ambush at the Hale house

|Stilinski house|

After hanging out with Allison, Lydia and Scott in the woods the rest of the afternoon Stiles goes home and sees his father sitting at the living room table looking over some case files.

"What 're you doing?" Stiles asks curious.

"Work." Noah answers fully focused on the papers lying before him.

"Anything I can help with?" Stiles asks excited.

"You know if you pour me an ounce of whiskey that'd be awfully nice." Noah replies keeping his eyes on the paperwork.

Stiles goes to the kitchen and reappears with a glass and a whiskey bottle a few seconds later. He goes over to his dad sits down beside him and asks "Any leads?" grabbing some papers.

Noah slaps his hand away telling him "You know I can't discuss that with you."

Stiles opens the bottle and Noah tells him "Not too much." getting back to reading the papers.

Stiles pours him some and then gets the idea to get his dad wasted to get him to talk about case.

"OK, there you go dad. Bottom's up." Stiles says putting the almost completely full glass of whiskey over to him.

And after a few minutes of his father reading and drinking he is drunk and starts to talk.

"You know Derek Hale would a hell of a lot..." He starts to say but slurs the rest.

"Hell of a lot?" Stiles inquires.

"Yes. Hell. He would be a hell of a lot easier to catch if we get an actual picture of him." Noah him.

"How do you not have a picture of him?" Stiles asks confused.

"You see every time we get a mugshot, it's like two laser beams are pointed at the camera." Noah says while Stiles takes the picture and sees Derek standing in the photo but his whole face covered by a blueish light blinding the camera.

"Nice." Stiles says and puts it back on the stack lying in front of his father.

"Oh yeah. That ounce hit me like a brick and I have said way to much and if you repeat any of that.." Noah says.

"Dad, it's me I'm not gonna say anything. Come on." Stiles says grabbing another folder getting out the contents and seeing the file on the deer with the circle carved in its side Derek received while he was at his uncles.

"The thing is they're all connected I mean the bus driver that got killed he was insurance investigator assigned to the Hale house fire." Noah says looking over the file.

"Terminated under the suspicion of fraud." Stiles reads.

"Exactly." Noah says thoughtfully.

"Who else?" Stiles asks.

"The video store clerk who got his throat slashed is a convicted felon for arson." Noah tells his son.

"What about the other two guys? The ones who got killed in the woods?" Stiles asks interested.

"Priors over the records including.." Noah says.

"Arson. Maybe they all had something to do with the Hale fire." Stiles guesses silently to himself.

"Another shot?" Stiles asks his dad.

"No,no. No more." Noah answers.

"Dad come on you work really hard you deserve it." Stiles argues.

"Oh god I'm gonna have such a hangover tomorrow." Noah says signaling his son to pour him another one.

"You mean you are gonna have such a good nights sleep. And I'm gonna have an eternity in the lower circle of hell." Stiles says, whispering the last part, guilty at getting his dad drunk, turning away to pour his dad some more whiskey.

After a few more drinks his dad is even more wasted and says "Stiles, there are just so many questions rubbing his forehead."

"Like what?" Stiles asks.

"Like if Derek wanted to kill everyone involved in the fire and then why is there also his sister, I mean she had nothing to do with it. And why make it look like some kind of animal did it." Noah asks himself while Stiles looks guilty since he knows who really killed all of those people.

"When that cougar ended up in the parking lot I checked with animal control, you know the incidents of wild animal reports are up 70 percent over the past few month like they are all going crazy running around the woods."Noah tells his son.

"Or something's scaring them out." Stiles says

"Yeah yeah. You know I miss talking to you. It's like we never have time. I do I miss it and I miss your mom." Noah says reminiscing the past.

"What did you say?" Stiles asks. Stopping Noah from pouring himself another drink.

"Thanks." Noah replies.

After a few minutes of comfortable silence the doorbell rings and Allison is standing at the door.

"Oh hey Allison what are you doing here so late?" Stiles asks curious.

"I just wanted to talk to you about something and I didn't want to do it in front of the others since it's about my family." Allison tells him.

"OK. Go on up then, I'll just help my dad get to bed I got him a bit drunk to help him relax with the whole Derek manhunt and everything going on." Stiles tells her.

"OK." Allison replies going up the stairs to Stiles room and Stiles brings his father to his room and helps him lie down on the bed.

"Here I am, so what did you want to talk about?" Stiles asks her sitting down next to her on his bed.

"Alright, it's a little hard to start. It's gonna sound a little ridiculous and I don't want you to laugh at me." Allison says sounding insecure.

"Don't worry I won't laugh even if you tell me that Santa Claus is real and you want to hunt him down. I'll help you, I won't laugh at you." Stiles jokes trying to lighten the mood.

"It's about my family. Little while ago I caught them on a lie, a small one. When my aunt first arrived she had car trouble and my dad said it was a flat tire but she said she needed a jump start." Allison explains.

"Maybe it was just a little miscommunication." Stiles guesses.

"Yeah that's what I thought too, till I found glass on her window, like it had been smashed in. I've been overhearing some really strange conversations and I think some of it has to do with Derek." Allison tells him.

"You sure?" Stiles asks.

"Yeah I think that he's not the one going around killing people." Allison says.

"OK well do you or your parents know who is? I could tell my dad I mean he is the sheriff." Stiles asks her.

"No I don't know I just know that something fishy is going on and my family is hiding something from me." Allison says starting to cry.

"Come here. It's gonna be alright. I'm sure it's nothing bad, maybe they are helping the police track Derek down or helping him prove his innocence or something like that." Stiles tells her hugging her head to his shoulder.

"Yeah thanks, maybe you're right and I'm just thinking to much into it." Allison says calming down.

"Yeah don't worry sooner or later your parents are gonna fill you in and everything is gonna be OK." Stiles tells her while hoping that the day won't be coming soon, since it's gonna be a problem when she's joining her family as a hunter and his best friend is a shapeshifter.

"Thanks. I think I should get home or my parents will start to worry."

|locker room|

Jackson is in the locker room working out with weights and finds them surprisingly easy to handle ever since he became a werewolf, when suddenly the music he put on stops playing.

"What the hell?" Jackson screams angered and goes to look what happened and sees someone sitting by his speakers fiddling with his phone

"I like your taste in music, I haven't heard this one in a long time." Derek says revealing himself and putting on a song.

"What are you doing here? I thought you have to stay below the radar." Jackson asks confused.

"Yeah well, I don't know if Scott told you but there was some development on the alpha front. We now know who he is and we should actually be working together with him." Derek tells him.

"What the hell? You tell me I should be working with that monster which bit me?" Jackson asks angered.

"Yeah it's either that or he'll probably want to kill you, your choice but I'd really become part of his pack, he's only killing the people responsible for the fire which killed my family so you should be safe once you join the pack." Derek explains.

"Still, I can't believe that thing is actually supposed to be a human." Jackson responds.

"Well there were extenuating circumstances. You see the alpha is my uncle who was up till a few days ago still healing ever since he was trapped in the hale fire, so he kinda lost his mind there for a bit." Derek tells him.

"Still, what do I have to do to become part of the pack?" Jackson asks.

"First things first, come on I'll bring you to my house, we'll meet him there by tomorrow morning." Derek tells him and soon he and Jackson make their way out of the school on the way to the hale house. Unnoticed by them Kate is watching them ever since they left the locker room.

As they leave the school Scott who is supposed to meet Jackson there to help him gain more control, sees them leave and decides to follow them since Derek is with the alpha now and he must be planning something bad.

|Hale house|

Derek and Jackson get to the Hale house and Scott who figured out where they were heading took a shortcut to get there first and is now hiding in the house after making sure that the alpha isn't around.

"This is it? This dump is the place?" Jackson asks doubtfully.

"Yes, and it's not a dump its mine and Peters former home, go on in." Derek replies.

Jackson opens the door but stands frozen in the doorstep when Derek pats his shoulder telling him "everything is gonna be alright, trust me." They then get in and Jackson looks around.

"This house it's the same house." Jackson says.

"What did you say?" Derek asks.

"I've dreamed about this place. I remember the staircase, these walls, everything." Jackson answers.

"You've been here?" Derek questions.

"No never I dreamed it. Maybe I went here while I was shifted by the full moon?" Jackson asks.

"It's possible but doesn't matter anyway. Sit down somewhere, we'll be here a bit before my uncle shows up and wants to make you part of his pack." Derek informs Jackson.

"OK I guess." Jackson replies sitting down on the staircase.

"No not OK." Scott says standing a top the stairs jumping down in front of Jackson to block him from Derek and transforms into his were-eagle form. Derek also transforms and tells him "you shouldn't stick your nose into our business now, move!"

"No." Scott replies.

"Fine, you give me no choice but to kill you." Derek replies but then he hears an arrow being released behind them reacting quickly he yells at them "cover your eyes!" while dropping to the floor shielding his own eyes.

The Arrow hits the railing on the staircase and blinds everyone but Derek. Not a second later hunters start shooting up the place with their rifles and a bullet hits Scott who is now leaning against the railing with black blood pouring out of his wound on the stomach.

Derek sees this and tells him "Scott go!" seeing Scott not being able to react since this is the first time he got shot with a hunters bullet he runs over to Scott and shoves him out the back yelling "run!" and Scott runs off into the woods but doesn't make it very far before he collapses, blacks out and lies in the woods bleeding out.

Derek goes out the front door while thinking that at least they'll lay off Scott and Jackson if they get the one, of whom they are sure that he knows who the alpha is.

Meanwhile Jackson has fled the scene after the hunters started shooting and was lucky enough not to get hit by a bullet.

|animal clinic|

When Scott comes to he is greeted to the sight of Deaton treating his shot wound telling him "I wouldn't get up just yet."

"Am I?" Scott manages to say

"You're fine and I've given you something that should speed up the healing process." Deaton tells him.

"But you're a vet." Scott replies.

"That's very true and 90 percent of the time I'm mostly treating cats and dogs." Deaton replies.

"Mostly?" Scott asks.

"Mostly." Deaton replies with a smile.

|bunker|

Kate is leading Allison through the underground bunker near the Hale house, after having told her at home to come with her to talk.

"What is this place?" Allison asks looking around.

"Lets start with the basics. You know how every family has its secrets? Ours are a little different." Kate replies opening the door they stopped in front of.

Allison and Kate go inside, Allison is very cautious since the whole bunker is rather scary and Kate goes over to a lamp and turns it on showing the transformed Derek Hale secured at a Gate with Electrical wires running to a clamp on his stomach, Derek roars at and Kate after being hit by the light.

"Isn't he beautiful?" Kate asks while Allison gasps and is standing stunned in the middle of the room looking at the chained up and transformed form of Derek Hale.