"At least Levi is the same," Stiles stated, as he was taking down the old newspaper scrapings on his wall from their Mexico trip planning. Scott didn't respond, simply staring upwards at the ceiling and watching as the fan in his friends room spun around.
Stiles wasn't content with the boys silence and turned around, getting his friend's attention. The alpha sat up and looked at his friend, narrowing his eyes.
"What?"
"You think she's changed, don't you?" Stiles edged and Scott sighed before running a hand through his short hair before dropping it back to his lap as he fiddled with his fingers. He took a breath before answering.
"Not massively, but ever since Kate took her," he paused as he tried to find the right phrase, "there's been something... different," Scott summed up, not knowing how to describe the feelings that had changed between him and the other alpha.
His friend nodded slightly before shaking his head and making a weird noise. "Scott, maybe it's your super wolf senses picking up on something, but no-one else feels a change."
The alpha furrowed his eyes but accepted Stiles' answer. He looked down at his phone to see it vibrating, and Levi's caller ID on the screen. He took a deep breath before sliding his thumb to the right and declining the call.
///.///
Levi groaned as she put the phone down, looking over at Lydia. "He's still not picking up," she said and the strawberry-blonde rolled her eyes as she continued to look through Levi's wardrobe at Derek's loft. Peter and Derek had gone out, and had informed her they were not going to be back for a day or two as they tried to find someone to hunt down Kate.
"Levi, it's fine, we don't need Scott and Stiles to have a good time," the girl smirked as she turned around and threw a skirt and nice top at the girl. Levi stood up, holding it against her frame and nodded in approval before placing it to the side of the bed, folding it neatly on to her desk. Lydia did the same, placing a dress on to the chair beside her desk.
As Levi flicked off the light, she couldn't help but think what school tomorrow was going to be like. Her family's money was gone, all 117 million (that no-one ever told her about, by the way, much to Levi's annoyance), she couldn't remember the last time she actually paid attention in any of her classes (Lydia assured her she would be fine judging by her previous exam results) and to top it all off, Scott was trying to avoid her and she didn't know why.
///.///
Stiles looked over at Scott as they walked on to the lacrosse field carrying their bags and sticks.
"Of course you're still the team captain," the boy reassured his friend, "you got your grades up just like coach told you to, right?"
Scott squinted slightly. "Yeah but he never told me I was back on the team, he just told me to show up for tryouts today."
The two had almost reached the field, looking around slightly before turning their attention back to each other. Stiles waved a hand to show he wasn't as bothered about the lacrosse team at the moment.
"We've got bigger things to deal with anyway, did you tell Argent yet?" Stiles asked and Scott sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, looking down at the ground in embarrassment before answering.
"I texted him but he didn't get back to me," the alpha said, a slightly tone of disappointment in his voice. Stiles paused from walking and turned around, his eyes narrowing in amusement.
"You told him his dead sister Kate came back from the dead over a text?" Scott sheepishly shrugged again.
"Didn't have the money to call France..."
Stiles sighed before sighing in agreement, he told Scott about their struggles to pay off his medical examination bills and to pay off his stay in Eichen House. They discussed the final notice before Stiles rolled his eyes and stopped the discussion.
"Now what the hell are we even doing here? We got like a 117 million problems and worrying about our status on the lacrosse team isn't one of them!" He complained, throwing his hands in the air to further his point.
He tried to avoid the fact that Scott was now looking over his shoulder concerned, before the taller boy spoke with a hint of terror in his voice. "It is now!"
Stiles spun around and his eye instantly locked on to what Scott was deeming a threat to their lacrosse positions. One of the younger boys was standing in the goals, swirling the goalie stick back and forth as he easily deflected the shots his two friends were firing rapidly at him.
He didn't miss a single shot.
"Who the hell is that?"
The boy took off his helmet and the two older boys watched as his friends moved over to praise him for his excellent performance.
"Nice one Liam, you might even be the first ever freshman captain!" His friend exclaimed, and Stiles noted that you didn't need to be a werewolf to hear the determination in their voices.
"We should probably practise."
//..//
Levi groaned as the teacher called her name. "Malia, Levi, Lydia, to the board."
Malia started to complain but the teacher wasn't having any of it and ignored her protests, the other two members of the pack already picking up their chalk at the board. Levi stood on Malia's left while Lydia stood on her right. Levi squinted at the equation before starting to jot down working.
"Didn't you go over my notes?" Lydia asked Malia but the werecoyote gave her a panicked look.
"I did but I didn't understand them." Levi looked over and noticed Malia's claws had flicked out without the girl realising.
"X is 25," Lydia answered, rolling her eyes as she placed her chalk down. "And sweetheart, lose the claws,"
Malia looked down panicked and saw her claws were on the piece of chalk she was holding. Levi lightly placed her hand on Malia's when she was putting her chalk down, making sure no one else noticed.
"Malia, retract them just like we practised." The alpha ordered, her eyes shining red slightly and Malia nodded, concentrating before retracting her claws. Levi smiled before she walked away from the board, sitting back down in her seat behind Lydia.
She looked over to her right at Stiles who was staring down in shock at his phone. Levi could instantly notice his heartbeat rising and she reached over, lightly nudging him. Stiles jumped slightly before eyeing her then passing the phone over.
As the class finished, Stiles tried to convince Levi to join him in investigating the triple homicide but the alpha wasn't having any of it.
"Stiles, it's not supernatural. Anyway, I have a lot of econ to catch up on that I missed when I was away visiting my old pack," she declined and the lanky boy stormed away, muttering about how he needed to find Scott and how irresponsible she was being.
Levi scoffed and rolled her eyes, heading to her locker before her econ class.
//..//
Levi sat down, dumping her folder and book on to the table in front of her. As the class filled up, she started to write down the paragraph on the board that had written instructions to copy out. She felt a presence staring at her so she stopped, looking over her shoulder and saw Scott staring at her with an open mouth. He noticed the only seat left was beside her and paused again, causing Levi to feel dread. She had felt the change in their relationship but she wasn't entirely sure what it was. Their feelings towards each other had changed, but she couldn't deny the sudden attraction she had been feeling towards him recently.
She watched as he shook his head and sat down in the seat beside her, placing his books down and swinging his bag off his shoulders. As he clumsily got his things out, he knocked a pen off the side of his table. Levi, who had been watching his frantic behaviour, noticed this and with her reflexes she caught it before it smacked into the ground.
As she passed him back the pen and he thanked her, their fingers brushed for a moment. It was strange, considering they had been friends for almost a year now and they had touched each other many times, whether it was a simple tug of a shirt or a reassuring touch on the arm, but it had never felt like this.
Their eyes both flashed red for the briefest of moments, and both of their hearts missed a beat. They quickly sprung their hands apart like they had been burned and without saying another word, they turned to face the front of the class.
Throughout the class, Scott couldn't help but steal glances at his co-alpha, suddenly starting to understand what the change between them had been.
He wasn't seeing her as the sister of Derek or the girl who had just lost two packs within a few months anymore.
He was seeing her as Levi Hale, the girl who had survived everything she had been through. And my god, he was definitely attracted to that Levi.