Burn Amongst Humanity [D. Hale ]

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"You've looked worse." Derek countered and Casey looked over at Tye, who was unconscious, out cold from the electric current. "He is a lot smaller than I am..."

"So he got it worse, yeah, thank you Derek, I know how it works." Casey said as she got Tye out of the restraints and he opened his eyes at the reality, that he was actually now being let out of the restraints. "Hey idiot." She said.

"Hey Brainy." Tye mumbled and Casey's small smile was clear, as she handed her jacket over to him. "Do I look as terrible as I feel?" He asked as she shrugged.

"I will just put you in front of a full-sized mirror and let you decide for yourself." Casey said and Tye was looking up and someone else walked into the room.

The younger teenager looked up at them and she glanced at Tye. "Bea. It has been awhile." Tye murmured.

"Casey called. You are just apparently supposed to just hang with me until this shit is all completely over." Beatrice Hale explained grimly and Casey nodded. "Let's get your sorry ass out of here." She said and she was helping Tye leave.

"Scott, help him get out of those. We need him to help fight Peter and even now, more so. Especially since now it is Tye, who is out of the fight. Help him." Casey said.

"No. Not until he promises to help me." Scott shot back and Casey looked at Derek, who was struggling with the cuff.

"You want me to risk my life for your girlfriend, huh? For your stupid little teenage crush that means absolutely nothing? You're not in love, Scott. You're 16 years old. You're a child."

"He isn't wrong, Scott." Casey admitted as she grabbed the chair and she started to help Derek, working on the other cuff on his wrist.

"Maybe you two are right. But I know something, Derek, that you don't." Scott said and Derek looked at him in confusion, as Casey cursed and she nearly split her thumb open, but she continued. "Peter, he said that he didn't know what he was doing when he killed your sister, right? He lied. Remember this?" Scott held up the photo once again, of the deer with the spiral in its side.

"This is what brought your sister back to Beacon Hills, right?" Scott confirmed.

"Where did you get that?" Derek asked and Casey sighed, as he looked at her. "You gave it to him?"

"I wrote up the report, I had an extra copy of the photo. Sue me. Also you're welcome." Casey stated and the cuff broke open.

"My boss told me that three months ago someone came into the clinic asking for a copy of this picture. Do you want to know who it was? Peter's nurse. They brought your sister back here so that Peter could kill her and he could become the Alpha, and that's why you're going to help me." Scott said and Casey was looking at Derek.

"I'll help you." Derek growled angrily.

Once they had got back up onto the top side of the Preserve, an arrow took Derek through the shoulder. The next arrow was cut in half by the knife that Casey threw. Casey grabbed Scott and Derek, doing her best to help drag the two of them out of the way. But unfortunately, she was smaller than Derek, and well, Scott, he was heavier than he actually looked.

Then, a gunshot rang out and Casey staggered, looking at the blood that was spreading across her shirt. Instinctively, she pressed her hand over the wound and she felt a familiar surge of determination and with her hand that was holding the gun, she shot at Kate's gun.

But Kate, she moved out of the way and she fired again, as Casey cried out as the bullet had hit her in the leg. "She is human!" Derek said with pain in his voice and Kate's gun went off three more times, as Derek was on the ground and so was Casey now, she who had dropped her gun.

One of her hands was sticky with blood, as she pressed it against the wound in her side and she could barely move her leg, and she was grunting in terrible pain.

"Kate!" Chris Argent had finally shown up on the scene and he looked down at Casey, the youngest hunter and he was taking in the bloodied hands that covered the bullet wounds. "You just shot a fellow hunter, who already suffered enough at your hands in the Hale Fire." Chris said and now, Casey was forcing herself to stay awake and she was attempting to drag herself across the ground.

Peter had taken out most of them until Stiles and Jackson had arrived in the Porsche with a familiar concoction self-igniting Molotov cocktails. Casey was being supported by Tye who had come running at the sounds of the combat, as he held her up and she was losing blood fast from the two gunshot wounds.

Derek walked over to where Peter was lying in the dirt, completely burned all over again from the cocktails and Casey looked over at Tye. Casey nodded slightly and Derek's claws cut through Peter's throat, nearly taking his head clean off and Casey looked at Derek, who stood up.

"I'm the Alpha now." Derek stated as his eyes shone a brilliant red and she nodded slightly as Tye was bowing his head slightly in deference to his older brother, who was just now his Alpha right along with now being the oldest living Hale in Beacon Hills.