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To Save Them All
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Chris Argent's fiercest scowl is in place, his blue eyes are like ice and one wrong word from me and this will blow up in my face, this is my big break and I grab it with both hands, "Yes sir, you can totally trust me with this, I won't let you down."
Allison snorts and rolls her eyes, "Dad, you don't have to do this, it's just a broken arm," she looks like she'd be happy for the ground to swallow her up, and frankly all the kids here in the school parking lot are staring at us a lot.
"Good," Chris ignores his daughter's protest, "I'm trusting you with her, I'll be here on time, I expect both of you to be here too," he even points a finger at me and I nod seriously.
Sighing Allison shakes her head and then I deliberately take her school bag off of her and walk her to her locker. "I can't believe he did that," she grumbles.
"Hey, parents," I shrug, "At least he cares enough to do that, and you're looking at this all wrong. I just have to keep you company all day and walk you to classes, eat with you, spend time with you and then hand you back to your overprotective bear of a dad," she glares at me for that. "Hey I hadn't finished, this also means I can tell Scott that you're really okay, you're back at school," her face softens at his name, "And I get to hang out with you and Erika which means I have people to talk to all day, it's a win win all round."
"I hadn't thought of that," she admits and I get a peck on the cheek, "Thank you Stiles."
"You're welcome, and if you ever feel like returning the favour should I ever break a bone, I'm more than happy for you to wait on me hand and foot for like six weeks, okay?" I joke.
"Okay," she agrees and so starts an awesome day at school.
Erika and Allison have hit it off really well and are on the way to becoming good friends. This is great and I steer the girls towards Boyd at lunch, he'll be the easiest to absorb into our group, Isaac will be harder because of his dad.
Pulling Allison's seat out for her I gently slide it under her and then plonk myself next to Boyd, who pauses with his food halfway up to his mouth stare at me in silence, but then that's Boyd.
It's a little awkward so I bulldoze over the conversation and throw the odd comment at him, he doesn't answer, but I wasn't expecting him too either. He soon resumes eating and so do the girls, I eat and talk, it's a life skill I've perfected, much to my companions' annoyance over the years. By the end of lunch I've managed to get Boyd to comment that he likes Green Arrow and Green Lantern, and Erika's eyes have widened as she mentions Teen Titans and Boyd adds that the original line up was the best, I sense a firm friendship in the offing.
I also catch Allison giving me a suspicious look and then she smiles at me and lets Erika and Boyd talk teen superheroes. As I walk her to class she leans in, "That was nice of you Stiles, I know what it's like to be the odd one out with no one to talk to, and he seems nice."
"Yeah," I nod playing along, "I think I've just realised how many awesome kids there are at this school, I was so caught up in being me I was a bit blind to them. You don't mind do you?" And I really hope she's cool with it.
"No, I'm fine with it," she flashes the smile she normally reserves for Scott at me, "I'm not used to having friends, I'm never in one place long enough, I really hope whatever plan you have is going to work, Scott has mentioned some of your past plans…"
"Plans? Me?" I try and play it off and then have to leave her at her classroom, damn I don't need her to think I'm scheming.
Worrying in class I hurry at the end to meet her and walk her to the next class, she's happy as Erika is in this class with her, "It's so nice to have another girl to talk to, she doesn't care about being popular so we can talk about anything and everything."
"Awesome," I nod and relax a bit, she thinks I'm being nice, that I'm doing this for a noble cause because I'm like Scott and a nice person, she doesn't know that in another future I not only shoot her kid in the head I may kill a few more distant members of her crazy family.
I swear there's something in the water in their homes that drives them all cuckoo.
Handing her over to her father I get a , "Good job," from him and an approving nod from her mom, while Allison glares at me and Erika slides into the Argent's car as she's going to go with them and do homework and stay for dinner. I do wave at Boyd and offer to give him a lift home, he stares at me like I'm even crazier and gets on the bus without talking.
"Okay Boyd," I wave him goodbye, "See you tomorrow," nothing, I get nothing from him, he's going to be a tough nut to crack.
At home I catch up on all my homework and whenever I'm with Peter I find Derek hovering the whole time. If I didn't know him better I'd say he was acting like a cock block, except I'm not having sex with Peter and I don't care if Derek is around when I cuddle.
Scott is improving and I keep syphoning off pain for him, I have to use my spells to clear his lungs of budding infections far too many times, but he's healing, he's getting better. He's bored enough that his mom and the doctors let him use his laptop and he has the wifi password to log on the hospital internet.
I'll be happier when he's released which should be after this weekend.
I can't believe that things are going so well. Seriously this is amazing, my plan is working and as upset as I am about Scott I know this will show the ex-Argents that he's not a werewolf, so he won't have a gun shoved in his face as he's told to leave Allison alone. And now the Argents are changing their name Allison will never become a hunter, she'll never hunt down people and kill them. The journalists of the world have taken up the Kate Argent story and are running it everywhere, the Hunters are getting their asses handed to them by the media, the council will have to take note and do something now.
All I have to do is avoid Alan and we are home free on this.
I'm fairly certain I can get Allison to distract Scott enough that he gives up his work or at least takes a cut in hours, which will give Alan less free time to stir up trouble.
Pleased with my life I settle back to enjoy the few pleasures of being a teenager and I hang out with my friends, Boyd is resisting assimilation into the group, but his resistance is futile and then I crack up at my own joke and Allison pats me on the back.
Strolling out of school on Friday I happily labour under the negligible weight of Allison's stuff as we make plans for this weekend, she wants to spend as much time with Scott as she can, Erika wants to go to the comic book store and I'm happy to do both as long as I have time to spend with my dad too.
My phone beeps at the same time as Allison's and Erika's, it's Chris, he's having car trouble and has asked if I can take Allison to mine until he can come pick her up.
"Urgh," Allison frowns, "I can stay at home by myself, I'm not useless," her dad's attitude is getting on her nerves.
"Ask if you can stay at mine," Erika suggests, "You said you'd help me braid my hair," with Allison's help Erika has been adding some kind of stuff to her hair and it's smoothing down and getting less frizzy, "And mom said she'd be making homemade pizza tonight."
That makes Allison nod and she starts to text her dad, I don't mind driving them to Erika's. I'd angle for an invite but dad's going to be home early tonight and I'm cooking pasta for my pack and family.
Congregating near my jeep we wait for the reply, I'm fairly sure that Chris is going to say no, Erika's dad is a sweetheart not a trained cop. We crane our necks over Allison's shoulder and watch the screen like that's going to speed along the answer.
"Allison," A male voice from behind us says and for some reason my blood runs cold, there's something about it, something that scares me.
All three of us turn as one and I freeze when I spot him, shit I thought Gerard would be caught up in the hunter stuff going on, I didn't expect him to come to Beacon Hills, I've been careful to hide Peter's status as an Alpha, there are no more animal attacks, there's no reason for Gerard to come hunting an Alpha to Bite him in this area, he should believe there's only two Betas turned Omegas living here.
Crap.
A/N: Sorry for any and all mistakes, I've tried to catch those I could, but I'm only human.
