Heart Monitor Part 1
"Jo, how many times do I have to say that I'm sorry?" Scott wondered as he walked behind Jo in the parking lot. Jo didn't say anything, after all nothing really needed to be said. She was still very much pissed off at Scott.
Jo last night end up saving Allison's life. Pushing her out the way, it would have been totally romantic if Scott would have saved his little girlfriend's life, but Jo has to do all of the work lately. Thing was Scott was close to the girls—maybe at the most ten feet away. With werewolf super powers he could of saved Allison, and if not Allison Jo. Jo end up getting hit by the car and was now on ever more medicine and in a lot more pain.
That was the true reason she went out. Scott and Jo went out to go grocery shopping as Melissa was at work. Jo needed to refill her medicine and was stuck with Scott. She hadn't talk to him since before the accident.
"Jo, I'm sorry okay, please you got to talk to me," Scott said letting out a soft groan. "Jo is there something I can do to make us even? Come on, Jo."
Jo didn't say anything. She stopped walking and looked back at him. She then grabbed the car keys out of her pocket and pressed a button to make the car honk. Even without the super hearing, Jo could hear the car honk at least three levels up. She glared at Scott. She knew it, just knew it, that they didn't park here. She knew it! Scott turned to walk towards the elevator with one of the plastic bags broke and a carton of milk plummet to the ground. The milk then rolled under one of the cars.
Scott cursed as he turned back around looking at the milk that was under the car.
"Want me to get it?" Scott offered.
Jo didn't say anything. He let out a frustrated groan as he took one step closer to the car with the milk carton rolled back to the teenagers. This time with three claw marks on it. Werewolf claw marks. Jo could put puzzles pieces together faster than Scott because that moment she dropped her bags and started to run. Scott right behind her Jo ran until she was surrounded by park cars. Without saying anything to each other, Scott and Jo split up. Jo went to the left as Scott went to the right. She ran to some cars hid between two big trucks. Luckily for her they were both taking up a lot of her and she could barely fit so hopefully the alpha couldn't see her.
She could hear her heart beat in her ear beating fast and faster. Crap Jo thought as she shut her eyes tightly and then reopened them my heart beat. A human could probably hear my heart beat and my heave breathing a mile away.
Jo shut her eyes tightly again as she then covered her mouth with both of her heads and started to take slower breathes. On the other side of the parking lot there were car alarms going off. Smart of Scott to do. Make all the car alarms go off so the alpha wouldn't be able to hear either of their heart beats.
Then a phone went off. It wasn't Jo's, that for sure, it was Scott's. Jo recognized the ringtone to be Allison calling Scott. Next thing Jo knew she heard someone being slammed against a car and someone saying, "You're dead."
Jo also recognized this voice as well. Derek. She opened her eyes and peaked out from the two cars. Derek stood in front of a car with Scott on the roof of it. No alpha in sight. She got up from her hiding spot and walked over to the two. When she was next to the two werewolves she slapped Derek on the shoulder.
"What was that for?" Jo shouted anger in her blue eyes.
"I told Scott that I was going to teach him. I didn't say when." Derek explained not looking at Scott, his green eyes on Jo's blue.
"You scared the crap out of me." Jo mumbled one hand on her heart the other one pushing against the hood of the car. Scott got up from the hood of the car his arms crossed.
"I was fast right?" Scott wondered.
"Not fast enough." Derek argued as he started too walked to where Jo and Scott dropped the grocery. Jo followed the two werewolves behind them. She then grabbed her one bag and leaned against a car and Scott didn't even trying to pick any of the groceries.
"But the car alarm thing, that was smart, right?" Scott asked.
"Till your phone rang," Derek said.
"What about me? Just hiding not making any noise?" Jo spoke up not even glancing at Scott.
"You were good, especially since your phone didn't go off." Derek explained earning a glare from Scott. "Although I don't know why you two split up. Strength in numbers."
"Over here." Scott exclaimed making him the center of attention. "You need to teach me to control this. Please. What happened the other night, to Stiles' dad and Jo getting hurt that was my fault. I should have been there to do something I need you to teach me how to control this."
"Look, I am what I am because of birth. You were bitten. Teaching someone who was bitten takes time. I don't even know for sure if I can teach you." Derek said as Scott eyes grew big. Jo on the other hand didn't care as much. She was still pretty pissed off at him.
"What do I have to do?" Scott wondered.
"You have to get rid of distractions." Derek explained as he grabbed Scott's cell phone out of his hands. "You see this? This is why I caught you. You want me to teach you? Get rid of her."
Derek then turned around and chucked the phone at a wall. The phone broke apart into many pieces as Scott yelled at him to stop. It was too late. This made Jo unbelievably happy. The edges of her lips started to turn upwards into a smile. She put her hand over her mouth and cleared her throat making her soft smile going away.
Scott turned to look at Derek angry look in his eyes.
"Getting angry?" Jo spoke up the first thing she said to Scott all day.
Scott didn't look at Jo, yet continue to glare at Derek.
"That's your first lesson. You want to learn how to control this, how to shift, you do it through anger, by tapping into a primal animal rage, and you can't do that with her around." Derek said.
"I can get angry," Scott replied.
"Not angry enough. This is the only way that I can teach you. Now, can you stay away from her? At least until after the full moon?" Derek asked.
"If that's what it takes," Scott mumbled.
"Do you want to live?" Derek snapped. "Do you want to protect your friends? Yes or no?"
"Yes. If you can teach me, I can stay away from her." Scott said. Derek grabbed Jo's hand and they couple started to walk away. Jo turned around to see Scott on the floor picking up the groceries.
"Scott?" Jo called out. Scott looked up at Jo. She took her free hand and pointed to the broken phone next to the wall. "Now we're even."
Jo lay on the guest bed with Derek right next to her. Derek was reading one of Jo's many books as Jo was on her blue laptop doing 'homework'. What she was really doing instead was trying to figure out who the alpha was and how to connect all these murders to one another. It wasn't working out very well. She was started to understand why cops drinks, this investigate work thing is hard.
"Do you have any clue who the alpha is?" Jo wondered turning to look at Derek. Derek was nose deep reading The Princess Bride. Jo smiled slightly as Derek looked up from the book.
"No clue yet." Derek said. "If I even had a little thing I would tell you. Right now I'm more worried about Scott going around killing people than an alpha who is killing people."
Jo nodded her head understanding. "So you would tell me anything that had to do with the case or the supernatural crap that's now in my life?"
Derek raised an eye brow. Was he walking into a trap: questions that he would soon not want to answer. "…..yes…..why?"
Jo pulled up a file from her laptop. A picture popped up. It was a baby mobile with six different pieces on it. A brown triskele, a black wolf with red eyes and a brown with gold eyes, a big gray book, a crossbow, a red fox, and two trees.
She then zoomed in onto the triskele and turned to look at Derek, again.
"What is that?" Jo asked.
"A triskele." Derek said. "It's also known as a triskelion. It could mean many things: father, mother, sun. It's use to help focus someone's mind. You know what it means to me?"
"Alpha, beta, omega?" Jo guessed. Derek nodded his head.
"When I was young I use to have a triskelion and my uncle told me if I repeat 'alpha, beta, omega,' it would help me gain control on a full moon," Derek explained.
"Did it work?"
"Not even a little bit."
Jo chuckled softly.
"Where did you get that picture?" Derek wondered.
"It was mine, when I was a baby." Jo explained the smile on her face disappearing fast. "My mom had this made special for me. I don't know why. She just had a thing for supernatural crap and fairy tales." She pulled up another picture from her computer. It was a blanket with an African American women on it and a black wolf with red eyes. The women had a big black afro with blue like the sky eyes. She had on a red cape with a hood that covered most of her hair. She also had on a black dress. The girl and the wolf were in the woods trees all around them. Peaking out of the trees was a white full moon.
"She made me this blanket when she was pregnant with me." Jo said. Derek dropped the book and put an arm around Jo. "She was weird women, but I miss her."
Derek brushed his lips against the top of Jo's head. "I'm sorry."
Jo turned to look at Derek's green eyes. "For what?"
"Having to lose your mom, your family at a young age," Derek explained. "No one should have to go through that."
Jo nodded her head. "Not me or you."
With Derek's free hand he pushes the bottom of Jo's chin up only inches away from her mouth before crashing his lips onto Jo's.
Jo was in her period right before lunch, one of her favorite periods since after this class she would get food. Yay! She sat next to Stiles in front of Scott watching the clock tick time. Scott was whispering to Stiles trying to get him to talk. Ever since last Friday when both Jo and Stiles' dad got hurt, Stiles hadn't talk to Scott since. He kept on checking up on Jo but didn't talk to Scott. He was pissed off that even though Scott had powers to save people Jo had to go save Allison and Scott couldn't save Stiles' dad.
Jo, on the other hand, was a lot more forgiven since her boyfriend scared the crap out of him last night and Scott got his phone broken. Hopefully, that would bring Scott and Allison a little bit apart.
"Still not talking to me?" Scott whispered to Stiles. Jo glanced over at Stiles. Stiles didn't even look at Scott. He glanced over at Jo and gave a half-hearted smile and looked back at the board. His ignoring skills where really good. "Okay, can you at least tell me if your dad's okay? It's just a bruise right? Some soft tissue damage? Nothin' that big—you know I feel really bad about it, right? Okay. What if I told you that I'm trying to figure this whole thing out, and—that I went to Derek for help."
"If I was talking to you, I'd say that you're an idiot for trusting him." Stiles snapped. "But obviously I'm not talking to you."
Jo rolled her eyes not believing that lie at all. She looked at Stiles and then at Scott again. Stiles then turned around fast and looked at Scott. "What did he say?"
"He wants you to tap into your animal side and get angry?" Stiles repeated after Scott explained what happened last night. Apparently Scott didn't listen to a word Derek said when he scared the crap out him. Scott hanged out with Allison last night and even worst the alpha visited him when he started to go home. So Scott drove over to Derek's and asked again what should he do.
"Yeah." Scott agreed.
"All right, well, correct me if I'm wrong, but every time you do that, you try to kill someone, and that is someone's usually me or Stiles," Jo spoke up not agreeing with her boyfriend's view.
"I know. That's what he means when he says he doesn't know if he can teach me. I have to be able to control it." Scott said as the threesome walked into the cafeteria.
"How's he going to each you to do that?" Stiles asked.
"I don't know. I don't think he does either." Scott explained.
"When are you seeing him again?" Jo wondered.
"He told me not to talk about it. Just act normal and get through the day." Scott said. Jo snickered, Scott was anything but normal and couldn't act normal to save his life.
"When?" Jo and Stiles asked.
"He's picking me up at the animal clinic after work." Scott explained as he sat down at an empty table. Stiles sat across from him as Jo sat next to him.
"After work." Stiles mumbled as he looked the two sitting across from him. "All right, well, that gives us to the end of the school day then."
"To do what?" Scott wondered.
"To teach you ourselves of course," Jo replied as she patted Scott on the shoulder and then turned to Stiles.
"I already have a plan." Stiles and Jo said in sync with each other. Both of them started to smile as Scott rolled his eyes.
"Are you right here with me?" Stiles asked pointing to his head and then back at Jo's.
Jo started to nod her head. "Right here." She pointed to his brain and then back to hers. She then stood up and grabbed her bag.
"I'll be back," Jo said.
"Text me if you get caught," Stiles replied.
Jo rolled her eyes as her smile turned into an evil smile. "When have I even gotten caught?"
Jo walked down the hallways of the school fast looking for one person in particular: Coach. Coach was probably the worst teacher in the entire school mainly because he didn't know how to teach but how to coach kids about sports. But he was also Jo's favorite teacher hands down. He was stupid and always made fun of students in front of their faces. Coach was the best teacher ever.
Jo had two notebooks her arms and three books with papers sticking out of them. She seemed like a nerd….a bigger nerd than usually. She saw Coach at the end of the hallway walking towards Jo. She started to walk faster and faster. Next thing she knew she crashed into Coach making him drop everything her hand in his arms and making Jo drop everything in her arms. Jackpot.
"WESSON!"
"Sorry, Coach."
Both of them dropped to the floor and started to pick up their own crap. She grabbed the thing she wanted fast and slipped in her bag as she picked up all of her papers, books, and notebooks.
"Sorry, Coach," Jo repeated again not really meaning what she said as Coach was still on the floor picking up the papers he had just graded.
"Just watch where you going next time, Wesson." Coach snapped not looking from the papers on the floor. Jo started to walk away as she grabbed her phone out of her pocket. She dialed Stiles' number.
"Hello?"
"I got it," Jo said pulling out Coach's phone that she stole with ease. She looked at it and smirked to herself as she shoved it into her back pocket.
"And didn't get caught you are my true inspiration," Stiles said. Jo could hear the smile in his voice. "I'll meet you on the field?"
"Yup, make sure you get what you're supposed to steal," Jo replied.
"Of course my partner in crime. See you on the other side."
Stiles hung up.
She leaned against the outside wall next to the lacrosse field waiting and waiting for Scott and Stiles to come. Before she could pull her ear buds out to ignore the world a lacrosse player run up to Jo. Jackson.
"Hey, Jo." Jackson greeted with a soft smile.
Jo was very taken aback by this. Last time Jo check, Jackson didn't like her….not one little bit. Jo looked around to make sure there wasn't another Jo that Jackson could be possibly talking to. No one else was around though so ti had to be her.
"Jackson," Jo said nodded her head at him as he placed one arm against the wall holding him up.
"What are you doing here? Coach hasn't banned you yet this season?" Jackson teased lightly.
Jo rolled her eyes. Coach has this crazy idea that Jo as bad luck. Ever season he would ban her from the games. She would only be allowed to go to one game an entire season. This year so far Coach hasn't banned her…..the year had just started though and Jo was waited for it.
"Not yet," Jo said. "I haven't gone to any games yet though so he hasn't banned me. But the night is still young."
Jackson chuckled softly. "How are you feeling? Since the night at the video store and at the parent-teacher conference."
"I'm fine, I heal quickly. You okay?" Jo replied not acting caring about Jackson.
He nodded his head. "I just wanted to say sorry. I realized that I've been a jerk to you for a while. That was before I met you. I didn't know how awesome you are."
Jo shrugged. "I am pretty freakin' awesome."
Jackson chuckled again. Now Jo isn't always the best person when it comes to flirting but she was almost for sure that Jackson was flirting with her. He was close to her, laughing, making up crap so he would be able to talk to her. And on top of this he stared at her lips—not her breast—but her lips.
"I feel like I should take you out to eat, to make up for all the horrible crap I've done to you," Jackson said.
"You have a girlfriend." Jo reminded. "And I have a boyfriend."
Jackson didn't let that get to him. He still had the crooked smile on his face and his eyes staring at her lips and eyes.
"It doesn't have to be a date," Jackson said. "Just two taken people going out for lunch talking about how crappy the guy was when he was younger."
"Okay, you have my number right?"
Jackson nodded his head as the bell let out a loud rung.
"I have to go to chem," Jackson said.
Jo snickered. "You poor sucker."
"See you later, Wesson."
"Bye Whittemore."
"Put this on," Stiles ordered as Jo placed another layer of duck tape on Scott's wrists.
This was a perfectly normal thing. Nothing weird about this at all. Since Jo stole Coach's phone Stiles took his heart rate monitor from the track team. They had a wonderful plan. To make Scott where the heart monitor track his heart rate. If he could keep it down he didn't need Derek's help! But if he doesn't…..he gonna need Derek's help.
"Isn't this one of the heart rate monitors for the track team?" Scott wondered as Jo placed her last round of duck tape around Scott's wrists to keep him from moving a lot.
"Yeah, I borrowed it," Stiles said. Jo walked over to Stiles, the two were about five feet away from Scot as Scott stood in front of the lacrosse goal.
"Stole it." Scott corrected.
"Temporarily misappropriated," Stiles added rolling his eyes as Jo pulled out Coach's phone from her pocket.
"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," Jo explained.
"Isn't that Coach's phone?" Scott guessed looking at Jo's hands and then back at her.
"Yeah, that I stole," Jo said proudly of not getting caught.
"Why?" Scott asked.
"Your heart rate goes up when you go wolf, right-" Stiles started off as he knew that Jo was gonna to interrupted.
"—when you're playing lacrosse, when you're with Allison, whenever you get angry-" Jo added.
"—maybe learning to control it is tied to learning to control your heart rate," Stiles said ended his and Jo's theory.
"Like the Incredible Hulk," Scott spoke up grinning ear to ear referencing his favorite comic book character.
"Kind of like the Incredible Hulk, yeah." Stiles agreed as Jo rolled her eyes. Scott so needed to get a life.
"No, I'm like the Incredible Hulk," Scott said.
"Would you shut up and let us do our thing." Jo snapped not caring if Scott was the Incredible Hulk or the freaking Joker.
Scott nodded his head the smile on his face slowly disappearing.
"All right. You ready?" Stiles called out as he tossed Jo a lacrosse stick and then poured out a big thing of balls.
"This isn't exactly how I wanted to spend my free period," Scott said as Stiles poured out a bag of lacrosse balls.
"We don't want to do this either," Jo replied.
"All right. You ready?" Stiles called out as he tossed Jo a lacrosse stick and the grabbed him one.
"No," Scott answered truthfully.
"Remember, don't get angry." Jo said as she threw a ball at Scott hitting him on his shoulder. He let out a groan as the two of them started to throw balls at him. This was such a great way to spend my free period Jo thought evilly as she hit Scott in the eyes. Scott let out a loud groan.
She looked at the stick and then back at Scott. "I think my aiming has gotten better."
"I wonder why." Scott snapped as Stiles hit him where the sun doesn't shine. "SON OF—" Scott fell to the floor his breathing getting heavier and heavier. Jo and Stiles looked down at Coach's phone watching the heart monitor rate go higher and higher up. Jo looked at Scott with worried eyes as he slowly started to turn back into a human. Jo started to walk up to Scott with Stiles behind her.
"Scott, you started to change," Jo said.
"From anger," Scott panted as he looked up at the humans, "but it was more than that. Was like, the angrier I got, the stronger I felt."
"So it's anger then. Derek's right." Stiles replied.
"I can't be around Allison," Scott complained.
"Just because she makes you happy?" Jo wondered. "If that is the case shouldn't' you stay away from me as well."
"He doesn't like you like that," Stiles said rolling his eyes as he spoke up for his best friend.
"You don't know." Jo snapped playfully. "Maybe we have a secret love thing going on. And Derek and Alison don't know about it."
"We don't. I don't like you like that. Let me crush all your hopes and dreams now." Scott said as Jo walked over to him and started to take the duck tape off his wrists.
"Well, are you going to stay away from Alison for a few days or like ever?" Jo wondered.
"This whole 'women make you weak' thing is a little too Spartan warrior for me. It's probably just part of the learning process." Stiles replied.
"But you've seen Derek." Scott said. "I mean he's totally alone-"
"Hey!" Jo exclaimed. "His not alone his got me. And if you have yet to notice I'm the best one." She walked in front of the now standing Scott and Stiles her arms crossed.
"How are you the best one?" Scott wondered rubbing his now sore wrists.
She held up Coach's phone, Stiles' car keys that she carefully stole from his pocket, and Scott's wallet she took only minutes ago."I have magic hands."