Thanks for the very nice review on the last chapter! I love hearing from you guys! This chapter's song is "Superheroes" by The Script and I think it fits Isaac and Allison perfectly in everyway so I highly suggest listening to the entire song if your can.
Chapter 10: "Superheroes"
"All his life he's been told
He'll be nothing when he's old
All the kicks and all the blows
He won't ever let it show
'Cause he's stronger than you know
A heart of steel starts to grow…
She's got lions in her heart
A fire in her soul
He's got a beast in his belly
That's so hard to control
'Cause they've taken too much hits
Taking blow by blow
Now light a match, stand back, watch them explode
When you've been fighting for it all your life
You've been struggling to make things right
That's how a superhero learns to fly"
By the time they got everyone loaded into the cars, it was already nearing noon and Braeden was growing antsy. "Seriously, how long does it take two hunters and a bunch of werewolves to get loaded up?" In order to keep up the guise of Allison and Isaac being two hunters sent to retrieve the rest, Allison had pulled Lydia aside earlier and explained to her the necessity of her and Isaac riding alone and Lydia agreed grudgingly to pile into Stiles' Jeep with Stiles, Malia, Scott and Kira. "You have to promise me to tell me all the dirty details of you and Isaac's training sessions we all know are just covers for sex." Allison glared at Lydia for her assumption, sure they got distracted once in a while, a lot, but they did train every time. "Fine, as long as we get the car." The banshee passed her the keys and reminded her, "Only one seat open in the back because of the camping stuff so no funny business." The huang gave Lydia a look that clearly asked what kind of business they could get into while driving but the banshee had been with more guys in more ways than her so she decided not to push it. Sliding into the driver's seat while Isaac collapsed into the passenger's, Allison grinned at him as he pressed a chilled bottle of espresso against her arm and she took it gratefully. "Gracias." She managed and he smirked back at her as he placed his in the cupholder and turned to look at her with his gray-blue eyes dancing with laughter, "Least I could do since you got us our own car."
Ignoring the urge to remind him that this was not a permanent arrangement, Allison satisfied herself with an eye roll and earned a light peck on the cheek from him as she revved up the car and followed the taillights of the powder blue Jeep in front of them. Taking her hand and giving it a light squeeze, Isaac put his chair back and proceeded to attempt to nap leaving Allison to her own thoughts about Kate. When she could no longer bear the silence, she turned to Isaac slightly and squeezed his hand tightly as she whispered his name, "Isaac?" He hummed in response as he opened one eye and looked over at her as she continued, "About Kate." The Beta sat up at the name, he had only heard stories about Kate Argent and only knew her as a name that Derek and Allison had occasionally mentioned in conversation; therefore, he was dying to ask Allison about her aunt but hadn't wanted to pry until she was ready. "She was your dead aunt, right?" Allison nodded and the silence grew as she tried to find the words she needed to explain to him all that had happened. "She was more like a big sister to me for years. That was before I found out how cruel she was. Turns out my dear Aunt had been the one who set fire to the Hale's home and killed all inside except Derek, Cora, and Peter. She only came to Beacon Hills to finish the job and end Peter, it didn't matter who died in between her arrival and that goal." Isaac knew what that kind of huntress was like after dealing with the Alpha pack's Kali but, more importantly, how much Allison feared becoming someone like that. He knew that she never could, but that mere belief didn't sate her fears when she had nearly tumbled down that path at the prodding of Gerard and under the blindfolds of intense grief for her dead mother. "Where is she now?"
"She died; I went to her funeral and mourned the loss of what she had been to me. Turns out that when Peter thought he killed her, he merely turned her. Bad luck for him I guess. I don't know what she is now but I guess that she must be here." Her eyes had turned yellow at this point in her anger at the memory of her aunt so Isaac stepped in before Lydia ended up with a burned steering wheel. "Breathe, Allison, breathe." She paused and looked over at him while still keeping the road in her line of sight. Taking in a deep breath, she counted to ten and breathed out before looking directly at Isaac. "Better." He confirmed before she could even ask and grinned as he waved his fingers in a "go on" gesture that he had picked up from Argent himself over the past few months. "I just don't understand how she survived or even what she is and that scares me." She breathed out in a sigh. Admitting her fears to Isaac was easier than being open with her father because despite the fact she was both their leaders in technical terms, she was Isaac's equal partner but still her father's daughter and she wanted to prove herself to him. "No matter what she is, we can take her. You've got more power and control now than you did the last time she saw you and, more importantly, you're not your aunt. You're a better hunter and person than she could ever imagine being from the sound of it."
The beta was blushing by the end of his speech and Allison was struck by how much more open he had become since she had first officially met him as one of Derek's new pack members, especially considering how she had tried to kill him once at Gerard's orders even though she had once been the one most upset by his abuse. "Why do you have so much faith in me?" She asked as she focused again on the road stretching ahead of them and Isaac rolled his eyes at the question as if it were incredibly simple and obvious. "Because you were willing to die for me, a boy you had once tried to kill, and you love me despite my own insecurities and fears for some reason." Allison knew that it was the end of him comforting her and it was time for her to return the favor. Not that it was an obligation, by any means, but this was just the normal push and pull nature of their relationship; this was what equality meant. "Can I tell you something?" Isaac looked scared but nodded anyways as he chugged back some caffeine to prepare himself for whatever blow was in store for him. "I noticed you when I first came to Beacon Hills. You were this bruised and beaten up kid and it broke my heart to see someone treated so badly. I worried about you for months and asked Scott about you, I wanted to protect you but I didn't know how or from who. Scott got annoyed and jealous because I asked so much and when I found out it was your dad; I never had wanted to hit someone more in my life." She would probably have continued had she not been silenced by Isaac's lips on hers. His kisses were always passionately slow as though he was savoring every bit of the contact and wanting to make it last as long as possible. After Scott, who was fast and reckless, Allison enjoyed the slow nature that Isaac had about him especially when it came to showing his love for her. "I love you." He breathed out when he finally pulled away for some much needed air. It was the first time that he had a chance to try out the words since he had first uttered them two nights before. "I love you too." She replied with a huge smile gracing her features and she probably would have kept grinning and kissing him the whole rest of the way to La Iglesia, consequences be damned, if not for Stiles' Jeep shuddering to a halt in front of them.
Isaac looked up the surprise bright in his gray-blue eyes as Allison slammed on the brakes and he braced himself against the dashboard with his free hand while the other squeezed hers tightly. "Shit!" She cursed and Isaac chuckled weakly as Lydia's car braked to a halt and she threw the car in park. "Dirty mouth, much?" He teased and she rolled her eyes as the two got out of the car in sync and ran up to Stiles' front window. "What the hell happened?" Isaac growled the second they got there earning an eye roll from Allison and a whispered, "Language, hotshot." Ignoring her pointed jab he paid attention to the sole human of the pack as Stiles hollered, "We were hit by something!" Lydia poked her head forward from where she was sitting in the back seat and added, "Or something hit us." Braeden marched up giving a nod to the hunters before turning to Stiles and asking, "The hell?" As he re-explained, the mercenary just rolled her eyes and turned to look at Allison and Isaac as though they were actually in charge; oh the irony. "We're already going to arrive there after night fall, and we can't wait around to fix up some stupid Jeep." Allison nodded in time, ignoring Stiles protests about his Jeep, and added, "We have one extra seat in our car to fit Scott since Araya specifically wanted him with us." Braeden shook her head at the idea of the huntress getting along with a werewolf. "A hunter among wolves? I never thought I'd see the day." The huang rolled her eyes at the forwardness of the mercenary before Isaac bared his teeth and flashed his eyes pointedly and smirked as he returned to human form, "Try a hunter dating and training one. Actually try a hunter being a werewolf."
Looking even more startled by this turn of events, Braeden simply returned to her bike muttering to herself about such unusual occurrences, while the rest of the supernaturals tumbled out of Stiles' Jeep and Allison and Isaac returned to Lydia's car. After an exchange between Kira and Scott, the true Alpha climbed into the back of Lydia's car and the rest of the drive passed by in silence with Isaac and Allison not wanting to offend Scott through PDA and remind him further that Kira was back there while they were together. By the time they got there it was already growing dark and Braeden was looking as startled as they had ever seen her. "We need to move quickly now, we haven't got much time." With those parting words she and Scott paired up while Allison and Isaac followed a few yards back covering their backs. A few murmurs drifted back to the couple about Scott and Kira but Isaac purposely focused on scanning their surroundings with the assistance of the living torch that Allison was providing him through the flame she was cupping in her hand. "Won't that give away the fact that you're not human?" Isaac asked breaking the silence with a barely audible whisper. The huang glanced back at him and rolled her eyes at his question, "I think it was more than a little obvious already Wolfman, from someone's display."
Huffing at the nickname, the pair continued in silence as they descended into the depths of La Iglesia and he unconsciously shivered both at the claustrophobic feeling that came over him coupled with the supernatural chill in the air. "I don't like this place." The Beta announced loud enough for Scott and Braeden to hear him and he heard Braeden's harrumph and Scott's forced chuckle. Allison just gave him a look as she continued to light the way for them and Isaac remained on the lookout with his other senses. A sudden noise startled both wolves and they turned around simultaneously causing both the mercenary and the huntress to follow their gaze. "What is it?" Allison hissed and Isaac shrugged as Scott fired back, "Just a feeling." Upon hearing nothing else, Scott ordered them all forward again and although Isaac was picking up on a scent that resembled all the bodies he'd been around as the undertaker's son, he followed the Alpha's orders. Moving forward, Isaac focused on the scent that Scott was missing and where he had smelled it before other than the graves his father had forced him to dig whenever he wasn't being locked in freezers, beaten to a pulp, attempting to keep up his grades, or at lacrosse related events. Pushing aside the memories of his father the way that Argent had been teaching him, Isaac focused on the memories of the scent that had nothing to do with dead bodies. Suddenly the noise returned pulling a memory to mind that prevented Isaac from turning around when Scott did to look back as the sound came again. "Run!" The Beta yelled as he grabbed Allison's hand and pulled her forwards towards where Scott and Braeden were just staring at them. "It's a berserker, run already!"
Allison's eyes widened and flashed yellow as she ran forwards too pushing Braeden and Scott forwards with them. She too had heard the stories from Argent about the berserkers and they did not have the necessary firepower to take out one of those. At an order of "Duck!" from Braeden, all three supernaturals ducked simultaneously out of habit and the sound of gunfire sputtered above them despite Allison and Isaac's identical winces as they recognized that this would only make the creature angrier and had no chance of stopping it in the least. "Idiot!" Allison hissed as she spun around and shot flames from her hands which startled the beast enough into getting it to fall back. As Allison worked the flames into a figure eight-like spinning shield with the amount of control needed causing her eyes to turn orange, Isaac stood behind her with his own daggers drawn that he proceeded to throw at the only open areas on the beasts around the bone plates. Grabbing from his girlfriend's stash of daggers around her waist, he continued throwing them between the spinning flames until a familiar roar caused both hunters to stop and stare behind them at the red glowing eyes of the true Alpha. As the deafening noise died down and culminated in a small cave in, Isaac turned around in time to see the Berserker sprint the other way. "Think you fended it off." The Beta decided as he placed his hands gently over his still ringing ears and winced. "More like deafened everyone within a fifty mile radius." Allison groaned as she tried to pop her own ears. "Now let's get going before Scott wakes the rest of the dead." The mercenary finished as she turned around and stomped forward towards a mural on the wall that hadn't been in front of them until after the cave-in.
"What's that?" Isaac asked stepping closer and reaching out to touch it before Allison smacked his hand away. "Don't touch it! Haven't we learned that touching unknown supernatural objects never turns out well?" The huang chastised him and the Beta rolled his eyes as Braeden stepped forward and placed her hand on the cold stone completely ignoring what the huang had just said. "Relax it's just Tezcatlipoca." Scott eyed the wall warily and stepped up towards it carefully as he asked. "What might that be?" Shrugging her shoulders, the mercenary smirked as she replied, "Just the Nagual Jaguar god." Isaac muttered something along the lines of "Just a crazy god jaguar creature, no big." Earning him a smack from Allison as Scott stepped forwards and promptly punched a hole in the wall." Turning to look at the Alpha, Allison's eyes flashed yellow as she growled at him, "Want to wake up the crazy jaguar god creature too? Because I think you just did." Ignoring her, the Alpha and mercenary stepped forwards as the mercenary piped in, "Actually it's a very human looking body in there." Glaring at her, Allison and Isaac followed the two inside and her mouth fell open in shock as she took in the boy in front of her. Suddenly he twitched as though woken from a very deep slumber and looked up at them with his big brown eyes wide, "Who are you?"
Hope you enjoyed that, I will update some time this weekend if everything goes smoothly with school starting back and all. Thank you again for the reviews! Until the next chapter, please read, enjoy, and review!
