Teen Sorcerer

Chapter 6

Chris Argent did not like this. He had lost too much over the last year and he was tired of all of the shit that had descended on him since returning to Beacon Hills. This was supposed to be a simple job, come in and deal with some rogues and see if anything had filled the vacuum left by the Hales abandoning their ancestral territory, and then a nice few years waiting for Allison to graduate. Finding out that Derek Hale had returned had been a surprise, as much as the news of the death of Laura Hale shortly before the boy had arrived from New York. Chris had checked on that very carefully and found absolute evidence that the man hadn't left New York before his sister had died.

That didn't mean he was innocent, Chris had been too well trained to ever assume that of a werewolf, even the young ones, but it didn't mean that he done something that had violated the code that would call for his extermination. Kate's arrival had complicated things but it was discovering that his sister had been responsible for the mass murder of a stable and peaceful pack that had been the most difficult to accept, despite the evidence. Finding out how she had accomplished it was a massive blow to his sense of justice and pride in what he did. Not only breaking the code, but molesting a teen to get the information to do so and leaving the boy traumatized had left Christopher Argent with a massive guilt complex.

Adding to that, finding out his daughter was dating a werewolf, dealing with his father's madness and corruption, and everything that led to Victoria's suicide was the final blow. Seeing his father manipulate his family was enough to push him off the fence and Chris Argent began taking steps. He manipulated a few situations to give the edge to Hale's pack against his father while Chris reached out to several other family members, including the Grande Matriarch of the Argents. Clarissant Margeary Argent was a formidable woman who ultimately commanded every branch of the Argents who were hunters on four continents and at her command, people died, horribly.

She had been trained to fight the supernatural since she was seven years old, assuming the matriarch role of her branch of the family at twenty three and from there she quickly established herself as a power in the hunting world. She destroyed rabid packs and established treaties with others that insured peace and safety for the people in her territory. Clarrisant Argent had become Grande Matriarch at thirty eight and had held that illustrious position for over thirty years now and while she may no longer have the physical strength to hunt, she didn't need it. At her command, hundreds of hunters would respond, and not a few non-humans who supported the woman.

Chris had written a report of everything happening in Beacon Hills and sent it to his Grande Matriarch right after Victoria had been bitten. The only acknowledgement he got was shortly before the Hale pack finally beat Gerard in that warehouse. Chris had suspected his father was connected to the killings but when he discovered that he was the kanima's master, it was too much. He sent a follow up message with all the additional information from that night and shortly thereafter he received a summons to come to France. He and Allison left for France after Hale defeated his father and freed the Whittemore boy from his father and right after the school year had ended.

Chris had come upon his father that night outside the warehouse, black goo pouring out every orifice as the man crawled on the ground trying to escape the pack. Disgusted at the sight of the man he once respected, even if he had lost that respect long ago, he still put his father in a car and drove him to a long-term care facility to monitor him. Finding out that McCall had betrayed him by poisoning the man with mountain ash so that when he received the bite it would stop or kill him was a major surprise. He had to admit he didn't think that the kid had the guts and, unwillingly, the boy went up in his eyes for managing that feat.

Arriving in France with his daughter, who was struggling with everything she had done and learned, they faced the judgement of Clarissant Argent who questioned both of them mercilessly. After nearly a week of investigation she declared that both Kate and Gerard were to be stricken from the Argent family name and records and that no family member from this point forward would help them in any way and she even put out the word that their lives were forfeit. Chris thought that was overkill since Kate was dead but he didn't challenge the woman's edict.