I know that it has been months since I have posted anything but I am finally starting to get some inspiration again (and find time between working 2 part-time jobs and being a full-time student) so please enjoy! From here on out, the chapters will be shorter and totally off from the original story line! I am keeping Kate and the hit list in here just to get started so that following this I can catapult into new characters and situations for the pack to get in trouble with, so here goes! The song is "Control" by Halsey, now enough from me, y'all enjoy!
Chapter 22: "Control"
"I'm bigger than my body
I'm colder than this home
I'm meaner than my demons
I'm bigger than these bones"
It was deathly cold for a normal human that night as the trio stood in the freezing woods and the two boys faced each other while the girl perched on a nearby trunk light as a bird. "Breathe." The older one ordered as the younger one's eyes flashed and the man shook his head in response. "Do it again." His command was answered by an animalistic growl and he smirked despite himself as the younger boy frowned and started to complain in a childish fashion. "We've done this a hundred times tonight alone!" The girl had to stop herself from chuckling herself as the older figure shook his head, his expression of amusement hidden from the other boy in the dark, and ordered, "Again!" Rolling his eyes and groaning like the stereotypical teenage boy that he was, the younger figure obeyed closing his eyes, lifting up his hands, and retracting razor sharp claws not normally associated with the human anatomy. "Let me see your eyes Liam." The older boy ordered and the boy shook his head unwilling to comply.
Shaking his own head, the older boy gave his younger counterpart a look and repeated the instruction in his naturally gruff tone. "Open your eyes Liam." The shorter figure opened them reluctantly revealing the glowing yellow eyes of a wolf. Shaking his head at him, Liam looked to the girl for support and she gave him a pointed look that confirmed that the older male was right. "Allison!" He whined and it revealed further how young he truly was as he failed to take the girl's hint and she smirked herself with her white teeth standing out bright despite the darkness. "Isaac is right, Liam. You need to learn control and this is the only way." Isaac nodded as Liam dropped his head in exhaustion and defeat that this lengthy boring process was the only way to gain control especially taking into account his anger issues.
"It takes time Liam," Isaac confirmed as he clamped a hand on the boy's shoulder to reassure him as he added, "That's enough for one night." Liam sighed in relief as Isaac stepped over to where Allison was sitting on the fallen tree and snatched up the backpack that was hidden in the shadows before tossing another towards the freshman who caught it with ease without looking. "Reflexes are still good." Allison jabbed as she picked up her own bag and swung a bow and quiver over her shoulder as if carrying around a bow and arrows in the middle of the night in winter was totally a normal thing to have. Shaking his head at how much had changed so quickly, the freshman grinned before swinging on his backpack and trotted after the forms of the juniors as they walked along the near invisible path with supernaturally keen eyes.
By the time the pair got to the bottom, Liam looked like a dead man walking from exhaustion and Allison kept looking back to be sure the young wolf wouldn't fall over. "He's like a puppy." She whispered to Isaac who gave her a very funny look as she continued, "A very tired puppy." He rolled his eyes in response and she chuckled, being compared to a canine when in human form always seemed to bother him. "It's because I have been compared to a kicked puppy Al." His answer to her unspoken question startled her and she frowned slightly in confusion at his response, "It was an easy question to guess Al, besides it's the question you never ask." The girl wasn't one to normally allow herself to admit to such a thing but he was right about her wanting to know why. "Better than dealing with the hard questions." Allison finally managed and she watched as his face grew dark at the thought of the hit lists that Lydia had discovered, Kate on the loose, the possibility that Liam could explode at any time with even greater consequences now than ever before.
Despite his worried look, he grabbed her hand and gave it a slight reassuring squeeze as they continued walking and Liam practically slept as he walked behind them. "But we can handle it together." Isaac whispered reassuringly and she grinned over at him even if it was a smile that barely reached her eyes. Just a year ago, they would not have even been able to work as partners and here he was comforting her as more than that. If they hadn't been nearly out of the woods with Liam stumbling behind them, she would definitely have been thanking him in the right ways. Thanking him for what? For being himself and for everything that he had done for her over these past few months. To think that she had always thought that he was the broken one that she was trying to fix; in reality it was quite the opposite it seems.
She was lost in her thoughts when she heard the car unlocking and stopped in surprise causing Liam to walk into her and the two to yelp in surprise. "Come on you two idiots, get in the car or you'll be running home." Isaac chuckled lightly as he slipped into the driver's seat and revved up the engine as the two other supernaturals rushed to open their doors and get inside before the teen left them in the woods alone. If any of the three had happened to be paying any attention to the surrounding area they would have seen two pairs of glowing green supernatural eyes. Unluckily for them, no one did, and the sound of clattering bones and low animalistic growls rustled through the underbrush following the cautiously moving vehicle as it traversed the bumpy dirt access road through the trees.
"You wouldn't leave us, right?" Liam asked his face a mixture of assurance that Isaac wouldn't and fear that he would have made him and Allison run after the car. Isaac looked back and smirked at the younger teen which was not exactly the answer the boy had been hoping for. Allison just rolled her eyes, it was the exact kind of look that her father would have responded with and the fact that Isaac just used it meant that he had spent way too much time training with him. All of this went over the younger boy's head and he frowned as his exhausted brain debated between asking a few more questions or giving up. Deciding that it really wasn't all that important after all, he chose to instead lay down in the backseat to nap the short ride home. His big icy blue eyes had just closed when the car suddenly slammed its brakes throwing him forward onto the floor board with a startled yelp.
Isaac was not one to normally have slow reflexes but these creatures were fast, supernaturally fast therefore he was forced to slam on brakes causing the SUV to groan in protest. "Dammit!" He cursed, as Allison's eyes grew wide in recognition of the nightmarish creatures and the fearless archer started screaming wildly, "Reverse! Reverse!" Liam was then thrown back into the seat violently as the SUV's tires spun backwards rapidly but it not so fast to miss seeing the animal bone clad berserkers standing in front of the car. "What the hell are those?" The teen yelled as he finally regained his balance and found himself being completely ignored by Isaac and Allison as she, in a now significantly calmer voice, ordered careful directions that he followed without a peep of complaint. "Right after that tree. Now turn. Follow that path. Slow up a bit over this next bump."
The wheels of that car had never rolled down any dirt road as fast as they did that night away from those two berserkers. "Slow up! Don't you mean drive any faster? Pedal to the medal so we don't die horrible awful deaths!" Liam yelled as he watched worriedly out the back window as the supernatural beasts with bloodlust in their eyes steadily approached unaffected by the speed of the vehicle in front of them. "Any suggestions that are actually helpful? We'll hit a bump the wrong way, lose control, and crash the car if we speed up." Isaac managed to grit through his teeth as he tried his best to focus on driving and not sound too much like a pissed off Stiles; he definitely failed on the latter of the two. "He's trying his best." Allison amended glancing back to check on Liam and staring at his tense back as the boy looked out the back window. As he watched with his icy blue eyes flashing to gold erratically as he tried to control the change as best he could; Isaac wasn't the only one who failed at his attempt to stay in control of himself that night.
Hope that this will make up for all the months off from posting any updates, please, as always, read, enjoy, and review. From this point forward I will definitely need your reviews to let me know if I am going in the right direction! Thanks for reading and sticking with me this long!
