Chapter 11 - The Hot Girl

"You have got to be kidding me!" Avery muttered as she parked her car at school and saw the twins taking their helmets off as they sat on their parked motorcycles.

As she gathered her school bag she saw them approaching Scott, and she broke into a run to see what they where there for.

"You're back in school?" Scott questioned them.

"No, just to talk." Ethan admitted.

"We're not interested." Avery snapped as she grabbed Scott's arm and started to pull him away, but Stiles joined the conversation, as he chimed in,"'Oh, well that's kind of a change of pace for you guys. Seeing as how usually you're just hurting, maiming, and killing."

"You need a pack, we need an alpha." Aiden pointed out, focusing his attention on Scott.

"No way." Avery snapped at the same time Stiles sarcastically replied, "That's hilarious though."

"You came to us for help, we helped." Ethan reminded them, causing Avery to roll her eyes.

"You beat his face into a bloody pulp. That's not helping, in my opinion that's actually counter-productive." Stiles argued.

"Why would I even say yes?" Scott finally managed to get a word in between his friends constant snapping at the former alphas.

"We'd add strength, we'd make you more powerful." Aiden continued to try and sell the idea but Avery took a step closer, partially in front of Scott as she laughed taunting the twins.

"He's a true alpha, so he doesn't really need you in the pack to be powerful. None of us care that you're back to being omegas, you know the bitches."

Aiden's eyes started to glow blue as her words did exactly what she'd intended and got under his skin.

Grabbing her arm with a sigh, Scott pulled her back to where she had been standing beside him and Ethan laid an arm in front of his brother's chest as he looked to Scott and said, "There's no reason to say no."

While Stiles made an amused face at the remark, Avery angrily yelled, "I can think of literally a million reasons!"

"Top of that list being when you two held Derek's claws out while Kali impaled Boyd." Isaac announced as he and Teagan joined the group.

Letting go of his girlfriend's hand he crossed his arms over his chest and stared at the former alphas. Teagan looked between the group, she didn't need werewolf senses to know tensions were at an all-time high.

"Don't forget that when you came to us for help, we helped."

Avery rolled her eyes not even paying attention to which one of them had said it, "Do you know what Derek had to do with Boyd's body after he died? He had to take him and leave him in the woods for someone to stumble across because we obviously couldn't just call the police."

Both twins looked at her as she took a deep breath and continued, "While the two of you are busy patting each other on the back for being even remotely helpful for once in your pathetic lives, just know that I every time I look at you all I'll ever see are monsters who killed one of my best friends. After they found his body, I was there at his funeral. I stood next to mother when they lowered him in the ground, so don't you dare come to any of us acting like we owe you a damn thing. Because the only thing you'll get from me is slow, agonizing death."

Teagan turned her head and looked at her friend, not she didn't disagree, but it still worried her when Avery started to let that amount of anger show through. The troubling part of it was that if that much anger was coming, there was a ton more rage she was holding inside.

"In fact, I don't know why we're not impaling them right now." Isaac chimed in, in complete agreement with Avery as Stiles nodded his head.

Raising his head Aiden's fang showed as his eyes glowed blue, letting out a growl he asked, "You wanna try?"

An amused look spread over Isaac's face as he gently pushed Teagan back some allowing him room to fight if he needed it.

"You hear that, Isaac?" Avery taunted as he nudged his arm and said, "He thinks he can take us."

"Yeah, we'll he's got another coming." Isaac growled his eyes glowing yellow as he started forward, but Teagan quickly grabbed his arm.

"Isaac, stop. We're at school." Teagan reminded him, her voice immediately soothing him and becoming his own voice of reason.

"Everybody stop!" Scott said loudly as he looked around the group then turned his attention back to the twins, "Sorry, but they don't trust you."

"No, he's not sorry." Avery corrected.

Glancing over at her and then back to the brothers he admitted, "I don't trust you either."

With a smirk Avery stepped forward again, placing her hands between their upper arms and then pushing them apart as she walked past with her head held high. The rest of the group followed after her.

Once they were inside of the school, Stiles ducked to narrowly avoid a roll of toilet paper someone was throwing through the halls.

Teagan watched as Avery and Scott walked off one way, she was obviously letting him know she wasn't happy he'd even given Ethan and Aiden the time of day.

Isaac gave her a quick kiss before saying he'd catch up with her in a little bit, that he needed to get something from his locker.

Taking a deep breath, her dark brown eyes scanned the hallway full of laughing students, excited and playing pranks since it was almost Halloween. She knew she needed to be there –had to be there, but at that moment school was the last place on earth she wanted to be.

Every day she felt like she could relate to everyone else less and less. They were worried about their grades, and pimples… who asked who out and what party they should go to for the upcoming holiday. But her entire world was crumbling in around her.

"Teagan?" Stiles asked waving a hand in front of her face.

"Huh?" She stammered caught off guard and shaken from her thoughts.

Turning to look at him she watched as he opened his mouth and said, ""Tuer ou être tué."

Her jaw dropped and the color drained from her face as she gasped, "What…"

Confused by her sudden reaction he repeated, "I said I need to talk to you about something."

Taking a deep breath she shook her head and as she walked away from him towards her locker, trying to keep calm despite the fact that she didn't know what was happening to her anymore.

"Uh, it's important!" Stiles called, nearly tripping over his own feet as he raced off after her.

"I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted today." She mumbled under her breath as she reached her locker.

"Well then focus Teagan, this is important. It's about Avery."

Seeming to not notice that his friend was still, indeed, very distracted he began to ramble, "So my dad had to take a graveyard patrol shift last night, the station is really short staffed."

"Mhmm." Teagan hummed as she tried to remember what books she needed to get for her morning classes.

"So… he saw these two cars racing down 14th street, like pedal to the metal, not even stopping for red lights racing."

"Stiles, do you still have my pre-cal book?" She asked, remembering a few days ago when she'd passed the book to him in between classes because he'd forgotten his.

Shaking his head in shock at her he said, "Are you just not putting two and two together here, Teagan? It was Avery! Avery was one of the driver's that was racing!"

Finally snapped out of her haze she turned sideways and gasped, "In her Mustang?"

"Yeah!"

"My dad told me because he yelled at her about it and he was worried she might take it out on me today, but she's acting like nothing happened." He explained seeing the worried expression on her face grow.

"It gets worse…"

"How? How does that get any worse?" Teagan asked, thinking something must really be bothering her best friend, because Avery would never risk even putting a scratch on her car, let alone wrecking it.

"The other driver… he hit a tree and died on impact. That's how fast they were going… if that had been Avery…"

"I know." Teagan frowned as she shut her locker door and their pair started down the hallway.

"I was going to talk to her myself, but you know she's going to mad and in case you've failed to notice –she's slightly terrifying when she's pissed." He said as he stopped at his locker.

Teagan nodded, as the made a mental note to get Avery alone that day to talk to her about this. She'd been so focused on her own problems that she hadn't really noticed how bad off Avery had gotten. Closing her eyes she realized Avery taking Isaac to some shady bar on the outskirts of town should have been a red flag.

"Who's scary when they're angry? Avery?" Scott guessed catching the last of Stiles' sentence as he'd neared them.

"You called it." Stiles said as he opened his locker and glanced around before pulling a carton of eggs from his bag and putting them in his locker for later that day.

"Speaking of… weren't you just with her?" Teagan asked, raising her gaze to Scott as he leaned against the row of lockers.

"I was, but then she left to find Jared." He explained, his voice trailing off as he spotted Kira across the hallway, fumbling with her book bag as she dropped some papers to the floor.

"Still paying him to do her homework?" Stiles questioned, but Scott didn't respond.

"You know he gets her better grades than himself…" Stiles said with a slightly stunned expression at the realization.

Noticing Scott wasn't listening to him –he asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Me? Uh, nothing… you." He rambled, causing Teagan to raise her eyebrows at him before looking behind her to see Kira trying to cram her folders into her book bag.

"That's Kira, right?" Teagan asked, recalling the girl's name.

"Yeah, yeah. She's okay… she's new."

Teagan smiled at seeing Scott seeming to grow nervous as Stiles nonchalantly said, "So ask her out."

"Now?"

"Yes now." Stiles assured him as he shut his locker.

Teagan took her phone out and stared down to the time, wishing she had more time before first period started to talk to Avery, but she didn't.

Walking with her two friends she laughed as Stiles said, "Scott, I don't think you get it yet. You're an alpha, you're the apex predator."

"Everyone wants you." Teagan joked, trying to focus on the here and now, rather than her terrifying hallucinations.

Nodding Stiles added, "You're like the hot girl that every guy wants."

"The hot girl?" Scott asked.

Isaac walked up to the group and slid an arm around Teagan's waist as he looked around the trio, wondering that conversation he'd just walk into.

"You are the hottest girl." Stiles assured him as he smacked him on the shoulder before walking off towards his class.

Seeing a shocked expression on Scott's face and Teagan holding back laughter Isaac asked, "What did I just walk into…"

"I'm the hot girl." Scott realized.

Still not sure what was happening, Isaac agreed, "Yes you are."

Laughing Scott adjusted the straps to his book bag and smiled proudly as he walked away with a new found pep in his step.

"I don't understand." Isaac admitted, laughing.

Smiling and for a few seconds feeling like herself she shrugged, "Scott's the hot girl."

Turning to face her he held onto her sides as he leaned down pressing a kiss to her lips before resting his forehead against hers as he said, "Pretty sure that role is already taken by my badass, hot girlfriend."

~()~

Teagan sighed as she opened her locker door and began to change out her books. The day was not even half over yet, but she was ready to go home –hide out in her bedroom and ignore the world. She could still faintly hear her mother's voice in her head, but kept trying to ignore it which was tiring and since she wasn't getting much sleep anyways, it made things even worse.

As if that wasn't bad enough, she also haven't had a chance to talk to Avery yet which made her feel like the world's worst friend; her best friend was spiraling out of control and she had been too distracted to even notice.

With a sigh, she reached back to lay a hand on her shoulder trying to loosen up the tight muscles. She only got to do a few squeezes, when she felt someone brush her hand aside, then felt them place their hands on both her shoulders, giving her a massage.

She softly smiled to herself, knowing it was Isaac. She leaned back against his chest, then rolled her head to the side with a groan. Isaac grinned as he leaned down to kiss the side of her neck that was exposed, before whispering in her ear, "Feel better, babe?"

"Mm-hm. That feels so good." She quietly moaned.

He kissed the side of her neck again, grinning against her skin, as he said, "If you keep moaning like that I'm gonna have to do something else that makes you feel good."

Teagan's mouth dropped open in surprise at his comment. She turned around and playfully slapped his shoulder as said, "You need to behave. We are at school."

"So?" Isaac said back, as he raised his eyebrows with a grin on his face. "It's clear to see you're stressed and I'm just suggesting a good way to relieve that stress." He added with a shrug.

Teagan bit her bottom lip in thought as she glanced around the hallway, the rest of their peers were heading for their next class but would it be so bad to skip one little class?

With everything that has happened lately; the nightmares, hallucinations and her guilty feelings from hurting him twice recently, the two hadn't had a lot of time alone.

"Where should we go?" Teagan questioned.

"Seriously?" Isaac asked surprised. He was hoping she would go along with the idea, he wanted nothing more than to spend some much needed time with her, but never thought she would go for it.

"Why not?" Teagan said with a shrug. "I think we could both benefit from it." She added, as she laid her hands on his chest, then ran her hands up to wrap her arms around his neck.

"I am feeling a little stressed." Isaac pointed out.

"You do look a little stressed." Teagan agreed, as she nodded her head.

"I'm a little frustrated too." Isaac added.

"Really?" Teagan asked with feigned shock.

"Mm-hm." Isaac said. He leaned forward to softly kiss her lips, then pulled back a little with his lips inches from hers as he whispered, "Sexually."

"Mm." Teagan moaned, as she licked her lips. She grinned at him, as she said, "I'm feeling a little bit of that too."

"You are?" Isaac questioned.

"Mm-hm." Teagan said with a nod.

Isaac smiled as he gave her a quick peck on the lips, then grabbed her hand as he said, "Come on, follow me."

Teagan chuckled, as he rushed down the hall pulling her along behind him. Isaac walked into the locker room, glancing around to make sure it was empty. When he didn't hear or see anything, he pulled her in with him and turned around to face her.

With a grin on their faces, he wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her toward him as he pressed his lips against hers for a heated kiss. As they continued to kiss, he began to walk them past a few row of lockers, before he stopped to lower his hands to grab her butt and lift her up. She wrapped her legs around his waist then hissed out in pain, when she felt him slam her back against a locker.

"Sorry." Isaac breathed out, apologizing for being so rough. He reached up to push a lock of hair behind her ear before caressing her cheek. When she gave him a smile and a shake of the head, as if to say, it was okay, he leaned forward to press his lips against hers again this time being a little more gentle.

He grabbed at the bottom of the shirt she was wearing, pulling the sheer material over her head, leaving her in a white tank top. He kissed across her jaw, then down the side of her neck, lightly sucking and biting her skin.

She let out a breathy moan, and dug her nails into his shoulders. She felt him slide his hands under her tank top, running his hands over her bare back. All he could think about was wanting her back flat against something and her legs around his waist, but knew the locker room floor was probably not the most sanitary place to do it.

Suddenly remembering the desk in coach's office he kept his arms around her, holding her up as he attacked her lips and began to walk over to the office door. He swung the door open, stepped inside then pulled away for a moment to look for the desk, but was in for a surprised when he saw the room was trashed.

"Whoa, what happened in here?" Isaac wondered out loud.

Teagan turned her head, seeing the condition of the room. She slid down, placing her feet on the floor then turned to look at the room better with a confused expression. She opened her mouth, like Isaac –she wondered what happened as well, until she briefly remembered Stiles talking about pranking Coach for his birthday.

She let out a small chuckle, then said, "Stiles. It was Stiles."

"Why am I not surprised." Isaac said, then added, "This has Stiles wrote all over it."

"So much for relieving stress, huh?" Teagan questioned, as she turned to look at Isaac.

"There are other offices and rooms in this school." Isaac pointed out. He grinned, then added, "If you still want to..."

"Come on." Teagan said with a laugh, as she grabbed his hand and pulled him from the room, neither one ever noticing another person in the room, the person the police were currently looking for.

After leaving coach's office, Teagan pulled Isaac down an abandoned hall, then pulled him into a girl's restroom. She knew no one hardly used this one, so the chance of being caught were slim.

She laid her sheer shirt he removed earlier on the counter, then hopped up to sit on top of it. She reached out to grab the front of his shirt, pulling him toward her, as the two began to kiss again.

She wrapped her legs around his waist, feeling like she couldn't get close enough to him. She gripped the front of his t-shirt wishing it was off and not in her way. All she wanted was to have her hands on his bare chest. She didn't think that was asking too much.

Teagan pulled away for a moment to glance down, planning to grab the bottom of his shirt and lift it off, but froze when she saw a red spot on his clean, white, shirt. She lowered her eyebrows in confusion, not even noticing his lips were nipping at her skin as he kissed across her shoulder.

She lifted her hand laying it on his chest then gasped when she saw the spot getting bigger. "I-Isaac..." She breathed out, as she patted his chest, trying to get his attention.

"Yeah, babe?" He asked, as he pulled back to look at her. A worried look appeared on his face when he saw how scared she looked. He saw her staring at his shirt, then glanced down not seeing anything, before looking back at her. He grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at him, as he asked, "What's wrong?"

"You-You're hurt. I hurt you." She whimpered, as she grabbed the bottom of his shirt lifting it up. "No." She cried out, when she saw the deep cut on his chest. She placed her hand over it, trying to stop the bleeding, as she said, "I did this. I did it, I-I got to stop it. I've got to fix it."

Isaac looked down in confusion not seeing anything, then grabbed her hands; removing them from his chest and held them in his own hands and said, "Hey… baby, look at me."

"No, no, I got to stop it." Teagan cried, as she tried to pull her hands away. She couldn't understand how he could be so calm when he was bleeding out.

"Teagan, look at me." Isaac said again, a little louder getting her attention. When he caught her eyes, he added, "There's nothing wrong. Everything is okay."

"No, no it's not, it's..." She began to say, as she looked back down and gasped when she saw he was right. There no blood, no cut, no stain, everything was like he said it was; okay.

"But, you- there was..." She stuttered out, trying to explain.

"Hey..." Isaac began to say, as he laid his hands on either side of her face forcing her to look at him. "I don't know what you think you saw, but it's not true, okay? I'm okay, you're okay, we're both okay."

"You-You're okay. I didn't hurt-hurt you." She mumbled, as she cautiously laid her hand on his chest.

Isaac opened his mouth to say something back wondering exactly what she saw, but before he could say a word, the door opened, as Lydia and Allison walked in, interrupting the couple.

"Hey, there you two are." Lydia said.

"We've been looking all over for you both. Neither of you were in class." Allison added.

"So what are you here to nark on us or something?" Isaac questioned, as he lowered his shirt back down. He stepped back from the counter, then helped Teagan to jump down.

"No." Allison said, as she rolled her eyes. "Stiles is looking for us all. He's freaking out about something." She added.

"That's Stiles. He's always freaking out." Isaac pointed out, as he folded his arms across his chest.

"What's wrong?" Teagan softly asked, as she hugged herself trying to shake the image from her mind. She felt Isaac slip an arm around her waist and pulled her against him, trying to offer her some comfort.

"I don't know. He wants us all to meet up then he'll tell us." Lydia stated.

"Let's go then." Teagan said, as she pulled away from Isaac, the thought of hurting him again running through her mind. She walked past Lydia and Allison, ignoring the small smiles on their faces at finding her and Isaac in a bathroom together, the two girls had an idea what the couple were doing.

The small group walked out of the bathroom, making their way down the hallway and came across Stiles and Avery. Once Stiles realized they were all present, minus Scott; who they still needed to found, he began to walk down the hall, gesturing for them all to follow him.

He quickly informed then what he learned from his father earlier about William Barrow.

"Barrow went after kids with glowing eyes? He said those exact words?" Isaac questioned him after he was done. He glanced over at Teagan when he felt her slip her hand into his, he could feel how nervous she was.

"Yeah. And no one knows how he woke up from anesthesia. Just that when they opened him up, they found a tumor full of live flies, which in any other circumstance would be all kinds of awesome." Stiles explained.

"Did you say flies?" Lydia asked, as she came to a stop, causing the others to stop and turn around to face her.

"Lydia?" Allison questioned.

"What is it?" Avery added.

"All day I have been hearing this sound. It's like this buzzing." Lydia answered.

"Like the sound of flies?" Teagan asked.

"Exactly like the sound of flies." Lydia said.

"He's here." Avery said, as she looked at her friends. She didn't know how she knew that, but she did. Between the weird feeling she had, and what Lydia was hearing, she would bet anything that he was there.

"What are we going to do?" Teagan questioned.

"Well first, we need to find Scott." Stiles said, wanting to find his best friend. "Then we need to figure what flies have to do with all of this." He added.

"I can check the bestiary." Allison offered. "There has to be something in it about flies coming out of bodies, but it's going to take me literally all night."

"I'll help you." Teagan said over at Allison, which she gladly accepted. Since Teagan knew archaic Latin, she knew it would be a good idea to have her there.

"I'll stay here, help Scott to sniff him out." Isaac said to the group as he gave Teagan's hand a squeeze, wishing he didn't have to let it go but knew for this, it was best for them to split up.

"A, are you coming?" Teagan asked, as she looked at her best friend, who had been silent for a while, looking around.

"I feel like I should stay." Avery quietly said, not making eye contact with anyone. There was something in this school, some clue just waiting for her to find.

"Are you sure?" Teagan asked, worried about leaving her best friend and boyfriend behind.

As Avery nodded her head to answer, Teagan shot her a concerned look as she said, "Promise me, you'll be careful." She turned to look at Isaac, reaching up to lay a hand on the side of his face, as she whispered, "I need you to be careful too." She lightly ran her thumb over his bottom lip, as she mouthed, "Come back to me."

"I will." He promised. As the others began to walk down the hall, he gave Teagan a quick kiss on the lips before whispering, "It's you and me."

"It's you and me." She whispered back, giving him another kiss before he turned and began to walk down the hall catching up with the others.

"It's going to okay." Allison said over to her friend, when she saw the worried look on her face.

Teagan looked over at her, giving her a short nod, hoping she was right. After all the hallucinations of seeing her loved ones hurt or dying, she hated the thought of leaving them behind but she couldn't help but think they would be okay as long as they were away from her. She was the problem; she was the one who was really dangerous.

~()~

Avery ducked into a classroom and waited out the loud ringing of the fire alarm that Stiles had pulled to try and get everyone out of the school.

All day she'd had this sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, like something bad was about to happen. Now she was wandering through the empty school in hopes that with her abilities she might be able to somehow locate Barrow. Lydia swore he was in the school, and after everything they'd been through Lydia had been right in one way or another.

As she walked into the chemistry room a chill ran up her spine, and she spun in a slow circle her eyes moving rapidly as she searched every corner of the room.

Her eyes stopped on the locked closet to the side of the room, and her heels clicked against the floor as she neared it.

But just as she started to reach out for the handle she heard a noise behind her.

Spinning around she saw an officer in the room with his gun pointed at her, it only took seconds for her to let out a sigh of relief.

"We have to stop meeting like this, deputy." She said smiling widely at him.

Lowering his gun Parrish asked, "What are you doing in here? Not only is the shrapnel bomber on the loose, but the fire alarm was pulled."

Slowly walking closer to him she purred, "What did I tell you about playing tough cop with me?"

His eyes locked with hers as his mouth went dry as he remembered their last conversation perfectly, despite his best efforts to hide that fact, she saw the smile toying at the corners of his mouth and she looked down as she smiled too.

"You really shouldn't be in here." He finally said, his professional expression returning.

With a jolt of attitude she responded, "And I'm really not fond of being told what to do."

He watched her closely as she took a few steps away from him and said, "I happen to be trying to save lives, and you're interfering."

"Is that so?" He asked with an amused expression.

Resting her hands on her hips she nodded, clearly not appreciating him not believing her.

Looking around the room he pushed, "What are you doing in here then?"

Normally she'd had a million snarky comebacks, or even a raunchy response that could make his cheeks darken but the longer her eyes met his, the more her excuses faded away and she admitted, "I think Barrow is in the school… I'm trying to prevent a possible disaster here."

He couldn't hide the shocked look on his face as he questioned. "You're walking around by yourself trying to find someone who's responsible for the death of dozens of people?"

Raising her eyebrows as she placed her hands on the desk between them and leaned down slightly, revealing the plunging neckline of her shirt and the black lace trim of her dark blue bra as she arched an eyebrow and said, "Don't underestimate me… I happen to have acquired a very elite set of skills and I'm more than capable of defending myself."

His gaze left her face and fell to her exposed cleavage momentarily before he regained his concentration and glanced to the side reminding himself that she was in the classroom at the school because she was a student there. But even knowing that, it was hard to stay focused around her, which was something he was also aware she knew and kept using to her advantage.

Clearing his throat and sliding his gun back into his holster he asked, "An elite set of skills?"

She glanced down to the floor for a second holding back a laugh as she then walked back around the desk closer to him speaking in a hushed tone so he'd have to lean in farther to hear her, "It just so happens Deputy Parrish, that I actually possess several very sought after abilities."

As she stepped directly in front of him he caught the sultry look in her eyes, and the faint scent of her cherry blossom perfume tickled his nose as she smiled up at him from under her mascara coated eyelashes.

It was in these moments around her, when he became completely absorbed in her presence; not only did the rest of the world melt away but all reason went out the window and he found himself returning her advances, his eyes traced her face briefly lingering on her lips before he responded, "And what abilities would those be, Miss Dukate?"

Reaching forward she straightened the sleeve of his uniform out before trailing a finger down his arm and saying, "I don't just show anyone…but if you play your cards right, I might consider –indulging you..."

Her eyes focused solely on him as she saw him swallow hard and run his tongue over his bottom lip as he tried to find his words, but the moment was quickly ruined when a voice called out, "Deputy?"

Avery quickly took a step back away from the young officer and held back a laugh as the sheriff looked at him expectantly.

"Uh, sir, I found… this student wandering around." He explained motioning to Avery who rolled her eyes at him and then flashed a smile to Stiles' dad and greeted, "Hey Sheriff."

"Avery, you're supposed to be outside with everyone else." He stated, giving the teenager a concerned expression as he remembered pulling her over for racing the prior night.

"I was just looking for Scott." She lied.

Nodding the sheriff said, "Well, he's outside… with Stiles."

She nodded and offered a friendly smile.

"Parrish, make sure she gets outside and then I need you at the train station; we got an eyewitness putting Barrow there less than ten minutes ago." He said as he turned and left.

"Come on." Deputy Parrish said nodding for Avery to follow him out of the room, no trace of his formerly flirty tone left.

Dropping her arms to her sides she sighed in irritation but didn't move.

He stopped when he realized she wasn't following him.

"Avery." He said his tone stern, but lacking the irritation present in her voice as she said, "I know you don't believe me, but I really am trying to help here."

Walking over to her, he gently got a grip on her arm as he said, "I don't have time to argue with you, I need to get to the train station."

Looking down to his skin on hers and trying to ignore the fluttery sensation in her stomach she narrowed her eyes and threatened, "Let go of me, or I'll scream."

Sighing he said, "Please don't."

"I'm just trying to help!" She yelled, frustrated at his not believing or understanding what she meant.

"And I'm only trying to do my job. So can you just cooperate, please?" He asked, in an almost defeated voice.

This time as he tried to pull her from the room she let him lead her out of the classroom and down the hallway towards the exit. As they walked outside he looked at her and started to ask her why she was so convinced that Barrow was in the school but before he got the chance another student yelled her name.

Looking over Avery saw both Scott and Stiles motioning for her to join them.

She started to walk away but he stopped her as he said, "I believe you… that you think you're trying to help."

Turning her head back his direction her forehead lined with emotion as she said, "It's okay… if I were you I probably really wouldn't believe me either…"

His eyebrows pushed together as he saw a glimpse of sadness in her eyes before she headed over to her friends and he left to head to head to the station.

"What was that about?" Scott asked looking to where the officer who'd escorted her out of the building watched them for a few seconds before leaving.

"Nothing." She sighed then said, "And nothing on Barrow either… not that I got very far into my search before I was interrupted. You guys have any better luck?"

"Nothing." Aiden said at the same time Scott said, "Not even a scent."

"Well, it's almost 3 O'clock so school's pretty much over. If there was a bomb wouldn't he have set it off by now?" Stiles pointed out as he looked around to where the school grounds were steadily clearing out.

"So that means everyone is safe, right?" Ethan asked.

Avery scoffed at how he almost appeared relieved, like he was even capable of feeling any sort of compassion.

"I'm not so sure…" Lydia breathed out, causing everyone to look at her as she shrugged, "I just… I don't know."

"What's our plan then?" Ethan questioned.

"Nothing, school's out." Aiden reminded his brother.

"I can't believe I'm agreeing with him, but yeah… I'm going home, what else can we do?" Avery nodded.

Stiles looked around the group shocked, "Are you kidding me? There is a mass murderer on the loose!"

"I'm going to head to Allison's, see if Teagan needs help with anything." Isaac announced.

Lydia stared down to the ground a frustrated and almost hopeless expression on her face, she knew something was going to happen, but she couldn't give any details that would be at all helpful.

"Kira's dad invited me to dinner…" Scott admitted causing Avery to let out a small squeal as she clapped her hands in excitement for him.

"Scott, Barrow is out there… he's after teenagers with glowing eyes. Guess what? Your eyes happen to glow!" Stiles exclaimed as he readjusted his book bag.

"Shh… leave him alone." Avery said dismissing his point with a wave of her hand as she explained, "Maybe we all just need a night off… some time to ourselves, to just loosen up."

Lydia let out a heavy, exasperated sigh as she remembered back to when Avery used to talk like that, always trying to tell other people to loosen up and then having to call for rides home from wherever she'd end up drunk at.

"What did you say you were doing tonight?" Isaac asked, the last time she'd talked like that to him, they both ended up in a bar fight after Jackson and Teagan had showed up.

With a smirk she said, "I didn't. Because contrary to what you all believe… my every waking moment doesn't have to be spent helping you all.

Stiles opened his mouth to say something, but Isaac spoke before he could as he remembered what she'd told him, "Avery time?"

With a coy smile she nodded, "Exactly."

"Wait, what the hell is Avery time?" Lydia finally spoke up, causing both Isaac and Avery to start laughing at no one else having a clue what they were talking about.

"I'm lost." Stiles admitted tossing his hands up before he shook his head back and forth as he accused, "And disgusted in all of you…" As he turned to leave, Lydia followed him.

"Where are you going?" Aiden asked stepping forward.

Pausing Lydia admitted, "With Stiles… the only one who seems to believe me."

~ A Teen Wolf fanfiction collaboration between Miss E Charlotte and Sage Londyn.~

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