As I lay in bed I thought back to the meeting from two weeks ago, the meeting was a disaster as usual but with a difference.
Flashback
We sat in the board room all spruced up, but with no idea what was going to happen. We were sat there for about a moment when the boss walked in with a man in a hooded cloak, the man shrunk back to the wall and leant against the wall with his swords glinting at his sides.
"welcome you may see we have an extra guest with us, you will all be pleased to know the scientists have perfected the control serum" I was puzzled why would that please us? He would without a doubt use it to control us. He motioned to the man and he pulled his hood away from his face, I gasped seeing who was under it...
My phone vibrating pulled me out of my thoughts.
I noticed that I had gotten a text
D: training Scott incognito wear black and shoes you can run in I looked at my phone puzzled so I decided to type my question instead of calling him.
M: where are we meeting? He replied instantly
D: parking lot near Wal-Mart I closed my phone and changed from my pyjamas and pulled my hair back in a pony tail.
When I got to the parking lot we split up, he went to head him off and I went to hide and keep watch. After about 5 minutes I saw him coming out of a door so I texted Derek my location and he jumped down and landed near a car, a bottle of milk rolled away and Derek pierced it with his claws. Then rolled it back, growling he made a move to chase Scott I was running after him, and I jumped up into the rafters where I knew I would have a birds eye view, car alarms started to go off, which was a good idea on Scotts part, he ran down to the next level, where he hid but a potentially fatal mistake revealed his location, Scotts cell phone started to ring as he fumbled to switch it off, Derek pulled him up by the shoulders and slammed him down on top of the car at the same time I jumped on top of the car with fireballs encasing my hands "you're dead" we said in unison.
"How did you do that?" Scott looked at me and my fiery hands, I shook them of effectively
dousing the flames "its one of my witch gifts" I wiggled my fingers. He walked up to Derek "what the hell was that?" I laughed "said I was gonna teach you, didn't say when" he glanced at Scott briefly "oh quiet down Scott it wasn't that bad" I rolled my eyes "you scared the crap out of me" Scott yelled as we carried on walking, "not yet" I shook my head "ok but I was fast right?" he asked like a little boy seeking approval "not fast enough and besides our little witch friend represents other threats from other wolves, there may be more than one threat at the same time, if she wanted to kill you she could have done" I caught up to them "but the car alarm thing that was smart right?" I nodded "till your phone rang" Derek pointed out. Scott fumbled over his words "would you just stop please?" Derek sighed and turned around "what happened the other night, Stiles dad getting hurt, that was my fault" I looked at him "I should have been there to do something, I need you to teach me how to be able to control this" Derek advanced on him "look I am what I am because of birth, you were bitten, teaching someone who was bitten takes time" Scott looked worried "I don't even know if I can teach you" Derek explained "what do I have to do?" Scott sounded scared "you have to get rid of distractions" I grabbed Scotts cell phone "like this Scott you wanna know why Derek caught you, your phone was like a homing beacon, and the fact that I was right above you, but the noise from your phone could get you killed" I handed his phone to Derek "she is a distraction to you Scott and you would be better without her" Scott looked at me "what just because of her family?" Derek threw his phone at a wall shattering it "you getting angry? That's your first lesson, you wanna learn how to control this? Wanna learn to shift? You do it through anger, by tapping into a primal animal rage, and you cant do that with her around" Dereks voice raised to a shouting level, Scott started to say that he could get angry, I piped in "not around her and she is around you nearly all the time, and you wouldn't be angry enough Scott, it is the only you can be taught" he looked at me and I backed off "now can you stay away from her? At least until after the full moon?" Scott looked conflicted "if that's what it takes" Derek began to shout "do you want to live? Do you want to protect your friends? Yes or no?" Derek stared him down, trying to break him down "yes if you can teach me I can stay away from her" I smiled at them "now we have this solved can I go and get back to my beauty sleep? Because I am really tired"
The next morning I woke up to a smell of a fully cooked English breakfast wafting from the kitchen running downstairs I jumped on my uncles back and grabbed the plate from his hands, moving to the table I dug in before he could protest. I cleared my plate quickly and went upstairs to get a shower. After pulling on my underwear, I wrapped my dressing gown around me and went into my room and to my wardrobe, I pulled out and dressed myself a pair of purple skinny fit jeans, a layered long sleeve shirt, my patterned doc martins and my mock leather jacket with fleece sleeves and a hood. I grabbed my bag and went over to my new car and drove off to school. I parked in a free pace but the space next to it was filled by a certain someone. He grabbed my arm "hey can we talk about the parent teacher conference thing" I glared at him "there is nothing to talk about" I pulled my arm from his hand and walked away, locking my car as I went.
The rest of the day passed with little happenings, at lunch time I saw the boys and pulled out a chair and a pasta salad from my bag "you know if you are trying to be inconspicuous you are failing miserably" Stiles turned around "she's reading anyway" Scott moved to close the book "so did you come up with a plan yet?" I looked at them "I think so" Scott looked over the history book at Stiles "does that mean you don't hate me now?" I shook my head at their antics "no but your crap has infiltrated my life, so now I have to do something about it, plus in definitely a better Yoda that Derek" I laughed "yeah because you both have little hair" they looked at me and Stiles glared "just keeping it real" I held up my hands and smiled "ok yeah you teach me" I smiled "ok you be my Yoda" I chuckled "your Yoda I will be" Stiles then did a really bad impression of the voice of Yoda.
As we walked away I walked with Stiles to our next lesson "so what're you two doing in free period?" I bounced on my feet "throwing lacrosse balls at Scott to test his heart rate and see if his rage is connected to it" I raised an eyebrow "how are you going to monitor his heart rate?" he opened his mouth to answer me "yeah hadn't thought of that" I chuckled "could this help?" I held up coach Finstocks heart rate monitor "where did you get that?" I smiled at him and held up the keys to his office "swiped it from your coach, I mean you gotta keep me around for something other than my stunning good looks, wit and charm" he looked at me grinning "maybe its your modesty" I laughed "but back on track you need the cell phone as the monitor is on there so the keys will help you get in to the office as that's where the phone is more than likely gonna be" we walked towards the office that the coach uses and I was on look out duty so Stiles could swipe the cell phone after a minute he came out "got it?" I looked at him "well its bad news" I raised my eyebrow internally wishing that he had the cell phone "looks like the coach is gonna be without a cell phone for a while" I smiled then punched his shoulder "don't do that to me, I got worried for a moment then" he grinned at me "that punch actually hurt, Jesus you punch like a man" I stopped "well you hit like a girl, so its even territory" I ran and he chased me through the school and grabbed me by the exit and twirled me round, knowing I would get dizzy and it made me laugh. I saw Jackson out of the corner of my eye and he looked a little bit jealous.
I elbowed stiles in the ribs and made another run for it until we saw Scott "hey no fair! You have really pointy elbows you know that right?" I nodded and laughed and I was a little breathless. So I sat down on the bench by the lacrosse pitch. Stiles put the bag down that he had acquired from somewhere and I got out the BPM monitor "here put this on" I passed it to Scott as Stiles asked him to put it on "isn't this one of the heart rate monitors from the track team" I looked at Stiles "yeah we borrowed it" Scott looked at us "stole it?" I sighed "temporarily misappropriated" Stiles interjected "coach uses it to monitor his heart rate with his phone while he jogs, you're going to wear it for the rest of the day" Stiles told him "isn't that coach's phone?" I chewed my lip "that we did steal" I said.
"Why?" I switched on my iPod and put it in one ear "well when your heart rate goes up you go wolf right? When you're playing lacrosse, when you're with Alison, whenever you get angry, maybe learning to control it, is tied to learning to control your heart rate" Scott looked happy "like the incredible hulk?" I sighed boys will be boys "yes like the incredible hulk now would you shut up and put the strap on?" Stiles asked as we walked into the middle of the field, I taped Scotts hands behind his back "this isn't exactly how I wanted to spend my free period" I put the tape away "suck it up baby you wanna learn, then focus" Stiles backed away "you ready? Remember don't get angry"
Stiles picked up a lacrosse ball with his lacrosse stick and hurled it at Scott after a while I joined in "oh I quite like this" I noted as we threw lacrosse balls at Scott as he chanted to himself willing himself to remain calm, Stiles laughed with me "its fun we should do this more often" I saw Jackson walking towards my bag and I walked over to him "its target practice for Stiles, Scotts idea of course, may I ask why you keep following me?" I picked up my bag "we need to talk" I rolled my eyes "you aren't gonna let this go are you?" he shook his head "fine later not now kinda busy walking away" I started to walk away when I saw Scott drop to the ground breathing heavily, he broke through the tape and grabbed the grass "Scott you ok? You started to change" I grabbed the ripped tape and put it in my bag "I'm angry, but there's more than that, its like the angrier I got the stronger I felt" I looked at him "so it is anger then Derek is right" Scott was breathing deeply to calm down "I cant be around Alison" I scoffed "what? Just because she makes you happy?" not happiness Stiles "no because she makes me weak" Scott replied.
I sat on the bench in the locker room the boys walked out and I bent to grab something, and saw Jackson walk past me to the mirrors, he grabbed the sides of the sink and started to pull off the bandage on the back of his neck, which had blood on it which confused me as it should have healed by now. He then dropped the bandage and started to retch, it seemed like he was hallucinating. I cast a quick spell to see what he was seeing and to my horror I saw claws coming out of his mouth but they quickly disappeared. He leant forward the muscles on his back heaving. I quickly walked out while he was distracted.
I quickly walked to Economics class where I saw Alison talking to Scott as I sat on the other side of Stiles, I leant over "I thought he was gonna stay away from her?" Stiles shrugged "I don't know" the Coach Finstock started to lay in to Scott and as his anger increased so did his heart rate as both Stiles and I had sent the application for the BPM monitor to our cell phones as it got up to 160 I knew that I either had to shut the coach up, distract Scott or get Scott out of there. Suddenly it dropped down to 130 and was decreasing, I looked at Stiles and he motioned to look under Alisons desk, she was holding his hand to calm him down. I was right all along she wasn't a distraction, she was the calming agent for him.
"its her" Stiles said as we walked through the corridor "what do you mean?" Scott looked puzzled "its Alison, you know when you told me about the night of the full moon? You were thinking about her, about protecting her, remember the night of the first lacrosse game? You said you could hear her voice out on the field" Scott turned and looked at Stiles "yeah" Stiles continued "well that's what brought you back so you could score and then after the game in the locker room you didn't kill her, its not like how you were trying to kill me, she brings you back is what I'm saying" I put my hand on Scotts shoulder "to me Scott its like the thought of hurting her would cause you pain, and pain is what keeps you human" Scott immediately began to protest "no no no but its not always true because literally every time I'm kissing her or touching her" Stiles cut him off "no that's not the same, when your doing that you're just a normal hormonal teenager thinking about sex you know?" Scott began to smirk "you're thinking about sex right now aren't you? Back in the class room when she was holding your hand it was different ok? I don't think she makes you weak I think she gives you control, kind of like an anchor" Scott held on to his backpack "you mean because I love her?" Scott asked "exactly" Stiles replied "did I just say that?" Scott seemed a little shocked at his own words "yes you did" I shook my head "gotta go you love sick puppy, pardon the dog joke" I hugged the boys and walked away smiling to myself
I made my way home as my classes were done for the day and as soon as I got inside I got changed and I teleported to the place where I could sense Derek, I walked the half block to the hospital and leaned against the bonnet of his Camaro, after a moment I saw him stalk out and by the looks of it was in a foul mood. "I take it talking to your uncle didn't go as planned" he glared at me "no actually we had tea and talked about the weather, how the hell did you think it went Meridithe?" I backed away as he drove furiously out of the parking lot "what was on the note?" he looked at me "nothing important" he drove us to the animal clinic, I saw Scott walk out looking angry so I shrunk down in the car.
After about 10 minutes I saw Derek come out of the clinic and he was carrying the vet on his shoulder "what the hell Derek? Why is he here?" he put him in the back "because he could be the alpha" I looked at him had he lost his mind? "are you freaking crazy? He ain't the alpha" he just ignored me, I think the need for revenge has warped him a little bit. We pulled up to the school, "where's my boss?" Derek motioned towards the back "oh he looks comfortable" I looked at him "not now Stiles" they looked at us and walked away "wait hey, what are you doing?" Derek asked them "you said I was linked with the alpha" they walked closer to the school "I'm gonna see if you're right" they walked in and closed the door after them "wow I wonder what ingenious plan they will come up with this time" I sat on the car bonnet "because I mean nearly all of their plans either backfire or are rather stupid" after I had finished speaking a growl rang out "wow they have just out dumbed themselves" they walked out after a minute "I'm gonna kill both of you" Derek was very pissed off and it showed "yeah if the alpha doesn't kill us first" I reminded in a sing song voice. "what the hell was that? Are you trying to attract the entire state to the school?" the boys leant against Stiles truck I rubbed the skin between my eyes "sorry I didn't know it would be that loud" I rolled my eyes "its the intercom system Scott it is going to be loud, or did you forget that?" Stiles kept going on about how awesome it was, "what did you two do with him?" do with who? I turned around and saw that the vet was missing, by the time I heard the alpha wolf come it was way too late, he lifted Derek up with his claws and by doing so injured him causing me to fall to the floor in pain, Stiles picked me up and we ran into the building. The boys held the doors shut as we heard the alpha growl.