Running with Wolves

Chapter 73

I was watching Stiles do something to the jeep... I don't think you can call what he's doing fixing. Scotty came out, Liam went in there to talk to Scotty, but I don't think it went well.
Stiles said" So, what did he want?"
Scotty said" To help."
" You gonna let him?"
" Eventually, I guess."
" Okay, but shouldn't he be a little higher on your priority list right now? I mean, since he's the only other actual werewolf, your only actual beta."
" You didn't see the way that he came at me. You didn't see the look in his eyes."
" Well, I've been with you on a full moon, so I've seen that look. You want to get the band back together, Scott, you don't leave out the drummer." Stiles started the jeep, and it didn't smoke, he came back," Success." We walked to the jeep and got in, I glared at Stiles and all the bottles. Scotty looked at them then to Stiles," It's a minor leak. Very minor."
I said" Stiles!"
" You shouldn't even be coming with us." I growled," I swear, you're gonna get me in so much trouble one day, Riley." My claws came out," No, Ri, don't swipe at the jugs, please? Come on." My claws went away, I pouted at him," Just buckle up, okay?" I buckled up, pushing all of the jugs out of my way.
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I was whimpering, it's too hot! This stupid jeep is too hot!
Scott said" Man, I think the jeep's overheating again."
Stiles said" Probably."
" Should we pull over and put more antifreeze in it?"
" No, we can just turn the heat on." He turned the heat on," You find anything yet?"
" They're mostly the same stuff you already knew. Damnatio memoriae was a Roman practice, a government decree to destroy the images of the damned. And they would scratch off their names from inscriptions, chisel their face off of statues. The Romans believed it was a punishment worse than death."
" Being forgotten."
" Listen to this. Damnatio Memoriae, was later used on a serial killer in 1598 known as the Demon Tailor. He lured children into his shop in Paris where he would kill them and boil the flesh off their bones to eat. The courts believed the crimes so horrible, they ordered all documents destroyed. To this day, no one knows his real name."
" So the dread doctors resurrected a killer who was so bad that he had to literally be erased from history."
" A killer that became a werewolf."
" Which probably made him a better killer. That's great." Stiles sped up, I looked at them, making grabby hands and whining.
" He doesn't look too good."
" Yeah, I know. Can you just hold him up here with us, he's gonna burn up back there." Scott turned around and unbuckled me, I jumped into the front seats and stuck my head out the open window. Scotty pulled me back in and tied my hair up, I sighed and closed my eyes, falling asleep.

I woke woken up by Stiles, he put me down, I rubbed my eyes,
He said" Just go crazy, run off some energy, so you'll sleep again." My eyes glowed as I switched to four feet to run around them. They started walking again, I followed a lizard, I waddled after it. I sniffed at it then continued to follow it, I growled, then stuck my tongue out.
I heard Scott say" What's he doing?"
Stiles said" I don't... Riley!" I ignored him and sniffed the lizard again, then it turned around and hissed at me. I yelped, jumping into the air, I landed and ran back to them, I hid behind Stiles, gripping his shirt in my hands tightly." Bub, you okay?"
I said" Can we go now?" They both nodded and we started walking back to the jeep.
" What happened?"
" Scary lizard!" They looked at each other then to me,
" A scary lizard? That caused you to jump 5 feet into the air?"
" It hissed at me!"
" 5 feet?"
" Just 'cause you're not scared of a giant lizard... doesn't mean I'm not."
" Giant?"
" It was like this long!" i held out my arms a little bit,
" Yeah?"
" Yeah! You're just big, so it's not that big to you!"
" Oh, yeah, definitely... 'cause that's logical."
" It is!"
" Okay, okay, calm down, bub."
" Dumb big kid."
" Naive little kid." I tilted my head,
" I don't even know what that means! So... ha!"
" Okay, big lizard scared you, got it. You done?"
" Uh-huh!"
" Okay, good." I yawned, rubbing my eyes, then started running around again, keeping closer to my big brother and alpha big brother.
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It's morning, we drove to where Kira and her mom was, Scotty got out and growled.
Stiles said" Get in!" Kira and Scotty got in," Come on! Come on, come on, let's go. Come on, come on, come on!" Kira's mom got in, I was sitting in Stiles' lap," Everyone okay?" As we drove off as fast as we could, Kira and Scotty were kissing.
Kira said" I love you, I love you so much." They kissed again, Stiles covered my eyes with one hand.
I said" Ew. Hi, Kira. Hi, Kira's mom."
" Hi, RiRi."
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I was laid down, I whined and held onto Stiles' arm,
He said" Come on, bubby, let go of my arm, come on. Just... let go." I whined loudly, letting go, I curled up, falling asleep again." Goodnight, bub."