Chapter 19 - Just Hold Me Instead

The next morning, Teagan cracked her eyes open, then quickly shut them when the bright sun hit them. She felt like she was suffering from the worst hangover; her head was pounding, her eyes felt heavy and her body hurt. The feeling wasn't that surprising though, after fighting her mother all night and having Avery poking around in her head, it made sense she would feel this way.

She groaned and squeezed her eyes shut, as she rolled over on to her other side. She threw her arm out, hoping to feel Isaac beside her, then pouted when she felt the cool mattress instead. Making her think he left her at some point that night.

With a sigh, she opened her eyes again, and was surprised to see that Isaac was still there, but instead of being in her bed with her, he was sitting in the oversized armchair that was sitting in the corner, watching her.

He didn't get much sleep that night, mostly he watched her. The events from that night running through his head, the fear and guilt eating at him. Anytime he saw her shifting around, her breathing picking up to signal she was having a bad dream, he wanted to go to her, but couldn't make himself move. He had failed her, he had hurt her and he feared he would do it again.

"What are you doing over there?" Teagan questioned, as she kept her hand on his side of the bed, wishing he was laying there instead of sitting in the chair. But she didn't blame him for wanting to be away from her, not after the things she said, and the things that she did.

Isaac didn't say anything, he couldn't; what was there to say? Nothing he said could take away what he did. It took him all night to finally admit to himself that in that moment; the moment he had his fingers wrapped around her wrists, he actually wanted to hurt her.

For that one moment, his anger slipped and he almost did something he could never take back. She was right the night before when she said his father would be proud. There was more than one occasion that his father had yelled at him; telling him that he would amount to nothing, that he was worthless and no better than him.

He closed his eyes, and swallowed the lump in his throat, as he remembered the day his father told him that one day he would turn out exactly like him. He yelled at him; telling him that since he had Lahey blood rushing through his veins that meant they were the same. He could fight it all he wanted, but one day he would turn into a hateful bastard like his old man. His father told him once that day came, then he would understand; he would understand how the world really was. That there was no goodness in the world, only pain and suffering. That day he would understand that he didn't deserve anything good, and he was right.

Even after all the years of his father's abuse, he still tried to stay positive. Before his mother passed away, she use to tell him he was destined for greatness, that he deserved a better life than he had and one day he would get it, and he always believed her, even in the darkest days, a small part of him still believed and he held on to that.

Then Teagan happened. The girl he dreamed about for so long was back, and even better, he got the girl. She was all his and deeply in love with him. But all it took was one mistake, one slip and he turned into his father, the one thing he never wanted to do.

"Isaac..." Teagan softly said, getting his attention. As he opened his eyes to look at her, she continued, "I know I messed up bad last night and I'm so sorry about that. I did and said things, I never should have, but can you- could you please just forget what I said, just for now and hold me? I just need you to hold me."

Isaac shook his head as he leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees, then dropped his head in his hands. It's not that he didn't want to, it's just he didn't feel like he deserved it anymore.

He heard her sit up in the bed, leaning back against the headboard. He didn't even have to look to know that she was crying, he could smell it. He ran his hand through his hair, as he fought the urge to run to her. Truthfully, he needed her just as badly as she needed him right now.

But when he heard her whisper, 'it's always you and me', he couldn't stop himself anymore. He quickly stood up from the chair and was at the bed within seconds.

Teagan looked up at him in surprise, her mouth slightly parted, which he took advantage of as he quickly pressed his lips against her for a heated kiss. She grabbed the front of his shirt, pulling him on to the bed and closer to her, as the two laid out on the bed.

"I'm sorry. Isaac, I'm so sorry." She mumbled out against his lips, before she moved her lips against his again. She slide her hands up his chest and then moved them to the back of his neck. One hand was gripping the back of his shirt, holding on to him, as the other hand went into his hair, grabbing on to his curls.

"Shh, it's okay." He whispered back, as he rested his hands on the mattress on either side of her, afraid to touch her too much, of being too rough with her while needing her so badly.

"It's not. It's not okay." Teagan said back, as she pulled back a little to look at him. She rested her hands on either side of his face as she leaned forward to rest her forehead against his. She took a deep breath, then slowly released it, before softly saying,"I know things are bad now, worst than we could have ever imagined, and I know I'm getting worst every day. I'm not getting better, Isaac, and I know there is a really good chance I'll never be better. And because of that I know you have a million of reasons to leave me..."

"I'm not going anywhere. I wouldn't leave you, Teagan." Isaac interrupted when she paused. He pulled back to look at her, wiping the tears from her cheeks, as he continued,"The only thing you have ever done is give me a million of reason to love you, and I'll never stop. I'll always love you."

"It's not safe for you. I'm not safe for you." She pointed out. She looked up at him with sad, broken, eyes, as she whispered,"I just want to feel safe again. But how can I? When I'm so scared to leave this bed; this room, scared of what I'm going to do next."

"You get inside your safety bubble." Isaac stated, as a small smile appeared on his face when a happy memory from his past crossed his mind.

"What?" Teagan asked confused.

"Hang on." Isaac said, as he raised up some to grab the sheet and comforter on her bed, pulling it over their heads. They were now covered from head to toe, safely tucked away. He softly smiled at her, as he brushed a piece of hair from her face, then said,"It's something Camden use to do with me. Anytime I got scared about something, he would pull the covers over my head. He said it was my safety bubble, when ever I was in it, nothing could touch me." He paused for a moment, when she laid her hand on the side of his face, knowing it wasn't always easy to talk about his past. The good times and the bad.

"This is your safety bubble, Teagan. In here you are safe, nothing can get you in here, nothing can hurt you." His eyes flickered over to her hand, seeing the bruise on her wrist from him. He took a shaky breath, as he softly added,"I can't hurt you in here."

"Hey..." Teagan began to say when she saw the look on his face. She laid her other hand on his face, forcing him to look at her, as she said,"You didn't hurt me. You did what you had to. If you didn't stop me, I would have really hurt you. You have no idea what all she wanted me to do to you, and if you didn't get the knife or the piece of glass from my hand, I don't know if I could have stopped myself." She felt tears fall down her face, remembering what all her mother was yelling at her to do.

The things she did do was bad enough, but if it was up to her mother, they would have been worst. She slowly shook her head, as she continued,"I wanted to stop. God knows I wanted to stop so badly, the last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt you, but she was too strong and I just- I couldn't fight it."

"Teagan..." He softly said, planning to tell her exactly what happened. He wanted to tell her that it wasn't about stopping her, maybe at first it was, but toward the end it was cause he wanted to hurt her, that for a moment he gave in to that anger and that was why he couldn't forgive himself.

But when she looked at him with those trusting eyes, his voice trailed off. He was afraid to tell her, afraid to say the words out loud and have her never look at him the same.

"Hmm?" She questioned, when he didn't say anything else.

"I love you." He breathed out. "No matter what happens, I need you to know that, I need you to always remember that I love you."

"I love you, too." She whispered, as she leaned forward to press her lips against his for a gentle kiss.

After the kiss, he laid on his back as she laid her head on his chest, cuddling into him and tried not to feel disappointed when he didn't wrap an arm around her like he used to do.

After the things she yelled at him the night before she couldn't blame him, but it did disappoint her. It was like he was there with her, but he wasn't really. His mind seemed like it was a million miles away, she just wished she knew what he was thinking. But mostly, she just wished he would hold her instead of thinking about the bad.

~(Later that day)~

Parking her car in the almost empty parking lot of a large park at the edge of the woods, Avery got out and locked up her car before putting her ear buds in and stretching before her run.

Her running shoes pounded against the pavement as she took off down one of the paved trails, winding in and around picnic areas and past some playground equipment.

The sun was going to be setting soon, this was time of day she loved to go for a run. Ever since all of the so called animal attacks from the prior year, no one really came to that park during the evening.

Breathing in the cool, fresh air she smiled to herself for the temporary distraction from her current problems. She always reminded Scott to just breathe when things seemed like too much to handle, which was some advice of her own she was trying to take.

Not only was she scared for Teagan and everything that was happening to her, she was also dealing with her own nightmares and hallucinations, which seemed to be growing more intense every day.

She was able to push those thoughts from her head for a moment while the runners high kicked in and she pushed herself even harder, but her peaceful moment was broken when one of her favorite songs started to break up in her headphones.

Coming to a stop she pulled her iPod from the arm band she used for exercising and looked at it as she tried to skip to the next song but she was met by static, which made no sense, it wasn't like she was listening to the radio.

A high pitched squeal shook the ear buds until she cried out in pain and grabbed onto the cord jerking them out.

"Ahh!" She breathed in pain as she dropped her iPod to the ground and rubbed her ears.

"Ew! A, stop it!"

The sound of a little girls voice filled her ears as her ponytail hit the sides of her face and neck as she looked side to the side, thinking she couldn't have just heard that; she was alone in the park.

"Stop, you're going to hurt it!"

Avery started to bend down and pick her iPod up to head home, but she stopped dead in her tracks as she heard another little girl's voice ring through the air, "It's dead, Teagan… you can't hurt something that's already dead."

Her breathing was shaky as she pushed through some brush off the side of the trail, every step she took a sick feeling rising inside of her. Every fiber of her being was telling her to turn back, that she didn't want to see what was just ahead. But her feet would only move in one direction.

Knocking a large spider web out of the way with a stick, she pushed her way into some heavy shrubbery and past a large tree, hearing more voices she looked up and gasped at what she saw.

Two girls who looked to be about ten or eleven years old; one blonde and one brunette. The blonde was pushing the small lifeless body of a dead bird around with a large stick, while the darker haired friend stood back with a look of horror on her face.

Avery's eyes drifted up to the sky to where it was no longer a sunset, but midday sun, she could even feel the warmth on her skin. Looking back to the children even more terrified and confused than before she started to speak but then stopped as she gasped again.

"Teagan?" Avery breathed as her eyes locked on the small, childish face of her best friend. But the girl didn't respond as she took a shaky step towards the young blonde.

Swallowing hard Avery walked closer until she realized the pre-teen girls were herself and Teagan.

"I think it's a raven…" Young Avery nonchalantly said as she poked the body with the stick again.

Teagan pulled her straight dark hair over one of her shoulders as she said, "You're doing that thing again… you know, that thing you keep doing where you scare me…"

But her friend didn't seem to hear her as she looked around with a thoughtful expression and said, "Remember that poem we had to read in Ms. Jacobson's class, the one by Edgar Allen Poe. It makes me think of that."

Swallowing hard Teagan frowned, ever since the sudden, unexpected death of her best friend's mom, Avery had been different; seemed a little darker and had been having trouble dealing with the loss.

Teagan's mother had encouraged her to be there for her friend, after talking to Avery's dad Richard, Lisa had learned that according the therapist he'd sent her too –Avery was having trouble expressing the pain she was in, instead of expressing it and mourning her mother's loss, the young girl had internalized everything and only showed her emotions in fits of rage that seemed to strike out of nowhere.

"Avery, I think we should go back and find my parents… they said it would be time to eat soon." Teagan said, trying to keep her friend from spacing out and losing touch again.

"It's sort of beautiful." Avery said, her voice monotone.

Crossing her arms over her chest and shivering even in the warm afternoon sun, young Teagan firmly said, "Like you said, it's dead, A…"

"I want a tattoo of a raven." Avery continued to speak as she poked the bird again, seeming to drift farther away with every passing second.

"A tattoo?" she breathed, feeling like she needed to walk on eggshells around her now. A feeling she hadn't felt in almost a year, it had been well over a year since Avery's mom had passed and these fits she'd had were becoming less and less frequent.

Kneeling down and getting a closer look at it, Avery glanced up at Teagan and said, "That cat you and your mom are always feeding in the park… it's what killed the bird." Quietly she muttered, "I hate cats."

"Come on." Teagan said as she grabbed onto her friends arm and tried to pull her up to her feet but she didn't cooperate as she asked, "What do you think it feels like…"

"What –what feels like?" Teagan's brown eyes were wide and watery as she spoke.

"To die." The young blond simply answered, as if it were a normal conversation topic.

"I… I don't know…" Teagan stuttered out as tears started to run down her cheeks.

"I don't understand it, T. Everyone says she's still here… that if I talk to her she can hear me. But…" She paused as her voice cracked, "I don't feel her anywhere. I used to think when someone died they went to heaven, but I'm not so sure anymore. It's just like… she stopped existing."

"You're mom?" Teagan softly said, kneeling down beside her as more tears fell down her cheeks.

"Why can't I feel her anymore?" Avery asked, with red rimmed eyes as she looked at her friend, her lightly tanned face framed in an almost unruly mess of thick, blonde waves.

"I don't know… but you've got me." She tried to assure her, but she jumped back and let out a small scream as Avery quickly stood up and stabbed the end of the stick through the bird's dead body.

"Mom!" Teagan shouted, as she backed away from her blonde friend, wrapping her arms around herself and crying.

The young blonde breathed heavily as she dug her fingernails into her own arms and shook her head back and forth letting out an ear piercing scream.

"Mom! Dad!" Teagan shouted louder than before, as she took a few more steps backwards and almost stumbled but her dad quickly caught her, wrapping her in a protective hug.

"Avery, Avery, Avery… shh, honey you're okay." Lisa said as she wrapped her arms around her daughter's best friend, pulling her hands away from her now bleeding arms as she pinned the young girls arms down and hugged her, lowering them both to the ground.

Teagan clutched onto her dad's shirt and cried in his arms as her big, brown eyes watched her mom holding Avery still to keep her from hurting herself, as she repeated, "It's okay, you're going to be okay…"

When she saw her own mom starting to break down in tears over the loss of her own best friend, Teagan had to turn her head and look the other way as a new wave of tears hit her.

Clutching onto the tree next to her, Avery continued to watch the scene playing out in front of her. At first she didn't remember that day, but now that she'd relived it she was sure she'd blocked it from her memory.

That was the last time she'd had a fit like that, after she'd came out of her rage she'd seen the pain she'd caused Teagan and her parents and she swore she'd never do that to them again. So every time she'd start to feel herself slipping away she'd lock herself away inside of her head and refuse to let any emotion come to the surface.

Something she'd been doing for years now, but now it felt like she was losing that handle on her control every day. Ever since Deucalion had her reach into the darkness to draw strength for her abilities and gain more power, everything was spiraling out of control.

Finally raising her head when she realized the sun wasn't shining anymore, she looked up and saw everyone was gone except for young Teagan.

"T…" Avery breathed realizing the girl was staring right at her, when moments before no one could see her.

"You let me down, A."

Avery's eyebrows knotted as she stuttered out, "W-what?"

Wiping tears from her cheeks Teagan said, "You promised me that you'd never let anything hurt me, but that is all you've done. Is hurt me… you hurt everyone around you."

"No… I don't mean to." She argued backing away from the younger version of Teagan, never for once logically thinking this couldn't be happening.

Dropping her arms to her side the young brunette said, "You're just as bad as she is… you were born bad."

Avery made a pained noise at the words, not even having to ask who she was talking about, she already knew. She was talking about her mother, Aleine.

Taking a step closer Teagan said, "Everything, everything in my life that's wrong, is because of you. You screwed up, you screw everything up. You're pathetic."

Dropping her head and wiping the tears from her own cheeks Avery said, "I know…"

"Don't stand there and cry, fix it!"

"I don't know how!" Avery yelled back, digging her fingernails into the flesh of her arms the same way she used to do as a child.

"Yes, you do… you know what it takes."

Raising her head Avery saw she was no longer talking to a young version of her friend, she was now face to face with her 17 year old best friend.

"You tried…" Teagan said offering an empathetic smile as she took a step forward and reached down holding her friends hands as she said, "Just give in, A… you can fix this if you try… you just need to take in a little more power."

Avery's lips quivered as tears rolled down her cheeks and off her chin.

A bright sunlight fell over the pair, but Avery didn't feel any warmer this time as she looked up to the sky and saw over a dozen birds circling above them, each passing second drew in more birds until they were almost blocking out the sun.

"I can't…" Avery breathed expecting to be talking to Teagan, but now she was all alone.

"Teagan!" She shouted out into the growing darkness.

But the only sound she could hear was the thunderous clapping from all of the feathered wings.

Dropping to her knee's tears ran down her cheeks, she'd been fighting so hard to avoid the darkness in her, but now it was taking over. Minute, by minute every bit of light, and every ounce of warmth she'd ever known was slipping away.

Soon the birds weren't only blacking out the sun, they started to fly down and strike at her.

Screaming in pain she curled up in a ball as she could feel their beaks pulling chunks of her flesh away, their talons tangling in and pulling hair from her scalp.

"Avery!"

She'd been keeping her eyes clamped shut so hard that it was physically painful, and she wasn't sure her eye lids would move now even if she tried.

But slowly the cold despair she'd been feeling lightened just enough that she realized she wasn't being attacked by the birds anymore.

Cautiously, she opened an eye and saw she was still in the park, only she was back on the running trail and her iPod was lit up just an arms length away from her on the ground.

Breathing a sigh of relief she clutched onto the arm that was around her. "It was just a dream…" She breathed leaning back against the warm body behind her.

Then her eyes widened as she quickly scrambled away from the other person, scared that her hallucination wasn't over.

"Hey, you're okay."

"Parrish… oh my god…" Avery breathed out as she realized who'd been trying to help her.

Rising to his feet from where he'd been kneeling down in white basketball shorts and a plain blue t-shirt, she saw a white cord for a set of ear buds draped over his neck.

"What happened?" he asked worried as he stepped forward and continued, "Did you see the same thing as before… that came out of the darkness?"

Ignoring his question she suspiciously asked, "What are you doing out here?"

"I live near here… I come here to run because there's never anyone else here." He admitted.

"I… I need to go." She stammered turning to leave.

Picking her iPod up from the ground he followed her, "I know we don't know each other all that well, but I… I don't know, I just feel like I know you and…"

She cut him off as she sped up her pace trying to get away from the park and her hallucination, she wasn't even entirely sure Deputy Parrish was there with her, "Well you don't… you don't have a clue about me."

"Maybe I want to." He admitted causing her to come to a stop as she asked, "What?"

"I know you were just having some kind of nightmare, or something. I haven't been in town that long, but lately you're somehow in the middle of every strange thing that happens. I just… I don't know, I want to understand." He tried to explain, briefly stumbling over his words.

Her jaw dropped as she stared at him with an expression on her face like he'd just slapped her.

"Why? Is police work really that boring that you want to turn me into some sort of science project?" She snapped, thinking he must without a doubt think she was crazy.

Sighing he apologized, "No, that's… that's not what I meant at all."

Rolling her eyes she turned back around and started towards the parking lot. Immediately feeling bad for seeming to cause her more stress than she was already under, he chased after her.

"Let me explain!" He pleaded jogging to catch up with her.

"Don't bother." She breathed as she reached her car and got inside, slamming the door as he tried to talk to her.

"Avery!" He called, but she backed out of her spot and drove off leaving him alone in the park as he glanced down to her iPod and quietly said, "You forgot your iPod…"

~()~

After lying in bed with Isaac, inside their safety bubble, for most of the day, the two finally got out of bed. He helped her to clean up her room, carefully picking up all the glass and broken objects. Tossing away the broken pictures frames, but laying the pictures aside. She planned to buy new picture frames soon.

She bent down, picking up a frame, then turned it around, a smile appeared on her face when she saw that it was a picture of her and Isaac. She turned around to look at him, watching him as he swept up a broken figurine that use to sit on her dresser.

"Hey... Look at this." Teagan said, as she walked over to him, lightly touching his back to get his attention.

He turned around, then glanced down when he saw something in her hand. He softly smiled when he saw the picture of them. It was the one they took the night they got together. It was around the time he still needed to hide away since the police thought he had killed his father, but she came to Derek's underground lair for him.

"I remember that night." Isaac said, as he smiled over at her.

"I remember it too. I remember it was the night you told me the moment you started liking me." Teagan said, as she looked down at the picture again.

Isaac nodded his head, as he said,"The day you gave me the valentine's day card."

"I also remember you saying you still have the card, even though I have never seen it." Teagan teased, as she looked up at him.

"I do still have it!" Isaac said, as he reached behind him to pull his wallet out. He reached inside, pulling out a small valentine. It had an owl on it, and said 'owl love to be your valentine', wrote above it.

"Oh, my God! You do still have it." Teagan said with a laugh, as she took the card from his hand. She glanced over the card, seeing his name wrote out in her handwriting. She even wrote out that she hoped he had a great valentine's day before signing her own name.

"I told you." He said, laughing with her. "That was a great day, every day that involves you, is a great day." He added.

"Even the bad days?" She quietly asked, afraid to look at him.

Isaac laid a finger under her chin, lifting her head to look at him, as he said,"Even on the worst days, as long as I'm with you, it's still a good day."

Teagan softly smiled at his words, then glanced back down at the picture, seeing how happy and in love they were. "Things were so much simpler back then." She stated, as she lightly ran her finger on his face on the picture. "Well, I mean, as simple as things can be while dating a werewolf and chasing around a killing lizard; who happens to be your ex-boyfriend." She pointed out, then quietly added,"But at least I wasn't going out of my mind and trying to kill you."

"It's okay." Isaac mumbled, as he laid a hand on the small of her back, giving her a little comfort.

Teagan bit her bottom lip, looking at the picture until the imagine became blurred from her tears. Just like earlier, it felt like something was missing when he touched her. He was right there, but seemed so far away.

She looked up at him with tears in her eyes, as she whispered out,"Are we okay? Are we going to survive this?"

"Of course we are. We're going to be okay." He said, as he wiped the tears from her face, hoping his words were true. She was still the only girl he loves, she was still who he wanted to spend his life with. He was just scared of what he would do next, if his anger would slip with her again.

Teagan waited to see if he would say anything else, but when he didn't, she told him to hold on. She walked over to her bed, grabbed a throw blanket from the bed, then walked back over to him. She stood in front of him, then tossed the blanket over their heads.

"What are you doing?" Isaac asked, with a small chuckle.

"It's our safety bubble." Teagan stated, as she smiled at him. "While we are under this, you are safe. You can say anything, and you're safe. No judging." She continued. She knew he was holding back something from her, but she didn't know what.

"Teagan..." He began to say, as he let out a sigh and shook his head. He wanted to tell her, but he couldn't. He couldn't speak the thoughts out loud. He tossed the blanket from their heads, tossing it back on the bed, as he turned to walk away.

Teagan quickly grabbed his hand, stopping him, as she said,"Isaac, talk to me." She turned him around to face her, as she continued,"I know you can tell when I'm pulling away from you, and guess what? I can feel when you're pulling away from me too. I know I did and said some hurtful things last night, but-"

"It's not you." Isaac softly said, as he turned his head, avoiding her eyes. "It's not what you said, it's what I did." He quietly admitted.

"What did you do?" Teagan questioned, trying to think back to everything that happened, but couldn't think of anything bad he did. It was all her, she was the bad one.

She held on to his hand, as she took a few steps back, sitting on the edge of the bed, and pulled him to sit down beside her. She turned to face him, as she asked again,"What do you think you did?"

"I hurt you." Isaac whispered, as he glanced down, looking at the bruises on her wrist.

Teagan looked down, realizing he was looking at her wrist, then moved her hands aside, sitting on them so he couldn't see them anymore. She hated seeing him beat himself over something that was an accident.

"Hey, no, don't do that." Isaac said, as he reached out to grab her hands, then quickly pulled back, scared to touch her. "You don't have to hide them. Don't make this easier on me. I deserve to feel this bad, I screwed up, I hurt you and I can't forgive myself for that."

"Yes you can." Teagan said, as she laid a hand on the side of his face. "You did what you had to do to keep me from hurting you. If anyone should feel bad, it's me, and trust me, I do. I hate myself for what I said, for what I did to you."

"It's not just that... It's..."

"It's what?" Teagan questioned, when he paused. When he didn't say anything, she reached back to grab the throw blanket again, as she asked with a small chuckle,"Do you need the safety bubble?"

He shook his head, as he leaned forward, resting his elbows on his legs. He nervously shook his leg, as he took a deep breath, trying to get up the nerve to open up. He blew out the breath, then said,"It's-It's what I thought. Just for a moment I-I had this thought. This thought that scared the hell out of me."

"What was it?" Teagan asked.

"I wanted to hurt you." He quietly admitted. She heard him sniff and wipe at his eyes, before he continued,"It might have started with wanting to stop you, but for one, small, moment, my anger got away from me and I wanted to hurt you, Teagan. For that one moment I was him, I was my father."

"No." Teagan said, as she shook her head, disagreeing with him. She grabbed his chin, forcing him to look at her, as she said,"You could never be your father. You are too good, too strong and too loving to be him." When he shook his head against her words, she continued,"You made a mistake, I made a mistake, we are not perfect, Isaac. I forgive you. You need to forgive yourself."

She raised her hands, holding them in front of him, as she added,"These bruises will fade. In a few days they will be gone. You didn't break me, you didn't hurt me. It's going to be okay."

"I'm sorry." Isaac whispered, as he looked at her with tears in his eyes.

"Shh, it's okay. You don't have to apologize. It's going to be okay." She said again, as she leaned forward to softly kiss his lips. She laid her hands on the back of his neck, her lips inches from his, as she whispered,"We're going to be okay."

"It's you and me." Isaac whispered back.

Teagan pulled back, smiling at his words. She ran her nails across the back of his neck, remembering something she told him that night in Derek's lair, the night they got together. "No matter what happens, you are still Isaac to me. The boy who gives me flutters and who made my whole world come alive with one kiss."

Isaac smiled, remembering when she told him the same thing that night. He pushed a lock of hair behind her ear, as he repeated something he also said that night.

"Teagan, stop talking." He said with a grin on his face, causing her to laugh. He leaned toward her, his lips inches from hers, as he continued,"I'm going to kiss you, but it's kind of hard to do when you're moving your lips."

"Then kiss me. Just keep kissing me and don't stop." Teagan whispered, as she closed the gap between them, pressing her lips against his. She smiled against his lips, when he wrapped his arms around her; for the first time that day, she finally felt like he was actually there with her. He didn't seem distant anymore, they were connected again, and for once since that night, she felt like they really would be okay, maybe they could survive this. They just had to stick together, no matter what.

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

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