Two updates in not quite so long a time? I'm on a role! Hope you enjoy this update, as I said, it is beginning to divert but it is a slower process than I intially expectedbut I'm working on it. This chapter's song is "So Far (It's Alright)" by: The 1975. Enjoy!

Chapter 16: "So Far (It's Alright)"

"I used to think you're cool and I believed you had a wonderful vision,

But I soon found out you're a terrible friend and your mother's on the television

Gives a go on your bike, how you getting along with your life

It's alright, yeah it's alright

Yeah so far, it's alright, alright, baby

Yeah so far, it's alright, alright, baby

Yeah so far, it's alright, alright, baby

Yeah so far, it's alright, alright, baby"

By the time Isaac had changed as well, the trio was ready to go and Scott had just come barreling back into the room for a second time. "I'll meet you guys there." He hollered at them as he grabbed his bag and immediately started to rid himself of his sweaty lacrosse clothes. Isaac hummed in response as he and Allison got Liam over to her car and into the back seat before they climbed in front. Twisting around in the passenger seat, Allison turned to Liam and asked. "Is there anyone we can call?" He frowned at her like he wasn't used to people being so helpful in general and she smiled wider. "It's okay." Isaac called without turning around but just flicking his eyes up at the rear view mirror so that Liam could see he was paying attention too. The freshman nodded, for some reason he automatically trusted the older and taller teen even if he was friends with that Scott kid and the annoying matchstick looking boy. "My stepfather is still at work in the hospital, he's a doctor there." Liam replied finally and Allison nodded before firing a text to Melissa that they were on their way and what had happened. Turning up the music, both juniors watched as the boy looked out the window before looking down at his ankle with a frown and then quickly looking out the window again as his blue eyes went from dry ice to a melting glacier pool that he refused to let fall. Giving him his space, Isaac drove in silence while Allison turned up the radio with the steady soothing sound of her "The 1975" CD emitting from the speakers. Her mind wandered from the broken angry boy in her backseat to the former one in the driver's seat who grinned over at her occasionally whenever he felt her gaze. Isaac was a lot like the music that the band produced; slow and deep and patient and healing and beautifully made. Before he had been like a hard rock album, like "Papa Roach", screaming to be heard but as he had come into himself he had changed and that change was beautiful.

Smiling at him, she linked their hands and he smiled back. He had no idea where her thoughts had roamed too but it was enough, this was always enough. Pulling into the parking lot, he let go of her hand as he put the car in park and removed the keys from the engine before getting out of the car and helping Liam into a standing position. Supporting his weight fully, Allison grabbed the freshman's bag and led the way into the building and to the front desk where a nurse was staring at them with fear in her eyes. "What happened? Aren't you Melissa's charity case? Who's he?" Rolling his eyes at all the questions, Isaac helped Liam to the counter and Allison nodded towards Liam and placed his bag down so that she could give the annoying nurse her full attention. "Lacrosse accident. He's not a charity case, just staying with Scott at the moment. His name is Liam now go get us Melissa McCall now." At that moment, before Allison looked like she was going to snap as the nurse opened her mouth to ask another question, Melissa walked into the lobby and backtracked as she recognized the pair of teens. "Allison? Isaac? What happened?" Isaac rolled into a short version explanation of the events as Melissa nodded and went to grab a wheelchair for the freshman boy. "Where's Scott?" Allison whispered the answer in her ear as Liam frowned at Scott's name. Melissa nodded in understanding and offered to take the chair from Isaac but he wouldn't let go. "I can take it from here." He shook his head and gripped the head's tightly. "I'll stay with him until Scott gets here." When she looked at Liam she recognized the anger that Isaac had used to feel and now had grown out of so she simply nodded at the boys.

Pointing towards a room down the hall, Isaac pushed him into it and Allison waited before turning to Melissa and the two women looked at each other. "Is the boy here from the homicide last night?" The nurse looked at her surprised and Allison grinned, "I'll take that as a yes." Melissa frowned as she opened her mouth to ask how she knew but caught sight of Scott and she slipped out of sight as the nurse went to go tell her worried looking son to sit down in the waiting room and let Isaac and the doctor handle it for now. "Is it my fault?" He asked the concern evident in his voice and Melissa sighed, as a mother it was her duty to make sure that Scott knew right from wrong but also to be a caring parent. "You didn't use your wolf powers so I think he'll be fine. It's alright to want something every once in awhile but you just have to be careful. Not all of us have a supernatural ability to heal." Turning around she noticed that the slight huntress had disappeared and she groaned knowing exactly where she had gone. "Dammit Allison!" She exclaimed under her breath before rushing down the hall leaving Scott in front of the room where Isaac was waiting with Liam and Liam's stepfather the doctor.

Paying attention to the room behind him, Scott could hear two steady adult heart beats (one of which was Isaac's because it was supernaturally smooth and steady and slow) and another that was beating slightly faster, more hyperactive and much younger. "Okay, just," the boy sighed, "it's broken, isn't it?" The doctor could be heard moving about as he looked over the freshman boy and Isaac could be heard moving about as he got into a more comfortable position on the uncomfortable plastic hospital chairs that he hated so. "Well it's definitely going to need an x-ray." Isaac interjected and Scott could hear the doctor chuckle in response before firing back, "Easy now, I'm the doctor here, Isaac." The two laughed at that one as Liam could be heard groaning. "Alright, alright you two. It's broken though, isn't it? And it's all my fault." Scott sighed as he heard the dejection in the younger boy's voice, it wasn't really Liam's fault at all; it was his. "No it's not, want to tell me what happened?" The doctor sounded a lot like a father in this case and it made Scott wish that he could have had a dad like this; he knew Isaac did too. "I went up against two juniors. One of them is team captain. He warned me to be more careful, should've listened." Liam's voice made Scott force a grin, now he knew why Isaac couldn't just hate Liam like Stiles could. The freshman boy was so much like he had been before Derek and himself had changed him and got him on the right path; but, it was Allison who truly believed in him and turned him around.

"Remember what I said? Play smart not hard." The doctor wisely counseled the boy and Liam could be heard humming in affirmation before quieting again. "Are you mad at me?" Scott heard Isaac's heart pick up, it was a familiar question that Isaac had asked his father multiple times. "No, of course not." Isaac visibly relaxed at that one and Scott did too, maybe this Liam kid wasn't so bad at all. "Your mom might be mad at me for getting you into lacrosse, but maybe we should both wait for the X-ray before we panic. And trust me I have more reason to panic than you." All three laughed and Scott smiled until he heard his mother's scream followed by Allison's yelp of pain. "MOM!" The Alpha hollered as he ran down the hall ignoring the sound of Liam's door flying open as Isaac sprinted out screaming Allison's name. The doctor followed the tall teen into the hallway with Liam hobbling behind him but they couldn't keep up with Isaac especially when Allison was in trouble. "ALLISON!" His voice reverberated off the walls and her weak cry back made him run even faster. "Issac?" Her voice was tight with pain and she was looking down at her arm in shock as he pushed his way into the room and she looked up at him with the pain evident in her brown eyes. "He's one of them Isaac. One of the cannibals." Leaning down to help her up, he ignored her attempts to stop him and shook it off as he picked her up and placed her lightly on the, now, empty hospital bed. "Scott went after him, made him leave Melissa alone and chased him off."

He registered her words but didn't react as he made her lay down and bandaged up the ragged bites that hadn't started healing yet. "Can you cry some healing tears already, hotshot? Supernatural bites take longer." She glared up at him and he rolled his eyes as he tied off the bandage and put her arm down before looking at her leg. "Threw me across the room, think my leg is broke." Isaac nodded and helped her straighten it out with a loud crack as he broke it again as he reset it and a low moan of pain came from the huang. "I think I prefer it when it's me and not pain making you make that noise." The wolf teased earning a smack from the huang as she laid her head back down on the pillow and he puttered about like a nervous caretaker moving bandages and other such supplies about while muttering about various remedies that Scott and Deaton had taught him about healing animals. "I'm not a pet bird, Isaac." Allison pointed out harshly and he looked over at her with a wince before stepping towards her and reaching out and taking her hands with an apologetic smile. "It's just hospitals, make me feel helpless." Before she could comfort him, a yell of fear reached both their supernatural ears and Isaac leapt up upon recognizing who it was. "Liam!" Looking back at her with fear at the idea of leaving her but the responsibility to save the younger teen gave him no other choice. "Go! I'll be fine; you and Scott go save him, okay?" Pausing only to kiss her lightly on the forehead, he pulled away with a final nod and ran out of the room towards the roof where he could hear the cannibal boy yelling at Scott and Liam crying out in fear.

Taking the stairs three at a time with his long legs, Isaac arrived on the roof in moments but he wasn't fast enough. When he flung open the door, he was greeted by the sight of Scott biting Liam's arm to stop him from falling and it took all he had to not pull his Alpha off the freshman. The boy had no idea what path he was just forced down, that boy had a family that could be hurt or killed by what he was about to become and Isaac was powerless to stop it. "What have you done?" Isaac roared as he slammed the door closed behind him and started towards Scott until he saw the mouth-less assassin slam a hatchet into the cannibal boy's back before feigning a "shush" gesture and taking a photo of the body before fading back into the shadows. "I saved him!" Scott roared back as he pulled the boy, who had passed out in shock, fully back onto the roof and was met by a glowing eyed and taller Isaac who had his fangs bared and claws drawn. "By cursing him!" As the two wolves squared off against one another, it was the combination of Allison, who had limped over from the stairwell, stepping between them and Liam waking up that stopped them from fighting right there and then. "Stop it the both of you! What's done is done." She stated with her breathing coming in short gasps of pain at climbing the stairs with a nearly mended broken leg. Standing down immediately, Isaac had only a moment before he had to dive forward to catch her as her leg gave out as the not mended enough bone shattered again and she cried out in pain. "Take her back inside. Get her fixed up. I'll handle this." Liam looked up at him in a slight panic before looking over at Isaac who was holding Allison bridal style in his arms. "Don't handle this, let Melissa fix him up. And, for the record, we're not done."

Not waiting for an answer and turning sharply on his heel, Isaac marched down the stairs and away from where Scott was picking up the clearly still pained Liam. "Isaac?" Allison murmured and the boy didn't even look down as his jaw tightened instead in his anger. At the pressure of his claws on her skin, she touched his cheek and he looked down at her as his eyes faded from their yellow wolf shade to their human startling electric blue. "I can't just forgive him this time you know." Allison knew that he was right, even if it was in desperation and it saved the boy's life, Scott shouldn't have bit him. As a fellow supernatural, she knew what that loss of control felt like, especially when angry, and it made her feel something of the anger that Isaac was suffering from at the moment. "I know, but it's done. We can't change it." The wolf sighed as he nudged the bottom door open with his boot and carried Allison down the hall and into the still ravaged room with the bandages all askew and a few burn marks on the sides of the bed and one on the doorframe. "You can only be there for him. Help him like you helped me. Okay?"

Placing her down gently on the bed, he carefully looked over her leg and tried to figure out how to set it before sighing in resignation and collapsing in the plastic chair beside her and massaging the bridge of his nose. "He's changing, Allison. I don't know if I can trust him like I used to." She understood what Isaac was saying but everybody changed at some point, Scott was bound to disappoint him someday. "This and leaving you and that anger, I can smell it on him." Isaac wasn't wrong, the anger and guilt was something she smelled too and it was what seemed to make Scott more moral, almost to the point of being questionably so morally upstanding that it was becoming more of a fault that a benefit. To be honest, it worried her too but she had been too preoccupied to focus on it until Isaac brought it fully to her attention. "Can we talk more about this later?" Allison asked with a wince as a shooting pain came from her still broken leg. At even the slight noise of pain, Isaac leapt up from his chair with a nod and dashed out looking for Melissa leaving Allison there on the hospital bed staring up at the white ceiling in a combination of pain at her current state and fear for the future.

These past few days were not boding well for their pack and it worried her considerably. The pack was all she had aside from her father, and without them, especially the tall, curly-haired, blue-eyed Beta, she was afraid of losing her control completely because she had nothing left to tether the human soul to. She had seen the Berserkers and she did not want to become the Huang version of that, being imprisoned by her supernatural half and no longer even human. Closing her eyes, she took deep breaths to calm herself and listened carefully to the slowing beat of her heart and the footsteps of help coming her way. To the beat of the two she whispered a mantra to herself over and over again, "So far, it's alright, it's alright. So far, it's alright, it's alright." Like this, with only her heart beat and Isaac's soft voice and footsteps coming her way, she could believe this but with her eyes open she wasn't so sure that she could still convince herself that it was the truth.

Hope you enjoyed that! As always I will try to update more consistently but I make no promises. Please read, enjoy, and review!