AUTHOR'S NOTE: Outfit is up on polyvore.
Monday came around way too quickly.
Spending all day Saturday filling in John about everything he was kept in the dark about had took a lot out of all of them so come Sunday, John just wanted a day with his kids. So feeling like they owed it to him, Stiles and Avery texted their friends and allies telling them as such.
Allison, Lydia, and Scott were understanding but Isaac was a little wary and anxious just to see her. She promised to see him Monday at school and after a little more reassuring, Isaac caved and let her be. Nik and Elijah were easily swayed to not visit seeing as they had errands of their own to complete. They didn't go further into explanation about said errands which, of course, made Avery curious throughout the entire day.
Family time mainly consisted of lounging around in Pjs all day and eating junk food while talking about anything and everything that didn't involve the supernatural realm. John talked about work and how he wanted to get more days off, Avery spoke of the upcoming holidays and what they could do, and Stiles complained about the damage to his jeep and how long it was going to take him to save up the money to get it fixed.
Feeling a little bit bad for her brother, when no-one was paying her any attention, Avery texted Elijah and Nik for a favor. She asked them if they could get Stiles' jeep fixed for him, telling them that he had wrecked the front of it during Jennifer's chaos around town, and the brother's easily agreed.
After all, they had the money and were glad to spend it on whatever Avery wished.
So when Monday rolled around and John woke her up asking why there was a giant red ribbon on Stiles' jeep, Avery laughed about sneaky vampires and hybrids, and John just shook his head in amusement and went to go make breakfast.
Seeing as she took a shower the night before to prevent having to fight Stiles for the first hot shower, Avery easily breezed into the bathroom to brush her teeth and Stiles squawked from behind the shower curtain.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
"Brushing my teeth." Avery yawned as she stumbled up to the sink, grabbing the necessary supplies while keeping her eyes averted from the shower. "Don't mind me. Just keep doing whatever it is you're doing behind the curtain."
Stiles groans. "Avery.."
"Just chill." She laughs with a mouth full of toothpaste. "I'm almost done."
As Stiles grumbles about the lack of privacy in their home, Avery just snorts and continues to brush her teeth and wash her face- freshening up before her brother can yell at her again. When she figures she spent enough time in there, Avery grabs some of her hair products and brush before heading back to her room.
While in her room, Avery shuts and locks her door before stripping down. Quickly freshening up with fragrances sprayed all over her body, she pulls out a black adhesive backless and strapless lace bra with matching panties, and lace leggings. Before she can slip on the dress that she had picked out the night before, she busies herself with her hair. After brushing out the tangles and adding in some product to keep it tamed and manageable throughout the day, she parts her hair down the middle and makes sure her curls are perfect.
Since her complexion is fair and blemish free- Avery settles on a bit of dark eyeshadow and some nude lipgloss. When she feels happy with it, Avery hums happily to herself as she digs out the blue spaghetti strap plaid dress with a three tier skirt and pulls it on over her head. Once it's situated correctly, she pairs it with a thin brown leather belt and black gladiator platform sandals.
She nearly skips over to her dresser where her jewelry box resides and picks through it for the perfect accessories. She finds a Fleur de Lis thumb ring that she quickly slips on and when her eyes land on a silver set of fangs attached to a silver chain, she can't help but laugh as she pulls it out and slips it around her neck. As she took a look at herself in the mirror that clung to the back of her bedroom door, Avery smiled widely before frowning for a split second.
She felt a little too bare up top.
Remembering she had several leather jackets, she remembered there was one that would complete her entire outfit. With one last trip to her closet, Avery took out a black leather jacket whose sleeves were permanently scrunched up to bare a couple of inches above her wrist.
Leaving the jacket unzipped, Avery fluffed up her curls before picking up her backpack and headed for downstairs.
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After being teased about wearing a dress by John before he pecked her on the forehead and nearly breaking down because he admitted Avery looked like a young Claudia- Stiles realized his jeep had been fixed. And after assuring her twin that she'd thank the scary brothers for him, John wrangled his teens into the kitchen to eat a quick and small breakfast before they all left for work and school.
During breakfast, Avery made sure to study Stiles when he wasn't paying attention and realized that the dark circles beneath his eyes were fading. He was grinning and laughing at something their Dad was saying, and Avery was glad that it didn't seem forced.
After breakfast and a quick farewell from their Dad, Avery found herself situated in the passenger seat of Stiles' jeep as he drove the both of them to school.
The drive is quick, Avery and Stiles both in good spirits as Too Close by Alex Clare blared through the jeep's speakers. Stiles laughed as he kept his eyes on the road, occasionally glancing at his lip-syncing twin.
Avery was so into the fake singing that she hadn't realized Stiles had already pulled up to the school or the fact that he had already parked. There was a bunch of hand gestures and non-provocative grinding in her seat as Stiles let the song play as he parked, chuckling at his sister's energized state. When he looked out the windshield and just completely lost it, Avery turned to see what he was looking at and found both Scott and Isaac recording her with their phones.
Immediately stopping all dancing, Avery slapped off the radio and pouted. "You guys are assholes." She mumbled under her breath, knowing full well the two wolves can hear her.
The moment Scott starts laughing, it sets off Stiles once more and Isaac is biting back a grin to keep from laughing. As Isaac starts to near her side of the jeep, Avery grabs her backpack from it's spot at her feet and hops on out.
Like the good boyfriend he is, Isaac immediately relieves her of her backpack and swoops down to peck her cheek. "Missed you."
"Missed you, too." Avery laughs before smoothing down her dress.
Isaac beams at her, letting her smooth down the skirt of her dress as he drinks in his fill of his girlfriend in her outfit. The second her hands have nothing to busy themselves with, Isaac reaches down to grip her right hand and entwine their fingers together.
As they come around to the front of the jeep, Scott playfully wolf-whistles. "Dang, Scrappy! You clean up nice."
Isaac nods, eagerly agreeing with his words and feeling like the luckiest guy on Earth at the moment. Sticking her tongue out at Scott, Avery giggles. "Shutup, Scooby. You've seen me dressed up before."
"Yeah but that was for a party." Scott waves her off. "This dress just screams 'I'm related to Stiles' and the leather jacket adds that badass vibe you give off."
Avery playfully rolls her eyes while Isaac chuckles. The foursome linger around, waiting for the last two members of their group to show up before heading inside. While Stiles is verbally vomiting to the group, Isaac spaces out when he catches sight of of Avery's necklace.
With a grin tilting the corner of his lips upward, he gently touches the silver fangs. "When do I get to meet the two infamous pseudo-brothers?"
"Soon. I think." Avery tells him. "The last I spoke to them, they didn't seem as if they were in a hurry to leave. I think they might stick around for a few days."
Lydia then shows up, parking with ease and marching up to her group of friends and flashing all of them a smile. She spends the time before Allison's arrival whining to Avery that she really needed to go shopping with her because she actually had cute taste in clothes and was in love with her shoes.
Avery laughed, reminding her feisty friend that her closet was always open should she want to browse for something to borrow when Allison finally showed up. One look at the Huntress had Avery's stomach churning and a frown developing.
It seemed the darkness was started to consume their female friend.
With a tired sigh, Allison managed a grin and waved to all her friends before Stiles and Scott led them inside and to their doom.
Economics was loud as usual seeing as Finstock never really understood what using his inside voice meant so he pretty much yelled throughout his entire lesson. Avery had trouble stifling her laughter, and every now and then, Finstock would hear it and make her read aloud from the textbook they were going over. Isaac would grin at her, mocking her for having to read aloud when he knew she hated doing so- so to get back at him, Avery threw a paper ball at the back of Finstock's head when neither he or Isaac were paying attention to her. When Finstock yelped and asked who threw it, Avery discreetly pointed at Isaac.
Avery didn't bother hiding her amusement when Isaac had to run laps around the Lacrosse field during P.E. Nor did she deny his accusations when he figured out his own girlfriend framed him.
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"I can't believe you framed me." Isaac told her with an amused grin as Avery stopped by her locker. "You're lucky I don't get winded easily."
Avery laughed. "That's what you get for making fun of me. You know I hate reading in front of a crowd."
"You weren't in front of them."
"Same difference!" She shot back.
Isaac smiles wide, his chuckles escaping soon after. As Avery is switching out her books, Isaac's chuckling suddenly ceases. As she looks up at him, she can see his jaw is clenched and he's growling lowly.
With the hairs standing up on the back of her neck, Avery quickly assesses their surroundings from her peripheral vision before she turns around to face the threat.
With Isaac's growling getting a bit louder, and the warning not as veiled in his growl anymore, Avery whirls around only to see Ethan and Aiden standing opposite them.
"Relax." Ethan steps forward with his hands held up in mock surrender. "We don't want trouble."
Isaac doesn't stop and as Avery curiously studies them, she notices how Aiden is standing back with his hands deep in his pockets looking sort of sheepish in a way. Deciding to give Ethan a chance, since he's Danny's boyfriend, she gains Isaac's attention to make him stop growling.
When Isaac calms down, Ethan takes another step towards them. "We've just come to apologize." He tells them. "Right, Aiden?"
"Yeah." Aiden mumbles, his eyes downcast but he moves forward so he doesn't have to risk people overhearing what he's about to say. "We, uh, we wanted to say sorry for- you know- Boyd." He nervously gulps. "We weren't in a position to deny orders and we're sorry for the way things went down."
Isaac tenses just the slightest but as Avery reaches for his hand and gives him a reassuring squeeze, he relaxes. "Why now?" The beta wolf asks them.
"Because we need to mend every bridge we burned with the McCall Pack." Ethan answers. "Our former Pack is gone. Dead. And we talked to Scott who gave us permission to stick around so we can lick our wounds before moving on. We just thought our temporary stay might be easier if everyone wasn't hating us."
"Lick your wounds?" Avery raised a questioning eyebrow at the nearly identical twins.
"Yeah, uh, when Jennifer broke our neck- we were in our conjoined alpha form. Our neck hasn't properly healed yet."
Avery's amused expression fell. "Oh." A momentary silence fell over them and when the warning bell rang, Avery's head snapped up to the twins. "Okay." She tells them. "I accept your apology for the sake of everyone being peaceful but," She pauses just long enough to look each twin in the eye. "-don't expect us to be buddy-buddy. I'll be respectful of you and your relationships with my friends but don't expect any invites to a slumber parties at my house any time soon."
The twins each nod, expressions serious until Isaac snorts in amusement. "Slumber parties. Really?"
"Keep mocking me, Lahey. You won't be invited either." Ethan and Aiden both grin, the tension leaving them as they have finally apologized to everyone they needed to. Their grins eventually turn into muffled laughter when the class bell rings and they're still standing in the hallway and Avery's eyes go wide at being late. "Motherfu-"
"Okay!" Isaac cuts her off with a laugh. "Let's go get our late passes before you get a write up for cursing in the hall."
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By the time lunch has rolled around, Isaac got his revenge on Avery. Revenge that isn't so bad when she realizes that the video of her singing from this morning has made Allison crack up and giggle every time she glances at her. At least now, the darkness isn't as consuming as it was this morning.
English has everyone goofing off, the substitute being too old and slow to really teach them anything. Avery is glad that most of them have the same class together, well everyone sans Isaac but she uses the time wisely to make sure that she and Lydia keep Scott, Allison, and Stiles entertained for the entire class period.
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Elijah and Nik were standing in what they presumed was the parking lot for the Beacon Hills High.
They had spent the morning getting together last minute paper work that they needed before leaving town for a bit to get a bite to eat. After lunch, they spent quite an amount of time at the Sheriff's Department talking to John about various things. When they asked what time it was that Avery was to get out of school, John gave them a time and pointed them in the right direction.
"How much longer do we have to wait?" Nik grumbled as he and Elijah found the blue jeep that belonged to Avery's twin.
"A few minutes." Elijah answered him.
Nik groaned impatiently as he let his eyes scan the parking lot. There were various old, new, clean, and dirty cars littering the space as well as a couple of motorcycles.
Avery's green motorcycle, the first one he had bought her, was sitting there among several others. Had he not been there when she gave it away or been there when John informed he and Elijah that Avery had ridden with Stiles in his jeep to school that morning- he'd have thought that Avery wasn't at school.
With the final seconds ticking down, the final bell rang and Nik sighed in relief.
As the children immediately started to filter out of the school exits, Elijah and Nik start to search for Avery and easily ignore the stares and giggles and whispers about them. They're standing by the jeep, not wanting to move from their place in case Avery had left without them knowing.
A couple minutes into their search, the uncertainty in his brother's voice has Nik immediately seeking out the direction. "Nik. Three o'clock."
Nik watched as Avery, Stiles, Scott, and three others walked out the building. They walked off to the side of the door where they lingered for a bit before Avery stripped out of her leather jacket and the girl with fair skin and dark, nearly straight hair took it with a grin. The tallest male of the bunch, the one with short cropped hair that had a bit of a curl to it was laughing as he crouched down a bit and Avery jumped on his back.
Wrapping her arms around the teen's neck, Nik and Elijah didn't miss the way the boy peered over his shoulder with a lovestruck expression. As soon as the boy had his hands hooked under Avery's thighs and he stood tall, Avery blushed as the dark-haired girl laughed and used the leather jacket to shield what they figured was Avery's knickers since she was wearing a dress.
Once situated, they took off walking again- this time towards the jeep- and the two brothers listened as the teens laughed and joked around with each other.
Scott is the first one to notice their presence, a smile lighting up his face as he nudges Avery and then points in their direction. Everyone's gaze follows Scott's direction and when they're spotted by everyone, Nik and Elijah wave politely at them.
"Hey, guys!" Avery beams when they finally reach the jeep. "What are you doing here?!"
"Just wanted to see you in your environment." Nik drawls. "It's nice to see you acting like a teenager for once, kitten."
Allison and Lydia sigh dreamily at his accent which causes the boys to groan and Avery to laugh. She quickly introduces them to Allison and Lydia- the two girls grinning goofily when Elijah and Nik both kiss their knuckles in greeting.
Avery finally hops off Isaac's back, draping her jacket over her arm as she stands next to Isaac. "Nik, Elijah- I want you to officially meet Isaac. My boyfriend."
There's a moment of silence that trails after Avery's words and everyone is gazing between the two brothers and Isaac- each one of them hiding amused grins.
Isaac- who had wanted to meet these two- suddenly feels like he's way in over his head. He nervously gulps and it isn't until Avery elbows him that he moves. "H-hi. I'm Isaac." His hand shoots out for them to shake and the group snickers.
"Isaac, huh?" Nik drawls as he steps forward, grasping the teen's hand. "You do know that should you harm one hair on her pretty little head, it won't end well for you."
"Yeah." Lydia pipes up with a smirk. "He'll most likely sever your head and serve it to Avery on a silver platter."
Avery groans, Isaac suddenly pales, and the rest of the group laughs.
"Told her that, did you?" Elijah smiles at Avery.
"It might've slipped out one night." She tells him nervously as she fidgets from foot to foot. The meeting between her past and present wasn't supposed to go down like this. They were supposed to get along splendidly and not tease her about it.
The moment for teasing is suddenly over as Isaac stands just a little taller and all eyes are on him. Clearing his throat, he looks Nik straight in the eye. "I'm well aware of a lot of things from Avery's past life, sir." He tells him. "And I swear it when I say that I'll never hurt her."
Isaac and Avery's group of friends don't really seem shocked by his statement- the lot of them knowing just how much Isaac truly cared for her- but for Elijah and Nik, it's refreshing to hear the truth fall from the kid's mouth.
Nik and Elijah both nod at him before Nik's attention gets drawn back to Avery. Well, not exactly Avery but what she's wearing around her neck.
The fang necklace.
Nik smirks and when Avery catches his gaze, she grins. "Cheeky, love." He tells her.
"Yeah, well, I gotta support the nightwalkers somehow." Avery laughs- she and Nik gaining everyone's attention. "Especially since you banned me from wearing the glue-ons."
"Banned?" Lydia muses.
Allison quirks an eyebrow at her. "What did you do?"
"Nothing!" Avery squeaks way too fast.
Everyone's eyes light up in amusement, knowing full well that she did do something. "She tricked Nik into thinking she turned into a vampire." Elijah shakes his in mock disapproval- the small smirk giving away his own amusement. "She came home one night from a fight feigning a headache and as she stumbled up to my brother, she opened her mouth with a groan and asked why her gums were hurting her."
"And when Nik saw the fangs," Avery slowly grinned at the memory. "-he went temporarily psycho and nearly killed the vampires who fought by my side for letting me get killed. It was hilarious until his hand disappeared into someone's chest cavity."
"Yes." Nik now smirked. "You're very lucky you stopped me before I ripped out her heart."
Avery snickered for a moment before she realized no-one else was laughing. When she looked up at her friends, she saw that they were all either gaping or went rather pale. "Eh, you'll get used to his mood swings." She waved them off.
No-one said anything and surprisingly, it was Isaac who relaxed first. "You really had one hell of a life before Beacon Hills, huh?"
Avery's only answer was the smile she flashed at him.
"Well, while all this is swell," Stiles cut in. "-I really doubt talking about this in the open is appropriate." He said as he gestured around to all the lingering students. "If you're sticking around, we really need to go somewhere more private."
"It's fine, Mr. Stilinski." Elijah gazed at him. "We just wanted to come tell Avery about our plans of sticking around for a week or two but it seems my brother is easily distracted when it comes to your sister."
"Am not." Nik pouted. "It's not my fault we were blindsided by the boyfriend."
Isaac blushed as all eyes turned to him but Avery's voice soon pulled the attention away from him. "S-staying? You guys are staying for a while?!"
"Yes." Elijah nodded. "We found a home just on the outskirts of town. It is ours for the time being."
Avery beamed and slowly but surely, everyone else smiled at the news.
"Well, now that that's out of the way, we best get out of your hair." Nik drawled before flashing a dimpled smirk at Elijah who returned the facial expression. "Until next time, friends." He nodded his head at all of them and in a blink of an eye- both Elijah and Nik were gone from the parking lot.
"Now that's how you pull a disappearing act." Avery joked. Scott, Stiles, Isaac, Allison, and Lydia just blinked before looking around the parking lot for the two brothers who were just standing in front of them seconds ago. "And now that they're gone, let's go!" She gripped Isaac's hand in her own. "I feel like taking a walk."
As Avery started to pull Isaac along behind her, everyone rolled their eyes as Isaac grinned and easily followed.
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Isaac and Avery walked with no destination in mind and ended up in the middle of town. With the sun pleasantly shining down, Avery found no need to wear her jacket and so Isaac draped it over his free arm while Avery linked her arm through his other.
Every child, every teen, every parent, and grand parent they passed seemed to have a need to wave and smile at them- and since Isaac wasn't much for attention, he let Avery wave and smile back to her heart's content. Some of the older couples had him laughing when he'd find them staring at grinning at he and Avery, and with his werewolf hearing he picked up their hushed conversations of how he and Avery made an adorable couple.
When Avery finally asked what he was laughing at, Isaac told her and then found Avery beaming at the couples who thought she was adorable.
As they continued to walk, they came across a small park where Avery finally decided to unglue herself from Isaac's side and pranced around him- her skirt flaring out when she twirled.
"What are you doing?" Isaac laughed.
"I'm being a teenager." She answered with a grin. "We're free! We're finally free!" Her tinkling laugh rings out and Isaac finds himself smiling fondly at her. "The supernatural drama is finally over."
"You know you just jinxed us, right? Now something is going to happen."
Avery stops spinning, her smile faltering a split second as her eyes catch something behind him. When Isaac shifts in spot, the smile is back as is her laughter. "Well for now it's not. Come on, let's go sit and enjoy the sunshine." She beams up at him.
Isaac doesn't resist as Avery reaches forward to grip his hand and lets her lead him wherever it was she wanted to go.
Her destination is a park bench not that far up ahead and when Avery sits down and crosses one leg over the other, Isaac swore he saw her looking over his shoulder as she rolled her eyes before chuckling and looking away.
As Isaac sits and stretches his arms out along the back of the bench, Avery scoots over to his side and smiles at everyone who walks by. Using this as his chance to scan their surroundings, he quickly scans the environment around them but nothing sticks out to him.
With a content sigh, Avery looked towards the sky as she closed her eyes and stretched before relaxing once more and leaning into Isaac's side.
"You're like a cat." He suddenly voiced. "You like soaking up the sun, huh?"
"Mmmm." Avery hummed before chuckling. "I used lounge around bikinis every chance I got back in New Orleans." She admitted. "Only Nik and Elijah didn't like everyone staring so they made me lounge on the roof where they eventually made it my personal escape."
Isaac smiled upon hearing that. "They're really protective, aren't they?"
"Oh yeah." Avery nodded before turning to face him with her face passive. "You haven't changed your mind, have you? About us now that you've met the men who raised me as family and will continue to be a part of my life."
"No." Isaac's quick to assure her. "Elijah and Nik, I will admit that they weren't what I was expecting but I like them. They've saved you, protected you, and trained you so in my book- they're awesome. While it's a bit of a shock to hear them speak so freely of those that they've killed, I can handle it. You're worth it." He then adds in as his arm finds it's way onto her shoulders and squeezing her closer.
Avery giggles as she quickly pecks his jaw before turning to look out towards the park while laying her head on Isaac's shoulder. "So there's not anything they could possibly do that would scare you away from me?"
After a moment of hesitancy, Isaac shrugs. "They can try but then I will try even harder just to keep you."
"Good." He hears Avery mutter before she's pecking the underside of his jaw now. She quickly leans forward, her eyes scanning the park. "Show yourselves, you prats! I know you're following us."
Isaac's eyes widen. "Avery, what-"
"Always knew we taught you a bit too well." Nik's voice suddenly drawled from behind them, startling Isaac. When both teens turn around, Nik and Elijah and peering down at them- amusement dancing in their eyes. "Well don't you two look cozy."
When Avery sees Nik's one eyebrow raise and his eyes dart to where Isaac and Avery are touching, she rolls her eyes. "Yes, Nik. I let people touch me now. It's easier here."
And just like that, Nik's features soften. "Good. I thought we were going to have to beat someone with their own limbs."
Isaac snorts but when Nik and Elijah stare at him, he stops. "Do good to remember your manners, boy." Elijah then speaks up. "If we see or hear about Avery being mistreated, it won't end well for you."
Isaac gulps. "Noted."
"Brilliant." Nik smirked. "Now if will excuse us, it's time for us to take our leave." He nodded to Isaac before turning to Avery. "We'll be seeing you soon, Princess. Stay out of trouble."
"Always do. Trouble finds me, remember?" She quickly quips before they can disappear.
Nik merely snorts in amusement as Elijah tugs on one of her curls before finally disappearing and leaving them on their own.
"Okay so maybe they do scare me." Isaac suddenly voices.
Avery snorts before her laughter rings out. "Come on." She continues to laugh as she stands, holding her hand out to him. "Let's go get some ice cream."
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With John working a double shift at work, Stiles and Avery found themselves planted on the sofa downstairs with their laptops glued to their laps and the TV playing a random channel as background noise.
Scott and Isaac were out and about doing their werewolf duty while Allison and Lydia were doing their own thing which left the Stilinski siblings to find their own amusement.
Stiles was currently reblogging every one of his OTPs from his favorite TV shows on a certain website whereas Avery, who had made an account on the same site after seeing her brother's blog, reblogged every mythical piece of lore she could find just for the hell of it. While most of what she was finding wasn't accurate, it still made her grin as she decorated her blog to her liking so people knew her interests.
The shrill ringing of Avery's phone shattered their lazy peacefulness and since she was in a sluggish mood, Avery easily answered it with a slide of her finger and tapped the screen with the same finger without even glancing at it.
"You're on speaker. What's your damage?"
Stiles snorted at her greeting but kept his eyes glued to the screen of his own laptop.
"The first call I give you and that's how you answer? Wow. I'm totally feeling the love."
The familiar voice and sarcastic reply threw Avery off balance as she stuttered out an apology. But apparently, it wasn't enough to throw off Stiles. "Derek?!"
"Stiles." He acknowledged. "Is the rest of your pack there as well?"
"No." Avery immediately blurted before grinning widely. "Holy shit, Derek! How've you been?! Where have you been?!"
"Here and there." Was the response they got. "Cora's out right now doing some research but that's not why I'm calling."
"Then why are you?" Avery asked.
"Well, I'm sitting here in our room and the most strangest thing occurred." They could practically hear the amusement in his voice. "A very sleek looking black box appeared from thin air on her bed. The moment I tried to open it, the boxed burned me. You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you?
Avery chuckled as Stiles turned his questioning gaze on her. "Gotta love witches." She mused. "How'd you know I had anything to do with it?"
"Just a hunch." Derek admitted. "That and the fact that there's a very fancy 'R' engraved atop the box. Aren't those two Originals named Reynolds?"
"You caught me." She laughed. "It's a gift for Cora. Knives to be exact. The type that keep a supernatural being from healing straight away." She reminded him. "I told her I'd get her some and since you two left, I had to get one of Nik's witches to spell a box and magically FedEx it to her. The box will only open at Cora's touch and keep away those who aren't her- hence the burn."
"Yeah, well, thanks for that." He muttered. There was a moment of silence, though not awkward, before his voice came through the speaker once more. "Well, Cora will be back soon so I better go. I'll see you soon. Sooner than you might think."
"Good." Avery grinned. "Better make it fast. Elijah and Nik are here. I'm sure they'd love to meet the Hales."
Derek's deep chuckle was enough to make Avery's grin turn into a smile. "We'll see. Bye, guys."
"Bye." Avery and Stiles said in unison before Avery ended the call.
As soon as Avery's phone blacked out, she went back to focusing on her laptop but she could feel a burning gaze lingering on her. As her fingers flew across the keyboard, she looked up to meet her brother's gaze.
"Derek talks to you?! Why?" He immediately blurted. "He didn't keep in contact with anyone else and we've known him longer. No offense."
"None taken." She shrugged as her eyes went back to the screen. "And in all honesty, I don't really know why he chooses to stay in contact with me. We just clicked."
"But you and Isaac-"
"No!" Avery's eye bulged at what her brother's mind came up with. "No, we didn't click like that. It was more of a sibling click." She quickly explained. "I asked him to keep in contact with me before they left. If anything happened to them, no-one was going to get away with hurting them. I'd make sure of it."
Stiles slowly sank back into the cushions of his seat. "Oh."
When Stiles seemed to be occupied with his laptop once more, Avery slyly went through her phone. When she saw that Derek has used his phone to make the call, she figured that Cora had her phone on her as well. As quickly as she could, Avery pulled up Cora's contact information and sent off a text.
'Your present has arrived in your room. Don't get stab happy.'- Avery
Avery didn't expect for the teen to have her phone on so she was slightly surprised when a reply came back.
'No promises ;)- Cora
With an amused snort and grin, Avery put her phone away and went back to reblogging nonsense on her blog.
Eh. I'm not sure how I feel about this chapter =/ If you find any errors, let me know and I'll fix them :)
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