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You do,

Or

You don't.

Right

Or

Wrong.

Good

Or

Bad.

What's the difference? Nothing. This isn't a black and white world --at least not anymore.

No this world is grey. Not just one shade but 50. And no not the novel or movie about a seriously disturbed guy whose obsessed with sex.

No this 50 shades of grey is darker and more importantly based on life and death.

Just like trust and loyalty it's a huge grey area.

You can do the right thing and still be in the wrong. You could see yourself as the hero but will always be a villain.

You could do something big but in reality it does nothing to change the end results.

•••

"I pulled back, there's a difference." Ethan defends himself. As his brother Aiden disagreed, unlike his brother who didn't want to hurt Scott or Derek he wanted to. It wasn't for the fact he wanted more like needed. If they didn't kill her or the boy with the neck tattoo, they would be the one who dies. They would be the next Ennis (who had succumbed to his wounds, at least that's what their Alpha said) in a body bag.

"Why him? I get we have to go after her but why Sweet Pea? Besides his anger issues he's no threat to us." Ethan asked his brother as Aiden stops and looks at his twin.

"Whatever Ms. Blake has planned has something to do with him. You heard what Deucalion said. She brought him here. She seems really adamant about keeping him out of harms way." Just as he finished the backup generator turn on. Giving the hospital an even more creepy glow.

"First chance we get, we kill her or the kid." Aiden ordered as he left, Ethan later following his brother.

•••

"You can't. Only I can." Ms. Blake spoke as she walked into the room where the gang was. All of them minus the unconscious girl look to the women. Noticing a very important detail, the boy was no where.

"Where's Sweet Pea?" Stiles and Scott asked as they look to the door waiting for him to storm in.

"Left. He said he'd rather not deal with a pack of angry werewolves out to kill me. He already had enough of you wolves to last a lifetime." Ms. Blake answered as Scott seemed to buy it and so did the older Hales.

"W-wolves? He said that exact words?" Stiles asked as he looked to the women.

Just as Deucalion threw the staff, Ms. Blake pulled Sweet Pea out of the way, nearly missing him. Pulling them both to the elevator and closing it did the female Alpha run to get both of them.

Just as Ms. Blake used her power to shove Kali away and the elevator closed did sigh relief. "So that's what their after, you." Sweet Pea spoke as he glared at the women.

"I just saved your life and you want to throw me to them?" She noticed the look on his face he scoffs loud. "Yeah I do. Very much so, your the bitch who kidnapped me and I may not remember everything but I remember the little visits you have and the beatings you did on me. So yeah, I'd rather you be dog chow." As he spoke he walked towards the women who was taking steps back until her back was against the railing and wall.

Her eyes glowed white as she blasted him to the other side and knocking him unconscious, her scared demeanor gone and an angry Darach stood in her place. "Sorry kid. Can't have you doing that. First chance they get at you they'll murder you and I can't have you dying. Not yet." Just as the elevator dinged open did she grip the Serpent's ankle and drag him out of the elevator. She grunts as he was somehow heavier than the last time she dragged him.

"What did this kid do? Eat everything since he woke up?!" She hissed as she finally dropped his feet as she open the closet and dragged him in. Sitting him up in the corner she found zip ties and tied one of his hands to one of the many shelves. She tied the other to the other shelf then zip ties his feet together. Just as she was about to leave she remembered she need to gag him. Looking through the shelves she found a wax strip big enough to cover his mouth or a medical tape.

Going with the former did she peel of the paper and stuck the wax on the kids mouth. "This should keep you."

"Every word. Especially the wolves part." She answered the human as she turns to Derek and Scott ready to make a proposal.

Her life for Cora's and the sheriff. She needed protecting from the Alpha pack what better way to to get it than to make a trade?

Just as Scott and Derek were talking to Ms. Blake Stiles's brain was going haywire.

Something wasn't right and Stiles's gut was telling him that whatever it was it had to deal with Sweet Pea.

Could it be possible that just like his dad did Ms. Blake kidnap the Serpent? Could Sweet Pea be another sacrifice? If he is, then what was the pattern?

Gang? Cult? Was his dad apart of a cult and he didn't know? When did his father have time for a cult anyway?

Oh god, his dad could be apart of a cult. Or worse a gang, not just any but the Southside Serpents. The same as Sweet Pea.

Does that mean his dad has a double-headed snake tattoo somewhere on his body?!

"Um, can I have your attention please?" Mrs. McCall voice rang through the P.A.

•••

"Julia..." Kali sung just as she walked out from hiding. Beside her was her brother, Emmett. From seeing the Alpha she considered a friend and seeing the man she thought she loved with blood on their hands and feet (Kali mainly as Emmett wore shoes) she hid behind Derek.

"It is you." Emmett spoke, his tone held no anger or remorse but completely monotone. Covering her brothers mistake and his slight show of weakness towards the women, she roared ready to attack. Derek and Jennifer --or Julie took off towards the hallways followed by the Alpha siblings.

Hearing the roars and seeing Derek and Ms. Blake take off Stiles closed the ambulance doors. Him and Cora inside.

•••

"I don't want to find my dad's dead body." Stiles spoke as the image of his dad with the three way death made his heart quench. He already lost his mom he wasn't ready to lose his dad either.

"Hell... I don't even want to find Sweet Pea's body. Despite how much he get under my skin I... I can't..." He swallowed the large lump forming in his throat.

"May-maybe I always looked down on him is because he's something I'm not. He wasn't even here a day and I saw how my dad looked at him. I saw the looks he got at school and even coach praised him." Stiles admits to the unconscious girl. He needed to let these feelings out because for once he didn't know what to do. He couldn't do anything.

"You know, it's easier to talk to you when you're completely unconscious." He spoke as he looked to the girl. He took a deep breath and continued.

"It could be easier for me to to actually say this but uh--" he stops himself as his heart pounding harder. He knew of he didn't admit now he would never. And what better way to admit some uncovered feelings than to a completely unconscious Hale?

"M-maybe my opinions on Sweet Pea changed... before I hated him and his stupid tattoo but" Stiles scoffs not believing he is actually admitting it. "But now, I know more about him and why he's so... him. He still annoys me but maybe he's like me you know? He's like that because he lost everyone he loved when he a kid and that does that to person."

Stiles looks down playing with his fingers. He spent nights lying awake wondering why the boy across the hall wouldn't leave his mind. At first he thought it because he couldn't figure out who he is or how his dad knows him. But them they had their bonding moment and still Sweet Pea plagued his mind.

Then he catch himself looking for the boy in the hallway or wherever something supernatural would happen. He found himself observing the boy whenever he was angry or spitting out insults. He noticed the bruised eye he would get when he comes back from the bar. How the black eye made him look more dangerous. He would also find himself liking the scent of the alcohol that came with Sweet Pea when he would return or the small hint of smoke. It was like his signature scent but Stiles found himself loving the smell.

The tattoo he once found horrendous was something he loved about the Serpent. It made him who he was and he couldn't imagine him without the double-headed snake. Because it wouldn't be Sweet Pea without the tattoos, without the dog tags, without the rings, with out the flannel, without the smell of smoke or alcohol.

It was those things that made the Serpent who he was and quite frankly Stiles has come to love those those things. Even if it annoyed him at the same time.

"I think I might be at--" Stiles was cut off by someone or something banging and growling.

•••

"Let's talk about Jennifer Blake. Or what was her name again?" Deucalion asked as both Kali and Emmett looked down. "Julia." Emmett spoke as he swallowed hard.

His heart tugging at the thought of his past love.

"I was the one she couldn't kill." Jennifer Blake spoke as she thought back to that day. "Maybe it's because of Emmett or something. You see Emmett and I were together."

"You did it because of Ennis. You Emmett did it because of your loyalty to your sister. After all Kali is your baby sister and you must protect her at all cost." Deucalion spoke as the siblings looked at each other. It was true, Kali loved Ennis and when she found out he was joining Deucalion's pack she was ready to follow. Even if meant killing their own pack.

Once Emmett found what Deucalion was doing and hearing his best friend Ennis was joining he knew it was a bad idea. Especially when he found out what you had to do to join. Just like Talia Emmett respected his pack and loved them. Out of him and his sister he was the level headed one. Kali was the impulsive one and often let her emotions get ahold of her. If it wasn't for Emmett Kali surely would have died long ago.

When he heard his baby sister was joining just for Ennis he knew Kali would be in even more in danger than before.

They had lost everything and it was o only Emmett and Kali and Emmett made a vow to protect and be loyal to Kali til death. Against his better judgement he killed his pack. Before he would see the light leave their eyes, he would apologize. But he needed to watch over his sister.

"It was many of the qualities I loved about him. His loyalty and his love for his sister, Kali. But if I only knew that would be the downfall between us. He was loyal yes but his loyalty to his sister is stronger than it was to me." Jennifer spoke sadly. Because it was the truth. Emmett didn't try to stop Kali from hurting her but merely closed his eyes as Kali nearly killed her.

Emmett's loyalty will always be with his sister and no one else. Wherever Kali went Emmett followed and if he had to choose between someone he loved or his sister, it would always be Kali.

Every. Single. Time.

"My heart bleeds for you both. Apparently hers could've bled a little more." Deucalion spoke as he walked out of the room leaving the siblings.

Sensing her brothers anger Kali turns to him, "I walked away from her for you Emmett. You loved her and I knew you'd want her to die peacefully than at the hands of your sister."

Emmett turns to his sister glaring, his eyes glowing a dark red. "Dying peacefully?! Kali slitting her throat would suffice than her to suffer. Look at her! She looks nothing like herself and to look in the mirror everyday and not seeing yourself is a living hell. That is more painful than dying at a hands of someone you loved. You did it because you felt guilty. You couldn't bare another burden on your soul so you let you her suffer." Emmett scoffs as his eyes watered. He goes for the door and before he opened it he looked behind him as Kali didn't turn around.

"Over the course of my life I have chosen you over everything else. Over my own happiness I chose yours. But now, I am done. I am only loyal to myself and no one else. Not you. Not Deucalion. No one." Then he walked out leaving the female Alpha alone.

Trying to hold her emotions together she quickly wipes the tears that has started to fall. She thought she was doing good by sparing Julia her life. Not only for her but also for her brother.

But now she had lost them all. She lost Ennis, she lost Julia and now she just lost her brother.

•••

"The sacrifice of a virgin." Jennifer spoke as she looked to Derek. Derek swallowed the lump in his throat as he thought back to that night. The night that changed everything.

The night Paige died in the root cellar.

"You gave me that power. Enough for me to hold onto life a little longer. Long enough to be found." Jennifer spoke as she thought back to that day, tears falling down her face. It was the power the energy she got from the Nemeton that she still lived to this day.

She then got the story of the mistletoe. Because just like Emissaries they were overlooked.

"It was a mistake Deucalion and the Alphas should never have made. Because I made an oath to myself. From virgins and warriors, from healers, philosophers, and guardians to loan me their power so I could teach these monsters that their monstrous actions would never be overlooked."

Derek looked to the women not seeing the justification in her speech. "You killed innocent people."

"So have you. I know the real color of your eyes and I know what it means." She paused as she saw the look in Derek's eyes. "I did it for the right reasons, she was suffering." Derek fought back weakly the wound still open. Jennifer snorts as she looked at Derek, "Look what that good deed got him. He wouldn't be where he is now if you had let her live." Jennifer mentioned the elephant in the room. She knew it and so did Derek. Sweet Pea would've been normal and happy.

"You can't beat 'em." Derek spoke as Jennifer retaliated with Boyd and the question about the lunar eclipse.

"We lose all our power." Derek spoke as he realized what the plan was. She was going to fight them during the lunar eclipse. But what Jennifer failed to mention was the power from the sacrifices only hold onto so much before it runs out.

She would need unlimited source of power. If the power she got from the Nemeton was from Paige she could use the same power during the lunar eclipse. But Paige was long gone and it was her blood that gave the Nemeton power so why not use the same blood?

Sweet Pea was the same blood as Paige and not just by blood type but by bloodline. Using the same blood from the first that had given you life was more powerful than any sacrifice. But Sweet Pea was human and his blood can only last so much. But what if Sweet Pea wasn't human? Or not fully human?

What if Sweet Pea was something more and something less?

"Why... Why are you doing this...?" The older women with dark brown hair asked. Her chocolate eyes wide and filled with tears as it rolled off her cheeks. Passing the beauty mark under her right eye. She was looking at the being who was scarred beyond recognition.

"Because that being inside you is going to be important one day and they need to be strong to handle the responsibility." The being hissed as she called out for someone.

"Zelda!!"

A women with red hair and green eyes comes down the stairs. This Zelda began speaking a different language as the pregnant women cries out in pain. It's been days since she captured and brought to Greendale.

Just as she assumed, they both were witches and they wanted something with the baby in her stomach.

"It is done. The child will be ready when the time comes. But remember, he or she must die three times in order to activate the Serpent within. Then you'll have your unlimited source of power. Three deaths, Julia. No more no less." Before the women could hear anymore she lost consciousness.

Three Deaths and he'll be at his peak. It would no longer be his blood that will have the power but his life itself.

Sweet Pea was made with the Nemeton (Julia took the bloodied root that held Paige's blood and crushed it till it was powder) in his blood.

His mother was forced to drink the potion that held the powdered branch and the venom of a Serpent so when the time came the child would posses the ability of a Serpent and hold the power just as great as the Nemeton.

The perfect recipe for an abomination and in the right hands the perfect power source.

•••

"You ready?" Allison asked Issac who answered the face time call.

"You're not nervous, are you?" Allison asked as she looked to curly haired boy. Issac looks at the phone, "Do I look nervous?"

Allison shook her head saying not at all as she put the phone down as her dad asked if Issac looked nervous.

"Terrified." She spoke honestly as she looked at the boy merely seconds ago.

"Yeah, I can still hear you. Very very clearly." Issac spoke as he overhead the conversation. Allison shows herself back on the phone going over the plan again.

•••

Guardians.

That's the pattern.

Stiles ran into the hospital as he called to Scott. His mom was next, Melissa McCall was next.

Scott ran to the rooftop where his mom was supposed to turn on back the power.

But instead he found Deucalion. Deucalion with a deal.

"You help me find her, I'll help you find your mother and Stiles's father."

Scott looked down, debating. He couldn't lose his mom and Stiles definitely couldn't lose his dad. Not after everything.

"Scott." Stiles heard the whole thing. He begged Scott not to go with Deucalion. Not after everything. They always have a plan B. Even since they first started in this supernatural world.

They always had a plan B, they always come out with a plan despite the world that was always against them.

"Not this time." Scott spoke honestly. Because it was true, even if they don't want to believe it they need Deucalion's help.

"I'm going to find your dad, I promise." Scott spoke honestly. Tears in both of their eyes as they come to the end.

"Scott." Stiles called out one last time but it was too late. He was alone on the rooftop.

•••

Melissa McCall groans as she woke up, she tries to move but she couldn't. "Hey, hey. You all right?" Noah Stilinski asked as he too was tied up.

Nodding her head she asked where they were. Noah suggested a root cellar but the captor called it something different.

Melissa looked at the sheriff in confusion. "She called it a Nemeton."