𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐒
i know what it's like to be alone. always feeling empty inside. having no one to understand

"HEY! Pick on someone your own size!" Alex yelled at Boyd who held up a small shed, growling at two little kids.

He turned to her, eyes gold and canines on show. He dropped the shed back onto the ground and the charged at her. She ran forward, using vampire speed and threw him across the field. "I do hate bullies," she commented as she opened up the shed door and looked down at the two small kids. One boy and one girl. "It's okay, loves. Everything is going to be okay. The big bad man is gone." They ran into her arms and she couldn't help but smile.

"Are you okay?" The girl asked Alex, frightened.

"I'm alright, darling. You shouldn't worry about me, I can protect myself." Alex grabbed their small faces in her hands and looked them both in the eyes. "You'll forget about the big scary man. All you know is that you got lost in the woods and I helped take you home." She then zoomed to their home.

ALEXANDRIA flipped over a tree, landing on her feet, one hand on the ground as she flipped her hair back to keep it out of hef face.

"Is it them?" Scott questioned, looking down at the foot prints.

"We're not the only ones that decided to stick together," Alex spoke up, standing straighter. Both boys looked over at her, still skeptical. "Okay, stop looking at me like that. If I was an enemy, I wouldn't waste my sweet, precious time to help grab two runaway beta's." She was annoyed. I mean, if she was like her brother, she would've torn this town apart already, but she didn't, and they better be happy about that too. She could easily rip out their hearts, no second thoughts or remorse whatsoever.

"Is that gonna make it easier or harder to catch them?" Scott asked, getting back to the task.

"I don't know," Derek admitted which made Alex roll her eyes at him.

"Of course it's gonna be bloody harder." She smirked as she looked at them. "Better be lucky that you have me." She took a few steps forward and sniffed the air, smelling rage. "I saw Boyd try to rip two little kids apart," she told them, turning around and crossing her arms.

"Are they gonna do that to everyone they find?"

"Everyone and anyone." The Original in hiding nodded.

Alex then flinched upon hearing a scream that she hasn't heard over hundreds of years. "Banshee," she whispered.

ALEX jumped over Isaac, hitting Cora in the chest with her feet so hard that she went flying into a tree. She flipped herself forward, landing in a crouch as she looked at Cora, everything about her still looked human, knowing she didn't need to show herself to the others. As Cora growled at Alex, she growled right back at her, loudly might she add, and Cora zoomed off into the woods.

As Isaac, Derek and Scott went after her, Alex turned to the girl who watched the exchange and zoomed to her. She looked deeply into her brown eyes. "Stay still and don't scream." She bit into her neck, savoring the feeling of the blood rushing down her throat.

And as she heard her heartbeat start to slow down, she pulled back, bit into her wrist, and fed her blood. She roughly grabbed her neck this time and forced her to look into her blue eyes, yet again. "You'll forget about this whole exchange, only what happened before you saw Cora, okay?"

"Okay," she numbly responded back, nodding her head slightly, her eyes dilated. As Alex threw her to the ground, she zoomed away, hearing the thumping of footsteps that were echoing throughout the woods.

Ans when she wasn't that far behind them, she slowed down, just using her werewolf strength, trying to not give away anything about her. They don't need to know yet. And until the moment they know, she can use her secret as an advantage.

"This doesn't make any sense. The public pool is all the way on the other side of the woods. We haven't tracked them anywhere near there," Derek explained, not believing that they could've already killed someone.

"Derek, they killed someone," Scott spoke up, shaking his head.

"Not likely." Alex drew the attention to her. "If I was in this so called alpha pack, I would make Boyd and Cora a distraction while I went around killing people. Then again, it could totally be something or someone else..." She trailed off, putting her thinking cap on. "Or it could be them and we're underestimating their strength and speed."

"How are they moving so fast?"

"Derek!"

"But, they can't be that fast on foot!" Derek yelled at Scott.

"They killed someone!" Scott exclaimed. "Some totally innocent kid is dead... And it's our fault," he told Derek, sad.

"Not my fault. It's your fault for not watching your beta's," Alec told Derek, pointing a perfectly manicured finger at him.

Scott sent a glare to the blonde, but then Derek said something that made him stop, "She's right, it is my fault."

"We need help," Scott spoke abruptly.

"We have Isaac now." Derek gestured to the curly blue eyed boy who stood by Alex's side.

"I mean real help," Scott said and Isaac looked up, scoffing. "They're too fast for us, for all of us." At that, Alex rolled her eyes and lightly scoffed. They have no idea. "They're too strong, too rabid."

"Like Niklaus," she mumbled, shaking her head.

"We'll catch 'em."

"What happens if we do? We just gonna hold them down until the sun comes up?" Isaac asked the million dollar question.

"Maybe it would be easier just to kill 'em," Alex told the others, looking around at their faces.

"Killing them isn't the right thing to do."

"But–" She whined.

"What if it's the only thing to do?" Isaac cut her off. "If we can't even catch them, what else do we do?"

"Find someone who knows what they're doing."

"Who?"

"Someone who knows how to hunt werewolves."

"Hunter," Alex whispered, her heart picking up slightly. She has never had good luck with a hunter. Like ever.

"WHERE'S the last place you saw them? You're tracking them by print?" Chris Argent, father of Allison Argent, questioned.

"Trying to."

"Well, then, you've been wasting your time. There's only one creature on earth that can visually track footprints, and that's man," Chris stated and Alex rolled her eyes at his words. Her siblings and her were pretty damn good at tracking. "And if you're not trained like me, you have no idea that this print is Boyd's and these..."

"–are Cora's." Isaac finished.

"Nope. They're yours. You trampled Cora's as soon as you walked over here." At his words, Alex made a little noise at the back of her throat.

"Huh." She hummed. "I knew there was something wrong."

"And you didn't say anything!?" Scott exclaimed, looking at her in disbelief.

"Ehh." She shrugged.

"Listen, I know the three of you–" Argent's eyes landed on Alex. "–the four of you are focusing half your energy on resisting your own urges under the full moon, but that puts you at a severe disadvantage to Boyd and Cora, who have fully given in. They put the pedal to the floor where you four are barely hitting the speed limit," he explained to them.

Alex might be able to control her vampire urges, but she was new at this whole werewolf thing, so yeah, she bets that she is having a little trouble with that.

"So, what do we do?"

"Focus on your sense of smell. Actual wolves are known to track their prey by up to a hundred Miles a day by scent. A trained hunter can use scent to track them. If the wind is with them, wolves can track a scent by a distance of two Miles, which means we can draw them to us..." Chris threw a net at Scott. "Or into a trap. Full moon does give us one advantage. They'll have a higher heat signature, which makes them easier to spot with infrared." He then threw them night vision goggles.

"Thanks, but I've got my own," Derek spoke up, flashing his red eyes.

"Me too." Alex raised her hands, but not flashing her eyes. If he's a hunter, he might know something about the Mikaelson's. He might believe they are myth's, but you can never be too careful nowadays.

"Just remember, we're not hunting wild animals. Underneath those impulses are two intelligent human beings. Don't think they can't rely on that human side. It's suppressed, but it's there, reminding them how to mask their scent, how to cover their tracks, how to survive," Argent explained while they over looked Beacon Hills. He then looked to Derek. "When's the last time you saw your sister?"

"Nine years. I thought she died in the fire."

"Fire?" Alex whispered to herself.

"Do you feel like you have a lock on her scent?" Derek shook his head. "Scott, how confident are you in your skills?"

"Honestly, most of the time, I'm trying not to think about all the things I can smell."

Alec giggled which made Argent look at her.

"What about you?"

"What? Little ol' me?" She pointed at herself. "Well, I am new at this whole werewolf thing, truthfully."

"All right." Argent nodded. "The problem is when they breach the woods and hit the residential area. Once they're past the high school, they're right in the middle of beacon hills."

"They're not gonna kill everything they see, are they?"

"No." Argent shook his head. "But there is an important difference to recognize. Wolves hunt for food. At a certain point, they get full." So do vampires. "But Boyd and Cora are hunting for the pleasure of the kill, for some primal apex predatory satisfaction that comes from the ripping of warm bodies to bloody shreds." Oh, my god! I get that. "And who knows when that need gets satiated?"

"We can't kill them." Scott was fast to put that point across.

"What if we can't catch 'em?" Alex asked, tilting her head as a plan came to mind.

"Then maybe we just need to contain them."

"There's no one in the school at night, is there?" Alex asked, turning to Scott.

"You want to trap them inside?" Derek asked her, shocked, but impressed. She wasn't just pretty, but she actually had ideas.

"If there's somewhere with a strong enough door, no windows or access to the outside," Alex explained, looking between them. "Does this school have a boiler room? You know, the place where a lot of teenagers go to get high or killed in movies?"

They all looked their weirdly before Scott said, "Yeah. It's just one big steel door."

"You're sure the school's empty?" Argent asked, making sure.

"It has to be. There can't be anyone there this late, right?"

"THESE are ultrasonic emitters." Argent showed them a flashlight looking thing, shoving it into the ground. "It's one of the tools we use to corral werewolves, pushing them into a direction we want them to run." He pressed a button and Alex covered her ears immediatly. But as the others whimpered in pain, she was more angry than anything. She growled lowly and took her hands off of her ears, glaring at Argent who looked at her in surprise. "Gives off a high-pitched frequency that only they can hear."

"God, no kidding!" Isaac complained and Argent just turned it off, with a smirk, but looked at Alex cautiously. She simply smirked and sent him a sarcastic wave.

"These are gonna drive them to the school?"

"And then it's up to you to get them into the basement," Argent told them, handing them all a couple of ultrasonic emitters.

Alex tucked both in between her pants and her belt, making sure they were secured.

"Does anyone else want to rethink the plan where we just, uh, kill 'em?" Isaac questioned.

"I'm with Goldie locks," Alec commented, pointing at Isaac who blushed under her gaze.

"It's going to work." Scott nodded. "It'll work."

ALEXANDRIA ran through the woods, a few emitters being heard behind her, telling her that the others have already turned their's on. She ran up a broken tree that was in the shape of a ramp and flew through the sky, doing a front flip before slamming an emitter into the soft ground. She then ran forward yet again and went slightly to the left, making sure to leave a path for the blood thirsty beta's.

As a howl was heard, she knew right then and there, the plan was working. She pushed herself forward, making sure to keep a normal werewolf pace just in case someone decided to join her.

"They're going over it," was what Alex heard as she joined Argent and Scott.

"Wow, what'd I miss?" She asked, making both of them jump slightly. They ignored her and ran forward, and she followed to where Derek was waiting.

"The red doors, someone has to get them open," Argent spoke urgently.

"Someone has to drive them inside."

"I'll go," Argent said but Alex stopped him him by holding up a hand.

"No. I'm faster." As she went around the corner, she saw Allison on top of a bus, shooting arrows at Boyd and Cora's feet, making them go running into the school. She ran forward, closed the door and locked it before looking up at Allison who stared down at her in surprise before running away. Deciding that she had better things to do, Alex let her go.

She then ran into the school, and upon seeing Derek and Scott running down to the boiler room, she ran after them, closed the door behind her, and ran down the stairs behind Boyd and Cora. Upon being really quite, they didn't hear her. And as Derek and Scott closed the boiler room door — Boyd and Cora inside — did Alex join them by their sides.

"You hear that?" Scott asked, looking around with narrowed, confused filled brown eyes.

"What?"

"Three heart beats."

Alec groaned and banged her head on the wall, leaving a small dent. "I'm bout done with today, already," she complained. "I just wanna go home and massage my feet. Or preferably, make Stiles massage my feet."

"Alex?"

"Yeah." She looked at Derek.

"Shut up and close the door behind me."

"They'll kill you," she blurted out which surprised her. Why did she care all of a sudden?

"Maybe. Maybe not."

"Okay." She sighed before slinging the door, not giving it another thought as she threw Derek into the room, closing the door. She turned around and faced Scott. "What? He wanted to do it."

ALEX opened the door, slowly and walked in to see Derek holding two unconscious bodies. Both Boyd's and Cora's. And Derek was covered in scratches.

"You actually survived." She was astonished. "I never doubted you one bit." She grinned before sighing and picking up Cora's body. "You must be tired so I'll be nice and help."

"There's a teacher. I'll take care of her," Derek panted, out of breath and pain. "Help her take them out of here."

Both Scott and Isaac went to help pick up Boyd's body.

"Okay, let's get going."