Stiles winces as he watches the abomination knock yet another one of his teammates down, he had to admit this was probably the only time he would ever be so glad not to be playing.
Spotting the signal from Allison he slowly walks past her allowing her to slip him her grandfather's keys through the bleachers without the hunter notching.
As he goes to get the rest of the plan in motion however something in the darkness of the bleachers catches his eye.
There stood with her blonde hair gleaming and her bright red Assistant Coach's shirt was Buffy, but what worried him more was the werewolf currently attempting to talk to her. And given Boyd and Erica were currently sat watching the game and Isaac couldn't be in public, it meant Derek had finally had enough of her not answering his calls.
And while Stiles knew he shouldn't listen he couldn't help it.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Buffy hisses as she stares at Derek with wide eyes.
Derek sighs but trying to step towards her but when she takes a step back he clenches his jaw, groaning he had figured out what he was going to say before he came, but now looking at her for the first time since that night...it had all gone out of his damn head! "I tried to call you. I wouldn't be here if you had answered."
The blonde rolls her eyes and huffs "I actually broke my phone." She admits mumbling "I'm not allowed a new one for another week."
Derek shakes his head in amusement before sighing as she refuses to even look at him, he never wanted any of this, this wasn't how any of this was supposed to go down "You weren't supposed to see that."
"See you almost killing Scott you mean?" She argues running a hand through her hair as she tightens her grasp on her blonde locks trying to hold in her tears, she didn't want to do this right now, she couldn't.
"I wasn't going to kill him!" Derek argues but when she merely shakes her head and goes to leave he grabs her arm pulling her closer to him making her inhale tightly, as did he, being this close to her again all he wanted to do was kiss her.
The two remain their for a moment looking at each other intently as tension filled the air between them before finally as Buffy hears another guy get knocked down on the field she is pulled from the moment. Sighing she shakes her head "If you weren't going to kill him then what was that Derek? I found you beating the crap out of a guy who is practically my brother."
"I wouldn't kill him." Derek argues softening his expression as he looks down at the girl he loved "Buffy...I meant what I said. I love you do you really think I could do that to you?"
Stiles' eyes widen as he continues listening to their conversation, while he knew it was wrong, Buffy hadn't exactly been forthcoming about that night and what had happened, and if he had to eavesdrop he would do that.
However the one thing he didn't want to hear tonight was this:
"I wouldn't kill him. Buffy I meant what I said. I love you, do you really think I could do that to you?"
Stiles' eyes widen and he clenches his jaw at that, hearing those three words being said to Buffy by someone else was something he didn't want to know. Clenching his jaw he glances over at her once more before huffing and running off, he couldn't listen to anymore and he had to get this book.
Buffy closes her eyes at his words tears making their way down her cheeks, as she closes her eyes she couldn't help but lean into Derek's touch as his hand cups her cheek, god why was this so hard for her. Resisting him, it felt like the worse kind of torture.
Reaching her hand up she places her hand over the hand he was holding her with and blinks back her tears "I love you." She admits before shaking her head "But Derek I woke up and you were gone and then—"
"You think I wanted to leave?" He asks her seriously before he shakes his head "Of course I didn't. I would have stayed if I could, but I have a reasonability to my pack. And my pack needed me, and Scott needed to be put in line."
Buffy scoffs at his words and pulls away, they were all right, Scott and Stiles, all he cared about was his pack and power, becoming the most power Alpha. Sniffling slightly she shakes her head before backing away "I can't do this right now...Derek you should go."
"Buffy." He whispers grabbing her hand making her inhale tightly again and it was like she couldn't stop herself, as he leaned his forehead against her she couldn't hold back, grabbing him she kisses him passionately. For a few moments it was amazing until reality re-entered her brain, pulling back she watches him for a moment before running ignoring him as he calls out her name before growling slightly.
The blonde runs back into the Team's area knowing he couldn't follow her out here and runs a hand over face only for her to pause as she spots Scott watching her with wide eyes before he turns and glares at something behind her she frowns spinning around she spots Derek in a view he was too far away for anyone to notice but he was there.
Sighing she turns away and heads over to Coach, she couldn't handle this right now. She just couldn't.
"Danny look at me." Buffy tells Danny as she crouches in front of him inspecting his bloody head wound while Coach paces back and forth waiting to see if he was out another player, cause if so they were so screwed.
Danny turns and as he holds the bandage to his head he frowns at Buffy, who finally speaks "What aftershave do you wear?" She asks him.
At her question Coach spins around "What are you doing!"
"Shh." She tells him raising her hand to silence him before turning back to Danny who clenches his forehead as he thinks before finally, he shrugs "One of the celebrity ones."
Buffy winces at that, Danny always wore Armani or Channel, that boy would not be caught in anything less then a classic label "He's out."
Coach frowns in confusion, what the hell did he just miss "What no! No!" Groaning he turns to Danny "You said Armarni right?"
"What's Armarni?"
Coach smiles and Buffy watches applied as Coach claps and throws Danny back onto the field, when she goes to open her mouth he turns to her with a glare "Don't make me put you in a uniform." He warms so quickly her normally chatty mouth zips itself tight.
However, both she and Coach are again given another issue as the referee calls out to them "You're still down one Player."
Coach groans before searching the bench, for probably the worst player on the team but at the moment their only hope, however, there was no one there "Where's Stilinski?!"
Buffy's eyes widen and she spins around her eyes widening and she couldn't help but huff "Stiles what have you gotten yourself into now."
"Summers, we got ourselves a player! Get him a jersey!" Buffy frowns at Coach's words and spins around only for her eye to widen as walking out of the stands and moving over to her was Boyd. Groaning she clenches her jaw "I'm surprised Derek's okay with this." She snarks as she goes to grab him some equipment.
"Like he'd notice. He's too busy brooding over you." Boyd says with a laugh as he pulls on his jersey.
Buffy's eyes widen before she shakes her head, no thoughts of Derek, no thoughts of the very sexy wolf, or how good kissing him felt, just no! Throwing the stick to Boyd she gestures to the field "Go win it. Or Coach may boil Stiles alive, just for the fun of it."
Stiles searches through Gerald's office in a panic going through every drawer, every shelve, every possible hiding space, but after 10 minutes of searching, there was nothing. No secret hidden draw spaces, nothing behind the bookcase nothing! The damn book wasn't here, he must have it on him, it must do. Grabbing his phone he texts Allison quickly letting her know it wasn't here.
As he presses send he gasps as he spots Erica appear in the doorway, the blonde wolf merely smirks "Hello, Stiles."
Buffy sighs as Boyd manages to knock down the Abomination easily and while everyone in the crowd and coach goes wild with the cheering, Buffy merely glances at Scott.
Scott shakes his head and Buffy nods back, both of them having the same thought...
This was not going to end well.
Stiles groans in annoyance as Erica drags him by the ear into the pool, this was so not going well, Buffy was right he and Scott needed to stop with these unsupervised plans especially the ones where they don't tell her anything.
As Erica finally releases him Stiles groans in annoyance as he spots Erica go to stand by Derek who was smiling as he held a basketball in his hand "Stiles."
"Derek."
Derek glances down at the ball in his hands not really paying Stiles any attention as he speaks "What did you see at the mechanic's garage?"
Stiles frowns in confusion before shrugging "Uh...several alarming EPA violations that I'm seriously considering reporting."
Derek chuckles in amusement before squeezing the ball in his hand with his claws causing the thing to deflate making Stiles' eyes widen, how Buffy loved this guy he would never understand, he was freaking him the hell out "Oh holy god." Pausing he forces a smile on his face "Why don't we talk about something else? I can help with the Buffy problem." He stupidly suggests instantly regretting it as Derek's face hardens, seriously how was she dating him when he constantly looked like he was going to kill someone "No Buffy talk. Got it."
Derek clenches his jaw "Let's try that again."
Buffy sighs as she looks over at the scoreboard before turning back to the field, this was bad Boyd was losing control, if Scott didn't do something then Boyd could seriously hurt someone or worse, kill someone.
Running a hand over her ponytail her eyes widen as Scott manages to sneak the ball away from Boyd before scoring however panic fills her as The abomination runs right into Scott "Scott!" She screams running over the field, as she spots the abomination grin down at Scott she pushes him away from him sending the abomination flying and crashing down onto the ground.
Ignoring the shocked gasps she rolls her eyes and bends down by Scott, wincing at the sight of his leg it was broken and she could only hope she was the only one who heard the bone crack. "What the hell were you thinking?"
"I didn't mean to get my leg broken! Buffy..." Scott groans in agony "What do we do?"
Buffy sighs before spotting the crowd running towards them "Everyone back up!" She yells standing "He needs space!" She yells again before sighing she groans "I gotta put it back and quick before Melisa and Coach come over."
Scott nods dreading the idea but he had no choice, so Buffy places her jacket over his broken leg before carefully forcing pressure on it, and with a quick snap, it was back.
Scott holds in his yell of pain as she puts the bone back before wincing as she helps him just as everyone begins approaching "He's all good." Buffy says with a smile "See all good. No breaky bones." She says as she pretty much holds up Scott's entire weight.
Melissa merely stares in confusion and worry, she had been so scared the second she saw him go down to the ground but she could have sworn it would be worse then just a simple bruise "I could have sworn I literally heard bone-breaking from where I sat."
Buffy shrugs before gesturing to his knee "No it was fine when I got over here, no breaks."
Scott nods in agreement while everyone just continues to stare in confusion at the two of them "Seriously, guys, I'm fine."
Allison who was stood with her grandfather panics slightly, there was no way Scott's leg hadn't broken, which meant they were so screwed right now "Let's go." She whispers wanting to get her grandfather as far away from Scott as humanely possible.
"Hang on." Gerald says as his eyes fall on Scott "I wanna ask him one more thing."
"All right..." Stiles huffs as the two werewolves continue to stare at him and as much as telling Derek to go screw himself sounded so appealing he also didn't want his head ending up like that basketball "...the thing was pretty slick-looking. Um...skin was dark. Kind of patterned. Uh..." He stutters out thinking back to that horrifying night which had made it into his top five worst nights of his life list "...I think I actually saw scales. Is that enough?" He asks completely fed up now, he did not really want to be here, what he wanted was to be picking up the broken piece of Buffy Summers, which yes sounded horrible because she was his best friend, but he had to take any opportunity he had to get her off Derek "Okay? Because I have plans with Buffster, and as I'm sure you're aware..." He says to Derek who tilts his head pretty much ready to rip Stiles' face off right now "...she has a temper. And I try not to piss her off."
When Derek glares at him Stiles sighs, he was really getting the hang of pissing off Derek, sighing knowing if he didn't give them more he wasn't getting out of here he relents "Um, all right, fine. Eyes. Eyes are, um...yellowish and slitted. Um...it has a lot of teeth. Oh, and it's got a tail, too. Are we good?"
When neither of them answers him or even looks at him he frowns, what the hell was going on "What? What, have you seen it? You have this look on your faces like you know exactly what I'm talking about."
Frowning Stiles freezes as he hears a hissing sound from above him, one he very much recognized, turning around his eyes widen as he spots the creature currently stood on the diving platform above them.
Jumping back so he was stood beside the werewolves his eyes widen as quickly the creature sends Erica flying across the floor, Stiles winces and looks over only to sigh she was out cold so it was just him and Derek now.
Derek groans in frustration and turns to Stiles shoving him in the chest, if Stiles' died all hope of Buffy speaking to him again was dead "Run!" He yells before wincing as the creature swings it's tail at him and he feels a pinch in the back of his neck.
Stiles' eyes widen as Derek sways backward before he spots the small cut on Derek's neck, not good "Derek you're neck."
Derek groans before stumbling backwards his entire body going weak barely able to move, Stiles's eyes widen in panic and grabbing Derek he tries to drag him towards the exit "Come on!" He yells as he tries to pull him, he had to get them out of here before Derek ended up like he did the other night. Unable to move at all.
"Where is it? Can you see it?"
Derek groans and turns his neck as much as he can but it was useless he couldn't stop the thing anywhere it was too quick "No, just hurry. Call Scott or Buffy."
"Buffy's phone is broken because you went all crazy ex-boyfriend so Scott it is." Stiles mumbles reaching into his pocket only to drop it reaching to grab it he accidentally lets go of Derek who rolls over his back "Stiles' you son a-" Derek exclaims before he goes splashing into the pool.
Stiles' eyes widen and he glances down at his phone before spotting Derek now paralyzed sinking to the bottom, Stiles groans before diving into the water wishing he was a horrible enough person to leave Derek.
Grabbing Derek he swims them up to the surface "Where did it go?" He asks Derek as he panicky tries to swim them over to his phone which was still on the floor by the edge of the pool "Where is it? Do you see it?"
"No."
"Okay, maybe it took off." Stiles' words were proven wrong however as a loud hissing sound comes from above them, Derek sighs, they were so screwed "Maybe not."
After Gerald had demanded that Scott join the Argent family for dinner and had gone home with them, Buffy like after most games was having to put away all of the lacrosse gear and reorganize Coach's office. She swore he must know she's got super-strength because part of this whole extra credit thing involved her lifting things Coach couldn't. She huffs as she throws another sweaty smelly piece of equipment into the cupboard before slamming it shut "So not worth the credit." She moans before she moves back into Coach's office and signs the stupid paper she had to sign after every one of her extra credit classes and the games.
Huffing she grabs the keys before locking up and heading out of his office, at least because she was here later the guys were all gone by now so she luckily didn't have to go all the way down to the girl's locker room across campus.
Pulling her clothes out of her bag, she excitedly moves to get out of the ugly coach clothes that she had to wear during game days. It could be worse they could force her to wear a jersey.
Pulling off her bright red shirt she grabs her black vest and as she pulls it over her head she halts as she hears a weird hissing sound coming from down the hall.
Frowning the blonde reaches into her bag grabbing a long hunter's blade and tightening her grasp around it.
Heading towards the door she popes her head out into the dark hallway before jumping as she hears the hissing again, what the hell was that "Hello?"
"Will you get me out of here before I drown?" Derek tells Stiles as the human continues to barely keep them both above the water but his arms were getting weaker by the second.
Stiles's eyes widen, drowning was the least of their problems right now "You're worried about drowning? Did you notice the thing out there with multiple rows of razor-sharp teeth?"
Derek clenches his jaw and turns his head as far as he could glaring at the human "Did you notice that I'm paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water?" He hisses in frustration, if he was going to die he did not want to die here, with Stiles of all people.
Stiles pants as he attempts to look around getting more exhausted by the minute, looking around for the beast he frowns, where the hell was it hiding? "I don't see it."
Taking his chance he begins moving them over to the edge only for Derek's yelling to make him pause "Wait, wait, wait. Stop, stop!"
Stiles frowns before turning his head to look in the direction where Derek had his eyes glued and sure enough was the creature, but the strangest thing was the creature hadn't jumped in to come and get them yet, it was just circling the pool "What's it waiting for?"
As he continues to splash attempting to keep them both above water Stiles' eyes widen as the creature touches the water only to hiss and jump back, "Wait, do you see that? I don't think it can swim."
Derek sighs, that was one positive at least. However, before he could say anything else something makes him halt "Hello?"
Recognizing the voice his eyes widen however panic fills him as the creature's head turns quickly having heard it too "Why is Buffy still here?" He growls out to Stiles.
Stiles frowns before his eyes widen in confusion, thinking for a moment "Wait she's here?" Looking around he spots the creature walking towards the door "Dammit, she must have been doing her extra credit work. Which you would know if you asked and didn't just show up and try and mack on her."
Derek frowns before clenches his jaw and turning to the annoying human "Say that to me again. I dare you."
"Hey, I'm the one keeping you alive right now." He warns Derek before sighing "Do you think she'd be able to hear us?"
Derek sighs and listens out carefully, this wasn't good she was close by earlier but now she was walking in the other direction he could barely hear her footsteps anymore. Shaking his head Stiles sighs before he spots the open door if he could get there and yell her name she would hear him, hopefully, if not he could also grab his phone "I have an idea."
Derek frowns before he spots Stiles looking at the half-closed door to the hall where Buffy probably was still wandering through the halls, clenching his jaw as he realizes what Stiles wanted to do he panics "No, no, no! Don't even think about it!"
"Could you just trust me this once?"
"No!"
Stiles couldn't help but roll his eyes "I'm the one keep you alive, okay? Have you noticed that?"
"Yeah...and when the paralysis wears off, who's gonna be able to fight that thing if she doesn't hear you, me or you?"
Stiles groans in frustration, this just sucked his life sucked "That's why I've been holding you up for the past two hours?"
"Yup. You don't trust me. I don't trust you. But you need me to survive, which is why you're not letting me go."
Stiles clenches his jaw before shrugging "You also made my best friend cry." He says before letting go of Derek and swimming as fast as he can, as he gets to the edge he panics as he spots the creatures blocking his path to the door, phone it was "Buffy!" He screams "Buffy!" He screams again before grabbing the phone and quickly swimming away calling Scott.
"Come on, come on." The second he answers Stiles screams "Scott!"
"I can't talk right now." With that, he hangs up and Stiles' mouth drops open, he was going to kill him for this, huffing he glances down at Derek who was at the bottom of the pool now "Dammit!" He huffs before diving down to get him.
Buffy frowns as the hissing noise seems to disappear turning the corner she comes to a solid halt as she hears a familiar voice screaming her name "Buffy! Buffy!"
Buffy frowns "Stiles?" She whispers before running down the hall and towards the pool where she could only guess the sound had come from.
Kicking down the doors into the pool she runs into the room only for her eyes to widen as there in the middle of the pool was Stiles and Derek.
"What the hell are you doing?" She yells as she runs over to the edge of the pool staring at them both in confusion.
Stiles sighs in relief only for his eyes to widen in panic as he spots the creature crawling across the wall making it's way to Buffy "Buffy look out!"
The blonde frowns before turning around her eyes widening in horror as the weird reptilian creature jumps off the wall, the blonde rolls out of the way only to jump back as it swings its tail at her.
The blonde stumbles falling right into the pool, gasping she quickly swims to the surface before glancing over at Scott and Derek "What the hell is that thing?"
Derek who was still gasping for breath after Stiles' dick move of almost letting him drown turns to her "We don't know but don't let it hit you with its tail."
"Derek's paralyzed." Stiles tells her making the blonde groan "Great just great." She mumbles before looking over to where her blade was still on the floor "Stiles how much longer can you hold him up?" She asks as she glances at them both, when Stiles shrugs she groans before clenching her jaw, pulling herself out of the pool, she glances around in a panic, this thing was like a bug, one second it was there the next it was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is it?!" She asks the boys, both of them look around before Buffy's eyes widen as she spots it running at her, flipping out of the way she kicks it in the face sending it flying across the floor, as it rolls she runs across the pool her eyes widening as she spots Derek and Scott's faces falling below the surface of the water "No!" She screams before her eyes widen in relief as Scott runs in suddenly "Get them!" She yells gesturing to the boys, the wolf frowns in confusion but his eyes widen in panic as he spots Stiles struggling without another word the teen wolf dives into the pool.
As he swims to help them Buffy slams her foot onto a nearby diving board and ripping it in two she grabs the large board just as the creature moves to swing it's tail at her again.
Ducking out of the way she twirls out of its reach before swinging the board as hard as she could at its head sending it flying and crashing into the wall "Oh come on!" She huffs as she watches it get back up and run at her.
"Buffy!" Scott yells just as he gets both Derek and Scott out of the water only to watch Buffy get tackled by the creature.
The blonde struggles at the creature hisses in her face, groaning as images of the body he had already left behind fill her mind, no way she was going out that way. Spotting her knife within reach she headbutts the creature sending it off her before she turns over grabbing her knife.
As she stands holding her blade something strange happens, the creature move towards her only for it's focus to land on the metallic blade in her hand, well more accurately it's own reflection in the blade. And to her shock, the creature howls before leaping up the wall and running off.
The blonde frowns in confusion before turning to Scott who was just as shocked, what the hell just happened.
Sighing she runs over to the boys checking on Stiles before helping the still paralyzed Derek sit up, Derek winces and looks up at her while she smiles sadly down him cupping his face in her hand while tucking a strand of her wet hair behind her ear.
Scott and Stiles glance at each other as Buffy holds Derek, this was not good.
"It was on a hard drive?" Buffy asks again as she Stiles and Scott stand by Melissa's car using Stiles' laptop to look at the Bestiary that was on Gerald's hard-drive the whole time, "Just no, what happened to old dusty books? Deaton's friend Giles would have a heart attack at the sight of this."
Stiles snorts before he stares back at the screen staring at what looked like gibberish "Is that even a language?"
Scott shrugs, he had no idea "How are we supposed to figure out what this thing is?"
"It's called the Kanima." Derek reveals as he and Erica approach the three teens in the parking lot.
Buffy's eyes widen at that and she shoves her hands into Stiles' jumper that she was wearing and stares in shock "A can a what now?"
"Kanima." Derek corrects.
Stiles shakes his head in disbelief, he should have let Derek drown "You knew the whole time."
"No." Derek tells them "Only when it was confused by its own reflection."
Buffy arches a brow and glances down at her blade currently resting in a thigh holster Allison had given her a few weeks ago "Was it having a bad hair day?"
Scott holds back his snort of amusement before turning to Derek "it doesn't know what it is."
"Or who."
Buffy frowns at that, so not only was it, someone, they knew but this person had no idea that they were turning into a killing machine, running a hand through her hair she sighs and turns to Derek "What else?"
"There are stories. Rumors."
At that Scott interjects as he realizes that this meant this creature was sort of like them, kind of it was really confusing "But it's like us?"
"A shapeshifter, yes. But it's not right. It's like a..."
"An abomination." Stiles offers up making Buffy's eyes widen before she turns to Derek who was watching her, gulping slightly she turns to Scott, she couldn't be here right now "I want to go home."
Derek sighs and steps forward "Buffy..." he tries but Scott blocks his path while Stiles shuts the car door behind her blocking her from view.
Scott glares at the other werewolf, as much as he didn't want to do this he knew he had to "We need to work together on this. Maybe tell the Argents."
"You trust them?" Derek questions in disgust, he knew Scott wasn't the brightest but now he was just being downright stupid to risk involving them in this.
"Nobody trusts anyone!" Scott points out "That's the problem. While we're here arguing about who's on what side, there's something scarier, stronger and faster than us, hell even Buffy struggled fighting it!" He points out unable to stop as his voice begins to rise "And we still don't know anything about it!"
"I know one thing." Derek says as he clenches his jaw "When I find it, I'm gonna kill it."
Buffy groans as she throws her wet jumper on the ground in the living room before running a hand through her damp hair, she was still in shock over everything that had happened tonight, this was beyond them now. They were up against a pure killing machine that might be one of their friends.
As she paces back and fourth Scott leans against the doorway watching her for a moment before clenching his jaw "We need to talk."
The blonde frowns and spins around, he had this weird look on his face, one she didn't recognize, so whatever he wanted to talk to her about, she had a feeling it wasn't going to be good.
Scott hesitates for a moment before walking into the room and over to his God-sister, inhaling tightly he hesitates, he didn't want to do this but he had to, they didn't really have much of a choice right now, and he needed to know who he could trust "Buffy, I love you, you're family you know that."
"Please don't profess your love to me, Scott." The blonde jokes only to frown as his expression remains hard.
Scott sighs before looking at her seriously "Kanima or not. There's a human in there too. A kid like us." He hesitates as he spots her clutching the ring hanging on the chain around her neck, he hated that he had to do this to her but he didn't have a choice anymore if Derek didn't care and was going to kill the creature instead of trying to help the person inside then she couldn't be in the middle anymore "I know you love Derek...and whatever happened between you two, you still need to figure out and I know it's hard...but what I'm about to ask you is harder."
Buffy's eyes widen and she crosses her arms nervously, she really didn't like where this was going "Scott?"
"He's not gonna work with us." Scott tells her "He wants to kill it, a kid just like us. If I'm gonna stop this creature...I need your help. I'm not gonna let him kill until I know the kid inside can't be helped. You need to make a choice...you're either on my side or his. There is no middle ground anymore Buffy."
After his talk with Buffy the still unsure Scott sighs as he pulls over outside the hospital, for the first time in a long time he had no idea what Buffy was going to do, but he got it. If he had to choose between Allison like he was asking her too do he wouldn't know what to do either.
Sighing he climbs out of the car and moves to head inside to get his mother only to halt as someone grabs his arm turning him around and before he could do anything he gasps in agony as a large hunting knife was shoved into his stomach.
"Don't move." Gerald orders as he glares down at Scott who was gasping in agony "Even though I can practically feel the tissue around the blade already trying to heal, you never know with a Beta." Giving the blade a twist Scott gasps but tries to remain still as Gerald keeps a hard hold of him "Besides, we'd lose this perfect picture. This kind old grandfather, embracing his favorite grandson after hearing good news from the doctor."
Scott's eyes widen in terror as Gerald leans forward hugging him before pulling back and twisting the knife yet again, as Scott gasps in pain Gerald smiles "That's right. I can play the nice, doddering grandpa who likes to cook and tell stories and be sweet and charming. And trust me, I can do it far better than you playing the average broken-hearted teenage boy. Are you listening?"
Scott who was in complete utter agony as he felt as though his insides were being ripped to shreds nods "Yes."
"Perfect. Now, you're gonna do me a favor one of these days. And you're gonna do it...or two things will happen...you see I have contact with the Watcher's Council, and I don't think they would respond well to a Slayer that helps werewolves. Who knows maybe they'll send their hit squad after her, start fresh with a brand new slayer."
Scott gulps in terror as he shakes in pain, this man was a psycho however more terror fills him as Gerald turns to look at his mom through the window "And then you can bury your mother next to your little God-sister. Scott, I truly believe that it's so much easier when bad things don't happen to good people. Don't you agree?"
"Yes." Scott huffs out before finally he gasps in relief as Gerald rips the blade out before walking away, watching after he gulps in terror, Gerald had just threatened the two people he cared about most in this words and if he didn't do as he said, he wouldn't be able to stop it.
"Hey there." Melissa says as she walks out into the parking lot and over to her son with a big smile having no idea of the horror that Scott had just injured "You okay."
"Yeah." He whispers "Everything's fine."
Buffy sighs as she walks into her room in her yummy sushi pajamas finally dry and free of that horrid chlorine smell from the pool, today had just not be her day.
Walking over to her window she moves to shut it only to freeze as she spots a familiar figure stood in the backyard, Derek.
The blonde takes a shaky breath before looking down at him and hesitating for a brief moment she forces herself to shut the window...locking it. Taking a shaky breath she quickly closes the blinds and blinks back tears as she leans against the wall, she couldn't afford to fall apart right now. Not with everything going on, with The Kanima, the worry about Spike showing up at any point she couldn't afford to be falling apart.
Looking down she stares at the his old spiral ring, with shaky hands she slowly undoes the chain around her neck before walking over to her desk.
Pulling open one of the draws she grabs the cross off the table that Derek had given her as well before staring at both objects, as a tear falls down her face she places both pieces of jewellery in the draw before slamming it shut
