AN: Hey sorry for the delay, well kind of delay, anyway here you all go! This is going to be a LONG chapter because I decided to not split this episode up; I just could not find a good cut off point so you all just get a really long chapter haha. O and of course shout out to my amazing beta Deanlover27! She has been a huge help, and I think her and I are both excited for the upcoming chapters! Ok, I don't own Teen wolf, yall know this, you're smart! Here you all go!

Rachel sat on her bed talking to Stiles on the phone about his dad. After everything that had happened Scott had yet to check up on Stiles or his dad, and Rachel was barely talking to him. However, he didn't seem to notice, he was so focused on Allison. Rachel didn't want to be bitter and mad about the fact that he had been spending all his time with her, and he comforted her and not Rachel. But, it still bothered her.

"You still pissed at him?" Rachel asked Stiles, questioning where Stiles also stood on the whole Scott thing.

"Yeah, he needs to dislodge his head from his ass." Stiles said and Rachel could hear him flopping into a chair. She grinned at the vision of Stiles flopping down, she knew exactly how he would do it.

"Well if it makes you feel any better Derek is out scaring him right now as part of his training." Rachel said with a laugh and Stiles laughed along with her.

"It does a little bit, but I wish I could be there for it."

"Well, why don't we institute some of our own training?" Rachel asked with a mischievous grin.

"Please, tell me old wise one, what's the plan." Stiles said in a mocking voice and they both laughed and discussed what they would do as payback once he came to his senses. Suddenly the window open and Derek walked in.

"Hey, I gotta go, but I'm loving this plan." Rachel said and they said goodbyes and hung up.

"You should really leave the training to me, but I won't stop you two." Derek said with a grin as Rachel stood up and wrapped her arms around him, laying her head on his chest.

"How did it go?" She asked, curious about the night's events.

"Well he wasn't fast enough, and he didn't put his phone on silent, so I found him, and also, sorry you won't have any milk."

"Aww Derek, come on, what am I supposed to eat with my cereal." Rachel said as she unraveled herself from him and walked over to her desk.

Derek laughed and followed her over. He spun her around and gingerly placed his lips upon hers. They started slowly then heated up, slowly Derek lead her to the bed where he laid her down.

In that moment both of them forgot everything, what was going on, the werewolf situation, the fact that Rachel was sick, all of it. It was just them, no one else.

Of course being them the moment could not last long. Rachel stayed attached as long as she could until her lungs started burning and then her head.

"St-a-o-p." Rachel slurred into their kiss and Derek released. She closed her eyes and was breathing heavily, unable to catch her breath. Derek replaced the nose canals with a mask so she could take in more air until her breathing was more under control.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." She kept saying into the mask. Derek brushed her hair back and shushed her, trying to get her to focus on just breathing.

"You have nothing to be sorry about, just breath, just breath baby." He placed the mask on her and laid next to her and brought her to his chest. Her breathing didn't get under control until she fell asleep. Derek knew she was getting worse, she couldn't walk long without getting winded, more so than usual. She was always tired and she just wasn't Rachel anymore and that scared him. She had her breathing treatment in a few days which would help and then her blood transfusion as well. The doctors said that would help her, but how much, and for how long? He kissed the top of her head and snuggled in with her. He felt helpless, the only thing he could do was hold her.

(~)

The next day at school Rachel and Stiles were walking together and talking. Stiles had picked her up as usual and the both agreed upon ignoring Scott unless he came and talked to them.

While walking to class they heard Scott trying to flag them down.

"Here we go." Rachel said under her breath. Her and Stiles kept talking to each other casually as if they didn't even hear him.

"Hey, guys wait up, come on, just wait." Scott said while getting near them. "I know you're mad at me, but come on talk to me, how's your dad?" He asked and they still ignored him, reaching Rachel's locker to get her supplies. "What if I told you that I'm trying to figure this whole thing out, and that I went to Derek for help?" Scott finally said.

"If I was talking to you, I'd say that you're an idiot for trusting him, but obviously I'm not talking to you." Rachel slapped Stiles arm for that comment and he redacted grabbing his arm. "OW!" Rachel just smirked.

"Whimp." She muttered. "What'd he say?" Rachel caved.

Scott went on to tell the two of what Derek told him about channeling his anger, how finding out what keeps him grounded will help him control his shift. Like an anchor. With that information, Stiles went to work on finding out information. Rachel sat back and listened coming up with plans on how to get him angry. Finally they all came up with a plan.

"Does this mean you both don't hate me now?"

"No." Rachel and Stile said in unison.

"But your crap has infiltrated our lives, so now I have to do something about it." Stiles said with a huff. "Anyway I'm definitely a better Yoda than Derek."

This got Rachel laughing. "O, I gotta text him that line." She said pulling out her phone which Stiles snatched from her.

"Stop it." He said pointing to Rachel. "Your Yoda I will be." Stiles said laughing between the two who gave him weird faces. "I said it backwards." He said with another laugh.

"Yeah, I know." Scott pipped in.

"All right, you know what? I definitely still hate you. And you're starting to getting on my list." He said to Rachel pointing his hand that still had her phone in it. She snatched her phone from him.

"Oh, alright. Come on Yoda, have some plans to get going with."

Almost immediately they had to dodge Allison, Scott trying to avoid her was very funny, and kind of fulfilling to Rachel. She in no way hated the girl, but she took all his attention. Rachel started to realize that she sounded selfish, but she didn't care, she had to somehow get into coaches office to get his heart monitor and cell phone.

(~)

Later in the day the three of them were out on the Lacrosse field, Stiles handed Scott the heart monitor to put on.

"Isn't this the heart rate monitor for the track team?" Scott asked while strapping it on."
"Yeah, we borrowed it." Rachel stated.

"Stole it." Scott tried to correct.

"Temporarily misappropriated." Stiles said.

"I bet you can't say that five times fast." Rachel said down to Stiles who laughed and shook his head.

"Coach uses it to monitor his heart rate with his phone while he jogs, and you're gonna wear it for the rest of the day." Stiles explained to Scott.

"Isn't that Coach's phone?" Rachel looked at it and smiled.

"That we stole." With this comment Scott just rolled his eyes.

Rachel sat on the sidelines while she watched Stiles throw lacrosse balls at Scott while he had his hands tied behind his back. She heard Stiles reminding Scott to not get angry, until she noticed him hunched over breathing heavily. He ripped out of the tape that bound his hands.

"Stay calm." she yelled while approaching.

Finally he calmed down and the heart rate went back down.

"Scott you started to change. From anger." Stiles told him.

"Its was like the angrier I got, the stronger I felt." He said with a sad voice. "I cant be around Allison." He finally concluded. Rachel noticed the hurt look on his face and went over and wrapped him in a hug.

"We'll figure this out."

(~)

Finally they came to their last class, Rachel was so ready for the day to be done. Everyone was so sad and down, Stiles was worried about his dad, Scott looked like a lost puppy because of Allison, and well Rachel, her life sucks right now.

When they got to class they all sat down not even realizing that Allison was going to sit in front of Scott.

They both started talking, Allison asking why she hadn't seen him all day, and when he was getting his phone fixed. Rachel was in and out of their conversation but heard that she had changed lab partners and he was going over tonight. At that she groaned and slammed her head to her desk. Not even realizing the attention she brought to herself.

"RACHEL." The teacher and Scott yelled. She picked up head up and looked around.

"Sorry." She said sitting up a little bit more.

"Ms. McCall you're looking a bit pale, why don't you go to the nurse's office." The teacher suggested to her.

"No, I'm fine." She said to him, but he had forced her out anyway. No teacher wanted her sick in their class, they'd all feared that she was going to collapse. Allison offered to help her there and Rachel knew it was going to be awkward.

Allison grabbed Rachel's bag and they walked out.

"How are you?"

"I'm fine, I have some things going on today so it takes a lot out of me."

"Scott told me that you have to go have some treatments done today, hopefully they'll help with your breathing." Rachel scoffed, of course Scott told her this. "Sorry if I wasn't suppose to know, he's just really worried about you."

"Well, people don't need to be. I'm fine. I've been fine my whole life." Rachel said while stopping in the hall.

"You don't have to always be fine you know?" Allison told Rachel giving her a look that told her somewhere deep inside she understood in her own way. "You can be scared, you can be angry, but saying your fine is not going to help you any." Allison finished and continued walking her to the office.

"Fine is all I've ever known, being fine comes second nature to me." Rachel explained.

"Well I'm here for you, on all your fine and not fine days. seriously call me, come talk to me." They stopped outside of the nurse's office and Rachel smiled at her. Suddenly she did something she didn't think she would do, she hugged Allison.

"Thank you." Rachel said before turning into the nurse's office. She finally felt like she was gaining a friend, who wasn't a male.

When the nurse saw her she told her to go home. She got a call from Stiles telling her that Scott had wolfed out in class when coach was yelling at her and that Allison was actually his anchor. Rachel felt relief, she finally was able to trust Allison and actually become friends. And if she made Scott happy then she was happy.

(~)

Derek had informed Rachel that he had had a lead on the alpha and was tracking it. They'd talked for a little while but he wouldn't tell her who it was until he was certain.

When she was waiting she got a call from Stiles saying he was going to meet up with her at her house and take her to the school. They had a lead.

When they got there Derek was furious.

"Why'd you bring her?" He asked in a menacing voice.

"Well, she's kind of part of this, and your girlfriend, I wouldn't talk about her that way, or you might be in the dog house." He said to Derek laughing at his dog joke.

"It's not safe for her here."

"I'm fine Derek." Rachel said walking over to give him a hug, he was stiff at first but relaxed under her hold.

Scott and Stiles went into the school and Scott tried to growl. It sounded like a dying cat. Derek let out a frustrated huff while Rachel buried her head into his chest to keep from laughing. Suddenly he tried again and it was loud. Rachel jumped and Derek quickly placed his hands over her ears in a protective manner.

"What the hell was that?" They heard Stiles asking. "You trying to attract the entire state to the school?"

"Sorry, I didn't know it would be that loud." Scott said while approaching. Rachel stepped away from Derek but not to far.

"Yeah, it was loud." Rachel commented.

"And it was awesome!" Stiles chimed in.

"Shut up." Derek said and Rachel laughed a little.

"Don't be such a sourwolf." Stiles said and Rachel was going to laugh, until they all heard it— a growl.

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