All That I Have -Chapter 35
~A Teen Wolf fan-fiction collaboration between Miss E Charlotte and Sage Londyn~
Teagan opened her eyes to glance up at Jackson, then opened her mouth to say something but before she could she heard Stiles racing towards them, calling out her name.
"Hey, is Lydia okay?" Stiles asked, as he slid to a stop before them.
"We don't know yet. Her body keeps going into shock." Jackson answered.
"Where the hell have you been, Stiles?" Teagan asked angrily.
"Well let's see, I was kidnapped by an alpha and had to track down Derek, by using the GPS in Scott's phone. Then the douchebag destroyed my keys so I had to run all the way over here, where as soon as I stepped off the elevator my dad was all down my throat asking twenty questions and I couldn't answer even one of them because I am keeping everyone's secrets and now I'm off to my possible death to save the girl I love." Stiles said all at once, then he rested his hands on his hips with a sigh as he added, "Does that answer all of your questions? Good, great, got to go."
"Whoa, wait.." Teagan called out, as she grabbed his arm to stop him as she asked, "You said you tracked down Derek using Scott's phone?"
"Yeah, that was the idea I was going to tell you earlier when we were going to meet up, before I got sidetracked by the vicious man-eating alpha." Stiles hissed, then thought about his comment for a moment then he began to ramble, "Or I guess really he's not just a man eater cause he'll eat anything. Or I'm assuming he has eaten his prey. I guess the better term would be man-bitter or people-biting alpha."
"Stiles!" Teagan yelled out, getting him to shut up, then added, "So you know where Derek is? And possibly Avery too?"
"Yeah. They're at the Hale house." Stiles answered, nodding.
"Well great, let's go then." Teagan said, feeling a little relieved that she knew where Avery might be.
"One problem. I can't drive my Jeep." Stiles reminded her.
"No problem. We'll take my..." Teagan begin to say until she remembered she'd left her car at Stiles' house.
She groaned and filled Stiles in on where her car was.
"We'll take my car." Jackson offered, once Teagan was done talking.
She glanced over at him, still not liking the idea of him getting into the middle of it all. When he saw the look on her face he said, "I'm right by your side, remember?"
Teagan nodded her head at him, then quickly looked over at Stiles, as she thought about something he had said earlier, "Wait a minute. I don't understand something. How did Derek get Scott's phone?"
Stiles nervously licked his lips, he knew she wasn't going to like what he had to say, "I-I think Derek knew. I think he knew the hunters were going to take him, so he grabbed Scott's phone and let them take him."
"You're known this whole time how to find Derek? Even when Avery was freaking out worrying about him, you could have told her how to find him?" Teagan asked angrily.
"So she can go run right into a dangerous situation that could get her killed? Yeah, remind me again why I didn't tell her." Stiles said sarcastically.
"You've told me yourself that Avery, would walk through Hell to save someone she loves. I'm sorry but I'm not going to let her do that." He continued.
"I would have done the same." Jackson said siding with Stiles, which surprised all of them.
Looking down at Teagan as he added, "If it meant keeping you alive, I would lie to you in a heartbeat."
"Well that's just great." Teagan said sarcastically, then she looked over at Stiles as she said, "but while you've been keeping things to yourself, Avery could be dying and if something happens to her cause you kept this a secret, I swear I'll..."
"Hey, calm down." Jackson said, as he laid a hand on her shoulder hoping to comfort her some.
Teagan glanced over at Stiles and felt bad when she saw the heartbroken expression on his face. She could tell he was blaming himself just as much if not more than she was, but she knew deep down it wasn't his fault. He had no way of knowing that they would take Avery.
"I'm sorry, Stiles." She said sincerely, then added, "Let's just go find, Avery."
Stiles nodded his head as the three turned to walk down the hallway, as they turned a corner, they came to a quick stop when they saw Chris Argent and two of his men standing behind him.
"Boys... Teagan." Chris said, as he flashed them a grim smile, then said,"I was wondering if you could tell me where Scott McCall is."
As Teagan shook her head 'no', Stiles spoke up and said, "Scott McCall? Nah, haven't seen him since the dance."
"Teagan?" Chris asked, as he looked at her.
"I-I wasn't even at the dance." She answered honestly.
"Jackson?" Chris asked as he looked over at him last, but all Jackson could do was stutter and shake his head as he tried to lie to the older man.
Chris smirked as he reached forward and grabbed Stiles, leading him a little ways down the hall and pushing him into an empty room; while one of his other men grabbed Jackson to do the same.
The last man lightly grabbed Teagan's arm and walked her inside the room. Chris grabbed Stiles and slammed him against the wall.
The man that had pulled her into the room, pushed her over towards Jackson and locked the door.
"Let him go." Teagan said, sounding a lot braver than she felt.
She reached out to grab Chris's arm to pull him away from Stiles but before she could, the man who'd grabbed her earlier intervened by pinning her arms behind her back, and holding her still.
Jackson yelled out as he tried to step forward to help her, but the other hunter kept him still.
"Let me ask you a question Stiles." Chris started to say, "Have you ever seen a rabid dog?"
"No. I could put it on my to-do list if you let me go." Stiles answered sarcastically.
"Well I have, and the only thing I've ever been able to compare it to is seeing a friend of mine turn on a full moon." Chris Argent said, then asked, "Do you wanna know what happened?"
"Not really. No offense to your storytelling skills." Stiles said.
Chris ignored his comment, "He tried to kill me, and I was forced to put a bullet in his head. The whole while that he lay there dying, he was still trying to claw his way toward me, still trying to kill me, like it was the most important thing he could do with his last breath."
"Maybe you need to pick better friends." Teagan snapped, then cried out in pain when the man holding her squeezed her arms and told her to shut up.
"Can you imagine that?" Chris asked Stiles, ignoring her.
"No." Stiles answered, then added,"But I think Teagan is right, you need to be a little more selective..."
Before he could finish his remark, Chris slapped the wall beside Stiles, causing him to jump and Teagan to scream out. Jackson looked over at her, wishing he could comfort her in some way.
"Did Scott try to kill you on the full moon? Did you have to lock him up?" Mr. Argent demanded an answer from the teen.
"Yeah I did. I had to handcuff him to a radiator." Stiles answered, and then added,"Why? Would you prefer I lock him in the basement and burn the whole house down around him?"
Chris gave a bitter chuckle as he took a step back then said, "I hate to dispel a popular rumor, but we never did that."
"Maybe you didn't, but your bitch sister did." Teagan snapped. Then added,"Just like she kidnapped a teenage girl earlier today."
"She wouldn't." Chris said back, as he turned his head to look at her.
"Then where is Avery? One of her friends is in the hospital but yet she's not here. You don't find that a little strange?" Teagan asked.
She didn't wait for him to answer before she continued, "Or how about the fact that I got a text from her saying; she had to run home for taco night with her dad."
The man holding her said, "That doesn't prove anything."
Jackson shook his head, even he knew that meant something, then he said, "Avery and her dad don't have family dinners. The man is barely home long enough to speak to her."
"Plus she hates spicy food." Stiles pointed out.
When Teagan shot him a look, he said, "What? I've been watching her for years. I know her likes and dislikes."
"Anyway my point is, maybe it doesn't prove that your sister is behind it all, but it does prove that someone took Avery." Teagan explained.
"Now there are two people missing; Derek and Avery. Think about it, who would want to take Derek... a hunter would take him to question then kill him, but if he's not telling them what they want to hear, what do you do next?"
"You threaten him with something he loves." Chris answered quietly, realizing she was right.
"Exactly." Teagan said, then added, "Now you have two seconds to let us go so I can save my best friend or the alpha will be the least of your worries. I will come at you with all that I have because no one, and I mean no one messes with my friends."
"Let them go." Chris instructed his men.
As soon as he was free, Jackson rushed over to Teagan, just needing to be near her.
But she wasn't done with Chris as she said,"You better hope Avery is okay or I will make it my life's mission to make Kate and you lives a living hell."
"Let's go." Jackson said, as he lightly grabbed her arm and began to walk towards the door.
Stiles raced out of the room after them and walked along beside her, with Jackson on her other side.
Stiles chuckled as he asked, "When did you get to be such a bad-ass?"
"I don't know where that came from." Teagan said, she'd even surprised herself, but she knew Avery would be proud.
"Me either, but it was hot." Jackson said with a smirk.
Teagan shook her head and chuckled, "Come on, let's go save Avery. But first we need to make stop…"
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Avery looked around terrified as her arm was throbbing from her broken fingers, Kate led her through a brick tunnel going deeper unground until she came to a large metal door.
Unlocking it she slid it open and Avery stared wide eyed at Derek who was chained up on some floor to ceiling metal bars, her eyes went to some wires that were taped to his bare side.
Weakened from the torture and the electrical currents, Derek's head hung as he looked down to the floor, not even wanting to see Kate walk back in the room.
But when he heard a second heart beat he looked up, his gaze stopping on Avery as she stared back at him wide-eyed.
Derek's own heart started to race. This is what he'd feared would happen; hunters would use Avery against him.
As Kate moved her further into the room, the movements jarred her broken fingers and her hand started to throb again.
She gasped in pain and Derek growled at Kate as his face shifted into his werewolf form.
"You see this? This is what you've been dating, a monster." Kate said pointing to Derek.
Avery narrowed her eyes as she looked at Kate, "You're the only monster I see in this room."
Kate let out a small laugh before she hit Avery, immediately the skin on her cheek bone busted open from the impact of the blow.
Avery stumbled backwards with a yelp of pain, and Derek struggled against the chains holding him to the wall as he growled.
Grabbing a fist full of Avery's long blonde hair Kate said, "This all could have been avoided if you'd just told me who the alpha was, or even tossed me a bone with the name of the other beta."
Derek looked at Avery, realizing she was withholding the information, because she knew it was the only thing keeping him alive.
Avery swallowed hard, "I can't tell you what I don't know…" she started to say but Kate silenced her as she punched her again.
"Stop it!" Derek growled still trying to break free of the chains, he wanted to rip the female hunter apart for hurting Avery.
"You know Derek, I'm starting to sense a theme here. You have something you love; and I rip it away from you." Kate said as she looked at Avery who's cheek was bloody was swollen.
Avery had never been in so much pain in her entire life, she'd never had any broken bones.
The worst that had happened to her was a sprained elbow when she fell out of a tree as a kid, at the time she'd thought that had to have been the worst pain in the world.
But when she saw the look in Derek's eyes, she wasn't sure what was hurting her more; the broken bones and bruised face or seeing him feel like her pain was his fault.
Kate pushed Avery towards the metal bars and made her sit down on the floor, as she tied her ankles together too.
"It's just like history repeating itself." Kate said as she walked over to the table with the machines the wires were hooked up to.
Avery's heart started to race as her eyes scanned the wires again.
Taking a deep breath Avery pinned her eyes shut as Kate turned the machine on and it started to electrocute Derek.
He growled and yelled in pain as his body convulsed uncontrollably against the metal bars he was chained too.
Even with her eyes shut tears still ran down her cheeks; for the first time she really wished the alpha had killed her at the video store, or even at the school.
Any ending sounded better to her than Kate torturing her and Derek to hurt the other one.
She quickly shut the machine off as she turned and looked at them.
"History repeating. That's it! Jackson might have a scratch on the back of his neck, but he's not in love with Allison. Not like Scott is." She realized looking between them.
"Scott's the second beta… I'll be damned." She breathed out.
When neither of them responded she asked, "So then who's the alpha?"
They both stayed quiet.
"You two are real trip, you know that?" Kate said as she crossed the room and picked up a knife from her bag.
"Unfortunately, for the both of you. I need to keep Scott away from my niece so I'm going to have to speed things up a bit." She said as she cut the ropes binding Avery's left arm to the metal pole.
"What are you doing?" Derek asked the question that Avery was afraid to.
"Speeding things up." Kate said, nonchalantly as she looked down and quickly swiped the sharp blade down Avery's wrist.
"No!" Derek yelled as Avery yelled out in pain.
Kate dropped Avery's wrist as blood was already starting to puddle up on the floor.
Her breathing was labored as her arm throbbed and more blood gushed from the wound, and she stared at her arm her disbelief.
Derek stared at her, his eyes wide with horror.
"Poor Avery, she fell in love with the wrong guy. Then after he almost killed her and her friends, she just couldn't take it anymore." Kate said looking at Derek.
"You're going to make this look like a suicide? After you broke 2 fingers and beat me up?" Avery asked.
"They'll think he beat you…" Kate reasoned nodding to Derek. She was well aware that almost the entire town thought Derek had tried to kill Avery a few times.
"It'll never work, no one's going to believe she killed herself. You're not going to get away with it." Derek said his jaw tense as he spoke, and his heart raced inside his chest.
"It's not too farfetched for someone who swallowed a bottle of her dads sleeping pills at 14, now is it?" Kate said with a smirk.
Derek looked over at Avery who avoided his eyes and continued to stare at her badly bleeding wrist.
Avery had turned 14, 2 months after Teagan had moved away. Just like the year before when she'd turned 13 her dad had forgotten about her birthday.
But that year she'd never felt more alone, everything had just been adding up and she'd held it all in; it felt like she didn't have anyone.
To begin with she only took a few of the pills, just wanting to sleep and forget about the world, but soon she realized that not only did she want to sleep; she never wanted to wake up.
It had seemed peaceful to her at the time, the thought of just laying down to sleep and slowly drifting away.
But her dad found her and rushed her to the hospital where they pumped her stomach and managed to save her.
For the next 3 months she lived at an in-treatment facility in Long Beach, California.
Everyone thought she was taking a vacation, no one knew what really happened but her and her dad.
Kate had somehow managed to see Avery's medical records.
"Tell me who the alpha is and she might make it, after he's dead. I'll let her go." Kate said to Derek.
"Stay quiet, and I'll cut the other wrist." Kate warned as she walked back over to Avery. Carefully stepping around the growing puddle of blood.
Derek watched as Kate was about to cut the other ropes holding her right arm, "It's Peter… my uncle." Derek said finally caving under Kate's pressure and the fear of Avery dying.
Avery closed her eyes and groaned as she leaned her head back against the cold metal and thought for sure Kate was going to kill them both now.
"I didn't see that coming." She admitted as she pulled on her coat.
"I'm going to take care of this nasty little werewolf problem. Derek you hold down the fort and uh, keep an eye on her… she's not looking so good." Kate said taking one last look between them before she left shutting the metal door behind her.
A/N- Thank you for reading chapter 35! Can you guys believe we're at the end of season 1?
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