Panthera Onca ➳ Derek Hale

09. Party Guessed

Derek's P.O.V

   "I'm saying we need a new plan, because next time, one of us is gonna be too hurt to heal." I told Scott. It's not good for us. We're still in danger. Jackson, apparently, doesn't want to be saved. That night at the club showed me how much he doesn't want to be saved and how much the Argents are in our way. We can't move forward with this plan since the Argents keep bothering us. I wish we could shake them off. It's like they're trying to see who'll catch Jackson faster, us or them. And Jade... Seeing her hurt that way... It broke my head to millions of pieces. I can't let her die. I was so lucky Scott howled for help.

   "Ugh, I get it. We can't save Jackson." Scott was fraustrated.

   "We can't seem to kill him, either. I've seen a lot of things, Scott. I've never seen anything like this. Every full moon's just gonna make him stronger." Jade's dad taught us a lot about different supernatural as he had the widest knowledge on them.

   "But how do we stop him?"

   "I don't know. I don't even know if we can."

   "Maybe we should just let the Argents handle it." No, we can't. I don't want the Argents to handle this. I need to take responsibility. I need to finish what I've started. I need to stop Jackson.

   "I'm the one who turned him. It's my fault."

   "Yeah, but you didn't turn him into this. I mean, this happened because of something in his past, right?"

   "That's a legend in a book. It's not that simple."

   "What do you mean? What are you not telling me?"

   "Why do you think I'm always keeping something from you?"

   "Because you always are keeping something from me." I shook my head. Jade gave me an unpleased look.

   "Well, maybe I do it to protect you two." I responded.

   "You don't need to keep things away from us to protect us." Jade commented. "We're smart enough to know what you know. We can protect ourselves better when we know what's happening. Stop taking everything upon yourself." I was about to open my mouth and reply to that, but Scott joined her.

   "Doesn't being part of your pack mean no more secrets?" Scott added. Fuck it.

   "Go home, Scott. Sleep. Heal. Make sure your friends are safe, cause the full moon's coming and with the way things are going, I've got a feeling it's gonna be a rough one." Scott sighed and nodded, giving up the fight with me. He left home, not before making sure that Jade's willing to stay here during the full moon. She's going to help me with my betas during the full moon.

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   "What is that?" Isaac asked as I opened the box where the chains were. He noticed the symbol on the box, the same one I had on my back. Jade sat on a chair, listening from outside the railway-car.

   "It's a triskele. Spirals mean different things; past, present, future. Mother, father, child." Boyd answered Isaac's question. I felt surprised he knew that. 

   "You know what it means to me?" I asked Boyd.

   "Alpha, beta, omega?" He answered, questioning his answer.

   "That's right." I approved. "It's a spiral. Reminds us that we can all rise to one or fall to another. Betas can become alphas, but alphas can also fall to betas or even omegas."

   "Like Scott?" Isaac asked.

   "Scott's with us." I responded.

   "Really? Then where is he now?"