Distance [Derek Hale]

Chapter Twenty-Five

"I know where they are," Scott called out as he entered the loft. Derek, Cora, Boyd, and Peter were all stood around the table whilst Margo was in the kitchen. To distract herself from all the anger and the disappointment which seemed to be welling within her she was only watching them move forward. At the same time, she was doing her best not to make a lot of noise since she wanted to listen in to everything they were saying.

Hence why she was taking a ridiculously long time to read over a collection of recipes; this one required to use the blender and she couldn't do that since it would be far too noisy. "Same building as the Argents," Derek said as he turned to look at the boy, "we know."

"Cora and I followed the twins," Boyd admitted.

"...Then they want you to know."

"Or, more likely, they don't care," Peter shrugged.

"What is this?" Scott asked as he looked around at the group.

"Is it obvious?" Peter mused and Scott looked to him for the answer whilst everyone else looked at him annoyed, "The schemers are scheming. Coming up with a coup de main-- better known as a pre-emptive strike," he mused and Scott looked back to Derek his eyes wide with shock and the need to tell them it was a stupid idea.

"You're going after them?"

"Tomorrow," Derek confirmed with a nod, "and you're gonna help us." Scott walked over to see what was happening whilst Margo only watched waiting to find out what was going to be said and what was going to happen. She didn't agree with any of it, "they're one floor above them, in the penthouse right about Allison."

"So, kill them first? That's the plan?" Scott asked and Boyd nodded.

"They won't even see it coming!"

"Why is the default plan always murder? Just once, can someone try to come up with something that doesn't involve killing everyone?" Scott asked as he looked between everyone.

"You never get tired of being so blandly moral, do you?" Peter scoffed, "no that I disagree with him."

"I do! Why do we need this kid?" Cora snapped.

"This kid helped save your life," Derek reminded as he looked to his sister before he turned back to look at Scott, "and you know we can't just sit back and wait for them to make the first move."

"You can't beat a pack of Alphas," Scott reminded.

"That's why we're going after Deucalion-- just him."

"Cut off the head of the snake, and the body dies," Boyd reminded, Margo always hated that phrase. For most real creatures if you cut the head off of anything it's bound to die.

"Only this isn't a snake, it's a Hydra. And, like Scott says, they're all Alphas," Peter reminded.

"Deucalion's still the leader."

"Let's hope so... Because you know what happened when Hercules cut off one of the heads of the Hydra?"

"Two more grew back in its place."

"Somebody's been doing their summer reading."

Everyone was gone now, it was just Margo, Derek, and Cora in the loft although Cora was nowhere to be seen. Of course, she was in the kitchen and she had plans to make some home-made pasta since she had nothing else to do. Feeling something pressing against her back, she looked up from the directions she was reading and glanced behind her to see Derek.