OᑭEᑎ ᗯOᑌᑎᗪ ◎ ℍ𝕠𝕡𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕜𝕒𝕖𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 ◎

Chapter 9

I shook my head giving up and headed back outside. I walked past Hope and the others ignoring them. I could smell their chemosignals going off the charts. That's when I heard it. I slowed to a stop and perked my head up, listening. Help!!! Help us!!! Someone help! "Josie? Raf?" I whispered. My eyes went wide as my eyes glowed red. I could see a supernatural trail of something coming from the woods. I growled before running into the woods in search of Josie and Raf. 

I came across a mill and ran inside to find a bunch of giant webs inside. "And the prize for Look-Who-Was-Freaking-Right-Again award goes to...me." I said. "Scott!" Raf yelled. "I'm coming! Hang on!" I shouted. "Watch out!" Josie screamed. I turned around and was smacked aside by a giant leg. I hit a wall and fell to the ground. I got to my feet and morphed into a werewolf. "Okay. But first...I gotta exterminate a spider infestation." I said running at the monster and slashing at its legs. It tried grabbing me but I was too fast. I dodged out the way of another attack. "Guys now would be a really good chance in getting out." I said. "We can't we're stuck!" Josie said. "Witch out then! I'm kinda busy!" I said grabbing a leg just in time to deflect an attack. But I wasn't fast enough to dodge out the way of his hand that grabbed me and flung me out of the mill. I flew past Hope and the others, crashing into a tree and falling all the way down to the ground, hard. I groaned. "That's...gonna leave a mark...even if it does regenerate." I strained. Hope ran to me. "Are you okay?" She asked. "You should see the other guy." I said getting up. I broke into a run and jumped into the mill and tackled the spider to the ground. Hope ran inside and looked at the fight between me and the monster. I grabbed its leg that was about to stab me in the chest. My eyes went wide as I looked at it. It screeched. "Yeah. Yeah. I get it." I said grabbing the leg with both hands and yanked on it. The leg came off and I spun around and smacked the spider in the face with it. "How did you like that you overgrown eight-legged freak?" I asked dropping the leg disgusted. It screeched. "Scott. Go I got this." Hope said. I looked at her and nodded. I jumped to the other floor and helped Rafael and Josie out of the entangling webs. "You good?" I asked them. "Hell yeah." Raf said. I grabbed Sasha and ran outside. I laid Sasha on the ground and took the webs off of her. I stood up and sighed when Lizzie, Josie, and Hope exited the mill covered in spider guts.

Back at Salvatore School, Night

I sat in a room shirtless standing in front of a mirror staring at my newest tattoo on my back. I had a triskele cover almost the entirety of my upper back. Derek's family pack symbol. That I used to be a part of. That I am still a part of. I sighed. There was a knock on the door and the others came in. "Come to accuse me some more about being a killer and a monster?" I said turning around and walking away grabbing my shirt off the desk chair. I slipped it back on and turned back around facing them. "Or are you guys here to pick a fight?" I asked. "We came here to tell you thanks for saving our lives." Rafael said pointing to him and Josie. "I don't know about them." Raf added. I nodded my head. "You're welcome." I said. "Look, we're sorry if we called a monster but you have to understand our suspicions, Scott. You're not exactly trustworthy anymore." Hope said. "If that's your version of an apology...it sucks." I said crossing my arms. "When we saw you fighting...the-" Hope started. "-The actual monster? That I was right all along about?" I said interrupting her. "The point is we can't trust you if we know nothing about you. I saw into your mind but even I got flashes of a life I know nothing about." Hope said taking a step forward. "Careful. I'm a killer...remember?" I said. "I had no right in calling you that, Scott." Lizzie said. "Really? If you had no right...then why did you keep doing it?" I asked. I unknowingly was digging my claws into the palms of my hands. "Scott you're bleeding." Hope said. "I heal." I said unclenching my fists staring at the black claws covered in my blood. "This goes both ways right? You trust me and I trust you right? Well that's all I ever wanted for the past couple of days but apparently there was a one-way trip to Trust-ville that I missed." I said. 

"You know...I went the last couple of years building a family on trust. My pack was the one thing that stood between my city safety and oblivion. Because of what my pack and I did to keep the city safe...I lost people...good people. Friends and family. Those people I lost...all played some part in my life. What you're seeing now...is half the person I used to be. That person you're seeing is a different kid. He's not the same kid that had some future in veterinary medicine, or the kid that had a girl that would do anything in the world for him. He's no longer the kid that has a family that's whole or a pack that's together. No, I'm the kid that lost everything and is now broken and damaged. I'm the guy that lost more than he could handle. So he walked away from the city he used to call home for 11 years. The city he swore to protect with his life. He left because all it did was remind him of what he lost. So he came here looking for someone...he came looking for a friend that he met in New Orleans when he was 5. That same friend is now accusing him of something that he has made a promise to never become. Because when he was a Beta. His Alpha forced him to try and do something he wanted no part of. His Alpha wanted him to kill his friends in order to join his pack for good. The Alpha's logic was if his Beta killed his friends...the Beta would care for nothing but the pack. So the Beta went against him. And the Alpha's nephew killed him. That Beta...is still what makes him the kind of Alpha he is now. So believe me, when I say I didn't really appreciate all the accusations and ridicules I was given today at the school." I said leaving the room grabbing a jacket.