Chapter 1.
I hid silently behind a bush as Stiles was getting ready to drop down off the gutters. The front door opened, I heard Scott's footsteps slowly walking outside onto the porch. I looked up at Stiles giving him as swift nod and he dropped his body down, dangling like a bat. I heard Scott scream then Stiles, and then Scott again. I jumped out from the bush standing behind his porch fence. Scott's been our best friend since the third grade.
"Stiles! What the hell are you doing?" Scott shouted, I heard a bit of relief in his voice.
"You weren't answering your phone" Stiles stated.
I noticed Scott was holding onto a bat. "Why do you have a bat?" I asked letting out a chuckle.
"I thought you were a predator!" He exclaimed lowering the bat.
Stiles started making some stupid noises, then began explaining himself. "Look I know its late but you gotta hear this." My twin started "I saw our dad leave twenty minutes ago. Dispatch call, they're bringing in every officer from the beacon department and even state police."
"For what?" Scott asked shaking his head slightly.
"Two joggers found a body in the woods!" Stiles said casually, then jumped down falling on his ass. Of course its Stiles.
"A dead body?" Scott asked.
"No, a body of water..." Stiles began sarcastically as he popped his head up. "Yes dumbass, a dead body!"
Stiles and I then jumped over the fence, Me almost falling on my face but my twin quickly caught me and Scott jumped forward a bit. Wow Scott if Stiles wasn't there I would've fallen, excellent reflexes buddy jeez.
"You mean like murder?" Scott asked leaning on his bat, narrowing his eyes.
"Nobody knows yet, just that it was a girl probably in her twenties." I answered.
"W- Hold on if they found the body then what are they looking for?" Scott asked confused.
"That's the best part" Stiles started to smile. "They only found half!"
Scott's face dropped, and he immediately new what Stiles was thinking.
"We're going." Stiles grabbed my wrist and the three of us headed to his Jeep.
We stopped driving as we approached a sign 'Beacon Hills Preserve. NO ENTRY AFTER DARK.' We all got out of the Jeep and Scott started talking. "We're seriously doing this?" He said clearly not liking this idea.
"You're the one always moaning that nothing ever happens in this town." I stated. Stiles patted his shoulder and turned on his flashlight. We all started walking.
"I was trying to get a good nights sleep before practice tomorrow" Scott said. I heard thunder in the background. Seriously? Don't even start raining.
"Riiiight, cos sitting on the bench is such a grueling effort!" My twin stated. I ran up next to Stiles and wrapped my arm around his, I seriously was not feeling this idea either. I wouldn't be surprised if a ghost jumped out on us right now. The woods was misty and creepy, it smelt like mud mixed with leaves. I'm glad I decided to wear my boots.
Scott sighed "No because i'm playing this year, in fact i'm making first line."
"Hey that's the spirit, everyone should have a dream-" I began.
"Even a pathetically unrealistic one." Stiles pointed out.
Scott shook his head and rolled his eyes. "Just out of curiosity which half of the body are we looking for?" Our best friend asked.
Stiles slowed down slightly and looked up, then looked back down. "Huh, I didn't even think about that!" Stiles chuckled.
"And uhhh, what if whoever killed the body is still out here?" Scott asked pointedly.
"Also something I didn't think about." Stiles added. We began climbing a hill and Scott was helping me up, even though I could tell he was losing his breath.
"Its comforting to know you pay so much attention to detail." Scott said, sarcasm in his voice.
"I know right." I said laughing.
Scott started wheezing and looked at Stiles as we got to the top of the hill. "Maybe the severe asthmatic should be the one holding the flashlight." Then he turned to me, "and the one being helped up the hill." He pulled out his inhaler shaking it rapidly.
Me and Stiles ran ahead, he saw a bunch of police officers scanning the area and jumped down pulling me down with him, making us land on our stomachs. Scott came up to us, he glanced up and noticed them as well. He slipped onto his front side. Stiles turned the flashlight off.
"Well? Come on!" My twin stated excitedly jumping up grabbing my hand pulling me along with him. He started running.
"Stiles! Sadie!" Scott wheezed out, taking a puff of his inhaler.
"Wait up!" He yelled-whispered, whilst jumping up.
"Guys!" He trying catching our attention but I was focused on not tripping over, Stiles was focused on the police officers. We were running with Scott following behind. Our heads were ducking down slightly trying not to draw attention to ourselves.
"GUYS!" He practically shouted. Me and Stiles both turned around looking at him, his eyes quickly widened and moved himself behind a tree. We were confused, we turned around and saw a German shepherd dog barking at us. We both jumped, my twin fell on his back and I fell on top of him, we were rolling around backing up from the dog.
"STAY RIGHT THERE!" The officer holding the dog shouted. He was pointing a flashlight at us, me and my brother were covering our eyes slightly from the brightness.
"Hang on, hang on." A voice we knew all too well began. "These little delinquents belong to me."
Me and my twin stood up swiftly. "Dad, how you doin?" Me and Stiles said in sync.
"So, do you guys listen in on all my phone calls?" He asked, clearly holding in his anger.
"No!" I quipped.
"Well not the boring ones." My brother added, I turned to him annoyed nudging him in the arm with my elbow.
"Where's your usual partner in crime?" He asked looking around.
"Who SCOTT?" Stiles asked his voice cracking a little on the last word.
"Scott's uh home..." I started.
"He said he wanted to get a good nights sleep for our first day back at school tomorrow." My brother added in, clearly noticing my difficulty trying to make up an excuse.
"Just us. In the woods. Alone" I pointed out.
Our father lifted his flashlight up scanning the area, clearly not believing anything we just said. "SCOTT?! YOU OUT THERE?!" He shouted. I closed my eyes, hoping Scott wouldn't reveal himself. I was soaking wet, it was pouring down with rain. I just wanted to go home already. "SCOTT?" Our father shouted once more.
Our dad let out a heavy sigh. "Well kids, i'm gonna walk you back to your car." He began grabbing hold of Stiles behind the neck, not too hard obviously, and me by my hood. "And we're gonna have a conversation about something called 'Invasion of Privacy'"
FIRST DAY BACK AT SCHOOL.
I was sat in Stiles' Jeep as we drove to school, my headphones in and looking out the window. We pulled up at school, seeing Scott we both walked over.
"Hey, so lets see this thing" I asked, pointing at his lower stomach. He lifted up his shirt slightly, we could see a perfectly neat bandage he obviously applied himself with a red bloody blob in the middle. Stiles leaned over to touch it, Scott pulled back giving my twin a 'really? You're gonna touch it?' look.
"Whoa" Stiles said impressed.
"I couldn't see much but i'm pretty sure it was a wolf." Scott said casually walking off. I stood in the middle of the two boys.
"A wolf bit you?" My brother began smiling slightly. Looking at him as if he was stupid.
"Yeah" Scott added looking at my twin.
"No not a chance" Stiles let out a small chuckle, nudging me slightly, I grinned.
"Well, I heard a wolf howling!"
"No you didn't"
"What do you mean no I didn't? How do you know what I heard?"
"Because California doesn't have wolves" I interrupted the boys, who were probably going to start a stupid debate about what Scott heard. "I mean not in like sixty years."
"Really?" Scott looked at me. As we all stopped walking.
"Yes really, there are no wolves in California." My twin added.
"Well if you don't believe me about the wolf then you're definitely not going to believe me when I tell you I found the body." Scott stated.
Stiles jumped in excitement lifting his hand up grabbing onto Scott's shoulder. I was in disbelief I grabbed onto Stiles' shoulders and darted up grabbing onto Scott's other shoulder.
"Are you kidding me?" Stiles asked with a huge grin on his face.
"No" Scott laughed shaking his head "I wish, i'm gonna have nightmares for a month."
"That is freaking awesome!" I stated.
"Its seriously going to be the best thing that's happened to this town since..." Stiles trailed off looking behind me and Scott his eyes following a certain someone. "Since the birth of Lydia Martin... Hey Lydia!" Me and Scott both angled our heads as Lydia walked right past Stiles without even noticing him. "You- You look like you're gonna ignore me." He said slightly upset.
I started walking off as he was saying that Scott was the cause of this dragging us down to his nerd depths. I know the two were following close behind.
"We're nerds by association, we're Scarlet nerded by you" I heard Stiles protesting to Scott, even though our best friend barely was paying any attention.
We all got to English, the teacher started talking about the body. I sit behind Scott and on the right hand side of Stiles. As the teacher mentions the body was found in the woods last night, me and Scott turned looking at Stiles and he gave us quick little winks. We all grinned.
As we began picking up the papers in front of us, I see Scott wince and lift his hand to his ear looking around the room. I notice he spots something out the window, I didn't pay much attention, I mean its Scott. He's my quirky best friend. His head was moving slowly towards the door and then it opened. The vice principal walked in along with a pretty brunette.
"Class, this is our new student Allison Argent." He began as the girl smiled awkwardly around the room. "Do your best to make her feel welcome"
The principal left and Allison glanced around the room, I looked at Scott, I could see the crush in his eyes. Even though he was facing forward. That's irrelevant. I got up and gestured my hand towards my seat, Allison looked at me with a kind smile and sat down behind Scott. I placed myself in front of my twin. Ahh Scotty A little crushy you have here? He turned around with a pen handing it to her, she looked confused but soon smiled wildly and took the pen.
"Thanks" She said quietly. Scott turned back around and Allison looked at the pen frowning. Scott had a huge grin on his face, I turned around and my brother was looking at me pointing towards the two with the pencil lifting his eyebrows and grinning. I chuckled slightly then turned back around.
Me and Stiles walked through the hallways, I spotted Scott and ran up to him jumping on his back making his backpack off of his shoulders, I wrapped my hands around his neck as he grabbed hold of my legs trying to balance me. I noticed he was staring at someone, I turned to see Allison across the hallway. She was looking back, she spotted me her eyes widened and turned away to her locker. Just then Lydia Martin and her boyfriend Jackson approached Allison, she started talking to the new girl and smiling, as Jackson was holding Lydia's waist.
"Can someone tell me why Allison's been here all of five minutes and already hanging out with Lydia's clique?" I asked the boys whilst jumping off Scott's back.
"Cos she's hot, beautiful people herd together." Stiles stated shrugging his shoulders whilst staring at Lydia. Scott still staring at Allison.
"Oh right, thanks for the vote of confidence." I slapped my twins chest.
"You're my sister, you're not supposed to be hot." Stiles said casually. I rolled my eyes and leaned up against my locker. Me and Stiles began arguing about who's hotter, me or him.
It was practice and I was sat waiting on the bleachers waiting for my loyal companions. I see them come rolling up with their gear on. They both dropped their bags at my feet, they were talking about how Scott's whole life is sitting on the sidelines. Scott looked at me but something soon caught his eye, I turned around seeing Lydia and her new bestie Allison about to sit down on the bleachers further behind me.
"McCall!" I heard the coach shout.
"Yeah?" Scott mumbled.
"You're in goal." Coach exclaimed throwing the gear at him.
I noticed Danny sit next to me, he looked up and smiled at me. "Hey Sadie" He said, putting on his gear.
"Hey there Danny boy" I smiled nudging him with my shoulder. He patted me on the back and got up running over to line up with his lacrosse stick. Stiles sat down on the other side of me.
The whistle blew and I saw Scott started groaning holding his head, I stood up looking at him. And then the first ball came, a player threw it and of course... Hit Scott straight in the head, he fell down into the goal as everyone laughed. Me and Stiles looked at each other and shook our head. Scott jumped up. And then... He caught a ball. "Yeah!" Me and Stiles said smiling. The coach was shocked and so was the person who threw the ball.
Scott caught the ball again. And Again. And Again! Me and my twin both shouted "Hell Yeah!" But then Jackson skipped the que... This wasn't going to be good. He threw the ball and... Scott caught it, he actually caught it? Me and Stiles jumped up screaming. Well I was screaming, he was making some weird happy noises. As Stiles does. He grabbed me and hugged me for a few seconds. "Thats our best friend!" Stiles shouted.
After school me, Scott and Stiles went out back into the forest looking for Scott's inhaler he dropped last night. We approached a river and my twin picked me up walking with me across it. Thank god for Stiles, I was wearing my ballerina flats today so I'm not walking through water in them.
"I don't know what it was. Its like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball, and thats not the only weird thing. I can here stuff I shouldn't be able to hear, smell things." Scott stated.
"Smell things?" Me and Stiles chorused. "Like what?" He added.
"Like the mint mojito gum in your pocket." He stopped and turned to my twin.
"I don't even have any mint mojito-" He paused as he dug through his pocket pulling out a piece of gum. We all started walking again.
"So all this started with the bite?" I asked.
"What if its like an infection. Like my body's flooding with adrenaline before I go into shock or something?" He asked us concerned.
"You know what I actually think I've heard of this" my twin began "its a specific kind of infection." Scott stopped infront of us. Looking at Stiles.
"Are you serious?" He asked with an unreadable expression.
"Yah, yeah. I think its called... Lycanthropy." My brother stated. I held in my laughter, as Scott's jaw dropped.
"Whats that? Is that bad?" Scott asked as the look of concern grew on his face.
"Oh yeah the worst" I quipped. Trying to hold my smile by putting my hand in front of my mouth. Scott's face went pale, he looked like he was gonna collapse or something.
"It only happens once a month" My twin added. Scott furrowed his eyebrows.
"Once a month?" Scott asked narrowing his eyes.
"Mhm, on the night of the full moon." Stiles stated. Then me and my twin started howling, and laughing at the same time. He pushed Stiles hard in the chest and me the same, but a bit more gentle. We laughed, they trailed off but when Scott pushed me my shoe fell off. I slipped it back on and caught up with the boys and my twin was making wolf noises as Scott was sighing shaking his head.
"Obviously i'm kidding" I heard Stiles say whilst laughing still. "But If you see me in shop class trynna melt all the silver I can find is because Friday's a full moon."
Scott stopped. "I coulda sworn this was it," He began as he was looking on the floor, "I saw the body, the deer came running, and I dropped my inhaler." Scott bent down looking through the leaves, I kneeled down next to him helping.
"Maybe the killer moved the body." My twin stated.
"If he did I hope he left my inhaler, those things are like eighty bucks." Scott retorted.
All of a sudden I saw Stiles slap Scott's shoulder and then grab me by my shoulders making me stand up. My twin then clasped onto my hand and pulled me slightly behind him. I glanced over to see a tall figure walking towards us. As he did Scott jumped up and stood next to me grabbing my other hand also slightly covering me. All the space I had left to see was looking through the top of their shoulders.
"What are you doing here?" The figure menaced. He glared at me then at the two boys. "Huh?" He exclaimed "This is private property!"
"Uh... Sorry man we didn't know." Stiles said awkwardly squeezing tighter on my hand the closer the man got.
"Yeah, we were just... Looking for something." Scott said also awkwardly. The man raised his eyebrows pointedly at Scott. "But, forget it-" He was cut off as the creepy dude threw something at Scott, he caught it easily. It was Scott's inhaler. The guy gave us all one last glare then began walking off.
"Dudes!" Stiles started, me and Scott turned to him. "That was Derek Hale, you remember right. He's only like a few years older than us!" Derek Hale? Well I never thought he'd show his face back in this town ever again.
"Remember what?" Scott asked.
"His family, they all burned to death in a fire like ten years ago." I stated, looking at Scott raising an eyebrow. How did he not hear of Derek Hale, they always said he was the lucky survivor as well as his sister.
"I wonder what he's doing back." Scott said looking at me.
It was the end of the day and there was a lacrosse game on. I decided to watch beans as Scott's playing, wait a go buddy! I got there and plopped myself next to Stiles. We talked for a while then the whistle blew. I watched the game, in shock. Scott... He was amazing, he was flipping over people and scoring goals. The coach declared then that he made it to first line, everyone got up screaming and clapping. Me and Stiles turned to each other. It was one of them moments when we were thinking the exact same thing.
When me and Stiles got home we stumbled into his room turning the computer on. We began searching about Lycanthropy. I know it sounds stupid but, those shots Scott did they were... Impossible, well at least for Scott anyway.
We printed out a bunch of stuff, I was reading a book about Wolfsbane and Lycanthropy. We were totally in the zone, we were silent for hours. Then a knock at the door, me and Stiles both jumped up, a bit shocked. Stiles opened the door quickly, saw Scott and sighed in relief.
"Get in!" My twin said. Scott had a huge grin on his face, he walked in throwing his bag on the floor. "We've been up all night reading websites, books. All this stuff!" Stiles said quickly gathering a few print outs. Yes we were up all night reading this stuff, we were obsessed yet terrified of what Scott could be.
Could he actually be a werewolf?
"How much adderall have you guys had today?" Scott asked looking at the both of us. Me and my twin both have ADHD, so we're always hyper and can never focus, adderall helps us concentrate and calm us down a bit.
"A lot... Doesn't matter." I stated as my best friend let out a chuckle. I grabbed some print outs too piling them up on Stiles' desk ready to show Scott. Stiles sat on his spinny chair.
"Okay, just listen." Stiles started.
"Oh is this about the body? Did they find out who did it?" Scott said, sitting down onto my twins bed.
"No, they're still questioning people. Even Derek Hale." I retorted. Sitting down next to him.
"Oh the guy in the woods that we saw the other day?" He asked.
"Yes! But thats not it okay!" Stiles began, Scott's face started to look concerned.
"What then?" He asked looking at me then back at Stiles.
"Remember the joke the other day?" Stiles said slower this time.
"Not a joke anymore" I quipped, looking at Scott anxiously.
"The wolf! The bite in the woods!" Stiles paused, Scott looked confused. "We started doing all this reading. Do you even know why a wolf howls?!" Stiles exclaimed jumping out of his seat.
"Should I?" Scott asked still confused.
"Its a signal okay? When- when a wolfs alone it howls to signal its location to the rest of the pack!" My twin said, his voice cracked at the last word.
"So if you heard a wolf howling that means others could be near by. Even a whole pack of them!" I exclaimed also jumping up.
"A whole pack of wolves?" Scott questioned. He grew interested.
"No... Werewolves." Stiles said casually, he was tensing up. Scott's mouth opened a little then jumped up quickly about to grab his back.
"Are you seriously wasting my time with this? You know i'm picking Allison up in an hour." Scott said looking at the two of us. They were arguing slightly but I trailed off in my thoughts. I was thinking... What if a werewolf killed the person they found in the woods. Maybe the person knew and the werewolf killed he/she because of it. If Scott was a werewolf then what if his instinct was to kill us for knowing? What if its like them scenes in movies where they're like 'If I told you i'd have to kill you' but he would actually kill us? Scott a murderer. No way. He couldn't even disect a frog in biology because he thought it was animal abuse. I snapped out of my thoughts as Scott grabbed Stiles pushing him against the wall raising a fist.
"SCOTT!" I shouted. He pushed Stiles' chair towards me and I jumped back. I was in shock. This was happening, this is real? He took a few deep breaths, then his faced turned from scrunched up in anger to disbelief. He glanced at Stiles then turned to look at me.
"I'm- i'm sorry." He said, his voice shaky. He said something else but I wasn't listening. He came by me to grab his bag from the bed. I jumped back a bit, I saw it hurt his feelings. How else did he expect me to react? He practically threw a chair at me! He apologized again and left the room. Stiles stood there in shock also, I slowly sat on his bed with my head in my hands.
"Sadie..." Stiles said glaring at his chair. "Look..." I looked up, he turned the back of the chair towards me. I saw three distinct claw marks in the back of it. Like animal claws.
I got ready for the party we were all going to. I threw on a peach dress with a white string belt around my waist, white ballerina flats with little bows at the top and did my hair in a french plait. Me and Stiles left the house. When we got to the party I went inside. I saw Danny and he came over. "Wheres your date?" He asked looking around.
"I don't have one." I said smiling slightly.
"Well, I guess you're just going to have to dance with me then!" He said looping his arm through mine and walking me out to the pool area. We danced, and I glanced over Danny's shoulder and saw... Derek. What the hell is he doing here?
He's such a creep. He looked at me then looked behind me, I turned around and saw Scott looking at him whilst dancing with Allison. All of a sudden Scott bent down holding his head struggling to stay on his feet. I gasped and turned to Danny, excusing myself from him and I ran towards Scott.
"Scott! Scott wait!" I yelled, he was pratically running away towards the front door. We passed Stiles he asked if Scott was alright, I shrugged my shoulders. I ran after Scott, by the time I got outside past all the crowd of dancing teenagers but he was already cycling off.
"Dammit!" I shouted kicking the floor.
"You alright there?" I saw Derek approach me. I pulled my lips tight together like an angry five year old. He raised his eyebrow at me.
"You're such a creep!" I exclaimed stomping back inside. I felt a little bad actually, I was so rude. Stiles grabbed hold of me pulling me out again, I noticed Allison got into Derek's car. They drove off. I was slightly concerned, maybe she knew him. Right now Scott's the priority! He comes first.
"We have to find Scott!" I said pulling on Stiles' arm.
We went to his house, and knocked on his bedroom door. We were trying to get in, Stiles was talking to Scott telling him to move.
"Derek! Derek Hale's the werewolf he's the one who bit me, he's the one who killed the girl in the woods!" Scott said breathing heavily. Me and Stiles looked at each other, our mouths dropped.
"Scott" I started. "Derek's the one who drove Allison home from the party." All went quiet then the door slammed shut. I heard a low growl. Stiles was pushing at the door shouting Scott. We got into his room and... He was gone.
Me and Stiles sped to Allison's house, when we got there we both jumped out leaving our doors open. We ran to the door and Stiles started ringing the doorbell repeatedly and banging on the door. Allison's parents probably think we're crazy or something. A red haired woman answered the door with a look of confusion and concern on her face.
"Hi!" Stiles said "Mrs Argent... Uhmmm... You have no idea who we are. Uhm we're a friend of your daughters. Look this is gonna sound kinda crazy... Uh really crazy actually. You know what crazy doesn't even describe-" He was cut off to the woman shouting Allison. We saw Allision walk out onto the top of the stairs. Me and Stiles felt instant relief. We spoke for a while, about how Scott is really ill and he's sorry he ran out on her at Lydia's party. Me and my twin left we searched all night around town looking for Scott I eventually fell asleep. I jumped up to the sound of the passenger door opening. I saw it was Scott and smiled but fell back asleep on the back seat.