The next morning, before they were off to school, Scott was somewhat hovering around Izzie as she gathered up the last few things she needed.

"If I tell you that I didn't tell Derek about Jackson would you stop acting like a creeper?" Izzie finally asked when her annoyance level couldn't go any higher.

"You didn't? Why not?" Scott asked surprised.

"Because he didn't ask me if I knew," Izzie replied. This is what she had to keep telling herself when she felt bad about telling Derek that they shouldn't be keeping secrets.

"So you'll tell him if he asks you?"

"He'll know if I'm lying Scott. Can't you just be happy with the fact that I haven't told him?"

"I wish things weren't like this," Scott said while frustratingly running his hand through his hair.

"I know. I make things more stressful and it would be easier if you were an only child. I get it," Izzie spat out, reminding Scott of the things he had said to her. Scott had a look of surprise on his face, and then it quickly turned into guilt.

"Izzie I didn't mean that."

"Maybe not now. But you did at the time that you said it. I could tell by the look in your eyes. I wish things were different too. We should probably get to school now."

While at her locker, Izzie wasn't surprised when Matt started talking to her.

"Did you hear about the underground? I heard they had some big name spinning," Matt asked her.

"Raves aren't really my thing," Izzie said shrugging her shoulder.

"Is it still a rave if you don't roll? I just call it a party."

"Rave, party, whatever you want to call it. They just aren't my kind of scene."

"Are you sure? I have a friend who could hook us up with some tickets," Matt had his usual hopeful glint in his eyes that he usually had when talking to Izzie.

"Why do I feel like I'm getting asked out right now?" Izzie asked more to herself than to Matt.

"Because, you kind of are," Matt said while rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"Oh, Matt," Izzie started, "you seem like you're really sweet, but I have a boyfriend."

"I had no idea," Matt said, but he still had that glimmer of hope in his eyes. "But I don't really see you hanging around anybody all that much nowadays. I could still get you that ticket and we can just go as friends? You said we needed to get to know each other better, and we can start by going to the party."

"Matt, I don't know," Izzie said unsurely. She really wasn't sure if it was going to be a good idea or not.

"C'mon, you look like you could use some fun."

"Alright," Izzie sighed out, "but just as friends. And only because I need to have at least one stress free night."

"Awesome. It's on Friday. I'm looking forward to it," Matt said with a big smile as he walked away. Izzie wasn't sure if she was going to come to regret the decision or not.

She pushed it to the back of her mind as she went to the library to get a book she was going to need for one of her classes. While she was looking for her book, she overheard Scott, Stiles, and Allison talking in the next aisle.

Instead of continuing to look for her book, she pretending as if she was doing what she was supposed to; when in reality she was just eavesdropping. Through her eavesdropping, she was able to learn some important information about the kanima.

So apparently, it's being controlled by someone. That someone is a psychotic person who wants to kill people, but doesn't want to do the job themselves. There was also something about a kanima being what it is because of a dark past, which led the trio to thinking it has to do with Jackson's parents. And to think, Izzie never would have known any of this if she wasn't trying to do well in school.

With her book forgotten, Izzie quickly made her way out of the library and tracked Erica down.

"Hey best friend," Erica said brightly.

"Hey, so remember how Derek wanted you to get on the good side of Scott or Stiles?"

"Yeah," Erica said nodding her head.

"I think I know a way for you to do that. Come on," Izzie grabbed Erica's hand and started dragging her in the direction that she thought Stiles might be in.

"What are we doing?" Erica asked following behind Izzie.

"Stiles is trying to find an answer to a question that you already have the answer for. You'll find out who the kanima is because of it."

"Wait, do you know who the kanima is?" Erica asked suddenly.

"Oh look, there's Stiles," Izzie said pointing ahead of them, successfully getting out of having to answer Erica's question. "You might want to listen in to what they're saying."

Erica got quiet for a few seconds before she began to smirk.

The two followed behind Stiles and Lydia, and when Lydia walked away, Erica pounced.

"Why are you asking Lydia about Jackson's parents?" Erica asked with her claws out on Stiles' chest.

"Why are you bringing the claws out on camera?" Stiles said pointing behind Erica. She quickly brought her hand away. "That's right. You want to play cat woman, I'll be your bat man." Stiles began to walk away but was stopped by Erica's voice.

"If you're wondering what happened to Jackson's real parents, they're about half a mile from here. In Beacon Hills Cemetery," Erica said with a tilt of her head. Stiles looked surprised as Erica and Izzie walked away.

"Do you think he'll follow us?" Erica asked.

"Without a doubt," Izzie responded immediately. She smiled when she heard Stiles yelling out to them from behind.

"Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait," Stiles said trying to catch up with them. "Do you know how they died?"

"Maybe," Erica answered vaguely, "if you tell me why you're so interested."

Izzie pursed her lips as Erica slowed down to a stop, coming to a realization.

"It's him, isn't it?" Erica asked.

"What? Who? Him who?" Stiles asked quickly.

"The test didn't work, but it's still him. It's Jackson," Erica smirked again as she sped up her walking.

"They were going to find out eventually Stiles," Izzie said when she saw the look of annoyance on his face.

"I know," Stiles groaned out, "but we still need more time."

Izzie and Stiles picked up their pace so they could catch up to Erica.

"You can't tell Derek, okay. There's still things you don't understand. Just because you got the alpha bite makeover doesn't mean you can go around destroying people."

"Why not?" Erica said turning around to face Stiles, "that's all anybody ever used to do to me. I used to have the worst crush in the world on you," well that was new information to Izzie, "yeah, you Stiles. And you never once noticed me, kind of like how you're not noticing me now," Erica said when Stiles was looking elsewhere.

Izzie followed Stiles gaze to see water coming out from the boy's locker room. When Erica saw that neither of the other teens were paying attention, she looked down to see the water too, just in time to see Scott come flying through the door with Jackson coming after him.

Erica immediately went to get Jackson off of him while Stiles tried to keep Scott away from Jackson. Allison came out of the locker room ,and it was around that time the Mr. Harris came to see what was going on. While Mr. Harris was busy yelling at everyone, Izzie noticed that Matt was doing something with a tablet, before handing it over to which ever person dropped it.

Izzie was not happy when she got stuck having to serve a detention with everybody else.

Izzie hated detention. She felt that it was the worst invention ever made. No, homework was the worst, but detention was in a close second.

Izzie sat at the table with Jackson, Allison and Matt, and just patiently waited until she would be able to go home. Once Jackson was done having a temper tantrum about Scott and Stiles being there, everybody just silently did their own thing. At least from what Izzie could tell.

Matt was doing something on his tablet, and when he muttered out something about the kanima, Izzie snapped her head up to look at him. He looked up at her and Izzie gave him a smile so it didn't seem as creepy.

Matt pulled out a bag of chips, and offered some of them up to Jackson. Izzie stared at the interaction as if she was trying to figure something out, and was once again caught by Matt looking over at her.

"Chips?" Matt asked waving the bag over to her.

"Sure," Izzie said slowly as she went to grab a handful.

Maybe going to the rave with Matt would be a good thing after all. It would give her the chance to try and figure Matt out without it being weird.

When Izzie ate her last chip, Jackson started freaking out and grabbing his head.

"Are you okay?" Matt asked while Jackson stood up.

"I'm fine. I just need some water."

Izzie was still looking at Matt wearily as Mr. Harris followed Jackson out of the room. Matt continued to scroll through something on his tablet, and Izzie squinted her eyes as she tried to figure out what he was doing.

"So what are you reading Matt?" Izzie finally asked.

"Oh, nothing. Just this weird story I found on the internet."

"I was just curious. You looked very invested in it," Izzie said nodding her head.

"If I wasn't, then it would almost be too weird for me to understand."

"I see."

Izzie looked up when Scott was called to the principal's office, and she just sighed in hope that it wasn't for anything bad.

It was soon after Mr. Harris came back that the students were informed that they couldn't leave until they shelved all of the books that were sitting in the giant carts.

Izzie huffed out a sigh, and started putting the books away. The faster she worked, the faster she could go home. It's not like Stiles, Scott, and Allison were going to be any help. They were off talking in some aisle. Most likely about Jackson.

Izzie was getting ready to get more books from the cart, when there was suddenly a whole lot of crashing and banging going on. She was successfully able to keep anything from hitting her head, but she turned to Erica when she heard her scream. Izzie watched Erica fall to the ground with Jackson moving away from her.

"Scott," Izzie yelled out, not sure where Jackson went.

She crouched down to Erica's level and turned to see Jackson writing something on the chalk board. Izzie held her breath when she read what he had written.

Stay out of my way or I'll kill all of you.

Jackson stood there for a couple of seconds before he jumped up and busted outside through a window. Izzie stood up, and walked over to where Scott was standing.

"How would the controller know that we're trying to stop them?" Izzie asked. It wasn't like Jackson was in enough control to say 'hey my friends are trying to figure us out.'

"I don't know," Scott said.

"Hey," Stiles suddenly yelled out. "I think she's having a seizure," Izzie turned to see Stiles holding a convulsing Erica in his arms.

"Izzie, go check on Matt," Scott said while he rushed over to Stiles and Erica.

Izzie went into the other aisle and took a deep breath when she saw Matt lying face down on the ground. Allison followed her and helped her turn Matt over.

"He's alive," Allison called out.

"We need to get her to a hospital," Stiles said.

"To Derek. Only to Derek," Erica protested.

"Scott you can't take her anywhere else," Izzie said frantically.

"Go," Allison said when Scott looked at her through a gap in the book shelf.

Scott rushed over, not liking what Allison had said.

"I'm staying here with you."

"Stiles can't take her alone. Not like this. And we have to call an ambulance for him," Allison said as she looked down at Scott.

"Scott I'll stay here with her," Izzie tried to reason.

"Scott, it's okay."

"No, it's not," Scott said unhappily.

"It doesn't mean anything," Allison said looking down.

"But it feels like it does," Scott whispered.

"Scott," Allison said desperately, "go."

Scott took a moment to kiss Allison's forehead, before he finally went over to Erica and took her where she needed to go. Izzie pulled her phone out and was quickly calling for help.

Izzie was beginning to get real tired of all this supernatural nonsense.

After Derek helped get the toxin out of Erica's body, Scott followed him out of the train car they had been in.

"You know who it is, don't you?"

"It's Jackson," Derek said after a couple of seconds.

"You just wanted Erica to confirm it."

Derek nodded his head

"I'll help you stop him. As part of your pack," Derek looked up at Scott surprised, "but on one condition. We're going to catch him, not kill him, and we do it my way."

Derek nodded his head again, but there was still one last thing that Scott needed to talk to Derek about.

"Did you know that Izzie knew it was Jackson?" Scott asked.

"I did," Derek answered shortly.

"Then why didn't you just ask her about it?"

"I didn't want to put her in an even worse place then she's already in. She loves you Scott, and she hates the fact that you're so angry with her. She's hurt and she wants your anger to go away. If she would have told me that Jackson was the kanima, it would just feed into your anger. If I didn't ask her, then she wouldn't have to lie. To you or me."

"I still don't understand the dynamic between the two of you. You practically hate me and Stiles, but it's different when it comes to Izzie. She has you on this high pedestal, even after she found out that you used her to get to me."

"I never used her," Derek's eyes bore into Scott, "she was developing a crush on me and I did what I thought I had to so I could keep it from happening."

"So if you weren't using her, then why is she so important to you?"

"I have my reasons," Derek said, saying the same thing to Scott as he did to Izzie.

Scott waited for Derek to elaborate, but when he didn't, he just sighed angrily before walking up the stairs and leaving.

A/N: I love you guys so much. Your reviews really did help me feel better last week. This week was a lot better, and I'm glad to say that I have written another chapter that I'm pretty happy with. I hated not writing, but I just didn't want the chapter to turn out like crap because of the way I was feeling. Hopefully I won't have any more weeks that will keep me from writing, because I like it way to much to stop doing it right now.

As always, I'm looking forward to your feedback.