Chapter Four : While I'm still here

Derek and I stood behind a wall on the roof of the hospital. So much for getting a chance to talk about. I heard the Sheriff talking about how he was calling in a team of experts. Thought I wouldn't count me or Derek to be an expert.

Parrish called out the rest of the deputies. Derek and I moved at the sound of the door to the roof. Standing a few feet away from where Sean's body lay. Maybe it was a bit creepy but what can you expect?

The Sheriff turned to take a double take when he saw us. "Uh, I guess you two have been there long enough to hear we need to be quick about this. Scott said he called himself a wendigo."

"Cannibalistic shape-shifters. When Melissa asked me to look at the bodies of his family they were all the same. Second set of teeth, that grow from their gums."

"Yeah, Cait's right but I haven't heard of any in Beacon Hills for a long time. They must have been well hidden." Derek paused looking around.

"You catch a sent?" I asked the Hale, dredging the answer.

"How many people did Scott say were up here?"

"Just Sean and the axe-murderer who apparently has no mouth. Either of you wouldn't know anything about that would you?" I shook my head no that way Derek couldn't hear my heartbeat. I started to follow Derek's gase. He was staring down at a patch of blood, right before the edge of the roof.

Liam.

"There was someone else here." Derek turned to face me and the Sheriff. "Someone young. And Male. Younger than even Cait."

"Can you smell his fear?" The Sheriff asked from behind me.

"And his blood." Yep Liam.

Third Person POV

"Isaac!" Scott McCall yelled through his house, holding an unconscious Liam Dunbar in his hands.

The blue eyed beta ran down the stairs, looking Scott up and down, "What happened?

~

Scott and Isaac closed the curtain to the shower in Scott's room. Liam laying in the tub now tied up with duct tape. Scott sighed walking back into his room, and falling onto his bed.

Isaac leaned against the doorframe, "So you bit him?"

"Yeah."

"Then you kidnapped him?"

"Yeah."

"And then brought him here."

"I panicked!" Isaac let out a laugh, "What?!" Scott asked him wide-eyed.

"You are so dead. I mean Stiles and Caity are gonna kill you when they find out you didn't tell them."

"Something tells me Cait already knew." Scott muttered under his breath. "But, can we focus on the problem at hand. Please?"

"Okay. This isn't going to end with us burying the pieces of his body out in the desert, is it?" The brit asked, causing Liam to let out a muffled cry. "Fair reminder this is why Cait comes up with the plans because our plans suck."

"I know. I just,- not ready for her to chew me out on this." Scott only half lied, part of it was about what happened early. Part of it was he guessed this is what she wanted to talk about.

Isaac sighed, "Alright. I got a pretty terrible idea."

"Better than no idea."

~

So now Liam sat in front of Scott's bed tied to a chair. He groaned out in pain when they sat him down. Scott kept looking him up and down. Not sure if what he did to Liam would have even been better than letting him fall. He knew it was better than dying, but the world Scott, well bit, Liam into you could die at every turn.

Isaac stepped back from the freshman, "Liam, We're going to take the tape off your mouth. If you scream, it goes right back on. If you talk quietly, it stays off. Got it?" Liam looked between the two wolves before shaking his head yes. Isaac leaned forward taking the tape off of Liam's mouth, resulting in the freshman hissing in pain.

Scott was still silent so Isaac took that as a sigh to talk, "Okay, Liam, now you've seen a lot of confusing things tonight. Now more confusing things are going to happen due to the confusing things that happened tonight. Understand?"

The freshman exhaled, "Not really."

"I don't understand either." Scott spoke truthfully. Give Isaac a side eye.

"Yeha, you know what maybe you should tell him." Isaac said, moving his finger from Scott to Liam.

"Tell me what?"

Scott takes a deep breath, not sure how to start, "Liam.... What happened to you-What I did to you. Which I had to do in order to save you,- It's going to change you."

"Unless it kills you." Isaac said tilting his head to the side. Scott turned to look at Isaac, "I shouldn't have said that."

Liam shifted his gaze from Isaac back to Scott, "What?"

"Uh-" Isaac starts. "Uh-oh oh god. Is he.. Is he crying?"

Scott bends down so he is on Liam's leave. He whispered this time, "Liam, it's okay. You're going to be alright. You're not gonna die."

"Probably not." Isaac said bending down as well.

"Stop it."

"Okay, possibly not."

"Isaac! Okay, would you just help me untie him?"

"Yep." The two wolves move forward to untie the freshman. Cutting the tape with their claws.

"Liam? Are you okay?" Scott's voice almost broke as he thought about the fear that came when Peter bit him. How he was only alive right now because of Stiles and Cait. Hell how Jackson Wittmore was only alive right now because of Stiles and Cait.

"We're sorry about that." Isaac said as Liam stood, "We're really sorry." Liam turned around grabbing the wooden chair and breaking it on the two older werewolves. "Liam, what the hell was that?" Liam only answers by punching Isaac in the jaw, then running from the room.

Scott and Isaac trip after the younger teen, sliding down the halls. Liam stopped at the top of the stairs, noticing how his leg was already healed. This aloud for Isaac and Scott push him into the wall behind him. Which then aloud for Liam to push all three of them down the steps.

All three wolves let out pained groaned at the bottom of the steps. Scott and Isaac scrambling to grab Liam. "I got him!" Isaac said as he twisted Scott's ankle. Isaac repeated the word shifting so his face was no longer on the ground.

Scott let out a few pants before rolling his eyes, " I should've just called Cait."

First Person POV~Caitlin Roads/Holmes

I sighed as I crossed off today's date on the calendar in my room. Full Moon. And we had to deal with Liam. And Malia actually, but that was on Chloe. I started to my bathroom and brushed my teeth, walking back out to see Lottie sitting on my bed. I rolled my eyes as I went to my dresser pulling out an outfit which would look nice, but I could also wear boots or sneakers with.

"Do you think Liam's actually going to turn into a werewolf?" Lottie asked, as I threw a shirt at her.

"Trust me. The bit will take." I pushed Lottie from the room as I got dressed. Putting on a natural face of makeup and my hair in a 'messy' bun. I walked down to the twins room, just to make sure Chloe was awake. "Kinky." I joke at the sight of my sister tightening cuffs onto Malia for the full moon.

"What-No- This this is not."

I laugh, "Chlo, I'm kidding. School starts in twenty."

~

I leaned over Lydia's computer as we sat in honors Chem, "These are your math notes?" Four more pages of code load in. "No wonder Malia's failing."

Lydia hummed, "Only some of them are my notes. The rest I think might actually be a code."

"And you have no memory of it?"

"None. But considering my drawing of a tree led us to the Nemeton, I should probably figure out what it means before it tries to kill us. I thinks it's some variation on something called the Vigenere Cipher."

"Do you know how to crack it?"

"With a key."

"Try Allison. To break the code, write in Allison."

"Why?"

"Just try it please?" Lydia sighed before typing in the name. I waited for the deadpool to de-code but nothing happened.

"That didn't work."

"Yeah." What else changed?

~

I waited on the other side of the buses for Scott and Stiles. They were talking to Liam. Well trying. I knew it wouldn't work, Liam thought they were crazy. For good reason. Stiles and Scott came running up to me. "You-You little bitch. You knew that wouldn't work." Stiles said, waving his finger at me.

"Yeah."

"What am I supposed to do? He won't listen to me." Scott sighed.

"Scott, he will when you use your own words. What Derek told you, that was coming from another Beta. You're not a beta, you Liam's alpha. But that's not what I need to talk to you about."

Stiles and Scott looked at eachother, "What?" They asked at the same time.

"Okay, so you know who Allison was supposed to die?"

"Yeah." "I do now."

"The code Lydia wrote, her name was meant to be the first cipher key. It broke one third. But when told Lydia to write in her name. Nothing happened. At all."

"Okay, so-so what?" Stiles asked, squinting at me.

"So what else did we change?"

Evlynn came around the side of the bus, "You three done?"

We all sigh, "Yeah."

~

"I'm not sharing my basement." Mali aspoke shaking her head.

Lydia twriled the keys on her finger, "Actually, it's my basement. And my mom noticed how you tore it up last time."

"All right. Lyds be nice she's still learning." Chloe spoke putting her arm around Malia.

"Well me and Scott are gonna use the boat house for Liam." I say taking a breath in.

"Yeah, It's got support beams. We can chain him to one of them."

"Okay, that's great and all Scotty. But how do we get him there?"

"And how do we keep him from killing us?" Isaac added to Lottie's question. "Because I'm just saying, it's probably a good idea to keep Cait close, have her talk him through it. Work for us." Isaac pointed to Scott and then himself.

"Yes. Isaac I will be there the whole time. And As for you question Lottie- yeah I got no idea."

"I say if it keeps him from murdering someone we just chloroform the little bastard and throw him in the lake." Stiles jokes, do the oh so Stiles thing of acting it out with his hands.

"I'm in." Isaac gave a cheeky smile.

"We're not killing or kidnapping him. Not after last nights disaster."

"Then we have to be smarter." Evlynn paused, "I'm just not sure how."

" I have an idea." Lyda spoke, "We tell him there's a party and invite him."

"So, you're gonna ask out a freshman?"

"No. I'm done with teenage boys. But if we're playing a trick on someone."

Chloe turned her head to Kira, "we use the trickster."

We all looked over to kira as she started to stutter, "Who? Me? No way. Not me."

"Yes you." I take a step closer to my friend, "Do you know what they call a female fox?"

"A vixen." Evlynn plays in, also takes a step to Kira.

"Me?"

"Be the Vixen Kira. I know you can do it." Lottie finishes.

Isaac shifts his eyes between the four of us, "remind me to never get on any of your bad sides. Because that-" He spun his finger in a circle to point at all of us, "Was terrifying."

~

Lottie parked the car out front of the boat house. I keep checking my phone to see if Allison had sent me anything, but no notifications. I sighed getting out of the car at the same time Scott pulled up. Stiles pulled Scott and I aside.

"I just talked to Kira. She's on her way. Said everything was fine." Scott said frantically.

"Yeah that's not what I have to tell you guys about. I asked around about Liam. I know why he got kicked out of his last School."

"He wrecked a car." I remember, "they expelled him for vandalism."

Stiles showed us his phone. It was opened to a picture of the coaches car after he made fun of a group of kids and Liam got pissed. "Yeah... Okay, Cait. What else do you know about Liam?"

"Umm like you said he got kicked out of his last school. He's and IED-"

"IDE?" Stiles jaw hung open. "He's an IED. Congrats Scott you gave superpowers to a walking time bomb."

"This is gonna be bad isn't it?" Scott asked, biting his lip.

I sigh, "Not bad. Just hard."

~

We all stood in a semi-circle around the coffee table. Me on the end, then Scott, then Stiles, then Lottie, then Lydia, then Chloe, then Malia, Evlynn, and ending with Isaac. We collectively exhaled a breath at the sound of Kira's car.

I could hear Kira's voice from the other side of the door as she opened it. Liam walked in and looked at all of us. More so looked at Scott. I swear Isaac could smell the fear that came off of Scott. I mean I could see it just by the way his back was sloched and he kept taking deep breaths. Kira closed the door behind her. "Sorry."

Liam's mouth hung open for a second, "What the hell is this?"

"Think of it as an intervention." Stiles starts.

"You have a problem Liam." I continued.

"And we're the only ones who can help." Scott finished.

"Did you three rehearse that?" Isaac asked from the other side of the room.

~

Liam sighed and pointed down the line. "Witch?" I nod, not caring that it wasn't really right. "Werewolf?" Scott gives a half smile. "Banshee?" Lydia raised her hand in acknowledgment. "Werecoyote." Malia nods. "Another werewolf." Isaac winked at the freshman. "Fox?"

"Kitsune. But Fox works." Kira gave a shy smile.

"What about the four of you?" Liam pointed to Stiles and my sisters.

"Oh we're completely human." Evlynn spoke.

"Uh, for a little while, I was possessed by an evil spirit." Stiles scratched the back of his neck, "It was very evil."

"What are you now?"

"B-Better."

Liam nods to the table where Malia's chanis were, "Those for me?"

No they're for me." Malia said flashing her eyes blue. I watched Liam's chest rise and fall.

"How-how'd you do that."

"You'll learn." Scott took a step towards his beta. "But first you have to get through the full moon."

"The moon's already out."

"And you can feel it can't you?" Isaac paused, "I know I can."

"No. I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of psychotic nutjobs. 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 that door right now! And if any of you try to stop me, I swear to god I'm gonna-" Yeah that's fair except 3..2..1.. Liam covered his ears letting out a scream.

"What's wrong? Liam?" Scott takes a few more steps towards the freshman.

"You-You don't hear that?"

Scott tilted his head. Soon we all did at the sound of car tires and a set of headlights. Liam fell to the ground. "Did you tell anyone about this?" Lottie rushed out walking over to the windows.

Liam starts to steady his breathing as I walk over to him and Scott, "My friend Mason. You said it was a party."

"Okay, then who did Mason invite?"

Lottie turned to her boyfriend, "Everyone."

Liam starts to calw at the floors. "The floors get him off the floor!" Lydia nearly screamed. Liam lifted his head from the ground letting out a roar as his eyes turned gold.

"Time to go!" I scramble to grab Liam's left arm Scott grabbing his right. I was more pushing Liam along, hoping he wouldn't dig his claws into me.

~

Liam kept roaring at Scott and me as we pushed him onto one of the sport beams. "I got him! Get his hands!" Scott half yells to me. I slid around the pole but Liam was quicker. Jumping onto Scott pushing the young Alpha to the ground.

I ran over to where the kyay was, grabbing the wooden oar. I turned, hitting the beta in the head knocking him unconscious. Scott let out a few paints before dragging him back over to the support beam and changing him up. "God, I hope Chloe is having better luck." I sigh as Scott and I fall backwards. "He looks so young."

"He is, I mean he's fifteen."

"I hope I don't need to say this. But as some who could tell you what happened without being there the other night, you did save Liam's life. And as someone who can predict the future, you saved his mind too. I mean just having you around, it makes him feel less crazy."

"I hope you're right."

"I know I'm right." We both let out a laugh. Scott stopped laughing, his mouth in a straight line, "What?"

"What are we?"

"What?"

"What are we? I mean, we both know you're not here forever. And I- I don't know." Scott turned to me, "I like you Cait. As more than just my best friend and- I don't know. I mean sure we've kissed but are we dating or?"

I couldn't look Scott in the eyes, "I just don't want you to get attached and then break your heart." This time I look up at Scott, "As soon as Lottie and the twins remember, we have to go, and I-" Scott cut me off by kissing me.

It was like I was being set on fire. And for me that's a good thing. It gives me a sort of control. It makes me feel biss. Slowly he pulls away, but I don't open my eyes.

"I'm already attached." Scott whispered, "So while you're still here, can we do this?"

I open my eyes, tucking my lips into a smile. Frantically I nod my head yes. "While I'm still here." I whisper back, as he kissed me again. Scott pulled away turning to the lake house, "What?"

"I can hear the music from the house."

"Yeah. What are they playing?"

Scott shrugged, "Electronic."

"I don't think that's what it's called."

"Yeah probably not."

We both laugh again, "I wish they still played slow songs at parties. Or really anything. Buck on my earth they would play at least one every crappy dance we had."

"Why do you like the slow ones?"

"Everything else in life is so fast paced. Especially in our lives. It just reminds me to slow things down."

We were both quiet from a minute, just smiling. "Come here." Scott said finally, standing and nodding to the other side of the boat house.

He took out his phone, putting on a slow song. He moved to place his phone on one of the docking pots then hand out his hand, I let out a small breath, "What about him?" I asked, nodding to Liam.

"He can dance with me next time."

I let out a breathy laugh, wrapping my arms around Scott's neck, slowly swaging with the song. "So how are you so good at staying in control on the full moon?"

"You do remember you taught me, right?"

"Just because I told you what to do doesn't mean it worked."

Scott laughed, "Well, a lot of it's about making sure my pulse stays down. I remember there was a full moon where both you and Stiles were out of town for the weekend, and I had to steal a heart monitor from my Mom's job, just to make sure I was- well make sure I slowed myself down."

"So you mastered it?"

"Still takes a lot of concentration."

"So if someone was to distract you...."

"I'm indistractable."

"Let's test that." I whisper into his ear, before kissing him again. He just shook his head no as I pulled away, giving me a prize worthy smile. I breath out a laugh before standing on my toes, kissing up jaw till I got to his ear. Slowly I started to nibble on it just a bit, pulling back when I heard Scott let go of a breath in my ear.

"Nothing."

"Then why are your eyes glowing?"

Scott shut his eyes and shook his head, "Cheater."

"I also just heard you growl."

Scott's eyes widened before turning to look at Liam, "That wasn't me." When we turned to look at Liam, not only was he awake but he was turned. Growling as his eyes shined gold.

I removed my arms from Scott's neck, "Those chains will hold, right?"

"They should. I mean, he can't be that strong..." Scott was proven wrong when Liam broke the chains and then the window, running into the wood. We both watched as Liam ran farther and farther. "I gotta-"

"Go!"

I went to exit the boat house, trying to find anyone but stopped putting my hand in the air as an arrow shot me in the head. "OH MY GOD! CAITY!" I heard Allison scream as she ran down the hill. "That-that was not meant to happen. My crossbow miss fired-" I interrupted her by pulling the Argent girl into a hug.

"How did you know?" I asked as I pulled back.

"I got your text." She laughed, "So. Scott has a beta."

"Yep. And he's got mad anger issues. Where's you dad?"

"In the woods. Looking for Scott, trying to get Liam undercontorl." As if on cue the two of us heard the screams of the young wolf.

"By putting him in pain?"

"Efibulaters. Making him human. The rest is up to Scott."

"He can do it."

Allison turned her head looking into the woods, "I know. I just hope Scott knows."

"Yeah me too."

"Oh and I hope you know that when tonight calms down. You are telling me everything."

"Starting with the fact that apparently you have only talked to me for the past five weeks?"

"Yeah, that seems like a good place to start."

I let out a laugh, "Come on let's go make sure no one died at that party."

~

When I said lets make sure no one died, I meant it as a joke. So when I saw a man in front of a car without his head, I was ready to throw up. "Allison." I pointed to the sight of the decapitation.

"What the hell?" Both of us walk over, looking at the scorch marks along his neck and head, "Demarco." Allison read out the name tag. "Cait look, I think he might have been a wolf." Allison held up his wrist showing me the half moon cuts in his palm.

"Well that can't be good."

Third Person POV

"Lydia! Has anyone seen Lydia!" Evlynn called as she waded through the crowd of freshmen, till she got to the steps. Lottie and Stiles were probably outside, avoiding the noise. Isaac was just kinda waiting around, Scott and Caity were still at the boathouse with Liam. She had no clue where Kira was, and Chloe and Malia were in the basement.

Evlynn pushed open the door to the white room at the top of the stairs. Kira stood behind Lydia as the banshee played one of the vinales. Skipping it every now and then. Kira saw her and put her finger to her lips. "What do you hear?" The kitsune asked calmly.

"The key. The key to break the code." Lydia blinked and pulled out her laptop and typed in the name. Heather. The three girls bent over the computer as the code decoded. A set of 10 names coming on the screen. Each with a number next to it.

David Walcott 250

Sean Walcott 250

Michel Walcott 250

Lydia Martin 15

Scott McCall 25

Caitlin Roads 20

Demarco Montana 250

Derek Hale 10

Carrie Hudson 500

Kira Yukimura 5

"What is this?" The Holmes girl asked.

"It's a list of supernaturals in Beacon Hills. It's a deadpool. And we're all on it."