The Reluctant Champion

by thequietone309

Six months after the series finale, Scott McCall has been feeling helpless and doubting that he's a good alpha by the way things have gone with him and his friends. He has also been having dreams such vivid about a young woman he has never met. With the way things have been going Scott just wants an ending where no one dies because of him and that he can finally get it right.

2. Chapter 2 Awake

The storms brewed and had gotten worse. Stiles was on the phone with Deaton telling him what had happened as he paced through the halls of the apartment. Scott was asleep in bed exhausted from his mission.

"He's asleep." Stiles said through the phone.

"Perhaps that's what he needs sleep." Deaton stated.

"He's having a hard time, I feel like I should do something."

"Maybe all he needs is to focus on him and let this be."

"That's what he said, but I don't want him to have this weight on his shoulders."

Scott was on the bed and slept until he opened his eyes and found himself in the middle of the road. He looked around and found that he was not alone as he found that Ethan had looked after him.

"There you are." He said.

"Ethan?"

"Yeah, it's me."

Ethan helped him Scott up to his feet. As Scott looked around as he looked around trying to figure out where he was.

"How did I get here?" Scott asked.

"You don't remember?"

"Remember what?"

"What was the last thing you remember?"

"I was with Stiles in my room after-"

"After what?"

"I went to bed after and now I'm here."

"I saw you walking and I followed you and you just sorted fainted or something, like you fell back like a pile of brinks."

At the same time the girl was in the hospital locker room trying to walk as she tired to find something to wear. She broke into a locker where she found pants and put them on. She started to make her way through the hospital trying to find a way out. Unbeknownst to her she went passed a room where a little girl saw her and crawled out of bed and followed the girl. The girl passed a corner only to quickly go back behind the corner as a security guard went passed, once he was gone the girl took her chance and bolted down the hall to the exit leaving the hospital.

Koda couldn't sleep and decided to talk to the girl, but when she went to the room she found that she was gone. Koda looked around and went out of the room and looked up and down the halls until she saw the little girl walking out of the exit.

"Lily?" she said unsure why Lily was leaving.

Koda followed after her.

Derek and Cora were trying to get the loft back up. Lydia and Isaac pulled the door opened and walked into the chaos unsure what had happened.

"You guys okay?" Lydia asked.

"Besides almost being struck by lightning yeah." Cora said sarcastically.

"You are your brother."

"I see Isaac is back."

"Hi Cora, where's Derek."

"Here." Derek said as he came down the spiral staircase.

"Hey Derek."

"How are you?"

"I'm good."

"How was France?"

"Interesting, but that's not why I'm here, I'm here because-"

Before Isaac could finished Derek's phone rang and noticed it was Melissa was calling. Derek quickly answered it for he knew what it was about.

"Melissa, what's wrong?" Derek stays on the phone as his face turns to despair, "What do mean gone?"

Lydia looked up and knew it wasn't good.

"I'm on my way."

Ethan took Scott back to his apartment where he was met with a frantic Stiles who embraced him.

"Where were you?" he asked Scott.

"I found him on the road." Ethan answered.

"Ethan?"

"Hi Stiles, man is it just me or does Beacon Hills seem to be going to Hell the last time I was here."

"Yeah, only we have a problem."

"What kind of problem?" Scott asked.

"She's gone."

"Who?" Ethan asked.

Scott's face turned white as he knew who Stiles was talking about.

"Where is she?" Scott said with a lump in his throat.

They rushed to the hospital where police were questioning nurses as patients were being evacuated.

"Dad." Stiles said rushing to his dad.

"Stiles, where' Scott?" Noah asked.

"He's here."

"I'm here what happened?" Scott asked.

"Three patients are missing. Koda Ferguson, Lily Morgan, and our mystery girl are missing."

"Missing?"

"We're looking over the security footage right now."

Derek was watching the footage with Melissa where they saw the girl walking through the hospital trying not to be caught. Soon the other girls were seen walking out of the hospital.

"She's not sleep walking, she's awake." Derek stated.

"Question is where did she go?" Melissa said.

Noah joined the two.

"Sheriff you're here I have the files on the two girls, Koda Ferguson is anemic and suffers from cystitis fibrosis. Lily Morgan is suffering from Pneumonia. As for our sleep walker she's awake and out and about. So its imperative that you bring them back." Melissa explained.

"Okay I'll get the rest of the station on it." Noah said.

Derek was in the girl's room trying to get a scent, but all he could get was the medicine and everyone else's scent. Stiles stood by the doorway watching.

"Anything?" Stiles asked.

Derek gave his signature growl which Stiles knew that once he's heard that its enough to make anyone step back.

"Okay sorry wasn't sure." Stiles added.

Scott came into the room and looked to the bed as if wanting it to be one big joke.

"I couldn't get anything, nothing to track." Scott said.

"Maybe if we find the girls we'll find her too." Stiles said optimistic, "Don't worry she's fine, she's awake meaning whatever you did, worked."

"Then why do I still feel so anxious?"

The sound of shattering glass was heard as it came from the bathroom. The two boys rushed into the bathroom and found the mirror destroyed and Derek leaning over the sink gripped its sides as if for dear life trying to hold on. His broad shoulder went up and down as the boys could hear him trying to keep in control.

"I knew I should've stayed here." He said through gritted teeth.

Melissa rushed into the room and saw this.

"I think I may have found something that could help." She said.

The three were in a storage room where Melissa took out a box of the girl's belonging. She opened the box and pulled out a plastic bag, she handed a fur poncho to Derek and a shirt to Scott.

"Maybe you can use these to find her. I got some of Koda's and Lily's things too maybe that can help too." She said.

Derek took a long whiff of the fur and closed his eyes hurt for all he could smell was pain, sadness, regret, disgust, ash and blood and very little happiness. Scott could smell the same thing, but it didn't matter what he smelt, what matter was that they use it to find her and the other girls before something bad happened to them.

Lydia was on the phone before getting off and turning to Cora and Isaac.

"What's going on?" Isaac asked.

"Derek and Scott need all the help they can get, so you and Cora have to head down to the hospital and grab a scent. Cora you're going to go with the Sheriff and help him out. Wished that Hayden, Mason, and Liam were here things would've been a lot easier." Lydia said.

"Who are they?"

"Long story. You guys head down there I got to head to the station."

"All this for a girl?" Cora said.

"Two girls are missing two and they both have an illness that needs to be treated and being out on a night like this isn't good it can cause it to get worse or even kill them. So now's not the time for your unwanted sarcasm just do it."

"Only for my brother, only for my brother."

At the same time, the girl was walking through the street alone trying to figure out where she is. She goes into a convenient store and looks around.

"Can I help you?" The store clerk asked.

She goes up to a rack where she's sees post cards, all of the cards said Beacon Hills. She then looks at a security monitor and sees herself, but its not seeing herself that grabs her attention it's the date of the side of the screen. She rushed out of there and starts to run. She runs for a bit before reaching a gate to a cemetery. She pushes the gate opened and runs into the cemetery.

Isaac was driving down the road when a young girl and Koda runs in front of him making him slam on the brakes. He pokes his head out the window.

"Are you okay?" he frantically asks.

The girls didn't say anything just crosses the road, Lily goes to the gate of the cemetery.

"She went in here." Lily said.

"Lily don't go in there." Koda warned.

Her warning fell on deaf ears as she through the gate of the cemetery.

"Weird." He said.

"Yeah I know, sorry about that." Koda said, "Lily." She says running after Lily.

The girl stood by a statue of an angel as she walked through the aisles of headstones. She couldn't help, but continue to feel uneasy, as if someone or something was watching her. She then heard voices from afar as they continued to come closer. Unsure what or who they were she quickly took refuge behind a tombstone.

"Lily come on, we can't be out here." Koda said.

"But she's here I saw her." Lily claimed.

"Yes, but you know you're not suppose to be out here, we have to go back, they might be looking for us."

"But she's sick too that's why she's at the hospital."

"Lily we have to go now."

Then all of a sudden at the corner of her eye something went passed them at lightning speed.

"What was that?" Koda asked.

Lily clung to Koda's side.

"It's okay, probably someone paying their respects late at night, nothing more." Koda said trying to keep calm for Lily.

Pretty soon they heard a loud growl enough to put a shiver down their spine.

"Hello." Koda said as her voice shook.

A loud roar was heard as it began to circle them. Lily turned to the darkness and pulled on Koda's shirt. Koda looked at Lily before turning her attention to the shadows where they can see a pair of bright yellow eyes looking at them. The two clung to each other.

The eyes came out of the darkness revealing itself to them. It had a ridged back, and the size of a bear, its mane was like a lion's, its snout like a K-9's, but its teeth stuck out from its mouth. Its paws were bigger than any animal, he slowly stalked towards them. They screamed and began to run.

At the same time, Scott, Stiles and Derek pulled up and met up with Isaac.

"Where are they?" Stiles urgently asked.

"In there." Isaac pointed to the cemetery.

The screams were heard as the four boys hurried to cemetery.

The girls continued to run as the creature continued its pursuit, it wasn't until the two girls lost their footing before hitting the ground hard. The girl quickly got up and hid behind a headstone just when the creature was about to punch on them. They were huffing and puffing before a hand grabbed a hold of Koda's.

"Run." The girl said.

They ran a little away from the area before taking refuge behind a statue.

"What was that?" Lily asked.

"Shh." The girl said.

The girl peered from behind the statue and saw the creature sniffing the air.

"What is it?" Lily asked.

The girl turned to the girls.

"Okay we're going ot run, you hear me run like hell." She said.

"You said a bad word." Lily said.

"Now's not the time for the swear jar Lily." Koda said, "So that's the plan?"

"Got any ideas if so I'm all ears?" the girl said.

Koda shook her head.

"Okay stay close, and when I say now run. Now!"

The girls ran from their hiding place and ran, the creature turned and went in pursuit.

"Don't look back!" the girl shouted.

Koda lost her footing making her fall hitting the ground hard while taking Lily with her. The creature was a foot away and closing in fast.

"Close you eyes!" she shouted.

The girl quickly covered them using her body as a shield for whatever came next, but little did they know that their rescue was really close. Derek appeared and covered the girls with his body as Isaac and Scott went for the creature. Scott shoved the creature to a headstone.

The creature quickly recovered and was about to go at Scott, when Isaac came and jumped in it. It jerked and pranced around trying to get Isaac off. It bucked off Isaac, but it wasn't finished yet it then swung it's tail at Isaac making him fly across the cemetery and into a statue, rendering it into dust.

With its back still turned it was then pulled back by its tail before being swung across the cemetery. It got up and roared at Scott, but Scott wasn't having it for he roared back making his eyes flash red telling the creature that this was his territory and that he was not welcomed.

The creature got the picture and went off into the shadows. Isaac was on his feet limping towards Scott.

"What the hell was that?" he asked.

"I don't know." Scott answered.

"Guy?!" Stiles called from afar.

Stiles headed their way. Derek got up to his feet and the girl looked behind her and saw that the creature was gone.

"You guys okay?" Stiles asked them.

The girl unshielded the girls as they looked around unsure what had happened as they stayed in their place. The girl then turned her sights on Derek who stood there.

"Everyone okay?" Isaac asked.

The two joined the rest of the group as the girl looked at them unsure what was going on.

"Here's a stupid question." She said, "What are you two doing out at this late at night in a cemetery?"

"Looking for you." Lily answered.

"Why?"

"Don't mind her, she's just being a kid and doing what kids do best." Koda added.

"And what do kids do best?"

"You know climb things, get dirty, get into trouble, play video games, watch tv, that kind of stuff."

The girl looked around not convinced, but had one big burning question. She then turned to Scott and saw him staring at her completely in awe.

"It's very impolite to stare at people." She said.

"Well when you have dreams about someone and find out that their real you'd stare at them too." Stiles said defending his best friend's honor.

"Who are you guys?"

They all looked among themselves before Koda took the lead.

"I'm Koda, this is Lily, that's Stiles, those two over there are Scott and Isaac." She then turns to Derek, but can't seem to introduce him. "And that's uh, sorry I never got your name, who are you?"

"Yes who are you?" the girl chimed in.

"The name's Derek." He said.

"Derek?"

"Yeah."

"You look more like a Tierisch to me."

Derek gave her a scowl, but she didn't seem to care she simply turned her attention back to Koda.

"Well since you're the only one that seems to make any sense perhaps you can help me." She said.

"Yeah, sure." Koda answered.

"The little one said you two went looking for me and judging by some things not adding up maybe you can shed some light onto the situation. And since you two look like you came from the same place as me answer me this, why was I at a hospital?"

"You were in a coma."

"A coma?"

"Yeah."

"How?"

"You got hit by car." Derek answered.

"Pardon?" The girl said.

"You got hit by a car, that's how you got into a coma."

"Where am I?"

"Beacon Hills." Stiles answered.

"Beacon Hills, so this isn't Portland?"

"No."

"Where's Beacon hills?"

"California." Scott answered.

"This isn't Oregon?"

"No."

"I'm still in California?"

"Yeah."

"Okay I'm okay I don't remember being hit by a car, so I may have missed a day so that makes today the 18th."

"Actually it's the 20th." Stiles corrected.

"Okay so I missed two days that's fine luckily it's still September."

"September?" Koda said.

"I arrived here on the 18th day of the 9th month and since I've been asleep for two days it makes today the 20th day."

Everyone looked at her as if she was the one who was crazy.

"It's March." Liliy corrected.

"Pardon." The girl said.

"It's not September, it's March."

"March?"

"Yes."

"No it's not."

"Yes it is, it's March 20th."

"No no it can't be, today's September 20th 2017."

"2017, no it's March 20th 2018." Stiles said showing her his phone showing that the date is in fact March 20th 2018.

"Impossible I just arrived here three days ago."

"Yeah about that." Stiles made a face.

The girl looked around and everyone seemed a little too uncomfortable to tell her the truth, but not Koda.

"You've been in a coma for six months."

"Six months?"

"Yeah."

"I've been asleep for six months?"

"Yes."

"So another birthday gone, meaning I'm not nineteen anymore I'm twenty years of age."

"I guess."

"So I am twenty years old, asleep for six months and I'm not even close to Portland."

"What's in Portland?" Lily asked.

"Home." The girl answered.

The girl stood up and left the group.

"That sucks." Isaac said.

"You said a bad word." Lily said.

"Lily just leave it." Koda said.

She then turned her frustration out on Stiles.

"Did you really have to shove it in her face like that?" Koda said.

"What?" Stiles said.

"Do you not understand that she has absolutely no idea what happened to her or what the hell is going on and you just shove it down her throat like that."

"I didn't."

'Oh really, did it not occur to you to take it slow, I mean if you found yourself at a hospital not knowing what happened to you and you found yourself running like hell from something you have no idea what it is and on top of that only to remember bits and pieces and still thinking its that one date, wouldn't you be confused too, but no it's not September, its March 20th 2018." She imitated Stiles.

"Well it is."

"You're such a dick Stiles, no wonder why you don't have many friends I bet you Scotts the only one you got and hell I wouldn't be surprised if he's just doing it because he tolerates you!"

Koda got up to her feet and followed after the girl.

The boys stood there as Stiles stood there in disbelief.

"Was I being a dick, I mean we did save her ass, didn't we?"

"Stiles." Derek scolded.

"What?"

Derek nudged his head to Lily who still had her place on the ground looking up at the youngman who had her lips pressed together tight.

Stiles knelt down to Lily's level.

"Sorry I didn't mean to say a bad word its just something that happens when you're in a situation you have no control over, okay? When you get older you'll understand and hopefully you won't be going through what we're going through, hopefully it'll be easier on you."

Lily stayed quiet for a bit, but couldn't help herself.

"Where's Portland." Lily asked.

The girl walked down the road until a news paper slammed into her face, she pulls the newspaper off and looks at it. She finds that she was told the truth and far from her destination.

"Trying to get home aren't you?" Koda said from behind.

The girl turned around.

"So it's true, I have been asleep for six months."

"Yeah, I've been talking to you everyday."

"Talking."

"There's not many kids my age well older people because i'm still a minor I'm still kind of in pediatrics. I talk to you everyday even read to you, it just seems stupid now, but I always wanted you to wake up so I could talk to you, I wanted to talk to you so badly. I'm really sorry about Stiles he can be pretty stand offish when he meets someone new. Matter of fact his friends Scott and Derek have been watching over you."

"Why?"

"Well you see you've been kind of all over."

"What do you mean?"

"You've been sleep walking. Derek found you in the woods, apparently it's not the first time."

"Peculiar."

"Yeah wish I can say that myself."

The girl stood there trying to make sense of all this.

"I like your hair." Koda said trying to strike a conversation.

"Pardon."

"Your hair, I really like your white streaks."

The girl takes a strand of hair and looks at it.

"That's interesting." She states.

"Its looks nice." Koda commented.

"Thank you, I like your hair, your bangs are very nice."

"Thanks."

The girl looked around, "How far is Portland from here?"

"You're pretty far off, its at least a day's trip."

"Train?"

"There's no train stations in Beacon Hills, but there is a bus station, don't know if it's closed, but I'm sure it'll get you there."

"How far is that?"

"Its twenty blocks."

"I've walked farther than that."

"You really want to go home don't you?"

"I've been gone eleven years, I've been in the old world since I was nine. I've been away from home for much too long. That's all I ever wanted, that's all I've been fighting for. I just want to go home."

Koda looked down knowing that this was the first and last time she'd ever talk to the girl, but knew it would be selfish to keep her from doing what she felt she had to do.

"Do you have any money?" Koda finally asked.

The girl sighed knowing that this was an obstacle.

At the same time Stiles was on the phone with his father filling him in on what happened. The girls joined the rest of the boys.

"You okay?" Scott asked the girl.

The girl only nodded.

"I know this must be hard on you, waking up like this."

"I just want to go home." She said.

"And we'll get you there I promise, we'll go back to the hospital and go from there."

"Scott." Stiles called.

"Wait here."

Scott went to Stiles.

"What'd he say?" he asked.

"Well they told us to stay put, they're sending an EMT to us and they'll send them to the hospital and take it from there."

"Good." Scott said still in shock.

"You okay?" Stiles asked.

"For a moment I thought-" Scott lets out a breath, "This is-"

Stiles gives Scott a hug trying to keep his friend grounded.

"I know, it's over, she's safe, you did it." Stiles praised.

Red and blue lights flashed as the sirens went off. Scott and Stiles ended their embrace as they felt the nightmare was over and all the feelings of uncertainty and anxiety were nothing, but their imagination. Or so they thought.

The two turned only to find everyone, except one.

"Where'd she go?" Stiles asked.

Isaac turned around only to find that the girl was gone.

"She was just right here." He claimed.

"Did anyone see where she went?" Scott said.

"She couldn't have gone far."

Elsewhere, a taxi driver stayed parked by a curve until a knock on the window was heard he rolled down his window.

"Do you take this?" the girl asked.

"Where to hon?" he asked.

To the bus station they went, the girl walked through the crowded bus station as everyone tried to get on the last buses to their destination.

The girl went up to ticket clerk sliding the credit card, "One ticket to Portland my good woman."

Else where, Scott had his head buried in his hands. The Sheriff tried questioning Koda, but she was hell bent on keeping her silence. He went up to his son who watched over his friend.

"Anything?" Stiles asked.

"She's not talking." He looks at Scott in his state, "How's"

"Not good. He was so happy when he found her, he was in complete shock which only made him realize he wasn't going crazy."

"Did she say anything, anything at all?"

"She was very confused she didn't even know she was in a coma until we told her let alone in a coma for six months, said something about being gone for eleven years trying to get home. She also said something about Portland, Portland Oregon. Said she was heading there."

"Did she say how?"

"No, but she was pretty adamant of wanting to go home."

"Well she couldn't have gone far, she doesn't have any money, and I don't think people are going to ignore a girl in a hospital gown and I have everyone in the department on the look out which I'm sure we're going to find her quick."

"I hope so because I just got a text from Cora saying that Derek's bank called saying there was a purchase for a bus ticket to Portland." Isaac exclaimed.

"Sheriff you have to go to Portland and get her." Scott said frantically.

"Scott we don't have any jurisdiction in Portland, what happens there is there. All we can do is make a call for them to make out an apv, but whether or not they do is up to them. If she's heading to Portland or in Portland she's not our problem anymore. We can't just got out of state hunting for this girl unless she's on a blacklist or on America's most wanted there's nothing we can do." Sheriff said

"You have to do something, call my dad, I'm sure you know some people who've got connections, she's not safe."

"Scott we can't do anything."

"Then I'll go."

Scott attempts to leave, but is pulled back by Stiles.

"Hey whoa, Scott you got to relax okay?"

"I can't she's not safe i got to find her."

"Scott." Stiles said shouted which seemed to bring his friend back, Stiles lowers he tone and tried to come from a place of love knowing fully well his best friend has gone through a tough time, "She said she wanted to go home, its time to let it go, let this all go. She's going home just like she wanted, we've done our job, you've done your job, it's time for her to go home and time for us to get back to our lives."

"Then why do I still feel like something bad's going to happen."

The girl got off the bus as she had arrived in Portland. She goes on the road as the trip had gone through the night. A smile grows from ear to ear as she had finally came home. She began to run down the road as fast as she could. She gets off the road and runs through the trees as if trying to find a short cut. She cuts through the wooden area and onto a suburban street and runs like a bat out of hell.

She continues until she heads to a halt. She looks at the house confused as if it looks nothing how she remembered. The house had looked as if it had been abandon for years. The house had been over taken by vines and moss. A for sale sign was still planted on the front lawn where on the door was a condemned sign.

The girl went up to the porch and saw a lock on the door knob. She went to turn it and doing so it broke off. The door opened and the girl walked in.

The house was not a home. Everything was gone and not a trace was left. She walked through the rooms that were once filled with furniture, now nothing, but empty spaces. The walls were black as if someone had set it on fire making the soot covered any traces that were left on the walls. The floors were weathered and tared as if the house itself was trying to hide every memory that each room had, whether sad, happy or violent, no one would ever know for any and every echo of the past had be suffocated. It was as if the house itself was ashamed of what happened over the years and hide everything as if trying to hold on to whatever pride it had so people would never know for that was why the house of over run by mold and plants, as if making a last ditch effort to bury that horse in the ground.

The girl has entered a room and hurried to the closet and looked at the door and ran her fingers on the wood, but nothing was the same. She went to a wall and was drastically clawing at it as if trying to find anything left behind, but nothing. It was as if the house had erased any trace of existence that once took place in that house.

The girl starts to grow desperate, she steps back before a creak of a broad makes itself known. She quickly goes on her knees making a loud thud, she rips at the floor broad and digs through the installation and finally finds what she was looking for. A strangled sounds leaves her lips as she tried to stay in control, but how could she? She had been gone for years fighting to get home, only to find that there was no home to return to, and nothing could stop tears, but soon the pain turned to anger as she turned her attention to a wall.

Later, the girl takes her seat on a bench with a popcorn tin in her arms as the city moves as if she is not there.

"You might as well show yourself, I know you've been following me since Sacramento." She said while still looking forward, "If you don't show yourself I'll scream and that'll bring attention to both of us, and to be quite honest I really don't have time for child's play, so don't you dare make me angry, because I am not one to trifle with when I'm angry, especially now."

Derek takes his seat on the bench.

"Why are you following me?" she asked.

"You took my credit card." He stated.

The girl without question gave his card back.

Silence ruled the atmosphere, Derek was contemplating on whether he should leave her, she wanted to go back to Portland and she did, but the need to protect this girl was too great. All Derek wanted to do was to get answers from this mysterious young woman that came to him that night, but he knew this girl had gone through hell and back, he knew that feeling all too well the feeling of finding out that you're on your own, but the difference between him and her was that he had someone by his side, she didn't.

"You just going to sit there or are you going to go, because you got your card back so there's no sense in following me anymore." The girl said.

And just like that Derek gives his signature groan has it showed he had had enough gets up and starts to walk away, but stops. He calms himself, understanding that this girl has had a hard night.

"I'm sorry." Derek finally said.

"I already knew." The girl said, "Looks like Kala was right."

Derek gave her a questioning look, "Kala?"

"She's a friend back in the old world. I know she's not going to let me live this done. Even she said, "Why go back, you might as well stay here, because you have no home to return to?" I should've listened, I wanted to prove her wrong. I wanted to prove myself wrong. I just wanted to see for myself."

"That must've of been really hard for you. To come back after all this time only find everything gone and nothing left."

"You know what I found in that house, nothing? I saw nothing. The very house itself erased everything, erased me, as if I never existed as if it wanted to hide and over took itself to do so. All that trouble for this, I've been gone for eleven years to come back to this. The land I so desperately tried to leave, fought so hard to be free off, has proved that that land was more of a home than what I already knew."

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going home, I'm going back to the old world."

The girl gets up taking her tin and walks right passed Derek. Derek walks after her.

"Hey." He said.

The girl groans and stops and turns to him, "What?"

"So you're just going to go on your own, how are you going to get there?"

"Why do you care, you've done your job and I appreciate what you've done for me, I'm sorry about your card, but you got it back, now take your leave."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"Because-"

"I'm going home, I'm not coming with you if that's what you're trying to say. I don't have time for chivy stuff so don't push me."

Derek scoffs, all Derek wanted was to help and make sure she was safe, but he wasn't sure whether to just walk away or simply throw her over his shoulder and take her back to Beacon hills himself. "You know I liked it better when you were asleep."

"Well that makes two of us."

And just like that the girl walked away without saying another word and showing no remorse or any hesitation what so ever as she left Derek already sixteen hours in found out the hard way that this girl has proved to be determined and stubborn, and already knows what buttons to push, after just having a brief conversation with the girl.

Derek gave a harsh sigh and thought about going his own way, but how could he, all he wanted to keep the promise he made. If she wanted to go home, she can go home, but not unless he to made sure she made it safe, even if he had to go to the so called old world to make sure of it too.

He shoved his hands in his pockets of his leather jacket he sped up to catch up to the girl.

"Hey." He said.

"What now?" she said.

"I understand you're going through a tough time."

"Do you?"

"Yes I do, but I think its best that you come with me back to Beacon hills."

"Why?"

"They have to check you to make sure you're okay maybe they can find whoever you're looking for or maybe someone's looking for you."

"No one's looking for me, I knew that for a long time. There's no one out there, it's just me."

Derek looked to the ground, "I don't know where you've been or what you've been through, but you got to trust me."

"I've learned never to put your trust in anyone, but yourself."

"That's a good lesson, but you're going to have to take a leap for faith."

"How do I know you're not lying to me, I've been lied to countless of time of being told I'd go home and I'm the fool that falls for it every time."

"It's not like that at all."

"Okay fine, I'll go with you Tierisch, but know this, any funny business and you won't like what comes next."

The girl takes the lead.

"This is going to be fun." Derek said sarcastically.

He walks after the girl.

At the bus station a ticket clerk was reading a magazine when a knock on the window came.

"How can I help you?" she asked.

"Two tickets to Sacramento." Derek said.

"Will that be cash or credit?"

Coins and dollar bills split out on the counter as it came from the popcorn tin. The woman looked at the girl as if she had something coming out of her ears.

"Is that enough or do you need a little more?" the girl asked.

The woman continued to look at the girl as if she was crazy.

"It's very impolite to stare." The girl said.

Derek gave his card to the woman, "I'd like a receipt please."

"Visa or master card?" the woman finally asked.

At same time, Scott was on the ledge of the hospital looking at the dark sky as the storms have not moved.

The exit door opens and out comes Sheriff Stilinski.

"We've been looking all over for you." He said.

"Sorry."

"Stiles tried calling you."

"I chugged it."

"Look Scott, if this is about that girl-"

"She's not just a girl, she's not a girl."

"Then who is she?"

"I don't know, but she saved my life."

"And from what Stiles said you saved hers and he's right you did your job."

"I thought these dreams and feeling of dread would go away, but it just seems like I'm going crazy. I just keep think she needs our help. I keep thinking she's not safe on her own, I've been thinking about going to Portland just to make sure she's safe or maybe for my own sanity."

"Look Scott you can't just got on a wild goose chase for this girl, like Stiles said she's been gone for awhile, she was trying to go home."

"You weren't there, I felt it, I saw it, I could even smell, that confusion, that feeling of being lost, that want. She was all over the place, you should've seen her face when we told her she was in a coma for six months, she was at a complete loss. She didn't even know where she was or how she got there, or even what the date was, she still thought it was 2017."

"People in comas they can't differentiate what the time of day is especially coming out one."

"It still doesn't change the fact that I should've gone with her."

"You really want to go, do you?"

"Doesn't matter now, even if I did go there, the question would be is where did she go?"

Stiles came onto the roof, phone in hand and with the look of astonishment on his face.

The sheriff and Scott looked at him, and as if reading their minds he beat them before they can have a word come out of their mouth.

"You're never going to believe this." He said.

Derek and the girl were on the bus as there nearly day long trip had come to an end, and the whole time, they had not said one word to each other since getting on the bus.

"About what I said earlier, on how I liked you being in a coma, that was very uncalled for, I shouldn't have said that, you're going through a tough time, things aren't the way they used to, I should've been more considerate, I've been in your shoes before, and I'm sorry, the only thing I should have done was ask you if you were okay and what I can do to help you." He said.

"I appreciate your honesty and accept your apology." The girl said.

Derek nodded knowing that although all is forgiven it does not mean it is forgotten, but he stands by what he meant, like Scott he wanted to help this girl and he was going to do just that he was going to do anything and everything to keep his silent promise he made to this girl.

"So the tin, I'm guessing you've found it."

"I'll give the house props for trying, but it failed miserably, and for that I left something so even the house's very skeletons would never forget."

"What did you leave?"

"A bold, never yielding, never ceasing, not even the very Earth we stand on can forget even if it tried. It's the burning taste when you swallow, its that thorn in your side that refuses to be plucked out, its that constant ringing in your ears you get from time to time. Its that irritating grain of sand that makes a pearl in a clam. And to answer your question I had left a message. A simple message on the very wall where I once left my mark and this message is one that will refuse to be erased and can not nor will not be ignored that the very house will never ever forget."

"You wanted to leave that badly, huh?"

"On my own terms, funny thing was, even at a young age I knew I was on my own, that I would always be on my own, I learned what most people would've learn in their fortieth years, how to take care of myself. In other words I saved all this all that you've seen is what I saved up, hoping that one day I could be free of this nightmare, but by my own say. I never got that chance because I was snatched away. I was nine when the nightmare began to sink it's teeth in me, and not wanting to let go."

"Then why go back, if you had such a-" Derek stops for a moment to think of the right words to say, but the girl beat him to it.

"I had some bad moments and some really messed up moments, I've done some things, things I'm not proud of, things I wish I can take back, things I regret. I did some bad things, terrible. I even had some moments I wished never ended, some good, some beautiful, but I learned that no matter how beautiful these little moments are, they are evil when gone. So to answer your question, that land what I went through was my normal, I had to beg, borrow, cheat, and steal, and hunt, all to survive. That was my motivation, survive. I had to, so I can see how the story ends, so I can finally have that moment, that moment where I can go home. All of that all in vain, but that's okay, because I know where my home is, so like I said I'm going home, so I'm going to do just that. My duty is done I did my job, I paid my dues, did the time, now it's time to play my own way, only I don't' know what path to take this time."

"So going back can help with that?"

"I don't know, I've been a champion of fate for way too long, now its time to be my own champion."

Derek doesn't comment on what was just said, but knew it wasn't an easy life, he didn't need her to tell him that, he knew by the scars that ate at her body, even that scars that can easily be made from being burnt, devoured her whole arm just about. He was tempted, tempted to do nothing more than to take her hand and trace those scars.

And yet a strange and unexpected desire to find out who did that to her and kill them himself because no one should do that, who in their right minds would do such a thing, what kind of sick person would think it was okay to do that to anyone, especially a girl a strange and mysteriously beautiful girl, who was taken away against her will and only wanted nothing more than to just to go home and had gone through hell and back just to do so, just to find nothing left and now nowhere to go, and no home to return to.

"What will you do once your back there?"

"I think perhaps, maybe go and find Rufus and the others I'm sure the circus is still on tour probably join up back with them or find Kala and those two gentlemen and go from there. And mostly eat a lot a lot of Turkish delights the pistachio kind or maybe the hazel nut ones haven't really decided yet. Either way I'm going home."

Derek put his head down, as the feeling of dread caved in, an unexpected sadness shrouded him, it was almost as if he did not want this girl to leave, as if he wanted to convince her to stay. As if he wanted nothing more to be the one she can depend on the one she'd always know that he would never leave her that she would never be alone and never ever have to go through the hell she had went through ever again.

With all these overwhelming feelings he felt he knew fully well he couldn't do that, that now was not the time to be selfish, now was not the time for senseless fantasies, yet he knew deep inside of him that something had changed in him. He didn't know what exactly, but he knew that his job wasn't over yet and that it was his responsibility that he did so.

"Have you eaten at all?" he asked.

"Honestly, I haven't really been thinking about that, but the one thing that's really bugging me, is that I can't really feel, yet I feel something's a mess, like something is missing that's not suppose to be missing, but it's missing and I don't know what or how, but something is indeed missing, and it's not right. Its-

"Unnatural." Derek finished.

The girl looked surprised for a moment, "Yes."

"Almost like something bad is coming, but you can't quite put your finger on it."

The girl looks surprised again, perhaps thinking back to the cemetery where that creature attacked them. It hadn't made much sense to Derek at first, but once he started to think about how everything in Beacon Hills started to turn, he'd had a few revelations.

"Yes." she agreed softly.

Derek looks down at his feet feeling a little off about everything that has happened in the span of twenty four hours.

"I know we don't know each other very well and we just met and all, but I'm not going to let anything happen to you." He said

"Thank you, but I think looking after me is the least of your concern. You should really be thinking about what's going on in your land." The girl said.

"What do you mean?"

"Something is completely off about it, like you said like having a sense like something bad is coming, like chaos or war, like your land is in conflict, war with itself." The girl exclaimed.

Derek was about to open his mouth, when all of a sudden the sound of screeching tires, the motion of being tossed about like a ship on an ocean, glass shattering, metal bending and breaking, followed by a loud scream enough to pierce an ear drum, was all that unfolded before everything turned to black.

At the same time, Lydia had found herself inside a church where she walked through the aisle. The church was dark yet lite up with candles left and right. She soon found herself to the alter where she was faced with girl laying on it, covered in blood and not moving. Lydia touched her face, before bringing the girl up to her cradling her body. Tears flowed down her cheeks.

"I'm sorry." She sobbed, "I'm sorry Scott."

A harsh breath flows through her hair, soon the sobs turned to a gasps, Lydia dared not turn around for whatever laid behind her it would be the last thing she would see. She still held the girl closed and closed her eyes tightly knowing what would soon follow. A loud roar came from behind her.

In the brink of chaos Lydia woke up, nearly falling out of her chair while a hand on her shoulder kept her grounded.

"Lydia." A concerned voice called, "Lydia, come on sweetie wake up, Lydia."

Lydia got a hold of herself, but dread clenched at her heart, and found it hard to swallow as her throat was constricted.

"Lydia." Nurse Mcall called.

Lydia turned to her eye burning and threatening to shed tears.

"Are you all right?"

"I have to go." Lydia finally said, "I have to go, something's wrong."

"Go, go where?"

"Sacramento."

Lydia started to make her way to the doors, but Melissa caught her.

"Lydia, relax."

"I have to go."

"Sacramento is a six hour drive."

"I saw her."

"Saw who, who did you see?"

"The girl."

"The girl? You mean the same girl the boys saw."

Lydia nodded.

"Did you meet her?"

"No, but she's needs help, I saw her, she was dead."

"It was just a dream Lydia, Scott been having those too, but I'm sure she's fine, I'm sure she's back home safe and sound."

"No, last time I heard Derek was bringing her back here, something happened."

"What happened?"

"Blood and a lot of it."

Scott was still on the roof almost not wanting to leave for fear that the girl may come back and he wouldn't be there to see her off. Melissa bolted through the door with a look on her face that told Scott all was not well.

The girl walked alone through the empty darkened streets at night. Her bare feet were covered in dirt and were scraped up. She held her tin can close, she couldn't recall on what really happened, when she had came to she had found herself in the middle of the road and the bus was on its side, nearly crushed, she found that her arm scraped up a bit, but nothing major. The possibility of being thrown from the bus, was too great to dismiss.

The girl had walked a few miles almost like her body was on auto pilot while her mind was still focused on that one goal.

The girl continued to walk even oblivious of being in the middle of traffic of an underground tunnel, cars drove passed her honking their horns at her, but it did not seem to phase her. One car drove a few miles before turning around on the opposite lanes before making its way back to the on coming lanes and stopping. The girl stopped as well and turned around.

The window rolled down and a head peered out. A youngman rather handsome and held a young face, but his bright eyes showed maturity, his hair was shaggy his demeanor none threatening, his face showed deep concern.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

The girl simply looked at him blankly, before turning back to the road and started to walk. The youngman was a bit taken back by the behavior, he then started to slowly drive by her despite being yelled at and also having angry drivers honking at him.

"Are you lost?" he asked.

The girl ignored him.

"Do you need to call someone, do you need help?"

The girl kept walking, and the youngman drove passed her before stopping in the middle of the road blocking traffic. He raced out of his car and went up to the girl. Cars were stopping and honking their horns.

"Cool it!" the youngman shouted.

He turns his attention back to the girl who just looks at him blankly. He notices that she as a few cut and bruises, but it was her shoulder that had got him concerned, for it looks like her arm was about to fall off at any moment as it was completely covered in blood.

"Look I don't know what happened, but I would consider coming with me to a hospital or something, because I don't think you want to lose that arm of yours." The youngman trying to reason with the girl.

A horn honks for a period of time.

"Get out of the road, take your love spat somewhere else!" The driver shouted.

"Shut the hell up, can't you see that this girl is hurt." The youngman shouted irritated by the driver's lack of consideration.

The girl shared his irritation as being degraded was enough especially what she had gone through. The driver became more belligerent which was enough for the girl. She displayed her frustration, by kicking the front bumper hard enough to make the airbag detonate and slamming the drive's face like a punch to the face one wished they could throw.

As if her work was done, she began to make her way to the youngman's car. The youngman got the picture and left the man who was still in a daze and was now the one blocking traffic. The two drove off as other drivers maneuvered to drive passed the stall vehicle.

Away from all the turmoil the youngman still seemed trouble for the situation was awkward enough it was silence that got him more.

"So, uh." He nervously tried to speak, but it was the words he had trouble finding, "My name's Steve, Ste for short."

"Thank you Ste, nice to meet you." was the only thing that the girl said.

Ste cleared his throat trying to figure out what to say next, but his main concern was the young woman's shoulder that nearly had him jumping out of his skin.

"Do you want me to take you to a hospital or-"

"No, no more hospitals, I've had enough of them." She said rather quickly and irritant.

"Okay so no hospitals, where to then?"

"Beacon Hills."

As if on cue, a tree branch hit the windshield nearly veering them off road, but gained control before halting to a stop. Heartbeats pounded through their ears.

"Are you alright?" the girl asked.

"Yeah, once I put my heart back in my chest, you?"

"The same."

"Stay here."

Ste gets out of the car and takes the branch off the windshield as he asses the car for damage only to find none. He looks at the girl whose focus is on something behind him, in which is turns to find a sign that says welcome to Beacon Hills.

Ste doesn't know if he should be crept out by the events that just unfolded or if he should question the matter. The girl gets out of the car and goes up to Ste. The two exchange looks as if thinking the same thing. Thunder clattered and lightning flashed making the two retreated to the car without further ado and drive off.

Lydia was outside the hospital witnessing the storms, as they showed no intention of ceasing anytime soon. She kept being bombarded by constant pounding in her ears

She covers her ears as if it was a way to stop it, although it proved useless. She looks down to her feet and notices drops of red dripping on the pavement, she looks up and notices that it's not raining, but the drops continue to fall. She bents down and runs her finger on one of the droplets and notices that its blood. She looks up a the sky before looking back to her fingers where no blood was there, she looks to the ground and sees that the blood is no longer there.

"What is going on?" Lydia says completely at her wits end.

Elsewhere, its seems that Lydia was somehow mirroring the actions of another, as it was Derek who was looking at the blood, no scratches were found on him, the only indication of the crash he had was that his leather jacket from the shoulder was ripped up having parts of the cotton sticking out as if mirroring the girl's injury. He looks at the tire tracks left behind.

"What the hell did you get yourself into?" he asked.

He gets back into his car and starts to drive down the road.

A group of teenagers were taking refuge in a tent trying to keep dry.

"Remind me why we decided to go on a camping trip in the rain." One of the teenagers asked.

"Okay it was a dumb ass mistake, its just one night." Another said.

"All for extra credit." Another said in dismay.

"Hey I am not taking summer classes there's a reason why it's called summer vacation and I'm not wasting it in summer school."

Something brushes passed the tent.

"What was that?" one of them asked.

They all get out of the tent and look around and in doing so they turn their sights to a tree where they could see someone on their knees.

"Hey you okay?" one of them asked.

All of a sudden, the person gets up to their feet and drops a carcass of a deer, they then turn to face the teenagers who have grouped together and are in the fright for their lives as they all had taken off running, and they split up going to different directions. One kept running until they reached a road and saw a car pass by, they waved their arms to try to get its attention, but to no avail. Without paying attention they were tackled to the ground, before they could recover and get away they were pulled by the ankles and all that could be heard was their blood cuddling screams as they were ripped apart.

The other teenagers went on a road where a car stopped as they waved it down. Derek gets out of the car as the teenagers frantically tried to explain what happened to him.

The rain was beginning to let up, but the storms did not pass, police were everywhere on the scene. Sheriff Stilinski at the camp site and found no traces since the rain had washed everything away. Scott and Stiles were too in the woods trying to find a scent on where the attacker went, but everything went cold.

Ste and the girl drove until blue and red lights flashed.

"What the heck?" Ste asked.

An officer tries to redirect traffic, Ste drives up to them.

"What's going on officer?" he asks.

"Crime scene, you're going to have to go down this road."

"What happened?"

"Animal attack."

The officer notices the girl and seems a bit taken back since she had mad no eye contact and is just looking at the ground.

"Would you mind pulling off to the side sir?" the officer asks.

"Uh sure." Ste says as he complies with the officer.

The officer goes up to Ste's side and gestures him to get out of the car, Ste complies. The officer then goes to the girl's side of the car, and when he opens the door, the girl is gone. He is taken back by this since he had just seen her. He looks at Ste and then looks back at the seat. Ste looks inside and he too sees that she is not present.

"She was just right there I swear." Ste exclaims.

At the same time Lydia was in her car at a red light, the pounding prove too much for her, as she knew there was nothing else to do, she screamed to drown the noise out and when she did the sound of church bells could be heard.

Lighting flashed and thunder clattered as the darken skies hugged a church. The girl stood in the church in her worn down hospital gown and her make shift pants she had. She looked around the church as she could feel it's loneliness as though hardly anyone comes in the house of worship, people still come, but not as much as during the times of old where not even churches were built just yet.

She felt that she had no businesses in there as her clothes would show how much she had been through even her bare feet which were tracking in dirt and leaving muddy foot prints in the red felt carpet, in the span of twenty four hours of waking up from her six month sleep or rather coma from what she was told. She found that she had no home to return to let alone in a world that she has no place in, a world that was very familiar yet very out of place. She soon began to think that her friend back in the old world was right and that they were never going to let her live down the dreadful truth that they were warned before hand.

The church was beautiful very taken care off and not like the run down churches she had seen from time and time again, it was very spacious, as if a royal wedding or even the royal wedding could be done there if any royal family had come to Beacon Hills to have the wedding take place. The stain glass windows were gorgeous as it showed various pictures of saints and angles. She walked down the aisle before going into a pew and pulled the kneeler down where she rest her knees as the pew faced the front of the alter.

"I know I am not the best example of being a religious person, for I will admit I am not. I come here humbled and asking for guidance for I am lost, more lost than I already was. I am in a land that I don't know, in a situation I know not how I got in it in the first place. All I remember is walking through the forest only to find myself in a hospital where I have been asleep for six months and do not know why? But what I do know, from what I have learned is that Kala was right. There is no home for me to return to, funny part is I already knew that and what makes me even more furious is the fact the land I so desperately tired to get away from was the land that was more home to me than this land, well Portland to be exact. I have also learned that this land is very unbalanced and that it is not my problem that this is not my war, I can not help them because this is a test for them, they must fight this war they must solve problem, they must learn, but the thing of it is, they had done no wrong and they know not what to do. To be honest I'm tired and I have had enough, I would rather go back to the old world, I do not want to be brought into another war and fight for a cause I do not believe in or do something that I do not want to do, I have already done all those things I have done almost everything and anything just to go home and for what only to find a shell of what was what wasn't? I'm tired and I'm still trying to answer why I still have my feet on the ground, this is not my war my battle I'm tired of cleaning and fixing other people's messes that or not mine to begin with. So I am here to ask you, I know it not my place to come here and ask of you to do something for me, but if what I have been told is true then there is mercy even for someone of the likes me. I only ask of you to give me a sign, a sign on why I feel so empty to a point where I know something is wrong and if this war if this problem is one for me to fight, one for me to fix then give me a sign so I will know what to do, please just one sign that is all, just a sign."

The girl went quiet trying to listen trying to find a sign one that could help her one that could show her the way or what must be done. She listens she clasped her hands to a point where it hurt, she squeezed her eyes tight, summoning, beckoning a sign with all her heart, but to no avail. If a sign fell on deaf ears then hers was one of them, or one was not coming.

She gives a defeated sigh before getting up to her feet and pushing the kneeler back up, as she goes to get out of the pew she stops and looks to the alter.

"I should've known, thinking that even someone of the likes of me could still be a child in your eyes and that help was not far away, shame on me for believing in that."

She walks into the aisle only to all of a sudden right before her eyes everything had gone dark, all the lights went out and the once angelic church had now gone to something out of a horror movie. The girl looked around unsure what had happened or what was going on or what was going to unfold. The winds of the storm brewed threatening to take the building down and have the walls collapse all around her as the church violently shacked as if an earthquake had come.

The church doors busted opened as winds pushed itself through the building, the girl put her arm in front of her shielding her from the winds as she tried to get to the doors, she struggled for a bit as she soon found rhythm with each step she took, she finally got to the doors and started to push them closed, before turning around to lean on the door for a bit before getting back into the aisle.

A sound of something dropping could be heard as it echoed through the church, making the girl stop dead in her tracks. She looks around trying to see through the thick darkness, but nothing. She knew someone or something was in the room with her, if only she knew what, but whatever it was had her in its sight as she tries to take cautious steps while trying to find what could be there.

"If someone is here I suggest you come out and show yourself, I'm not in the mood nor do I have time for chivy stuff. So come out, joke is over."

A growl that sent chills down her spine could be heard, as it come from behind, she slowly turns around only to see a silhouette of what looked to be clearly not human. It started to make its way towards her, but stopped before it could close the distance between them, as it towered over her like she was nothing. All that could be felt was its hot breath as it flew into her face. It let out a roar that shook the building and blew in her face making her hair go everywhere.

The roar could be heard from a distance as Derek turned his head away from the teenagers to where it came from as Scott heard it too.

"What the hell was that?" Stiles asked as if he had just seen a ghost or rather heard one.

Not answering his best friend's question and not wanting to waste any time, Scott started to make his way there on foot as Stiles frantically gets back into his jeep and follows his wolf best friend as he looks up to the full moon.

"Something's telling me this is going to be a long night." He said in a dreaded tone.

Lydia could hear it too as she was close to the area as she started to make her way there.