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CHAPTER FOUR
WOLF MOON
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MIA'S KNEE BOUNCED as she sat in the passenger seat, her fingers drumming along to the tune of the song that played over the radio. She had a single goal in mind, make sure nothing happens to her best friend. Her twin had parked their Jeep outside of Lydia Martin's house, where they could hear the music blaring from the party.

"So what are you going to do Batman?" Mia mused as she fixed her shirt so that it was no longer bunched up at the bottom. "Just grab him and run?"

Stiles seemed to consider the idea before noticing the look on his sister's face.

"You did realize that I was joking, right?" When the older boy didn't respond, Mia dropped her face into her hands, letting out a sigh of defeat. "You're ridiculous Sti."

With a roll of her eyes, Mia opened the car door and hopped out, ready to go into the party.

"You coming?"

Her twin quickly nodded, a frazzled look on his face as he followed the brunette up the steps. The duo split up as soon as they made their way into the party, with Stiles getting sidetracked by someone saying hello and Mia making her way to the kitchen for a drink.

"Mia, right?" The brunette turned to see a member of the lacrosse team looking back at her, but she couldn't remember his name for the life of her. He had a handsome face, with sharp features that complimented his dark hair and chocolate brown eyes. "It's Ryan."

"Right," Mia gave the boy a small smile as she poured herself a drink, her eyes searching for Scott in the crowd. When she realized that he wasn't anywhere close to her, the brunette turned to the boy standing across from her. "So, ya like jazz?"

"Did you just quote bee movie?" Ryan asked with a small smile on his face. Mia's smile widened at his recognition of the reference.

"Yeah," she let out a laugh, "I just did."

Mia took a sip of her drink as she looked around the room again, hoping to see her best friend in the crowd. Her attention snapped back to Ryan when he gently nudged her shoulder with his hand.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Mia gave him a small smile before continuing. "I'm looking for my friend, Scott McCall. Have you seen him?"

"Last time I saw him, he was dancing with the new girl outside," Ryan explained to the shorter brunette. "I could go with you to see if they're still out there."

"I'm good, but thanks," Mia gave him a small smile before leaving the boy behind in favor of the backyard.

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Mia couldn't figure out why it was so hard to let someone through a crowd. She had been stuck in the same spot for a few minutes, and was only able to move after shouting some explicit words at the couple that decided the middle of the doorway was the perfect spot to stop and grope each other.

Needless to say, the couple took their romance elsewhere.

Once Mia was able to push her way through the crowd, she found Allison standing alone, and Scott was nowhere to be found. With a deep breath, the shorter brunette pushed her way toward the new girl, stumbling a bit before finally standing next to her.

"Hey Allison," Mia greeted with a small smile, "you okay?"

"I've got to go, Scott just freaked out," Allison pushed past Mia and moved toward the house, causing Mia to groan at the thought of having to go back to where she started.

"Why am I doing this?" Mia mumbled before following the new girl's path. "Oh right, I signed up for this when I was like five."

She made her way to the front of the house, where she saw the McCall boy pull out of the driveway, leaving Allison behind. With a speed she didn't expect to have, Mia raced down the steps of the house to find Allison talking to Derek Hale.

"My name's Derek."

"Allison!" Mia called out as she finally reached the duo. She attempted to catch her breath before crossing her arms. "Derek. What are you doing here?"

"I was here to check up on Scott, but I couldn't find him," Derek explained as he noticed Stiles run past the trio toward his Jeep. "Have you seen him?"

"He left, and my brother just went to find him," Mia spoke calmly as she looked at the older male. "Why don't you try and find him another time? Let's go Allison."

She flashed Derek a sarcastic smile before placing her hand around Allison's wrist and tugging a little bit.

"He asked me to give the two of you a ride home."

Alarms went off in Mia's head, but she saw Allison walk toward Derek and realized that she couldn't leave the girl alone with him.

"I call shotgun," Mia called out as she walked toward the sleek black Camaro with Allison by her side. The two teens got in the car and listened to the radio as Derek drove away from the party.

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Stiles raced up the stairs of the McCall house as he tried to get to his best friend. He knocked on the door while calling out to his friend.

"Scott, it's me."

The door opened a crack, and the energetic teen pressed against the door in hopes of opening it.

"Let me in Scott," Stiles spoke frantically. "I can help."

"No! Listen, you gotta find Allison." Scott spoke while resting his head against the wood of the door.

"She's fine, alright. I saw her and Mia get a ride from the party together." Stiles explained from his side of the door. "The two of them are totally fine."

"No, I think I know who it is," Scott's voice was filled with pain, which worried the hyperactive teen more.

"Just let me in, we can try," Stiles was cut off by Scott.

"It's Derek. Derek Hale is the werewolf. He's the one that bit me. He's the one that killed the girl in the woods."

"Scott," Stiles felt his heart drop when Scott revealed who the werewolf was. "Derek's the one who drove Mia and Allison from the party."

Scott slammed the door shut after hearing that news, not only was Allison in danger, but Mia was too. His best friend could be in danger. Derek Hale had taken the girls who knows where, and now Scott could only see red. If either of the girls got hurt, he wouldn't know what to do. He jumped out of his bedroom window, leaving a confused Stiles behind.

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Mia waved goodbye to her new friend before turning toward Derek, who sat in the driver's seat of the car.

"What do you want?" She glared at the older man. "You aren't friends with Scott, myself or Stiles."

"I know what's happening to Scott," Derek explained as he started to drive away from the Argent house. "Where do you live?"

"I'll tell you when to turn," Mia's eyes were focused on the road before she addressed what he had said. "What do you know about Scott?"

"He's changing, isn't he. His senses have improved, almost like something inside him has been reset." Derek looked at Mia through the rear view mirror before continuing. "And he was probably acting off today. Angry, irritable, aggressive?"

"What do you know?"

"He's going to need help from someone," Derek took a right when the girl directed him to do so. "And I'm the only person who can help him."

"I'm at the end of the block," Mia pointed toward her house as the Hale continued driving. When the car stopped in front of the Stilinski house, Mia turned to face the man. "How do I know you're not just messing with us?"

"Scott will need help, and I can tell he trusts you," Derek's eyes met Mia's and she instantly felt small under his gaze. "You need to convince him that I can help."

"I've known you all of five seconds, why would I help you?"

"Because if you don't help me, Scott's going to hurt someone," Derek's voice became more serious as he wrapped his hand around the girl's wrist. "And that could be anyone. If you don't want him to hurt anyone, you have to trust me."

"Why are you even offering?"

"Because you don't seem like you would want your best friend to hurt anyone." Derek watched as Mia opened the car door.

"Thanks for the ride." Mia quickly closed the car door before walking toward her house, leaving the older werewolf alone in his car.

She unlocked the front door before waving goodbye to Derek and closing the door.

"Dad! Stiles! I'm home!" Mia shouted as she took off her jacket and tossed it onto the couch before moving into the kitchen. "Hello?"

The brunette sat down at the kitchen table and started to take off her sneakers when her phone started to ring. The familiar tune of the imperial march played over her phone's speaker, and Mia rolled her eyes at her twin's choice of tune.

"Copycat," she mumbled before answering the phone. "World's best Stilinski here. What's up?"

"Mia!" Stiles shouted after hearing her voice. "Thank god you're okay. I'm on my way home from Allison's right now."

"Why are you at Allison's house?" Mia was confused. Why would her twin be at Allison's house, where she had been less than twenty minutes ago. "What's going on?"

"Scott figured it out. Derek Hale is the werewolf," Stiles explained in a frantic tone. "I know that Allison's okay, but are you?"

"Sti, I know he's a werewolf."

"You what!?" Stiles shouted, causing Mia to flinch at the boy's volume. "Where are you? I'm coming to get you."

"Derek dropped me off at home."

"He knows where we live!?"

"Stiles, stop shouting."

"You told Derek Hale where we live?"

"I had to so I could get home dumbass." Mia rolled her eyes while grabbing a box of Oreos from the pantry.

"Stay where you are."

"I don't plan on leaving the house Sti." The brunette bit into an Oreo and smiled at the taste of her favorite cookie before her brother rudely interrupted her joy.

"I'll be home in five minutes. Lock the doors."

"Bye Stiles."

"Don't hang up on me!"

Mia hung up on her brother as she grabbed another Oreo from the container and made her way upstairs to her room. With a smile, she picked up her iPod and started playing music from the device.

She danced along to the beat of the music, singing into her hairbrush as if she was a famous singer. Mr. Brightside started to play, and the girl started performing like she had done when the song had first been introduced to her. Mia moved onto her bed and started to dance on top of the mattress, a carefree smile on her face.

"Encore! Encore!" Stiles smiled at his twin, who flipped him off. "We have to go find Scott."

"You lost Scott!" Mia shouted as she jumped down from the bed and moved to shut off her music. "How do you lose your best friend?"

"I told him Derek Hale took you and Allison home." Mia stomped past him and toward the stairs before turning to face her brother.

"What are you waiting for?" Mia snapped. "Scott is somewhere and we need to find him."

Stiles nodded before following his twin down the stairs and out of the house.

"Where are Roscoe's keys?" Mia looked at her twin, who held out the keys to the Jeep in his hands. "Hand them over. Now."

"No!" Stiles protested. "I drive Roscoe, you take shotgun."

"You're hysterical Sti, give me the keys." Mia's gaze was cold as she glared at her twin.

"Do you think I'm kidding?"

"I know for a fact that you hate when I drive the Jeep," Mia retorted before tapping her foot against the floor. "But this is for Scott, so you are going to give me the car keys so I can go find him, with or without you."

She ripped the keys from her twin's grasp before storming out the door. Stiles followed behind her, hastily locking the door of their house before hopping in the passenger seat of the Jeep.

The duo drove around town for what felt like forever, arguing and fighting over the smallest of things before the sun rose the following morning. Stiles had finally convinced Mia to switch seats, which meant that the girl was allowed to relax a bit. He noticed Mia rest her head against the window about ten minutes before finally spotting a shirtless Scott McCall walking along the side of the road.

Mia must have fallen asleep in the short amount of time between resting her head on the window and finding Scott, which meant that the two boys had to move her into the backseat without waking her up.

"If she wakes up, I blame you." Scott whispered to his best friend as they started to move the brunette into the back of the Jeep. The duo was able to move her into the back, and thankfully she didn't wake up from the movement. She happened to wake up when the boys started talking about what must have happened while Scott was in the woods.

"Scott?" Mia groaned as she sat up and looked at the shaggy haired boy. "Why am I in the back seat again?"

"Because he can't fit there and you can," Stiles explained as he looked at his twin through the rear view mirror. "I'm surprised that you didn't wake up before this."

"You know what actually worries me the most?" Scott moved his head from where it had been resting on the window of the car.

"I haven't been conscious, but if you say Allison, I know for a fact that Stiles and I will punch you." Mia responded with a roll of her eyes.

"If you say Allison, I will punch you in the head." Stiles commented after his twin.

"She probably hates me now," Scott groaned as he thought about the tall brunette.

"I doubt that." Stiles kept his eyes on the road as he drove. "But you might want to come up with a pretty amazing apology."

"She doesn't hate you Scooter," Mia placed her hand on his shoulder. "Trust me."

"Or, you know, you could just tell her the truth and revel in the awesomeness of the fact that you're a frickin' werewolf."

Stiles let out a shout when his sister hit the back of his head at his comment.

"Okay, bad idea."

"No shit Sherlock," Mia rolled her eyes at her brother as he continued driving.

"Hey, we'll get through this." Stiles patted Scott on the shoulder before smiling at his twin through the mirror. "Come on, if we have to, Mia and I will chain you up ourselves on full moon nights and feed you live mice."

"He had a boa once," Mia chuckled. "He can feed you the mice. I'm not touching a mouse."

Scott scoffed at the twins, who smiled at him.

"You've got us Scott, promise." Mia placed her hand on his shoulder with a smile. "And I won't leave you alone with Stiles, promise."

"I don't know what I would do without you two."

"You'd probably die of boredom," Mia mused with a small laugh. The trio continued talking and laughing until they arrived at the McCall house, where Scott started to move out of the front seat and helped Mia out of the back.

"Stay safe Scooter." Mia placed a kiss on her friend's cheek as she moved into the front seat.

The McCall boy waved the twins goodbye before entering his house, and praying that his mom wasn't home from her shift at the hospital.

"Let's go home, I need sleep."

Stiles smiled at his sister before shifting the car into drive and making his way back to their house. Once the duo arrived back at their house, they made their way up to their rooms and fell asleep.

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Author's Note

Hey everyone! I hope this chapter finds you well! As I'm writing this, I am prepping to start my final week of senior year, which is really bittersweet. I'm glad to have written this chapter, and I hope you all enjoyed it! Next chapter starts episode two, so I'm excited for that!! Remember to comment and vote because that always helps with inspiration!

- Daniella

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PUBLISHED: May 9, 2020

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