'frenemy'

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NOBODY KNEW WHAT to do with Jackson now that he was in the back of Stiles' jeep and bleeding out from the attack from Derek. Who knew if he would even heal from Derek's attack? And even if he did, it would be a while till he would heal properly as Derek was an alpha, making this situation even more difficult than it already was.
Alyssa and Stiles sat in panic as they waited for Scott to come back to the car, and while Alyssa was squished in the backseat with Jackson, he was slowly healing, and would probably wake up soon, something they didn't need at this moment in time.

The second Scott shot back into the car, Alyssa and Stiles prepared themselves for what he was going to say. "Couldn't get anything out of Danny." Scott said as he climbed into the passenger seat while Alyssa was demoted into the backseat with the killing machine behind her.
Alyssa didn't even know why they were still here - the cops were going to arrive soon and they didn't need to deal with Stiles' dad and why they were even here in the first place, they needed to get the hell out of here.

"Okay, can we just get the hell out of here now?" Stiles asked, as if he read Alyssa's mind, "You know, before one of my dad's deputies sees me?" He panicked.

"That's a good idea." Alyssa spoke up from the backseat, trying not to touch Jackson as he slept soundlessly behind her, if he were to wake up, it would just cause even more trouble than it's worth and she couldn't be bothered to deal with him, after the whole moment in the club, she just wanted some peace and quiet to think.
However, just as Stiles turned the engine on to get out of sight, the cops showed up, just now showing that the three of them had the worst luck known to man.

"Oh my god. Oh my god! Could this get any worse?" Stiles complained, just as Jackson started groaning, causing Alyssa to moan in annoyance and shuffle away from him. "That was rhetorical!" Stiles exclaimed.

"You're waking him up! Stop being so loud!" Alyssa complained, using a hushed tone in case Jackson was to fully wake up, she couldn't believe that Stiles had woken him up in the first place. Who knows what Jackson will do once he wakes up?

"Get rid of him." Scott told Stiles, telling him to get rid of his dad.

"Get rid of him? We're at a crime scene and he's the sheriff!" Stiles told Scott like he was completely stupid.

"Distract him, then." Alyssa suggested.

"How?" Stiles asked incredulously, "He's not just going to leave!" He said.

"Just do something!" Scott interrupted, causing Stiles to shake in annoyance and climb out of the jeep, leaving Alyssa and Scott alone, something the two of them didn't think would happen for another while, yet. Only, Jackson was in the car with them, too, but it's not like he was awake..

"What's going on?" Jackson groaned, trying to sit up, just as Stiles had left. Alyssa and Scott instantly looked at a him in worry, scared he would fully wake up and make noise, alerting Stiles dad.
She moved away from him as Scott tried to push him back down, pleading that he should be quiet, but it wasn't working, and he kept trying to sit up with every chance he got, all while Stiles' dad was gaining more suspicious.

"Oh, for gods sake." Alyssa moaned, before bringing back her fist and sending it straight for Jackson's face, finally sending the boy out cold, something they had wanted since putting him in this stupid car. She then turned to Scott with an annoyed look on her face, "That's all you had to do." She told him, while he looked at her in slight shock, not expecting her to knock him out like that without any hesitation.
As the two teenagers turned back around, they saw Stiles' dad looking straight at them, causing the two to plant fake smiles on their faces instantly and wave at him, something that didn't fool the man at all, it was obvious he knew that something was going on.

As his dad turned away again, Alyssa and Scott both sighed in relief, with Jackson now out cold, they didn't have a problem, so Alyssa shoved his feet aside and sat back into the back seat, crossing her arms across her chest in annoyance, as Scott stared at her, like he was needing to say something, something that was on his mind.
"I'm going to break up with Allison." He blurted out, shocking the two of them that he had just said something like that with no warning before whatsoever.
But, before the two could even speak about the situation further, Stiles entered the Jeep once more, causing the two of them to shut up instantly - even if they were going to talk about what the hell was going on between the two of them, it sure as hell wouldn't be in front of Stiles..

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Alyssa sat on a large rock by the police truck that had Jackson chained up inside, while Stiles spoke to him, to try and convince him that he was the Kanima by night, but from what she was listening to, Jackson wasn't believing him one bit. She didn't know how they were going to convince him about believing something this big, after all, Jackson was the most stubborn person she had ever laid eyes on. But, even then, he was pretty suspicious of Alyssa and her brother, and Derek had actually bitten him, so it confused her as to why Jackson wasn't believing a single thing Stiles was telling him.

What was also on her mind, was Scott. The fact that he wanted to break up with Allison, that he was going to, was it to do with her? She never wanted that to happen - it's not like she was the closest with Allison, but she wasn't the kind of girl to break up a couple, she felt like a horrible person.
Sure, she had never been a great person, but since she had been hanging around with Scott and Stiles, it's like she had changed as a person, and she didn't like it one bit. She didn't used to care about what others think about her or what she did, but now she was afraid that her friends might think differently of her, and she blamed them two boys.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard the sound of leaves ruffling in the distance. Instantly, she stood up and moved over to where Stiles was stood, where she then saw Allison running up. Her heart slightly stilled at the sight of the girl, wondering if Scott had spoken to her yet, but from the look on the hunters face, it didn't look like that was the main thing on her mind.
"They know." Was the first thing that Allison told the two of them, not even glancing in Alyssa's direction, pretending that she basically didn't exist.

"What?" Stiles asked, panicky.

"They know Jackson's missing." Allison repeated, having heard her grandfather talking with his men.

"No, they can't. I've been texting his parents since last night." Stiles refused to believe her, wanting to believe that his plan had worked and that they were going to get away with this.
Alyssa couldn't get in trouble with the cops, her brother would literally kill her, and it would put a huge red target on her back for the hunters - she will literally die.
"They don't have a clue." He continued, holding up Jackson's phone as an example.

"My grandfather told me his parents went to the police." Allison told Stiles, "They know." She said.
Alyssa grunted in annoyance, letting her head lay back in annoyance - she hated how Jackson was such a hard job, why he couldn't just believe them and finally realise that he was the Kanima, was beyond her.

"Dammit." She muttered, as Stiles rushed over to the truck to pull the radio, throwing the phone aside as he did so. Alyssa hurried behind him, with Allison close behind, as they listened to the dispatch on the radio.

"All available units proceed to Beacon Hills Preserve as instructed." The person on the radio spoke, "Proceed with caution until Sheriff Stilinski's arrival. Repeat, proceed with caution." He said.

"Okay, let's go. Now!" Alyssa rushed out, shoving Stiles to get into the car, "I cannot be caught by the cops again!" She told him, as they both rushed around the side of the car to jump in, while Allison took the other side.

Before Alyssa ran around the car and climbed in, she heard Allison mutter something under her breath, but as she was so preoccupied with stressing about the cops catching her and finding out where Derek was, she hadn't heard it clearly enough to know what she had said. But the way that the hunger was glaring at the werewolf behind her back had her believing that Scott had already spoken to her - what Allison was going to do about all of this, she didn't know.
As of right now, she didn't care, she just knew that they needed to get out of dodge from the cops, where Alyssa was sure that she wasn't going to get arrested..

The way Allison was staring at Alyssa was making the girl want to rip the head from her shoulders, but with Scott and Stiles by her side, she couldn't do a thing about it, she just had to pretend that she couldn't see the looks she was receiving. Alyssa didn't think she deserved Allison's anger, it wasn't as if she had done anything with Scott ever, the two were great friends.. At least, that's what she liked to tell herself. It was obvious that Allison knew what was going on.

When Scott had told Allison that he didn't want to be with her any longer, and just wanted to be friends, she knew that it was because of Alyssa, she wasn't blind, or dumb. She felt that ever since Derek had kicked her out of wherever it was they were staying, Scott had begun distance from her, yet closer to the werewolf, and she hated having to watch it, without being able to do anything about it.
She hated Alyssa Hale.

"If Jackson doesn't remember being the Kanima, he's definitely not gonna remember stealing Danny's tablet." Scott told Stiles, Allison and Alyssa as they all stood by the cliff, going over their next plan of action.
It was incredibly awkward between Scott and Allison, and Stiles and Alyssa could feel it, but they wouldn't dare comment on it, the tension could already be cut with a knife.

"Why would he steal the thing if he doesn't even know what's on it?" Stiles asked.

"It doesn't make sense." Alyssa added, "Maybe because he knew it was filmed?" She suggested, hoping to put some input with this whole situation.

"What if someone else took it?" Allison practically spoke over Alyssa, not even liking that the girl was even here in the first place. But what killed her the most, was that Scott and Stiles actually liked the girl, and trusted her more than they would with Allison, and it upset her greatly.

"Then somebody else knows what he is." Stiles said.

"Which could mean that someone is trying to hide him." Alyssa then spoke up, like a light bulb going off in hers and Scott's head.

"Which could also mean that someone is protecting him." Scott added to Alyssa's statement, the two having the same idea.

"Like the bestiary says, 'The Kanima seems a friend', right?" Allison asked.

"But the question is, who?" Alyssa spoke up.

"And that who, watches Jackson make a video of himself turning into the Kanima and then just erases part of it so he wouldn't know?" Stiles asked. "I mean, who would do that?" He asked again.

"Somebody who wanted to protect him?" Allison asked.

"There's something else.. You said the only thing you found online about the Kanima is that it goes after murderers." Scott told Stiles, the information not adding up, "What if that's actually true?" He asked.

"What about Danny?" Alyssa asked.

Stiles nodded at her question, "Yeah, and it tried to kill all of us, remember?" He asked. "I don't know about you guys, but I haven't murdered anybody lately." He said, specifically looking at Alyssa, to which she scoffed at.

"Well I haven't either, I'm pretty sure you would know if I left in the night and murdered someone, Stiles." Alyssa told him, quite offended that he would even suggest she could do something like that. She has never murdered a day in her life, and she wasn't going to start today.

"But I don't think that it was actually trying to kill us." Scott said, before facing Allison, not noticing the distinctive look on her face, "Remember when we were at Isaac's the first time, it just went right by us, didn't it?" He asked her.

Allison didn't like to think back to when she was still with Scott, as it made her upset that she had lost him to Alyssa, but she obviously couldn't just ignore his question.
She sighed, "You're right, it just ran off." Allison said.

"And it didn't kill you in the mechanics garage." Scott then told Stiles.

"Well, yeah? But it tried to kill me, Alyssa and Derek in the pool." Stiles told Scott, causing Alyssa to nod in confirmation.

"Did it?" Scott asked.

"I could have if we came out. It was like it was waiting for us to get out so it could get the job done." Alyssa told him, backing Stiles up.

"What if it was trying to keep you in?"

After a long debate about keeping Jackson alive and that he had no clue what he was doing, Scott pulled Alyssa to the side, knowing that neither Stiles nor Allison could hear due to their human hearing.
He had broken up with Allison during the day that Stiles and Alyssa were stuck here with Jackson, and he didn't feel great about what he did to her, but he felt good that it was finally off of his back that he didn't have to carry around his guilt about having feelings for Alyssa any longer.

"I broke up with her." He told her, when they were far enough that the other two couldn't here.

Alyssa nodded, looking into the distance as she felt his arm brush up against hers as he stood besides her. That explained why Allison had been acting so off with her all day, and glaring at her behind her back when she thought that she couldn't see her. She didn't blame Allison, she would be acting the very same if somebody had stolen her boyfriend, in fact, she would have ripped her head off..

"So, what happens now?" Alyssa couldn't help but ask her. She wasn't about to jump into something with Scott, knowing that he had only just broken up with Allison. She may be a hard person with little to no emotions, but she just couldn't do that to the girl that was so kind to her when they had both started school as the new girls.
Obviously, she wanted nothing more but to kiss him, to stay with him as long as she desired, by his side where no one else could interrupt - but they had issues to deal with first, and murders to stop. It wasn't as simple as she thought.

Scott was also thinking the same, as much as he just wanted to hold the girl besides him and never let go, it was just too soon. They couldn't do that to Allison. He was sure that his ex-girlfriend knew that something was going on between the two of them, and he thinks that Allison had known that for a while now. Scott couldn't even describe how bad he felt.
He sighed. "I don't know." He admitted.

The two looked up at each other at the exact same time, both knowing what they wanted to happen, but knowing that they couldn't act on it.
At this exact same time, Allison looked up at the two from her place in the van with Stiles, and she was just trying to keep the tears at bay - she had definitely lost Scott, and she knew it.