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"𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦? "

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𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐜'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .  "A TATTOO." ELIZABETH SAID WITH A  said with a deadpanned look directly at me, annoyance shining in her blue eyes. "That was the secret?"

I grinned widely, sly as a fox. A grin filled with amusement. "What is it and where is it?" she asked, her eyes narrowed scanning my body from head to toe as if focusing enough, she could see through my clothes.

"Not yet, Amore." I told her. I was having too much fun keeping her on her toes. And the way she was getting red in the face with anger was really hot. Plus, I enjoyed annoying her too much to stop just now. "Scott goes first or he will for sure back down." I said as an excuse to prolong the wait for her even more.

She snorted at my words, completely agreeing with me. The process of having a tattoo to stain visible on a body with enchanted healing was not an easy one, that was for sure.

"Oh fuck." The beta muttered after hearing me. He took off his jacket and shirt leaving him in just a gray undershirt. "So... what do I have to do to make it visible." he said as he sat down on a chair, Derek taking the spot in front of him.

The alpha made his eyes glow red, Ellie's glowed gold as mine took their completely black color as we all looked at Scott's left bicep where the now healed and hidden tattoo was.

"Yeah, I see it. It's two bands, right?" Derek spoke "What does it mean?"

"I don't know. It's just something I traced with my fingers." Scott replied seemingly lost in his own thoughts. Looking to his right where an old and covered in dust desk was, he used one finger to draw a circle and using two, he drew another one around the first making its width bigger.

"Why is this so important to you?"

"Do you know what the word 'tattoo' means?" Scott asked, the air around us drenching with sadness from the chemosignals.

"To mark something." Stiles replied with a cheeky smile and wink.

"Take that smug look off your face, Stilinski. You didn't know. The tattoo artist told us yesterday." I said with a scoff crossing my arms on his chest.

"Still." The Stilinski boy said with a pointed finger in my direction.

"Well, that's in Tahitian. In Samoan, it means 'open wound.' I knew I wanted to get a tattoo when I turned 18. I always wanted one. I just decided to get it now, to make it kind of a reward." Scott said eyes low to the ground

"For what?"

"For not calling or texting Allison all summer. Even when I really wanted to, even when it was so hard not to sometimes. I was trying to give her

the space she wants." The beta sighed out, pain oozing off him in huge waves.

He really loves her— I thought just as I looked at the most important person in my life. I couldn't help but sneak my arms around her middle bringing her back against my hard chest. Her intoxicating scent drifted up my nose as I nuzzled my nose against her neck. She was everything. And feeling Scott's pain for the love he felt for a girl that he could not have, made me want to never release my girl from her place between my arms.

"Goin' four months later, it still hurts. It still feels like a, uh..."

"Like an open wound." Stiles finished for his best friend, lips thinned in sad smile.

"Yeah."

The tense and emotional silence was broken by Derek as he took in his hands a blowtorch.

"The pain's gonna be worse than anything you've ever felt."

"Ah, that's great." Stiles said sarcastically as he grimaced already.

"Do it." Scott nodded, sure of his decision.

Derek lightened up the blowtorch making the human boy even more freaked out. "Oh, wow. That's a... that's a lot for me. So I'm gonna take that as my cue. I'm just gonna wait outside."

Derek looked at Ellie and I and with a huff we both went and placed our hands on Scott's shoulders, ready to keep him from moving.

In the end, Stiles decided to not leave, he just stayed as far aways as possible but still within eyesight.

When Derek placed the blowtorch against Scott's skin, it didn't take much for the werewolf to pass out making the experience much easier for us who were holding him down. And soon, the two bands tattoo was visible.

"Wake him up." I said to Elizabeth after a couple of minutes that Derek had finished. "I need him to hold me down."

"I can just use a spell to immobilize you, you know?" She told me with raised eyebrows.

"And couldn't you just do that before?" I asked with a frown before pointing at the passed out werewolf "With him."

Elizabeth shrugged her shoulders in an uncaring manner. I couldn't help how my lips curled in a half smile as I shook my head at her. "Just wake him up, little witch." I said, still amused by her antics. "Please."

With a snap of fingers Scott woke up with a start, a gasp leaving his lips.

"It worked." He said as he looked at his tattoo with a genuine smile.

"Well, it looks pretty damn permanent now." Stiles commented still not liking the tattoo that his friend had chosen to do.

"Yeah. I kind of needed something permanent. Everything that's happened to us... everything just changes so fast. Everything's so, uh...

Ephemeral."

"Studying for the PSATs?"

"Yep."

"Nice."

"My turn." I said taking off my leather jacket. "Elizabeth, get out."

"Wait what?" She said with wide eyes almost with a whine in her tone. "No."

I gave her a stern look but my girl was the most stubborn person ever. A Hale trait, that was for sure. "Elizabeth-"

"Why?" She asked with narrowed eyes, fire blazing through them.

"I will show you later, I swear." I said before adding a stained sighing "If you go outside you win our bet." I said through clenched teeth. I really didn't want to lose the bet but I needed her out of the room. But I knew her too well.

"Fine, I'll go." She glared at me with ice cold eyes "But I do not accept winning this way." She turned on her heels and walked away. A look of accomplishment made its way on my face before I groaned in pain when a spell attacked my head.

"I know what you did asshole. I'm not stupid." Elizabeth yelled from the sunroom where she disappeared through.

I laughed loudly, until it fell away to a grin. Oh, how I love her.

"Are you two done?" Derek asked with a grumble. I smirked at him taking my black shirt off revealing my naked torso. My tattoos that started at the middle of my neck to the tips of my fingers were completely exposed.

"I really do not want to know how you did that with all your tattoos." Scott grimaced

"Let's get started, shall we?" I grinned, a maddening look in my eyes as Derek's flashed red as he looked at the healed tattoo on my chest.

"Are you kidding me?" The alpha grumbled with a sigh, his eyes returning to his human shade as he pinched his nose between his fingers.

I shrugged my shoulders as my eyes looked in the direction where Elizabeth was, a smile on my lips.

"What the hell did he do? Please, tell me that he used his few brain cells to tattoo something actually good." Her voice came from the other room on a shout.

"Do a silencing spell, little witch." I told her. She didn't need to hear me scream. As much as she liked to be perceived as an ice block from everyone, I knew that as soon as she would hear me scream in pain she would rush in here and try to take the pain away and into herself.

Silence followed before she spoke again "Fine." She said with a bite in her tone before we all heard words muttered in latin.

"Are you ready?" Derek asked me as both Scott and Stiles placed themselves to my sides ready to keep me down.

"Yes."

And with that, the blowtorch was on again, and soon, it was on my skin. Pain was everything I could feel as the fire burned my chest. There were only grunts and groans of pain, but then, it wasn't as large as Scott's tattoo and I was good with pain so Derek was done before I could pass out. Definitely a hundred times better than last time I did it for my other tattoos. I breathed heavily as I looked down at the new tattoo that now decorated my chest. A smile bloomed on my lips at the sight making all the remaining traces of pain go away.

Looking up at Derek I nodded my head in sincere gratitude. "Thank you." I said.

"I'm sure she will like it." He titled his head in a way that I saw Elizabeth do a lot of times before speaking again "Maybe after punching you in the face."

I laughed at the Alpha quickly putting back on my clothes and walking to the sunroom threshold to get Elizabeth out.

She quickly noticed me and with a wave of her hand she nullified the silencing spell as she made her way towards me with a glare in her stunning blue eyes and an adorable pout on her rosy lips.

"Ready to go?" She asked me, making me nod. I took her hand in mine and could resist kissing her lips in a quick peck. That made her glare at me even harder.

I grinned at my girlfriend walking after her as she stormed toward her cousin. "Tell Isaac to call or message when he is awake, alright?" She kissed her cousin's cheek before turning to the duo of best friends. "Let's go, idiots."

But when Scott opened the front door he stopped in his tracks with a confused look on his face.

"You painted the door. Why'd you paint the door?" He asked between the alpha and the hybrid.

"Go home, Scott." Derek tried to make him go away without answering any of his question

"And why only one side?" The McCall boy asked, suspiciousness blooming on his features.

"Scott."

But Scott did not listen. His claws grew and then, he used them to slash them against the new painted door until it revealed the symbol underneath it. The same one that appeared three months ago. The Alpha's pack symbol.

"The birds at school and the deer last night... just like the night I got trampled by the deer when I got bit by the Alpha. How many are there?" Scott asked but Derek, stubborn and prideful as ever, still did not answer him.

"He deserves to know, Derek." Elizabeth said with a glance at her cousin and a slight shake of her head.

And finally, with sigh, the Hale's alpha revealed "A pack of 'em. An Alpha pack.

"All of them? How does that even work?" Stiles confusedly asked.

"I hear there's some kind of a leader. He's called Deucalion. We know they have Boyd and Erica. Peter, Isaac, Alec, Elizabeth and I have been looking for him for the last four months."

Taking a step towards Derek, Scott then asked "Let's say you find them. How do you deal with an Alpha pack?"

And finally, Derek chose to speak the truth "With all the help I can get."

"Where is she?" Isaac's voice took all of us by surprise "Where's the girl?"

"What girl?"

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𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐯

╰┈˚ · ° .  I kept my mouth shut and eyes on the road for all the ride back to Alec's apartment. Even when the said boy was acting like a toddler, pouting and whining for me to look at him. And then, he would make a complete change and start with the teasing and cocky smirk. It was hard to continue to do what I was doing, which was ignoring him, and as soon as the car was parked outside the boy's apartment complex, I almost sighed in relief.

"You are really not going to talk to me?" Alec asked me, the pout on his lips could even be heard from his words. "You are being childish, little witch." he clicked the tongue on the roof of his mouth, fingers tapping on the door on his side.

I narrowed my eyes at his words, snapping my neck towards him with a sneer on my lips. "I'm being childish?" I asked. It took me a second to take in his cocky smirk and triumphant expression to acknowledge my mistake.

That bastard.

"I hate you." I said with a harsh glare.

His smirk only widened as he exited the car, teeth biting his lower lips. "No you don't." He said with pure conviction. He turned his head back towards me, a definitely not at all concealed laugh was ready to spill, amusement present in those chocolate eyes of his. "Do you wanna see my tattoo or not?" He asked with a mischievous tone as I didn't move from my seat. He didn't look back once as he walked towards the entrance of the building.

I huffed out loud knowing that I was so curious about his tattoo that I was on the verge of ripping his shirt just to see it. With a last second of trying to get my calmness back, which was unsuccessful, I followed after him.

Alec kept the door of the building open for me, looking very much proud of himself. I glared at him as I passed and I directed myself towards the stairs only to be stopped by hands on my waist.

"Don't." I warned him already knowing where this was going. The shadow wolf ignored me completely and soon, I was thrown over his shoulder as he laughed. "Alec, you fucking asshole! Put me down!"

The hand that was still on my waist moved underneath my shirt, finding the perfect spot. "Don't you dare!" I shouted before I found myself laughing as the boy tickled me in the only spot that I was ticklish.

Alec climbed the stairs up to the floor of his apartment with grace, not even bothered by my wiggling form on his shoulder as I laughed like a maniac.

"You know how to make me stop, little witch." he said with a click of his tongue, only stopping the torture for a second to make me answer as he fished his house keys from his pocket.

"Nope." I said between gasps.

Alec tsked in disapprovement, the door closing after us with a slight bang. He threw me on the couch with little care. We both knew that if I really wanted him to stop I could throw him away from me in less then a second, just like I was sure that Alec knew me so well, he could read me like an open book most of the time, to know when to stop.

"Let's try this again, shall we?" he smirked down at me as he positioned his body on top of mine.

I raised myself on my elbows, my lips softly brushing against his as I spoke. "Do your worst, demon."

He poked his cheek with his tongue, eyes darkening with last. "WIth you, always." He said, a chaotic grin forming on his lips as his fingers moved, starting to tickle me.

Between my laughters I could hear his own and I found myself falling in love with him a little more.

Finally, he stopped the attack, eyes of molten chocolate looking down at me with the intensity of a wildfire. "Tu sei tutto per me." He spoke softly in Italian as his thumb caressed my cheek with a loving touch. [You are my everything.]

"What did you say?" I asked as my fingers played with the small curls at the back of his neck.

He lowered his lips to mine, joining our tongues in a dance of love. Not rushed or filled with lust. Only of pure love.

Alec didn't answer me. He positioned himself on his knees making me sit up, that soft smile that made my heart clench in my chest displayed on his features. He took off his leather jacket first, and then his shirt. And finally, revealing to me his tattoo.

In the middle of his chest, on the lower part of his sternum, there was a moon. A waning moon, the style was similar to his other tattoos. Almost as if ink had been spilled in the making. Overlapping that tattoo, there was another. A full moon made with a shading technique. A tattoo born from one of my drawings. But what caught my eyes the most were the two words written between the two moons.

With eyes brimming with tears and feather-like touches, I brushed my fingers against the words tattooed in a cursive style. Little Witch, it said.

His hand encapsulated my own. "What I always wanted the most in my life had always been feeling the effects of the moon. The home of the werewolves. But I don't need that anymore." His words were whispered, his heart beating loudly in his chest just like mine was doing in mine. As tears fell from my eyes he captured it, brushing it away with a sweep of his thumb. Before he spoke again, Alec placed his forehead against mine, both hands cupping my cheeks. "You are my home, Little witch. You are my moon."

I kissed him, then. I couldn't help myself from smashing my lips against his, and when we parted, I kissed my way down to his sternum and his new tattoo. And when I looked up to meet his eyes, I spoke "And you are mine."

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˗ˏˋ 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 ˊˎ˗

Hello everyone!

Aww they are soooo cute!!!

There is Alec Pov in this chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. He is so in love with Elizabeth that is scary. But I love them so much, both of them.

I hope that you liked the tattoo and the meaning behind it. If you want to know how it is, in Alec's moodboard, the central photo is the tattoo.

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

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