Chapter 10
"Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy—all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame." - Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
"I told you to stop bringing me soup. I can get it myself." Will told Isaac as he nudged open her door carrying a tray with a bowl of soup on it. He'd been bringing her soup a lot over the past few days which she greatly appreciated. Scott had also taken to checking up on her often. Anyone would think she was dying.
"Just eat it." He replied smiling while handing her the tray. Will scooted over so that she was no longer sitting in the middle of the bed giving Isaac room to sit down next to her.
At first she tried every tactic possible to keep him out of her room (that included making a pillow fort in front of the door. Although, she had been slightly drugged up with medicine when she came up with that idea.) But Isaac assured her that he wasn't going to get ill due to the fact that he was a werewolf which gave Will absolutely no excuse to keep him out. It didn't matter much today, she was feeling a lot better.
"Where'd Scott go?" She asked she lifted a spoonful of soup to her mouth that very nearly missed her mouth as Isaac sunk down into the bed next to her.
"He's gone with Allison to see Gerard." He answered reaching over to grab the Rubix cube that Will kept on her bedside table.
"That's her grandpa right? The one who used... the Kanima? Is that the right word?" She questioned lifting another spoonful of soup to her mouth. Isaac merely nodded as he fiddled with the cube he was holding. "Yeah. To get Derek to bite him?" She finished.
"Yup." Isaac answered his attention still on the cube.
"Why?"
"He knows something about Derek that we don't know." He put the Rubix cube back, giving up on it, and picked up the book that Will had lying open face down next to her to see that it was another fantasy book that she had obviously read more than once. Clockwork Angel. He placed it back down next to Will lifting his eyes to her.
As he looked up he found that Will was watching him. "I thought I read that series again." She said nodding to her book. "What's better than emotional torment when you're ill." She smiled lifting another spoonful of soup to her mouth, Isaac's eyes following the movement.
"I bet it has something to do with a girl though." Will stated around the spoon that she had in her mouth, referring to what he had told her earlier.
"What?" He frowned sitting up a bit straighter.
"Derek." She clarified. "It always has something to do with a girl. You know, werewolf falls in love with a human? It's pretty cliché." She shrugged.
"But there's no girl..." Isaac pointed out watching as Will chased a lump of potato around the bowl with her spoon.
"Something must have happened to her then." She answered distractedly smiling widely when she managed to capture the runaway vegetable.
"It would explain a lot." It would explain why Derek was so grumpy and brooding anyway.
The room fell into silence broken only by the sound of Will's spoon clanking against the bowl as she finished her soup. She dropped the spoon into the bowl and lifted the tray off of her legs to place on the floor. (She'd take it out later.)
She looked at Isaac as if a thought had suddenly occurred to her. "Hey, are you alright after the other day?"
"Me? No, I'm good, I'm fine." Isaac replied leaning back against the headboard and running a hand through his hair and tugging on it slightly.
Shaking her head Will softly smacked Isaac on the shoulder with a pillow. Boys and their stupid problem with feelings. He had just watched his friend get killed.
She threw her duvet off of herself and was about to climb out of bed when she was hit in the back of the head.
"You can't hit me with pillows!" Will exclaimed turning to Isaac who was grinning at her. "I'm ill remember! Cough. Cough. See." She smiled pointing at herself "Ill."
"Foooooood." Will called running into the living room where Isaac had set up their takeaway. They (Will) had decided that after days of eating soup she should be allowed Chinese food.
Isaac and her were sat down completely opposite each other at the dining table and it occurred to Will that this was the first time they had eaten together without Scott.
"How do you do that?" Will asked frowning at Isaac as he picked up a small piece of chicken.
"Do what?" He asked.
"Hold chopsticks..." Will fiddled with the sticks in her hand trying to pick up some noodles.
"You can't use chopsticks?" Isaac questioned with a smirk.
"I can't use chopsticks." She confirmed as she dropped one of the sticks.
"You just have to put this there..." He put one chopstick in the crook of his thumb "Then put this finger there..." He moved his fingers so that he was holding the other chopstick like a pencil above the other one. "And there you go." He looked over at Will who was holding her chopsticks at very questionable angles and wondered how she had managed to do it.
"No." She stated looking from her chopsticks to the ones Isaac was holding.
He placed his chopsticks on the table and reached over taking Will's hand in his.
Will was acutely aware of their contact as he moved her fingers into the correct positions. She could feel her face heating up and a weird feeling settled in her stomach. His fingers lightly brushed her wrist and she was surprised that he couldn't feel how hard her heart was beating. She certainly could.
When Isaac was finished he let go of her hand and picked up his own chopsticks. "Now try picking up something." He instructed watching as she went straight for the noodles.
Will actually managed to pick some up and was so pleased for herself that she threw her non-chopstick using arm up into the air. "Ha! I am the master of chopsticks!" She stated proudly bringing the noodles to her mouth.
Isaac returned to his own food and was about to take a bite when he heard Will start to giggle. "What are you laughing at?"
"I-" She started but burst out into a fit of laughter. "I look-" She tried the last words fading into a squeak. After a few moments of laughter she finally managed to tell Isaac. "I look like a squid."
He stared at her as she wiggled the noodles in front of her mouth and started laughing again. Isaac tried very hard not to laugh but he had no choice when he noticed the little tears forming in the corners of her eyes as she clutched her sides.
"It's not even that funny." She breathed out clutching her sides harder as another bout of laughter hit her.
"I haven't laughed that hard in ages." Will said as she flopped on to the couch after tidying away their leftovers.
"I don't think I've ever laughed that hard." Isaac replied slumping down on the opposite end of the couch.
Will looked at Isaac. It was hard to imagine him never laughing. He had a nice laugh. And a really nice smile. To be honest he had a really nice face. And from what she had seen the other day he had a really nice body too...
She found herself blushing at this and pushed the image of Isaac in a towel to the very back of her mind. Her blush only intensified when she realised she had been staring at him the entire time. It became even worse when she noticed that he was staring right back at her. The room suddenly felt very warm and awkward and Will wanted nothing more than to run to her room and hide under her duvet.
She was about to excuse herself when Scott walked in.
"Oh good! You're back." Will said letting go of the breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding.
Scott frowned looking back and forth between Isaac and Will before sitting down in the arm chair.
"So did you find out Derek's deep dark secret?" Will asked sitting on her knees and leaning on the arm of the couch. She looked like an excited puppy.
"I'm not sure. I think he was lying." Scott said.
"Well what did he tell you?" Isaac questioned as he sat forward leaning one elbow on his knee.
"I told you! I told you!" Will sang at Isaac bouncing up and down on the couch. "I told you it had something to do with a girl!"
"Okay. So why do you think he was lying?" Isaac directed at Scott.
"His heart beat was completely steady the entire time he was telling us the story."
"So? Doesn't that mean he's telling the truth?" He frowned.
"If it was a memory or whatever wouldn't his heart beat change speeds? When he remembered certain things about his family it would pick up wouldn't it? Or if it was part of the story he actually witnessed because he would remember what it was like and the emotions he was feeling and stuff it would change too." She wasn't wording it very well but she knew what she was trying to say and she was hoping Scott and Isaac were understanding what she was trying to say too.
Scott stared at Will before nodding "Yeah. There was just something about it that didn't seem right." He muttered.
"So steady equals telling the truth but too steady equals lying?" Isaac confirmed still caught up in what Will was trying to explain.
"Yup." Will replied for Scott .
They lapsed into silence, all three of them going over the story in their heads. Will hadn't met Derek but from what she had heard from Scott and Isaac it wasn't a far fetched story. However, she had to agree with Scott there was something about the whole thing that didn't seem right.
"I need to call Stiles." Scott stated as he stood up from the arm chair before disappearing up to his room leaving Will and Isaac alone again.
"See. It always has something to do with a girl." Will told Isaac smiling as she poked him in the leg with her foot. "All the best stories do."
A/N: Into double digits ^.^
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