Would it really kill you if we kissed?
By I'm Meaner than My Demons
Summary: 'BECAUSE THAT'S HOW MUCH POWER YOU HAVE OVER ME!' she shouted so loud she knew her neighbors must have heard, 'You own me, you control me, I give up everything just to be near you even though I know you will never love me. I hurt for you, I bleed just to be with, and I hate myself every single time I look at you or Allison knowing what I'm thinking, what I want because I want you to be with her. I'm torn between wanting to do the right thing as you friend and between wanting to do what I want. So don't you dare accuse me of trying to break you up when I've done nothing, but fought for you guys.'
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Nina tried to calm down. She felt like the whole room was spinning as she watched Stiles punch unconscious Derek in the elevator. Her mind briefly drifted to when she saw him do the same when the werewolf was poisoned by a bullet and fainted in the vet's clinic.
'Derek?'
'I should haven't have let her go alone,' she whispered softly.
'Derek, come on!' shouted Stiles and punched him again.
'Scott asked me to...'
Try keep an eye on my mind once we find her, please.
He said it to her when they were looking for something to help them against the twins. She should have keep an eye on her. She said she would...
'Derek!' shouted Stiles and punched him again only to have the werewolf wake up and look at him startled and confused, 'Where is she?'
'Jennifer? Gone with Scott's mom,' said Stiles as they both stood up.
'She took her?' asked the alpha horrified.
'Shouldn't have left her alone,' said Nina.
'Knock it off, you didn't know,' said Stiles before he nodded at Derek, 'Yeah, and if that's not enough of a kick to the balls, Scott left with Deucalion, okay? So we gotta get you out of here. The police are coming right now, and we gotta get you the hell out of here,' said the boy all sweaty and panting.
Derek almost felt, but Stiles managed to caught him, 'Whoa.'
'What about Cora?' asked Derek trying to stand still.
'Peter and Isaac got her out. Go will figure something out,' he said and the werewolf nodded. Derek put his hand on Stiles shoulder confusing the boy before he nodded, 'Thanks for protecting her.'
Stiles blinked completely taken by the thank you and watched as the werewolf stepped away and quickly ran to the door.
Nina suddenly gasped, 'Stiles?'
'What?'
'If she's taking guarding...what Maria?' she asked and Stiles's eyes winded, 'Go. I'll stay and deal with the cops, you go home and make sure she's alright, okay. We will call each other and if you find Scott,'
'I'll bring him back, I promise,' she said and quickly ran to her house. Hoping she was wrong and Maria wasn't taken.
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'You see the twins?' asked Isaac as he watched Peter tense in the car.
'No. But I see the Argents,' he said worried.
There was a distant howl in the dark and Allison moved closer to her father, 'What is it?'
'A retreat,' said Chris.
Isaac watched them before he spoke, 'Not to bring up uncomfortable memories, but wasn't the last time you saw them the time you killed Kate and then they burned you alive, hmm?' he asked and turned around only to find the werewolf gone and the door opened.
Isaac blinked confused, 'Uh?'
'Where are the others?' asked Chris as he got out of the car.
'I don't know. Scott and Stiles went back for Derek and Jennifer. I had to get Cora out,' spoke. There was another car which came Derek's. He got out and rushed to the other car to take his sister.
'Where's Scott and Stiles?' asked Allison.
Derek picked her up and quickly carried her to the back of his car before he returned, 'Stiles is still at the hospital. He's gonna hold off the cops for us. We have to go right now.'
'What about Scott and Melissa?' called Chris over the wind of the storm.
'Jennifer took Melissa,' said Derek and everyone froze at the new problem.
'What about Scott? Derek, where's Scott?' shouted Allison as he wouldn't answer. He stopped in track and slowly turned around.
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Nina rushed to her house.
'She hasn't been able to stand up. I said I would call an ambulance, but she doesn't want me to,' said the coach and pointed to living room. Nina ran there and found Maria under a blanket, 'Hi, sweetie.'
She kneeled to her, 'Hey, how are you? Are you hurt?'
'I think I've been losing my touch,' she said and added a smile, but Nina felt like crying, 'Come on, we can call an ambulance.'
She shook her head, 'That won't help now, my dear.'
Nina licked her lips, 'I can't lose you. I won't lose you. I won't stay alive without you, okay? I swear the God I will kill myself if you die, okay? I won't lose you. I have just you. You're my granny,' she said and her voice shook as she spoke.
'So melodramatic, Nina. We're not like that. We're strong. We're the seductresses. We're the fighters. We're the survivors.'
'Then survive, alright? Because I lost so much I can't lose any more. I can't live without you. I got just you. If I lost you I'm all alone, I can't be alone. You promised I wouldn't be alone, remember?'
Maria smiled at her and brought her face closer to kiss her forehead tenderly, 'You're so brave my child. The bravest of them all and the kindest and the sweetest and the best granddaughter imaginable.'
'Don't say that, snapped Nina with tears running down her face, 'Don't say that like we're supposed to never see each other again because I can't deal with that. I can't. Don't you dare to say goodbye to me because I won't accept that, alright?' she asked shaking her head, 'I can't.'
Maria closed her eyes feeling her own tears. It would have been easy to say. She lived a long and happy life. She made friends, she enjoyed life, she traveled. She had a daughter and a granddaughter, who she knew would take care of herself, but still leaving her alone broke her heart. No amount of friends will prepare you to be alone. Having friends gave a lot, but if you once had a hole from the absence of family it was never filled.
She brushed her hair, 'I will do my best, dear.'
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Stiles was clapping his leg against the table. He couldn't stop and he hated it. He hated being this nervous, but he was all over the place. He almost wished he didn't tell Nina to leave cause he was losing his mind. He looked to the side at the ground of police officers when he suddenly saw the FBI agent and cursed under his breath. Just to make things worse.
'A Stilinski at the center of this whole mess. What a shocker. Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?' asked the man as he came to him. He hated this guy so much. He was the asshole who left Scott feeling like he was not good enough. No one should have made people feel like that. Definitely not their dads.
'If you ask the questions without the usual level of stupid?' replied Stiles not even sorry.
'Where's your dad, and why's no one been able to contact him?'
'I don't know. I haven't seen him in hours.'
'Is he drinking again?' asked Agent McCall, and Stiles shot him an offended look before he asked, 'What do you mean, again? He never had to stop.'
'But he did have to slow down. Is he drinking like he used to?' he asked and Stiles shot him a look, 'All right, how about this? Next time I see him, I'll give him a field sobriety test, okay? We'll do the alphabet, start with "F," end with "U."'
'How about you just tell me what the hell happened here?' he asked and Stiles sighed, 'I don't know what happened here. I was stuck in the elevators the whole time.'
'You're not the one who put the name on the doors, are you?' asked Agent McCall already knowing the answer.
Stiles shot him a confused look, 'What name?'
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Isaac looked Cora. She didn't just look good she also smelled. She smelled like a dead animal.
'She's dying, isn't she?' he asked feeling already as if he was mourning for her before he could help himself.
'I don't know,' admitted Derek.
'So what are you gonna do?' asked Isaac trying to calm down and focus on something else. He couldn't help Cora anyhow, but maybe he could find a way to help find Melissa and the Sheriff or someone.
'I don't know,' said Derek again.
Isaac snapped at that annoyed, 'Want to figure something out? Because while Scott and Stiles were out there trying to help people from being killed, you were in here, rolling around the sheets with the actual killer. Do you get how many people she's killed? Erica and Boyd are dead, Cora is dying, and you are doing nothing! Why'd you do this to us, Derek? Was it all about the power? Were you bored? Were you lonely?' demanded Isaac.
Derek looked at him, 'Maybe.'
Isaac stopped shouting looking at him for the first time seeing the real loneliness in his eyes. He always held himself so much together. He always looked so unbreakable so strong like a rock, but he was alone. He was hurting. He was human just like all of the,/
'I told Cora I wouldn't leave. I'll help the others when I figure out how to help her.'
Isaac shook his head, 'There's no time! The full moon's coming. The sheriff and Melissa are gonna be dead, so I'm gonna try and help them. You can sit here and perfect the art of doing nothing,' he said bitterly and ran through the door slamming it behind.
Peter: I wouldn't take it personally. Anger is just a tool. He's using it to excuse shifting allegiance from one Alpha to another. From you to Scott.
Derek: Scott's not an Alpha yet.
Peter: But he's on his way, isn't he?
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Chris followed Allison and Stiles to his office, 'The word is guardian, Allison. More than anyone, you know that's a role I haven't exactly lived up to lately.'
'You were to me and Nina,' she said crossing her arms, 'Even if it was in a wrong way. You were sort off. I know you had your reasons why you didn't want her to know, and I think she knows as well, but...look we can't lose you. She took Scott's mother and Stiles' father. That's not a coincidence,' she said determinate.
'Yeah, I'd also consider the fact that someone put your name up in large block letters on the elevator doors. That kind of felt like a warning to me,' added Stiles.
'I think it might be Morrell. She knows a lot more than she lets on, and she might even be trying to help us,' said Allison.
'Well, she needs to get on that a lot faster, okay? Seeing as how the lunar eclipse is less than two freaking nights away,' said Stiles crossing his arms.
Chris shook his head, 'Stiles, don't give up hope.'
'They could already be dead,' mumbled the boy, 'It is a possibility.'
'I don't think so. There's something about Jennifer's tactics. It's like she's still positioning, still moving pieces into place,' he said sure.
'And you're one of them.'
'Then let's not wait around to see the next move. Everything she's done has been on a telluric current, so Melissa and the sheriff have to be somewhere on one of those currents, right? Stiles, if we're gonna find them, we need your help,' he told the boy and they all came close to his desk to look at the map.
'You seriously want to go after her? I mean, what if she just takes you like the others, huh? No offense, but what's the difference between you and them?' asked the boy worried.
'I'm carrying a .45. Maybe she can heal from a shot to the leg and a few slashes to the face, but personally, I'd like to see how she holds up with half her skull blown off. We've got one priority right now, and that is to find Melissa and your dad. We've got a map and every clue we need to figure this out. The only thing we don't have is time, which is why I need both of you.'
Stiles nodded and looked down, 'Where do we start?'
'The place where the sacrifices have been committed have usually been different from where the bodies have been found. I think the placement has to do with the strength of the current, so there's the school, the animal clinic, the bank,' he spoke.
Stiles frowned, 'Wait a sec, she wouldn't use the same place twice, would she?'
'Only if she didn't succeed the first time,' he said and Allison added, 'Scott's boss.'
'Deaton. It was her only failure. That could mean something,' nodded Chris.
'That's just one place so far. We're gonna need a lot more help,' Stiles brushed his face already tired from the night and everything.
'What about Lydia?' asked Allison.
'Lydia? What can she do?' asked Chris confused about what could the strawberry blonde do useful.
'Uh, Lydia's got sort of a talent. She somehow ended up finding a couple of the bodies, um, without actually looking for them,' said Stiles/
Chris frowned, 'What is she? Psychic?'
Stiles shrugged his shoulders unsure, 'She's something.'
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Clara tried to open the door a few times, but they were shut so hard she couldn't.
'What the-?' she got worried and she started to hit them, 'Hey!'
Peter opened, 'Sorry, we had a dramatic storming out unfortunately.'
She frowned before she walked pass him immediately spotting the girl on the bed. She sighed before she went closer and put her hand on her forehead, 'This is bad.'
She dug through her pocket and brought a crystal out.
Derek frowned while Peter looked interested, 'A crystal. I heard of those. It must have been very hard to make them.'
Clara shot him a look before she looked back at Cora, 'I have three left. That's it. I can give it to her one at a time, but...'
'But?' asked Derek worried and Clara looked at him, 'There might be a way to actually cure her.'
'Tell me,' said Derek in a heartbeat and Clara nodded, 'You, an alpha could cure her, for a price.'
Derek nodded, 'I'll do anything. Tell me.'
She took his hand and turn it around to show his claws.
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'Whoa,' said Stiles as he saw how prepared they were and how much guns and weapons they had, 'I thought you guys were retired.'
'Retired, yes. Defenseless, no. Make sure your phone's on. If you hear from Scott, you let us know immediately,' explained Chris.
'Yeah, I'm thinking that's gonna be kind of unlikely,' said Stiles. He needed do get Scott to talk to them. They needed to do this together like always. He just knew it.
'Both of you, try to remember he's just doing what he thinks is right,' Chris said as he saw how both of them had that look on their faces like the disapprove. He understood that in the situation where the young werewolf had no way out, he chose to try to trust an enemy. He would too honestly if it was him.
'What about Nina?' he asked suddenly.
'She went to see Maria. With Jennifer poisoning her she was worried,' said Stiles, 'She also thought she might be the next guardian.'
Suddenly Isaac appeared in the doorway, 'I can't shoot a gun or use a crossbow, but... Well, I'm... I'm getting pretty good with these.'
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Nina appeared behind him, 'I just came to say that I'm gonna try and look for her in the woods. I knew where Nemeton was once, maybe I will find it again.'
Chris went around the table, 'It's dangerous to go after her alone. We're going as ground.'
She grimaced, 'I'm faster than all of you together. You will slow me down,' she said and went to leave. Stiles and Allison shared a look while Chris ran pass Isaac after the blonde.
'Nina, wait,' he said and she stopped and turned around.
'Nina, I understand that you're upset,' said Argent and she shook her head, 'No, you don't get it, alright? Maria is dying I know she is. You-how did you feel when your wife died? Was it agony?' she asked seeing the hurt that flashed through his face, 'Was is? Well, now when you think about Allison and the possibility of her getting hurt isn't it like all that agony again? Over and over until you calm yourself that she's fine? Because Maria isn't fine so that's how I feel all the time. You-She's the only family I have left,' she saw how he nodded and explained, 'We don't know each other. Me, you, Allison. You guys are strangers to me. Maria is like... she's like my mom. She raised me and took care for me and always loved and helped me and was there. That's family,' she sighed, 'I can't stand the thought of losing her, alright?' she asked.
He nodded, 'I understand more than you know, Nina. Family isn't just blood or name. It runs deeper and has more meaning to people who experience what it is like to lose it.'
She sighed, 'I can't lose her. Not her.'
She walked passed him outside.
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'What the hell are you doing?' shouted Allison as her father knocked Isaac out in the vault.
'Dad!'
'I'm sorry. But you're just gonna have to trust me on this. I knew for a long time she didn't just operate on the currents. She was in sync with them,' he said and then looked at Jennifer who was walking in pulling out his gun.
'Now this is a sacrifice,' said the woman.
'Not yet, first you will tell us how to cure Maria James.'
The woman smiled, 'Ah, nothing beats the fatherly love now does it?'
He pulled the safety off.
She shrugged her shoulders, 'Fine. You can't. Maria has to continue to take the poison. When she doesn't she gets weaker that's why she's sick.'
'So what she has to slowly kill herself?' asked Allison and the woman looked at her disinterested, 'It the abstinence that kills her. Once she starts to use again she's be fine. Well, she'll live.'
'For how long days? Weeks?'
'Maybe even years?'
She took a step closer, 'Now, about that gesture of yours.'
He looked at her disgusted but he did put the safety back on and the gun down.
'There we go,' she smirked as a cat at a canary.
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Nina was running through the woods. She felt sick when she finally got to the place Morrison killed the succubus, but she had no other choice. She had to retake her steps to find Nemeton. She tried and failed several direction. She didn't get it. Why wouldn't it show up? Why? Why couldn't she find it? Why was it hidden? Maria explained to her that it only revealed itself if it chose to, but still. At one point as she was running she caught Scott's energy. He was close. As she ran she sensed the twins and Deucalion too, but she could tell Scott was a bit further from them. She ran hoping he would be far enough and she could maybe somehow get to talk to him. It was faster than she expected as something came at her.
Suddenly Nina was on the ground as Scott stopped her and accidentally got her on her back on the wet and slippery ground below their feet, 'That was close,' he said, 'They almost saw you.' He couldn't help feeling this momentary peace just by seeing her. Just by knowing she was okay and she was still with. Being able to smell her scent calm his down the same way sniffing his shirt after she wore it had on him. Now he got used to throw himself on his bed to feel her scent though. It was enough for him to forget himself and almost start touching himself, but he held back because he would have no way of that not looking embarrassing or disgusting.
She breathed hard against him before he got her up looking at her and then back at where he came from. If he noticed her they could as well, 'You shouldn't have come.'
She pushed him a bit upset, 'Can they really help you? Or do they just want to control you?' she asked before she closed her eyes and shook her head. She was just frustrated with all of it like the rest of them she didn't mean it, 'And I didn't come for you. I came to look for the Nemeton.'
Scott blinked confused before he remembered, 'That's the tree you used. The one that gave you the power to sacrifice your heart when you were a kid?'
She nodded, 'I found it once so maybe it would reveal itself again. Jennifer is using its power so maybe if I find it. I'll find her as well.'
Scott shook his head putting his hands on her, 'Nina, no, that's too dangerous and you know it.'
'So? You did the same...you're doing the same right now,' she said pointing at where she sensed the energies of the others.
Scott sighed holding back his sudden anger at her being so difficult, 'Jennifer managed to get the sheriff and my mom. She could get you too.'
'And so could I her,' argued Nina before she put her hand on Scott's chest, 'Please come with me. Don't trust them. We'll go to Maria and Deaton and Clara. They will figure something out. They've been around longer than us.'
He saw a piece of dirt that caught on her lip and he brushed it away with his thumb. They had been on their feet nonstop for the past day and he had a feeling they wouldn't stop until the full moon which was just a day and something away. He remembered back to the time in his house just a day ago where they were teasing each other and playing the stupid game so he could prove to her she matter to him more than she could possibly imagine.
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He walked toward her as she was standing pressed again the wall to his room with another stupid lollypop in her mouth with the most sexual pose he could even imagine to show just how sexy she was without being vulgar about it.
'What's the matter?' she asked pulling the lollypop from her mouth for a second before she brought it back in.
Scott smirked and grabbed the little stick the tasty candy was on.
She opened her mouth surprised waiting as it was becoming it hard to focus and keep in check as the air was filled with Scott's desire and arousal.
He put it into his own mouth tasting the sweet yet jammy.
'You okay there, Nina?'
Damn that boy to hell
She went at him right there tearing the lollypop out of his mouth violently and threw it to the ground before she smashed their sticky from the sweet lips together in hungrylike kisses hands running through the bodies desperate to get them even closer than they already were.
He broke the kiss and she let out a moan.
He watched her as she managed to calm down a bit and slowly opened her eyes.
He gave her that honest and pure and raw look, 'God, I want you-and don't tell me that it's the want or heat or whatever… . YOU and I care for you and I…I really care for you, Nina.'
She closed her eyes again before she pressed herself against the wall causing some distance between them, 'You don't know that.'
He wanted to grab her so bad and press her hand against his chest right on top of his heart, but he would break the deal and he didn't want to, 'Feel my heart if you don't believe me.' She looked at him before she put her hand against his chest.
'Trust me, I do.'
She looked him deep into the eyes. She knew he meant it. He always did but they couldn't be like that. Not really. Not when there was just the smallest chance that she could kill him.
She looked down at the small lollipop on the ground and picked it up, 'I hope you don't want to eat it now,' he said and she chuckled at him and shook her head, 'I just remembered that this isn't our first lollypop incident.'
He blinked before his face softened. He remembered as well. It was the first day he saw her. She came to the station where the sheriff was helping them with their homework while his mom was at work. She was all dirty and had torn clothes.
He remembered for a moment being startled because he and Stiles watched Chucky in secret a few nights ago, and even if he acted brave he was super scared afterwards. But then he calmed down. What really surprised him was the look her eyes. She looked so…gone. She looked as if she wasn't even inside her body. He was nine and he didn't understand that look, he knew sad. He saw it in Stiles's eyes sometimes when he was thinking about his mom or his dad drank. He thought that maybe he had that same look when he was thinking about his dad who abandoned them like they didn't matter. It was a look that made him want to do something nice for the girl. Anything. He went to call his mom. They wouldn't let him and Stiles to the office since she was there and Stiles spent a lot of time gathering information about what happened. All they knew was that her mom was missing and that her granny was coming over. They put a blanket over her and she was waiting in the office looking blindly at the desk. He looked down at their things before thought of something. The sheriff always gave them some sweets after they did their homework, but since he was busy he just took put the two lollipops on the table for them. Stiles was too busy to notice them running around trying find out what happened. Scott watched the little item for a moment before he took one and went to the office.
The girl looked up as the door opened and he walked in, 'Hi, uh, I brought you this.'
He said and handed her the red cherry lollipop. She blinked at it and then at him without a single word, 'Candy makes me better so, here.'
It was a while before she took it and smiled at him. He blinked and smiled as well, 'You shouldn't worry. Sheriff Stilinski is the best. He'll find your mom.'
Her smile fell, but she nodded just as the door opened and deputy Parker rushed him out of the room.
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Scott sighed with that look her eyes Scott was ready to give Nina everything, but he had to do it his way. He just had to. He turned back to her and brushed her face, 'Trust me just a little bit longer.'
She shook her head, 'Scott, I don't like this.'
He stroked her face, 'Just a little bit more, Nina. I promise.'
She sighed and nodded before she took a step back away from his hold, 'Just text us if you can.'
He nodded and watched as she ran faster than he ever could. Watching her leave always left a terrible feeling inside him a feeling he couldn't help, but despised. It was just when she far away did she checked her phone to find out that Argent got taken again. She didn't turn around just cursed and ran away. If she did she would notice the huge tree behind her and if she waited a bit longer she would see Jennifer bringing Chris Argent to the cellar.
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'You can't be serious,' said Peter has Clara put the crystal to Cora's hand.
'Do you know what she's suggesting? Why would you even say that Clara? Possibly still upset about Paige?' he asked and the woman shot him an offended and hurt look before she looked at Derek, who shook his head, 'You don't have to say anything, I know.'
Clara saw it in his eyes. The will to save Cora above everything. It was the reason she fell for him after all. How much, even if he rarely showed it, he really cared.
Peter shook his head and spoke, 'You know normal wolves never abandon an injured member of the pack. They care for it. They bring it food from a kill and then regurgitate it into the mouth of the injured wolf. They even give it physical and emotional comfort by intensely grooming it. In a way, they can do more than just ease pain. They can be instrumental in healing their own. It's that spark of power that makes you an Alpha. When you take her pain, she draws on the power that provides you with those special gifts. The power that heightens your senses, your strength. The power that transforms your body. As an Alpha, you have that bit of extra, that spark intensifies the color of your eyes from a bright yellow into a searing red.'
Derek sighed and looked at Cora, 'If I can save her'
With the crystal she looked slightly better.
'If. If. I didn't say it works every time. It could just as easily kill you,' said Peter.
'Not if he does it right,' she argued Clara, 'Not if you want it bad enough.'
She took his arm, 'I know you can. I trust you. I know you can save her. I know you can save and the others.'
Looking into her brown eyes, Derek believed as well. He put his own hand on her shoulder and stroke her softly.
'Do you want a room?' asked Peter and Derek shot him a look while Clara terribly embarrassed stepped away.
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Lydia shook her head, 'I don't believe it. Scott can't really be with them. He can't be.'
Stiles sighed as they were walking down the hallway, 'You didn't see the look on his face, though. It was...,' he shook his head. It was something he never wanted to see on his face ever again.
Lydia stopped in track, 'Then what can I do? I mean, I get that I'm some kind of, like, human geiger counter for death, but... I don't know how to turn it on and off yet. All I know is that she tried to kill me because of...'
'Because of what? Hey, Lydia, what?' he asked as he saw how she suddenly stopped talking.
Lydia swallowed, 'When she called me a banshee, she was surprised by it. What if that's not why she tried to kill me?'
'Then why did she?' asked Stiles.
'That's what we need to find out,' she said and they started to walk again.
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'Why did he do that?' asked Allison as Isaac got her out of her handcuffs which her had put on her.
'I don't know. We need to go. Okay? We need help,' he told the poor girl looking at her. He could see how he was losing her. She was going into a shock.
Isaac looked at her trying to get her to look into his eyes, 'Allison... Allison, we have to go.' They needed to move. They didn't have time for that.
'They're all gonna die. Aren't they?' she asked with breathing shaky voice and Isaac leaned closer for a moment. For a moment she thought he was going to kiss her to distract her and she would actually let him. Instead he pulling her into a tight embrace and held her for a while to calm down.
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Clara was softly stroking Cora's forehead while holding her hand. Once she opened it the crystal was white and useless.
Peter shook his head, 'I can understand not seeing a downside to this, as you haven't exactly been Alpha of the year, but think about what else you'd be losing.'
Derek almost chuckled as he watched his sister dying, 'I don't care about power. Not anymore.'
'What about the power to fight back? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Kali's ultimatum still stands. The full moon is tomorrow night, and if you couldn't beat her as an Alpha, how do you think you're gonna fare as a beta?'
'I don't care,' snapped Derek.
'What if this was exactly what Jennifer was hoping for? She would know the only way for you to save Cora would be giving up your power. Maybe that's what she was gonna have you do at the hospital.'
'Why?'
'So that you wouldn't be able to face the alphas without her. She wants you to come to her. It's all part of her little seduction, and she is still seducing you. She needs you on her side.'
Clara shivered at the thought, 'It makes sense. Without Cora she has no bargain over you, not the kind that would get you to kill for her, fight for her.'
Derek looked at Clara, 'I won't let her push me into anything.'
'Can't you see? This is all her? From the start poisoning the James, getting to befriend me, seducing you, Cora? She's playing the long game. She was preparing this for years. She knows what she wants and I think she left nothing at coincidence.'
Derek moved closer at her so she would look him into the eyes.
'I won't.'
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Lydia sighed putting her phone away, 'Aiden's not texting me back.'
They were in a crowded hallway. She almost wondered what was the point of being in class before she looked at Stiles and saw how he suddenly visibly shook.
'Oh, God.'
'What is it now?' she asked stepping closer to him.
'It's from Isaac. Jennifer, she t... she has Allison's father. She took him. She's got all three now,' he said putting the phone away. Lydia never saw his this frightened. She watched as he started to look around with this confused look on his face.
'Stiles? There's still time,' she said. Stiles felt as if his heart was doing to jump out of his chest with how fast and hard it was pounding against his rib case.
'We still have time, right?' she asked gasping as she saw how Stiles got white suddenly.
'Stiles?' Are you okay? What is it? What's wrong? Stiles,' she repeated, but it was as if her voice was coming from a distance. The last time he saw his dad. The last time he spoke to him. He told him that he didn't believe him. He accused him of not being a good enough parent because he didn't believe him. The last time he looked at him he had that upset look on his face. They didn't even say goodbye or be careful. He didn't tell him neither of those things…if he dies…if he died he didn't got to say goodbye or tell him that he loved him.
Stiles swallowed hard before he looked at her, 'I think I'm having a panic attack.' He started to gasp losing the ability to breath.
Lydia watched the boy turn around unable to breath. She looked around herself. She had to get him from the hallway. She spotted the lockers room which should have been empty now and quickly took his hand dragging him with her.
'Okay Come on. Come on,' she said. They threw away their bag and Stiles collapse against the lockers and got down gasping for air. It was a terrifying scene and she had no idea what to do.
Lydia quickly got in front of him her mind going into overdrive, 'Just try and think about something else, anything else.'
'Like what?' Stiles managed to choke out.
'Uh, happy things. Good things. Uh, friends, family,' spoke Lydia and he shot her a look like why would she even say that.
Lydia felt like slapping her forehead, 'Oh, I mean... not family.'
'Oh, God. '
Lydia swallowed hard remembering that the problem was his breathing and going over everything she ever read about panic attack, 'Okay, uh, just... Try and slow your breathing.'
Stiles was hyperventilating, 'I can't. I can't.'
Lydia looked at him startled before she said, 'Shh, shh. Stiles, look at me. Shh, look at me. Shh, Stiles.'
She grabbed his face suddenly and before he knew what was happening she pressed her lips against his completely catching him off guard. He couldn't believe it. He seriously couldn't believe it. She...Lydia...her lips...soft. He forgot to close his eyes so he did it too late and just let her do everything cause his brain crashed from the contact and he had no idea what to use in the first place now.
When Lydia broke the kiss it was a moment before she opened her eyes and Stiles had no idea why it just happened or what was thinking or what to say now and if it meant anything so he just decided to find out, 'Ooh. How'd you do that?'
Lydia looked away and chuckled nervously, 'I, uh... I read once that... Holding your breath could stop a panic attack. So when I kissed you... You held your breath.'
Stiles watched her he was completely sweaty from what just happened. He wasn't sure if he was happy or sad about her answer in the moment. In the moment the answer didn't matter because they had more important things to take care of so he asked, 'I did?'
'Yeah. You did.'
Stiles nodded, 'Thanks. Really smart,' he said and Lydia smiled back at him shrugging.
'I just... I don't know. I just read it somewhere,' she tried to brush it off still feeling how soft were her lips. She never thought about how soft Stiles Stilinski's lips could be, but they were...
She shook her head, 'And if I was really smart, I would tell you to sign up for a few sessions with a guidance counselor.'
They suddenly both thought the same thing.
'Morrell!'
They opened to the door in the next moment only to have Nina behind it. Stiles yelp, 'Jesus, Nina!'
She raised her hands, 'I sensed you were here. What's up?'
'We need to go to Morrell.'
Both girls followed Stiles's lead. Nina put her hand on Lydia's back, 'How do you feel?' she asked and for the moment the girl thought she meant the kiss until she saw Nina's sad smile and she understood it.
Lydia nodded, 'I'm fine. It was scary, but I'm fine now. I'm trying not to think about it too much though.'
Nina nodded, 'You're great you know that?'
They smiled at each other. In the guidance council office they found a student waiting for her session.
'Are you here for Ms. Morrell?' asked Stiles.
'No, I thought this was gym class,' replied the girl smartly and Nina shot her a look.
'Sweetheart, we're not in the mood for funny. Do you know where she is?' asked Lydia.
'If I did, I wouldn't be waiting here for 20 minutes. So how about you two back out the door and wait your turn?
'We're not here for a session.'
'Well, I am. And I've got some serious issues to work on.' At that Stiles looked at her and realized recognized her.
'Hey, wait, wait. You're Danielle. You're Heather's best friend.'
'I was Heather's best friend, said the girl softly, 'We've been working on that issue three times a week.'
'Hold on, did you say Ms. Morrell's 20 minutes late?' asked Lydia instantly.
'And I don't know why either. She's always on time.'
Lydia looked at the others, 'I was seeing her at the beginning of the semester remember? She was never late.'
'Then she's not late. She's missing,' stated Stiles.
'What if we're not the only ones who think she knows something?'
'Then I want to know what she knows,' said Stiles before he went through the drawers.
'What are you doing?' asked Lydia startled.
'Trying to find her.'
'Stiles, I doubt she left a note where we can find her. If she's hiding she leaves no trace.'
'What the hell are you jokers talking about?' she asked looking at them and Nina shot her an awkward smile, 'It's complicated. You shouldn't think about it. Do yourself a favor.'
She frowned at her confused before she looked at Stiles again and said, 'Those files are private.' Nina turned to Stiles who was digging through some files.
'Yeah, she's kind of right,' said Lydia wisely.
'That one's yours,' he said raising one and she instantly took it, 'Let me see that.'
'Nina, did you come here too?' asked Stiles confused holding a file. Nina blinked, 'No? I came here like once.'
'Well, that's a very large file for one season,' said Stiles as he hand it to her. She took the file confused. The date was from last semester when they were dealing with the kanima and Morrell asked her to come in for a moment.
Lydia started to go through the file while Stiles watched her and then Nina who was still looking at the front side of her file. She decided to take it later. They had more important issues now.
'Wait, Lydia, that's your drawing,' spoke the boy suddenly.
'Yeah, I know. It's a tree,' said Lydia at the drawing of a tree. Nina frowned, 'I saw you drawing it in the class a lot.'
'Yeah, good too,' admired Danielle and Lydia smiled, 'Thank you.'
'No. But that's the same one, though,' he spoke and Nina blinked as Stiles took Lydia's notebook and opened. Nina's eyes widened. It was the same tree. She suddenly remembered something.
'it's the exact same one. Don't you see?' asked Stiles.
'Stiles? Remember when you were trying to get Lydia to find Deaton?' asked Nina and they looked at her. 'You said you used this thing automatic writing?' she asked and pointed at the paper, 'You said she draw this tree...'
'Okay, you can have my session. You got bigger issues,' said Danielle and left.
Lydia started to look seriously freaked out while Nina just watched the identical trees. She couldn't help it. There was something familiar about it. Something really familiar about it.
She slowly put her hand on the bottom of it. Familiar...
Nina suddenly took it and started to spin it around. She started to breath hard as she recognized it. She took the picture and put it upside down.
'Oh my God.'
'Nina, Nin, what is it?' asked Stiles and she started to shake her head before she looked at him., 'She gets her powers from the tree. I know where she took them. She took them to it. The finale sacrifice needs to happen there. It needs to happen at the Nemeton.'
They grabbed the paper and rushed out of the small office down the hallway, 'Alright, what now?' asked Lydia.
'I know where they are. It's the Nemeton. That's where she's keeping them. It has to be...'
He suddenly stopped in track, 'Shit.'
'What?' asked the girls as they looked at the man in the hallways.
'Stilinski.'
'Who's that?' asked Nina frowning.
'The FBI agent, look just go, alright?' asked Stiles, 'go to Derek, okay? He and Peter, they've been there before, so they'll know where it is. Tell them it's the root cellar, all right? They'll know,' he said as he glared at the man and walked to him.
Nina's phone rang, 'Damn it. It's coach.'
'Go to Maria. I will call you right away,' said Lydia and she nodded.
Nina nodded. She stopped outside her house though. She picked her phone and called. Once the voice mail was turned on she said, 'I know you have your reasons. I trust you, but...please, be careful,' she licked her lips, 'I would if I lost you.'
She ended the call and quickly ran to the house to Maria.
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'It's a firefly, said Scott as he and Deucalion stopped for a moment and he saw a glowing firefly like the ones from a month ago when they spent the night trying to stop Boyd and Cora.
'Unusual for this region,' said the alpha.
'It's because of Jennifer, isn't it? Just before all this started, a deer crashed into Lydia's car. The cats went crazy at the animal clinic. Birds flew into the high school. That was all her,' said Scott looking at him.
'They say animals can sense natural disasters when they're about to happen. Maybe they can sense supernatural ones as well.'
'Does she scare you?' asked Scott. The question has been on his mind for a while now.
'She concerns me if she's willing to kill that many innocent people for her cause, people like your mother and Stiles' father,' replied the man.
'Are you willing to kill innocent people?'
Deucalion looked his way, 'I'll kill any living thing that gets in my way.'
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Maria was alright once she got to the house with Allison and Isaac there.
'What's going on?' she asked.
'Jennifer took Argent,' said the older woman as she was in the kitchen, and Nina stopped in track before she looked at the others, 'So she has all three sacrifices now.'
She looked at the table and noticed the wooden box. The same one that Jennifer gave to Maria and her eyes widened, 'What is that doing here?'
'Dad gave himself up in returned Jennifer told him that your granny has to continue to take the poison so she wouldn't get weaker.'
Nina's eyes widened as that meant that she had to continue poison herself, 'What so you're an addict now or something? But it's still poison? It's killing you,' she argued.
'Beats immediate death wouldn't you say?' asked Maria and Nina shook her head, 'This isn't right there's got to be a another way a different approach.'
Maria sighed, 'I think if Jennifer really wanted Chris to go with her she wouldn't risk lying to him this time.'
This was not happening. There had to be a way. A different one. Nina closed her eyes. Fine. For now they had to find the others before the full moon. Then she would deal with that.
'Alright, fine, let's talk about something else. Let's talk about Nemeton.'
Eventually Stiles and Scott finally show up. It was the situation that got Nina not to run to the boy and hug him feeling reveal somehow that she at least saw him and that he was well.
'Do you know about the Nemeton? Where is it? I looked for it afterwards, but I never found it,' she said as Maria was shaking her head in the kitchen with Allison and Isaac but the door and Scott and Stiles near the counter, 'Look, if you know something, Maria. You have to tell me.'
'I don't. It doesn't work like that. The Nemeton shows up when it's time to sacrifice the heart and only to the one that's chose. I never ever saw it myself,' she said shaking her head.
'But I did. There's got to be a way, to find it somehow. Somewhere,' she demanded and Maria sighed, 'There's not. Not unless it wants to be found, and why would it if it has a chance to get three more sacrifices. This is the darkest energy imaginable you're dealing with,' she looked at all the kids, 'Nothing good comes from the Nemeton. Absolutely nothing. You don't know the evil that lives inside it.'
Nina shook her head, 'You know something. You went there when mom was killed, you have to have seen something thing.'
Maria suddenly took a step forward only to almost lost her balance and fall if Nina and Stiles didn't rush to catch her, 'Hey, Maria?'
'Granny?' asked Nina feeling bad that she was so rough with her, 'I'm sorry, are you alright?' asked the blonde worried. Maria sat down and brushed her hand, 'I don't thing Deaton's medication is working one bit.'
She looked at Nina.
'It's killing you isn't it?' asked Nina already knowing the answer.
Maria brushed her forehead, 'Very slowly I suppose,' she said nodding and Nina felt tears run to her eyes, 'No. This is...this is not happening right now. We can't just lose every single parent we have left, Jesus.'
Maria took her hand, 'Don't worry I will hold on for a little longer.'
She then looked at the other teens. So many young and brave and good people in her kitchen. It almost reminded her of the times she made friends with the Hales. She found out that friendships with people who know everything about you are the only real and pure ones.
She looked at Scott, 'How willing are you to save your parents?'
Scott looked at Stiles and Allison before they looked at the older James, 'Very. We'll do anything.'
'You shouldn't say things like that Scott. Anything is a very terrifying word,' said the woman darkly which caused the werewolf's heart to speed up, but he had to know if there was a chance, 'Tell us.'
'Call Deaton, and tell him that you want to sacrifice yourself for your parents.'
If possible the room went completely still and silent.
DDDDDDDDDDDDD
They all got to the vet's clinic where Lydia was pouring bags of ice into three tubs. Nina swallowed hard seeing that.
'Essentially, you, Allison, and Stiles need to be surrogate sacrifices for your parents.'
'We die for them?' asked Scott and Nina felt her heart speeding up. She decided to do at least something and help Lydia.
'But he can bring us back. You can... you can bring us back, right?' asked Stiles and Deaton shot him a look, 'You remember the part where I said it was dangerous? If it goes right, the three of you will be dead for a few seconds, but there's something else you need to think about. This is a dangerous thing for more reasons than one. You'll be giving power back to the Nemeton, a place that hasn't had power for a long time. This kind of power is like a magnet. It attracts the supernatural, the kind of things that a family like the Argents can fill the pages of a bestiary with. It will draw them here, like a beacon.' he said very darkly and Scott tense. He didn't like the sound of something more or worse coming to Beacon Hills because of them.
'Doesn't sound any worse than anything we've already seen,' spoke Stiles.
'You'd be surprised at what you have yet to see.'
Scott shook his head. It didn't matter. If it saved their parents it didn't matter what was the cost, 'Is that it?'
Deaton shook his head, 'No. It'll also have an effect on the three of you. You won't be able to see it, but you'll feel it every day for the rest of your lives. It'll be a kind of a darkness around your heart, and permanent, like a scar.'
Scott froze, 'Like a tattoo.' He touched his arm. He wondered what will happen next. Once they did it. Once they save everyone. What will happen next?
He walked to Nina as Deaton went to wait for Allison and Isaac.
'It doesn't sound so bad,' he said lightly and Nina shot him a look, 'Which part? Darkness? Beacon or just you know the whole dying part?' she asked back and stopped doing anything for a moment.
He chuckled, 'Right.'
She put her hand on his arm, 'We'll figure this out. Somehow. One problem at a time.'
He smiled and nodded, 'Yeah, we'll, and we will find a way to cure Maria.'
She watched him for a moment before she nodded trying to get his positivity into her. She wanted to hug him. She wanted to take him and bury herself into his chest like he let her when she thought Clara was dead or when she found out that she was partly an Argent or any time she felt like she was going to fall apart. People rarely hugged her. The first time Scott hugged her she felt like a child on Christmas and a wild animal not sure what to do. He made her feel safe there were many people who could do that, and no one could make her feel the way Scott could. She wished this would all past. She wished that she would wake up and it was three days later everyone saved and okay and just finally everything would be fine again. She wished for a better tomorrow. She hoped it was waiting for them soon.
'All right. What did you bring?' asked Deaton as Allison and Isaac came in.
Stiles showed a golden star, 'Um, I got my dad's badge. Jennifer kind of crushed it in her hand, so I tried hammering it out a bit. Still doesn't look great.'
\Well, it doesn't need to look good if it has meaning.' The boy nodded before he looked at Allison and the item in her hand, 'Is that an actual silver bullet?'
'My dad made it. It's kind of a ceremonial thing. When one of us finishes learning all the skills to be a hunter, we forge a silver bullet as a testament to the code.'
Deaton nodded and then turned to Scott, 'Scott?'
Scott pulled out a watch from his pocket, 'My dad got my mom this watch when she first got hired at the hospital. She used to say it was the only thing in their marriage that ever worked.'
'Okay, the three of you will get in. Each of us will hold you down until you're essentially... Well, dead. But it's not just someone to hold you under. It needs to be someone who can pull you back, someone that has a strong connection to you, a kind of emotional tether,' he spoke and Scott's eye drift to Nina for a second and she smiled at him a bit. As Lydia started to walk to Allison Deaton suddenly spoke, 'Lydia... You go with Stiles.'
It made sense. The boy was crushing on her since the third grade and they recently became quite the team. Nina and Scott looked at Isaac and Allison who looked anywhere but at each other and Nina almost felt lighter by the realization that there was something starting between the brunette and the tall werewolf.
Scott took Nina's hand suddenly and dragged her to the small corridor away from the others who were preparing the three bathtubs.
'What's wrong?' she asked looking at him worriedly. He looked at her and wanted to almost laugh at how concerned about him she look and yet so beautiful.
He opened his mouth. He was going to say it. Now, right now, just once, just this once before all hell will broke loose or maybe it already did.
Gosh, he couldn't say it.
'Scott?' she asked and her lips pulled into a confused smile. She was so beautiful that he just lost it.
He swallowed hard and before she knew it he pulled her by the waist toward him his hands sneaking not purposely under her short top, and he kissed her. She didn't even have time to close her eyes until later as she was struck by the desperation and intensity of the kiss. Her hand went to his chest and then to his neck while one of his went to her hair tangling his fingers into it as he broke the kiss.
She blinked confused wondering if it was because he was just being in shock or too scared about his mom.
He looked down at her and said as if it was the easiest thing in the world, 'I love you.'
Nina gasped stunned. This was not what she was expecting him the say, and sure as hell not now when he was literally going to drown in an ice cold tub.
'I'm not saying it so you have to say it back or-whatever. I'm telling this because I need you to know this before-before something else might happen,' he said and Nina shook her head ready to argue that nothing was going to happen, but Scott cut her off by continuing, 'I love you. I love how much you care for all of us, every single person in this world. I love how you're honest, smart, funny, and completely beautiful you are inside. I desire you. Me, not just my wolf, but it doesn't matter because what matters is that I love you, Nina,' he looked her deep into the eyes, 'You are loved for who you are by me, not the glow or whatever you think that people just care about you…You, you are loved by me completely with every piece of my soul and everything I got-I love everything about you, and I love everything you are, and I'm not telling you to say it back or whatever. I'm telling you to know,' he said putting his hands on her cheeks.
'I know you're terrified. I know you don't want to be with anyone until you can really be with them, and I'm not-I'm not saying this to force you into something, I want to be with you in whatever way you want, and you are ready to be. I know you don't want anyone until you master control. I get that, I support that, but I need you to know…I love you.'
She watched him still completely stunned the whole time he spoke before she swallowed hard and nodded because in that moment she couldn't say anything, and it killed her that she couldn't find the voice to say something to him and not let him leave without some hope.
He smiled at her adoringly for a moment before he pressed their foreheads together, 'Afterwards we'll talk, and we'll deal with everything I promise.'
She nodded against his forehead licking her lips a bit, 'I like the sound of that.'
Someone let out a small cough and the both of them looked over to Deaton who shot them an apologizing look, 'We can start.'
They stepped away from each other and Scott took her hand leaning her back into the room. Her head felt like it was spinning, and she was going to faint. Three of her friends were going to commit almost suicides while their parents were possibly getting ritually used at the moment. It was all too much and on top of everything Scott had to choose that moment to tell her that he loved her? Sophomore Nina would have jumped five stores high if she heard him say those words in such a romantic way, but junior Nina? Right now? She was losing Maria and the thought of losing Scott or anyone else filled her heart with so much fear there was almost no room for love in the moment.
They all got ready. They stripped their coats and jackets and took one by one their place in front of a tub. She felt so weak like everyone she cared about was at the tip of the knife and she couldn't do one damn thing to help them. All those powers of the five everyone spoke and worried about and she was completely useless.
She watched as the all got inside one by one. She remembered how Isaac got into one just a month ago. This felt worse. She watched how they all shivered Allison hissing from shock and pain as she put her feet inside. Stiles was shivering so hard it almost made lose this dad's badge.
Nina stepped behind Scott as he went to sit down into the tub. Million things on her mind from their missing friends to Maria's illness, to how her friends were just planning to sacrifice themselves. But what Scott...they've been through so much. She couldn't possibly be ever sure she wouldn't hurt someone. She could. She could hurt someone now or tomorrow or years later.
She put her hands on Scott's shoulder. But she didn't want to be with anyone else. She wanted to be with Scott. She wanted to be with the boy with who she walked through an empty road from the forest after he first shifted and became friends with, with a boy who kissed her to save her when Peter took her memories, he danced with her at the winter formal and helped her control herself when she was willing to give her heart for Maria, he saved her from the Kanima when she wasn't breathing the energy and took her in for the night when she thought Morrison hurt Clara, he held her through the whole night more so she could sleep without nightmares, he knew her inside and out and always noticed when something was wrong even if she tried to hide it. They argued. They messed up, and got pissed at each other, but they believed in one another. They always believed. He touched her in places no one else had and not just physical he touched the parts inside her she was sure she wouldn't even dare to let anyone see. When he looked at her all hopeful and with that smile she thought it was everything she could ever hope for. He knew she was dangerous and so was him, and yet still kissed and touched and acted casually around each other as if it was nothing important. They hurt each other and they still didn't back down on each other. They started as strangers who were possibly attracted to each other and that kissed when they were younger and ended up as friends, close friends, best friends, he let her in to his world and the world of his friends, and now they were...she wasn't sure. She loved. She knew she did. She tried to push it away for his and Allison's sake because she knew he loved the girl. She was sure of it. He told her so much, but...The things he had done over the past months. She figured it was the heat, the wolf, the loneliness. It might as well be, but then he would look at her, and then he touch her and pull her close when she was crying or feeling like shit, then he would take her on an amazing date like day knowing everything she loved and hate and dancing with her on the mole in front of the lake, then he would kiss her in the lake and in his room like she was the only thing imaginable and make a deal not to touch her if she was too afraid to hurt him even if she could see how much he wanted to and she wouldn't be so sure if it really was just the wolf, the heat and the loneliness. She tried to go back in her mind to those times when their kisses were just to save each other or help each other out. They felt different. It felt different when she first realized she loved him. The first time in Stiles's jeep when they were trying to hid Jackson. She could see how he looked at her. He felt that she kissed differently as well. She felt something as well. She remembered when he pushed her away after she thought Clara was hurt and she found the blood Morrison left her in the house, she wanted to dumb the pain and sorrow over still in coma Maria and he pushed her away, he told her he didn't feel the same when she confessed and thought she was somehow tricking him to fall for her later, but then...now? Now it was different. Now there were moments of looking into each other's eyes and debating and seeing how they were both leaning closer as if they had some sort of gravity pushing them together. When Darrach took Deaton they had almost kissed in the closet, there was no wolf or heat or loneliness of the moment, they were just together in a clothes and it seemed and felt almost natural for them to just kiss without any purpose just...for the kissing itself.
Oh and the day he spent with her after they found out that she was an Argent as well. He lift up her spirit just by being there. Them kissing in the lake and in his room and house and touching and feeling and losing themself. These kisses were different. She could feel it. She could feel they both cared, they both felt something. They had something. She was so afraid to hurt him, but shouldn't she give them a try? Wasn't she allowed a bit of happiness? Just a little bit?
Deaton once again told them what to do. They were ready to do it when Stiles all the sudden looked at Scott and said, 'By the way, if I don't make it back and you do, you should probably know something. Your dad's in town.'
Nina shot him a shocked look and felt how Scott tensed under her hands. She felt like punching Stiles for choosing this moment to tell Scott that his douche of a dad was back. She squeezed Scott's shoulders suddenly. He looked up at her a bit, and she leaned down and kissed the top of his head tenderly hoping he would know how much he mean to her. She then leaned down and whispered into his ear, 'Come back to me.'
He looked at her for a moment and she could see she spark hope in his beautiful brown eyes. He nodded and they started.
She pushed him under the water and prayed that he would find the stupid tree and that he would come back to her and...that everything would have been okay. She prayed really hard.
As the cold water from the tub hit her hands she suddenly felt something. It took everything in her not to let go of Scott knowing it would break the link, but she felt it instantly. She felt the same kind of energy that she did when she touched Jennifer's and when she as a child put her heart to the ground.
The energy was one of a kind. It was strong and heavy and dark, and it was slowly entering Scott's body. The darkness...