𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒

"𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 "

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╰┈˚ · ° .  WHEN I SAW ALLISON THAT MORNING, she had explained to me her encounter with the creature at the Lahey's house the night of the full moon. Yellow reptilian eyes, rows of sharp teeths. It had a human body but not at the same time, green and gray scales completely covering it. And also it had a tail.

When she had described it to me, my eyes had widened because I knew exactly what she was talking about. I could remember all the visions that I had with vivid details. Drawings of them filled the walls of my rooms and pages and pages of my sketchbooks. And those reptilian yellow eyes that she described the creature had, I knew were the same that I saw. The hiss of that creature still echoed in my mind every time I thought of them.

And other than that, she hesitantly told me that her father had begun training her. Tied her to a chair in an abandoned warehouse with only an arrow to help her cut the rope that bound her wrists behind my back.

'I won't be like them, Flora. I promise. But the training will help me to fight and protect myself and all of our friends'

I was quite skeptical. She was an Argent. A hunter in training. I really wanted to believe that she wouldn't turn her back on Scott... on me. She was my best friend and I didn't like to think about us fighting against each other and not at each other's sides. But I still nodded, trying to remember how right the first day that I met her felt when we introduced each other.

Coach Finstock had our class all in the basketball court. A climbing wall in the middle of the room. Allison and Scott were the ones racing against each other on it. While doing so, with much calm, they spoke about the creature. I stopped listening when Scott made a comment about admiring the view to explain why he was going slowly.

"Sometimes I really hate having super hearing" I grimaced in disgust

"As much as I would love to admire the view too," Alec said, smirking down at me "There is now way that I'll make you win."

"Alec, let's be honest here for a second," I said, turning around to look directly at the male "You were just admiring it and we both know it."

"You got me." He said, smiling like the Cheshire cat. I rolled my eyes at him and turned around just in time to see Allison kick Scott's feet making him fall down on the mats.

"McCall, I don't know why, but your pain gives me a special kind of joy. Right?" Coach Finstock laughed "All right, next two. Stilinski, Erica, let's go. The wall."

While Stiles confidently approached the climbing wall and attached himself to the safety harness, Erica, a blonde girl that was shy and very much insecure, didn't really seem overjoyed with it.

Stiles had climbed all the way to the top and got down when Erica still was probably in the middle. Her breaths were labored as she started to panic.

"Erica. Dizzy? Is it vertigo?" The coach yelled to the girl when he noticed her state of distress.

"Vertigo's a dysfunction of the vestibular system of the inner ear. She's just freaking out." Lydia commented

"Erica." Coach called at the girl

"I'm fine."

"Yeah, she is totally not fine." I muttered

"Coach, maybe it's not safe. You know she's epileptic." Allison said to the teacher

"Why doesn't anybody tell me this stuff? Erica, y-you're fine. Just kick off from the wall. There's a mat to catch you. Come on."

It seemed that not even the coach's words of reassurance were helping the girl.

"Oh, for fuck sakes" I muttered under my breath and proceded to push everyone out of my way.

"Hale, what the hell are you doing?!" Coach Finstock yelled as he saw me starting to climb the wall

"Elle!" I heard Lydia's voice trembling slightly from fear "You are not even wearing the harness!"

I ignored everyone and quickly climbed next to a sobbing Erica, who was clinging to dear life to the grips.

"Hey, it's alright." I said as softly as I could while touching her shoulder. Honestly, it probably came out more flat than anything. I probably seemed annoyed but in my defense, it wasn't easy to be gentle and soft with everyone. My default emotion was almost always anger. I scowled a lot and I always sounded like a bitch the majority of the time I opened my mouth to say something. Erica's eyes snapped open at the sound of my voice. I could see the panic in them "You can hang on to me. The harness will bring us both safely on the mats" She seemed reluctant to listen to me and very much embarrassed "Everyone is afraid of something."

Her sobs quietly into hiccups as she hesitantly wrapped one arm around my shoulder, her body trembling from the effort and fear. I quickly used a bit of my supernatural strength and dragged her away from the wall, securing her arms around my neck. The fall down was slow and controlled and as soon as our feet touched the mat, Erica took off her harness and bolted out from the gym as our fellow classmates snickered at her back.

I only took a glare at their general direction to make them shut up.

"That was very irresponsible" Coach said, trying to use a stern look before sighing a very tired breath and grumbling 'class dismissed' before walking away.

"Well it seems that you have a heart after all" Stiles commented with a chuckle

"You have one too. One that I will tear out from your ribcage with my hand in the next few seconds if you don't get far away from me. His eyes widened and quickly, the Stilinski boy scuttered away with stuttered words

I turned around to see a very angry Lydia and smiling Allison. Now it was my turn to walk away from the duo while muttering obscenities under my breath.

As soon as I stepped out from the gym, Alec did too. He cornered me against a wall. Of course, I stepped back consciously of that fact. His finger brushed against my jaw. "Tell me, what is that you fear, Elizabeth?" His words caressed my skin like the most seductive caress. "Everyone is afraid of something, isn't it?"

This was not how I thought our conversation would go.

"You first." I challenged. A wide grin bloomed on his lips, his eyes darkened as he looked down at me.

He took a step back and another and another. "Perhaps another time" And with that the shadow wolf walked away.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  The next day at the cafeteria, I sat with Scott and Alec while Stiles talked with Boyd. Apparently the two best friends had come up with an idea. Somewhere for Allison and Scott to have a date. Their date had changed to double 'date' when Stiles proposed for Lydia and himself to go too. You know, for not creating any suspicion. Allison was just going to hang out with Lydia and not because Stiles wanted to have a 'date' with the strawberry blonde girl. Then the double date ended up being a triple date when in some way they got Alec and me to accept this. I mostly did because Lydia kind of begged me to go.

Keys in hand, Stiles walked to our table, sitting down in the chair in front of Scott. "I'll pick you up right after work tonight" he said to his best friend, then he turned towards me and added "We will meet you girls at the rink, cool?"

"No, Lydia and Allison are going together. Alec is giving me a ride there" I said rolling my eyes. "The Argents kind of want me dead, remember?"

"Right" Stiles said awkwardly

Then all the people in the cafeteria turned around to look at a girl that swaggered in. She had blonde hair styled in curls, smokey eye makeup and red lipstick. She was in a white tank top and leather mini skirt and jacket with the most horrendous leopard print high heels. She bent at one of the tables and picked up an apple and bit into it. Her doe brown eyes full of confidence. Her scent was different from the previous day.

"What... the holy hell was that?" Lydia asked, eyeing the girl.

"It's Erica" Scott said

"Seems like someone decided to make some changes." Alec commented with amusement. My head snapped towards the boy whose eyes still followed the blonde girl, scanning her body from head to toe as she walked out of the cafeteria.

In that moment, I really wanted to strangle him. Beat him up pretty good, use some very painful spell and then slash his throat open with my claws.

Oh, gods. No. Nope— I was literally screaming at myself in my mind as I recognized why I wanted to do it.

When Scott and Stiles followed after Derek's new beta I took that opportunity to stand up too and drag Lydia away with me in the girl's bathroom.

"Alright, what's wrong now?" Lydia said with her arms crossed "Why did you drag me in here?"

"Sorry, sorry" I said as I started to pace back and forth in front of the sinks. "I don't know. I just needed to get away from there"

Her perfectly shaped eyebrow raised "From the cafeteria or Alec?" she asked with a knowing look

"I just needed a minute with my best friend" I snapped

"Sure." She scoffed "And not because you were jealous"

"Don't be ridiculous" Now it was my time to scoff at her

"Yes, yes you were jealous. I saw it, you were like very angry, very murderous angry with him. Steam was probably coming out of your ears"

"I'm always murderously angry. What do you mean?"

"No, you are always at a 7, maybe an 8." she pointed her finger at me and continued "That was a whole ten out of ten angry. Admit it, you were jealous."

"No"

"Yes."

"Nope, I wasn't." I stated

"Yes, you were, but fine, when you are ready to admit it, come and find me so I can gloat." Lydia pivoted on her heels and stuttered out of the girl's bathroom.

I really wanted to bang my head into the mirror. She was right. I was very fucking jealous.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  I tried to forget the movement that happened at lunch. I tried to forget that I had actually been jealous.

Alec had come to pick me up at my house and we met the others outside the ice rink. Allison and Scott had big smiles on their faces. Stiles too since he was going to pass his time here with his long-time crush. Lydia was probably just happy to skate.

"When I said that I wanted to take you out on a date, I didn't mean this." Alec commented grudgingly, eyeing the other four with distaste. It seemed like he really wanted to pout.

"Really? So you made some changes to your plans?" I said bitterly.

Yes, the plan of trying to forget about the lunch moment wasn't really working though.

I saw how his annoyed expression morphed into a huge wide grinning face. "You were jealous, weren't you, little witch?"

"Jealous of what, Alec?" I turned towards him feign innocence, arms crossed on my chest. "I really don't know what you are talking about"

He stepped closer, eyes darkening when he looked down at me. "So it worked" He said in a husky whisper

"What, worked?" Then it hit me. The fucker did it on purpose. Those lingering eyes of his on the newly turned beta were just to see my reaction "I'm so going to kill you" I snarled

His hand wrapped around my neck, fingers grabbed my jaw. "Say it" he said while stepping forwards. "C'mon, little witch." The more steps he took the more I did it backwards. My back soon clashed with the walls and I could only look up at him, I could only hear and smell him. He was the only thing that I could feel. "Admit that you were jealous."

"Fine." I said with a snarl. He might make my heart stutter and my lungs non function properly but I was never going to stop fighting him "I was jealous. Happy?"

Very" He said, brushing his lips against mine as he spoke. "Loneliness." he whispered. His forehead rested against mine while his hand moved from my neck to my cheek, the other stayed on the wall next to my head "that is my fear. I don't want to end up alone. I don't want to turn into a wolf and live my life alone that way."

'Shadow wolves are not meant to have a pack. We are solitaires. We thrive when we are alone and in the dark.' The phrase echoed in my mind. He had said to me the night when we found out that Peter was the Alpha. The excuse that his father used with him when he left him and his brother.

"Fear of abandonment." I said in the same whispered tone that he used "Almost everyone I cared about died, some got hurt." Allison then came into my mind and I added "Some will leave for their own choice but in the end, they always leave."

"I won't leave you, amore. I promise." [Love]

I scoffed at his words. Everyone leaves in some way or another.

"You can't promise me that."

"I just did."

His arms wrapped around my shoulders and with strength he pushed me against him. Alec's arms caged me against his body, as my own sneaked around his middle.

Minutes passed before he broke the silence "And by the way, there is no need to be jealous." He said with mirth

"And why is that?" I said, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

His smile softened and I could see how serious he had gotten. His hand cupped my cheek, tenderly brushing his thumb against my skin. "Because I want you, Elizabeth."

My breath got caught in my throat and I felt my lungs crying for ossigen. My heart thumped so loudly in my chest that I swear that I didn't need super hearing to be able to hear it.

I wanted to run, I really did. You ran first so you won't have to be left.

Almost as if he could hear my thoughts he brought our faces closer. His tone darkened "I'm here and I won't leave you. I will not run from you. Not again. And I will not let you do that either. You'll try to run and I'll run after you. I am not letting you go. Not now, not ever. You've got me, little witch. You can do whatever you want, you won't push me away."

His breath was labored as he finished. I could see in his eyes the truth of what he had said. He won't let me run from him, because other than the truth I could see something else too. Madness, chaos, obsession... And I wanted nothing more than seeing it again.

"This is going to be so toxic" I groaned.

His smile turned feral when he spoke again "You threatening to kill me is our way of flirting. None of us is sane enough to have a healthy relationship. Or even want one, admit it."

"When did I agree to be in a relationship with you?" I asked with a sly smirk

"Oh amore, I don't need you to agree." His hand wrapped around my throat, his eyes turning possessively "That you like it or not, your mine" [Love]

He didn't wait even a second for me to process what he had said before he kissed me. Even if I put on a fight he controlled the kiss from the first second. The more our lips stayed locked and tongues tied, the more the kiss escalated. More passionate, hungrier, more unhinged, like his madness was bleeding into it.

And then a scream broke us apart, one loud enough to make both our ears ring.

"What the-"

I immediately recognized the voice and both of us rushed towards the entrance of the ice rink where we found Scott and Allison.

Lydia was kneeling on the ice, Stiles next to her trying to calm her down. Tears streamed down her rosy cheeks, her scream was mixed with sobs as her body trembled in the hold of the human boy next to her.

Shivers traveled down my spine as I felt the brush of Mother nature against my magic. Something was happening to Lydia. Something supernatural.

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╰┈˚ · ° .  I knew that they were there as soon as they stepped foot on Hale's propriety. I felt their energy in my home. Tainting it, contaming it with their own. Disrespecting the memory of my family. I couldn't not go there.

My steps continued to stay leisurely as I approached my childhood home. Of course, I had placed a protective spell on me. I was a powerful hybrid, not stupid. The hunters were armed to the teeth with guns, rifles and crossbows. A spell that created a bubble around my persona would protect me from their bullets if they were to shoot.

I hummed under my breath when I stepped on the porch, the hunters taking the safety off from their weapons.

I opened the door only to be met with multiple firearms aimed at me. And the scent of death.

"Well, hello there" I said with a smirk

"Elizabeth" Mr. Argent sighed heavily through his nostrils. I noticed how he lowered his gun, just him. The other hunters, four of them, still held them aimed at me

"Are you lost?" I said with a saccharine sweet smile

"You know we are not." Chris Argent replied. He was good at appearing calm but his heart beated faster. Eyes dancing between me and his men.

"Well I would suggest you to say yes since you trespassed on private priority." I chuckled. Not caring one bit of the weapons aimed at me I took a step forward only to be met with the barrel of a gun at the back of my head.

"Do you have a death wish?" A hunter said with laughter in his tone

I titled my head, eyeing the other hunters in front of me with a sick smile.

I was the predator, they were my prey.

"Do you?" I said in a tone colder than a winter night. "If I were you I would put your weapons away before this turns into a bloodbath. For you. I don't want that." My eyes shifted to Chris Argent "Let me see the body. I will tell you what I know then you and your hunters get the fuck out of my house. Don't you think that your family did enough here?"

I saw the small flinch he did at the mention of the fire. I knew he felt guilty even if it wasn't his fault. Chris Argent was a good man. A hunter who follows the code. Who does not kill if it is not necessary.

With a nod of his head to his man, all the other hunters lowered their weapons. I smirked at the man that had previously aimed his gun at the back of my head and started to hum once again. I strolled towards the living room, on a table there was a dead body like I knew it would. It was a very gory scene.

"I will let my familiar out to help me inspect the body. Don't get too trigger happy, alright" I said to the hunters in the room quickly calling Hex from her domus. The snake-dragon slithered from my arm to the body of the dead black man.

"One of your man, I suspect" I said earning a positive nod from Mr. Argent

"He was killed yesterday night at an abandoned warehouse."

"The same one you started training your daughter?" I asked with raised eyebrows and an amused smirk. Chris Argent clenched his jaw and nodded again. "Well, he for sure was not killed by a werewolf." I said after inspecting the body.

"Definitely not." Hex said through our mind link "I'm hungry"

I rolled my eyes at my familiar "Don't eat the hunter, Hex. That for sure will get them to shoot at us. I really do not want to kill my best friend's father. I will let you free later so you can catch a rat or something."

"I want bacon"

"Fuck, you are weird." I mumbled back at her earning a warning hiss

"What about a shadow wolf?" Chris Argent said after a second

I scoffed at the hunter trying to control my anger at the insinuation. Like Alec would kill someone and not cover his track, yeah sure.

"No. We both know that no type of werewolf would be able to do something like this." I stated."All I can smell on him is death, no other scent. I can't tell you anything more without a spell, which I will not do for you." I looked at all the hunters and said "Now kindly, get the fuck out of my house."

Hex slither back on my body and coiled herself around my neck. I snapped my fingers lowing the spell enough for them to see the sun room but not for them to be able to enter. I walked inside of it, lightning the candles with my mind. Taking a sketchbook and pencils from the chest that I always have there, I sat on the sofa. It was only when I shuffled to the page where I had drawn those reptilian yellow eyes of the creature that I knew was the real killer that finally all the hunters finally left the house.

"Derek has his pack now" Said Hex using her purple mist to make the sketchbook open to the page where a drawing of three pairs of golden eyes under a pair of bright red ones were drawn.

"Yes, I felt it. And Scott said that it was a guy named Boyd."

"He will need it" My familiar said, making me nod.

Silence stretched between us and I took that opportunity to continue a drawing. This one, it was of a specific curly dark brown haired boy with a dangerous smirk leaning on the same doorway that was in front of me.

"Peter was just the beginning" Hex stated

I sighed through my nose, the vision of the winter formal replying in my mind once again. "I know."

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

All I can say is that I love the scene when they talk about their fears! I love these two so much.

And Hex and Elizabeth relationship is so funny, lmaoo

I started writing season 3, let me know if you have something that you would like to see in this fic.

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

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