This fic is set 6 months after season 1. Season 2 has taken place but Boyd and Erica are gone, they got out of Beacon Hills to find a new pack. There also won't be any Cora either, but for the first time I'm going to use my OC Jessie Hale as well as my OC Ash McCall. Both OCs are human.

This doesn't follow the show from this point on. I'm using skinwalkers as my 'big bad'. If you don't know what they are, watch episode 6x08 of Supernatural or just do a quick google search of 'Supernatural skinwalker'. Basically, they're a kind of shapeshifter that pose as family dogs but are vicious, you'll understand as you read on.

Just a head's up, this fic will focus alot on family and personal issues, relationships and hurt and comfort more than school or the supernatural. But it will still follow a skinwalker story line. Also, you may notice parts of tv shows and movies used as scenes in here as well. I haven't been well at all lately so I've been off work and I've been watching alot of Netflix and Putlocker so, blame them :P No don't, but you will probably notice some familiar lines or small plots within this :)

Warning for course language now and again.

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*Inconsistent Misfortune, coming at 'cha!*

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Ash doesn't remember too much about her childhood. It's all sort of a messy blur.

She remembers the stench of bourbon and old cigarettes, occansionally the odd odour of weed, coming from her father.

She remembers getting woken up at 4 o'clock in the morning to pick her Dad up from the drunk tank, more than once.

She remember slowly becoming the parent of the family, taking that responsibility on at the young age of 13, maybe early 14.

She remembers how hard it was every time their father split, left them all behind like they meant nothing to him.

She remembers the struggles she faced with her Daddy being a massive drunk when he was around, and him being completely unsupportive both emotionally and physically, and especially financially.

She remembers it as a mess, nothing's crystal clear. Nothing but her family, they way they've stuck together through all of that, and all the things still to come. There's not many good moments with them all being happy and healthy and all together. Their childhood was..nasty. But Ash has always done everything she could to hold their little family together.

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2 years ago

Derek was actually there. The walls of his now charred childhood home, that he still dwells in, felt like they were screaming at him. He needed to get out of the house. He just had too, before it all got too much and he let those same very walls feel his frustration. Like the house wasn't crumbling enough already.

He sits there, in a private booth, alone. His only company is the half-empty beer in front of him, the same one he's had in front of him for an hour. He's never really wished to be human, but right now? He wishes he could feel something from the alcoholic beverage, something just to dull the noise of brooding and over-thinking that's yelling at him from inside his head. It's just been one of those days.

His eyes shoot up when a voice cuts through the mild chit-chat and giggles of drunk woman at the bar.

"As some of you know, I've been away at college." Ash says into the mic, making small talk as her Friday night band get ready to play. She chooses not to tell them why she's suddenly cut her study short after only 6 months, that's her and her family's dirty laundry, that she keeps to herself.

Some of the regulars, the ones that have missed the girl for the past months she hasn't been performing, they clap and cheer, genuinely happy to see her again. Ash smiles shyly in their direction, she still gets a little nervous when she performs even though she's been doing this for extra cash since she bounced out of school. And now her family need that money more than ever, not that her mother would ever ask for it. But Ash knows, so that's where her money's going to go.

"But I'm back now." She says. She looks over at her band members and they nod, ready to go. "This one's for my beautiful mother, and adorable little brother. There they are." She says with a proud smile as she points out Melissa with a small baby bump and a 14 year old Scott. Stiles and John Stilinski also sit with the two McCalls, their two family's being very close for a long time.

Derek's eyes drift to the two and he can tell they're very proud of their sister and daughter. He can see that same pride on the two males with them. His bottle comes to his lips but he barely registers the alcohol that crawls down his throat as he drinks it. He looks down at it, dragging his index finger around the rim of the bottle.

The guitarist starts first, playing away gently.

"Yeah, you've been alone." Ash sings. Derek's eyes go back up to the girl. "I've been gone for far too long. But with all that we've been through, after all this time I'm coming home to you."

Ash stops for a moment, letting the guitarist keep playing. There's another guy with a guitar and another sitting at the drums. The drummer is yet to play but the other guitarist comes in with a few plucks on an electric guitar.

"Never let it show. The pain I've grown to know. 'Cause with all these things we do, after all this time I'm coming home to you." She comes back in. "I reach towards the sky, I've said my goodbyes. My heart's always with you now." She sings softly. "I won't question why so many have died. My prayers have made it through, yeah. 'Cause with all these things we do, after all this time I'm coming home to-" Scott smiles because he knows this song and enjoys seeing his big sister perform.

"-you! Yeah, ohh!" Ash's voice explodes and comes out much louder but strong vocally, her eyes shutting as the lyric's emotion soak into her . Derek's eyes widen in the slightest. He can admit, he was surprised to hear that kind of strength come out of the small girl. "Letters keep me warm! Helped me through the storm! But with all that we've been through, after all this time I'm coming home to you." The crowd roars with applause and cheers.

"I reach towards the sky, I've said my goodbyes. My heart always with you now. I won't question why so many have died. My prayers have made it through, yeah. 'Cause with all these things we do, after all this time I'm coming home to you." The beat changes slightly, the drumming shining through more.

"I've always been true. I've waited so long just to come hold you!" Her voice wavers as it does it the original song. "I'm making it through, It's been far too long, we've proven our love over time's so strong, in all that we do. The stars in night, they lend me their light, to bring me closer to heaven to you!" The lead guitarist steps up beside her and takes it into his solo, his fingers working away with raw talent, the whine of the guitar appreciated by every person in the room. Ash and him look at each other with big smiles.

"But with all that we've been through, after all this time I'm coming home to you." Ash comes back in. The drums ease back in and by now, any nerves Ash had are long gone. And the looks on her family's face are just pride and admiration. And Derek's still just watching and listening, intrigued. He's barely stepped foot in the bar, and he's never been to a concert so live performances isn't something he's used too. And especially not a female singing a Avenged Sevenfold song either. "I reach towards the sky, I've said my goodbyes. My heart's always with you now. I won't question why so many have died. My prayers have made it through, yeah. 'Cause with all these things we do, after all this time I'm coming home to you. And with all that we've been through, after all this time I'm coming home to you." They finish, fading out and the crowd cheer and clap most of them standing up. Ash covers her mouth with her hands, still not able to believe it went so well, that they loved them.

She gets down off the stage, going over to hug her mother who has tears in her eyes because she's missed her daughter so much. And to see her perform again, it's heart-warming. And maybe it's a little bit of pregnancy hormones too.

Like I said before, Ash has always done everything she could to hold their little family together.

She dropped out of high school at 16, to help her mother with Scott and the bills after her father went on another bender then disappeared for awhile. Ash wishes she could say this was the first time, but it was just another to add to the already long list.

Later on, at 18, when her father was back around reguarly, she managed to wrangle her way into college. She aced the entry test, and even though she didn't have the pre-requisites to get in, they turned a blind eye to it because of her outstanding test scores. Melissa was even prouder than she already was of her daughter.

Then 6 months later, when things are finally going good, when things are finally working out for the girl, everything goes downhill again, like clockwork, like it was some kind of countdown to another storm. Ash catches her boyfriend of 4 months bedding her roommate. The boyfriend she thought she might be falling for. The roommate she thought she was starting to get close with. The two people she thought she could trust, as if that wasn't a hard enough thing for her to hand out anyway. That all hurt.

Then 3 days later, when she's on the phone to her mother, when she's crying and Melissa's trying to comfort her, Ash finds out that her father has taken off again. And that hurt even more, just added to the pain already chopping away at her from the inside out. Things weren't just going downhill for her, they were shooting in a straight line down to the depths of hell.

Ash immediantly quit college after that phone call, much to her teacher's displeasure as they didn't want her smarts wasted, and she moved back home to look after her 2 months pregnant mother and her 14 year old brother.

Ash picked up any work that she could to help pay the bills and the morgage, the rent, the coming baby's things, everything. Because of her track record, some jobs she was declined, but then the recommendations she managed to squeeze out of her teacher's at college got her some jobs too.

Her day's very quickly started to blur together as she sped between band gigs, work at the local garage, early shifts at the cafe in the heart of the town and then late night shifts making cocktails at the dive bar by the water front. Around 80% of any money she made went towards keeping the house going, keeping her family going. That little bit on the side, that paid for anything Ash wanted for herself, most of it actually went into a savings account, as back up in case her family needed it. Melissa always told her she didn't need it, but Ash knew she did. With their father gone, and any money he would actually give them gone too, they were barely hanging on by a thread. Melissa was getting to the stage where she had to work less, take stress off the baby, then eventually she had to stop working all together. That's when a hell of alot more responsibility fell to Ash's shoulders. But she took it on in stride, tried her best not to complain or moan. She just wanted to help. And she did. Melissa is thankful every day for her daughter's kind heart, because without it, the McCall family would have fallen apart emotionally and financially, been crushed under the weight of their shared pain and outstanding bills.

Melissa feels very indebted to her daughter, but Ash would never lay that down as a burden or use it as an excuse. It feels good for Ash to help, to take some of the weight off her pregnant single-mother's shoulders. Ash figures it's the least she could do after Melissa raised her and her brother while having the same problems with the gone and then back again drunk known as her husband. It wasn't until Melissa finally had enough and filed that divorce did she realise how much time she wasted with that man. How much of her life and her children's lives her wasted on him. She should have left Rafael a long time ago.

But it gave her three beautiful kids and she wouldn't change that for anything. She loves her boy and her two girls, more than anything.

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A little introduction into their lives as to how they were before everything supernatural got involved :) Favourite, follow and review!