𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟕

"𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯."

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╰┈˚ · ° . THE BELL RANG SIGNALING THE END OF THE LESSON, the last thing that I expected to find once out of the classroom definitely wasn't the best friends duo of a hyperactive human and newly turned werewolf.

"Oh gods. What do you two want now?" I huffed

"Derek is training him" Stiles said pointing at his best friend

"And?" Another voice joined from behind the duo. Alessandro Di Luna cladden in his usual dark clothes and leather jacket said making his presence known

"Shit!" The Stilinski teen yelped in fright, turning around at the same time with his best friend. One of his hands placed on top of his racing heart. One of the shadow wolf abilities? Using shadows to muffle sound and smell. They can use them to become difficult to detect even by the one with supernatural senses. And definitely easily passed unobserved by humans or not in control shifters. "Don't do that dude!"

"You know, you two really creep me out sometimes" Scott breathed out looking between me and Alec

"Just sometimes?" Stiles asked sarcastically "I would say more like 80% percent of the time on a good day."

"Okay what is this conversation for?" I asked wanting to get to the point

"Derek said that to learn control, he wants me to tap into my animal side and get angry." Scott explained with conflicted look

"An anchor." I said to the boy. I was really starting to think that my cousin was a very shitty teacher 

"A what?" Scott asked confused

"If you maybe let me finish..." I snapped making him mumble a sorry

"We learn control by using an anchor" Alec said

"Anchor is what keeps you human. What can bring you back from going completely out of control." I started to explain. "Derek isn't wrong. Anger is a very common anchor"

"What is it for you two?" The boy asked. Pleading for another answer

"Anger" Alec replied

The look of defeat on Scott's face made me feel bad for the boy. So I added something else "It doesn't have to be only that. It can be joy, love, a person" I stated "Sometimes your anchor can be even more than one thing" At that Scott peered up "I'm a born wolf. Since I was child I knew what my family used to help us anchor once we turned. Did you see the tattoo on Derek's back?" I asked, making him nod "That is a triskele. It can have different meanings. For us it was Alpha, Beta, Omega. An Alpha can become a Beta or even an Omega, A Beta an Alpha and so on. Everything shifts, nothing rests the same."

"Do you use that as your anchor?" Scott asked

"Not always. It doesn't always work."

"So what is it yours?" The curiosity in Stiles' tone was unmistakable but I could see that the other two wanted to know the answer too

"A memory" I said "Derek told you about the fire." Scott nodded again "My anchor is the memory of that night." I didn't look back as I started to walk away as I added "Anger doesn't seem that bad as an anchor after all, doesn't it?"

Pain makes you human. What a better way that feel pain than remembering the way you watched almost your entire family die.– I thought

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╰┈˚ · ° . When I entered the cafeteria I found Allison and Lydia already eating at a table. I quickly took a lunch tray and sat next to the brunette who was reading a book at a bored looking strawberry blonde girl.

"Boring." Lydia commented gesturing with her fork as she ate

"Even the church eventually declared the monster a messenger of Satan." I caught Allison says

"Hmm. Still boring."

"Cryptozoologists believe it may have been a subspecies of hoofed predator, possibly a mesonychid."

"Slipping-into-a-coma bored." Lydia said making me chuckle

"While others believe it was a powerful sorcerer who could shape-shift

into a man-eating monster."

"Wait what?!" I widened my eyes

"Any of this have anything to do with your family?"

"This. 'It is believed that La Bete was finally trapped and killed by a renown hunter who claimed his wife and four children were the first to fall prey to the creature. His name was Argent.' "

"Your ancestors killed a big wolf. So what?"

"Not just a big wolf. Take a Iook at this picture. What does it Iook Iike to you?" Allison showed us the book. There was a picture of a beast with red eyes. The resemblance with the Alpha we uncanny

"Lydia? Lydia." Allison said once she noticed the girl focused on the imagine

"It Iooks Iike a big wolf."

"Okay, can someone explain to me what the fuck are you two talking about?"

"Apparently one of Allison's ancestors killed a big wolf. Ops sorry, I mean a monster messenger of Satan as the church declared it. Or a man-eating monster" Lydia sarcastically said

I was speechless. "Aright, maybe we will keep the fantasy books for later mmh." I said grinning. Completely fakely but I needed to change the subject from the Argent and their hunting 'business'

"Fine" Allison sighed. Her hand grabbed the necklace at her throat "Thank you for this, by the way. I love it" A big sweet smile blooming on her lips

Her birthday gift was part of a matching set of three. It was a custom set of enchantix wings from The Winx. Lydia gifted it to me Flora's wings at my fourteenth birthday. The following year for her fifteenth birthday I gifted her the Bloom one. From that day those were our friendship necklaces, and now that we added a third to our duo, we gifted her the Musa enchantix wings necklace.

"Now you are permanently part of our trio and our best friend." Lydia said, holding her own necklace, giving Allison a genuine and sweet smile. One reserved just for a few. "Alright! See you both in history"

Allison and I both gave her a smile in return. We continued to eat our lunch but suddenly Allison shot up from her seat calling after Scott. Muttering a 'see you later' she ran after him as the boy left the cafeteria.

I rolled my eyes at the couple but still continued to eat completely unbothered, now taking my sketchbook out from my bag. The screech of a chair being moved and the now familiar scent of leather and citrus with hints of tobacco made me aware of the shadow wolf sitting now in front of me.

"Can I help you?" I asked without moving my eyes from my drawing. I received no answer but I could feel him staring at me. After a couple of minutes of ignoring the man, my annoyance rising with each second, I finally decided to look up at him with a snarl "What!?"

The smirk that was plastered on his face made me instantly regret my decision to snap at him. That was exactly what he wanted me to do. Alessandro Di Luna was for sure a lot of things, cocky and arrogant being the two that stood out the most to me, well at least at that moment. "You son of a-"

"Ah ah ah" he tasked "Now, let's not being mean"

My hand curled, discreetly I casted a spell. A pained groan passed through his lips as his nose started to bleed. The crimson liquid trailed down his lips, staining his lightly tanned skin as I stopped my spell. His smirk blooming once again on his shapely lips. A twisted, deranged one that should have frightened me. Maybe if I had gone through everything that I had in my life, right now I would've had. But as I saw his tongue sticking out to lick the blood off his lips, his eyes darkening, I couldn't help the stutter that my heart made. Or how I had to swallow down the lump in  my throat. And that was definitely not for fear. Alec rose from his seat, he placed his hands on the table and leaned his body forward. His face inches away from mine. "Oh, little witch," His voice was low as he spoke, husky, rough. One hand grabbed my chin with strength making our noses almost touching. A wisp of shadows curled around my throat, not squeezing, and definitely, not to harm. "Two can play this game" And with that, he walked away with blood still on his skin and not once looking behind, leaving me breathless and with one thought screaming loudly in my mind

What the fuck just happened!

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╰┈˚ · ° . Beacon Hills memorial hospital during the afternoon hours was as usual less crowded. I made my way towards room 231 where my uncle Peter resides for the last six years in his coma. What I didn't expect was to find the nurse yelling at an angry Derek.

"What is happening?" I asked making my presence known

"Your cousin thought that he could wake your uncle from his coma after six years by shouting and getting angry with him" The nurse explained. I frowned at Derek who wouldn't look me in the eyes, but I knew, I knew that he was hiding something.

"Derek-"

"I have to go" He said, quickly exiting the room with fast steps

"I'll leave you two alone" The nurse said once we were alone, a gentle smile on her face as she left the room

I turned towards my uncle, and positioned him once again towards the widows, opened it slightly, just enough for some breeze to pass and slid up the blinds. I always thought that seeing the woods outside, feeling the wind, would help him. Help his wolf feeling more connected with nature and accelerating in some way his healing. After years and years of trying healing spells, tonics, pastes, nothing helped. He was stuck in this state and not even my magic, or my grandmother's, helped. Even knowing that, I still continued to try. Once I felt myself starting to get tired, I dropped his hand gently. I knew that it would do nothing but still, a small spark of hope always flared when I did it only to be muffled once it didn't do anything. I sat on a chair near the window, staying next to him, a sketching book in my lap and my pencil case in the drawer on my right.

"A lot has been going on lately" I said as I began drawing on an already started draw. "Supernatural stuff, friendships stuff... I already told you about Alec coming back, he is annoying as always but... I don't know. I don't wanna talk about him right now. Or thinking about him, honestly" I sighed. My throat closed up but still, I forced the words out of my mouth " There was a parent/teacher conference a couple of days ago. My grandma obviously went for me but It-" I stuttered,"It wasn't the same. Just like it wasn't the same for all the previous ones. You know, seeing all the other kids with their parents, or even just their mother or father... I literally avoided that place like it was infested or something that night just because I didn't want to see all those families." I couldn't control the tears that streamed down my face, falling into my drawing, wetting the white paper and smearing the pencils. 

It was a drawing of a courtyard seen by stained glass with the woods as background. It was the one at the Hale Manor. Now, nonexistent. I used to play back there with my cousins, practice my magic with my mother growing plants or just to feel the energy of the earth. Sometimes all of our family would eat dinner there, under the stars and lighting a bonfire.

"I miss them" I whispered through a sob "I miss them so much" The ring of my phone yanked me back to reality. The ID said it was Scott. I wiped my tears away as answered "Yes" I said through a sigh

"Derek is going to kill my boss" Scott panicked

"I'm sorry, what?"

"He thinks he is the Alpha. But he is not. I have a plan. Meet us at the school as soon as you can" He then added before hanging up without an answer for me "And call Alec"

Cursing profusually, I placed my art supplies back into my bag and my phone into my jeans pocket. "I'm sorry, I have to go" I kissed my uncle's head before rushing out of the room. I dialed Alec's number, putting it on speaker as I started my car. 

"By what do I owe the pleasure of you calling me, little witch?" Alec cocky voice sounded from the speaker

"Trust me, it wasn't my idea." I huffed annoyed "Scott called me. He said he had a plan on how to lure the Alpha or something. He said to meet at the school as soon as we could"

After a brief pause, he answered with a sigh "Fine. Come to my house"

"Why would I do that?"

"Scott said to be there as soon as we could. My bike is faster" After that he just hung up.  Again, cursing profusually, I changed my direction to Alec's apartment building, arriving there in only five minutes. He was already waiting for me next to his bike. Parking my car, I glared all the way to him. The grin on his lips saying that he was enjoying my rage far too much.

He tried to say something but I cut him off as soon as his mouth opened "Shut up" I said, grabbing the helmet that he was offering me. I mounted on his bike soon after him

"You need to hold onto me if you don't want to fall off." He said. His voice was muffled by his own helmet. Once he understood that I wouldn't move, he used his shadows to push me into him, making me yelp. He quickly turned on his bake and started to drive. Giving me zero time to do anything like throw him into a wall or make his blood boil.

His shadows tethered me to his body. My arms around his torso and head against his shoulder. I could feel the rumble in his chest as he chuckled. Fortunately it wasn't much before we arrived at the school. His shadow loosening their hold made me jump from his bike. I took off my helmet, waiting for him to do the same before I grabbed his throat. My nails now claws, digging into his skin making beads of blood appear.

"You know, I'm starting to think that you just enjoy making me bleed" He said cockly, not at all affected by the threat of the sharp claws. "Maybe as much as I enjoy watching my shadows restrain you" His nose touching my own. He licked his lips, his tongue softly brushing against my own lips.

"Fuck you, demon." I spat

"You wish, witch"

"If you two are done..."  Derek's voice snapped the two of us from each other. I jumped away from the arrogant and insufferable boy to see a very angry Derek glaring at the Di Luna boy

"Why did you think that Scott's boss is the Alpha?" I asked my cousin

"I found out why Laura came here. " he said clenching his jaw "Three months ago they found a dead deer in the woods.The sheriff contacted him wanting to know if he knew something about it."

"I don't know how this would make him the alpha"

"He lied when I asked him about it. He knows something"

"I'm not really following here" I said confused "Maybe-"

"The deer had a spiral drawn on it" Derek cut me off

Realization quickly came to me. The feeling that I felt from the alpha when I made the ritual. Anger, grief. The spiral.

"He searching revenge" I concluded

Seconds of silence stretched between us, even Alec didn't muttered a word

"What is the plan? Scott said to meet here because he had one" As I said that, an embarrassing and pathetic whine echoed from the speakers of the school. "Oh my god what was that? Please tell me that that was not the plan"

Alec laughed loudly at the attempted growl making Derek and I wear matching scowls. "You two need to loosen up" He said, earning an even deeper scowl. And then a loud growl was heard. The three of us had to cover our years for how loud it was.

The deadly look on Derek's face made his thought clear "I'm going to kill them" He declared. Alec smirk transformed into one that was an unhinged, borderline psychotic as my cousin declared that to the two boys once they walked outside."I'm gonna kill both of you. What the hell was that? What are you trying to do, attract the entire state to the school?"

"Sorry. I didn't know it would be that loud." Scott said sheepishly

"Yeah, it was loud." Stiles said "And it was awesome" he added making his voice go higher and dragging out the last word

"Shut up." Derek and I said at the same time

"Don't be such sour wolves, you two" Stiles commented "I can clearly see how you are related" As he said that Scott noticed something

"What'd you do with him?" He said. The door of Derek's car was open and from inside, Deaton, Scott's boss was missing

"What?" Derek said confusedly, "I didn't do anything."

Before any of us could say or do something, the Alpha made his presence known. His claws pierced Derek's back. His body being lifted up in the air, blood flowing out from his mouth.

"Derek!" I screamed.

No. no. no. Not him too. I tried to run towards my cousin only to be held back. I sobbed as the Alpha threw him into the wall. I saw his body falling into the ground, crimson blood pooling already on the ground. My magic was frozen, I could only sob. Flashes of fire, the sizzling sound of my skin burning, the smell of the smoak and burned flash. The screams, all those screams and mostly when they stopped. That is what haunted me the most. The sound of the screams of agonizing pain to only the crackling of the fire as the house burned down. I could hear the boys but their voices were so far away blocked by the bubble of pain that my memories brought.

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Hello everyone!

I hope you liked this chapter!

Not Derek watching Alec and Elizabeth yelling at each other with Alec saying sexual innuendos lmaoo

(The photo above are the matching necklaces of Allison, Lydia and Elizabeth)

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Anyways, thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you on thursday!

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