Chapter 12: Be There With You

Two months later at Stiles' first day at the FBI after graduating Beacon Hills High School, found himself met with an image of what looked like Derek running through a vacant field looking behind him. Stiles had spat his water onto the girl sitting in front of him, he had to get a better look at the image as surely it couldn't be Derek.

"Scott, they're after him," Stiles called his best-friend the moment he walked out the door and headed towards his dorm room.

'I know, Ace is with him...she...they have a plan,' Scott stated, Derek had called Elizabeth as when he'd been in wolf form he'd been hit and Braeden had found him.

"Your aunt?" Stiles questioned, he missed his best-friend and everything that went with him.

'Yes my aunt...' Scott trailed off and hung up the phone before Stiles could say anything else. 'I just lied to my best-friend,'

"Call Elizabeth," Lydia said, Malia agreed with her both knew that she might be able to help them with what was happening. "She probably is with him,"

Elizabeth was sitting with Derek, trying to make him kick start his healing. Braeden looked at the two of them, wondering why Derek hadn't healed and why Elizabeth hadn't done something. Derek had told her while they had been gone what she was able to do.

"Derek, you need to try," Elizabeth whispered, she needed him to start it before she did anything. "Derek!" Elizabeth growled at him her eyes flashing red as she did.

"I am trying!" Derek growled back at her before sharply inhaling.

"Good, now this time the second I press into your spine breathe," Elizabeth said as she forced him to semi-sit beside her, with most of his weight on her body. Elizabeth pushed her fingers in one by one and heard him take a deep breath. "Good, keep going,"

"How are you doing that?" Braeden questioned, she may have been mercenary but she wasn't new to the supernatural world, but watching a werewolf heal another was something else.

"Hybrid...I'm werewolf...but also I was born a witch, it's natural," Elizabeth answered, before returning her attention to Derek and slowly moving her fingers up his spine. "Breathe now, or you can scream which ever," Elizabeth laughed as she grabbed hold of his hand with her free one.

Derek let out an almost primal scream as Elizabeth tried to take the pain at the same time like she used to. Derek shook his head, he could handle it this time. Elizabeth sighed as she let go and continued to slowly move her fingers up forcing the magic to weave its way into his body. Derek grabbed her arm as he felt it pull and tug again.

"Relax, it's almost over," Elizabeth said quietly as she moved her hand up again and pressed one of fingers firmly into his spine and another beside it. "I'm trying something else, it should ease the pain even more,"

"I hate you sometimes," Derek growled at her, she just laughed and as he pulled tightly on her arm.

"I know," she pushed her finger harder and let the magic do its thing before moving her hand up again she was half way up his spine now. "Should kick in faster this time,"

"Are you sure?" Derek questioned, as he felt a tingle in his foot and looked down and realised that it was working. "You're sure,"

"Of course I am," Elizabeth smiled letting go as Derek slowly stood up. "When I'm not sure, I'll tell you," Elizabeth watched as Derek fumbled slightly before regaining his balance. "Ehh, you could be a bit wobbly for a few hours,"

"Now you tell me," Derek glared at her, as she stood up and took his arm. "Now this takes me back,"

"To the first time?" Elizabeth questioned, Derek nodded before glancing back at Braeden as they both realised that she was still watching them. "At the vet clinic?"

"Yeah," Derek answered, leaning heavily on her and laughing. "I've known her since I was three years old," Derek said knowing that Braeden was questioning why they were so close.

"He's my best-friend," Elizabeth said, taking a deep breath before she continued. "He always has been and always will be,"

Derek thought for a moment, realising that every relationship he'd had that ended there was something gnawing at the back of his head. He had never thought anything of it until then. Braeden stood behind the two wolves shaking her head at them. Braeden took that as her sign to leave, there was all sorts of signs that up until that moment had just been little things it was getting to be clear that she would always be second fiddle.

Braeden left Derek a note saying that she was headed back to Beacon Hills as she had some business to attend to and that after that she didn't know where she would go. Braeden never made it back to Beacon Hills instead no one knew where she had gone.

'Hey Derek, I'm sorry...I can't be second any more, not when it comes to Elizabeth. She's perfect for you and you know it. She already takes care of you more than you realise. Call me if you need help ever. Braeden' Braeden left the note on top of Derek's suitcase before she left the two of them.

Braeden left without Elizabeth and Derek hearing a single footstep, both of them turning around when the door of where they were holed up closed. As Derek made the motion to move Elizabeth had a call from Theo in which all she heard was gun-shots being fired. The two of them looked at one another. Elizabeth hoping that the young chimera was still a live.

"Go, check everything is alright. And we'll meet up again soon," Derek said as Elizabeth picked up her phone and stared at it.

"Der, if I do go back...I can't let them know that I'm there," Elizabeth said, she'd made a promise to herself that she wouldn't go back until she and Derek had finished their business. "I promised Theo something,"

"I know, you promised him a family," Derek said, he knew that Elizabeth had promised him after a long winded email from her saying that she might regret something. "Go home, check on him,"

"I will...where do I meet you this time?" Elizabeth questioned, raising an eyebrow at him, Derek shrugged. "Don't make me do the whole guessing game thing,"

"Take a deep breath and tell me what you're feeling now?" Derek said, as he went over to his suitcase to grab a fresh shirt and noticed the letter.

"All kinds of things. Beacon Hills is going haywire...bat-shit," Elizabeth said that was the only way to describe what she was feeling since the phone call. "Derek, I'll come back I promise...what is it?"

"Braeden's gone," He held up the letter she had left him. "That's why we turned around...the door shutting that was her leaving," Derek didn't divulge what was written in the letter instead he quickly shoved it in his pocket.

Elizabeth left Derek that night and headed back to Beacon Hills she needed to find out if Theo was okay, if Scott's pack was okay. When she arrived in Beacon Hills she closed her eyes and let the magic do the talking, that was the good thing about the telluric currents/ley lines that ran through the town. The second that Elizabeth had arrived Scott sensed it and called her.

"Ace, where are you?" Scott questioned, running a hand over his face as he stood with Malia.

'Does it matter? I have something that I need to do,' Elizabeth replied, hoping that Scott wouldn't ask her too many questions.

"Ace, stay human..." Scott said as though it was the most obvious thing for her to do.

'Scott...I've got to go, I'll talk to you later,' Elizabeth said quickly hanging up her phone and pocketing it as she looked around and saw a stream of white lights all converging in one spot. 'Theo...where are you? Don't say anything out loud...I can hear your thoughts if you want me to,'

'Elizabeth? Where are you? I have no idea where I am...' Theo answered before screaming as an electric fence was turned on. 'Don't look for me,'

'Your SUV, it's all shot up...outside the clinic..Theo you have a family trust me,' Elizabeth replied she wanted to go and look for him but knew that she couldn't not with all the turmoil going on. 'You'll know what I mean soon,'

'Fuck...it hurts...' Theo screamed, Elizabeth closed her eyes and tried not think of what was happening to him. 'Electric fence...I'll be fine go!'

'Damn it Theo. Fine, but don't tell Scott I was actually home...when you or he eventually get rescued,' Elizabeth said taking a deep breath and walking back to her car and realising that she had to see Melissa and sign the paperwork.

Elizabeth headed towards the McCall house, running into Argent who was leaving she looked between the two of them and raised an eyebrow at him. Argent offered a shrug and a smile before getting into his car and leaving. Elizabeth walked up to Melissa and hugged her tightly.

"You didn't tell Scott you were coming did you?" Melissa questioned, hugging her back before adding. "Hey,"

"Hey, and no I didn't...but I think he already knows," Elizabeth answered as the two walked into the house. "He called me the second I got into town,"

"I've got all the paperwork, Noah and I managed to get everything sorted without the boys knowing. With the help of your lawyer friend," Melissa said as she headed to a desk in the lounge room and produced a key. "First step is you're his guardian now. Are you sure about this? We're still working on the second part,"

"I am, I promised the kid that he'd have a family...or at least part of one," Elizabeth replied, smiling at her and noticing that she seemed a little unnerved by something. "What is it?"

"It's nothing, there's something strange happening," Melissa said as she opened the draw and pulled out the papers that Elizabeth had to sign. "Elizabeth, sign them and go back to Derek,"

"Send me an email with everything that's happening? And I will," Elizabeth paused for a second as she realised what Melissa had said. "How did you know I was with Derek?"

"You've always ended up with him...ever since you were a child," Melissa told her remembering all the times that Elizabeth had runaway. "Scott's like you that way. He always ends up with Stiles,"

"Yeah...I kind of taught him a bad habit didn't I?" Elizabeth laughed, as she took the papers from Melissa and looked at where they had been marked for her to sign.

Elizabeth signed the papers and gave them back to Melissa before she bid the older woman goodbye telling her the same thing that she had told Theo and that was to not tell Scott about being home. Derek in the meantime had headed to Brazil, which was where Elizabeth headed to meet up with him. When Elizabeth arrived in Brazil she found herself face to face with Derek, he'd been anticipating her arriving not long after he had.

"Did you do it?" Derek questioned, pulling her to him and questioning if she had done what she'd planned on doing.

"Yeah, I did...Derek they have Theo...he was being tortured," Elizabeth said the last part of the sentence quietly as they walked from the airport. "He's in so much pain,"

"If you had done something they probably would have caught you," Derek said, he'd read the email she had sent from the airport as she'd left him with her laptop.

"The whole town is turning against us, I need to work on something," Elizabeth said, she had been trying to formulate a plan in her head the entire flight and was coming up slightly empty.

"What have you worked out so far?" Derek questioned, running a hand over his face and taking her hand in his. "I know you can do it,"

"That I can use the telluric currents and ley lines to my advantage," Elizabeth said as she took a deep breath trying to think of what she could do. "There is one thing that might work,"

"You work on that, we need to find it," Derek stated, Elizabeth nodded knowing exactly why they were in Brazil and what he was searching.

Derek and Elizabeth searched Brazil looking for who was trying to frame him. They both had a fairly good idea of who it was that was doing it. Elizabeth sent her brother a text and told him that she needed him to convince Scott that he had to leave Beacon Hills, while sending Scott a text telling him to make his father think that they had all left.

"Ellie, do you think that they can pull this off?" Derek questioned, as they arrived at the hotel they'd stay in for a few days so she could work out the finer details.

"Have you already forgotten this is my nephew we're talking about?" Elizabeth replied, hoping that she was right that the kids could do it, that they could save their home.

"The stubborn McCall gene," Derek laughed, before they went to reception and got the key to the room. "What? You can be stubborn too,"

"Aren't we all?" Elizabeth said taking the room key from Derek and sticking her tongue out at him before running ahead of him.