Chapter 1:

"Hailey!" Stiles cried running into his sister's room.

"What is it?" She asked without looking up from her physics textbook. Whoever decided that it was a good idea to take AP classes in their junior year was clearly mentally unfit.

"Just heard on dad's scanner, they found a body in the woods! Let's go, we're have to get Scott." He grabbed her arm, pulling her out of her chair.

Hailey barely had time to grab her jacket before they left the house.

Stiles and Hailey were hurrying up the hill with Scott wheezing along behind them.

"Maybe the severe asthmatic should be the one holding the flashlight, huh?" Scott called out to the siblings.

They looked at each other before Hailey sighed and went back to where Scott was slumped against a tree taking another hit of his inhaler. "You okay Scotty." She asked, handing him the flashlight before ruffling his hair.

He pulled away, partly in frustration and partly in resignation. Hailey would always look at him like another little brother. He did have to admit though; it was kind of nice sometimes to have someone like her around.

Hailey's head snapped back in the direction of her brother when she heard a dog barking and him calling out for them to hurry as he ran up the hill.

"Hang on, hang on," she heard her father's voice. "This little delinquent belongs to me."

"Dad, how are you doing?" Stiles voice turned high pitched.

Hailey quickly shoved herself and Scott against of the trees, holding a finger to her lips, calling for his silence.

"Now, where is your sister and other partner in crime?" The Sheriff asked looking out into the woods.

Hailey motioned again for Scott to be silent and stay here he was before moving out from the shelter of the tree and walking over to her father. "Scott's not here, dad," she said moving out from the tree, with a sheepish grin. "It's just us."

"Yes," Stiles chimed in, "He said he wanted to get a good night's sleep for first day back at school tomorrow. It's just us. In the woods. Alone."

"Yeah, like he said." Hailey smiled sweetly at her father, her smile almost always got her out of trouble, but this time was not one of them. He just grabbed her shoulder and turned back to the woods.

"Scott, you out there? Scott? Well, my children, I'm gonna walk you back to your car. And you and I are gonna have a conversation about something called invasion of privacy."

The siblings looked around their father and grimaced. Sorry Scott, Hailey thought and just hoped that he would be able to make it back to the car before they had to go.

"Come on Hailey," Stiles yelled from the car, honking the horn again to try and hurry along his sister. It was still a few minutes before she came strolling out of the house.

"Patience is a virtue." Hailey calmly told him as she walked to the car. "And looking this good takes time alright."

Stiles just rolled his eyes and started the car. His sister put zero effort into her appearance and she still looked like a model, a short model, but a model nonetheless, even he had to admit that. She had taken after their mother with her rich dark hair, which contrasted with her violet eyes.

Once they got to school Stiles jumped out of the car making a beeline for Scott who had just finishing tying up his bike. Hailey just shook her head and made way to them at a more sedate pace.

Hailey joined the conversation just as she heard Stiles say, "Because California doesn't have wolves, okay? Not in like 60 years."

"Really." Scott asked.

"He's right Scott," Hailey joined in, smiling at some of her friends as they walked past. "As much as I hate to admit it, Stiles is right."

"All right, well, if you don't believe me about the wolf, then you're definitely not gonna believe me about when I tell you I found the body."

"What?!" Hailey yelled. Shocked that he had been able to wait this long before telling them.

"You-are you kidding me?!" Stiles looked like a kid on Christmas Day.

Scott sighed, starting the walk into the school, the poor kid looked horrible, Stiles had told her in the car that he had been hurt last night. "No man, I wish. I'm gonna have nightmares for a month." He admitted.

Stiles continued to buzz around the two of them. Clearly he had had too much Aderol this morning. "Oh, god, that is freakin' awesome. I mean, this is seriously gonna be the best thing that's happened to this town since– Since the birth of Lydia Martin." Lydia walked past them, in all her Queen Bee glory, "Hey, Lydia–You look– Like you're gonna ignore me. You're the cause of this, you know." He turned back to Scott mournfully.

"Uh-huh," he wasn't really paying attention.

"Draggin' me down to your nerd depths. I'm nerd by association. "I've been scarlet nerded by you."

"Hey!" Hailey cried. "Don't you dare include me in this situation. I'm very popular thank you. And I have class to attend so I will leave you two to do, whatever it is you do when I'm not here. Behave!" she called back as she made her way to her first class of the day.

The day seemed to drag by but she could also feel there was something in the air. Hailey could feel it, she just couldn't put her finger on it. But she knew something big was going to happen today.

Just then he phone vibrated in her pocket, signaling a text message. She discreetly looked at her phone, not wanting to draw the teacher's attention. It was a text from Stiles

Hey, we're heading to the woods after practice. Scott lost his inhaler and we need to find it.

I'm not exactly in wood trekking shoes here Stiles. She really didn't want to go into the woods again.

You have other shoes in the car. No excuses big sis, we're going. He replied.

Hailey shook her hear in exasperation. Sometimes she wished her brother didn't have the memory of an elephant.

Fine, she replied. I'll meet you on the lacrosse field after practice. I'm going to be in the gym if you need more before that. Good luck to both of you today! Knock 'em dead!

Hailey headed to the girls locker room after classes was over, planning on getting in a quick workout before heading into the woods with her brother and his best friend. She quickly changed into her short shorts and tank top.

The gym was quiet, just as she liked it. Heading over to the floor mat, she went through her stretches to get her body warmed up, before moving over to the balance beam.

Gymnastics always soothed her and it was something she and her mother used to really bond over. Going through a few quick easy moves before really pushing her limits. Hailey's coach had been devastated when she decided to pull out of the national rankings and her chance for a place in the Olympics, but after her mother died it just didn't seem that important anymore.

Now she helped the coach teach the younger girls who still had those dreams of going all the way. And in return the coach let her use the gymnastics space whenever she wanted. Hailey knew that her old coach thought that if she let her use the equipment she might get the urge to start it all back up again.

She was snapped out of her gymnastics trance as her brother called it by her phone ringing. "Stiles, sorry, I lost track of time. I just need to take a shower and get changed and I'll-"

"We don't have time for that, Scott has to work later." Stiles interrupted.

Hailey sighed. "Okay, I'll just grab my stuff and be there in a few minutes."

"I don't– I don't know what it was. It was like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball.

And that's not the only weird thing. I–I can–hear stuff I shouldn't be able to hear. Smell things." Scott was saying confused as they jumped though a small creek running through the woods.

Thankfully for Hailey the shoes that she had in the car were boots, so while she was inappropriately dressed still in her gym clothes at least her feet were warm!

"Smell things, like what?" Stiles asked.

"Like the mint–mojito gum in your pocket. And Hailey's eucalyptus shampoo."

"I don't even have any mint–mojito–" Stiles reached into his pocket and pulled out said gum. Hailey looked at her brother impressed and a little freaked out. "So all this started with the bite." Stiles concluded while they made their way to where Scott had said he'd dropped his inhaler.

"What if it's like an infection, like, my body's flooding with adrenaline before I go into shock or

something?" Hailey could tell Scott was starting to freak out a little.

Stiles shot her a look, and she could see that he was up to something. "You know what? I actually think I've heard of this– It's a specific kind of infection."

"Are you serious?" Scott cried.

"Yeah. Yeah, I think it's called– lycanthropy."

Hailey rolled her eyes, but knew she was going to have to join in. The kid was just too cute in his freak out to not make a little fun of.

"What's that?" Scott demanded. "Is that bad?"

Stiles nodded. "Oh, yeah, it's the worst. But only once a month."

Hailey threw her arm around Scott. "Welcome to my world buddy."

He looked at her with concern. "Once a month?"

"Mm–hmm. On the night of the full moon." He howled. "Hey, you're the one who heard a wolf

howling."

Hailey couldn't keep her laugh in. "Scott you should see your face." She patted him on the head and continued on the path they had taken last night. It was getting cold and her feeling that something was going to happen was getting stronger.

"Hey, there could be something seriously wrong with me."

Stiles was still very amused at the situation. "I know! You're a werewolf! Rrr! Okay, obviously I'm kidding. But if you see me in shop class trying to melt all the silver I can find, it's 'cause Friday's a full moon."

"I've got some silver jewelry that I don't wear anymore. I'm happy to donate to the cause." Hailey called back.

Scott looked around the woods. "No, I–I could have sworn this was it. I saw the body, the deer came running. I dropped my inhaler."

"Well it has to be here somewhere." Hailey moved away from the boys, pushing the leaves aside with her feet. There was a very girly part of her that didn't want to get her hands dirty looking for this thing.

"Maybe the killer moved the body." Hailey was certain she hear an amount of glee in her brother's voice.

"If he did, I hope he left my inhaler. Those things are like 80 bucks."

"Yeah, mama McCall would not be happy if she had to buy another one." Hailey looked up, realizing that 1, she had moved further away than she thought from Stiles and Scott, and 2 there was a guy standing about two feet away from her. A guy who had come out of nowhere!

"Ah!" she cried grabbing her chest. "Make a little noise next…." Her voice trailed off as she got a good look at him. He was at least 6 feet tall, with dark hair a beautiful hazel eyes. He was dressed all in black and she could tell he was quite…muscular, that was one way to put it.

He gave her a slow once over, before calling out to the other two. "What are you doing here? Huh? This is private property." He walked past Hailey, closer to the two boys.

Hailey was frozen where she was.

Stiles spoke up. "Uh, sorry, man, we didn't know."

"Yeah, we were just looking for something, but– Uh, forget it." The guy just stood there before pulling something out of his pocket and tossing it at Scott.

He turned around and went back the way he came, giving Hailey another look before walking away.

Hailey let loose the breath she hadn't been aware she was holding.

"Uhm. All right, come on, I gotta get to work." She heard Scott telling Stiles.

Stiles hit Scott on the chest "Dude, that was Derek Hale. You remember, right? He's only like a few years older than us."

Derek Hale, the name reverberated around in her head.

"Remember what?" Scott asked confused.

"His family. They all burned to death in a fire, like, ten years ago." Stiles went on.

"I wonder what he's doing back?" Scott mused.

Stiles shrugged. "Come on. Hailey lets go!" he called out.

Hailey turned away from where she had been looking after the direction Derek went. It wasn't until she was back at the car that she realized that feeling she had had nearly all day. That feeling that something was going to happen, was gone.