Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-12634038-20130805011908/@comment-16913753-20130831072413

I think a werewolf can become an alpha without killing one. Peter said that when you take pain of another person or werewolf then he is actually feeding on your spark. If someone is not deeply injured then maybe he can take the power from another alpha who must do the process of taking his pain away. So when the other is an alpha the one who has given up his status won't be anymore. An injured werewolf is actually taking some of the spark of the other to fill his one to heal so if one doesn't need to heal then he can take the alpha's spark and add it to his own spark (which is full) which would make the other beta and him the alpha maybe.