Gabriella grips the wheel of Derek's car with Scott and Stiles looks with her.

She speeds up luring Kate that was in the car behind them "Faster?"

"Much faster"

So Gabriella FLOORS IT sending them careening toward a turn.

But as Derek's Camaro bullets down the road, Stiles looks through the rear windshield, confused.

"They're gone" Stiles says making Gabriella frown in confusion

"what?!"

Stiles glances to the POLICE SCANNER in his lap and raises the volume "All units, suspect is on foot headed north, last seen on Hancock"

" seriously Derek" Gabriella drives as fast as the car goes trying to reach Derek before the hunters or the cops do.

As they reached there they saw-

A BOLT FIRES THROUGH THE AIR.

Derek raises his hand at the EXPLOSIVE FLASH.

Too late.

He blinks rapidly, vision blurring.

The FLARE blinds him, sending him stumbling back, eyes blinking in pain.

Gabriella peers up, seeing Argent, rapidly and expertly reloading a crossbow with a new bolt.

Gabriella stops the car infront of Derek, the passenger door swings open. "Get in!"

Derek pushes off the ground and hurtles forward.

As derek got into the car, the tires spin across the pavement, kicking up dust as they leave in a rush.

Gabriella turns back to face derek "What part of laying low don't you understand?"

"i had him!"

"Who? The Alpha?" Stiles said with a weird excitement in his tone

"He was right in front of me. And then the freaking police show up"

"Hey, hey, hey, they're just doing their jobs" Stiles defended them

"Thanks to someone who decided to make me the most wanted fugitive in the state" Derek glares at scott

"Can we seriously get past that? Yes, I made a dumbass mistake. I get it"

"How'd you find him? "

Derek falls silent making Scott sigh in frustration

"Can you try to trust us for half a second?"

"yea, the three of us" Derek levels a homicidal glare at Stiles "Or just Gabriella"

"The last I time I talked to my sister, she was close to figuring something out. She found two things. The first was a guy named Harris.

Gabriella frowns "Our Chemistry teacher... Why him?"

"I don't know"

"What's the second?" The shewolf asked

"Some kind of symbol" Derek pulls out a folded up piece of paper and opens it to show him a simple photocopy.

Scott takes one look and lets out a hopeless sigh which derek notices "What? You know what this is?"

"I've seen it. On a necklace"

Slowing the Camaro, Gabriella gazes at a drawing of the symbol for the Beast of Gévaudan.

"that's allison's necklace"

[...]

Gabriella dropped her tray onto the table where Stiles and Scott were already seated. "Did you get her to give you the necklace?"

Scott hesitated. "Not exactly."

"What happened?"

"She told me not to talk to her. At all."

Stiles paused, then leaned in. "So she's not giving you-"

"No," Scott cut him off. "She's not giving me the necklace."

Stiles sighed. "Did you find out anything else?"

Scott groaned. "Only that I know absolutely nothing about girls. They're totally psychotic."

Gabriella rolled her eyes and scoffed before "accidentally" stabbing his hand with her fork.

"Whoops," she said nonchalantly.

Scott looked down at his hand, already healed, then glared at Gabriella. Before he could say anything, Stiles spoke up.

"Okay. I came up with a Plan B in case something like this happened," Stiles announced.

Scott frowned. "What's Plan B?"

Stiles grinned mischievously. "Just steal the stupid thing."

Scott shook his head. "What about Harris? Couldn't we try getting to him?"

Gabriella cut in. "The sheriff put him under 24-hour protective detail."

Stiles leaned forward, determined. "All we've got is the necklace. So... steal it."

Scott suddenly tensed. "He's watching us."

Gabriella and Stiles followed Scott's gaze, spotting Jackson across the cafeteria. He was seated with Allison and Lydia, watching them with obvious amusement.

"Act normal," Gabriella muttered.

Scott glanced back at Jackson, who was staring at him, completely unbothered. Jackson picked up an apple and took a loud bite, the crunch ringing through the cafeteria like a taunt.

When Scott looked back, Jackson had put the apple down and was now gazing at him with interest.

"Scott," Jackson whispered, his voice somehow winding its way across the room, low but clear, only for Scott and Gabriella to hear. "Can you hear me?"

Gabriella stiffened, her eyes darting to Scott, warning him not to respond.

Jackson leaned closer to the girls at his table but whispered softly enough for only Scott to catch. "You can, can't you?"

Stiles noticed the tension. "What's wrong?"

Scott's voice was low and controlled. "Jackson's talking to me. He knows I can hear him. Look at me. Talk to me. Pretend like nothing's happening."

Stiles panicked. "I-I don't know what to say! My mind's blank."

Gabriella shot Scott a firm look. "Block him out. Jackson's just an asshole. Underneath all that bravado, there's an insecure little girl banging on the closet door, trying to get out."

Scott smirked despite himself, but the moment didn't last.

Stiles suddenly frowned. "FYI, he's not sitting with them anymore."

Gabriella glanced over at Allison and Lydia, noticing the empty seat where Jackson had been. "Where the hell is he?"

"Looking for me, McCall?" Jackson's voice taunted. "I'm right here."

Scott didn't look around, keeping his eyes on Gabriella and Stiles.

"What else can you do?" Jackson continued. "Can you see better? Stronger? More powerful? I knew there was no way you suddenly got that good at lacrosse. You're a cheater, aren't you?"

Scott gripped his tray tightly, his knuckles white.

Jackson's voice lowered, turning cruel. "You know what I'm going to start with? Her. I'm going to destroy any chance you have left with her."

Scott's hand shook as he picked up his drink.

Jackson pressed on, his voice dripping with malice. "And when I'm done with that, I'll get her alone... and I'll get my hands all over her-"

Gabriella's eyes flashed red. She ducked her head, hiding the glow. Without a word, she grabbed her tray and walked toward Jackson.

As she approached, she "accidentally" tripped, sending her tray of food flying onto him.

"Oops," she said sweetly, leaning close enough to dig her claws into his thigh.

The cafeteria froze, all eyes on them. Gabriella smiled apologetically. "I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to do that."

Jackson glared at her as she casually walked away, tossing a sly smile over her shoulder.

[...]

Gabriella stormed into her room, tossing her bag aside as she collapsed onto her bed.

Her eyes shot open when she heard an unfamiliar heartbeat in the room.

"Derek?" she snapped, turning to face him. "You can't just break into people's houses whenever you feel like it!"

"Scott didn't get the necklace?" Derek asked, ignoring her tone.

"He's still working on it," Gabriella said. "But there's something else we can try. Remember when we were trapped in the school? Scott sent a text to Allison, telling her to meet him there."

Derek frowned. "So?"

Gabriella's eyes narrowed. "It wasn't Scott."

"Can you figure out who sent the text?"

"Yeah, but it'll take some time."

"Then get started," Derek said firmly.

Gabriella rolled her eyes. "Yes, sir."

After some time at her computer, Gabriella froze, staring at the screen in disbelief.

"No way," she whispered.

Derek moved closer. "What is it?"

She pointed to the screen, the words glaring back at them:

BEACON HILLS HOSPITAL - MELISSA MCCALL.

[...]

Gabriella drove toward Beacon Hills Long-Term Care with Derek in the passenger seat.

On the phone, Scott's voice broke through. "Did you get the picture?"

Gabriella glanced at her phone, seeing an image of Allison's necklace.

"Yeah," she said, "and it looks exactly like the drawing."

Derek leaned in. "Ask if there's anything on the back-an inscription, an opening, anything."

Scott, overhearing, sighed. "No. The thing's flat. It doesn't open. There's nothing."

Gabriella checked the clock with a pained expression. "Okay, thanks, Scott. Tell Stiles I'm sorry I'll miss his first game. I'll make it up to him later."

She hung up and noticed Derek staring at her.

"You didn't tell him about his mom," he said.

"Not until we know the truth," she replied firmly.

She got out of the car and headed into the hospital, determination in her every step.

[...]

Phone to her ear, Gabriella paces up the empty corridor "I said I can't find her"

Still in the car, Derek talks to Gabriella on his cell "Ask for Jennifer. She's been looking after my uncle.

" Yeah well, he's not here either"

"What?" Derek sits up in alarm "Get out of there. It's him. He's the Alpha"

Gabriella slowly pulls the phone away, turning around to see Peter Hale.

He gives the girl a friendly smile, burns stretching hideously up one side of his face. "Gabriella, it's good to finally formally meet you"

" Good for you, Good Bye!" Gabriella takes a step back from Peter.

Then spins to find Jennifer standing on the other side of the corridor " What are you doing here? Visiting hours are over"

Gabriella looks from her to Peter, Both of them approaching " I should've known every bitch called Jennifer is evil"

Gabriella opens her mouth, revealing sharpened fangs, She lowers into an attack pose.

But then a HAND presses to Jennifer's cheek and SLAMS her head to the wall.

She crumbles to the floor to reveal Derek behind her.

"That wasn't nice. She's my nurse" Peter said with fake concern

"She's a psychotic bitch helping you kill people"

Derek launches himself at Peter.

His uncle, however, barely seems to move.

EYES FLASHING RED, he grabs Derek by the jacket, slamming him into one wall, CRACKING THE PLASTER, then SLAMMING him into the opposite side with the same result

"You think I killed Laura on purpose? One of my own family?"

Gabriella decided to step in and grabs Peter's shoulders throwing him through a wall.

Peter emerged from the rubble "My mind--my personality--was literally burned out of me. I was being driven by pure instinct"

" You want forgiveness?" Derek spit out

"I want understanding-" Peter said before getting interrupted by Gabriella

"understanding!? You bit a teenage kid, you forced him to fight when he should've been worrying about Tests and getting invited to stupid parties and not if he was gonna kill somone every damn full moon"

Ignoring Gabriella Peter looks at derek "Derek, You have to at least give me a chance to explain. After all... we're family"

Gabriella having enough of his bullshit brought her hands up and was about to use the power she was born with not caring if it will drain her, but then she felt a sharp pain in her stomach she looks down to see a metal pipe sticking out of her and as she was about to fight back her head was smashed into the brick wall making her black out.

[...]

After a while Gabriella came to it, she opened her eyes and saw she was still in the hospital and she still had a metal pipe sticking out of her.

She grabs it quickly pulling it out, ad she healed she remembers what happened and she remembers Derek was the one who stabbed her.

" that son of a bitch"

Gabriella stands up after remembering that they will probably go after Scott and stiles.

So she rushes as fast as she can to the school.

[...]

Gabriella made it to school and runs to the locker room and as she made it to the locker room she saw Stiles and Scott slumped on a bench.

"We have a huge problem"

"Trust me, we know"

She looked at there faces and realized she was to late Derek and Peter came here first.

"What happened?"

"Derek and his uncle teamed up and knocked me out" Stiles said with an icepack on his head

"Then peter put his claws into the back of my neck and weird flashes came rushing into my head" Scott said making Gabriella realise what he did

" His memories, he shared his memories with you, what did you see"

" I saw... the hale fire, him being in a coma, I saw him killing people and I felt his anger, his pain and his need for revenge" Scott explained

" against who?"

"everyone but aimed especially at the argents... he wants them dead and he wants me to help"

[...]

Through a mist-shrouded trail, a shivering Lydia and an confused Gabriella reluctantly follow Allison into the woods.

Gabriella decided to keep Allison close to her at all time so Peter and Derek don't hurt her as scott and stiles follow Jackson making sure that the argents don't hurt him.

" Allison, when you said you need to stop for an errand before we went shopping, a five mile hike in the woods wasn't what I was expecting" Lydia complained, barely being able to walk properly since she wore heals

"It won't take long"

"Can you at least tell us what we're doing?" Gabriella asks

" You'll see" Allison shifts a heavy black bag on her shoulder as she trudges up the path.

" You know, the human body only has to drop to 95 degrees to be hypothermic" Gabriella complained, she knew she wouldn't get hypothermic but the look on Allison's face when she looks at Lydia makes it seem like she is planning something

Allison ignored Gabriella and looked at lydia "wait Before I forget, I wanted to ask you somthing lydia"

"I'll say yes to anything if it includes getting out of here" Lydia said still struggling to walk

"Jackson asked me to go to the winter formal with him"

Gabriella's eyes widen as she remembers what he said during lunch at school.

Lydia blinks. Any real reaction remains imperceptible "Did he?"

"Just as friends. But I wanted to see if you were okay with it first"

Any emotional reaction still imperceptible, Lydia smiles "Sure. As long it's just friends"

" Well, yeah. It's not like I'm going to take him under the bleachers during lacrosse practice and start making out with him"

Now Lydia's emotions are perceptible.

Gabriella looks away from Lydia awkwardly remembering when Allison pulled the truth from her.

"Oh. Um. About that..."

Allison drops the bag and unzips it. "We should be good here. It's isolated enough"

Inside the bag she reveals a BOW and QUIVER of ARROWS.

Gabriella and lydia look down at it and lydia Looks around to see the three of them are indeed completely isolated. Then gives a nervous LAUGH.

Gabriella murmured under her breath "your an Argent alright"

Gabriella said as she watches Allison take a normal arrow and twist off the BULLET POINT.

She replaces it with the conical FLASH BOLT left to her by Kate.

"What does that do?" Lydia asks

" We're about to find out"

She takes a firing position in front of a TARGET pegged to a tree in the distance.

Setting the arrow just under the sight,
she expertly pulls back on the nocking point of the bowstring, Allison aims Then lets the bolt SOAR.

It EXPLODES AGAINST THE TREE with a BRILLIANT FLASH, strange WHORLS OF LIGHT spinning into the air.

"What the hell was that?" Lydia said with a horrified look on her fan

Lowering the bow, Allison gazes at the SMOKING, SCORCHED TARGET on the tree and shakes her head.

" I don't know" Allison looked happy, like she was proud, she had a grin that resembles her aunt Kate's.

Gabriella nodded slowly and whispered under her breath "Yup... definitely an Argent"

Lydia hugs herself in the cold while Allison comes back to her with the charred target in hand "Well, that was fun. Any other lethal weapons you want to try out?"

Gabriella stops. Cocking her head, she listens to the woods around them.

A moment later, they all hear it. MOVEMENT through the brush and leaves.

"What was that?" Lydia asks, scared

"Quiet" Allison said trying to listen But now there's nothing. Not a sound "Hold this" She hands the bow to Gabriella.

" Why?"

"I thought I heard something" Allison said

Lydia scared from the noise just wants to get out of there "So what if you heard something?"

"So I want to go find out what that something is. Don't worry, it's probably nothing" Allison shrugs

Lydia looked at her in disbelief "What if nothing is something and that something is something dangerous?"

Allison nods to the bow "Shoot it"

As Allison turns to move towards the noise Gabriella holds her back "You're not going out there alone without a weapon"

"I have a weapon" Allison lifts up her jacket just enough so Gabriella can see the taser Allison had.

" Well your still not going out there alone"

Gabriella grips Lydia's hands and walked into the direction of where the noise was leaving no room for Allison to argue.

"do I have a say in this?!"

Gabriella and Allison yelled at the same time "No!"

They moves quickly but quietly throughout the trail ,when SOMETHING slips through the brush just near them

Gabriella stops at the sound making the other two stop Then retreats a step, pulling back against a tree.

Gabriella looked at Allison with a look saying get your taser ready.

Breath held, they slowly steps away and then alliso SPINS back with the TASER X26 in her hands. She FIRES it, TWIN PRONGS SOARING through the air and landing on Scott.

He jerks back and falls to the ground with the STRANGLED CRY of someone being pummeled with 50 thousand volts of electricity.

" Scott?" Rushing over, she attempts to pull out the prongs, but he's still convulsing with spasms.

" Allison! Your trigger finger!" Gabriella yelled out

Allison notices she still has her finger on the trigger, still sending an electric charge into his shuddering body.

"Oh!"

She opens her hand, dropping the weapon to the ground.

Finally, Scott breathes, his body relaxing into the leaves.

"I'm so, so, so sorry"

"My fault. Totally my fault." Scott said in pain

" What the hell are you doing out here" Lydia yelled at the beta

Scott reaches into his jacket pocket and delicately pulls out Allison's necklace "I found this at school, I wanted to return it"

With a relieved breath, Allison takes the necklace "Oh, thank God. I was starting to think it had been stolen"

Gabriella smiled at the scene infront of her before leaning closer to Lydia and whispering in her ear " c'mon let's leave the love birds to reconnect"

Gabriella smiled and leads Lydia away from the two.

[...]

𝕭𝖆𝖉 𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖙 𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌

Gabriella and Stiles sit on her bed, hands entwined. Moonlight filters through the curtains, casting a romantic glow.

" I missed your first game, and I can't change