{} PRAESIDIUM {} TEEN WOLF

{ 2 } Return of the Hales and hunters.

When Delainey had finally gathered the strength to roll out of bed, she took a quick shower and brushed her teeth and then put on the outfit she had laid out last night. It was a simple jumper with a white tennis skirt and her white converse.

She applied light makeup and brushed her hair but decided to leave it natural. Time was not on her side that morning so she rushed out the door after picking up her backpack and car keys and sped off in the direction of Beacon Hills High school, assuming Thomas had already left.

On the way there though she picked up a familiar scent and decided that school could wait, she soon came to a stop in front of the burnt remains of the Hale house.

"Derek", she called out, "Yo, you here?". The man soon exited the front door and Delainey ran over to him, tackling him into a hug which he happily returned, their families had always been close and after most of the Hale's were killed in the fire, Delainey's father took it upon himself to try to help Derek, Amara and Laura, he even went to visit Peter occasionally. Derek was like a third older brother to Del.

"What are you doing here?, I haven't seen you guys in like a year, where are Laura and Mara?", the girl rambled.

"Listen Del, last night did you hear the howling, was it you or Thomas?", Derek questioned her ignoring what she had asked him, "No, we heard it but it wasn't us, I was gonna ask if it was you", Del told him.

"Okay, Del theres an alpha here, a new one, I don't know who it is but it lured Laura here and now she's missing, Amara's already at the school but you gotta be careful because I think the alpha bit someone last night", Derek told her all at once, "Okay, that's a lot to take in all at once", she told him whilst blinking rapidly.

"What are you doing?", Derek asked her, she held her hand up to his face effectively silencing him, "I'm just trying to process all of that", she said whist pacing and making rapid hand motions.

Eventually she started to head back to her car, "I'm gonna go to school first of all, then I'm going to search this entire town if I have to till I find a newly turned werewolf that's in prime position to start ripping out people's throats", she said mostly talking to herself but knowing Derek could hear her.

"And you should try to find Laura, see ya Derek, you should come over for dinner and I'll probably call my dad to help us with this mess", she waved at him then sped off, driving like a maniac, and Derek was left in front of his old house questioning how the girl had even gotten her license.

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At school, Delainey ran into the building already very late, she just entered the classroom and sheepishly took her seat, the teacher thankfully didn't say anything, although it was probably because they were used to Delainey's poor punctuality by now.

She then took a deep breath and the scent of a werewolf hit her full force, she also knew that judging by how strong the scent was the person had been bitten very recently. Delainey was deeply frustrated already though as the classroom was too packed for her to pinpoint where the scent was coming from, she would have to keep following it after the lesson. She was glad though that she wouldn't have to search the entire town.

Then the principal came in snapping Del
out of her thoughts, "Everyone we have a new student joining us, this is Allison Argent, please all make her feel welcome", he said and when Delainey heard the last name, Argent, she immediately had the urge to throw herself through the window next to her.

The problems just kept coming today, Laura missing, new alpha in town and now hunters, Delainey's day could only get better from here, she thought before realising she would have to keep an extremely unpredictable new beta, who probably didn't even know what that meant under control because if they lost it and hurt someone every supernatural in Beacon Hills would be exposed and then the hunters would be an even bigger problem.