Hello! I'm sorry this took so long to post. I planned on having it up right after the Q&A answers, but I had to do other things and it got put off until now. It's so amazing and I can't wait to see your reactions. Enjoy!
-Recap-
My throat closes up as my eyes land on the small panting figure in front of us. It's obviously a young boy. His hair is long and shaggy, framing his face in dirty curls. He's growling with every exhale, claws out and eyes glowing a fierce gold. I can barely see his face in the poor lighting, but I'd know him anywhere.
"H-Hunter?"
(Lyrica's P.O.V.)
"You lost them?" Derek questions Scott through the phone. We're in the woods looking for Boyd, Cora, and Hunter. Hunter ran off as soon as I said his name, and I'm still in shock that he's alive.
"Yeah, I kind of had to."
"Wasn't exactly the plan."
"I know, which is why I think we should stick together. Trust me, he's too strong, too fast, and way too angry for one person to handle. We've got to do this together."
"Look, Lyrica and I are at the trails by the entrance to the preserve. Can you meet us here?"
"Yeah. Just got to drop something off first."
Derek hangs up the phone and I feel his eyes on me, but I continue staring at the ground.
"Lyrica?"
"Yeah?" I mutter.
"Baby, it's not your fault." He uses his finger to lift my chin so that I'm looking up at him. "You never could have known that he was alive. We all heard his heart stop."
"But if we had just waited a little longer before we buried him. Maybe he'd have come back and we could have avoided all this." I reply, not fighting my tears.
"Lyrica, we waited 3 hours before we did anything. There was no way of telling. His heart was stopped. He was dead."
"Derek, he looked so scared." I sob and he pulls me in, wrapping his arms around my shoulders.
"I know. We'll find him, Lyrica. We'll find him."
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"Is it them?" Scott asks, looking at a footprint in the mud.
"We're not the only ones that decided to stick together." I sigh.
"Is that gonna make it easier or harder to catch them?"
"I don't know." Derek replies, looking around the woods.
"Derek, Lyrica... I saw Boyd try to rip two little kids apart." Scott asks after a moment of silence. "Are they gonna do that to everyone they find?"
"Everyone and anyone." We run past Scott, resuming the search for the betas.
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"This doesn't make any sense." Derek sighs after we lose sight of Cora. "The public pool is all the way on the other side of the woods. We haven't tracked them anywhere near there."
"Derek, they killed someone." Scott protests.
"How are they moving so fast?" Derek questions.
"Derek."
"They can't be that fast on foot!"
"They killed someone." Scott pushes and I wrap my arms around myself, looking down at the ground. "Some totally innocent kid is dead... and it's our fault."
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Mama Hale
Fanfiction//PSA BEFORE YOU READ: This story was written when I was brand new to everything writing. For a much better everything, go read the rewritten version on my profile. Still written by me, just MUCH better in literally every way. If you still choose to...
