3 years later...
Eli was running and not for the right reasons. She was supposed to be at home- watching the new episode of Gilmore Girls. Instead, she had let Stiles convince her that it was a good idea to look for a half of a dead body; not even a full one.
She convinced herself it was to protect them and in some ways it was, but it's been a while since she'd been on a hunt. Maize might be a tracker, but she mostly looks for humans, and humans are easy to find.
Scott tagged along and it irritated Eli because she now had to look after another person, but she let it be. She was happy it was just the three of them. They had been walking in the woods and Stiles had been talking the entire time. That was until they heard the voice of the Sheriff- Stiles' father.
Unfortunately, the Sheriff had caught Stiles, but the former lied about his friend's whereabouts. No, Scott and Eli were not getting a good night's rest; they were doing the exact opposite. They were wide awake, hiding behind a tree, trying not to get caught and sent home while awaiting their punishment by their respective parental figures.
Once the Sheriff took Stiles away; both her and Scott went walking in the opposite direction. They both mutually decided this would be the end of their night and they should try to find their way back home. When they were walking along the path they came, Scott dropped his inhaler. When he went to pick it up, he saw the outline of a body. He turned his flashlight on and he saw that it was indeed the other half of the body. Scott screamed and began to run away.
Eliana ran after him until he felt they were both a good enough distance. She huffed out in exasperation, "What happened?"
He tried to explain in between breaths, "Body- girl- dead body."
"You found the other half," She says and Scott nods his head in confirmation. She slides her hand up and down his back in efforts to soothe him, and even out his breaths. When he was no longer gasping for air and his breathing became steady, they began to walk again. Eli thought they were safe until she heard rushing footsteps. Scott was oblivious to the sound with his human ears and was equally confused when his friend tackled him to the ground.
"What the hell?" Scott looked at her as if she was crazy, but then he started blushing. They might have been friends since diapers, but she was still a girl- a girl who was straddling him.
"Shh!" She shushed him and the next thing they know, a cluster of deers came running their way, but since Eli tackled him they were a few feet away from the initial impact they could have gotten if they were still in the same spot.
Once the deers were away, Scott questioned why Eli was still on top of him. "Can you please get off me!"
"It's not gone," She whispers in his ear and she tried to control her heartbeat, but it was no use. If she was alone or with one of her brothers then she would be okay, but Scott was with her. Her asthmatic best friend who couldn't run fast enough to save his life from a chihuahua.
"What's not g-" She covers his mouth with her right hand and uses her left hand to grab the silver knife out of her boot. Scott looked at her in shock, and confusion but made no move to remove her hand.
The growling was getting louder and she knew it was nearer because Scott shifted his head left to right as he tried to find the source of the noise. It was loud enough for human ears to pick up on.
She slowly got up but motioned for Scott to stay down, and he did as told. He didn't know what to do but Eli surely did, and someone had to be the leader. She walked in a circular motion to find the culprit but once she looked up; she screamed.
The beast tackled her to the ground and as a result, the knife fell out of her grasp. Its mouth was trying to bite her but she used her strength to keeps its face away from her. Eli turned to see Scott grab the knife and she yelled, "Scott, no!"
It had been too late. In his attempt to stab the beast that was attacking his friend, the beast turned to attack Scott once it sensed his presence. Eli didn't have enough time to use her powers to stop the beast before it effectively bit on Scott's abdomen. Once the beast had bitten Scott- it left. Almost as if its goal was to bite at least one of them.
Eli ran over to Scott and crouched down to the floor. He groaned in discomfort and tried to sit up. Eli took a quick look at the wound and saw that it wasn't just any bite- it was a werewolf bite and seeing that the beast had red eyes; Scott was either going to die or become a werewolf. As much as Eli would like to keep Scott away from the supernatural world, she'd rather keep her friend alive; which means that her brothers were never going to meet Scott if she could help it.
"Shit."
"Eli, it hurts," Scott mumbles in distress as he lies against her chest.
"I know Scott, I know. I'll make it feel better," Eli says as she rips off her friend's shirt.
"What? You gonna kiss it all better," Scott teases as the adrenaline starts to wear off and the pain really starts to set in.
"Something like that," Eli whispers as she trails her fingers along with the teeth marks on his pierced skin.
In attempts to distract her friend from what she was about to do; she brings him into an embrace and kisses his forehead. "That tickles," Scott murmurs before he falls into a deep sleep. Her touch forced him to go from being in pain and alert due to the adrenaline to a sedated state.
Eli gets up and starts carrying him over her shoulders. She starts walking back to the entrance but she senses a presence. "Another one?" She questions and stops in her tracks.
She slowly turns around and instead of seeing a beast, she sees a brooding man wearing nothing, but black and leather. "Are you the Alpha?" She asks defensively with a raised eyebrow.
He flashes his eyes and instead of red, they're blue. She relaxes for a second but made sure to keep alert. He may not have been the Alpha that attacked them, but that didn't mean he wasn't the beta that's here to finish them off. "Who are you?" He questions and tilts his head like a puppy.
"That's none of your business. If you don't mind; unless you're here to attack and finish off what your Alpha started then I will be taking my friend home," Eli sasses and she sets off but his voice stops her once again.
"That wasn't my Alpha. That one killed mine," The stranger explains and it was her turn to look at him with interest.
"The girl, she was your Alpha?"
He nods his head in a form of agreement and she responds, "Hmm, interesting. Very interesting."
He continues to stare at her intensely and she's seen that look before. He's trying to figure her out.
"Do you have a car?" She questions and that catches him off guard.
"Yes..." He replies hesitantly.
She uses her free hand to put it on her hip as she uses the other to keep Scott on her shoulder. "Well, if you want to make yourself helpful; you could give me a ride."
"You aren't scared of me?"
"Nope," She answers bluntly and that seemed to be good enough answer for him. She didn't trust him, that would be stupid considering they just met, but she didn't see him as a threat. He answered her honestly and he seemed too curious about her to want to kill her, at least for now. He was also just a werewolf; a beta at that, so she had no doubt that she could best him if need be.
Eli follows him to his car and she puts Scott in the back seat while she takes shot-gun. He wasn't gonna wake up anytime soon; that she was sure of. They rode in silence and the only time they had spoken was when she gave him directions to Scott's house.
When they arrived, he locks the car doors. She looks at him in irritation and waited for the question, "What are you?"
"A girl," She automatically responds.
He rolls his eyes and fought the urge to scream. She hasn't given him one straight answer.
Instead, she looks at him intensely, leans forward and asks, "What is it that you truly desire?"
He automatically answers without a second thought, "My family alive and justice for them." Her eyes soften at the answer but his eyes harden as he yells, "How did you do that?"
She unlocks the door and goes to grab Scott. Before she leaves she turns to look at him and says, "Everybody calls me Eli."
Eli walks to the door and quietly opens it. When she steps inside the McCall residence, that's when she hears the stranger's car drive away.
Her training comes into place as she quietly carries Scott up to his room; making sure not to step on a creak or knock Scott against anything. Eli wasn't sure of Melissa was home and Valarie was a light sleeper.
Eli sets him down on his bed and goes to take his shoes off. She then goes to the bathroom and grabs some supplies and tends to Scott's bite. Scott was going to make it, that much she knew. If he rejected the bite he would have shown signs by now. By morning, the bite should be gone, but she cleans and patches it up in efforts to not alarm Scott. If he woke up and saw that it was gone then he would immediately freak out. She wanted to ease him into the situation.
Once she's done she runs her hand through his shaggy hair before giving him a goodbye kiss to his forehead. "I'll help you, Scott. You're going to be okay. Sweet dreams."