It's The Same, Wherever You Go
Chapter Two
Not So Normal Anymore
Living in Beacon Hills wasn't all that bad. True, it wasn't as flashy as LA, or Las Vegas, but it had its own appeal, in Jaydra's opinion.
Jaydra has been living here for about two months, and it took her no time at all to bond with her roommate Stiles, and his best friend Scott McCall. They quickly became the three Musketeers.
Jaydra relaxes on the bed in her room, which was across the hall from Stiles', talking her brothers about her new life.
Sure, Sam and Dean couldn't really call or text her because of the cases they were on, but it was nice just to talk to them every now and again.
"So what are you guys hunting now?" she asks, her voice lower than normal in case John or Stiles comes by her door.
"Not sure," Dean replies over the roar of the Impala in the background. "All I know is some woman is missing, and the information that we have is that she made a 'Crossroads Deal' ten years ago."
Jaydra closes her eyes, trying to clear out her mind to think. "Hmm . . . Sounds like it could be carrying out the deal. You know? How the old blue's songs talked about selling your soul for something, and now the deal has run out?"
"Could be," Dean's voice hums through the phone. "But what is killing the people to get their souls?"
"Hellhounds?" Jaydra suggests.
"What's a Hellhound?" Stiles asks as he opened Jaydra's door, jumping on her bed. "That a new band around?"
Jaydra rolls her eyes, thankful that Stiles wasn't listening to the whole conversation. "Yes, Stiles, it's a new band that my brothers are going to without me! Those assholes!"
Dean was confused for a second until he heard Jaydra mention Stiles. Yeah, he wasn't too thrilled about his sister living in a place that he was unfamiliar with, but if Bobby trusts them, then Dean's giving them the benefit of the doubt.
"Sorry, sister. Brothers only," Dean states, gunning the engine. "Maybe next time."
"I'll hold you to it, jerk," Jaydra says, smirking at the term of endearment.
"Bitch," Dean replies automatically, before hanging up the phone.
After the conversation ends, Jaydra looks over at Stiles. "So, what was so important you interrupted my phone call with my brother?"
Stiles' eyes were practically shining in excitement. "We're going to get Scott and go on a scavenger hunt!"
Jaydra's eyebrow arches in confusion "Really, Stiles? It's like eleven o'clock, and we have our first day of school tomorrow, and you wanna do a midnight scavenger hunt?"
Stiles nods his head, eagerly. "Yes, exactly?"
Sighing, Jaydra ran a hand through her sandy blonde hair and chuckles slightly. "Alright . . ." she relents, curious what has Stiles so excited. "What are we looking for?"
"A dead body."
ITSWYG
It wasn't thirty minutes later before Stiles' blue jeep was parked outside of the McCall's house.
Jumping out of the jeep, Jaydra and Stiles walk over to the house to call on their asthmatic friend.
"Want me to knock?" Jaydra offers.
"Nah," Stiles shrugs. "I'm just gonna climb up to his window."
". . . That sounds super creepy, Stiles," Jaydra says, shaking her head as Stiles begins the climb up to Scott's room.
Stiles didn't get very far up until the sound of the front door opening caught Jaydra's attention. Moving out of sight, she watches as Scott, who armed himself with a baseball bat, slowly walks outside the door frame. All it took was Stiles to slip and fall, resulting in both boys scream, to have Jaydra rolling on the ground, laughing.
"Stiles!" Scott whines. "What the hell are you doing?!"
"You weren't answering your phone!" Stiles declares, before his eyes zero in on the bath that could have been introduced to his head. "Why do you have a bat?"
"I thought you were a predator!" the young teen defends, looking slightly embarrassed.
"A predator?" Jaydra repeats, a laugh spilling onto her lips. "Please, you totally wouldn't be his type."
"Oh, yeah?" Stiles asks. "Who would be?" But before Jaydra could answer his question, Stiles holds up his hand. "Forget it, I don't want to know. Anyway! Look, I know it's late, but you've got to hear this!"
Scott looks unimpressed at how excited his best friend was.
Jaydra watches on with a raised eyebrow. ~Must happen more than once around here,~ she hums in her mind.
"My dad left twenty minutes ago, dispatch called," Stiles announces. "They're bringing every officer of the Beacon department and even the state police!"
Jaydra bit the inside of her cheek, growing nervous She wasn't too fond with the state police since really she was kinda wanted in the state of North Carolina. Well, more like her brothers were, but she was clearly an accessory.
"For what?" Scott asks Stiles, pulling the girl of the group out of her train of thought.
"They found a body in the woods!" the Sheriff's son announces giddily.
"A dead body?!" Scott gasps out, his eyes widening from the information.
Jaydra facepalms, before looking over at Scott, her green eyes zeroing in on his chocolate brown ones. "No, you idjit, a body of water!"
"Yes, jackass! It's a dead body!" Stiles says, already bouncing up and down in excitement.
Nothing exciting ever happens in Beacon Hills, and when something like this happened, Stiles wants to be right in the middle of it. It's going to get him killed one of these days.
"Think it was a murder?" Jaydra asks, her hunter instincts kicking in.
"Nobody knows yet. It was a girl, probably in her twenties . . ." Stiles says, rubbing his chin in thought.
Jaydra bites at her bottom lip, her brain doing a quick file check of the monsters she's hunted. Just from what Stiles was giving her, hundreds of supernatural beings were possible suspects, but she can't pinpoint one until she got more information.
And what better source than the sheriff's son?
"Wait, going by that, it sounds like they found everything. What are the police looking for?" Jaydra asks, raising her eyebrow.
"That's the best part, Jay," Stiles states, as he began walking backward towards his Jeep. "They only found half."
At that piece of information, Jaydra grabs Stiles by the sleeve and motioned for Scott to follow them. "C'mon! Let's go!"
Maybe Bobby was right . . . Hunters can never have a normal life
ITSWYG
The three teens reached the woods in a matter of minutes, and when they crossed the sign that said that it's forbidden to enter at night, that was when the two boys really realized what they're doing. While Jaydra just saw this as 'Another Day in the Hunter Life.'
"Are we seriously doing this?" Scott asks as he passes by the sign.
"You're the one that always bitches about nothing happening in this town!" Stiles defends.
Jaydra chuckled. "Thought that was your department, Stiles," she retorts, clicking on a flashlight, glancing around her immediate surroundings.
"Shut up," Stiles argues, before looking back at Scott. "C'mon, hurry up!"
"I was trying to get a good night sleep before practice tomorrow," Scott whines too himself. He loved playing lacrosse and was hoping to get a chance to play on the first line. "Jay, you still planning on trying out?"
"Yeah. Going by what Stiles says, the sport is the only thing the school's got going for it," Jaydra states, running a hand through her hair.
"But even if you get on the team," Stiles begins, looking back at his roommate, "You know the coach will probably bench you because your a girl."
"Then I take it to the principal," Jaydra states, shrugging her shoulders. "Anyway, back to the real reason why we're even here, which part of the body are we even looking for?"
Stiles looks confused for a second before answering. "Huh . . . I didn't even think about that."
"Great," Scott mutters, his chocolate brown eyes scanning the trees around them. "And what if the one who killed her is still out here?"
"Also something I didn't think about!" Stiles admits, rubbing the back of his head as he starts to see the flaws in his plan.
"At least you're being painfully honest," Jaydra sighs, climbing up the small hill.
"It's comforting to know that you planned this up with your usual attention to details!" Scott pants, pulling out his inhaler since breathing begins to be tougher. After taking a deep breath from his inhaler, Scott looks to Stiles. "Maybe the asthmatic should be the one who holds the flashlight, huh?"
"Get down!" Jaydra suddenly hisses, pushing the two boys down to the ground.
When they look up, the two boys notice the police lights shining across the preserve. And they were heading straight for the three teens. So what do they do? Stiles gets up and starts to run, but in the wrong direction.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Jaydra hisses, jumping up to follow him but staying back so Scott can keep up. "Stiles! Wait!"
And sure enough, Stiles gets caught by the police officers, and one of them happens to be the man that Jaydra's living with. John Stilinski. Before the two of them get caught themselves, Jaydra grabs Scott and pulls him to hide behind a tree a couple of feet away from the police posse.
"So, you're listening to all my phone calls now?" John asks, looking over his son like this was the most normal thing to happen. Which it probably was in the Stilinski family.
"No!" Stiles laughs, a bright smile on his face. But the look his father was giving him made the smile falter before leaving altogether. "Not the boring ones," Stiles finally admits.
Sheriff Stilinski looks back into the woods, knowing that Stiles isn't out here alone. "So, where's your usual partners in crime?"
"Who?" Stiles ask, looking back in the woods as well. "You mean Scott and Jaydra? Scott's home, saying he wanted to get a good night sleep before the first day of school tomorrow," Stiles lies.
"And Jaydra?" the sheriff demands, raising an eyebrow.
"Um, she went for a jog! So yeah, just me out here, in the woods . . . Alone." Stiles, clearly, is a horrible liar.
Rolling his eyes, John shines his flashlight across the woods. Jaydra forces Scott to stay still so they wouldn't be caught in the beams.
"Scott! Jaydra! You two out there?" he calls into the woods. And they gave no answer, the sheriff focuses back on his son. "Well, young man, I'm gonna walk you back to your car. And you and I, we're gonna have a discussion about something called the violation of privacy." And with that, the sheriff leads his son and the posse away from the other two teenager's hiding place.
"That was a close one," Scott huffs out, watching the group leave.
"Yeah, and if I know John like I think I know him, he's gonna check Stiles story out," Jaydra states. "We need to haul ass home."
Nodding, Scott begins following Jaydra, since she seems more at home in the woods. Just as they were about to hit the road leading back into town, the girl stops, forcing Scott to stop as well.
"Everything okay-" Scott's question was cut off when Jaydra slaps her hand over the younger teen's mouth.
That's when Scott notices a lot of the noises around them. The crunching of leaves and sticks, as if something was trampling through the woods. When suddenly a herd of deer began jumping the bank that was in front of them. Before the two of them get hit in the head by a hoof, Jaydra grabs Scott's arm and pulls him under the bank, so that the deer would jump over them, and not putting them in any real danger.
"Man that was close," Jaydra hums, as she stood up, watching the last of the deer run off into the woods.
"Oh man!" Scott gasps, dropping back to all fours and looking around the leaves.
"What is it?" Jaydra asks, kneeling down beside him.
Scott looks through the leaves furiously. "I dropped my inhaler!"
Rolling her eyes, Jaydra begins to help Scott look for the missing inhaler. After searching for a few minutes, Jaydra stumbles upon a large lump in the woods. She shines the flashlight in the direction of the lump and lets out a loud gasp as she finally found the top half of the woman.
The reveal of the body was startling to the two teens, causing them to fall from the top of the hill, rolling to the bottom. As they stand up, Jaydra notices a moving object to her right. She cuts her head towards the figure and lets out a gasp. The large body of the creature usually leaves little to the imagination at what she could be looking at, but the red eyes were a total give away.
"An alpha . . ." she whispers to herself.
The werewolf turns it's head towards her and Scott, who was scrambling to get up after seeing the monster.
"Run!" Jaydra yells at Scott as the two of them began running, but it was hopeless.
The alpha knocks Jaydra away, and pins Scott to the ground and bites him, making the teenage boy scream out in pain.
Pushing herself up, Jaydra pulls out a small knife that she keeps in her shoe and races towards the alpha and slices at the body, making the creature jump back. It growls at her before turning and running in the opposite direction.
"What the hell was that?!" Scott screams, holding his right side as blood poured from the wound.
"Don't know," Jaydra lies, looking where the Alpha ran. "Looked like a big wolf . . ."
And just to confirm her suspicions, a loud howl cuts through the night as the two teens reached the road.
Only what Scott McCall didn't know, was that Beacon Hills was now harboring an Alpha Werewolf.