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Two-Pack
The school was in chaos, and to Isaac's great dismay, Scott and Stiles were nowhere to be found. They had arrived at the recital just in time for the entire choir to start playing the death music of the Darach, and that had led to the pianist convulsing and falling from her chair, mistletoe and blood coming from her mouth as she was already dead. With everyone in the school panicking, and the weather outside taking a very bad turn for the worst, things were going from bad to worse as they tried to locate Scott and the others.
"We need to find them, have you gotten a hold of them yet?" Allison asked urgently, and Isaac shook his head, his heart pounding in his ears, he needed to find Scott.
They hadn't been here more than five minutes and he was already basically climbing the walls. After the death of the pianist and everything going right to hell, which combined with the storm outside making everything worse, things didn't seem to be going well for the home team while the away teams were walking all over them.
And all he could think about was Scott. And how dirty and low he felt, he felt like he had betrayed Scott. By protecting Allison, he had been doing exactly what Scott had asked him to do. The problem was, judging by her touches and the way she was looking at him, she was looking into this a hell of a lot more than he was. He wasn't interested in Allison. He never had been and never would be.
There were various reasons for this. Alright, admittedly, when she wasn't an insane werewolf killer who was trying to kill him, she was nice enough. But that was the problem. She was nice sure, but she was also a werewolf hunter like the rest of her damned family and had tried her hardest to kill him personally in their final fight with Jackson while her damn grandfather tried to make himself a werewolf. Secondly she was Scott's ex girlfriend, the idea of him and her hooking up was just too ludicrous to even make any sense. He wouldn't do that to Scott, for a start he liked how they lived together and if Isaac suddenly started banging Allison in the next room, it would release all sorts of crap.
And most of all, he just wasn't interested! She wasn't Scott. Scott was the one he loved, Scott was the one he was in love with, and he would never do anything to hurt him like that. And quite frankly, Allison, while attractive as a girl, did nothing for him. Scott on the other hand was an entirely new level of gorgeous.
"Isaac!" a voice called, jarring him from his thoughts, and ignoring the look Allison was giving him, due to it making him uncomfortable, he turned to see a pale and nervous Danny running towards them.
"Thank god, have you seen the others? Scott, Stiles or anyone?" Allison asked urgently, and he bit his lip as he came to a stop beside them.
"Not really, but since what happened in the hall everything's been kind of mad. Ethan told me to find him if anything happened but I can't find him." He said, a slight note of fear in his voice and Isaac could sympathise, they were all probably losing years off their lives with all the worrying they were doing.
Come to think of it, he hadn't seen the Zack and Cody of the werewolf world since they had arrived, and he couldn't figure out if that was good news or bad. However, he had other problems to worry about, such as the absence of his two best friends, well his best friend and the werewolf he was insanely in love with.
"So you haven't seen Scott?" Isaac asked desperately, instantly annoyed because despite the stress they were all under, Danny still managed a grin at the thought of him and Scott being so close when he had found them earlier that day.
"Not since about halfway through, he vanished not long after Lydia. He definitely before that weird scream stopped us all playing that song." He said, still sounding nervous about the entire thing and Allison narrowed her eyes.
"Let me guess, none of you had ever played it before?" she asked suspiciously and he nodded.
"It was just this feeling that came over us, we couldn't stop it. It was round about that time that everyone started leaving too, Ms Blake left first, then Lydia then Scott, they all disappeared, and a bit after that there was that scream." Danny retold and Allison and Isaac exchanged dark looks with one another, a scream could only mean one thing, and one person, Lydia.
"Was it a girl?" Isaac asked and Danny nodded.
"Yeah, definitely."
"It...it was me." Someone gasped and the three of them turned to look up the corridor where Lydia was being carried from out on a stretcher, which was hauled by two ambulance workers who looked at them grimly as they bore Lydia, a bleeding head wound and a bruised neck towards the door.
"Lydia! What happened?" Allison demanded, rushing to her best friend's side, Isaac and Danny right behind her.
"Are you ok?" Isaac asked urgently, ignoring the peeved looks of the ones carrying her and she waved her hand blearily.
"We have bigger problems. The Darach. Its Ms Blake." She whispered and both Allison and Isaac reared back in shock.
Ms Blake was the Darach. Jennifer, the one Derek had fallen in love with, the one who Isaac had protected while Boyd had died, she was the one who had been killing people. She had been the one who had nearly taken Scott from him. And he had been the one who had protected the bitch!
"Are you kidding me?" Allison demanded furiously, and Lydia shook her head.
"No...it's her. And she's taken Stiles' dad. He and Scott chased after her when they made sure I was alright." She whispered tiredly as both Isaac and Allison held her hand to soothe her.
"They went after her? Alone?" Isaac demanded anxiously, the thought of Scott going up against Jennifer, the Darach, all on his own, it was terrifying, she had nearly succeeded in taking him from him once before, she didn't need another chance.
"No, she made off with Stiles' father, they went to warn Derek about her before she gets herself an Alpha bodyguard." She whispered before her eyes fluttered shut and she succumbed to the various painkillers she had been given.
"Will she be alright?" Danny asked the confused looking bearers, and they nodded.
"She should be, she might be traumatised though." He reported and Allison smiled fondly, stroking Lydia's hair, and the two bearers nodded and headed off with her towards the door.
"Alright. Danny, go home, don't stop, don't talk to anyone, just go straight home ok?" Isaac asked, and Danny nodded, his face concerned.
"Isaac, what's going on? Why are you so worried?" he asked, and Isaac shrugged.
"At the moment I know about as much as you do." He told the other lacrosse player as the lights dimmed after a particularly violent rumble of thunder, and they could hear the rain lashing against the windows.
"Hey, if you guys see Ethan, can you tell him I'm looking for him?" Danny asked, and Isaac nodded.
"Sure." He replied as Danny headed to the door, joining the last few stragglers leaving the school.
"I protected her!" Isaac raged as soon as Danny was out of earshot, hammering his fist into the locker that was once Jackson's, it didn't matter now but it made him feel better.
"Isaac..." she said in a soothing voice, trying to calm him down but he turned to face her angrily.
"Don't you realise what's she's done? She's the one who's been killing everyone, all those people are dead because of her! And now she's taken the sheriff, Stiles' dad, which means he's probably next! And I protected her! When Kali killed Boyd, I was protecting her because it was what Derek wanted, but she was the one who was the real threat, I should have thrown her onto Derek's claws. Boyd died and I was protecting her, I should have been helping him, but I was protecting a murderer!" he stormed, kicking the lockers in disgust with himself and she took a hold of his shoulder to try and calm him down but as it wasn't Scott it had no effect.
"Isaac..."
"And she was the one who almost killed us! She was the one who was driving us mad at the motel, she was the one who tried to make Scott kill himself!" Isaac continued, finishing in a furious, pained, rage driven roar that made Allison jump, just as her father arrived, gun raised, but he relaxed when he saw it was Isaac.
"Don't do that, I could have shot you." He scolded, but Allison shook her head urgently.
"Dad, don't, trust me he isn't in the mood. Dad, the Darach, it's Ms Blake, she's conned us all along, she's the one who you've been hunting and she's the one who's been killing people. That's kind of why he's taking it so personally." She explained, checking the updates on her phone as Isaac struggled to get his temper back under control.
"How does she fit into the druid part of it though, it doesn't make any sense." Chris pointed out and she shrugged, making her father frown as he considered it.
"Either way, she's the one who tried to kill Scott and the others and the one who's been sacrificing everyone." She explained, and Isaac growled darkly.
"Yeah, but if we had just left her alone Kali would have killed her and she wouldn't be a problem anymore." He complained and she shot him a patient look.
"Isaac, this isn't your fault." She insisted, but once again, the words coming from a person other than Scott didn't have any effect on him.
"You should know, Stiles' jeep isn't in the car park, I looked." Chris informed him and Isaac felt another flare of worry.
If Stiles and Scott had indeed went to alert Derek to the fact that the woman he was banging (he shouldn't have thought about that now he was even more mad than he had been, Derek had been shagging the fucking Darach while he, Scott and Boyd had been trying to kill themselves!) it made sense that they would have taken the jeep in this weather. But now it meant that the two of them were out in the middle of a storm, with the Darach's secret now exposed and most likely with the two people he cared about most right in her sights.
"Scott?" he asked hopefully, and Chris shook his head.
"His bike's still in the car park, he'll be with Stiles." Chris said, as close to assuring him as he was ever going to come, but that didn't help Isaac.
Instead he took out his phone. He had to find out if Scott was alright, if something happened to him because of him, he would never forgive himself. And she had Stiles' father, that meant this entire thing was his fault. He had been the one who had protected her, the one who had made sure she was safe from Kali, not realising she was the real danger all along.
Jennifer was the Darach. She was the one who had been killing people. She had been the one who had driven Scott and Boyd to try and kill themselves, the bitch who had tried to take Scott from him, the one who was killing people, and now all because he hadn't just let the Alphas rip her to shreds like she deserved, she had Stiles' father too.
This was all his fault.
He had to make sure Scott was alright. And now that they knew who and what she was, he supposed Derek ought to know he was banging a psycho.
But first, he had to check up on Scott, and dialled his number, desperate to hear his voice, simply to assure himself that he was alright.
XX
Around half an hour later, Isaac, Allison and Chris had all arrived in the ER reception area, all of their tensions high. Isaac's however was considerably higher than the rest. Derek and Scott hadn't answered his calls, and he had no way of knowing if any of the others were safe. What was more, in the deserted hospital, he could smell Jennifer and the others. The Darach was here, which was bad enough. But on top of that, the Alphas were also here which didn't help his already rather tense mood. He had also caught faint whiffs of Scott's scent, which had soothed him slightly but it wasn't helping him.
Cora was trapped here, and though the hospital had been evacuated due to the storm, he had a horrible feeling that she and the others were all still in the hospital. And what with the Alphas being here, along with the Darach and the others all stuck here as well, it meant that everyone Isaac cared about was currently within the hospital at the mercy of a horde of killers, which was the last thing he needed.
But he wouldn't stop what he was doing. Scott had entrusted him to look after Allison, and even though he wanted to leave her with her father so he could go and find Scott, Stiles and Melissa, three people he cared about the most, he couldn't. He also had to find out if Cora and Derek were alright, and what the hell was going on around here.
The hospital was virtually empty, the lights only running on emergency power, giving the place an eerie green glow. He had caught smells of the Alphas, and he couldn't help but think that this would be a really lousy place to run into Kali. It would also be a bad place to run into Jennifer, well, bad for her, he thought savagely, flexing his claws.
"Isaac don't do anything stupid. If we meet her, stay back and let me deal with it." Chris ordered and Isaac gave out a low snarl which made the werewolf hunter go quiet.
"Good luck with that." Allison quirked in amusement, and Chris sent his daughter a funny look which she missed, and he suppressed a groan, he had a horrible feeling he knew where this was going. Nowhere good.
"Wait, we better not go any further in this direction." Isaac said, holding up a hand, and Chris looked at him curiously.
"What's wrong with this direction?" he asked and he waved his hand at him irritably to shut him up, and both hunters frowned in irritation as Isaac strained his hearing.
"I can hear clacking." He said, and Allison smirked.
"Ooh, clacking, scary." She mocked, and he glared at her.
"As in the clacking of a walking stick and freakishly long toenails on the floor. As in Deucalion and Kali, both coming this way. Now, your dad might help but there's no way he can take down the two of them, and neither can I, and I reckon you would find it a lot harder to attack a werewolf when they aren't distracted with fighting someone else." He said scathingly, and that promptly shut her up.
He wouldn't have it said that he held a grudge against her for doing that to him in their final fight with Jackson, but Scott hadn't forgiven her for that one, so why should he when it was him she had been trying her hardest to kill?
"He's right, let's go." Chris said, beckoning them down the next corridor, gun prepared to fire at a second's notice.
They moved through the silent hospital, all of them alert for any sign of movement, the silence deafening as they moved through. Isaac cursed himself, he still wasn't skilled enough to smell the others out, and now his fears about them, and his worry over Scott, were driving him mad, awful images kept flashing through his brain, images he steadfastly tried to suppress. Chris then held up a hand and motioned for quiet, readying his gun, as Isaac too heard footsteps and prepared to pounce around the corner onto whoever was coming.
And then Scott and Melissa, Scott slightly hurt and Melissa looking slightly haggard, appeared around the corner.
Relief, pure, heart warming relief filled both Scott and Isaac's hearts as they beheld each other, and both of them could feel themselves relaxing as they saw the other.
"Isaac, thank god." Melissa said, and hastily pulled him into a hug which he fiercely returned.
"Are you two alright?" Chris asked, all business as Scott smiled in relief and pure joy at seeing Isaac.
"Took you long enough." He scolded playfully, and Isaac gave him a playful swat before hugging him as if his life depended on it, a ferocity which Scott returned, both of them slightly running their hands through each other's hair, discreetly so Allison wouldn't notice, both of them inhaling each other's scents.
"You ok?" Scott asked as he broke off from Isaac and Allison nodded and gave him a fleeting hug.
"Not got much choice with my own werewolf bodyguard do I?" she asked, part amused part irritated by his decision but Scott didn't seem that bothered.
"What do we do now?" Melissa asked, and Chris frowned.
"The five of us figure out what the hell we're going to do next, while figuring out where all your friends are, if the Alphas and the Darach are here, we're going to need everyone together. You know if any place where we can be safe?" Chris asked, and Melissa nodded hesitantly.
"Yeah, I think I might know a place, follow me." She ordered, and their little group departed, Scott and Isaac bringing up the rear, both of them just happy to be seeing the other one, and unknown to the other, both of them were resisting the temptation to take the other's hand.
XX
They had a plan at least. However, as Chris and Allison went over the finer points of said plan, and Scott apprised Derek, Stiles (who was with Cora) and Peter, all of whom were still in the hospital, of the plan, Isaac couldn't help but think that Scott was mad at him for some reason.
He chanced a look around, with the others all occupied, he wasn't going to get a better opportunity to talk to him so he may as well take this one.
Scott savagely sent the text. He was stressed, he was worried, he felt betrayed, and he was angry. In fact he wasn't angry he was just seething quietly, with all out jealousy.
"Scott? Are you mad at me?" Isaac asked hesitantly, as though afraid of the answer and Scott glared at him.
Yes he was. After everything, after so many close nights together, all their touching, their...for god's sake, neither of them were blind or stupid, was he the only one who had thought that they had nearly kissed? And he so wanted to kiss Isaac, he wanted nothing more than to just go home, ignore the world and curl up with Isaac's beautiful body right beside him, and spend the rest of this hellish crisis just feeling safe and loved in Isaac's arms with Isaac kissing him passionately, massaging him, stroking him, playing with him.
He wanted Isaac, of course he did, he was in love with him!
And, for some reason he had started to believe that Isaac had started to return those feelings, until about ten minutes ago, when he had claimed that Jennifer, the teacher with the brown hair, the freaking murderous Darach, was 'kinda hot' in order to help explain to Chris who they were dealing with.
On reflection, he supposed he had been stupid to believe that Isaac would want him that way, he was only the way he was with Scott because he had never had someone like Scott before, not a best friend. After all, Isaac was young and gorgeous, and male, why would he want Scott when there were beautiful girls all over the place who would kill to be with him?
Huh, ironic, the one thing that might make him consider killing someone was his unreciprocated feelings for Isaac.
"I'm fine." He retorted sharply, getting up and going into the next room, but Isaac trotted along at his heels regardless, clearly not getting the hint.
"Scott? What have I done wrong?" he asked sadly, and Scott felt a little pang at his heart, he hated it when Isaac was sad but this time he was justified in making him sad, and he was actually right for once, it was something he had done.
And then to his great shock, he hadn't meant to, he blurted out a question.
"Do you really think Jennifer is hot?" he asked, hoping a futile hope that his voice didn't sound betrayed.
Isaac went pink and shrugged a little.
"Well yeah she is attractive, you don't think she is?" he asked shyly and Scott just turned away, fuming, but then he heard a little voice right behind him that seemed to banish all of his anger in one swift stroke.
"But while she is hot, one, she's with Derek, two, she's a teacher, three, she's a psycho and four, I really really don't fancy her." He said, his eyes boring into Scott's back curiously.
Why was his comment bothering Scott so much? He hadn't meant it, it wasn't like he was attracted to her in any way. Sure she was pretty, but...well all the other problems aside, she wasn't the gorgeous guy right in front of him with a stupid adorable pout on his face, which was giving way to a really bright look.
Wait a minute, was Scott jealous?
"You really don't fancy her?" Scott asked hopefully, and Isaac shook his head.
"Course I don't. I...I like someone else." He admitted, but while he did feel a certain dread, he also felt a certain sense of relief he was going to tell Scott, he had to tell him...
"Oh." Scott said, his face falling back into a pout again and Isaac just wanted to take hold of him and banish that pout by kissing it off of him. Getting his mind away from that little fantasy proved harder than he thought.
But as he looked at Scott, all he knew was that he couldn't bare for Scott to look so depressed, not because of him so he came in close and gently took Scott's hand, leaning his forehead against that of the guy he loved.
"Yeah. But...you mean a hell of a lot more to me than anyone else ever could. Regardless of who I fancy or don't, I won't abandon you for anything." He vowed softly, and he could see the selfish gleam of triumph in Scott's eyes as he did so.
Scott couldn't bring himself to hate himself. While he did feel bad, and felt Isaac's pain, after all he was dealing with unrequited love for the very one who had it for some unknown party, Isaac's assurance that he wouldn't abandon him was giving him a powerful sort of strength. It meant that no matter what, he would have Isaac. Scott shook his head, he couldn't let Isaac's love life be dictated by his feelings, but it was so hard not to when by keeping quiet he ensured Isaac would stick around a little longer.
"Isaac..." he began, but he really didn't want to say what he had to say, he wanted to keep Isaac with him, the thought of Isaac, being in love with someone else and leaving him on the outside looking in, he couldn't deal with it. He wanted to be the one Isaac was in love with, the one he fancied. So how could he be all that, and still tell Isaac that he didn't have to dictate his love life around what Scott wanted?
"Wait, who you date, it doesn't matter to me, provided you're happy." Scott said softly, the urge to kiss Isaac almost overpowering him and Isaac gave him a shy smile, his cheeks going slightly pink.
"Well, I'm happy with you." He admitted softly, and Scott couldn't stop the large grin that spread across his face, really kind of energised and touched by that confession.
"Me too. I mean, I'm happy with you." He whispered, and they were both so close, their hands were still entwined, they were looking right into each other's beautiful eyes and their foreheads were still pressed together, they were moving forward towards each other's mouths...
"Boys, we need to go!" Melissa called from the next room and the boys broke apart, albeit very reluctantly.
"Be careful." Isaac warned and Scott grinned.
"I will if you will. Besides, it's me he wants." He told him and Isaac looked at him in confusion.
"What do you mean?" he asked, and Scott bit his lip, he thought Isaac had known, apparently not.
"I'll tell you later. Be careful ok?" he asked, nuzzling his cheek with his nose, and Isaac nodded, grinning.
"I will, I want to hear why Deucalion is interested in you." He said, and Scott grinned and led the way through to the others.
And, Isaac thought savagely, if Deucalion wanted Scott, he was going to have to get in the queue and go through him, after all, he had seen him first. Scott gave him a small, enticing grin, taking delight in the fact that he knew something Isaac didn't, and Isaac couldn't help but think that he was simply doing it to wind him up.
Either that, or Scott knew full well what he was thinking.
And little did Isaac know that Scott was indeed thinking the same as Isaac. Isaac had been there first, he really liked Isaac, and as far as he was concerned everyone else came second to him and what he wanted. So yeah, Deucalion could get in line.
He belonged to Isaac.
XX
Isaac entered the house. It felt weird, in fact it felt horrible being here.
The plan had worked. Allison had tricked the Alphas into chasing here, and between them she and her father had forced them off. But that was about as far as the plan had worked. Derek had been knocked out by Jennifer, or Julia as her name apparently was, and she had once again made a run for it. Stiles had gotten Cora to the car, and with Peter they had been able to escape.
Isaac still couldn't believe he had left without Scott. Maybe if he hadn't, they wouldn't be in this mess. Despite Peter's nagging and the threat of Cora's death hanging over him, Isaac had been adamant that he wouldn't leave, not without Scott. He couldn't abandon him in an empty hospital filled with murderous Alphas, he wanted, he needed, Scott with him. But, their hand had been forced, and though it broke his heart to do so, he had left Scott behind.
He had left the person he loved behind, and at the mercy of the Alphas.
He had left Scott behind.
His Scott.
Isaac resisted the urge to punch his fist into the wall. He had left Scott behind, he had left the person he loved behind, and no matter what assurances he gave himself, it didn't alleviate the feelings of guilt, he had left Scott behind, and now the guilt was eating him up from the inside out and he knew the only person who could make him feel better was the one he had abandoned to save Cora.
He scoffed. They were doing more to save Cora than Derek was, the only problem is, that while it might save someone Derek loved, it wouldn't save the one Isaac loved. The problem was, Deucalion had finally gotten his claws on Scott.
Scott had been desperate. After she had knocked out Derek, Jennifer (Julia, the Darach, whatever) had fled, intent on gathering her next sacrifices. And to their dismay, they realised that they had been wrong in thinking she was after cops. No, she had been after parents, and the bitch had taken Melissa as well. A desperate Scott had seen no other choice. They were clueless as to how to stop her, and so, desperate and out of time and options, and having to save his mother, Scott had entered into a deal with the devil and had left with Deucalion.
And Isaac had allowed it to happen by not staying.
And now, he stood in the McCall's home, his home too, the place where for the first time he felt like as if he really belonged to a family. The house was so empty and quiet and dark, the light of its inhabitants snuffed out by their absence. The place didn't seem the same without Scott and Melissa here.
It was obvious now. This was his home. In truth, his home was wherever Scott was. Scott made a place his home.
He sniffed, wiping at his misty eyes angrily with his sleeve. Scott and Melissa were gone. Melissa was in the hands of the blasted Darach, in Jennifer's clutches and the bitch intended to sacrifice her to some ancient god to try and stop the Alphas. And on the other hand, Scott had also vanished, had finally given in and had bent to Deucalion's demands.
And now, Isaac was standing here, in his cold, dark home where the two people who made up his home lived, the two that were missing.
Melissa and Stiles' dad were both captured by the Darach. Scott was with Deucalion. The entire group was falling apart, as the Alphas and the Darach got closer and closer to ending their respective missions here. And frankly, Isaac couldn't see a way out of this one.
Scott was the one they needed. More than that he was the one he needed, and the man he loved was no longer with them because he had fled. He had abandoned Scott and now, they were all going to lose everyone and everything that they cared about. He needed Scott, his Scott, and he wouldn't believe that Scott as anything short of alright until he had him in his arms, both of them holding each other desperately.
But until then, he was in the house alone, the house he lived in. It wasn't a home anymore, just a cold and dark house.
Melissa was gone
Scott was gone.
And they had nowhere left to turn, and nothing else they could do.
The Darach was going to win.
Deucalion was going to win.
And he had left Scott behind, and had brought this entire thing about.
He had left Scott.
And now, there was every chance that he was never going to see Scott again.
He was never going to see the man he loved again.
And it was all his fault because he had left Scott behind at the hospital.
And so, despairing and defeated tears started to fall from his eyes as he sank to his knees in the hallway of the house where he lived, the house missing its two inhabitants, wracked with guilt and self loathing.
Scott was gone. And he was all alone in the house.
He sniffed and looked to the ceiling, as if he could see into the room where Scott slept when he wasn't with him and let out a piteous cry.
"Scott..."
We only have two chapters left to go I'm afraid. Did anyone notice before me that now the chapters coincide with the episode number? I only realised the next day that theyre now on the same number as the episode
This one was hard to do since Isaac spent the entire episode virtually with Allison but I hope I got enough of our Scisaac bits in here. I always had the idea that once Isaac knew both of them had been captured, Isaac would go back to the house on his own and get upset.
So, two chapters left to go, next time is of course Alpha Pact and then the finale. So, will Scott and Isaac admit how they feel about each other? What little scenes will take place between the boys?
Admittedly this isnt as long and the ending isnt as good as I would want it to be for some reason, however, any and all reviews would be appreciated, I would be delighted if this got me over the seventy reviews mark, I'm hoping Two Pack will be my highest review earner yet (currently it has to beat Bleeding Storm at 71 I think it is) so any and all help would be appreciated.
See you after I finish off my Supernatural story and please review!