𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒

"𝘙𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰 "

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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐜'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .  "ELIZABETH!" I SCREAMED. WITH SWIFTNESS, I MOVED TOWARDS HER, quickly enough for her body to fall limp into my arms. Her eyes shifting behind her closed lids

"What is happening to her?" Stiles panicked asked

"Magic" Peter whispered. I thought that I was mistaken when I smelled the slight worry on him. But no, he cared about her. I could see it as he looked down at her trembling body in my arms. "Nature has a weird way to communicate sometimes."

"Nature is communicating through her?" Siles tried to understand

"There is no time! You will come with me" Peter roughly grabbed Stiles and then he turned towards me "Call help for the girl" His eyes then glowed red as he pointed a clawed finger at me "Anything happens to my niece... You will wish for me to kill you" And with that last warning he and Stiles walked away.

I dialed Jackson's number, explaining as quickly as I could the situation. He came as fast as he could, taking his ex-girlfriend in his arms and running away.

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𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .   I woke up with a start, winching at the pounding headache that felt like my head was being split in two.

"Careful" I heard the sweet voice of my grama, her hand helping me stabilize me when I tried to sit up. I was confused. I remembered the dance, the kisses, running into the lacrosse field... and Lydia.

I snapped my head, wincing at the pain, but I was too panicked to care. I started to search around me even knowing that she wasn't there.

"Lydia" I said. My breathing started to accelerate and my chest felt like it was on fire.

"Elle, you need to calm down, sweetheart." I could faintly hear my grandmother's voice but I was too lost in my sea of grief.

She is dead, she is dead. Oh my god, she is dead. She is dead.

I didn't know I was talking out loud until I felt two hands roughly grabbing my face "She is not dead. Jackson brought her to the hospital. Lydia is not dead. Now, you need to calm the fuck down before you pass out, again. " From my blurred by tears sight I could barely see Alec kneeling in front of me, but his scent, his voice, they enveloped me like a safety blanket.

My eyes cleared as stray tears started to fall, now I could see him, his eyes dark as the night boring into mine with fiery intensity.

"Good girl." He whispered as my heart and breathing pattern stabilized. He kissed my forehead and then stood up.

We were in the living room of my house, my grandmother was standing next to the couch where I still sat. She had a gorgeous smile on her face and her eyes shined with happiness. She looked between me and Alec before slyly sending me a wink that made me want to crawl inside the couch itself and never see the woman again.

Purple smoke enveloped my forearm before Hex slithered out of her domus. It was in that moment that I remembered the visions... the warning. Her serpentine body coiled around my arm, her amethyst eyes looking directly at me as I petted her head

She was exhausted as was I. It takes a lot out of a witch having these kinds of visions, these messages from nature itself. When awake it was even worse than when asleep.

"What did you see?" My grandmother asked.

Golden eyes turning into bright scarlet red. Something that I had seen plenty of time before in my visions. Now though, it was different. That image wasn't the only one that I saw. The sizzling of fire and hissing of a reptile, growling and howling of multiple wolves. A loud scream enough to make my ears bleed. The clash of swords. Body falling to the ground with a thud and puddles of blood. Metal clank and sounds of heavy steps. Silver liquid that could've been mistaken for moonlight. Thunders and lightning and stone crumbling to the ground.

I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out "I don't know. I can't remember" I knew that they caught my lie but both didn't say anything. "I'm going to change. I want to go to the hospital and see Lydia"

WIthout looking at them, I stood up from the couch and made my way to my room.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   It took me less than ten minutes to shower and change into fresh clothes. I wanted to go as soon as I could to the hospital. No, I needed to. Lydia wasn't just my best friend, she was my sister.

As I climbed down the stairs Alec was standing near the front door. "Let's go" He said while not even sparing me a glance. He opened the door and started to walk. I was kinda caught off guard. I didn't think that he would've wanted to come with me, honestly. "Are you coming or what?" He called from outside

"Let me know how she is, alright?" Grams said while kissing my forehead. Her eyes filled with worryness. "Be careful, Elle" she whispered, tearing up.

"I will" With that, I walked out of the door.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   With the speed of the bike we arrived at the hospital in record time. My hands were shaking from fear and anxiety. I swallowed the lump in my throat as the elevator started to move. I looked down when I felt fingers intertwined with my own. Alec didn't say anything, he just strengthened his hold, his thumb caressing the skin on the back of my hand with soft touches.

As the door opened, her room was the first. The curtains being drawn open made it possible to see the inside of the room. Lydia was in the bed, the hospital gown replacing her bloody dress. She had the ossigen mask on, tubes attached to various parts of her body. She would've almost seemed serene if it wasn't for the bruises that married her arms. Those were the only wounds that I could see. Her heart was beating steadily by the sound of the machines and from what I could hear with my hearing.

I thought that seeing her would've made me want to cry, to scream. But I just stared with a cold expression, jaw clenching. One hand in a tight fist while the other squeezed Alec's.

I felt him stiffened beside me "They are here" He said while looking around "The Argents"

I snapped my head towards him and then I focused on my senses.

"Boys. I was wondering if you can tell me where Scott McCall is." Chris Argent asked to Stiles and Jackson

"Scott McCall? Um...Haven't seen him since the dance. Hmm. Jackson, you?" Stiles answered with his usual amount of sarcasm dripping tone

Jackson on the other hand just stuttered

"Oh, for the love of God." Stiles whispered before the hunters took both teens and dragged them away.

My eyes snapped open, I felt it, the way my eyes were glowing bright yellow at the rage that was rising. Alec's wide and unhinged grin bloomed on his lips.

"That's it, little witch. Show me."

It was at that moment that I understood that he wasn't going to stop me. Lecture me into being better, make a different choice. No, Alessandro Di Luna was going to bash into my chaos, because he could match it with his own.

We stalked down the hallways of the hospital to one of the examination rooms where Allison' father and two other hunters had taken Stiles and Jackson.

"The whole while that he lay there dying, he was still trying to claw his way toward me, still trying to kill me, Iike it was the most important thing he could do with his last breath. Can you imagine that?"

"No. And it sounds like you need to be a little bit more selective..."

"Did Scott try to kill you on the full moon? Did you have to lock him up?"

"Yeah, I did. I had to handcuff him to a radiator. Why? Would you prefer I locked him in the basement and burned the whole house down around him?"

"I hate to dispel a popular rumor, Stiles, but we never did that."

Just as Argent said that we arrived outside the room. I raised my hand, my magic bursting the door open. With another movement of my hand I shoved the three hunters away "Subsisto." I said. The three of them now find themselves not being able to move.

"Six years and still the same lie" I laughed "Don't you get tired?"

"Elizabeth" Chris gritted out. "Let us go. We have a truce with witches, you know that. You don't touch us, we don't touch you. You already broke that once when you used your magic against me while trying to save Derek" He was afraid, I could smell it

"You broke the truce when you killed my mother" I spat out coldly

"It wasn't us" He repeated

"Oh, right. Derek said you guys had a code. I guess no one ever breaks it." Stiles said

"Never." Argent declared

"What if someone does?" Stiles asked

"Someone like who?"

"Your sister." Stiles stated

I could see that doubt starting to grow.

"They threw wolfsbane smoke bombs inside the house before they lit it on fire." I said "I can still remember how my family choked on it. They could barely move because of it."

"My father said that the woman who asked Harris about how to get away with arson had a necklace. One that your sister gifted to Allison for her birthday"

Kate Argent. After years I had a face, a name to the person responsible. At least one of them. It seemed my Uncle already killed the others.

My magic stirred into my veins, a wave blasted through the room sending all the others on the ground. Silence followed only to be broken by the hissing of Hex as she slithered up my arm and around my neck. Her forked tongue passed her sharp venom dripping fangs.

"I will suggest you to not get in my way" I declared to the three hunters, my eyes glowing gold. I felt shadows wrapping around me, caressing my skin.

"I would suggest you listen to her." He smirked "Never anger a Warren witch. They curse easily" He winked at them throwing his arm around my shoulders.

We stuttered out of the room leaving them still sprawled on the ground.

"Now, where to?" he asked me

We exited the hospital, plants surrounded the entrance. I took a handful of soil from one. Alec raised an eyebrow in question at me "You'll see" I told him before sending Hex back into her domus.

As soon as we stood in front of his bike, I made sure that no people were around. Fortunately not many there were and none of them were looking at us. Still I positioned myself in a way that Alec would cover the visual.

With my claws, I slashed into my palm, blood dripping from the wound into the soil in my other hand.

"Voco super naturam, ut filia tua, ego rogabo pro auxilio. Ostende mihi viam." The wind picked up as I chanted. I felt it, as Mother Nature answered my spell.

Kate whispering in Allison's ear. Where to shoot her arrows. When. What type of arrow. Scott and Derek the targets. The Hale house behind them.

With a gasp, I felt myself come back to reality. The wind had died down bringing with it the blood-infused soil, but my heartbeat was still frantically beating as I recalled the vision.

"Are you okay?" Alec asked, a bit concerned.

I nodded my head "I'm fine, and I know where we need to go." Then I added as I remembered the vision "Bad news. Kate kind of brain washed Allison. She knows and she is about to shoot both Scott and Derek with arrows."

"Allison knows about..."

"Yes. She knows about the supernatural " I didn't dare to think about that now, because probably, I had lost my friend that night. We climbed on the bike and soon we were speeding down the road.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   The uneven terrain didn't stop the bike from speeding with force through the woods. I could feel the nighttime animals silent, the forest unmoving as they too were holding their breath in suspens. We parked the bike out of human earshot, we needed to be careful to not endanger Scott's and Derek's lives more than they already were. The Hale house soon was in our sight, people already there.

Kate was pointing her gun at Scott after harshly throwing her niece on the ground. Derek nowhere to be seen. My vision had already happened, probably just minutes before.

I could feel the rage starting to boil once again as I looked at the person who had killed my entire family. My throat clogged up with emotions. Seeing her there, the place where she brutally killed my family, my pack, as they were nothing. Acting like it never happened, felt like a knife stabbing my heart.

Before we could reveal ourselves another car approached. Chris Argent exited his car, calling for his sister.

"Kate! I know what you did. Put the gun down." He said

That is where both Alec and I showed ourselves from the shadows of the forest.

"I did what I was told to do." The woman said to her brother.

Chris Argent looked towards me, I could've sworn that his eyes had softened slightly but it was too quick even for me to catch on more as he glared back at his sister "No one asked you to murder innocent people. There were children in that house. Some who were human too. Look what you're doing now. You're holding a gun at a 16-year-old boy with no proof he spilled human blood." He took a breath "We go by the code. 'Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent' "

"We hunt those who hunt us." Allison realized as she traduced the phrase from french

But Kate didn't care as she moved her point finger on the trigger

"Put the gun down... '' Mr.Argent said, pulling out his own gun firing a shot at the tree behind her "before I put you down."

Kate reluctantly lowered her gun, but I wasn't done. Not nearly close to being done.

"Did you enjoy it" I asked the blonde women with venom dripping from my words

"Enjoy what, girl." The hunter scoffed, eyeing me carefully. She knew who I was, that was for sure.

"Did you have fun when you burned alive my family?" I heard Allison gasp but I didn't look at her because I was doing anything I could to stop the tears from falling. "Was it amusing?"

The blonde woman grinned. I knew she was going to say something that I wouldn't have liked but in that moment, the front door creaked as it opened slowly.

"Allison, get back" Chris ordered to his daughter

Everyone pointed their weapons at the door, taking steps back. "What is it?" Allison asked fearfully.

"It's the Alpha" Scott answered, his eyes glowing brightly yellow

In seconds Chris and Allison Argent a long side with Scott and Alec fell to the ground.

"Come on! Come on!" Kate yelled. He wanted her.

"Alec" I kneeled next to the boy.

"I'm fine" He groaned in pain as his leg started to heal already.

Peter had grabbed Kate's wrist, the one she held the gun with. She fired a shot into the air as my uncle snapped her wrist before grabbing her from the neck and throwing her on the front porch.

"Elizabeth" He didn't even look at me as he spoke. He grabbed a yelling Kate and dragged her inside the house.

"Go" Alec whispered

Allison was already running inside, I was quick to follow her.

Uncle Peter had Kate by neck, his claws nearly piecing his skin

"She is beautiful, Kate. She looks like you. Probably not as damaged. So I'm going to give you a chance to save her." He looked at me and I knew he would do it. Kill Allison too no matter what. I decided to just think about it later. Maybe I could convince him to do otherwise?

"Apologize. Say that you're sorry for decimating my family, for leaving me burned and broken for six years. Say it. And I'll let her live." I could see the tears that glisten in his eyes triggering mine.

"I'm sorry" Kate whispered looking at her niece after a second of reluctance.

Peter looked at me "Should I stop?" He asked me "Shouldn't I kill the person responsible for this" His eye looked around the burned house

"Please" Allison begged me and it was in that moment that I felt Alec next to me

"Did you ever tell her? Him? Any of your friends, how you can't still sleep without having nightmares? How do you still have burn scars that you can't heal even with your werewolf healing because your guilt is blocking it? Because you are alive and they are not." Now tears streamed down his face too as spoke. "I remember everything you told me in the last six years, every time you cried. How you still feel like you're inside this house watching everyone burn, screaming. How the smell of burning flash still clog your nose, how you can still hear the screams of our family as they died in agonizing pain." I fell on my knees, sobs shaking my body as I heard my uncle stating the truth. The one that I didn't want to hear. Arms wrapped around me, keeping me caged between them. Comforting me even without a word "Tell me that she doesn't deserve to die. That you don't want her dead." I couldn't. I couldn't say those words because I did. I wanted her dead. "That's what I thought" Those were the last words whispered by Peter before he slashed Kate Argent's throat with his claws.

I watched transfixed as her body fell to the floor, blood spluttering on the wood. Seconds, maybe minutes passed without anyone moved until Derek and Scott appeared in their werewolves form

"Run" Scott said to Allison who didn't waste another second to do as told. But I couldn't move. I couldn't stop looking at the dead woman as her blood pooled under her dead body.

"Come on. Let's go" Those same arms helped me stand, pushing me outside.

The fight outside was only getting worse by the second, Peter wasn't going to stop. I knew that. I could stand the thought of him killing the one guilty of the fire, the one who murdered our family. But Laura, her own niece, Lydia... He wasn't going to stop.

A Porsche approached the house, Jackson and Stiles getting out of it. The Stilinski boy threw a familiar cocktail of chemicals at the beast that my uncle had become. It didn't explode as it never shattered.

With a sob I knew that I had made my decision. "Ignis" I muttered the spell

The becher exploded, fire enveloping the Alpha making him turn back into his human form. Uncle Peter fell on the fallen leaves, his burned body not even easily recognizable.

Derek was the first one to approach him. He wanted to kill him, becoming the Alpha.

"Wait! You said the cure comes from the one who bit you. Derek. If you do this, I'm dead. Her father, her family... What am I supposed to do?" Scott pleaded with the man

"You've already decided. I can smell it on you!" Peter yelled with all the strength that he had left

Derek raised his arms, claws ready to slash. "Subsisto." I said the spell, the same one that I used on the hunters just an hour or so before.

I kneeled next to my uncle taking his charred hand in mine as softly as I could. My eyes closed as I remembered that night

Everywhere I looked there was fire, the heat crawling on my skin. My eyes watered from the smoak and my lungs burned. I could scent the wolfsbane in the air, hearing my family choking on it. I was a witch, plants, herbs, nature couldn't hurt us. Wolfsbane was ineffective with me even if I was a werewolf too. Tears continued to fall from my eyes, streaking my soot covered face. My left arm hurted, I could feel my body trying to heal without any success.

"We have to go!" My uncle Peter yelled at me. His skin red and blistering with fresh burns. "Ellie!!" I could hear him scream but I couldn't stop looking at my big brother, whose body was near the stairs, his arm still reaching for mine but his eyes unseeing anymore.

"Oliver!!" I sobbed.

There was a wall of fire dividing us from my uncle Ben and my little cousins Jacob and Evelyn. The only humans in our pack. They were the first to reach the basement as the wolfsbane didn't affect them but the fire had already spread, trapping them between the iron bars and the escape. Their bodies still twitching even after their death. Uncle Peter lifted me onto his shoulder, a pained yell fell from his lips followed by a groan from the strain. The escape route brought us outside our home in the woods. By now the blue and red lights of the police were illuminating the early evening sky and the sound of the fireman quickly approaching. But it was too late. They were all dead already.

"Thank you" I whispered with a trembling voice. I tried to control the sobs that shocked my body. I wanted my voice to be clear, to make him hear the gratitude in my tone. "I know that I would've died too that night if it wouldn't have been for you. Thank you for saving my life, uncle"

His badly burned hand lightly squeezed mine "We always have been too similar. Maybe that is why you have always been my favorite." He said in a lighter tone as he was trying to joke. But that only made me feel worse as I let the spell go on Derek and in a second he slashed his throat.

The gurgling sound of choking on blood was the only thing that could have been heard for seconds. Raising his head, eyes flashing red, Derek declared "I'm the Alpha now." Before he disappeared into the forest.

I raised from my spot, turning away from the sight of the charred body of my uncle. I wanted to cry, to sob. But nothing came out.

"Elizabeth" Chris Argent said, making my head snap towards the man. "I'm sorry. I know that it probably means nothing but... I'm sorry. No one deserve to see what you did six years ago, least of all a kid" I nodded, believing the sorrow feeling that I could feel from him

I turned towards Allison, the girl couldn't even raise his eyes enough to look at me. Guilt. She was feeling guilty.

"Why?" Allison asked as I kneeled next to her "Why would you ever even consider being my friend if you knew for certain that my family..." she didn't need to continue, we all know what she meant.

My grandmother's words echoing in my ear. 'What do we know, maybe she will be different, don't give up on her just yet.'

I used the pad of my thumb to brush away her tears "Because you are not them." I simply said.

With a last hug from the girl, both Argent went away, Scott too with Stiles and Jackson. Only Alec and I remained.

My eyes shifted to the house, screams and fire and death popping into my mind. My breathing started to speed up, my magic to build in my veins.

I started to walk into the forest, I could feel my heart beating louder and louder step after step.

I didn't know how much I walked, how far I was from the house. The wind started to pick up as sobs started to build in my chest once again. I started to collapse on the ground when two strong arms wrapped around my middle bringing the both of us down. I could feel the soil underneath my knees, the silent forest around myself. My heavy breathing loudly in my ears alongside my heartbeat.

"I've got you, little witch. I've got you." Alec whispered softly in my ear "Let it out."

A scream tore from my throat as my magic brusted directly from my chest. Trees falling down as they were feathers creating a circle of destroyed land around us. My magic continued to leave my body in waves as sobs shook my body. Alec tightened his hold on me, his fingers brushing through my hair and shadows wrapping around me as they too wanted to comfort me. He did this until I stopped crying and still continued after that.

"Why are you here?" I whispered. My voice rougher after what I felt was hours of crying. I probably looked like a mess. And I honestly didn't care.

"Because I wanted to" He too answered in a whispered tone, never once stopping his fingers from moving. I turned my head to the side enough to look at him. He was already looking down at me with a soft look that made me want to melt into him.

"Alright" I said before turning to the side making myself more comfortable in his arms. I left my magic out, repairing the damage that I've done, little by little returning to how it was before. And maybe, I could start to heal now too. Little by little.

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╰┈˚ · ° .   It was deep into the night when Alec and I returned to The Hale house. As we neared it, I felt Derek's presence. He explained to us the plan that Scott and Chris Argent and himself had come with. Kate was already wanted by the police for arson and murder, like Stiles had explained. The plan was to attribute to her all the murders of the alpha too, making Derek's accusation fall.

"I need to bury him. Do the funeral ritual." I muttered as I tried not to look at my uncle's body.

"I know" Derek said as he came near me "I'm sorry, Ellie"

"It was the only choice we had. He had become too unpredictable. He would've killed everyone. Whoever he wanted. He killed Laura, hurted Lydia, he would've killed Allison."

"Yes" He whispered "But I know that you loved him" he chuckled "I remember that he never even cared about the others. He probably could barely stand me and we were almost the same age. But you" He laughed lightly "He loved you."

"We were alway too similar, the both of us. We always have been like a Raging Inferno."

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

Oh my god!!! I can't believe it. Season 1 is complete!!!

I hope you liked this first part and that you will wait for the second Act of this book, season 2. I'm still finishing writing it so it will not be posted before december.

This chapter actually made me cry when I was writing it. Mostly the flashback of the Hale house. 

I will promise you something, Elizabeth will be stronger emotionally during season two and of course, you will see how the relationship with Alec will grow.

I love my character and I love this book, honestly.

(Btw I just found out that my OC Alec, who the faceclaim is Benjamin Wadsworth, actually appeared in the last episode of the show. I mean I knew that but i didn't remember that his character was actually named Alec too, lmaoo. It was so funny when I found out)

Anyways, thank you for reading this chapter, I'll see you all in the second Act!

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞!

– 𝐋𝐨𝐥𝐚 ☾