Hey Guys!
So, I know that in the show Erica's first school appearance and them finding out Boyd is the next Beta are separate days but I'm going to pretend that they are the same day.
So, the ice rink date that Scott, Allison, Lydia and Stiles went on was the day before.
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- BehindGrayEyes xx
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Ice Pick:
I was standing in the gym staring in horror at the newly resurrected rock-climbing wall while the other students in my class gathered around it chatting to their friends. I looked around the room for Erica because I knew that my blonde haired friend was in my P.E class and then smiled then my gaze landed on her in the corner of the room. I strolled over to her in my Women Tank Top. Train Like A Beast, Look Like A Beauty, a pair of FOREVER 21 Contrast Trim Run Shorts with FILA® Hyper Split Pink Ribbon Running Shoes and my long brunette hair up in a messy bun so that it wouldn't be in my face while I worked out.
"Hey, E." I greeted my friend as I approached her and her heart rate picked a little as she jumped in surprise before turning to look at me.
"Oh, hey, Soph." she replied shyly to me before looking back at the climbing wall with a worrying look on her face and I remembered that she was epileptic so this kind of thing was dangerous for her but I also knew that Erica wouldn't want to look weak in front of her peers. I frowned at little in thought as I looked around the room at the people in the class before turning back to Erica with my lips pursed.
"I so don't want to do this stupid exercise." I said in a whiny voice as I groaned in displeasure and Erica gave me a sympathetic smile as she finally looked away from the contraption in the middle of the gym. Erica was similar to Lydia in the way that she wouldn't accepted pity from anyone, not even those she considered her friends so I knew I had to find another way to try and get her out of climbing the wall. "Hey, any chance for talking you into skipping school with me?" I asked her in a hopeful voice but she just laughed a little like I was joking around.
"McCall! Argent! Let's go!" I heard Coach Flinstock call from the other side of the room and I turned my head to frown at him in confusion.
"Which one of us?" I yelled back at him with my hand on my cocked hip and my eyebrows rose expectantly as he looked at me as though just realising there were two of us in his class.
"Male McCall!" he clarified for us before blowing his whistle shrilling and I cringed slightly as Scott and Allison walked up to the climbing wall to get harnessed.
"Idiot." I muttered under my breath as I rolled my eyes at our teacher and turned back to Erica who was looking at me with a small smirk playing on her lips. "What?"
"I don't know. Something different about you. You've always been confident in yourself but lately it's been like your confidence is on ecstasy or something." She commented playfully but serious and I started giggling at her description as she broke out in a grin that brightened her whole face dramatically.
"I like that." I said when my giggles disappeared but I was still smiling like crazy at my friend as she fiddled with the edge of her shirt. "I don't know what's different though. Maybe I changed shampoos." I joked with her as I pretended to tap my chin thoughtfully even though I knew that my new found confidence had nothing to do with beauty products and was really thanks to my transition into a werewolf. Being a wolf just made me feel more relaxed, self-assured and more like me than I could ever remember feeling.
"Well, whatever it is, sign me up. I could do with some confidence." Erica said with sad sigh at the end so I immediately linked my arm through hers in a silent sign of support and she gave me a small smile before turning back to watch just as Scott fell from the wall on to mat below him. I let a small laugh at the sight of my brother falling from the sky but my mind of replaying Erica's words over and over again. She would definitely benefit from receiving the bite because it would cure her of her epilepsy and give her the self-confidence that she desired. It wasn't as though Derek wasn't giving the option of taking the bite, well he had given the option to Isaac and it was on them whether or not they accepted it.
"Female McCall! Erica! Let's go. The wall." I heard Coach order in a yell that cut through my inner monologue so I flashed Erica a reassuring smile and made my way to the front of the room to get strapped in the harness. After Erica and I were strapped into our harnesses, I quickly climbed the wall without breaking a sweat and was just about to descend when I heard Erica whimpering underneath me so I glanced down at her with a frown only to see my friend frozen in place and clinging to the wall about halfway up the wall. "Erica. Dizzy? Is it vertigo?"
"Vertigo's a dysfunction of the vestibular system of the inner ear. She's just freaking out." Lydia said from the group under us on the mat as I made my way down so the I was level with Erica and I shot my strawberry blonde friend a scowl.
"Coach, maybe it's not safe. You know she's epileptic." Allie said in a soft voice filled with concern as I climbed the rest of the way down to where Erica was situated.
"Why doesn't anybody tell me this stuff? I have to get - Erica, y - you're fine. Just - Just kick off from the wall. Th - There's a mat to catch you. Come on." Coach said as he tried to coax her down from the wall and I rolled my eyes at him as I stopped next to my friend.
"Hey, E!" I greeted her in false cheer and she turned her head slightly to look at me so that I could see the petrified look on her face. I smiled at her reassuringly as I move on so that I could speak to her without everyone below us hearing what I was saying. "Hold my hand, okay? We'll do it together."
"I'm scared." She whispered to me as unshed tears filled her eyes and I smirked at her a little.
"You wanna know what scares me?" I asked her with a serious face and she nodded her head a little without lifting it from the wall. "The mental image of Mr Harris and Coach making out." I whispered to her with a smirk as I faked an over-dramatic shudder and she laughed out loud a little in surprise so I smirked wider in accomplishment because making her laugh was what I was trying to do.
"We'll do it together?"
"We'll do it together." I stated with a confidence smile in place as I reached over to grasp her hand in mine before the two of us pushed off the wall so that we landed on the mat below us.
"See, you're fine. You're on the ground. You're all right. Let's go. Shake it off. You're fine." Coach said softly to Erica as we climbed off of the mat and I was surprised at the genuine concern in his voice. The students around us started to snicker at her as she walked through the crowd that parted for her and I glared at anyone that caught my eye as I follow behind her silently. She hurried out of the gym door and into the girl's locker room where I found her leaning against a metal locker door so I ran over to her. I wrapped my arms around her immediately so that she could bury her head into my shoulder as she sobbed her eyes out and I closed my own as I listened to the painful sound of my friend crying. That was when I made my decision to talk to Derek about Erica being the next to join his pack because I knew that she would benefit from the health, the confidence and the companionship that came with being a werewolf, especially one in a pack.
"Come one, sweetie." I cooed at her as I lead her over to a bench on the side of the room and we both sat down as Erica finally started to calm down a little. We talked for a while about how everyone in our school were idiots until Erica was laughing again before all the other female students started coming in to get dressed and she said she just wanted a minute alone so she left the locker room while I stayed to get changed. I was just about to slip off my tank top when my right hand started shaking uncontrollably and I glanced down at it in confusion as I sense of dread washed over me. I felt a pull coming from the door that led to the gym so I immediately deserted my clothes and head from the gym just in time to see Erica fall from the climbing wall only to be caught by my brother. My eyes widened in shock and worry as I sprint at my fastest human speed over to my friend to see her seizing on the floor. "Put her on her side. Put her on her side." I ordered Scott quickly as I knelt down next to my friend and let her clutch my hand like she had done so many times before while I checked her mouth quickly without touching her to make sure she hadn't cracked any teeth or bitten her tongue. I vaguely heard someone yelling to call an ambulance as more students gathered around us in a circle and I looked up at my brother in confusion. "How'd you know?"
"I just felt it." Scott answered me in a confused voice just before an ambulance officer approached us and asked us to move back.
I went with Erica in the ambulance to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital because the officers literally couldn't make me leave her alone. When I walked in to the hospital with Erica and my mom saw me out of school she just rolled her eyes at me and went on with her work as she lead Erica to an observation room to wait for a doctor. My blonde friend had stopped seizing on the way to the hospital and was now just embarrassed that everyone had seen her like that again but I just waved her worries away by threatening to beat up anyone who bothered her.
"It's been a while since we saw you, Erica. You were being so good about taking your medication." Mom said to her sadly as she checked her eyes with her little flashlight and I leaned on the desk on the other side of Erica's hospital bed.
"Are you gonna tell my mom?" Erica asked her softly and I could hear the sadness in her voice because I knew that her relationship with her mother was strained at best so I stepped forward to grasp her hand in mine.
"Well, I swear I don't want to, but there's this team of lawyers in the back who would break my legs, and I don't know if you've seen my legs, but for a girl my age, they're still pretty hot. So –"mom joked with an eye roll and a shrug of her shoulder as Erica and I laughed at her.
"Let's hope that's genetic." I added to the banter with a coy smile as I wiggled my eyebrows suggestively making both of them laugh as well.
"Doctor's gonna be in in a minute, okay?" mom told Erica as she soothed down her messy blonde hair and I smiled slightly at the motherly gesture because I knew that Erica didn't really have anyone to act like an actual mom to her.
"Okay." Erica replied with a small smile as mom left the room and I squeezed my friends hand reassuringly when I heard the door open quietly. My friend smiled at me a little as she closed her eyes and I looked up at the person who had entered the hospital room as I bit my lip nervously before nodding my head. I closed my eyes as I listened to the sound of Erica's heart slow down to a steady rhythm before opening them again just in time to see the intruder grabbing the end of the bed.
"You sure you don't want to come?" Derek asked me softly so that he didn't wake a sleeping Erica and I smiled softly at the girl on the bed before looking back up at greenish grey eyes that seemed to be studying me.
"I want her to choose to accept the bite because she wants it. Not because I have it." I explained my reasoning to him as I wrapped an arm around my waist and he nodded in understanding before pulling Erica's hospital bed out the door. I took a deep breath to steady my nerves and prayed to whoever would hear me that I didn't just sign my friend's death warrant.
I walked up to the small one story house in my Boohoo Lola Slash Neck Fisherman Jumper, a pair of Vero Moda Liza Pant and Gap Flannel Ballet Flats with my long brown hair loose in curly waves. I smiled to myself as I knocked lightly on her window and then waited for her to come open it for me so I could climb into her bedroom. I glanced back at the window to see her confused blonde haired girl in the glass so I smiled at her when her gaze landed on me. She smiled at me brightly as she opened up the window for me and I threw in the bag that I was carrying before climbing in myself.
"Hey, E." I greeted my friend as I stood up from my crouch and straightened my shirt as Erica smiled at me slightly in confusion.
"Hey, Sophie. What are you doing here?" she asked me softly as she sat back down on the computer seat near her desk and I offered her a mischievous grin in answer as I picked up my abandoned bag from the floor of Erica's bedroom.
"Well, Derek called to tell me that you accepted the bite from him so I figured that I would come over here with reinforcements."
"Reinforcements?" she asked in a slightly nervous voice that was also filled with excitement and I smirked at her as I set the bag down on her bed.
"I figured that you would need an outfit to wear to school tomorrow." I explained to her slyly with a smirk as I unzipped the bag on the bed and she perked up a bit to try to see what was in the bag. "I mean, I know that you have clothes that you could wear but I figured that you might want a change of pace to go with your new species."
"Well…that depends on what you have in mind." Erica said coyly as she stood from the seat she was in and walked over to the bed just as I smirked at her playfully.
The next day at school I was standing outside the cafeteria doors in LOVE Cobalt Bow Back Dress, Your Stitch in Time Tights, a Betsey Johnson Jet Set Bow Multi Charm Necklace and Sueded Side Bow Mary Jane Pump with my long brown hair straightened down my back as I waited for Erica to arrive so that she could make her big debut.
"Hey, E." I greeted my blonde friend when I caught sight of her walking down the empty hallway and she smiled at me brightly as she strolled up to me casually.
"Hi!" she greeted me enthusiastically as she linked her arm through mine and I grinned as I thought about how much she had changed for the positive already.
"You ready for this?"
"I think so." She replied nervously as she tugged gently at the hem of her borrowed leather skirt and I removed her hand from the material so that she looked up at me with wary eyes. I smiled at her reassuringly so she took a deep breath to calm her nerves before plastering a bright smile on her lips. "You gotta fake to 'til you make it, right?" she repeated the line that I had used the night before when she asked me how I acted so confident all the time and I chuckled a little at my words coming from her mouth. The night before I had given her a few outfits to borrow for school until we could go shopping from a new wardrobe as well as a lesson in how to apply makeup properly because Erica's mother hadn't shown her when she was younger.
"You'll be fine. I promise." I told her as I squeezed her hand reassuringly and she nodded her head at me as she turned to face the double doors of the cafeteria. I grinned at her coyly once more before I slipped into the cafeteria unnoticed to stand just besides the door so that I could see everyone's reactions to the new Erica. I leaned back on the wall as I checked to make sure that my brother was in the room so that he wouldn't miss the memo that Erica was now a werewolf and smiled slightly when I saw him and Stiles sitting to the side of the room. I heard the tapping of heel highs on the illumine flooring as Erica strutted into the cafeteria and everyone's gaze instantly snapped around to face the stunning blonde. I smirked to myself as they all watched her walk into the room and over to one of the table in the middle of the cafeteria where she seductively bit into an apple before turning on her heel to saunter back out the door. Everyone watched her as though they were captivated until she was out of sight and they all had to shake themselves out of the trance that she had them under.
"What - The holy hell - Is that?" I heard Lydia ask someone and I tilted my head curiously as I listened for the persons answer.
"It's Erica." Scott replied to her softly with a hint of awe in his voice and I smirked to myself in pride that my handiwork was being admired.
"Scott." I heard Stiles say to get my brothers attention and I snuck a glance in their direction just in time to see Scott's head snap around to his best friend. "Do you see that?"
"What, it's an empty table." Scott answered as he followed Stiles gaze to an empty table in the corner of the room and I bit my lip anxiously as I waited for the realisation to hit the boys.
"Yeah, but whose empty table?"
"Boyd." My brother said in comprehension as his deep brown eyes widened in understanding and Stiles nodded at him as they both stood up from their table. I pushed off the far wall and slipped out the door before they could see me eavesdropping on them. The two boys started striding down the empty hallway as I followed them at a discreet distance so that Scott would be able to hear my footsteps. "I'm going to go to the ice - rink, see if he's there. And if he's not at home, you call me, got it? What?"
"Maybe we should let him. Boyd, you know, man? You said Derek's giving them a choice, right?" Stiles suggested to my brother but I smiled slightly as their footsteps came to a halt and I stopped near the corner of another hallway so that I could listen in without be detected.
"We can't."
"You gotta admit, Erica looks pretty good. You know, the word "sensational" comes to mind."
"Yeah. How good do you think she's gonna look with a wolfsbane bullet in her head?" Scott argued with his friend and I stiffened slightly at the thought of one of my friends being hurt.
"All right, all I'm saying is maybe this one isn't totally your responsibility."
"They all are. And you know this thing's gonna get out of control. That makes me responsible."
"All right, I'm with you. And I also gotta say this new - found heroism is making me very attracted to you." Stiles joked lightly and I smirked in amusement as I heard their footsteps start moving again down the hallway.
"Shut up." Scott ordered but I could hear the laughter in his voice as their footsteps started to fade a little but I stayed where I was.
"No, seriously. Do you wanna just try making out for a sec? Just to see how it feels." I vaguely heard Stiles say in a distance as I pulled my cell phone out of my bag and pressed the text icon on the screen.
Me: Scott knows about Boyd.
Derek: What's he doing?
Me: Stiles is going to his house & Scott to the ice rink.
Derek: Meet us at the ice rink.
"I just wanna not eat lunch alone every day." I heard Boyd say as I approached the pack as they waited just outside the ice rink doors for me and I smirked at them as I walked passed without stopping knowing that they would follow in after me.
"If you're looking for friends, you can do a lot better than Derek." Scott argued as Isaac, Erica, Derek and I all walked out on to the ice where Boyd was sitting on the Zamboni and Scott was standing talking to him about his transformation.
"That really hurts, Scott." Derek said calmly to my brother to announce our presence and I watched with a smirk as Scott's head whipped around to face us. "I mean, if you're going to review me, at least take a consensus. Erica, how's life been for you since we met?"
"Hm. In a word – "Erica said as she pretended to ponder for the right word before elongating her fangs and claws to make her point and snarling the word through her lips. "Transformative."
"Isaac?"
"Well, I'm a little bummed about being a fugitive, but other than that, I'm great." Isaac assured Scott with a cocky smirk and a shrug of his shoulders as I smiled at my friends newly found attitude.
"And I know that I didn't turn you but how do you feel about all this, Sophie?" Derek asked me in a knowing voice and I smiled at him before turning to face my brother.
"I love being a werewolf." I told him honestly as I shrugged my shoulders and Scott's eyebrows scrunched together in confusion like he couldn't believe what I was saying to him.
"Okay, hold on. This isn't exactly a fair fight." Scott said calmly as he looked at the Alpha standing just in front of us before glancing back at us betas.
"Then go home, Scott." Derek replied to him as he nodded his head at Isaac and Erica to move and I stepped to the side because I wasn't going to be a part of this fight unless I absolutely needed to be. As the two betas moved towards my brother, Scott transformed his hand into a claw and punched it into the ground making the ice crack.
"I meant fair for them." He growled as I watched his whole body transform into a werewolf and he crouched on the ground in a defensive stance. He growled loudly at the approaching teens as his normally dark brown eyes glowed an amber colour and he easily threw Isaac into the plastic wall when the other boys made a move to attack him. I frowned at the three of them fighting on the ice as they slid around unsurely and I moved to stand next to Derek as his betas got their ass kicked by my bother.
"They serious suck." I told him honestly as I placed a hand on my hip and I glanced out the corner of my eye to see him nodding in agreement without taking his eyes away from the trio. Scott finally succeeded in knocking Erica and Isaac out just as I was starting to get bored of watching them squabble.
"Don't you get it? He's not doing this for you. He's just adding to his own power, okay? It's all about him. He makes you feel like he's giving you some kind of gift when all he's done is turn you into a bunch of guard dogs!" Scott told them sternly as I smiled in pride at my brother for winning an uneven fight and he slid the unconscious betas along the ice to Derek's feet.
"It's true. It is about power." Derek admitted as he started moving forward slowly and I watched with wide eyes as he elongated his claws. The Alpha's neck moved in an inhuman way as he approached my brother and I watched apprehensively as I shifted my stance so that I could move at a moment's notice if I needed to. Derek move to stand in front of Scott and just as I was about to call out to them he head butted the younger werewolf in the forehead before slashing him across the abdomen. Scott grunted in pain as Derek punch him in the face and I covered my mouth as he continued to land blows until Scott elbowed him in the throat making him stumble backwards. Derek quickly regained his composure as he moved to punch Scott multiple times in a row until Scott fell the ground in a heap and I finally got my feet moving to go crouch next to my brother as I glared heatedly at the Alpha werewolf above me. Derek's face transformed back to his normal human one so that his greyish green eyes swept over me and Scott's sprawled body before walking away from us. Boyd jumped down from the Zamboni and I blinked as I remembered that he was actually there to witness what had just happened.
"Don't. You don't wanna be like them." Scott urged him in a pleading tone as he lay injured on the ground and Boyd just gazed back at him for a moment before lifting his shirt to show us his fresh bite mark on his abdomen.
"You're right. I wanna be like you." Boyd told him stoically before walking away to join the other pack members as they left the ice rink and I turned back to my brother in concern when he started groaning in pain.
"Come on." I murmured to him as I put my arm under his shoulders to help him stand up so that I could take him to see one that could help.
"Where are you going?" Scott asked me quietly when he was standing and I was helping him walk towards the door.
"I'm taking you to the vet." I told him honestly as I smirked in amusement but he didn't reply to me as he closed his eyes tired and leaned his head on my shoulder.