What Comes Around
Jo was walking home from the police station. After the horrible two days, Jo had she was tired of almost being killed by woman name Delilah. Jo would never be able to look at anyone with the name Delilah the same ever again. Jo walked into a dark alley a couple of blocks away from Deaton's. Just a couple more blocks.
"I think you knew my daughter." A voice announced in the quiet alley.
Jo turned around to see a white old man covered in black walking towards her. Jo then looked around. No one else was in the alley. Cars weren't even driving past. It was just her and the man. A man that Jo had seen in her visions. Gerard.
"I'm sorry I think you have me confused with someone else," Jo spoke up as she stared at Gerard. He was taller than Jo and his face showed no expression.
Gerard chuckled. "I don't think we have been formally introduced yet. I'm Gerard Argent. I think you knew my daughter."
Jo looked around. There was nothing around her she could use as a weapon. She couldn't run. Gerard probably had a gun. Jo didn't say anything she just stared at the man waiting for some kind of a reaction or something. He just stared at Jo.
"Now I use to be one for justice." Gerard started to talk again. "I believed everything that goes around comes around. But now I'm thinking that what comes around in this town isn't going around."
"I—I think I better be getting home." Jo found her courage to speak but it wasn't loud more in a soft whisper.
"To Derek Hale?" Jo clenched her jaw. "Don't you think it would be safer out here with an old retire hunter than an alpha."
"I don't know what you are talking about," Jo said as her hands curled up into balls. Her fingernails started to dig into the palm of her hands.
Gerard clicked his tongue as he took another step closer to Jo. Jo took a step back. She needed all the space between them as she could get. "It is a shame that what comes around isn't going around. Someone is going to do the justice from now on."
Gerard took another step forward. He placed one had on her shoulder so she couldn't turn around and walk away even if she wanted to. There was a sharp pain in her stomach. Jo's mouth dropped as her hands flew to her stomach. She pulled on hand away to see blood. Jo then looked down to see a knife in her stomach.
"And I am willing to do that job," Gerard said looking Jo in the eye. He twisted the blade that was still in Jo's stomach. Jo let out a soft snivel in pain. "This is not only a warning to Derek and his pack but revenge for my daughter. Killing two birds with one stone."
Gerard started to walk away as Jo dropped to her knees her mouth now dripping blood.
"What comes around will always end up going around," Gerard explained as he left Jo's view.
Jo started to breathe faster and faster. She let out a soft whimper as she wrapped her hands around the blade. Tears forming in her eyes, Jo let out a loud wail of pain. She clenched her teeth and dropped to her side.
"Someone." Jo cried out. "Help me! Please!"
Jo let out a heavy exhale before removing one hand from her stomach and grabbed her phone.
"Help me! Please, someone, help me!"
"What are we going to do about Jo?" Scott wondered as he looked around everyone else in the room. Scott and Stiles were at Derek's old burned down house. The three new addictions to Derek's pack were probably at their own home leaving Scott, Stiles, and Derek to talk about something important. Jo. "There is something clearly wrong with her."
"Whatever is wrong with her I think she knows," Derek agreed.
"Of course she knows there is something wrong with her," Stiles snapped, "this isn't her first break down this month alone."
Stiles was on edge with Jo being pregnant not being able to say anything and with the fact that she was arrested this morning.
Derek's phone started to silently ring on the table but he didn't pay it much attention. A loud scream appeared out of nowhere. It sounded very familiar to Derek and Scott. Everyone looked at each other.
Stiles phone started to ring. He scrambled to the table and answered it. "Hello?"
"Help me!" Jo cried on the other side of the phone. "Stiles help me! Please!" Jo let out a painful cry.
"Ask her where she is." Derek barked.
"Jo, breathe." Stiles tried to say as Jo continued to scream on the phone. "Jo—Jo where are you?"
"In the alley behind the diner," Jo said. "Please help us."
The phone hung up. Stiles looked up to already see Derek gone with Scott running up the stairs. Stiles ran out of Derek's house to see the werewolves already in Derek's car. Scott opened the back seat as Stiles hopped in. Derek started to speed off.
"Why did she say us?" Scott wondered out loud glancing at the human and alpha. "Do you think there is someone else with her?"
Stiles' eyes went straight to the window. The baby. That what she had to be talking about. Derek looked up in the rearview mirror at the human in the back trying not to make eye contact with the werewolves.
"Stiles do you know something we don't?" Derek asked.
"What-what do you mean?" Stiles stammered looking up at Derek.
Derek narrowed his eyes at the teenage boy. "Why is your heart beating fast?"
"I'm nervous about Jo!" Stiles exclaimed. "Just like the rest of us. Gosh, you aren't the only one in her life."
Derek made a hard left turn. Stiles cursed and flew to the other side of the car because he didn't have a seatbelt on. Stiles peeled himself off the window and appeared back in the middle of the back seat. Stiles glanced over Derek to see how fast he was going. 120.
"Derek you might need to slow down a tad," Stiles announced looking in the rearview mirror.
"Shut up." Derek barked. He made another hard left and drove past diner. He turned as much into the alley and drove down the alley.
"There she is!" Scott exclaimed as he pointed to a body surround by blood on the floor.
Derek barely stopped the car as he and the teenagers jumped out of it and ran to her.
"Jo!" Voices shouted.
Jo turned her head to see Derek, Scott, and Stiles running towards her.
Derek dropped to his knees and looked down at her stomach. A knife was in her stomach and Jo had her hands wrapped around it.
"Oh my God," Stiles mumbled his hands rushing to his mouth.
"Stiles." Jo looked up at Stiles who stood over her. "The baby. Please." Tear rushed down her face as her eyes rolled to the back of her head.
"Baby?" Scott whispered to himself. "What baby?"
"We need to get her to a hospital," Derek spoke up. "Scott you're going to have to drive. Stiles help me put her in the back."
Scott ran to the car. Stiles helped Derek get Jo into the car. Scott started to speed off. Stiles placed his hands on Jo's wound as Derek held Jo's hand. His veins turned blacked as Derek shut his eyes.
"What are you doing?" Stiles asked.
"Taking her pain away," Derek explained as he looked up at Stiles his eyes turning red.
"How is she doing back there?" Scott called out as he drove fast.
"Well, she is blending out so not very peachy Scott," Derek yelled. Scott flinched as he made a right hard turned. Cars started to honk at Scott's horrible driving.
Stiles looked up at Derek. Tears forming in the alpha's eyes.
"Come on Jo," Derek mumbled as he pressed his lips against her hand. "Me and you. Forever. Don't leave me."
A tear fell from one of his eyes. At this moment, Stiles didn't know if Jo was going to live to see tomorrow, he saw the Derek truly loved Jo. Stiles never saw Derek show any kind of emotion other than angry. Stiles never thought he would see the day where Derek showed emotion.
Scott pulled up to the hospital. Derek and Stiles rushed out of the car as Scott ran into the hospital.
"Help! Someone help us." Scott shouted. Melissa who was helping someone at the counter looked over at her son.
"What's wrong?" Melissa asked as she stared at her son with worried eyes. She rushed over to him and started to look at him to see if there was anything wrong with him.
Derek ran in carrying Jo bridal style. "Help us please."
Melissa looked down to see a bloody Jo. Melissa's mouth dropped as she ran to go a gurney.
Doctors appeared as Derek placed Jo on the gurney. Doctors and nurses started to place towels on Jo's stomach. Everyone started to run to a surgery room with the two werewolves and teenager right behind them.
"What happened to her?" Melissa asked.
"We found her like that," Scott explained his voice starting to crack. "Are you going to be able to help her?"
Melissa didn't answer. She didn't like to make promises that she might not be able to keep. The doctors ran into a room as Melissa stopped the boys from trying to go in.
"You guys need to stay here and let the doctors do the work," Melissa said.
She glanced up at Derek, a man she would never expect to see hang around three teenagers. The man looked scared and was waiting for more news about Jo.
"You can sit in the waiting room and I will update when I get news," Melissa announced. They walked towards a waiting room as Melissa handed Stiles a form. "Fill this out for me, please. We need all the information we can get about her."
Stiles and Derek sat down together and quietly worked on the form together. Melissa grabbed Scott's arm before he could sit down and pulled him away from earshot.
"Who is that man?" Melissa asked as she pointed to Derek. Derek glanced up at Melissa being able to hear everything they were saying perfectly fine.
"Derek Hale," Scott explained. "Jo's boyfriend."
Melissa glanced at the man then back at Scott. "The allege killer?"
"Allege, he didn't do it," Scott said with a shrug. He forgot that his mother never met Jo's boyfriend.
"You know what we all are going to talk about this later," Melissa said as she went to the surgery room.
Scott walked back and sat down Stiles who was stuck on the very first question.
"What do you mean her name is not Jo?" Derek exclaimed. Everyone else in the room looked at him. Derek cleared his throat. "What do you mean her name is not Jo?"
"It's a nickname we gave her years ago," Scott explained. "She had a really like a weird name like Stiles and we just gave her the nickname Jo."
"Then what is her real name?" Derek asked.
Scott and Stiles shared a look. What was Jo's real name?
"I know it starts with a 'j'," Stiles said as Scott nodded his head. "Her last name is Wesson for sure."
"Just skip that one," Derek said.
Stiles continued to fill it out. Blood type, the medication she on, parent's, medical history. The last question that was pregnancies. Stiles looked up at Derek who was staring at the paper. Stiles grabbed the paper away from Derek and circle yes to pregnancies.
"Stiles let me see the paper," Derek spoke up before Stiles could go turn it in.
"Umm…" Stiles trailed off in a high pitch voice. "Why?"
"It needs an adult signature. You're barely a teenager." Derek said. Stiles looked down at the paper. This was true.
"I'll forge it," Stiles replied.
Scott looked up from his hands. "Why don't you just like Derek see it?"
Before Stiles could say something Derek snatch the paper from him. Stiles cursed under his breath as Derek's eyes grew big.
"Derek don't get mad," Stiles said. "There is no need to get mad. She was going to tell you. Probably today."
"That is what she was talking about when she said she was going to tell me everything?" Derek mumbled almost too soft for the human to hear. Stiles nodded his head. "Oh my God." The papers dropped out of his hands as Derek's head fell into the hands.
"I feel like I'm missing something important," Scott spoke up. He bend down and looked at the papers. "SHE PREGNANT?"
Two hours passed as Derek stayed in the same position. He didn't want to move. Jo pregnant? And didn't tell him? Why didn't she tell him? Secretly Derek always wanted kids. He wants the big house and a big family. After everyone died in the fire Derek didn't want to be around family anymore. That was all gone. Until he met Jo.
Derek sat up and looked down at his phone again. One missed call from Jo. Derek pressed the replay button again.
"Help me! Please, someone, help me!" Heavy coughs appeared. "Derek. Please answer the phone. No, no, no. I don't want to die. I don't want to die." Jo's voice got louder and louder until she started to shout. "Help me! Please! Someone…anyone! Please help me."
The voicemail ended. That could be the last thing that Derek heard for Jo. He didn't want the last thing he heard of Jo begging for someone to help her. Footsteps appeared. Derek looked up from his phone to see Melissa in front of him and the teenage boys. Derek could smell the sadness of her.
"How is she?" Derek asked standing up fast. "Is she okay?"
"Come with me," Melissa said.
The boys walked with Melissa to Jo's room. They stood in front of room 478. Jo laid wide awake in the bed. Her eyes lifelessly glanced over at Derek and then back at the ceiling. Her arms were wrapped around her stomach. Stiles and Scott rushed over to her left side. Jo rolled over to her right. She didn't want to be seen.
"What happened, mom?" Scott asked his eyes not leaving his childhood friend.
"Jo, did you know you that where pregnant?" Melissa asked as she walked over the right side of the bed. Jo nodded her head. Melissa looked up at the other worried people in the room. "The knife didn't damage any vital organs. The baby didn't survive it was a fetus."
Derek's heart broke into a million of pieces. He might not know about the baby very long but he already loved it. Loved the idea of Jo being a mom and Derek being a dad. Derek stared at Jo who showed no emotion on her face. Nothing.
"Will she be okay?" Stiles wondered.
Melissa looked down at Jo. "I think she is going to be fine."
"Is there anything want you?" Scott asked. Jo turned around to face him. "Anything we can do to help you?"
"Leave," Jo mumbled way to soft for human ears. "Leave" Jo spoke up. "Leave! Get out!" Her voice cracked as tears started to rush down her face. "Leave!" Stiles was the first one out of the door followed by Scott. Derek and Melissa made their way to the door. "Derek stay."
Derek closed the door and leaned against it. He looked over at Jo whose eyes were on the floor watering up. He had a million of questions but didn't know where to start. Derek walked closer to Jo and sat in the chair that was next to the bed.
"Can you please lay down with me?" Jo spoke in a soft voice not looking up. "Please."
Derek nodded his head. He stood up and gently pushed Jo over. He moved the tubes around and the I.V. He placed an arm around Jo. Jo leaned against Derek's chest and let out a shaky breath.
Jo getting arrested truly wasn't the worst part of her day.
