Chapter 28 - Not The Best Plan

"This is a really bad plan." Scott said as he looked around the room at his group of friends.

"It's not that bad." Lydia argued, trying to remain hopeful.

"It's not that good of a plan." Ethan pointed out.

With a sigh Teagan said, "It's not the greatest… but probably not our worst plan either."

Scott raised his head and looked at Avery as he thought of her locking herself in Eichen House to keep an eye on Stiles as he said, "Definitely not the worst plan we've had."

"Look." Avery breathed as she stepped away from the window where she'd been staring outside, almost seeming to have been in a trance, "It's impossible to know which route the truck is going to take, so we need to plant a GPS trackers on the armored car, then we can follow it."

Looking down at the map on the desk, Allison pointed to a spot she'd marked and said, "So when they get here…"

"We attack them." Aiden offered a solution from where he sat in an arm chair.

"No… especially because have no idea which officers are going to be in charge of moving evidence." Avery said with her arms crossed over her chest.

"We have a plan and it doesn't involve attacking anyone." Teagan said to the twin as she sat down in the desk chair.

"Your bikes will be in the middle of the road, looking like you guys got into an accident. When the driver gets out to help…" Lydia tried to explain, but Aiden cut her off. "Then we'll attack him."

"No!" Avery, Teagan and Allison all yelled at the former Apha, causing him to sigh and look down irritated like he honestly didn't see a problem with his plan.

"You'll distract him." Lydia asserted, shaking her head at him.

"Then Scott will break open the back door." Allison said nodding to him.

"I hope…" He said, not sure how secure an armored truck would be and if he'd be able to break into the back of it or not.

"Then we'll raid the truck and get Katashi's finger." Avery said as she looked at the time on her cellphone and slid it back into her jean pocket, she'd came dressed in clothes that would be easy to move around in.

"It's not his actual finger, is it…" Ethan questioned the group of friends with a disgusted look on his face.

"It's a silver finger… a prosthetic." Teagan explained, then said, "But it doesn't matter, even if it was the entire finger, we'd still have to take it."

"Exactly." Avery agreed.

Ethan looked between them, motioning back and forth with his finger as he asked the best friends in a disbelieving tone, "You two… you would steal somebody's severed finger?"

They heard Aiden let out a muffled laugh from the chair in response to his brother's question.

"To save Stiles, yeah." Teagan nodded as Avery said, "Nous protégeons ceux qui ne peuvent pas se protéger eux-mêmes."

With a small smile at Avery and Allison, Teagan repeated their code, "Nous protégeons ceux qui ne peuvent pas se protéger eux-mêmes."

But when her friends didn't smile back she asked, "What…"

"Why did you say that?" Allison asked her forehead lined with confusion.

"It's our code…" Teagan whispered out, fearing she hadn't said what she thought she had.

"Your code is kill or be killed?" Lydia asked with arched eyebrows as she easily translated the French statement.

Teagan snapped her gaze over to Avery who gave her a sympathetic look, letting her know that was exactly what she had said.

"Okay." Aiden said as he stood up, "You're telling me that we can't attack the driver of the truck, but you get to live by some code of kill or be killed?"

"That's not our code… it's not my code…" Teagan whispered as she pinned her eyes shut and stammered out, "It can't be my code –it can't… I can't…"

"Teagan, you're okay!" Allison said as she rubbed her friend's arm and tried to calm her down as Avery argued with the twins about something she wasn't even paying attention too.

"I didn't –I didn't mean to say that." She pleaded for her friends' to believe her, but she wasn't even sure she trusted anything she said or did anymore.

"I know you didn't… it's okay, it's going to be okay." Allison continued to try and soothe her.

Teagan took in a few, deep calming breaths to try and regain her focus. They had a mission for the day, get the scroll from Katashi's silver finger in hopes that it would have a way to save Stiles.

"I'm okay." Teagan said nodding to Allison and Scott who were now both hovering over her with matching concerned faces.

Turning her head from them to avoid the sympathetic looks they were giving her, like the knew she was going crazy and felt bad for her, she was so tired of seeing that expression on her friends faces.

"I'm just saying, if Stiles' dad is the cop you guys care about why can't we attack the driver as long as he's not one of them?" Aiden said, speaking loudly over Avery as she bickered with his brother.

Snapping her gaze to him she opened her mouth but Aiden kept talking, "Unless there is someone else on the force you're worried about?"

A little too quickly she responded, "No, of course not! Don't be ridiculous, Aiden."

Teagan almost let out a laugh as she realized Avery was secretly worried about Deputy Parrish, quickly covering the small chuckle she said, "Because we're trying to save Stiles, we're not going there to hurt anyone."

Looking over at her Ethan said, "Why aren't we just going to Stilinski for help?"

Leaning over the desk slightly Scott pointed out, "Because if he gets caught then it's the sheriff tampering with federal evidence."

"Guys, this is going to work. We can do this, we're losing Stiles… my dads in jail for murder. We need to do this." Allison told the group as she got into her dads desk and pulled out one of the gps trackers for them to put on the truck.

"Is Kira helping us?" Avery asked, looking around and realizing they were one person short.

"No, she's talking to her parents… I'm supposed to meet up with her tonight." Scott explained as he looked at her.

The blonde nodded and looked at the time on her phone as she said, "Well, we better get going then."

~()~

Lowering the crossbow she'd been using the lens of to get a better look at the armored truck, Avery looked over to where Teagan was knelt down beside her and said, "You're up, T."

Nodding Teagan looked down to the gps unit in her hand and took a deep breath before sprinting towards the truck and successfully attaching it to the underside of the truck.

Avery smiled proudly at her best friend as she handed the crossbow back to Allison who was perched down behind her on the pavement between 2 patrol cars in the parking lot.

Scott looked over at his friends before glancing back towards the truck when he heard a door open and he said, "We didn't plan for a second officer!"

Avery looked back to Teagan trying to hide behind one of the large tires and looking back towards her friends with a questioning look on her face, she was essentially trapped.

"What do we do?" Allison breathed, knowing they couldn't leave Teagan on her own, she could get arrested for tampering with the truck and federal evidence.

"Call Lydia… have Ethan and Aiden cause a bigger distraction, they should just be up the road." Avery whispered, the she realized who the other officer was as he came down the stairs towards the truck.

"There's not time to call." Scott argued as he looked at Allison who was fumbling to get her phone out of her pocket.

"It's okay… I'll take one for the team, I'll distract him." Avery offered as she started to stand up and head towards Parrish, but Scott pulled her back to the rain slicked pavement and said, "How are you going to do that?"

"Please… I'm Avery Dukate." She said to him with an arched brow as she pulled from his grip and stood up, but as she started to move out from between the cars she saw the young deputy jump back from the truck and drawn his gun.

Dropping back to the ground she breathed, "Something is wrong… we have to get Teagan away from there, now!"

The trio held their breath as they watched Parrish slowly make his way around the truck with his gun drawn, but his attention was drew over towards them when Avery breathed, "Screw it." And stood up.

He'd barely seen someone by the patrol cars, before the back of the truck was opened from the inside and a man jumped out, taking the young officer by surprise and quickly over powering him, before violently bashing Parrish's head against the metal truck and letting his body crumple to the ground.

"Who the hell is that…" Scott asked, seeing the large imposing figure of a man.

"Kincaid." Allison explained, remembering the meeting they'd had with Katashi.

But Avery didn't hear her as her gaze moved from the deputy's motionless body up to the one who'd hurt him. Scott's attention snapped to Avery as he heard her let out a noise similar to a growl, and he immediately knew she was going to go after the guy.

"Avery, wait!" He yelled as he ran after her stopping her as she almost reached the werewolf.

The older wolf surveyed the group of teens as Teagan snuck up onto the roof of the large truck, knowing that after the fight with Kincaid before, they might need the element of surprise to gain the upper hand. Once on the roof she looked down to Parrish's body and then over to Avery who looked like she was about to sprout claws and teeth to take revenge for that on Kincaid.

"We need that finger." Scott said, eyeing the silver prosthetic the other wolf had removed from an official evidence bag.

Allison kept him in the sight of her crossbow as he took a step closer and let out a menacing laugh, "Why should I give it to you?"

"There's a briefcase in there with $150,000 in it." Allison pointed out, nodding to the truck behind him, then looking to where Scott had ahold on Avery's arm, physically restraining her from lunging forward.

"The scroll inside this prosthetic finger is worth 3 million." Kincaid smugly said to them.

"Well, unfortunately for you, that scroll happens to be what we need." Avery hissed as she tried to move again, but Scott pulled her back, hoping to avoid a fight with the wolf.

"Give me the finger." Scott ordered, causing even his friends to look at him, sighing he rolled his eyes and cleared the air, "You know what I mean."

When it became clear he wasn't going to cooperate, Teagan moved into position and leapt off the top of the truck, wrapping her arms around his neck in an attempt to subdue and weaken him.

But he easily flipped her small frame off of him, where he tossed her against a cement barrier and she gasped in pain, holding onto her now bruised hip.

"I guess negotiations are over!" He yelled, letting out a loud growl as his eyes glowed blue and his fangs showed.

Scott started to fight the other werewolf, and Avery rushed to her best friend's side, pulling her to her feet as she asked, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Teagan breathed through the pain as she looked up and saw Allison fire a few arrows, but Kincaid pulled them out and dropped them to the ground before hitting Scott with such force that he went flying several feet back.

The wolf started to move towards Scott, as the alpha struggled to his feet Avery lunged forward pulling her daggers from her pockets where she managed to slice the wolf a few times before he grabbed her by her neck and lifted her up off the ground, where she gasped in pain and dropped her weapons as she grabbed onto his arm and kicked her feet.

Teagan charged back at him, but he took her by surprise as she swung his other arm to the side, where it collided violently with the side of her face with force enough to completely spin her body around before she landed to the ground.

Raising up she held onto her cheek, from as bad as it hurt for a moment she feared he'd gotten hit with his claws, but there was no blood when she felt her face.

"Oh my god!" Lydia gasped running to her friends.

Teagan's eyesight was blurry for a few seconds while she blinked rapidly, then she saw Avery was a few feet away from her on all fours, coughing and trying to catch her breath.

Lydia and Teagan both helped the blonde to her feet where she angrily muttered about how she'd kill him, before she realized one of her knives had landed only a few inches from the fallen deputy's face; he was laying unconscious and defenseless right in the middle of the danger zone as Scott repeatedly tried to fight back against Kincaid but his hits seemed to have no effect on the beta.

As Kincaid sent Allison's body flying backwards with a loud thud against the metal railing of the stairs, Avery knew they needed to get Parrish our of harms way.

"We need to get him out of there…" Avery hoarsely said to Teagan as she pointed to Parrish.

Nodding to her best friend both girls ignored Lydia's protests as they ducked behind Scott and both grabbed onto the deputy's jacket to pull him beside the truck to safety.

Kincaid had overpowered Scott, and was leaned over the injured alpha as he growled, "You have the eyes of an alpha but where's the strength?"

"Up here!" One of the twins yelled from a tall cement landing of stairs outside the building, the brothers jumped the railing and took over the fight with Kincaid as Avery darted towards her nearest dagger and picked it up, spinning it around her finger with ease and Teagan retrieved Allison's crossbow from the ground as she looked over to see Allison and Lydia standing off to the side watching the fight.

The twins held their own better than anyone else in the fight, but Kincaid was still too powerful. Taking a deep breath and letting it out Teagan focused the crosshairs on his leg and shot an arrow right into his thigh. With a hiss of pain his gaze snapped to her, but taking his eyes off the twins was a mistake as they each grabbed an arm, and with Teagan's help of firing a shot into his other leg, they forced him to his knees.

Avery stepped up behind him with her blade to his neck as the twins kept him down and his claws at bay, with Teagan facing them crossbow in hand and another arrow at the ready in case he tried to fight back again.

"Guys, stop!" Scott yelled spitting up some blood as he pulled himself to his feet.

But when they didn't stop and Lydia saw an unfamiliar look in her blonde best friends eyes, she shrieked, "Stop!"

"You want him to come after us?" Ethan asked looking over to Lydia.

Aiden glanced down to the weakened wolf and then back to Avery as he said, "Do it."

Teagan's eyes widened as she saw Avery's grip tighten on the knife and she realized her friend might really kill him, there was a look in Avery's eyes that scared her.

"Aiden, Avery, no!" Scott yelled running towards them and stopping next to Teagan as he realized they were actually going to kill the beta.

"Scott, trust us. We've seen guys like this… he's dangerous!" Aiden yelled before instructing Avery, "Just do it."

"We're dangerous too, and he looks smart enough to remember that." Scott reasoned looking over as Teagan nodded and lowered the cross bow, but both Avery and the twins held their ground.

"Guys…" He started to say but Avery cut him off, her voice was cold and emotionless as she said, "Get the scroll, the finger is in his pocket."

"Put the knife down." Scott said taking a step forward, feeling almost like he was trying to negotiate with a stranger. He wasn't sure what it was, but ever since Avery had left Eichen, she hadn't been the same."

"Get the scroll." She repeated, clearly not backing down.

Keeping his eyes on her he stepped forward and pulled the finger from Kincaid's pocket, as he removed the scroll and let the silver prosthetic fall to the ground.

"Let him go." Scott said, at the same time Teagan's brown eyes pleaded with her best friend, "Think about what you're doing, A. You're really going to slaughter someone?"

Avery's eyes seemed darker than normal as she stared blankly back at her and said, "Kill or be killed, right?"

The crossbow fell to the ground with a clank, and the brunette took a stumbling step backwards, where Scott barely caught her before she hit the ground. With furrowed brows she fought for a breath, hearing the words leave her best friend's mouth had literally knocked the air from her lungs.

Seeing her expression Avery seemed to snap back as she dropped the knife and took a step back too as she breathed, "Oh my god… I'm so sorry, I –I'm sorry."

As the brothers let go of Kincaid, the beaten wolf left without another word to any of them.

"We need to get out of here before the cops show up…" Allison pointed out, breaking the stillness of the night.

Avery looked to Teagan who was still recovering as she said, "You guys go on…"

"Without you?" Lydia asked confused as she walked forward, trying to understand what was happening.

"He's, uh…" She breathed nodding back to the fallen deputy, "He's been out a while, someone should stay with him, until help gets there."

"I don't know if that's such a good idea…" Scott said worried about both of his friends as he looked between them.

"Just get her out of here… I –I've caused enough damage." She said, her voice strained and hoarse.

"Avery." Allison said as she started towards her but jumped when the blonde yelled, "I said just go!"

Gathering the weapons from the pavement, Allison followed behind Lydia and Scott and as they lead Teagan towards the parking lot.

~()~

After leaving her friends, Teagan drove back to the hospital to be with Isaac. She parked the car, then let out a heavy sigh. They weren't expecting Kincaid to be there or for a fight to break out. She glanced in the mirror, touching the side of her face and seeing a light bruise forming.

Her face wasn't hurting that much, thankfully, but her hip on the other hand was killing her. She wasn't even sure if she could walk into the hospital it was hurting so badly, She closed her eyes for a moment, thinking of Isaac and gaining strength to make it to him.

She slowly made her way inside the building and stepped into the elevator, hitting the button for the floor he was on. As the elevator began to go up, she folded her arms and leaned back against the wall to rest.

Thinking back to earlier events, she shook her head, remembering the words Avery had said. The words that have been haunting her for weeks. It was already hard enough hearing the words in her mind from her mother, but to hear it coming from her best friend's mouth was unsettling. Actually the way Avery was acting in general was unsettling.

Hearing the elevator music fading in and out, she lifted her head, looking at the speaker. Her breathing began to pick up as she remembered the time in the elevator at the Argents' when she began to hear things then ended up in a hallucination in a morgue. She had no doubt her mother was trying to reach out to her again. She might have been strong enough to battle her mother recently and escape the hallucination when she placed her in a alternate world, but that didn't stop her from still torturing her.

"No, not now. Please just leave me alone." Teagan whispered to her, as she squeezed her eyes close. After the night she had, she wasn't sure if she was strong enough to fight against her mother and ignore her words.

"What happened tonight, sweet girl?" Her mother questioned, taunting her. "You're running out of time, Teagan. Tonight could have been so much worst for you. Tonight could have been the end of you."

Teagan opened her eyes and gasp when she saw her mother standing in front of her. She shook her head, as she tried to sound brave and said,"We-We got it. We got the scroll. Everything is going to be okay."

"I don't know if I should laugh at you or pity you. You are not going to win, Teagan, all you're going to do is get yourself killed." Lisa pointed out. "Look at how Avery turned on you tonight, using your own code against you."

"That's not my code. That is your code! And I will never kill my friends!" Teagan yelled out.

"How long until Avery really does turn on you? Or the others? You need to take them out first, before they hurt you." Lisa said, ignoring her comment. When Teagan shook her head, she reached out and poked her sore hip, causing her to cry out in pain.

Lisa ignored her daughter's cries, as she added,"Look at tonight, all those strong werewolves, yet you got hurt. Why was no one helping you? Protecting you? Where was your pack, Teagan?"

"They-They were there. They were helping, we were all doing the best we could." Teagan argued.

"Were they? Or is that the lies you tell yourself so you don't have to face the truth." Lisa said back. "The truth is, they don't care, Teagan. They will use you and use you, but when you need them, they won't be there. I did so much to help Aleine, helping the Hales, but who helped me when the alpha pack showed up? I was alone, Teagan. No one jumped forward to help me. After all I did for them, for this monstrous world, no one saved me. I died! Alone!"

She stepped closer to Teagan, her face soften for a moment as she reached out to lightly caress her cheek, and say,"They took me from you, from your father, from the life we were suppose to have."

Teagan gasped as she pulled away from her and moved to the other side of the elevator, and in a flash the look was gone from Lisa's face, as she snapped,"No one cares about you! No one cares about your life. You are just a human, you are replaceable to them. They won't be there, they won't protect you. Tuer ou être tué, Teagan."

Teagan squeezed her eyes closed, as she shook her head, quietly mumbling to herself the words that always helped. The four words that always got her through anything, 'It's you and me.'

She could hear her mother yelling and screaming at her, trying to get through to her, but she kept repeating the words to herself, trying to block her mother out, until finally things went silent before she heard a ding, causing her to lift her head and see the elevator doors slide open.

Teagan released a breath, then rushed out of the elevator and made her way to the wall across from the elevator. She pressed her face against the wall, trying to catch her breath and try to get control of her emotions.

She whispered to herself a few more times, then pushed away from the way, making her way down the hallway to Isaac's room. She slowly opened the door, trying not to be too loud in case he was sleeping.

She walked over to the bed, looking at him; his face relaxed as he peacefully slept. Just looking at him gave her strength. She reached up to wipe the tears from her face, then turned to walk over to the chair to sit down, until he opened his eyes to look at her; feeling her presence as soon as she walked in the room.

"Hi." He quietly said, as he gave her a sleepy smile.

"Hi." She whispered back.

"How did it go?" Isaac questioned. He hated that he couldn't go with her to help their friends, but he knew she could handle herself.

"I'll tell you later." Teagan promised, not ready to get into all the details. At the moment there was only one thing she wanted, one thing she needed.

"Are you okay?" He asked, when he saw tears fill her eyes.

Teagan shook her head to answer, before asking,"Can you just hold me?"

"Of course." Isaac said, as he scooted over in the bed, making room for her. "Come here." He whispered, as he reached out to grab her hand.

Teagan laid out in the bed, cuddling against him. She laid her head on his chest as a tear fell down her face. She took a shaky breath, trying not to break down as her mother's words began to echoed in her head.

Deep down she knew she was wrong, she knew her friends would have her back, that Isaac would always be there for her no matter what. She knew she shouldn't listen to her words, she shouldn't believe them. But hearing the same words over and over again was starting to affect her.

Isaac closed his eyes, hearing her heart rate slow down the longer she was with him, but he could still tell she was upset about something. He could smell the salt from her tears.

Not knowing what else to do, he began to run his fingers through her hair, then as if knowing how badly she needed to hear it, he whispered out,"It's you and me, babe. It's always you and me."

Teagan opened her eyes, a small smile on her face at hearing his words. "It's you and me. Always." She whispered back, instantly feeling at ease.

~()~

With a heavy sigh Avery walked over and knelt down next to Deputy Parrish as she felt for a pulse and breathed a sigh of relief.

Sitting down next to him, she leaned against the side of the truck and gently maneuvered his unconscious body until his head was laying elevated on her legs to make breathing easier until he woke up.

She stared down to his peaceful face and reached down tilting his head to the side some and moving his hair away from a bleeding wound at his hairline, but luckily it didn't look to severe. Continuing to stare down at him she gently trailed a few fingers over the side of his face before she jerked her hand back and closed her eyes trying to ignore the feeling she got whenever their skin touched.

He repeatedly tried to use their age difference as a reason why they couldn't go there, and as much as she tried to play it off like it was mindless flirting with him the truth was being near him gave her a level of comfort and a feeling of warmth that she wasn't used to.

But she couldn't go there, not with him and she knew that. He was possibly the kindest person she'd ever met in her entire life and even if he reciprocated the feelings, it wouldn't last long. Sooner or later he'd start to learn her secrets, he'd find out how bad she was inside and he'd leave; just like everyone always left her in one way or another.

Probably for the best she thought as she resisted the urge to touch his face again and leaned her head against the cold, rain speckled metal truck and closed her burning eyes with thoughts of what she'd said to Teagan, the look of pain she'd caused on her face.

She didn't know who she was anymore or what she was becoming, maybe her worst fears were coming to light, maybe she really was turning into her mother. Most of the time she felt like her thoughts were more cynical than anything even her mom could think up.

She was shaken from her concentration as she heard a small pained groan from Parrish.

Quickly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes she looked down just as his green eyes slowly and weakly fluttered open, he blinked a few times trying to focus his vision until finally the blurriness went away and he saw her face.

Her eyebrows raised as a small smile appeared on his lips and he continued to stare up at her, not aware of anything else in the world, just that he saw her.

"Jordan…" Avery quietly asked, with an arched brow wondering why he hadn't started to freak out after being attacked and unconscious not to mention, not asking her what she was doing there.

"Yeah?" He asked, his voice soft as he continued to stare at her.

"Oh my god…" She breathed, thinking with the way he was acting he might have memory loss or something worse, "What's todays date?"

"What?" He asked his forehead lined with confusion at the question, but as his skin moved it pulled on the wound and he reached to his hairline, pulling his hand back he looked at the blood on his fingers.

"You're bleeding… but it's really not that bad." She offered with a slightly optimistic look.

She saw all traces of his former calm expression fade as he quickly sat up and looked around, before locating his gun and quickly scrambling to his feet.

With a sigh she leaned her head back against the truck and said, "You don't need that… he's gone."

Parrish pointed his gun in the back of the truck but she was right, no one else was there with them.

"What are you doing here?" He asked poking his head around the truck and looking at the teenager.

"Screwing up everything… yet again." She breathed, thinking back to her exchange of words with Teagan. All she could see was her friend's broken expression before she turned to leave.

Walking back over to her –he knelt down as he asked, "Do you know who did this… they killed the driver."

"Japanese mafia." She admitted avoiding his eyes.

He looked around more confused than before as he asked, "What are you doing here then?"

"I can't answer that." She whispered.

"Why?" He asked, but didn't give her a chance to explain as he guessed, "Is someone threatening you?"

Her eyes opened and she couldn't help but smile at seeing the worried look on his face as he stared at her expectantly. "You're worried about me…"

"Yeah, the mafia in general frightens me." He admitted then leaned down farther as he said, "If someone's threatening you…"

"No one is threatening me. I can't tell you why I'm here because it would be self-incrimination." She vaguely responded.

He opened his mouth but she cut him off as she said, "Pretty sure whatever your next question is, I'll have to plead the 5th to that one too."

With a sigh he tucked his gun in his holster and stood up offering her a hand, which she stared at for a few moments before she gently laid her hand in his, holding her breath at the fluttering that erupted in her stomach as he effortlessly pulled her to her feet.

"I, uh… I didn't want to leave until you woke up." Avery admitted to him, her voice quiet. With the stillness of their surroundings she felt like she needed to whisper.

Rubbing his sore head again he started to say something but then his eyes went to the bruising on her neck and he quickly stepped forward tilting her head to the side as he asked, "What happened?"

"Yakuza." She simply responded with the same answer she'd given him moment s ago.

"Japanese mafia?" He translated from hearing the term around the station. "Is that going to be your answer for everything tonight?" He questioned, still looking at her injured neck.

"Pretty much." She answered, swallowing hard at the feeling of his flesh against hers.

Gently letting go of her they stared at each other in the yellow glow from the streetlight above as he asked, "How is it that you're always in the middle of everything that happens in this town?"

Her eyebrows furrowed at knowing she couldn't give him any kind of an answer, as her defeated gaze dropped to the pavement and she offered a small shrug he watched her intently, wishing she'd just tell him what was going on.

Realizing she wasn't going to give him an answer, or at least not an honest one he said, "I'm going to have to call this in."

She nodded but kept her eyes fixated on the street as he continued, "And they're going to have a lot of questions for you…"

"I know." She answered softly finally lifting her head to make eye contact.

"And tampering with federal evidence is punishable by jail time…" He explained.

"I understand." She said, her tone confident as she nodded in agreement.

"So… you should probably get out of here before I call." He finished, watching her closely as he spoke.

"Really?" Avery asked surprised.

"Yeah… but you need to leave now." He urged, not wanting her to get tangled up in the situation anymore than she'd apparently already been.

She gave him a small smile which he returned before she turned and started back towards the parking lot, only glancing over her shoulder once to see if he was still watching her; he was.

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

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