So the POV jumps around a bit in this one and it's a little choppy but I hope you all enjoy anyway!
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Wolf.
Sheriff POV:
Sheriff Stilinski stared at the group of teenagers standing in front of him, all looking slightly confused as to why they were there except the Raeken kid who was leaning back on his truck looking cool as a cucumber.
"Okay," said the Sheriff, "Has any of you done defensive driving before?"
The confusion grew but they all shook their heads. The Sheriff sighed. "Well you're gonna learn."
"What's defensive driving?" asked Corey.
"Defensive driving is techniques you can use on the road that helps to lower the risk of car accidents. It;s helps you to anticipate where a situation on the road is going by teaching you basic scenarios that occur."
"Uh, why do we have to learn this?" asked Liam.
"Because I've seen Scott and Stiles in too many high speed chases involving the preternatural in this town," said the Sheriff. "And while some of you can heal, people you may crash into can't. We don't need another reason for people to hate you and your parents don't need you insurance rates to go up. Theo, I know you don't want anything to happen to that truck of yours. So you're all going to learn. Starting today. Nobody gets out of it."
"Uh, while I have no objection to learning this," said Mason, "I have a ton of things on my plate right now."
"I know," said the Sheriff, "I don't care. If your grades start to drop we'll ease off. But right now no."
"That's a little harsh," said Corey.
"Well I don't actually want to see any of you kids die or inadvertently kill someone else," The sheriff told them flatly. He watched the collective shoulders (except Theo's) droop.
"Alright," Liam said grudgingly.
Argent POV:
"Um," said Liam a few weeks later, "I thought Sheriff Stilinski was teaching us defensive driving,"
"He is," answered Argent, "But we're not doing defensive driving today."
"What are we doing?" asked Theo suspiciously.
Chris smiled. "We're gonna teach you hunter driving skills."
"Uh what?" said Mason.
"Preternatural creatures like yourselves also use cars," Chris told them. "Alternately they can often run as fast as one. You need to learn how to work both scenarios. Not to mention what to do if an enemy werewolf drops on top of your car."
Theo huffed with mocking laughter. "Or what to do if hunters surround you and start shooting?"
"That too," Argent agreed cooly.
"So who's going first?" asked Corey.
"We're still waiting for someone," Argent said.
"Who?" asked Liam.
Just then a car pulled up and Melissa got out. "So can someone tell me what I'm doing here?"
Chris watched as Liam's eyebrows skied up and he shared a look with Mason. 'This was going to be interesting,' said the look.
Liam POV:
It's not that he hated hunter driving lessons, it's that he...well...hated hunter driving lessons. The driving part not so much. He actually liked that. But pretending to be the attacking werewolf part? That part he hated. Because every time the learning driver stopped suddenly or fishtailed wildly to throw their attacker off the roof, Liam got tossed of the roof. Hard.
Not to mention his clothes were dying.
Scree! The wheels of the cars screeched against the tarmac and Liam had just enough time to see that Corey had the exact same look of horror on his face as the cars Mason and Melissa were driving, passed hysterically close to each other, before both cars jerked to a stop and both Liam and Corey got thrown off the roof of the cars.
Liam coughed. Something was broken. He coughed again and realised a rib was puncturing his lungs. He groaned.
"I didn't even know my elbow could break that way," Corey groaned from where he had fallen.
"Are you okay?"
"Are you alright?" the drivers from the cars had hopped out and were now hovering over them in consternation.
"Well done, Mason, Melissa," Argent said.
"I feel terrible," said Mason.
"But you're alive," said Argent. He lifted Liam up and yanked the offending rib out of his lungs. Liam growled but took deep breaths as the rib knitted. Then he turned and threw up all the blood that had pooled into cavities that it shouldn't have.
"Ohh," Mason turned away looking ill.
"Are you alright?" asked Melissa.
"I'm good," said Liam. He turned to Theo who was leaning against his truck some distance away. "Your turn now."
Theo huffed and went up to the suspended walkway where the werewolf and chimera had the fun (not) of jumping onto a moving car. The first time Liam had tried it, he had missed the car entirely and broken both legs.
Theo had gotten it right and it had taken Argent some impressive skills to work him off the car and then almost run him over. Theo's face as the car stopped inches from his face had been both eye-opening to how easily they could be killed and totally worth it.
When Mason and Melissa had gotten enough practice, Liam had the fun of going up against Argent. The first time he finally managed to last over three minutes, he had ended up flopping over the side of the car while his claws dug into the roof and then Argent had pulled out a crossbow and shot him.
Liam had fallen to the ground while many sympathetic noise came from the watchers. The car had stopped and then Argent had been standing over him.
"Mr. Argent, "Liam had groaned. "I regret to inform you that I really hate you right now."
"I'll live," Argent had dead panned.
Sneakers scuffing on the ground had informed him that the others were now where they were and then Theo had knelt down next to him and braced his palm on Liam's stomach.
"Ready?" he had asked.
"Just do it," Liam snarled. The snarl had turned to a roar as Theo yanked the arrow out.
Learning to drive on two wheels when being pursued had been really fun though. Exhausting, and scary as heck but fun.
Having a high speed car chase in the two old sedans that were being sacrificed to the cause was also fun. Hearing Mason scream like an opera singer when they'd been ramming their car against Theo's and Corey's had made Liam's day.
Not that Mason didn't laugh his head off when he'd made a too-close-to-a-pillar-u-turn and Liam had screamed like he was about to be in the car crash of his life, so they were square.
Melissa McCall road-raged in high speed chases and Liam didn't know if to actually be scared or to laugh. Judging from everyone else's faces they didn't know either.
Theo, Liam knew, took sick satisfaction in tossing Liam off the roof of a car.
Mason took sick satisfaction in tossing Theo off the roof of his car. So did Corey on occasion.
Melissa always apologised profusely to them.
Sheriff POV:
Sheriff Stilinski sighed as he watched the group of teenagers attempt to go back to defensive driving after spending their last few classes learning how to ram people off a road and/or how not to get pushed off a road.
From the way they were wavering on the road, they certainly weren't finding it easy. He sighed.
"You're trying to keep yourself and other people safe," he reminded them.
"I know, I know!" Mason yelled back. "But it's just difficult to process this and hunter driving."
"Protecting," the Sheriff called back. "That's your aim." He tried not to show that he had noticed how the other shad snapped to attention and were staring at him with an intensity that could never be called human.
"You didn't learn hunter driving skills to hurt, you learned it to protect; and to protect both yourself and others. It's just like this. Here you're also driving to keep everyone safe. Same goal." He took a deep breath. "Don't let the aggression of hunter skills make you forget why you were learning. And don't let the aggression taint that reason. You're learning this for safety. So relax, take a breath and just drive."
He watched as Mason closed his eyes, take a deep breath and let it out. When he opened his eyes, something had steadied in him and when he drove again it was much better, perfect even. The Sheriff smiled and then turned to so he could see the other three.
They were all leaning against Theo's truck but the tension that had been running through them had eased. A sort of peace had settled over them and when it was their turn to drive again, they didn't make a single mistake either.
Noah Stilinski shook his head lightly and didn't try to stop the smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. These kids always surprised him with how much the need to protect was etched into their bones, how much it was a part of them. As a parent and as an adult he couldn't have been prouder to see them grow into people like this.
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