Creatures of the night
Dear Juliet, Senior year huh? We made it! I hope when senior year is over, we will live together and start our future. Can you imagine it? You a doctor, me in the FBI.
Juliet sat on the hood of Stiles' jeep, watching him circle colleges around the map. Scott, in front of them, watching the moon. Stiles kept talking about where we were going to live once we move out and start going to college.
"All right, so I found some cool two bedrooms in the Mission District, but they're pretty expensive. A couple in Haight and Ashbury. Also expensive." Stiles sighs, Juliet starts playing with his hair. She runs her fingers through his hair, making him lose his words. He falls for her touch, makes him swoon every time.
"What about Berkeley?" Juliet brings up. "Don't a lot of students live around there?" She already had some colleges in mind. Even though the mailbox was full what felt like almost every college, university you can think of. Some far, some close. Thing was, does Juliet want to spend all of her life here in Beacon Hills?
"Yeah, yeah, we could try Nob Hill. But, the Jeep would probably burn through a lot of clutches." Both of the McCall twins faced Stiles.
"You're bringing the Jeep?" Scotts face frowns.
"You know the plan, okay. No one gets left behind." Stiles waves his hands. "That's the plan. Lydia's not gonna have a problem getting into Stanford. Juliet is getting scholarships from every universities left and right. Kira's thinking USF. Malia's, uh, gonna, you know, she'll figure something out, okay. The plan's perfect." He goes back to the map.
"Or we could also wait until we actually get into college and then figure out where to live." Scott tells him again.
"I have a vision, dude. Okay?" Stiles stops, looks at him. "And it is a beautiful vision. Don't ruin the vision."
"Yeah, don't mess with the vision." Juliet nods, placing a kiss on Stiles' lips. He closes his eyes, hums from the sweet lips on his.
"Okay, we can check out the East Bay. Haven't looked at Oakland yet, you know." Scott starts to not listen. Not in a rude way, he just kept staring at the full moon. "You're all right? You're starting to feel it?" Two look at Scott.
"No. Just thinking." Scott chuckles.
"About what?" Juliet questions.
"Senior year." The last year. It did scare Juliet. The thought of leaving Beacon Hills made her sad, but she was ready to graduate, to go somewhere new.
"Senior year, come on, that's, that's..." Stiles slaps his back. "That's nothing. That's going to be easy."
"It's more like something Deaton told me once. You ever hear of regression to the mean?"
"No, I don't think so." They shook their heads.
"It was his way of saying that life can't ever be all bad or all good. You know, eventually things have to come back to the middle. So, think about the last few months. Things have been good, right? But not amazing." But it did feel like they had a normal life so far. It almost seems perfect. Too perfect.
"Yeah, but no one's tried to kill us in six months either." Which was true. They needed that break. That was another thing why Juliet wanted to leave Beacon Hills. She did not want to spend her time living here and fighting off new threats. She was done.
"Right. We've been pretty much in the middle for a while. Which means, at some point, the scale has to tip one way or the other. Things are gonna get really good again... "
"Or really bad." They all stayed quiet for a bit as the thunder started. "Think it's been long enough?" Juliet squinted as she looked at Scott.
"Yes!" Liam shouts. He was chained to a tree the whole time. It was better safe than say sorry.
"Hey." Stiles turns to him, "Trying to have an adult conversation over here."
"All right, you're two years older than me. And I'm fine. Just let me go." Liam shakes the chains.
"It's not that we don't trust you." Scott begins.
"It's that I don't trust you." Stiles goes on. Juliet just sits there, holding on her chuckles.
"But after that last full moon..." Juliet sang as she hops off the Jeep and they make their way to the chained boy.
"It was one slip up." Liam pleads.
"Slip up?" Stiles laughs. "A dozen calls to the Sheriff's Department about a "monstrous dog-boy" running around the streets of Beacon Hills naked." That's a slip up?" Juliet and Scott had to chase him all over, sadly, Juliet was the one to catch him.
"Why were you naked?" Scott questioned.
"It was really hot out that night, okay." Liam bangs his head on the tree. "Let me go."
"You sure you're okay?"Scott goes up.
"It won't happen again." He promised.
"You're in complete and total control?"
"Yeah. Complete and total." Scott unchained him. Stiles and Juliet made their way to the car, letting Liam and Scott in back. They started to drive back to drop off the little boy home. Juliet holds Stiles hand as he drove. "Is it a party?"
"It's not a party." Juliet says as she looks back.
"Then what's at midnight?" Such a nosey kid.
"Your bedtime." Stiles tells him. Liam sighs, he got what he asked for.
"Why aren't the others going? Malia? Lydia? Demitri?"
"They're meeting us there, okay?" Stiles had enough of the conversation. "And just stop asking questions, all right? It's a senior thing. You'll know when you're a senior." They stayed in silence again. Juliet goes on her phone scrolling away, until her phone started to glitch. Her first thought it was maybe they forgot to pay the bill but then it turned on and off.
"You guys having trouble with your phones?" She shows her screen to the boys. The car engine started to make a noise and it turned off.
"What the hell?" Stiles pulls over.
"You out of gas?"
"No, it's electrical. Probably the alternator again." Scott and Stiles got out, sending Juliet to the back with Liam. Juliet can sense something. She lifted her head and turned to look at the back window. Something isn't right. Thunder struck near the Jeep.
"Guys..." Liam shouted. The two turned back again. It struck again, and it was getting closer. "Guys!"
"Yeah, give us a second, please." Stiles said as he rolled out the duck tape.
"Juliet, just keep Liam in the car, okay?" Another lightning bolt strikes and it was now closer to Scott and Stiles. They both jumped. After the thunder struck, the car turned back on.
"Can we go now?" Juliet pops her head out the window and they shortly left.
—
They had went to go pick up Malia. Stiles beeped and she ran towards them. Juliet gets out of the front and she hugs Juliet, tightly. Her back started to crack.
"Malia, bones, cracking, loosen grip." Juliet croaks. Malia lets go.
"Sorry."
"Sorry we are late." Stiles tells her. Malias dad walks up.
"i'm sorry too." Liam smiles.
"Have fun." He looks at me. "Juliet." He pulls me to the side. "Shes been really anxious about you know, try and keep her occupied, try and not let her think about it too much." Juliet nods.
"You got It Mr. Tate." she hops back to the car. everyone turned to Malia. She sat there.
"So?"
"No. Ill get it when I get it." Malia sighs.
"Is this about you being held back?" The nasty looks now turned to Liam.
"You told him?"
"Demetri said, i was just listening. But hey, at least you get to be with me."
"We should've left him chained to the tree." Stiles starts the car.
—
Stiles had dropped Liam off, now no more babysitting. Juliet was lucky enough to not have given anyone the bite. She didn't want to that person.
"Still can't reach Kira." Scott worries as she hasn't responding.
"Okay, you reminded her about tonight though, right?" Stiles kept going on about tonight.
"I think so. She only texted me once this week." Ouch. Only once?
"Once? How'd you guys leave things when she left for New York?" Juliet turns to look at her brother.
"Well, they were good. Yeah, I just said, you know, Don't worry about anything, "just go and have fun." Stiles now turns his head.
"No. You told her to go have fun?" Malia frowns.
"Why? What's wrong with that?" Scott said all clueless.
"Nothing. Nothing's wrong with it. Just, I don't know. That can be interpreted a lot of different ways."
"Like what?" He crosses his arms.
"Well, like, Don't worry, we're not exclusive. Go have fun with other guys."
"No. No way." He shakes off,
"Juliet, if you were going away and we weren't exclusive and I told you "Don't worry, go have fun." What would you think I was talking about?" Stiles looks at her.
"Fun like hang out with my family? Or having one night stands?" Stiles claps his hands, showing what he meant.
"Okay, yeah. Now I'm worried."
"Kira's never gonna make it."
"I can get her."
"You guys head to the school. Lydia and Demetri and probably Malia are probably already there. We'll meet you by midnight."
"How are you gonna get to her in the middle of a traffic jam?" Juliet asks him as he hops out of the car
"We'll make it. Trust me." Scott hugs Juliet and runs off, leaving the three behind.
—
Malia went to get somewhere to get better reception, waving her phone around as Juliet and Stiles walked behind her.
"We're not late, are we?" She asks as she notices that nobody was around.
"No, were at a good time." He looks at the time. It started to rain, they were caught under it, running under the bridge. Juliet laughs. Stiles just smiles at her. Man she is so beautiful. He is so lucky to have her. She is his.
"What are you smiling at?" She chuckles.
"You." He looked at his phone and at her.
"Everything okay? Anything from Scott?"
"Nothing from Scott or Kira." He sighs.
"And nothing from Lydia or Demitri either. What's wrong with you? You smell like this since we were at the woods?" She steps closer to him.
"Yeah, it's called anxiety. Should be a familiar scent for you by now, since it's pretty much a constant state for me."She holds his hand. His heartbeat went steady.
"Why's this thing so important to you?"
"It's not. It's not. It's uh... I don't know." He stutters. "Maybe it is. I asked my dad the other day about his high school friends. Guess how many he still talks to? None. Not a single one. You know, these were his best friends and he just says he lost touch with them, you know. So I started thinking about things, like I always do."
"Obsessively." She playfully rolls her eyes.
"Yeah. And so I'm thinking, what if... What if Scott's my best friend now you know, but he's not my best friend for life?"
"Oh come on Stiles." Her hands fell on his chest. "Thats not going to happen."
"I know..." He rubs his face. "Just what if, im not saying that we are." One thing he didn't want to happen. "What if we break up, that means we won't be together, Scott will distant himself-"
"That will never happen." She stops him.
"You know, that's what I'm saying. How come when we graduate we're just expected to go our separate ways? If I've already found the best people in my life, why aren't I not trying to stay with them, you know?"
"Well, I thought that was the plan. The dream."
"The vision." Makes sense now. "And don't mock the vision."
"I... I like the vision." She chuckled. "Especially if I'm part of it." She leans closer.
"Trust me, you have been, for a very long time." They both smiled.
"18 years worth of it."
"And i dont want to let you go." He pulls her in, looking down at her. "Not when I just got you." They pulled in for a kiss. Stiles couldn't stop smiling. Juliet stops, she felt like she was scratched. She holds her stomach. "Jul?" He said as he kisses the air for a moment. She can hear someone running their way.
"Someone's coming. Someone fast." Juliet quickly turns and stops Liam from crashing them, taking him down and pining him against the ground. "Liam!?"
"Oh, my God." Stiles groans.
"Scott's in trouble." No wonder she felt pain.
"Take me." the three of them ran back to help Scott. She can hear the growls. She fell back. Both Stiles and Liam went back for her. Scott. Her eyes turned red and fangs came out. She tried to fight pain, pushing them off of her, they saw Scott falling on his knees as another werewolf person digging his claws into him. "No!" Juliet snarls. She comes full blast, kicking him, twisting his arm, cracking the bone. She helps Scott up. He rips the claw out from his side. Juliet grabs the mans head, kicking him to kneel down, tilting his head to side.
"I dont know who you are or what you thought you were going to do. But ill give you a choice. You can stay and she'll bite you." He nods at Juliet, waiting to bite him. "Or you can run." The man turns his head.
"Ill run." Stiles tells him. Juliet hisses at him, letting him go.
"Scott." She placed her hand on his side.
"Im fine." He holds her arm. They turned to another person in front of them, also a werewolf, also tried to save Scott.
"You don't remember me, do you? I guess I look a little different since the fourth grade."
"Theo?" Juliet says. Its been so long.
"You know him?" Malia says.
"They used to." Theo smiles. "Trust me, I never thought I'd see you guys again. Couple of months ago, I heard of an Alpha and a Hybrid in Beacon Hills. When I found out their names was Scott and Juliet McCall, just couldn't believe it. Not just an Alpha or Hybrid, but a True Alpha and the only Hybrid." How did word travel fast? Does everyone know that Juliet is a Hybrid?
"What do you want?"
"I came back to Beacon Hills. Back home with my family. Because I want to be a part of your pack." Juliet gave a side eye to Scott. Should they trust him?
—
"We haven't seen this kid in years." Stiles said as they came into the school. "You don't find that highly suspicious?"
"I'm kind of more concerned about the guy who just tried to kill me." Malias phone buzzed. She quickly scrambled her pockets to see.
"I'm in. I passed." Everyone clapped. Kira and Juliet went to hug her. "I'm officially a senior."
"Thank God." Lydia and Demitri walked up to the 5. "Where have you guys been? The whole senior class is here. Are we doing this or not?" They all made their way to the library. Demitri wrapped his arm around Juliet and Lydia. They lined up, waiting to write their initials on the bookshelf. Demitri hands her the sharpie and she heads to sign it. Just as she writes, she sees one initials that were familiar.
D.H
Derek. She clenched her jaw, hovering the black marker over his.
J.M
She writes above his and next to Stiles', doing a heart around their names and smiles and passes it to Lydia. Stiles wraps his arms behind her, waiting for the others to do the same. Scott was the last one. He does his name and stops. He goes back and writes one more.
A.A
Allison.
"She would have been with us." Juliet smiles as she remembers her friend, the one who deserves to be here with them.
"Yeah. She still is."
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