I'm so sorry, should've had this out a couple days :( please forgive me...
So.. i've started writing into season 3... I'm going my own direction but will probably either change or add the actual storyline when it airs... like, do we REALLY have to wait until next June? That kills me... so much :(
Chances are, I might not have all this posted by the time Season 3 rolls around... who knows LOL... so it might work out. and i can't believe there is a pairing name now for Cat and Scott... Scat... So cute... LOL... as I've mentioned before, pairings are not set in stone... and if something happens you don't like, keep reading, it may change again ;)
BTW small shoutout to a web series... I heart it, LOL... Can anyone pick it out?
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Scott showed up at her house in the morning as promised even though she had messaged him and told him not to because she was not on his way to school but of course, he ignored her and just showed up at her door. A small part of her was nervous to see him. She had lost her virginity to him the night before, while he was still technically in another relationship and what if she had been awful and- she needed to stop and take a breath. Then go out there and see him.
As she was leaving her dad called her back. "Who is this boy that randomly shows up here?"
"Scott. I tutor him and he's my friend."
"And he doesn't know anything?" Her dad asked.
She pursed her lips. "Of course he does, remember that store I opened up downtown, he's the manager. Good-bye dad."
She left and Scott met her with a grin. "Manager? I hope you're paying me."
She returned his grin as he wrapped his arms around her. "Oh I could think of a few ways to pay you off."
He leaned down to kiss her. "Are you doing okay? You're not, like upset or anything, are you?"
She shook her head as he grabbed her backpack and slung it over his shoulder before entwining his fingers with hers.
"That's kind of cliché, don't you think?" she asked with a small smile.
"Not like its heavy for me or anything. So did Stiles catch you up yesterday?"
She nodded. "You guys talked to Allison, Lydia of all people knew Archaic Latin, although that doesn't really surprise me. She's super smart, she just hides it, which she shouldn't."
"Yes, we're meeting Allison in the library, away from nosy cameras."
"It's creepy." She told him, referring to the camera's. "Don't you agree?"
Scott nodded and they continued on to senseless things as they walked to school. When they got there, Stiles caught up with them as they moved to the library.
"How was your talk?" Stiles asked, knowing his friend had a huge lecture just like he had the night befor.
Scott shook his head. "Definitely worst son ever. I've never felt so bad before."
"I know, same with my dad. Sometimes I feel like it would be easier if our parents knew."
"Not really." Cat replied. "My dad spends all his time making sure no one knows and thinking I'm a freak."
Both guys grew silent as they entered the library, moving down the world history section as they continued talking.
"Hey."
Stiles moved some books aside to see Allison there and took the tablet she held out for him. The three teens gathered around it to see the original pages of the bestiary, as well as the translated part Lydia had done.
"That's everything that Lydia could translate and trust me, she was very confused."
Scott magnified that text as they all silently read.
Like the wolf, its power is greatest at the moon's peak. Like the wolf, the Kanima is a social creature but where the wolf seeks a pack the Kanima seeks a master.
The Kanima, a weapon of vengeance, is used to carry out the bidding of its master. The Kanima was once used by a South American priest who took it upon himself to rid his village of all murderers. The bond between master and servant grew stronger until the will of the master became that of the Kanima's and whomever the priest deemed unworthy, the Kanima served his vengeance.
The Kanima is a mutation of the werewolf gene that cannot fully transform until it resolves that in its past which manifest it.
"What did you tell her?" Scott asked when they were done.
"That we were part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures."
Cat could hear the laughter in her voice and Scott's small snort of laughter and wasn't sure if she should be offended or not.
"I am part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures." Stiles told her with a completely straight face.
"oh." Allison hesitantly replied. "Great."
"no way." Cat exclaimed. "Me too. Which one? Have you tried The Guild?"
"yes." Stiles cried, "I'm so on that one."
"Oh my god, what faction? We so need to team up and-"
"Guys? Enough with the geeking it up?" Scott interrupted them before turning back to Allison. "Does it say how to find out who's controlling him?"
"Not really but Stiles was right about the murderers."
"Yes." Stiles hissed.
"It calls the kanima a weapon of vengeance." Allison continued. "There's a story in there about the South American Priest who used the Kanima to execute murderers in his village."
"Right, see? Maybe it's all not that bad." Stiles suggested.
Allison shrugged. "Until, the bond grew strong enough that it would kill whoever he wanted it to."
"All bad, all very, very bad." Stiles decided.
Cat turned back to the tablet rereading the information there as Allison continued explaining.
"Here's the thing though, the Kanima is actually supposed to be a werewolf but it can't-" She stopped and Cat looked up to see her glancing behind her and she looked over, seeing someone putting a book on the shelf across from her.
"Until it resolves that in its past which manifests it." Scott finished for her.
"Ok, that means Jackson could use a few thousand hours of therapy. I could've told you that myself." Stiles told them.
"What if it has something to do with his parents?" Allison mused as they all looked at each other. "His real parents?"
"Yeah, does anybody know what actually happened to them?" Scott asked.
"Lydia might." Stiles said.
"What if she doesn't know anything?" Scott asked.
"Well he doesn't have a restraining order against me, so I'll talk to him." Allison decided.
"Not alone." Cat told her. "I'll go with you, maybe see what I can find out? If Allison asks him and he doesn't answer, his thoughts might. Who knows, maybe we'll get closer to the video mystery. I mean, we thought it was Lydia so perhaps it was Jackson?"
"Did he have a tail in the video?" Stiles asked her.
"I don't think so but who says he was the kanima when it happened."
"Good point."
"And what do I do?" Scott asked, glancing between her and Allison.
"Chem test?" Cat asked him, knowing his mom had got him a makeup test for today.
"Remember?" Allison asked, reaching a hand between the stacks to grab his hand.
Stiles nudged Cat and she shot him a quick glare, trying to ignore the hand holding. She really had no reason to be jealous because even though he had told her last night what he wanted, he still had Allison and truthfully breaking up with her right now probably wouldn't be the best idea, not when they had so much going on. And wow, Cat realized, she had really gotten herself in it.
"If he does anything, you run the other way."
Allison smiled at them. "Cat and I can take care of ourselves."
"Allison, if either of you get hurt while I'm busy taking some stupid test, someone is going to have to take care of me. If he does anything…"
"Like?" the taller girl challenged him.
"Anything, weird or-or bizarre or anything."
Stiles stuck his head through the books. "Anything evil." He told Allison.
She raised an eyebrow before pushing his head back. "are you ready?" She asked Cat.
The petite teen smiled before nodding and Allison left the stacks.
"I'm serious, be careful." Scott whispered to Cat. "Scream and I will hear you. I don't like how he was looking at you yesterday and I'm still worried about your head."
"I will." She went up on her toes to give him a quick kiss. "Please just focus on your test, you'll do well." She smiled at him, then Stiles before leaving to catch up with Allison.
"I know I said I'd talk to him, but I just remembered, I have to do something." Allison told her as they walked through the hall.
"What?" Cat asked.
"It's um- a field trip, independent study."
Cat raised an eyebrow. "Seriously Allison? You're talking to me, in case you forgot. I work in the office, I'm aware of all this stuff. We don't have independent study."
Allison sighed. "Fine but I need to go do something and I need you to cover for me, please?"
"What is it?"
The brunette shook her head. "I'll tell you later, I swear but I need to go. Thank you." She gave Cat a quick hug before taking off, leaving the other girl speechless. What had just happened?
"Cat."
She spun around, scowling when she saw Isaac.
"go away, jerkstore." She snapped as she walked away from him
He laughed as caught up with her. "I guess I deserved that."
"Guess?" She asked in disbelief. "You tried to kill me."
"Not kill, just hurt and to be fair, you were trying to kill me with a baseball bat."
She glared at him. "Not Kill, just hurt." She mimicked him. "I knew I couldn't kill you."
"We should chat about Allison."
Cat raised an eyebrow. "How about we don't? Seriously, you guys tried to hurt Scott, me, Lydia, Stiles and now Allison? Forget it."
"It's not that, there's something more and I really want to talk to you about it. Someone should know."
"Fine." She grumbled "but make it quick."
"I know we're not on the same side-"
"Stop." Cat immediately cut him off. "I have no issue with you guys. Sure Derek creeps me out, yeah, you tried to kill me but I had no issues with you before then but Erica is still my friend and maybe I don't agree with all your stellar ideas but I'm all for the side of stopping the kanima, just, preferably without the killing."
"You honestly have no issues with us being werewolves?" Isaac asked with a raised eyebrow.
She glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. "Why would I? I'm dating Scott, aren't I?"
He chuckled. "Yes, dating." He said, using air quotations.
Cat wisely kept her mouth shut.
"If you really don't have a problem, then you would have no issue going out with me sometime after this whole cover story with Scott is over, right?"
Her jaw dropped in shock. "You idiot, I have no problem with you being a werewolf but I have an issue with you trying to kill me." She pulled down her shirt to show the bruises still on her neck.
He at least had the decency to wince. "For the record Cat, I really am sorry for that. I let my anger take over and I'm too new to this whole thing, I can't control it."
She sighed, fixing her collar. "You said you wanted to talk about Allison?"
Seeing she was done with that topic, Isaac answered her question. "Yes, I think she might be in over her head. Has she said anything to you about seeing me in the woods?"
Her eyebrows drew together. "No? Why would Allison be in the woods anyways?"
"I've seen her, I Just didn't know if she's seen me or not. I saw her a lot when I was hiding from the police."
"You hid out in the forest?" She sounded almost horrified for him.
"I was mostly laying low but once in a while I'd go a little crazy and go down to the preserve." He explained. "One day I got curious and followed her there. It's pretty big, what she's in to. It's really changing my idea of who she is. I could never trust her completely but I don't think she's bad as Derek says."
"She isn't." Cat snapped.
He smiled at her. "Do you think she would kill me or Erica if she had the chance?"
"No." She snapped again, before raising an eyebrow at him, a small smile coming to her lips. "Well not Erica, 'cause she's my friend. Maybe you for hurting me."
Isaac looked at her, laughing when he saw she was joking. "I don't think she would either. Tell her if she needs help, I'll help her."
"With what?" An exasperated Cat asked.
"It's up to her to tell you." Isaac mysteriously replied.
Cat stared at him in disbelief before turning away with a scowl. "I can so easily find out." She muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing." She replied, knowing he probably heard her anyways. "I'll ask Allison, talk to you later."
She left him and continued walking, turning over the conversation in her mind. She almost missed Jackson walking by, it took her a few steps to realize he did and she turned around to follow him, letting him walk a few more steps before she started after him. He went to the locker room, stopping briefly to turn around and she ducked behind a nearby hallway so he wouldn't see her. She waited a few minutes before following after him, reaching for the doorknob just as it opened. She jumped back in surprise, startled at seeing Matt there.
"Oh wow, sorry. Hi." he said, looking just as surprised.
"Hey." She smiled at him.
"You're Allison's friend, right?"
She nodded.
"Is she seeing anyone since she broke up with Scott?"
She was this close to saying she was still with Scott but quickly bit her tongue. "No, no she isn't. I didn't know you had a thing for Allison. You should totally ask her out."
"Really? Cause there's this underground show happening that I could get tickets for, do you think she would be interested?"
He seemed kind of shy and sweet and Cat couldn't help but encourage him even if it was for partially, okay completely, selfish reasons. Did that make her a bad friend? She really didn't want to be a bad friend, although, she was probably already there if she really thought about it.
"I think you should ask her, sounds like fun, maybe I'll check it out." Yeah, right. Her at a party, didn't seem like her cup of tea. At all.
"Awesome. Okay, I'll go find her. See you later…Cat right?"
She nodded waving as he left and turning back to the locker room door, pushing it open as she heard groans of pain coming from inside. She stepped inside, taking a quick look around and seeing it was empty.
"Jackson?" She called out.
"In here." Came a reply from the shower areas.
She slowly made her way over to the showers, wondering if he was hurt. She turned the corner, gasping before closing her eyes tight.
"Holy Hell Jackson, don't call me over here if you're all naked and shit. I got enough of that a couple nights ago and that was far too much for my liking."
"You're the one who walked into the boys locker room." He said as she heard him turn off the water.
"Well yeah, you're the one making all the weird noises so I came to make sure you were okay. Sorry for being nice."
"Did you need to talk about something?"
She jumped, hearing his voice right in front of her. "We can talk later, when you have clothes on. Please?"
"Let's talk now." His voice was low and dangerous and completely freaking her out. She was ready to take off running if it wasn't for the fact that her eyes were closed and she'd probably run into a wall.
"How about we don't? I need to get to class." She tried to keep her voice level even as her heart started rapidly beating.
"You have perfect grades, you can skip as much as you want."
She opened an eye to glare at him, "Can you quit being so creepy then?"
He smirked, briefly looking down at her chest before looking back at her. "Are you okay? Your heart is beating like crazy."
"I'm fine." She said, turning to leave.
"I thought you wanted to talk." He said reaching out to grab her arm.
The moment he made contact, she began to scream. He wasn't letting go of her and she continued screaming, caught in the middle of visions she would rather not see. She knew distantly that she had to remove his hand from her arm and she began to struggle to get away from him. He yanked her back towards him, throwing them both off balance as she tumbled to the ground. They lost contact for a moment and Cat was suddenly aware of herself as her head thumped painfully off the ground. She opened her eyes to see Jackson falling on top of her, his hand reaching to cover her mouth and right away, she was pulled back in as she began to scream against his muffled hand.
"Cat? What are you doing here?" Jackson got off of her as he became aware of his surroundings and Cat curled up into a ball, sobbing.
Distantly she heard a door open and Scott calling her name, kneeling beside her.
"Cat." He removed her hand from her head and she looked up at him looking terrified, her makeup running down her face. And he knew Jackson was going to pay for putting this look in her eyes.
"It's not what you think." She whispered, knowing how it would look to him. Jackson was naked and she was lying on the floor with her skirt bunched up around her waist, her shirt also rumpled and bunched up from when she had struggled to get away. "He touched my skin but I'm fine now, I swear."
He ignored her though, turning and rushing at the co-captain, pushing him into the lockers. Jackson went down with the lockers, his face going red with rage. Cat slowly crawled to the nearest wall, wiping at her cheeks as she stared with wide eyes, shaking uncontrollably
"I have a restraining order." Jackson raged before getting up.
"Trust me, I've restrained myself." Scott sneered.
Jackson rushed him, pushing him back into the cages before grabbing him and throwing him into the shower area.
"Stop." Cat screamed at them, forcing herself up from the floor and following them into the shower where they continued fighting.
Jackson slammed Scott into the wall who head-butted him, throwing Jackson head first into the wall. The larger boy went down and as Scott went for his throat, Jackson kicked out, sending him flying back into the shower wall. Cat covered her mouth with her hand as the impact caused a crack in the tiles and Scott slid down the wall. Jackson was on his feet, walking towards her the same glint from earlier back in his eyes and her eyes went wide as she backed out of the area. He reached out for her as Scott jumped over the wall, kicking him in the back of the head. She dived out of the way as he came flying at her, turning in time to see him pick up a 45 lb. weight and toss it at Scott as though it weighed nothing. Scott caught it, stumbling slightly and as he tried to regain his balance, Jackson charged, kicking him in to the wall before grabbing him and throwing him into the sinks, breaking one off the wall completely. Cat screamed as she covered her head, debris and water showering down around her. She heard a female voice call her name and looked up as the door opened, seeing Erica standing there with Stiles behind her. Jackson charged Scott again, spearing him through the door as Erica pulled Stiles out of the way. She grabbed Jackson, pulling him off of Scott and Cat got to her feet, rushing out to grab Scott's arm as he tried to fight Stiles to get at Jackson again. She knew he could easily throw both of them off but with Erica holding Jackson, Scott calmed a bit, glaring at him.
"What the hell's going on?" Mr. Harris yelled, walking towards them
"Oh my god." Allison cried, dropping her bag as she ran towards them, Matt not far behind her. "What happened?"
"Enough." Mr. Harris was yelling. "What do you idiots think you're doing? Jackson. Calm down, Mr. McCall, care to explain yourself?"
Scott looked away, quickly checking her over as he pushed back his wet hair.
"Stilinski?" The teacher tried. When he didn't answer, Mr. Harris turned to her. "Catrina?"
She shook her head, not looking at him and not bothering to correct her name.
"You dropped this." Matt said, holding out Allison's tablet.
Mr. Harris snatched it away, glaring at all of them. "All of you, detention, Three o' clock." He walked away and Erica pushed Jackson off into the other direction, following after him to make sure he left.
"We'll talk later." the she-wolf said with a meaningful look at her friend.
"I just got here." Matt muttered, looking at them all in confusion before he left.
"What the hell happened?" Allison asked.
"Where were you?" Scott asked in an accusatory voice. "You and Cat were supposed to go together."
"I- I forgot I had a project that was due." Allison stuttered, shooting Cat a bewildered look. "I didn't think he would hurt Cat."
"Yeah? Well he did and if I wasn't listening for her, I don't know if I would've gotten here in time." He turned to Cat, wrapping his arms around her as she shivered from the cold, the adrenaline rush leaving and the memory of the visions she had seen. "Are you okay?" He murmured.
She shook her head, for once not able to even lie and say she was fine.
"Cat, I'm so sorry." Allison told her, confused by the closeness of her and Scott. If she didn't know better, she would think those two really were together and not just faking it for the benefit of everyone. Allison shook her head, obviously something had spooked the smaller girl and Scott was worried for his friend, that was it.
"It's not your fault." Cat told her. "He just- wasn't himself for a bit but then- I need to go." She pulled away from Scott's arms running off down the hall. She wasn't ready to talk yet.
"What just happened?" Stiles asked, watching in confusion.
Scott shook his head. "Obviously Cat went to go talk to Jackson alone. I heard her heart speed up and her screaming. I rushed here to see Jackson with no clothes on and Cat lying on the floor curled up into a ball, crying. I lost it."
"Did he do something to her?" Allison asked, horrified.
Scott shook his head. "I don't know she says no but I didn't hear her full explanation. I should go find her." He turned to follow after Cat when Allison called his name.
"Scott, I'm sorry."
"I know." He said, leaving.
Allison turned to Stiles. "He's really mad at me."
Stiles shrugged. "You did leave the girl alone."
"I didn't think anything would happen." She protested.
Another shrug. "But it did. And if you had been there, even alone, you would've been able to handle it better. You're a hunter, she gets visions. Maybe that's what happened." Stiles mused. "And now, we need to get to class. We are one step closer to finding out about his parents though, Erica knows something."
"Well, that's a start." Allison replied. "I'm going to try and find Cat. I'll see you in detention."
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