The Other Alpha {Teen Wolf}

Chapter 21:

"Hey." Sage whispered to Isaac. "Everything's going to be okay."

Well, considering the circumstances, it wasn't.

Sage couldn't believe that her seventeenth birthday had fallen on a full moon. It was slightly better than the moon lining up with her period, but not by much. Sage was continuously worried about what was going to happen. She was so afraid that she was going to have a panic attack from a memory that she wouldn't be able to help Derek and be completely useless to him.

"Are you going to be okay? You know, with it being a special day and all." Sage shrugged it off, but the worry felt like a wet damper. She just had to get through tonight without panicking. This was one of the most important moments in a new born shape-shifter's life.

"What if I get loose and hurt you?" Isaac asked in a low voice as Sage started wrapping his wrists to the post. Sage took his chin and pointed it to her.

"Trust me. You won't. If you get loose you will have Derek to go through and me too, and I don't know about you, but I think I can hold my ground pretty well." Sage said softly.

"I got you last month."

"That was a black eye. It healed within twenty minutes."

"I hurt that other guy."

"Well, he was a bastard."

Isaac actually laughed, and that made Sage smile. Sage started tightening Boyd's chains, which were already coming loose.

"These aren't going to hold Derek." Sage whispered so only Derek could hear.

"I know." He replied sternly. Sage drew a breath and tightened her grip on the rail. The moon tugged in her gut. She could just loose control now, and she wouldn't even remember it. It could just be a small moment to slip by...

Sage shook off the temptation. She tied Boyd's chains tight, and he winced.

"You're going to thank me for that later."

"I didn't know it was going to feel like this." He grunted moaning.

"The first full moon is always the worst. You just have to find something that will keep you to your human self. Something that means a lot to you. It's called an anchor and it will help you, I promise." Sage said wisely. She stepped away from Boyd, and felt a moment of pure, terrifying quiet.

They were feeling the moon.

"Don't freak out." Derek ordered. Sage turned to him in surprise.

"What?"

"I said, don't freak out. Your heart is racing." He said. Sage rolled her eyes. Sometimes she wished she was the only one who had supernatural abilities. She noticed Derek's heart rate pick up when they both saw the change in the beta's eyes.

"Don't panic." Sage half-heartedly teased. That was enough to earn a satisfying glare from Derek, which made her grin a tiny bit.

Everything started to speed up. Boyd roared and started to tug on his chains. They started furiously trying to rip their chains off to run.

"Derek, call Scott." Sage ordered. Derek knew that she wasn't messing around and pulled out his phone.

Boyd's chain snapped and Sage went into full panic mode. She flung out her claws and bared her teeth and tried to declare her status like Derek did.

When Boyd lunged at Sage, she decided that she wasn't very good at showing off her alpha skills.

Boyd started tearing at her skin, ripping off parts over her shirt and digging his claws into her stomach and ribs.

Sage realized that Boyd had a big advantage. He was tall and strong, while Sage was small. She was strong, but she was consumed with panic and didn't have any kind of leverage. She tried shoving Boyd off of her, but he had pinned her to the floor, her own blood covering his claws. Derek seemed to be having problems with Erica, but Isaac seemed to be stuck fast into his chair.

It seemed like forever Sage fought against Boyd, but she finally got him up and started to take her charge back. When Boyd slashed at her face, she ducked and kept forcing him back to one end of the train.

Isaac broke free and Sage was momentarily distracted from the realization that she would have to fight two betas.

Boyd's claws cut deep into her face, scraping her jawbone. She bit her lip and raised her fist to attack him, but Isaac had beaten her to it. He had pinned Boyd to a seat, and seemed to hold him there.

When Sage looked into Isaac's eyes, she actually saw him in there. It wasn't a moon controlled beta, but actually Isaac.

Sage let out a very long sigh of relief as she gripped Boyd by his arms and shoved him into a corner, knocking him out in the process.

Isaac stared at her, in full wolf form, but held out his wrists.

"Please tie me me up." He said. Sage's smile grew so large that she had to force it back.

"Derek." She said. Derek started tying Isaac up, while Sage fastened Boyd back to his post.

Sage sat next to Isaac, and he looked terrified.

"You found your anchor." Sage whispered proudly.

"I have never been more scared in my life." He replied. "I can actually see your anchor now. I feel terrified to change."

"It's not changing that I am scared to do, it's losing control. I couldn't bare to hurt anyone that I loved, and it scared me to think that it could actually happen." Sage said softly.

"Are your wounds okay? Boyd beat you up pretty badly." Isaac said. Sage shook her head.

"I'll get better. just a couple scrapes and bumps." She said, fixing her ponytail.

"Happy Birthday." Isaac blurted out.

"I had almost forgotten about it." Sage muttered playfully, making Isaac laugh. Sage noticed that a very certain grumpy alpha wasn't hanging around.

"What happened to Derek?" Sage asked. Isaac shook his head.

"I don't know." Isaac replied. A dark feeling settled in Sage's gut and she knew something was very, very wrong.

Sage crept outside to find no Derek, and powder on the floor. She dipped her finger in it, and the smell made her feel woozy.

Oh no.

Sage started rummaging through Derek's bedroom and found a shirt she had seem him wearing yesterday. She really hated to be in there, but she knew that something had happened to him and she was panicking again. She pressed her face into the shirt and wrinkled her nose.

God that was an awkward moment for her.

She threw the shirt away and could tell where the scent was leading, and it took her a solid fifteen minutes to navigate through the city smells into the woods, where she had realized that it was the same spot where she had started.

Sage realized that when she had smelled a large pack of wolves, was just a huge abandoned house which was partially burnt to a crisp.

Sage found Derek lying on the floor, and for a split second, she was terrified to go near him because he had thought he was her father.

No, don't think about him. You are doing a good job. Sage told herself. She slid on the floor next to an unconscious Derek. Sage pressed a hand flat against his chest and felt his heart rhythm against her hand.

Derek's eyes jumped open and Sage looked up to see someone, covered in dirt standing in a hole in the floor. Lydia was kneeling not to far away gazing at him proudly. Sage made contact with the stranger and decided immediately that she did not like him.

Sage didn't spend too long deciding that she was really close to murdering Lydia (in a figurative way) because the stranger spoke to her, his eyes gazing her over, as if deciding if he was going to let her live or not.

"Hello there."