The smell of coffee filled the room and enveloped my nostrils. The place was almost empty just like any other late morning, which is why I decided to make this my home away from home. I finished writing on my journal the paragraph I was in and put my pen down. Most screenwriters would use a laptop but like my family had always told me- I'm an old soul. The bell by the door rang signaling the presence of somebody new. I turned my head and saw the same girl I had seen the past week I was here. She had dark straight hair coming down; it was a few shades darker than mine. She looked me in the eyes and I noticed a flash of disappointment before she looked away. Oh that's right I was sitting in the same table she had been sitting last week. It's not my fault I was sitting here... Then again I have a thing for trying new things with new people, well in this situation new sits, and this was the last place I haven't sat in.
"Hey,"
She turned, facing me her eyebrows arched up in confusion.
"Did I take your seat?"
"Oh no it's fine I-I- don't really-"
I waved her denial away. "Look you want to seat here, I want to seat here- lets both seat here." She stood there contemplating my offer. "It's just a table." She smiled gratefully and giving in made her way in front of me. "So what brings you to this lovely establishment on this day?" She looked slightly taken back. "What? Too personal?"
"No, I'm just not the type to talk to strangers."
"Oh funny, that's all I ever seem to do besides writing that is, I'm Harry." I stretched out my hand to her but she just stared at it, awkwardly I brought my hand to my green beanie and fixed a loose curl under it.
"Hope"
"Pardon me?"
"My name is Hope."
"Hope.. That's a beautiful name."
"Thanks." She whispered. She brought her hand to the table and with it came a book.
"Looking For Alaska huh, you're a reader."
"Who isn't?"
"Well I'm a screenwriter." I mentioned as I showed her my journal. I could see her eyes squint as she tried to read my writing from across the table. "Want me to read it to you?"
"Uh.. I don't know.."
"Aww c'mon just a little, you know you want to know the story." I smirked as I saw her put her book down and wait for me to start reading.
"I can't get out I'm stuck! Dad!" I could see my dad looking at me outside the upside down car.
"I'm sorry Scott." He started to run away from me.
"No PLEASE! Don't leave me! Dad!" There was so much smoke I started coughing. "Please! I can't breathe!" I cried out. "I can't...." Everything went dark.
"Aghh" There was a shooting pain on my shoulder.
"It gets better don't mind it, then again it could get worse it depends on how you look at it really."
A tall tan guy with jet-black hair and green eyes said as he approached me, he seemed to be in his twenties. "Who are you? What did you do to me?"
"I saved you-"
"What but the doors were jammed how-"
"I tore them off."
"....Okay.. Well thanks for saving me but I have to go." I started to stand and walk towards the only door in this warehouse-like place."
"Go where? To find your father?"
That made me stop dead on my tracks. "How do you know-?"
"I heard your screams."
His eyes flashed a vibrant yellow color almost animal like. "Who are you?"
"My name is Derek, and I'm a werewolf."
...
"Wait a werewolf? Now you lost me."
"Awww C'mon Hope, have some hope!" I couldn't help the giant grin grow on my face. Just then she stood up. "No! Wait sorry, you're the kind of girl who reads John Green books aren't you?"
"Your point?"
"I'm trying something new on my writing, something with more...heart. Please stay, let me finish reading I need your opinion. She half smiled contemplating her choices. "I'll buy you a drink?"
"Fine."
"Excuse me ma'am; can I get a vanilla latte with a shot of that caramel cream?"
"I'm not going to hurt you, I saved you remember?"
"Yeah but-AHHG" The pain from my shoulder had shot through my bones and I felt it breaking through my skin.
"Scott listen to me-"
"What's happening!?"
"You were going to die I had to turn you."
My sight turned infrared as my finger broke into claws. "Help me!"
"I will, I will teach you how to control it and I'm not going to leave you."
.......
Derek looked outside the abandoned warehouse. There were two giant windows that revealed the deep inside of a forest. I have been living here for two years. He taught me how to control my new abilities like he promised. I learned that he was an Alpha but on a fight with another pack his had been killed.
"Are you sure he's coming back?" Peter was the name of the Alpha that had killed Derek's pack. Derek talked about him coming back and finishing what he started, but I was beginning to think he was getting a little paranoid.
"Peter might be sociopath but he finishes what he starts." Derek's family had a history with Peter to the point that Derek had no more family left alive.
"So we just sit here and wait then?"
"No, we- I smell something, someone's running towards here." He barely finished speaking before bolting out, and so I followed.
I could hear somebody else's breathing, gasping. I could smell him now.
"Bushes-2 o'clock," There was movement from the mystery person. "It's not him."
"Show yourself!" I commanded the intruder.
"Get away! There's something wrong with me and I can't control it!" Just then I heard him roar in the same way we do. Me and Derek looked at each other with a knowing glance.
"We can help you"
"No you can't, nobody can!"
I turned to Derek with a doubtful look when he transformed to his werewolf self. He was about to roar when I stopped him. "Not yet." "What's your name?" I asked, slowly making my way towards him.
"Stay back!"
"Ok yeah I will just tell me your name."
"Liam."
"Right ok Liam I bet you feel alone and scared but we can help you, we know what you're going through-" I was about to see his face now.
"No you don't," I stepped close to him; he was transformed obviously with no control. "You know nothing about me what makes you think you can help me!?"
"Because we're just like you." Derek said from besides me with his pointed ears and black fur surrounding his face.
...
"What do you remember from before the transition?" We got Liam to calm down and while it seemed we had a new member for our pack we still needed to find out who was transforming teenagers into werewolves.
"I was with my sister Lydia. We took a shortcut home from school it was late I had detention and she had softball. We were alone walking down the road, she kept saying there was someone following us but I didn't believe her- I should have believed her!"
"Liam, your hand!" His clenched fist was bleeding. He opened his hand and revealed his claws. He looked up to me with his furry face and vibrant eyes.
"Derek we have a situation." Derek came over with an unimpressed look.
"Liam even though we don't know who gave you the bite, it's still a gift and we are brothers now.." His vibrant eyes diminished for a second before starting back on. "I'm going to need to you meditate now think and visualize what I'm going to tell you ok?"
"It's not going to work!"
"Do you want to get better or not?!" Liam nodded. "Now repeat after me; 'Three things that cannot be hidden, the sun, the moon, the truth'."
"Three things that cannot be hidden, the sun, the moon, the truth." They kept meditating and Liam's breathing began to stabilize. After going through it six times he had turned into his old form. It reminded me of how Derek helped me but Liam was more aggressive. I got closer to them and asked-
"Do you remember what happened next?" Liam's anger was gone and a melancholy look filled his face.
"He locked me on a metal box, a few hours later I managed to break through it. I escaped and looked for Lydia but what I found was worse than what I had become. It was on a basement where he was experimenting with others, there were tubes coming out of these people, they looked like me but they also looked like reptiles. I found my sister. She was scared of me, chained to the floor. I was about to reach towards the fence keeping us apart but she told me not to. It was an electric fence and she knew it could kill me, she told me to get out before he came back. And I did after promising to help her. We have to go back.
"We might not have to," Derek's tall frame stood in anticipation. "Because he's coming to find us."
...
"He sent you here to find us and now that you did it's only a matter of time before he gets here." I realized.
"Liam, how many others would you say there are?" Derek had a determined look on his face.
"Four, maybe five..."
"I know what we're going to do, Scott- you and Liam will take care of the hybrids. I will deal with the bastard."
"You think it's Peter?" He was the only person that could make Derek loose his cool.
"I'm saying it wouldn't surprise me if he decided to play dread doctor."
"Dread doctor?"
"It's from a book I read as a teenager, it's about scientists that worshipped the supernatural."
"Wait how exactly are me and Scott supposed to handle five supernatural creatures!?"
"Knowing Peter it's safe to assume they all have a part of him, that is they are all part werewolf."
"So?" I asked.
"What kills werewolves?"
"Wolfsbane?"
"And since they're basically cheap knock-offs they should be easier to deal with."
"Wolf bane-makes sense it's like pesticide sure it kills animals but only when they ingest it while bugs-they have no chance." I connected the dots.
"Then how are we-?" Liam started to speak my doubts when Derek cut him off.
"I know a guy."
.....
We don't usually go back into town so when we got near a house of a neighborhood I knew things were going to be different. We approached the door and Derek knocked. I heard the heartbeat of the person behind the door before they pulled it open.
"Hey Stiles" Stiles the name sounded familiar.
"Sup Derek-Scott?"
"You two know each other?"
I looked at Stiles and Derek. "We knew each other in junior high." I felt a smile on my face, of course I remember Stiles he was my best friend.
"Yeah, you moved after eight grade right?"
"Not exactly-"
"Why are we here?"
"You must excuse Liam he's got... anger management issues." I said as Liam rolled his eyes.
"I would too if I had just met Derek haha... Well come inside I got 'the stuff'" He said grinning. We came in the house and followed Stiles to his room; it was obviously smaller than Derek's place.
"Here it is!" As soon as he opened the closet I felt a mild headache take place I noticed Liam was as uncomfortable as I was. Stiles held up a circular container. "In these pockets as all of you might have guessed is the wolfbane, Derek care to continue with the plan?"
"Stiles will put this around the field where Liam and his sister were abducted and then when the hybrids get there-" He grabbed a control remote like thing. "We use this to let the wolfbane free. Easy?"
"Breezy"
"Covergirl"
"Stiles...."
"Sorry. Oh also I took the liberty to make these two rifles with a bit wolfbane, just in case"
"Where did you get the riffles?" Liam asked.
"Let's just not mention anything to my dad okay?"
"Your dad?"
"He's the sheriff." I told Liam. "Let's go deal with this."
....
We stood by as Derek and Stiles finished digging holes to put the wolfbane bombs in.
"Scott." Derek called me.
"Yeah?"
"In case the plan doesn't go perfect we're going to need Liam in control help him practice."
"I will." So I helped Liam with the mantra. It took him about five hours to change five times each time was better than the last.
"It's night time now what makes you think they're going to come?" Liam asked aggravated. Just then we heard a roar like howl. Derek started to speak.
"Because Liam... the wolves always come out at night."
"So how's your drink?" I asked Hope taking a break from reading.
"It's great! My first time trying it too." She was more than half way done with it.
"Really? It's what I have all the time!"
"Now it's my turned to be surprised Mr. I-Try-All-Things-New"
"Oh Hope, you can never have too much of a good thing." I winked at her.
"Speaking of good things I have a feeling that "Stiles" is going to be a crowd favorite"
"Oh really it would be a shame something were to happen to him..." I teased.
"Don't you dare." She gasped bringing her hand to heart.
"No need to worry, he's going to be fine ok I'm going to keep reading."
"Watch out!" I dived to Liam as a hybrid landed next to him but the hybrids weren't attacking us. They were going towards Derek.
"Come here and fight me yourself!" Derek yelled as he started fighting the hybrids.
"Oh but then I wouldn't get to see what they can do and I spend a lot of time making them specially for you." Peter threatened.
I pulled Liam aside. "You can turn and remain in control right?"
"Yeah-yeah I think so."
"Good 'cuz there's a change on plans" I jumped towards Peter on full wolf mode but he was faster and his claws not only sank into my skin but also managed to throw me on the ground. There was blood on my chest but I didn't care it will heal and I couldn't leave Liam alone.
"And you... I do wonder if you will get to your sister in time but then again that would mean you would actually leave here alive." Peter said trying to get a reaction from Liam and I was afraid he was slowly succeeding. I launched myself back on him but he grabbed my arm and threw me on the floor. He raised his fist and brought it down on my face when Liam jumped on his back and started scratching at the back of his head. "There's something they forgot to tell you young wolf," He grabbed Liam's shirt and threw him against the ground like a rag. "A bite from the wolf that turned you, will kill you." I couldn't let Peter get away with that.
"AGHHH" I turned and saw Derek- he was bringing the hybrids to us, or rather towards the trap.
"Hello?" I heard Stiles speak into his phone.
"Really Stiles?" I asked trying to avoid being bitten on the neck.
"SHHH! It's my dad! Yeah? Oh.. yeah I did took the riffles dad we're in the middle of a fight with werewolves ..."
"Stiles press the button!" I screamed punching peter in the face.
"I know dad but you seemed busy...Yeah about a mile from the school.. "
"Stiles!"
"I'm getting it Derek!, Yeah dad just get here bye."
I could see Liam from the corner of my eye make his way to the riffles.
Stiles grabbed the switch. "Great, girls don't pay attention to me, hybrids don't pay attention to me this is all so great for my self-esteem.."
"Stiles make sure to get the hybrids befo-" I was knocked off my feet by pain running down my back.
"You are not going to ruin this for me!" Peter had me in the air his claws going through my back. "You hear me nobody is-" Just then I heard a soft growl come from him and I realized Liam had shot him with the riffle. I fell on my knees; I could feel my body start to heal as I started to stand up. When I noticed Liam had Peter. He kept hitting him, clawing at his face taking his anger out on Peter.
"You're not strong enough, you even need the help of wolfsbain to get me still, you're just as weak as when I locked you in that box."
"Liam don't kill him!" His eyes were on me but quickly turned back to peter I could see the rage in his eyes. "I know you want to, but there's another way." Liam looked at me, his neon gazed fixed back to mine. "You don't have to do this!" The rain falling made the blood around his face disappear.
"You don't know what he did to me! You don't know what he was going to do to Lydia"
"No, but I know you. I know that if you kill him you will lose yourself. You will loose your humanity. We can't kill people...Do you believe that?" Liam grabbed Peter's head while he started to claw into Liam's arms and tried to get away. Liam threw him head first against the wall.
"What do we do with him?"
.....
The plan went almost as.. planned. With Liam's anger and the wolfsbane in Peter's system he was practically sedated and ready to take to the mental institution in town. Turns out Derek, Stiles and his dad had experienced this kind of thing before and there was a place under the institution for Peter, wolf proof and everything. The hybrids didn't make it, but they were too far-gone. Derek smiled with a head nod at me as he got in the car with styles' dad to make sure everything goes smoothly. Stiles was checking there was no more trace of the lethal pockets.
"You could've easily knocked me out and taken Peter, why didn't you?" Liam asked sincerely.
"Because we're family, and you don't give up on family." I answered him. "Now c'mon let's go get your sister."
"What!?, It can't end there!" Hope protested.
"Sure it can, at least for now..." I smirked.
"What's the name of the story?"
"Blood's Thicker Than Water"
"But that makes no sense they're not related.."
"Well that's not the original saying, it actually is 'The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb'."
"Oh, I'm still not loving the ending." She stated finishing her drink.
"Well there might be some more to it."
"Well what are you waiting for Harry read it!" Her eyes shined with enthusiasm.
"I can't I have to meet my friend Niall.."
"Oh."
"But I could tell you the rest, maybe on a date?"
"Uh..."
"Oh that's right you don't trust strangers." I quickly realized
"You're not a stranger anymore though, you're Harry."
"Is that a yes?"
"It's a date."
"Same place?" She started writing something down on a napkin.
"Same time. Different place." She said as she handed me her number.