pads of his fingers, paying attention to my clit as I whimpered at the teasing grazes of his hands. He slipped one finger into my pussy exploring me. He pulled his finger out and looked at it, wet with my juices. He looked at me and experimentally licked his fingers. He seemed to enjoy it because his mouth attached to my opening not too long after, his tongue entering me messily. He was inexperienced, but it was amazing. He was sloppy with his mouth but it almost made it better. He continued and entered a digit inside of me pumping as he licked. His lips pinched my clit and I exploded. He froze for a second in surprise but started to lap up my cum quickly. I had grabbed his hair and was tugging on it as I rode out my orgasm.

He came back up to look at me "Do you want to….keep going?" I nodded my head and kissed him tasting myself on him. He carefully lined himself up at my entrance and slowly began entering me. Halfway in he was panting and struggling to not buck his hips into me.

"Baby go ahead, you're not going to hurt me," I told him groaning because I just wanted to feel full. He wasted no time pumping into me groaning as his hips snapped to meet mine erratically. He was close but I wasn't so I held his hips firmly stopping him while he was inside of me.

"Did I hurt you?" He asked out of breath, looking at me through half-lidded eyes.

I smiled "No, but you'll last longer if you take me slower," I felt his penis twitch inside me in response and he slowed down cursing at the slow pace, but he did it. I took his other hand and placed it on my clit. He began to rub harder than before. When I moaned in pleasure his hips started to pump quicker in response. He furiously rubbed my clit until we both hit our climax and cried out. He collapsed still inside of me twitching. I whimpered at the full feeling and snuggled into him more. We lay side by side still connected and exhausted. We both fell asleep just like that.

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When I woke up it was to a twitching inside of me. I groaned as I looked around me noticing his member was still inside of me and awake, even if he wasn't. I looked at his alarm clock 3:00 a.m. we had plenty of time. So I straddled him making sure he didn't slip out of me and started to rotate my hips as I gently pumped myself up and down on him. He groaned in his sleep, his hand going to my hip and squeezing tightly. I went faster and harder until we were both coming again. I was pleasantly surprised to see his wide but sleepy eyes watching me as we finished. "Thought this whole thing was a dream, but I can handle waking up like this." I smiled and shifted us so we were lying down again, him still inside me though we should part soon. "Don't," he told me reading my mind. "Let's just stay like this." I smiled in agreement and fell asleep again.

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I woke up to an arm around my naked waist. I turned to see Stiles spooning me. I tried to gently remove his arm but he just pulled me closer which was not helping. "Stiles! Stiles, I'm sorry I have to get up real quick," I told him softly.

"No," he mumbled still mostly asleep.

"Stiles," I whined "I really, really have to go to the bathroom," His eyes popped open and he removed his arm from me so I could hop out and run to the bathroom. Once I was back in his room I realized how stupid that was, what if the Sherriff had seen me running around his house naked? Stiles didn't seem to mind much though if his staring was any indication. He motioned me over to him, I did while looking at the clock. It was time to go to school, I told him so but he just pulled me onto the bed.

"I don't care." He told me kissing my neck and running his hands through my hair. I groaned. He got more comfortable spreading my legs and sliding between them.

"We don't have time," I told him breathlessly as he slipped a finger into me checking if I was ready for him. Which I was.

"Plenty of time," He said sliding into me and pumping. He was gentle since he was still sleepy and it was a nice way to enjoy the morning. I groaned as we both finished and my eyes slid closed tiredly as I snuggled in farther. I could hear the smile in his voice "Come on we gotta go now."

"No," I grumbled contentedly and offered some very rude words when he practically dragged me out of bed. We got dressed and he tossed me some of his clothes to wear which brought me back to last semester.

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We got to school where everyone was waiting for us. Scott sniffed the air and looked a little disgusted and proud at the same time. I think he meant to be a lot quieter when he told Stiles "Dude you both totally smell like sex," everyone's head whipped up to look at us and I turned bright red.

"Yeah, I'll be going to class now. See you all later." Hurriedly walked away as Scott called for me to wait up.

"Arielle! Hey, I am so sorry I didn't mean to say it so loudly. I know that you might not be feeling particularly friendly toward me right now but did you happen to see Allison at the school the other night?"

"No," I lied.

"You sure?" He reached out to stop me "This is serious she has to stay away from this,"

"Why are you talking to me about it? This is a conversation you should be having with her,"

"I am. Tonight,"

"Awesome," I said walking to first period.

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At lunch, I was stopped by Aiden blocking my locker "Move," I said annoyed.

"How about we chat first," He gave me one of his side smiles.

"No thanks," I told him bumping him away from my locker so I could put my books in.

He shut it nearly getting my fingers "Now Arielle,"

I turned towards him furious "Do. Not. Tell. Me. What. To. Do," I snarled "You are not my Alpha. You're trying to kill my friends, and in general, you are trying to fuck shit up," He glared at me, grabbed my arm, and practically shoved me into Coaches office. I was so unbelievably mad. I had opened my mouth to yell at him when he pushed me onto Coaches desk and kissed me. I was surprised for a second and then shoved him off of me angrily "What the actual fuck?"

"Calm down," he told me which was so the wrong thing to say. I punched him in the jaw.

He groaned and moved it back in place with a click "You ready to talk now?" I answered that with a spinning back kick to his abdomen which sent him straight into a wall, making frames crash down around us. He groaned and steadied himself only to be met with an uppercut to his jaw. I tried to knee him in the stomach but he blocked it and swept my leg which caused me to fall to the ground. On the glass. I hissed as the glass got embedded into a couple of places, he straddled me quickly blocking my punches and forcing my arms above my head. We were both panting and I was so angry, struggling while he called for me to calm down.

I realized I wasn't getting anywhere, took a shuddering breath, and allowed myself to go limp.

"You calm?" He asked.

"No,"

He sighed exasperatedly "I'm sorry this is all happening," His muscles flexed as I struggled against him again in anger.

"You're a lying asshole," I told him.

"Arielle. This is what we do. You don't have to be afraid though." I gaped at him "Deucalion knows that you're something special. He already agreed to keep you alive. Derek won't have to kill you,"

I surprised him by bucking him off me and pinning him. He wiggled for a second and then held still "So you are expecting me to be happy about him not having to kill me but he is still going to be expected to kill everyone else?"

"Well maybe one more person could live. You wouldn't be able to be with that human anymore of course, and he probably will want to pick someone for you to be with. Derek is resisting so much that he will probably be punished by not being allowed to have you." I raised one arm to deck him again when I found myself being pushed up off of him, and pinned to the wall. He had only let me think I had had him pinned. Jerk. "Stop fighting me," he snarled angrily.

"No. I am not joining your crazy-assed pack and neither is Derek!" I called frustrated.

"I don't want you to get hurt. Please just go with it." He implored me moving his hands to the sides of my face to kiss me "We enjoy each other, think about how great the music festival was. We could have that from now on."

I took a shuddering breath "I'd be expected to kill people with you all, to ruin people's lives. I won't do it."

He angrily punched the wall beside me causing my heart rate to go up "You will join us, what do I have to do to get you to understand?"

I pushed him away from me "You can't change my mind, I'd be going against my nature."

He grabbed me again and turned me so that I was sitting on Coaches' desk "Arielle, I was ordered to get you to agree, I want you in the pack too. I will use any means necessary to do that," He kissed me again trying to lay me down. I struggled against him pushing him off. He glared at me.

"You know Lydia isn't on the list to kill." It was my turn to glare "How about till you come around I play nice with her. Fuck her when she wants, let her think she's in control and I'll give you one warning before I snap her neck. You'll have until then to agree." I felt my breath catch in my throat.

I scrambled off the desk to grab his shoulder as he was walking out "Please leave her alone,"

He turned to look at me "Make it worth my while," I panicked. I grabbed his shirt to pull him into a kiss. I added tongue and he responded by grabbing my hips. His hand went to the button of my jeans and I paused pulling back.

"If I do this you'll leave her alone?"

He leaned down to kiss my neck and pulled back "Not everything can be solved with sex Arielle. It would be a major bonus because damn are you great in bed but, we want you in the pack. So will you be joining us?" He asked fiddling with one of my curls.

"No." His eyes turned alpha red as he shoved himself away.

"You have a week Arielle before you give me your final answer, the right one, or you'll be getting Lydia's head as a welcoming gift willing or not."

He left slamming Coach's door behind him leaving me shuddering in fear for Lydia and myself.

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Once school let out most of us had to meet after school since we would be going to a track meet on Friday. Coach took it relatively easy on us and asked me if I could do hurdles and one of the long-distance runs during the meet, I needed the stress outlet so I said yes.

I realized I had told Allison that I would come over to study for a math test and do some hand-to-hand combat practice, which we were doing on the DL. I gave Scott a ten-minute head start so he could talk to her before I got there. When I did Scott was just coming out looking dejected.

"Scott?"

He looked up at me "I think I scare her sometimes, and I know she's tough but I can't let her get hurt,"

"Hey, I don't think she's really scared of you. She has the right to choose though if she's involved," He hit the button for the elevator.

"I just want to be with her Arielle. I want her to trust me, and I feel like no matter what I do I just push her away,"

The door opened "Then maybe you should start trusting her too," As he stepped back into the elevator without looking, I noticed a walking stick "Scott come back out please," I asked him. He looked up confused and by the expression on his face, I knew I had been right and that it was Deucalion in the elevator with him.

Scott just stared at him not moving as Deucalion asked "Going down?" and pressed a button. The door started to close.

"Scott!" I yelled and jumped through the doors before they could close.

"Arielle, it's a pleasure to see you again," he told me taking off his glasses and turning to face us. Scott's claws flicked out but he wasn't panicking, I tried to slow my heartbeat down to match his. "Come on, Scott put those away. I'd have to be blind, deaf, and quadriplegic for you to be an actual threat. Or maybe you should take a chance. Your heartbeat's steady. You might be afraid of me, but you're controlling it. Maybe you'd actually rise to the occasion, become an Alpha by killing one,"

Scott's claws retracted and he spoke calmly "I'm not like you. I don't have to kill people,"

"Hm. Not yet. But situations come about, situations where you realize the only way to protect one person is to kill another,"

"You wanna threaten me? Is that why you're here?"

"No. I live here,"

"What?" Scott and I exclaimed at the same time.

"I live here. It's a great building. And the neighbors are surprisingly friendly,"

"What do you want?"

"I want to see what you're made of. As for you Arielle, I heard you will be getting a special present in a few days if you don't accept our generous invitation." Just then the doors opened and I all but dragged Scott out as others got into the elevator "Could someone hit the button for the penthouse?" We watched him until the doors closed.

"What did he mean Arielle?"

"He wants me in the pack too," at his look I added "He doesn't know what I am, right now it's purely because I guess he senses a glow from me? Whatever that means. He sent Aiden to proposition me, they said they'd kill Lydia and give me her head if I didn't agree."

"Crap. We need to go see Derek."

"Yeah, I'm going to have to pass,"

"Arielle this is serious, he will kill Lydia. We have to tell him where they are too,"

"Why can't you just do it?"

He put a friendly arm around my shoulder and I glared at him "Come on," and practically dragged me to his bike.

I didn't know that Scott knew where Derek was living but we got there and he opened the door "I know where they are," We both paused in the doorway seeing Derek, Peter, Boyd, and Cora standing over a desk looking at a map.

"Same building as the Argents, we know," Derek said pointedly not looking at me. I worked on calming myself so he couldn't smell what I was feeling.

"Cora and I followed the twins," Boyd told us proudly.

I shook my head and Scott agreed "Then they want you to know,"

"Or, more likely, they don't care." Peter snorted.

"What is this?" Scott asked getting closer to the desk, I stayed by the door leaning against it impassively.

"Isn't it obvious? The schemers are scheming, coming up with a coup de main, better known as a pre-emptive strike,"

"You're going after them?"

"Tomorrow. And you're gonna help us," Derek ordered Scott "Obviously Arielle will not be joining us," I didn't rise to the bait, I just stood there not moving.

Scott looked at me to see if I was going to jump in. When I didn't he spoke for me "I don't see why not. They already know she is something and has ordered her to join the pack. They threatened to kill Lydia if she didn't."

Everyone's heads turned to look at me. I just shrugged and stood there. I guess Derek was ready to speak to me now though because he walked toward me growling "I told you not to get involved!" I didn't move, so he grabbed my shoulders and shook me "You stay out of this, do not come tomorrow night, and for once just mind your own business," I finally snapped.

I raised my hand to his neck and poured every ounce of pain I had taken from him the other day and the anger and fear I had felt when he had told me to get out. I pushed all the insecurity I felt at having one of the people I loved the most tell me they didn't want me around. He dropped to his knees writhing with all the emotions. It was actually hurting him and I kept going only focusing on that till someone physically grabbed me around the waist and pulled me from him. I was panting and glowing silver.

"What did you do to him?" Cora was yelling at me since Derek was still on the floor recovering.

Scott turned me so I would look at him "Arielle? Hey, what did you do to him? Are you okay? Arielle?"

Derek sat up slowly panting also "She let me know how she is feeling about me," he told everyone rubbing his chest like he was in pain.

"Do whatever you guys want," I told them, I turned to Scott "Call me if you need me, okay?" He nodded and let me walk out.