(A/N) Okay so Season 3 AU, slow burn (ish?) idk what to say here to be fair, but hope you enjoy!
"Are you sure we can handle this?" Danny asks the group
"Totally! It's only a coven of witches!" Stile replies, turning to flash a grin before returning to his computer
"Just don't get hit by a spell" Allison added as she checks her weapons
"You're not helping" Danny sighed
"Lydia! What's your take?" Stiles asked
"Well, they're probably amateurs, but something brought them here so we shouldn't treat them as such" She replied casually, not bothering to look up from her book. Allison chuckles beside her.
"And if they aren't amateurs?" Danny asked
"Then we kill them" Lydia snapped her book shut
"Come on Danny!" Stiles shut down his computer and placed his hands on Danny's shoulders "We're team human! We got this!" That's what Stiles called them theses days, after everything that had happened they had fallen into an unlikely friendship (they were also totally more kick ass than werewolves anyway)
Danny frowned, clearly unsure
"WE HAVE ALLISON!" He gestured to the dark haired girl on his bed who waved back with a knife in her hand
"WHO ARE WE?" Stiles asked
"Team Human?" Danny replied with a sigh
"Yeah we are!" Stiles replied enthusiastically
"Can we go now?" Lydia sighed, glancing at Allison and rolling her eyes dramatically.
"Fine. Yes let's go get our asses kicked" Danny sighed as he watched the rest of the group pick up their weapons
"That's the spirit" Stiles grinned, slapping the back of Danny's back
"So explain to me again why our friends, you know the actual werewolves aren't taking care of this?" Danny asks from the back of the Jeep. Stiles looks up from the road to meet Allison's gaze in the rear-view mirror, the pair having a silent conversation
"Full moon for a start. Standard learning to control themselves followed by a lesson in wolf politics" Stiles replied after a minute
"Also because Scott's an idiot" Lydia adds coolly, as she checks her nails. Allison's head snaps up suddenly causing Danny to startle in his seat. Lydia turns and rests her chin on the seat as Stiles pulls up to the edge of the reserve and shuts of the engine.
"He is Allison, he's immature and you deserve better"
"Can we not talk about this right now?" Allison sighed, ignoring the questiong gaze from Danny
"She has a point, we have witches to hunt" Stiles bangs the steering wheel, Allison shoots him a thankful smile as Danny and Lydia nod at one another and get out of the car, slamming them shut simultaneously.
Stiles walks to the hood of the Jeep and pulls out a map and a flash light from his backpack and spreading it across the hood.
"Okay so Derek said the cave was north of this point, so it's in this general area" Stiles pointed to a part of the map marked with red question marks.
"That's a good distance of ground to cover" Allison looks over his shoulder
"I'm not exactly dressed for walking" Lydia states, glancing down to her shoes as Stiles and Danny begin heading north
"You're never dressed for walking" Allison chuckled as she slings her bow over her shoulder and starts after the boys
"These are a small heel" Lydia defended as she tried to speed up to catch up to catch up to Allison, letting out a yell as she lost her footing and surged forwards, throwing her arms out to cushion her fall. A firm hand wraps around her wrist while another wraps around Lydia's waist. Lydia looks up to see Allison stood in front of her, her grin obvious even in the darkness
"You might want to invest in a good pair of flats" Allison chuckled
"Oh hush" Lydia shoved Allison's shoulder playfully, sending the girl back a few paces, her hand falling from Lydia's waist though Allison's grip on her wrist never faltered "I...May consider it though" Lydia added after a moment. In the distance they heard Stiles yell followed by a thud and laughter from Danny, the two girls turned to see Danny doubled over as Stiles pulled himself up from the ground
"We should catchup to them" Lydia gestured at the scene with a laugh, her own embarrassment at falling forgotten
"Yeah, those witches aren't going to hunt themselves" Allison laughed with a shake of her head. Lydia suddenly became aware that Allison was still holding onto her wrist, guiding her through the darkness.
After several minutes Lydia linked their hands together and closed the distance so they were walking side by side as they tried to catch up to the boys
"Are you going to tell me why you broke up with Scott?" Lydia asked eventually
"He broke up with me" Allison replied
"Well, are you going to tell me why he broke up with you?" she asked
"We don't have time" Allison whined
"Stilinski!" Lydia yelled through the forest, waiting until the boy ahead stopped and turned, cocking his head to one side in question "How long till we get to where the coven is?"
"I don't know, like ten minutes?" He replied
"Plenty of time" Lydia smiled sweetly. Allison let out a long sigh and stared ahead before glancing at the floor and kicking at the ground
"Honestly, I think it was a long time coming, things changed, I love him...but, but it's more like sibling love now. Which sounds messed up" Allison shook her head with a sigh
"A little" Lydia agreed "What did he say?"
"He said that things had changed and that I didn't love him any more and that was okay but it wasn't fair on either of us to stay in a relationship like that" Allison finished with a frown
"What's wrong?" Lydia asked
"Nothing" Allison shook her head "It was just the way he said it. Like he knew something I didn't. I don't know" she added with a sigh.
"If he broke up with you, then why is he acting like such a child?" Lydia asked, more to herself than anything as she thought back to the last few weeks, tension within the pack had become too much for some to handle. Erica, Isaac and Boyd had left town for a while, much to the annoyance of everybody else "Look, it's only until all this blows over" Isaac had defended "There's a weird energy in the air and it's making us dizzy."
They had left after that, Lydia winced to herself. The repercussions from the act would be immense (and not just in the form of angry schoolteachers and a mountain of work) Lydia suspected that part of the pack meeting (is it still a pack when himself and Scott are there?) was in order for Derek to smack some sense into the teen.
"It all works out in the end" Lydia shrugged "You really do deserve better Allison" Lydia smiled sweetly and squeezed Allison's hand for good measure, Allison returned her smile before turning her attention to the two boys in front of her who were waiting for them beside a fallen tree.
"I think we found the place" Stiles announced as they approached, Allison dropped Lydia's hand and moved so she was crouched beside Stiles
"What's the plan?" Danny asked
"I'm thinking a movie and pizza?" Stiles suggested
"Yeah, we'll see" Lydia dead panned
"I was talking about the witches..." Danny sighed, watching as Allison loaded an arrow into her bow and held it up, testing her aim
"Oh right" Stiles rubbed his head with a chuckle "I don't know, we sneak in, kill them. Don't get killed?" He looked to Allison for help
"I'll take point" she stated
"You'd think they'd clean up the place a little, I mean they do have guests after all" Stiles mutters as they walk through the murky cave
"Stiles shut up" Danny sighs at the boy beside him. Lydia leaned forward from her spot at the back of the group and smacked them both across the back of the head
"Both of you shut up" she snaps, quieting when she hears Allison let out a agitated huff ahead of them, they walk in silence after that.
Allison stops suddenly and throws her arm out to stop the rest of the group from moving
"Do you hear that?" she asked, frowning when they shake their heads "I hear chanting" Allison crouches lower then, her bow aimed ahead. The rest of the group follow suit, their grips tensing around their weapons as they creep forward, rounding a corner
"I can hear them" Stiles whispered looking to the figures in the cavern. Allison noticed at least one male amongst the group as they continued what she assumed was a ritual of some kind
"That isn't Latin" Lydia added
"How many do you see?"
"Like five" Allison replied
"Easy enough?" Stiles glanced at the group, ignoring Danny's sigh. Allison looked back at them before moving forward to get a clear shot when a grip around her elbow stops her
"Don't step on the markings" Lydia growls as she gestured to the space between the figures "They're probably casting some kind of spell and it's probably a dangerous enough idea interrupting it. It'd just be stupid to go and jump into the line of fire" Lydia stated casually as though they were discussing boys
"I'll keep that in mind" Allison winked as she stepped forward, letting an arrow loose and reloading before it found it's mark in the warlocks chest, dropping into a roll to dodge an oncoming spell, out of the corner of her eye she can see Stiles hit a witch in the face with his baseball bat, graceless as ever. Somewhere behind him Danny hacks a hand off of another witch using a sword brought on Amazon
"Amazon really?" Stiles asked
"Dude I'm telling you that site sells EVERYTHING"
"ALLISON!" Stiles yelled, forcing her out of the memory "You said there were only five!" Stiles glared past her as she shot another arrow into a witch. Frowning she loaded another arrow and followed his line of sight and bit bat an expletive as at least another half a dozen witches and warlocks came running out of another coven. Stiles is knocked against a wall, his baseball bat rolling away from him.
Allison is hit by a force spell and she rolls across the ground, coming short of the markings drawn into the floor, her quiver of arrows flying away from her in the process. Lydia is at her side and pulling her up before she can react.
"THIS IS NOT GOING WELL" Stiles yells again
"SHUT UP STILES" Danny screams as he cuts the head off of a warlock, kicking it across the cave
"I'M JUST SAYING, WE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT WEREWOLVES"
"We don't need any werewolves!" Allison yells as she ducks under a witch, pull her knife from it's sheath inside her boot and plunge it into the hags neck before twisting and yanking it out. She drops her bow and pulls out her second knife from her waist and begins dodging spells, always keeping an eye on the rest of her friends.
It's not an easy battle and they all look a lot worse for wear, as they all look at one another from across the cave, bodies covering the majority of the floor. Allison walked across the cave and picked up her bow and arrows, sliding the quiver into place on her back, eventually coming to a stop close to Lydia
"Well" Danny let his sword drop from his hands as he doubled over, taking a deep breath "Despite that little fuck up that was actually kind of easy" He stood up and grinned. Both girls heads snapped up and Stiles ran so he was stood just in front of Danny
"You did NOT just say that" He exclaimed as he held up a hand, eyes wide. As Lydia see's a witch getting to her feet across from her
"What? What's wro-" On cue a force crashes into Allison, who yells as she's thrown up into the air, her body crashing into the wall and falling down, landing face down on the cave floor with a groan. A burst of energy erupted from Allison sending the group staggering backwards. The area around her lighting up and illuminating the cave in a red hue
"Allison!" Lydia screams running towards the prone girl. Stiles was the first to react, grabbing a knife that lay at the feet of a dead witch and running towards the witch, plunging the weapon into her stomach as the hooded figure muttered a chant under her breath and disappeared in a flash of smoke.
"Seriously!? The smoke trick?" Stiles coughed as he waved frantically "THIS IS SO UNFAIR!" He turned to the group flailing his hands. Both Danny and Lydia glared at him, looking several times more intimidating with the red hue of the cave illuminating their faces.
"Oh that hurt" Allison mumbled into the ground
"I don't want you to panic Allison but you kinda landed in the middle of the markings" Lydia stated, her voice wavering slightly
"You mean the markings you said would be incredibly stupid to step in?" Allison asked, still not moving her head from the ground
"That's the one" Lydia nodded
"Oh"
As Allison places her hands on the ground to push herself up another wave of energy flies out from her and the markings, throwing the cave into darkness.
"Did I do that?" Allison asked as she pushed herself onto her knees and took several deep breaths, the smell of blood was thick in the air and it was slowly suffocating her, she wondered if it was having the same affect on the others. After a minute of fumbling around Danny found their backpacks, which had been abandoned early into the fight. He switched on the torches (one of which being a police issue spotlight) while Lydia busied herself with lighting the candles that decorated the cave before walking over to Allison and crouching beside her, checking the older girl for any obvious injuries
"This Danny" She said as she hooked her arm under Allison's armpit and pulled her to her feet "Is why we don't say things like 'that was easy'" She shot him a glare before turning to Allison and pushing her hair from her eyes
"You okay Allison?" Stiles asked as he reached them
"I hurt" Allison groaned as she leant into Lydia
"You're bleeding" Stiles pointed to her arm. Allison frowned and looked the arm Stiles was pointing to, there was a clean tear down her sleeve and blood had begun to trickle down her wrist
"Well, I always said you had to get rid of that jacket" Lydia shrugged playfully though the concern in her eyes wasn't lost on Allison
"I'll text Derek and tell him we took them all out" Stiles said as he pulled his phone from his blood soaked jeans
"Did we though?" Allison asked "I kinda missed the end of what happened there"
"I stabbed that bitch in the stomach, I'm pretty sure she's a little dead" Stiles muttered as he typed out a message.
"What about the weird hocus pocus shit" Danny asked shooting a glance at Allison
"How do you feel?" Lydia asked turning to Allison
"Like I got thrown into a wall?" Allison replied
"No seriously" Lydia turned and placed her hands on Allison's shoulders, giving her a look up and down
"Do you feel magical?" Stiles asked
"...No" Allison replied with a frown
"Well...We'll keep an eye on it" Lydia said after a moment
"Derek texted back. He's going to deal with...this" he gestured to the mess
"I really need a shower" Lydia sighed, observing her bloodstained outfit
"And pizza" Danny chimed in
"I need a nap" Allison sighed, leaning back into Lydia
"All available at casa Stilinski!" Stiles grinned "But first we gotta get you back to the car" He pulled one of Allison's arms over his shoulder while Danny picked up her bow and arrows
"Thank god it's Friday" Allison muttered
"My dad's not going to be home till like three" Stiles stated as he held open the door for Danny to carry Allison through "I'll show you guys to the bathroom" He took Allison's arm and guided her upstairs, Lydia close at their heels
"I'll order the pizza!" Danny called to them
"Showers through there, you'll find towels inside. I'll go grab you guys some clothes"
"I brought my own thanks" Lydia held a hand up as Allison laughed and walked into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
The pair stood there until they heard the shower turn on before moving down the hallway
"Think she's okay?" Stiles whispered
"I don't know Stiles" Lydia hissed "I hope so, but all we can do is wait" she added with a sigh
"I'll go find those clothes. There's a first aid kit in the kitchen" Lydia opened her mouth to reply "For Allison's cut, plus I'm pretty sure we all have a few of our own" he added with a shrug. Lydia watched the boy disappear into his bedroom before sighing, without the buzz of adrenaline her body felt ready to just stop, a dull ache seeping through her bones.
Half an hour later the group were sat in a circle in Stiles' living room, tending to their wounds. Danny and Lydia had been lucky, a handful of cuts between them, they both complained that that they could areas where they'd be showing some bruises in the coming days. Allison and Stiles had not been so lucky, on top of the whole potentially being hit with an unknown spell débâcle and the nasty looking gash, Allison showed the group her back, which was already beginning to bruise. Stiles had hit his head from being thrown against a wall so Lydia had checked him thoroughly, eventually being satisfied he hadn't suffered a concussion
"Shame though, you need all the brain cells you can get" Lydia had shrugged as she placed a band-aid over the injury
"Gee, thanks Lydia" Stiles rolled his eyes.
The group had raised their eyebrows when Allison had asked for a needle and thread, and rolled up the sleeve of the flannel that Stiles had loaned her.
"Wait, Allison you aren't going to- OH GOOD GOD" Stiles bit down on his hand as Allison began to stitch up her own arm
"I'm going to be sick" Danny threw his hands up and walked away from the group. Lydia just wore an expression that could only be described as a mix between wonder and horror
The door knocked causing the three teens to turn their attention to it they heard Danny yell "I GOT IT" before Allison continued to stitch her arm together
"Done" She smiled as she observed her handiwork
"Good because the pizza is here and now I feel sick" Danny sighed
"Are we gonna watch a movie?" Stiles asked
"Got it covered" Lydia pulled a DVD out of her bag and held it up causing the group to groan
"The Notebook? Seriously?" Danny asked he dropped down onto the sofa
"Dude I don't care I just want pizza" Stiles shook his head and snatched a box from the boys hands
Sheriff Stilinski walked in from his shift a few hours later to find Stiles, Danny and Lydia sat together on the sofa, Allison stretched out along their legs asleep, her head resting in Lydia's lap who ran her fingers through dark curls as they all watched what was on the screen in front of them, the glow of the screen lighting their faces in the darkness of the room. He noticed three pizza boxes abandoned at their feet.
Three pairs of eyes snapped up and met his gaze simultaneously, causing him to step back. The sheriff held up a hand in greeting before heading upstairs to bed, not bothering to question the teens on their night.
Danny waited until he head a door shut upstairs before breaking the silence "I'm cool with crashing here tonight and everything, but I need my space you know?"
"Well, if you think we can move without waking Allison up, go ahead" Stiles replied.
"S'okay. I'm awake" Allison muttered through a yawn, sitting up on sliding her legs off of them and sliding to the floor "Sorry for hijacking your bodies" she apologised
"Don't worry about it" Stiles laughed "I'm gonna go grab some blankets and cushions"
"You feel okay?" Lydia asked as Danny stood up to stretch his legs
"Headache, among many many other aches...But yeah I'm good" Allison laughed
The next morning Stile's drove the group to their respective homes, dropping Danny off first
"You sure you don't want to stay with me today?" Lydia asks Allison as she twists in her seat
"Yeah, it's fine, I just really need to get some rest" Allison shrugs. Lydia turns back to face the front of the Jeep, frowning as the older girl yawned again
"Are you sure?"
"Jesus Lydia, she can take care of herself" Stile muttered under his breath, attempting to hide from the glare the red head was currently shooting him
"She's worried cause dad is out of town" Allison smirked
"Wait what why?" Stiles asked as he pulled up to her house
"He got called to deal with some serious shit in Chicago, he wouldn't give me the details" She shrugged
"So he left you in a town that's a literal hotspot for big bads?" Stiles asked
"Well, things have been quiet for a while...And we have crime fighting werewolves... And I have a garage full of guns AND I know how to use them, so he figured I'd be safe" Allison shrugged again as she reached for the door handle
"You'll call me if you need anything?" Lydia asked
"Of course" Allison forced a smile as she got out of the car "Thanks for everything Stiles!"
"Any time! See you Monday!" He waved cheerfully as Allison walked up to the path. He waited until she was inside until he pulled away. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Lydia checking her nails, a tell that she was anxious
"You okay there?" he asked, glancing over to her. Lydia hummed in response and focused her attention out of her window
"Lydia." He tried again, his tone more forceful, eventually green eyes met his hazel ones
"I'm worried about her"
"I know"
Allison wanders into her bathroom and pulls Stiles' shirt off of her body, wincing as she does so before turning around in the mirror and looking over her shoulder, almost her entire back was a mass of bruises, dark red and horrible. Sighing, Allison walked over to her closet and pulled out an old shirt before dropping face first onto her bed and falling asleep immediately.
She was woken up hours later with six new messages, one from her father, one from Scott , the rest were from Lydia
Dad: Just checking in, everything alight?
Scott: Heard what happened, you okay?
Lydia: How are you?
Lydia: Are you sleeping?
Lydia: Jesus Argent wake up
Lydia: Call me now or I'm coming over
Allison dialled her number quickly, Lydia picked up on the first ring
"Thank god you're alive"
"Of course I'm alive Lydia" Allison laughed as she rolled onto her back, biting back a yell as she remembered her bruises
They chatted on the phone for a while, Lydia giving Allison all of the answers to the chemistry homework that was due Monday. They avoided the topic of the witches, deciding it's best discussed with the group
"Make sure you eat okay?" Allison could hear the concern through the phone
"Yeah yeah, bye Lydia" Allison hung up the phone, texted her replies to her dad and Scott before dropping her head back to the pillow, that night she dreamt of the ghosts of her past and of the stars, of a girl with emerald eyes who could move the stars themselves