Alex opened her apartment door and Isaac walked in with a grin "you know you don't have to come to school with me when you live with Scott" she stated
Isaac had been continuing to live with Scott, it only made sense since he lived their before they left and there was no spare rooms in the argent apartment, apart from Chris's room and Allison's room but of course they would not be touched
"Yeah but I like the run" he returned "Besides, Scott left early to try and find Liam"
"You came to check on me didn't you?" Alex asked
He gasped "I am not"
Alex rolled her eyes "I'm fine"
"I heard you outside the door last night, when stiles-.."
"I know" she nodded "I figured that's why you said what you did" she shrugged
"I said it because it was true, you are apart of this pack regardless of what happens"
Alex sighed "you keep saying these things and people will think you care for me Isaac Lahey" she joked
"Alex" he snapped "I watched you fall apart and then somehow managed to glue yourself back together, coming back here was never gonna be easy especially if stiles won't talk to you"
Alex exhaled a breath, stopping what she was doing to focus on him "Isaac I appreciate the concern but I made my bed and I have to lay in it. I broke up with him and he had every right to be mad at me" she explained to him
"Okay" he nodded "but if it gets too hard tell me"
"Alright, that's a deal" she agreed
*
The pack all stood in group between the yellow school busses after an exhausting night of trying to figure out how to keep a new beta safe on his first full moon.
"I'm not sharing my basement" malia complained
Lydia shot a stern look towards the coyote "Actually, it's my basement. And my mom noticed how you tore it up last time"
"All right, she's still learning" stiles defended malia
Alex had noticed the rather close relationship between the coyote and the human. She knew stiles was the one who helped her learn the basics of being a human, Lydia had filled her in on how stiles had helped her with the full moons. Of course stiles had experience.
Alex didn't want to feel jealous, Alex knew coming back she might have to experience stiles being with someone else but deep down she'd hoped they'd be able to fix things.
"Malia it's okay, it's not safe to have you and Liam in one place anyway" Alex reassured the girl
"we're going to use the boathouse for Liam. It's got support beams. We can chain him to one of them" Scott explained
"You think it will keep him there?" Alex asked
"I hope" he sighed
"But how do we get him out to the lake house if he doesn't trust us?" Kira asked
"I say if it keeps him from murdering someone we chloroform the little bastard and throw him in the lake" Stiles said viscously
"I'm in" Malia agreed
"We're not killing or kidnapping him" Scott denied the plan
"Yeah, did youse forget what happened after kidnapping him last night?" Alex asked
"Then let's be smarter. We tell him there's a party and invite him" lydia suggested
"So, you're going to ask out a freshman?" Stiles asked
Lydia shook her head "No, I'm done with teenage boys. But, if we're playing a trick on someone, we'll have to use the trickster" she directed at Kira
Kira looked at the banshee with wide eyes "Who? Me? She asked " No way. Not me" Kira refuse
"Yes, you." Lydia stated. She smiled at the girl "You know what they call a female fox? A vixen"
"Me?" Kira questioned
"You can do it, Kira. Be a vixen" Lydia encouraged
...
Hours had passed and everyone had made it to Lydias lake house in time for their plan to take place.
Alex drove down the road following Scott's bike, Isaac sat in the passenger seat beside her "oh, how are you with the full moon?" She asked
"I'm good" Isaac nodded "I can feel it but I can also control it"
"Hopefully malia will feel the same soon" Alex hoped for her
"Yeah. She seems very..
"Out there?" Alex asked
Isaac nodded in response
"I like it. I think we could all take a page from her book, no holding back and tiptoeing, just out with it"
"Oh but when I do it" he joked
"You still think ms Blake is hot?" She asked.
"Oh yeah" he nodded
Alex laughed, remembering more then a few times when Isaac had been more then honest
He shook his head with a grin "Allison used to hate it"
Alex almost stopped when he said that. The days had been so good she forgot about it all, she liked feeling normal, feeling happy but her grief always took over so suddenly. She got no warning, all it took was someone mentioning her name and everything came back.
Alex looked ahead and seek Scott come to a stop. Stopped too and got out from her car, not saying another word.
"I just talked to Kira. She's on her way. She said it's all going fine" Scott told him
Stiles shook his head "It's not that. I have to tell you something. I asked around about Liam. I know why he got kicked out of his last school"
"This is going to be bad, isn't it?" Scott asked fearfully
"He kind of got into it with one of his teachers. And... The kid's got some serious anger issues"
"How serious?" Scott asked
"Like killed serous?" Isaac asked
He pulled up a picture on his phone and showed the group in front of him. Showing them a car that had taken a few.. or more hits with the words "this is your fault" scraped along the two doors "Well, that's his teacher's car. After he took a crowbar to it"
Alex shrugged a little "So he's got anger issues. It could be worse right?" She asked
"I'd call that more the anger issues" stiles scoffed
Alex shot him a quick glare. She wondered if he would spend the rest of night contradicting every word she said.
Stiles had took notice the glare. He didn't like the way things had become, he loved Alex, he loved her more then he could have ever imagined loving someone but things had become so rocky between them. He wondered if they would ever go back to normal
*
Liam walked into the house and his face fell to an angered frown when he seen it was no party, but instead it was the group of teenagers who had been stalking him since the tryouts.
He turned to walked out but was stopped by the fox, as she awkwardly stood in front of the door "sorry" she mumbled
He turned back to then and glared at them "What the hell is this?" Liam asked furiously
"Think of it like an intervention" Stiles suggest "You have a problem, Liam."
Scott stood forward "And we're the only ones that can help" he added
And so they began to explain it all as vaguely as possible. Mention how each person in the room had their one title, and how they came about to find them.
They of course explained the full moon and what can happen to someone who had to experience it, referencing to Scott McCalls first few full moons.
"Werewolf?" He pointed at then two wolves in the room
"Werecoyote." Malia nodded with a high head, proud to own her title
"Banshee"
He pointed to Kira "Fox?"
"Kitsune. But fox works" Kira corrected
"And you are a healer?" Liam asked Alex
"Yeah" she nodded
He looked towards stiles, who stood with a grin on his face "What are you?" He asked Stiles
"Uh, for a little while, I was possessed by an evil spirit. It was very evil" he replied
Alex would definitely agree with that statement. She almost felt angered that he could just say it so leniently, but she assumed it was more anger towards stile then the phrase itself.
"What are you now?" He asked
"Better. Um... " Stiles looked to the rest hoping for a helping hand in the awkward situation
Liams eyes attracted to the chains and straps that laid out on the oak table "Are those for me?" He asked, folding his arms over his chest in an angered manner
"No, they're for me." Malia flashed her eyes a bright electric blue
His breath became heavier. Still wondering how all of this became possible, slowly convincing himself this was all done sick dim-witted Prank they were pulling as a payback from practice "How did you do that?" He asked
"You'll learn." Scott reassured "But first, you need to get through the full moon"
"The moon's already out" he retorted
"And you're starting to feel something, aren't you?" Scott asked
"I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of psychotic nutjobs." He yelled "You guys are out of your freaking minds. I don't know how you did that eye thing and I don't care. I'm walking out the door right now! If any of you try to stop me, I swear to God, I'm gonna..." he was interrupted by the piercing pain that shot trough his ears, he felt as if he could hear the whole world moving around him. He held his ears tightly crying out in pain
Scott moved toward the freshmen's "What's wrong? Liam?" Scott asked
"You don't hear that?" Liam asked
Scott listened closely and realized it was the sound of many cars pulling into the driveway. It was quickly noticed by the flashing headlights through the windows
"Did you tell someone about this?" Lydia asked
"My friend Mason" Liam panted. Landing on his knees as he lost the energy to stand "You said it was a party."
"Who did Mason invite?" Lydia asked
Kira peeped outside the window, Turing back round she bit her lip nervously "Everyone" She replied
Liam continued to groan as he felt the claws push through his nail beds. He dug them into the wooden floors, scraping them along hoping it would help the surge off anger flowing through him
"The floors! Get him off the floors!" Lydia stressed
She took a step forward and liams head snapped towards her, letting out a growl as eyes glowed the golden yellow of a beta
Alex tugged the banshee back by her arm "get him out of here now!" She demanded
Isaac pulled the beta to his feet, Scott took to the other side of him and they dragged him out of the room. Kira following behind them
Malia felt the same power soon take over her body. She doubled over and leaned against the table "Stiles..." she moaned
"Yeah"
She snapped her head towards stiles and her eyes glowed brightly as she growled at him
"Hey... Okay, basement. Now. Now" Stiles panicked
He took her by the arm and grabbed the remanding restrains
A knock filled the room and Lydia looked towards the door remembering there was about a hundred freshman outside expecting a party
"What am I supposed to do with the hordes gathering outside the door?" Lydia asked
Stiles rolled his eyes at the banshee "Lydia, who throws the best parties in Beacon Hills?" He asked
She looked at him almost offended by his questions "What? Me, obviously."
"Okay, then throw a party" he told her, pulling Malia away from the two girls
Alex watched as stiles rushed off to help the girl in need. She remembered a time when it was him and her doing it with Scott, when things were so much easier for them .
"Alex!" Lydia snapped her friend out of her daze
Alex blinked "yeah sorry" she walked over to the door and stood beside Lydia
Lydia took in a breath and pulled open the door, revealing a lot of teenagers eager to get drunk
"Hey. Uh, are we in the right place?" Liams friends asked
"For the party?"
Lydias lips curved into a fake smile "Absolutely"
Cheered emerged from the crowd of underage teenagers and they all began to barrel into the house, excited to started drinking.
Alex shook her head, thinking of a time when she had the time to get drunk at parties, now it was just a repeating cycle of saving this town and losing people in the process.
With that, she figured if everyone else was getting drunk tonight. Why not her.