A/N: I was going to say something important here… but I forgot :I

Chapter 16

"Get me out right now!"

I froze and held my breath the moment I had been about to peak around the wall to where I knew Derek was being held. From what I could tell, someone else was in there with him, and that was him shouting. I had been extra quiet when I heard the voices, and it could have been anyone at this point, my best bet was Kate.

I closed my eyes and listened in, remaining as calm as possible.

"Help me."

I scrunched my eyebrows and let out a slow, easy breath. At least I knew it wasn't Kate now; it was Scott.

I stayed quiet to keep listening in to what they were saying before making any moves.

"You want me to risk my life for your girlfriend? Huh? For your stupid, little teenage crush that means absolutely nothing?! You're not in love Scott, you're sixteen years old! You're a child!" Derek shouted.

There was a small pause before I heard Scott's voice, but it was too low for me to make out what he said.

I heard a loud crack and chains and then Derek's voice, "Someone else is here."

I held my breath for a moment and then I stepped forward so I was in view and I slowly put my gun down. Both Scott and Derek's eyes grew wide when they saw me and they eyed my gun.

"Valerie, what are you doing?" Scott said.

"Um…"

I paused and looked back at Derek then to Scott and I brought my arm down to my side. I felt stupid now, and I'm not sure why. Here I was planning to save Derek in some way, maybe gain some kind of reassurance back or something, and now…

I shrugged, "Just… uh… what are you doing down here?" I asked and raised an eyebrow.

I saw Derek roll his eyes from behind and slowly make his way over to a table where he picked up a shirt and slipped it on. He was moving a little too slow and I knew he must have been in pain.

"How did you find this place?" he asked.

"I stumbled upon it a week or so ago…" I mumbled.

"And you didn't tell me?! Do you know how much time you could have bought us and… what the hell were you thinking? God, that was so stupid, you should have told me!" Scott shouted and I backed up.

I did not like the way he was talking to me.

"Hey!" Derek said from behind Scott but I shook my head.

"Don't yell at me alright? I had my reasons as to why I didn't tell you. Allison trusted me-"

"HEY!"

We both turned our heads to look at Derek who was standing back looking annoyed and he started to walk forward.

"Both of you, shut the hell up. We need to get out of here, now, because that psycho bitch can come back at any time." He said.

I shut my mouth and glared at Scott. I gripped the gun in my hand tighter and I saw his eyes dash down to my hand and back up to me.

"After the both of you then…" I said crossing my arms and pointing out to the tunnel so they would go ahead.

"Seriously?" Derek asked.

"Hey, I'm the only human here. You both seem pretty upset at me and who knows… all I have is this gun so. Right now, I don't trust anyone. Go." I said pointing the gun out again.

Scott started walking while Derek shook his head and I followed the two out.

I knew I wasn't anyone to talk, but I was mad. I don't like the way Scott yelled at me. I was never yelled at in life seriously until Steven. I didn't take stuff like that lightly. When we made it out, Scott helped Derek up out the ground and I kicked the gate back closed.

As we started walking, Derek looked back at me and I looked down.

"I'm sorry." I whispered, knowing he'd here me.

I heard him stop for a second and I looked up to see him looking at me. Scott stopped and looked back at us, then shook his head and kept walking.

I sighed when Derek said nothing back and started to walk again. Once we made it around the house and near the front, Derek stopped again to catch his breath this time.

"Wait… wait, wait." He said and then looked around.

"Something doesn't feel right… I don't know. It's almost like it's… too"

Scott cut him off, "No, don't say too easy. People say too easy and bad things happen."

"He's right…" I said and shrugged as I looked around into the darkness.

"You think finding you was easy? No thanks to you Valerie, and you think getting away from Allison's dad was easy? Just a little thanks to you Valerie. But none of this has been easy!" Scott said and I ran a hand through my hair while sticking my gun in my back pocket.

"Fine… you're right." Derek said and rolled his eyes looking away.

"Thank you…" Scott said and sighed.

A sound from somewhere near brought us to attention and not a second later, I turned my head to see an arrow fly right into Derek's chest.

"Oh my god!" I said out loud once he fell to the ground.

I went to go help him when another arrow went right in his thigh. I stopped and looked up to see Allison and her aunt Kate in the distance, aiming another arrow at us. My eyes widened when it went flying in the air and exploded right behind us in a tree. There were bright sparks that were sent flying out, like a mini explosion and my eye sight was disorientated momentarily.

I blinked a few times for it to go away, and then I bent down once again and tried to help Derek up after I saw him break the arrows off. He grabbed my arm then grabbed Scott and dragged us up. I felt the gun fall out of my back pocket but that didn't matter right now.

"Run!" he said and I took one last look at both him and Scott who were on the ground and started for the side of the house.

While I ran, I tripped over something hard and went down hard into the ground.

I let out a small cry when I felt a sharp pain in my head and I felt myself being lifted up.

"Valerie… how very nice to see you again." The voice whispered in my ear.

I turned my head as best as I could and whimpered when I saw it was Peter.

"Shh… don't cry… yet."

His hand touched my cheek and then up to my forehead where he pressed against the side and I felt more pain and let out a small cry. He pushed me up against something hard and I felt more tears rolling down my cheeks as soon as I heard a gun shot not too far away from us.

"You lied to me." He said, almost taunting me.

I saw his hand go up, and he slapped me.

Hard.

I felt a sharp sting on my cheek from where he slapped me and I let out another cry.

"Since you're not that important to me… I think I'll let you go… just barely though."

His eyes looked me up and down and then he grabbed my arm roughly and pulled me to him.

Where he was taking me, I don't know because it was too dark for me to see. We went up some steps and I could see a door. I'm guessing this was the back of the Hale house. I could smell the burnt wood and now that the moon was in view, it shed some light around.

We walked in through the house and I tripped a couple of times since my leg was hurting a lot and I jumped at the sound of another gun shot. I wiped my nose with the sleeve of my arm while Peter dragged me around like a doll.

"Thing's are going to get interesting now, Valerie." He said and I felt another sharp pain in my arm.

His nails were digging into me, and I stumbled when I saw fire by my feet.

I let out a panicked cry and I heard him laugh. He held me tight and his nails dug in deeper. I could hear cries all around me and fire, as if I were hallucinating.

The last thing I remember before he hit my head hard was the fire engulfing me.

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"Valerie!"

Shut up.

"Valerie, wake up!"

Shut up!

"Valerie, come on, please!"

Oh my god, shut up! Just five more minutes!

I was vaguely aware someone was trying to wake me up, but my head was pounding. I felt like I did three Halloweens ago at a party the morning after I had downed an entire bottle of Tequila with a friend.

"Val, come on, please don't this… I don't want to lose you right now, come on, open your eyes!"

That got my attention.

I tried to open my eyes, and I blinked softly letting my eyesight adjust. I felt something hard under me, and I let out a weak cough.

"Oh, thank God!"

Stiles.

That was Stiles!

I let myself give a small smile and Stiles let out a quiet laugh that sounded more like relief.

"Shit, you scared me. Can you sit up, how are you feeling?" he asked.

"Sore." I said, my voice sounding raspy.

I tried to slowly sit up with the help of Stiles.

"Easy… careful…" he said quietly and held onto me.

I managed to sit up with my legs sprawled out and I let out a big huff from the work it took me.

"What happened?" I asked.

"You have blood on your forehead, I'm guessing you got hurt there, and you're all dirty… I don't know if you passed out or what happened… Scott shouted for me to run in here and help you." He said.

My eyes widened and I panicked.

"P-Peter… the alpha… what… where is-"

"Shh… they're taking care of that right now, they took him down. You think you can stand up?" he asked.

I nodded and then he stood and put his arms under me to help me stand. It took a little work because I was so sore but I stood up finally and leaned on Stiles for support. His arm was secure around my waist and I held onto him for dear life as we started to walk out through the front door.

I saw Allison standing a few feet away with her dad, and then I saw Jackson and his car a little further. Scott was making his way over to Derek, who looked just fine and like he hadn't been shot a with a bullet or arrows just a while ago.

It amazed me how he wasn't dead yet.

Scott seemed upset because he was shouting out something to Derek who was not paying attention to him, but to something below him and my eyes landed on a shape I couldn't make out.

"Who's…"

"That's Peter." Stiles said.

My eyes widened. The figure didn't look very human from here. I wasn't sure if he was dirty or… from the smell in the air… burnt up.

"Derek no!" Scott shouted.

We all watched as Derek slit Peter's throat with his claws.

There was a lot of tension in the air, I could feel it. I switched feet to hold myself up and Stiles held me tighter so I wouldn't slip. Derek's head turned to look at Scott, and he looked angry. Or upset. Or crazy.

"I'm the alpha now." He growled loud enough for all of us to hear.

We all stood there without saying anything, before I heard Mr. Argent's voice.

"Valerie!" he shouted.

He rushed over to me and looked me up and down and cursed out loud.

"What happened to you?" he asked.

"I think I hit my head… or I got hit in the head. I'm fine though, nothing else is wrong." I said.

"We need to get you out of here. All of you. Now." He ordered.

"Stiles, get the hell out of here now, take Jackson. Valerie, you're coming with me."

"Yes sir." Stiles said and leaned in to whisper in my ear.

"We'll see you later. Feel better."

I nodded and he slowly let me go and Mr. Argent took a hold of me. I watched as Stiles walked away, and I turned to look for Derek but he was gone, and so was Peter's body. Scott stood awkwardly unsure of what to do but he took one look at us, and back at Allison, then ran off.

"Let's go now… take it easy here, watch the steps…" he said lightly and helped me down.

"Dad…" Allison said in front of us.

Her voice seemed shaky, and there were tears in her eyes.

"Kate." She said.

Mr. Argent paused for a moment and sighed then kept walking with me slowly.

"Come here, I'll deal with this now. Let's get your girls in the car first." He said.

As soon as we were in the SUV, I saw Allison's dad take out his cell phone. From what we could hear, he was talking to someone about where we were, but he was talking to fast so I wasn't sure what else he was saying. Also, my head was hurting too much and I couldn't focus well.

After he finished on the phone, he got into the car and looked back at me.

"I just talked to your father, we'll meet him at your house. The police are on their way over here right now." He said and I nodded.

I looked down at my lap and winced every time the car would hit a bump from rocks or branches.

Allison didn't say a word to me the entire ride. All I heard were her sniffles, which meant she was crying, which made me cry and I wasn't sure why. I remembered she said Kate's name earlier. Why? Where was she by the way? Last time I saw her, she was trying to kill us.

By the time we made it to my house, I was too tired. My dad was waiting out by his truck looking stressed. I knew there was going to be a long conversation ahead of me.

"Looks like you two are going to have a lot to talk about." Mr. Argent said.

I laughed sarcastically and nodded, "Yeah."

"We'll all be talking soon. I hope you get better." He said once he parked the car and my dad came to my side of the car.

"Michael." Mr. Argent said.

"Chris. We'll talk later."

Oh shit.

From the tone of my dad's voice, he did not sound pleased at all.

Carefully, he helped me out the SUV, and after some quick words to each other, he let Mr. Argent go and we headed inside. When we finally made it to the couch, I was exhausted.

"Valerie, what the fuck were you thinking? What do you think you were doing?! Why? Why! Damn it!" he kicked the coffee table, and a vase I had put up on it fell over and rolled off and crashed on the floor.

I stared at the broken pieces of glass and shrugged.

"Don't give me that shit right now, not only did you lie, you-"

I quickly cut him off.

"I lied, dad? You lied. You lied to me as well, and hell, I'm a freaking teenager, we all lie! It's what we do! But you, as a dad? No…" I said and he laughed.

"Don't give me that, this is different! Valerie, this is my job! This is police business! You put yourself at risk and in the middle of something you have no business being in!" he shouted and I winced.

I glared at him and shook my head, "Neither do you, this isn't your field of work. And maybe… just maybe… if you hadn't been so caught up with your work, and you'd pay a little more attention to me, things could be different."

"Are you serious right now?" he asked.

"Yes, I'm serious. What difference did moving make? Huh? You said you would take some time off, and all you've done is work! It started off great, but that quickly went downhill. You became obsessed with all of this. All I asked was for you to take some time off and be with me! Look after me, and pay attention to me!" I shouted at him.

I was done for the night. I was too tired for all of this. I stood up, despite the pain I was in and pushed him away to get through.

"Stop, and listen to me, right now!" he said.

"No!" I yelled and kept walking.

"Valerie, listen to me damn it! You think this is easy for me? You think I asked for any of this? NO! All I ever tried to do was keep you safe!" he shouted.

I paused in the hallway and wiped away some tears.

"Look how well that turned out." I said and continued up the stairs.

I was in so much pain by the time I made it up to my room. I heard a crash downstairs and more noise and I felt more tears in my eyes. I wiped my nose with my sleeve and slid down my door after I slammed it shut. I put my head down and started to cry.

I had no idea what was going to happen between my dad and I.

I had no idea what would happen with Derek.

One thing I knew for sure though…

Things were not going to get any easier.

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