Chapter Twenty-one : The teenage equivalent of a Ball

When We got to the dance the place was already full of people. Stars covered the front of the place. By some miracle Stiles got a date with Lydia Martin. I watch Scott walk the roof of the school. I smile to myself as I walk my lonely ass to the school entrance of the school.

The party was buzzing and I'm 80% sure someone already spiked the punch. It was like the thing was spaced themed. Stars hung around the room. Canopies and candlers were draped around the gym. A shitty disco light spun around. To go with the shitty lighting was a shitty band.

I laughed at the sight of Stiles and Lydia going to dance. Stiles was living the dream though the 10 year plan might get interrupted by a few dozen werewolves. I walk up on of the bleachers almost running into Scott.

"Oh my god! I'm sorry."

"No it's fine. Wow Cait you look amazing."

Yep I'm blushing thank god for the pinky lights in the room, "Thanks. But don't you have a girl to go catch?"

"Maybe?"

"Maybe? What do you mean Maybe?"

"I mean I think I saw Peter Hale."

My eyes widen. "Okay look, I will worry about everyone's favorite murder and you just go get the girl of your dreams."

"You sure?"

"Yes! Now Go!"

Scott runs away after making eye contact with Coach. I watched as Scott pulled Danny off of his chair and started dancing with him. When Coach went to busted Scott he ended up looking very homophobica. It was beautiful. I even Saw Allison checking out her ex.

I give up quickly and just leave in hopes of finding Peter. My heels click on the stone steps as Jackson nearly falls off of them clearly drunk. I see what look like red eyes and start towards it. But the closer I get to the red in the trees the farther it gets from me. I guess the punch was spiked and I only had a sip.

I walk over to the back lot, still no sign of Peter. The farther I got from the school the harder it was to see. I saw the quick flick of Stadium lights down by the Lax felid. "LYDIA RUN!" Was all I heard from Stiles. My feet up there pace trying to get to Stiles and Lydia. But I stopped when I saw Allison pulling Scott by the hand to the bus lanes.

They were almost alone, but Lottie and her Date were making out in one of the buses and I was frozen behind a wall not sure what to do anymore. I knew Lydia made it our alive. And right now Scott need this.

Two sets of headlights came into view before anything could really happen for Scott and Allison tonight. Headlights that were Argents. My feet moved before my brain. Anything to Stop these cars. I could hear Lottie question my presence from inside one of the two busses.

"SCOTT!" I scream, the cars getting closer to my friend. They scrapped the side of the buses.

"CAIT! NO!" I could hear Lottie scream but I was hell bent on making sure everyone comes back from this dance alive. I watch in horror as Scott jumps up landing on the hood of both cars.

He's full wolf now. He looked back Up at Allison who was still in one of the buses. "OH MY GOD!" Lottie was screaming her date already up and left.

"LOTTIE GET OUT OF HERE!" I scream but my sister doesn't move.

Chris Argent honks the horn of his car prompting Scott to jump up on one of the buses. Both Argent cars back out trying to find Scott. The solemn beta. Allison and Lottie come out of the two different buses. I watch Allison in a trance like state almost fall after Scott. Chris catches his daughter. She cries into her father's shoulder.

I run over to my sister. I give her a death grip hug bringing her closer to me. "C-Cait what's going on?" Lottie shudders her voice cracking on every other word.

"I'll explain everything. But right I need to go help Scott, and you need to get home."

"What NO! Cait you could die I mean those men look ready to kill!" Lottie agurs still shaking.

"And they are. Ready to Kill Scott. I have to go after him. I have my own defenses. Lottie you need to trust me, just go home."

"N-no!" She starts to cry, her mascara running.

"LOTTIE! Look at me." She looks up, "Go home, I'll be fine. I love you okay, and I'm not gonna get hurt. But you have to trust me."

"Ok-okay." She pulls me into a second hug before I start to follow the way Scott ran.

It felt like the woods were swallowing me as I ran deeper. My only light came from the small flame on my hand. I found Scott's suit jacket but he was nowhere to be seen. A low scream could be heard from miles away. "SCOTT!" My voice bounced around on the trees echoing like a wave in the sea.

I start running to the sound, my dress ripping on a tree. I came to a small clearing where Scott's tie lay but there was no sign of him. "SCOTT!" I call louder, straining my vocal cords. Again no response but my own echo. "SCOTT!" No answer. "SCOTT! PLEASE!" A small sob shakes my body.

I hear a roar like howl from a distance. The howl of a meant to be True Alpha. "Scott." I hear myself whisper my feet once again, guiding me through the woods. A flame on my hand giving me half the amount of light I need. He's calling his pack even before his Alpha status.

I find him walking back from a rock at the lookout point. "SCOTT!" I called one last time. He changed his clothes, no longer wearing what he did to the formal.

"Cait?" He ask in disbelief that I would follow him this far. I still had his Tie in my hands as I ran to him. My arms found their way around his waist as I bring him in for a hug. "Cait did you-"

"I went after you." I say into his shoulder. Scott and I break apart. I hear a faint howl that sounds miles upon miles away.

Once again I was running through the wood, this time Scott at my side. "Scott where are we going?"

"I'm not sure. I'm just following the sounds." We start picking up the pace, my feet getting heavy. I wandered after Scott. Then we stop and in front of us was the hale house.

"You hear anything?" I ask ripping the rest of my dress so it now hung at my mid-shin.

"Other than you tearing apart your clothes? No." We walked closer to the door of the house until Scott stopped us. I just looked at him weird as he turned, going back down the small hill, "Just trust me Cait." I follow the young wolf to a set of upright drain covers.

Scott bent the bars so he and I could fit through them. The sound filling my ears as he stepped into a shallow puddle of god knows what. The farther we went the less I could see. I noticed Scott's eyes glowing a golden yellow. I lit a flame only to be met with a set of dim light bulbs hanging on the stone walls.

We followed the set of lights going deeper into the moist tunnel system. We found Derek hanging like a slab of meat from a barded off section in the tunnels. "Derek!" I breath out Scott was already next to him.

"No, someone is on their way to torcher me. You two need to go." He said in an exhausted tone of voice.

"I did not run four miles in heels just for you too tell us to leave." I saw unclipping one of the cuffs on his right arm.

"Then hid. If I have mobility of my arm we can all get out."

"That plan I can live with." Scott says pulling me to a small hole over by the entrance to this part of the tunnels.

Me and Scott crouched down As a man made his way down the tunnels. He walked in the room like area and turned on a spotlight that shined into Derek's face. "You ready to have some more fun? To be honest, my knuckles are kind of hurting. So I bright some help." The man said pulling out a bat. Scott and I slipped out of our hiding spot, blocking the doorway. "But I need to warn ya. I played in collage." the man swug the bat but Derek caught it with his free hand.

"I brought a little help too." The man turned to see me and Scott blocking his only way out. Then Derek let go of the bat punching the man, who then hit is head on a stone wall.

Me and Scott exchanged looks of concern before I started to unlock the rest of Derek's cuffs that kept him to the bars. "He's not dead, is he?" Scott asked as well helped Derek down.

As soon as we get Derke down we push him against the bars. "What the hell is wrong with you two?"

"Tell us how to stop Peter!" Scott says.

"Let me go!"

"Not until you tell us how to stop Peter." I repeat what Scott said.

"You really wanna talk about that right now?"

"He's going after Allison and her family." Scott explained as I pushed back on Derek who was fighting my hold on his right shoulder. "And he's going to kill them."

"SO what!?" Derek screamed.

"So no matter what someone did they don't deserve to be on the receiving end of a revenge kill. Now Tell. Us. How. To. Stop. Peter." I say once again shoving Derek's right side against the bars.

"You Can't! All right? Two teens can't stop an Alpha. Now I don't know when Kate's coming back so just let me go. NOW. right now!"

"Promise you'll help us." Scott says his tone weirdly calm.

"You want me to risk my life for you girlfriend huh?"

"No we want your help in stopping a muder." I say my voice now oddly calm as well.

"You're both just stuiped little teenagers who can't do anything about IT!" Derek yelled at us again.

"Maybe so but we know something you don't" Scott says pulling out a piece of paper. "This is what brought your sister back to beacon hills, Right?"
"Where did you get that?"

"My boss told me three months ago someone came into the clinic asking for a copy of this picture. Do you want to know who it was?" Derek dosen't answer but no longer fights my hold. "Peter's nurse. They brought your sister here so that Peter could kill her and become the Alpha, and that's why you're going to help us." Well played Scotty boy. "Just say you'll help us and we'll let you go." Scott says.

Derek pushes me and scott off of him. His face full of anger. "I'll help you." The three of us climb back out of the tunnels making our way to the hale house. My hair was now completely out of the neat low bun I had it in. "Hold on. Hold on." Derek starts to pant after dropping back from me and Scott. "Something doesn't feel right."

"What do you mean?" I ask ready to lit something on fire.

"I don't know it's kinda like it's..."

"No, don't say 'too easy' people say 'too easy' and bad things happen." Scott says, and he kinda has a point.

"None of this was easy. Do you think finding you was easy?" I ask

"Or getting away from Allison's Dad?" Scott adds.

"Or trying to find Scott alone, in the woods, in a dress and heels?" I add.

"Derek none of this was easy." Scott repeats what I started with.

"Fine you're both right." Derk goes to take another step but is met with an arrow being shot into his left shoulder knocking him to the ground. I look over my shoulder to See Allison and Kate Argent. Allison holding the bow, nocking a second arrow. This time hitting Derek in the leg. She noches a third arrow.

"SCOTT GET DOWN!" The flash bolt hits the tree right in between me and Scott. Derek and Scott fight the lit still sparking from the flash Arrow. Thanks to my human abilities I don't have as harsh a reaction to the arrow. Derek started to pull the arrows out of him as I dragged Scott behind a set of trees.

"Stay here." I run back to the small clearing we were just in marching my way over to Allison who still sat at the top of the hill.

"Cait why are you helping them? I mean they're.."

"Monsters?" I finish for her.

"Monsters." She says noches another arrow.

"Shoot me, then!" I say boldly, still walking to the hunter.

"What?"

"If they are monsters, so am I." I let a wave of power moves over me, the leaves behind me moving to circle me and Allison. It was like we were caught in the center of a tornado.

"Are you doing that?" She asks, her voice showing less and less confidence.

"Yeah. So shoot me!" I say take four more steps to my friend. "SHOOT ME ALLY!"

"I can't!" She says dropping the arrow. "I can't do that." I let the leaves fall, bringing us back to the dead of night.

"I knew you wouldn't because you aren't your parents. Allison, help us stop only real monster."

"Who?"

"His name is Peter Hale, and he's the Alpha. He is why Scott is a werewolf."

"And what are you?"

"A witch of sorts." I pause and take one last step so my hand llay on Allison's bow, "Help us, Allison."

We look back to where Kate and the boys are. Scott and Derek are struggling to get up the hill in front of the Hale house. "Scott go!" Derek yells his body pushed to the ground. Allison takes her bow and we go to meet the boys who are at a stand off with Kate Argent.

"Allison. Believe me when I say I was going to tell you."

"Stop lying." Good god.

"Everything I did. Every Lie I told was.."

"Was to protect me."

"Yes."

"I don't believe you." She pauses. Did what just happen mean nothing?

"Thank god now shoot him before I have to shoot myself." Kate says walking to her nice and me.

"I don't believe him but I'll help him. And I- you said we were just gonna catch them." Allison fights her aunt's words.

"We did now we kill them."

"Allison no. Remember what I said." A gun shoot is fired as Kate hits Derek in the chest. "DEREK!" I run over to the older wolf.

"See not that hard." Allison holds her bow at her side as I check Derek's pulse. "Oh no I know that look. That's the 'you're gonna have to do it yourself' look." I turn back to Kate and Allison. I reach my hand out ready to take the gun with magical forces.

"Kate. Kate NO!" Allison begs getting pushed to the ground. I finally have enough concentration to move the gun. Only for it to be broken.

"Kate." Both me and Kate Argent turn our heads to the sound. Sharing your name with an egotistical maniac is not fun.

"Cait!" I hear the female voice of Lottie from behind me. My sister runs up to me.

"I thought I told you to go home." I whisper yell, already fed up with her stubbornness.

"I couldn't just sit in my room knowing you could get hurt

"Kate." Chris Argent says again, "I know what you did. Put the gun down."

"I did what I was told to do."

"Lottie hide." I whisper to my sister who is now trying to help Derek sit up.

"No."

"No on asked you to murder innocent people. There were children in that house. Children who were human." Allison backs up so she is next to me and Lottie on the ground. "Look what you are doing now You're holding a gun at a 16-year-old-boy with no proof he spilled human blood." The tail of the true Alpha runs through my head. For a split second I wonder if I should tell them what Scott becomes, but that would only make Kate shoot. "We go by the code Nous Chassons Ceux Quinous Chassent." He finished the french phrase.

"We hunt those who hunt us." Allison whispers, more to herself than me and Lottie. Kate clicks the trigger. I can't sit her. I stand reaching my hand out so that the air around the gun moves it into my hands.

"Besides, now you don't have a weapon. Stand down Kate." I say my hands shaking around the metal. Before Kate can do anything the door to the Hael house opens. I turn and give the gun to Lottie. "Run! If you see anything, or anyone shoot."

"Cait, I'm not leaving you!"

"Lottie this is not up for debat run." I face the door once more, litting my right hand with a flame.

"You can do that?" I hear my sister from behind me. I give up hope she will leave now I'm hell bent on keeping her safe. Just like I was when we first got to earth 40. Kate pulls out a second gun as Lottie and Allison raise their weapons coming off the ground.

Scott's eyes go gold, "What is it?" Allison and Lottie ask at the same time.

"It's the Alpha." Scott and I say at the same time.

Peter runs out of the home too fast to see anything but his eyes. All six of us circle, our backs facing one another. Our heads are on a swift rotation following the sounds of air moving and the sight of glowing eyes.

Peter knocks Chris and Allison off their feet. I feel my heart rate speeding up. I think back to the night at the school how Peter had so much power over me after just one roar. Peter takes Scott's feet out from under him.

"Come ON!" Kate yells as I help Scott to his feet. Lottie did the same for Allison. I hear a gunshot go off. Letting go of the hand I held to pull Scott up I turn to see Peter holding Kate's arm, her gun held next to his face, still in her hand. He starts to bend Kates arm back as he grunt and lets off a second shot. She struggles Peter hitting her elbow making her drop the gun, breaking her arm, at the very east dislocating her shoulder

Peter takes Kate's neck in his hand throwing her to the entrance of the Hale house. Kate groans As Allison and Lottie come closer to me and Scott. Peter draggs Kate into the house by her neck. "Allison, wait!." I yell to the frantic girl, as she runs after her Aunt. The rain picks up soking my dress and making my make up run.

"Do we go after her?" Lottie asks body shaking.

"No." Scott says.

"What?" I ask.

"He said he won't kill her."

"Right super hearing."

"NEVER MIND GO!" Scott yells as he shifts running into the house with me following and Lottie behind that.

Peter makes his way to Allison but Scott jumps in front of him. Derek comes up from the back room. "Allison Lottie, run." Scott says advancing to hit Peter.

Derek does the same as the two girls run. I try my best to move the air so Scott and Derek take less shots than Peter does but I'm not very good at it. Scott and Derek get jono flipped once or twice as I pull Peter farther and farther from the two. Scott runs at his Alpha now truly becoming an Omega.

Scott pushed Peter to a wall and started to hit him from behind. Peter soon turns, grabbing his beta by the throat. I flick my hand at Peter, making him drop his from Scott's neck. Benefits to being a witch of science. Peter Still manages to throw Scott across the room. Well more acuity threw Scott into me. Both of us fall to the ground as Peter fights for control in his house of horror.

The alpha soon trunks completely ripping all articles of clothing he had on. I push Scott off of me and we both stand back up. Peter was too powerful in his full transformation and threw mw and Scott threw a window. The broken glass made a deep cut on the right side just above my hip.

I hear Lottie scream my name and Scott's breaths turn more human as Peter jumps thru the window himself. He lands on all fours, then comes over and lifts Scott off the ground. The beta does a backflip pushing the Alpha back as I struggle to stand.

I hear a horn honk from behind me. I watch as Peter catches a molotov in his hand giving me an idea. "HEY BIG MAN REMEMBER WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BURN!" I yell from the ground. I lit my hand throwing the flame at the Alpha. His body lights in a blue and red haze. Scott growls and Peter groans trying to put the fire out. I move my right hand to place pressure onto my wound.

The Alpha tries to get to Allison but Scott stops him by kicking him in what I think was his jaw. Peter's burning body slumps in a set of trees around 30 feet away. He becomes human once more.

Peter falls back as Lottie helps me up, my dress now soaked in my own blood around the cut. Allison walks over to Scott as I lipm even with my human crutch over to Stiles and Jackson. Scott shifts back to human as Allison leans in to kiss him. Their lips touch as a small fire burns behind them. The moment was beautiful.

All of us turn our heads to Derek who is making his way over to his barely conscious uncle. Derek moves so one of his legs is on either side of Peter.

Scott jumps from the ground, "WAIT! You said the cure comes from the one who bit you." Scott was breathing so fast that a countuis breath of air was all that could be seen in the cold. "Derek if you do this, I'm dead. Her father, her family- What am I meant to do?" Scotts ask still frantic. I press my harder to my wound, blood still flowing.

"You've.. Already.. Decided." Peter huffs out his shell of a human shaking. "I can smell it on you." He say to his nephew.

Derek reaches his claws into the air, "Wait! NO, NO! Don't!" Scott begs but Peter was right Derek made up his mind. His claws come down slashing his uncle's neck.

Derek stands up, his eyes glowing red, "I'm the Alpha now."

I wince, "Lottie." I breath out. "I don't feel so good." I feel myself lose consciousness slowly.

"CAIT!" My sister scream again tonight.

"CAITLIN!" I can hardly hear Stiles and the world turns white, then black, then nothing.