dance preparations

|bunker|

Kate is feeding an electrical current through the wires attached to Dereks side, making him struggle and scream in pain.

"What are you doing is it going to kill him?" Allison asks concerned.

"Oh come on kiddo don't get all ethical on me now." Kate says continuing on with shocking Derek.

"What is he?" Allison asks scared.

"Shapeshifter, Lycan, Werewolf. To me he's just another animal." Kate explains shooting another current through his body causing him to shift back and forth.

"Come here, see these right here? These are canines, also known as fangs. Made for the tearing and rending of flesh. Not something you can find on those cute leaf eating herbivores is it?" Kate says while opening Dereks mouth showing Allison his fangs.

"Is this a joke to you?" Allison asks weirded out by her attitude.

"Sweetheart, there are werewolves running around in the world. Everything is a joke to me, how else do you think I stay sane?" Kate replies.

"So it was him at the high school and all the other animal attacks?" Allison asks.

"There are actually three of them. Another younger one like him called a beta and then there is the alpha. The alpha is the pack leader, bigger, stronger, nastier. Those are the real ugly ones." Kate explains leading them outside of the room.

"When were they gonna tell me?" Allison asks Kate while she closes the door leading to the room with Derek.

"They still haven't decided if they're gonna tell you." Kate replies.

"Why?" Allison asks confused.

"Let's just say if you react badly when you find out, not good." Kate answers.

"What do you mean not good?" Allison questions.

"They don't think that you can handle it, they look at you and they see this frightened little girl who's gonna run crying in the corner once she finds out the truth. Me, what I see? Natural talent. Allison you said you wanted to feel more powerful right? Now's your chance." Kate says.

"What am I supposed to do now?" Allison asks feeling overwhelmed.

"Go to school, do your homework. Go to the formal on Friday night, be a normal teenage girl who doesn't know anything. Trust me to get everything ready for the next part." Kate tells her.

"What's the next part?" Allison asks.

"You're gonna help me catch the second beta." Kate replies.

|empty street|

Allison was driving home when she got stopped by Noah Stilinski but seeing that she was only driving a little to fast and she is his sons girlfriend he let her off with a warning. Allison then drives a bit farther into an abandoned part of town and gets out her archery gear. She goes to an ally and takes aim at the post across from it shooting her arrows at the wanted poster of Derek Hale trying to calm herself and prepare for what is coming.

|animal clinic|

Scott wakes up blinking his eyes from looking directly into a lamp hanging over him.

"Welcome back to the life of the conscious, you doing OK? Maybe you should sit down OK?" Deaton asks him helping him stand up, after Scott almost fell over getting of the operating table and seeing him wobble on his feet.

They then hear the door to the clinic open and Deaton asks "Hello?" and goes to check it out only for Scott to try to stop him but Deaton signals him that it's OK and goes to check out who has come in.

"I'm sorry but we're closed." Deaton says and sees that Peter Hale is standing in the shop.

"Hi there, I'm here to pick up." Peter says politely.

"I'm not sure I remember you dropping off." Deaton replies calmly.

"This one wandered in on its own." Peter says walking towards Deaton.

"Even if he did, I'm afraid I can't help you we're closed." Deaton says.

"Well I think you can make an exception this one time. Don't you?" Peter says.

"I'm sorry that's not going to be possible, maybe you can come back during regular hours." Deaton suggests.

"You have something I want. I'm here to collect it." Peter says dangerously.

"Like I said, we're closed." Deaton replies getting closer to the counter.

Peter tries to open the small door on the counter to just march in the back but looses all feeling in his hand when he touches the door.

"Mountain ash that's an old one." Peter says and then grabs a chair from the waiting area and throws it over the counter hitting the wall beside Deaton causing the chair to break.

"Let me be as clear as possible. We are closed." Deaton says dangerously.

Peter decides to stop his futile attempts and straightens his coat, walks over to the door and says "I think you know what happened to Derek, Scott and if you won't help me, then I'll have to get to know someone I initially wanted to spare because she's far more innocent and far more vulnerable than her family, to get you to talk to me." Peter says seemingly to nobody, then walks out.

"Allison." Scott says to himself knowing who Peter is going to try and attack.

Deaton comes back in the room and Scott says "thanks for that, but I think we should talk soon. But I gotta find Allison and try to keep her away from him."

"Understandable. You can come talk to me whenever you are ready, now that you know what's really going on." Deaton replies.

Scott then goes home and calls Stiles from his house phone telling him to come over.

|Scotts bedroom|

"Call it again." Scott says while looking around frantically.

"Ohh, it's not here. So you lost your phone, why not just get a new one?" Stiles replies from his seat on Scotts chair.

"I can't afford a new one and I can't do this alone I have to find Derek and convince him to work against the alpha." Scott replies while looking for his phone under his bed.

"Well, A you're not alone, you have me. And B didn't you say Derek walked into gunfire? He sounds pretty dead." Stiles tells him.

"The Argents plan was use him to get to the alpha, they're not gonna kill him." Scott explains.

"Alright, so then just let them do what they're planning. You know they use Derek to get Peter, problem solved." Stiles says.

"Not if Peter is going after your girlfriend to find Derek. I don't know if I can protect her on my own and I also have to make sure he doesn't go after Lydia. Which means we need to find Derek first."

"Why is Peter now after my sweet Allison?" Stiles questions.

"Well he thinks I know where Derek is and tries to force me to give Peter the location, and Allison always was part of his hit list if you ask me, I never believed that he wanted to spare her. Now just help me find my phone." Scott replies.

"Well you probably lost it while you two were fighting. You remember that, when he was trying to kill you, after you tried to keep Jackson clear of the pack? You starting to see a pattern of violent behavior here?" Stiles asks.

"He wasn't going to kill anyone and I'm not letting him die." Scott replies.

"Can't you at least think about letting him die? For me?" Stiles pleads.

"No." Scott says.

"Well what about Jackson? Maybe he knows where Derek is I mean he was there as well when you got attacked." Stiles guesses.

"Maybe." Scott murmurs.

"Well anyway I'm gonna keep watch over Allison tonight so that Peter won't get to her. Maybe we can take turns?" Scott suggest.

"OK, I don't know what I'm supposed to do against the alpha but sure." Stiles replies.

"Just call me if he comes, I'll take care of it." Scott tells him.

|Bunker|

"Come on Derek, he killed your sister. You know maybe you're not telling me because, well you wanna kill him yourself, or for some reason you're protecting him." Kate says while ruffling through Dereks stuff.

"Ohh, look at that sourface. I bet you always used to get people coming up to you saying, smile Derek why won't you smile more? Don't you just wanna kick those people in the face?" Kate says getting closer to Derek.

"I can think of one." Derek replies.

"Promise? Cause if I thought you would be that much fun I'd let you go." Kate tells him.

"Alright, lets see. Nothing, nothing, god I hate this detective crap." Kate says to herself fiddling with the phone Derek had with him.

"Are you gonna torture me or are you just gonna talk me to death huh?" Derek challenges.

"Oh sweety I don't want to torture you, I just wanna catch up. Remember all the fun we had together?" Kate taunts.

"Like the time you burned my family alive?" Derek questions angrily.

"No I was more thinking about the hot crazy sex we had. But the fire thing that was fun too, I love how much you liked me. Remember how this felt?" Kate says laughing at him and licking his abs.

Derek tries to bite her but gets held back by his chains.

"Sweetheart I really don't wanna torture you, but he does." Kate says leaving the room when another hunter enters the room cracking his knuckles.

|locker room|

Scott follows the Coach into the locker room asking him "What do you mean I can't go to the formal?"

"McCall you're failing my class and two others, despite your improvement. They told me to cut you from the team. I told them I'd sooner cut off my last remaining testicle than cut my best player." Coach Finstock answers patting Scott on the shoulder.

"So, the compromise is I can't go to the dance?" Scott asks.

"Yeah." Coach Finstock replies.

"Then I quit the team." Scott decides.

"Hahaha, no you don't and if you show up at the dance and I see you there I'm gonna drag you out by your teeth." Coach threatens.

Scott and Stiles then go to Jackson and ask him "Hey Jackson, do you have any idea what happened to Derek?"

"No I thought both you and him bit the dust with how many bullets were flying around." Jackson answers.

"Well I'm not and I think Derek isn't either. And we need your help, the alpha is gonna go after Allison or Lydia and I can't be around both at the same time, plus you owe me one for keeping you away from the psycho alpha." Scott tells him.

"Well we're gonna see if that was of any help, but OK I'll keep watch over Allison, while you keep watch over Lydia." Jackson says.

"OK well now that that is handled what are you going to do about the dance? I mean Coach doesn't want you to go." Stiles asks him.

"I'm still going." Scott replies.

"Well I thought as much, but is it really such a good idea? I mean you have a date, but maybe Lydia won't take it so hard if you make it up to her or something." Stiles suggests.

"I'm still going. I want to go to it with Lydia and I can keep watch over both of them like this." Scott replies.

"Well OK, do you have suit?" Stiles asks.

"Not yet." Scott replies.

"Do you have a ticket to the formal or a ride there?" Stiles questions.

"No and no, by the way now that you say it, it'd be great if you can pick up Lydia and give her a ride, because I'm gonna have to sneak in undetected and driving up front doesn't seem all that stealthy to me." Scott requests.

"Yeah OK, I think Allison won't have anything against it." Stiles replies.

"But lets review. You are going to ride your bike to a dance you're not even allowed to go to, without a suit or a way in, with werewolves and werewolf hunters all out to kick your little were-eagle ass." Stiles summarized.

"Yeah, you gonna help me?" Scott laughs.

"Hell yeah." Stiles replies with a grin on his face.

|shopping mall|

Allison and Lydia meet up with Scott and Stiles after school and they go to the shopping mall so the girls can go dress shopping.

"Nothing's wrong I just got a lot on my mind." Allison tells Lydia while they are using an escalator with the boys a few steps behind them talking amongst themselves.

"You could smile at least. Never heard of the saying never frown, someone could be falling in love with your smile? Smile Allison, I'm buying you a dress." Lydia says.

"I have to say that's more than I expected." Allison replies.

"But by the way what are you going to do with Scott being forbidden from going to the dance?" Allison asks.

"Well he said he's gonna sneak in anyway. I think if Coach doesn't make a huge scene it could be even more romantic this way, though I know that Scott wants me to ride with you guys if you're OK with it." Lydia replies grinning.

"Sure, it'll be fun." Allison says with them arriving on the floor they wanted to go to.

"Come on Scott, you're gonna help me." Lydia says grabbing Scott by the hand and dragging him away as soon as he and Stiles arrived on the same floor.

"OK, see you later Stiles." Scott says and waves his friend a quick goodbye.

"Come on we're gonna start looking over here." Allison says and takes Stiles hand pulling him along.

Lydia stops at a row of dresses and makes Scott carry whatever she thought looks appropriate for the occasion.

"Wow, you are going to try on all these dresses?" Scott asks.

"Of course not sweetie, these are only one category which is possible, there will be many more." Lydia replies chuckling at Scotts sullen expression after hearing this.

"Don't worry maybe I'll let you watch me change into them." Lydia teases whispering into his ear.

"OK, lets do this. But please don't let me watch, I don't think I would be able to hold back and we'd get caught." Scott teases back with a grin.

"OK then, Scotty follow me this is going to be a great workout for you." Lydia jokes.

"Anything for you Lyds." Scott replies.

Meanwhile Allison is holding a dress up in front of a mirror and sees Peter staring at her. Peter comes over and says "That's not your color, sorry if I'm intruding but considering your skin tone I'd go lighter."

"Cause I'm pale?" Allison asks.

"Fair. I mean you can't call skin like yours pale. Skin that perfect. Trust me I have a unique perspective on that subject. See much better." Peter grabbing a dress in a silver color, holding it to her hand Stiles comes back from the men's room and sees Peter standing by Allison who looked uncomfortable, so he hurries over there and says "Hey dude, you working here? Any idea what kind of suit I should get? I think your much better suited to help me dress than my girlfriend."

"No I don't work here, and don't worry I had no ill intend, I was merely stating that she should get a lighter colored dress because of her skin tone." Peter replies calmly.

"Well job is done, I think we can handle it from here." Stiles says putting his arm around Allison and leading them away.

"Thanks Stiles." Allison says after they are out of hearing shot.

"No problem, now lets forget about the weirdo and enjoy dress shopping." Stiles says with a smile cheering up Allison.

"OK, sounds great." Allison replies pulling him along to some dresses.

Peter then sees Scott on the other side of the store and says "I got to say Scott well played, but remember you and your little buddy can't be around her all the time.

|bunker|

Kate sits at the table holding the electrical equipment listening to a message from her brother saying "Hey it's me I'm getting tired of leaving messages I wanna know where you are call me. Now!"

"Unfortunately Derek, if you're not gonna talk I'll have to kill you. So say Hi to your sister for me. You did tell her about me right? The truth about the fire. Or did you? Did you tell anybody? Oh sweety that's a lotta guilt to keep buried. It's not all your fault, you got tricked by a pretty face. It happens, handsome young werewolf mistakenly falls in love with a super hot girl who comes from a family that kills werewolves. Is that ironic? Is it ironic that you are inadvertently take down the rest of the pack, again. Or just a little bit of history repeating?" Kate says walking to Derek and taunting him, while Derek looks guiltily at the floor.

"History repeating, hmm well Jackson is not in love with Allison, not like Stiles but I've seen him get flung around by opposing Lacrosse players just a few days ago, but what about his friend Scott. Well it's best if we check both out." Kate wonders.