Chapter 09: Where Do You Go?
Less than three weeks later and Elizabeth was answering a phone call from Liam telling her that Scott had started having asthma attacks and he didn't know what to do. As werewolves weren't meant to get sick, and he remembered Scott telling him that he hadn't had an asthma attack since he became a werewolf. Liam had called Elizabeth as he was running to Scott with an inhaler.
"Slow down Liam, what is it?" Elizabeth questioned, as she sat in her hotel room after she had found one of her beta's after leaving Derek and Braeden. "How's Lydia?"
'Scott...he had an asthma attack...I didn't think it was possible...' Liam spoke quickly not knowing what else to do or who to call. 'Alive..wait how did you know?'
"Tell me exactly what happened?" Elizabeth said, looking out the window before she pulled out her laptop. "Connected to all of you, don't ask it's a long story,"
'I was on the lacrosse field...' Liam said as he looked at Scott who was still staring at him on the floor. 'Talk to him?' Liam didn't give much of an explanation which frustrated Elizabeth but there wasn't much she could do about it.
"Liam, he'll be fine...trust me, put him on then," Elizabeth sighed, she didn't know what else she could do from so far away. Liam held the phone up to Scott's ear. "Scott, kiddo listen to me. You need to breathe and relax. Take a deep breath,"
"Scott!" Liam spoke to his alpha in a tone that only the older boy could hear or so they thought.
'I can't...' Scott muttered looking at Liam as he spoke and realised that it was his aunt on the other end of the phone. 'Ace?'
"Yes you can, kiddo I know you can," Elizabeth paused taking a deep breath before she spoke again. "Scott you'll be fine, I can't do anything from here. And tell Liam that I don't need to be called for this," Elizabeth laughed before bidding him farewell and going back to what she was doing.
A few days later and Elizabeth had yet another series of curious text messages from Stiles. None of which she could decipher as they were all confusing so she told him to yet again stop messaging her. 'Stiles stop messaging me! If you need help contact Deaton,' Though one of Stiles texts had her quite curious as to what it was actually about so she had called him.
"Stiles, what's the urgency?" Elizabeth questioned, sitting in the middle of the hotel room that she was sitting in. "And, Stiles don't lie to me,"
'I don't know what to do, bodies are disappearing from the morgue...and my dad won't just let it happen,' Stiles spoke quickly as he looked around the room that he had ended up in.
"Okay, slow down and start again," Elizabeth said taking a deep breath and looking over to the couch that Derek had fallen asleep on while Braeden was out getting them some food.
'Bodies are disappearing from the morgue...and my dad wants to stop it but I think it's something more,' Stiles said taking a deep breath before he continued. 'What am I supposed to do? I don't want anyone getting hurt,'
"Stiles, I can tell you this, whatever happens it's going to happen no matter how hard you try and stop it," Elizabeth said thinking back to an earlier conversation with Scott. "I know I said to stop messaging me but if it's making you feel better keep it up. How's your investigation into Theo going?"
'Nowhere fast,' Stiles replied almost grumpily as he realised what Elizabeth had said to him. 'I'm not going to like what happens am I?'
"Probably not, but Stiles – Scott will always be your best-friend, always," Elizabeth answered as Derek stirred slightly. "When you see Scott tell him he'll be okay,"
Just over a week later and she was receiving yet another phone call from Scott who was calling her reluctantly after Liam had tried to kill him during the Super-moon and Theo had killed him. Liam had blamed Scott for Hayden dying, Scott hadn't been able to bring himself to bite Hayden to save her. Braeden was already in Beacon Hills to warn Malia that her mother knew about the plan to kill her, and was there to kill the teenage girl herself. Theo didn't know about Elizabeth and what she was capable and that was something that they were hoping that they could use to their advantage.
They had worked out that Theo was behind what was happening to some extent that he was the one who had been pushing Scott's friends slowly away from him over the course of the month. Argent had returned to Beacon Hills because Scott had called him for back up – while Argent had also contacted Elizabeth telling her what was happening.
Argent looked at Scott and insisted that he needed to call his Aunt. Scott shook his head he couldn't call Elizabeth, she was still working out why she still had to heal Derek after he'd evolved and Scott was the only one that she had told about it.
"Call her, Scott you need to call her," Argent insisted as they walked through the hospital doors. "She'll know what to do,"
"I can't, she has bigger things to deal with than her nephew," Scott told him as he looked at his mother who nodded.
"Call her," Argent insisted again, he had a feeling that Scott would continue to ignore him.
"Call who?" Melissa over heard the conversation, and looked between Argent and Scott.
"He's refusing to call Elizabeth," Argent told her, Scott sent him a glare and then looked at his mother. "Your aunt already knows what's happening here and you know it,"
"Mom, I can't," Scott looked at his mother before putting his head in his hands.
"Scott, if she can help you. You need to call your Aunt," Melissa put her hand on her sons shoulder. "Just call her,"
"Mom, I can't call her," Scott repeated again, as Argent pulled out his phone and did what Scott refused to do.
Scott growled at Argent as he heard Elizabeth say that she already knew and was on her way back. But had something to do before she could do anything else, and that she'd meet Scott at his house in a day or so. A day later and his Aunt was sitting across from him in the middle of his room on the floor.
"Ace...it doesn't hurt," Scott told her trying to convince both himself and her.
"Bullshit, Scott, take my hand. I can kick start it," Elizabeth said, holding her hand out again. "Tell me everything that's been happening?"
"You don't know that," Scott muttered but took her hand anyway. "There's chimera's now...and we don't know what do to with them,"
"Supernatural beings are the only thing that I know that I can kick start," Elizabeth smiled at him and sent a little bit of a spark of magic towards the injury. "With you being a True-Alpha, it should work...also chimera's? And none of you said anything because?"
"What about Derek?" Scott questioned, looking directly at his Aunt as he felt something, but not sure what he was feeling. "We didn't think you'd know what to do,"
"Well you were right, you still could have told me. My connection to Derek is strong, but so is my connection to you," Elizabeth answered, taking a deep breath before she continued. "You're getting a kick start, not what I give Derek...I've been holding him together a long time," Elizabeth paused before she continued. "You need your pack back together. Find them, and you heal it's how we work...well most of the time,"
Scott had simply looked at his Aunt, she couldn't know that? Could she? She hadn't been wrong when he was a kid. Thinking about everything she had just said it would work.
"It's my fault that they left," Scott muttered thinking about everything that had happened in the last week.
"Hey, none of this is your fault. It's the Dread-Doctors..." Elizabeth said pausing before she continued and took a little of Scott's pain. "Argent told me...do you know how I knew something bad had happened to you?"
"No...how?" Scott questioned pulling his hand away from her as he lifted up his shirt to see if anything was happening. "It was Theo, needling his way in pulling my friends...my pack away,"
"You died...I felt it, I don't even know how to explain that," Elizabeth answered, watching as he continued to inspect the hand shaped wound on his chest. "And just because your Beta tried to kill you and then Theo, the kids been manipulated and he doesn't see it,"
"If I had just listened," Scott muttered moving so that he was sitting beside his aunt.
"You wouldn't have been able to do anything. Sometimes things need to work their course so you can come back stronger than before," Elizabeth told him as she pulled his hands away from his chest to have a look herself. "Your mom hasn't seen this has she?" Elizabeth paused briefly before she continued to talk. "Also, I'm going to kick that little shits ass before I go,"
"Not since she and Mason found me," Scott answered truthfully it was the only thing that he was currently certain on. "What do I do?" it took a second for Scott to realise what Elizabeth had said about Liam and about Theo. "You won't be able to,"
"Like I said, you need to get your pack back together...Allison will always be a part of it," Elizabeth smiled at him, she knew that was what he needed to hear after everything that had been going on. "Allison will always be right here," Elizabeth put her hand to Scott's heart as she spoke. "You'd be surprised what your aunt is capable of doing kiddo,"
Elizabeth pulled Scott to her and gave him a hug, he'd work out how to get his friends, his pack together. Scott sat with his head on her shoulder for a moment, he didn't know what else to do or how to get his friends back
"Take a deep breath and relax," Elizabeth said as she shot a little magic into his body to at least prevent the wound from being infected. "This should stop it from being infected,"
"Thanks...have you seen Derek?" Scott questioned, pulling back slightly as he watched an almost iridescent glow circulate the open wound.
"Yeah, I kind of promised him that I'd go back once I saw you," Elizabeth answered watching as the glow stopped and the wound looked a little less on the bloody side. "Promise me that you'll stay safe and if you need me call me?"
"No, I'm not tearing you away from your life..." Scott said indignantly as he looked at her, even though he knew that part of her life was there in Beacon Hills with them. "Wait you'll go back?"
"Scott, part of my life is here and part of it is where-ever he goes...don't ask it's a long story one that still has no end," Elizabeth told him as she ran a hand through her hair and the two of them moved from the floor. "Yeah, I was with him when I got the call,"
"I thought so, you really do care about him don't you?" Scott questioned as they ended up sitting on his bed.
"Well yeah, why wouldn't I?" Elizabeth answered, throwing the question back to Scott, she knew that he would say because he was an ass. "How do you feel about Kira about Malia?"
"He's an ass-hole, but whenever you've been brought up he's I don't know different," Scott answered with a laugh as he they continued to sit on his bed. Scott ignored her question about Malia and Kira as he didn't know how to answer it.
"Maybe...okay fine," Elizabeth said shrugging before she looked at him again. "Do you know anything more about Parrish? And tell me everything that's happened,"
Scott told Elizabeth what they had discovered about Parrish about him surviving being burned alive and not dying. Everything that Scott told Elizabeth she could think of only three things that he could possibly be. Those three things were a Hell-hound, a Phoenix and a dragon. Scott also told her about everything that Theo had done to them.
"He could be a couple of things...like a hell hound, phoenix or a dragon," Elizabeth told him as the two walked down to the kitchen.
"Who could be a dragon?" Stiles questioned he had turned up while Elizabeth and Scott had been upstairs.
"How long have you been here?" Scott questioned, as Elizabeth stopped him from toppling down the stairs.
"Long enough...we need to do something," Stiles said as he looked at Elizabeth, wondering how long she had been back in town for.
"I'm heading out of town again. I have places to be, call me if you need anything and boys make up your minds about the girls," Elizabeth smirked she knew both of them were conflicted over Kira, Malia and Lydia. "Also it's more likely that he's a hell hound, you'll work it out,"
"Wait! Did you actually work out Parrish is?" Stiles questioned, running a hand over his face as he spoke.
"I think so, it's more than likely that's what he is. Wait until you're sure though," Elizabeth answered before she walked into the kitchen. As Elizabeth entered the kitchen she received a text from Lydia asking her what she knew about black dogs/hell hounds. Elizabeth sent back that they went hand in hand with Banshee's.
"Ace, can you not stay a little bit longer?" Scott questioned, as he walked into the kitchen and near collapsed on his aunt's shoulder.
"I would if I could, trust me kiddo," Elizabeth answered pulling him into her arms and hugging him tightly. "Find your friends, all of them," Scott returned the hug as Stiles walked into the kitchen behind them. "Stiles, get your ass over here," Elizabeth held her arms out for the teenager and motioned for him to join them. Elizabeth hugged Stiles and Scott tightly knowing that the teenagers were both scared of what was happening.