Hey Guys! I took a days break from writing, so sorry for no chapter yesterday, but here it is! I enjoyed writing it. I spent sometime with Lydia and Isaac trying to figure out the direction I was going to take it and although not long I wanted a bit of pack bonding in there somewhere, so there's a few different things in this chapter and I hope you enjoy it!

Lydia was procrastinating walking down the concrete pathway as the wind blew through her strawberry blonde hair. She was wearing attire she wasn't quite comfortable in yet, flat shoes. Lydia always thought she was too short, so she always wore high heels and wearing flat shoes really didn't feel comfortable, but they felt better because they weren't bending the bones in her feet the entire time she was walking. Lydia couldn't help, but feel that someone was following her or watching her. She quickly started monitoring every direction because if she was going to be attacked she wanted to see it coming. Suddenly a hand landed on her shoulder and she spun around on her feet (something much harder to do in high heels than flats) and smashed her fist into the boy's stomach. When she actually had time to register who it was she became ashamed of herself, it was Isaac.

"Oh my God Isaac I'm so sorry, I can't say it enough." Isaac was bent over in pain, convulsing a bit when he shushed her.

"It's fine, but I think you broke my rib luckily that shouldn't take long to heal." Isaac smiled at the girl whom he was at head level when he was bent over. He looked to her feet and saw she wasn't wearing her high heels. "This is a different side of you. I thought you only wear heels." He motioned to her feet, she looked down and chuckled.

"Yeah, I thought I would try it out for once, people always tell me that it's a lot more comfortable, but I don't see how." This time it was Isaac who was laughing.

"Where did you even learn to punch like that?"

"Another one of the things people don't know about me." Isaac's smile turned into more of a sarcastic grin.

"Another one of Lydia Martin's hidden talents?"

"Yes, but my favourite one is that I can scream and everyone for miles can hear it, it's pretty helpful when you're getting attacked or kidnapped, which sadly seems to happen much too often."

"That it does." Lydia couldn't help, but laugh at the current situation. "Something funny Miss Martin?"

"Well although I can't say I'm sorry enough, I just find something about it quite funny and enjoyable." That was when Isaac stood back up to full height and she heard the sound of a bone healing, God that noise was awful.

"Well you're not the one with a broken rib?"

"Neither are you."

"Yes I am!"

"Where's the evidence." Isaac just laughed and put his arm on her shoulder and pushed her playfully.

"Nice call, but next time you won't be so lucky." Lydia couldn't help, but think about what the girls had said the night before. They had spent a lot of time together and Lydia knew the reason she gave the girls for hanging out with him was a lie, if all she wanted was somebody who understood her experiences and everything she had been through she would have gone to Scott. So if that wasn't the reason she was hanging out with him, why was she? Was she really falling for her dead best friend's boyfriend? Is that against some code or something? Well she wanted to know if it was okay, so she texted the one person closer to Allison than anyone else, Scott. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and turned away to text.

"Just wait for a minute Isaac, I need to send a text."

"Sure no problems." She went to her messages and sent a text to him.

Do you think it's okay to fall for you dead best friend's boyfriend? She fumbled the phone in her hands trying to make sure Isaac didn't see what she wrote or what response she was going to get. It was about two minutes later when she received a text from the 'illustrious Scott McCall.

Lydia, I'm sorry, but I'm already in a committed loving relationship, so I think you should keep these thoughts to yourself! She was almost outraged at the text, but she knew it was sarcastic so all she did was send a heated response.

Haha Scott, but do you think Allison would be okay with it? She got a response almost instantly.

Do I think she would be okay with you falling for me? I don't think so, but in all seriousness all Allison ever wants . . . wanted was for her friends to be happy and I'm sure that she would understand and I'm certain she would approve if she could.

Thanks Scott

No Problem She turned back to Isaac really hoping he hadn't seen any of the messages she was sending.

"Ready to go Isaac?"

"Always." They smiled at each other as they walked down the patch nudging each other as if it was a joke. Isaac truly made her happy, he was one of the few things that had made her happy since Allison's death and she was defiantly planning on acting on it, but not before she dealt with Jade's problems!

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Scott reached over and placed his phone back on the bedside table and turned back towards Kira. He moved his hand and was running it through her hair.

"Are you going to tell me who you've been texting this morning?" Scott smiled as he moved a stray hair behind her ear and it seemed to fall into place.

"Well it was Isaac first and just then it was Lydia."

"What were they both on about?"

"Well they were both sort of asking the same thing. They were asking if Allison would be okay with them falling for each other and jokes aside I just said that all Allison would want would be for them to be happy."

"I know I didn't know Allison very well, but I tend to agree. She was always caring even towards me, at one stage I talked to her about you and asked if she was okay about us and she was fine with it, she said all she wanted for you was to find someone who loved and cared for you and someone who could keep you out of too much trouble."

"Oh really? What trouble?"

"Well we wouldn't want you being seduced by a pretty girl, so I decided to make sure that didn't happen."

"Well it was too late because you already seduced me, but lucky enough for your moral integrity, you're more than a pretty face." He pressed his lips to hers and moved his hands down to her hips. There was a knock on the door and Melissa poked her head in.

"Scott you have a visitor." Jade walked into the room and immediately felt awkward and maybe just a tinge on jealousy. Scott pulled away from Kira and sat up on the bed as did Kira.

"Hi Jade is there something wrong?" She shook her head and seemed a little awkward. Kira invited her to sit with them to make her feel more comfortable.

"No, I just needed someone to talk to." Scott could understand, if all this happened to him he was bound to have questions and would really love to have the answers to them.

"It's fine Jade and just remember we're all here for you and we know you have a lot of questions and I'm sure we'll get our answers in good time and in the mean time we are all here for anything you need!"

"Thanks Kira that means a lot and I already have a favour to ask of you Scott. It's on the behalf of Deucalion and I think it would really help me."

"Sure, what is it Jade?"

"We were wondering if I could stay in your spare room and go to school with you guys?" Scott and Kira turned to each other and just smiled at each other.

"Of course you can Jade whatever it is that you think can help you, you'll just have to ask my parents." Jade smiled and was happy Scott said yes and now all she needed to do was ask Melissa.

"I think it's a great idea!" They all looked towards the door and saw Melissa propped up against the door.

"Thanks Melissa, it really means a lot!" Melissa laughed and gave her a hug.

"Don't worry I have my own motives, with my ex-husband and Scott the ratio is still equal, but with you and Kira it's 3-2, so it might be easier to get what we want." Jade and Kira laughed understanding exactly what she was talking about.

"That's cold-hearted mum, accepting her just so you have a majority." She laughed and looked back at Scott and assured him.

"I always have an ulterior motive, so you should watch your back!" Scott laughed as he collapsed on Kira. Her phone on the table on her side of the bed started going off with a message.

Last time I checked you hadn't moved out. We feel like we never see you! Come here with Scott tonight! Kira placed her phone down on the table.

"Who was it?" Scott asked her.

"It was just dad saying I hadn't moved out, so go over there with you tonight." Melissa laughed and spoke to Scott.

"Go, I can help Jade settle in. I don't have a shift tonight plus it's probably easier to sleep without whatever happens in here happening!" Melissa used her hands to signal the entire room. Scott and Kira instantaneously became embarrassed and red crackled up their cheeks.

"Mum that's so inappropriate."

"I know and also just legal." Melissa chuckled to herself as she walked down the stairs.

"I'm so sorry Jade. That was so embarrassing."

"Don't worry after you left last night the girls told me a whole heap of embarrassing things about you, but the most interesting ones were the ones Kiara told me. Especially those heated rumours, they were pretty well . . . intense!" Kira shoved her head into Scott's chest and began to laugh.

"Those rumours are still going round?"

"According to Kiara they're like the only rumours that anyone is talking about, so I guess so." Jade moved to follow in the footsteps of Melissa. When she got downstairs she overheard a conversation that Melissa was having with Scott's dad in the kitchen. She sat down on the couch and used her werewolf hearing to listen to the conversation.

"I hear what you were saying up there Melissa, you really think they're doing that?"

"Rafe I know you're a bit clueless, but Scott and I not so much. I mean you saw them last night right?"

"Yeah, Scott and Kira said they couldn't sleep without each other and as soon as she got here they practically fell asleep."

"Doesn't that tell you enough? They sleep together every night and they love each other, you can't seriously be surprised by the thought that they might be having sex. I mean they think that they're being so sneaky and quiet sometimes, but those walls are pretty thin and even the slightest slip of the mouth can be heard through them." Jade held a hand trying to stop herself from bursting out in laughter. She managed to calm herself down a bit before she began listening again.

"Rafe you weren't even here when he was with Allison. They weren't so obvious, but I found a box of 12 on his desk when I went searching and there were 2 left, that was an eye opener."

"You mean Scott and Allison were together? That would explain why h wasn't the same after she died." Jade decided this was when it was getting to a point of stuff she didn't need to hear, but one thing attracted her attention.

"But that was when I didn't know that Scott was." Melissa stopped dead sentence and Jade had figured that she was about to spill that he was a werewolf and that he didn't know, so Jade went into the kitchen to pull her out of her hole.

"Hey Melissa Kira said she really needs your help with something."

"Okay coming." Melissa walked towards Jade and walked up the stairs. "Thanks, you saved my ass."

"No problems, it was the least I could do." They smiled at each other as Melissa led her towards the room she would be staying in talking about n entire ensemble of topics and it was one of the few times in the past week that she had truly enjoyed herself apart from the previous night.

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Malia had her hand connected with Liam's as she pulled him towards Scott's house. Liam was exasperated and truly confused as to why she was dragging him to Scott's.

"Malia why are we going to Scott's?"

"We're doing something as a pack before I go out with Stiles tonight and I think it would be nice for us to spend some time together."

"What about Isaac?" Malia's face crumpled remembering the conversation she had with Isaac earlier.

"I told him to turn up if he had the time." Liam nodded his head at the were-coyote and thought it might be nice to do something with just the wolves.

It was about 10 minutes later when they noticed Kira standing outside Scott's door with her fingers tangled in his hair and her lips moving over his.

"Maybe we should come back later Malia."

"No we go now!" As they approached the couple Kira pulled away and walked towards her car, still not really taking her eyes from Scott. He saw the two werewolves walking towards him and he turned his head to pay attention to them.

"Hello you two. Anything going on?" Malia just smiled at him as she opened her mouth.

"Hey Scott I thought we could do something tonight, just the 3 of us and Isaac if he can make it. Scott snickered and gave one of his signature grins.

"I don't think Isaac will be joining us, but it sounds great! What did you have in mind?" Malia snickered and ideas swam around in her head.

"We could just all go for a run, it would probably calm us down."

"Okay if that's what you want Malia, then that's what we'll do."

"Great." Malia turned around and started running off into the preserve, followed closely by Liam and Scott.

"Scott, do you think we'll end up killing a dear for Malia again? Because I really don't want to!" Scott laughed as he gave his response to Liam.

"Well I'm not sure, but remember when I bit you and I said we're like brothers now?"

"Yeah I remember."

"Well it's kind of true obviously not real brothers and sisters, but it's the sort of bond you will have with the pack. It's like that, your sister wants a deer she will probably get it." Liam had this look of pure fear on his face which made his features seem funny. Scott could only laugh as he transformed into a wolf during running.

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Malia was slipping on a black dress that Lydia had told her to wear sometime. She said it complemented her shape and made her look amazing, so what's a better excuse than dinner with Stiles? She did up her heels and almost fell over on the bed.

"How does Lydia only wear these?" Malia just put her head in her hands till she heard a voice.

"Through lot's of practice and pain. I'm sure you'll get used to them." She lifted her head out of her hands and walked over to Stiles and kissed him on the cheek. "You look amazing by the way Malia!" Rose red crackled up her cheeks.

"You don't look so bad yourself." She put her arm through his and walked out of the house and jumped in his jeep.

They arrived at the place and parked in the only available spot furthest from the door. Stiles quickly ran round the other side and opened the door for Malia to slip out.

"Thanks."

"No worries, where I'm from we're taught to look after beautiful women properly!" Malia couldn't help, but let a smile show on her face.

"Oh really? Where do you come from?"

"I come from this beautiful town called Beacon Hills and we are taught to treat women with respect." Malia could only laugh at Stiles. When they got to the front doors they turned to stare at each other. Malia didn't really find it comfortable, everyone was just so different from them and she could see it in Stiles' eyes that he felt the same way. They just smiled at each other until Malia spoke up.

"This isn't really our scene is it?" Stiles laughed because he knew she was right.

"No, not really, so what do you want to do?"

"Wanna get out of here? Maybe go get something simple to eat?"

"Like Curly fries and Ice-cream?" Malia smiled and playfully hit Stiles.

"You know me so well, I guess that's where that respect comes in right?" Stiles put on this ridiculous face that somewhat resembled Kira's awkward half-smiles.

"Well yes, of course my dearest!"

"Call me your dearest one more time and you'll find something on your head."

"Yes dear."

"Don't play with me Mr. Stilinski, I'm force to be reckoned with."

"Yes I can tell, but promise me that you won't rip of my head or claw out my internal organs and eat them, okay?"

"Well I would be able to promise that, but sometimes I just get these urges to make a surgical incision along your chest with my claws, pull out your intestines and devour them like they were the last piece of meat on Earth. I imagine that they'll taste like cotton candy, but the experience will be even more fun. The ripping of flesh, the tearing of muscle and of course dining on your insides. Nothing would make me happier!" Stiles gulped and actually seemed concerned.

"You're not serious right?" A genuine tone of worry slipped through his voice as if he was actually worried she would eat him from the insides out.

"Of course I'm joking Stiles, I would never hurt you unless it was an accident." Relief spread across Stiles' face and Malia gave a little chuckle. "I love you Stiles."

"And I will always love you, unless you decided to eat my intestines, if you do that we might need to have a serious talk about where our relationship is going." She couldn't help, but laugh and that was the best thing about him. Laughter always seemed to be infectious around Stiles and Malia loved it! It always made for a great time.

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Kira was sitting down on the couch in her living room doing some work on her laptop when she heard an odd scratching noise, it was like something scratching at a door and Kira wasn't quite sure what it was.

"Hey mum, could you please check the door?"

"Sure Kira." Noshiko walked towards the wooden door and heard the same thing as Kira had. She could hear scratching at the door, but it wasn't random, it sounded like knocking. She pried open the door and right at the door was a grey wolf with brown streaks through its coat. Noshiko lowered herself to the wolf's level and looked into its eyes and she knew who it was.

"Would you like to come in?" The wolf got up from its sitting position and ran into the living room. The look in its eyes when it saw Kira only confirmed that it was Scott. He jumped up onto the couch and gave Kira a nuzzle on the neck and just lowered itself into her lap.

"Hey Scott, did you go running with the pack?" She just rubbed along its back and it just nodded at her. She led him into her room and got onto the bed and he jumped on top of her and morphed back into the normal teenage boy that she loved. He kissed her on the lips as he hovered over her and tangled his hands in her hair. Kira had forgotten that when he came back he didn't have any clothes on.

"Hello there!" She gave him a kiss on the neck and moved onto his lips.

"God you're beautiful. I have to put some clothe on, I don't want to leave this position, but I have to." He pulled away from Kira and went over to her closet and sure enough there were a couple of change of clothes in her cupboard. He pulled on the jeans and the shirt and just laid back down next to Kira.

"You know, I hate it that you had to put all your clothes on." She toyed with his ear and gave him a passionate kiss on the lips." Scott could only smile at thought.

"Me to, but somewhat I don't think that your parents would appreciate me not having clothes on at the dinner table." Kira sighed and kissed him on the cheek.

"You might have a point." They both laughed as she hoisted him up from the bed and they danced out the door to a fun family dinner with Ken and Noshiko.

AUTHORS NOTES

Well that's chapter 17. Be prepared for the antagonist for this point to come out of nowhere and do something radical and that little line should probably take till chapter 20 and I hope it goes over well because I feel that it fixes a hole that doesn't particularly affect the rest of the story, but it needs to be resolved so that will be that and then it will be back to the primary focus of the arc. I hope you enjoyed it! I have a question or two to ask you guys.

.Do you like/understand the Lydia/Isaac relationship idea or would you prefer for it to fall through?

.I found that Scott's dad's name is supposed to be 'Rafe' and to tell the truth that just sounds awful, so if you would like me to change it I have no problems changing it to something similar.

As always I really appreciate all the reviews, follows and favorites that have been coming in and they are what keeps me wanting to write and I really enjoy reading them, so thanks for all the support!

Also I thought I might mention that on Saturday the 20th I'm going to America for two weeks and it will not be so easy to find the time to write, but while I'm away I'll still try to update every now and then.