Chapter 2
I do not own Teen Wolf in any way.
A/N-Can I just say how much I love you guys? I am literally blown away by the love. There is some Isaac/Paige conflict, but not every relationship is perfect, especially being a teenage guy with a baby on the way.
A month later, the school year began.
Stiles picked Paige up.
"Are you ready?" Derek asked her.
"As I'll ever be", she told him.
He kissed her forehead and she left the loft.
"Hello mama wolf!" Stiles said.
Paige playfully rolled her eyes. "Good morning to you too, Stiles", she said getting in the jeep.
As they got closer to school, Paige became very nervous.
"Hey, we're here for you", Stiles said, sensing the pregnant she-wolf's distress.
"It's not just school. Isaac didn't come home last night and he hasn't text me. I'm worried", she told him.
"I'm sure he's fine", Stiles said, "It's Isaac". Stiles was right.
Isaac was a fighter.
Especially now that he knew he had a baby on the way.
When they got to school, Stiles and Paige met Scott in the hallway.
Apparently, Scott had tried to get a tattoo and it healed.
"You wanna ask Derek for help? Why? Why?" Stiles asked.
"Both him and Paige have the triskele tattooed on their backs. There has to be a way to do it and keep it from healing", Scott said.
"Yeah, but doesn't he have his hands a little full?" Stiles asked as they walked up to a bulletin board.
Boyd and Erica's pictures were on it.
"They've been looking for months and haven't found anything", Paige told them, "I'll meet up with you guys later".
"If you need any help, just howl", Scott said.
Paige rolled her eyes. "Honestly, you're as bad as Derek", she said walking off.
Paige was at her locker when the twins walked up on either side of her.
"Looks like little Paige grew up", Aiden said.
"Hello boys. How can I help you?" she asked.
"I can think of one way you can help me", Aiden said pulling her back into his front. He swept her hair aside and saw her mark. He growled.
"That's right, boys. Little Paige found herself a mate. Now, if you'll excuse me", she said slamming her locker. She turned and they saw her baby bump.
Aiden growled.
"Back off Aiden", she snapped, "You wouldn't want the whole school to see you attacking a pregnant girl, now do you?" Her phone rang. "Excuse me", she said walking off. She answered her phone. "Mrs. McCall?" she asked.
"Paige, Isaac's in the hospital and Derek's not answering his phone", she said.
"What do you mean Derek's not answering…?" Paige asked, with a bad feeling in her stomach, "I'll go find Derek. Call Scott". She sent a quick text to Stiles telling him to pick up all her school work she missed…and that she was borrowing his car. She swung by the Hale house and looked around. Then she looked in the subway station. "C'mon Derek…where are you?" she asked dialing his number again. She got his voice-mail. She decided to try Peter.
He answered.
"Where's Derek?" she asked.
"Why?" he asked her.
"Because my mate, the father of my child, his beta is in the hospital and we've got to get him out of there!" she snapped, "Look, just find Derek and tell him to meet me there".
When they arrived at the hospital, they immediately looked for Scott's mom.
The moment she saw Paige, she said, "Wow…you're…pregnant".
"It's Isaac's", Paige told her.
"Speaking of Isaac, where is he?" Scott asked.
"He's in room 215 if he isn't already in surgery", Melissa told them.
"Thank you", Scott said and the two took off for the elevator.
As the doors were closing, a walking stick stopped them.
The doors opened and a blind man stepped into the elevator.
"Would you hit the button for the second floor, please?" he asked in a smooth British accent.
For some reason, his voice clicked in Paige's mind for some unknown reason.
"Yeah", Scott said, since they were going there anyway.
"Thank you", he said.
Paige stepped closer to Scott and angled her stomach towards him. She had a bad feeling about the blind British man. She also knew his scent, but couldn't place it.
They reached the second floor.
"You wouldn't mind helping me out for a second, would you?" the man asked.
"Um... sure", Scott said and helped him out.
They got away from the elevator and followed Isaac's scent. They walked past Isaac's room, but it was empty. They rounded the corner and found a man wheeling Isaac into the elevator.
"Isaac!" Paige breathed.
Scott started running towards him.
"Scott!" she yelled.
"Find Derek!" Scott yelled as he dove into the elevator.
She dialed Derek's number.
He answered. "What?" he snapped.
"It's about damn time. Scott and someone from the Alpha Pack are fighting in the elevator", she told him.
"I'm on the first floor", he said.
She ran down the stairs and met Derek as the doors opened.
"Don't you realize what you're dealing with? I'm an Alpha", the man said.
Derek jammed his claws into the werewolf's back. "So am I", Derek said and threw the guy down the hallway. "Aren't you supposed to be in school?" Derek said as he turned to face Scott.
"Isaac!" Paige yelled. She ran over to him. "Oh Isaac", she said seeing her knocked out mate; "We have to get him out of here".
They put Isaac in Derek's car and Paige swung by the school to get Stiles. They all went to the Hale house.
"You don't still live here, do you?" Scott asked.
"No. The county took it over, but there's something here that I need. It'll help heal a wound from an Alpha", Derek said.
"Yeah, but it did heal", Scott said.
"Not on the inside", Paige said.
"Hey, are you gonna tell me who that was back there? That Alpha", Scott said.
"A rival pack. It's my problem. I know you wanna help, and you did. I owe you one. Now go home. Go back to being a teenager", Derek said. He handed an herb to Paige.
"How do you expect me to crush this up?" she asked him.
He handed her a water bottle.
"He's not going to be able to drink this until he wakes up", she told him.
He rolled his eyes and walked away from her.
She growled and put the plant in the water bottle and shook it up.
"Uh, hey, Derek. If you wanna repay back that favor now... There is something you can do for me", Scott said.
"Yeah, I see it. It's two bands, right?" Derek said, using his wolf eyes, "What does it mean?"
"I don't know. It's just something I traced with my fingers", Scott said, drawing it in the dust.
"Why is this so important to you?" Derek asked him.
"Do you know what the word "tattoo" means?" Scott asked.
"To mark something", Stiles answered.
"Well, that's in Tahitian. In Samoan, it means "open wound."I knew I wanted to get a tattoo when I turned 18. I always wanted one. I just decided to get it now, to make it kind of a reward", Scott said.
"For what?" Derek asked.
"For not calling or texting Allison all summer. Even when I really wanted to, even when it was so hard not to sometimes. I was trying to give her the space she wants. Goin' four months later, it still hurts. It still feels like a, uh..." Scott said.
"Like an open wound", Paige said realizing.
"Yeah", Scott said.
Derek picked up a blow torch. "The pain's gonna be worse than anything you've ever felt", Derek told him.
"Ah, that's great", Stiles said.
"Do it", Scott said.
Derek turned the blow torch on.
"Oh, wow. That's a... that's a lot for me. So I'm gonna take that as my cue. I'm just gonna wait outside", Stiles said.
Derek stopped Stiles. "Nope. You can help hold him down", Derek said.
"Oh, my God", Stiles gasped.
The blow torch touched Scott's skin and he started screaming.
"Hold him", Derek told Stiles, as Scott's body shifted due to the pain.
Scott passed out and woke up an hour later. "It worked", Scott said.
"Well, it looks pretty damn permanent now", Stiles said.
"Yeah. I kind of needed something permanent. Everything that's happened to us... everything just changes so fast. Everything's so, uh... Ephemeral", Scott said.
"Studying for the PSATS?" Stiles asked.
"Yep", Scott said.
"Nice", Stiles said.
Scott opened the front door and stopped. "You painted the door. Why'd you paint the door?" Scott asked.
"Go home, Scott", Derek said again.
"And why only one side?" Scott asked. Scott released his claws and started to scratch at the door.
"Scott", Derek said.
He scratched at the door until the whole triskele was showing. "The birds at school and the deer last night... just like the night I got trampled by the deer when I got bit by the Alpha. How many are there?" Scott asked.
"A pack of 'em. An Alpha pack", Paige told him.
"All of them? How does that even work?" Stiles asked.
"I hear there's some kind of a leader. He's called Deucalion", Derek said.
"Deucalion…" Paige said, "I knew I knew him from somewhere".
"What?" Derek asked her.
"When we were kids. I remember his voice. He was the one in the elevator at the hospital", she told him.
"We know they have Boyd and Erica. Peter, Isaac, and I have been looking for him for the last four months", Derek told them.
"Let's say you find them. How do you deal with an Alpha pack?" Scott asked.
"With all the help I can get", Derek said.
Paige figured this would be a good time to call the pack.
They were all shocked by Isaac sitting up.
"Where is she? Where's the girl?" Isaac asked.
"What girl?" Derek asked.
"The girl who saved me", Isaac said. His eyes fell on Paige. "You", he growled, "Your friends tried to kill me".
"I never said they were my friends!" Paige yelled.
"The twins tried to kill me and they morphed into one huge alpha!" he yelled.
"I said I knew them before they were alpha's!" she yelled, "What? Are you jealous of Aiden or something?! I'm carrying your son!"
"Son? You mean it's a boy?" Isaac asked, the fight forgotten.
"Yes it's a boy, but you would know that if you even bothered to pay attention to me", Paige said, her hormones taking over.
Isaac hopped down from the table and walked over to his pregnant mate. He didn't say anything, but wrapped his arms around her.
Their problems were just starting.