Chapter 2:
Liam Dunbar
"We have to get him to the hospital!" Scott said as he held onto Liam's weight, "Start the car now, Stiles!"
"Okay! Okay." Stiles exclaimed as he jammed the keys into the ignition.
It's my fault, Scott thought throughout the whole ride, He's just a freshman. I should've taken him easily.
Liam wanted to go home. He felt he didn't need this. He thought he was going to heal on his own. It was just a small sprain, he kept telling himself, It will heal by the next two days. Suddenly, pain shot up his leg and he cringed. It wasn't going to heal any time sooner.
Once again, Liam felt like a disappointment. He felt like a shame to his parents, even though his dad wasn't his biological father. He then sighed as he realized he was going to see him at the hospital. If only he wasn't a goddamn doctor. . .
Audrey Mendler
After tryouts, Audrey had to go home with Kate and Amber. Before that, she had the chance to see Jance. Once she saw him, she ran into his arms, saying, "You did great!"
Jance smiled, "Thanks, babe. Do you need a lift home?"
Audrey shook her head. Right on cue, Kate drove up the curb and rolled down her window. There, she revealed her same cheshire cat smile with her sunglasses on. She waved at Jance, "Hey, Jance!"
"Hi, Kate," he waved back, "How are you?"
"Doing great, sweetheart. Do you need a ride home? Stay for dinner with us tonight."
I looked at Jance and gave him a pleading look. He tilted his head in thought, but shook it off.
"I don't know," he said, "I have to go to the hospital later to see my friend. I have to tell him some news for lacrosse. He fell and broke his ankle."
"Liam?" Audrey piped up.
Jance turned to her and cocked an eyebrow, "Yeah, him. Do you want to go?"
Audrey didn't really know why she had said his name in the first place. She didn't even like the guy. Like Jance said, he had issues, and he always looked like he had murdered a child and ate it alive. But, he still managed to have good looks. Not like she was crushing on him.
She shrugged and looked at Kate, who was just grinning like any parent should. Not that she was her mother or anything, but more like an aunt. Amber and Audrey treated her like family, and Kate treated them as her own children. In a way, she did replace their mother, who was long gone years ago.
"Just come with us, Jance," Kate said, "When you need to go, I'll take you both to the hospital to see your friend. Now hurry up, the spaghetti's getting cold!"
Just then, Jance's phone rang off. He sighed and said, "I guess that means my dad is picking me up. Thanks, Kate, but next time! Audrey, you still want to go to the hospital with me later on?"
Audrey nodded. She actually felt some sympathy for Liam. She didn't exactly care for him, but she at least felt sorry. She walked to the car and closed the door. They then began to go home.
"You know, I'm kind of glad Jance said no." Kate spoke.
Audrey's eyebrows rose. She thought Kate liked Jance. She was always pleased to have him around and always treated him like a son. He wasn't just Audrey's boyfriend, but he was her childhood best friend. And, they tend to keep it at at least that point in their relationship.
"Why?" She asked.
They arrived home and Kate leaned in, whispering to her, "Because maybe later after dinner, before you go to the hospital, I could teach you how to shoot a bow and arrow."
Audrey was surprised. To shoot a bow and arrow? She immediately felt like Katniss Everdeen at the thought of it. She smiled, "Okay."
Kate smiled as they both got out of the car. To Kate, she thinks that she could finally tell Audrey who she really was. A text got sent to her phone and she looked at it privately.
THE BENEFACTOR: has the late flower finally bloomed?
Derek Hale
It was Braeden's mission to look for Kate. She was hired by Derek and Peter Hale to look for her and take back the bearer bonds that she had stolen from their family's safe. They may have had to pay a little too much, but it was worth it. She actually knew where she was going.
"I've found some clues that she still is in Beacon Hills," she said, "But she's not the same Kate Argent that was the aunt of Allison. Supposedly, she is now an aunt to another kid."
"Another kid?" Derek asked, "As in someone else related to Allison?"
Braeden shook her head, "Not even close."
They kept walking down the side of the road that was at the edge of the woods and close to the center of Beacon Hills. Derek was still confused. It was already confusing enough that she was alive again and she morphed him into his teen years. When he trusted her.
"How did you even find her in the first place?" He asked.
"It was easy," Braeden shrugged, "I spotted her driving two kids to Beacon Hills High School. Those are her nieces. One of them is a freshman and the other girl is in Scott and Stiles' class. I got the chance to place a tracker under the bumper of her car."
Braeden then stopped in front of a red car. She moved to the back and pointed at the small tracker that was still beeping a small dim red light. This was Kate's car.
"Where's Kate then?" Derek asked, getting more anxious by the minute.
"Calm down," Braeden groaned. She looked at the ground and spotted footprints on the dirty ground of the woods. They must've been Kate's and one of her niece's, "This way."
The two followed the prints that led anonymously to the middle, just in the area of Derek's old burned house.
Then, Derek stopped, holding Braeden back. She shot him a confused look before looking ahead of her. It was Kate and a girl with a bow and arrow. But it wasn't just any girl.
"Audrey?" He breathed.
The memories began to flood through his mind, leading him back to his teen years after Paige had died. To Derek, Audrey was another Paige— someone who was always curious, yet continued to be shy around everyone. But then again, she was very observant. A flashback came back to his mind.
"Hey, are you okay?"
Derek's head peeked up from his arms he saw a girl sitting across him at the lunch tables. She was new and she had no clue who she was talking to. He bet she didn't know how to make friends.
"Yeah." He deadpanned, "Now leave me alone."
It was another day that he and young Kate had another typical boyfriend-girlfriend fight. This time, he wasn't sure if he wanted to go on with the relationship. Kate never knew how to make decisions.
The girl frowned, "If you're fine, then you shouldn't be alone."
Derek shot her a glare, "Who are you?"
She stuck her hand out, "I'm Audrey."
Derek rolled his eyes, "Last name, dummy." He pulled on that playboy smirk.
"Lancaster." She replied.
Derek shook his head out of it. The main question that stuck up was, how did she ever come back to life? Was she just like Kate? Does she even remember her killer? Derek watched as she tried to shoot an arrow.
"You know this little girl?" Braeden asked.
He nodded. He knew her as if she was his wife. He took a view at her features. She was still a young beauty like before. But how was she still young? How was she still looking like the same peachy girl from before?
Suddenly, an arrow shot just above his head, merely missing an inch of his spiky hair.
Yep, he thought, definitely the same Audrey.
His eyes looked at the weapon above him. He took out the arrow of the tree, trailing his view back to Audrey. She was looking back at him with the same horrified look— wide eyed and scared.
Kate was looking at him too. He leaned toward Audrey and whispered, "Take a break. I'm going to get some water." With that she fled.
Braeden said, "I'm going to follow her. Take care of her, will ya?"
Derek nodded, stepping toward Audrey slowly. He stuck out the arrow. "This is yours?"
Audrey Mendler
Audrey was bad at archery, but she didn't think she would mess up this badly. Once she shot an arrow, it bounced off a branch and flew straight toward another tree, above a man's head. His actual head!
Great, messing up in front of another attractive guy, she thought to herself with a mental slap in the face.
He handed her the arrow gently. In return, Audrey grinned sheepishly. Why was he there in the first place anyway? "Thanks." She squeaked.
The guy smiled, showing off his perfect teeth. Audrey practically melted at his feet.
"What's your name?" He asked.
Audrey hesitated for a minute. Should she say her real name? Heck, why not. It's not like he is going to do anything with her anyway, "Audrey."
The guy breathed a laugh, fog puffing out of his mouth, "Last name, too dummy."
For a minute, Audrey felt a wave of de ja vu. It was like she had heard those words before.
"Mendler." She replied.
A/N- I am so bad in third person point of view. I'm probably going back to the first person (or is it second?) so please forgive me for the change of narration in the story. But other than that, I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
