I sighed as I stared at Stiles pacing my room. He was trying to explain what had happened between him and Malia at the stupid insane Asylum. I was tapping my fingers against my desk in a rhythm as he kept pacing. I just kept looking at the photo of Allison, Lydia, and I during an excursion to the mall one afternoon back before everything had happened. I couldn't believe that Allison had already been dead for about two months.
Over the last two months Stiles had been trying to explain what was happening between us and then him and Malia and tried to keep apologizing for what had happened between those two at Eichen house, which I didn't really want to hear, but apparently we had to talk about it. I didn't want to hear about him cheating on me, or well, doing whatever you would call it because we technically weren't together, I don't think. We never really defined what we were because of the whole nogitsune nonsense. A little shiver went down my spine thinking of that whole ordeal. It seemed like it had just happened yesterday, really.
Ever since the nogitsune had left that poisoned Wolfsbane water bottle for me in my locker after we had gotten rid of him, which sent me to the hospital, Stiles wouldn't leave me alone. Even though we had gotten rid of him he had gotten the last laugh and I remember every second of when it happened to which was worse. I closed my eyes seeing it playing over in my head.
I had been with Stiles and Scott at my locker in school trying to go on through the days, which was getting hard because of the death of Aiden and Allison, when I had opened my locker to see my usual water bottle. Scott and Stiles had been talking about something as I popped open the lid and took a huge gulp. I had just run from the locker room to my locker to get something and was thirsty. As soon as I sighed Stiles glanced over at me and saw the bottle and his eyes opened wide.
"You didn't drink that did you?" He asked. I nodded and he grabbed it out of my hands and then threw it down the hallway. I growled at him and he didn't back down from that anymore. He wasn't scared of me anymore which made me sad, slightly.
"Um excuse me Stiles what the hell did you just do!?" I demanded slightly pissed that someone was glaring at us because the bottle had gotten them wet.
"That bottle…I had that in the bag…the nogitsune did." Stiles said. I blinked a few times and then looked over at Scott and Stiles blinking slightly. What the hell did that mean exactly? What had I just drunk then?
"Okay…and?" I asked. Stiles shook his head and ran his hands through his hair stressed.
"I can't remember what he put in it! He blocked me out at that point…" Stiles groaned slamming his fist against my locker. I shook my head and then turned to grab a book out of my locker when my vision went double. I grabbed the edge of the locker tightly and I felt my claws pierce the metal. My heart was going out of control and I was fighting the shift, which never usually happened. I groaned and I felt Scott shift beside me quickly.
"Sky?" Scott asked. I looked over at him seeing two of him and Stiles. Oh no; Wolfsbane. It was already taking hold of my system and it was making me change. Whatever wolfsbane this was it was rare, but I'm pretty sure that my mom had some to counteract it. I felt my fangs grow in back and forth rapidly and I let out a cry.
"Guys hospital now." I whispered as I started to feel my chest starting to contract. The air was being pushed slowly from my lungs. Stiles grabbed me as my legs collapsed from underneath me.
"Skylar! Someone call 911!" Stiles yelled as I reached out for him.
"Wolfsbane….get Max…" I coughed. Scott nodded and ran off to look for my brother while people started to gather around us. Stiles sat me up against the locker and then grabbed something out of my locker. It was an inhaler which I never used unless this happened. He pulled my mouth open popped the end into it and squeezed the top. I felt the breath of air rush into my throat and then spread out through my lungs. It helped the feeling for about ten seconds before it came back. He just kept doing that until the ambulance got there and right before they even touched me I passed out.
"Stiles!" I yelled coming back to the present. I couldn't even think about the week I had spent in the hospital to keep up appearances, Stiles being the good friend he was never left my side. I could still hear the beeping of the machines monitoring my heartbeat and Ms. Melissa coming in every now and then to talk to me to keep me sane when I had sent Stiles to go get food. He stopped and glanced up at me with those eyes that I fell in love with.
"We aren't technically going out so you don't really have to explain yourself." I said. He rolled his eyes and came over to me. He took my shoulders in his hands and shook me lightly making my head bobble back and forth. I just stared up at him as he shook me back and forth. I grabbed his hands which got him to look at me. He started to shake me less vigorously and I sighed. I was starting to get a headache from him doing this to me.
"I don't care I shouldn't be doing that with whatever we are." He said. I just shrugged and then I looked up at him with a smirk on my lips. He looked at me with his eyebrows raised.
"Are you saying you want me to be your girlfriend, because that would be a first!" I sneered. He glared at me as he stopped shaking me.
"Yes I want you to be my girlfriend because I love you Sky…it's just complicated cause I do like Malia, too." He said. I rolled my eyes and leaned back further in my desk chair and stared at him. He grabbed me and then pulled me to him in a kiss. For the love of fucking god he knew I couldn't resist his kisses. I moaned in the kiss as he took my bottom lip between his teeth. I let out a slow steady breath.
"We're the only ones here, right?" He asked. I nodded and clothes started to come off. He picked me up in his arms as my legs wrapped around his waist. I was still in my bra and panties and he was in his boxers. I ran my fingers through his hair heatedly as his hands pressed against my ass holding me up. My legs were wrapped tightly around me and I felt him getting hard against me. His hands clenched my ass tighter and I moaned in the kiss he held me in.
"Stiles we shouldn't…" I whispered as I pulled back from the kiss. He nodded as he kissed my neck laying me down the bed.
"I can't help it Sky…I love you. I love your soul, mind, and body…everything about you. I just can't leave you behind." He whispered. I ran my fingers over his cheek bones lightly and stared up at him.
"Then don't…leave Tate behind in the dust." I whispered in his ear as he nibbled on my neck slightly. I moaned arching up against his hips which made him groan in response. He was rock hard and it felt great against me. That's when his phone started to off. I glanced over to see it was Scott. He just stared at it before glancing back over at me, silently asking I wither or not he should. If he didn't answer I could only guess what Scott would think we were doing since he knew that Stiles was over here trying to sort things out with me.
"Answer it." I said. He nodded and reached over and got it and answered it.
"Hey buddy," Stiles answered and I closed my eyes and listened as they talked about knowing where Derek was.
"Is Sky and Max up for a trip to Mexico?" Scott asked.
"Oh hell yeah Scotty! Count me in boy!" I called. He laughed and I smiled, knowing that I could get him to laugh. I sighed and looked at Stiles as Scott basically said what had happened to led them to Derek being in Mexico. I got hunters and shell casings and that's all I was really focusing on because Stiles's hand was running up and down the side of my waist.
"Alright Scott well, I'll get back with ya cause I still gotta talk to Sky about things." Stiles said which I shook my head to because I could hear his heartbeat jump as he lied. Scott chuckled on the other end.
"Good luck then I know you wanna get back with her." He said before he hung up. I glanced up at him confused and he just kissed me lightly. He had a condom on him and the rest of our clothing disappeared and he plunged deep into me making me moan. I heard him groan and I arched up against him roaring slightly. I felt my teeth grow in slightly before returning to normal. I knew that I would be able to control the shifting through this whole thing because I had been able to before now, back when we were still in good terms.
"God you're so sexy with red eyes." He murmured. I had become the true alpha that Scott had thought I would become after we dealt with the Nogitsune. It had happened after we broke the illusion because I had been the one to first defy him and I had been the one to bit him. He sped up making me press my nails into his back.
"Fuck Stiles." I groaned as he started to go faster.
It was an hour later that Stiles and I both cuddled up to one another, both back in our underwear, just looking at each other. I shook my head and sighed leaning my head against his collar bone as he stroke my hair which I had pulled up into a pony-tail. I shook my head and then moved so I was on my back. I saw him glance over me confused slightly. The deep crease was in the center of his forehead but I didn't make any move to smooth it out by touching him, like I usually would. There were millions of thoughts going through my head as I tried to wrap my brain around one. I closed my eyes trying to not my emotions get the best of me.
"What are we doing?" I murmured looking over at him. He raised himself up so he was leaning his head against the palm of his hand. He shrugged.
"I don't know…but I feel we have a lot to talk about when we get back from our camping trip with Scott." He muttered. I nodded and sat up and got out of bed and got dressed. Scott txted Stiles about twenty minutes ago saying we were heading out in an hour, so Stiles was lucky he had clothes stashed at my house because this was like a second home to him. I packed a small book-bag and grabbed my keys, because I knew that this was going to include my brother, Malia, Kira, Scott, Stiles, and Lydia. And we had to face it that we weren't all going to fit in Stiles's jeep, which right now was fine with me because I didn't want to ride with Malia. I wanted to take my baby to and drive and just think about shit.
When I went downstairs I saw Scott were there with Kira on his back standing outside the house. I chuckled and shook my head as Stiles and I walked out of the house. Max had shown up out of nowhere and I turned around to see Lydia in her car. I gave her a tiny salute and she just shook her head and chuckled at me. I smiled at her and then her eyes flashed to Stiles with an eyebrow raised. I just shook my head slightly just silently begging her not to ask what had happened.
"Are we ready to save Derek?" Scott asked. I nodded as Lydia got out of her car after parking it off to the side of my driveway and Scott did the same. I unlocked my car so that Max could get it. Lydia looked me over and then Malia appeared out of nowhere. I blinked. She really had to stop running around like that; it was going to get someone's attention. Stiles's shifted slightly and Lydia shook her head smirking at me as I scratched the back of my head.
"Let's go." I said as I climbed into my car and everyone else except Max piled into Stiles's jeep. Max and I were silently for the first hour before he coughed, and waved his hand in front of his face. My cheeks went red and I looked over at him pretending not to notice what he was doing, or what he was referring it to.
"Okay the stench of sex is so pungent from both of you I wanna gag." He said. I rolled my eyes. I had taken a quick birdy bath wiping myself off while Stiles just sprayed his cologne all over himself hoping it would take care of the problem. I knew that I had taken care most of the stench honestly by wiping myself down but cologne can only hide so much sweat smell and pheromones and I should have told him that but we were preoccupied of not getting caught by the others because I knew there would get here earlier than we would like them to.
"Yeah, I know. Sorry…it didn't go the way I had wanted okay." I said. He just nodded.
"I know you love him Sky but I think it's time you guys let each other go. You'll end up coming back together if you're meant for each other." He said. I shrugged and just floored the pedal to the floor a little bit more getting on the other side of Stiles waving. I had a GPS so I knew where I was going, and I knew exactly where in Mexico we were going.
Stiles and Lydia were staring at the camera, of the club they were trying to get into in the little town in Mexico, while holding up the card with the skull on it. The door opened and they went inside the building. They followed the hallway to a door and then pushed it open to pulsing to music. They looked around for a few moments before heading towards the bar. When they got to the bar two shots were pushed towards them. Stiles went for his wallet when a hand clamped down on his shoulder. Stiles glanced over his shoulder to see a huge guy.
"No, on the house. Most American teenagers don't cross the border to refuse a drink." The guy said as Stiles leaned against the wood grain of the bar as he looked over at Lydia who just looked slightly annoyed.
"We didn't come for a drink." She said before dropping a shell casing into the shot on the bar that had a skull engraved on the case. They were then led to a room in the back where they could barely hear the music. There was a woman sitting at a desk tearing the stitches out of a piece of cloth surrounded by a few people.
"Severo hates this music. But I have always loved this music, the music of youth. It has a savage energy." She said. Lydia looked at her and pursed her lips together.
"We're here for Derek Hale." She said bluntly. The woman looked up amused.
"Is that so?" She asked.
"We know you have him." Lydia said and after a moment of silence from the woman she added, "We heard you can be bought." Stiles then piled up 5 stacks of bills on the table that equaled out to fifty thousand dollars.
"It's 50,000 for Derek." Stiles said.
"Now, where does a teenage boy get money like this? Japanese Mafia?" The woman asked as she leaned forward and then back again. There were clicks all around the room as the people in it clicked rounds into the chamber of their guns. Lydia glanced at the woman closer to her sitting on the couch. The woman at the desk leaned forward again putting her arms on the desk.
"Not smart to come alone." The woman said.
"What makes you think we came alone?" Stiles asked tilting his head to the side slightly. The woman's cunning look turned into one of displeased.
"You brought a wolf into my home?" She demanded standing up.
"We brought 2 alphas." Stiles said smirking.
I was dancing on the floor with a few of the guys, with Scott, Kira, and Malia in my sights. I knew enough Spanish to know something was up. Scott nodded at me as I turned my back on the guy as we grinded as I threw my hair back. I felt hands on my hips as I laughed he raised his drink into the air. I glanced around at the guards and my hands started to twitch slightly. Whatever was happening was about to go down.
"My friends I don't think you're aware of your poor timing." The woman said as she got up away from the desk and turned her back on Stiles and Lydia.
"Do you know what the dark moon is?" She asked. Lydia stared out into the space with a blank expression on her face betraying no emotion.
"The part of the lunar phase when the moon is least visible in the sky." Lydia rattled off.
"But do you know its meaning?" The woman asked.
"Some people say it's a time of reflection or grief." Lydia said.
"Loss and grief, mija." The woman said as she turned around and gripped the top of the chair she had been sitting in.
"I wonder why, when you and your friends have suffered so much loss, you would risk it again for someone like Derek Hale." She asked.
"Cause we don't like to lose." Stiles said. That's when a voice speaking Spanish came over the walkie-talkie. They were checking all the perimeters of the place making sure nothing had slipped by them until one of the guards didn't answer back.
I saw Scott take down one of the men and lift the walkie up to his mouth. Even though he was good bit away from me and the music was bumping I heard exactly what he said.
"Stiles take ten off the table." Scott said. I just chuckled and kept moving my hips to the rhythm of the music pulsing from the speakers. Scott glanced over at me and I gave him a wink smiling as I let myself go. I saw Max shaking his head as he sipped at a drink. He had tested it for wolfsbane before even taking a sip of it. I wish I could tell him not to get drunk but we couldn't get drunk because the alcohol gets burned up in our systems so fast it doesn't even matter.
As soon as Stiles heard what Scott said he pocketed a stack of the cash on the table, tucking it inside his jacket.
"Maybe you should just take the deal." Lydia suggested. The women laughed.
"While I'm keen to follow the warning of a Banshee, I'm going to have to decline." The woman said.
I was on the dance floor and I saw someone approaching me when I was dancing with the guy. I chuckled and then when he drew the gun I quickly kicked it out of his hand before punching him in the nose making his head jerk backwards. I laughed and did a sweep kick knowing him off his feet before delivering a punch to his head knocking him out. I saw Scott wave me over, along with Max and with Malia, Kira, and him; we disappeared down into a hallway.
"Just give us Derek, you don't want him anyway. He's a poor conversationalist, a downer and no sense of humor! Just come on take the money." Stiles said using his hands as he talked. Lydia nodded to each of the things he said about Derek because they were all true. The woman grabbed the walkie off the table.
"Severo? Show them how the Calaveras's negotiate." She said.
We were walking down the hallway when gas started to poor in through somewhere in the floor and then through the ceiling. I smelled it.
"Wolfsbane! Get out of here!" Scott yelled. I covered my nose but it wasn't helping. I fell immediately and then Max caught me before I hit the floor. We had come prepared if this had happened and I brought my medicine plus the inhaler. Max was already out by now, and I knew I was about to be out of it too. I saw the woman approach Scott. She glanced over at me.
"You two Alphas should have been more careful, especially one that is all so vulnerable to wolfsbane like you are, Ms. Hudson." The woman said before I was knocked out by the Wolfsbane. I jerked awake to a searing pain in my hand. I screamed and jerked straight up. I felt my fangs and my eyes, knowing I had just gone full wolf.
"Sorry I had to trigger the healing, and you weren't waking up. Max shoved a pill into your mouth and now you need your inhaler." Scott said looking at me. I groaned nodded as he pushed it into my hand. I felt a total dork but this was a working system until my mom came up with a better one for keeping me safe when Wolfsbane was involved. I stood up carefully.
"Looked for a way out, I take already?" I asked. They nodded.
"I say we take out who ever comes through the door next and run for it." Malia said. I looked at her as I leaned back against the sink.
"What about Lydia?" I asked.
"What about her?" Malia asked looking at me. I bit back a smart ass comment as Stiles went over to her.
"We're not leaving without her." Scott said.
"Why not?" Malia asked. I looked at her as I licked my lips for a comment but Stiles sent me a look. Oh, so this is the girl you're picking me over, how cute. I held back my smart-ass comment to Malia about this and then just bit my lip.
"Because, we don't leave without people. Remember, we talked about this? Rules of the wild kingdom don't apply to friends." Stiles said tapping on the pole she was leaning on.
"Is that what you would do as a coyote, leave her for dead?" Kira asked. I flinched at Kira's question before going to look at myself in the busted mirrors. I was pale with bags under my eyes. I saw Stiles catch my eyes in the mirror and I just looked back at my own reflection waiting for Malia to answer Kira's questions.
"If she was weak and injured, yeah. If hunting had been bad that season, I would eat her. Then I'd leave." Malia said. I turned around and looked at her with the most disgusted look on my face until Max elbowed me in the ribs earning a growl from me.
"Mmmm, believe it or not that's progress." Stiles said.
"Cute," I said as Stiles's cut me a look. I gave him a cheeky smile and Scott glanced between the two of us confused.
"All right, guys, we're not dead yet. And that means Araya wants something." Scott said.
"Valid point, but what is it?" I asked.
"But if the Calaveras don't know where Derek is, that means they didn't take him from the loft, right?" Kira asked. I nodded as I pulled myself up to sit on the sink behind me.
"Maybe he left on his own." Stiles suggest. I shook my head and they all looked at me.
"Nah, he would've at least given you guys a heads up right? Someone else had to have gotten him first, but the question is who got him first before they did?" I asked. Stiles and Scott stared at me as I looked at both of them with raised eyebrows. They shrugged and then after throwing some ideas back and forth the door opened and I jumped off the sink getting ready to go all out when they came at me and Scott with two electric zappers catching us both in the chest. I screamed out in pain collapsing.