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[hisusername]

I can explain.

It's more if I want to or not.

It should be obvious. Hi, my name is Allison Argent, my mom committed suicide because she got bitten by a werewolf, my grandfather manipulated me into helping him. I'm a werewolf hunter. My boyfriend... If we're even still dating... is a werewolf.

Then it goes on to get more complicated, and I just... An apology doesn't cover it. It really doesn't.

But I owe everyone an apology.

I really owe everyone an apology.

But I'm not sure where to start.

So hi, my name is Allison Argent.

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[burninhale]

That is so sweet. Seriously. You Argents. Still waters, I tell you. Capable of so many things. It's fascinating.

[hisusername]

[Peter Hale, clearly, creeps the hell out of her.] Fascinating? I'd never consider us the fascinating ones.

[burninhale]

Really? You don't wonder about your grandfather, how he got to be the person he was, so desperate to live he'd sacrifice his family? Or your aunt, how many years it took to make her the teenage-seducing, child-murdering, mastermind arsonist she was at the end? Or how your father, a seemingly good man who upholds a code, could kill his own wife?

I find it all very interesting.

[hisusername]

[Don't mention her mother.]

[Her eyes narrow as she looks at him.] My father didn't kill my mother. It was suicide. We both know the only reason she did it.

[She swallows.] They were upholding the code.

[burninhale]

Is that the only part you can dispute? Well, out of respect for your mother, we don't have to talk about how hard it is to stab yourself. The angle, the necessary pressure, the willpower... we don't have to talk about all that.

[mccallmemaybe]

It's okay.

[hisusername]

Is it, Scott?
I hurt you. I really hurt Boyd and Erica.
I want you to be honest with me. Is it okay?

[mccallmemaybe]

It's okay. You haven't been yourself lately. Your grandfather manipulated you while you were grieving.

[hisusername]

That's one way to put it. [She sighs, leaning her head against him.] I let him, Scott. That wasn't me, but, I just wanted to feel powerful, to make it okay. I thought that maybe, if I did it, if I stopped them, it would make it worth something. It would stop hurting. [Quietly.] That maybe it would bring her back.

[mccallmemaybe]

Killing anyone isn't going to bring your mom back or make it stop hurting... I think revenge is like eating a tub of ice-cream when you're upset. It makes you feel good while you're eating it but afterwards you feel guilty and like you want to be sick...

I'm really sorry about what happened to your mom. [ Mostly because he feels responsible. ]

[studmuffin]

Um. [ And he's not good with this, but he needs to offer Allison the proverbial olive branch somehow. ]

I'm pretty sure we'll all get over it and laugh about it later?

hey sexy.

[hisusername]

[That's about as good as she's going to get from Stiles for now. And she can accept that.]

Hey, maybe. I mean, what person hasn't wigged out and tried to kill their friends? We've all done it, right? [She tries to laugh, but it really doesn't work.]

my darling >.>

[studmuffin]

It's only a matter of time before I go batshit and try to do Scott in with my lacrosse bat, so yeah, sure.

[ Don't feel so bad, is all. ]

<3 also please be honest with how I am doing.

[hisusername]

If you wield it like you did during the championship, then we have something to worry about.

[There's... sort of a smile. Sort of.]

i love what i'm seeing so far, baby. allison is totally the muse for you.

[studmuffin]

[ There you go, Allison. Smile again. ]

I'm just hoping it wasn't a fluke and I can try out next year. If I don't die a horrible, painful death I guess.

[lahey]

[ Well aren't you being nice. Now. ]

Welcome to the dead parents club. Do you need to knife someone in the back again?

[hisusername]

[Allison is the nicest when she isn't hell-bent on revenge for her mother's death.]

Ouch. [She actually winces.] Guess I kinda deserved that one. [Kind of is an understatement.]

[lahey]

[ Revenge is good. Encouraged, even, if you're in Derek's tiny circle of misfits. But you didn't have to be a bitch (haha) about it, did you. ]

You did. Are you gonna come after us again?

[hisusername]

[Well...]

No. I mean, no, I'm not planning on it. [Not unless they hurt anyone.]

[lahey]

[ At least you have Scott, huh. ]

And Derek? Because I get it, someone's got to pay for your mom and all, but it's not gonna bring her back.

[ Jackson killed his dad, and while Mr. Lahey is never gonna win parenting awards? Still his dad. He's not judging you, here - just questioning your pretty crazy methods. ]

yikes, not sure how this'll end >//<

[triskeled]

You know, I've gotta wonder, is an apology from a hunter - even a mini one like yourself - really considered an apology at all?

[Dentists didn't exactly apologize for doing their jobs when pulling teeth. Or a doctor informing his patient they had terminal cancer, but it was definitely the considerate thing to do. But was Allison really being kind and considerate or just saving herself from the guilt?

Also, hunting werewolves, who let's not forget, are people, too, isn't exactly considered a job now is it, but more like slaughter.]

Awesomely. So with blood and tears, likely.

[hisusername]

[Allison has never liked Derek. Everything else has just made this worse. The instant he speaks, she's on her guard, watching him.] I wasn't apologizing to you.

You don't deserve one.

[She was being kind and considerate. To those who weren't Derek. from now on, she's keeping to the code. She won't hurt innocent people. Boyd, Erica, Isaac, Scott, they're all safe. But Derek and Peter? She's got them in her cross-hairs.]

oh dear

[triskeled]

Not that I was actually expecting one. [He shrugs rather loosely, uninterested in her dislike for him.]

I get it, I'm the bad guy. [But how bad would he be when she found out exactly what happened the night her mother was bitten. When she found out her mother was trying to kill her boyfriend?

Derek says nothing of the sort.] An apology's not going to heal the pain you've caused.

yuup.

[hisusername]

Bad Guy is an apt way of putting it.

[Shh. Things she doesn't want to know. And is perfectly happy not knowing.]

I can say the same for you, Hale.

[triskeled]

[Another shrug.] So, monster? Because that's how you see me isn't it?

Trust me, I know apologies can never sooth a pain like that. [He knows from experience because of your aunt, after all.]