Heart Monitor Part 2
The three rushed into Coach's class, which was the last class of the day. The three sat in the back Jo next to Stiles. There were two open seats in front of Jo. Scott one seat in front of Jo still talking to Stiles when Allison appeared out of nowhere and sat behind Scott. Both Stiles and Jo shared a look. Look like the whole stay away from Allison thing wasn't going to work out.
The two started to have small talk as Jo turned to Stiles. She threw Stiles' car keys at him, he caught it with ease.
"How did you take them?" Stiles wondered shoving the keys in his pocket.
"I have my tricks." Jo replied smirking slightly as she then turned to the board where Coach was standing.
"Let's settle down." Coach spoke up making all the teenagers stop talking. "Let's started with a quick summary of last night's reading." Half the class raised their hands; this did not include Scott, Stiles, Jo, or Allison. "Greenberg put your hand down. Everybody knows you did the reading." Coach looked around the classroom trying to pick out his victim. "How about, uh—McCall."
"What?" Scott said since he wasn't really paying attention.
"The reading." Coach repeated.
"Last night's reading?" Scott wondered.
"How about, uh, the reading of the Gettysburg Address?" Coach said sarcasm dripping out of the tone of his voice. A couple of students laughed and snickered.
"What?" Scott said his eyes big.
"That's sarcasm. You familiar with the term 'sarcasm', McCall?" Coach wondered.
"Very." Scott mumbled as he turned around and glared at Jo and Stiles.
The two gave a shrug and smirked.
"Did you do the reading or not?" Coach asked.
"I forgot." Scott admitted.
"He was too busy reading those Playboys last night, Coach." Jo spoke up making the class laugh.
"Nice one, Wesson." Coach said nodding his head and then turned back to Scott. "Come on buddy you're not averaging a 'D' in this class. You know I can't keep you on the team if you have a 'D'. How about you summarize the previous night's reading?" Scott said nothing. "No? How about the night before that?" Scott again didn't say anything. "How about you summarize anything you've ever read in your entire life?"
Jo pulled out Coach's phone and looked out the heart rate monitor thing. It was going higher and higher. Stiles looked over at it and then gave Jo an worried look.
"I—I—uh—" Scott stammered trying to think of something.
"No?" Coach interrupted. "A blog? How about the back of a cereal box? No? How about the adults only warning from your favorite websites you visit every night? Anything?" Scott didn't say a thing. "Thank you McCall, thank you. Thank you for extinguishing any last flicker of hope I have for your generation. You just blew it for everybody." Coach started to pace back and forth still yelling at Scott. "Next practice you can start with suicide runs. Unless that's too much reading."
The heart rate started to go down again. Jo looked at Stiles with a curious look and then looked at Scott. Under the desk Scott and Allison was holding hands.
The bell rung. Scott and Allison said their goodbyes, Scott walked in the hallways with Jo and Stiles going to the parking lot.
"It's her." Jo blurted out looking behind her at Allison once and then back at the teenagers.
"What do you mean?" Scott wondered.
"It's Allison." Stiles explained knowing what Jo was talking about. "Remember what you told us about the night of the full moon—"
"—you were thinking about her, about protecting her." Jo interrupted. "And the night of the first lacrosse game you said you could hear her voice out on the field."
"Yeah, I did." Scott agreed.
"Well so that's what brought you back, so you could score. And then after the game in the locker room, you didn't try to kill her," Stiles said, "at least not like how you were trying to kill me."
"She brings you back is what we are trying to say." Jo added.
"No, no, no, but it's not always true, because literally every time I'm kissing her or—or touching her—" Scott tried to explained.
Jo rolled her eyes understanding what he was talking about.
"That's not the same. When you're doing that, you're just another hormonal teenager thinking about sex." Stiles said also knowing what Scott was talking about. Jo and Scott didn't say anything. They were both in their own dream lands thinking about their boyfriend/girlfriend. Stiles narrowed his eyes. "You think about sex right now, aren't you?"
"Yeah." Jo and Scott said in sync of each other.
"EWE JO!" Stiles exclaimed as he playfully pushed Jo.
"You wish you could think about having sex with this body," Jo teased lightly motioning to her body. Stiles rolled his eyes. "Anyways, back in the classroom when she was holding your hand that was different. I don't think it makes you weak though, I think it makes you stronger, it gives you a control. She kind of like an anchor."
"You mean because I love her." Scott admitted. His mouth dropped a little wide. This was the first time he said he loved a girl other than his mom.
"Exactly." Stiles agreed nodding his head.
"Did I just say that?" Scott wondered looking at Jo and Stiles with wide eyes.
"Yes, you just said that." Jo said rolling her eyes.
"I love her." Scott said again.
"That's great. Now, moving on-" Stiles tried to say but was then rudely interrupted by Scott.
"—no, no, no, really. I think I'm totally hopelessly in love with her." Scott replied.
"And that's beautiful, now before you can go write a sonnet can we figure this out, please?" Jo snapped. "Because you obviously can't be around her all the time."
"Yeah, sorry." Scott said. "So what do I do?"
Stiles opened the school doors as the threesome walked. "I don't know." Stiles turned to them with a big smile, not a happy smile, but an evil smile.
"Oh, crap Stiles is getting an idea." Jo said. "That's my cue; I'll see you guys later." Jo started to walk away leaving Stiles with the teenage werewolf. She walked towards the parking lot to see Derek in his car parked waiting for Jo. She jumped in the car and threw her bag in the back seat. She wrapped her arms around Derek's neck as she then crashed her lips against his. Their lips fought against each others, fighting a battle that Jo would never want to end. Derek licked the bottom her lip trying to deepen the kiss when Jo pulled away.
"Hi." Jo greeted breathless as she and Derek tried to catch their breath.
"Hey." Derek replied grinning as he kissed Jo one last time and pulled away from her and started driving. One hand on the wheel the other on her thigh. "How was school?"
"Jackson won't stop leaving me alone." Jo said her eyes on the road. "He thinks just because his girlfriend is trying to be friends with me and he has to as well. He wants me to get lunch with him sometime."
"Already trying to cheat on me?" Derek teased not lightly as he glance at Jo and then back at the road.
"Me and Jackson? Ewe I'm hurt; if I were to cheat on you I would do better than Jackson." Jo replied.
"That makes me feel so much better." Derek mumbled not looking at Jo.
"Derek." Jo called out as she moved her hand to Derek's, the hand resting on her thigh. Derek moved his hand so now both of them were on the wheel. "Derek, baby."
Derek didn't say anything he pulled up to the Beacon Hills Hospital, the Long Term part of the building. He parked the car not looking or saying anything to Jo. Jo grabbed Derek's chin making him face her.
"Are you okay?" Jo wondered as she unbuckled her seat belt and Derek did the same. Derek didn't say anything. Jo moved her hand from his chin and moved it to the back of his neck. She then moved Derek's head closer to her owns and brought her lips onto his. For the first time Jo was in charge, her lips moved harder and fast than Derek. She moved her arms around his neck as Derek wrapped his arms around her waist. She then moved out of her seat and climbed over to Derek's seat. Jo straddled her legs Derek which earned a groan from Derek that only deepened the kiss. Her left foot was still on her seat since she couldn't get all of her body on Derek's side without breaking the kiss. She moved her foot slightly to Derek's side and accidently hit the button that moves the seat back and forwards. The seat that now both of them where on slowly started to go back. Jo broke the kiss and started to laugh as now they were both laying flat down on the seat. Derek as while started to chuckle his hands still resting on the sides of her waist.
"I'm all better now." Derek said grinning a slightly toothy grin.
The two got out of the car and started to walk towards the hospital. They walked through a hallway trying to find room 48B. It was a very empty hallway and a little eerie. There was lights flickering on and off and it was dead silent. Jo grabbed Derek's hand tightly as they walked into room 48B.
There was a man in a wheelchair. But this wasn't a normal man. Half of his entire body, the parts Jo could see, was covered in fire burns. Jo's eyes couldn't leave the man in the wheelchair. His eyes stared off into space not blinking very much as his breathing was slow, as if he was barely really there. On his jacket was a little name tag that read, "Peter Hale."
"I need your help." Derek spoke up looking at the man. Jo glanced up at her boyfriend and then back at Peter. "If you can hear me, I need you to give me a sign. Blink. Raise a finger. Anything. Just—just something to point me in the right direction, okay? Someone killed your niece. Laura. Whoever he is, he's an Alpha now. But he's one without a pack. This means he's not as strong, and I know I can take him but I have to find him first." Peter did nothing expect stare into space. Jo looked up at Derek worried written all over her face. She squeezes his hand reassuring Derek that it was okay. "Is it one of us? Someone else make it out of the fire?" Derek's voice started to get louder and angrier making Jo flinch with everything he said. "Just give me anything. Blink. Raise a finger. Anything. Say something!" Derek let go of Jo's hand and grabbed the armrest of the wheelchair trying to get something out of Peter.
"Let him go!" A voice at the doorway yelled. Both Jo and Derek looked back to see a nurse with the name tag, 'Jennifer'. Derek let go of the wheelchair and grabbed Jo's hand again. Nurse Jennifer walked over to Peter making sure he was okay and then looked back at Derek and Jo anger in her eyes. "You think after six years of this, yelling at him is going to get a response?"
"Got a better method?" Derek snapped his voice dripping with anger.
"Patience. He'll respond if you give him the time." Nurse Jennifer explained calmly.
"I don't have any more time." Derek replied as he and Jo walked out of the hospital. The sun was setting as Derek and Jo hopped into the car and sped off into the night.
"Where are we going now?" Jo asked looking at Derek as she held one hand.
"Scott's job." Derek explained making a left hand turn.
"Last time I checked he has half of the control thing down." Jo said. "I taught him a little something at school during free period."
"Good job." Derek replied as he kissed her hand, the one he was holding.
He pulled up to vet's in no time and parked in the back. He and Jo walked in through the back door and stood in the doorway to one of the many room as Deaton, Scott's boss. Deaton didn't face Derek or Jo. He kept on leaning over a table doing some sort of paper work.
"Scott, you're late again." Deaton said a little bit of humor in the tone of his voice. He assumed that Derek and Jo was Scott. Oh boy was he wrong. "I hope this isn't getting to be a habit." Deaton turned around looking at Derek and Jo. "Can I help you two, Jo?"
"Hope so." Derek spoke up letting go of Jo's hand and walked over to the metal table in the middle of the room. "We want to know about the animal you found with the spiral on its side."
"Excuse me?" Deaton wondered looking back at Jo who was still standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. "What animal?"
Derek pulled out a folded piece of paper from his leather jacket. He unfolded it and placed it on the table. It was a deer, dead deer with a spiral on its side.
"Three months ago, this deer. You remember this one?" Derek asked.
"Yes." Deaton agreed. "It's just a deer. And I didn't find it. They called me because they wanted to know if I'd ever seen anything like it."
"What'd you tell 'em?" Jo spoke up an eyebrow raise waiting for an answer.
Deaton looked at Jo. "I told them no."
"Did you hear that?" Derek wondered his head tilt slightly to the left.
"Excuse me?" Deaton asked.
"The sound of you lying." Derek growled as he moved over to Deaton and grabbed his shirt.
"Oh, my God." Deaton stammered glancing at Jo and then back at Derek.
"Derek." Jo warned walking into the room now and leaned against one of the cabinets.
"Are you protecting someone?" Derek snapped.
"All right. The key to the drug locker is in my pocket, Jo. Grab some and I wouldn't tell anything to the police…..again." Deaton stammered.
Jo narrowed her eyes as she walked over to Derek and Deaton. She chuckled a dark chuckle as she look over at Deaton. She grabbed a pen off one of the tables and now stood next to Deaton and Derek. She placed the pen next to Deaton's jugular.
"This spot right here," Jo said putting a little more pressure on Deaton's jugular on his neck, "is called the jugular. If I stab this in your neck you'll die of blood lost. So if I was you I wouldn't be scared of Derek but of me. Now why were you lying?"
"I—I—don't know what you're talking about." Deaton replied his eyes big. "Just take the drugs and I won't say anything."
"We don't want drugs. Who are you protecting?" Derek growled.
"What are you doing?" A voice shouted in the door way. All three people turned around to see Scott in the doorway anger and shock written all over his face.
"Scott, get out of here!" Deaton exclaimed. Jo moved the pen from his neck as Derek punch Deaton in the face. Deaton fell to the floor passed out as Jo threw the pen careless across the room.
"What was that about?" Scott yelled.
"When he's conscious, he can keep himself from healing, but unconscious, he can't." Derek explained.
"Are you out of your mind? What are you talking about?" Scott asked.
"You want to know what the spiral means, Scott?" Derek snapped holding up the paper with the deer and spiral. "It's out sign for a vendetta, for revenge. It means he won't stop killing until he's satisfied."
"You think he's the Alpha?" Scott guessed.
"We're about to find out." Jo replied as she went to hit Deaton.
"Hit him and you'll see me get angry." Scott threatened.
Jo rolled her eyes as she punched Deaton in the nose. Scott let out a low growl as Derek growled back.
"Scott don't pick a fight you know you will lose." Jo snapped as she glance at Deaton and then back at Scott. "Do you have a plan?"
"Give me an hour." Scott said.
"Then what?" Derek asked.
"Meet me at the school. In the parking lot." Scott replied as he turned around and left. Jo grabbed duck tape and tape Deaton's wrist together and his ankles together. Derek grabbed Deaton and placed him in the back seat. The two jumped in the car and slowly drove to the school.
"Thank you for having my back about Deaton being the Alpha." Derek said glancing at Jo as he grabbed her hand.
"I've always thought Deaton was evil. Ever since I was a little girl." Jo replied. "So if you thought he was the alpha I agree with you."
It was silent for a moment as Derek stopped at a stop light. "What was Deaton talking about when he said that he'll let you steal drugs again?"
Jo didn't say anything. She didn't look at Derek. Instead she turned to her right and stared out the window.
"Jo?" Derek called out as started to drive off.
"Make a left right here." Jo said after five minutes of silence. Derek made the left turn and pulled into an alley between a gas station and an old building. The two walked out of the car to the back of the alley were both buildings met. There was a ton of boxes leaning against the walls.
"What does this have to do with anything?" Derek asked. Jo grabbed a small box and held it tightly against her chest as she looked at a Derek.
"I'm going to show you something that I've never shown anyone." Jo said. "You cannot say anything to anyone and you cannot make a big deal of it."
Derek nodded his head. She placed the box on the floor as she then lifted her jet black long sleeve shirt up and brought her pants down only about an inch so Derek could see her hip. Jo's hip was covered in razor marks, fire burns, and cigarette burns.
"So I've told you before that my mom, step dad, and my twin little siblings died in a car accident right?" Jo said her voice cracking slightly. Derek nodded her head. "Well I—I-"
"It's okay, baby, take a deep breath." Derek replied to her. Jo nodded her head as she took a deep breath.
"So after the accident I spent two weeks in the hospital getting better. Everything seemed to be fine with me. I was healing fast. But I wasn't happy. I couldn't get happy; I couldn't feel like my normal since. I was diagnosed with PTSD, depression, and an anxiety disorder." Jo explained. "I was always having panic attacks I felt like every day I was dying a little. So I did a little research and tried to make myself feel better in any possible way."
Jo pulled out four things in the box. A razor, a bottle of Jack Daniel, an open box of cigarettes, and a lighter.
"I started to cut myself," Jo said as she pointed to the cutting marks on her hip, "it didn't work. I kept on feeling worse. I tried to burn myself with cigarettes and fire. It didn't work. I took drugs from Deaton and tried to take them and it didn't make me feel even a little better. That's was what he was talking about, he thought was I down again and maybe drugs would help me….even though they didn't. I tried drinking and I didn't help me the way I wanted to be help. So every day I just stay feeling…..dull….feeling down and sad."
Jo started to put the things back into the box and pulled her pants up and her shirt down. She places the box down and stared at Derek. Derek walked towards her and hugged her. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he wrapped his around her hips. Derek then kissed the top of her head as tears slowly started to fall from her eyes. Derek then pulled away fast and looked down at Jo.
"When was the last time you did something like this?" Derek asked.
"Two days before Scott got bitten in the woods." Jo said.
"You won't have to as long as I'm here with you." Derek replied bring his lips down onto Jo's.
Derek pulled up to the school parking lot with Jo in the front seat. Stiles and Scott was already there. Both Derek and Jo got out of the car and lean against the car. Jo had both arms crossed just like Derek.
"Where's my boss?" Scott asked. Jo glanced to the back seat where Deaton was still passed out and then back at the teenage boys.
"Oh, well, he looks comfortable." Stiles said sarcasm dripping out of the tone of his voice. Stiles and Scott then turned to the school and started walking.
"What are you guys doing?" Jo wondered.
"Derek said I was linked with the Alpha." Scott explained. "I'm gonna see if you're right."
Scott and Stiles broke the chain to the front of the school doors. The two walked in leaving Jo and Derek in the parking lot with Deaton passed out in the back seat.
"So do Scott and Stiles know?" Derek asked.
Jo moved away from Derek and sat on the hood of the car as Derek moved to now stand in front of here.
"Of course not." Jo said. "When I said I've never told anyone I meant that I've never told anyone."
Derek placed his hand on the small of Jo's back his he placed his head on Jo's neck breathing in her scent. Jo ran her fingers threw Derek's black hair. There was a loud noise of the speaker that was maybe suppose to be Scott howling like wolf…..instead it sounded like a dead cat.
Jo broke out laugh as Derek pulled away from her neck.
"You've got to be kidding me." Derek mumbled as he placed his lips on Jo's neck. Jo leaned her neck up as she closed her eyes.
There was a loud growl from Scott, a wolf growl this time that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. Derek pulled away fast his eyes turning blue. Jo slide off the top of the car and stood next to Derek as Stiles and Scott came down the steps grinning like fools.
"I'm going to kill you both." Derek threatened his voice low. "What was that? What are you trying to do attract the entire state to the school?"
"Sorry. I didn't know it would be that loud." Scott said as he scratched the back of his neck sheepishly grinning.
"Yeah, it was loud. And it was awesome." Stiles replied singing the word 'awesome'.
"Shut up." Derek growled.
"Don't be such a sour wolf Derek." Jo said slapping his shoulder playfully. "At least we know for sure that Deaton is the alpha." Jo looked back at the car to see no Deaton in the backseat. Her mouth dropped. "Crap."
"What did you do with him?" Scott accused.
"What? We didn't do anything." Derek yelled. There was a low growl as the alpha came from behind Derek. The alpha then shoved his claws in Derek. Blood spluttered out of Derek's mouth as eyes were wide and he looked at Jo.
"DEREK!" Jo shouted on the top of her lungs staring at Derek tears falling from her eyes. His hands went to the claws in his chest as the alpha tossed him across the parking lot.
"Jo!" A voice shouted from behind her. Scott and Stiles was on the top of the steps of the school. Everything stopped moving really. The alpha was feet away from Jo; Derek was dying against a wall. Jo turned as fast she could possible do and started running towards the school door leaving Derek to die….all alone.
