Ok, I took my sweet time to write it but I had a busy and depressive week-end, and I had a new idea for an other story and I write a few thing about it to not forget.
Anyway, enjoy this chapter, it's canon compliant, I had to rewrite the episodes right now to continue in the fic so I'm sorry if it bores you but it's a necessary evil.
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"And Chris Argent shot it?" scoffed the angel "yeah it's got written hunter all over it. They wanted to reassure the city and kill something to push people away from the investigation and the alpha"
"Maybe, anyway, the investigation is closed officially" answered the teen wolf.
"Maybe officially but my dad kept the files at home and didn't bring anyone back to the station. I don't think he's buying the whole mountain lion thing."
"Well, your dad isn't stupid. Maybe we should…"
"No!" cut the angel "we're not bringing my dad in this clusterfuck that Beacon Hills became, his work is dangerous enough, I don't want to him in harm way."
"Well, we are, maybe if adults were with us..."
"We have Derek" cut in the boy once more "that's enough adults for now. Things aren't that fucked up yet, we just have a couple deaths, nothing we can't handle."
"If you say so…" trailed off Scott.
"Hey dad, what's up?" said the angel once he reached the kitchen "How is your hip?"
"It's ok, son. The car wasn't really fast; it was just the crazy of the parking lot. It just a bit blue now but it doesn't hurt that much"
"You sure? You shouldn't push yourself too hard. If you want we can have some meat tonight, to help with this old man hip"
"You're my savior Stiles" deadpanned the sheriff.
Stiles smirked before heading to the fridge and took some milk out of it.
"Hey dad, so the investigation is over? You caught the mountain lion now? The one who killed people?"
"Yeah, Argent shot it. Everything is closed kiddo; you can't stop to investigate yourself"
"What? I never…" Stiles stop when he saw the knowing look on his father face.
"Yeah, well, maybe I looked a bit in your file. I saw that you still have the file in your room"
"Just copies Stiles, don't think about it, the investigation is closed and you're late to school" and with that the Sheriff left the kitchen.
It will be closed once Peter Hale is dealt with, thought Stiles.
"Stiles I need you! I went to Derek to help me but it doesn't change anything, and I saw the alpha yesterday night!" started Scott once Stiles reached him at school.
"When do you see Derek again?" asked the angel.
"Tonight, after work, I still have a bunch of things to learn about control. He's talking every time about animal side and instincts and shit like this".
"Well, last time you let your instinct talk it wasn't that good for either of us. I thought Allison voice was like chamomile to your wolfy side?"
"Yeah, well, Derek doesn't want me to be close to her, so I need to find something else"
"At least Derek and I agree on something"
"What?" said Scott stopping dead in his tracks "I thought you liked Allison?"
"Of course I like her Scott" said the angel after grabbing Scott arm to keep him walking "but she's a hunter princess and you've been a werewolf for less than a month. It's risky, even for you. If her parents learn that you're a werewolf, you will be a new pelt on Allison for Christmas"
"Now" started again Stiles, "I have until tonight to teach you how to not kill everybody if Allison isn't close. Who can say no to this kind of challenge?"
"Ok, now, put this on?" said Stiles after grabbing something in his duffle bag.
"Is this heart monitor? Why do we need a heart monitor?" asked confused Scott while obeying to Stiles and putting the thing on.
"Because, you need to work on your control to prevent the shift, and you shift when you feel a strong emotion like anger, excitement, adrenaline and else, and every strong emotion makes your heartbeat rise, so with that we'll see if your heart beat is too fast and then you'll have to make him go steady again, keep calm and not change or kill anybody, capiche?"
After explaining everything to Scott, Stiles went to put some tape around Scott's wrists.
"With that you won't be able to defend yourself wolf boy" muttered Stiles.
"You're sure you know what you're doing with all of this?" asked Scott over his shoulder while Stiles was crouching behind him.
"Yeah, yeah, what could happen anyway? You killing me? Pffff, no sense. I'll haunt you so bad you'll not even be able to end the day."
Then Stiles went a few yards away from Scott with his Lacrosse gear.
"So now, I'm going to hit you with all these balls and remember you have to keep calm!"
Stiles sent Lacrosse balls after Lacrosse balls for nearly half an hour, changing his aim to touch different part of Scott body before the heart monitor went crazy and Scott fell on the ground.
"Scott, you have to stay calm now, steady your heart buddy. You can't change here, calm down, it's ok" reassured the boy while keeping an eye on the application paired with the heart monitor and keeping track of Scott's heartbeat who was raising fast and now stopped around 163 for a bit.
"Yeah, now you have to calm down, you stopped the change, come back now" said Stiles.
It took Scott a minute of breathing for steadying his heart once more, going back to a normal heart rate and retracting his claws which started to spread.
"The anger, it made me change but. … there is something else. The angrier I got, the stronger I felt" panted the teen wolf.
"So Derek was right, it's the anger"
"I can't be close to Allison…"
"Why? Because she makes you happy and you can't control yourself?"
"No, because she makes me weak"
"Wow you sound like Derek"
"I know but… I can't stay close to her when the alpha is after us while she makes me weak. I need to be the best I can be if Derek and I have to work together to stop it"
"Well, in this case you stay away from her for a few days. You can do that" began Stiles once the boys reach the locker room after their "control practice".
"But is it a few days, or is it forever?" answered Scott.
"It's probably just part of the learning process, woman don't make you weak, we're not Spartan or something"
"Yeah but look at Derek, he's totally alone, what if it's because of it? What if I need to be alone too to control myself? What if I can't be around her again?"
"You're not gonna end up like Derek, well figure something out, stop worrying like that, you'll get an ulcer. Come on, let just get out of here" said Stiles after putting his duffle bag back in his locker.
"Yeah, it's reek in here anyway"
"In a boy's locker room? That doesn't make any sense at all" said Stiles rolling his eyes to his friend.
"No, it's like something's rotting or dying in here"
After spending the afternoon working on Scott's control and seeing him falling back on his Allison obsession to control himself and learning to control his anchor, the angel left his friend at the vet's and came back home where he threw his bag on his bed before sitting on his deck and turning on his rolling chair.
How can I make Scott and Derek understand that it's Peter who is the alpha? thought the angel.
He suddenly rose from his chair and took his key before going back to his jeep.
"If I can't make them understand, maybe I can deal with him myself or something" muttered the angel once he was in his jeep.
Once arrived at the hospital and parked at the hospital he saw Derek's car in the parking lot as well.
"Shit!" whispered Stiles "I'll just have to wait now…"
He took his phone out and starting some game of angry bird to help him wait for Derek to leave the hospital. He must have been visiting his uncle; nothing else could bring him to the hospital. A few minutes after he arrived he saw the nurse of Peter Hale walking toward the Camaro and put a paper on his windshield and then she came back to the hospital like nothing happened.
"What the hell" whispered the angel.
Should I go and see what she put on his car? If I do that and he get out of the hospital in the same time it could be awkward, or he could smell me on the paper, thought Stiles.
He was still debating the pros and cons to go to see the paper when he saw Derek stormed out of the hospital, his grumpy face in full force before he saw the paper too, he reached for it and Stiles could see that whatever was on the paper shook the beta pretty bad, he saw him raised his head and looking in every direction, Stiles crouch himself against his seat in case and waited a few minutes before raising once more and seeing that the Camaro was gone.
"What the hell was on this paper?"
And why did the nurse bring it, added Stiles' mind.
It was then that he remember the conversation he had on the phone when he was pretending to be Derek Hale to see if Peter left the hospital or not. That Jennifer nurse said that she put him in bed herself and that he was still in his room. But what if she lied? What if she was helping Peter for whatever reason. It could be hella helpful for Peter to have his nurse in his side, thought Stiles.
He left his car a few seconds after and went directly toward the long term care building, avoiding everybody on his way, specially this nurse who was on his new list of "Peter's potential spawn".
It took him no time to reach Peter's room without crossing anybody's path, he entered the room quickly after looking around him to see if he was really alone and closed the door behind him. Just like last time he took the other chair of the room and reached the alpha before he sat close to him, Peter ignored all of his movement in the room and kept looking through the window of his room.
"Hello Peter, It's me again, Stiles, I don't know if you remember me?" started the angel, earning no reaction from the other man.
"Last time I learned that you were an alpha, does it mean something to you? Alpha?" Stiles kept talking, changing his position to face the man whose eyes were still on the windows.
"What if I talk you about the fire?" at those words the alpha turned his eyes and locked them in Stiles'.
"Well, that did trigger something, isn't it? Uhmmm"
Stiles kept watching the man, for the first time he earned a reaction of him, but it wasn't sure what to do now that his audience was showing a bit of interest.
"I know you're the one killing people… Garrison Myers? Carl Green? Laura Hale?"
The eyes of the man flashed a bright red when the boy said his niece name making the angel jump before he composed himself again.
"Ok, so your niece name is a sore subject for you? Maybe because you killed her?" taunted the boy, looking for other possible trigger for the man but this time nothing happened.
"Ok, let's try something else… "
The boy stayed with Peter for almost an hour, while the sun set, trying different words to earn some sort of reaction from him, until now only the mention of Laura at the beginning provoked something, nothing since then, not even the mention of the fire and of everybody in it.
"What about the hunters? Do you know the Argents, Peter?"
The boys saw the red bleeding through the alpha eyes then, and the beginning of some fangs piercing his gums
"Wow" said the angel rising from his seat, "very sore subject, the Argent?" claws started showing on the man hands clawing the armchair where he was sitting.
"Argent!" almost screamed the pretended teenager, this time spit started dripping of his fang on his chin and hair began to sprout of his cheeks, his eyes burning red like fire.
The angel was going to say "Argent" once more and surely earn Peter's wrath and a few bites when his phone rang suddenly, making him jump and earning a quick twitch of Peter's cheek to the sound.
"Hey Scott, I'm quite busy right now..."
"I need you to come get me at work right now, something came up!" cut the werewolf
"What came up?"
"I'll tell you once you're here, but I think I figure something to bring the alpha to us" and with that the boy hung up.
Stiles sighed and put his phone back in his pocket. During the conversation the alpha slightly calmed himself and only his eyes were still showing that he came short of losing control.
"I guess it's not today that you're going to chew on me then Peter" said the boy while he stood in front of the man, "but I'll come back. Maybe you're not entirely human anymore, or maybe even not at all, but I'm sure we can reach something together. Anyway, good talk with you, Alpha!" and with that the boy left Peter's room, looking once more for any nurse in the hall and when he was sure that nobody were here he walked back to his car.
"I think it's a terrible idea" said Stiles once they reached the school.
"Well, it's the only one I've got, and it really could work" answered Scott while getting out of the car. "You just take care that we enter the school, I'll handle the rest"
Derek's Camaro reached them a few seconds after they parked, with Deaton in the back seat. The angel was quite uneasy to see Deaton in this situation while he knew that he wasn't the alpha they were looking for, maybe Deaton knew that something was up, after all, the few time that Stiles met the vet he felt that Deaton wasn't only a vet and had some hiding knowledge, but he wasn't really sure of what the man was, only that he was able to use some basic and natural magic, nothing fancy or powerful like true witches, but a bit of magic nonetheless.
They left the two men in front of the school while the two boys went toward it and toward the principal office where was the announce system.
"So, do you know what you'll do if the alpha doesn't show up?" asked Stiles, earning a head shake from Scott, "or if he does show up?" head shake again "good plan".
Stiles went through some adjustment of the system.
"Ok, so you're just gonna howl in it, and we all pray that P... I mean the alpha" recovered quickly the angel "comes running to the school where you and Derek take care of him?"
"That's the idea yeah"
"Ok, brilliant" muttered the boy "Here, just howl in it and be convincing"
"Ok" sighed Scott, clearing his throat while taking the mic from Stiles.
He pushed the on button of the advice and then started whining in it, earning a wince from the angel who was thinking about nails on a blackboard while listening to Scott try at howling, resisting the urge to laugh once Scott finished it and asked him his opinion on it.
"Was that ok? I mean, that was a howl, right?"
"Well…" trailed Stiles off "sure yeah, if by howl you mean a cat being choked to death"
"What do I do? I tried it, how am I supposed to do this?" said the panicking wolf.
"Hey, hey Scott, stop it." Said the angel while reaching his friend and clapping him supportively on his shoulder. "Listen, you're calling an alpha, your alpha, so be a man, well, a werewolf, not a teen wolf! Be a werewolf! Just do it, it's gonna be ok"
"Yeah, ok"
Stiles took a few steps away from the werewolf, letting him breathe a bit and concentrate on the task at hand. This time when Scott put the thing on and howled, it was a true roar, making the whole school shake, it quite surprised the angel that none of the windows broke with the strength of the howl and the sound system amplifying the strength of it in every empty classroom.
Stiles was smiling like a loon, proud of his best friend who finally was starting to come in his new werewolf shoes. The other teen was proud of himself too, huge grin on his face when he turned toward his friend.
"I did it!" nearly shrieked Scott
"Yes bro, you nailed it! It was amazing! Come we have to go back to Derek and see how Deaton is"
They walked back to the parking lot with grin on their face when they met Derek
"What the hell was that?" said the angry werewolf "I'm gonna kill the both of you!"
"Sorry, I didn't know it would be this loud" answered Scott
"Yeah, it was loud! But it was awesome!" added Stiles
"Shut up!"
"Don't be such a sourwolf" replied the angel.
"Hey, what did you do with him?" said suddenly Scott after reaching the car.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"Deaton, where is he? He was in your backseat Derek!"
"I didn't do anything" said the werewolf, a few second before a clawed hand got through his back and break free on the other side, bringing blood in his mouth, the alpha standing behind him and throwing the beta on the side.
"What the hell was that!" screamed Stiles while the boys were trying to barricade the main door of the school.
"That's the alpha, I guess it worked!" answered a panicked Scott.
"Do you think he killed Derek?" asked Stiles while the boys were running in the halls toward an empty classroom.
"We have to find somewhere to hide while the alpha is here! I can't take it down on my own!"
"We have to go back to my jeep and get the hell out of here!" said Stiles a few second before the window next to them exploded because of a black thing who fell on the floor a few feet away from them.
"That's my battery! Damn it, here goes our plan to get the hell out of here! We have to move Scott; we don't know where the alpha is!"
The two boys were racing in the hall when they ran into Allison, Jackson and Lydia.
"What the hell are you doing here?" screamed Stiles
"Stiles!" hissed Scott, "make less noise!"
"What is happening here?" asked Jackson.
"You asked me to come!" said Allison
"What? I asked you to? What's that supposed to mean?"
Allison showed him her cell phone, where a text from Scott cell phone was received a few times before.
"I didn't send it, I don't even have a cell phone right now, I broke mine" pressed Scott.
"Who sent this text then?"
A few thuds were heard by the teenage group coming from the room above them.
"Run!" scream Scott while taking Allison hand at the same time as the alpha broke the ceiling and fall into the room, running after the teens. They ran for a few minutes before entering a room.
"Scott, we can't stay here! Look, they're fucking huge windows! We can't stay here!"
"What is going on?" panicked Lydia.
The whole bunch of teens was panicking, Stiles watching all of them; he himself wasn't really calm even if he wasn't on the same panic level the two girls were on. He was watching all of them, while thinking about some ideas to get the hell out of her, after a few thousands of years of existence you'd think that he would come up with a lot of awesome ideas but nothing was popping in his head when his train of thought was destroyed by what came from Scott next.
"It's Derek, Derek Hale, he's trying to kill us, he locked us in here!"
If Stiles was opening his eyes more than that, he was sure that his eyes would pop out of their socket. He walked toward Scott and grabbed him by his arm while the other teens were screaming and panicking about Derek Hale killing everybody in the room.
"Scott, are you serious right now?" hissed the angel "Derek really? We already said he killed his sister and now you want to say to everybody that he's the one attacking us tonight?"
"I don't know Stiles, I panicked, I didn't know what to do, they were screaming! And if he's dead, it doesn't matter anyway, right?"
"Except if he's not"
Scott sighed before moving his hand in his hair, his eyes roaming everywhere without stopping.
"If he's alive he's gonna kill me for this!"
"Yep" said Stiles "But right now we have a bigger issue, like how do we get out of here alive?"
Jackson suddenly cut their conversation
"Why doesn't Stilinski call his useless dad and ask him to send the police station here!"
"He's right" said Scott, "tell him the truth if you have to, just call him"
"I can't let my dad come here and watch him being eaten alive by some alpha on steroid!" answered the angel before receded from Scott.
"Ok, give me the phone" bided Jackson before going after Stiles and reaching for him, sensing the other boy behind him Stiles turn rapidly on himself and punched the jock square in the jaw, throwing him away from himself.
"Fine" said finally the boy after freeing himself from Scott's hold.
He put his phone out and dialed his father and going directly on his dad's voicemail. "Hey dad it's me, I need to call me right back when you heard this, ok? We're at the school and we need you"
His message was cut when something started to bang against the door of the room they were hiding in.
"Run!"
The five teenagers ran toward the next room and came across the kitchen of the school.
"The stairs here, they go up!"
"Once we're up we can only go up Stiles!" said the wolf
"It's better than staying here for the alpha to find us!"
The group ran in the stairs and came in the next floor of the school.
"Here!" said Scott while opening the door of a room and letting the other teens entered in it.
Once in the room the angel went toward the window, thinking about his dad whom he asked for help, asking him to maybe come across the supernatural when he swore to himself years ago to always protect the man from everything, especially the supernatural. The boy sighed before his gaze fell on Jackson's car.
"Hey Jackson" started the angel "how many people can fit in your car?"
"Five if someone squeezes themselves on someone else's lap" answered the jock
"Five? I barely fit in it!" hissed Allison
"It doesn't matter anyway; we have to leave the school before going to his car. We need the keys to the other doors, we can't go back to the main door of the school" said Stiles.
"The janitor room, they have the keys of every room in the school, they must have the keys to the outside doors too" said Scott.
"What? We're not leaving the room!" said Allison
"I'll go alone, I just need a few minutes to go to their room and come back to the keys. It won't take that long" reassured Scott.
Stiles cut himself of the conversation, thinking about Peter Hale, and why he wanted Allison to be in the school, because the angel was sure that it was the alpha that sent the text to her. He has to want something from all of it, thought the angel, he sent the text just a few minutes after Scott howled in the school, so the alpha knew where they were. Why sending the Argent's girl there too? Did the alpha want to kill her, in front of Scott?
Stiles was still stuck in his thoughts when finally Scott left the room to go to the janitor's room and get the keys.
The next chapter is already written so I'll post it later today or tomorrow :)
