"Here drink this" Lydia smiles handing her the glass.
"What's in it?" She asks sniffing the drink and getting a strong alcohol smell off it.
"Just something to lighten the mood… Although you seem stressed here take another"
"Eh I don't-"
"Come on it's a party, relax enjoy yourself"
She glanced at the redhead in front of her as she now stood with two glasses. She took a sip and let the taste linger in her mouth before giving a quick nod back.
"Thanks Lydia" She smiles as Lydia just nodded back to her. A strange look on her face before she suddenly snapped back into her happy stance like before.
"Now go enjoy yourself or I'll have to invite Derek to an underage party" Lydia winks as Scarlett let out a laugh as she nods her head taking another sip of the drink.
She wandered around the group, stopping a couple times to talk to a few people she knew. It was mostly polite talk updating them on when she was coming back to school etc.
She had drank one drink before she had found her way through the crowd looking for Scott and Stiles. The two stood side by side deep in some kind of conversation.
"Are you gonna apologize to Allison or what?" Stiles asks almost too suddenly when she stood near them, quite obviously changing whatever conversation they were having.
"Why should I apologize?" Scott asks as she rolls her eyes at him, standing at Stiles side.
"Because you're the guy Scott" She states putting the glass to her lips.
"It's, like, what we do" Stiles nods along
"But I didn't do anything wrong"
"Then you should definitely apologize. See, any time a guy thinks he hasn't done anything wrong, it means he's definitely done something wrong"
"I'm not apologizing" Scott huff's as the other two raise an eyebrow at him.
"Is that the full moon talking, buddy?" Stiles asks as Scott just nudges his head back.
"Probably. Why do you care, anyway?"
"Because, Scott, something's gotta go right here. I mean, we're getting our asses royally kicked, if you haven't noticed. People are dying. I got my dad fired. You're gonna be held back in school. I'm in love with a nutjob. Scar disappeared off the fact of the planet for months... And if on top of all that, I gotta watch you lose Allison to a stalker like Matt, I'm gonna stab myself in the face"
"Don't stab yourself in the face"
"Why not?"
"Because Jackson's here"
She whipped her head around to where Scott was looking. Jackson was someone she only knew a bit of information on from Derek and Stiles. She'd seen him a few times at games when supporting the team. He was a bit of an ass sometimes but he definitely didn't deserve to be whatever creature he was morphing into most nights. Lydia still obviously had no clue if she had invited him along. It was almost a sad situation to say the least.
"I'm going to find the bathroom" She mutters finishing off her second drink, Stiles raising an eyebrow at her finishing the drink so quickly.
She pushed her through the crowd for what seemed like forever. More and more people were filling the room. Pushing against her and making her almost feel suffocated in the room. She took heavy breaths feeling slightly dizzy and buzzed. What was in that drink? All the faces were looking away from her, as if she was invisible. It was like a sea and she was drowning trying to make her way through. It was progressively getting louder. Voices were filling the room with incoherent mumbles. It was like white noise getting louder and louder as she tried to find some space to get out of this wave of people. The sound was almost deafening until they all disappeared.
The room was suddenly empty. Every single person vanished within a blink.
"Hello?" She calls turning around in the room but finding not a single soul left. She walked towards the patio door and walked through to the swimming pool. It was eerily quiet.
Something didn't feel right. She still felt buzzed but couldn't figure out what was happening.
"Hello?" She repeats but again was met with silence.
Walking to the edge of the pool she looked at her reflection. She could see the general tiredness in her face even though she'd covered it up in makeup. She rubbed her eyes with her hands and then blinked a couple of times to see purple colour eyes staring back at her.
Then she heard a cock of a gun. She turned around quickly to see a figure stood not too far away from her.
They were dressed in full black just like that night although they were closer than before. She could see blonde locks seeping through the lack material covering every inch bar the figures eyes. She could of swore she could seem them smirk through the material as the gun was shot and she was thrown back into the pool.
She closed her eyes as she entered the water and felt a heavy weight on top of her body.
Splashes of red surrounded her as her blood mixed with the water. She pushed her hand to her chest and closed her eyes unwilling to see anymore red. When she did open her eyes there was a body in front of her moving frantically. She tried to move she was met with a kick to the stomach that knocked the wind right out of her lungs.
She gasped and felt the water fill her lungs, then felt an arm grab her and pull her up.
She looked up to find Jackson staring back at her, his eyes flashed for a second before he stood up and left her by the side of the still had her hand on her chest as she removed it to see nothing. No red, no wound no blood. Stiles ran over checking her once over to make sure she was okay as she coughed up whatever water she had swallowed as Jackson stood by Matt's side.
"What are you looking at?" Matt screams glaring heavily at the room. The whole room froze staring at the scene in front of them.
"I'm sorry" He mumbles to her as he walks away from the pool side.
"The cops are here. Party's over!" Someone yells as the whole place makes a dive for the exit.
Scott grabbed her, wrapping his arm around her and hoisting her up so they could leave with everyone else. She walked quickly along with him as she continued more coughs still patting her chest.
"Are you sure you're okay I can call Dad see if he'll come home"
"I'm fine and to be honest i'd prefer if you don't tell him"
"I'm sure he won't mind.. I could- I'll make something up "
"No"
"I think-"
"I said no Stiles okay? No"
"I've never seen you that scared not even after your parents died Scar don't tell me you're fine you're nightmare today and now this tonight you obviously aren't fine" There was a brief silence in the room that both that was so thick both of them felt like they were going to explode with the tension.
"Are you fine Stiles? Because I've seen you spend countless hours in that room trying to play detective and when you're not you're running around the forest with Scott"
"This isn't about me"
"Well I certainly don't want it to be about me" She yells as he raises an eyebrow at the strength of her voice.
"Poor Scarlett right? Some psychopath tried to kill her and she can't remember… Her parents are dead and she can't sleep without seeing something attacking her… I don't want it to be about me I'm sick of people pitying me Stiles I can't take the whole town thinking I'm the charity case and you thinking it too"
"I would never-"
"We always argue" She cuts him off. "We always argue now Stiles I can't remember the last time we had a full conversation without one of us getting pissy with the other and storming out to avoid the topic we've been dancing around for months now"
He looked at her, she hadn't been this honest with him, not since before she disappeared. He let out a sigh walking over to the couch and sitting beside her but looking straight ahead at the wall.
"That night you, eh I was having car problems… I had broke down not even five minutes away I was trying to jump start the car when I heard it, I heard the gunshot Scar. It didn't click til I saw police cars heading your direction. I ran, as fast as I could and when I got there I saw Dad standing there on the road staring at a pool of blood on the ground"
"Your phone wasn't too far from it but Scar there was so much blood I don't know how you survived you know a person has 9 pints of blood and that doesn't seem that much, but there was so much blood then the faintest drops leading to the forest, then nothing.. Sniffer dogs were called in but they couldn't pick a scent up past the road we spent weeks me and Scott looking for you with the search party but nothing
Then the night Scott was bit there was a call I heard from the station radio, half a body was found"
"Laura Hale"
"Yeah it was Laura, but all we heard was it was a young female found and we-" He stopped his voice shaking.
"You thought it was me?" She asks as he just looks at her and nods his head.
"I don't remember anything past being shot Stiles, I wish I did. I wish I knew the truth it drives me mad that the information is somewhere in my brain, cause I didn't close my eyes, I didn't black out so why can't I remember? Weeks... I wasn't in the forest for days it was weeks and I can't remember anything but this creature chasing me growling with red eyes"
His head snapped up.
"A creature chasing you"
"Yeah it's the recurring nightmare I have"
"What did it look like?" He asks as she widens her eyes a little at his sudden interest.
"Large and fast I always have an overwhelming sense of panic when I see it, it calls me and the dream always ends the same way"
"How"
"I trip and it stares down at me, it's dark and all I can see are white sharp teeth and red piercing eyes staring at me"
"It's a werewolf" He mutters
"What" She almost whispers
"A werewolf that's what's attacking you"
"Like Derek?" She asks.
"Although Derek isn't my favourite character it wasn't him" He states after a pause which made her raise an eyebrow at him.
"How do you know?" She asks
"Scar, Derek's the one who found you and brought you to the hospital"
She listened to the dial tone ringing on and on. Strange considering he always answered her calls. She listened to the beep of the voicemail as she tapped her fingers against the table.
"Hey listen I know you're busy being pack leader but when you get a chance could you ring me back, I need to talk to you…"
AN - Thank you for all the support, comments etc! Let me know what you think of everything so far