May The Gods Be Never Than You Braver

VENGEFUL & VICTORIOUS

"You have no fucking right to ask for help Derek. From any of us!" Isaac says, almost yelling.

Derek pauses for a moment, seeing the scared look on Stiles' face, he sighs while looking at his feet shamefully. "I know, but Isaac this is really important. Deucalion and his new pack of non-alphas are here. They've taken Cora and I can't do anything about it! I've already asked the twins to help and they said they would just to get revenge on Deucalion for abandoning them, but it's not enough."

"Why not? If his new pack isn't alphas then the three of you should be able to do whatever you're planning on your own." Scott says, cutting in before Isaac can jump off the couch and rip out Derek's throat, with his teeth.

"His new pack might not be Alphas Scott but it's not your average pack. I have no idea how he's done it in such a short amount of time but there's almost twenty of them, maybe more."

"Twenty werewolves?" Scott asks, shocked and also puzzled how that could be possible.

"Yeah. They came to my apartment about an hour ago and took Cora. Deucalion thinks she has 'potential', more than she's letting on, and I think he wants her to kill me. I'm sure he's going to lock her up or something, torture her again until she agrees to whatever he wants.

Cora's smart but not smart enough to get herself out of there. Ethan and Aiden are tracking Deucalion at the moment and are going to call me when they find him. We were counting on the fact that you guys would help so we could come up with a plan and ambush them as soon as possible."

"Well I'm sorry that they took your sister but we can't help you. You're too much of a dick." Isaac says, not one ounce of sympathy in his voice.

"Speak for yourself Isaac, I'm going to help. Derek might be a dick, but we all know what it's like when your family or friends are in trouble. So whatever grudge you've got put it behind you, for now at least." Scott says, in true alpha-speech fashion.

They all did have grudges against Derek, even Danny because of the fact that Derek doesn't seem to have any appreciation for human lives.

"Thank you Scott." Derek says, his head still hanging low as he tries to avoid looking at Stiles, who has surprisingly stopped cowering and is squinting at Derek, looking suspicious.

"How do we know you aren't screwing us over?" Stiles says in a low voice, startling Isaac.

"You're considering helping him? Stiles you really don't have to after what he did!" Isaac pipes up, his face a mix of confusion and disbelief .

"Isaac, I'm fine I promise." Stiles says looking into Isaac big, blue, pleading eyes reassuringly.

"I'm not screwing you over, okay. Look at the freaking hole they left in my side!" Derek states while gesturing to the slowly healing, gouged out part on the right side of his body.



It takes a few minutes of argument, and questioning looks between Isaac and Stiles before everyone agrees to help and after Lydia and Allison have patched up Derek they all wait for a call from the twins.

It doesn't take long before they all hear Derek's 'bad to the bone' ringtone and moan while rolling their eyes at the irony of it. He picks up the phone and they all listen to multiple 'yep', 'mmhmm' and 'okay's' before he says "Alright, meet us all at Allison's as soon as you can." Followed by his explanation of what the twins found.



"There's a camp in the woods, they have a series of tents set up and the area around them is thick with traps. There are 22 of them including Deucalion, and Cora is in a cage made from logs in the centre of the camp. Her cage is surrounded by a circle of mountain ash meaning that Ms Morrell is still helping Deucalion." Aiden pauses, letting his brother continue the story while pointing to various points on the hand drawn map of the camp they are all huddled around in Mr Argent's office.

"We're gonna need a plan to get through their outer defences, and then we'll need something with enough force to get rid of most of the werewolves. There's no way we can take them all out even with the seven of us werewolves and Allison." Ethan says, his statement blunt and the twins' descriptions to the point.

"Seven?" Scott asks.

"Peter is on watch at the camp, just to make sure nothing big happens while we're planning." Derek replies.

"What about me, Danny and Lydia?!" Stiles asks, seeming so unfazed by being near Derek now, to the point where Isaac is wondering if anything happened at all.

"You want to put your life in danger? You all sound like you're talking about a bloody war!" Danny adds, sounding scared and a little baffled at how formal everything is.

"This is war." Derek says, without one inch of sarcasm. "And as for the three of you," He points to Stiles, Lydia and Danny. "Well one of you will need to break the ash circle, and if we're going to disarm their traps then you can help out with that too." Derek replies matter-of-factly.



They all start to organize a raid on the pack and after fifteen minutes they've come up with a decent plan. While everyone is making preparations and collecting things they'll need, Isaac grabs Stiles and pulls him into the spare bedroom shutting the door behind them.