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Sophia and Scott ran back to Stiles, only to find him not there. Sophia sighed she took off running again. She could hear Scott going in a different direction before a few minutes later, she literally ran into the both of them. They all screamed before realizing it was the other two. "Oh." Stiles said as they panted form all of the running. "I think I found something."

"So did we." Scott said, motioning between himself and Sophia.

"Me first." Stiles said as he led them to a small cave and inside were children toys and a jacket.

"It's a coyote den." Stiles said, turning to look back at the werewolves.

"Werecoyote." Sophia said, she had been right. That may have very well been Malia Tate. Stiles stepped deeper inside, picking up the jacket.

"You see this? This is Malia's." He said. "Remember, it's the same one she was wearing in the photo." There were a couple different toys lying around that Scott picked up.

"We shouldn't be in here guys." Sophia said from by the den opening. They both turned to her.

"What do you mean?" Stiles asked.

"She won't come back now, we just invaded her home. Our scent's going to be everywhere and with Scott and I being werewolves… that's immediate danger to her right there. In the wild, coyotes are weaker than wolves, they submit to them and I would think that the same goes for werewolves and werecoyotes."

"If she's not going to come back here, where's she going to go?" Scott asked. Sophia shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know." She said.

"Could you track her now? You think you got her scent?" Stiles asked, glancing between the two wolves. Sophia look in a deep breath, locking her scent away to her memory.

"Maybe. But I'm better at this when I'm a full wolf and I'm still worried that if I do it, I won't be able to turn back." Scott said but Sophia nodded.

"I got it." She said, glancing outside the den for a moment.

"Did Derek answer you yet?" Scott asked and Sophia pulled out her phone.

"No." Which was strange, he always answered her back right away or within the first five minutes.

"Well then… can you help us? Be knowledgeable Derek Hale for the day?" Stiles asked and Sophia raised an eyebrow.

"You've already done so much for us, just keep doing it please." Scott said and Sophia nodded.

"I can do what I can but we're still going to need someone else to help." She said as she watched Stiles rub his lip with his thumb.

"This is basically a crime scene, right?" Scott asked Stiles. "I think it might be a little out of my boss's league."

"And more my dad's." Stiles said. Scott nodded.

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They waited as Stiles' dad checked everything out. He came over to them with something in his hand. "You're sure it was her?" He asked.

"I looked her right in the eyes. And they glowed just like mine." Sophia said, drawing the man's attention to her.

"It makes sense, Dad." Stiles said, backing up her statement.

"But it wasn't a girl. It was a four-legged coyote, right?" He asked.

"Well, okay. But yeah, see, that's the point that we don't exactly have figured out yet." Stiles said, tilting his head.

"But…" Sophia said, drawing their attention. "If it was a full moon and she did change, managing a full body shift into a coyote, while her mom was driving, then anything could've happened. Werewolves, especially ones that experience a first time shift are extremely bloodthirsty and dangerous. After each full moon we build up a tolerance for it. If it was something like her first shift, she would have had no idea what she was." Sophia explained to the man, both boys nodding behind her.

"Horrible things could have happened." Stiles said from her left. "Ripping, shredding, tearing things."

"Which is probably what caused the accident." Scott said from her right.

"Think about it, Dad, alright." Stiles said, getting the man's attention back. "They're driving, Malia starts to change, she goes out of control, the mom crashes and everybody dies…"

"Except Malia." Sophia threw in.

"She blames herself, alright, goes off running into the woods and eventually becomes trapped in the body of a coyote." Stiles said, sounding more and more unsure.

"To handle the shift…" Sophia began as the Sheriff turned to her. "You need something that makes you human. An anchor. Her family was and should have been her anchor if she had realized what she was. When her family died, there was no anchor, nothing to keep her from floating around in the proverbial sea, unable to shift back into a human." She explained to him.

"That makes sense." The man said and the teens all sighed. "In a Chinese folktale. Guys, this is… this is insane." Sophia raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, because everything in this town is normal." She said, flashing her Alpha eyes as she rolled them.

"I need this kept quiet." The man said to them. "The three of you, not a word. I don't want anyone hearing about this. I especially don't want Mr. Tate hearing about this." Sophia glanced over at the boys, Scott's attention as somewhere else. "Scott? Scott!" He turned back to the sheriff.

"Sorry. What did you say?" No sooner than Scott asked that, another car pulled up.

"Oh, hell." The Sheriff said and Sophia knew exactly who it was. Agent McCall got out of the driver's seat with Mr. Tate getting out of the passenger seat. Sophia scooted closer to Scott as the men walked over. The man took the blanket that the Sheriff was holding.

"Mr. Tate?" Agent McCall asked the man.

"It's hers." He said, cradling it in his hands.

"Alright, wait here." McCall said as he went to move.

"Dad." Scott said, stopping the man.

"I'll talk to you in a minute. I wouldn't mind hearing how your mom's okay with you running around in the woods this late." He said before walking right past his son. Sophia sighed and looked at the boys.

"We got to find her." She said and they nodded.

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"Here's where we found the den." Stiles said, showing the map to Allison as they stood in the back of the class. Sophia was an aid for this class so she was able to be with them. "It's right in the middle of the hiking trails."

"Well, that could narrow it down. Coyotes travel in fixed trails. But I think you're right about her not going back to the den." Allison said as she looked over at Sophia. "Coyotes don't like wolves. And they're really smart. If they don't want to be heard, they actually walk on their toes." Stiles turned to Allison.

"Coyotes tip-toe?" He asked. Allison rolled her eyes.

"They tip-toe." She repeated.

"That's what you're worried about?" Sophia asked. Stiles shrugged before turning to Scott. The bell rang.

"I got to go, but send me the pinned location." Allison said as she made her way back into the hall.

"Okay." Stiles said as the three of them began moving. Sophia sat at her desk in the corner, where she graded papers or did whatever the teacher needed her to do. Stiles sat down in his seat before Scott was stopped by Kira. Sophia felt the corner of her lips twitch as she tuned into the conversation as she got ready.

"Hey. I'm Kira. You knew that. I knew you knew that. I don't know why I just told you that again. Anyway, I have something for you." She said, taking her bag off her shoulder to look through it. She was adorable. A little ditsy but adorable none the less.

"For me?" Scott asked.

"Yeah." Kira answered as she began to riffle through her bag. "About the bardo. My explanation was sort of all over the place, so I did some research and I printed it out for you." Scott chuckles.

"Ah, you didn't have to do that." He was scratching the back of his neck, a nervous habit.

"It only took a couple of hours." Kira said as she looked up at him and Sophia chuckled. Oh, she had it bad.

"Wow. Then you really didn't have to do that." Scott said shocked.

"I swear I printed it out." Kira said, more to herself, as she checked through her bag once again.

"Kira." Her dad came in with a stack of papers in his hand. "You forgot all the research you did for that boy you like." He said and it took everything in Sophia not to bust out laughing. Kira took the papers in a shocked daze while Scott looked just as shocked. Kira turned slowly, holding out the papers for Scott. He took them with a small smile on his face. She looked up at him and smiled back before sitting in her desk. She dropped her head in her hands. Scott sat down in his desk as the teacher, Mr. Yukimura, began class.

"We were just talking about internment camps and prisoners of war. There's a passage in our reading that I'd like to go over in more detail… Who would like to come up and read aloud for us?" He asked. He looked around and room and no one volunteered. "Mr. Stilinski, how about you?"

"Oh, maybe someone else could." He said, trying to get out of it. Sophia kept grading but kept an eye on her friend.

"Everyone participates in my class, Mr. Stilinski." Mr. Yukimura said. Stiles sighed before getting up and walking over to the podium which held the book. Sophia put her pen down as she gave Stiles her full attention. As he settled behind the podium, it only took a moment for him to quickly get pale. He gripped the sides of the podium as he began to shake slightly. He looked up at the class, panting slightly. Sophia got up from her desk at the same time Scott got up from his.

"Stiles? You okay?" Scott asked. Stiles began breathing heavier before he almost fell to the right, he had to use the podium to stay upright. Scott glanced at Sophia, who nodded and stepped closer to Stiles' right side, Scott on his left. "I should take him to the nurse's office." Scott said quickly as he and Sophia helped Stiles down the hall and into the bathroom. Stiles stumbled in, hitting both sides of the door frame before actually making it into the bathroom. Sophia turned and locked the door behind her as Scott talked to Stiles. Stiles stepped up to the sink and looked in the mirror.

"It's a dream, it's a dream. This is just a dream." Stiles said to himself.

"No it's not. This is real. You're here. You're here with us." Scott said to him.

"What do you do? How do you tell if you're awake or dreaming?" Sophia asked, standing on the other side of Stiles.

"Your fingers… you count your fingers." Stiles said, one hand flailing slightly. "You have extra fingers in dreams." Scott looked at Sophia, who nodded, before he looked down at his hands. He held them up.

"How many do I have? Hey! Look at me. Come on, Stiles." Scott said, getting the other boys attention. "Look at my hands and count with me." Stiles managed to count all ten of Scott's fingers before his breathing began to mellow out slightly. He looked at Scott's hands again before glancing back at Sophia. He slid down the wall next to the sink, trying to catch the rest of his breath. Sophia and Scott knelt down in front of him.

"What the hell is happening to me?" Stiles asked.

"We'll figure it out. You're going to be okay." Scott said reassuringly.

"Am I?" Stiles asked. Sophia reached over and grabbed his hand, lacing their fingers together and holding it tightly.

"Yes, you are." She said, hoping to sound strong and encouraging. She couldn't imagine everything they're going through right now.

"Are you?" Stiles asked Scott. "Scott, you can't transform. Allison's being haunted by her dead aunt. And I'm straight up losing my mind. We can't do this. We can't… We can't help Malia. We can't help anyone." Sophia scooted closer to Stiles so that their legs were touching when she settled on the ground. Scott sat down as well, leaning towards the she-wolf slightly.

"We can try. We can always try." He said, looking at his best friends.

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Sophia walked beside Stiles as his dad explained the situation. Apparently the coyote, a.k.a Malia, had been at the school. "A couple of students said they saw it running across the field and back into the woods. Thank God, nobody got hurt."

"What happens if she does hurt someone?" Sophia asked, looking around Stiles to look at the Sheriff. He sighs.

"Most likely they'll have to put it down." He said as they continued to walk.

"Put her down? Dad, try not to forget there's a girl in there, one that you'll be killing. Come on, you aren't back to not believing, are you?" Stiles asked. John stopped and turned to the two teenagers.

"I believe there are a lot of things I don't understand yet. But that doesn't mean everything and anything imaginable is suddenly possible. Now, are you 100% sure that this is a girl and not an animal?" He asked, looking between his son and his best friend.

"Yes." They said at the same time. John looked into their eyes.

"Sophia's sure." Stiles said and the girl nodded. They turned and saw Scott at the end of the hallway. Stiles glanced at his dad and Sophia before turning so his back was to the new Alpha. "Scott, have you been listening?" He asked and the other boy nodded. John nodded his head.

"Alright, let's get this figured out. Come on." They walked to the locker room. Scott was sitting on the bench, listening to Kira talk to her father when Stiles grabbed his backpack, seeing that it was ripped.

"I think I know what she was looking for." Stiles said, walking over to where Scott was sitting, Sophia walking behind the human. He unzipped his bag and reached in, pulling out the doll from the Tate car. Scott and Sophia sighed at the same time.

"You took the doll from the car?" Scott asked.

"Didn't you learn anything from when you took the wolfsbane rope when Scott was just turned?" Sophia asked.

"Yeah, I thought you could use it, you know, for like her scent." Stiles said.

"Where did you get that? Where did you find this?" A familiar and unwelcomed voice said. Sophia sighed and closed her eyes, rubbing her temples. Mr. Tate was at the school… why? He snatched the doll from Stiles, holding it gently in his hands. "It belonged to my daughter." John walked past them, laying a hand between Sophia's shoulders before stepping up to Mr. Tate.

"Mr. Tate, I don't know how you heard about this. If you got your own police scanner or what… but you can't be here." John went to push the man out the door when he flinched and John must've touched something because he moved his jacket back, revealing a gun.

"I have a permit." Mr. Tate said.

"California schools are gun free zones, permit or no permit. You need to leave, Mr. Tate. Now." John told the man. Another officer came to pull him out when he slipped away from him and turned his attention back to John.

"You find that animal. You find that thing." He said before he left. Scott turned to Sophia and she looked at him. There was a plan coming up.

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"Okay, so let me get this straight… we're meeting the former Alpha twins at Derek's loft to discuss how to change a were-coyote back into a girl. That sounds like a perfect plan." Sophia said as she turned down another street.

"Look, I know it sounds crazy…" Sophia snorted. "But we need to know how to do this. I'm too afraid to even turn into a werewolf right now so you're our only hope and I highly doubt you can do what Peter has done to me." Scott said over the phone. Sophia rolled her eyes as she stopped at a stop sign.

"Derek's done it to me genius. I know the basics. To actually do what you're planning… I'm definitely going to need a little more insight but why the twins?" She asked as he turned down another street.

"They're the only Alphas around. I haven't seen Peter in a while."

"Alright, well… I'm almost there. I'll see you in a few." She said, saying her goodbyes before she hung up the phone. She set it in her cup holder before sighing. She got to the loft and saw Ethan and Aiden sitting on the ground by the door. They stood up when she came over to them. Derek had locked the door to the loft and only she had the key to open it.

"About time." One of them said, she was pretty sure it was Aiden. She glared at him before opening the door and stepping inside. Derek's scent was everywhere with some Cora and Peter mixed in.

"Look…" Sophia said, turning to them when Ethan slide the door closed behind them. "I don't know what your plan is but if you hurt him…" Aiden rolled his eyes.

"We're going to do what was asked of us by Lydia." Ethan said and Sophia watched them for a moment before nodding.

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Sophia looked up when she heard the loft door open. She stood and walked over to the main room, seeing Scott, Stiles, and Lydia there. "Hey, are they here?" Stiles asked but before the she-wolf could answer; Ethan and Aiden attacked Scott, punching him before throwing him from the small steps and onto the main floor. Stiles grabbed Lydia and moved her off to the side so they weren't in the middle of anything while Sophia sat down on the coffee table, watching.

Sophia wasn't sure how long Scott let them beat up on him until he spoke, groaning in pain while lying on the floor. "I thought you guys were gonna teach me to roar."

"We are. You do it by giving in." Aiden said to him.

"Giving in and letting go. That's how Deucalion taught us control." Ethan said, leaning down to pick Scott up off the floor.

"Hey, you know, that's funny." Stiles said from where he was with Lydia. "I've actually tried something like this one time using heart monitors and lacrosse balls. But you're right, beating the living crap out of him is probably a lot better." Sophia chuckled, she remembered those easier times.

"That's actually the plan? You kick my ass?" Scott asked them.

"You're afraid to turn. We're going to make you." Aiden said.

"You turn. Then you kick our asses." Ethan said with a smirk.

"And then you roar." Aiden filled in, roaring at Scott.

"You don't think you can let go with us?" Ethan asked.

"You think you're going to hurt us?" Aiden asked as he walked behind Scott and pushed him.

"Come on, McCall. Give it your all." Ethan said, pushing the Alpha back towards Aiden but the omega moved.

"We can always heal." Aiden spoke again. Scott tried to punch them but was easily knocked back over. "You're an Alpha. You want to roar like one, you've got to give it full throttle. You got to be the monster. Become the beast. Become everything you're afraid of."

"That's what gives you power. It gives you strength." Ethan spoke. Scott tried to punch them again, only to be knocked down by Aiden. Sophia rubbed her hands over her face as she watched.

"Giving into it doesn't make you the bad guy." Aiden said.

"As long as you can control it." Ethan said, looking at his brother rather than Scott.

"Sometimes control is a little overrated." Aiden said, leaning down to Scott's level from where he was still on the floor. He kicked the Alpha in the ribs and Sophia couldn't help the growl that came out when Scott cried out in pain. Ethan looked back at her, ready in case she did decide to come at them.

"What if I can't control it? What if I can't turn back?" Scott asked them, blood dripping from his mouth.

"Then it takes over. You become Malia. You get further and further from being human. You turn into an animal or worse… " Ethan spoke to Scott as he came over to him.

"You become Peter." Aiden said and Sophia couldn't disagree with that statement. Scott looked at the ground for a moment before he stood up, his entire demeanor changing. He charged the twins, only to be grabbed by Aiden and thrown on top of the table. Aiden jumped up as well, his feet on either side of Scott's ribs before he began punching Scott, repeatedly, in the face. Sophia ran over and grabbed Aiden's arm, he tried to pull away from her but she held fast.

"What? I thought we were helping him." She growled, her eyes red and her fangs dropping.

"Yeah, well, you help too much." Aiden looked at her in shock before looking down at Scott. She pulled him off of the other Alpha, not caring that he didn't land on his feet. Lydia and Stiles slowly made their way over, Scott turned his head to look at them, spitting blood out of his mouth and onto the floor.

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Sophia stepped out of the Camaro, looking around at everyone, they were all there. "Anyone else think we might be doing more harm than good?" Lydia asked.

"We're trying to keep a father from killing his own daughter." Scott said to her.

"Actually trying to keep a guy from killing a coyote who is actually his daughter, who we don't know how to change from a coyote back to his daughter." Isaac said and Sophia rolled her eyes.

"And again with the not helping." Stiles said from where he was standing beside his Jeep. Isaac nodded his head sarcastically back.

"Did you bring it?" Scott asked Allison. She popped the trunk of her car and pulled out a tranquilizer gun. Sophia jumped in surprise when she heard a couple of gunshots. Scott put his helmet on and got back on his bike, Sophia jumped on behind him, holding onto his waist as he took off. She wasn't sure how far they'd ridden before a scream rang out and caused Scott to lose control of the bike. They both fell to the ground, the she-wolf rolling a couple of times before she came to a stop. She tried to take in a deep breath but all of the wind had been knocked out of her. Scott sat up, taking his helmet off. "Are you okay?" He asked her and she nodded, finally getting her breath back.

"Yeah, I'm fine. You okay?" She asked and he nodded back.

"We have to find her." Scott said, standing up. She nodded as she got to her feet.

"You go one way, I go the other? We call each other if one of us sees her?" Sophia asked and he nodded. "Be careful." She said before the two wolves ran in separate directions. Sophia wasn't sure how far she had run but she knew, even going the long way, that she was close to the crash site. Sophia glanced to her right and caught a glimpse of Malia running. She changed her direction slightly to follow the coyote. When she was able to see the crash site, she saw Scott landing in front of Malia. She snarled at him, baring her fangs and pawing at the dirt. Scott looked up at her and Sophia realized that he was in his Beta form. Sophia's eyes changed to red as Scott roared at Malia. The she-wolf watched as the coyote's brown eyes turned blue and she backed away from him. She laid down before the coyote became a girl. Scott stood as Malia looked down at her hands before looking around, taking in everything as a human for the first time in eight years.

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At the end of the day, everything seemed to have worked out for them. Sophia stepped inside her house, looking down at her phone. Derek still hadn't texted her back, which was so unlike him. She put the phone back into her pocket before she toed off her shoes. She could hear her mother and father talking in the kitchen. She hadn't seen them since she went to Stiles' house, like, two days ago. She walked into the kitchen, causing her parents to quiet before her mom offered her a small smile.

"Sweetie, you were right." Her dad said and it took Sophia a moment to realize that he was talking about when they talked about John's impeachment. She nodded her head before walking over to give her dad a hug.

"Are you hungry?" Her mom asked, stirring whatever was on the stove. Sophia smiled at her parents before nodding her head.