It Will Always Be You, Teagan -Chapter 34

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

After leaving Jackson's house Teagan turned down a road that would take her to Stiles' house. With no new information from Jackson she was honestly at a loss on what to do next but hoped Stiles would know, if not they could at least brainstorm and come up with a plan to save Avery and Derek.

She was almost to his house when she glanced at the time and realized he had probably already left for the dance, then after a quick ride by his empty house she realized she was right. He was already gone.

Without taking her eyes off of the road she reached into her pocket and pulled out a cellphone to quickly call him, hoping he had his phone on him.

"Come on, pick up... pick up.. pick up." Teagan mumbled, as his phone kept ringing. She was close to hanging up and trying his phone again when he finally answered.

"Avery?" Stiles asked, confused on why she was calling him.

It wasn't until she heard her best friend's name that she realized she had called him from Avery's phone instead of her own. For a moment she lost the ability to speak as images of her best friend went through her mind.

At first the memories were happy ones: them growing up together, laughing, playing, talking, sleep overs and so on. Then the images turned dark as her mind imagined what Avery could be going through right now: pain, torture and worse; she imagined Avery laying still as she took her last breath causing Teagan to feel like she herself couldn't breathe as tears fell one right after another from her eyes, forcing her to pull over on the side of the road.

"Avery?" Stiles called out again as he laid his hand over his ear, trying to drown out the music as he tried to hear what was happening on the other end of the phone.

When he heard crying on the other end, he began to push his way through the crowd, trying to get outside where he could talk and hear better.

Once he was outside he spoke again, "Avery, where are you? You and Teagan are supposed to be here now. I know you like to make a grand entrance but with an alpha out there and Derek missing we all need to stick together."

Teagan tried to take a deep breath to control her emotions as she whimpered out his name and began to cry again.

"Teagan?" Stiles asked when he recognized her voice then added, "Teagan, what the hell is going on? Where are you and Avery?"

"They took her Stiles. They took her." Teagan cried.

"They took who?" Stiles asked confused.

"Avery." Teagan cried out.

Stiles felt his heart break at her answer. He had a pretty good idea who the 'they' were who took her, but to be sure he opened his mouth to ask, but before he could say a word, Teagan began to speak again.

"The hunters took Avery and I have to find her, Stiles. I have to before they kill her cause we both know if it comes down to it they will. They will do whatever they have to to get the alpha and Scott and they don't give a rat's ass about any of us. They don't care that we all are innocent in all of this they will kill each and every one of us if that's what it takes but I'll be damned if I let that happen cause I can't lose her Stiles, I-I can't..." She said all at once, causing herself to get choked up at the end as it became hard to breathe again.
"Teagan... Teagan!" Stiles yelled out when he heard her gasping over the phone.
"You have to calm down, take deep breaths ok? Do you uh, do you need me to find Jackson or something?" He suggested, trying to think of something that could calm her down.

"No... no. I-I can do this, I need to… to do this." Teagan said in between deep breaths. She needed to stop being so dependent on others to save her. She needed to be strong. Avery needed her to be strong.

"Good cause Avery needs you, ok? She needs both of us and I have an idea." Stiles said, then asked, "Where are you?"

"Right down the road from your house." Teagan answered.

"Ok, good, meet me at my house. I'll be right there." Stiles called out, as he ended the call and went to run toward his Jeep until something on the lacrosse field caught his eye.

After ending the call with Stiles, Teagan flipped the visor down and looked at herself in the small mirror. She wiped the tears from her face and from under her eyes then took a deep breath before slapping the visor closed and doing a wide U-turn to drive back to Stiles' house. She pulled up in the driveway and turned off the car then minutes later a car pulled up behind her, although it wasn't Stiles, it was his dad.

"Just great." Teagan mumbled sarcastically, as she tried to quickly think of a reason to explain why she was just hanging out in the sheriff's driveway. She plastered a smile on her face as she exited her car at the same time he got out of his.

He looked her over, trying to figure out who she was then said, "Teagan, right? Paul Young's daughter?"

"Yeah. I mean yes sir.. Mr... uh, Sheriff Stilinski, sir." She rambled nervously.

He softly chuckled then said, "Is everything ok? Is there something I can help you with?"

"I was just meeting Stiles." Teagan answered.

Sheriff Stilinski looked up at the dark house then asked, "Isn't he already at the dance?"

"He uh... yeah he is actually, but we uh, a bunch of us were supposed to go together and he just forgot to pick me up." Teagan lied with a forced chuckle.

Sheriff Stilinski sighed as he shook his head then said, "I wish I could say I was surprised, but actually I'm not."

"Yep. Silly old Stiles. You just never know what he is going to do next." Teagan said with another forced laugh.

"Well I was just swinging by the house to grab a bite to eat before I go back in to work but you are welcomed to wait inside for him or..." Sheriff Stilinski began to say until his phone rang. He held up a finger, telling her to hold on, as he answered the call.

As he was talking, she heard her cellphone begin to ring as well and pulled the phone out of her pocket to look down at the caller ID to see it was Jackson calling.

She debated on answering it, with the way things had been going with them lately she figured he was just calling to argue about something but there again maybe he was just calling to check on her since he knew she was upset about Avery and trying to find her.

Making up her mind, she was about to answer it when she overheard the sheriff say Lydia's name, then mentioned the word 'bite' and 'hospital' before ending his call.

"What happened to Lydia?" Teagan asked concerned. She and Lydia might not have been that close since she had moved back, but at one time they were and she still considered her a friend.

"Something bit her, but I'm sure she's going to be ok." Sheriff Stilinski said, not wanting to upset her.

Teagan gasped in surprise as she laid a hand over her mouth. She knew exactly what had bit Lydia, there was only one thing running around this town biting people and now Lydia would never be ok again.

"Why don't I give you a ride to the hospital?" Sheriff Stilinski suggested when he saw tears roll down her face and didn't want her on the road while she was clearly upset.

Teagan nodded her head and allowed him to lead her to his car as the two made their way to the hospital.

~()~

Pulling up outside of the burnt remains of the Hale house, Kate made Avery get out of the car and then tied her hands behind her back and led her into the house.

Avery looked around but didn't see any sign of Derek.

"You've never been shy before. Go on sweetie; ask me what you've been dying to ask me from the moment you saw me." Kate pushed as she faced Avery in what used to be the living room.

Avery's jaw tensed in rage as she looked at her.

Kate let out a sinister laugh, "Derek's alive."

"Right, I'm just supposed to believe you." Avery growled.

"I'm not the enemy here, Avery. In fact I want to make a deal with you." Kate said.

Avery scoffed.

"I think that Derek trusts you, which is pretty surprising after the number I did on him. But I think he trusts you enough to tell you who the alpha is. So I'm giving you a chance to tell me." Kate explained.

"I don't know who the alpha is." Avery lied, she knew if they found out they'd kill Derek and possibly her too.

"If you tell me, then I'll let you go and you can live a werewolf free rest of your life. But if you don't cooperate, I'll just have to keep torturing him…" Kate said as she slowly walked behind Avery.

"You could at least show him some mercy and make sure he dies painlessly, instead of in agony." Kate whispered into Avery's ear.

Avery swallowed hard and her mind was filled with scenes from torture-horror movies she'd seen over the years.

"At the very least, you know who the second beta is…" Kate reasoned.

"We don't talk about werewolf stuff, I don't know." She said.

Kate clicked her tongue and said, "Darn, I guess that means I'm going to have to pry the answers out of you… one broken bone at a time…"

It took Avery a few moments for her mind to catch up, "What?" She started to say, but Kate grabbed the ring finger on her left hand and broke it.

Avery screamed out in agony and dropped to the floor on her knees.

Grabbing her by her hair Kate roughly pulled her back up to her feet, "Who's the alpha?" She asked.

Tears poured down Avery's face and she wanted the pain to stop before it got any worse, but she knew it she told Kate that Derek would be killed.

"Please stop, I don't know who it is. I swear!" Avery screamed her voice hoarse and panicked as she spoke.

"You expect me to believe that?" Kate asked as she broke the middle finger on the same hand.

"Oh my god!" Avery screamed out in pain, her voice choppy between loud sobs and gasps for air.

"You want this to stop, Avery? Give me something I can use, the other beta… the alpha. Work with me." Kate tried to make a deal with her.

"If I knew I'd tell you! Please, stop… don't do this." Avery sobbed. She wasn't sure how much more she could take before she broke and told.

Kate looked her in the eyes.

"He doesn't tell me about werewolf stuff, he's afraid I'd slip and tell someone. He's barely told me anything since he found out I'd been talking to you." Avery continued to lie as she sobbed loudly from pain.

Kate looked the young teen over, and reasoned she was probably telling the truth. She was a sophomore in high school, with no kind of training what-so-ever to fight or endure torture.

"Well, next plan then." Kate said as she roughly grabbed her arm and pulled her outside and to a hidden entrance to a cellar underground.

~()~

Many minutes later, while the sheriff began to question as many people possible about what happened, Teagan made her way towards Lydia's room. She stood outside the room and looked in through the windows as Lydia laid peacefully in the bed.

She had only been watching her a few minutes when she felt someone lay a hand on her shoulder. She spun around and gasped then sighed with relief when she saw it was only Jackson.

Without a word, she fell into his arms and closed her eyes as he held her tightly against him and kissed the top of her head before resting his chin on top of her head.

After seeing what had happened to Lydia and knowing that she was out there alone looking for Avery and possibly putting herself in danger he was relieved to see that she was ok and all in one piece.

After holding her a few more minutes longer, which was mainly more for himself than her, he pulled back a little to look at her as he said, "Where have you been? I've been trying to call you."

"I know, I'm sorry. I talked to Stiles and he was supposed to meet me at his house, he said he had a plan to find Avery but then his dad came home and he got a call about Lydia so here I am." Teagan explained.

She looked over at Lydia again before looking back at Jackson and asked quietly, "What happened? Was it the alpha?"

Jackson shrugged then said, "I don't know, I guess so. Stiles called and said she was bit and where to find her then he left."

"Well where did he go? He's not here?" Teagan asked surprised.

"No, but I saw him leaving the school with some older, creepy guy." Jackson answered.

"What? Who?" Teagan asked confused, but all Jackson could do was shrug his shoulders.

Teagan sighed in frustration as she turned to walk away until Jackson grabbed her arm to stop her, asking her where she was going.

"I have got to go find Stiles and see what his brilliant plan is or either start coming up with one on my own cause I've got to find Avery. The longer she is missing the more likely ..." Teagan began to say, but couldn't finish. She knew the statistics. The longer someone was missing the more likely they would be found dead.

"Hey, hey, come here." Jackson said softly, as he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her toward him. He kissed the side of her head then rested his lips near her ear as he said softly, "You're not in this alone. I'm right here with you. We will find Avery, together."

"No." Teagan said, as she pulled away from him. She looked up at him then continued, "No, ok? I'm not putting you in the middle of all of this."

"I'm already in the middle of this." Jackson argued, then added, "Don't you get it Teagan? When it comes to you I am always going to be in the middle of it with you. I can't just sit back and let you run off; I am always going to be by your side. Protecting you, helping you, whatever you need."

He looked down for a moment to control his emotions before looking back up at her as he quietly added, "Even being just your friend if that is what you need."

"I thought you said we would never be just friends." Teagan pointed out, reminding him of what he said recently after the game.

"I also said I made a mistake falling in love with you." Jackson added, then said, "But you should have known that was a lie. It'll always be you Teagan. The one I'll always love, the one I'll always want, the one that..."

"The one that what?" She asked quietly with tears in her eyes when he paused.

"The one that got away." Jackson finished softly, as he reached up and wiped a tear from her cheek.

She leaned into his touch and closed her eyes, feeling the familiar tingles that always appeared because of him.

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