Teen Eagle
|Argent house|
Allisons parents tell the teens to come down because dinner is served, so a few minutes later after Allison introduced her friends to everyone, they are sitting at the table in the dining room with Allisons parents sitting at both ends on the table and Stiles and Allison on one side of the table sitting across from Scott, Lydia and Kate.
"Would anyone like something else to drink besides water?" Victoria Argent, Allisons mother asked their guests.
"No thanks" the teen reply politely.
"I could get you some beer Stiles." Chris suggested.
"No thanks?" Stiles replies uncertain what to make of the suggestion.
"A shot of tequila?" Chris further offers.
"Dad, really?" Allison asks not liking that her father is making her friends uncomfortable.
"You don't drink Stiles?" Chris asks ignoring his daughters try to make him stop.
"I'm not old enough to."Stiles answers.
"That doesn't seem to stop many teenagers." Victoria says.
"No but it should." Stiles replies.
"Good answer. Total lie but well played. You may yet survive the night." Kate says looking at her brother somewhat disapprovingly.
"Do you smoke pot?" Chris asks Stiles, who choked on his water at the question.
"OK changing the channel to something a little less conservative, so Scott and Stiles I heard you are both on the Lacrosse team. I'm sorry I don't know anything about that, how do you even play?" Kate asks the boys.
"Uhm well you know hockey? It's a lot like that only played on grass instead of ice." Scott explains to her trying to help get his friend out of the parents interrogation.
"Hockey on grass is called field hockey." Chris says.
"Oh, yeah forgot about that sport." Scott says.
"Well anyway it's like field hockey then except the ball is passed by stick through the air and is generally off the ground." Scott explains.
"And can you slap check like hockey?" Kate inquires.
"Uhm yeah but it's only the gloves and the sticks." Stiles replies, seeing Scott looking at a text below the table which says ,Derek: any progress?
"Sounds violent, I like it." Kate says
"Scott is actually an amazing player, Allison and Mr. Argent were also at the first game, wasn't he good?"Lydia then says having seen Allison not reacting well to her parents interrogation.
"He was fine." Chris says.
"He scored the last and winning shot." Lydia tells Kate.
"True but he didn't score at all until the last few minutes and Stiles was only a bench warmer if I remember correctly." Chris says trying to show his disapproval to his daughters boyfriend.
"Scotts last shot he actually ripped through the goalies net, it was incredible." Lydia says sounding a little bit desperate trying to help out Allison.
"Yeah well I think the goalie was playing with a defective stick so." Chris says.
"Well you're probably right. Anyway could I get a shot of that tequila?" Scott jokes trying to take the edge off, after hearing Allisons and Stiles heartbeat increasing showing their discomfort.
The adults laugh and Chris asks "You are kidding right?"
"Yeah." Scott says.
Soon after Scott excuses himself and asked where the bathroom is, Kate shows him the way to the guest bathroom in her room and goes back to the others.
Scott then goes in the bathroom and calls Derek saying "Hey Derek, what am I supposed to be looking for exactly? Allisons dad is an arms dealer they have millions of bullets."
"There will probably only be a few bullets of them and they most likely will be packed separately. Also look in Kates belongings if you can, she was the one who shot me after all." Derek guesses.
"OK, that's good I'm in the bathroom next to her room. I'll see what I can find, see you later and in case my mom comes home please hide?" Scott tells Derek.
"OK but hurry I don't have that long." Derek replies.
Scott ends the call and leaves the bathroom going back into Kates room and sees a dufflebag under her bed. Closing the room door he quickly pulls it out carefully and opens it to see a case inside. He opens it and sees a variation of bullets, in the middle of them lies a wooden box, he grabs it opens it and sees a few rifle bullets. Focusing his sight on the grayish tip of the bullets he can see with his Eagle eyes that something is glowing on the tip, so guessing that these are the bullets Kate shot Derek with he puts one in his shoe to hide it and looks at the box again seeing an inscription on the top. Taking out his phone and typing in the words into a French to English translation app he looks at the results which says nordic blue monkshood. Despite not knowing what that is he puts everything back as it was and gets back to the dinner table.
"Hey uhm, I probably should get going, thanks for dinner." Scott says approaching the table.
"Oh no you have to stay for desert I wanna hear more about you. Sit down." Kate says.
"OK." Scott says sitting back down next to Lydia.
"Lydia was just telling us that you work for a veterinarian." Victoria says.
"Yeah I told them how you helped me with Prada when he got scratched."Lydia says and then adds in a whisper only for Scott to hear "sorry I just had to get the heat off of Juliet and Romeo over there."
"What does your boss think of the animal attacks? Any theories?" Chris asks now curious what Deaton might have said about them since he should know that they are werewolf killings.
"Everyone is just saying it's a mountain lion." Scott tells them.
"Would have to be a pretty large mountain lion." Kate says.
"What do you think Scott?" Victoria asks.
"I don't know, we usually just get cats and dogs and the occasional bird at the vet, nothing that vicious." Scott replies.
"Never had to do with a rabid dog?" Chris asks getting Scott shaking his head no in response.
"Hmm, I grew up with a lot of dogs I saw one get rabies from a bat it was transferred through the bite. You know people think that a rabid dog just suddenly goes mad, but it's a lot more graduate. First stage is sudden changes in behavior they become restless. It's the second stage that people know the furious phase and that's when they attack and we're talking any moving object. Did you know that a caged rabid dog will break it's own teeth trying to chew through the barbs? It will even rear back and snap it's own spine. Can you imagine the amount of force it would take to do that? It's a complete character reversal. This harmless animal turned into a perfectly vicious killer. And it all started with that one bite." Chris tells them shifting his focus to Stiles in order to scare him.
"But it died didn't it?" Allison says trying to stop her fathers attempts to harass Stiles.
"Yes because your grandfather shot it." Victoria says.
"Because he wanted to put it out of it's misery." Allison replies.
"Because it was to dangerous, something that out of control is better of dead." Chris says.
Scott hearing all this was getting the feeling that Mr. Argent was not only talking about dogs but rather shape shifters.
After everyone finished eating the teens go back upstairs to get their backpacks. They are now standing at the door saying goodbye to Allison.
"I'm so incredibly sorry guys."
"For what?" Stiles asks.
"For that being the worst, most horribly awkward dinner in the history of horribly awkward dinners." Allison says.
"No, it wasn't the worst, there was this one dinner where Scotts parents told him they were getting a divorce. From what I heard that was a top notch horribly awkward dinner." Stiles says trying to lighten the mood.
"Hey what's with me getting dragged into this all the time, thanks for that by the way." Scott says looking at Lydia jokingly at the second part.
"I'm sorry? Look I had to help out the desperate couple over there and you seem to have a thick hide. If it helps I'll make it up to you tomorrow you still need help studying right?" Lydia apologizes.
"Yeah OK, I probably would have offered myself up to Allisons dad as well had I been there." Scott tells Lydia.
"Well see you tomorrow then Al." Stiles says leaning in to kiss Allison goodbye but stops seeing Chris lurking from the living room watching them with careful eyes.
"Uhm your dad is watching." Stiles informs Allison.
"Good." Allison says leaning in the rest of the way, grabbing Stiles shirt to pull him in closer and kisses him goodbye.
"Wait up guys. I got to talk to Scott for a minute." Kate says.
"OK?" Scott says not knowing what to do.
"What did you take from my bag?" Kate asks.
"What?" Scott asks hiding the fact that he has the bullet in his shoe well.
"My bag, what did you take from it?" Kate asks with all teens feeling rather uncomfortable.
"What are you talking about?" Chris says approaching the group.
"My bag was left shut in the guest room and when I got back it was open and since Scott comes in to use the bathroom, so he most likely is the cause."
"He didn't take anything." Allison says lightly fidgeting.
"Now look something was taken from my bag and I hate to be the accuser here Scott because I really do love those adorable brown eyes but I don't know if you're a klepto or if you're just curious. But answer the question what did you take?" Kate asks.
"Nothing. I swear." Scott replies.
"You don't mind proving that do you? How about you show us what's in your pocket." Kate suggests.
"OK. See I took nothing." Scott replies getting his keys and his cell out of his jeans pockets and turning them inside out.
"OK this is enough, it wasn't Scott going through your bag it was me." Allison says.
"You?" Kate asks.
"Yeah me." Allison says disapprovingly taking out a condom from her pocket.
"Oh, I guess I owe you an apology then Scott, and if I haven't totally scared you off let me know if I can make it up to you." Kate says winking at the end hoping to get him to forgive her with her sex appeal.
Lydia seeing this just grunts quietly and walks out the door for some reason she doesn't like Kate trying to win Scott over, despite them not being a couple and since this could actually help determine if Scott is a jerk or serious about her.
"OK? Well we better go now." Scott says grabbing the frozen Stiles by the arm, who was shocked by Allison having a condom and scared shitless by her father trying to light him on fire by staring at him.
|In Stiles Jeep|
The 3 teens get into Stiles Jeep and take off, headed for Scotts house first since it was the closest one and because Lydia whispered to Stiles that she wants to ask him something in private.
Scott is relieved at this because this way he doesn't have to make up an excuse to hurry back home hoping Derek was still alive.
So after dropping off Scott Stiles is now driving to Lydias house while she asks him "So what did Scott say to Kate after I left?"
"Nothing he excused us awkwardly and hauled me outta there, since I was frozen like a statue." He replies.
"So you don't know if he wants to take Kate up on her offer?" Lydia asks sounding Jealous.
"No, but I can tell you he won't, but why are you asking anyway, like you told him more than once you are not a couple." Stiles asks.
"Yeah well none of your business and how do you know that he won't?" Lydia snaps at Stiles.
"Because he is like a brother to me and I know him? Also because he has a massive crush on you ever since he first met you in elementary school but don't tell him that I told you." Stiles replies.
"Oh come on, he doesn't like me that much, he never even tried to ask me out and refused to kiss me." Lydia says denying that Scott is in love with her.
"Well that's Scott for you, I know about that by the way Allison told me and I asked him about it afterwards and he really is serious about what he said to you about kissing him for himself not because of a bet by the way. He is stupid that way." Stiles says.
"I thought it was sweet, but I don't believe all that gentleman crap I can't imagine that a guy really means any of that and doesn't just want to fool the girl into liking him." Lydia tells Stiles.
"Well I can tell you he really does mean that but it's very obvious that you're still untrusting because of how Jackson treated you and Scott gets that, he told me that he will wait for you as long as it takes for you to trust him. But again don't let him know I told you, otherwise I'll be missing my head the next day. Bye and see you tomorrow." Stiles says then pulling up to her house having arrived there and taking off towards his home shooting Scott a text saying: Derek healed or dead yet?
|McCall house|
Meanwhile Scott runs towards his room after being dropped off by Stiles and is relieved to see that his mother hasn't returned from work yet.
Scott gets to his room and sees Derek barely conscious waiting for him at the foot of his bed.
"Hey Derek, I got the bullet" Scott informs him excited.
"OK give it to me." Derek says standing up with wobbly legs, so Scott takes off his shoe and hands Derek the bullet.
"Good, this seems to be the right one." Derek says looking the bullet over.
"The case said something about nordic blue monkshood." Scott informs him.
"Yeah that is the name of a species of wolfsbane." Derek replies opening the bullet with his teeth and taking the cap with the wolfsbane powder in it and emptying it on Scotts desk.
He then takes out a lighter and burns the powder, after the initial flame stops burning Derek scoops up the powder or now rather ash and smears it into his wound after taking a quick second to prepare for the incoming pain. He then thrashes around a bit screaming because of the pain but the purple veins spreading from the wound are quickly shrinking and soon vanish. Scott watches this spectacle with a painful look on his face being able to feel the pain rolling off of Derek.
"Are you OK?" Scott asks seeing Derek stop thrashing and getting back on his feet.
"Well except for the agonizing pain, yeah."Derek replies.
"OK well I helped you now please don't rope me into the whole killing the alpha is all that matters thing or I'll go to Allisons dad and tell him everything I know." Scott demands.
"Oh so you think you can trust them? You think they can help you?" Derek asks.
"Why not? Despite wanting to scare off Stiles the whole night they still seem nicer than you are." Scott answers.
"Oh I can show you exactly how nice they are." Derek replies.
"What do you mean?"Scott inquires.
"Just come on." Derek says leading them to his house and 10 minutes later getting into his sports car with Scott. On the way to Dereks house Scott receives Stiles text and replies: Derek is fine now, he's going to show me something, fill you in tomorrow.
|Beacons Crossing Home|
Derek pulls up in front of the Beacons Crossing Home one of the medical centers of Beacon Hills, supervised by the hospital.
"What are we doing here?" Scott asks getting out of the car and following Derek who was now leading them into the center.
After walking through a few corridors Derek stops at a room and gets in with Scott.
In the room there is a middle aged man sitting unmoving in a wheelchair.
"Who is he?" Scott asks seeing Derek depressed look at seeing the man.
"My uncle, Peter Hale." Derek replies grimly.
Scott looks the person over and asks "is he, like you a werewolf?"
"He was, now he is barely even human. Six years ago my sister and I were at school and our house caught fire. 11 people were trapped inside, he was the only survivor." Derek tells Scott.
"So what makes you so sure that they set the fire?" Scott asks.
"Cause they were the only ones who knew about us." Derek explains.
"Then they had a reason." Scott guesses.
"Like what? You tell me what justifies this." Derek says turning his uncle around so that Scott can see the burned half of his face.
"They say they only kill an adult and only with absolute proof but there were people within my family that were ordinary also killed within that fire. This is what they do and it's what Allison will do!" Derek says.
"What are you doing? How did you get in here?" A nurse asks seeing Derek and Scott through the door they left open.
"We were just leaving." Derek says taking Scott with him out of the medical center.
After they got out Derek and Scott get back in the car and Derek drives him home and leaves him with the parting words of "Think about what I told you today. We need to stick together to survive both the alpha and the Argents."
Scott says to himself "maybe he's right." seeing Derek take off again. He walks back in his house and lies down to sleep.
|Argent house - an hour later|
Allison goes outside the house to get some privacy and call Stiles.
"Hey I just wanted to call to say I'm sorry again for tonight and thanks for sticking through the interrogation so well, call me." Allison says softly into the phone having talked to Stiles voicemail.
Allison presses end call and moves to go back in but steps on something, looking underneath her shoe she sees a glass shard and then looks around for the origin of said shard till her eyes land on Kates car. Going towards it she can see some pieces of glass sticking out where a brand new driver side window is now located. Picking one up she eyes it thoughtfully and makes her way back into the house and to her room.
"The one that attacked me was big it had width and power but the one I shot was lean and fast." Kate explains to her brother who was sitting on the living room couch with her standing in front of the fireplace.
"Well that would be Derek Hale." Chris assumes.
"Are you sure?" Kate asks.
"Mostly." Chris replies.
"Well how do we know it's just two of them?" Kate asks.
"We don't yet, but if Derek it still alive he will lead us to the alpha." Chris says.
"Take the pack leader, then take the pack." Kate summarizes their strategy.
"And we do it according to the code." Chris tells Kate.
"You and the code." Kate replies not taking the code seriously.
"It's there for a reason Kate." Chris emphasizes.
"Of course. I always play by the rules." Kate says lighting a fire in the fireplace.