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Y/N’s POV
I started running faster as I monitoring the chase going on ahead of me. I tried to isolate the sounds important to me against the sounds of the rest of Beacon Hills. It was a little hard to do considering I hadn’t been back to this town for years now. I hadn’t been that eager to return now to be totally honest, but I finally convinced the Academy to sign my release a few weeks ago when I’d heard about all the nonsense Derek had been up to in our hometown. I’d heard rumors about a kanima, but when I’d asked my brother directly he’d been more than vague. I knew he’d been lying to me, trying to protect me like he always has, but I was stronger now. I couldn’t leave him alone in this; I couldn’t hide out while I knew he was facing all this stuff alone. I’d left as soon as the school let me take the qualifying exams and had made my way here.
I knew Derek was an alpha now, taking back our family’s power from Uncle Peter. I refused to think of Laura and how we lost her. I also knew there were four other betas in the same town now, but he’d been vague about that. I knew he’d been the one to bite three, but our uncle had bitten the other. Regardless, I hadn’t quite been expecting to run into a fight as soon as I got into town but here we were. I’d been close when the chase started. One of the betas was on the back of a motorcycle with a missionary. Twin alphas were chasing them, impressively fast even for secured alphas. I didn’t know who they were or why they were here, but I could practically taste the aggression and stress in the air. The chase crashed through a glass panel into an empty building. I circled around, sniffing the air and immediately recognizing the vague scent of my brother around the beta that was laying on the floor.
He was blond, blue-eyed, and looked like complete shit at the moment. The human girl was trying to peel off her helmet from being nearly crushed by the crashed bike. I crashed into the building as the twins began to strip off their tops. I narrowed my eyes at that but walked in front of the beta protectively regardless. I could smell Derek on him and based on pure instinct I knew this boy was one of his betas. His beta, my beta. I growled at the alphas opposite me before looking back at the beta. He was staring up at me in shock, those bright blue eyes blinking at me in confusion. I turned back toward the twins, letting my wolf take control. I felt the claws descend and the teeth snap into place in my mouth. I let out a warning growl but instead of turning back, one twin shoved his entire arm into the back of the other. I pulled back a little in amazement. I’d never seen anything like this before. I got into a more protective stance in front of the missionary and beta as they somehow turned into a single united being.
They came at me in a straight out run, and I braced myself for impact. They pretty much towered over me and were clearly stronger than I had expected, but I wasn’t going to let them hurt the people behind me. I snarled and felt them crash into me. Somehow I got a grip around their waist with my claws and I sent them into a spinning throw. Their eyes were shining with fury at me, and I let out my alpha roar to show them I meant business. They came at me again but suddenly a projectile whizzed past me and struck their body. I felt the power in the air as energy sparked across their bodies, forcing them back into two separate bodies. I shielded my eyes against the intense light as it burned my eyes, but by the time I had opened them again, the twins were gone. I backed up, still prepared for a fight.
“I thought I told you to hold on,” the girl asked the boy, but she quickly looked up at me.
“Thank you,” I told her, grateful for her help. I sniffed the air again to make sure the twins were gone before controlling the wolf again. I felt my features go back to normal.
“No problem. You’re not going to try to kill me now, right?” she panted.
“No, damn, we need to get you to a hospital,” I reached out toward her first, to take some of the obvious pain. She was really cut up, blood all over her so I was pretty sure a wolf had gotten ahold of before I’d found the chase. I put my hand to her shoulder and let the pain flow out of her while I pulled out my phone to call 911.
“Who are you?” the beta asked, trying to sit up from where he was.
“Y/N. Y/N Hale,” I answered.
I’d been standing outside, waiting for them to wheel Isaac back out of surgery. I heard the doctor fuss over the fact that his patient didn’t need to be in surgery so I was sure they’d roll him back out in a minute. I stood waiting at the doors when some of the nurses and doctors walked out, striding right past me. I looked in the doors and saw that Isaac wasn’t in there anymore and that there was another door leading to the other side of the hospital. “Shit,” I hissed as I turned to try to find him. I had to walk at a normal human pace which was frustrating, but I tried to catch his scent in the air. I wasn’t very familiar with him at all so it wasn’t the easiest thing to do. I wandered quickly around in circles trying to catch the scent, but I got confused when I smelled at least two other werewolves, right close by. I heard a snarl and took off as possible without being super noticeable and turned a corner. I turned just as soon as I saw a younger beta leap through the elevator doors at yet another alpha. Isaac was slumped over in a wheelchair behind the two. The doors closed before I could reach them.
“Fuck,” I snarled before turning around to find the stairwell. I sprinted down the stairs, jumping over the last few as I headed to floors down, which was the next ground exit of the building. I burst through the stairwell door as I heard the fighting in the elevator shaft. I was going so fast, I nearly ran right into my own brother. His eyes widened as he took in the fact that I was in front of him. We didn’t have time to talk though as the elevator settled at this floor.
I heard one of them say “You don’t even know what you’re dealing with do you? I’m an alpha.” Just as he finished the sentence the doors dinged open and I saw the taller, older one had the beta up in the air by his throat. He was gasping as both Derek and I had the same idea. We both thrust our claws into his back. He howled, dropping the beta next to the wheelchair Isaac was in. “So are we,” Derek added as we hurled him down the hallway and stepped into the elevator to watch the doors close shut.
“You’re supposed to be in school,” Derek hissed.
“I’m-I was” both the other boy and I said at the same time, stopping each other and making eye contact. He had to be my age, at least not more than a couple of months older. He was average height with tanned skin and deep brown eyes to match his hair.
“Scott, this is my sister, who is supposed to be at school. Why she is here in Beacon Hills, I have no idea,” Derek scooped up Isaac from the wheelchair as the doors dinged open again for us to get out of the hospital through the back entrance. He carried him out as the boy named Scott and I followed.
“I qualified to pass. I came to help you out, and luckily I did considering there seems to be alphas running all over this town? What the hell is going on?” I demanded from my brother.
“Get in the car,” he insisted as he put Isaac in the back seat. I slid in on the other side so they could rest his head in my lap. Scott quickly got in the passenger side while Derek slid in to drive.
“I’d like to know too,” Scott said, then looked back at me. “I thought you only had one sister.”
“Sorry, I’m Y/N. I’m his younger sister. Laura was the oldest,” I told the boy.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Scott McCall. Thanks for the help back there,” he thanked me.
“What were you doing there in the first damn place?” Derek demanded as the car raced through town at a very illegal speed.
“Well I got here in the middle of the night. I was headed over to find you when I saw your beta being chased down by twin alphas, who by the way turn into this really freaky twin hybrid wolf,” I admitted.
“So you’ve been here less than 12 hours and you’ve already be in two fights with alphas? That must be a record. See why I told you not to come home?”
“Yeah, so you just want me to sit in a classroom and twiddle my thumbs while you handle all of this craziness by yourself?”
“I’m not by myself,” he growled as we pulled up next to our old house...the one that was barely cinders and wood anymore.
“Oh sure, because our uncle is such a trustworthy companion,” I argued.
“He’s got me?” Scott said from his seat.
“Which one are you?” I asked. He looked at me really confused so I repeated myself. “Which one are you? Are you Derek’s beta or were you Peter’s?”
“Peter is the one who bit me if that’s what you’re asking,” he answered as they brought Isaac into the house.
“Of course he was. Let me guess, you had no idea what was happening,” I asked. He shook his head in agreement. “Typical.” Right then, a ring came from Scott’s pocket so he reached in to pull out his phone that was lighting up. As Derek carried Isaac up the stairs into our old house, Scott answered his voice. I heard a boy’s voice on the other end, but I was a little preoccupied with helping my brother to pay much attention. I was helping Derek lift the debris off the floor when Scott told whoever he was talking to that he needed to meet us here.
“You don’t still live here do you?” he asked Derek.
“What? No. The county took it over, but there’s something here we need. It’ll help heal a wound from an alpha.”
“Yeah, but it did heal.”
“Not on the inside,” I added as we pulled up our supplies to help Isaac. Scott seemed to get quiet for a moment before speaking again.
“Hey are you going to tell me who that was back there? The alpha?”
“The rival pack.”
“What? Rival pack?” I interrupted.
“It’s my problem. I know you want to help, and you did. I owe you. Now go home. Both of you. Go back to being teenagers,” he looked from me to Scott.
“Derek, you better tell me what’s going on right now,” I demanded. “First I hear about kanimas and you biting people? Now you’re telling us there is a rival pack? And let me tell you, that makes 3 alphas other than you and me in this town so there as to be more than one pack.”
“Wait? You’re an alpha too? How is that possible?” Scott asked as we started treating Isaac. I looked over at him, sighing as I realized how little Derek had told either of us.
“How much have you kept from him too, Dee?” I demanded. When my brother decided he wasn’t going to answer I looked over at Scott.
“Yes, I’m an alpha. So is Derek. We just got it two different ways. I hope you at least know how Derek got his,” I started.
“Yeah, from killing Peter who got it from Laura,” he nodded.
“Yes, but mine is different. Our mother, Talia, was the alpha, so the power went to Laura when she died. The Hale line is very unique; we’re one of the original werewolf families to have ever existed. That kind of heritage brings out very powerful and unique abilities, unusual even for our kind. All of the Hales have the ability to evolve, which means being able to shift into an actual full wolf form. Well, almost all of us do, it comes with experience and power, but occasionally there is a recessive gene. It means that my genetic makeup is just slightly different from Derek’s,” I answered.
“So...you…” Scott started.
“It means that she’s a special kind of werewolf. We call them original lycans because they have abilities that are the most similar to the first ones,” Derek interrupted.
“He means that I was born with my alpha gene. The power is in my genes in a way that means I can’t take anyone else’s and they can’t take mine. I can’t turn into a wolf fully because I mirror them in other ways already,” I glared at Derek for being so rude.
“So...you’re some special mega werewolf? Is that what you’re telling me?” Scott’s mouth opened like a goldfish.
“Special, yes. Mega? Not really. I have my weaknesses just like we all do,” I said as we finished with Isaac.
“Okay, you got your answers. Now, go home, Scott,” Derek sighed. Scott seemed to consider leaving but he touched his upper arm. He paused another moment before turning around again.
“Derek,” my brother looked up at him, “If you wanna repay that favor now...there is something you can do for me.”