Chapter 8
Fury/Everything
Grayson looked up sharply when her phone rang. She looked down and drew her eyebrows together when Scott's name popped. "I'm kind of busy, Scott. What do you need?" She cocked her head to the side when she didn't hear Scott's voice. Instead she heard Matt's slightly muffled angry voice.
"Actually, I want to hurt a lot of people. You three weren't on my list but I could be persuaded." She looked at Isaac who cocked an eyebrow. "Scott…" He still didn't say anything. It was just Matt. "And one way is to try to dial somebody on your cell phone like McCall is doing."
Grayson pulled her phone away from her ear and looked at it. "Everyone." She licked her lips. "Now!" She jumped when Matt's voice rose and then the dial tone sounded. She looked up sharply at Isaac. "Are you okay?" He nodded slowly.
She stood up. "Can you switch back?" She hadn't even finished when he was back in his human form. She smiled and began undoing his bonds. "Good because it sounds like Matt has Scott, Stiles and," She shook her head once. "I think the sheriff holed up somewhere." Isaac slowly stood. "Where?" She looked up and pursed her lips.
"If I had to guess? I'd say the Sheriff's station." He nodded and gently grabbed her elbow, pulling her up to his level. He nudged her with his hands and pushed her out of the car. They quickly made their way up the stairs and out of the station towards her car.
They pulled up to the station and Isaac took a deep breath through his nose before sitting back in the seat. He looked at her. "Stay here. I'll go check it out." He made to get out of the car but she wrapped her hand around his wrist. "I'm not staying here alone. I'm going with you." Isaac sighed and shook his head. "No, Gray…" She pressed her hands to his cheeks and stroked his cheek bones.
"I can take care of myself. I'll be fine." Isaac shook his head and cursed under his breath before stepping out of the car with Grayson quickly behind him. She grabbed his hand in both of her and allowed him to lead her to the back door of the precinct.
Isaac moved slowly in front of her through the precinct. He held Grayson's hand and lead her down the hall. She pressed her hand to her mouth when they had to walk over two deputies. Their blood stained the wall in scattered arches. Isaac came to a sudden, silent stop beside an opened door. He pressed their backs against the wall and listened. "I bet you're not used to feeling this helpless."
Isaac slowly poked his head around the door and examined the scene. Derek and Stiles were both prone on the floor, slashed by the kanima. Matt was crouched over them with a gun in his hand and Jackson stood, half in transition, in front of Scott, his hand up in front of his face stopping him from moving. Venom dripped from the tips of his claws and soaked his fingers.
"Still got some teeth. Why don't you get down here a little closer? See how helpless I am." Derek said. Matt smirked. "Yeah bitch." If the situation wasn't so serious, Grayson might have laughed at Stiles' reply but their lives were potentially in danger so she currently found no humor in the situation.
Isaac turned his head when he heard another car pull up to the station. "Is that her?" He glanced at Grayson before swiftly and quietly moving to the window. He pushed one of the blinds up and grimaced. Scott's mom was stepping out of her car and making her way towards the station. He shook his head and turned back to Grayson, grabbing her hand and leading her away from the door.
"Wait, wait, wait!" She pulled him to a stop in front of the entrance to the jail cells. Isaac looked at her before peering inside the door. He sagged and lead her inside, stepping towards the sheriff. "Isaac? Grayson? What are you doing here?" Isaac deposited Grayson on the bench beside the sheriff and looked at the handcuffs. He could easily break them but the sheriff would grow suspicious if he did that. He looked around. "Where's the key?" The sheriff looked out the door. "Matt has it."
Isaac sighed and looked at Grayson. She shrugged. They all jumped when the sound of a gunshot rang through the station. Isaac stepped quickly in front of Grayson and watched the door. "Scott! Stiles! What happened?" The sheriff stood up and pulled on his handcuffs.
Isaac looked at Grayson and pulled her behind him. She tugged against his hold. "We can't just leave him here." Isaac shook his head. "We have to." She looked back at the sheriff and grimaced before letting Isaac lead her out of the room. They circled back around to the front office where Matt had been before but no one was there.
Isaac pulled her close and looked around. He pushed her away and cupped her face in his hands. "We have to find the others but we have to be careful." She nodded and pushed against his arms, making him move forward.
They crept quietly through the halls and Isaac quickly pushed them against the wall when Matt and Scott stumbled along with Melissa close behind. They passed Isaac and Scott quickly flicked his eyes to them, seeing them and curving the corner of his mouth up slightly. Just enough for them to see but not enough for Matt to notice.
When they were gone, Isaac looked around the corner and pulled her along. He found an empty office and pushed her inside, locking the door behind him. He ran his hand over the back of his head. "What was the point in coming here?" She looked up at him, her arms crossed over her chest and shrugged. "I thought we could help." Isaac shook his head and leaned against the wall. "There's nothing we can do without us being seen."
Grayson licked her lips and shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe we should make ourselves known then." Isaac scoffed. "That is the pinnacle of bad plans." He stepped towards her. "Do you know what he'll do to us if he sees us?" She shook her head slowly. Isaac hummed and nodded once. "Yeah, he'll kill us. Slowly and painfully and without mercy." Grayson sighed and stepped towards him.
"Well, we have to do something because sneaking around and hiding isn't doing much for us now is it?" Isaac jerked his head up and looked at the door behind her. Someone was coming. He pushed them into a closet and closed the door, pressing her back against his chest and listening. "There." Isaac peered through the crack of the door and could barely make out Matt and a bleeding Scott.
"You know, I feel sorry for you, McCall. Cause right now you're thinking, how am I going to explain this when it heals? And the sad part is you don't actually understand how incredible it is that you actually are healing. Cause you know what happens to everyone else when they get shot? They die."
Isaac rested his head back against the wall and wrapped his arms around Grayson. She wrapped her hands around his wrist and pressed her forehead against the door. "Is that what happened to you?" She heard Matt scoff. "You drowned didn't you." She looked up and over at Isaac and shook his head. The water made sense now.
"He shouldn't have let them drink." Grayson looked over at Isaac who shook his head. "Wait, Matt, who? What do you mean?" There was a loud crash and then Matt was yelling. "Lahey! He shouldn't have let them drink." Isaac brought his head up and he looked at the door. "What? Matt who was drinking?"
"The swim team, you idiot." Realization seemed to dawn on Isaac's face and he suddenly looked sad. "I didn't know what was happening. I didn't know they'd just won state and Lahey's letting a couple of his favorites come over to celebrate. Who cares that they're 17, right?"
Grayson looked over at Isaac and he looked at the ground, his forehead wrinkled in concentration. "Were you at Isaac's?" Scott asked. Grayson turned back to the door. "He had this first edition Spiderman, or was it Batman? And we were going to make a trade. But them I'm over there and I hear music and everyone's having a good time and I see Sean. He throws Jessica in the pool and then Bennett goes in."
"Wait, Bennett? The hunter?" Matt doesn't stop. "And then Camden, Isaac's jarhead brother. He grabs me, he thinks it's funny." Isaac thunked his head back against the wall and shook it, a bitter smiled graced his features. "They threw you in." Scott observed. "I yelled that I can't swim but nobody listens. I go under and I swallow water and no one cares. I see these bodies underwater and Jessica's got her hands down Sean's board shorts. Tucker's grabbing Cara. And I'm drowning. I'm dying and they're laughing."
Matt laughed darkly. "Then, all of the sudden, I'm just lying by the pool. And Lahey is right there right above me and he says, 'You tell no one.'" Grayson leaned away from the door and rested back against Isaac's chest. "He says you tell no one. This, this is your fault. What little bastard doesn't know how to swim. You say nothing. You tell no one. No one."
Grayson clenched her eyes shut and buried her face in Isaac's chest. "And I didn't. I would see them at school and they wouldn't even look at me. I would wake up in the middle of the night gasping for breath and my parents, they thought I was asthmatic. They eve n gave me an inhaler. They didn't know that every time I closed my eyes, I was drowning."
Everything was silent for a few seconds. Grayson could hear Isaac's heart against her ear. "You know that little white light everyone talks about when you die? I didn't see anything. Just darkness. Everything was dark. But then," Grayson looked up. "Then came the Argent's funeral and everything changed. I was taking some photos and purely by accident Lahey gets in one of the photos." Grayson swallowed thickly and tightened her hold on Isaac.
He hadn't moved since Matt revealed his secret. "I look down at the screen and I just feel this unbelievable rage that just fills up inside of me and I look at him and I want to see him dead." Isaac blinks and Grayson can see his eyes shining with tears that he won't let fall. "And the next day, he actually was. You know Einstein was right. Imagination is more important than knowledge. It was like something coming out of Greek mythology. Like the furies coming down to punish Orestes. You have no idea what I'm talking about do you?"
"Was he the guy who stabbed out his eyes?" Scott volunteered. Matt groaned. "That's Oedipus, you dumbass!" Grayson bit her lip to keep from gasping at Matt's vocal range. "The furies are deities of vengeance. Their tears ran of blood and they had snakes for hair. If there was a crime that had gone unpunished the furies would do the punishing."
Grayson leaned back and shook her head. "Jackson is my fury. When I saw him the next night, it was like this bond had been cemented between the two of us. I knew he had killed Lahey for me and I knew he would do it again. So I went to Tucker's garage. I even paid for an oil change and guess what? He didn't even recognize me. So, when he wasn't looking, I took a shot of him with my camera. And in a few hours, he was dead. "So I took more pictures. All I had to do was take their picture and Jackson would take their life." Grayson looked up at Isaac who just shook his head.
Suddenly, the lights went out and the emergency lights came on and the alarm started to sound. "What is this? What's going on?" Grayson pressed close to Isaac and moved so he was shielding most of her body. "I don't know." Grayson ducked her head into Isaac's chest when bullets started flying through the room and breaking the windows. Isaac wrapped his arms around her upper body and pushed her head down to his chest, resting his forehead against her shoulder.
When the noise stopped, Isaac, without hesitating, pushed the door open and gripped Grayson's hand, tugging her from the closet and the room when a smoke bomb went off, shrouding everything it thick white smoke. He rammed into Jackson on his way out and stopped when he saw Derek and Stiles.
Derek looked at him, surprise written all over his face. "Isaac?" Scott popped up shortly after and looked at them. "Okay?" Isaac nodded quickly. "Take him." Derek said. Scott bent at the waist and wrapped his arm around Stiles' waist, dragging him out of the room. Isaac drug Grayson in the other direction towards the holding cells. They found the sheriff exactly where they left him and Melissa behind the bars.
Isaac pushed Grayson on the bench beside the sheriff and went to Melissa. "Are you okay?" She nodded shakily and wrapped her hands around the bars. "Is Scott…" She didn't finish before tears overwhelmed her. Isaac nodded and looked back at Grayson. "We just saw him, he's fine." Melissa sighed in relief and pressed her forehead to the bars. "Oh, thank God." Isaac smirked dryly and searched the room for the keys.
"Isaac!" Isaac whirled around and was met with a bullet to his chest. Matt smirked at him. "You really thought I didn't know you were here." The sheriff jerked against his cuffs. "Matt! Stop it! No one else needs to get hurt. Matt turned to the sheriff and whipped the gun across his face, knocking him unconscious.
Matt shook his head and stepped closer to Isaac. He wrapped his hand around the back of Isaac's neck and stepped behind him, pressing his mouth against Isaac's ear. "I know you're healing but this won't take long." He pressed the muzzle of the gun against Isaac's back and shot him again.
Melissa screamed and pressed her hands to her mouth. Isaac gaped and pressed a hand to the wound against his chest. Grayson went to him and cupped his face in her hands, tears streaming down her cheeks. Isaac brought a hand to her hair and fingered the locks. Matt smirked. "She really is very pretty, isn't she?" Another bullet ripped through Isaac's torso and his knees gave out.
Grayson wrapped her arms around him and followed him to the floor, glaring up at Matt as he stepped over them. Grayson pressed her hands to Isaac's chest wound and he groaned. "This sucks." He whispered and she laughed wetly. She looked when she saw Stiles crawl around the corner. "Matt. Matt, please listen to me."
Grayson and Isaac turned their eyes up to Melissa. "My son has been shot and I've heard other gun and I don't know what's happening but could you please just let me see my son?" Matt looked down at Isaac and laughed before turning his head back to Melissa. "How totally clueless are you people?" He pointed the gun back at Isaac but Melissa wasn't looking at him.
Grayson looked up and saw Derek standing in the doorway. She smiled and slowly began to scoot back towards the wall, Isaac's body tightly in her arms. Matt whirled around and gaped at Derek but Jackson, in full kanima form, came through the other door and hissed menacingly at Derek.
Derek roared and they attacked. He tossed the kanima against the wall and Grayson saw Matt bolt but was too occupied with Isaac and Derek to worry about him. The kanima shot up and went to claw at Derek but the alpha caught its wrist and pushed it back against the desk. The kanima kicked Derek away and swung at him but Derek ducked and clothes lined it across the chest.
The kanima doubled over and Derek grabbed a share, blocking the kanima's next attack. The kanima grabbed the chair and pushed Derek over the desk. Derek rolled and stumbled over Isaac and Grayson. The kanima grabbed the bars of Melissa's cell and kicked Derek in the chest. Derek slid across the room and his head hit the wall with a resounding crack.
Isaac sat up and slowly went to his alpha, Grayson close behind. The kanima turned upside down on the bars and hissed at Melissa. It pressed its face against the bars and blinked at her. She backed up and pressed her hands to her mouth. Scott raced into the room and stuck his claws deep into the kanimas back, tossing it across the room.
Derek nodded at Isaac before leaping across the desk after the kanima. Isaac made it to his made it to his knees and looked at Scott, swallowing thickly. Grayson stood and looked at Melissa and then at Scott. "Scott." She said. He looked up at her and stood. He made his way towards them and they each hooked a hand underneath Isaac's arms and helped him stand. Scott met Isaac's eyes and nodded. "Get out of here." Isaac nodded and allowed Grayson to lead him away.
They stumbled down the stairs and Grayson carefully set Isaac down on the same bench he'd been chained to. Isaac gasped and tugged his shirt shakily over his head. Grayson pushed him to his side and looked at his back. The first shot was slightly above his kidney and was almost healed. The second shot was higher and barely missed his lung. That one was slightly more gaping but was also healing slowly.
She released him and let him slouch down in the seat. "Why is it taking so long?" He shrugged and took a deep breath. "I don't know but at least I'm healing." She nodded and stood, sitting beside him. She wrapped her arms around one of his and rested her head against his shoulder. "What do we do now?" Isaac chuckled darkly and started coughing. "Now? We wait." Grayson tightened her hold and curled closer against his side.
Again, I know it's not very long but Isaac wasn't in this episode either and I really didn't want to cut it out too so I just did the best I could. Don't hate me.