Chapter 1: Retuning
Death. I felt it coming towards me, inside of me crawling up my veins trying to take over me completely. That didn't happen, Death failed to take me.
When I was in Scott's arms, I let him think I was dead because I needed to get away from Beacon Hills for a year. I know, selfish right? I try to not be selfish but... I have good reason. The bite of a werewolf, I obtained that from Peter Hale just the day before I was stabbed in my stomach by the Oni. I will admit, it was painful until Scott helped. I can't exactly take my own pain away, wish I could do it for me and others. Anyways back to Peter biting me. He was angry again, kind of saddened, all because of the Hale fire. My aunt Kate set it off years and years ago killing most of the Hale's. All that is left of them is Derek, Peter, and Cora. Laura was still alive but Peter killed her just so he can be an Alpha.
Then Derek killed Peter with the same motives. And now Peter is back from the dead, he seems all calm but really, fury soars through his body every second, minute, and hour. How do I know? Peter kept going on and on about Thalia Hale and missing her, hating Kate. He said, exactly quote on quote, "She may be dead but Chris is still alive. To hurt him, I need to hurt you." At that moment I was turning to run out of Derek's loft but Peter grabbed me so fast and with such force I felt a few bones in my forearm and wrist snap. Then he looked me dead in the eye, pain, depression, anger, hunger for blood to spill all lay behind his eyes.
Peter turned into werewolf form and bit the wrist that had just broke. I cried, but no noise escaped from my lips. The pain was excruciating and unbearable before he bit me, my wrist was broken. How cruel can he get? I would say it runs through the Hale family but I have only met four of them, three have for a fact killed innocent. I am not sure of Cora's past.
I have killed innocent. My first few transformations were rocky and I basically killed my father on the inside, I let him watch me die. He has already watched my mom die, my aunt die, and now me. It feels terrible doing this to him, but it may be the only way for Peter to stop and just leave people alone. I am coming back to Beacon Hills today, I believe I am ready now no matter how difficult it will be to look my friends in the eyes. My father, hope he is still at our home.
This whole year, I have been in Los Angeles. Not that far from Beacon Hills. Peter has gave me money and a fake I.D. when he bit me knowing what I would do. Actually, he gave me a total of 3 million dollars. 1.5 million in a bank account and the other half in cash and credit cards. I have been getting by very easily, besides for the creepy men following me at night. All I have to do is flash my eyes and fangs at them and they're gone. I can protect myself just fine especially with me being a werewolf now. There are many pros but there are cons too.
I am supposed to be a hunter of werewolves, not an actual werewolf myself. I should be dead by now, that is what is supposed to happen. Life said, "Allison dies when she and her friends go to save Lydia." But I guess it was retold by Peter, "Allison fake dies and lives secretly." I have escaped death because of him. Joy doesn't really fill me, I am happy to be alive; don't get me wrong. But I miss my friends and I'm not human anymore, I am not even sure of who I am anymore.
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I am in Beacon Hills now, not sure where to start. It's a Saturday so nobody is at school... My father. He should be the first I tell, only hoping he isn't disappointed in me. "Thanks, here. Keep the change." I hand the taxi driver a fifty dollar bill. I sniff the air with my new-found sense of smell, I think I can recognize my father's scent. And I get a lock on it, he is at our home. Sprinting as fast as I can, I follow my father's smell.
"Allison..." He pulls me into a gigantic bear hug, crying; hopefully, tears of joy. "I love you so much and I have missed you. You have grown taller! How are you here? Alive?" This is when I start trembling. The moment of revelation... I stare at the ground letting my emotions get to me, I can feel my eyes shift to a cold, stale blue. At that moment I look up at him, directly into his eyes.
In a shaky, scared voice I say, "I was bit the day before the Oni stabbed a sword through me, so I healed." My father, Chris, looks at me in relief pulling me in for another hug. "As long as you're are alive, I don't care. You know, you aunt came along and said that your friends killed you but I said, 'Allison died saving her friends'. I am so proud of your character Allison, and am so glad you are back." Smiling I wrap my arms around him and enjoy this moment. I missed our father-daughter bonding times, not sure if this really counts though.
"Wait, did you say my aunt... Kate?" We pull away from each other and my father sighs. "Your friends can explain later and... I can't stay around long. I am leaving in a couple of hours. I made a deal with a family of hunters that if they leave Scott, Kira, Stiles, Liam, Lydia, and Malia alone, I will help them catch Kate." He tells me in a depressing tone. It doesn't make much sense to me now on how Kate is alive, maybe same thing that happened to me happened to her but being caught? She is a bad guy now?
The second place I go after talking with my father is Lydia's. She literally makes my shoulder a sponge to soak up her tears. "I missed you so much Allison! Oh my god I can't believe you are actually alive!" Is the first thing she exclaims as she squeezes me violently in a hug. "I missed you too, but can we talk?" Lydia welcomes me in her home all the while keeping a grip on my hand like she is going to lose me. The door closes with a soft, *thud* and we sit on the couch in the living room.
"My father said something about my aunt Kate, and about needing to catch her?" I dig in immediately. Lydia spends at least thirty minutes informing me about Kate and who Liam is and about a dead pool which had names of people to kill and get money. "Wow." Is all I can get out, I am speechless. Beacon Hills is never safe or quiet I guess. "Want me to call Scott, Stiles, Kira, Malia, and Liam? You know so they know you are alive which is absolutely amazing." I nod because I miss Scott and Stiles and want to get to know Kira, Malia, and Liam much better.
While the whole group is on their way, Lydia and I talk about our lives the past year. Mainly I do the talking because most of what Lydia said already is what happened to her the year I was away. "So Peter, he turned me... gave me money so I could be away from here for a while. I bought a house as in, it is my property now. I have been living there alone and attending a new school so I can stay educated. A whole year later and I'm back."
"Whoa, at least Peter cannot turn anybody else into werewolves because he is locked up in Eichen House on the special floor. Anyways, how did you learn to control the wolf?" She looks at me in uncertainty. This makes me smile, the way I controlled it makes me feel like I am not so selfish after all.
"All I did was think about the day I return to Beacon Hills and come back to my friends and best friend. I want to appear nice and not like a monster. I want to be as normal as I can like before I left, which then I was human." I shrug, maybe it is a bit selfish of me. I don't know how, but it just might be. Normal, that is all I want for life right now.
Many werewolf and vampire fans would probably want to have a bizarre life like we have had but really, it isn't great. I am grateful it gives me something to do rather than be bored and it feels good stopping bad guys but, a lot of pain comes along with this. Especially when Stiles, Scott and I killed ourselves to save our parents.
Darkness followed us when we came back to life, oh life. It feels great if you're living it right. How do I know? I don't actually, I only have seen the feel. One day I hope to live life right and understand exactly what it's like. I have faced death but never have really experienced life.
There is a knock at the front door, probably Scott, Stiles, Malia, Kira, and Liam. I smell and recognize four scents except for one. It is a male, and smells kind of young, maybe a freshmen or sophomore? "Can I open the door?" I ask for Lydia's consent. She smiles revealing her large dimples and I get up off the couch and make my way towards the door.
As soon as the door is open, I am in Scott's arms. "Oh my god you are alive." I cry a little but not much because I really missed Scott the most. Not as much in a romantic way as in a friend way. He is my closest friend other than Lydia.
Being in his arms is just right, like when you need a shoulder to cry on. I do have to stand on my tippy toes because Scott is so much taller than me. "You are a werewolf, but how? Who?" Scott questions me his voice muffled against my hair but still clear since so close to my ear.
I explain the information for the third time. "You pretended to die..." Scott says through clenched teeth, raged filled in his voice. He steps away from me flashing his eyes the blood red of an alpha. "Do you know what that even did to me? Did to my whole pack? Lydia and I were devastated. You caused us much pain. I am glad you are living but, you hurt us. I think you even hurt Stiles. I thought you loved me, love is good but what you did shown now love. You only hurt. I'm out of here!" Scott growls at me for a second and storms out of the house.
"I'm going to go calm him down." Stiles and Kira say in unison. "Glad you are back though." Stiles smiles trying to lighten the mood before he rushes out of Lydia's house to go check on Scott. The only ones that remain are Malia, Lydia, me and the guy I am assuming is Liam. "Nice to finally meet you Allison." Liam stretches his arm towards me. I shake his hand and quickly smell he is werewolf.
Liam introduces himself properly looking anxious, "My name is Liam, I am Scott's beta. Currently, a sophomore at the high school." Wait, Scott bit him? "Was Scott against his will? It doesn't sound like him to turn people into werewolves." My enhanced hearing kicks in right when Scott speaks just outside the house.
"It's not like Allison to emotionally hurt people, causing them so much agony." Is all I need to hear to use my normal hearing again. "-He saved my life." Liam finishes but that's all I need to know. At least Scott did it for the greater good.
Liam doesn't stop there, "And he tied me up with duct tape and shoved me in his bathtub. But he was panicking, not knowing what to do. I understand though, people sometimes do things they think is right at the time but is wrong." That sounds like me, now I realize fake dying was terrible. I caused my friends pain and grief.
"I don't need to introduce myself because you already know me. Doing an introduction seems fun. If you want to know something new Allison, I learned to control. Woo hoo." I grin nodding my head, control. I think I am lost a little when Scott completely turned against me. I learned to maintain the wolf by thinking about my closest friends and how I want to appear to them. I appear to Scott as a monster, I fear he no longer wants to be my friend.
If I completely lose my friends, I think I will lose me.