Half Time- Chapter 31
~A Teen Wolf fan-fiction collaboration between Miss E Charlotte and Sage Londyn~
Later that afternoon, after the last bell of the day Isaac was walking down the hallway toward the parking lot to grab his bike, he needed to get to the cemetery and do his job as fast as he could.
He had to make it back to the school in time for the game.
He quickly turned a corner and came to a stop when he saw Teagan down the hall at her locker.
He stood still for a moment and just watched her as she changed out her books.
He continued to watch as a few guys from the team walked by and whistled at her. He also saw them say something, causing her to yell at them to leave her alone, but he couldn't hear what they said.
He felt anger come over him as he watched the guys walk away laughing. A part of him wanting to go after them, but a bigger part wanted to check on her.
She was more important than telling off a few dumb jocks.
Isaac walked up behind her and cleared his throat as he went to speak to her, but before he could say a word, she turned around as she called out, "Listen assholes I said..."
When she saw it was Isaac and not the jocks behind her, she quickly apologized as her face heated up. She couldn't believe she had just done that.
She laid her hands on her cheeks as she slowly shook her head and said, "Isaac, I am so sorry, I didn't know it was you behind me, I thought..."
"It's ok." Isaac said interrupting her, then added, "I saw those guys bugging you and wanted to see if you were ok."
"I am, thanks." She said with a smile as she bent over to grab her book bag from the floor.
"What's their problem anyway?" Isaac asked as he nodded his head in the direction they had left in.
"They've been making snide remarks all week cause of the whole flashing incident." Teagan answered, her cheeks turning red again.
"They're jerks, just ignore them." Isaac said, then added, "although if you don't mind me asking, what happened? W-why did you do that?"
"Cause I'm stupid." Teagan mumbled, then explained, "Avery and Stiles kept going on about my bra, wanting to know what it looked like and I got tired of the questions so I just showed them to shut them up and I assumed the hall was empty but I was wrong."
Isaac nodded his head then said, "Sounds like only part of a crazy conversation."
"It was a crazy conversation." Teagan agreed with a laugh, then added, "For some crazy reason Stiles was going on about how anytime a girl bends over he automatically looks down their shirt. He claims he can't help it, but that's just crazy. He's crazy."
"That is crazy." Isaac admitted.
"Thank you!" Teagan called out, glad someone agreed with her.
"I mean why look down every shirt? Just look down the cute one's shirts." Isaac joked.
"You do it too?" Teagan asked with a laugh.
"We can't help it. It just happens." Isaac answered with a shrug.
Teagan shook her head and laughed at the comment then stopped when a thought hit her, she looked over at him then said, "Wait a minute. I just bent down in front of you, did you check me out?"
"No." Isaac lied.
"So you didn't see my bra?" She questioned him.
"No, I did not see your polka dot bra." Isaac said back without thinking.
Teagan's mouth dropped open in surprise before she started to laugh then said, "I never said it had polka dots, Isaac."
She laughed harder when she saw his face turn red, it actually didn't bother her to know he was checking her out. She actually liked knowing that he did, just knowing that he was looking at her like that caused the familiar flutter in her stomach.
"Wow never thought I would say it, but you are just as perverted as Stiles." Teagan joked.
"Sorry." Isaac said with a laugh, as he ran a hand over his hair.
Teagan shrugged with a little smile as she said, "To be honest though, I would rather it be you looking at my bra than Stiles."
"Really?" Isaac asked surprised, a wide smile on his face.
She nodded her head then pointed a finger at him as she playfully warned, "But that doesn't give you permission to keep doing it."
"I won't look again." Isaac said, as he held up his hands in surrender.
"Good cause who knows next time I might not even have on a bra." Teagan teased.
Isaac felt a chill down his spine at the thought of seeing her like that. She glanced over at him and smirked at his expression.
She knew what that look meant.
When Isaac noticed her looking at him, he cleared his throat then said, "If you want me to stop looking down your shirt, that is not the way to do it. That only makes me want to look more."
Teagan raised her eyebrows in surprise at his comment then bit her bottom lip as she began to smile. She couldn't believe she was actually flirting with Isaac and he was flirting back. It just happened so easily and it was something she could get used to.
Like her, Isaac couldn't believe the way the conversation was heading either.
He remembered Avery telling him to just talk to her and flirt a little, but he never thought he would be brave enough to do that, but somehow it just happened and now that he started he couldn't stop.
"Well you never know, I might just surprise you one day." Teagan teased, then laughed when he glanced down at the floor with a smile on his face.
She continued to laugh until she heard a locker door shut down the hall. She turned to look and froze when she saw Jackson laughing with Allison.
She lowered her eyebrows and felt her heart break a little when Jackson took Allison's books from her hand before the two began to walk down the hall together.
When he heard her stop laughing, Isaac looked up and saw her face fall as she looked at something down the hall.
He turned his head and saw exactly what was bothering her. He turned back to look at her and hated to see the sad look upon her face.
"You ok?" Isaac asked her, as he thought about reaching out to squeeze her hand then changed his mind.
She turned back to look at Isaac with a fake smile on her face as she said, "Yeah, yeah I'm fine."
"I uh, I heard you two broke up." Isaac said, then added sincerely, "I'm sorry."
"Thanks." She whispered.
"You sure you're ok? Cause if you need a friend, you know someone to talk to, I'm uh, I'm here for you." Isaac said shyly.
Teagan sighed as she leaned back against her locker then said, "Trust me if I told you everything that was running through my head you would run away screaming."
"I would never run from you Teagan." Isaac said honestly, his eyes locked with hers.
Teagan smiled at his words then surprised them both when she took a step toward him and wrapped her arms around his neck to hug him.
Isaac froze for a moment unsure of what to do and made her think she had made a huge mistake.
She was about to take a step back when she finally felt him wrap his arms around her. She softly smiled as she rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes, enjoying his comfort.
He kept one arm wrapped around her waist as he used his other hand to cradle the back of her head as he rested his chin on top of her head and slowly swayed them back and forth.
For once in his life things felt good.
Holding her the way he was; the way he had dreamed, made everything feel right. Like as long as he could hold her everything would be ok.
He could just forget about his crappy home life, forget about his crappy life and feel like he'd finally found something he had been looking for.
Somewhere he belonged.
~()~
"I should have just stayed home…" Teagan mumbled as she walked towards the bleachers arm in arm with Avery.
"Teagan, it was just your bra. And I can guarantee you more guys on the team have seen my bra than saw yours." Avery said looking over at her with arched eyebrows.
"I thought we weren't allowed to talk about 'that Avery' anymore" Teagan said with finger quotations, meaning the years that Avery had slept with quite a few guys.
"We can bring up 'that Avery' when it's needed to prove a point." Avery replied, using her own set of finger quotations.
Teagan laughed but then shifted uncomfortably as a few of the guys on the team looked over at her and smiled as they nudged each other and nodded at her.
"Oh my god…" Teagan mumbled again.
"Alright here, hold this." Avery said as she handed Teagan her purse.
"What are you doing?" Teagan asked as Avery un-zipped her leather jacket.
"I'm going to flash the team." She stated as she unzipped the thin sweatshirt she had on under it.
"Don't!" Teagan exclaimed as she jumped in front of Avery before she could pull her tight black tank top up.
"Then cheer up, I hate when you're mopey." Avery said with raised eyebrows.
"It was only one small incident, right? And it was just my bra, not like I flashed –flashed them." Teagan said nodding as she took a few deep breaths.
"Thank you. If word got back to Derek, I flashed the whole team I don't think he'd be too happy." Avery said with a small laugh as she shivered and zipped her jackets back up.
The girls took their seats on the bleachers and huddled together in the cold evening air.
"Where's Stiles?" Teagan asked.
"Helping Derek with something, they're trying to figure out who sent you and Allison those fake texts." Avery whispered into her friend's ear.
"Oh…" Teagan said her eyes wide as she thought back to the night they'd all been chased around the school by the alpha.
"I hope Stiles makes it back before the start of the game though, if not coach won't let him play." Avery said, smiling as she thought of how excited Stiles had been for the game.
The girls talked quietly amongst themselves as they continued to huddle together and shiver as the night only got colder and the game started.
"Isaac is doing really good!" Teagan happily exclaimed, as she clapped and cheered loudly when Isaac scored.
"I think he knows you're watching him…" Avery said winking at Teagan as she playfully nudged her.
Teagan rolled her eyes at Avery's comment but smiled as she saw Isaac pause to look back at the stands where the girls were.
When he scored another shot for the team, both girls jumped up and cheered loudly.
Jackson looked up at the stands, anger in his eyes as he watched Teagan cheer on Lahey.
He'd been wondering if Teagan had decided she wanted a break because of him, he'd seen them talking a lot more.
And ever since Avery had started sitting with Isaac at lunch, he'd been getting a little more popular.
He angrily shook his head and threw his stick down on the ground as he took his helmet off and glared at Teagan and Avery.
Then his eyes moved across the stands to where Allison was sitting in the front row.
Jackson had been talking to Allison a lot lately. He'd been trying to show Scott how easily he could get to her, if he didn't help him get the bite to be turned into a werewolf.
A bonus to spending all that time with Allison was that Jackson thought he was also making Teagan jealous.
Once it was half-time, he jogged over to where Allison was at on the bleachers and started to talk to her, openly flirting when he knew Teagan was watching him.
"Just ignore that ass." Avery said as she wrapped an arm around her best friend to give her a half hug.
"He's flirting with her…" Teagan said with a small sigh as she leaned into Avery's hug.
"I know you still love him. But trust me, this whole 'flirting with other girls' thing is just his way of trying to heal his bruised male ego. He has to still feel wanted." Avery said.
Teagan nodded and told herself not to stare at Jackson while he was trying to make her jealous.
"You want me to flip him off?" Avery asked as she narrowed her eyes and shot Jackson a hateful look when he glanced up at them.
"No!" Teagan quickly said, grabbing her friends arm before she gave him the middle finger.
The game started back up and Teagan continued to watch Isaac play, he was doing amazing in the game.
When he scored another shot for the team, Teagan jumped up and cheered loudly as she called his name.
He looked towards the stands and smiled widely as he saw Teagan cheering for him.
When Teagan sat back down she looked over to Avery who was 5 shades paler than she had been a few moments ago.
"What's wrong?" Teagan asked alarmed.
"I have to go." Avery said as she stood up and rushed down the bleachers and out towards the parking lot.
"What's going on?" Teagan asked running to catch up with her .
"Stiles called me. He and Derek got attacked, the alpha is Derek's Uncle Peter." She whispered as she swallowed hard.
"Oh my god! But Stiles called so they made it out okay, right?" Teagan asked, her tone hopeful.
"Stiles made it out…" Avery filled her in.
"I have to go to the hospital." Avery said.
"You can't just walk in there!" Teagan pleaded as she grabbed Avery's arm.
"I have to make sure Derek's okay, T." Avery argued.
"But…" Teagan started to protest again.
"I love him." Avery reminded her.
"Then I'll come with you." Teagan bravely said, barely able to believe the words that left her own mouth.
"I need you to stay here and cheer Isaac on, I'll be fine." Avery said as she put her hands on her friends shoulders and faced her.
"I'm not letting you go alone!" Teagan exclaimed, her brown eyes wide with fear.
"I will be fine. Please T, I know more about this werewolf stuff than you do. I need to go, but you have to stay here. Trust me." Avery pleaded with her.
Teagan was going to continue to argue, but then her mind flashed back to the night in the video store.
She wasn't ready to face the alpha again; truth was she was still having nightmares over her near- death experience.
"Promise me you won't put yourself in danger; if something happens you'll get yourself out." Teagan said.
Avery breathed a sigh of relief that Teagan was done arguing with her.
"I promise. Now, go cheer on Isaac and have fun." Avery called over her shoulder as she unlocked her car and got in.
~()~
Teagan sat in the stands nervously for the rest of the game. Then afterwards while everyone else was celebrating the win, she made her way towards the empty parking lot.
She kept glancing down at her cellphone, hoping Avery would call, text or something but the longer her phone stayed silent, the more worried she became.
When she heard a vehicle turn into the parking lot she jerked her head up to look and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was Stiles.
She looked back over at the entrance hoping Avery was going to pull in right behind him but when she didn't see her car or any car at all, Teagan ran across the parking lot to talk to Stiles, who was just getting out of his Jeep.
She yelled out his name, taking him my surprise as he tripped on his own feet and crashed into his Jeep. He quickly stood up straight and looked over at her with his trademark goofy grin as she caught up to him.
"Where's Avery?" Teagan asked.
"What do you mean where is she? She's here at the game with you, right?" Stiles asked, his heart starting to race with worry.
"No, after you called and told her about you know who being the you know what and that the other person who can't be named is still at the place with the you know who that you two had went to earlier she left to go to that place." Teagan explained.
"She went with who to what and why? I'm confused." Stiles said, trying to make sense of what she said.
Teagan threw her head back and took a deep breath to control her anger, then she took a step toward him, scaring him as he jumped back and slammed into the Jeep.
She gave him a weird look then said, "I wasn't going to hurt you Stiles. I just got closer so I can explain things again quietly so others can't hear."
"I knew that. I'm not scared of you Teagan. Avery yes, but not you, you're too nice to hurt someone." Stiles said.
"Oh, I can be mean and you will see me be mean if something happens to Avery because you called her and told her Derek was in danger." Teagan snapped, then added, "You know if you tell her something like that she is going to go run and save him."
"I told her not to go. I only told her because she promised she wouldn't go to the hospital." Stiles argued.
"Look Stiles, I know you care about her and I'm even glad you are in her life now but up until recently you didn't even really know Avery. You've only admired her from afar." Teagan began to explain, then added, "But I do know her and when she loves someone she will walk through Hell to save them. It doesn't matter what she says or what she promises, she will do whatever to save them and you can't stop her."
"I'll do whatever I have to for the ones I care about too." Stiles said with a determined look, then added, "Which is why I'm going to go save her."
He didn't say anything else as he opened his car door and saw Teagan running over to the passenger side. He leaned over and locked the door before she could open it.
"What are you doing?" Teagan asked surprised.
"What are you doing?" Stiles asked back.
"I'm going with you." Teagan answered, as she tried to open the door again.
Stiles shook his head as he said, "No, I already put one of you in danger and I'm not doing that again. Besides Avery would kill me if something happened to you."
"Stiles..." Teagan began to say, as tears filled her eyes.
"I promise you, she'll be ok. I'll make sure of it." Stiles promised her.
Teagan nodded her head as she said, "Just bring her home Stiles."
Stiles nodded his head back as he cranked up his Jeep and quickly backed up, speeding out of the parking lot and heading back toward the hospital.
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