It's been months since the events with the Kanima and a lot of things had now changed in Beacon Hills, Jackson's Dad had moved them to London, Allison had left to go to France with her father and I hadn't heard from her since, we haven't made up since she tried to kill Derek, I wasn't sure where Allison and I stood at the moment

Lydia was still trying to get her head around the supernatural so she had wanted some time alone in the summer, Scott had been busy with Summer School and was trying to become a better person and Stiles had seemed like he needed some time alone too so I hadn't contacted him for a while

Derek and I were still strong as ever, we formed our bond and to symbolise that I had gotten a tattoo of the triskele which was a pain in the arse and just painful in general but worth it

I smiled and reached over to my left shoulder blade and felt where my triskele tattoo was, I had asked Derek about his tattoo and why he had gotten it and he told me that it was the Hale Pack symbol so I decided to get one on my shoulder to symbolise I was with him for the long haul and one day we will grow the Hale Pack again because I knew how much he wanted to have his family name mean something in Beacon Hills again instead of the family that died in that fire

Derek was hesitant because of what he needed to do at first but was then ecstatic when I asked him to do it and I knew every time he sees it now he loves it

"So what are we doing here, another lead on the Alpha pack?" I questioned Derek when we pulled up somewhere, we had all been looking for the Alpha Pack so we could find Erica and Boyd since we knew they had them, Isaac and I both stepped out of the car and looked up to the large, dark, imposing building

"No" Derek paused watching me as I stared at the building "This doesn't have anything to do with the Alpha pack"

"Oh?"

"Come on" Derek said as he grabbed my hand and led us towards a side entrance, I bit down on the side of my bottom lip as I looked at our connected hands, I'm still amazed how even the slightest touch from him set my senses on fire

"What is this place…?" I breathed out as he held the door open and we walked into a hallway with high ceilings and rust speckled support beams strategically placed throughout the area

Hearing a clank I looked over to see him open the doors to an old styled freight elevator, normally I'd never get on an elevator like that but followed him anyways, growing more curious as to where we were, when the doors opened he stepped out and I followed him as he opened a sliding metal door, glancing at him first I walked in and I realized we were inside of a loft, my wide eyes immediately went to the main focal point of the room, a large window with an industrial view of the city

"What are we doing here, who lives here?" Isaac asked as I looked around the spacious loft, it had a bed in the right corner, a leather couch on the left with a rustic coffee table and a large timer table in front of the window but that was it

"As of right now…you and me" I gasped

"You finally bought a place and look it's…not…that crappy and run down" I replied

"Seriously Skye" Isaac said laughing

"Well it's better than the train station or your family's burnt down house…" I added looking at Derek

"You weren't complaining a couple of times if I recall correctly" I blushed and hit him and looked at Isaac to see him trying to hide a smile

"Well it's certainly...spacious" I finally commented as I walked around the loft

"Uh Derek, where's all the furniture?" Isaac questioned

"Well there's a table, a couch..." Derek trailed off

"Also why is there a bed in here?" I asked sitting on it and it was surprisingly comfy

"Well the upstairs hasn't-" he was cut off by Isaac

"There's an upstairs" I laughed as Isaac ran up the spiral staircase

"Do you like it?" Derek asked me once Isaac was gone

"I do, although it could use a few more decorations though"

"I like it the way it is" he replied looking around

"Yeah but if I'm gonna be here…we need to add a few more things" I smirked and stood up

"Oh and you're just gonna move right in?" he asked quirking his eyebrow

"Well" I said wrapping my arms around his waist "If you expect me to have sleepovers with you"

"I like the sound of that already" I laughed and hugged his chest

"Why didn't you tell me you were working on getting a bigger space" I asked with a soft smile

"There were something's I needed to work out first" he vaguely answered and nodded to a hallway off to the side "Bathroom and closet space"

"There were four rooms upstairs and they're huge" Isaac said coming downstairs and I stepped back from Derek "Whoa, hold up a second where the hell is the kitchen, I need a kitchen to survive you know" he insisted

"You two used to live in an abandoned train station without one" I replied and saw Derek smirk at my reply as Isaac rolled his eyes

"That's where these come in" Derek suddenly announced, picking up three sledge hammers

"Are you going to threaten people until they build a kitchen or something?" I questioned, confused, Derek rolled his eyes and pointed to a brick wall in the corner that looked like it had been filled up not too long ago

"The loft comes with what's on the other side of the wall too" he held the other two out "It'll be a good training exercise" Derek smirked

"Great" Isaac grumbled, taking one of the sledge hammers

The three of us then lined up, facing the wall and started hitting it and I was surprisingly enjoying it and finding it a good way to get rid of some of my anger, it was only after a few minutes we had punched through the wall and started to walk through it

"Yes, you're saved" I exclaimed, seeing a doorway not far away that led to a rustic kitchen

"C'mon, we need to get the rest of these bricks down so we can get a proper hallway" Derek told us

A few hours later we had finished knocking most of the bricks down and I helped unpack the few things they had then decided that we should order takeaway which we had all eaten, hungry after destroying the wall

"Whoa is it already that late?" I commented, looking up at the clock Derek had put on the wall earlier "I have to get home before Mom grounds me" Derek drove me home and when I went to get out, he grabbed my hand

"You forgetting something" I smiled and leaned into kiss him passionately leaving myself breathlessly "I love you" I felt my heart flutter like always when he said he loved me

"Love you too" I jumped out and run inside but ran right into Scott "Oh my God Scott you scared the crap out of me"

"Where were you?" he asked and I could tell something had happened and instantly feared he had found out about the Alpha Pack

"With Derek, why what's happened"

"A deer ran right into Lydia's car tonight and it was terrified by something" I didn't like the sound of that

"Oh my God is she okay" I asked

"Yeah her and Allison are both fine"

"Allison's back" I asked him moving into the lounge room

"Yeah" he muttered

"Are you okay?" I asked knowing seeing Allison must have been hard for him

"Yeah" I nodded

"Alright well we have school so we should probably get some sleep"

The next morning I put on a final layer of lipstick and examined myself in the mirror getting ready for school which I had actually been looking forward to, Scott and I had done a lot of studying over the summer so that he could be a junior with us this year

"You ready to go?" Scott asked, I turned around towards the door

"Yeah I'm ready" I said, sighing and grabbed my book bag then we rode to school on Scott's new motorbike and met up with Stiles as usual and some days even as our life's are drastically changing I am glad this hasn't, I'm being really sappy now but everything that has happened since we looked for that body has made me appreciate the little things in life

"You wanna ask Derek for help?" Stiles asked Scott who just told us that he wanted Derek's help with his tattoo as we walked down the school hallway "Why, why?" wait he got a tattoo when the hell did that happen and why didn't I know about it

"You got a tattoo" I said cutting in

"Yeah last night but it healed" I gulped nervously

"Look, he's got the triskele tattooed on his back"

"Yes he does" I smirked

"Gross" Stiles fake gagged

"There has to be a way to do it without healing, right?" Scott continued ignoring the two of us

"In a way" I nodded nervously

"You know how to do it?" Scott asked stopping, I sighed

"I was going to show you guys yesterday but I never really had the time" I handed Scott my bag and stepped in front of them then removed my white cardigan showing them my triskele tattoo

"Oh my God" Stiles groaned "You and Derek have matching tattoos now…that's just weird" I put the cardigan back on before lightly punching Stiles

"It's a physical symbol of our bond jackass, werewolves can sense when two wolves are bonded" I remember the morning after Derek and I had formed our bond, when I came home Scott looked up immediately and his eyes glowed when he smelt Derek's scent imbedded with my own "With the tattoos it solidifies everything and the humans can see it too, plus this symbol is a little more personal to him than you think"

"What does it mean to him?" Stiles asked annoyingly

"It was his family's symbol"

"Oh…" after a few more seconds of silence passed as they looked at each other

"So you know how to make a tattoo work?" Scott asked me

"Kind of…you will need Derek because I'm not doing that" Scott nodded

"Doesn't he have his hands a little full?" Stiles asked pointing towards Erica and Boyd's missing flyers they had been hanging around town for months now and still no sign of them, it hurt to know that they were still missing after nearly four months especially after I had gotten close to them it felt like I lost family, they were my pack mates after all, Scott grabbed my shoulder and led me away knowing I was hurting

"Look" the principal's English accent floated out into the hall causing us to walk closer and look into his office "These are the applications for the career advisor I need them sorted and what ever happened to the library while I was gone, I want it cleared up and what the hell is this?" he pulled Gerard's sword out of his desk, we looked at each other wide-eyed before I bit my lip to contain my laughter

"Go, Go, Go" Stiles said quickly pushing us down the hall

"Hey I'm gonna go find Lydia and make sure she's okay, see you guys in class" I told them, I walked towards Lydia's locker and stopped when I saw her talking to Allison, since I accepted Allison's apology we hadn't said a word to each other, I took a deep breath and put a smile on my face and walked up to both girls

"Hey"

"Hey" Lydia greeted "Oh cute dress"

"Thanks I love yours too" I looked at Allison "I love your hair short, it looks really good on you, and the colour too…"

"Thank you…so uh…how was your summer?" Allison asked carefully

"It was good" I replied then looked over at Lydia and noticed her staring off at the boys walking around "What's caught your eye Lyds?"

"Freshmen…tons and tons of fresh men" Lydia answered

"You mean fresh boys" Allison corrected putting some books in her locker

"Seriously Lydia, they're 14" I laughed as Allison joined in

"Eh, some are more mature than others" Lydia told us

"You know it's okay to be single" Allison said "Focus on yourself for a little while, work on becoming a better person" Lydia scoffed

"Allison, I love you so if you need to do that thing where we talk about me and pretend we're not actually talking about you, it's totally fine but I don't want a boyfriend" I nodded my head, Lydia took Jackson moving to London really hard and I could understand…if Derek just up and left my life I'd be a total wreck too but then I wouldn't sleep with a bunch of different guys to get over Derek like Lydia was currently doing, she placed her hand on the locker with a loud smack causing me to end my thoughts "I want" Lydia continued as she checked out a boy walking past us "A distraction" her eyes kept sweeping over the boys until her gaze settled on something

I turned around and looked at who she was looking at, the guy had on a light blue shirt, jeans, a black leather jacket and was carrying a motorcycle helmet, I raised an eyebrow as his face came in to view, even if I was taken I allowed myself to admire his attractiveness then all of the sudden someone moved to walk next to him, his identical twin

"Brothers?" Allison asked looking at them as well

"Better" Lydia said smiling "Twins guess you and Scott aren't the only twins in Beacon Hills anymore" she said before she walked off leaving Allison and me behind to share a look before shaking our heads and following after her

I bit on my pencil as I waited for first period English to start, Allison sat awkwardly in front of Scott, I scoffed as that was predictable, then everyone's phone began to go off I looked down at mine, opening the message

"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds and the tranquil waterway, leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky, seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness" I looked up, seeing a pretty woman walk into the classroom and lean against the desk "This is the last line to the first book we are going to read" she told us "It is also the last text you will receive in this class" she smiled "Phones off, everyone"

Our new teacher, which was now obvious, looked around the room, her eyes catching mine for a moment and as they did, I got that familiar sensation up my spine making me cringe, it was a lot more painful than normal and my tattoo seemed to burn on my shoulder blade making me rub it, something was off about this woman and the wolf in me did not like it, I ignored the feeling and began to take notes as they were being written on the board, I heard the door open but didn't look up

"Mr and Ms McCall?" The teacher asked, Scott and I both looked up, then at each other as the teacher motioned us outside we grabbed our stuff and followed her "Uh, I'm sure it's an emergency if your mother needs you both to leave school but I'm gonna give you a warning in the nicest possible way" she started as the classroom door closed "I am well aware of both of your attendance records I don't wanna see you two slip back into old habits"

"We won't" Scott answered "It's gonna be different this year"

"Resolutions are only good if you stick with them, Scott"

"We will I promise it won't be ephemeral" he turned and walked away, I followed behind him shaking my head

"Ephemeral?'" I asked him

"What it's my word of the day?"

We went out and got on his bike going straight to the hospital, we walked in and mom was already waiting for us

"What's wrong?" Scott asked her

"Thank god you two are here, there was a problem Isaac came in last night"

"What?" I nearly shouted "Is he okay"

"We tried calling Derek, he didn't answer"

"At all?" I asked her as that was odd "Why didn't you tell us before?" I added as we walked with her into the hospital

"Honestly, I was hoping I didn't have to"

"What do you mean?"

"Everything that you've been doing... the extra reading, the summer school, saving up for the bike, telling me about the werewolf boyfriend/mate…" she looked at me "Even though it scares me half to death... honeys, I just didn't wanna disrupt a good rhythm" I had told both Scott and mom why Derek and I were meant to be together and told them that we were mates

"It's not gonna stop" Scott said "We're gonna be better this year, a better student, better kids, better friends, a better everything we promise"

"Okay" mom said with a sigh "He's in room 215 if he isn't already in surgery"

"Thank you" I said, the two of us giving our mother a kiss on the cheek then Scott and I went over to the elevator getting in, the door was about to close, when a white cane stopped it we looked up a saw a blind man, who got inside as well

"Would you hit the button for the second floor, please?" he asked

"Yeah" I said, pressing the button even though it was already pressed for journey to that floor

"Thank you" we slowly ascended our way to the second floor and when the door opened, the man put a hand on Scott's shoulder "You wouldn't mind helping me out for a second would you"

"Sure" Scott said and he led the man to where he needed to go, before he and I made our way to find Isaac

We continued walking trying to find the room when suddenly Scott grabbed my wrist I looked at him but soon followed his gaze, seeing a man maybe in his mid-thirties wheel Isaac into the elevator he turned pressed a button then slyly smiling at us, Scott and I growled then ran towards the closing elevator doors, throwing ourselves in and slid into each other against the back wall, we both transformed and stood up facing the fully transformed Alpha

The Alpha growled grabbed Scott and threw him into the elevator wall and ceiling, I moved to attack the Alpha next and threw a couple of punches but he caught my hand and twisted it until I heard and felt the sickening crack I howled in pain dropping to the floor then the Alpha grabbed the two of us by our throats and lifted us up

"Don't you realize what you're dealing with?" The Alpha asked us "I'm an Alpha" the door dinged behind him and a clawed hand was shoved into his back causing him to drop us, I landed on my broken arm causing me to cry out in pain again

"So am I" I heard Derek say before throwing the Alpha out of the elevator, Derek bent down and gently grabbed my arm and without warning he rebroke my arm to set it properly, I let out another pain filled cry and Derek grimaced "This wouldn't have happened if you were an Alpha" he told me wiping my tears away

"I know" I nodded "But you know why I can't right now" Derek looked over at Scott as he transformed back

"Aren't you two supposed to be in school" Scott sighed and leaned his head against the back wall

We quickly walked out of the hospital with Derek carrying Isaac while I kept watch so that we didn't get pulled up on why we were carrying an unconscious teenager, I expected us to walk to his Camaro but it wasn't he was walking towards a Toyota FJ Cruiser

"Where's the Camaro, did you get rid of it?" I asked him and I knew that wasn't really important given the situation at the moment but I loved that car and he only had it just yesterday

"No I still have it but I needed a new car…pretty sure I'm gonna sell it soon" Derek replied putting Isaac into the back seat

"No you can't" I told him

"Why can't I sell my car?"

"Because I don't want you to" I replied walking closer to the car and I could see Scott smirking at my ridiculous behaviour

"Fine, I'll keep it for a little while longer, now get in" Derek said opening the passenger door for me so I quickly got in and he drove off towards the reserve and I knew we were headed towards the old Hale House

Derek carried Isaac into the house and set him on a table, I quickly followed behind him just catching Scott's conversation with Stiles "We got a serious problem at school" Stiles said over the phone "Ms Blake's class..."

"Hey, can you tell me about it later?" Scott asked

"Well, no, pretty sure this qualifies for immediate discussion"

"All right then meet us at Derek's" Scott said

"Derek's house, what, what the hell are you doing at..."

"Just meet us here, okay?" he hung up as I checked over Isaac seeing if he was externally wounded but to my relief he wasn't, I heard Scott sigh "You don't still live here do you?" Derek tossed a piece of wood out of his way

"No, the county took it over…"

"Six years ago" I said and just narrowly dodged the piece of wood Derek threw towards me, I looked over at my smirking mate and narrowed my eyes

"There's something here that I need, it'll help heal a wound from an Alpha" Scott looked over at Isaac

"Yeah but it did heal"

"Not on the inside" I could feel the worry coming from Derek, I watched as he pulled out wolfsbane from the hole he made as Scott looked between me and Derek before asking

"Hey are either of you gonna tell me who that was back there, that Alpha" Derek and I shared a glance that clearly wasn't missed by Scott

"A rival pack" I answered

"It's my problem" Derek told him, I cleared my throat causing Derek to sigh "Our problem" Scott snapped his attention to me

"Why didn't you tell me?" I sighed

"Scott, with everything that's happened you deserved some type of normality"

"Well what about you?" I looked over at Derek who was waiting for my answer, I shrugged

"Pretty sure I was doomed from the start" Scott shook his head

"Skyez…"

"Scott" Derek started cutting in "I know you wanna help and you did, I owe you one now go home, go back to being a teenager" he walked over to the table I was standing next to and Isaac was lying on, I moved to help Derek pull apart the flower but then started sneezing and coughing at the smell so Derek gently nudged me away until my coughing fit stopped, I stood next to Scott who held his upper arm and rolled my eyes when I realized what he was about to say

"Hey, Derek if you wanna repay back that favour now, there is something you can do for me" Derek looked at him questioningly then looked over at me

"He wants his tattoo to show up" I answered his unasked question, he nodded and moved a couple of boxes towards the centre of the room

"Will you go get the blowtorch out of my car?" he asked me, I nodded going outside and saw Stiles pull up so I quickly grabbed the blowtorch out of the trunk then waited for Stiles to join me before going back inside, Derek was holding Scott's arm and was examining it with his glowing red Alpha eyes, I bit down on my bottom lip because those eyes made him even sexier and more powerful and it always stirred something inside me when I saw them "Yeah I see it, it's two bands right?" Scott nodded and watched as I handed Derek the blowtorch smiling at Scott's reaction

"Now you see why I didn't want to do it"

"What does it mean?" Derek asked Scott

"I don't know" he answered "It's just something I traced with my fingers" Scott drew two circles on the dusty box next to him, the outer one bigger than the one inside it

"Why is this so important to you?"

"Do you know what the word tattoo means?"

"To mark something" Stiles answered with a smile, Derek threw the hyperactive boy an annoyed look

"That's in Tahitian" Scott intervened "In Samoan it means open wound, I knew I wanted to get a tattoo when I turned 18, I always wanted one, Skye and I used to talk about going together…" I smiled

"My paw prints yeah I remember that" Derek threw me a questioning look "I wanted to get a set of paw prints on my wrist"

"You used to want wolf paw prints" Stiles nodded

"Oh yeah, that's right…the irony" Scott chuckled at me

"Anyway, I just decided to get it now to make it kind of a reward"

"For what?" Derek and I asked him, making me smile

"For not calling or texting Allison all summer, even when I really wanted to, even when it was so hard not to sometimes, I was trying to give her the space she wants, going four months later, it still hurts it still feels like a…"

"Like an open wound" Stiles finished

"Yeah" Scott agreed, Derek nodded and grabbed the blowtorch then handed the striker to me

"The pain's gonna be worse than anything you've ever felt"

"Oh that's great" Stiles nodded sarcastically

"Do it" Scott told him, I looked at Derek who nodded his head I sighed and quickly lit the blowtorch

"OH wow…that's a lot for me, so I'm gonna take that as my cue I'm just gonna wait outside" Stiles moved past Derek and me, I shook my head and moved behind Scott

"What are you doing?" Scott asked me

"Holding you down…"

"Why?"

"Did the pain's gonna be worse than anything you've ever felt just go in one ear and out the other, you're gonna try to get away from the flame and you could hurt yourself and Derek, trust me" I nodded at him

"Well we wouldn't want that" Scott scoffed

"Then what you're about to feel won't be the worse pain you've ever felt…I'll make sure of that" I replied letting my eyes glow gold, Derek rolled his eyes and nodded towards me

I held Scott by the shoulders waiting for this to start, Derek put the flame onto Scott's skin and instantly he began screaming in pain I felt him try to move away but held him in his place until he passed out from the pain, I let him slump forward and gently leaned him against the side of the house

"Well that was fun…which of my family or friends are you going to burn next?" I asked Derek, he shook his head

"He asked for it" I laughed and rubbed my arm, it was still a bit sore from earlier Derek grabbed it and looked at it "How's it healing?"

"It's healing fine…just a little sore right now" I replied, Derek pulled me closer and started placing light kisses up my arm as he slowly closed the distance between the two of us

I closed my eyes and shivered from his touch, Derek continued kissing up past my shoulder I gasped as he nipped my pulse point before continuing upwards until he finally reached my lips, I wrapped my arms around his neck as his encircled my waist, we broke our kiss when we heard Stiles groan

"Seriously, can't you two keep your paws off each other for like more than five minutes?"

"Nope" I responded with a smirk, Stiles rolled his eyes and looked over at Scott

"Will he wake up soon?"

"Depends" Derek answered

"On what?"

"The person, everyone reacts differently to this" Derek replied

"It took me a couple of minutes" I added just as Scott gasped and woke up then looked down at his tattoo before looking at us "Looks good Scotty" I smiled at him, Scott couldn't keep the grin off his face

"It worked" I nodded and tossed him his shirt, Scott and Stiles moved to walk out the door while I stayed with Derek

"Well looks pretty damn permanent now" Stiles told him

"Yeah I kind of need something permanent, everything that's happened to us, everything just changes so fast everything's so…"

"Ephemeral" I said when Scott couldn't find the word and smiled over at my brother

"Studying for the SATS?" Stiles asked me, motioning to Scott

"Yep"

"Nice" I shook my head and looked over at Derek who shot me a look that said 'you associate with them' I heard the door open and looked over at them, Scott was staring at the newly painted red door so I began to panic

"You painted the door" Scott called out, Derek looked up before sharing a glance with me and again I knew it didn't go unnoticed by Scott "Why'd you paint the door?"

"Go home, Scott" Derek responded silently begging him not to push it any farther

"And why only one side?" Scott added ignoring Derek, he quickly got out his claws and made a single scratch at the door

"Scott" Derek called out walking into the room but still Scott ignored him and continued scratching the paint off, Scott backed away looking at the symbol painted on the door then looked over at me as I started biting my lip and stared at the ground

"The birds at school and the deer last night, just like the night you and I got trampled by the deer when I got bit by the Alpha" I looked up at Scott and noticed he was glaring at me "How many are there?" I sighed

"A pack of them"

"An Alpha pack" Derek added

"All of them?" Stiles asked "How does that even work?"

"I hear there's some kind of a leader, he's called Deucalion, we know they have Boyd and Erica, Peter, Isaac, Skye and I have been looking for them for the last four months"

"Let's say you find them" Scott said walking up to us and continued to glare at me, I knew he was angry that I didn't tell him but I wanted to keep him safe "How do you deal with an Alpha pack?"

"With all the help I can get" I looked over at Derek and clinched my jaw in anger, he knew I didn't want Scott involved in this, he could easily be killed or seriously injured by these Alphas

"But don't feel like you have to" I added "It's not your fight" Scott looked at me before looking over at Stiles, he was about to responded when we heard Isaac

"Where is she?" we turned to see Isaac had woken up and was sitting up looking at us "Where's the girl?"

"What girl?" Derek and I asked him

"The one from the hospital, the one who saved me" he replied and we all looked at him confused

A/N: Here it is the first chapter of Season 3, hope you enjoy and please remember to review if you want me to keep it up

Arianna Le Fay: Skye forgave Allison because that's just who she is and I wanted to stay true to Skye's character values which is (Caring, Compassionate, Protective of those she loves and Fierce when she needs to be) but that still doesn't mean their okay as you saw in this chapter there's still unresolved tension between them