The Other Alpha {Teen Wolf}

Chapter 18:

"Whatcha doing?" Sage whispered. Scott nearly jumped a foot in the air. Sage wondered why he was crouching behind a wall to get tickets to an underground rave.

"What the hell?" He half whispered-half cried out. Sage smiled.

"Stalking Jackson?" She asked. Scott's face melted a little bit.

"Alright, you got me. I just want to see where he is going." Scott said. "What about you?" Sage held up three tickets.

"Isaac, Erica and I are going tomorrow night." Sage said. Scott moved up into line.

"How much are tickets?" He asked.

"I think $75, but I only had enough for that." Sage said. Sage took the time to leave the line as Scott started to bother Matt (who was in her history class). Sage wondered she was going to track down a huge lizard-teenager by going to a party.

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"Got them!" Sage called as she opened the door to Derek's crappy subway station.

Isaac grinned as Sage handed him a ticket. She noticed Derek putting on his coat.

"Where are you going?" Isaac asked.

"The vet." Derek stated. "All of us." Sage shrugged.

"Well then." Isaac muttered. Sage smiled a little, and she met his eyes. They were a surprisingly blue, unlike her grey-blue ones, who never actually stayed the same color.

The whole ride Sage was wringing her necklace. Thoughts kept racking her brain. What if it doesn't work? What if someone gets hurt? What if someone dies again? What would I do?

"Dear god please stop freaking out." Isaac cried from the front seat. "You are going to give me anxiety." He turned back to Sage, who was always in the back seat. She didn't mind sitting in the back. It would become much more awkward if she had to make conversation with Derek in the front.

Sage prayed that that would never happen.

"Are you sure that you're okay? You've seemed pretty out of it all week." Isaac asked. Sage nodded, though it wasn't true. She kept having these flashbacks of when her dad was alive and his reign of terror. She didn't know why they kept happening, but whenever they would attack her, her muscles would lock and she couldn't focus. It's happened at school so many times, but Sage was terrified that it was going to happen during a fight and someone was going to get hurt.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Sage lied. Derek's eyes flickered back to her for a fraction of a second and she knew that Derek knew she was lying.

Would he even be concerned?

Isaac, however, wasn't trained enough to pick out different heartbeats and tell from that, so it saved Sage.

Scott unlocked the door and his eyes flickered from Sage to Isaac. His brow furrowed. "What's he doing here?"

"I need him." Derek stated.

"I don't trust him."

"Well he doesn't trust you either." Isaac said, a tiny hint of playfulness that only Sage picked up.

"Well Derek doesn't care!" Derek growled. Sage let out the smallest chuckle, but that was enough to put a smile on Isaac's face. "So is the vet going to hep us or not?"

Sage was eager to see what the vet had in his office, but the smell of a Rowan tree burned her nostrils. She knew she couldn't make it through, but why would a vet have mountain ash in his office.