Skye's POV
I jerked awake when I felt a hand touch my lower back, I looked up and saw Deaton smiling calmly at me so I sat up looking down at Derek seeing he was still unconscious and I frowned looking back at Deaton.
"Derek can you hear me , Derek hey wake up please" I pulled his head to rest in my lap and gently shook him. "I need you to answer me Derek, Derek!"
"We don't have much time" Deaton added but Derek wasn't even flinching. "Let me try something else" he pulled out a silver whistle and blew it, I didn't hear anything and figured it must have been a dog whistle which was kind of cruel given Derek's hearing but it worked and his eyes opened as he panted for breath.
"Hey handsome" I smiled relieved to see his piercing green eyes.
"That sound, what was it?" he asked moving to sit up, Deaton smiled and held up the whistle and Derek scoffed at it before standing up but he was still weak and almost fell back but both Deaton and I reached out steading him.
"You're gonna be weak for several hours" I got to my feet watching as he stared down at the dried blood on his arm from Peter piercing the skin with his claws.
"It actually happened" Derek spoke up looking around for Peter obviously.
"Don't worry, you're still an Alpha but as usual not a practically competent one" I frowned at Deaton before turning back to Derek worriedly.
"Where is he?" Derek asked angrily.
"I wish I could tell you"
"Then how about you tell me what you're doing here and why your helping me?" Derek asked him taking a threatening step forward so I reached out and placed my hand on his arm.
"Helping your family actually used to be a pretty important part of my life" Deaton replied undeterred by Derek's posture. "Helping you was a promise I made to your mother" I saw the shock cross Derek's face as he stepped back.
"You're the one my sister talked about, she said you're a kind of advisor?"
"She was right" Deaton agreed with him. "And I have some advice that you need to listen to very closely right now, what Peter managed to do doesn't come without a price he'll be physically weak so he'll rely on the strength of his intelligence, his cunning, he's going to come at you Derek he'll try to twist his way inside your head preying on your insecurities, he'll tell you that he's the only way you can stop Gerard, do not trust him"
"I don't trust anyone but Skye" Derek replied wrapping his arm around my waist pulling me against his side, I smiled up at him laying my head against his chest.
"I know" Deaton smiled. "If you trusted more people, you might be the Alpha you like to think you are" I frowned at him again because that was again uncalled for. "And unfortunately the one person you should trust doesn't trust either of you"
"Scott" Derek and I replied at the exact same time.
"He's with Stilinski right now you need to find him, you need to him as fast as you can, I've known Gerard for a long time, longer than you Skyler and he always has a plan" he paused looking down at the hole in the floor. "And something tells me it's going exactly the way he wants it to"
We walked out with Deaton but he quickly left on his own so I walked over to the Camaro grabbing my phone that I'd thrown on the passenger seat when I got in and quickly dialled Scott's number but it went straight to voicemail so I tried Stiles' but got the same result.
"For gods sake will one of you answer the phone, we need to talk it's urgent" I hung up the phone then looked up at Derek who was leaning against the car with both hands on the roof making me worry. "Derek?" he looked up. "Are you okay?" he nodded his head then sighed.
"Let's go" he opened the drivers side door.
"But we don't know where they are" I protested and really didn't feel like driving around relentlessly chasing them down.
"I'll track them, you drive" I nodded quickly going over and got in as he walked around getting into the passenger seat and I started driving with him shooting me directions every now and then with his head inclined out the window.
"Next left, the police station" I nodded taking the left then pulled up out the front of the station and we got out and headed inside but we're met with a sneak attack and I felt the claws cut the back of my neck before I even had a chance, the door in front of us suddenly opened and we saw Scott.
"Oh thank god" Scott sighed but both Derek and I collapsed to the ground beside each other when Jackson let us go.
"This is the one controlling him, this kid?" Derek spoke up and I glared up at Matt as he bent down towards us.
"Well Derek, not everyone's lucky enough to be a big, bad werewolf" I frowned turning my eyes to gage Derek's reaction to that but couldn't see him. "Oh yeah that's right I've learned a few things lately, Werewolves, Hunters" he smirked down at me. "…Kanima's, its like a freaking Halloween party every full moon, except for you Stiles what do you turn into?"
"Abominable snowman but it's uh…more of like a wintertime thing, you know seasonal" I laughed at Stiles' reply but Jackson suddenly cut the back of his neck too and he came crashing down. "You bitch!" Derek grunted when Stiles landed on top of him.
"Get him off me" Derek protested angrily.
"Oh I don't know Derek, I think you two make a pretty good pair"
"Sorry to burst your Sterek bubble nutjob but he's already taken" I spat angrily at him but he just continued to smirk and I really wanted to slap it off his face.
"It must kind of suck though to have all that power taken away from you with just a little cut to the back of the neck, I bet you're not used to feeling this useless"
"Still got some teeth" Derek growled out. "Why don't you get a little closer huh, we'll see how helpless I am?" I laughed but suddenly Matt's foot was against my throat causing my airway to close up and my ears to start ringing.
"Don't touch her" Derek growled out angrily and Matt finally took his foot off my throat, I coughed out sucking in a deep breathe in just as lights appeared in the window from a car pulling up outside.
"Is that her?" Matt asked looking up at Scott. "Do what I tell you and I won't hurt her"
"Who?" I asked hating feeling out of the loop.
"I won't even let Jackson near her" Matt continued ignoring my question.
"Scott, don't trust him!" Stiles exclaimed but Matt grabbed him and it was his turn for a foot to the throat.
"This work better for you?" Matt yelled towards Scott.
"Okay just stop, stop!" Scott exclaimed taking a step forward.
"Then do what I tell you!"
"Okay" Scott agreed with him. "Alright" Matt continued pressing his foot against Stiles' throat ignoring his choking sounds. "Stop!" Matt finally took his foot off Stiles' throat and Stiles coughed loudly.
"You take them in there" he pointed at Jackson then towards another room. "You…" he pointed at Scott. "With me" they walked out of the room and I groaned trying to move but my entire body was stiff and couldn't move.
Jackson grabbed us and dragged us into another room out of sight and Derek growled when he touched me but was helpless to do anything to stop him, I grunted when Jackson dropped me and my head hit the hard floor with a smack.
"Ow you son of a bitch" I cried out angrily. "Well this is just fantastic"
"Could be worse" Stiles replied making me roll my eyes.
"How in the hell could this be worse?!" I exclaimed but he didn't answer and I knew if he could've moved he would have shrugged. "Didn't think so" I replied just as a gunshot went off and if my body could move I'm sure I would have flinched.
"Scott, Stiles!" I heard the Sheriff yell from somewhere in the back of the station. "What happened?!"
"Derek?" I asked worriedly.
"It was Scott" he sighed and I frowned even if I was a little relived about that since Scott could heal but I knew that wasn't going to be good when it did heal and we had to explain how.
"Matt, Matt listen to me!" the Sheriff continued to yell.
"Shut up, shut up everybody shut the hell up!" Matt yelled and right now I would've prayed for supernatural hearing.
"It's his mom isn't it?" I asked trying to look at Stiles but still couldn't move a thing.
"Yeah" Stiles sighed loudly.
"Ah man" I groaned rolling my eyes again just as Scott and Matt came back into the room with Scott cradling the bullet wound in his side.
"The evidence is gone, why don't you just go?" Scott spoke up looking at Scott.
"You think the evidence mattered that much?" Matt asked him. "No, no I want the book" I frowned confused but then it clicked.
"What, what book?" Scott asked not coming to the same conclusion I had.
"The bestiary, not just a few pages I want the entire thing" Matt replied.
"I don't have it, it's Gerard's" Scott argued not voicing the copies we all had. "What do you want it for, anyway?"
"I need answers" Matt replied sighing.
"Answers to what?"
"To this" Matt replied lifting up his shirt and my eyes widened seeing his side was covered in scales matching the Kanima's, Matt suddenly grabbed a phone of one of the desks and started texting. "We'll just bring them to us" my eyes widened when I realised what he meant by that.
"No!" I exclaimed feeling helpless just lying here. "You can't bring the Argent's here, they'll kill Jackson" I left out the part about Derek knowing by now that Mrs Argent is dead and they'd be after Derek.
"Oh don't kid yourself Skyler, we know all you really care about is Derek and I'm hoping they kill him because it'll save me doing it myself" Derek and I both glared at him angrily with a growl slipping through his.
Matt disappeared with Scott into the front room again and I sighed really wishing I could move right now and get the hell out of here but nothing I was trying to do was returning any of my motor functions and it was really getting on my last nerves.
"Hey, do either of you know what's happening to Matt?" Stiles spoke up.
"The books not going to help him" I sighed knowing that without even needing the book.
"She's right, you can't just break the rules, not like this" I smiled at Derek's words and would have nodded if I could.
"What do you guys mean?"
"Universe balances things out, always does"
"Is it because he's using Jackson to kill people who don't deserve it?"
"Killing people himself" I replied since I'd worked it out already, the Kanima was a weapon of vengeance so the moment you took it upon yourself to kill you broke the rules of the Kanima.
"So if Matt breaks the rules of the Kanima, he becomes the Kanima?" Stiles asked us.
"Balance" Derek and I replied at the same time.
"Will he believe us if we tell him that?"
"Not likely" I sighed loudly.
"Okay, he's going to kill all of us when he get's that book, isn't he?" Stiles asked again and I sighed again.
"Yep" Derek and I replied at the same time again.
"Alright so what do we do?" Stiles asked. "Do we just sit here and wait to die?"
"Unless I can figure out a way to push the toxin out of my body faster" Derek replied
"Like trigging the healing process?" I asked him.
"Yeah" Derek agreed and we heard the squelching sound.
"What…oh what are you doing?" Stiles asked him but I already knew what he was doing and it was as gross as it sounded, I looked down anyway and saw him pressing his claws into his leg. "Oh gross" Stiles added seeing what he was doing to.
"Your not gonna faint on us are you?" I asked Stiles remembering his squeamishness when Derek was infected with wolfsbane all those months ago.
"It's a possibility" Stiles replied and I rolled my eyes but then started trying to trigger some kind of reaction out of myself and felt one of my toes move making me smile. "So is that hypothetical situation we talked about getting any less hypothetical?" Stiles asked.
"I think so" Derek replied. "I can move my toes" I sighed closing my eyes.
"Not to be the bearer of bad news babe but I can move my toes" I saw his eyes move to look at me and managed to turn my head ever so slightly towards him. "This is not the threesome I imagined" he frowned glaring at my horrible attempt at a joke. "Kidding…well kind of if Stiles was Jensen Ackles I would have been down for it"
"Ha your funny" Stiles mocked laughed making me smile. "Figures you'd go for a supernatural hunter" I rolled my eyes.
"I don't like him because of Dean Winchester even though he's gorgeous in that role, I have a thing for green eyes" I replied winking at Derek who rolled his eyes at me but before either of us could continue this pointless but time-passing conversation the station alarms started blaring and the lights dimmed to the emergency lights. "Son of a bitch, that's not good"
Scott suddenly ran in from nowhere knocking Jackson to the ground then immediately went over to Stiles helping him sit up as Derek started to attempt to stand up with his most of his mobility back, I could sort of move myself but not enough to be any good in a fight.
"Take them, go!" Derek yelled so Scott grabbed Stiles' arm draping it over his shoulder.
"Derek no, I'm not leaving you!" I protested but Scott grabbed me and dragged me to my feet.
"Skye go, I'll be fine and we'll catch up just be safe" he took off without letting me argue.
"God I'm gonna kill him if the Argent's don't"
We ran from Jackson as he started to follow us but Scott kept pausing to close doors behind us which Jackson just broke down anyway as he followed but once we made it into an interview room we were safe so Scott sat Stiles and I down in chairs.
"Don't move" we looked up at him incredulously at the ridiculous motion since we couldn't move.
"Really Scott?" I asked him.
"You know what I mean" he argued then left us alone.
"This sucks" I sighed loudly then my eyes widened when I remembered the dagger still in my left combat boot. "Hey can you move your fingers?" I moved my head ever so slightly to look at him.
"If I try hard enough why?"
"The dagger in my left boot, grab it" his eyes widened but he moved sliding off the chair and reached into my boot wrapping his fingers around it and pulled it out. "Okay stab it into my calf muscle" he looked up with wide eyes.
"Are you kidding!" he protested. "You'll bleed to death!"
"Just trust me, go into the muscle and you won't hit any arteries" he groaned then stabbed it into my calf and I bit back the scream in my throat but it had to be done because I'll bleed out the venom in the blood, it was a long five minute wait but with draining some blood I finally managed to feel motion come back to my body and I stood up smiling down at Stiles.
"Okay now me" Stiles replied but I shook my head as I quickly held pressure to the wound.
"Sorry Stiles but your not trained like me, my dad taught us that in case we we're ever injected with anything, just wait here" I took off without letting him question me and went in search of Derek ignoring the pain in my leg with every step.
I ran through the station looking for him but then heard Scott's mom scream so had to pause my search for Derek and I ran towards the back of the station where the scream had come from, I ran into the holding cells just in time to see Derek standing in the other doorway, his face was fully transformed growling towards Jackson before he ran at him and started fighting with Jackson who was full blown Kanima now.
Derek quickly grabbed Jackson and threw him onto a metal table only to have Jackson shove him back onto the floor but Derek dove for him again grabbing a chair to push Jackson back but Jackson just grabbed the chair legs and pushed Derek onto the desk making him roll over behind it before going over to the cell Mrs McCall was in and climbed onto the bars hissing at her as she backed up in the cell crying in fear and confusion at what the hell it was.
"Hey bitch" I threw the dagger in my hand and it imbedded into the his side but Jackson just pulled it out and screeched at me but my distraction had worked and it gave Derek a chance to recover and get back up but Scott beat him to it running into the room and stabbed the Kanima with his claws throwing him off away from his mother, the Kanima hissed before taking off out of the room and I watched Derek jump over the desk before chasing after him. "Derek!" I ran after him quickly but lost sight and groaned looking around but then my mouth was suddenly covered and I was pulled behind a wall making me squeal in shock.
"Shh, shh it's me" I looked up at Derek and sighed in relief leaning my head against his chest.
"Where's Jackson?" he shook his head which meant he lost him but before I could say anything else we heard footsteps approaching so he pulled me closer to the wall hiding in the shadows as we watched Gerard walk past us completely oblivious to us here.
"What are you doing here?" I suddenly heard Scott say making me look up at Derek with a confused look on my face. "It wasn't supposed to happen like this" Derek and I locked eyes as we heard Gerard answer him.
"Trust me I'm aware of that" I covered my mouth to stop the gasp because I couldn't believe Scott was helping Gerard.
"I've done everything you've asked of me, I'm part of Derek's pack, I've given you all the information that you wanted, I told you Matt was controlling Jackson…"
"And leave him to us, help your friends, leave Matt and Jackson to me" Gerard replied. "Deal with your mother, Go!" something metal clinked on the ground.
"You dropped this"
"Go" I had never felt more betrayed in my life especially since Deaton told him he could trust Scott but he couldn't have been more wrong.
I glared at nothing as I reeled in my anger because I couldn't believe after all this time I'd been trying to gain Scott's trust when he was the one double crossing us and it stung like a bitch especially since I'd wanted to be friends but now there was no way in hell I was…
"Your hurt?" Derek suddenly whispered and I looked up at him.
"It's okay, I took a page out of my dads book and yours I guess, I stabbed myself in the leg to drain the polluted blood" he growled and his eyes flashed red.
"Skyler" he groaned looking down at it before suddenly sweeping my legs out from under me picking me up and walked quickly out of the station towards the Camaro, he dropped me as carefully as he could in the passenger seat before closing the door and ran around to the driver's side and jumped in roaring it to life and pulled away from the curb. "You're gonna be the death of me" I sent him a smile and moved closer to lay my head against his shoulder.
"It's a flesh wound Derek, I've had worse while in training" he growled not comforted by that and I gave up trying to convince him I was okay and just enjoyed the peaceful moment since lately it was all I could do to enjoy the little things.
"Don't go to sleep, I have no idea how much blood you've lost"
"Mm no hospitals" I moaned straining to keep my eyes open.
"I know just keep talking to me, you can't go to sleep" I nodded and we talked about nothing in particular until we reached the train depo and he carried me down the stairs into our train car grabbing the first aid kit I'd insisted in having and got to work cleaning out the wound and covering it with a bandage. "Don't ever do something like this again"
"You and I both know I can never promise that" I replied and he shook his head at me before standing up.
"Lay down, I'm gonna get you something for the pain and don't say you don't need it" I rolled my eyes.
"In my bag there's a smaller bag with pills in it, I still have some pain meds left over from when Peter broke my arm" he reached into my bag pulling out the bottle and threw it to me so I quickly swallowed some before tossing it back to him and laid down feeling them take affect immediately since they were kicked in fast.
"Get some sleep" he came over pulling his shirt over his head then slipped it over my body before removing my bra from underneath the shirt and tucked me underneath the covers before kissing my forehead. "I'll be back, I have to let three very angry teenagers out of their chains" I laughed a little nodding my head watching him leave after grabbing another shirt before shutting my eyes and was out before I knew it.
A/N: Please tell me what you guys have thought about this story so far and if you'd like me to continue this series.
I could really use the motivation and inspiration right now.