It was two days later that Lea met Erica and Lydia.
Since Scott and Stiles seemed adamant about reading her entire book collection, Lea figured she'd stock up on some groceries so she didn't have to keep ordering out. Allison and Isaac had also shown up the previous day, the night after she bought them all dinner, and it was as if they had been friends for ages. Lea had found it funny how Allison had quickly made herself at home, kicking off her shoes and sitting on the floor with her feet curled beneath her and a book in her lap. And then it was Stiles' turn to kick off his shoes as well, sprawling half his body over the arm of the couch as he read through whichever book he had picked up. When Lea had caught sight of Isaac sitting on the floor against the wall, she mentally noted that she would need more living room furniture if these four were going to make a habit of showing up at her house.
Erica and Lydia, though Lea didn't know who they were at the time, had introduced themselves at the grocery store of all places. While Lea was browsing the variety of cereals, Lydia and Erica were bickering about who liked what brand and which one they were going to buy.
It wasn't until Lea's phone rang, though, that the two bickering females actually noticed her. Narrowing her eyes down at her phone screen, Lea accepted the call that had Stiles with a picture of said guy that he seemed to have taken of himself in her living room, and pressed the phone to her ear. "When did you have the time to put your number in my phone?"
Stiles nervously chuckled on the other side of the line. "Oh, you know, when you were busy trying to coax Isaac to join us in the living room that one night." The sound of a door opening sounded through the line. "You know, you should really lock your door. Never know who's just going to barge on in."
"When did you find the ti-.. are you in my house?!" Lea suddenly straightens up, the sound of the fridge door opening and pots clanking together could be heard in the background. "Stand back from the stove, Stiles. I mean it." By now, Erica and Lydia are now looking on in amusement as the new girl is glaring into thin air talking to their fellow pack mate. There's only one person in town that goes by the name of Stiles. "If I get back to find my house burned down, I'll smother you in your sleep!"
"Just for that, I'll leave a note telling them who my murderer is."
"Well then I'll get one of your friends to do it." She grumbled. "I can probably coerce Allison to do my bidding, you know. I caught her eying my leather pants. I'll buy her a pair to off you."
"Allison wouldn-.. you have leather pants?!"
Lea chuckled at how easily Stiles got distracted. "Goodbye, Stiles. Don't burn down my house."
After quickly ending the call and shoving her phone back into her pocket, Lea looks up to find a leggy blonde clad in a leather skirt, jacket, and white tank with shocking red lipstick grinning at her, and a strawberry haired beauty assessing her from head to toe.
"So you're Lea." The blonde purred. "The girl that has gotten our little Stiles all smitten."
"Excuse me?"
"You're prettier than I expected." The strawberry blonde shrugged before giving Lea a sparkling smile. "Stiles has got good taste."
"Stiles." Lea murmured. "Best friend of Scott?" She quirked an eyebrow at the duo.
"The one and only." The blonde grinned. "I'm Erica. It's nice to finally put a face to the name we've been hearing about."
"Lydia." The strawberry blonde moved forward to the attention was on her. "Nice to finally meet you."
"Uh, you as well?" Lea mumbled. When Erica and Lydia both smirked, Lea gulped which was funny since she was this powerful being yet the looks Erica and Lydia were sending her made her second guess herself. "Well, it's just that Stiles never mentioned anything about his other friends. I'm sorry."
Lydia waved it off. "Don't worry about. You can make it up to us by letting us come on over someday." At Lea's incredulous look, Lydia feigned innocence. "What? It's only fair since you've already met Stiles, Scott, Allison, and Isaac. We want in on the fun too."
Erica nodded in agreement, her red-stained lips still curved into a smirk. Lea had to hand it to the girls, they had balls. "Fine." She caved in. "Just let Stiles know when you want to come over. I really should go now since Stiles seemed to have let himself into my home and I'm partially terrified that he's going to cause some sort of mayhem by himself."
"No problem." Lydia agreed.
"Yeah. After we finish shopping and drop off the bags, we'll head over to yours." Erica threw in with a mischievous grin and before Lea could tell them where she lived, Erica stopped her. "Stiles told us you're across the street from him. We'll see you soon."
"Sounds good." Lea nodded as the two girls walked past her. With the gentle breeze of air that followed the girls, Lea sniffed out that at least one of them was a wolf. Again, she realized it was a human and wolf duo.
Shaking her head in amazement, she continued on with her shopping. What was it with the human and wolf duos in Beacon Hills?
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When Lea pulled up to her home and walked up the front steps to her porch, it looked as if no-one was there. But since Lea wasn't your average 'human', she concentrated her hearing and smelling to pick up the differences that she could now sense. Three heartbeats, pages being turned, and the continuous clicking of someone's teeth. Her senses tingled when her nose picked up the wolf smell again which she found herself oddly smiling at.
Creeping as stealthily as she could, Lea entered through her front door and tiptoed towards the archway to peer into her living room where the heartbeats were the strongest. She pouted when Scott and Isaac were staring at her with knowing smiles. "No fair. It was the car door slamming, wasn't it?"
"Yeah." Isaac laughed which finally caused Stiles to look up at her with a grin before going back to reading the book in his lap. Whatever Stiles was reading had his heart beating fast and his interest highly piqued. "You can't exactly sneak into a room when you make your arrival very obvious by slamming a door right outside."
"Alright, Mr. Funny Man," Lea glared. "You're helping me unload the groceries." Isaac's grin was instantly wiped off as Scott snorted in amusement at his friend's misfortune.
Isaac and Lea worked easily as they lugged the groceries inside, Isaac opting to help her put away the food items while Scott and Stiles continued to read in the other room. They worked easily together, Isaac quietly passing her items when he didn't know where they went. They had barely stepped foot into the living room when Stiles' heartbeat peaked in all their ears, though Lea played it cool and pretended she didn't notice.
Stiles suddenly jumped up, hands patting down his pockets before frantically pulling out his phone, and headed for the stairs. "Uh, where are you going?" Scott called out.
"T-the bathroom." He called back as he quickly jogged up the stairs. "And to make a quick phone call to my, uh, my dad." Yeah, that was totally convincing.
As Stiles shut himself in the bathroom, all three, though two of them had no clue Lea could hear as well, zoned their hearing on what was going on behind the closed door. Lea quickly sat herself in Stiles vacant seat, Isaac sandwiching himself between her and Scott, sighing tiredly.
"It's about time you picked up!" Stiles' hushed voice was heard loud and clear to the eavesdroppers. "I'm whispering because we're at Lea's doing that research you wanted us to do!"
Lea tensed at having finally figured out that they really were up something and that her books were giving them the information they needed. Isaac noticed her tense posture, nudging her with her shoulders. "You okay?"
Scott caught Lea's gaze, his own eyes suddenly curious. "Yeah. Fine." She feebly grinned. "I just remembered I forgot to pick up peaches. I've been craving those." She easily lied.
When both wolves picked up no stuttering heartbeat, they bought her answer. Isaac reclined his head back against the couch as Scott pretended to continue reading, Lea picking up a book of her own to make her seem busy.
"..the murders," Stiles sighed. "Did they take place during the night hours or day hours?" There was a few seconds of buzzing silence before Stiles cursed. "I finally came across vampires in these books. Some myths seemed to have started way back then," He told whoever it was on the phone. "Sunlight burns them, stakes to the heart kills them," He listed off the information he had found. "They have to be invited in to your house and there's some herb called vervain that could be lethal to them." The bathroom grew quiet as the information sunk in with the other person on the line. "Yeah. From the details given, it seems that vervain is to vampires what wolfsbane is to werewolves." The three eavesdroppers heard the toilet flush, quickly followed by the faucet turning on to give off the impression that he really did have to use the bathroom. "No kidding. We might not have vervain but we can make stakes. We'll be over in a few minutes. I'll contact the others and tell them to head on over as well."
The bathroom door opened and Lea and Scott went back to their books leaving Isaac to look bored on his own. When he appeared back in the living room, Lea peered up at him with a grin but it quickly fell when she saw Stiles worrying his bottom lip. "I-.. what's wrong?"
"We got to go." He mumbled. "Something's come up." He looked pointedly at Scott and Isaac. "I'm really sorry.
"No, don't worry about it." Lea assured him. "I just realized I had to make an important phone call." Which she did now that these werewolves and human knew of the vampires in their town. "Just, uh, can you tell your friends that we'll hang out another day? I'm going to be busy."
"Yeah."
"What friends?" Scott interest was now piqued as he started to put away the books they were using.
"Lydia and Erica." She told them. "I must say, those two are quite.."
"Scary?" Scott guessed, his amusement showing through his voice.
"Intimidating." Lea laughed. "Lovely girls but they're quite forward."
"They are." Isaac chuckled as he agreed.
"Yeah but, yeah, we'll tell them." Stiles told her. "I'm sure they'll understand."
Scott nodded as he and Isaac made a move to exit the living room, Stiles standing back as he nervously stayed behind, his hand sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck. "So.."
"So.." Lea mimicked.
"Do you think we can hang out someday?" Stiles' voice squeaked at the end of his question but he quickly coughed to cover it up. "You know, stuff that doesn't involve me just coming over to read a book."
Lea smirked at the awkwardness that suddenly came in the form of one Stiles Stilinski. She let a few seconds tick by before Stiles started to really fidget in place. "Sure." Lea told him. "Just call me or you know, come right on in." She laughed seeing as Stiles had let himself into her home when she was out shopping earlier.
"Cool." Stiles breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll see you later."
"Yeah. Later." Lea waved him off.
As Stiles left, Lea waited until she heard the sound of his jeep come to life and race down the street before she frantically took out her own phone and dialed Council Headquarters. On the second ring, Louis answered. "Lea, babe-"
"We've got a problem." She instantly cut him off.
Dun, dun, dun. Just how will Lea come clean to her new friends?