Jessica turned a corner on her bike riding up to the local video store. She had officially run out of movies. The McCalls didn't have a large movie collection, it was sufficiently small so here she was at the video store.

Walking inside, she began to browse through the stacks and stacks of videos. Looking around there didn't seem to be anyone at the store not even an attendant at the counter. Jessica's eyebrows furrowed in slight confusion before shrugging if off thinking that they must just be in the back room or something.

Jessica was deciding between Iron man or Thor crouched down by the shelves when she heard the door open and a familiar voice call out 'Can somebody help me find The Notebook? Hello? Is anybody working here? You gotta be kidding me'.

Jessica let out an exasperated sigh because of course Jackson had to walk into the video store at the exact same time as she did. She stood up but her sudden appearance caused him to cry out in alarm and she had to laugh at his terrified expression.

'What the hell is wrong with you?!' He yelled, angry at the girl standing in front of him doubled over in laughter.

'I was just looking for a movie' she shrugged after she stopped laughing, smiling innocently making him roll his eyes and shake his head in exasperation.

'Is there anyone working here?' He asked her, changing the subject.

'I don't think so, I mean there was no one when I came in' she shrugged before remembering what he yelled out. 'The notebook huh?' She smiled and he turned to her looking annoyed.

'Its for Lydia not me' he argued but she kept on smiling cheekily.

'Uh-huh whatever helps you sleep at night pretty boy' she winked, walking out into the long aisle between the shelves. A ladder standing abandoned catching her eye along with the flickering light above. Jessica made her ways towards it only to stop dead when she caught sight of legs behind one of the shelves. Jackson however merely went around her and walked towards the legs. 'Jackson, wait' She warned quietly but he continued walking ahead so she doubled her steps to catch up with him.

Looking around the shelves, Jessica only just managed to stop a scream as the sight of a throat slashed employee laid dead against the shelf. Jackson however immediately jumped backwards, forcing her to do the same. She crashed into the ladder behind her, sending the flickering light down and the store to go dark after the lights flickered twice. Only a red light stayed, but it just made the store look a lot worse. It reminded Jessica of the old horror movies she used to watch.

'Jackson?' She called out looking around blindly in the dark from the floor only to feel him pull her up a second later so she was standing next to him. 'We should get out of here' she told him quietly but noticed how Jackson seemed to freeze in place.

That's when she heard the growling. Her eyes widened and her breathing quickened, knowing that it was the alpha after Scott.

Jackson gripped her wrist and as soon as red eyes emerged from the darkness he yanked her down with him, behind one of the shelves.

The teens were both breathing hard, fear coursing through their veins and when Jackson went to look around the corner, Jessica dug her nails into his arm trying to tell him not to. He obviously didn't listen and did it anyway only to jump back against the shelf when he saw a black figure run across the floor of the store.

The teens exchanged a fearful glance the minute they heard dvd's begin to fall off a shelf not far away from them. Jessica rested her head against the shelf closing her eyes, absolutely terrified that she was going to die.

Jessica didn't see Jackson looking at her but she did feel it when he grabbed her hand in hers and squeezed it in comfort. She glanced at him and he looked just as terrified as she did, probably more so because he didn't know what it was that was attacking them. Jessica squeezed his hand back gratefully.

Suddenly loud bangs filled the air and the shelves began to fall like dominoes. Jessica felt Jackson tug on her hand violently but at that moment she felt pain rush through her head and everything went dark.

'Lydia just try and keep the shelf up while I crawl out or it'll crush Jess' the sound of Jackson's voice woke Jessica slowly but she could barely keep her eyes open a wave of exhaustion and pain overwhelming her. She only caught sight of a brief light before it went dark.

It was silent before she heard Jackson speak again 'I got it. Reach in and grab her' she then felt two hands grip holds of hers and felt herself being pulled out from underneath the shelf and into the light. Jessica groaned out in pain before hearing the shelf being dropped back to the ground a moment later.

'Jess? Jessica are you alright? She heard Lydia demand fearful and felt someone tapping her face lightly. The action irritated her enough to reach up and grabbed the hand, stopping the movements 'Lydia, I'm fine, stop hitting me' she told the strawberry blonde opening her eyes,to see her and Jackson hovering above her.

'But your bleeding' the girl protested and Jessica's face contorted in confusion before she lifted her hand up to her forehead. She felt something wet and warm coat her fingers and bringing it back down she caught sigh of the red blood dripping down her fingers. 'That's just brilliant' she tried sitting up only for Jackson to help her up, she looked at the boy 'are you alright?' Jessica quickly asked worried. After all if she was bleeding out don't Jackson be injured as well?

'I'm fine' he assured and by the tone of his voice she could tell he was slowly drifting back to jackass Jackson.

She looked around at the wrecked shop, seeing one of the windows smashed as well. She wondered what had happened to make the alpha leave but when she saw the look in Jackson's eyes, she had a feeling she would never know.

'Did someone call the police?' She wondered and Lydia nodded. Jessica looked over at the girl more closely and saw her hands were actually shaking, she quickly guessed that Lydia saw the alpha when it jumped out of the window.

The paramedics and police showed up a moment later, along with several other people, officers keeping them back. Both her and Jackson were looked over thoroughly, her so more then him when they found out she had been trapped underneath one of the shelves and was bleeding.

Jessica sat next to Lydia on the ambulance steps, Jackson in front of his girlfriend arguing with one of the medics wanting to go home, probably just to forget this night had ever happened. She looked up when another car pulled up and spotted the sheriff hopping out. She could all see Stiles sitting impatiently in the front seat.

'Why the hell can't I just go home? I'm fine' Jackson immediately yelled at the sheriff when he came up to him. Lydia had caught sight of her mother and with a goodbye squeeze to Jessica's hand, she hurried towards her.

'I hear ya, but the EMT says you hit your head pretty hard. They just wanna make sure you don't have a concussion' sheriff Stilinski explained to him calmly.

'What part of "I'm fine" are you having a problem grasping? Okay, I wanna go home.' Jackson argued, getting angrier and angrier by the second.

'And I understand that.' The sheriff began but Jackson stopped him 'No, you don't understand, which kind of blows my mind, since it should be a pretty basic concept to grasp for a minimum - wage rent - a - cop like you! Okay, now, I wanna go home!'

'Oh, whoa, is that a dead body?' The familiar voice of Stiles echoed throughout the parking lot and Jessica's attention was brought to the gurney coming towards her, containing the body of the video store attendant.

'Everybody back up. Back up' the sheriff ordered everyone before turning to Jessica 'Come on sweetheart' he helped her up off the steps and away from the ambulance while they loaded the gurney up. 'Are you alright?' The sheriff asked her the minute the ambulance left, checking her forehead where a bandage was plastered and she smiled a small smile.

'I'm fine sir, I just want to go home' he nodded understandingly.

'Go to the car and I'll take you home. I've just got to talk to some officers first' she nodded before walking towards the car. As soon as she was in the backseat, Jessica let her head rest against the window exhausted.

'Are you alright Jess?' Stiles immediately asked worried and she smiled slightly at the concern heavily laced in his voice.

'I'm fine, just want to go home and sleep. Please don't ask me anything, I'll tell you what happened tomorrow okay?' She begged, really not wanting to relive that terrifying experience anytime soon.

Stiles nodded understanding 'I'm just glad your okay' she smiled at him before closing her eyes to rest blocking out everything else.

The minute got home she was immediately fussed over by her mom, going through a full checkup before she was finally allowed to sleep. She probably got about an hour before she was being shaken awake by Scott.
'Are you okay?' He immediately asked once he saw her eyes blink open.

'I'm fine, now go away!' She growled at him, annoyed that once again her sleep was being interrupted. She wanted to sleep was that really too much to ask after what she had been through.

'What did you see?' He asked ignoring her second comment.

Jessica glared up at her brother's lack of sensitivity, 'I see you lying dead on the floor after I kill you for waking me up' she growled out and Scott quickly understood that as his sign to leave.

As soon as the door closed Jessica let out another groan and rolling her eyes before closing them again, not feeling even a twinge of guilt. She was tired as hell, she had almost been killed by a frickin werewolf tonight. She didn't want to answer any god damn questions.

All she wanted to do was sleep, so that is exactly what she did.

Jessica woke up the next morning a little later than usual but she was sure she could use the "I almost died" card to get out of detention. She got changed into a white button up shirt, rolling up the sleeves and wrapped a beige scarf around her neck. Press pulled on some jeans and tied up the laces on some light brown boots as well.

Jessica rode towards the school and stopped at the bike racks pulling off her helmet and shaking her hair out, running a hand through it she felt the the bump from the previous night.

Jessica jumped out of her thoughts in shock when she heard someone call out to her, 'McCall!'. She turned to see Jackson walking up to her and she sighed, wondering what now?

'What's wrong?' She asked.

'Let's just promise not to tell anyone about what happened last night in the store' he spoke and she went to protest 'no Jessica, just ... just promise me you won't tell anyone, not your brother, not your brother's spastic friend, no one. Promise me' he told her looking down sternly.

'One his name is Stiles and two...' Jessica caught sight of an almost desperate and pleading look in Jackson's eyes she nodded '...I promise'.

He offered her a small smile, like an actual smile instead of the usual smirk but it disappeared quickly and he headed inside. She followed after him. 'So ready to be questioned like hell?' She asked and Jackson scoffed a laugh.

'Already been questioned, quite a lot'

'Me too. So what do we say it was?' She wondered curiously after all there was no way she could tell the truth that it was a psychotic werewolf killer.

'Mountain lion' Jackson said almost immediately and at her surprised look he explained further 'that's what Lydia told the cops she saw'.

Jessica nodded in understanding 'That makes a lot of sense seems as that what the cops are saying the rest of the attacks have been' she was glad they had come up with some sort of story, saved her the trouble of making one up.

'Exactly' he nodded, opening the door to the chemistry lab, their first class of the day. The entire class went silent staring at the two of themes they entered. All of a sudden Jessica felt extremely uncomfortable and seriously just wanted to run for the hills. Glancing at each other they both just avoided eye contact and took the last two seats at an empty desk.

'Jessica, Jackson.' the two looked up at the mention of their names. Jessica leaned a bit backwards seeing mr Harris, the chemistry teacher by their desk 'If either of you need to leave early for any reason, you let me know.' They both nodded and he walked to the front of the class.

'Everyone, start reading Chapter Nine. Mr. Stilinski. Try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs. It's chemistry, not a coloring book' Jessica watched as Stiles threw his head back spitting out the highlighter lid and catching it before looking back down at her book and started reading.

About two minutes later she heard a loud bang and jumped looking around only to see that Stiles had fallen out of his seat from leaning to the side way too frowned but looked away before catching his eyes.

Jessica was going to keep her promise even if it was to Jackson, a guy she's literally never liked at all. If that meant avoiding her best friend and brother for a while, she could do that.

So as soon as the bell went, she grabbed her books and hurried out of the classroom, ignoring Stiles when he called her name, feeling absolutely horrible as she did so.

The day went by quickly, Scott seemed to have ditch school for the day she only had to avoid Stiles, which wasn't that hard as she didn't have any other classes with him that day.

What she's didn't expect was to be corned by Derek Hale in the art room. Honestly how the hell did he even get into the school without being caught? 'Can I help you? Your not dying again are you?' she asked sarcastically but he remained emotionless.

'No, I just want to know what you saw last night' he told her, running his hand over the wood of her desk.

'A dead employee' she shrugged, not lying so he couldn't detect anything going on with heartbeat, (Scott had already caught her out way too many times with that new handy little trick).

'What else?' He asked stepping close trying to be intimidating. Jessica wasn't one to be intermediated easily, quite frankly it just pissed her off.

'How about if you don't leave in the next 10 seconds I scream and you go to jail for attempted rape on a minor' she smiled innocently but with a deadly, pissed off glint in her eyes.

Derek glared down at her before shrugging 'Fine, don't tell me' he glanced down 'Nice drawing' he commented before leaving.

She breathed in a sigh of relief before glancing down at her wolf drawing with a frown.

Night fell quickly and Jessica stayed away from the school, not seeing any reason to be there as she was passing all her classes with flying colors. Parent teacher conferences were the only times you could be proud about being smart especially when her brother was the one failing.

Instead she decided to go for a run out in the woods with her earphones in. It was quiet and peaceful just the way she liked it.

So you can understand her confusion when she spotted headlights up ahead. Jessica pulled out her earphones and heard the sounds of a ball thumping against something hard. She jogged up and her eyebrows furrowed even more when she recognized the familiar silver Porsche. What the hell was Jackson doing out here?

She walked up only to have a stick break underneath her shoes and for Jackson to turn on her. Her eyes widened when she saw how watery his eyes were like he was going to cry.

She noticed a lacrosse stick in his hand and caught sight of a cylinder cup attached to a tree, also she saw smashed pieces of glass around the tree. The stench of alcohol hit her like a wave and a sigh escaped her.

'What are you doing here?' He asked and she raised her eyebrows

'I could ask you the same thing. Drink this' she instructed handing him her bottle of water. He stared down at it, not moving 'drink' she ordered and he unscrewed the bottle cap and took several long gulps. 'That'll sober you up soon enough' she nodded and took the offered bottle back.

Jackson tried to walk but he stumbled a bit. Jessica hurried over and caught him just before he collapsed and helped him lean against his car. 'Forget your underage?' She wondered with curious sarcasm.

He scoffed unamused, 'Doesn't matter' he went to grab his lacrosse stick again but Jessica snatched it before he could and twirled it out of his reach. 'Give it to me.' he ordered, trying to glare but she simply raised her eyebrow 'no'.

'You don't understand ...' He muttered 'I have to practice ... I have to ... I have to be the best or else they won't want me anymore ... just like the others' Jessica's heart clenched hearing the pure desperation in his voice and felt a wave of sadness for the boy in front of her crashed over her.

She knew Jackson was adopted having overhead a particular conversation couple of years but kept it quiet, a secret for his sake. His words made complete sense to her. Jackson didn't feel good enough, it's why he felt like he had to be perfect at everything, had to be the best at everything to prove to himself that he was good enough, that he was worth it. It was a desire he must of gotten when he found out he was adopted, believing his real parents didn't want him because he wasn't the perfect son.

Jessica held back her sadness and sympathy knowing it would only make Jackson pull away,s he rested a hand on his shoulder gently 'Take a break for one night, take a break from trying to be perfect and just be you. Just be Jackson'. He stared at her for a while before he sat down on the forest floor and laid back staring up at the sky forlornly.

Jessica joined him a minute later and the two teens remained in silence for a while before Jessica spoke up quietly, her curiosity getting the better of her 'how often do you do this?'

'More then you'd think' he answered vaguely.

Jessica leaned up on her elbows turning her body to look at him 'okay how about instead of doing this until you drive yourself mad, you give me a call and we'll go do something' she suggested and Jackson stayed in silence for a while.

'Do what?' He finally asked looking over at her a curious glint in his eyes.

'I don't know, see a movie, play laser tag, go see some sports game, anything's better then throwing a ball at a small hole while drunk' she pointed out laying back down next to him and she saw him nodding in agreement from the corner of her eye.

'Why are you being so nice to me? I've been nothing but a jerk to you and your brother for years' Jackson wondered sitting up and looking over at the brunette in curious confusion.

'Everyone needs a friend' she spoke truthfully looking over at him.

'I have friends' 'he protested 'and do they know about this?' She retorted and by the way he gritted his teeth, she knew that they didn't.

'Alright then, what should we do?' He asked, standing up and pulling her to her feet as well.

'Hmm, I'm kind of hungry' she contemplated before an idea hit her 'Oh I know this great diner they have the best milkshakes' a smile already on her face remembering the milkshakes.

'Alright McCall, lets go' he nodded and the two teens piled into his car.

'You call my brother McCall just call me Jess'

A/N Okay just to clear up any confusion this is not a Jackson fic, and Jessica and Jackson will not be romantically involved in anyway, just friends. Jackson was always one of my favorites and I wanted Jess to have a good relationship with him. Also sorry that this is only one part. It was actually really hard to incorporate Jess into this episode but I think I made it work. Please comment and vote, would mean the world to me. Thank you for reading! xx