❝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐝

𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞❞

⇢𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢., 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐢.⇠

╰┈➤ It was dark above Beacon Hills. Owls were hooting and leaves were rustling. On the cold streets, there wasn't a soul walking, the town looked depressed and abandoned. A murder happened tonight and two teens were now trying to convince their best friend to come and look for the other half of the body.

In a big house not too far from Stiles's was living a redhead girl with who he grew up. Her name is Hermione Saltzman. The girl has a lot of secrets that she keeps from her best friends. Though it's for their safety, to not get them in danger.

"Are you all out of your mind?! I will not go look for a dead body, it's midnight!" Hermione whispered and yelled while the two boys were now fully in her bedroom. Scott was sitting on her bed, while Stiles stood before the girl with pleading eyes.

"Oh, come on! I will protect you if something happens." They were here for the past fifteen minutes trying to convince her to come with them. They have to be quiet because Hermione's dad is asleep in his room.

"Fine, I'll go. But only because you said that you would protect me. Just be quiet, please." The buzz cut smiled and went over to bring the girl in a big hug, which made her surprised. Hermione hugged back after some time.

"Let's go, we don't have much time. Schools starts in the morning." Suddenly they heard a faint voice coming from the other side of the room. The two let go of each other and made an awkward smile.

While they were going towards the woods, Hermione was fighting the urge to fall asleep. Which she did after a minute or so. That was the biggest mistake she had made because being asleep while both Scott and Stiles were awake was like hell. The boys loved to to do pranks, no matter  who it was. The redhead girl was woken up by Stiles shooting water on her, from his watergun.

The girl shot up and started getting water out of her eyes. There was a displeased look on her face while doing so. Scott and Stiles we snickering and dying of laughter, waiting for the girl to finish. If they weren't her friends, Hermione would have killed them, no jokes..

"STILES, SCOTT! You are so dead!" She groaned and looked at her soaked shirt and wet hair. One thing the girl didn't like was being wet while it's called outside. She sighed and stepped outside. The other two soon followed.

"We're seriously doing this?" Scott looked at Stiles with his red hood over his head. Hermione couldn't believe that they were gonna just ignore her. She huffed wrapping her arms around her body since she was cold.

"You're the one always bitching that nothing ever happens in this town." Stiles turns on his flashlight and drags his friends with him. The boy looks excited like he always is..

"I was trying to get a good night's sleep before practice tomorrow," Scott complained, making sure that Hermione was following them. The girl snickered and tried to contain her laughter.

"Right, because sitting on the bench is such a grueling effort." The buzz-cut boy was looking around trying to find the body. While his friends were just following not really bothering to look for the body.

"No, because I'm playing this year. In fact, I'm making the first line." Scott was trying to catch up with the boy's fast pace but miserably failed. "You wish," Hermione whispered making Scott glare at the girl.

After hearing the girl's voice Stiles stopped walking and looked back at her. She wasn't wearing anything and had a shirt. Scott bumped into Stiles and tried to balance himself, while Hermione frowned looking at Stiles.

"Mione! You are cold! Here take my jacket." Stiles offered her his jacket to which she just stared at it. She doesn't like taking stuff from others, but in this case, she did. The girl would freeze to death. "Thank you, Batman!"

Stiles smiled and they all continued to walk through the cold woods. Alone at night. Three teenagers looking for a dead body. When they should be asleep or getting ready to start school after two weeks of winter break.

"Just out of curiosity, which half of the body are we looking for?" Hermione was surprised that Scott had asked this type of question. Mainly because he doesn't think much or Hermione usually beats him up to it.

"And, uh, what if whoever killed the body is still out here?" You could hear worry in Scott's voice as he asked this. Hermione widened her eyes thinking about her friends being killed by some lunatic.

"Also something I didn't think about."

"It's comforting to know you've planned this out with your usual attention to detail." Scott was panting as they were climbing up the hill. Hermione was the first one who climbed up though.

"Get down!" Hermione whisper-yelled to the boys, dragging them down on the ground. They looked up to see police officers with flashlights in their hands, trying to look for the rest of the body.

Suddenly Stiles got up and started running. Hermione stood up at the same time Scott did and started running. They were trying to stop him but he got caught. The barking of a dog made Stiles fall and it revealed his father had caught him. Scott and Hermione hid behind a tree trying not to get caught.

Hermione shut her eyes while the sheriff flashed his flashlight around the place. Her breathing was fast but not as fast as Scott's. He was scared, as usual. The boy didn't like getting into much trouble. Plus he has asthma.

When Stiles was dragged home by his father the two got out of their hiding spot. They had no clue as to how are they going to get home. So they started to walk deeper in the woods hoping they'll find the end.

"Well, I wasn't expecting this to happen," Hermione commented while looking around and hearing a bird above their heads.

"I was supposed to be home and sleeping right now. But Stiles has ideas-" Scott got cut off when Hermione pulled him down to the ground. His asthma inhaler got thrown away somewhere in the woods. Deers were running above them.

"What the fuck was that?!" Scott got up cleaned his clothes and started looking for his inhaler.

"Deers... They must have run from something...but I don't know what." Hermione looked toward the way that the deers escaped and failed to notice that Scott found a dead body. She only turned around when she heard Scott screaming and starting to roll down the hill. "HERMIONE!"

Just as she was going to go down towards Scott. There was a loud growl beside her and behind Scott. Looking there the girl saw a big wolf... to which she knew was a werewolf. But not a normal one, an alpha. Hermione looked towards Scott and widened her eyes.

"Protego-" Hermione was about to do a protection spell on Scott when she got knocked over. The girl groaned hearing her best friend scream.

Looking to her side she saw him standing up and running towards her. Hermione got her strength and stood up, catching him just as he got there. He had a scared and terrified look on his face.

"Ow, my side hurts!" Scott panted while holding onto his friend. Trying to stay on his feet. Hermione looked up worried, afraid of what the Alpha do. Hopefully not the worst.

"Calm down. Let's look, lift up your shirt." Scott obeyed and slowly lifted it up. To reveal a big bite mark on his right side. Hermione's breath stopped and her eyes widened. She couldn't believe this. One thing she was trying to hide from the boys will be revealed. One thing she wanted to protect them from, she couldn't.

The bite mark signaled that Scott would become a werewolf.

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Hermione couldn't sleep well after coming home. She was thinking about how Scott got bitten by a werewolf. Since birth she was a witch, that's what her father said. It was a hard time trying to control her magic, but she got a hold of it. Her father, Dean Saltzman, revealed to the girl that she could also become a werewolf.

To become a werewolf of her kind you have to kill someone accidentally or on purpose to trigger the curse. In that case, Hermione wishes she never becomes one. In Scott's case, he got bit so he immediately becomes one.

Just as her alarm beeped the girl shut it off. Groaning she stood up from her bed and stared at one dot on her wall. Feeling like shit because she hasn't slept anything. After a few minutes, the doors to her room started opening, to reveal her dad in his work uniform.

"Good morning dear, I see you haven't slept well." The man in his late thirties held the door knob. He was probably going to work or coming home from work. He was a nurse, though he mostly worked at the front not really close to the patients.

"Morning, Dad! Going to work?" Hermione looked up from her spot, towards the doors. The girl secretly loved it when Dean worked at night because then she could do whatever she wanted.

"Sadly, don't be late! It's your first day back at school." The dad tried to lecture the girl, knowing she won't be late. She never is. Hermione is always on time for everything.

"Yeah yeah, bye Dad." Dean blew her a kiss before leaving her in the room, alone. The school starts in an hour and a half, so the girl had plenty of time to get ready.

After some time Hermione got up and started doing her daily routine. The outfit she chose was blue jeans and a red shirt on top. She looked at herself in the mirror and smiled. There were 40 minutes left to go to school and the girl was getting bored already.

Suddenly her phone buzzed signalising that she got a message. Hermione grabbed it from her bed and looked to see who it was. It was her group chat with Scott, Stiles, and Lola.

𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐲
Guysss
meet me in front of the school
I have to show you something
mione already knows what

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐲
yoo
not fair
why does Hermione get to know first 🙁

𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐲

don't be a crybaby

just please come earlier today

like in 10 mins?

𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐧
MORNING GORGING
anyways
i'll be there!

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞
well i'll come in about 30 minutes
so see you then freaks
<3

𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐲
yeah, whatever
🙄

Hermione picked up her black backpack which had a Spiderman pendant on the zipper. She has matching pendants with Stiles. The two had been best friends since kindergarten. Same with Lola and Scott. Their parents were friends. Well Lola's mom, Katherine, wasn't really fond of Dean.

When she parked her car in the parking lot, a gray Porsche stopped next to her. Hermione rolled her eyes seeing that Jackson was in the driver's seat with his windows pulled down. Lydia wasn't a friend but they sometimes make small talk in the hallways. Hermione doesn't like how Jackson treats her or that she's still with him. Though she can't do anything about it.

She furrowed her eyebrows when he showed the girl to roll down her window. Rolling down her window Hermione sighed knowing if he said a word to her, she would insult him. Suddenly a strawberry blonde girl popped up from the passengers seat with a smile.

"Hermione! Cute shirt, also it's the first time I see you driving a car."

"Hii, Lydia! Stiles went earlier to school so I needed to come with my car." Hermione smiled closing the window, knowing that the conversation was over. Looking up the girl saw her best friends talking in front of the school. From what she saw Stiles was excited and Lola was probably worried.

Hermione sighed and made her way towards them. As soon as they saw her she waved and smiled. They all had English for the first class so they couldn't be late.

"Hi, freaks! How is the bite, Scott?" Hermione looked towards her friend, trying not to sound suspicious or anything. He lifted his shirt and revealed that he covered it. The redhead girl knew it already healed or she just guessed.

"It hurts, but it'll pass soon I hope so."

They all started walking towards the front doors of the school and Lola came next to the girl. The blonde had a purple t-shirt underneath a black long v-neck shirt, and her jeans were also black.

"We'll talk about this when they have practice. Since Scott wants to look for his inhaler after school."

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"As you all know, there indeed was a body found in the woods last night. And I am sure your eager little minds are coming up with various macabre scenarios as to what happened. But I am here to tell you that the police have a suspect in custody, which means you can give your undivided attention to the syllabus which is on your desk outlining this semester."

The English teacher announced their fresh project while talking about the murder last night. Hermione rolled her eyes and sighed. Even if she will be done with it just in time, if not even days before. Lola was sitting next to her, on the right. The blonde was a great student, but she didn't pay much attention to the school or class.

Hermione looked down at the paper and started to read some unimportant stuff. To their teacher, it appears so. The girl failed to notice Scott flinching at some nonexistent sound to her. Until Lola nudged the girl and pointed it to the boy.

Hermione furrowed her eyebrows. This was one sign that he was probably listening to some conversation. "This shit is weird." She whispered to Lola trying to be as quiet as possible, so that their English teacher doesn't hear them.

Just as the two were about to get back to observing the paper, the classroom door opened. Revealing their principal and a beautiful girl with wavy brunette hair walked into the classroom. It was visible that she was shy or nervous since it was her first day here.

"Class, this is our new student, Allison Argent. Please do your best to make her feel welcome."

Allison went over to the only empty seat, next to Hermione and behind Scott. The Saltzman girl didn't fail to notice how Scott looked at the new girl. With that, the principle left and went his way.

As soon as Allison sat Scott turned around with a pen in his hands. Hermione and Lola looked at each other with a confused look on their faces. They only brushed it off and continued to look in their papers.

A few minutes passed and Hermione decided to make a small talk with the new girl. She wants her to feel welcomed and maybe befriend her. Let's say that Hermione loves everyone in school, except Jackson. That boy brings bad energy wherever he walks. She's not joking.

"Hey, I'm Hermione. I love your name." The girl flinched a little and turned her head towards Hermione, smiling. They were whispering.

"Hey! Thank you, I love your outfit!" Allison stated rolling the pen in her hands.

"You are my new friend! Hope you have a good first day. Also, avoid someone called Jackson, he's a pain in the ass." Hermione blew her a kiss after it rang for the end of the class. Allison chuckled and waved goodbye, still packing her stuff.

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The boys were off to lacrosse practice right now. They were going back to the woods after so Scott could find his inhaler. Lola and Hermione were now in an empty classroom since everyone finished their classes.

"What happened last night?" Lola sat down on the table and looked at her friend waiting for the answer.

"Scott and Stiles came to my room and wanted to go look for the other half of the dead body in the woods-"

"And you accepted it?"

"Yes, they were annoying about it. Anyways, when we got there police caught Stiles so me and Scott hid behind a tree. Scared that we would get in trouble. After they left we went deeper in the woods, not knowing what to do. Suddenly there were deers running toward us, meaning they were scared. While Acott was looking for his inhaler he got scared because he found the other half of the body and he fell down-"

"Why didn't you go and help him?"

"Stop interrupting me, Lola! I didn't because he got up immediately. Then we heard a loud growl next to us and I saw a big wolf. An alpha werewolf actually. Before I had a chance to yell for Scott to run, the werewolf charged at him and left. Later I found a big bite mark on his side."

Hermione was walking up and down while telling the story. She was nervous, worried, angry, and a lot more. Lola was staring at her friend trying to process what she heard at the moment.

"What are we going to do now?"

"I don't know! We need to tell him! I mean, he can't keep walking around not knowing what he is. It will be a Full Moon soon. Oh my God. I ruined his life. If maybe I have reacted faster or if we went with Stiles home-"

Lola got up and grabbed Hermione by her shoulders. It was visible that Hermione was freaking out and overthink this situation.

"Mione! You are not responsible for this. You are not faster than that. Don't you blame yourself for something you didn't do? You wanted to stop it, but you couldn't. There is nothing that can change that."

"Exactly! He will be now cursed for the rest of his life! Lola, we wanted to keep them out of this! I didn't want them to know about this. I... Their lives will change! I hate this so much! Why did it have to be Scott? Why?!"

Hermione started crying. So Lola brought her in a hug and held Hermione's head with her hands. The redhead kept crying out of guilt or worry. She didn't even know why.

"Everything will be alright. We'll go through this together. Nothing will happen to Scott. We will tell him as soon as possible. Okay?"

Hermione nodded pulling away from the girl and seeing that she got a message from Stiles. They finished their practice.

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"I don't know what it was. It was like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball." Scott exclaimed while going through water that was in the woods. Everyone went through it except Hermione. Who was just standing there not daring to cross.

"I have white shoes. No way am I going through that." Stiles sighed out of annoyance and came over to the girl. Scott and Lola just watched and snickered seeing as Hermione was acting like she wouldn't mess up her shoes by just walking on the dirt.

"jump on my back." That's exactly what Hermione did and wrapped her hands around his neck. Hoping she won't fall. "Thank you, Batman!" Hermione smiled and kissed Stiles on his cheek. Making him widen his eyes while the other three started walking away.

"Anyways, that's not the only weird thing. I can hear stuff I shouldn't be able to hear. Smell things."

Hermione and Lola looked at each other while Stiles looked in his jacket for a bubble gum that Scott mentioned he smelled. After he pulled it out he was surprised that it was there. Hermione sighed and grabbed it from his hands.

"Thank you very much!" The girl popped it in her mouth and started chewing.

"So all this started with a bite," Stiles stated. A little bit too much with a cocky voice for Hermione's liking. There was a joke coming for sure.

"What if it's like an infection, like my body's flooding with adrenaline before I go into shock or something?" Hermione and Lola almost cackled at this.

"There's no such infection, Scotty." Hermione stated shaking her head. At least he doesn't think he's a werewolf or something.

"You know what? I actually think I've heard of this. It's a specific kind of infection. I think it's called lycanthropy." They all stopped walking and the two girls looked at Stiles. He was joking, but little did he know that he was right. Lola grabbed Hermione's hand in comfort, also trying to hide it from the boys.

"What's that? Is that bad?"

"Oh yeah, it's the worst. But only once a month." Stiles put his hands on his hips like he was serious. Hermione peeked through Stiles's shoulder. "Like periods."

"On the night of the full moon." Then Stiles did a howling sound and Scott playfully punched him in his shoulder continuing to walk. Lola and Hermione had to start laughing at that.

"Hey, you're the one who heard a wolf howling."

"Hey, there could be something seriously wrong with me." Scott threw his hands around making Stiles state that he's a werewolf.

"Boys, calm down. Now where is that stupid inhaler!" Lola was already getting annoyed by how long they were looking for that little thing. She had a small temper.

"No, I could have sworn this was it. I saw the body, the deer came running. I dropped my inhaler." Scott crouched down looking for it.

Hermione looked to her right and saw a man standing there. He looked kind of creepy, but she couldn't look away. She found him oddly familiar. He looked like he was in his early twenties, with a beard and a leather jacket. The man was staring back at the girl.

Lola noticed the girl didn't pay attention and saw the man. To which she flinched and slapped both boys in an attempt to make them stop what they were doing.

"What are you doing here? Huh? This is private property." The man got closer to them and Hermione sighed. She didn't want the man to call the cops.

"Uh, sorry, man, we didn't know."

"Yeah, we were just looking for something, but... Uh, forget it." Suddenly the mysterious guy threw Scott's inhaler and the boy caught it immediately. Hermione furrowed her eyebrows, and now the creepy guy was looking at her.

"You shouldn't be here." With that, he left.

"What was that? Why was he only looking at me when he said that? What the fuck!" Hermione yelled not caring if the man heard that. Lola sighed after the girl started panicking hundredth time today.
"Creepy."

"Dude, that was Derek Hale. You remember, right? He's only like a few years older than us." Stiles looked at his group way too excited.

"Remember what?"

"His family. They a burned to death in a fire, like, 10 years ago. I heard that he and a little girl survived it."

"I wonder where that little girl is at now." Hermione gasped, not knowing about the situation at all. Stiles scoffed at Scott's comment and started walking back where they left off.

"Somewhere safe I hope," Lola added.

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It was a couple of days later and Hermione was on her way towards Stiles's room. Alongside Scott and Lola. He had something important to tell them, well Scott. With Stiles, they could expect everything, honestly. It could be something really important or something stupid. You never know.

Scott knocked on the door and the clumsy boy immediately opened it, letting them in. When they walked in, Hermione looked around the room. There were papers all around the floor and energy drink cans. Scott placed his backpack on the bed.

"I've been up all night reading. Websites, books. All this information." Stiles sat down at his desk opening his laptop.

"They are still questioning people, even Derek Hale. Remember the joke from the other day? Not a joke anymore. The wolf. The bite in the woods. I started doing all this reading. Do you even know why a wolf howls? It's a signal, okay? When a wolf's alone it howls to signal its location to the rest of the pack. So if you heard a wolf howling, that means others could have been nearby. Maybe even a whole pack of them."

Stiles started rambling about his research. Hermione sat down and knew that Stiles had figured it out. He researched it all. I mean, he was smart so it wasn't surprising. Though Lola and her didn't think Stiles would actually do it.

"A whole pack of wolves?"

"No, werewolves."

Scott and Stiles stared at each other. The buzz-cut boy was barely breathing, because of how fast he was talking. While Scott had an annoyed expression on his face.

"Are you seriously wasting my time with this? You know I'm picking up Allison in an hour."

Hermione turned her head at the sound of a familiar name. It was the new girl. "Aw, the new girl?" Scott just ignored her. Being dragged by excited Stiles, once again.

"I saw you on the field today, Scott. Okay, what you did wasn't just amazing, all right? It was impossible. I mean, the way you moved your speed, your reflexes. People can't just suddenly do that overnight. And there's the vision and the senses, and don't even think I didn't notice that you don't need your inhaler anymore."

"Okay! Dude, I can't think about this now. We'll talk tomorrow." Scott and Stiles were now yelling. Hermione and Lola were just watching, trying not to get to involved.

"Tomorrow? What? No! The full moon's tonight. Don't you get it?"

"What are you trying to do? I made the first line. I got a date with a girl who I can't believe wants to go out with me. Everything in my life is somehow perfect. Why are you trying to ruin it?" Scott started to become more and more impatient and nervous. Making Hermione stand up with Lola alerted if he gets violent.

"I'm trying to help. You're cursed, Scott. You know, and it's not just the full moon that will cause you to physically change. It also just so happens to be when your bloodlust will be at its peak."

After they talked for a while, Stiles decided to cancel Scott's date tonight. He started grabbing Scott's phone which caused Scott to pin Stiles's body against the wall with a fist in the air.

Hermione came in and tried to pull him away, but he pushed her away together with a chair. The buzz-cut boy looked with a shocked expression and just stared at his best friend.

After a 'sorry' Scott left the room. Silence filled the room. Hermione looked at Lola to realize she would tell Stiles. There was no other way. He already knows. They all stood up and Hermione looked over at Stiles.

"You're right."

"What?" Stiles frowned looking at Hermione.

"You're right. Scott is a werewolf." Lola sighed going over to sit on the chair. While Stiles widened his eyes, tilting his head.

"How do you know that?" Sitting down next to Hermione, where she mentioned it for him to sit.

"What I'm about to tell, you will not tell anyone..except Scott! I'm a witch, and so is Lola. I also can turn into a werewolf."

Stiles stared at the girl with a blank expression. He was shocked and didn't expect to hear that. His hands were shaking so Hermione grabbed them, to calm him down.

"I'll tell you how and why. Ask anything you want after. We have been witches since we were born. My father told me that my mom is a werewolf and a witch, other words a were-witch. I only can trigger my werewolf side if I kill someone accidentally or on purpose. While Lola is only a witch. Though she only has magic if she takes it from other things. A siphoner witch. Just like her mother."

The girls looked at each other and then back at Stiles. The boy was so lost, but he tried to get himself together.

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"We wanted you to be safe. Believe me, it's better if you don't know about the supernatural. I guess, we couldn't hide it from you anymore. It was all for you to be safe. Don't freak out now, please!" Hermione sighed.

After a couple of seconds, Stiles had a grin on his face and he stood up. Looking excited again.

"So, you both are witches! I have best friends that are witches! One question, do you use a wand? Or have one?" Stiles looked at them and smiled. They knew he was gonna react like this. It was Stiles after all.

"No, I do not have a wand!" The three of them burst out laughing.

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