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01. Catching Up

Two months.

It was hard to keep track how long I have been in here, but it's been precisely two months and eleven days. Rarely did I ever see the light of day, but if I ever saw any light at all, it was from someone coming into the vault; most of the time so they could talk to me.

All of this time, I learned that they were an alpha pack and wanted Derek Hale, but I only learned that because of murmers. I learned that there were six of them, their names being Deucalion, Kali, Ennis, Ethan, and Aiden, the twins. Then of course there was Jade, but I haven't seen nor talked to her ever since the day she brought me here. I guess she was too ashamed to show her face.

Erica and Boyd had also been in the vault with me all of this time, along with a girl named Cora, but two weeks ago was when Erica fought against them and got herself killed. She might have done Allison a lot of wrong in the past, but never in my life had I been filled with so much rage when I had watched Kali take the life out of her eyes. It was inhumane.

I had gotten to know Boyd a little bit better, but little did he know that I had already known a lot about him. We didn't become best friends or anything like that; we just kept it to small talk. Besides, being stuck in a vault isn't exactly the place to meet friends.

Cora on the other hand was in no mood for small talk. She had a feisty attitude about herself, so rarely did she really ever speak. If she did, it was about how she was going to rip their throats out when she finally got out of here, but those were always small threats. I could tell she knew deep down that she wasn't strong enough for things like that, and after she had watched Erica die, it shut her mouth real quick.

I, on the other hand, have had a lot of time to do a lot of thinking. Things like my life back home, my parents, Jade, and of course Allison. What I thought about most was what was going to happen to me when I got out of here...if, I mean. It wasn't like I had anywhere to go other than home, and if that happened, that would mean never coming back to Beacon Hills again, and I didn't know if I could do that.

After all, once you're thrown into a life like this, you're sort of stuck with it.

But what really kept me going was the hope that Allison would get me out of here. Every day I waited and waited, but she never came, not yet at least. It's been two months now, meaning that she's got to be home. She'll notice me gone...right? She'll have to come looking for me soon.

Whenever I wasn't thinking, I was being put to use by the alpha pack. Every day they came into the vault and yanked me out, only for there to be a new person standing there scared out of their mind. They forced me to practice my ability which grew stronger every day, in the hope that I'd see the future, not the past. I have yet to get that far, but I have a feeling if they keep this up, I'll be there before too long.

It was the same process every day. Think, eat, sleep, practice, think. Every time they pulled me out of that vault to practice, I grew to hate them more with every passing day. The fact that they pulled an innocent person off of the streets for me to practice on was enough as it was, but then watching them take the memory away from them was the worst part. Their screams from their claws going into their necks haunted me at night, chilling me to the core. I just wanted to help them and tell them it was alright.

Now I was sitting up against the vault wall, my mind flipping back and forth between my abilities now and about Jade. I wondered what would happen once they got stronger, along with the fact of how I could even do it, but never did I get any answers from Deucalion. Every time I asked him about it or about Jade, he told me to keep quiet and that Jade would talk to me when she felt like it. Never did I ever guess it would take her two months to finally show her face again.