Noelle dipped a fry into the mayo, ketchup combination of sauces on the side of the paper plate outside a food truck as she walked to a picnic table a few feet away from the truck. She spread herself out on the bench of the picnic table as she sat down. She set the plate of fries and her drink down in front of her. She had taken a break from watching the Argent house to get something to eat and to plan her next move. She wanted to follow Kate but she knew she needed to be extra careful in order to arouse Kate suspicions.
Kate was the logical choice more then Chris as she was more then likely to bend the hunter rules then her straight and narrow brother. Victoria rarely ever went out on official hunting business as she fell into the role of assigning tasks for the hunters below her to follow. And it was just plain torture to watch Allison. All she ever did was make out with Scott and lie to her parents about it.
Noelle rather burn out her eyes with a hot poker then sit through another hot and heavy teenage session.
"Noelle?" a familiar voice called across the parking lot and Noelle turned to see Stiles jog over to her.
She had picked this food truck on the edge of town because she hadn't seen anyone she knew around it. And yet, here was Stiles all smiles and sunshine as he sat down across from her.
Noelle took a long drink through the straw of her drink and look at Stiles. "Stiles, what are you doing here?"
"Just stopped by to get Dad some dinner. He's working late at the station. Big Mike's has the best burgers in town." Stiles told her as he snatched some fries from the plate in front of him. "What are you doing here?"
Noelle picked up a fry and motioned at it.
"Yeah, that makes sense. Your eating, at a food cart. Definitely makes sense." Stiles swung his leg over the bench and moved to get up.
"Wait." Noelle shook her head at him. She popped another fry into her mouth and chewed. "You had questions, I mean isn't that why you came over here to begin with."
"More like concerns." Stiles nodded, folding his hands on the table.
"Order your dad's food and come back." Noelle didn't know why she was helping a human, but the worry and fear in Stiles faces ate at her a little bit.
Stiles nodded and got up. " Okay."
Noelle drank her drink and listen to Stiles order for his dad and himself. She didn't bother to turn around as he came back to her table. She reached up and tied her hair up into a messy bun before continuing to eat as he sat down across from her again.
"What's up?" She asked pushing her fries towards him, and making a motion for him to eat some. "I can practically smell the tension coming off you."
"My dad got hurt." Stiles started as he watched Noelle's eyes whip up from the fries to his face. " No not by, you know him. He got hit by a car at the parent teacher thing the other night."
"Okay, so not a werewolf problem." Noelle said in a low voice, she looked around to find Big Mikes food truck almost deserted.
"Not exactly." Stiles replied picking at the fries between them. " Someone let loose a mountain lion in the school parking lot. I think we can guess who would do that. My dad was trying to kill it when someone accidentally hit him with their car when they were trying to escape the parking lot."
"Okay, human hit human with car." Noelle fiddled with the straw of her drink. She cocked her head to the left and listened to Stiles's heart beat. It was fairly normal and he wasn't showing any signs of fear towards her in his body language but he was afraid. She could smell it on him. "Is he okay?"
"For the most part, bruises and bumps." Stiles told her, surprised she asked. Derek wasn't all that concerned with human well being as long as Scott wasn't killing anyone. He thought that it was all werewolves general attitude towards humans. "I'm just worried. I mean he's out here chasing something he has no chance of stopping."
"Your right, he is over is head when it comes to the Alpha." Noelle agreed, knowing that if the Sheriff stumbled upon the Alpha he was good as dead. Normal bullets wouldn't do shit but piss the Alpha off more. " Your really worried about this, aren't you?"
"He's all I really have left."
Noelle understood what that felt like. All she had was Sebastian.
"Look, if I see your dad around I'll keep an eye out." Noelle told him, making more of a commitment to Stiles then she had to anyone in years. "Your having trouble sleeping right?"
"How did you know?"
"I can smell your fear. When I woke you up the other night, you were having a nightmare." Noelle said pushing the plate of fries towards him. He ate some more before she continued. " What was it about?"
"The Alpha." Stiles had been having nightmare about the Alpha for weeks now. Sometimes they were the same ones, over and over again other times they were different. Sometimes the Alpha came and killed him, others the Alpha turned him and then Stiles killed his father. All of them ended up with someone dead. "I don't feel safe in my own room at night."
"I can fix that." Noelle told him as she looked down at the watch on her wrist. She needed to get going if she was going to get back to follow Kate. "I'll drop by something at your house later. You'll know what to do with it. "
"Order 345!" Big Mikes voice boomed across the lot and Stiles hand shot up. He got up to get his order when Noelle dug a pen out of her jacket.
She grabbed his arm and pushed up his sleeves. He could feel the pen dig into his skin as she wrote something across his arm.
"This is my number." Noelle shoved the pen into her pocket and got up. She grabbed the now empty plate and drink container and moved away from the pinic table. " That's for you only. Not Scott, not anyone else. You get into trouble, werewolf trouble you call me."
"Really?" Stiles asked surprised that she was offering him so much help. "Why not give this to Scott."
"I think Scott is going to get you killed." Noelle told him as she watched the blunt statement shock Stiles. He trusted Scott completely but couldn't see the danger that Scott constantly lead to him through his mistakes. " Scott has Derek, and now you have me. Besides, Scott's a puppy, brand spanking new wolf. I've got ten years on him. I can't kill the Alpha alone but you'll get more time to run out of me then him. Remember that."
Stiles watched as she walked towards her truck, dumping her trash into the garbage can on the edge of the parking lot.
"Stiles, I'm sorry that your dad got hurt." Noelle turned to him before getting into her truck and leaving the parking lot.
"Hey Kid!" Big Mike yelled getting Stiles attention. " Stop starring at her ass and come get your food!"
Stiles practically ran to the food truck, red faced and more then embarrassed at Big Mike's call out.
Noelle shifted uncomfortably in the tree as she watched the Argent house. Kate had decided not to go out hunting tonight instead she interrupted what Scott and Allison's half naked make out session.
Derek really needed to explain to Scott how the birds and the bee's went. Bra comes off after shirt. She thought boys just knew that shit instinctively. Apparently not.
Noelle pushed the thought of Derek out of her head and focused harder on the house in front of her. It had been three days since their early morning conversation. Neither of them made any effort to track the other down. She needed space to process why her body wanted Derek so much and she suspected her was still dealing the information Kate had provided him.
Whatever his reason was for staying away, she was glad to say the least. She didn't want to find out what she would do if she was alone with him again. It seemed like he was just more then happy to taunt her about what happened between then in the car rather then make the first move. She knew he was waiting for her to come on to him again, otherwise he would have pushed for something when he came to her cabin.
She didn't know if was thankful or disappointed he slept on the couch all night.
Noelle was trying hard to not think about Derek, when she caught movement from Allison's bedroom. Scott was climbing out of her window, presumably to head home after Kate had made her surprise appearance in Allison's bedroom. Apparently Allison was a little spooked to keep Scott there.
Just as Scott's feet hit the grass, Noelle caught a scent on the breeze. It was a wolf foreign to her. Male, hereditary and not Derek. The scent had a stale taste, a bitter flavour on her tongue. Her wolf pushed forward and she could feel the change starting to happen. Her canines lengthening and her claw came out of her nail beds.
There was only one other wolf that scent could belong to.
The Alpha was here. For Scott.
Noelle brought her legs up under her, and lend over the branch. She watched as Scott paused hearing the rustling in the bushes. She didn't want to fight the Alpha period, knowing full well how much damage an Alpha could do to her but she wouldn't let him kill Scott.
If the Alpha tried to kill Scott, her only saving grace would be to make enough noise that the Argent's would come out. After all, she doubted that they would ignore two werewolves fighting practically on their front lawn.
"Keep moving Scott." Noelle muttered under her breath, hoping Scott would hear her. She had no doubt that the Alpha new she was there in the tree, but she had often been written off as non threatening because of her Omega status.
Advantage her.
"Derek?" Scott called out facing the bushes were the noise had originated from." Noelle? Is that you guys?"
Idiot. Derek was going to have to teach him how to use his nose. Stupid puppy. The amount of times Scott had been around Derek, he should have been able to identify his scent from another wolfs.
"I know I said I would stay away." Scott moved closer to the bush hoping to explain himself. He thought this was another one of Derek's training exercises.
He had his back to Noelle who was searching the bushes for any sight of the Alpha. If Scott moved any closer to the bushes there would be no way she would be able to reach him before the Alpha tore his throat out. He needed to move towards his car, which was closer to her. She could defend him better there. " But you broke my phone. What was I suppose to do? I had to tell her why I wasn't answering."
The rustling became louder, and more frequent. The first time Scott had heard it, it sounded like a small animal but now it sounded like a large animal.
He moved a few steps closer to the bushes, before calling out softer this time. "Derek?"
Instead of bushes rustling, it was a low, harsh growl that he heard. One that he had only heard once before while he was awake. From one wolf that was not Derek.
The Alpha.
Scott back tracked hard away from the bushes and turned his body to face his car. He put all his speed into moving forward he heard the foot steps behind him increase as they went from the bushes to the pavement.
Noelle watched Scott struggled with getting his key into the door before flinging open the door and getting side the car. She heard him lock himself into the car as the Alpha started to circle the parked vehicle. The Alpha moved on two legs, taking long strides around the car, his red eyes glowing in the dark night.
She arched her back up preparing to leap onto the car roof to defend Scott when she stopped. The Alpha was giving off the feeling of rage and aggression but none of it was directed at Scott. Or her for that matter. She focused harder, trying to get an impression off of what the Alpha was putting out towards Scott, but all she could see was the spiral.
She could hear his claws on the car glass, the fast pace of Scott's heart beat and the stillness in the night. She shifted her eyes from the car to the Alpha who was staring right at her.
The red eyes bore into Noelle and she waited for his attack. He just stared at her before moving off into the darkness. The sound of Scott's car starting and peeling away from the curb prompted her into action.
She needed to talk to Scott to see if he saw the same thing she did.
Scott could feel his heart beating away a mile a minute as he raced up the stairs towards his room. This was the closet he had been to the Alpha since it bit him. Sure, there had been the couple of times the Alpha had called him out against his will, and that one time he had killed the bus driver in front of him on the bus but he hadn't really been awake at the time.
He didn't understand why the Alpha was outside Allison's house. Was he there for him or for one of the Argent's?
Scott closed the door and slid the door lock into place before rushing over to close the open window. He hastily pulled the blinds down as if they would protect him from the Alpha. He tried to calm himself down as he reached over to turn on the light, only to be scared by the sight of Derek sitting in the chair in the corner of his room.
"You seriously need to stop doing that!" snapped Scott as he took a step back and held his hand to his chest.
Derek waited a moment, letting Scott calm down before raising an eye brow. "You smell like fear? What happened?"
"The Alpha."
"So, what happened? Did he say anything to you?" Derek asked he stood up from the chair.
"Yeah we had a nice conversation about the weather. No we didn't talk." Scott threw up his hands and looked at Derek like his was stupid.
"Did you get anything off of him?" Derek ignored the look, and rubbed his hands over his face. He had forgotten how little Scott knew about being a werewolf. "Did you get an impression off of him?"
"What do you mean?"
"Remember your other senses are heightened. Communication doesn't have to be spoken." Derek told him watching his words sink into Scott. " What did you feel around him? Besides fear."
"Anger." Scott told him, thinking hard to reply the events that just happened. He tried to separate himself a bit, pushing away his fear of the Alpha to find what Derek was asking him.
A knock on the window made Scott jump once more before looking at Derek.
"It's Noelle, let her in." Derek told Scott who moved over to the window. It didn't surprise him that Scott hadn't scented Noelle, he was still trying to master using his newly heightened senses.
He pulled up the blinds and there was the red headed Omega starring at him through the glass. He opened the window and stepped back letting her into the room.
"How'd you know it was her?" Scott asked as Noelle looked from him to Derek.
Derek frowned and looked at Scott. "I know her scent."
"You need to work on his sense of smell." Noelle told Derek ignoring Scott for a minute. It was good that Derek was here already, saved Noelle the trouble of tracking him down later to tell him about Scott's encounter with the Alpha. " He actually thought the Alpha was you. He had a conversation with him before the Alpha rushed him."
"Are you serious?"
"I thought it was one of your stupid surprise attacks." Scott tried to explain. Thinking back on it, he should have known it wasn't Derek by the smell. "How did you know what happened?"
"I was watching the Argent house. Thought one of the hunters would go out tonight to hunt the Alpha, I was going to follow them. But instead got stuck watching you and Allison suck face again." Noelle shrugged at Scott's expression of confusion, then embarrassment, then finally anger.
"You watched me and Allison?"
"It wasn't all that interesting. Almost put me to sleep." Noelle yawned and stuffed her hands into the pockets of her jeans. "You don't want people to watch, close the fuckin curtains."
"She had a point." Derek stepped in and cut off Scott's reply. They had better things to talk about besides Scott's sex life. " Did you get the same impression as Scott. The Alpha was angry?"
"Pretty much, but it wasn't directed at Scott. It was weird, I thought for sure when he rushed him out of the bushes that Scott was dinner. But when he trapped him in the car, the anger was rolling off him in waves."
"So his anger wasn't focused on you at all, Scott?"
Scott nodded, glad that his impression was the same as a more experienced werewolf. "She's right. It wasn't towards me, and it got more intense when he drew the spiral on my car window. It felt like it was choking me when he did that."
"Wait, what?" Derek asked looking back from Scott to Noelle to confirm what Scott said.
"I knew he did something to the window, I could hear his claw against the glass but couldn't see it." Noelle told Derek, looking back at Scott to explain what he said.
"He drew a spiral on the condensation on my drivers side window." Scott told them, catching the look between Derek and Noelle. Clearly there was something not being said. "What does that mean? You both know what that means. "
"It's nothing." Derek told him as he moved around the younger werewolf and towards the bedroom door. He cast a look back at Noelle and she nodded, moving to follow him.
Scott's hand reached out and grabbed Derek by the arm, holding him back from the door. " Wait, wait, you can't do that. Stop holding things back from me. I know you know what that means."
"I told you it's nothing."
"You can't ask me to trust you, and keep things to yourself." Scott let go of Derek's arm, and watched him push the lock back out of the door. He was tired of not understand what was going on with him. Tired of no knowing anything and tired of Derek keeping him in the dark. He was apart of this, he needed to understand what was going on.
"It doesn't mean anything." Derek opened the door and Noelle moved past Scott to follow Derek out the door.
"You buried your sister under a spiral." Scott said in a last stitch effort to get one of them to tell him what it meant." What does it mean?"
Derek turned to Scott, with a look on his face that was somewhere between anger and sadness. " You don't want to know."
"Derek." Scott called out as Derek left the room.
"Leave it alone Scott." Noelle shook her head. Pushing Derek on the subject of his sister was a dangerous line. If Derek chose to react with anger he could do a lot of damage to Scott. She left the room, and headed down the stairs to the front door after Derek.
They had a lot to discuss without Scott around.
