Chapter 5

Beacon Hills

Martin House

Alex walked down the stairs and saw that the only one from the McCall pack already there was Lydia, which made sense considering this was her house.

"You sure got here fast." said Lydia with a smirk as he say down on the table and placed the broken laptop on the table in front of her.

"Is this?..." Lydia ashed as she motion to the laptop in front of her.

"Mouth-less Wonder Laptop?...yeah." said Alex as he grinned at Lydia, she just shook her head before looking him over.

"What?" asked Alex feeling a bit self-conscious as the pretty girl was eyeing him up.

"Nothing, just making sure you weren't hurt and trying to act all macho by hiding it." said Lydia staring at him for a few more seconds before turning her attention back to the broken laptop.

"It feels sort of good having someone cared if you're hurt or not." thought Alex with a small smile. In that moment even if Lydia didn't know she had won herself a friend and an ally for the rest of her life.

"Don't worry Lyds, I'm a whiner, the second I get hurt you'll know." said Alex joking, forgetting she had seen him while he was hurt.

Lydia just glanced at him before smiling and going back to looking at the laptop.

"Well I have good news and bad news." said Lydia as she closed the top of the laptop back up and sat back in her chair, he was about to ask her what was the bad news when he heard foot steps walking towards the Martin's front door.

"Someone's here." said Alex as he stood from the table and brought out his claws, his eyes glowing red allowing him to see better in the dark.

Lydia seemed worried until he put his claws away when he recognized the voice.

"Nevermind, its Malia." said Alex before blushing remembering what had happened earlier in the day.

"When I freaked out about holding her hand and ran from school with my tail between my legs." thought Alex with a grimace.

Lydia, unbeknownst to him had seen all the emotions that crossed his face. Alex sat back down on the table as Malia knocked on the door.

"I'll get it,." said Lydia as she stood and moved to open the front door.

"You sure got here fast." said Lydia as she moved aside to let Malia inside.

"Yeah I was with Stiles trying on my restraints for tomorrow night." said Malia as she entered the house and walked towards where she could hear Alex's heartbeat.

"Hey Alex." said Malia as she sat right next to him on the chair where Lydia was sitting before.

They didn't notice as Lydia walked into the room and stood behind them watching their interactions.

"Hey Malia." said Alex before he decided to ask about what she had said before.

"Why do you need restraints?" asked Alex before blushing madly.

"God don't let it be a sex thing." thought Alex as he crossed his fingers.

"I don't have control during the full moon yet, so Stiles and Scott chain me up in Lydia's basement." said Malia while Alex just gave her a knowing look.

He remember when he didn't have control, Clark would have to lock him up or he would go rabid.

"I can help you if you want." said Alex hesitantly remembering how it went the last time he had offered her some help. Fortunately Malia grinned brightly at him.

"You mean it?" asked the werecoyote and Alex was happy to nod his head yes.

"I had trouble controlling myself during the full moons too, I have a trick or two we can try." said a happy Alex. Lydia wanted to stay and listen so more but unfortunately someone knocked on her door.

It was Kira,

"Should we wait for Scott and Stiles?" asked Kira as she sat one one of the chairs in the living room where every was sitting.

"We might as well." said Lydia as he sat down on the table.

"Wanna watch a movie?" asked Alex as he leaned forward on the table looking excited.

"Which movie did you have in mind?" asked Lydia almost dreading the answer. Before she could even blink Alex was gone, running up the stairs towards the guestroom.

He came back a few seconds later with a DVD in hand.

"Hot Tub Time Machine 2?" asked Lydia with a raised eye brow. Alex just nodded with a grin on his face.

"Stiles told me you guys watched the first one a few weeks ago." said Alex and Lydia, bless her heart, could only nod.

It was two hours later that Stiles and Scott got two Lydia's house and saw a most interesting scene.

Apparently Lydia had tried to explain why the movie's science was highly inaccurate and it led to Kira, Alex and Malia to recreate a scene from the movie.

As Stiles and Scott stood in the doorway to Lydia's living room they found Alex and Malia singing while Kira snapped her fingers to add some rhythm.

"Nerd, you're a fucking nerd." said Alex as he snapped his fingers along with Kira.

"Pointdexter." said Kira soflty as she snapped her fingers alongside Alex.

"And nobody likes you, nobody likes you." sang Malia off-key. They got through two more bars of the song before all three couldn't hold it in anymore and started laughing.

Lydia was sitting in the couch glaring at all three, one cause they were cursing inside her house and two...because she fell in the trap Alex had laid out when he asked about the movie's science.

"I'm so going to eat his mini-donuts after this." thought Lydia before grinning at him so malevolently it stopped his laughter in its wake.

"You will not harm my donuts." said Alex causing Lydia's grin to widen.

Before anything else could be said Kira noticed the two stupefied teens by the door.

"Scott, Stiles." said Kira before walking over towards Scott and kissing him.

Malia doing the same with Stiles but not before glancing at Lydia wearily.

"What's going on?/YOU SAW HTTM2 WITHOUT US?" Said/screamed Scott and Stiles at the same time, the group completely ignored Stiles when Alex spoke to Scott.

"We were watching a movie while waiting for you guys." said Alex as he dropped down on the couch next to Lydia.

"So, shall we get to it?" asked Lydia as she stood and walked over to the table where she and Alex had left the broken laptop, Alex and the rest of the McCall pack following behind her.

"OK, so what happened with the assassin?" asked Scott as he sat on the table and frowned at Alex.

"Well I was passing by the hospital when I saw him walking out..." said Alex only to have Scott interrupt him.

"That was probably after he killed the Wendigo." said Scott, and apparently only him, Lydia and Stiles knew about the Wendigo since Malia and Kira looked lost as well.

"What's a Wendigo/ Wendi-what now?/ He killed a what?" asked Malia, Alex and Kira at the same time.

"A cannibalistic shape-shifter, the Walcotts apparently were all a family of Wendigo's, Lydia found a meat locker in their house full of dead bodies." said Stiles while everyone just looked at Lydia.

"Me and Deputy Parrish." said the Banshee while shaking her head with disgust.

"OK then, well anyway I followed him cause, well he had no mouth, I was curious." said Alex smiling sheepishly.

The rest of the group just look exasperated at him.

"So anyway I followed him to an abandoned building down town, he been making himself at home there." said Alex with a shudder when he remembered the gross feeding machine.

"I saw him? It, he? I don't know, requested payment for killing someone named Sean Walcott, probably the Wendigo." said Alex and Lydia and Scott nodded their heads to tell him he was correct.

"...then I saw him pull up a list on the laptop, and it had our names. Our names followed by a number." said Alex making them all get nervous. Why would an assassin have their names on a list.

"What happened then?" asked Stiles and Scott at the same time, the others still thinking about why their names where on a list.

"Well...I killed him." said Alex like it was nothing, that made the rest of the McCall pack frown at him.

"What? Why is everyone looking at me like I just kicked a puppy?" asked Alex as he saw all the McCall pack look from him then towards their Alpha.

"We don't kill Alex." said Scott simply like that explained everything.

"What?" asked Alex truly lost. They couldn't be mad a him for killing the assassin could they.

That would be idiotic.

"We don't kill, we leaned a better way." said Scott and even thought Alex really liked the True Alpha he wanted nothing more than to slap him right then and there.

Alex saw the rest of the McCall pack looking nervously between him and Scott, Stiles and Kira were frowning at him like Scott was, while Lydia looked more understanding she wasn't exactly on his side and Malia looked indifferent.

"I get that you try your hardest to not have to kill Scott but sometimes that's the only way." said Alex seriously and what ever he said must have angered Scott because his eyes glowed red as he glared at Alex.

"I don't believe that, you should have called the sheriff and let him handle it." said Scott as he leaned forward on the table.

"You can't be that stupid can you?" said Alex, his eyes glowing red reminding everyone he was also an Alpha and he wouldn't be intimidated by Scott.

Stiles, Kira, Malia and even Lydia looked angry at how he was talking to Scott. The McCall pack was loyal to their Alpha if nothing else.

"There's no need for name calling." said Lydia while nervously glancing between Scott and Alex, both Alphas eyes were still glowing and the atmosphere between them was tense.

"No Lydia, let him say whatever he wants to say." said Scott while putting his hands on the table. Everyone around them wanted nothing more than to be anywhere else.

"I didn't kill him just for shits and giggles Scott, the dude had a hit list with all of our names on there...you might be perfectly happy waiting for some freak with no mouth to come out after you with tomahawks and a fucking bomb but I'm not, that's why I didn't even think twice before snapping his neck like a twig." snarled Alex, his hands also on the table, while glaring at Scott.

"You didn't have to kill him, you could have knocked him out and called Stiles father, you didn't need to murder him." snarled Scott and Alex actually looked hurt, the rest of the pack had flinched from what Scott had said.

"Murder him?, he was an assassin, I can't be the only that sees that." said Alex as he looked around the table looking for some support. He didn't find any, Stiles and Kira looked to be firmly in Scott's side and Lydia and Malia were avoiding looking at him.

"Really? No one dares to disagree with the mighty True Alpha?" growled Alex as he glared at everyone present, his nails had grown sharper than usual but were still not claws...yet.

No one around the table said a word.

Alex growled low in his throat and stood up, Scott thinking he was going to do something stood up as well, the rest of the pack, not wanting to get between two fighting Alpha's stood up as well and backed away.

"Don't worry..." snarled Alex, as his eyes stopped glowing and his nails went back to normal.

"This murderer isn't going to do anything." said Alex as he grabbed his bomber jacket and left the living room, going up the stair and grabbing his stuff. Thankfully he hadn't had a chance to really get comfortable so all his stuff was still packed.

He walked down the stairs to see the McCall pack where still standing around the table looking at him.

When he reached the bottom of the stairs he turned his head to talk to them, more specific to talk to Scott.

"I really hope you never have to kill anyone, but if that time does come and you have to break your little morality rule, I hope someone you trust doesn't call you a murderer." Growled Alex before leaving Lydia's house.

Scott looked a bit guilty for what he had said but didn't move to apologize, in fact the whole pack was too stunned to say anything.

"Apparently there's not room for two Alpha's in this town after all." thought Alex as he left Lydia's house and started waking downtown.

Having nowhere else to go he ended up going back to the abandoned building the assassin had been using as his lair.

Abandoned Building.

Luckily for him the place had a generator for power, running water, a shower and a cot he could sleep in. Sure he had to go bury a body in the middle of the night and he somehow broke the paste machine and ended covered the nutrient paste thing but he had slept in worse places.

The next morning he was fitting to leave Beacon Hills behind when he remembered two things, one he had left his bag in his school locker, which had his iPod and wallet, and two he had promised Malia to help her gain some control during the full moon.

"She had no problem keeping quiet yesterday when Scott called me murderer, why should I help her?" thought Alex angrily as he walked out of the shower and started dressing for his final day at school.

He had found a pair of combat boots that actually fit him in the closet full of tomahawks so he decided to keep them for himself.

As he left the abandoned building he was dressed in his new shiny black combat boots, a pair of black jeans, and a dark red football jersey.

It was a hot day so he decided to leave his bomber jacket behind.

Beacon Hills High School.

Morning

He arrived at the school earlier than he expected since he was apparently the first one to get there, Lydia's car, Stiles jeep and Scott's dirt bike weren't in the parking lot.

Alex wasted no time in going to his locker to grab his bag and going back outside to sit at one of the tables, it was apparently earlier than he thought since the school only had a few students walking around.

Unfortunately things don't always work out for him, the second Alex sat down on one of the tables, Stiles jeep drove into the parking lot and parked in its usual spot.

Knowing things were going to be awkward he got ready to bolt when Malia and Stiles got out of the jeep. Malia spotting him almost instantly and dragging Stiles over.

"Fan-fucking-tastic." muttered Alex as Malia and Stiles got closer to him, apparently Malia heard him because she frowned at him but didn't actually stopped walking.

As they reached his table he could see Lydia's car park next to Stile's jeep.

"When it rains it pours." thought Alex angrily, he had thought he and Lydia had developed a nice friendship but last night proved he was still an outsider to the group.

Just as Lydia got out of his car and saw them Malia and Stiles reached his table, sat down and started talking like yesterday hadn't happened.

"So apparently Scott bit someone last night." said Malia completely ignoring the tension in the table. She sat right next to him with Stiles next to her.

And even thought he was mad at her, at all of them really, he still felt the butterflies in his stomach anytime she was near.

"Damn it all to hell...I'm going to stay just to help her aren't I?." thought Alex angrily even as he modulated his body chemistry so Malia couldn't tell what he was feeling, it had become second nature to him since he had learned the trick, that way no one could tell what he would do by reading his chem signals.

That it kept Malia from finding out he had the hots for her was a plus.

"Malia, that's pack business, were aren't suppose to talk about it." muttered Stiles as if Alex couldn't completely hear what he was saying.

"But Alex is pack isn't he?" asked Malia as Lydia reached the table and sat on the other side of Alex.

"One Alpha per pack Malia." said Alex as he brought out one of his notebooks and started working on the damn math homework he hadn't done yesterday because of his lack of books.

"And I think being a murderer disqualifies me from joining the Morally Superior McCall Pack." said Alex bitterly as he quickly worked through the equations in his book, he hated math but that didn't mean he wasn't good at it.

His comment cause a frown to form on the faces of the others.

"I killed my mom and sister and I'm in the pack." said Malia as she flashed him her blue eyes.

Eyes she got when she accidentally killed her mother and sister during her first full moon. Alex could see Stiles was ready to make on his famous idiotic comments so he intervened.

"Yeah well, you're cute so you get a pass." muttered Alex as he turned the page on his book, he was busy looking at his homework that he didn't see Malia's blush from his complement but Lydia, and unfortunately Stiles, did.

"I don't get it." said Malia when she got her blush to go away.

"Why is Alex a murderer for killing the assassin and I'm not for killing my mom and sister?" asked Malia looking at Lydia, since as the smartest she would be able to explain everything better, unfortunately for her Lydia didn't know what to say.

In the end it was Stiles that explained it to her, in his usual heavy handed and blunt style.

"What you did was an accident Malia, you weren't in control of yourself." said Stiles slowly, Malia looked at both Lydia and Alex and they both nodded at her telling her they agreed with what Stiles had said.

Unfortunately Stiles didn't stop there.

"What Alex does is take the easy way out and kill instead of finding a better solution." said Stiles bluntly while looking at Alex in the eyes

Never let it be said that Stiles Stilinski didn't have big brass ones.

"Yes Stiles, that's exactly what I do, I take the easy way out, sure I have only killed four people, two blood thirsty Alpha's that liked to kill people and feed them to their dogs, a werewolf that was trying his hardest to rip my throat out and a mouth-less assassin that had a list of my friends on his computer and smelled of fresh blood...but still what a fucking monster I am, I don't know how I live with myself." growled Alex as he slammed his notebook on the table causing all three of the people sitting at the table to jump in surprise.

Stiles looked pale as Alex's eyes shined red as he glared at him.

"You can be real jerk sometimes Stiles, now why don't you go say those exact words to your dad, the town sheriff, whom I bet every penny I own has had to shoot a few people in his life." growled Alex as he started packing up his stuff to leave.

He didn't get the change, just as he moved to stand Lydia grabbed his arm and with a surprising amount of strength pulled him back down towards his seat.

"Nope, you're not leaving again, last night we were all too shocked at what Scott and you had said to each other to stop you, but not today, so sit down...please." said Lydia pleading so her would stay.

"Stiles, apologize for your comment, you were unjustly cruel." ordered Lydia and even Malia glared at Stiles making him shiver before complying.

"I'm sorry I was an ass Alex." muttered Stiles and even thought Alex could detect no lies when Stiles spoke he was still angry.

"Whatever." said Alex causing Lydia to smile at both of them.

"Now tell me, where did you go last night?" asked/demanded Lydia while staring at Alex.

"It was too late to get a motel room, so I just went back to the abandoned building were the Assassin was staying and slept there." said Alex shocking the rest of the people at the table.

"Its actually pretty nice, it has a generator so there's power, there's a bathroom with a shower and military cot...plus the guy has wifi." said Alex seriously before going back to doing his homework.

"You slept there with a dead body?." asked Stiles horrified and Alex just looked at him waiting for another Stiles comment, when one didn't come he shook his head.

"I buried the dude out in the woods, I seen way too many horror movies to not get rid of the body." said Alex, Lydia just beamed at him since he had made a joke and she thought it was progress.

Alex suddenly sniffed the air before frowning and starting to but his books away, Malia seeing him sniffed the air was well but couldn't smell anything.

"What's wrong, where are you going?" asked Malia as she saw him ready himself to leave.

"Scott's here and I have no interest in talking to him anytime soon." said Alex as he grabbed his back and started walking way.

"Wait!" said Malia as she stood from the table and ran towards him. Behind her Lydia had a tiny smile on her face and Stiles was frowning at both of them.

"Are you still going to help me tonight?" asked Malia with a pleading look on her face. Having already decided Alex just gave her a small smile before nodding.

"I promised I would, its the only reason I haven't left town yet. " said Alex causing Malia, Lydia and even Stiles to frown.

"Wait, what do you mean leave town?" asked Malia worriedly, Lydia had stood from the table and walked up to them wanting to know as well.

"I mean, after I help Malia gain control I'm out of here." said Alex causing Lydia and Malia to look hurt.

"Hey man, I know I was a jerk and you and Scott had a fight but that doesn't mean we want you to leave!, you're our friend." said Stiles from the table.

He might not be happy with how close Alex and Malia were becoming and he might not agree with how the Alpha werewolf did some things but it didn't mean he wanted Alex gone.

"I'll think about staying." said Alex making them sigh in relief.

"But I don't think this town is big enough for two Alpha werewolves." thought Alex as the bell sounded in the school telling everyone to get to class.

"We're leaving after school to Lydia's Lake House." said Malia as she and Alex started walking towards the school, they had first period together, leaving Lydia and Stiles behind.

"Lydia has a lake house? Is she like secretly loaded?" they heard Alex ask Malia just before they crossed through the school doors.

"Is it just me or are Alex and my girlfriend way too chummy with each other?." asked Stiles as he frowned at where the wolf and the coyote had just disappeared to.

"Don't worry Stiles, Malia still likes you more." said Lydia before grabbing her bags and walking towards school, she and Kira had history first period. Stiles smiled at that until he analyzed what she had said.

"What do you mean she likes me more, does that mean she likes him as well?" asked Stiles as he looked at where Lydia had left to, he would've gone after her but he saw Scott not so subtly following Liam and decided to go help his best friend.

After School.

Alex had thankfully managed to avoid the rest of the McCall pack for the rest of the school day, but as he walked outside he saw Lydia, Stiles and Malia waiting for him standing by their cars.

When Lydia caught sight of him she waved him over.

"Alex we're heading to the Lake House now." said Lydia then proceeded to finish what Malia had started that morning by telling them Alex about Liam, Scott had apparently bitten him to save him from the Wendigo and the kid was now a werewolf.

So they had devised a plan to get Kira to flirt with him and invite him to a fake party at Lydia's Lake House, there they would ambush him and as a group explain to the kid what had happened.

"Lousy timing biting him the day before the full moon." said Alex as he was in Lydia's car heading towards the Lake House, Stiles and Malia on the jeep behind them.

They were going in early to start setting up.

"I'm sorry I didn't speak out when Scott called you a murderer, he was out of line and it just shocked me... shocked us." said Lydia as he watched the road ahead of them.

"I been feeling guilty all day because of it." said Lydia as she gave him a quick glance before looking.

"Don't worry Lydia, I didn't actually expect anyone to go against Scott, he's your Alpha and your friend." said Alex in a low tone of voice, he had been hurt when no one spoke up for him but he didn't want her to feel bad.

"But you're my friend as well." said Lydia as he removed her hand from the steering wheal and gave his a quick squeeze.

Alex gave her a smile before shaking his head.

"You known me for just a few months Lydia, you known Scott for years, its not the same." said Alex and he gave her hand a squeeze back to let her know he wasn't mad at her...anymore.

"Still, you're my friend and It won't happen again.." said Lydia smiling at him again.

Alex for his part was happy to have a friend like Lydia, he was still sure that if it came time to choose she would still pick Scott over him but he would cross that bridge when it came to it.

"Are we like BFF's now?" asked Alex mockingly as he gave her a toothy grin. Lydia laughed loudly at that.

"I guess so, it's not so bad I think, having a huge, bad-ass Alpha werewolf as a best friend, it must come with some perks." said Lydia grinning.

"Don't forget sexy." said Alex leaning back on the seat.

"A huge, sexy, bad-ass Alpha werewolf, like your mother said." joked Alex as he looked to the woods passing outside the window.

"She said handsome not sexy." muttered Lydia still a bit embarrassed he had hear what his mother had told her.

"Its what she meant, I'm sure of it." said Alex as he and Lydia laughed all the way to the Lake House.

"Hey...did you bring any mini-donuts."

"Donetts..." said Alex almost instantly.

"And yes I did."

Martin Lake House.

The Martin lake house was to put it simply, amazing. The lake it was next to had crystal clear water and was huge, another thing was that the Martin House was the only one around for miles so Alex understood why they had chosen it for Malia's and now Liam's monthly issues.

If the werecoyote and werewolf manage to escape there weren't people around for miles, so no chance of them hurting anyone.

As Lydia and Alex got out of the car he couldn't help but look at the house in wonder, growing up in a two bedroom, one bathroom house in the bad part of town hadn't prepared him for things like this.

"Your Lake House is amazing Lydia." said Alex as he took a deep breath, relishing the fresh air and the smell of the woods around the house.

Living in the town he had to get used to a bunch of unpleasant smells, but here there were none of those smells just fresh water, trees and grass. It was heaven.

"Thanks, it belonged to my grandma Lorraine." said Lydia as she locked her car and moved to stand next to him. Alex still had his eyes closed as he enjoyed the nature around them.

"Hey, how long till Scott, Kira and Liam get here?" asked Alex as he saw Stiles jeep park behind Lydia's car.

"A few hours why?" asked Lydia, Alex just beamed at her before he started taking off his clothes till he was just in his briefs.

"Alexander West don't you dare!." Said Lydia when she saw the mischievous look in his eyes.

"I'll give you ten seconds to take off anything you don't want to get wet." said Alex as he started counting.

Lydia stared at him till he reached five and realizing he was serious quickly took off her heels, her sweater and dropped her phone and keys on the floor.

"...nine, ten." said a grinning Alex before he grabbed Lydia around the waist threw her over his shoulder and started running towards the pier at the edge of the water.

Stiles and Malia got there just in time to see a almost naked Alex running towards the lake with a screaming Lydia on his shoulders.

Stiles laughed as he heard Lydia screaming threats at the Alpha werewolf.

The second Alex reached the edge of the pier he launched himself and Lydia into the water using almost all his werewolf strength.

"I'm goooooooing tooooooo killlll youuuu." Lydia screamed as they flew through the air before landing in the water with a huge splash.

It took them a few minutes to swing back towards the edge of the pier.

"I'm going to find a way to castrate you." said Lydia as Alex jumped out of the water and helped her up out.

"Come on Lydia, I heard you laughing just before we hit the water."

"You're a jerk." huffed Lydia just as Stiles and Malia walked up to them, Malia doing her best to not look at Alex's almost naked wet body and Stiles grinning from ear to ear at Lydia.

"You look like a drowned cat." said Stiles before Lydia glared at him and turned to Alex.

"Throw Stiles into the water and..." she didn't even get to finish before Stiles was flying through the air and being thrown into the water.

"...you're forgiven." said Lydia before cracking up and laughing at the spluttering Stiles. Alex grinned back at both ladies before he jumped back into the water to enjoy himself.

"Well ladies, you coming in or what?" asked Alex as he laid back and floated in the water.

"We have a few hours till the full moon and I think we can spend them like normal teenagers don't you." said Alex as Stiles swam close to him and jumped him to dunk in the water.

An as if by some unseen signal both Lydia and Malia undressed till they were in their underwear and jumped into the water.

For those few hours, they weren't worried about assassins, hit lists, full moons or what the future would bring.

For those few hours they just acted their age and had fun.

Nightfall

Martin Lake House.

When Scott finally arrived at Lydia's Lake House he found four teenagers, still lightly damp, grinning at him from the side of Stiles's car.

"I just talked to Kira, she's on her way and she says it's all going fine." said Scott as he got off his bike and looked them over before focusing on Stiles.

Stile's stopped grinning then, remembering what he had found out about Liam.

"About that Scott, I have to tell you something, I asked around about Liam... I know why he got kicked out of his last school." said a serious Stiles as he brought out his phone, Scott frowned before looking at them all.

"This is going to be bad isn't it?" said Scott and Stiles grimaced before looking through the pictures in his phone.

"Well, he got into it with one of his teachers and huh, well the kid's got some serious anger issues." said Stiles before apparently finding the picture he wanted to show Scott.

"How serious?" asked Scott with a worried frown on his face.

"That's his teachers car...after he took a crowbar to it." said Stiles as he handed Scott the picture, he had already shared all this info with Alex, Malia and Lydia so they weren't surprised.

"Damn." said Scott just before his phone ding with a text message from Kira, apparently they were almost there.

"They are almost here, lets move inside." said Scott. The group moved towards the house just as Malia, Alex and Scott heard Kira's car close by.

When they walking inside the house Alex finally noticed the bag of chains on the table by the front door.

"What's with the chains?" asked Alex as he moved closer to look at them, the leather straps of one the chains was wrecked, it would surprise him if they held for more than a few minutes.

"We using them on Scott's little wolf?" asked Alex as he gave them a hard tug to test their strength. Malia grabbed them from him and shook her head.

"They're for me." said Malia quietly, embarrassed that she still had trouble with the full moon.

"Oh...yeah, we're not going to need those." said Alex as he shot her a grin, she looked surprised but before she could question him further they heard voices coming from outside.

"They're here." said Scott as they heard Liam ask Kira why there was nobody there.

"Your girlfriend is a sucky liar." said Alex without looking at Scott, the True Alpha didn't have any time to answer back because that's when Liam and Kira entered through the doors.

The kid, Liam, looked angry when he saw the McCall pack plus Alex standing there, Stiles being the cheeky bastard that he was waved at him with a smile on his face.

"Sorry." said Kira when Liam looked back at her angry as she closed the door behind her.

"What the hell's this?" asked Liam angry as he glared at Scott.

"Think of it like an intervention..." said Stiles, always having a smart-ass reply ready at a moment''s notice.

"...you have a problem Liam." said Stiles causing Alex to snort besides Malia and Lydia.

"Weirdest episode of intervention EVER!" Thought Alex as he did his best to hold back his laughter, this was meant to be a serious discussion.

"And we're the only ones that can help." said Scott seriously before he began explaining what was happening to his new Beta.

"I should think about getting me one of those." thought Alex, Clark had always said that any Alpha worth the salt had at least three Beta's in his pack.

With the new addition Scott had three Betas. Liam, Malia, although he wasn't sure if a werecoyote counted as a Beta and Derek.

"Where is Derek anyway, I haven't seen him since the night with the Berserkers." thought Alex. Before he could keep musing about who he should bite his attention was once again on Liam when the kid spoke.

"OK, let me get this straight...werewolf." said Liam looking at Scott. The True Alpha gave him a serious note before Liam moved to look at Malia.

"Werecoyote?" Liam asked dubiously. And if he was honest Alex understood where the kid was coming from, before Clark had bitten him he had at least heard of Kitsunes and Banshees and Werewolves from horror movies and anime, but werecoyotes?, he only learned that was a word when he met Malia.

"Banshee?" asked Liam looking at Lydia, she just nodded at him, busy brushing her still damp hair.

"Fox?" asked the kid looking back a Kira, the Asian girl being the nicest outta all of them gave him a small smile before answering.

"Kitsune, but fox works."

"What are you two?" asked Liam while glancing at Stiles and Alex. Stiles rubbed his brow embarrassed before answering.

"Ah, well for a while there I was possessed by an evil spirit? I was very evil." said Stiles causing a grin to appeared on Alex's face with Stiles glib answer.

"What are you now?" asked Liam glaring at Stiles for the sarcasm.

"Better... I guess." muttered Stiles looking at Lydia and Scott for confirmation.

"And you?" Asked Liam looking at little intimidated when Alex just grinning at him.

"I'm just like you kid, a Werewolf." said Alex trying to make Liam relax a bit. It didn't really work, specially when he saw the chains on the table.

"Those for me?" asked Liam gesturing towards the heavy chains.

"No, they're for me." said Malia flashing his blue eyes at the kid. Liam looked freaked out when he saw them.

"How did she do that?" Asked Liam scared as he back away from Malia.

"You'll learn..." said Scott trying to sound reassuring.

"...But first you need to get through the full moon." his answer seemed to get Liam angry, since Alex could smell his agitation from where he was standing.

"The Moons already out." said Liam roughly as he glared at Scott.

"And you're starting to feel something aren't you?" asked Scott causing Liam to glare angrily at all of them.

"I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of psychotic nut jobs." growled Liam as he glared at everything around him getting angrier and angrier by the second.

"You guys are out of your freaking minds, I don't know how you did that eye thing and I don't care, I'M WALKING OUT THE DOOR RIGHT." that's as far as he got before Alex, tired of having some snot nosed punk screaming at him roared at Liam, letting his wolf features come out [glowing eyes, side burns and fangs].

"CALM DOWN..." roared Alex using his power as an Alpha, even if he wasn't Liam's Alpha to make the kid stop screaming.

Liam fell to his knees in a huff, breathing hard. Besides him, Malia, the other shifter in the room that wasn't an Alpha, moved back a step.

"...We're here to help you kid, but not if you throw a temper tantrum." said Alex letting his features go back to normal, all but his eyes.

Before anything else could be said Malia's ear twitched as she heard a bunch of cars heading their way, Scott and Alex being to focused on Liam to hear them.

"We have company." said Malia seconds before the headlights from the cars shined through the Lake house windows.

"Did you tell anyone about this?" asked Lydia as she looked at the lights coming from the outside.

"My friend Mason." said Liam still breathing hard on the floor. Kira walked to the window before looking back at Liam.

"You said it was a party." grunted Liam when he saw her looking at him.

"Who did Mason invite?" asked Stiles as he looked questionably to the windows.

"From the sounds coming from out there? Everyone." said Alex as he had to cover his ears when one of the cars honked its horn.

Liam grunted form the pain the moon was forcing on him as his claws popped out and he accidentally scratched the floors making Lydia freak out.

"Get him off the floors, get him off the floors." cried a panicked Lydia when she saw the scratch marks Liam's claws left behind.

Lydia started walking toward Liam but before she reached him he lifted his head and roared at her, before he could do anything else Alex grabbed him around the back of the neck and held him off the floors.

"You should probably get him to the boat house." said Alex as he handed he young Beta to Scott and Kira.

Alex turned back to the room when he heard Malia grunt and slump forwards.

"Alex." said Malia still slumped against the table.

"Yeah?" he asked having an idea of what was happening with her.

She looked up and her face had already shifted, her eyes were glowing a bright blue, her forehead had become ridged and more pronounced and her fangs were coming out.

"God, She's beautiful." Though Alex as he watch Malia slowly losing control under the light of the full moon.

"Hay OK, basement now now now." said Stiles as he moved forwards to grab the chains from the table.

"Don't, we won't need those tonight." said Alex as he grabbed Malia around the waist an helped her walk. Stiles looked worried but dropped the chains down anyways trusting Alex knew what he was doing.

"What am I suppose to do with the Horde gathering outside the door?" asked Lydia's as she pointed to the lights coming from the outside.

"Lydia, who throws the best parties in Beacon Hills?" asked Stiles, hell Alex hadn't even been in town for week and he already knew the answer to that.

"What? Me! obviously." said Lydia like she was speaking to a particularity slow child. At his side Malia was starting to growl and Alex did as well when one of her claws sliced into his back as he grip got tighter.

"Then throw a party Lydia." growled Alex, as he turned to walk away he felt back about snapping at Lydia but he had blood dripping down his back as Malia's claws dug in so his patience was growing thinner by the second.

Stiles ran ahead of them to open the door that led to the basement, and as they walked down the stairs Alex could hear Lydia's grunt of indignation and it made him grin.

"She's pissed." said Alex making Stiles roll his eyes as he walked behind them.

Lydia's basement wasn't actually a damn basement at all, it was a room on the lower level of the house, it even windows for gods sake.

"What basement has windows." thought Alex as Malia moved from his side and threw herself against one of the walls.

"You should probably leave Stiles, this will get...bloody." said Alex as he pulled up the sleeves of his shirt, his jersey was still wet but luckily for him he had a spare in his bag.

"What why? I thought you would do to her what you did to Liam you know? Roar and make her calm down." asked a nervous Stiles as he nervously backed a way from Malia, the werecoyote was starting to snarl and growl as she glaring around the room.

"No, that's a temporary solution at best." said Alex as he glanced back at Stiles.

"Then what are you going to do?" asked Malia as she stood from the floor and paced in front of him.

"To be perfectly honest...nothing." said Alex shocking both Malia and Stiles.

"What? What do you mean nothing?" asked Stiles as he got in between Alex and Malia.

"Exactly that, I'm going to let her go wild." said Alex with a grin showing how excited he was about his idea.

"I could hurt someone/She could hurt someone." both Malia and Stiles said at the same time while glaring at him.

"Oh don't worry, she wont." said Alex as his eyes started glowing red.

"How can you be so sure?" asked Stiles while pocking him in the chest.

"Because, I'm not going to let her, and stop poking me before I slap you." growled Alex glaring at Stiles, making said teen back away from him with a frown on his face.

Sure he had amazing control but the full moon still made him somewhat grumpy.

"I could hurt you." snarled Malia making Stiles jump back from her. Alex just smiled at her amused.

"I'm a two hundred and sixteen pounds Alpha werewolf darling...do you worst." said Alex with a grin that made Stiles shake his head and Malia growl at him, partly because of his idiotic plan and partly because he was underestimating her strength,

"I promise you I can take it." said Alex making Malia snarl and finally lose control, she jumped on him, stabbing him with her claws and leaving eight bloody slashes on his chest and ruining his shirt.

"Oh shit! Alex you OK?" asked Stiles, Alex just gave him a quick nod before taking off his ruined shirt showing his wounds had already healed.

"You promised you would teach me control." said Malia growling and glaring at him.

"You don't need it Malia, to be perfectly honest, control is overrated..." said Alex as he rubbed his stinging chest, his words only made Malia angrier as she moved towards him and punched him in the face only to snarl when he didn't even flinch from the blow.

"...and besides that's not your problem." said Alex grinning at Malia as a small trickle of blood ran down his lip.

The werecoyote just snarled at him and slashed at him, again leaving four slashes on the side of his face.

"What's my problem then?" snarled Malia as she jumped him and bit him in the shoulder. Alex grunted in pain before he shook her off, throwing her to the other side of the room. Stiles was behind them wincing every time Alex got slashed and clawed or bitten.

"His getting the holy hell beaten out of him but it's like he doesn't even feel it." Though Stiles amazed as he watch his friend and girlfriend fight it out.

"You don't need to learn control Malia, you need to stop being afraid." said Alex as he blocked her way out when she tried to run towards the stairs, by now all his wounds had closed but he was covered in blood.

"Afraid? What am I afraid off?" snarled Malia as she jumped him and scratched and clawed any inch of him she could find.

"Look at you, Malia, the full moon is out, and even if you're violent and angry, you're still you." said Alex as he grabbed her arms when he saw her slashing a bit too south for his taste.

"I don't want to find out if that grows back or not." thought Alex as he turned her around and held her in a bear hug.

"You don't need to learn control Malia because you're already in control, what you need is to stop being afraid, afraid of hurting people." said Alex as he had to use a considerate portion of his strength to hold the squirming Malia.

Stiles stood rooted to the stairs as he watched Alex and his girlfriend having a show of strength.

"What happened with your mom and sister, that wasn't your fault Malia, you were a kid, it was your first time shifting...it was unavoidable." said Alex an it might have been his imagination but he felt her struggling less.

"Its that fear that's keeping you from completely shifting back into a coyote, you're afraid because the last time it happened you killed someone. " said Alex and Malia had stopped struggling in his arms and was just weakly clawing at them.

"But I promise I won't let that happen." said Alex softly trying to make Malia comfortable and to his joy and Malia's he felt her sigh and suddenly she was shrinking in his arms and growing hair all over.

He let her drop to the floor and in seconds before him and the amazed Stiles stood a gray and brown furred coyote happily wagging its tail.

"Malia?" asked Stiles as he stepped forward standing just behind the bloody and grinning Alex. The coyote just turned its gaze towards him and wagged her tail.

"Hahaha that's amazing, she did it, you did it." cried Stiles while jumping all around them.

"She did, but now the question is, can you turn back?" asked Alex as he knelt before the coyote ready to help her if needed.

Malia just closed her eyes and a few seconds later she was standing in front of them as a human girl once again.

"I can." said Malia with a happy grin as Stiles ran back up the stairs for a blanket to cover her with.

"Thank you." said Malia as she gave him quick hug.

"You did it." said Alex as he released the girl, who took a step back with a blush on her face when she remembered she was completely nude and that Alex was shirtless.

Stiles came back a few second later with a massive red blanket that he quickly draped over his girlfriend hiding her nakedness from Alex.

"You know we make an amazing team." said Stiles with a big grin.

"You did nothing but stand there while I got beat up." said Alex with a raised eyebrow at the still grinning Stiles.

"Moral support my friend, moral support." said Stiles before wrapping his arm around Malia's shoulders and kissing her in the cheek.

Alex looked away, hating himself when his chest grew tight with jealousy as he watched Stiles kiss Malia.

"I have no right to be jealous." thought Alex as he moved away from the couple to a nearby sink to clean the blood from his face and chest.

"Stiles, I have some clothes in the guest bedroom upstairs, could you go get them for me." asked Malia suddenly as she looked at the blood on Alex's massive back.

Stiles gave her a quick smile before running upstairs to get her some clothes.

Malia just walked till she was standing behind Alex and grabbed the damp towel he was using to clean himself to clean his bloody back.

"What are you doing?" asked a nervous Alex as he tried to turn around to face her. She held him in place as she cleaned his back.

"Helping, it's my fault you're covered in blood." said Malia and Alex was about to rebuff her but she kept talking.

"I know you like me." said Malia as she finished cleaning the last of the dried blood from his back.

"Of course I like you Malia, you're my friend." said Alex doing his best to keep his heart steady so she wouldn't know he was freaking out.

"No, not like that, you like me like Stiles likes me." said Malia and Alex wished for the earth to open up and swallow him whole.

From the way his heart was now beating Alex knew he had no chance to lie to her.

"When did you figure it out?" asked Alex staring down at the bloody sink and not looking back at Malia.

"Lydia told me." said Malia in that second Alex cursed Lydia.

"How did she find out, and why would she tell her?" thought Alex, then again if someone was bound to find out it was her, Lydia was scary smart.

"Lydia has a big mouth." growled Alex embarrassed that he had been tattle on.

"I'm with Stiles." said Malia and the butterflies in his stomach withered and died when she said that, in his old life he was used to girls turning him down, but he thought that part was over with.

"I know that Malia." said Alex as he held back the urge to turn into a wolf and run away from the lake house, hell the urge to run away from Beacon Hills all together.

"I won't do anything to jeopardize that, I promise." said Alex as he watched her move away from him and drop the towel to the floor.

"Thank you." said Malia quietly. She moved to the other side of the room when they heard Stiles coming down the stairs. Alex picked up the tower from the floor and rinsed it off.

"Here you go, sorry I took so long, its very crowded upstairs." said Stiles as he handed Malia the clothes and grabbed her blanket and held it up as a partition so Malia could get dressed in private.

"Alex, Lydia said there might be a few clothes..." said Stiles as he turned around and saw he and Malia where alone.

Where Alex was previously standing were just a pair of bloody jeans and a towel stained red. One of the windows in the room was opened.

"I guess he left." said Stiles as he and Malia moved towards the windows to see if Alex was out there. He wasn't.

"I wonder where he went." said Stiles out loud before noticing the frown on Malia's face.

"Did something happen?" asked Stiles, Malia just shook her head and smiled at him.

"No. " lied Malia before she kissed Stiles.

As they were walking upstairs to join the party Malia couldn't help but look back at the bloody towel and feel guilty.

"I did the right thing, I like him but I like Stiles more...right?" thought Malia before turning and walking upstairs.

The McCall pack wouldn't see Alex for a whole week