About two weeks had passed since the whole Peter situation. There was a new lizard killer in Beacon hills, hunters had piled in, including Gerard Argent. And a very frail being laid in a hospital bed. If she was alive, none knew for sure. Her friends, Jackson, Danny and Scott had visited on a regular. And after her awakening, so did Lydia. Her brother and father were at her side every second they could be. But her most recent and often visitor, had found a spare moment on this day. Whilst his pack had just recruited Vernon Boyd and fought Scott. He felt an odd longing to see his once best friend. 

Alexandria Stilinski, the name on the girls armband. To Derek Hale, she was known as X, Alex, dumbass or Bitch. Derek was one of the very few who knew about her heart 'problem'. His mother had soothed him when he first thought she had died. She revealed that the Stilinksi girl was special and sadly, this was a side effect from it. When she was any form of unconscious, her heartbeat was non-existant. 

This made it very hard to know if Kate's torture had actually killed the girl or not. 

Derek had tried a different method of getting her to wake up every time he visited. His latest theory was that taking her pain could help awaken her. His hand, lightly grazed her ice cold skin, trying to catch an once of pain yet he found none. His hand stayed on her arm as he was unable to look away from the scaring on her arm. 

Just as he tried to let go, his eyes flashed it's glowing red before closing. When he reopened his eyes he was met with a very dark enviroment. Covered in cracks and bloody. He tried to take a step forward only for the enviroment to change into a long, quite creepy hall. There were mirrors all along it with a large, glowing white door. He walked down the hall. Alert to anything that could happen in the unfamiliar place. As mirrors were passed, murmurs were heard and images were seen. To Derek the faces of Sam and Dean Winchester were unfamiliar. As well as Castiel and Crowley. But Stiles and the Sheriff's faces were not. His mothers face was not. Laura was not... 

It didn't take a genious to figure out that this may have been a passange to Alex's mind. But his thoughts were confused as to why and how he managed to get to it. Was it beause he tried to take her pain? 

Vague images of things that had happened to her, just memories of how people looked. The more he walked, the harder it felt to move, to breathe. It was like Pain was surrounding him the closer he got to the door. 

The light was almost blinding. Almost, the only thing darkening it a bit was a cracked black mirror. Inside, was the face of Claudia Stilinski. It didn't look like the happy woman Stiles or the Sheriff explained to everyone she was. No, this woman almost seemed evil. 

Derek, having seen enough of the creepy hall, pushed the door open only to be met with a void. 

In the deep dark, a vague distance ahead, a figure seemed to appear. Walking a lot faster, Derek saw the figure enhance... there wasn't just one figure.

Most of the people he saw surrounding one object were people he knew, People who were deceased. But everyone around the object were deceased. All people who played a massive part in forming the Alex everyone knew. 

Derek, deciding to get a little bit closer, had seen the person he had been trying to save chained to a platform below her and was on her knees with her hands over her ears. 

At the sight, he could not help but mutter: "Alex?" 

The girl's head snapped up.  Removing her hands from her ears as the figures around her disappeared in a cloud of smoke. Taking a clear image, Derek saw the tear stains on her cheeks. The mark Kate had left was drawn on the plateform below her, not that he noticed the crutail detail. He did notice her dry, distant sounding, painfilled voice as she questioned his existance. 

"D-Derek?" 

It was clear she had been crying and screaming. Most likely to get out of wherever this was. 

"How are you here.... Are you real?" 

"I don't know," he answered truthfully. "One second I was trying to take your pain, thinking it could wake you. The next, I was here." 

"How-How long has it been?" she asked him. Looking around as Derek answered: "About just over 2 weeks." 

"How are Jackson and Stiles handling it?" her voice seemed to start to come back. 

"Jackson, Stiles, your dad and Scott's mom have been visiting you regularly."  he told her. 

She slightly smiled, her mind thinking about the fact that they cared. 

"How do I get you out of here? I don't think your body is going to last much longer." He told her with a concerned laced voice. 

"I know, my body is killing itself from the inside out." She answered and made a face. Moving her lips to the right side of her face, making it look like she was trying to smirk, whilst her eyes traveled from right to left. Derek knew this as her thinking face. 

"Do you have-" she stopped as a jolt of something attacked her. "Have, that tea Alpha Sitomi used to give us?" 

Derek thought for a second and nodded: "There should be some in the vault." 

"I need 4 pieces of it, with 4 pieces of any strong wolfsbane you can find." she said in a hurry. 

"What's going on? What do I do when I get them? Why the wolfsbane?" Derek asked. 

"They're coming back, I wont be able to hear you. make sure to crush both of them together, mix them together and divide exactly halves. One half gets placed on the wound Kate inflicted the other gets forced down my throat, no matter what my reaction is. You do this, okay?" she had sounded Paranoid as the figures came back. Slowly moving in from the sides. 

"Okay. How do I get out of here?" Derek asked her but she could no longer hear. The figures were surrounding her. "GO!" her voice echoed through the entire place. Derek covered his ears just as her painfilled screams started. 

He opened his eyes and was right next to her, holding her arm like nothing had ever happened. Yet somehow, he knew. What he had just endured was not just a fragment of his imagination. It was Alex crying out for help. The girl he thought had hated him... 

He shook the thoughts from his mind. The lacrosse game was in 24 hours and frankly, Derek had a feeling something was going to happen. He needed to be sure it wasn't too Alex. He needed to be sure that the person who once meant the world to him, the only person to ever put him first, was going to be okay. 

So, he made a run for it. Derek ran to the school, realizing his car could be too obvious and that the Hale vault was supposed to stay a secret. He opened it without hesitation and found the Reishi Mushrooms that were used to make the tea his mother once loved. 

He didn't know where to get wolfsbane so, he resulted in getting Scott to steal some of the plant. Scott was confused as to why but did so anyway. 

Once having both the needed ingredients, Derek crushed them together whilst his Beta's were at school. Then he carefully transported the concoction too the hospital and snuck in as a normal civilian which he probably still would have been if it weren't for Scott and Stiles. 

Dividing the mixture in halves, Derek put on some gloves before carefully placing the mixture on the wound as Alex had instructed. For a second her hand started shaking before everything went quiet... too quiet. Derek let out a heavy breath before forcing the rest down her throat. He couldn't help but notice her back arc as her body subconsciously fought against him. 

Once it was sure that the mixture was down her throat. He let go and took a step back, watching the scene with careful, analyzing eyes. 

The heart monitor started beating, slowly but it was there. Then slowly her hands started shakily opening and closing as the heartbeats got stronger. Once they were back to normal, Alex jolted up and swung her legs to the side of the bed so that she could sit up. She pulled the Iv's out of her arms whilst the notification of her awakening was sent to her main caretaker at the hospital. 

Melissa McCall. 

She tried to stand up, only to have her legs give out. Luckily, Derek had been there to catch her and place her on the bed. He then hid behind the door as Melissa and other doctors rushed into the room. 

She tried to stand up again, but was pushed down. "Lay down, sweetie. You've been out for quite the while," Melissa stated with sorrowfull eyes as Alex moved away from her. 

She told the others too leave. "Look, Scott told me why your mad at me..." she trailed off with a sigh, "I only hid it... him from you, so that you could heal. You went through so much and knowing that he survived would have prevented you from moving on." 

"Moving on..." Alex trailed off with an anger in her voice, "Sorry. sorry. I'm just struggling to grasp a hold of the fact that I FUCKING WENT ROUGE!" 

Derek emerged from the shadows to hold her back. He now knew why wolfsbane was needed. Her claws... she was a werewolf. 

Melissa jumped up in a fright at the sudden appearance. 

"What is Derek Hale doing in here?" the nurse asked and Derek looked to Alex for an explanation. 

"We're friends. You know this. Or maybe you hid that from me as well." Alex bitterly stated making Melissa look down with sadness. "I'll leave you two too it." 

"Peter bit you too... Did you ask for it?" He asked looking at her with what seemed to be confusion. 

"Yeah, I know what being a werewolf can do too you. I definitely asked for it!" She sarcastically told him. 

"Then how?" Derek asked her. 

"The night Scott got bitten... I fought him to save Scott. He bit me while we were fighting." she explained. 

Derek did not want to pry on what seemed to be an upsetting subject to the teen huntress. 

"Let's get you out of here," he stated and picked her up. "Derek let me down!" she whined but he ignored it as he carried her away and too the abandoned subway he stayed at. 

The three Beta's returned from school whining until they saw Derek with Alex in his arms. 

Isaac's face immediately lit up, so did Boyd's. Erica didn't really know her so there wasn't a bond there. 

"Hey, Bitches!" Her still a bit croaky voice sang in order to greet them. 

"Thank god you weren't dead," Boyd smiled at her. The two had an odd history. Boyd was lonely, Alex liked to iceskate in her free time. They made quick friends and she used to give him rides to and from school as well as raised a fund to get him from taking the bus to a car or bike. 

"I swear I was gonna take you too the dance but I got kidnapped." She explained to Isaac who just smiled. 

"Alex, I believe you are yet to meet Erica." Isaac stated and motioned to the blonde. 

"Reynes? Good call Derek. She's hot now." Alex said, geniunely impressed with the decision. 

"Enough, now we train." Derek sternly announced. 

"This ought to be interesting," Alex laughed as she was laid down on a more comfortable surface.