so sorry it took so long. I'm a little busy at the moment. plus i signed up for nanowrimo again. I'm insane. i'll try to keep updating.
please keep the reviews coming, it's what keeps me going!
on a sidenote: someone left a review saying that Scat should've blown up in their faces. that Allison should've known by now and Cat couldn't call Allison her bff if she's doing this to her... ok, i get your point but Allison doesn't suspect anything because she ASKED them to do this. Also, with everything going on with Allison's family she seemed a little oblivious to certain things. plus, not a lot of time has passed yet for it to blow up really quite yet. As for Cat calling Allison her BFF... you gotta remember that when it comes to friends and interaction, she is light years behind everyone mentally and emotionally as she has said before, she's always been an outcast. the closest thing she ever had to a friend until now was Erica and their friendship is also so up and down. so there... any more questions?
oh wait... there is one more... ppl asking for Cat and Derek... does anyone know how old Derek is? mid 20's at least? and with Cat who's is 16... Derek is a total hottie, totally but umm...him and Cat? Ick.
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Cat went up on her toes, giving Scott a quick kiss before promising that she would meet him for lunch after she was done in the office.
"you fixed her." Stiles exclaimed as he walked past Cat who gave him a small wave
Scott shrugged. "I guess so but she's a little weird. Like she knows more than normal- her normal."
"What are you talking about?"
Another shrug. "You'll see. But I think the Kanima's master really messed with her head. She doesn't remember anything after going into the locker room to confront Jackson."
"Shit." Stiles said. "That would explain her not freaking on you anymore. I'm guessing when you caught her up, you didn't catch her up on everything."
"I couldn't. Her and Allison don't need to know I joined Derek's pack. Once we catch Jackson, I'm out and they'll never know."
"I see this backfiring." Stiles deadpanned.
"So do I." Scott muttered. "Like I said, she knows more than she usually does about everything, like she's telling me what I'm going to do before I even know what I'm going to do. But any information, past, present or future about yesterday, she's clueless."
Allison walked past. "Locker room." She quietly told them as she kept going.
They waited a few minutes before following after.
"Cat seems fine. In fact, she doesn't seem as angry at us as yesterday." Allison noted as soon as they entered.
"Yeah, she doesn't remember anything." Stiles told her.
"What?" She looked between the two guys in confusion.
"She's missing the whole day." Scott explained. "She remembers going to talk to Jackson and nothing after that."
"How?"
"Whatever Jackson did to her I guess. She's afraid that it's her, that she's turning into her mom and going crazy."
"Well, she sort of kind of was yesterday." Allison reminded them.
"That wasn't really her though." Scott argued. "Look, just be careful how you act around her right now. She knows more than usual, like she's talking about things I haven't done yet like I've already done them and she hasn't even noticed. I tried to catch her up on everything but she's still a little confused."
"Not super confused, just a little."
They all turned to see Cat there with a smile.
"How did you know we were here?" Stiles asked.
"Scott told me." She replied.
"When you last touched him?" He asked confused.
Her brow furrowed. "No. I went to the office to check something, then I wondered where you guys were and then I just saw Scott in here."
The other three exchanged a look and Cat frowned as though realizing something.
"Okay, I'm knowing things I shouldn't again that can't be good."
"Are you okay?" Allison asked.
"I'll be fine soon."
"Maybe you should be at home resting?" the other girl suggested.
"No, I'm okay. I can't go home yet, I have things to do."
"Like what?"
Cat frowned again, scrunching up her nose as she tried to grasp what she could feel hovering in her mind. "I need to talk to someone, then I need to go see someone. No, you do." She shook her head. "I'm sure it will come to me. I need to delete something?"
"Oh my god, yes." Stiles exclaimed. "We need to delete the library footage, you don't think Gerard has seen it, do you?"
"No. He hasn't come in yet. He took the morning off. Victoria will be leaving to go get something in 5 minutes."
Scott nodded. "We'll meet you there. If you get a chance to watch the footage, we rather you didn't do it alone."
Allison looked down at her watch. "I just remembered, I need to do more work on that project I talked about yesterday."
Cat turned to look at Allison. "Yes, I need to help you with that project."
"You do?"
"Yes. I'll be quick. Scott, Stiles, meet me in the office in like 5 minutes." Cat told the guys, walking off with Allison.
"Cat are you sure you're okay?"
Cat shrugged. "There are holes in my mind, especially with anything pertaining to yesterday but there is clarity with other things. Like what you said you would tell me yesterday, I know what it is now but do you maybe want to tell me about the Omega you found and why you let us go in circles trying to figure out who was on the tape? Oh and Lydia is going to tell us something interesting that we've all been wondering about."
"You're not touching anyone and you know everything."
"It happened once before, last year at my old school after the shooting. It's like, my mind shut down and now it knows too much but it'll wear off again, I'm sure."
"So what do you want to know?"
"Why you haven't told anybody- no wait, start at the beginning so I make sure I have everything. It's hard to tell right now."
"Remember when we were talking the night I was at the Hale house by myself? And I thought I saw something? Then my phone died and I couldn't explore much more because Scott and Stiles showed up. But the next night I went back out there alone seeing if I could see it again and I did so I followed it. I didn't know they had caught Lydia so I thought it was her. It wasn't but it was a werewolf. She was injured and bleeding so I brought her into the school and I tried to take care of her in the nurse's office."
"Ok." Cat hesitantly replied, waiting to hear the rest.
"She kept saying she'd be all right, that she would heal but she wasn't healing. I had to get her out of the school before people saw her, but she was still so weak. So yes, that was me in the video dragging her across the parking lot."
Cat frowned.
"Don't be mad at me; please don't be mad at me."
"I'm not?" It came out as more of a question as Cat tried to match up what Allison told her with what she already knew. But there was one more thing bugging her.
"Thank you." Allison breathed. "I'm so glad you're cool with it. I don't think Scott and Stiles are going to let me off so easy, though."
"They're not but there's something that's bothering me. How did you mess around with security footage? You almost got yourself covered and that's not easy to do."
Allison shrugged. "I do know my way around computers, I just couldn't tell you about that otherwise you would've figured out it was me."
"How did I not see this before?" Cat asked in disbelief.
"we don't exactly touch a lot." Allison reminded her "and after finding out what you could do, I made sure to not touch you if I could help it."
Cat shook her head. "That was really high tech stuff. Like that part boggles my mind the most."
"I'm sorry. I promised this girl that I wouldn't tell anyone about her. The only reason she's safe right now is because no one else knows she's here. I thought she'd be better any day. I kept thinking she would leave town any day and then I could tell you guys everything. But now she's still not healing. Not enough, anyway. I need to go see her again, can you please keep this quiet?"
Cat frowned. "She's not going to heal, you're going to take her to Deaton but not yet, she won't go yet and you will be telling the guys. I see that happening but it's not up to me to tell them. But if something changes and I see this hurting you, I'm not keeping my mouth shut."
Allison sighed in relief. "Thank you, I can deal with that."
"Lydia is coming. Since she needs to talk to me alone, I'll tell you right now and you can tell the guys. She saw principal Thomas, he seems fine but I can't see where he's been. But he was out having lunch with Ms. Morrell so we can put that mystery to rest."
Allison's eyes widened. "That's great. That's awesome. I'll tell the guys, then I have to check on Alicia, the omega."
She went to leave and Cat grabbed her arm, causing her to turn back and notice her friend's eyes were now vacant.
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Allison looked at her, confused as the short haired girl shook her head, dropping her arm and shaking her head again.
"I don't know what that means, I'm sorry."
"Don't worry about it." Allison said.
Cat nodded, waving goodbye as she turned to see Lydia coming around the corner.
"Oh, Cat." She called. "I hope you're feeling better, my birthday is coming up after all. I was so sad you couldn't come shopping but I need to show you what I bought later." She hooked her arm through Cat's as they walked down the hall. "I also have a favor to ask you."
"Of course I will." Cat automatically replied before she inwardly groaned. There was no filter between her mouth and brain right now.
"You don't know what I'm going to ask."
"I meant of course I'll do a favor for you. What is it?"
Lydia smiled. "You know I've been having sessions with Ms. Morrell in the guidance counselor's office. And before you even try, don't pretend that you don't know. You work in the Principal's office. You know everyone's dirty laundry. So anyway, Ms. Morrell has been talking to me about my friendships. I told her that you are my closest friend right now, Cat. I know we really just started chatting recently, but please just go along with that. Otherwise, I'd have to send her to Allison and I just can't deal with that right now. Besides, Allison would barely have anything to say about me, she's really off in a world of her own right now."
"Lydia, you're babbling. Don't worry I'll talk to her, it's fine"
"Really? Thank god. I couldn't even ask Allison this. Did you know she's claiming to be off on some independent study field trip? I know we don't have those and Scott's been at school and with you so I have no idea what's going on in her mind." Lydia continued.
"Maybe she's just having issues she needs to work out on her own. Just tell me when I need to see her. Wait, never mind, I'll talk to her tomorrow."
"Thanks Cat, total lifesaver, oh and did you hear about our old principal? Everyone's freaking out about him and I saw him yesterday."
Cat smiled, "I heard he's fine. I should go to class, talk to you later."
Lydia smiled and walked off to her own class as Cat went to the office, smiling at Scott and Stiles.
"We have 10 minutes." Cat told them, sitting at her computer. "So is it so bad that I need to delete this?"
"It was bad." Stiles confirmed. "You really don't remember it?"
She shook her head, signing into the main system to get access. "Uh oh."
"What?" Stiles asked.
"Is Allison's whole family into computers?" she muttered to herself.
"What?" Scott asked, the only one to hear her.
"Um, nothing. Just more ramblings. Give me a minute to get into this."
A few minutes later and Stiles was impatiently drumming his fingers on her desk as Cat's frown deepened, trying to bypass the new security measures.
"Oh crap." Scott muttered, turning toward the door just as it opened. "Mrs. Argent, hi."
Cat froze, having just opened up the files. She lost track of time and now she had no choice but to shut everything down without deleting.
"Hello gentlemen, Catalina." She moved over to her desk and sat down, looking at all of them with a raised eyebrow. "I was hoping to run into you today Catalina. I've seen some very interesting footage from the library and I'm guessing these boys are here to make sure you get rid of said footage."
"No Ma'am." Scott assured her.
"Not at all." Stiles confirmed.
"You're both terrible liars. Catalina, were you about to destroy school property at the behest of these two?"
She rapidly shook her head.
"I should certainly hope not." She opened up her computer and Cat and the guys exchanged a look of fear before she turned back to them with a smirk. "Nice try, but don't bother trying to hide what happened. I've already seen it and I've already deleted it. Someone needs to clean up your mess. But I will be telling Gerard all about this."
"Dammit." Stiles muttered.
"Oh look, there's the bell, gotta go." Cat cried, shutting down and gathering her stuff seconds before the bell rang.
The guys followed after her and when they were far enough away stopped to exchange another look.
"What do you think Gerard will do?" Stiles asked.
Scott shrugged.
"What am I gonna do if he questions me about it?" Cat asked. "I don't remember anything and it's gone."
"Then let's hope he doesn't." Stiles told her. "We'll meet after school."
"3:09 in front of Stiles jeep." She told them.
Stiles shook his head. "'Cause that's not creepy."
She waved and walked off to class and spent the rest of the afternoon off in her own world. It was like now, there was far too much information in her head and it was driving her nuts, she just wanted it all to go away. Yet her mind was a complete blank for most of yesterday and that bugged her even more. She felt like she was missing something important.
When the final bell rang, she went to her locker and put her stuff away, not even bothering with any books to study. She already knew what she was going to do when she got home and she knew where she had to send Scott.
At exactly 3:09 she met the guys at Stiles jeep, who looked down at his watch before looking at her with a raised eyebrow.
"How are you doing that?"
She shrugged. "After affect, I'll be back to normal- well Cat normal tomorrow."
"Are you sure? This could be useful."
"It's really not, because I'm saying things before people ask me about it or before they even know and it's hard to figure out what has happened and what hasn't yet. There's like, a rave going on, this Friday. Jackson is going to buy tickets, so, Scott you need to go there and buy tickets."
She gave him directions, before frowning and staring at stiles. "It's 75 bucks a ticket."
"Why are you looking at me?"
She gave him an innocent grin. "Because you have exactly $162.95 in your wallet. Saving for something?"
He grumbled. "for my computer, I've been working hard for this, Scott has a job."
"Scott doesn't pick up his paycheck until tomorrow when we go see Deaton."
"You're freaking me out. Scott, your girl is freaking the hell out of me right now."
"Then give him the money and he'll pay you back for his ticket tomorrow."
"Don't you need a ticket?" Scott asked in confusion
"Me? No. I don't do parties."
"Why do we have to go to this anyways?" Stiles asked as he pulled the money out and handed it to Scott.
"Because Jackson is going to be there and Deaton will have a plan to trap him. You're right, Lydia's party does sound like fun, I'll actually go to that one and she will love it."
"What are you talking about?" Stiles asked. "Love what?"
"The gift you- you don't even know what you're giving her yet, huh? Damn. I need to go home. Can I have a ride please? I don't feel like talking to Erica and Isaac who are waiting for me if I walk home."
Stiles nodded, shooting a confused look to Scott who shrugged as they got into Stiles' jeep.
"I can't wait either." She suddenly said with a smile as Stiles drove her home.
"Wait for what again?" Scott asked.
"Spring break, silly. You just said you couldn't wait for it- no you didn't. Filter, I need a filter."
"Really freaking me out." Stiles muttered.
"try being me." Cat shot back. "Did I do this this morning too?"
Scott nodded.
"But you acted like I wasn't. I didn't notice until lunch time."
"I didn't want to upset you."
Cat sighed. "But I could've said something really stupid."
Stiles pulled up to her house and Scott told him to go on ahead that he would find his own way to the warehouse. He first wanted to make sure Cat got in okay. He followed her to her room, making sure she changed and got into bed.
"Do you want food or anything?" He asked, sitting on the edge of her bed.
She shook her head. "Go do what you have to, I need to sleep."
"Want me to come back?"
Cat smiled. "I'd say yes but there's a good chance I'm going to be dead to the world, like you actually won't be able to wake me this time. So you go home and get a good night's sleep too. Ok?"
"I'll try."
"No try." She argued. "Promise me."
"I sleep better with you." He muttered. "I don't care if you're dead to the world, I can still hold you."
"Hmm, twist my rubber arm. Go now, come back, I love you. You're not going to get a ticket. Jackson is going to scare the ticket seller."
"Huh? Why? You told me to take Stiles money." Scott was very confused at the mischievous smile on her face.
"Yeah, I wanted to freak him out by telling him how much he had and making him think you were spending it. I can't always use my power for good."
He laughed. "You're so evil. I'll give this to him tomorrow. How are we going to get in then?"
She shrugged. "Ask Isaac."
"You, like this, is almost…confusing."
"Again, try being me."
"What happened to you last time this happened?" He asked.
"After my coma, I spent the next couple days not even knowing what was the present and what hadn't happened yet. I babbled a lot, I freaked out a lot of the doctors and apparently they wanted to run a lot of tests on me. Freaked out my dad so he discharged me as soon as possible and apparently he used my crazy babbling to find out where we were moving too. He hated this but he did use it to find the house and a job through me." She said the last part with a smile.
"You seem to handle it all fairly well now."
Another shrug. "You have to remember that I spent a year hiding from most everyone. Human interaction was not high on my list of things I was okay with and before that, I was pretty much an outcast anyways. Now I seem to have some semblance of a handle on it because I'm helping with it. Plus, out of everything I've learned since you appeared, not exactly mind blowing anymore. Now go, keep an eye on Jackson, he wants to kill someone."
"Who?"
"A girl selling tickets. He's so creepy right now. Allison's mom is looking at you like she wants to murder you."
He shook his head at the sudden change of topics again. "Cat?"
"Kiss me and go."
He chuckled before obliging, telling her he would try to be back later. He was barely out of the room before she was fast asleep.
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