Chapter 7
I woke up at about 5:00. Isaac didn't have to go to Derek's for another hour, so I decided to make him breakfast. I snuck out of his tight grasp and made my way carefully downstairs. I was still wearing only his shirt.
I began to fry up some bacon and eggs. I was scrambling the eggs when I felt large arms wrap around my waist and a head rest on my shoulder.
"I love when you wear my shirt." He whispered. I turned around to face him. He was wearing only boxers on his lanky body.
"I love when you wear no shirt." I whispered back. He wraps his arms around my waist and pressed his lips against mine. I could feel his smile under my lips and I smiled too as we continued our make out session.
Suddenly I smelled burning.
"Oh crap." I broke away from him to turn off the stove. The eggs were almost black.
"It's okay," he grinned. "I like bacon."
He walked over to the plate of cooked bacon and before I knew it, it was all gone.
"Now what will I eat?" I complained jokingly. He smiled. "I'll pick you up your regular at Wawa on my way back from Derek's meeting." He assured me.
"Okay. Now go get dressed, you'll have to be there soon." I ordered him. He nodded and ran upstairs, changing quickly and then running back down.
"I'll be back to drive you to school!" He called out before leaving and closing the door behind him. I sighed. Alone again. I went upstairs to start getting ready. I straightened my hair to the point where I could smell it burning, and applied a good amount of makeup. I got dressed in tight black jeggings and and a tight white T-shirt. I grabbed Isaac's leather jacket and slipped it on over my outfit. The sleeves were too long, so I rolled them up and checked myself out in the mirror. I was ready for school, so all I needed to do was wait for Isaac to come back, which should be in about 5 minutes.
I trotted down the steps two at a time and launched myself at the couch, landing perfectly. I turned on the TV and began watching spongebob.
There was a knocking at my front door.
"Luce, I'm back but I forgot my key." Isaac called through the door. I giggled and went up to the door.
"What's the password?" I teased.
"Lucy come on, it's cold." He pleaded.
"I don't know if I should let you in." I chuckled.
"I have your breakfast." He reminded me.
"Fine." I mumbled, opening the door for him. He greeted me with a kiss.
"How was the meeting?" I asked him lightly. He grimaced and handed me my food.
"Fine." He said simply.
"What's your plan?" I asked him.
"You don't need to know that." He snapped.
"Alright then... You ready to drive me to school?" I decided to brush off his jerkiness.
"Yeah let's go." He muttered before turning and walking back out the door.
We drove to school in silence.
"So, how did you become, uh, not a fugitive?" I asked him.
Isaac smiled sadistically. "I just changed the mind of a key witness."
His change in mood ever since the meeting with Derek made me rather nervous.
We pulled into the parking lot and Isaac walked me to my locker. The now-exonerated fugitive was given many stares and snarks. I received even more stares from people in the hallways due to Isaac's leather jacket covering my T-shirt. Isaac walked proudly through the hallway with his arm around my shoulders. I wish I could share some of his new found self-confidence. I avoided all of the stares and glares thrown in my direction.
"Hey Lucy!" I heard someone call to me as I opened my locker. It was Stiles. He approached me with a lop-sided smile before meeting Isaac's eyes. His smile changed to a nervous glare.
"Isaac." He mumbled.
"Stiles." Isaac growled back.
I ignored the tension between the two.
"Hey Lucy, do you have the lab papers?" Stiles asked me. I nodded and handed them to him.
"Thanks." He smiled. I was about to say something when Isaac interrupted.
"I've got gym, I'll see you later, Luce." He said before pecking me on the lips. I smiled at him and watched him walk away until Stiles started talking again.
"So, you two are...?" He asked tentatively. I nodded, smirking slightly. He sighed. "So you know everything now?"
"I wouldn't say everything, but I know enough." I answered him honestly.
"Then you know Derek's plan?" Stiles asked.
"Yeah, for the most part." I mumbled. I could tell Stiles was only talking to me to get information.
"Look Lucy, I know that you an Isaac are like lovers or something, but you have to believe me, it's not Lydia." He said fervently. I looked at him for a moment before turning back to my locker and began getting books out of it.
"And why are you telling me?" I asked him.
"So you can help us." He whispered.
I whipped around. "What?" I questioned him. "Stiles Isaac is my boyfriend. You expect me to like, shoot him?"
"No! Maybe try to convince him not to? Or just help us keep Lydia safe? Please Lucy, do you want to see them kill an innocent person?" He begged me. I rolled my eyes.
"Yeah, Lydia Martin is innocent." I said sarcastically. Stiles didn't say anything back. He just look at me with pleading eyes. I sighed.
"Fine. We'll talk during chemistry." I told him. He nodded and ran away. probably to find Scott. I walked to English, thanking God when I saw a substitute. I had been so caught up in other things that I forgot to finish my homework.
"You will be handing in your homework tomorrow." The substitute teacher confirmed. I sighed in relief. I had to stop slacking just because I found out my boyfriend is a werewolf. My A average in chemistry is slipping down to a B-, and if I don't get my act together, it will go lower than that.
I managed to survive through English, and I walked hurriedly to Chemistry, not wanting to run into Isaac in the hallway.
I stumbled into the classroom and saw Scott talking to Stiles at my table. I ran over to them.
"You know the plan?" Stiles asked me. I could tell he didn't think I'd tell them.
"They are going to try to get Lydia to eat the Kanima poison." I whispered fervently. Scott looked at me in surprise. Stiles smiled a huge, open-mouthed smile.
"Yay! You're on our side now!" I rolled my eyes. Lydia strolled in the classroom just then.
"Keep Isaac and Erica away from her." Stiles whispered. I nodded in agreement. I couldn't believe I was going against Isaac like this, but I figured that if I was going to be involved in all of this, I might as well do what I think is right.
Suddenly Isaac and Erica strolled into the room.
I took my seat next to Stiles while Allison ran to sit next to Lydia. Isaac and Erica sat with each other, which shouldn't bother me, but it did. I sent a glance in Isaac's direction to see that he was staring at me with intensity. I quickly turned around and faced the front of the classroom.
"Today we will be doing labs while switching partners." Mr Harris announced. I mentally cursed, while Stiles cursed out loud.
"Don't let Isaac sit next to Lydia." Stiles whispered to me. I nodded. I peeked out of the corner of my eye to see Isaac looking at me, eyes narrowed. He definitely heard the encounter Stiles and I just had. I took a deep breath.
"Okay, partners on the right, move up one table." Harris announced. I scrambled to get up and sat next to Lydia.
"Hey Lydia." I smiled at her. She gave me a look and a fake smile.
"Hi." She said before beginning to mix chemicals. I helped her put each chemical in the vial. I looked behind me and realized that the next person who would be with Lydia would be Isaac. I mentally cursed myself again.
"Okay class, switch again." Harris called out. Isaac sat up, waiting to take my seat, but I didn't get up.
"When I say switch Lucy, that means you, too." Harris said annoyedly to me.
"Well, I mean, I thought maybe I'd stay here to um, better understand the wonders of chemistry and uh..." I tried to think of anything.
"Lucy." Mr Harris warned. I got out of my seat grumbling and sat next to Erica.
"Nice try, bitch." She growled.
I narrowed my eyes and looked at her. "I will do what I think is right." I spat at her. "I won't condone murdering an innocent person just because my boyfriend thinks it's right."
"Ouch, that hurts. But what if she's not innocent?" Erica spat back at me.
"You don't know that." I muttered.
"We will." She pointed to Isaac as he gave Lydia the edible crystal. She was about to pop it in her mouth. I realized that Isaac must have put the toxin on the crystal.
"Lydia!" Scott yelled out, interrupting class.
"Mr. McCall?" Harris questioned. Scott blushed and sat back down.
"Sorry." He mumbled. I watched open-mouthed as Lydia put the paralytic poison in her mouth. A couple seconds went by. Nothing happened. I sighed, feeling defeated.
Did this mean she was the Kanima? I looked to Stiles and Scott helplessly. They had the same looked on their faces.
The bell rang to signal the end of class. Allison grabbed Lydia from next to Isaac and ran out of class with her. Isaac got out of his seat and began to follow them. I glanced at Scott and Stiles and they motioned for me to distract him. I raced up to catch up to Isaac, Scott and Stiles listening from around the corner.
I grabbed Isaac's arm and he turned around, about to punch his attacker until he realized it was me.
"Lucy, are you with them?" He whispered angrily.
"Isaac you can't just kill her with no proof." I begged him.
He narrowed his eyes. "We've got proof." He muttered.
"What if she is immune to the bite and the toxin?" I challenged him. He shook his head.
"Stay out of the way, Lucy." He warned me. I looked at him angrily for a moment before taking off his leather jacket I was wearing and handing it to him.
"You too." I muttered before walking away and around the corner. Scott and Stiles were waiting there.
"Harsh." Stiles mumbled. I rolled my eyes and peeked back around the corner at Isaac. His back was to me, but his head was down and he gripped the jacket tightly before storming down the halls.
I did feel bad. Isaac and I just had sex last night, for crying out loud. I'd be upset too if he did that to me, but I already told Scott I was on his side.
"We need to get Lydia to Scott's house." Stiles told me as he and I ran to the library. We met Lydia, Allison and Jackson there and we all took off running down the hallway.
Lydia asked a number of annoying questions while we stuffed her in Stiles' Jeep and drove to Scott's house.
When we arrived there, Stiles locked the door twice and put a chair in front of it, gaining questioning stares from Lydia.
"Lydia, let's go upstairs, I need to talk to you." Jackson mumbled. They went upstairs and disappeared into a room. Stiles breathed deeply.
"Uh, guys?" Allison said worriedly, "look outside." Stiles and I peeked out the window. My breath caught in my throat as I saw Derek standing in front of the house, along with Erica, Boyd... And Isaac.
"Shit." I whispered as we quickly closed the window curtains. Stiles called Scott frantically, leaving a message.
"God he better get his wolf-ass down here." Stiles muttered.
"Why don't you shoot one of them?" Stiles addressed Allison. She picked up her crossbow.
"Which one?" She asked nervously.
"Derek?" Stiles suggested.
"Stiles, if Scott can catch an arrow I'm sure Derek could."
"Okay fine, shoot one of the other three." I sent him a glare but he didn't see me.
"You mean other two." Allison corrected.
I looked at her confused. "No Allison, other three." I told her. Stiles peeked out the window.
"Where the hell is Isaac?"
Suddenly there was a roar behind us and Isaac grabbed Allison, pushing her to the ground. He shoved Stiles onto the ground as well. That only left me.
I tried to fight him, swinging my foot around to kick him. He grabbed my foot in midair.
"I'm sorry." He muttered as he pulled my foot upward, causing me to fall on my butt. He turned around to leave.
"So am I." I growled. I launched myself at him and landed on his back. He tried to grab me off but I was just out of distance. That gave Allison enough time to run out of the room to warn Lydia.
Isaac finally grabbed hold of my legs and pulled me off his back. He gave me a pained look before dropping me on the ground and running out of the room. I crawled over to Stiles.
"You okay?" I asked him.
"Yeah. Come on!" He yelled. We ran out of the room in time to see Scott knocking Isaac unconscious. I cringed slightly. Scott opened the door and threw a paralyzed Erica and an unconscious Isaac at Derek's feet.
"I think I know why you keep refusing me Scott." Derek said. "You're already an alpha. Of your own pack." He explained. A smile then appeared on his face. "But you know you can't beat me."
"We can hold you off until the cops get here." Scott told him. Sirens were heard in the distance.
Derek was about to say something when suddenly the Kanima crawled onto Scott's roof. It hissed at us before launching itself into the darkness.
"Oh crap." I mumbled. Derek gave me a livid look.
"Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on?" Lydia came running onto the front porch. Mine and Scott's eyes met.
"Jackson." He whispered. My eyes widened slightly. If we hadn't helped Lydia, she would be a dead innocent person. I returned my gaze to Derek. Glaring pointedly at him.
"Take them out of here." He said, motioning for Boyd to get Isaac and Erica. Boyd scooped them up.
My eyes followed Isaac. His body looked so lifeless. It worried me.
"You didn't kill him, did you, Scott?" I asked.
"No of course not." He assured me. I gained another glare from Derek before the four of them were gone. They all disappeared in the forest, Derek taking Isaac in his arms and Boyd taking Erica.
"I have to get home." I mumbled. I then looked to Stiles. "Drive me?" I asked.
"Yeah, let's go." He said. We got into his crappy Jeep and started heading for my house.
"Stiles, do you think Isaac will forgive me?" I asked quietly.
"That jerk should be worrying on whether you'll forgive him." Stiles comforted me. I sighed.
"Yeah..." Then I perked up. "Yeah... Yeah you're right! He tried to kill an innocent girl!" I said, more so speaking to myself rather than Stiles. Stiles only nodded his head.
"We're here." He said after a while. I thanked him for the ride and exited the car.
As I opened my door, I immediately knew Isaac was here. I trotted up the stairs and walked into my room.
"Hey." A weak voice croaked out shyly.
