The song for this chapter/fic is Natalie Taylor – Whenever You're Ready
SCOTT'S POV:
The last few months had been a crazy whirlwind. With Kira gone and a few of us leaving there was a sad air among the group. I wasn't sure if this was because we were afraid that long distance would disconnect us or that the long distance would cost us our lives. We always worked better together. Now that we'd be separated it would make us easy targets. None of us were excited about that.
Graduation was a week away. The entire Senior class seemed to be excited except for us. We all planned a small going away party after Graduation. Normally, we'd all have the summer to stay close, but a few of us were leaving right after. Lydia had to leave the morning after to catch a train to Chicago for her internship with some big fashion designer. Malia was going on a roadtrip by herself. I think she needed to find herself outside of us. Stiles had two weeks until he had to leave for his police academy training. The Sheriff tried to convince him to stay here and work under him, but Stiles wanted to branch out. And me…well, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Probably just hang out with the kiddies and do what I was doing right now, sitting at my desk as I twirled my thumbs. My stomach growled.
A knock came from my open door. Malia stood in the doorway with a bag of heavenly smelling Chinese.
Immediately, I smiled. "You have the most perfect timing, Lia."
She grinned back at me as she plopped back on my bed. Her brown eyes gazed into mine. "The hunger is strong with this one."
I deadpanned.
She gave me a disbelieving look. "You still haven't seen Star Wars yet? Even I've seen it and I've been a coyote most of my life."
With a grin plastered on my face I wheeled the chair over to the bed. "I must've forgotten to watch it in between the Nogitsune and The Dread Doctors. If I didn't have to safe your ass so many times I might have been able to see it by now." I reached for an eggroll.
Her brow arched. "Is that so McCall?" A smirk played on her lips. "Well, in that case I'll just take my Chinese loving werecoyote ass elsewhere." She rose and headed towards the door.
With a playful roll of my eyes I grabbed her by the waist and pulled her back, not accounting for her weight to shift the wheels, so we ended up on the floor. Her laughter filled my room, a sound I'd never get tired of hearing.
After her breakup with Stiles she really pulled away from the group and I had to let her know that I would be there for her, that we were friends no matter what. After everything with Theo and the Beast all of us had undoubtedly gotten closer, but with Stiles and Lydia circling around each other so much it kind of left Malia friendless. So she turned to me when she was lonely. With Kira gone I felt lonely more times than I could count.
I shifted so that I was laying on my back with her by my side. In many ways, she was like a sister to me. A friend that I never had in Allison or Kira. A friend I never had with any girl really. She had no idea how grateful I was for her.
The remains of her laughter fanned across her face, making look soft and delicate.
"Ow, dork." She teased.
I grinned. "Hey, if you left I'd have no one to feed me or watch Netflix with."
"Oh, is that all I'm good for?" She mock pouted. "Netflix and Chill booty calls."
For a second I just stared at her because I couldn't believe she said that, but then a laughter bubbled out of me.
She sat up with her back against my bed. "You know I think I'm onto something here." She pointed her finger at me. "I think you use my neediness to your advantage. My inability to be by myself enables you to scandal me out of takeout and hours of binging on tv."
I sat up directly in front of her. I pretended to think about her faux concerns before I shook my head. "No," I stared into her eyes. For a second I saw a gleam of sadness in her brown eyes and had to wonder if she worried I was using her to pass the time. One of my hands grabbed hers. "Do you remember what I told you when we went to go look in the tunnels for Liam and Hayden?"
She nodded, her eyes fell to our hands. "You said that you would be there for me talk to." She looked back up at me. "About anything." She gave a tiny grin.
"And I meant it. You and me, we're friends. That's not going to change after Graduation."
"Yeah, I know that. It's just things won't ever be like this again. We're all going our separate ways." She blew out a heavy breath. "Look, I know we haven't known each other all of our lives, but you guys are my family. You are my family. And I'm scared that once we walk across that stage everything's going to fall apart, Scott."
My hand squeezed hers as I leaned forward. "I don't think it will. If it does, then we'll fix it." I gave a reassuring nod. "I'm still going to be here for you no matter where you go."
A relieved grin broke out on her face. "I guess, I needed to hear that." Her hand squeezed mine back. "Sorry, I was being totally irrational, which I'm told girls are when they're worried." She gave a shrug.
It was all I could do to fight the giant grin on my face. She was too adorable sometimes.
Worry crossed her face. "Why are you looking at me like that?"
How was I looking at her?
"I'm just glad you're a part of the pack."
The biggest grin I'd ever seen from her took over her face before she attacked me with a hug. "You know, you're probably the only person to tell me that."
Really?
I hugged her back, but we were in an awkward position on the floor so she pulled back before I could fully embrace her. Awkwardness filled the air. I cleared my throat and pointed at the food. I reached over her for an eggroll on my bed, I felt her breath on the side of my face, so I looked at her. Our eyes locked and our breaths mingled. My chest tightened as she looked at me with those brown eyes, her eyes scanned my face before they settled on mine again.
She grinned. "Having a hard time with that eggroll?"
I let out a breathy laugh while I sat back. "Why don't we watch Star Wars?" I rose.
She sat on my bed. "Oh, that's a big step for you, McCall. Are you sure you're ready?"
I nodded, my eyes were on hers. Some people were worth watching Star Wars for.
She dug in her bag and pulled out a copy of Star Wars with a grin. "I knew this day would come." She ran to my DVD player and popped in the movie. "I'm way too excited for this." She beamed.
"I see." I sat back on my bed with a box of pork lo mein.
She crawled over me to the other side. "You ready?"
I could feel the excitement rolling off of her.
My eyes went to hers. "Whenever you're ready."
She started the movie with a huge grin on her face.
As the opening scene started I looked over to her because her hand was squeezing my forearm as she gazed at the screen. My eyes roamed over her face, I saw everything was beautiful about her. Everything that I worked so hard not to see was right before me.
She felt my gaze and looked over. "Come on, you're not even watching the movie." She playfully hit my chest.
With a chuckle I trained my attention on the screen as I tried to ignore that she was now staring at me.
A/N: So what did yall think? I know some of you may be fans of Take What I Can Get which is Stydia with some Scalia sprinkled in and in that fic I said I might make another Scalia fic…so here it is. Not sure how long this one will be, but I need some relief! Do any of yall watch Arrow/The Flash/Legends Of Tomorrow on CW? Well, three of my faveroite characters died on all shows and I'm debating about whether to do fics for them. Regardless of who died, on The Flash I ship WestAllen. On Arrow I ship Olicity. On Legends of Tomorrow I ship Captain Canary(Sarah/White Canary) and Captain Cold(Leonard Snart – for any Prison Break fans the brothers are Captain Cold and Heatwave on The Flash and Legends so it's worth the watch to see those two in action again!)
Anyways, please leave a review about what you think. Sorry for the mistakes I'm rushing to finish this and I'm once again late for work in order to finish a fic lol…my managers understand my obsession.