Purple Handcuffs - Chapter 27

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

Over the next couple of days while Avery was busy planning her upcoming party, Teagan was starting to have second thoughts.

She has a boyfriend, a boyfriend that she does actually love, she shouldn't be thinking of another boy or inviting him to parties to 'test drive him'. Avery's words not hers, but Avery reassured her that she wasn't doing anything wrong and if nothing else then she and Isaac could just be friends.

Besides Teagan had no idea what was going on with her and Jackson at the moment since she had not even spoken to him since that night at the school.

Which was her fault, not his. He had tried to call her a few times but she ignored it every time because she honestly didn't know what to say to him.

She knew she loved him and she knew she would always love him, but was that enough for a relationship?

She was still confused about it all a couple of days later when the school opened back up and it was time to resume classes. Teagan arrived at school earlier than usual, thinking it was the best time to talk to Isaac.

She had noticed him at school early before and hoped this morning would be a time he was there again. She walked towards the empty classroom she had seen him in before as he sat at a desk trying to catch up on homework she guessed, and peeked into the room to see that he was there like she had hoped.

She had not been sure if she was actually going to talk to him or not, but when she felt that little flutter in her stomach again as she watched him writing in his notebook, she knew she had to.

Avery was right, she owed it to herself to see if there was something there or she would always wonder then her relationship with Jackson would really suffer.

Teagan took a deep breath and slowly released it as she tried to calm her nerves down. This was Isaac, a guy she had talked to before so it should be easy right?

Without answering herself, she took a small step inside the room and cleared her throat, hoping he would look up and see her. Instead he kept his head down, not use to anyone seeking him out to speak to him.

He just assumed another student had arrived or even a teacher, either way, he knew it wasn't someone for him so he kept working.

Teagan stood still for a moment, surprised that he never looked up. Maybe this was a mistake. Maybe she should just leave.

With that thought in mind, she turned around and quickly walked out of the classroom and leaned against the wall by the door. She pulled out her cellphone and called Avery.

"I can't do it." Teagan whispered, as soon as Avery answered.

"You can't do what?" Avery asked out of breath, then added before she can answer, "Where are you by the way and why are you whispering?"

"I'm at school. Where are you?" Teagan whispered back.

"At home. In my room. On the floor." Avery answered in between breathes.
"Ew, wait, you're on the floor and out of breath. Ew! You're doing 'ew' things with Derek aren't you?" Teagan whined, as she wrinkled up her nose.

Avery burst out laughing then said, "No, I'm doing crunches you pervert. Trust me if I was doing Derek I wouldn't have answered the phone."

"Good to know." Teagan whispered, as she glanced back into the room to watch Isaac.

"So what can't you do?" Avery asked her.

"Talk to him." Teagan answered.

"Talk to who? You're going to have to help me out here, T." Avery said.

"Isaac. I can't talk to Isaac." Teagan whispered, as she turned around, her back now facing the classroom.

"Why? You've talked to him before." Avery pointed out.

"That was before the flutters." Teagan said back.

"You're just asking him to a party. It's not like you're asking for his hand in marriage." Avery said with a laugh, then said, "just ask him."

Teagan opened her mouth to argue but before she could say a word she heard someone walk out of the classroom then call out her name. She closed her eyes and quietly groaned when she realized it was Isaac. She just hoped and prayed he did not overhear any of her conversation with Avery.

"Oops busted." Avery giggled when she heard him speak.

"H-hi Isaac." Teagan said nervously, as she turned around to face him.

"Hey. What are you doing here so early?" Isaac asked her.

"Now is your chance. Ask him." Avery whispered to her over the phone.

"Shut up." Teagan hissed back, causing Avery to laugh out loud. She looked over at Isaac and saw him shoot her a confused look. She quickly explained, "I don't mean you. You don't shut up, I was talking to Avery."

"Oh." Isaac said.

"Ask him, ask him, ask him." Avery chanted over the phone.

Teagan rolled her eyes and chuckled at her friend then without a word quickly ended the phone call.

When Isaac shot her another confused look she said, "The call was dropped."

As Isaac nodded his head, she asked,"so what are you doing here?"

"I had some work to get caught up on." He answered, then asked, "What about you?"

"Oh, I um... I-I just wanted to get a um, get a early start to the day." She stuttered, then silently groaned. She had never stuttered this much before in her life.

"I heard about the attack on you and your friends. I was worried about you... I mean all of you, but I'm glad everyone is ok." Isaac said, blushing at his slip up.

She smiled at the slip and said, "Thanks."

"Well um, I guess I'll see you later." Isaac said, figuring she wouldn't want to stand around talking to him anymore.

"See you later Isaac." Teagan said smiling.

Isaac gave her a small smile then walked past her to walk down the hallway. He was about half way down the hall when she realized she forgot to invite him.

She quickly called out his name as she turned around to catch up with him. He came to a stop then turned around to wait as she caught up to him.

"Avery is having a party this weekend, Friday to be exact, and we wanted to invite you." Teagan blurted out before she could chicken out again.

"Oh um, I-I don't know." Isaac said shocked. Like everyone else he knew all about the famous Avery Dukate parties but he had never been invited to one before and even though he liked to think he and Teagan were friends, he couldn't help but wonder if this was a real invitation or a prank.

"It's going to be a lot of fun, I mean Avery always throws the best parties." Teagan added, hoping to convince him.

"I-I'll try but I don't know, I probably won't be able to make it." Isaac said.

"Oh well, that's ok. Maybe the next one." Teagan suggested, as she tried not to feel disappointed.

"Yeah, maybe." Isaac mumbled.

The two stood awkwardly in front of each other, neither one making a move to leave until they both spoke up at the same time.

"I got to go .."

"Well I should go.."

Teagan chuckled then said again as she pointed behind her, "I should go."

"Right, see ya." Isaac said, as he walked passed her again like before and continued on down the hall.

She stood in the same spot and watched as he turned a corner to walk down another hallway. She wasn't sure how long she had been standing still in deep thought until she heard someone call out her name.

She glanced behind her to see Jackson walking toward her, a guilty feeling coming over her when he leaned forward to give her a quick peck on the lips.

"Hey, you ok?" Jackson asked her, then added, "I've been trying to call you the last few days and I started to come over but I figured you were avoiding me."

"No I just, I was spending time with dad. He took some time off from work and we just spent time together." Teagan said, only half lying. Her father did take time off cause of the attack and they were spending time together which worked out perfectly since she was avoiding him while trying to process all of her feelings but she wasn't going to tell him that.

"So we're ok?" Jackson asked her.

"Yeah... I mean, I guess we are." Teagan answered.

"Good." Jackson answered, as he laid a hand on the back of her neck and pulled her toward him for a heated kiss.

Teagan rested her hands on his shoulders, trying to keep up with the pace he was setting and couldn't deny that she still felt a tingle down her spine when he kissed her.

"Want to get together after school today?" Jackson asked her after the kiss.

"I can't I've got plans with Avery." Teagan said as she rested her forehead against his and tried to catch her breath.

"Blow her off." Jackson said, as he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her closer to him.

"I can't. I'm helping her with the party this weekend." Teagan said, then added when he shot her a confused look, "She's throwing a party Friday."

"Ok." Jackson said with a sigh, then added, "but we'll do something else Friday cause I don't want to have anything to do with her."

"I was planning on going to the party." Teagan told him.

"Maybe we'll go to the next one, but I'm not going to this one. Not so soon after she almost got us killed." Jackson said, still angry and blaming her for the attack.

"No, Jackson, you're not hearing me. I am going to the party." Teagan said, as she took a step back from him.

Jackson scoffed at her comment then said, "No. You're not going."

"What do you mean 'no'? I'm not asking for permission, I'm telling you I'm going." Teagan snapped.

Jackson glanced around, noticing that more students had showed up and were watching them as they argued. He looked back over at Teagan, his anger taking over, as he snapped, "You know what? Fine! Do whatever you want."

Without another word, he turned around and walked down the hallway.

Teagan watched him walk away, wondering if she should go after him or not.

Confusing thoughts or not, she did love him and she hated it when they argued. She went to take a step to go after him until something caught her eye.

She saw Lydia standing by a bank of lockers, where she had been listening to their argument. She smirked at Teagan before walking down the hallway to catch up with Jackson.

Teagan could imagine what was going through Lydia's mind right after watching her fight with Jackson she figured Lydia was going to try to get back in with Jackson and turn him against her.

Teagan knew she should go after them, but for some reason she just couldn't make herself move.

~()~

Avery walked with Stiles after another of their classes they had together.

"So, are you still harboring a fugitive?" Stiles asked quietly as he leaned over to Avery when he spoke.

As he breathed in, he caught a small whiff of her perfume and smiled.

"Yes, my boyfriend is still living with me." She said with a small sigh.

"Hey, thanks for telling me about getting him a prepaid phone so the police can't trace it like they would with his old phone." She said offering him a smile.

"I didn't do it for him. I told you because you can get in a lot of trouble if they find out you're hiding him." Stiles admitted.

"I don't care." She argued.

"How can you not care about that? You could get arrested." He pointed out.

"I care about him and about what happens to him." She said as they stopped at her locker.

"Did you hear me? I said they could arrest you." Stiles repeated.

"This is Scott's fault, all because he was trying to save face with Allison by blaming it all on Derek." She said her voice in a low hiss.

"He did the best he could under pressure." Stiles defended his friend.

"But at what cost? An innocent man…" Avery said as she shut her locker and spun the combination lock as they headed to his locker.

"Derek is not innocent." Stiles pointed out.

"In these murders, yes he is." She defended.

After stopping at his locker they were heading to lunch when he said, "I know you care about him, but this is your life. You're getting caught up in the middle of some heavy stuff."

"I don't care." She responded again.

"But…" Stiles started to say but she cut him off.

"I love him." She admitted, glancing over at him out of the corner of her eye.

He stopped walking.

"What?" Stiles asked.

Avery turned and faced him, "I'm in love with him." She repeated.

"Wow…" He breathed out, trying not to look hurt.

"You can't honestly be that surprised." She said, giving him an empathetic look.

"I just…" He shook his head not sure what to say.

"Have you told him yet?" He asked.

She nodded.

"What did he say?" Stiles asked.

"Do you really want to talk about this?" she asked.

"What did he say?" stiles repeated.

"That he loves me too." She admitted.

"Well, at least it's mutual. Would have been awkward for you if he didn't say it back." Stiles rambled.

"Come on." She said as she grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the lunchroom.

His heart beat a little faster when her skin touched his.

Once they made it through the lunch line Avery looked around the cafeteria.

"Are you sitting with me and Scott again?" He asked hopeful.

Since the night they had been trapped in the school, Jackson was acting like a jerk towards her so she didn't sit with him and Teagan.

Allison and Scott had broken up and Allison was sitting with Lydia at lunch and had been acting distant towards Avery since that night too; she thought her boyfriend was the one trying to kill them.

But Avery didn't care; it was hard to be around Allison knowing that her aunt was mostly responsible for her mother's murder.

So Avery had been sitting with Scott and stiles.

"Not today, I have something I need to do. See you in economics." She said with a friendly smile.

Stiles watched her with a confused expression as she crossed the lunchroom and sat down at a table across from Isaac Lahey.

Isaac was eating by himself like he always did, he didn't really look up or around the room while he was eating.

That day his table had started out with all of its chairs, but other nearby tables were taking the chairs for their overcrowded tables.

There was an empty seat across from him, and a chair beside that one.

When he heard the metal chair scrape the floor he assumed it was someone taking the last remaining chairs.

Avery sat across from Isaac waiting for him to acknowledge her; but he didn't, he had no clue one of the most popular girls at their school was sitting with him.

"Newsflash Lahey, that whole 'if I don't make contact they won't talk to me' thing doesn't work on teachers when you don't want to be called on and it doesn't work on me either." She said as she took a bite from one of the cucumber slices on her salad.

He looked up at her wide eyed.

"See? Eye contact, isn't that better?" she asked with a playful wink.

He quickly looked back down to the table nervously, he didn't know what she was doing, whether it was some kind of prank or if someone had dared her to sit with him.

"Why… why are you sitting there?" He asked swallowing hard as he looked back up at her.

"Well, I thought I was sitting close enough to you to talk, but if you want to move right beside me, be my guest." She said, as she nodded to empty chair beside her.

"No, I… I mean why are you sitting here with me?" He finally asked, stuttering a little from nerves.

"Why wouldn't I sit with you?" she asked, waiting for an answer.

"Are you joking?" He asked.

"No." She said honestly.

"No one ever sits with me, especially people like… you." He said, quietly.

"People like me?" She asked with an arched eyebrow.

He looked up at her, and saw she was seriously waiting on him to answer her.

"Popular people." He admitted.

Avery sighed and shook her head, "Do you want a piece of advice?" she questioned.

He didn't respond; he didn't want to say yes and then it be a mean joke, but he didn't want to say no and piss her off if she was being serious. He's seen her go off on more than a few people when they made her mad.

"For future reference; I take silence as an invitation to keep talking." She said.

He kept looking down at his lunch tray hoping she'd get bored and go sit somewhere else.

"Now onto my advice; Isaac, sometimes you have to grab life by the balls." She said loudly.

His eyes widened and jaw dropped as he looked up at her.

"I mean it, you have to take control of your life. You can't sit there and wait for the popular kids to come sit with you; you need to go sit with them." She said.

He shook his head and swallowed hard.

"You can't sit on the sidelines letting life pass you by." She said.

When he didn't respond she continued, "Take Teagan for example. That's a situation you need to grab by the balls. Not grab her by the balls, don't worry, I can assure Teagan doesn't have balls…"

Isaac cut her off, "Avery can you please just stop talking about balls."

She smiled at him.

"What?" He asked shifting in his seat, worried she was about to snap at him.

"That's what I mean, you didn't just sit here and wait for me to stop talking… talking about balls was making you uncomfortable so you told me to stop." She said.

"You knew you were making me uncomfortable." He said, softly.

"Yes, I did. It was a test to see if you had the balls to tell me to stop talking about balls." She said, with a laugh.

"Okay, I'm really done talking about round things now. Anyways; I wanted to give you this." She said as she slid a paper across the table.

He looked at it, it was her address and phone number.

"I know Teagan told you about the party at my house this Friday, this insures that you have no reason to not be there. It's my address, plus my phone number in case you get lost or can't find it or something." She explained.

"I already told Teagan that I don't think I'll be going." He said looking at her.

"You're coming to my party." She said still smiling.

"I…" He started to say but she cut him off.

"Aren't going to waste any more time arguing with me about this; it's my party and you've now formally been invited by the beautiful host." She said as she dramatically motioned to herself.

"And my equally beautiful best friend wants you there." She continued.

"I don't think I'll be able to make it." He tried to decline again.

"I have a pair of handcuffs, Isaac." She stated.

"What?" He asked as he stared at her in shock.

"They're dark purple and fuzzy, but they still serve their purpose and I happen to know they aren't easy to get off. Either you agree to come to my party, or I will bring them tomorrow and handcuff you to me until Friday. Teagan wants you there and Teagan's important to me." Avery said.

"Fine… I'll come to your party, just please don't talk about handcuffs anymore." He breathed out shaking his head.

"Does bondage make you uncomfortable?" She asked barely holding in her laughter.

"How does it not make you uncomfortable?" He shot back at her without thinking.

"Actually, it kind of does. But I'm adventurous…" Her voice trailed off as she took a drink of her water.

"I'm coming to your party." He stated again.

"Yay!" Avery said happily as she clapped her hands.

A few minutes passed, "Why are you still sitting here?"

"I like sitting here." She responded.

"But you got what you wanted, I agreed to go." He said.

"Correct, and now I want to sit with you, so I am. We're friends now." Avery said cheerfully.

"We're friends… me and you, friends?" He asked, as he stared at her.

"Mhmm." She said nodding.

"Okay." He said, not sure what to say to her.

"And just to prove it, I'm going to sit with you for the rest of the week and randomly after that." She said smiling widely at him.

"That's not really necessary." He said, he'd hardly been able to eat anything during this lunch with her.

"I know you really like Teagan." Avery bluntly stated.

"I, uh…" He stuttered.

He had no idea how she could just go around saying whatever she thought or noticed and not be self-conscious about any of it.

Instead the opposite happened, she made other people uncomfortable.

"It's okay. I'm on your side." She said as she looked over to where Teagan and Jackson were sitting.

"You are?" He asked as he also looked over to their table and was finally able to take a bite of his food.

"She and Jackson used to be good together, but he's a lot different now than he was two years ago when she left. So, I'm rooting for you." She said as she looked back at him.

"Th… thank you." He managed to say.

The lunch bell rang.

"Well, see you tomorrow at lunch then. Make sure the idiots around us don't take all the chairs. It won't be pretty if I have to confront people to get my chair back." She said.

"I'll save you a seat." He said, knowing there was no way she was going to leave him alone now.

"Thanks, bye Isaac." She said as she gathered her books and stacked their food trays.

He looked down expecting her to walk off and leave him to return their trays.

"See you tomorrow, Avery." He said, with a shocked expression as she took the trays up to the return window before leaving the cafeteria.

Isaac looked around the lunchroom, there was a few people looking at him wondering why Avery was talking to him.

But his gaze stopped on Teagan as she went to say hi to Allison.

Avery was right, he did like Teagan and there were moments when he felt she might feel the same way.

But then he'd tell himself what his dad told him that he'd never get a girl like that.

He looked down to his shoes that were a little muddy wondering why he even bothered getting his hopes up.

Then a small smile spread over his lips, for Avery to go as far out of her way as she did to get him to agree to the party, Teagan must have really wanted him there.

And Avery wasn't as bad as he thought to begin with, as long as you stayed on her good side she could be really nice; once you got past her shamelessness and strange conversation topics of course.

He let himself consider briefly that maybe he did have a shot with Teagan; Avery said she was rooting for him and Jackson had to hate him talking to her for a reason.

His heart sank a little as he saw Jackson lean down and press a heated kiss to Teagan's lips.

Grabbing his book bag he quickly headed out of the lunchroom.

A/N- Thank you for reading. ^_^

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