Jessica sat in one of the chairs facing the front desk of the police station. Jackson had managed to escape from the prison van and had gone straight to Stiles's dad. Lucky for her Jackson had left her out of the whole deal but it was unlucky for Scott and stiles who were getting punished for all of it.

A restraining order was being put in place apparently which really didn't help their situation. Lydia had been able to translate the beastiary and they found it the kanima didn't seek out a friend but a master meaning someone was controlling him not protecting him.

She strained her ears and eventually caught her mother's voice as she scolded Scott 'Move! It's not just this. Although, a restraining order is a new low that I didn't think that you would reach quite this soon. It's everything on top of it. The completely bizarre behavior, the late nights coming home, having to beg Mr. Harris for you to make up that chemistry test that you missed.'

'I missed a chemistry test?' Scott said and Jess sighed banging a hand to her forehead

'Really, Scott? Really? I have to ground you. I am grounding you. You are grounded' their mom decided

'What about work?' Scott asked

'Fine - Other than work. And no TV.'

'My TV's broken.' Scott says

'Then no computer'

'I need the computer for school.' Scott points out with a shrug.

'Then no, uh - no Stiles.' She decided

"What - no Stiles?' 'No Stiles!' Melissa yelled cutting off stiles protests 'And no more car privileges. Give me your keys. Give 'em to me!' She heard the sounds of keys rattling 'Oh, for the love of God.'

'Mom, you want me to -' 'No.' She said and Jess realised her mom was having trouble getting the car keys of Scott's key chains because of how upset and frustrated she was feeling.

'Mom, come on, let me just - mom. Mom!' Scott stopped her and Jess heard her mom sigh

'What is going on with you? Is this about Allison?' Their mom asked

'Do you really wanna know?' Jess's eyes widened at Scott's words.

'Yeah.' Scott was silent 'Is this about your father?' Jess immediately looked down at the mention of their father 'It is, isn't it? Okay, you know what, um - We'll talk about this at home. I'm gonna go get the car.' Melissa finished and walked away. Jess sighed leaning back against the wall banging her head against it.

'I'm the worst son ever.' She heard Scott sigh

'Well, I'm not exactly winning any prizes either.' Stiles added with a sigh as well.

Jess looked up when her mom passed and felt horrible when she saw the tears in her moms eyes. 'Mom-' Jess started standing.

'Not now Jess please' Melissa begged her daughter before moving past her and Jess sighed before sitting back down wondering when the hell their lives got so messed up.

Jess walked into the library beside Allison wearing a grey sweater with a white scarf and a pair of jeans paired with some grey sneakers. The two girls looked around before making their way towards one of the shelves.

'It's everything Lydia can translate. And trust me, she was very confused.' Allison said passing the tablet through a gap in one of the bookshelves to the boys on the other side.

'Yeah, what'd you tell her?' Scott wondered

'That we were part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures.' Allison says and Scott chuckles.

'I am part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures.' Stiles speaks up

'O - oh. Great.' Allison says and stiles smiles a small smile before it fades.

'Okay, does it say how to find out who's controlling him?' Scott asks.

'Not really. But Stiles was right about the murderers.' Jess speaks up

'Yes!' Stiles cheers quietly

"It calls the kanima a weapon of vengeance. There's a story in there about this South American priest who uses the kanima to execute murderers in his village -' 'All right, see? So maybe it's not all that bad.' Stiles interrupts

'Until the bond grew strong enough that it killed whoever he wanted it to.' Allison finishes grabbing a book from above.

'All bad, all very, very bad.' Stiles corrects

'Here's the thing, though. The kanima's actually supposed to be a werewolf. But it can't be -' 'Until it resolves that in its past which manifested it' Scott reads

'Okay, if that means that Jackson could use a few thousand hours of therapy, I could've told you that myself.' Stiles speaks

'What if - It has something to do with his parents? His real parents.' Jess guesses

'Yeah, does anybody actually know what happened to them?' Scott asked

'Lydia might.' Stiles suggested

'What if she doesn't know anything?'

'Well, he doesn't have a restraining order against me, so - I'll talk to him myself.' Allison said

'Okay, what do I do?' Scott asked

'You have a make - up exam, remember?' Scott sighs 'Promise me.'

'If he does anything, you run the other way.'

'I can take care of myself.' Allison assured

'Allison, if you get hurt while I'm busy with some stupid test, someone's going to need to take care of me. If he does anything -' 'Like?'

'Anything - Weird or bizarre - anything.'

'Anything evil!' Stiles interrupts sticking his head through the hole. Jess chuckled while Allison pushed his face back through the hole 'Ah - Ow!'

Stiles and Jess made their way towards Lydia 'hey lydia' Jess greets and Lydia turns to look at a suspicious glint in her eye.

'Do you know what happened to Jackson's parents?' Stiles asked getting straight to the point.

'Nice tact stiles' Jess sighed and he shrugged before the two glanced back at Lydia.

'I'm not supposed to tell anyone.'

'Come on, anyone who ever says "I'm not supposed to tell anyone" is always dying to tell someone, so tell me!' Stiles glanced at Jess Tell us!' He added.

'Why do you wanna know?' Lydia questioned

'I can't tell you that.' Stiles sighed

'Then I'm not telling you.' Lydia shrugged

'But you are telling me that you could tell me something if you wanted to tell me?' Jess raised her eyebrows not getting any of that.

'Was that a question?' Lydia raised her eyebrows.

'It felt like a question.' Stiles muttered

'Well - Tell me if this feels like an answer.' Lydia said before cocking her head to the side 'No.' They both sighed frustrated before hurrying after her, trying to get her to tell them.

'Lydia! Lydia, come on! Ly - wait!' Erica came out of nowhere and pushed stiles up a against 'Ow! Ah, ah, hey, Erica.' Jess growled subconsciously and ripped the blonde away from stiles standing in front of him and her.

'Back off' she warned but Erica merely smirked.

'Why are you asking Lydia about Jackson's real parents?' She asked and Jess looked down seeing the blonde claws were out.

'Why are you bringing out the claws on camera?' Stiles points out pointing to the camera and Erica quickly retracted her claws 'That's right. You wanna play Catwoman? I'll be your Batman.' Stiles shrugged before he grabbed Jess arms and began to drag her away from the beta.

'If you're wondering about Jackson's real parents, they're about half a mile from here.' Erica spoke up and the two turned back to look at her 'In Beacon Hills cemetery.' She shrugged before stalking away.

The two glanced at each other before following after the beta, 'Do you know how they died?' Stiles questioned

'Maybe. If you tell me why you're so interested.' Erica said before she stopped walking 'It's him, isn't it?'

'What? Who? Him who?' Stiles asked

'The test didn't work, but it's still him. It's Jackson.' Erica smirked.

'Oh shit' Jess sighed, knowing that this wasn't good as the two chased after Erica,

'You can't tell Derek, okay? There's a lot more to this that you don't know about. And just because you got the Alpha bite makeover doesn't give you a license to go around destroying people.' Stiles stated as they caught up to Erica.

'Why not?' Erica said turning around 'That's all anybody ever used to do to me. I used to have the worst crush in the world on you. Yeah, you, Stiles. And you never once even noticed me. Exactly how you're not noticing me right now.' Erica said before she looked backwards seeing water running out from the boys locker room.

'What the hell?, Jess wondered just as her brother cam crashing out from the door and Jackson tackled him. She gritted her teeth together before she hurried forward and ripped Jackson off her brother and she held him back from killing Scott.

'What the hell's going on?' Harris voice echoed through the corridor 'Hey! Enough! Enough. What do you idiots think you're doing? Jackson! Calm down!' Jess released Jackson 'Mr. McCall, you wanna explain yourself? Stilinski!' Harris yelled at them.

'You dropped this.' Matt said suddenly trying to give back the iPad but Harris grabbed it.

'You and you - actually - all of you' he said looking around at all of them 'Detention. Three o'clock.'

Jess walked into the library with the the others at three o'clock. She took a seat at the first desk Scott and stiles sitting across from her and to her dismay Erica sat next to her 'Oh, uh - we can't be in detention together. I have a restraining order against these tools.' Jackson spoke up.

'All of these tools?' Harris questioned

'No, just us tools.' Stiles spoke up pointing at Scott and himself.

'Fine. You two, over there.' He said pointing to another desk and Jess groaned her forehead hitting her books as the boys moved leaving her alone with Erica.

'So how the little crush going?" Erica questioned Jess who gritted her teeth together, ignoring the beta by opening her books. 'Is it still as pathetic as before?' Erica continued.

'Keep talking Reyes see if I care' Jess said flipping through the books pages.

'But that's the thing isn't it McCall you do care' she smirked 'about stiles'

Jess reeled in her wolf as anger began to take over her emotions and she sighed 'whatever you say'

Erica chuckled 'whatever I just find it quite pathetic I mean the whole falling in love why our best friend story ... It's just so cliche, so sad'

'I'm not in love with stiles' Jess growled out and Erica smirked.

'Keep telling yourself that'

'I have to go to the bathroom.' Jackson suddenly said and Jess looked up at hi, to see him wincing and cringing almost like he was in pain.

'Are you all right? Hey, you don't look so good.' Harris questioned

'I just need to get some water.' Jackson said leaving.

'No one leaves their seats.' Harris ordered before leaving as well. The minute the door shut stiles and Scott rushed over and joined the two she-wolfs.

'Stiles says you know how Jackson's parents died.' Scott said looking at Erica.

'Maybe.' Erica shrugged continuing to read her book.

'Talk.'

Erica out down her book 'It was a car accident. My dad was the insurance investigator, and every time he sees Jackson drive by in his Porsche, he makes some comment about the huge settlement he'll be getting when he's 18.'

'So not only is Jackson rich now, but he's getting even richer at 18?' Stiles asked.

'Yep.' Erica nodded

Stiles shook his head 'There's something so deeply wrong with that.'

'You know what? I could try to find the insurance report on my dad's inbox. He keeps everything.' Erica said opening her laptop

'Scott McCall, please report to the principal's office.' Allison's mom's voice said over the speaker.

'That doesn't sound too good' Jess sighed and Scott shrugged before grabbing his bag to leave.

Jackson entered the library again with Harris but Erica, stiles and Jess were too busy looking at the screen 'Whoa, look the dates.' Stiles gasped when Erica pulled out the insurance report.

'Passengers arrived at the hospital DOA. The estimated time of death - 9:26 P.M., June 14, 1995.' Erica reads.

'Jackson's birthday is June 15th.' Jess points out when they hear the sound of a bag zip. They all looked up seeing Harris pack up and began to do the same, standing up and grabbing their bags,

'Oh, no, I'm sorry.' Harris chuckled 'Uh, yes, I'm leaving. But none of you are. You may go when you're done with the re - shelving. Enjoy the rest of your evening.' He said patting two trolleys full of books before leaving. Jess flipped him off sinking back into her sink, God she hated him.

Jess continued to re-shelf the books trying to keep Erica taunts out of her mind. She wasn't stupid she knew she had feelings for stiles. The feeling of jealousy whenever he talked about Lydia, being protective of him. She also remembered Derek's words to her on the first full moon, about an anchor. Stiles was the only one who could calm her down so it was pretty clear he was her anchor, the thing that kept her human.

She sighed putting another book onto the shelves, there was no hope for her and stiles anyway. She had suffered through enough lecture about Lydia to know he was completely and utterly in love with her he had been since their grade, she was crazy stupid to believe he could ever feel the same about her.

She was brought out of her thoughts when she heard a loud crash from above, sparks flying 'Jess! Erica!' Scott shouted and both she-wolfs roared in response shifted as the kanima raced across the top of the book shelves.

'Erica behind you!' Jess shouted out in warning but it was too late as Erica fell with an agony filled shout and the kanima was gone again. She ran forward and checked the blonde only to see Jackson standing in front of the blackboard. Almost like a robot Jackson began to draw on the blackboard as the lights flickered.

Her eyes widened when she read "stay out of my way or I'll kill all of you" before her eyes drifted back to the convulsing Erica. 'Scott! Stiles!' She shouted as Erica spazzed out.

Stiles raced forward and picked the shaking erica up 'I think she's having a seizure.' He said as Scott joined them while Allison went to check on matt.

'He's alive.' Allison called

'Hey, we need to get her to a hospital.' Stiles said

'Derek - only to Derek.' Erica spoke through her convulsions.

'When we get her to the hospital -' 'To Derek. To Derek.' Erica interrupted Scott.

'Go.' Allison said but Scott only got up.

'Scott!' Jess's shouted annoyance in her tone as Scott went to his girlfriend while they had a werewolf freaking it's beside them.

'I'm staying here with you.' Scott assured Allison.

'He can't take her alone. Not like this. And Matt - I've got to call an ambulance for him, just go.' Allison said to him.

'This doesn't feel right.' Scott argued

'It's okay.'

'No, it's not. No, it's not right.'

'It doesn't - it doesn't mean anything.' Allison assured

'But it feels like it does.' Scott protested.

'Oh my gosh! Enough!' Jess shouted her annoyance turning to irritation to anger at her brother and his girlfriend, they didn't have for a little lovers spat right now 'Scott are you coming or not?!' She asked annoyed and he nodded before kissing Allison forehead making her rolls her eyes again, honestly.

Scott came back and picked erica up and the three left the livery, leaving Allison with the unconscious matt.

They reached Derek's place soon enough and before he c hold even yell at them, his eyes caught erica and he ushered them forward taking erica from Scott.

'Hold her up.' Derek ordered stiles who held erica up

'Is she dying?' Stiles questioned

'She might, I - which is why this is gonna hurt.' He said before twisting her arm, making erica scream.

'What the hell Derek?!' Jess yelled as stiles shouted 'You broke her arm!'

'It'll trigger the healing process. I still gotta get the venom out. This is where it's really gonna hurt.' He said before digging her claws into her arm making her scream louder in pain before she collapsed back against stiles.

'Stiles - you make a good Batman.' She gasped out and Jess knew it was so wrong to feel jealous at that moment but she did so instead she followed Scott and Derek out of the train.

'You know who it is.' Scott accused Derek who nodded turning around

'Jackson.' Derek sighed sitting down.

'You just wanted Erica to confirm it, didn't you? I'm gonna help you stop him. As part of your pack.' Jess looked at him with wide eyes and by the look on Derek's face he was just as surprised as she was 'If you want me in, fine. But we'll do it on one condition. We're gonna catch him, not kill him.'

'And?'

'And we do it my way.' Scott finished

'What about you?' Derek questioned looking at Jess who glanced up ant him surprised. She was sure he would just assume she was part of the lack because Scott was she didn't expect him to actually ask but she still nodded

'Yeah, I'll be part of your pack'