Dark of the moon (Dnf)

Frayed - 1

I screamed, tears beginning to erupt from my eyes like a fountain. "DEREK!"

•─────⋅☾ PRESENT ☽⋅─────•

I lay in the backseat of Allison's car. Arms folded on my chest as I stared at the car's roof. The scene played in my head on repeat. Watching as Derek fell from the edge. I couldn't even cry anymore, I had worn out all my tears, my eyes were dry. I had no more strength left in me. It was a miracle I could even get up out of bed this morning.

"Is she okay?" I heard Allison ask Lydia.

"Her cousin, who is practically her brother, just got killed Allison." Lydia reminded her. "She is not okay."

"I can hear you."

☾ FLASHBACK ☽

The loft door swung open, we all looked to it. Scott stood at the door with this huge shocked expression on his face. "I know where they are."

I looked up from the building plans on the table, they were the building plans of the apartment Allison and Argent were living in, the same apartment the alphas were in as well. "Same building as the Argents." I answered him. "We know."

I was going to tell him, once I knew more of the plan, he beat me to it.

"Cora and I followed the twins." Boyd told Scott. After Boyd recuperated from the whole ordeal and spent time with his family he returned to help us with the Alphas. He and Cora had become close friends, both driven on revenge.

"Then they want you to know."

Peter shrugged. He had come as well, after all if we're planning an attack we could use the help of the man that terrorized the town for several weeks. Plus mom asked him to come. "Or, more likely, they don't care."

Scott walked up and frowned at the plans sprawled on the table. "What is this?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Peter said. "The schemers are scheming. Coming up with a coup de main-- better known as a pre-emptive strike."

"You're going after them?" Scott asked incredulously. Derek nodded. "Tomorrow. And you're gonna help us."

I point at the blueprints. "They're one floor above them, in the penthouse right above Allison." Figures, something fancy for the killers.

"So kill them first?" Scott said skeptically. "That's the plan?"

Boyd nodded, "They won't even see it coming."

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

Peter scoffed, annoyed with Scott's obsecent need to be good. "You never get tired of being so blandly moral, do you?"

Peter leaned to his sister. "Not that I disagree with him." Mom frowned at Peter, looking at him all weirdly. "Since when do you disagree?" She questioned. "You love anything involving killing." Her eyes went wide a little and she placed a hand on his forehead, Peter was appalled by the fact she thought he was sick, swatting her hand away in offense. "I do not and I am not sick." The scene makes me crack a giggle.

Peter shot me a glare. "I'm just saying I don't disagree with him."

"I do!" Cora exclaimed, "Why do we need this kid?" I gave Cora a stern look. "This kid is my friend and he helped save your life."

Derek looked 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 pointed out. Which was true.

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

Boyd nodded. "Cut off the head of the snake, and the body dies."

"Only this isn't a snake," Peter reminded us. He's been against this plan since Derek came up with it, which to me was shocking. "It's a Hydra. And, like Scott says, they're all Alphas." My dad sighed and crossed his arms. "I hate to say it, I really do but I agree with Scott and Peter." So do I but I'm not saying anything.

Peter smiled pleased and patted his brother in law on the shoulder. Dad just stared. "Deucalion's still the leader." Derek reminded all of us. "If the leader falls, so does the pack."

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

"Two more grew back in its place." Scott muttered to himself. Dad looked at Scott impressed. "Somebody's been doing their summer reading."

☾ END FLASHBACK ☽

"So, is that whole 'not letting them out of your sight' thing literal, or more like a general rule?" Lydia said nonchalantly.

"Why?"

"You're running on fumes." Allison checked the fuel tank that was nearing empty. "Ugh."

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure that bus holds a lot more gas than this Toyota." We were following Stiles, Scott, Isaac and Boyd. Since they were all on the lacrosse team they had a cross country team meet today with some other teams from the state. But last night Scott got hurt, figuratively and literally. Allison was worried about him, so that was why we were in her nearing on empty car following them. I needed a distraction, anything to get me away from sulking at home, sitting in my bed doing nothing.

"What if we stop?"

Lydia shook her head. "Is it really that big of a deal? I mean, so we lose them-- we know where they're headed."

I lift my triskelion necklace up, staring at the spiral. Alpha, Beta, Omega. Derek got me this before we left New York. There it was again, the image of him falling and hearing the loud thud sound from below. "You didn't see what happened."

"I know who started it." Lydia muttered under her breath. Defending my family (and by that I mean Derek) has started to become like a regular thing. I sat up, shifting in the back seat to face the front and poked my head up front to look at Lydia. "Is that what Aiden told you?"

Lydia snapped her head to me. "Aiden?" Allison looked away, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on a second--" she looked at us both, pointing an accusing finger. "Is that why you invited me on this whole road-trip-thing?" We didn't answer.

"Oh, my gosh!" She exclaimed. "You're keeping an eye on me and them."

It was true. It was obvious something was happening between Aiden and Lydia, at school they flirted, and I'm sure they do a lot more.

"So there is nothing going on between you two?" I questioned with a raised eyebrow. "I'm appalled by the insinuation!"

I narrowed my eyes at her. "Nothing?"

"Nothing." Lydia turned back forward and pulled out some lipstick she applied with the help of the small car mirror, she seemed to have gone into a dream world as I listened to her heartbeat that beated rapidly. It wasn't like she was nervous, more like she was exhilarated. I look at Allison, Lydia was most likely day dreaming stuff I didn't want to know but it was clear that's what it was.

"It's totally happening."

Lydia didn't even hear me. We stare at her and she didn't even notice. Focused on the mirror and her daydream.

"What?"