PART 2
Chapter 2x17: Through The Pain
"So...how you been feeling?" - asked Ms. Morell to Nate
"Like you care since you work with the Alpha pack" - answered Nate crossing his arms - "I'm only here because Stiles insisted that I needed to talk to someone about my grieving" - he explained
"Do you want revenge?" - asked Ms. Morell
"Like you wouldn't believe, but I'm not going after you if that's what you are trying to ask" - said Nate looking at her with a smirk
"And I'm not telling you who you should be going after" - said Ms. Morell
"I thought you will knew about killing others for revenge...or a sacrifice" - said Nate
"Shouldn't you guys leave the interrogation to someone like Stilinski?" - asked Ms. Morell with a smirk
"If you do anything to him, I swear that I-" - started to say Nate while squeezing the arms of the chairs ripping into it with his claws while his eyes glowed
"Listen to my heartbeat Nate" - said Ms. Morell interrupting the werewolf and leaning on her desk - "I'm not the one killing people" - she said looking straight into Nate's eyes - "truth is, I'm all that stands between Deucalion and the lives of your friends, I've been the one pulling the leach when they're salivating for a bite" - she explained
"What do you mean?" - asked Nate confused
"He wants a True Alpha and a Delta in his pack, he thinks they are Scott and you, a little distraction like a few human sacrifices isn't gonna dissuade him from the prize" - said Ms. Morell
"I'm not a Delta and Scott is for sure not an Alpha" - declared Nate
"But you both are on your way, right?" - asked Ms. Morell with a smirk
"Then what is he waiting for? What does he want us to do?" - asked Nate impatiently
"He wants to make a killer out of both of you" - said Ms. Morell
"But if Scott kills someone, he can't be a True Alpha, right?" - asked Nate
"Exactly" - said Ms. Morell
"What about me killing someone, how does that affect me, your brother couldn't go any further about his explanation about myself" - said Nate
"Killing is a way to become a Delta if you are indeed one, but there is as well other way...a healing way, but only one is the truth" - she added
"Ok, you see you can't just give me a good answer and then a cryptic one" - said Nate -"but I think you aren't going to give me a clear answer about that, so why don't we go back to Deucalion, huh?" - He questioned
"You want the psychologist's perspective?" - Asked Ms. Morell and Nate just shrugged as an answer - "Deucalion is an obsessive who both desires and is threatened by both you and Scott, if the obsessive can't have the object of his desire, he'll choose to destroy it instead" - she explained
"So Scott either willingly become part of his pack or he'll make a killer out of him to destroy his potential to become a True Alpha" - asked Nate making Ms. Morell nod in agreement - "But he also knows that the Darach could be a threat on his life, so he wants me on his side in case that happens, so I can be his consciousness insurance or something like that on the worst scenario for him" - he added
"You are really a smart kid Nate, if you are indeed a Delta, the Alpha you join will be very lucky" - said Ms. Morell with smile
"But Scott will not kill and I will not join him" - said Nate
"Don't be so sure, you both are playing his game...and while you guys are trying to figure out what to do next, he's thinking ten moves ahead with checkmate already in sight" - said Ms. Morell
"I think we are done here" - said Nate grabbing his backpack
"One more thing" - said Ms. Morell making Nate turn to look at her just as he was at the door ready to leave, she stands up with a paper on her hand - "I know about your other abilities so I squeezed a place for you to sing at the recital tonight" - she said handling to Nate a paper with the lyrics of a song - "think of it as a way to heal through all the pain you have been through" - she said
"Whatever" - said Nate grabbing the paper before walking away from the office and calling up Stiles
"Hey, how did it go?" - asked Stiles on the other side of the line
"That could have gone worst, what about you guys and Ethan?" - asked Nate
"Well, Cora got into a fight with Aiden and got hit pretty bad, so I'm making sure she is ok" - explained Stiles
"Well she is a Hale after all" - said Nate
"Listen...I'm gonna tell my dad everything" - said Stiles
"We talk about this before, but are you sure you are ok with that?" - asked Nate
"I'm not, but he could be in danger and he needs to know, I'm going to my house right now with Cora so she can help me to explain, I could use your help too" - said Stiles
"Well...I just got squeezed to sing in tonight's recital by Morell, she thinks it would be a way for me to heal for everything that happened" - explained Nate
"Are you sure you want to do that?" - asked Stiles now in his turn to question Nate
"I don't know, but I gotta try something Stiles...I just..." - said Nate feeling a lump in his throat before saying something else and blinking to not let his tears come out
"Hey...it's ok, do it, I will be there to see you, okay?" - said Stiles
"Okay..." - said Nate breathing more calm
"Okay" - answered back Stiles
"You are such a mom" - said Nate to Ethan after Danny walked away from him
"Nate..." - sighed Ethan
"I don't wanna hear it, I'm ok with you being with Danny, I'm not okay if you do anything to him or anyone else, just like you did to Boyd and Erica" - said Nate
"It wasn't me, it was Kali" - said Ethan
"But you were there and didn't do anything" - said Nate
"I told you that I didn't make any promises about the rest of the pack" - said Ethan
"I would like to keep this discussion any further, but I'm going to sing in like 5 minutes...so if you excuse me..." - said Nate walking away from Ethan, his eyes glowed turquoise unconsciously, he got the name of the person who killed his friends
"Before the orchestral performance of today, we got a little last minute addition to our recital of tonight, let's welcome to the stage, Nate Grant" - said Ms. Morell
Everybody clapped his hands silently as Nate made his way to the center of the stage, for first time after becoming a werewolf felt a nervous about singing, he wanted to run away, but he stayed, he turned to the pianist and nod at her to start.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have...all of me
He couldn't stop thinking about not only the deaths of people around that were being honor today, but also Erica and Boyd, nobody else besides the pack knew about them being death as well, he not only was feeling his sorrow but also the sorrow of everybody in the room, everybody in there have lost a classmate, a student, a teacher, a friend, a son, a daughter, a father, a mother, an uncle, an aunt, a brother or...a sister.
You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now, I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal, this pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have...all of me
His mind was going through the pain and at some point he remembered his sister, the first person he ever lost, he felt a pain he was trying to bury deep inside of him to forget about it, he was crying, but he kept singing, he find his pack watching him carefully, Isaac, Allison, Lydia, Scott and Stiles both last arriving during for the final part.
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me,
I've been alone all along
When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
You still have...all of me
When he finished everybody clapped, he bow his head a little while wiping his face with his hands, he looked around to see Ms. Morell look at him nodding his way and he nodded back, even if she is with the Alpha Pack, she was right, singing this song at this moment it helped to slowly heal his pain, not only his grieve but also a pain that he had before that that he was trying to hide.
Nate walked off the stage and joined Scott and Stiles, Scott explained that the next victim might be a teacher and not a police officer, meaning that someone in this room was about to die.
The three boys looked around for a signal and the silver haired boy felt a hand in his shoulder, he turned to see Scott who gave him a sympathetic smile and he smiled back at him, then someone else grabbed his hand grab intertwining their fingers, Nate knew it was Stiles hand, he let him held his hand as the three keep looking around the auditorium while the orchestra was playing realizing Lydia wasn't inside anymore.
The two werewolves and Stiles run around the school calling out for Lydia trying to find her until they meet outside without a clue about where she was until a piercing scream made Scott and Nate cover their ears grunting while Stiles was unfazed.
"Scott? Nate?" - asked Stiles worried
"It's Lydia" - said Scott
They run back to the school to the source of the scream, Scott lost both boys as he sprinted faster, when Stiles and Nate found the source of the scream someone closed the door in their faces, Nate turned into werewolf and used his strength to push the door open seeing Jennifer Blake, their English teacher holding Sheriff Stilinski against a wall while Scott was on the ground, she was the Darach, but before they could do anything she was out through the window taking Mr. Stilinski with her.
"Dad?" - called out Stiles looking at the window while Nate moved close to put a hand on Stiles shoulder as he felt the hazel eyed boy about to tear up
Song: Evanescence - My Immortal
A/N: Fun fact...well not actually fun, but anyway, when I was looking for a song for this chapter I had other options that I thought were good for "funeral theme" until I listen to this one and cried while writing this chapter then I knew this was the right song for the chapter, so...yeah.
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