looking for the alpha

|economics classroom|

As the bell rings the students begin to fill the seats and Bobby Finstock their teacher is telling them "Let's go sit, sit, sit, sit, we've got a lot to cover today."

Scott is taking his usual seat and realizes that Lydia is sitting behind him so he asks Stiles to sit behind him since he is trying to keep his distance from her.

Lydia is faster though and puts her bagpack down at the table behind Scott and Stiles takes the seat next on her right side gesturing Scott apologetically with his arms at his side shrugging his shoulder.

Scott sits down and sighs to himself silently.

"Hey, I haven't heard from you all day." Lydia greets Scott.

"Hey, yeah sorry my phone broke yesterday I'm working on getting myself a new one." Scott replies.

"I changed Bio-partners by the way, if that's OK with you." Lydia tells him.

"To who?" Scott asks.

"To you, of course." Lydia replies grinning at Scotts obviousness.

"Me, are you sure? I mean I don't wanna bring your grade down." Scott stays.

"Well, since I'm tutoring you this way it's easier for me to bring your grade up." Lydia replies winking at him.

"True." Scott says.

Coach Finstock then slams a book on his table and says "Lets settle down. Let's start with a quick summary of last nights reading."

Many students raise their hand volunteering to present it.

"Greenburg put your hand down everybody knows you did the reading. How about uhh, McCall." Bobby says. After taking a quick pause to look around for students who are trying to dodge the task.

"What?" Scott asks.

"The reading." Bobby says.

"Last nights reading?" Scott questions.

"Yeah, how about the reading of the gettisbourgh adress?" Coach Finstock jokes.

"What?" Scott asks not knowing what he means.

"That's sarcasm, you familiar with the term sarcasm McCall?" Coach asks him.

"Very." Scott replies looking back at his best friend who nods his head proudly.

"Did you the reading or not?" Bobby asks.

"Uhm I think I forgot." Scott confesses.

"Nice work McCall. It's not like you're averaging a D in this class. Come on buddy you know I can't keep you on the team if you have a D. How about you summarize the previous nights reading?" Coach requests while the students in the class start laughing at Scott.

Stiles looks at the heart rate monitor and sees it increasing.

"No? How about the night before that? How about you summarize anything you have every read in your entire night." Coach says angrily.

Stiles sees Scotts heart rate rapidly increasing till it begins to calm down, looking over at Scott he can see Lydia leaning over her table stroking Scotts on arm encouragingly.

After getting a few more insults thrown at Scott, Lydia decides to help Scott out and tells Coach "Uhm Coach, that Scott didn't do the assignments was kinda my fault, he volunteered to watch over me almost all day while I was on the medication I got for the shock from the animal attack a few nights back."

"Hmm OK, your off the hook this time then buddy but next time do the reading." Coach orders Scott, having calmed down a bit because Scott had a valid reason for not being able to do the task.

Scott then looks back and whispers a quick "thanks" still looking embarrassed.

|school hallway|

After class finishes Scott and Stiles hurry out of the class and Stiles catching up to Scott tells him "it's her."

"What do you mean?" Scott asks looking around.

"It's Lydia! Remember what you told me about the night with the full moon? You were thinking about her right? About protecting her. Remember the night of the first Lacrosse game you said you heard her voice on the field and afterwards in the locker room you didn't try to kill her. She brings you back is what I'm saying." Stiles tells him seeing the confused look on his face.

"Hmm you might be on to something." Scott says lost in thought.

"Yeah, look I noticed that as soon as she was stroking your arm you calmed down. I don't think she makes you weak I think she gives you control, she's kinda like an anchor. Stiles explains.

"Because I love her." Scott says.

"Exactly." Stiles replies.

"Well lets hope that I'm wrong about her getting back with Jackson or I may really be in trouble with staying in control." Scott tells Stiles worried.

"True, but now let's figure this out please, because obviously you can't be around her all the time." Stiles tells him.

"Yeah, sorry, so what do I do?" Scott replies.

"I don't know yet." Stiles says turning around and jumping around suddenly.

"Oh no you're getting an idea aren't you? Is this idea gonna get me in trouble?" Scott asks.

"Maybe." Stiles replies thoughtfully.

"Is this idea gonna cause me physical pain?" Scott asks.

"Yeah definitely." Stiles instantly replies, leading his friend to the parking lot.

"What are we doing?" Scott asks.

"You'll see, OK stand there. Do you have your keys?"

Scott takes out his keys and Stiles takes Scotts hand and raises it with one of his keys sticking out of his hand saying "OK, perfect hold it up like so. Now whatever happens just think about Lydia, try to find her voice like you did at the game. Got it?" Stiles asks receiving a nod from Scott.

"OK, just keep holding it right there. Stiles says going over to the car that parked next to them when they arrived and scratches the car with his key turning to Scott and yelling "Hey dude what do you think you're doing to that truck bro?"

"What the hell?" the owner of the truck yells with him and his 3 friends coming over to Scott and beating him up. While he is getting beaten up Stiles looks at the heart rate monitor to check if Scott will shift.

Scott while being beaten up tries to listen for Lydias voice, after hearing multiple other sounds he hears Lydia talking to Allison and begins to calm down.

"Stop, stop it right now." Mr. Harrison yells coming up to the teens and stopping their fight.

"What do you idiots think you're doing?" He asks Scott and Stiles who is holding up the phone nodding approvingly to Scott.

"Nothing." Scott replies.

"Yeah well you'll have time during detention to explain what the nothing you are doing exactly is." Mr. Harrison tells them.

|Beacons Crossing Home|

Derek is goes to his Uncles room and sits down before Peter who is in his wheelchair still paralyzed. "I need your help. If you can hear me I need you to give me a sign. Blink, raise a finger anything OK, just point me in the right direction OK?" Derek pleads to his Uncle who is still unmoving not showing any sign of acknowledgment that Derek even entered the room.

Looking down Derek tells him "Someone killed Laura, your niece. Laura, whoever he is he is an alpha now. But he's one without a pack which means he's not as strong. I can take him. But I have to find him first. Look if you know something just give me a sign. Is it one of us? Did someone else make it out of the fire? Just give me anything, blink raise a finger anything. Say something!" Derek yells desperately at Peter.

"Let him go. You think after 6 years of this, yelling at him is gonna get a response?" A nurse asks entering the room.

"You have a better method?" Derek asks.

"Patience. He'll respond if you give him the time." The nurse answers.

"I don't have any more time." Derek says disappointed making his way out of the door.

When Derek arrives at his car he sees a paper clamped under his windshield wipers.

Realizing what the paper means Derek takes off in a hurry heading towards the animal clinic calling Jackson in the car.

"Hello Jackson I'm sure you are curious by now what is happening to you, come meet me in front of the animal clinic and I'll explain everything to you." Derek tells him not waiting for a reply he ends the call.

|chemistry room|

Scott and Stiles are sitting in the detention, with Mr. Harris as their supervisor.

"Excuse me sir. I know this is detention and all but, I'm supposed to be at work and don't wanna get fired." Scott tells Mr. Harris.

Mr. Harris ignores Scotts implied request and simply looks back down at his book.

"You knew I would heal?" Scott asks Stiles knowing the answer.

"Yep." Stiles replies.

"So you did that to help me learn." Scott says.

"Yep." Stiles confirms it.

"Couldn't think of any less painful way? Are you angry at me or something?" Scott asks.

"I'm not angry at you. Look you have something Scott, whether you want it or not, you can do things that nobody else can do, that means you don't have a choice anymore. It means you have to do something." Stiles explains to Scott.

"I know, and I will." Scott says.

"Alright both of you outta here." Mr. Harrison tells them, since they seem to have made up and detention is almost over.

"Thank you." Scott tells him on his way out.

|Animal clinic|

Derek arrives at the clinic and sees Jackson already out front waiting for him.

"What the hell man, what is happening to me?" Jackson asks Derek as soon as he has exited his car.

"To put it simply, you are becoming a werewolf, that means increased strength, enhanced senses but also homicidal rage." Derek tells Jackson.

"You're joking right?" Jackson asks Derek not believing anything he told him.

"Does this look like a joke to you?" Derek asks shifting in front of Jackson showing him his blue eyes, hairy side burns, fangs and his claws.

"Holy shit." Jackson says scooting back in fear.

"Calm down I'm not gonna do anything to you, but we will need to work together in the future if we want to survive." Derek says.

"Wait what do you mean survive?" Jackson asks.

"Well there are hunters trying to kill us, also there is an alpha running around killing people, he is the one who bit you and we have to kill him or he will either kills us or make us park of his pack, his henchmen so to say." Derek explains.

"Screw this and screw you." Jackson says going back to his car.

"Not so fast." Derek says grabbing Jackson by the back of his neck, having transformed back to normal.

"You saw the alpha up close I'm hoping you can identify him." Derek says.

"I told you, I saw nothing, all I could make out was a man-wolf thing for a second and that's it." Jackson says screaming at Derek.

"Still maybe you'll recognize his scent since you share a bond with him, same as Scott." Derek says going toward the animal clinic.

"Wait Scott is also a werewolf? That is how he got so good at Lacrosse?" Jackson asks.

"Somewhat, he is not a werewolf, he is a were-eagle, in rare cases people shapeshift into other beings because of their different personality. Were-eagles for example are said to be strong, protective and loyal and have a free spirit." Derek explains.

"Whatever, OK, I'll come with you if you release me already." Jackson says annoyed.

"Good." Derek says entering the animal clinic with Jackson in tow making the bell at the entrance ring.

"Wait here and see if you can smell anything familiar to that night." Derek orders Jackson.

"Scott you're late again, I hope this isn't getting to be a habit." Deaton says from the examination room writing something on a clipboard.

Derek then enters the room Deaton sees him and asks "can I help you?"

"I hope so. I wanna know about the animal you found with the spiral in its side." Derek tells him.

"Excuse me what animal?" Deaton asks playing dumb.

"3 month ago the deer. You remember this?" Derek asks taking out the paper he found on his car which pictures a deer with a spiral carved into its side.

"Ah yes, it's just a deer and I didn't find it there, they called me because they wanted to know if I have ever seen anything like it." Deaton explains.

"What did you tell them?"Derek questions.

"I told them no." Deaton replies.

"Did you hear that?" Derek asks getting angry and approaching Deaton.

"Hear what?" Deaton asks confused.

"The sound of your heartbeat rising." Derek explains.

"Excuse me?" Deaton asks.

"It's the sound of you lying." Derek tells him grabbing Deaton and knocking him out, tying him up on a chair.

Deaton comes to and says "Oh god." to himself.

"Are you protecting someone?" Derek asks from behind the bound Deaton.

"Alright the key to the drug locker is in my pocket." Deaton says.

"I don't want drugs, I wanna know why you're lying." Derek demands.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Deaton says stuttering and then being lifted together with the chair so Derek can look him in the eyes.

"What do you want?" Deaton asks Derek panicked.

"I wanna know who you are and who you're protecting." Derek yells at Deaton.

Scott comes in the back and sees Derek holding up the tied Deaton and yells at him "What are you doing?"

"Scott get out of here." Deaton yells at Scott.

Derek puts Deaton down and knocks him out with a punch to the face.

"Stop!" Scott yells at Derek after he knocked out Deaton.

"Look when he's conscious he can keep himself from healing but unconscious he can't." Derek tells Scott angry.

"Are you out of your mind? What are you talking about?" Scott yells at Derek.

"You wanna know what the spiral means Scott? It's our sign for vendetta, for revenge and he won't stop killing until he's satisfied." Derek explains shouting.

"You think he's the alpha?" Scott questions thinking it to be ridiculous.

"We're about to find out." Derek says transforming his hand into a claw and taking a swing at Deatons chest.

However Scott shifted into his were-eagle form and catches Dereks hadn with his talons ripping into his skin slightly and screeches at Derek with his part beak-like mouth, glaring at Derek with his Golden glowing eyes which are slightly pulled towards the middle of his face.

Scott shoves Dereks arm back and looks at his Talons thinking about calming down and remembering things about Lydia he sees the Talons receding into his hand and fingernails while his face looses its feathers and his eyes return to their normal brown color and shape.

"Hit him again and then you'll see me get angry." Scott says while Derek is staring at him shocked that Scott can already control his transformation.

Scott then gets a first aid kid and treats a cut on Deatons face. Meanwhile Jackson having heard everything, sees the situation getting a bit more calm and comes in as well surprising Scott since he can't smell as good as a werewolf, though still better than a human he didn't know that Jackson is here to.

"What is he doing here?" Scott asks Derek.

"I filled him in, I can already tell from his smell that he is turning into a werewolf. I guessed that he may be able to remember the smell of the alpha and with a lucky shot prove that Deaton is the alpha, any luck?" Derek asks turning to Jackson.

"No." Jackson says.

"Well we still need you Jackson. Even if Deaton is not the alpha, he is way stronger than any of us alone we all need to fight him together or we're toast. Derek tells them.

"OK I'll help you I guess but only until the sicko is dealt with after that don't bother me and stay out of my life." Jackson says.

"Fair enough." Derek replies.

"I guess we could use your help." Scott says not liking having to work together with Jackson.

"So Scott do you have a plan on what to do with your boss?" Derek asks doubtfully.

"Just give me an hour." Scott replies.

"Then what?" Derek questions.

"Meet me at the school. In the parking lot." Scott tells Derek and Jackson.

Scott calls Stiles and tells him his plan to use the school speaker system to lure the alpha to them and asks him to help him.

|school parking lot|

So an hour later Scott and Stiles arrive in the parking lot with Stiles Jeep while Jackson and Derek are already waiting near their respective cars.

"This is a terrible idea." Stiles tells Scott.

"Yeah I know." Scott replies.

"Still gonna do it?" Stiles asks.

"Can you think of something better?" Scott questions Stiles.

"Well personally I'm a fan of ignoring the problem until it eventually just goes away." Stiles replies.

"Just make sure we get inside." Scott tells Stiles getting out of the Jeep with Stiles who takes a bolt cutter out of the trunk of his Jeep.

Going over to Jackson and Derek Scott asks "Where is my boss?"

"He's in my back." Derek says pointing to his car.

Scott and Stiles glance in the car and see Deaton still bound and now also with mouth taped shut lying on the backseat.

"Oh, he looks comfortable." Stiles replies.

Scott and Stiles turn to the school and start walking towards it Scott turns around and tells Jackson "Hey Jackson come on we need you for the next part."

"Seriously?" Jackson asks grumpily but follows them anyway.

"Hey hey, what are you doing?" Derek asks the teenagers.

"You said me and Jackson are linked to the alpha. Lets see if you are right." Scott tells Derek and then continues on walking to the school.

The group of 3 use the bolt cutters to open the school entrance and walk inside going to the secretary desk.

"OK, one question, what are we gonna do if the alpha doesn't show up?" Stiles asks Scott.

"I don't know." Scott replies.

"And what if he does show up?" Stiles asks looking at the control board of speaker system of the school.

"I don't know." Scott says.

"Good plan." Stiles says.

"Seriously? You two have dragged me here with no plan and the possibility of my death?" Jackson asks angered.

"Shut up and listen. Stiles told me that a wolf howls to signal his position to the rest of the pack."

"Yeah, so?"

Stiles takes the microphone and puts it in front of Jackson saying "Alright all yours."

"What do you mean?" Jackson asks.

"We want you to howl into it." Scott tells him.

"Seriously?" Jackson asks them thinking they are messing with him.

"Yeah seriously. I don't know if it would work for me seeing as I'm not a werewolf, but since he turned you as well and you are a werewolf should be able to get him here." Scott explains.

"OK, I'll try." Jackson says and then howls into the microphone sounding like a screaming cat.

"He's gotta be kidding me." Derek says from outside.

"That was a howl, what do you expect of me." Jackson says slightly embarrassed but more angered by the two teens looking at him funnily.

"Technically. Though it sounded more like a cat being choked to death." Stiles says.

"Well how am I supposed to do this?" Jackson asks.

"Hmm I guess maybe you need to think about the alpha, and shift partly?" Scott asks his question directed at Stiles for his view of things.

"Makes sense, yeah lets try that." Stiles agrees.

"Well how am I supposed to partly shift as you called it?" Jackson asks.

"We'll help. You need to get angry to a certain point, we'll take care of that but then try to control yourself or you're going on a full on murder spree." Stiles tells Jackson.

"OK lets start." Scott says punching Jackson in the face.

"The hell?" Jackson asks starting to fight back.

Meanwhile Stiles throws insults at Jackson from a hiding spot behind the desk.

After half a minute Scott can see Jacksons eyes glowing and stops fighting him and tells him "now!" while stopping Jacksons arms from fighting back so he'll not loose control entirely.

Jackson snaps back and then howls into the microphone sounding like a werewolf this time.

Getting back out of the school the 3 approach Derek, Jackson still complaining at the method they used to get him angry.

"I'm gonna kill all three of you. What the hell was that? What are you trying to do, attract the entire state to this school?" Derek asks annoyed at their stupid plan.

"Sorry we didn't know it would be that loud." Scott tells Derek.

"Yeah it was loud and it was awesome." Stiles says excited from besides Scott.

"Stupid assholes" Jackson says stroking the spot on his face Scott has hit him.

"Shut up." Derek says.

"What did you do with him?" Scott asks seeing that Dereks car is empty.

"What? I didn't do anything." Derek tells them confused turning around.

Unnoticed by the 4 of them the alpha snuck up on Derek and rams his clawed hand into Dereks back hefting him up in the air and then throws the furiously bleeding Derek against the school wall.

Derek lands on the ground unmoving looking dead.

Scott, Stiles and Jackson escape into the school and press themselves against the entry door.

Everyone is thinking that Derek is dead.