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That is still speculation and assumption. The theory that he can only do this with his own Betas doesn't erase the question of why he needed an Alpha Pack in the first place. Deucalion's killing of Marco doesn't prove the assumption at all....the question is still valid and still remains. Why the need for an Alpha pack in the first place? Why not just make and destroy more Betas? Then he wouldn't need an Alpha pack at all.

I do see the point  that he couldn't kill another Alphas' Betas and gain their power, so long as that Beta's Alpha is alive AND the Beta is part of that pack. Think about this: What about an Omega or Beta whose Alpha is dead? When they choose to join another Alpha's pack doesn't that Alpha gain power from that additional Beta? This is what almost happened in S2. Derek wanted Scott to join his pack and become his Beta. This indicates that even if a Beta joins by choice, it lends power to the Alpha and increases the power of the pack beyond just numbers. IF this happened and the Alpha decided to kill that Beta why wouldn't he then absorb that power?

We know a Beta can kill any Alpha, even one that is not his own and become an Alpha by absorbing his power so why can't an Alpha do the same to another Alpha? Notice now I am talking about Alphas only. If an Alpha happens to fight and defeat another Alpha, what is stopping him from taking his power? What logical reason prevents this from happening? The "Betas" in Deuc's pack are not truly Betas, they are Alphas. They are only Betas in terms of them giving the leadership role of their pack to Deucalion.

I just don't see how he doesn't absorb their "spark" by killing them. Maybe that is what makes him so powerful as well. He has been trying to form a "perfect" Alpha pack. Maybe in the past he found some Alphas to be weak and then killed them, adding their power to his own, making him a supercharged Alpha. Maybe that is why he keeps an Alpha pack....that way when he kills them he gets more power then if he just had Betas. None of the Alphas in Deuc's pack are even near his power level. Why is this if they did the exact same thing as he did? I think it's because they haven't done what he's done. He killed his Betas just as they did BUT while making  a "perfect" pack, he was also killing Alphas, enhancing his power beyond the rest of his "pack".