Warnings: fluffy/sad flash back
Scott's pack gathered next to Theo's truck as you put the last boxes in and hugged Hayden. She smiled sadly, not wanting to force you to change your mind and keep you in the McCall pack when you didn't want to.
Stiles handed you an envelope once you'd said goodbye, making you promise to look at it if you ever felt the need to do what you'd tried to do with Theo, he insisted they'd feel better knowing you were somewhere that Brayden deemed safe but they would prefer that you came home more than anything.
You gave them a last wave as you pulled away, watching them stare after you in the rear-view mirror. You didn't want to leave them but you couldn't stay, not after everything that had happened.
"Woah (Y/N) easy on my baby!" Theo turned to you and grinned when you almost stalled the truck.
"When you said you'd teach me how to drive I assumed you meant in a car." You sighed and groaned when you stalled the truck and couldn't get it to start again.
"What you don't like my truck?" Theo teased and you rolled your eyes, letting him lean over and jiggled the keys about until it started.
"I just thought you'd... find a car so I could learn how to drive safely." You admitted and he frowned at you before smirking.
"Princess there's nothing safer than my truck, now show me you can drive her and I'll go easy on you with the self-defence practise." He smiled as you immediately stalled the truck but this time managed to kick the truck back into life.
The temptation to look in Stiles' envelope took two days to grow too strong to ignore. It was midnight when you tore into it and read through the files. There was another Hybrid, judging by the small amount of information that was in the folder he was alone and didn't have a pack.
After a few hours research you decided to sleep, setting the alarm for as early as possible in hopes of avoiding the traffic you'd no doubt get caught in on the way to New Orleans. The drive down was long but pleasant and it didn't take you long to find somewhere to park the truck.
You wondered around pondering how you'd find the hybrid, assuming that like Theo, he'd be hiding. He surprised you by walking straight past you, you'd almost missed him but quickly recovered, following after him.
"And what are you Love, witch, wolf... something my brother has sent to distract me?" He snapped and your eyes widened at his aggressiveness.
"I'm... just human, actually I helped a Hybrid with his pack but he... died... and I thought maybe you might need help." You offered quietly.
"You know what, you can go back to my brother or Marcellus or whomever sent you to me and tell them I'm not going back down just because some sad looking human attempted to make friends." He growled, stepping terrifyingly close before vanishing.
"Great Stiles, perfect... I guess I'll go look for the other one." You mumbled.
"Theo?" You asked and slowly looked up from your homework.
"Yup." He grunted as he continued to work out.
"If I needed to find my way through the woods, say if I got lost and needed to find you, how do I do it?" You smiled when he stopped and smirked at you.
"Come on." He muttered and grabbed your bag.
He walked with you to the woods before vanishing into them. You headed straight in the direction he'd been going until he suddenly grabbed you from behind and held you against him.
"Remember I can smell, hear and feel you walking around so if I don't want you to find me you'll have to be smart about it." Theo schooled.
He continued until it was dark, cheering when you finally found him, although you were sure he'd done it on purpose because you were tired.
"Excuse me are you Tyler Lockwood?" You asked when you finally stumbled across him.
"That depends who you are." He snapped carefully.
With a sigh you began to explain what you wanted and who you were. He seemed grateful and friendlier than the other Hybrid. Over the next few days you met with Tyler at your motel room and let him drill you for information, which was exactly what Theo did when he felt overly threatened or grumpy.
"Lockwood!" Klaus bellowed. "Where is the human?"
"What human?" Tyler snapped back and squared up to Klaus.
"Come now Tyler do not take me for a fool, how many beautiful young women seek out Hybrids with the intention to help rather than hurt them?" Klaus growled.
"You mean (Y/N)?" Tyler let out a dry chuckle. "I'm not going to tell you where she is, at least not until she's told me how to make more Hybrids... then I won't need her."
You stopped dead when you heard what Tyler had said, you'd grown to trust him, clearly that had been a mistake. Klaus seemed to think so to because he sighed and suddenly jabbed out a hand and threw Tyler off his feet.
"As your sire I'm impressed at your deviousness but as a fellow Hybrid I'm saddened that you would attempt top damage such a rarity." Klaus sneered at Tyler who glowered up at him.
"A rarity, she's human." Tyler spat and slowly made his way to his feet.
"A human who is willing to help Hybrids despite knowing what we are capable of," Klaus spoke as if Tyler's plan to get rid of you was the most offensive thing he's heard and when you took a shaky breath he abandoned Tyler, following after you as you hurried to the main road.
"Come here Love, you can't drive like this." Klaus muttered as you let silent tears dribble down your cheeks.
"Please don't." You whispered quickly and he followed your gaze to the pile of Theo's clothes in the back, seeming to understand your desire to cling onto your best friend, companion and Alpha until the last possible second.
"Head back as if you're going to the Quarter, just before there's a turn off and twenty minutes down there's a dirt road that leads to a large white house... ask for Elijah and tell him Niklaus said you could stay." He opened your door for you and made sure you'd gotten in.
"Thank you." Was all you muttered as you shut the door to the truck and headed in the direction he'd said.