School Scare- Chapter 14

~A Teen Wolf fan-fiction collaboration between Miss E Charlotte and Sage Londyn~

Teagan and Avery were both a little late to their first period classes the next day. They had taken Aspen for an early morning run before school to work off all the calories from the peanut butter and ice cream they had pigged out on the night before.

Avery breathed out a huge sigh of relief when she saw there was a substitute teacher in chemistry, she didn't think she could handle Mr. Harris calling her out on being late to class.

She took her seat beside Stiles and took her phone out, frowning when she saw she didn't have any new texts or calls.

The substitute teacher put in a movie for every to watch, but everyone was talking instead of watching it.

"Hey Avery." Stiles said, as he looked up from where he had been scribbling in his notebook.

"Hey Stiles." She greeted back, her voice quiet.

His eyes widened and he looked over at her, she hardly ever said hi back to him.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"I'm fine, why? Don't I seem fine?" She asked as she turned her head and looked at him.

Her make-up was flawless and she had curled her hair that day, but no amount of beauty products could hide the sadness in her eyes.

"Is it Teagan?" He asked, scooting his lab stool closer to her.

She shook her head no as she looked over her homework for economics.

"Derek?" Stiles continued to question her.

"Can you please not do this?" She asked with a heavy sigh.

"I just want to know what's bothering you." He said honestly.

"I'm fine, really." She said flashing him a smile, but it didn't reach her eyes.

She went to move her purse to get the bottle of water she had in it but accidently knocked it off the edge of the table between them.

Avery let out a small whine and started to lean down, "It's okay… I got it." Stiles said.

She nodded and rubbed her temples wishing she gone home from Teagan's house this morning.

He quickly gathered her belongings that had spilled out back in her purse and then picked up a dark gray t-shirt that had been folded up.

He thought it looked too big to be her shirt.

"You always carry your clothes in your purse?" He asked, trying to joke.

Her eyes grew glossy from tears and she took the shirt from him.

"It isn't mine." She said quietly as she folded the soft fabric of the shirt back up.

"It's Derek's shirt… I was going to return it to him." She said as she held the shirt in her lap.

He asked the first question that popped into his head, without even thinking twice, "Why do you have Derek's shirt? How'd you get it?"

She looked over him with an arched eyebrow and his brown eyes widened, "Oh my god, no… I did not mean to ask that."

"Because I'm in idiot, that's why." She said, her voice a little hoarse as she spoke.

She had sworn after all the tears she wasted on him the night before she wasn't going to shed anymore over him.

Pinning her eyes shut she shook her head back and forth, refusing to break down again.

"No, you're not." He said, a little surprised to see how upset she was.

He knew she'd been dating Derek, but he didn't realize how much she really cared about him.

"Whatever happened, it's on him. He's the idiot." Stiles said.

Avery scoffed and shook her head.

"We could burn it." Stiles offered.

She looked over at him and let out a small laugh.

"I seriously considered that last night. But honestly, I think I just held onto it as an excuse to see him again. I was going to go by his house after school." She admitted to him.

She hadn't even told Teagan that she was planning on seeing him again, she just felt like she needed some kind of explanation for what happened.

Stiles was quiet, he didn't know what happened between them but he couldn't understand how guys like Derek always got the girl.

"Can you give it back to him for me?" She asked.

"What?" Stiles asked.

"Please? I want him to have it back but I don't want to go see him." She said, as her sad eyes met his.

"Okay, I'll give him his shirt." Stiles said as he reached over to take it from her, but she held onto it.

He tugged on the fabric but she didn't release her grip.

"Are you going to let go or am I supposed to pry it out of your hands." Stiles asked with a half-smile.

"Thank you, Stiles." She said as she let go of the shirt and watched as he tucked it into his book bag.

~()~

That afternoon, Teagan walked down the almost empty hallway with Allison as she headed for her locker. The other girl was going on about how excited she was about her aunt being in town and about Scott coming to her house to study, but Teagan was lost in her own thoughts as she wondered how Avery was doing.

She knew usual after a night of peanut butter-slash-ice cream followed by a morning jog Avery would bounce back to her old self and move on to the next guy, but she wasn't bouncing back as fast as she usually did and Teagan was worried.

"Hello? Are you there?" Allison joked, as she waved a hand in front of Teagan's face.

"What? Sorry." Teagan said, as she pushed her thoughts aside and looked over at Allison.

"I asked if you had any plans today." Allison explained, "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, I'm just worried about Avery." Teagan admitted.

"Yeah I meant to ask you about her earlier. She didn't seem like herself today. What happened?" Allison asked.

"Things aren't going so well with Derek." Teagan answered but didn't go into details out of respect for Avery.

"Oh no that's sucks. She really liked him." Allison said sincerely.

"I know and I hate seeing her hurting like this. I was just starting to think that maybe I misjudged him. I mean if Avery liked him that much and he was making her that happy, then there had to be something good about him right? But now I'm so pissed I could scream. He hurt her the way I feared he would." Teagan said, feeling her hands shake with anger as she thought about how upset Avery was the night before and all because of that jerk Derek.

"Maybe I should cancel with Scott and we can all go over and cheer her up." Allison suggested, feeling bad for her new friend.

"No go be with Scott. Avery would hate it if you cancelled cause then you would have no dirty details to tell." Teagan joked, "Besides I'm going to swing by and check on her. But I'll tell her know you asked about her."

Allison nodded her head in thanks then gave her a quick hug to say 'good-bye' before making her way towards the parking lot. Teagan took a left to go to her locker then froze when she saw Derek up ahead leaning against a wall.

He didn't look good at all and she couldn't help but feel happy about that. After what he did to Avery she wanted him to hurt as much as Avery was hurting.

As her best friend's heartbroken expression crossed her mind, she balled her hands into fists and narrowed her eyes in anger as she began to walk towards the older guy. Normally she wasn't the confrontational type, especially to big scary guys, but right now she was too mad to be scared.

"You have a lot of nerve showing up here Derek." Teagan snapped, as she stopped in front of him.

Derek looked over at the brunette surprised that she approached him. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath through the pain, he didn't have time to fight with her, he needed to find Scott and fast.

Derek ignored her comment as he hissed out, "Where's Scott McCall?"

Teagan scoffed then said, "Seriously? You broke my best friend's heart and now you show up out of the blue looking for Scott? Screw you Derek!"
"Avery will live." Derek said, in more ways then one since he chased her away the night before.

"Where's Scott?" He asked again, feeling his patience wearing thin.

"I'm not telling you anything other than where you can go and trust me, it's not a good place." Teagan snapped as she went to walk past him.

She had only taken a few steps when Derek reached out with his good arm to grab her arm, bringing her to a stop. He pulled her toward him before hissing in her ear, "I'm not the bad guy you think I am. Trust me, I did Avery a favor."

"Keep telling yourself that." Teagan mumbled, as she tried to pull her arm away which only caused him to hold on to her even tighter.

"You're hurting me. Let me go." She cried, as she tried to pull away from him again.

Derek looked down in surprise, he didn't meant to hurt her, but before he could release her arm, he felt someone shove him back into the row of lockers.

He bit his lip to keep from crying out in pain then looked up to see an angry Jackson in front of him. He fought hard not to roll this eyes, he definitely didn't have time to fight with this jackass.

"What the hell is your problem man?" Jackson asked angrily, as he lightly grabbed Teagan's arm to pull her behind him. He had no idea what had happened, all he knew was he turned the corner and saw Avery's latest fling holding his girlfriend by her arm and he saw red.

Derek ignored his question as pushed himself from the lockers and said, "I'll find him myself."

"Hey, I'm talking to you." Jackson snapped, as he reached out to grab Derek's arm.

In a flash Derek spun around and pushed Jackson into the locker with his hand on the back of his neck, causing Teagan to jump with a surprised gasp. Jackson winced in pain when he felt something pierce his neck. Derek looked down in surprise to see his claws were out, he carefully pulled them out of the boy's neck then turned around to walk away without another word.

Teagan rushed over to Jackson with a worried expression on her face. She saw him laid a hand on the back of his neck then reached up to pull it away as she said, "Here, let me see."

Jackson let her pull his hand away and heard her small gasp when she looked at the cut on his neck. For the life of her she couldn't figure out how Derek was able to cut him like that, it wasn't like he had a weapon on him as far as she could see; besides it didn't look like a knife cut or anything. It was a couple deep, small holes, like a sharp claw or something had cut him, which made no sense to her.

But she didn't have time to think about it much, she needed to get him help. She wrapped her arm around him then said, "Come on, let's see if the nurse is still here."

"I'm going to kick that jerk's ass." Jackson mumbled as he laid his hand on his neck again, "First he's going around selling shit to McCall to make him better than me, then he's screwing around with Avery and now he's putting his hands on you. He's dead, I'll kill him."

"No you won't. I think we should all just stay away from him and if he does show up again we'll just call the police so they can throw him back in jail where he belongs." Teagan said, as she led him down the hallway toward the nurse's office.

Jackson shook his head then looked down at her arm, seeing the tiny bruises from where he grabbed her, "He hurt you T, I'm not just letting that go."

"He hurt you too." Teagan pointed out.

Jackson scoffed and tried to pretend it was no big deal as he said, "This is just a scratch. I don't care about that, but I do care about someone having their hands on my girl."

Teagan came to a stop and smiled at his words, then she turned to face him as she said, "And I love you for that, I do, but the guy looked crazed and dangerous. Something is not right with him."

"But..."

"I know Jackson, I get it trust me." Teagan began to say as she interrupted him, "After he hurt Avery and you, I want to kill him myself, but let's just stay away from him ok?"

Jackson wanted to argue with her, but when she looked at him the way she was, he couldn't say 'no' to her. He had always had that problem when it came to her.

He took a deep breath then slowly released it as he nodded his head, letting her know he agreed with her. She smiled then rose up on her tip toes to give him a quick kiss then said, "Good. Now let's go get this cleaned up."

The two continued to walk to the nurse's office hand and hand. When they reached the door to the office, Teagan led Jackson over toward a group of chairs and said, "Sit here and I'll go see if she is still in, if not I'll see if I can find something to clean it myself ok?"

When Jackson nodded his head, she walked over to the office door and walked into the small room. She didn't see the nurse but she did see one of her fellow students with his back toward her as he looked out the window.

"Hey, is Ms. Banks still here?" Teagan asked him.

"Yeah, she's looking for a wrist brace but she'll be right back." He said, as he turned around to face her.

Teagan smiled in surprise when she saw it was Isaac. Since getting back together with Jackson, she had not seen him much and was actually kind of missing their talks. She frowned when she saw him holding his wrist and walked over toward him.

"What happened?" She asked, as she reached out to hold his wrist.

Isaac bit his bottom lip and tried to ignore the tingles as her finger tips lightly caressed his skin. When he saw her look up at him waiting for him to answer he cleared his throat and said, "I uh, I tripped earlier and hurt my wrist. It's just a sprain I think."

He hated lying to her, but he couldn't tell her the truth. He couldn't tell her that his dad had hurt him earlier that morning and he went through the school day in pain, hoping the pain would finally go away. Once he realized it wouldn't, he finally gave in and went to the nurse's office, where he gave her the same excuse that he was giving Teagan.

"It feels like more than a sprain." Teagan mumbled, as she felt on his wrist and quickly apologized when he hissed out in pain.

"Have you ever broken your wrist before?" She asked him, when she felt something.

"No." Isaac lied. Not wanting to tell her about the time his dad broke his wrist but refused to take him to the doctor.

"Why?" Isaac asked.

"Cause it feels like your bone was broken before but was never been placed back right." Teagan explained.

"How do you know that?" Isaac asked surprised.

"My mom was a nurse." Teagan answered then added with a small smile, "She used to teach me the things she learned."

"So you played doctor for real with your mom." Isaac joked.

Teagan laughed then said, "Yeah, yeah I did. I never knew until I was older that I was playing it wrong."

Isaac laughed back and looked at her, talking to Teagan had always been easy and he had honestly missed it. He opened his mouth to say something else, but before he could they heard someone clear their throat and the two turned their heads to see Ms. Banks and a pissed off Jackson.

When Isaac saw the look Jackson was giving him when Teagan wasn't looking, he took a quick step back almost tripping over a chair. Teagan rushed over toward him to help keep him from falling but he roughly pushed her back from him.

She looked at him with a confused expression, wondering why he didn't want her help. Without a word, Isaac walked over to the nurse and took the brace from her hands before leaving the room like he couldn't get away from them all fast enough.

As the nurse cleaned Jackson's cuts and bandaged him up, Teagan glanced over at the door Isaac just rushed out of and wondered what was going on with him. She thought they were on the path to being friends after the few times they had talked and even just now things were good then it was like he couldn't stand to be around her.

Once the nurse was done and had left the room, Teagan glanced over at Jackson and asked, "Did you say something to Isaac?"

"What?" Jackson asked with a chuckle, "Why the hell would I talk to Lahey?"

"You didn't answer my question." Teagan said, as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Are you kidding me right now?" Jackson asked angrily, then added,"I got a cut on my neck trying to protect you from Avery's flavor of the month and all you can worry about is Lahey?"

"No, that's not what I'm saying." Teagan said with a sigh, as she ran a hand through her hair.

"Then would you mind telling me what you are trying to say cause I'm confused here T." Jackson said.

"I don't know. I just... I thought we were friends." Teagan admitted softly.

"Who? You and Lahey?" Jackson asked surprised.

Teagan nodded her head then asked again. "You haven't said anything to him right?"

"No, I haven't spoken to him." Jackson said, which wasn't really a lie. He never said a word to the boy, he got a few of his friends to have a chat with him, but she didn't need to know that.

"Ok." Teagan said, believing him.

~( A few hours later)~

Avery parked her car in the driveway and headed inside her house. There was a small part of her that hoped when she got to her room Derek would be waiting on her, but he wasn't.

Sighing she changed out of the dress of Teagan's she had borrowed for school and pulled on her favorite jeans and a black tank top.

She walked into the kitchen to see her dad sitting at the table looking through a binder.

"You didn't come home last night." He said barely looking up at her.

"I stayed with Teagan." She explained as she eyed the bottles of expensive liquor sitting on the counter.

"You weren't here the night before either." He reminded her.

"I stayed with another friend." She said, as her mind flashed back to the night she had spent with Derek.

"Lydia?" He asked.

"Derek." She admitted, knowing he probably wasn't listening to her anyways.

Turning around she poured herself a glass from one of the bottles of alcohol.

"Thanks honey." Richard said as he walked over and took glass from her.

"Anytime dad." She muttered.

Avery turned to leave the kitchen but stopped when her dad asked, "Avery you're okay, right?"

"What?" She asked as she turned around and stared at him in shock.

"You're doing okay, right?" He repeated as he took a small sip from the glass and waited for a response.

"You haven't seriously asked how I'm doing in like… years." She reminded him.

"How are you?" He repeated.

"I'm fine." She said.

"How are things with you and Derek?" He asked.

"Is something wrong?" She asked. He'd never been this interested in her life before.

"You don't seem like yourself." He pointed out.

She scoffed and shook her head. Her dad hadn't been around her enough to even know what her normal behavior would be like anymore.

"I don't really think we'll be seeing Derek anymore…" She said looking down to the floor.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Do you really want to talk to me about this?" She asked him.

"I do." He said nodding.

Avery raised her eyebrows and took a deep breath as she tucked her hands in the back pockets of her jeans and said, "Okay… well, there really isn't a whole lot tell…"

A look of disappointment spread across her face as she heard his work phone beep.

He looked over at the table where his phone was and then back to her.

She crossed her arms over her chest and waited for him to make his decision on what was a more pressing matter; work or his daughter.

"It could be important…" He said looking back over at the phone.

Swallowing hard she smiled wide and said, "Yeah, it might be important. Just go ahead and answer it. I'm fine, things are great with Derek."

"But didn't you just say things weren't okay?" He asked as he was already walking over to his phone.

"I'm a teenage girl, I tend to overreact to things. It's fine, I'm fine… everything is fine." She said barely holding back her tears.

"Well, good. I'm glad to hear it." Richard said with a smile and a nod as he picked his phone up from the table when it rang again.

"Yeah, things really couldn't be better." She said quietly as a tear slid down her cheek as she turned to walk away.

He answered the call with a confused look on his face, wondering why if everything was fine she was crying.

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