My Love for Derek Hale *Discontinued*

Code Breaker

Me and Derek are in silence when we hear a distant howl. I recognize it as Scott. I react with a deep howl in return. I hang my head with a sigh, weak and tired. "Scott needs my help. We need to get out of here," I whisper.

"I'm working on it."

I hear Derek fiddle with the handcuffs on his wrist. I try, myself, to use my claws to cut the rope on my wrist. Kate comes back again. She looks like she's on her way out. "Why don't you just torture us?" Derek asks.

"I don't wanna torture you. But he does."

A big, tall man comes through the slid door. I roll my eyes. I notice the bat in his hand and I start to panic. Kate leaves and shuts the door tightly behind her. The guy immediately strikes me on the side. I cry out. He hits me again. I can hear a rib crack. He tries to take a swing at Derek but, somehow, he got his left arm free and he catches the bat in mid-air. The man tries to fight back and claims Derek will lose. "We're not alone," he replies.

I look up and see Scott. I smile in relief. While the man is distracted when he turns around to look at Scott, Derek takes the opportunity to knock the man out. "Scott, help me," Derek says.

"You have to agree to help me first."

"What?"

"Help me get Allison back. Promise to help me and I'll-"

The sound of Derek breaking his other restraint makes me jump. "I'll help you."

They both help me out the chair but I can barely stand. I get my shirt back and Derek got his shirt and his leather jacket. "Hey. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Something doesn't feel right," Derek says, as we're walking through the woods, toward the Hale house.

"What do you mean?" I ask.

"I don't know. It's...it's kind of like it's..."

"No, don't say 'too easy'. People say 'too easy' and bad things happen. What, do you think to find you two was easy? Getting away from Allison's dad? None of this has been easy," Scott replies.

"Fine. You're right."

"Thank you."

That's when an arrow shoots past my face, almost grazing my cheek, and hits Derek in the arm. Another comes and shoots him in the leg. I turn to see Kate and Allison. All of a sudden, I feel something coming toward me and, when I move, an arrow shoots by. Scott grabs my arm. "Come on!"

But it's too late. She shoots an arrow that blinds us. Derek grabs us and tries to escape but Scott is confronted by Allison. She doesn't believe that not one thing he did was to protect her. "Allison, please," I plea. "Kate has put all this crap in your head that we're all bad but we're not. Just think. This isn't you."

Kate sees I'm getting through to her so she tries to shoot me in the leg but I roll out the way. She then says that they will have to kill us. Allison looks surprised. "I thought you said we were capturing them."

"Yeah, we did that. Now we kill them."

She lifts a gun and shoots Derek. She knows Allison doesn't have it in her to kill Scott, not even me. I run to aid, kneeling down next to him. When I look up, Kate's pointing the gun at me. I gulp and hold my hands up in surrender. She laughs. "You were such a sweet girl, Scarlett."

She's about to pull the trigger when Chris appears. "Kate! I know what you did. Put the gun down."

"I did what I was told to do," is her only response.

"No one asked you to murder innocent people. There were children in that house, ones who were human. Look what you're doing now. You're holding a gun to 16-year-old twins with no proof they spilled human blood. We go by a code."