Song is "Be Still" by the Killers. I told you it would be two chapters ASAP.
Chapter 20: "Be Still"
"Be still
Wild and young
Long may your innocence reign
Like shells on the shore
And may your limits be unknown
And may your efforts be your own
If you ever feel you can't take it anymore
Don't break character
You've got a lot of heart
Is this real or just a dream?
Rise up like the sun
Labor till the work is done"
Stories, once told, do not weigh down the body as much as they did prior to the telling. This was proven to be the case after the telling of what all had happened between Isaac, Allison, Scott, and Liam. The advice that Derek and Braeden gave them was not very helpful in the end, after all the pair had their own problems to deal with, but the telling made it easier for the pair to go forward. "Liam. Liam? Wake up kiddo." Allison nudged the younger wolf awake as soon as the moon had set and dawn was beginning to break. The young boy groggily opened his eyes and caught sight of the bags under Allison's eyes and matching bags and tousled hair of the boy behind her. "Isaac? Allison?" He groaned as he flexed his muscles and woke up fully as he felt the chains tighten around his arms, legs, and chest in response to his movement. Glancing down at them he grimaced in pain and surprise before groaning out, "What did I do?" Isaac smirked thinking how far he could go with this one when Derek's voice stopped him, "Absolutely nothing thanks to the Firebird over here."
Allison's eyes flashed at how he called her the wrong name for the last time and probably would have started yelling at him out of exhaustion if not for Isaac placing a hand lightly on her shoulder and giving it a light squeeze. Turning away, the tired wolf started to unchain Liam and caught him as his weakened limbs collapsed to the ground. "Easy now." He muttered as Derek pulled Liam to his feet and Allison explained what had happened in fits and starts. By the time she finished, Derek leapt in, "This changes nothing. You still must learn to control your anger no matter what." Liam's eyes hardened at that, the stubborn teen did not like being told what to do especially by someone he had just met. "It's for your own good. You don't want to hurt the ones you love, right?" The boy's gray eyes startled at that and he quickly starred at the ground in shame making it clear that he already had and still felt ashamed of what he had done. "Alright fine, how do I start?" Isaac frowned, he already knew Derek's answer and although he didn't agree with it entirely he still had to accept it. "By trusting Scott."
Liam's resounding growl confirmed exactly how Allison and Isaac expected him to respond. If they didn't agree however, the boy would remain an omega and Isaac would quickly become one himself. As always came to pass and how the twins warned, life as an omega was the absolute worst for wolves like them and even Allison would suffer as a fellow supernatural on her own. "Wolves are pack animals and we need an Alpha." The freshman turned to Isaac with a frown and grumbled, "Why can't you be my Alpha?" Derek chuckled at that and all four supernaturals heard Peter's bark of laughter from downstairs while Allison just shook her head and Isaac frowned himself; Alpha was one thing he never wanted the responsibility of if he could help it. "That's not how it works. Alpha's either kill their leader or earn it through sheer moral power like Scott did. That makes Scott a true Alpha." The older wolf's explanation made it a little easier on Isaac who just nodded along. Although Liam clearly did not like it, he took multiple quick breaths before opening his eyes and nodding in understanding and reluctant agreement.
From there it was only a matter of time until Derek got all 3 teens into his car and drove them home despite Allison's complaints about her car being left there. "We'll get it later, just go home. It's a Saturday, get some sleep." Within seconds of getting into the car, Liam had passed out on Allison's shoulder while Isaac and Scott talked in front. "He's strong, stronger than expected." The man observed and Isaac nodded in agreement as he glanced back at his tired girlfriend as she adjusted her shoulder to make Liam more comfortable. "Scott still made a mistake. Don't you try and redeem it or say its okay." Derek frowned at that knowing that Isaac meant how he had bitten him, Boyd, and Erica over a year ago. "I'm not; he may have thought he had no other options. Innocent until proven guilty." That was how the judicial system worked, the same system that never allowed his father to get help for his actions because according to the law, his scars and that abuse did not exist whatsoever. Isaac may have forgiven his father for all that he had done to him but that did not mean that nothing had happened. Even still, glancing back at the sleeping Liam and catching Allison's sharp brown eyes, Isaac knew that Derek was right. "The truth will out."
The rest of the drive passed in silence until they arrived at Liam's home and Allison shook the younger boy awake. "Liam, you're home." Isaac looked back at them and was struck by how young the boy truly was despite him only being to grades below him. It was like watching a child being woken up from a long drive home. The boy murmured in response as he woke up bleary eyed and confused with a large yawn. "Come on Liam, I'll walk you up." Suddenly the boy woke up fully with his eyes wide and terrified as he looked over at the house and stammered out, "What will we tell my mom?" Both boys chuckled wearily at that while Allison rolled her eyes, she understood the anger of an over protective parent. "Lacrosse welcome party, you got tired and stayed over. Meant to call but your phone died." The story seemed to suffice for Liam who nodded and stepped out of the car seconds after Isaac had gotten himself out of the front seat.
As the two teens worked their way across the dew covered yard, Allison and Derek watched with longing eyes. Isaac had a chance to help someone else in a way that neither of them ever could. After the loss of a parent, of family of any sort, it felt unlikely that any of them could ever have someone to mentor nor would they know how if they did. Yet here was Isaac, a boy who had lost his mother and brother and was abused by his deceased father, and he was being given a chance to help someone in a way that no one had helped him. "He's lucky." Derek interjected and Allison glanced over at the young man in the driver's seat as he broke the silence. Glancing back at where Isaac was chatting with Liam's mom before nudging the boy and getting him to yawn to corroborate his story about the late night party. "Isaac is the king of second chances." He was in all honesty, between the way he'd turned his life around and forgave so many despite how difficult it was and how much courage it took.
"Ready to go?" Isaac interrupted their musings as he opened the car door and slipped in with a sigh and a yawn of his own. Derek nodded as he revved up the car and Isaac grinned back wearily at Allison who smiled back at him before resting her forehead against the cold window and nodding off herself. "Al? We're home." Her boyfriend shook her shoulder gently causing Allison to startle awake with a quiet hum in response. Taking his hand, she allowed him to loop an arm around her shoulders and lead her to the elevator while he waved goodbye to Derek with his spare arm. The elevator took a day and an age to arrive and even longer to get up to Allison's floor especially with the teenage girl leaning heavily on him as she tried her best not to fall asleep. "Almost there." He reminded her as the two stumbled from the elevator to her door and she unlocked it with shaking tired hands. "To bed now, it's been a long night." Isaac urged as he supported her down the hall and to her bedroom.
This was becoming way too much of a routine, stumbling into her room after pulling an all nighter fighting off the forces of evil. Watching her with wary tired blue-gray eyes, Isaac helped Allison to the bed where she proceeded to lay down and pass out still wearing her clothes. Plopping down beside her and nearly moaning with relief at the feel of the bed on his sore and stiff limbs, Isaac reached over and pulled off her boots. Never had she been this emotionally and physically exhausted but he couldn't blame her, her body was worn down from worry, saving the world, and being strong enough to hold them both together. Both of them couldn't keep up this reckless pace, they were supernatural not immortal and therefore still had their limits. Tossing her boots on the floor and quickly following them with his, the werewolf climbed into bed beside her and pulled the covers over them both before wrapping his arms around her lithe form and quickly following her into dream land.
The couple probably would have slept the whole day and night again but instead they were woken up a mere few hours later by a Stiles yelling in the hall, "Where were you? Liam could have killed someone last night without Scott's help!" Opening one yellow eye to glare at him, Isaac growled while Allison, normally the kinder of the pair, snapped back, "Well Liam didn't because of us now let us sleep." If Stiles were a normal human, the idea of two angry supernaturals would have the boy running but Stiles was not normal and instead pulled the covers off of the sleeping pair before leaping back out of range as Allison swung an unnaturally strong hand to smack him. "Allison it's urgent and we need you both." A deeper voice interrupted Stiles before he could speak again and Allison and Isaac leapt up as the speaker entered the room himself. "Dad?" She asked the surprise obvious in her face as he nodded and she leapt forward to hug him. Not one to admit her fears, part of her recent exhaustion had been due to her fear of him getting hurt by the Calaveras or Kate; he was the only family that she had left, Isaac excluded. "I'm home sweetheart." After breathing in his familiar scent of gunpowder and steel to ensure he really was there, she stepped back and Isaac shook his hand with a teasing grin, "She never lets me call her sweetheart." That comment that earned him a smack on the shoulder and a chuckle from Argent himself.
"What happened with the Calaveras?" Allison pressed as she pulled her boots back on and they followed Argent and Stiles back into the family room only to be greeted by a pacing Sheriff. "I'll get to that but a lot happened last night." The Sheriff stopped at the sound of Argent's voice and turned in their direction with a frown contorting his features. "Where were you and that new wolf?" He grumbled and Isaac, who was not the Sheriff's favorite person to begin with, gulped before replying, "Derek, Allison and I had it under control, Allison calmed him down and he caused no damage, why?" Sheriff Stilinski nodded before turning to his son and allowing himself to relax and sit down on the sofa while Isaac sat in a chair to tie his boots and Allison perched on the arm of it. The rest sat down too and the Sheriff began, "I don't know if Derek told you but he and Peter were attacked last night by the mouthless attacker and he brought me his keyboard. Parrish and I hacked into it and discovered that he is a contract killer working for someone named the Benefactor."
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