Don't You Worry Child [Allison]

[Chris Argent]

There was a time
I met a girl of a different kind.
We ruled the world,
I thought I'd never lose her out of sight.



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Chris was trying to talk himself through this. He knew what he had to do. It was a little easier in his mind to come up with the words than to actually say them. It always was. It was why he needed to be level headed about this. Someone always had to be the one who thought with a level head. He could do this.

He let Allison take a seat. He had to take a deep breath and try to figure out where to start. There was just so much he had to tell her. So much he wanted to tell her. But there was still some things he knew he couldn't tell her. There were just some things she didn't need to know. And figuring out what to tell her and what he shouldn't... well it was what caused the silence.

He didn't looked saved by her words. He just looked as impassive as ever. He just shook his head and gathered his thoughts. He would start first with her mother. She deserved to know the truth regarding what happened. "Your mother loved you dearly, Allison. She never wanted to hurt you. Women in the Argent family are expected to be leaders. They give the orders." Victoria could guide when he didn't know what to do. She gave him strength when he was weak.

"Your mother... She was as brilliant as they come. She told me that she also told you to stay away from Scott. We weren't kidding when we said that if you would stay away from Scott, we wouldn't have to kill him." It had been Victoria's idea to infiltrate the school and watch over the young werewolves. They were dangerous, more in Gerard's eyes than his own. They had yet to do anything, which was why he just wanted them to be watched.

"I don't know why your mother decided to kill Scott. Why she would go do it on her own. But if she decided it, there was a good reason for it. Argent women are not weak. You saw how Kate was. You can look back at how even you treated all those around you when Gerard was around. Hunters and werewolves together just do not mix. Especially not when your grandfather was around." Chris took a deep breath to steady himself.

"I doubted the bite would take, that your mother could have been saved. Gerard... He wanted her to kill herself before she turned." His bottom lip trembled, the only sign of weakness. "I knew everything, Allison. I'm sorry. But it was always better you knew your mother for who she was before she attempted to kill Scott." He honestly didn't fully blame Derek for his wife's death. Yes. Part of him would. There could have been other things to save Victoria than biting her. But he was also protecting his own. Chris himself would have done anything to protect his own, too.

"But you must understand one thing, Allison." Chris stared at his daughter. "I will not approve of your relationship with Scott. I will not approve of a relationship with a werewolf or any magical creature." He took a deep breath. "But, I will give you one word of advice. Never utter a word of dating a werewolf around your cousins. I am very leniant on you. If you had been born into the Crowe side of the family..." He shook his head. "Let's just say that all Hunter families take things differently. Many would torture the one dating a magical creature and kill their lover in front of them. You wouldn't want that to happen to Scott, now would you?"

He knew he was being mean. But he needed to get it through Allison's head that he was possibly one of the kindest Hunters she would ever meet. Even if it did get him mocked by how close he followed the code. But he couldn't speak for how her cousins would react. But he didn't want to see anything happen to Scott. Scott was a good kid.

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NOTES: None
MUSIC: "Let Me Love You" - Ne-Yo

[Allison Argent]

Allison looked at her father the entire time that he spoke, she listened calmly. She knew everything, she just wanted to hear it from her father, and his point of view rather then hearing it from her no good grandfather. Then he told her that he wouldn't approve of her dating a werewolf or any magical being, but she took it that he wouldn't stand in her way, just that he didn't approve of it. Then her cousins were brought into it. Be it as it may, she knew that he was right. She couldn't tell them of Scott but that was only because she wasn't sure what her cousins were really like. If they were hunters through and through, or just expected to follow it like she was.

"I appreciate you telling me. I know how hard it must have been for you. I don't hate mom, I just hate the person that she became. Just like I don't hate our family, I just hate how your father and sister did what ever the hell they wanted to get what they needed." She let that sink in. " Do you know that I used to be proud to be a part of this family?" she asked getting up and going to the window. Now a days she was more Hale then she was Argent, and that was saying something. "I don't deny that I had my dark moments to, but Gerard used me, just like he used this family."

When he told her that alot of the hunters would torture the one dating a werewolf like Scott, She turned and looked at him. "So let them torture me. It just shows me that once again,I can't trust this family. It's time that we've had peace with the magical creatures. Because, whether you want to admit it, not all of them are horrible." People who knew Allison from before would say that this was a more mature Allison, someone who has seen pain and has learned the meaning of life. And they would be right. "I may miss my mom and I miss my aunt, but they were horrid people..and mom haunts me..taunts me because I'm weak..and I don't want that in my life."

[Chris Argent]

There was a time
I met a girl of a different kind.
We ruled the world,
I thought I'd never lose her out of sight.



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Chris quietly watched his daughter. He listened to her words, carefully taking each and every last word in. "Your mother never changed. She had always been that person, Allison." But her mother had never openly shown her involvement. Then again, they had never really allowed Allison in on the world of being a hunter. He had never wanted that for his daughter.

"You say that, Allison. You say you hate that they did whatever they wanted to get what they needed, however..." He took a deep breath and watched his daughter with a guarded expression. "You excuse your actions of almost killing two innocent werewolves? You're just as at fault as they are. And don't you dare pull the manipulated card on me. You acted on your own emotions, on what you thought was best. Gerard, Kate... They were the same way." The family always acted on their own best interested. He did it by wanting to keep Allison out of hunting until she was older. How he stuck to the code. Allison was still acting on her emotions. Emotions would always drive a person, regardless of whether their actions were good or bad.

"And you let yourself get used, Allison. Not once would you even listen to me. You think I haven't forgotten that?" He spat out the words. He never once could forget the hatred that was in his daughter's face. She had never once realized she was being used. She had been so upset with him and there hadn't been anything he could do.

"You're right. Not all of them are bad. But not all hunters follow the code, Allison. Not all hunters are like you and me." And that was what made hunters all the more dangerous, because you never really knew how they would react to things. "But don't you dare ever forget that there are dangerous ones out there."

The last words out of his daughter's lips were what set Chris off. He spoke with a raised voice.
"Your mother raised you and yet you dare call her horrid, Allison? Your mother was only doing what she thought was right! What she thought was best! If you can't even understand that, you still have a lot of thinking to do. You still have a lot to learn about this family." He settled back down, hands gripped his cup.


"You're still grounded."

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NOTES: None
MUSIC: "Palladio" - Escala

[Allison Argent]

Allison gritted her teeth. "Yes I acted out on emotion! But I'm no longer doing that. The time for hunting has to come to an end. Yes, I realize that I didn't listen to you, I was masked by my own pain at the time. AND YES! SHE'S HORRID!! I don't approve of people killing people by suffication of wolfsbane! FOR NO DAMN REASON!!!! She may have raised me, and like I said I still love her, but she haunts me! Don't you get that? Every where I look I see her, and her stupid judgemental face, judging me on everything that I do! Would you like that? Would you like that with Kate?"

She just didn't understand why her father couldn't grasp that why she loved her mother, her mother scared her, and even hurt her sometimes. She understood that her mother was trying to do what was best for her in her mind, but she should have taken the time to get to know her.

When he said that she was still grounded she almost seethed. "Fine, whatever, ground me. Just remember in two years, I'll be free of you and of this whole side of the family. I will live my life the way that I want to live it. If that means I lose you, then so be it. Because honestly, if you really loved me like a father should, you'd look past the stupid line and grasp the fact that your daughter is in love with a werewolf." she snarled.

[Chris Argent]

There was a time
I met a girl of a different kind.
We ruled the world,
I thought I'd never lose her out of sight.



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Chris laced his fingers together. He was quiet while Allison spoke. He didn't dare utter a word. He would just make everything worse. He knew it. This was exactly why he didn't want to get her involved. She wasn't old enough, mature enough. There was a big difference between where she stood now and where he stood at her age. But, then again, he wasn't Gerard. He hadn't turned his child into a murderer before they entered high school.

"We're not here to talk about me, Allison," he replied coolly. "You need to learn what battles need to be fought and which you need to avoid." He never once rose his voice, just spoke calm and collected. It wasn't worth getting emotional over this. It just made him all the more aware that he didn't want Allison involving in hunting.

"And, if you really loved me, you'd stop talking and actually think about everything in a logical way. Think without clouded judgement. Strategically, not off your emotions. Maybe then you'll start to understand what being a hunter is about. Why your mother did what she did. Until then, no hunting. I'll be taking your weapons." This was for the best, Chris decided. He could deal with his daughter's anger. He had dealt with way worse.

"I think no longer hunting would be a good change for both of us." Chris picked up his drink and took a sip. Hunting had been the life he was bred for. He was sure Kate was rolling over in her grave, calling him weak. But he knew what battles to fight and he wasn't going to have one with the ghost of a person who went against everything he believed in.

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NOTES: None
MUSIC: "Only If For A Night" - Florence + The Machine

[Allison Argent]

As the words left her fathers mouth she almost gawked. Allison shook the stunned look off of her face and shrugged her shoulders. "Go ahead, I don't hunt anyways. That's the otherside of the family. I'm not going to stop seeing him. So go ahead do this twisted crap that you love to do. I don't care." and the truth was she didn't. He could take all of her weapons, she was done hunting werewolves anyways. The only reason she could think of that she would even pick up a weapon would be to help the pack that she had grown to love. Allison stared at the wall that was slowly building itself between her and her father. "It's a shame that you are so willing to throw our relationship away because you are to stubborn to let me grow up." she said to him.

With that said, she grabbed her keys and headed to the front door. She wasn't going to spend another minute listening to her father berate her on her life choices, not when he had made so many mistakes himself. She opened the front door and slammed it shut behind her, getting into her car and pulling out of the drive way in a hurry. She had things to do, places to see, and lovers to hold and kiss. If she had to be Juliet, then she would. She wasn't going to let her father ruin her chance of a normal relationship just because he was stuck in the past. Allison lent over and turned on the radio and started singing along. It was a Selena song, and she couldn't help but think of the poor singers tragedy. There was so much going on around them that they didn't even notice.

Why couldn't she and her father see eye to eye. She pulled off to the side of the road and fell into a slump over the wheel, crying. She didn't want her father and her to be so distant from each other, he was all she had left, but she couldn't and wouldn't budge on her relationship.