𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖 

"𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘮 "

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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐜'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .  THE PALN HAD WORKED. THE ALPHA WAS THERE. What was not planned was the death of Derek Hale. Elizabeth's scream made my ear ring as she tried to get to her cousin.

"Elizabeth no!" I caught her arm before she could run towards him. "Run!" I yelled to the other two as I picked up the girl in my arms. Stiles and Scott waited for me before closing the school front doors.

"Lock it, Iock it!" Scott yelled at his best friend

"Do I Iook Iike I have a key?"

"Grab something!"

"What?!!

"Anything!"

I ignored their banthers only focusing on the girl in front of me. She had her arms wrapped around her knees, her jade eyes squeezed together, her chocolate locks hiding her face as she rocked back and forth. Hysterical sobs escaping from her lips. I have never seen her like this. Probably I haven't seen her cry even when we were little. She always was strong, a girl who took no shits from everyone, most of all from me. The other day, after she performed the ritual, was the only time when I was her distraught, but even there, it was nothing compared to this.

She was falling apart in front of my eyes. The Alpha was out there , hunting for us and she didn't even seem to be coherent, too lost in her pain and memories. It made my heart ache.

"Elizabeth" I said between pants, adrenaline skyrocketing in my body. "I need you to focus on my voice, alright, please" I begged. Her body shook from the strength of her cries, my voice not even making a hit into her barrier.

I wrapped my arm around her tightly, cradling her body against mine. "Come back to me, Ellie" I whispered.

"We need to do something!" Scott yelled. It was like a light turned on in his brain. He turned towards us, eyes frenatic "She can do it" He said "Elizabth can do like a spell or something to block the door, right?"

"No she can't. Not right now, can't you see it" I gritted out. She was too out of it.

"Then do something to snap her out of it!"

"She just watched another family member die in front of her. Give her a fucking minute" I snapped. But I knew he was right. We needed her.

I sighed out in frustration before taking her face between my hands "Look at me. We need you, Ellie." That was not going to work "I need you to do the thing you do with your spells and shit, witch. Now snap out of this before we all die here" I said with a harsh tone. One that I really didn't want to use with her right now, but I know that if something was going to let her come back to herself, it was not hushed and sweet words. I used my shadows, wrapping them around her, caging her inside of them. I knew that her magic, her wolf, would recognize it as threat "C'mon" I scoffed "It's really pathetic that it was one of your ancestors that cursed my line. I mean, look at you. I bet you-"

Claws digged into my wrist "What, you bet what? That I could kill you by making your own shadows strangle you, demon." She said, eyes glowing gold from beneath the shadows. I smirked at her. I loved when she was angry. She didn't wait a second to push herself away from my lap, glaring at the two boys who were keeping the door closed as she walked toward them "Move" She snapped. The two teenageres widened their eyes, quickly scumbling away from the front door.

Closing her hands into a fist she said "Sigillum." The door snapped close at that

"Will it hold?" Scott asked breathlessly

"Not for much," Elizabeth answered.

A howl echoed through the hall. With widened eyes the four of us looked at each other before sprinting away. I grabbed Elizabeth's hand making sure to not get too far away from her. I honestly could care less about the other two.

"The desk." Scott suggested as a barrier for the door as soon as we entered a classroom

"Shh! Stop, stop. The door's not gonna keep it out." Stiles pointed out

"I know." Scott turned towards Elizabeth, "Can't you do the same thing you did with the other door"

"I can but it's only temporary" She said in an angered whisper. I could feel it. She wasn't focused and her magic was already low from the beginning.

"It's your boss." Stiles declared

"What?"

"Deaton, the AIpha? Your boss."

"No." Scott stated as he and his best friend continued to banther

"Yes, murdering psycho werewolf."

"That can't be."

"Oh, come on. He disappears, and that thing shows up 10 seconds Iater to toss Derek 20 feet through the air? That's not convenient timing?"

"It's not him."

"He killed Derek."

"No, Derek's not dead. He can't be dead."

"BIood spurted out of his mouth, okay? That doesn't exactly qualify

as a minor injury. He's dead, and we're next."

I could hear Elizabth's heartbeat accelerating at each word that got out from the Stilinski boy. My anger rising with it.

"Shut up! Both of you" I snapped "If another words it's said aside from a plan to get out of here, I'm going to kill you both"

"Okay, what do we do?" Scott asked between panicked breaths

After a moment of silence, Stiles said "We get to my jeep, we get out of here." Then he added looking at his friend "And you seriously think about

quitting your job, good?

"No, they don't open. The school's climate-controlled." Elizabeth said as the three of us guys tried to open the windows

"Then we break it." Scott suggested

"Which will make a Iot of noise." I said back

"Then... Then we run really fast. Really fast."

"I can muffle the noise with a spell" The brunette beauty said

"Good, good." The teen wolf nodded his head before his eyes trained on the jeep, brows furrowed in confusion "Stiles, what's wrong with the hood of your jeep?"

"What do you mean? Nothing's wrong."

"It's bent."

"Like, dented?" the human said with concern. That boy was obsessed with his car.

"No, I mean bent."

"What the hell..."

Suddenly an object was thrown into the windows from outside. Glass shattering, pieces flying everywhere. I swiftly moved, bending my body to cover Elizabeth's as I crouched down near the wall.

"That's my battery." Stiles said starting to go near it

"Don't move."

"We have to move."

"He could be right outside."

"He is right outside." Elizabeth snapped at the two

"Just Iet me take a Iook." Scott raised slightly, only until with his eyes could peak outside

"Anything?"

"No." Scott shook his head

Stiles snapped his head fastly. His eyes switched between me and Elizabeth "You two came with a car, right?"

"No" She said resting her head against the wall not before sending me a side eye look

"Scott said to come as soon as possible. My bike was quicker" I shrugged.

"So that is not a possibility for us to get out, alright" Scott stated even more defeated

"I mean... I could still take Elizabeth and get the fuck out here actually" I pointed out earning snort from the girl

"You really would leave us here to die?!" Stiles whisper-shouted. I only sent him a deadpanned look "And why take her? Don't you two hate each other?"

"Do you want to die before the Alpha can get his hands on you Stilinski?" I smeared at the boy.

I didn't know why, but he was right. I was meant to hate her. Or at least to dislike her very much. But as I caught her sight from the corner of my eyes, I knew that I could never leave her here. And what I felt for her, even if it chilled me to the bones just at the thought of it, well, it was definitely not hate.

"Alright then, move now?" Stiles asked

"Move now."

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𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .   With Stiles flashlight lightning the way, we all swiftly moved out of the classroom. My mind was still clouded by my memories, by the pain of them. I followed behind the guys honestly, not really listening to their banther anymore. I felt a hand clasping mine. Rough skin against my softer one. Alec dragged me away, where we all ended up in the male locker room.

"This place smells like shit" I mumbled, my nose scrunching at the awful smell

"Call your dad." Scott said to Stiles completely ignoring my comment

"And tell him what?"

"I don't know, anything. There's a gas Ieak, a fire, whatever. If that thing sees the parking Iot filled with cop cars, it'II take off."

"What if it doesn't? What if it goes completely Terminator and kills every cop in sight, including my dad?"

"They have guns."

"Yeah, and Derek had to be shot with a wolfsbane-Iaced bullet to even

slow him down, you remember that?"

"He is not wrong. Guns would do probably nothings against the alpha" Alec said with a shrug

"Then we... We have to... We have to find a way out and just run for it." Scott said

"There's nothing near the school for at Ieast a mile." Stiles reminded him

"What about Derek's car?"

"That could work." Stiles confirmed his friends plan "We go outside,

we get the keys off his body," he gagged slightly and then we take his car."

"And him." Scott added after glancing my way

"Fine. Whatever."

I swallowed the lump of emotions in my throat, eyes clouding again with tears that I would not let fall. A soft, velvety and misty kind of texture softly brushed against my hand, who just now I noticed was still intertwined with Alec's. His shadows are incorporeal and at the same time corporeal, cold enough to feel their presence. I looked up, Alec chocolate eyes already on me. The thumb from his free hand raised to my face, wiping the still there streak of wetness caused by my early tears.

"Hide!" Scott allerted us, interrupting our moment. Stiles was the first one to follow the beta's words, opening the first locker he found and hiding inside of it. Scott soon enough, he too hid into one locker.

"Trust me" I whispered to Alec before dragging him with me. I entered the couch office, crouching in the corner. "Your other hand" I whispered to him. He followed my command, now both our hands connected to each other. Trying to concentrate as much as I could. Trying to feel the magic that flowed through my veins.

Under my breath I mumbled the spell creating an invisible bubble around us. Hiding the both of us from sight, our scent and even every sound we made inside the bubble. From humans and most importantly, from even the one with supernatural enhanced senses. The spell was a complicated one, it required strength and focusness. Trying to heal my uncle this afternoon already took out a part of my energy and the fact that I once again saw a family member die in front of my eyes definitely didn't help with my concentration. What I failed to see was the soft look in Alec's gorgeous eyes directed at me.

"Ah! Son of a bitch!" A male screamed

"Shh, quiet!" Scott whispered

"Quiet my ass, what the hell are you trying to do, kill me? Both of you get out."

I lifted my spell with brows furrowed in confusion.

"Just Iisten for half a second, okay?" Stiles tried

Both Alec and I walked out from the coach office to see the janitor yelling at the two teens

"Not okay. Get the hell out of here right now." The janitor pushed Scott and Stiles only to turn around and see Alec and me too "What the hell were you two even doing in there? There better not be any sticky substance on that desk!" He yelled

"No sticky substance" Alec replied with his usual cocky smirk "You caught us too early for that"

"You wish" I scoffed

"How true" The shadow wolf replied, humming. With wide eyes I turned towards him.

He definitely wasn't serious, was he?–– I thought

The janitor had definitely enough of us so he pushed Scott and Stiles first out the locker room sending a glare towards me and the other male as we walked past him

"God, just one second to explain." Stiles tried

"Just shut up and go." the man said before a scream tore from his throat as he was pulled backwards, the door closing behind him. Not even a second later, his hands were banging on the door, blood already staining the glass.

Scott moved towards the door wanting to help the man "Scott no!" I yelled at the boy "It's too late"

Stiles took his friend's arm, dragging him away as the four of us started to run away once again.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   We ran toward the exit only to discover that it was blocked by dumpsters, we all thought that it was better to search for another exit.

"I'm not dying here. I'm not dying at school." Stiles stressed

"I agree. This would be one of the worst place to die in" I commented

"We're not going to die." Scott tried to calm the nerves

"God, what is he doing? What does he want?" Stiles asked with a scared huff

"He wants Scott" Alec nonchalantly answered

"Derek says it's stronger with a pack."

"He is" I agreed with McCall

"Yeah, great. A psychotic werewolf who's into teamwork. That's... That's beautiful." Stiles sarcastically said

With our enchanted hearing, we heard growling. Stopping from walking, we all turned around, Stiles following our lead. And there, on the roof of the school, stood the Alpha, who as soon he saw that we noticed him, he started to run towards us. As he smashed into the glass windows Scott and Stiles separated from us. Alec and I ran as the Alpha followed after his beta. We entered a classroom, closing the door behind us. Our body slumped against it, panting heavily. Our breath now the only thing that was heard.

"He is playing with us." I concluded. My head turned towards the shadow wolf who slides down and sat on the ground

"He is playing with Scott" he said with a groan "We are just collateral damage"

I sighed and sat down next to him trying to catch my breath. Silence ringed around us until I decided to break it

"We should go and search for them" I said trying to get up only to be stopped by Alec's hand grabbing my arm

"You-" He stuttered, grinding his teeth with closed eyes. "Are you okay?" He asked me. His tone was soft, almost a whisper.

"Why do you care?" I glared at him before turning my eyes towards the wall of windows that characterize all the classrooms of the school. I could feel his eyes boring into the side of my head. I knew, I knew that what I said, the tone and glare, he didn't deserve it. I could feel that he wanted an honest answer. Perhaps he really cared for an honest answer but I couldn't give it to him. Anger has always been my response to pain. Hate, rage, everything strong enough to numb the other feelings because happiness, never once, helped me to do it. I was all sharp angles. I had made myself this way. And maybe I could feel how Alec was starting to soften them.

"McCall" Jackson's unmistakable voice echoed from the hallway.

I snapped my head towards Alec with wide eyes "What the fuck is he doing here!"

Alec groaned before rising from the ground, his arm stretched in front of him towards me. An offering. I hesitated a second, his chocolate eyes staring into mine intensely, waiting, seeing if I would take it. Maybe even challenging me. Without thinking about it twice, I took his hand helping myself from the floor.

"Did you find them?" The voice of the strawberry blonde girl freezed me in my spot.

Terrified of her presence here, I took off sprinting towards the voices.

"Fucking hell" I heard murmuring from behinde me before the shadow wolf started to run too.

"Lydia" I breathed out terrified as soon as I saw her and Jackson in front of the bathrooms.

Turning around with a confused expression she said "Elle? What are you doing here?" she then added while looking at Alec with a suggestive eyebrow raising that I ignored "And with him?"

As soon we were near enough, I threw myself at her. My arms wrapping around her shoulders into a tight hug "What are we doing here? What are you two doing here?" I asked once I stepped out from the hug

"Scott ditched Allison and at the last minutes she sent her a message to come here at school" She explained "Jackson and I drove her here"

"Allison is here too?" I asked, panicking even more.

Great. Just great. This night couldn't get even worse

"Yes she is, What 's going on?!" Jackson demanded taking a step towards me. Before I could do anything, Alec stepped forward glaring harshly at the boy.

"Where is she?" He asked turning towards Lydia

"I-I don't know. She went to search for Scott"

"Call her," Alec demanded. Lydia didn't waste another second to do that. Using my enhanced hearing I tried to locate her , easily doing it successfully when her phone started ringing. She was already with Scott and Stiles.

"Allison" Lydia said

"Where are you?" I heard the argent teen asked

"This way" I said opening the door of the lobby

"Finally. Can we go now" Lydia said after hanging up her phone

Before anyone could answer her, the ceiling, or rather something inside the ceiling started to cause a noise.

"Run!" Scott yelled. We were just fast enough as the ceiling started to fall. The Alpha down with it. He followed after us with loud growlings and roars. Through the run I made sure to have Lydia in my sight knowing that Allison was already going to be Scott's priority. I felt a misty and cold feeling against my wrist, now associating it easily with one of Alec's shadows. I really don't know why he did it, but the moment to think about it was definitely not that. We crashed through a set of doors, the cafeteria behind them. Scott was the last one to enter. He closed the locks and with everyone in a frenetic state, it was easy for me to cast a sealing spell

"Sigillum" I said quietly. Earning a nod from the teen wolf.

"Help me get this in front of the door!" Scott asked to the others, A chair already in his hand

"Scott, wait, not here" I heard Stiles say, making me turn around. And of course there was a wall of windows.

"Oh for fuck sakes" I groaned choosing to seat down insted of scurrying around to place chairs and tables that wouldn't help much.

As I saw Stiles continuing to try to catch the others' attention unsuccessfully, I reminded myself that we were in the cafeteria and I was starving. If we would get out of here I for sure needed to go eat something big and greasy. I neared one of the vending machines, my bag was still outside on Alec's bike so I didn't have another choice but to use my magic to make a packet of oreo and an energy drink fall from them.

A snort caught my attention. "What?" I asked, slightly pouting

"Nothing" Alec grinned widely

"I spent all afternoon with my uncle. I still had to eat anything for dinner. Then of course trying to heal him, all this running and trying to stay alive definitely didn't help with my hunger" I explained "And I don't have any money with me so..." I trailed of with a wave of my hand after explaining the situation

"Hello!" Stiles shouted now having everyone's attention "Okay, nice work. Really beautiful job, everyone. Now, what should we do about the 20-foot wall of windows?" He opened his arms wide showing with a grand gesture the in fact wall of windows.

"Can somebody please explain to me what's going on, because I'm freaking out here. And I would Iike to know why." Allison panted sending pleading to her boyfriend "Scott?"

"Somebody killed the janitor." Stiles said after he noticed his friend lack of words

"What?"

"Yeah, the janitor's dead." He confirmed to Lydia

"What's he talking about? Is this a joke?" Allison said with a smile. Anything for her reality to not be that. Real.

"What, who killed him?" Jackseon asked

"No, no, no, no. This was supposed to be over. The mountain Iion killed..."

"No, don't you get it? There wasn't a mountain Iion." Jackson said to his girlfriend rather harshly

"Who was it? What does he want?" Allison shouted before changing her tone into a whisper "What's happening?" Having enough of the silence she yelled "Scott!"

"I don't know." The said boy stammered "I just... If we go out there, he's gonna kill us."

"Us? He's gonna kill us?" Lydia panicked clutching tightly my arm for dear life

"Who? Who is it?" Allison naked between Scott, Stiles, Alec and I

A moment of tense silence passed before Scott started to talk once again"It's Derek. It's Derek Hale."

"What?!" I raged.

"Derek killed the janitor?" Jackson asked confused

"Are you sure?" Allison questioned. Her eyes switching between his me and his boyfriend

"I saw him."

"The mountain Iion..."

"No, Derek killed them." Scott said harshly cutting Lydia off

"AII of them?"

"Yeah, starting with his own sister." He said. Rage boiled my veins as a scoff left my mouth. I opened my mouth to say something but even I knew that with all the precession of the question we had to have some answers.

"And the bus driver?"

"And the guy in the video store. It's been Derek the whole time. He's in here with us. And if we don't get out now...He's going to kill us, too."

"Call the cops." Jackson said to Stiles

"No." The Stilinski boy declared

"What do you mean, 'No' ?"

"I mean no. You want to hear it in Spanish? Noh." Stiles answered back to the Lacrosse captain using as always his beloved sarcasm

"Look, Derek killed three people, okay?-"

I couldn't listen to it anymore so I walked away from the group without a word, I needed some time to clear my head. My cousin was dead, his body still warm and now, Scott decided to put the blame of all the murders on him. It was too much. I clenched my jaw after his dramatic speech, squeezing my palms until my claws digged into my skin, blood dripping from them. A hand clasped my wrist, the scent of leather and citrus with hints of tobacco that I knew came from Alec drifted up my nose. Unknown to me, my shoulders instantly relaxed, my claws switching once again for my normal black colored nail. I couldn't contain the lonely tear that fell from my eye.

He grabbed my chin making me look up at him. We were close, too close, not close enough. His eyes scanned my face before one of his arms sneaked around me, the other around my shoulders, hand cradling my head, pushing it into his chest. My arms automatically wrapped around his waist. His finger brushed through my brown locks, calming my anger. It was just us. The others even in the same room went unnoticed as the boy who I thought I couldn't stand hugged me. It was a hug that lightened my heart, lifting slightly the heavy weight on my soul. Hugs to this day rarely felt like this. I closed my eyes as I felt his lips press against the crown of my head. And with that the first sharp angle smoothed out. 

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

I hope you liked this chapter!

Yup I definitely love to give my character trauma lmaoo poor Ellie.

BUT we are already seeing some softening from both Alec and Lizzie.

(Little spoiler ig?)

Even later on, these two will never stop fighting and bantering with each other. Like people are always "Do they hate or love each other? It's not clear." At least that is what I'm aiming for

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

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