Contingency~TW/TO~ Lahey

Chapter 1: Secrets, secrets, are no fun...

I pace the room of Derek's new loft, the moonlight shining down a path for me as I rack my brain as to where Isaac can possibly be. I don't understand, he should be back by now. We agreed to meet here at ten o'clock and it's now midnight.

These past four months have been chaotic with the Alpha pack and searching for a way to resurrect my brother. Thus far I have had no such luck, but I am trying everything I can. All the witches I know are either dead or hiding themselves, which is struggling considering my limits. However, I will not bow down to death himself and I will get my brother back. And no Alpha pack is going to take my attention away from that. A certain teenage boy, however, can.

My biggest concern at the moment, however, is lying upon Derek and his pack; Boyd, Isaac, and Erica. We know the Alpha pack is involved with their departure from four months ago and I presume them to be dead, though Derek disagrees. What would an Alpha pack want with two betas anyway?

The only conclusion we could come to is they want to lure Derek out of hiding, which is working considering we spend most of our days searching for the them.

We've been on the look for the two missing betas since it came to our attention they hadn't actually ran away the night of Jackson's supernatural upgrade, but were taken.

Three hours ago, Isaac and I had split up to try and cover more grounds on searching for his pack mates, but luck was not on my side. As for Isaac, I am unaware of what he has or has not found. I haven't heard from him since we parted ways and saying I'm worried is an understatement.

Isaac and I have become closer to one another during these past four months, and by closer, I mean more on the physical aspect. I have yet to allow Isaac to consume the gruesome words of my past mistakes. A part of me wants to keep this rift between us, while the other part wants to confide in him. My natural instinct is to keep a distance from others. I never open up to anyone and I prefer it that way. This doesn't mean I don't care about him, because I do. I just don't want anything to happen to him because of me. I can't let my demons become his and letting him in means opening myself up completely for him to judge. I know Isaac isn't like that, but a voice in the back of my head says otherwise. I don't have any friends, and the only other person I know I can talk to is gone, forcing me to listen to the solemn voice that's locked in between my ears.

Besides, Isaac and I are not having problems with the way we choose to spend our time together. I can't even count the number of times him and I have had sex in the past week with both hands. Our first time was great, but it's nothing compared to how he performs now.

"He'll be back," Derek tries to reassure me when it's anything but. If something has happened to him, it's on me. I didn't want to split up. I wanted to stick together in case we did find Boyd and Erica, but he convinced me. I can handle the Alpha pack on my own unlike Isaac. I wouldn't struggle like him. I've experienced Alpha strength. They aren't equal to an Originals strength, but they can reach it. However, with this being an Alpha pack, and pack meaning strength in numbers, they can possibly equal out to me.

Isaac is confident in going up against anything, which is great, but he can't defeat them. Not by himself. So why was I stupid enough in giving him permission to search on his own? I don't want to tell him he isn't strong enough to fight these wolves, because I want to support him through the toughest of obstacles, but this isn't for him. He needs to know his boundaries or he'll end up dead, too.

"Go to bed, Renee," Derek sighs with moonlight sparkling in his eyes. "You have school tomorrow."

I halt in place, squinting my eyes at him, "Do you not worry for him?" I looked over the fact that he mentioned school when I have no interest in going to some place that does not know their own history.