𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐎

𝘔𝘐𝘚𝘚𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘗𝘜𝘡𝘡𝘓𝘌 𝘗𝘐𝘌𝘊𝘌

( SEASON 6 EPISODE 2 )

The sound of Meilani's alarm the next morning startled her awake with a loud groan, her hand haphazardly shooting out from her blankets to slam her hand down onto the annoying buzzing machine. She huffed as she flopped back onto her bed, trying to allow her eyes to adjust the blinding sunlight that filtered in through her window and she slowly pushed herself into a sitting position. Her hair was a mess of curls on her head and she rubbed at her tired eyes to try and rid the sleep from them. 

An empty sort of ache blossomed in her chest when her hand subconsciously reached out next to her, but was met with just her bedding. She dropped her other hand from her face, furrowing her eyebrows as she tried to put together why she had reached out and was met an empty space. However, her thoughts were cut off when her door squeaked open and her eyes met with Isaac's who leant against her doorframe, arms crossed across his toned chest. 

"I have to say, you look more and more beautiful every morning," Isaac mused, pushing off the doorframe and waltzing further into Meilani's room. He crawled up the end of Meilani's bed and pressed his lips softly to hers, a fire igniting between them as it always had thanks to their mate bond. Every movement of each other's lips and every breath was felt as their bodies focused on each and every single moment.

"I have to say, you're asking for it more and more every morning when you use that teasing tone," Meilani mumbled against his lips, slowly pulling back from him and meeting his blue eyes with a flash of a small smile. Though, it didn't last long as her mind whirred back to her searching of something just moments before Isaac showed up. She felt like she was missing something or forgetting to do something, but couldn't quite put her finger on what it is.

"Baby," Isaac said softly, tucking a stray curled piece of hair away from Meilani's face as he noticed her distant look. His eyebrows cinched with worry as he could feel her heavy confusion weigh on his chest. "What's wrong?"

Meilani chewed the inside of her lip, knowing she couldn't lie to Isaac. Not when they were connected and he could feel everything she felt, hear almost every thought she had. Though, Isaac typically tried to stray from her thoughts to give her the space she deserved. It was her own head after all. He had no reason to poke around in her head, regardless of him being her boyfriend or not. "I — I, um . . . I don't know. I feel like I'm forgetting something, but I don't know what it is. I was supposed to do something but . . . my mind draws a blank when I try to remember what it is."

Isaac hummed and tilted his head, trying to figure out what Meilani could be forgetting. "Well, you did all your homework last night, right? 'Cause we did that together with Lydia and Malia. Scott hasn't needed anything lately and there's been nothing else mentioned for The Ghost Riders yet that we can work with."

Meilani rolled her eyes fondly and laughed softly. "You always say Liam's my son with the most disgusted look on your face. He's a good kid, Isaac, and besides . . . he's not my son."

"I don't say it with disgust," Isaac defended, sitting back against his heels with a huff. "However, the kid's a little runt and I need to knock him around sometimes. Get him ready for when we leave for college in the fall."

"Hm, must have been thinking of someone else," Meilani mumbled to herself, falling silent for a moment as she knew that someone in the pack hated it when people mentioned Liam as Meilani's son. For some reason, she just couldn't place her finger on who it was. She could have sworn it was Isaac. "But anyways, Liam will be fine. I trust him."

"That makes one of us, baby," Isaac teased, leaning forward to brush his lips against hers again. "Now get that cute little butt ready for school. I think Scott wanted to leave in twenty minutes, pick up stuff from the cafe' on the way to school. Your mom didn't get to go grocery shopping yet so we'd starve."

"A tragedy that would be compared to everything else," Meilani mused right back, giggling when Isaac playfully pushed her head before he stood to his feet again. She fiddled with the moon necklace around her neck, something she found herself doing in deep thought. A necklace she couldn't remember where she'd gotten it from in the first place. "Hey, Isaac?"

Isaac froze in the doorway of Meilani's room and turned back around with raised eyebrows. "Yeah, babe?"

"Did — you got this for me, right?" Meilani asked, swaying the necklace between her fingers to show it was what she was referring to.

Isaac pursed his lips in thought for a moment, his brain trying to come up with when he would have given it to her. However, he had also come up with a blank. "Maybe for our anniversary."

Meilani nodded silently and allowed Isaac to leave her room after that, who had bumped into Scott on the way out a broad grin on his face. She shook her head as Isaac heckled Scott into paying for breakfast for them that morning since he'd left him and Meilani high and dry the night before at the school to go be with Kira. Scott's retort back was muffled as Isaac no doubt playfully fought around with him. 

Maybe Isaac was right. It could have been anniversary gift, the necklace's small diamonds shimmering in the sun's rays that filtered into the room still. However, there was only one problem with that.

Meilani couldn't even remember when her or Isaac's anniversary even was.

The school day had gone along as usual with the added hole in Meilani's chest that was like a never ending void. She knew that she was forgetting something and it was bothering her that she couldn't even figure out what it was. In every class, she'd handed in the homework that had been placed neatly into her binder so homework wasn't something she'd been missing. It wasn't anyone of the pack's birthdays and she'd even double checked her phone calendar app to be sure of that. 

Meilani was relieved slightly when Lydia had mentioned that she'd been feeling weird all morning as well. Lydia chalked it up to her Banshee abilities, but nothing stood out to her yet on what her Banshee abilities were trying to tell her. Sometimes it took a while for Lydia to put things together so Meilani wondered if maybe there was a supernatural thing going on that she was supposed to check out and just forgot. With everything that had happened as of late, Meilani's brain was so jumbled she was surprised she could even walk in a straight line at this point.

The day slowly drifted into night and Meilani found herself on the field with Liam and Isaac. Meilani had promised Liam they could meet up and go over some lacrosse drills with their practice having ended early thanks to Coach Finstock getting so angered over the team, he'd thrown a fit. Especially with Meilani deciding to step down as team captain, Liam really wanted to take his alpha's place. Make her proud in more ways than just out in the supernatural world and helping her. He wanted to show her that he could handle everything when she left for college. That she could trust him.

A chilling breeze caused Meilani's veins to freeze for a brief moment, a shiver taking over her form. She twirled her lacrosse stick around in her hands as she glanced over her shoulder as a sound followed after it. However, the sound didn't continue nor did the random millisecond breeze that sent a bad feeling to Meilani's gut. "Did you guys feel that?"

"Feel what, Lan?" Liam questioned, fiddling with his lacrosse stick and tightening up the ropes while Isaac sat on the grass next to Liam. His hands were perched behind him and his legs were spread a bit, feet swaying side to side.

When Meilani was only met with the sound of crickets nearby and nothing else, Meilani hummed to herself and slowly turned back to her two boys behind her. "I, um . . . I thought I heard something. Just forget it, alright? Let's keep goin'."

"Or we could call it," Liam suggested tiredly, catching the lacrosse ball that Meilani threw in his direction with her stick. They had been practicing for the past two hours or so and Meilani showed no sign of slowing down. Sure, Liam had the adrenaline and stamina of a werewolf, but he definitely could not match up to that of Meilani's. She looked like she could keep going for another two hours while Liam was sure he'd need a breather in about two minutes.

"Weakling," Isaac mocked, grunting quietly when Liam whipped his stick and cracked Isaac across the ribs. He rubbed at the sore spot on his chest with a small groan and he glared up at Liam. "Listen here you little runt — "

"Boys!" Meilani huffed, cutting off whatever argument was about to ensue between Isaac and Liam as the two glowered at each other. "Liam, we have to work on your back shots, okay? They . . . they could be better."

Liam froze and turned his head to look back at his alpha with a baffled expression. "Lan, what are you talkin' about? My back shots are better than yours!"

"What? No they're —"

Meilani cut off Liam picked up a lacrosse ball and shot it in her direction, shooting the ball from behind him and right over Meilani's shoulder and into the net. He did it another two times with perfect form and precision, lowering the stick once again when he raised his eyebrows in a challenging matter for Meilani to try and test his skills again. "Huh, I must have been thinkin' of someone else."

Liam snorted and leant on his stick with a teasing, cocky grin. "Yeah, maybe someone else who should be captain?"

"Take the position from my cold, dead hands," Meilani shot back with a mirroring smirk.

"He almost did a few months ago," Isaac mumbled, earning himself another whack from the lacrosse stick in Liam's hands. "Okay, dude, seriously hit me again and I'm gonna drown your ass in wolfs bane!"

"That's stupid because then you'd only be hurting yourself in return. You're a werewolf, too, Lahey!"

Meilani exhaled heavily and threw her head back, squeezing her eyes shut as she grumbled about having to deal with children for pack members. The lights around the field began to shut off around them at that moment and Meilani opened her eyes to darkness. She noticed the expression of relief that crossed Liam's features at the lights going off, meaning they'd have to vacate the field. With a shake of her head, Meilani flashed Liam her red alpha eyes to show him that they'd be using their wolf vision to finish off their extra practice time.

Without a complaint — mostly because Liam was scared of Meilani even though he'd never say it out loud — Liam shifted his eyes to yellow and continued with the drill he and Meilani had been doing a few minutes before. They had moved back into a swift flow, Liam tossing lacrosse balls at Meilani while Meilani tried to help him work on the power behind his shot. Power he had to learn to control since Meilani tried to get Liam to not use his werewolf side out on the field. However, that didn't last much longer when Liam slowly lowered his lacrosse stick, gaze focused to the school.

"Li, what is it?" Meilani asked, stepping closer to him while Isaac hopped to his feet.

"Something's happening to Mason," was all Liam said before he threw his stick to the ground and took off for the school. 

Meilani and Isaac exchanged a look before they moved after Liam, the three bursting into the side entrance of the school and right into the library. A sharp yell was heard and Mason materialized from the shadows with a fire extinguisher raised high in his hands, his boyfriend Corey right behind him. 

When Mason realized it was just Meilani, Isaac and Liam he sighed in relief and dropped his arms. "They were here. The Ghost Riders."

"What? Here? Now?" Meilani breathed, eyes wide as she had thought they were gone and were leaving Beacon Hills alone.

"I thought they left when the storm left," Liam voiced Meilani's thoughts out loud, eyes bouncing between Corey and Mason who both looked shaken up.

"I guess not because two fo them were right up there," Mason explained, pointing to the second floor balcony of the library. "Corey and I didn't see when they came in. We only saw them when we turned invisible."

Liam's jaw ticked and his fierce blue eyes snapped over to Corey, anger wafting off Liam in waves. "You brought him into this?!"

Mason quickly stepped in front of Corey and pressed his hands to Liam's shoulders when the boy tried to take a step towards Corey who stepped back. "Liam, hey, he was just trying to protect me."

Corey nodded frantically to show that Mason wasn't lying. Even though Isaac, Meilani and Liam could all hear his heartbeat had stayed it's normal rate. "Uh, they didn't seem to care about Mason or I. They, they walked right by us. Uh . . . they just jumped down and left after that."

"Wait, that's it? They didn't do anything else?" Isaac inquired, crossing his arms as his tone was laced with confusion. Why would the Ghost Riders just show up only to leave Mason and Corey alone? Wasn't their whole purpose to rid people from towns?

"Yeah."

"They didn't take someone? There was nobody else in here?" Meilani asked next.

Corey glanced to Mason, but the dark skinned boy merely shook his head. They both appeared lost over the whole thing as well even though they had witnessed everything. Meilani tilted her head, noticing they had both worn the same distant look she had that morning when she tried to figure out what she was forgetting. "Um, no, no. It was just us."

Meilani ran her hand through her hair with a soft exhale, mind working at warped speed to try and piece together what could be happening. The Ghost Riders only made her more and more confused by the minute.

"Lani, please tell me you see what I see! He's here. He can see me!"

Meilani shot up in her bed, panting heavily as the boy's voice echoed in her head. She strained her ears to try and hear the voice, trying to figure out why the voice sounded familiar but she couldn't figure out whose voice it was. That same aching hole in her chest was back and it felt like it grown in size. She groaned to herself, rubbing her hands over face in frustration as the feeling only felt like a huge weight on her. A weight she didn't need on top of the weight of the world she already carried.

With a glance to her alarm clock, Meilani saw it was only four AM and she still had another two hours to sleep. She could hear Scott and Isaac's snores from her floor. The two had their cheeks pressed to their opened textbooks as the trio had sat together to study that night, all of them falling asleep. A burning sensation erupted in the back of Meilani's skull as she's sure that she had this same thing happen to her once before, but with her in Isaac's room last year during Halloween.

"Get your pretty little ass down here right now. We have a job to do!"

That same voice from her dream bounced around in her skull once again, causing her to rub at her aching head. Her brain tried to piece together what she was missing out on as the voice sounded like she'd heard before. Maybe she'd just heard it in passing and these ( memories ? ) were just words she'd heard in when walking in school or town. Though, one of them had mentioned her nickname. Albeit, it was one that no one really used besides Melissa, but still. 

What was Meilani missing?

Deciding to splash some water on her face and get back to sleep somehow, Meilani pushed herself off from her bed and padded towards her bathroom. A stinging pain in the bottom of her foot halted her movements and she hissed, lifting her foot to see a small tack poking out. She sighed as she plucked the tack out of her skin and noticed a photo laying face down on her hardwood floor near her desk. Picking up the photo she realized it was the one that had been taken at school the other day of her, Malia, Isaac and Scott. However, there was something odd about it.

Upon closer inspection, Meilani noticed that her head tilted to the side as if moved in the direction of somehow. Though, no one was besides her besides Lydia who was a whole person length away from her. Her arm was even bent and fingers curled as if wrapped around someone's shoulder. Meilani rubbed at her eyes, thinking maybe that her sleep heavy eyes were playing tricks on her, but the photo remained the same. It was like there was something missing from this photo.

Or someone.

Finstock's whistle pierced through Meilani's skull the next morning and she flinched slightly at the sound, never finding it in herself to get used to shrill sound of the whistle. A toy that Finstock loved to use a little too much during practices, especially on one like today where Finstock would be looking out for the next captain to lead the team with Meilani wanting to focus more on passing her senior year and graduating. She wasn't dropping the team, but just the big title that had been held over her head since her sophomore year. She still laughed about Jackson Whittemore's face when he had found out that Meilani and him would be co-captains. 

Still probably one of the proudest moments of her life, thank you very much.

"That's how it's done!" Finstock praised one of the sophomore boys who had just finished up a shooting drill. He pat the boy on the chest with a beaming grin and nudged Meilani as the boy passed them by. "That is captain material!"

"You're late!" Meilani scolded Liam who had ran over to Meilani and Finstock at that exact moment. The beta shot Finstock and Meilani both a sheepish smile, juggling with the pile of his equipment in his hands.

"Which makes you not captain material!"

Meilani shook her head and pressed a finger to Coach's shoulder to get him to look at her. "No, Coach, Liam is captain material. He's . . . "

Finstock blew the whistle before Meilani could get any further, waving his hands for the team to gather around them. Isaac, Scott and Kira jogged over to Meilani with varying sorrowful smiles that Finstock hadn't listened to her. Isaac had pressed a kiss to the side of Meilani's head, whispering to her to let it go as he felt the annoyance flare inside of him thanks to Meilani.

"Let's go, gather round. Listen up. Thanks to Better McCall's selfish desire to focus on her grades and her graduation we are leaderless," Finstock huffed, earning an unamused expression from Meilani to which he, naturally, ignored. "You want to be a champion, you wanna be a hero? Now's your shot. So, all you wanna be captains, I wanna see you guys tear each other apart!"

With another shrill blow of his whistle, Finstock yelled for the boys and Kira to get into their positions while Scott merely took his place on the bench. Meilani shot him an encouraging smile, knowing that he wouldn't play much anyway thanks to his asthma. He was going to quit, but decided not to seeing as he had already suffered almost four years of it already. Might as well graduate while still being a name on the roster, even though he only played a minute at a time since he'd get winded.

"Kira and I will make sure no one gets hurt," Isaac promised Meilani, kissing her cheek and shoving his helmet on his head before he jogged out to the field.

"I'll make sure that no one gets hurts," Kira corrected, laughing softly. "We can't trust Isaac not to instigate anyone."

"Good call," Meilani responded, high fiving Kira as the Yukimura girl passed her to get out onto the field with Isaac and Liam.

Practice had gone well for all of five minutes before Liam had gotten tripped up. Finstock had mocked him about not being captain material once again, even going so far as to call him Dumb-Bar instead of Dunbar. Liam being Liam had snapped at Finstock for mocking him and got himself put on equipment duty and kicked off for the rest of practice. Meilani had felt her heart ache for Liam as she knew that he wanted to be captain more than anyone on that field and she wished she could just hand it to him on a silver platter. It seemed to her like something else was bothering Liam also to make him act up when he had only talked about being captain since Meilani told him she was giving up the position. However, she couldn't talk to him until after practice and she had to resort to waiting for him once practice was over to even talk to him in the locker room.

Meilani had finished putting her red converses back and slipping on her denim jacket when Liam slowly stalked over to her, looking like someone had kicked his puppy. His blue eyes were dull with sadness and he had even sounded put down when he asked Meilani if he had blown his chances at being captain like she was. "No, you blew it off. You'd have to be trying to even blow it."

Liam shifted on his feet with a small shrug. "Maybe — maybe someone else can be captain. With school work and all the other stuff we have to deal with . . ."

"Devenford Prep started practice three weeks before we did. Riverside two weeks. We're behind before we even start," Meilani chimed in before Liam could go on, pulling her hair out from where it had been trapped in her jacket. "Half our team can't even cradle the ball, let alone score. Scott can't be on the field for more than five seconds without feeling like his lungs are going to implode on him, which isn't his fault, of course."

"Then why can't you stay captain?!" Liam snapped, walking closer to Meilani.

"I'm graduating, Liam. I'm not gonna be here next year and you know that. Somebody has to step up and fill in the gap for me. I thought you wanted it to be you," Meilani said softly, a soft frown on her face as she could smell Liam's anxiety lingering in the room. "It should be you, Li."

Liam let out a humorless chuckle and slapped a hand to his side. "Yeah? Well, Coach doesn't exactly want me, Lan. I don't even know if the team wants me."

Meilani shook her head and crossed her arms across her chest, focusing a stern look on her beta. "No, Li, it's not up to them. It's up to you. You have to want this because they're gonna keep comin' at you. They are gonna keep knocking you down and you have to get back up again. You have to show them that you can get back up. You think this was all easy for me? Hell, Lydia's ex-boyfriend tried to chew me up and spit me out when he found out I was not only joining the team, but was being made his co-captain. Leaders cannot run away, Liam."

A slow clap was heard, causing both Meilani and Liam both to whir around and face Finstock's office where he'd just stepped out from. Meilani hadn't even known the man was still here, thinking he'd run off home once the nightmarish practice was over. "Now that's what I'm talking about, Better McCall. That's exactly the intensity this team needs." His eyes then drifted to Liam and he smirked, pointing a finger in his direction. "And you, I'm looking forward to crushing that adorable little baby face of yours. 

Meilani tilted her head when Liam diverted his eyes to her, smiling softly. "It is rather adorable and baby-ish."

"You're the worst alpha ever."

"I know."

Meilani walked alone through the empty halls during her free. Everyone else had their classes which left her alone for the time being. She took the time to focus on her current weird feeling of emptiness. Like something was out of place or missing and she couldn't figure out what that thing was. The bluish-green tint of glass from the windshield the other night at the high school was fiddled between her fingers. She had taken the piece of glass for a reason, but she couldn't remember why. Sure, it was because the Ghost Rider's bullet had shattered the whole windshield rather than just crack it like a normal bullet, but there was a reason she knew that in the first place because it definitely wouldn't have been something she figured out on her own. Nor was it something that anyone in the pack would have figured out. Well, besides Lydia and Lydia hadn't been there when she picked up the glass to take home.

Her feet suddenly halted in the middle of the hallway, a familiar tingle in her body. Almost like she was in this part of the hallway enough times to become familiar with the way the dent under her foot was in the second square with the fainter grayed tile from when someone had threw up and the janitor had used too much cleaning supplies to clean it up, fading out the tile. Or that a certain breeze blew through this part of the hallway thanks to the closed double doors that didn't quite close all the way because one was rusty and creaked whenever a breeze blew by.

Or that a certain someone's locker was here. 

Meilani slowly approached the locker number 1075 and ran her fingers gently down the bluish, metal locker. A familiar heat coursed through her body at the contact and she closed her eyes as a rush of something appeared.

A pair of eyes that Meilani couldn't quite make out stared down at her with the amount of adoration and love that it nearly knocked her over. Pink lips tweaked up in an adoring smile as Meilani's own voice filtered through her head, rambling about how Scott had a crush on Kira. She would have thought the hazy image was Scott, had he not been behind the hazy person before her. 

"He's making it rather obvious. I'm gonna say something to him."

"No, don't! Let him work his way up to talking to her, babe!"

Meilani gasped as an electric shock feeling sparked through her, causing her hand to shoot back from the metal. She shook out her hand that felt like it had just been through shock that resembled one of someone rubbing their feet across a carpet then touching another person. The hazy image didn't become any clearer in her head, but the eyes that had become a beautiful hazel color. Ones that looked like liquid honey in the sunlight and ones that suddenly made her heart flutter at a rate that it could match that of a heart attack.

Eyes that didn't resemble the eyes of Isaac. Typically when she thought of Isaac, she felt a calming sensation wash over her with a light airy feeling, thanks to their mate bond. No matter where they were, Meilani could feel the coursing feeling of love. However, that feeling appeared to have dulled a bit, the hazel eyed image currently battling it out with the image of Isaac in her mind.

"What the hell?" Meilani whispered to herself, tucking the glass that was still gripped in her other hand back into the back pocket of her jeans. She turned her gaze back to the locker, hand hesitantly hovering above the lock on the locker. If she could get inside, maybe she'd be able to figure out why she was suffering some heavy deja vu. 

A throat clearing behind her stopped Meilani from her thieving actions and she glanced over her shoulder to see a teacher had turned up behind her.

"What are you doing?" the teacher asked, eyes Meilani suspiciously though a friendly smile remained on his face. 

Meilani realized he was one of the newer teachers that had started that year and Meilani blushed furiously in embarrassment for being caught. How did she not hear the teacher approaching her?

"You know, for a werewolf, you suck sometimes at catching people sneak up on you."

That same voice from before — the one that belonged to the hazel eyed mystery boy — echoed in her head and she quickly shook her head to rid the voice. She couldn't look crazy in front of this teacher right now, so she offered him a sheepish smile, apologizing for trying to get into some other kid's locker and booked it out of there before the teacher could say any more on the subject. 

There was only place that Meilani could think to go at the moment and her current attendance record be damned. Meilani needed to get some answers.

"Deaton, I swear I am going crazy here! I keep having this feeling like there's pieces missing and I have holes in my memory. Hell, I can't even remember Isaac and I's anniversary or how we even got together. We're just . . . together. I know he's my mate and all, but it . . . I don't know. Something feels off," Meilani rambled to Deaton who held up the bluish-green piece of glass Meilani had brought to him under a bright light. "Like this glass, even. I took that from a windshield at the Sheriff's impound lot, but I can't remember why I was there. Just that the pack and I were there and this has something to do with the Ghost Rider situation."

"The subconscious can be a conduit for our memories. Dreams and waking dreams can be powerful tools to help us remember."

Meilani exhaled heavily, leaning her hands on the metal examination table between her and Deaton. "Could this be related to the Ghost Riders? Like the Wild Hunt and the holes in my memory, I mean."

Deaton placed down the glass momentarily and focused on Meilani. "The Wild Hunt are drawn to war and mayhem. I have never heard of it doing anything to anyone's memory. It's almost like you have a form of Phantom limb Syndrome. It's common in war. Amputees can have the sensation of an itch they can't scratch or a pain that couldn't possibly be there. The missing limb is so important, the brain acts like the limb's still there."

"So my subconscious is trying to tell me what's missing?" Meilani asked Deaton who nodded in response. "How the hell do I even begin to figure out what it's saying?"

"Well, the easiest way to do that would be to simply go to sleep."

To say Meilani was confused would be the biggest understatement of the century.

That night after her talk with Deaton, Meilani had gone to bed in the hopes of filling in the holes in her memory. However, the only that had happened in her dream was waking up in the middle of the woods. That dream only becoming reality when she actually woke up in the middle of the woods. She'd ran all the way back to her house, waking up Isaac in the process who had heard the front door open and close. There weren't even words for Meilani to form to even begin to explain what was going on and she had given him the best one she could.

Though, it wasn't her best as it only left Isaac still confused. No argument was had when she told him they were going back to the woods where she'd just come from. With a call to Lydia, who had been with Malia, the four had met up in the woods to talk. Scott was at Kira's house for the night so Meilani decided not to bother the couple, allowing them to stay away from the current drama that she couldn't explain herself at the moment.

"Hey," Meilani greeted the girls when they arrived in Lydia's car, handing the two of them flashlights since they didn't have the ability to see in the dark like Meilani and Isaac did. "I went to bed at home and I woke up out in the woods. Now, I haven't been in this part of the woods since sophomore year with Scott. All I can remember is trying to convince him that it was a good idea for me to try out for lacrosse. That girls can do anything that boys can do."

"And you definitely proved that statement, Lans," Isaac praised, a proud a smile on his face. He was only met with the end of his scarf smacking his face thanks to Meilani. She appreciated his praise, but now was not the time for that.

"What were you doing?" Malia questioned, following Meilani who began to lead the trio behind her through the same set of trees her and Scott stumbled through two years ago in sophomore year.

"We were looking for a dead body," Meilani replied, grimacing when the group commented about it being morbid. "I know, I know. But the thing is . . . I don't know why Scott and I would have come out here alone in the dark like that. Or why we would even go looking for a dead body in the first place."

Lydia shrugged, stepping over an enlarged branch that had fallen into the thicket of leaves that littered the floor like a rug. "I don't know. We weren't close back then."

"Yeah and I was still a coyote so I might've tried to eat it," Malia chimed in.

"I was still a loner at the time," Isaac said, frowning at the memories of his sophomore year when his father's abuse only grew worse. Derek's bite to him quite literally saved him and then joining up with Meilani once Derek kicked him out was probably the best thing to ever happen to him. He had no idea where he'd be if he wasn't bit and if Meilani wasn't working her way up to being True Alpha when he'd asked to stay with her.

"Deaton said that my subconscious is trying to tell me something, but I need you guys to help me figure out what it's saying," Meilani explained to her friends. "Scott should really be here, but I can't drag him into anymore supernatural drama when I don't even know what he could do to help. We're all apart of the supernatural so maybe we could figure it out together."

"Maybe you and Scott were just two curious teenagers. You heard there was a body," Lydia suggested, not really seeing how this related to what Meilani was missing.

Meilani snapped her fingers and pointed to Lydia. "Yes, but how did we hear about it? Scott never watched the news. I didn't have a police scanner and there was definitely nothing on the news that night about the body. Not until the next morning after Peter bit me in the woods."

"Your mom works at the hospital. Maybe she got called in and you overheard her?" Malia tried next.

Meilani sighed, shaking her head and stopped so she could turn to face the three members of her pack. "That's the thing, though. My mom wasn't home that night when we snuck out. I live five miles away from here. How did Scott and I even get here? Our mom had the car that night and Scott and I didn't have the bikes until junior year. There's no way we ran either, Scott has asthma. We were hiding but the police knew Scott and I were here."

"Maybe you made a ton of noise with your brother's asthmatic breathing," Isaac suggested casually with a shrug. "Scott's wheezes can get pretty loud, especially when he's over worked himself."

"How would they know it was us?"

"Meilani? Scott? You guys out there? Meilani?"

Meilani's head whipped over her shoulder, practically seeing the shine of Sheriff Stilinski's flashlight blinding in her eyes again. Almost like she was right back in that night again in sophomore year where she and Scott had almost been caught by the cops. "Why would Sheriff Stilinski even think that either one of us would be out here?"

"Because like most deaths in this town, it was related to the supernatural," Lydia deadpanned.

"Lyds, this was all before I was even bit. Before Stilinski even knew about the supernatural in the first place. I mean, this was the night I was bitten," Meilani stressed to Lydia, Malia and Isaac who eyed her worriedly. As if she were losing her mind, which Meilani was starting to feel like she was. "I wasn't a werewolf yet and Scott and I weren't out here by ourselves."

A heavy silence took over the words, besides the sounds of the crickets and wild life that lingered. The trio stood before Meilani and didn't make a move to respond, just stare at her like some sort of zoo animal. They all wore the same varying looks of disbelief. Disbelief that Meilani was making any sense and that she was reaching for straws. Yet another feeling that Meilani was feeling a lot lately.

Meilani's hands dropped to her sides and her shoulder slumped slightly. "Okay, I know this is sounding crazy to you guys. I think . . . " She broke off, licking her lips as she didn't want to continue. Anytime she thought about the hazel eyed mystery boy, a faint desire to want to hold him, touch him, kiss him took over her. She wanted to feel his arms wrap around her and hold her close. She wanted to turn to him and tell him about what was going on, but couldn't because she didn't even know who he was or if he even actually existed.

"You think what?" Isaac prodded, noticing the way Meilani stopped.

"I, um . . ." Meilani cleared her throat awkwardly, tucking a curly piece of hair behind her ear. "I think that someone else was out here with me and Scott that night. I think . . . I think I was . . . I think I had feelings for him."

A sharp inhale was heard and Meilani could feel heartbreak shoot through her, knowing full well where that feeling had come from. One look to Isaac and she could see the way his eyes shone with hurt and he almost visibly closed in on himself. She wanted to try and tell him that she was probably crazy, but she couldn't do that. She couldn't lie to Isaac. Not even because they were mates and he knew when she was, but because it was just something she couldn't ever do to him.

"No, it's not crazy," Malia suddenly spoke up, cutting across the tense air that suddenly surrounded the two mates of the pack. "I know that someone chained me up and I think they wanted me to stay human."

"I came to school this morning and I was I was supposed to meet someone," Lydia whispered, her green eyes finally flickering up to Meilani. "Mei, I swear we were supposed to meet up like we always do this morning, but you never showed. I couldn't remember who it was that I usually see with you in the morning. Someone that's not Isaac. I have been thinking about it all day. Meilani, whoever it is . . . I think . . . I think you loved him."

"Lydia's not crazy," Isaac said, his tone broken and distant as he spoke. "I — I've been getting this weird feeling all day. Like . . . like we're still mates, but you're not supposed to be with me. That there's . . . there's something in between us breaking off the part of the mate bond that would bind us together for life as lovers. I think . . . Lans, I think that missing something is what gave you the necklace you never take off."

Meilani's hand instinctively went up to her moon necklace and bit her lip as a sense of familiarity coursed through her. The same hazel eyes she'd been seeing behind the feeling, but he was still out of reach. She still couldn't figure out who he was or what he actually looked like aside from his eyes color. Her eyes snapped up to Lydia, Malia and Isaac as a thought crossed her mind. "What if we're all missing the same person? I heard Scott telling Kira earlier that he felt like he was supposed to meet someone before practice, but he couldn't remember who. That — that there was always someone who walked out onto the field with him and I, but that person just wasn't there."

Fumbling in her back pocket, Meilani plucked out the photo she'd looked at earlier that morning when she'd been woken up in her dream. The picture where she knew someone was missing. "I think that someone was in this picture."

Lydia and Malia both shined their lights over the photo while Isaac stood behind the three girls. Thanks to his height over the three, he was able to see the photo perfectly fine from over their heads. 

"He was sitting right there in between you and I. Meilani, there is someone missing and he was apart of the pack."

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— to all you Meisaac stans, you are welcome for kind of feeding you with Meilani and Isaac in this chapter. Meilani is already beginning to remember Stiles along with Malia, Lydia and Isaac. all the tingling sensations Meilani kept feeling were from the soulmate emotions at work. the link between her and Stiles is strong enough to keep Stiles ingrained in her being, hence why she kept feeling the need to be held by him and seeking his touch.

MEILANI FACT OF THE CHAPTER: 

MEILANI'S HIDDEN TALENT IS THAT SHE CAN SING !!! SHE DOESN'T DO IT A LOT, BUT SHE DOES WHEN SHE'S ALONE AND TRYING TO FIND THINGS TO CALM HER DOWN. MEILANI ALWAYS CONNECTED TO MUSIC, MOSTLY THANKS TO SCOTT WHO WOULD PLAY MUSIC WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER AND SHE WAS STILL GETTING OVER THE FACT RAFE WOULD NO LONGER BE AROUND. SCOTT HAD EVEN GIVEN MEILANI HER FIRST MIXTAPE FOR HER THIRTEENTH BIRTHDAY !!!

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