My Love for Derek Hale *Discontinued*

Battlefield

"Sure. Let's talk! Scarlett? Would you like the honors?"

I smile and nod. "Gladly."

I take a running start and kick Peter in the middle of the chest. He goes flying through the railing of the stairs. They start to fight. I have to leave when my mom texts me, asking to drive with her to school for the game. I go with my mom to the locker room looking for Scott. She makes her way through the suited team members as Coach Finstock begins his pre-game motivational speech, which is a verbatim rendering of the big speech Bill Pullman gives in Independence Day just before the pilots go off to fight the Aliens. "Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind."

My mom looks at me with a confused face. "What?"

"Mankind," he continues. "That word should have new meaning for all of us today..."

She looks to Stiles. "What the hell is he talking about?"

I laugh. He winks at me with his usual smirk. "He does this every year."

"Yeah, it's the one of the only speeches he knows, I think," I add.

"Seriously?"

"Yeah."

"We are fighting for our right to live..." the coach goes on.

"Wait... is this..."

"Yeah!" Stiles replies.

"It's the one and only speech from Independence Day," I say.

"But as the day the world declared in one voice."

"It's his favorite movie."

"We will not go quietly into the night!"

"He doesn't know any sports speeches?" my mom asks.

"I don't think he cares," Stiles and I reply.

After the speech, Gerard comes in. My mom hides behind Stiles. Gerard says he won't be happy with a win. He wants them to kill the other team. Please, no pun intended. The coach explains that Scott is benched because he is failing three classes. In the stands, Sheriff Stilinski, sitting next to me and mom. The coach blows his whistle and calls out, "McCall!"

I think he's talking about Scott but, when I look up, he's looking directly at me. I walk down to the field. "Coach?"

"I need someone to replace Greenburg and you seem like my only hope."

"Coach, you see those players? They might kill me. Use Stiles."

The coach looks back at the benched Stiles. He huffs and approaches him. "Put on your helmet and get out there. You're in for Greenburg.

"What? What happened to Greenburg?"

"Greenburg! He sucks, you suck... slightly less."

Stiles gets super excited. "I'm playing? On the field? With the team?"

"Yes! Unless you'd rather... play with yourself."

"I already did that today. Twice!"

I hold my hands up in surrender. "TMI, Stiles!"

When I get back to the stands, Gerard speaks in a voice he knows only Scott and I can here. "When the clock counts down to the end of the game, I'm going to have Jackson transform into the kanima and kill someone unless you give up Derek's whereabouts."

He specifically threatens our mother, the Sheriff and Lydia who is just arriving at the game and sits next to me. He then threatens the Coach, calling him ridiculous. Stiles gets off to a slow start getting tackled repeatedly, dropping the ball and generally looking like a clown on the field. The team is losing badly. Isaac shows up which is a surprise to Gerard.

He and Scott cook up a plan to disable their own teammates so that coach will be forced to put Scott into the game. The plan works, they disable a couple of players before Jackson takes out Isaac with a tackle and a scratch that leaves him partially paralyzed. With Isaac injured, the coach must either allow Scott to play or forfeit. He chooses the former. Me and my mom run on to the field. She's senses that something is up. "Mom, it's best to just leave. I don't want something bad to happen to you," Scott warns.

"I won't leave and you two should forget everything I said earlier while I was cowering in fear. If you can do something to help then you have to do it."

Scott looks at me and tears swelled in my eyes. My mom goes back to the bleachers. "Scott, I can't just give Derek up to the hunters."

"Scar, what choice do we have?"

"We fight against them. Derek has done so much for us and giving him up would make us traders. We practically owe him our lives."

Coach calls him onto the field. I give a quick 'goodluck' hug. I go up to the bleachers, next to my mom. Scott and Stiles both get tackled hard. As Scott is getting up, I realize that Gerard is no longer on the field. I can still hear him as the old man offers to trade Allison for information about Derek. I follow him to the locker room and see Gerard about to cut Isaac in half. Isaac gets up, using a sink as support, and smiles at us.

I see our reflection, our eyes glowing, in the mirror. Scott and I take out all the hunters but Gerard is missing. I go back out to the game and I find out Stiles is a scoring machine, putting up an additional two goals in the game's final minutes. The final score will be 10 to 9, Beacon Hills winning. He looks in the stands and sees Lydia smiling and cheering for him and Stiles has never looked happier.

Scott makes it back to the field as the clock begins to tick off the final 30 seconds. Jackson stands away from the rest of the team, claws out as the crowd erupts in celebration of the win. Then the lights go out on the field and someone screams. It is chaos as everyone runs about in the dark, terrified. I can hear my mom calling us and I make my way to her. "Someone is down on the field," she panics.

The lights come back up and we see it is Jackson who is down. Lydia, seeing him injured, runs to his side. My mom listens for a heartbeat and hears none. She pulls up his jersey to reveal deep puncture wounds to his abdomen. She makes Lydia get down to help her with CPR.

Me, Isaac and Scott notices that Jackson's hands are bloody. "He must have did this to himself," I whisper.

"But why?"

The sheriff runs on to the field and realizes that Stiles is nowhere to be seen. He yells for his son...