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Keep your expectations low and don't get too attached to this story. I will do my best to finish it, but I will often remind you that I'm prone to writers block and not good at finishing what I start. I want to badly though and this season should keep me motivated, enjoy chapter 1.
After leaving Eichen House, Malia made up her mind to find Scott and learn how to control her powers because he, according to Stiles, is the alpha for her to learn from. She was a bit apprehensive knowing that the next full moon wasn't far off and the last time she changed from human to coyote she killed her mother and sister, she felt nervous because being human was still a bit boys house as a teenager for the first time, and she felt excited because this was her chance to gain control and she was in a boys house as a teenager for the first time. So many emotions she wasn't used to feeling. Is this what it was like being a teenaged girl, all the time?She approached the McCall's house slowly, the wooden steps creaked as she walked up each one.
Before knocking she paused, took a deep breath, then finally knocked three times and waited for what felt like an eternity. Finally, Mrs. McCall answered the door. A look of surprise was written across her face, Malia could tell she was a nurse because she was still dressed in work clothes, but she couldn't tell if she'd just got in or if she was headed out. "Oh, hi. Um...you must be...Ma..."
"-Malia." She answered
"Nice to meet you, Malia. You can call me Melissa. Sorry, it's hard to keep track of all the supernatural faces I see come in and out of this house sometimes." She exhaled deeply as if she were exhausted.
"Oh, it's fine. I completely understand. I'm still getting used to the whole 'being normal' thing myself...so, is Scott here?"
"Oh yes, yes. I'm sorry, come on in. He's right up stairs with Stiles, I'm sure you've got some important things to handle."
"I'm sure you do too, did you just get back from work or..."
"No, I was just headed out actually. I know it's probably hard to tell. Sometimes I even forget which it is. It was nice meeting you, Malia and good luck. "
"Thanks." They both waved to each other before Melissa went out the door and Malia walked up the stairs.
Wait a minute which room is it? She had no clue but she could hear talking and was pretty sure Scott and Stiles were the only two people in the house. She could hear them talking.
"So you're sleeping fine everything's okay?" She heard Scott say.
"Yea, so far. Everything's been normal, no Nogitsune, no Oni, nothing."
"..."
"... Just worry about yourself once and a while. How are you holding up since...well, you know." Stiles said softly.
Malia waited to hear the answer, she didn't want to interrupt or walk in during an awkward conversation but she didn't want to eavesdrop either. She was starting to feel remorseful for punching Stiles and holding such contempt for he and Scott. They had their own problems and it wasn't really their fault that she mauled her family to death.
"I'll heal. I'm just glad I haven't...lost anyone else. I've still go my mom, Lydia, Derek, Deaton, Kira, Isaac, and as much of an ass he might be I still have my dad. I know it'll always hurt, but I'll be fine. I have to. So don't worry about me either."
Then a silence fell in the room. These two had been through a lot between changing her back and now. She can understand why they thought they were doing the right thing in changing her back. Now was the right time to step in she can't just wait listening forever.
"Um...hi." she said, not knowing what else to say.
"Malia?" Stiles said wide eyed. He could almost still feel the pain from being punched the last time he saw her. Though he shouldn't have been surprised, he was the one that invited her to get help from Scott.
"Hi" Scott said. "I heard my mom answer the door, we were just talking."
"Yea...she didn't tell me what room so I didn't know which one was yours until I heard your voice." She sighed "The main reason I came here is because I need your help. See, the next full moon is in a little over a week and..."
"You need help controlling the shifts" Stiles finished for her.
"That's the main reason I'm here she said."
Scott gave her a smile, encouraging her to finish what she wanted to say
"The other reason I came here was to apologize." She looked at Stiles who adjusted from leaning back slighty to leaning foward, listening to what she had to say
"I shouldn't have punched you. To tell you the truth it hasn't been all cookies and cream since I changed back and I can still see the pain in my father's eyes everyday, but it wasn't your fault that I lost control and hurt the people I cared about. You were just doing what you thought was right, and you had to save your father's job. I know about the case." she shifted her view between Scott and Stiles as she spoke
"Yea it was pretty do or die for us, but at the end of the day we had no right to interfere. We should've left well enough alone." Scott stated
"No. That's not true." She assured them "As a matter of fact, I was actually happy when your dad first brought me home. My dad was too, and everyday he reminds me how grateful he is to have me back. I should be grateful too...so I'm not just apologizing, I'm saying thank you." She looked at Stiles then to Scott "Thank you...Scott."
The three talked for a bit about normal stuff like chool and then Scott and Stiles decided it was best for her to talk to Lydia and Kira and ask for their help as far as being a normal girl, it would be good for her to have some friends who weren't just guys. " I'm sure Lydia would enjoy your company and Kira was the fish out of water not too long ago so she'll definitely understand some of what you're going through." Scott said
"As for me, I know something I can show you how to do." he said standing face to face with her. Lifting his hand and then dropping it, showing 5 razor sharp wolf claws.
Malia lifted her hand and then dropped it at her side, but did not see the same results. Scott saw her look of frustration and gave her another smile reassuring her that it was okay not to get it on her first try. "It's okay, don't force it just...let it happen." he said demonstrating it for her a second time.
She relaxed, exhaled and this time when she dropped her hand 5 claws appeared a darker color than Scott's. " I did it! Oh my god! I did't" She said nearly cutting Stiles in her excitment "Sorry, sorry."
It was getting late. Malia told Scott and Stiles she had a great time, but she had to head home. Later Stiles said the same. Scott lay there on his bed contemplating how he would get on without Allison, he couldn't get her off his mind when she was living. Now that he was gone he was certain it would only get more difficult.
Later Scott was still laying on his bed staring blankly at the ceiling when he got a text. It was from Derek.
Urgent. Meet me behind the animal clinic.
Scott hopped on his bike and rushed to the Clinic. When he got there he was sure to check if anyone was there. No one. Then as he took his helmet off and turned around Derek appeared seemingly out of nowhere. "So what's the problem" Scott asked
"Not here." Derek said looking around as if he suspected someone were listening. Scott pulled the spare keys from Deaton's hiding spot and unlocked the back door. Scott turned to him and gave him a look of anger and frustration "What?" he whispered.
"It's Kate." Derek said bluntly
"What's Kate?"
"She's back alright, and we need to figure out how to stop her, I don't know what she's after bu-"
"Who's back, there's lots of Kates. Who are you talking about ?" Scott said sternly. It had been a while. He had forgotten about Kate. He had only really ever been threatened by her the once and at the time he was more concerned with Peter.
"Kate Argent. Allison's Aunt. That psycho bitch that burned down my house with my family in it!" raising his voice angrily but still just above a whisper.
Scott was still confused "What the hell are you talking about."
"I was at the loft, okay, I was attacked by hunters. I thought it was Araya, another hunter that caught me and Peter and tried to torture us, but it was Kate. She shape-shifted, but not into a werewolf her face was blue or purple and-and she had black lines on her face. She looked more cat-like than anything else."
" Did you talk to Peter about this."
"No. He may be family, but I'll can't trust him. He's up to something too, I know it."
" Listen to me, Derek. If what you're telling me is true. If she's somehow come back from the dead then we have to work together. I know that's one thing she's gonna want is for us to be separate and weaker. We don't have to trust Peter, but we're gonna need his help if we want to make a plan and figure this out. He knows a twisted mind better than anyone else."
The next day at school Scott was thinking deeply on the issues that surfaced so quickly after they had beaten the Nogitsune. For one he had to help make sure Malia got her powers under control and didn't murder anyone on the next full moon and another he had to quickly think of how to deal with a potential were-creature in Kate. As he pulled all the books out his locker he noticed Malia walking down the hallway, she looked so lost until she looked at him. A small smile started to grow on her face and one on his well, but then he thought about how reckless he'd been in his haste he'd wolfed out and turned her human against her will. He'd given her rough life even further complications. Just why the hell did he always find a way to ruin things.
This brought him all the way back to not being able to save Boyd. Cora's words still rung in his ears. All you do is find the bodies. Malia waved and he waved back. Once she was out of sight he turned his back to his locker and hit his head against it lightly. Why! he screamed internally.
"Something bothering you?" Stiles said patting his shoulder.
"She's back." Scott said. Not being very specific.
"So you heard." Stiles said grinning
"Yea I heard, how did you hear?!"
"What do you mean? I saw her, doofus."
" You saw her?! Where, How?!" Scott's heart was pounding.
"First period. What's wrong with you?"
"Stiles, don't screw with me. Are we talking about the same person?"
"That depends." He said, now looking confused " I was talking about a certain member of the Hale family."
"Wait, Cora?" Scott said in disbelief.
"Yea, who else?"
"I thought you meant Kate. Derek texted me last night, he told me Kate's back. Allison's dead aunt caught Derek at home and shot him in the chest with a 12-gauge, but get this it wasn't with wolfsbane."
"So she wanted him to heal from it?"
"Yea, obviously she was sending him a message, but to say what?"
"Well, look on the bright side. There's never a dull moment around here." Stiles smiled as the two headed to class.
Kira and Lydia sat quietly together at lunch. They weren't really talking all that much. Lydia put on a brave face but she was still inwardly grieving the loss of her best friend. Kira wanted badly to be there for her new friend without trying to fill in the shoes or replace Allison all together. It was hard but who else would understand.
"So how many other languages do you know besides English and Japanese?" Lydia asked seemingly out of the blue.
"Well my mom is Japanese, but my Dad is actually Korean. So I speak Korean, we moved around a lot. A lot of people think Chinese is a language, but its not. Actually the they speak a lot of different languages there. Mostly Mandarin where I was at, and I'm fluent Cantonese. I also speak some Spanish, and a very little bit of French." She explained
"French..." Lydia was immediately reminded of Allison, but she didn't show it. As they continued their conversation Malia approached and started to sit here tray down.
"This seat isn't taken is it?" She asked.
"No, go right ahead." Lydia said.
"I'm, Malia by the way."
"Kira" she as she offered to shake Malia's hand.
"And I'm Lydia." Lydia being more polite than usual in introducing herself. "We were just talking about Kira's gifted tongue, with all the moving around she did before coming back to California. Do you speak any?"
"Nope, just English."
"..."
No longer knowing what to say to the new girl an awkward silence fell over them.
"...So...Scott said you guys would be able to help me with my school work and things like that?"
"Of course he did. That sounds like him." Lydia said "Scott's always trying to help someone...Not that we wouldn't." She smiled at the thought of her friend with the hero complex.
"Scott's a really great guy." Kira said.
"Yea, I'm starting to get that." Malia said as she began digging into her plate, making a very conscious effort to chew with her mouth closed and swallow before speaking again. "At first I was carrying a lot of resentment around for he and Stiles, but since talking to them they're not so bad." she smirked.
"Speaking of Stiles..." Lydia said. " Has he gone through any changes?"
"Like how do you mean?" Kira asked
"Well in order to get the Nogitsune out we had to change the host." she lowered her voice a bit. "Scott bit it and changed it into a werewolf."
"Well, he doesn't give off the scent of a werewolf, if it makes you feel any better. He seems pretty normal to me." Malia said quietly.
"I don't know I still have a weird feeling about something, if it isn't Stiles then I don't know what it is."
Malia was still kind of new as was Kira, but Kira knew now well enough that if Lydia had a bad feeling that it wasn't good news at all.
Hope this wasn't too short or too long. I'm open to constructive criticism, just don't grill me or nitpick. Scott and Kira have sort of an unspoken agreement to take a step back after everything that happened with Allison and the Nogitsune. I felt the scene in the basement with Malia and Stiles created unneeded complications if I tried to explain away their relationship so I chose to leave it out as if it didn't happen. Hope that doesn't upset anyone. Please review and don't hold back any tips to make the story better.