Chapter Four

Escape?

*Stiles

Stiles frowned and slowly made his way over to Josie, "How'd she get out of Echin House?" he asked, just talking out loud since Derek wouldn't have any idea either. "What the hell happened to her?" he mumbled.

Derek growled, "Who the hell cares" he said and grabbed Stiles arm, keeping him from getting any closer to her. "Let's just leave her there, call up Deaton and he can take her back." he said, getting an overwhelming feeling of anger. It just boiled in his gut when ever he looked at her, and he wanted nothing more than to rip her throat out, to feel her flesh slicing open under his claws. He knew he couldn't do anything though, because it could kill Stiles in the process. Not a chance he was willing to take.

"Oh come on Derek we can't just leave her there" Stiles said and pulled his arm out of Derek's grasp. "Not saying we need to put on the couch or anything but we do need to get her out of the doorway" he said and sighed softly before walking over to her again. He ignore Derek's angry growl and bent over and grabbed Josie's arms and kind of just pulled her out of the doorway. He didn't care enough to be gentle with it, he hated her just as much as Derek did. He just wasn't as homicidal. "Okay there" he said and dropped her arms before going back over to the door and closing it. "Now how are we going to get a hold of Deaton. Still don't have his number" he said and shook his head slightly. "We could just call the clinic, number should just be in a phone book, or online even." he said and pulled his phone out of his pocket, "And since I'm guessing you don't have a phone book I'll just look it up online" he said.

Derek sighed and nodded slightly and walked over to him, "Tell him to hurry" he said and looked over at Josie. "I'd rather not have to deal with her one she wakes up" he said.

Stiles found the number and quickly punch it into his phone. "Here you talk him" he said and handed the phone to Derek.

"What?! Why?!" Deak asked kind of confused.

"I'm gonna do something" Stiles said and hurried for to the bed and knelt down next to it. He pulled a shoe box out from under it and slowly pulled the lid off and pulled out a glass jar with a black powder in it. "Might as well make sure she's not a problem." he muttered before standing up and hurrying over to her and popped off the cover. Then he quickly poured the contents into his hand and tossed it into the air above her, imagining it creating a perfect circle around her. And sure enough it did, it created a circle around her just like it was supposed to. He's seen it happen a few times now, but it still always amazed him.

""Where'd you get the mountain ash" Derek asked, as the phone rang and rang. Though before Stiles could answer Deaton finally answered.

"Hello, Beacon Hills Veterinary Clinic. How may I help you" he said.

"Deaton, it's Derek. We have a problem" He said, and then quickly went on to explain what happened, though there really wasn't much of a story to tell.

Deaton frowned, "Sorry Derek, I don't know how she could possibly have escaped. I'll have to call and see what happened."

Derek sighed and nodded slightly "Okay, just let me know what happened then" he said and looked over at Josie for a moment. "What am I supposed to do with her?" he asked.

"I'll have them send someone over to get her. Shouldn't be long. Again I'm sorry Derek" he said before hanging up.

Derek handed the phone back to Stiles, "So I guess we just have to wait for someone to come and get her" he said.

Stiles and nodded slightly "Okay" he said and looked down at her for a moment before walking away from her and over to the dining room and sat back down. "Did he say how long it would take?" he asked and popped the last of the breakfast Derek had made him into his mouth.

Derek sighed softly, "No just that it shouldn't take long" he said and shrugged slightly.

Stiles smiled small, "Okay then" he said and looked over at Josie for a moment before walking over to the couch to sit down. "Will they even be able to hold her. I mean she escaped once didn't she" he said and sighed softly.

Derek shrugged "I don't know, doesn't really look like she had it easy" he said and looked down at her blood form. "But it doesn't matter. It's the best thing we have" he said.

Stiles nodded "Yeah I guess, doesn't mean I have to like" he said and was about to sit down when Josie started moving. "Great she's waking up" he said and rolled his eyes before flopping down onto the couch.

Derek sighed softly, and walked over to her, stopping at the edge of the mountain ash. He knelt down next to to her and just watched her for a moment. He had a lot of questioned he wanted answered.

Josie groaned in pain before slowly rolling over onto her back. She laid there for a moment before seemingly remembering what happened. She quickly jumped up onto her feet to run, but ran smack into the force field the mountain ash created. "What the hell?" she mumbled under her breathe before she noticed Derek and groaned.

"What are you doing here Josie?" Derek asked and looked over her, barely able to smell the fear rolling off of her over the strong scent of blood.

"I came to ask for your help?"Josie said with a small smile.

Stiles couldn't help but laugh at that one, "You're not serious" he said and stood up to walk over to her. "Why the hell would we help you?" he asked.

Josie looked up at Stiles, "Because helping me helps you Stiles" she said with a small smile. "If he kills me, then that means you hit the bucket too remember" she said.

Stiles nodded slightly and stood behind Derek, "And why can't we just send you back to Echin House?" he asked. "I'm sure they'd gladly up your security" he said.

Josie growled, "Because he's the one who broke me out in the first place dumbass" she hissed, before turning her gaze on Derek. "Come please Derek."

Derek looked over her, "So what you're over the whole trying to kill us thing now?" he asked.

Josie rolled her eyes, "Yeah I cried myself to sleep and want to be besties" she said and sighed irritably. "No Derek I'm not over the past, if I could I'd kill you right now" she said and looked him in the eyes. "But right now you're the only one who might help me. Even if it's not really for me" she said and looked up at Stiles.

Stiles chuckled, "Well at least she's honest. That's something" he said and looked her over for a moment. "Who's after you?" he asked.

Josie sighed softly, "A guy named Nigel, he's a guy I used to date" she said.

Stiles chuckled, "Really, don't have much luck in the boyfriend department do you" he said with a smile. "Why does this one want to kill you?" he asked.

Josie growled, "Because when I found out he was cheating on me I massacred his family and burned the hoe alive"

"You got some kind of fire fetish or something" Stiles asked making Derek flinch slightly at the memory of his family.

Josie smiled, "Yeah you could say that." she said and looked at Derek for a moment. "Anyway, he didn't really care about any of that. He said he'd have done the same thing."

"Oh so you're both psychotic, what could possibly have gone wrong?" Stiles asked.

Josie smiled, "Well you know what they say about a women's scorn" she said and laughed slightly. "You could say I didn't get over him cheating on me that easily" she said. "Especially since I knew it was more than the one time" she said with a smirk. "One night while he was sleeping I cut it off" she said.

"Cut what…" Stiles asked before understanding completely and looked down or a moment before looking back up. "Oh my god," he said and shivered at the thought. "You're nuts" he said.

"Yeah it's been said" Josie said and looked over at Derek again. "So are you going to help me or not?" she asked.

"Why do you need our help?" Derek asked a little confused. "I mean you're an alpha, you managed to kill the guys family and the girl he was sleeping with and well you know. Seems like you can take care of yourself just fine" he said.

Josie sighed, "Killing his family was easy. They were just a bunch of werewolves, and I poisoned them, so that made it even easier" she said. "Besides when I…. he was asleep, and he's a heavy sleeper so he didn't notice what I was doing until it was too late"

"Just werewolves, as in Nigel isn't one?" Stiles asked, a little perplexed by that little bit. He decided to just skip over her explanation of how she was able to cut off his…..

"No not exactly" Josie said with a shrug.

"What is he Josie" Derek demanded, his patience wearing then. He didn't care about any of this other crap. Stiles was the one who liked having the whole story, he'd rather just kill now and ask questions later.

Josie smiled small, "He's kind of like Deucalion, a demon wolf. Only he's a lot stronger then him" she said and sighed softly. "There's a bunch of stories revolving around him, but he's from England so you wouldn't have heard any of them" she said and bit her lip slightly as she tried to think about how to word it. "He is a werewolf, but he was said to have made a deal with a devil. He practices black magic, and he's able to do a lot of things normal werewolves and witches or druids are able to do." she said. "Plus he's over a hundred years old" she said with a small smile. "But still looks about as old as Derek" she said.

"So you came here for our help in killing some crazy powerful demon Wolf?" Stiles asked.

"Well I didn't come here to fuck spiders" Josie snapped sarcastically.

Stiles gaped for a long moment blinking his eyes "I uh….." he said starting and stopping. "I….. don't know how… to respond… to that" he said.

Josie rolled her eyes, "Yes I came here for your help in killing him" she said with a smile. "I can't do it on my own" she said. "And I know you both have a list of contacts that would be willing to help if needed" she said with a smirk. "Like maybe a true alpha" she said.

Stiles scoffed, "We're not calling Scott. The last thing he wants is to get involved in all this crap again." he said.

Derek nodded slightly, "He's right" he said and stared at Josie for a moment. "But that doesn't mean we won't help you" he said and stood up.

"Wait what?" Stiles said and stared at Derek like he was crazy. "Wh..why… why would we help her?" he asked. "She's a freaking psychopath that not only tried to kill you, but tried turning me into a heartless killing anzi, so that I could do it for her" he said using his hands to make his point even more vivid. "Dude she's like your uncle on steroids."

Derek watched Stiles as he spoke, and he knew everything the human said was true but that didn't change the fact that they needed to help her. "I know Stiles, but if she dies then so do you, and I for one don't want that to happen" he said.

"Yeah, I don't want it to happen either" Stiles said and moved his hand emphatically. "I very much like being alive, but that doesn't mean we should help her" he said and sighed softly. "This could all be a trick just to get to you for all we know" he said.

Derek shook his head slightly "It's not. I've been listening to her heartbeat the entire time, she hasn't been lying" he said.

"Derek she's a psychotic werewolf, you don't think she get get around a little trick of the heart when she's lying" Stiles said.

Derek sighed softly and crossed his arms, "Fine, then what do you suggest" he asked.

"I suggest we throw her in the deepest darkest corner of Echin House and throw away the key" Stiles said with a small nod and crossed his arms as well.

Derek sighed softly and thought about it for a moment before shaking his head slightly. "I don't think she would have been able to get out of Echin House by herself. Someone would have had to help her" he said.

"Maybe someone did, doesn't mean that someone is trying to kill her" Stiles said, not wanting to budge on this even a little bit.

Derek sighed softly, "You're right" he said and looked at his man for a moment before turning to look at Josie. "Looks like you're going back to Echin House" he said with a smile. "We'll make sure they lock you up extra tight this time" he said.

"No Derek please" Josie said moving to step closer to him but stopped because she didn't want to run into the mountain ash force field again. "I'm not lying, please believe me" she said. "If you send me back to Echin House I'm dead, and so if you're boy toy" she said.

Derek nodded slightly, "That may or may not be true. But Stiles doesn't trust you and neither do I. You're going back" he said.

Josie turned to Stiles, "Come on. Why would I like about this?" she asked, starting to actually plead now. "Doesn't even make sense. Please, just believe me" she said.

Stiles looked over for her a moment, "Okay, say I do believe you. What happens when it's all said and done?" he asked.

"We go our separate ways, and I never go after either of you again, and you never try and get me back into Echin House" Josie said as she stared into Stiles' eyes.

Stiles nodded slightly, "Why did you kill so many innocent people, if you were just after Derek the entire time?" he asked, because that's been kind of bugging him for the last six months, which is how long it's been since they've locked her up.

Josie sighed, "That was more the Ahzi then me" she said and shrugged slightly. "I did control it, but it's need to kill is almost stronger than my hold on it. So if I didn't let it kill then it was have gone crazy and killed even more people." she said and smiled small. "So eventually I just showed it a picture of young Derek and said, kill anyone who looked like him" she said and shrugged slightly. "I mean once I had Derek's attention I pretty much stopped the killings anyway if you didn't notice" she said.

Stiles nodded slightly and studied her for a moment, "Right" he said, not sure if he believed her. Though it felt good to at least have an answer, other then she just a psycho, it was like he was finally able to scratch and unscratchable itch. "I still don't believe her, but maybe we should see where it leads" he said and looked over at Derek. "If she's telling the truth then sending her back to Echin House will just cause more problems. Whereas if we just leave her in the circle and see if she's telling the truth, the worst that can happen is that she annoys us to death."