010 — battlefield

season two —
episode eleven

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EIGHT DAYS AFTER the whole Matt and the kanima encounter at the sheriff station.

Matt was murdered and found dead in the river near the station.

Stiles and Scott haven't spoken since that night; also same as Marlo and Stiles as well; they haven't spoken, all of them dealing with their own problems.

One good thing came out of the whole Matt situation was their father got his sheriff's badge back and is back working for them.

Stiles still feels like there's some tension between them though, alongside he hasn't felt the same since that night of the party at Lydia's house when he thought he'd seen his father blaming him for their mothers death and saying he was slowly killing him.

Meanwhile Stiles sits in the councillors office discussing the things that happened the past few days.

Since the full moon Derek or Marlo haven't seen Isaac, Erica or Boyd; they're basically known around the town as the 'three runaways' but they aren't really worried about them; sure Marlo misses her younger best friend a lot but in another way she's enjoying the free time and space to just be herself.

Catching herself up on being well fed, hydrated and having spare bloodbags beside her at all times; since being shot she's become kind of weak and unable to do a lot of things but she's still a vampire at least.

Derek since finding out about Scott betraying both him and Marlo hasn't really said much of anything either; his trust issues coming out strictly now since the truth surfaced.

Scott doesn't know that they know though; so as much as he dislikes the young teenage boy at the moment; he'll wait for the perfect time, Marlo however might not.

As Scott gets out from his shower and clearing the mirror from the steam; he hears a hissing sound coming from in his room looking over in confusion he begins walking into his room to find the kanima holding his mother up by the throat on the wall alongside Gerard who's just looking at him.

"As you can see, Scott, there's been some interesting developments lately" he says smirking at the teenage boys who's shocked. "I think we should catch up" Gerard says again.

Scott not liking how his mothers up on the wall throws out his claws; "Come on Scott, let's be realistic about who's got the upper hand here" the older man says again smiling; "Let her go" Scott demands.

"Can't do that, but let her live... that's up to you" Gerard says; "What do you want?" Scott asks.

"I wanna talk, you haven't been answering your phone" Gerard says to the teenage boy; "Let her go and we can talk about whatever you want" Scott says tearfully.

Gerard snickers and gets up from the chair he was sitting on looking at the creature holding the McCall boys mother still.

"I want the same thing that I have always wanted, I want Derek and Marlo and their pack" Gerard says.

"You have them all in hiding. How am I supposed to know where they are?" Scott asks.

"I think with the proper motivation, you could draw them out and if you hadn't noticed, I now have a fairly impressive means by which I can motivate people" Gerard says as the creature begins hissing at Scott again.

"Why do you think I'm able to control him? Well you know the myth, Scott. The Kanima is a weapon of vengeance" Gerard says smugly and scowls.

"This is about Kate?" Scott asks, "I didn't just come here to bury my daughter. I came to avenge her" Gerard says as the creature hisses and lets go of Melissa.

The woman falls and gasps out deep breathes while Scott lands beside his mother making sure she is okay as she can be, "Are you okay?" Scott asks.

"Oh, I don't know what's happening. I don't know what that thing was or even what you are but whatever he wants; just give it to him" Melissa says not making eye contact with her son.

"Mom, it's not that easy" Scott says. "Do what he wants. Just give him what he wants" Melissa sobs, "I don't know if I can, it's Marlo mom" Scott says.

As her son mentions the woman she views as another child; she takes a deep inhale.

After catching up with each other and reuniting with Marlo and Derek.

Erica and Boyd hike through the woods back towards their alpha and vampire leader in the Hale House which was burnt down, they hear a lot of wolves.

Derek and Marlo are both in the Hale House as the vampire is sitting bored out of her mind playing with her hair while the alpha goes through pages of books looking for something.

Derek looks up from the book he was reading after hearing the betas enter.

Marlo looks up from her boredom to Erica and Boyd at the hallway entrance; "You decided, when?" Derek asks.

"Tonight" Erica says as Marlo looks down sadly and Derek looks at them both with a sort of betrayal look for leaving him; "Everyone's gonna be at the game; we figured it was the best time" Boyd says.

"It's not like we want to" Erica says earning a scoff from Marlo who is now walking past them with a hateful look; leaving Derek behind.

"What do you want?" Derek asks, "Since I just turned sixteen a month ago; I wouldn't mind getting my license, I can't do that if I'm dead, you know?" Erica says trying to ignore the pang of hurt she got when Marlo left the house.

"Well, I told you there was a price" Derek says, "You didn't say it would be like this" Boyd says.

"Yeah, but I told you how to survive, you do it as a pack and you're not a pack without an alpha" Derek states turning around.

"We know." Boyd says earning the male to turn around and lightly smirk to himself now understanding the cause of the conversation.

"You wanna look for another pack? How are you even gonna find one?" Derek asks.

Erica looks at Boyd with a nod allowing themselves to agree on the plan. "We think we already did" Boyd states.

Derek looks at them in fear because he knows exactly what they're mentioning but he didn't think it would be this soon.

Marlo returns after a while of calming down outside of the house to see the betas looking at her; "You expect me to say run like the wind? Have fun? Absolutely fucking not" She states.

"We can't keep living like this Marlo!" Boyd says. "Living like what? Werewolves? The kind of supernatural beings Derek taught you to be?" Marlo snarls at the younger male.

Erica who is looking down in guilt for leaving her; "And don't get me started on you Erica; you're leaving? After absolutely everything I did for you, clothes wise; health wise and even confidence wise, well good riddance, have fun with your new pack, because this friendship is over between us if you go out and leave us behind" Marlo says walking away from them leaving the blonde beta in tears.

Derek looks at them and just shrugs and motions for them to continue; "Like all of a sudden we heard all of this howling, iy was unbelievable" Erica says blinking away her teary eyes over the vampires farewell.

"There must have been a dozen of them" Boyd starts; "Maybe more" Erica says.

"Yeah, or maybe only two, you know what the Beau Geste effect is? If they modulate their howls with a rapid shift in tone; two wolves can sound like twenty" Derek says.

"Look, that doesn't matter, okay? There's another pack out there, there's gotta be, we made up our minds" Erica says.

"But we've lost Derek, it's over we're leaving" Boyd says earning a laugh from Marlo who is on the top of the staircase still listening to their conversation; "No, no you're running" Marlo yells at them.

"And once you start, you don't stop, you'll always be running, don't let the door hit you on the way out guys" Derek says receiving a look from Erica before she drags Boyd out of the house.

Meanwhile the alpha continues reading the books he was flipping through earlier letting out an exhale. "Uhhhhhh what the actual fuck" Marlo grits out over the rough hands on her shoulders.

Before being dragged down the staircase, Derek now alert throws a piece of broken piece of mirror at the intruder aiming for his neck, Peter catches it immediately while Marlo gets out of his grip and walks over to Derek looking at Peter darkly.

Derek looks at his uncle with a dark and angry look; "I expected a slightly warmer welcome but point taken" Peter says holding the mirror up looking at the alpha and vampire.

"It's quite the situation you've got yourselves into here, Derek; Marlo. I mean I'm out of commission for a few weeks and suddenly there's lizard people, geriatric psychopaths, and you're cooking up werewolves out of every self-esteem deprived adolescent in town" Peter says.

"What do you want?" Derek asks; "Well, I want to help, you're my nephew; you're the only relative that I have left, you know there's still a lot that I can teach you, and you; Marlo are the Vampire of the town, can we just talk?" Peter says smugly putting his hand on both Derek and Marlo's shoulder.

Derek looks down at the man's hand and clenches his jaw; "Sure, let's talk" Derek says nodding at Marlo.

Marlo immediately getting the message throws Peter across the room; the man landing harshly on the broken staircase, Peter lets out a grunt of pain laying on the ground.

"That was fun!" Marlo says smiling at Derek beside she lets him know she has go to her apartment and grab a few things because she promised her dad she'd go see Stiles's game tonight.

She gets back to the apartment building finding Isaac waiting there for her; she smiles and welcomes him in; "Let me guess you're going with Erica and Boyd?" Marlo asks.

"I honestly don't know; I want too, but at the same time I don't. I really want your advice please" Isaac says to the woman.

"Look Isaac, I can't make the decision for you, if you wanna leave then of course go ahead; doesn't mean I'll take it easy but anyways, the decision is up to you, just let me shower first and then we can say our goodbyes yeah?" Marlo asks.

Isaac nods as Marlo makes her way into the shower and quickly washing herself and getting ready for tonight's game.

Deciding on Derek's leather jacket, a green silk singlet underneath and jeans she walks out to find the teenage boy pouring a glass of cold water from her water jug.

She just smiles at him and grabs herself a cup and gestures for him to pour her one as well.

"So whatcha thing?" Marlo asks sipping her water. "I'm not leaving, I'll just ask Derek if I can stay with him for a while" Isaac says to the older woman.

"Guessing you need a lift to the game then?" Marlo smiles holding her keys.

"Ugh yes please" Isaac says putting his glass into the sink walking out of her apartment and down to her car. 'At least one of them is here still' she thinks to herself.

Grabbing her keys and phone to text Derek updates to annoy him; she gets in the car with the teenage beta and begins driving them to the school for the championship game.

Marlo and Isaac pull up at the school and find a parking spot ready for the game.

"Okay I have to go and talk to Stiles, you know whatcha doing?" Marlo asks looking at Isaac; the boy just smiles and nods getting ready for the game.

She walks off to the entrance of the school into the boys locker room finding the Coach doing the 'Independence Day' speech, she manages to also find Melissa and Stiles.

She smiles at the mother like figure she has in the room before smiling to the teammates who are now eyeing her off.

She goes up to Stiles; "One of Coaches crazy speeches huh?" She says watching the boy suddenly turn around and smile happily seeing his sisters there.

"Marlo! Whatcha doing here?" Stiles asks, "Just watching my little brother's game; good luck!" She says noticing Gerard walking into the locker room.

Quickly walking out to go find a seat in the stands also wishing Scott luck on the way out even though of the whole working with them to tell the argents everything.

She sits beside Melissa and Lydia outside as she looks around for Isaac she notices he hasn't came out yet, hoping he hasn't changed his mind; she hums to herself as the game gets started.

Derek continues hit, kick and throw punches at his uncle in the Hale house getting angrier and angrier.

"You don't actually think that I wanted to be the alpha again, do you? That wasn't my finest performance considering it ended in my death, I mean I'm usually more—" Peter tries to say earning another rough punch to the face by Derek.

"Okay, go ahead, come on, do it, hit me! hit me! I can see that it's cathartic for you; you're letting go of all the anger, self-loathing and hatred that comes with total and complete failure; not only being an alpha but also a father as well; did Marlo tell you? She lost your baby a while ago Derek? I may be the one taking the beating, Derek, but you've already been beaten; so go ahead, hit me, if it's gonna make you feel better, after all I did say that I wanted to help" Peter says.

Derek drops him to the floor breathless; "You can't help me, Marlo can; therefore leave her name out of your mouth!" Derek snarls.

As Marlo is sitting in the stands she notices her father as well sitting beside her now; "Hey Strawberry" Noah says; Marlo smiles, "Hey dad" she says hugging him.

Before looking at Stiles and Scott on the bench together. "Your dad coming?" Scott asks, "Yeah, he's already here; with Marlo" pointing his family to his left.

"Have you seen Allison?" Scott asks, "No, have you seen Lydia?" Stiles asks, "Not yet" Scott says, "Do you know what's going on?" Stiles asks, "Not yet" Scott says again.

"Yeah it's gonna be bad, isn't it? I mean like people screaming, running for their lives, blood, killing, maiming kinda bad" Stiles says, "It looks like it" Scott says sadly.

"Scott, that night seeing my dad get hit over the head by Matt, and Marlo being shot; you know while I'm just lying there and I can't even move; it's just-I want to help, you know? But I can't do the things that you can do, I can't" Stiles says sadly.

Scott looks at his best friend sadly as well; "It's okay" Scott says,
"We're losing, dude." Stiles murmurs sadly.

"What the hell are you talking about? The game hasn't even started, now put on your helmet, get out there, you're in for Greenburg" Coach says interrupting their heart to heart.

"What? What happened to Greenburg?" Stiles asks looking around for answers, "What happened to Greenburg? He sucks, you suck slightly less" Coach says.

"I'm playing? On the field? With the team?" Stiles says, "Yes, unless you'd rather play with yourself" Coach answers, "I already did that today, twice" Stiles says earning a laugh from his best friend beside him.

"Get the hell out there!" Coach yells, "All right" Stiles says grabbing his equipment before running on the field, "Oh no, what is my son running on the field?" Stilinski asks; "Because he's on the team" Melissa says.

"He is" Stilinski says while Marlo puts her head down already knowing what's coming as her father starts yelling his sons on the field and standing up; "Oh my god" she mumbles to herself.

As Scott receives an ear full about the game and a threat as well due to Marlo's life being in danger as she's here and Derek isn't; as much as he doesn't trust Derek; he actually likes his best friend's older sister in a way and is protective now.

As Peter and Derek are now discussing things; "See? Prime example, I'm not healing as fast, coming back from the dead isn't easy, you know? I'm not as strong as I used to be, I need a pack, an alpha, like you. I need you as much as you need me." Peter says.

Derek scoffs; "Why would I want help from a total psycho? And someone who brings up Marlo and I's miscarriage." Derek says.

"First of all, I'm a not a total psycho, by the way you're the one that slashed my throat wide open, but we're all works in progress, right, so, we need each other, sometimes when you need help, you turn to people you'd never expect; and Marlo however is just going to betray you like the others Derek; I really am sorry about the miscarriage; but technically you didn't go through anything as she kept it from you for those years" Peter says.

"Why are you so threatened of Marlo? What has she ever done to you huh?" Derek snarls at his uncle who just smirks.

"She's your weak spot Derek, your anchor; she makes you weak" Peter says, "That's where you're wrong, she makes me stronger than you think" Derek says looking at the former alpha now.

As the lacrosse game has kicked off, Stilinski, Melissa, Marlo and Lydia are making comments everytime Stiles misses a ball; at one stage the ball even hits him on the forehead as both Stilinski and Marlo sit with their palms on their heads shaking them.

Lydia and Melissa look up praying to the gods. "Don't worry Dad, Isaac's here" Marlo says pointing at the teenager who just turned up letting the vampire know with a nod he didn't change his mind and his staying.

"Oh thank god" Stilinski mumbles, Marlo just laughs, Scott now in surprise Isaac changed his mind; "You came to help" Scott says; "I came to win" Isaac says smirking.

As both betas look at Gerard with smug looks on their faces; the older man looks over with a confused look on his face to Marlo who is also smiling.

'Pay backs a bitch'  she mouths to the older argent man. "You got a plan yet?" Isaac asks gearing up; "No. Right now it's pretty much just keep Jackson from killing anyone" Scott says.

"Well, that might be easier if you're actually in the game, we have to make it so coach has to no choice; but to play you" Isaac says.

"How do we do that? He's got a bench full of guys he'd use before he ever puts me on the field" Scott says looking the bench over where the coach is sitting with the other players.

Scott turns around to see Isaac looking over at the vampire who is nodding at him in some kind of like permission; Isaac smirks at Scott who immediately understands.

"Can you do it without putting anyone in the hospital?" Scott asks,
"Whew, I can try" Isaac says putting on his helmet running onto the field giving Jackson a smirk as well.

As Isaac begins to injure a few players so Scott can join the game; he knocks someone down; "Lahey! Seriously? What the hell is your problem?" Coach yells at the teenager.

While Isaac holds his arms out shrugging and running off to continue playing, Jackson ends up knocking Isaac over onto the ground and of course Marlo is standing up concerned worried about one of her betas in a way.

Jackson walks off smugly after injuring the Lahey teen; Isaac breathes out in pain while being carted off the field.

Scott and Marlo immediately rush up to the boy; "It's not broken but I can't move it; I think Jackson nicked me, cause I can feel it spreading" Isaac says while Scott looks up and over to the one side to see Gerard.

"You wanna play chess, Scott? Then you better be willing to sacrifice your own pawns" Gerard says.

The medics begin lifting Isaac off the ground to move him off the field; Coach shoves gear into Scott's chest; "McCall, either you're in, or we forfeit" Coach says.

"Okay" Scott says looking at Marlo who just nods and goes to follow her beta and look out for him.

Melissa says to do something to Scott because she doesn't want Marlo getting hurt or injured either.

Scott then nods and says he will as he also doesn't want the woman getting hurt; partly because Derek would kill him but also because she was a friend of his sort of.

A few hunters were waiting for Isaac in the boys locker room so Marlo hides behind the wall listening in signalling for Isaac to be quiet about her being in the room as well.

She then hears Gerard enter the room; "It was a good effort Isaac; it was, this would be so much more poetic if it were half time" Gerard says holding a sword.

Back with Derek and Peter; "You tried to build your pack; you tried to prepare for the worst, you weren't ready, because of it, Gerard is winning; he's taking his time, he's toying with Scott, he's going after your wolves, he's going after Marlo, one by one, he's relishing in this victory." Peter says knowing the truth behind why Gerard wants Marlo the most.

"How about you tell me something I don't know?" Derek seethes out; "Oh, I'm going to, and it's gonna prove why you should trust me; why you need to trust me because I'm going to tell you how to stop Jackson; and who bit Marlo all those years ago" Peter says.

"Why do you mean? How to kill him?" Derek says ignoring the part about Marlo for now; "Actually, how to save him" Peter smugly replies.

The locker room immediately becomes loud with an annoying screech like sound belonging to the sword Gerard is dragging on the ground beside him; as he begins to get ready to cut Isaac's body in half.

Isaac smirks seeing who is behind the hunters; both Marlo and Scott stand there in a fight stance ready to pounce at any point; the hunters eventually launch themselves at the vampire and werewolf only to find themselves launched onto the nearby lockers; not noticing Gerard disappearing in the process.

"Where is he?" Scott asks. "Son a bitch left, he wants me so bad and leaves" Marlo laughs to herself earning a chuckle from both teenage boys before Marlo rushes over to Isaac and makes sure his okay.

As Peter and Derek are still talking; "There's a myth that you can cure a werewolf simply by calling out its christian name" Peter says.

"It's just a myth" Derek says, "Sometimes myths and legends bear a hint of the truth; our name is a symbol of who we are; the kanima has no identity, that's why it doesn't seek a pack" Peter says.

"It seeks a master." Derek says, "And who else grows up with no pack? No identity?" Peter asks, "An orphan" Derek says.

"Like Jackson. And right now, his identity is disappearing beneath a reptilian skin and you need to bring him back" Peter says, "How?" Derek yells.

"Through his heart, how else?" Peter says, "You know in case you hadn't noticed, Jackson, doesn't really have too much of a heart to begin with" Derek states.

"Not true, he'd never admit it, but there is one person, one young lady with whom Jackson shared a real bond, one person who can reach him, who can save him." Peter replies. "Lydia" Derek says.

"Your best ally's always been anger, Derek, but what you lack most is heart, that's why you've always known that you need Scott more than anyone and even somebody as burned and dead on the inside as me knows better than to underestimate the simple, yet undeniable power of human love" Peter says.

As the championship game begins coming to end things become a lot more serious and scary for Scott, Stiles and those who know about the supernatural.

Jackson who is now walking around the field being controlled glares at Scott; meanwhile the team celebrate the younger Stilinski child who managed to take the last few shots and win the game all together.

Marlo returns to her seat beside her father and Melissa and Lydia she beams with excitement as well for her younger brother.

As the buzzer goes off signalling they've won the game and Marlo now looks at Scott knowing his worried about the whole Jackson situation so does Melissa.

Marlo goes up beside Scott; "Nothing happened; nothing" Scott says to her as she goes to nod the power and big lights above them are suddenly switched off and a woman's scream is heard.

The crowd of people begin running and screaming now aware somethings deeply happening and gone wrong.

Marlo rushes out to the feet before Scott does; the beta isn't that far behind her though.

"Scott! Marlo! Where are you?" Melissa yells out; as they manage to find Mellisa in the crowd of people.

"Mom!" Scott yells out grabbing onto her as Marlo just nods at them; "Mom, are you okay?" Scott asks, "Yeah I'm fine, I'm fine; but somebody is hurt, somebody is down on the field" Melissa says.

As the lights switch hack on and the crowd of people including Marlo are now circled around an unconscious and injured Jackson.

"Move! Out of the way! Back up! Move! Move!" Coach yells pushing through the people to see Marlo beside the unconscious team already trying to help him the best she could.

"Jackson! What's happening? Jackson, Jackson, Jackson!" Lydia calls out rushing onto the field, "Can we get a medic over here? We're gonna need a medic!" Coach yells out.

"He's not breathing, no pulse" Marlo says to Melissa; "Nothing?" Someone asks; "Nothing" Melissa stated taking over the jersey Jackson is wearing to find a lot blood underneath.

"Oh" Melissa says as do others realising the blood; "Oh my god! There's blood. There's blood" after hearing Lydia let out a sob.

Marlo wraps her arms around the teenage girl to comfort her; "Look" Scott says noticing Jackson's claws are out.

"He did it to himself?" Isaac asks confused, "Get down here" Melissa orders Lydia but as the girl is in too much shock.

Marlo jumps straight into help Melissa with CPR, knowing what to do with holding his head and tilting his head up; not noticing her brother's been taken.

Noah Stilinski makes his way into the crowd to see his daughter and friend working on the teenage boy before realising Stiles isn't anywhere to be seen.

"Where's Stiles? Where's my son? What? Where's my son? Where's Stiles's? Where's Stiles? Where the hell is my son?" The sheriff yells out the crowd.

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