True Alpha // cth

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"What do you mean? Who took her?" Mason was holding his friend up, who was on the verge of overheating and passing out.

"The Alpha, I tried to stop him- but- he bit me- oh my god- they're gonna kill me- Hayley's gonna try to kill me." He was gasping as he got in the car next to Ashton and Jo, Mason climbed in the passenger seat and Braeden looked at Derek before nodding and taking off.

"Okay let's call an ambulance for them and then head back to the house for the other car and meet them at the Animal Clinic." Derek searched my girlfriends dad's body for a phone when he found one he changed his voice into a raspy struggling one and said "Help me, I'm injured, there was an animal."

He threw the phone on the ground and then started back towards his home.

"We have to find Bella, the alpha has her, we can't just leave her wherever he took her."

"If you didn't notice, we're down an alpha, and I'm an omega, can't do much there, we should wait till Ashton heals up." Derek shook his head walking faster.

"What if she's dead by then?" I needed to go find her, my heart was hurting.

"It won't help if we die too. He's gone full beast mode. We have no idea where he took her, we go through the woods we're just two smelly targets."

"What about Scott?" I asked as if it were obvious, he stopped dead in his tracks.

"He can't help us." He started moving again until we were at the car.

"Why not? He's an alpha- he was your beta at one point- He's literally our best option, he's stronger than both of us-"

"Listen, I haven't spoken to Scott McCall in years." Derek snapped at me, digging his nails into the car.

"What about- what was his name? Stale- Still-" I was struggling to remember the name.

"Ugh, Stiles. I can call Lydia." Derek took out his phone as he started the car.

After filling in the girl on the phone he told them to meet us at the animal clinic where we'd plan a rescue and capture.

We parked outside the animal clinic that I used to think was just where I would bring the family dog and they'd keep him healthy, but I now knew they also patched up werewolves and banshees and werecoyotes, even chimeras, some hunters too.

We walked inside and there was more people then we had accounted for. I examined the room, seeing Ashton on a table, the veterinarian Deaton, Jo, Mason, and Braeden standing behind the table. To the left I saw Oliver and who I now knew was his mom, Lydia, and his dad Stiles. The people I didn't recognize were on the right, but once I smelled I knew it was an alpha, Scott McCall, and his family.

"I didn't say bring them." Derek clenched his fists tightly.

"I'm trying to prevent anyone else from dying." Lydia angrily explained. "We need all the help we can get."

"I just wanna catch the person who took my daughter from me." A brunette who seemed slightly hysterical spoke.

"Our daughter needs justice." Scott took her hand.

"I'm sorry for your loss." Derek looked at the floor, then looked to his own daughter.

"Now I know what you were trying to prevent, I'm sorry for rejecting the idea, I was a fresh father, I didn't know what to do or how to keep them safe.. I made the wrong choice." Scott was shaking his head, on the verge of tears.

"I don't think it was the alpha." I put it together and walked to Ashton, examining his wounds. "He hasn't killed anyone else, and there's only one person I see so determined to kill off alphas. Maybe your daughter got in the way."

"She was an empath, if the alpha was struggling or in pain, she would've been drawn to help, she probably walked in to something and helped him walk out." The woman let tears out, digging her head into Scott's chest.

"Hey, Malia, we're gonna get them." Stiles spoke and went to rub his friends arm.

"Who do you think did it?" The younger girl next to Scott spoke up.

"A hunter." Stiles practically read my mind coming more into the light.

"Who would have the power to go after alphas?" Oliver stepped forward beside his dad as well.

"Someone in charge, able to bring multiple people at their command." I put my hand to my head, not wanting the words to come out, but knowing the answer.

"You mean-" Derek spoke.

"He means Hayley." Diego spoke from the doorway, his wounds barely starting to heal.

"Who are you?" Scott's daughter perked up, getting defensive.

"Diego Lottera." He was holding his side as he limped in.

"You're a hunter." Scott also perked up standing in front of his kids, Lydia did the same.

"Not anymore." He lifted his shirt to reveal the bite. "I might not even be alive after tomorrow if Hayley has a say in it. We need to find Bella."

"She wouldn't kill you, you're family." Jo was confused, she spoke to him not understanding why he was so sure about that.

"She locked my parents in a room to make sure they'd go through with it." Diego's jaw locked, his tears beginning to form.

"Why would she do something like that?!" Malia shook her head.

"She's quite the radical." Braeden finally spoke up.

"I wonder what drove her there." Scott was still holding his wife when we heard grunting and looked to Ashton.

"I did." He said, sitting up, everyone looked at him expectantly. "My father killed her grandmother, and then to add to it, her mother died via my ex betas 5 years ago on a full moon, and that same week I decided to tell her I was born an alpha werewolf because I was in love with her and thought she should know. That's when she broke, she asked me to turn over my betas, so I did, she killed them. That didn't make her feel better. so then she tried to kill me, but I ran away. At school she would just avoid me, but she said if she ever saw me again, she would end me on the spot. I dropped out so she wouldn't have to see me everyday, I even left town. I came back because Bella texted me saying that things were going very bad now that Hayley was in charge, that same night was the second murder. Now I guess she's framing me for your daughter's. By the way, I would've never hurt Melissa like that, she was my best friend, but I'm so sorry, I should've been here."

"We didn't even have a body to bury." Malia began bawling.

"She'll pay for it." The McCall boy spoke up.

"She's probably already gone and got some reinforcements, I don't want to push the importance of bringing her to justice down, but the more likely right now would be finding Bella." Diego spoke easing himself down from the stool he was sitting on.

"He's right. That would be our smartest move right now, we have 10 werewolves in this room, two alphas, not at full capacity, but enough to fight an alpha, when you're at full capacity, then, you can take on a family of hunters." Deaton spoke with ease, something that always seemed to bring everyone together, I saw him go up to Ashton, curiously. "Who did you say your father was? I've never heard of a born Alpha."

"I didn't," Ashton resisted, but when he saw everyone staring he sighed. "But we need to trust each other to save Bella so I'll tell you. My father was the demon wolf.... Deucalion."

Everyone's eyes widened. I didn't know who that was but with a name like demon wolf and the fact that everyone else knew who it was, I was nervous.