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chapter two - "You guy's jumping in or am I gunna have to pull you in?"

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Melaine grabbed her water bottle from the side of her backpack carefully making sure not to spill any on her self as she sat on the belchers watching the lacrosse practice.

"McCall! What are you waiting for, let's go." Coach Finnstock yelled snapping Scott from his daze.

Her finger's interlocked under her chin seeing Jackson with a long stick knowing this would end badly. The coach blew the whistle as Scott went for it and Jackson shoulder checked him. Leaving Scott on his back on the ground. "Hey, McCall!" Coached yelled as the guys started laughing, "Hey, McCall!"

Scott than got up, "My-my grandmother can move faster than that. And she's dead," Coach said getting up in Scott's face as he bent down. "You think you can move faster than the...lifeless corpse of my dead grandmother?"

Finnstock told him something that Mel couldn't hear but saw him push Scott back towards the line, "McCall's gonna do it again!" He yelled as Scott ran back to the line.

"Oh no," She muttered not knowing what was about to happen. One way is Jackson get's killed, the other being he was going to have to do it again. The starting whistle blew as he ran forward and competely knocked Jackson down. He than dropped the ground holding his head in his heads, "Scott!" She yelled jumping past the few stans in her way before taking off to the McCall teen.

"Scott, you okay?" Stiles asked as she finally reached the two.

"I can't control, Stiles."

"Wait? Now? Right here?" She asked getting a groan answering her questions. "Stiles, come on we have to get him out of here." She said throwing his arm over her neck. "Alright, come on, get up. Come on," Stile's said nodding while doing the same thing she did as the three quickly ran off the filed. "Come on here we go," He said as the three stumbled into the guy's locker room.

"There you go," She said as Scott fell to his knees again, as she quickly shut the door, locking it.

"You okay? Scott, you okay?"

"Get away from me!"

Stiles pulled her back after seeing his eyes flash yellow, dragging her back behind the lockers. Scott was now suddenly on top of the locker's that faced them. Both stumbled to the ground before quickly stumbling back to their feet and crouching into an open locker as Scott jumped into the ceiling beams. The two stumbled and slipped through way through the lockers as Scott jumped and started growling at them. They made it to the door as Stile's grabbed the fire extinguisher and Mel pulled the pin.

She saw him spray Scott with the fire extinguisher, and once he was done she grabbed his shirt collar and dragged them both behind a the wall. The two of them were panting trying to catch their breaths.

"Stile..." Scott asked weakly, "Melanie..."

He peaked over the door framed and sighed, "What happened?" She heard him asked as she walked into the frame. "Good you're back." She breathed out.

Stile's dropped the extinguisher and started taking his gear off as Mel helped taking Scott's off. "You tried to kill us. It's like I told you before," He started as her bent down. "It's the anger, It's your pulse rising, it's a trigger."

"But that's lacrosse it's a pretty violent game, if you hadn't noticed."

"Well, it's gonna be a lot more violent killing someone on the field." Stiles said putting infuses on 'killing'.

"You can't play Saturday. You're gotta get out of the game." She said softly looking up at him.

"I'm first line,"

"Not anymore,"

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It was now night and Mel was in the shower. Well on the floor of the shower waiting on her Mom. "Mamma!" She yelled.

"What!"

"I'm still on the floor!" She heard quick footsteps running from there room down the hall and into the bathroom. "I'm here, mamma did not forget that you grow a tail everytime you take a bath."YOU FORGOT!" She snapped as Mia wrapped her in a towel and started dragging her to her room. "Look I was really into my patients and I...forgot," She said as skype call started to ring.

"Mama chair please," She said as her mom sat her in the chair before going to walk out.

"Mama! Blanket!" She quickly threw a blanket before running out.

Mel answered the call as she wrapped herself in the blanket, "Did you just get out of the shower?" Stiles asked raising a brow.

"What'd you find out?" Scott asked ignoring the his comment.

"Well," Stiles started with a sigh, "Jackson got a separated shoulder." He informed. "Because of me?" Scott asked as she scoffed, "No my dear Marty he's a tool" She said getting two concerning looks from the two. "What? Karma work's in mysterious ways."

"Well is he gunna play?"

"Well, they don't know yet. Now they're just counting on you for Saturday." The Stilinski said as both his and Mel's face fell. Scott sighed shaking his head.

She gave him a small smile but it quickly fell as soon as she saw something behind Scott. He noticed both their expression's and frowned, "What?" He asked as Stiles started to type, 'IT LOOKS LIKE'

"It looks like what?" He asked as he froze as she started to panic, not knowing if her would see Stile's text. "What?" He ask as the video started to pick up. And that's when she saw Stiles' text had gone through, 'SOMEONE'S BEHIND YOU,' And in that moment Scott's call went out.

"What?!" Both asked with wide eyes.

They tried to call him again but it didn't work. "Look we both have curfew text me if you hear from him." He said as she nodded. "Yeah you do the same," She said before both hanging up.

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"Hey come here," Both Stilinski and Meri teen's said grabbing Scott's bag and dragging him off towards the stairs. "Tell me what they're saying." Stiles' said pointing towards his dad and an officer talking to someone.

"Can you hear them?" She asked before getting shushed.

Scott looked back at them after listen, "Curfew because of the body."

"Unbelievable." Both said in sync, "My dad's out looking for a rabid animal, while the jerk-off who actually killed the girl is just hangin' out, doing whatever he wants." Stiles said crossing his arms.

"Well, you can't exactly tell your dad the truth about Derek." Scott pointed out placing his back on the wall.

"I can do something."

"Like what?" Both boy's asked looking at the brunette girl unsure with the information they had, "Find the other half," She said simply. "Are you kidding?" Scott asked but she already grabbed both their wrist and dragged him away.

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The two rushed into Scott's front door almost tripping each other running up the stairs and burst through Scott's door out of breath. "What did you find? Where did you find it?" Stiles' asked. "And, yes, I have had a lot of Adderall, so..."

"I found something of Derek Hale's." Scott said looking up at the two, not matching either of their energy.

"Are you kidding? What?"

"There's something buried there I could smell blood." He said making Mel's face show disgust as Stiles' beamed, "That's awesome! I mean, that's terrible. Who's blood?"

"I don't know," The McCall teen said getting up and facing the two. "But when we do, your Dad nails Derek for the murder. And then you both can help me figure out how to play lacrosse without changing. Because there's no way I'm not playing that game." He said chucking the lacrosse stick onto his bed and the two went to work.

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"Hey," Melanie said pointing towards the sign pointing towards the morgue.

"Okay,"

"Good luck, I guess." Stiles said as the two watched him walk in. "Okay, what is it with you two?" She asked punching his shoulder lightly.

"What do you mean? We don't know anything. Nothing. Notta." He rambled as she rolled her eyes knowing that means he was trying to cover something up. "Stiles," She warned as he sighed looking down. "Scott, he uh, he saw you jump off a cliff and uh, grow a tail."

Her eyes widen dragging him to a chair in the corner. "He what?"

"Yeah, I told him it was a crazy thought since you can't swim. And thought it would be even crazier that you jumped off a cliff and into a river."

She swallowed sheepishly leaning back into the chair looking forward. "Yeah, crazy."

About half an hour later of what seemed like forever and still no sign of Scott, "Did he do it?" She heard Lydia asked she turned to see Jackson holding his shoulder. "He said not to make a habit of it, but one cortisone shot won't kill me."

"You should get one right before the game too." Lydia suggested but than saw his face fell quickly, "The pros do it all the time. You wanna be a little high school amateur?" She asked crossing her arms as the two peered over the wall. "Or...do you want to go...pro?" She asked and as soon as she saw them kissing she looked away. Scott quickly pulled the period magazine from Stiles scarring him. "Oh my god,"

Scott rolled his eyes at the two, "Guys, the scent was the same," He said making the two stand up. "You sure?" They asked in sync.

"Yes."

Stiles sighed, "So he did bury the other half of the body on his property."

"Which means we have proof he killed the girl."

She nodded, "I say we use it." She suggested before walking away. "How?" Both asked making her turn to them. "Tell me something first. Are you doing this because you want to stop Derek or you want to play in the game, because you wanna play in the game and he said you couldn't?" She asked crossing her arms.

"There are bite marks on the legs, Melanie--bite marks."

"Okay. Then we're gonna need a shovel." Stiles said as she huffed before following them.

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The three waited in the jeep as the watched Derek get into his car and drive off. "Right there, right there's good. Just.." Scott trailed off just as Stiles parked and they got out.

Mel was armed with the flashlight after telling the boys thought that giving her a shovel, when they didn't know what she was, wouldn't be the best idea. "Wait, something's different," Scott muttered as they walked over to side of the house. "Different how?" Both asked watching him lead them.

"I don't know." He answered before reaching the spot. "Let's just get this over with.

The boys started digging a for a few minutes each taking a second or two for a breath. Meanwhile Mel was on watch and holding the light for them. She was creeped out not knowing when Derek would be back and knowing how sneaky he probably was, knowing the forest, she kept looking over her shoulder. "This is taking way to long," Stiles complained breaking the silence.

"Just keep going."

"And if he comes back?" She pointed out, glancing around. "Then we get the hell out of here."

"What if he catches us?" She asked as Stiles stop for second to catch his breath. "I have a plan for that." The two waited for his response but got nothing, "Which is?" Scott asked as he kept digging. "You run one way, Melly runs another and I run the another. Whoever he catches first is too bad."

"I hat that plan,"

She sighed crouching down towards them. "Well all signs point to he's a werewolf which means supper speed, which means he could kill all three of us if he really wanted to-" She stated rambling but stopped when a loud thud came from under the boys in the shallow hole.

"Oh, stop, stop, stop." Stiles said stopping Scott. The two than handed their shovel's to Mel and got down and started to unbury whatever it was. "Hurry," Her and Scott whispered feeling the second was starting to feel like forever.

"I'm trying. Did he have to tie the thing, like, 900 knots?" Stiles rambled.

"I'll do it." Scott said helping and it quickly went faster. Once the last knot was un-done they pulled the tarp that the buried thing was wrapped in. Seeing a dead wolf wraped in the tarp. She saw Stiles and Scott scream and quikly jumpe out of the hole. "What the hell is that?!"

"It's a wolf," She muttered moving towards the dead wolf.

"Melanie I wouldn't it could have rabies!" Stiles remarked before turning his attention to Scott who was on the other side of her. "I thought you said you smelled blood, as in human blood."

"I told you something was different." He remined out of breath.

"This doesn't make sense. Who just buries a wolf in the middle of nowhere?" She thought out loud.

"We gotta get out of here."

"Yeah. Okay, help me cover this up."

Mel feeling a shiver run down her spine while looking down. And that's when she saw it. The purple-ish flower a few feet away, the flower from the books. wolfsbane

"What's that?"

"You've never seen The Wolf Man?" She asked turning towards the two. Scott shook his head no, but Stiles nodded as he was the one that watched it with her. "Lon Chaney Jr.? Claude Rains? The original, classic werewolf movie?" She asked getting nothing but head shakes. "No! What?" He asked growing tried of her rambling. Her face fell, "Ugh, you are so unprepared and to even think we call a werewolf." She muttered all while walking over and pulling the flower and roots up but was met with a line of rope. After going in a circle after circle around the hole Stiles was helping wrap it up, both not noticing Scott's shocked expression. "Mel, Stiles." He breathed out as the two went and stood next to him.

"Holy.."

"What the-" She breathed out after seeing the dead wolf was no longer a wolf is was dead woman, looking at the three.

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It was now day and Scott and Mel watched as the cops had Derek in handcuffs and was walking him to the back of the cop car. "Holy.." Scott muttered as she started to fumble with her necklace as the cops put him in back of the car.

Once the cops went back inside the house the two saw the Stilinski teen walk straight to car, both knowing what he was doing. Once at the car he looked towards the two as both started shaking their heads only for him to climb in the front seat. "Oh my god," Scott muttered as the two turned around. "It's like a car crash you just can't look away from." She muttered.

"Hey, can I ask you a weird question?"

"Shoot." She said leaning on the hood of the Jeep.

He cleared his throat glancing to the side, "Where were you the other night?" She tilted her head to the said as her faced showed an confused look. "When I freaked out on Allison at the party and I ran off getting chased by hunters."

"Oh, right, I, uh was at home all night. You can ask my parents if want they saw me walk back forth from upstairs to downstairs getting 40 brownies." She lied.

"Right, it's just I thought I saw you jump into the river."

She laughed lightly, "Scott I don't know how to swim." She said before hearing Stiles going "Ow!" repeatedly. She turned seeing his dad dragging him out and making stand off in the corner.

"Busted," She muttered before walking around the back of the Jeep and quietly as possible to get into the back seat as Scott climb into the passenger seat infront of her. They watched the orderly go down as Stiles started walking back to them making his dad look at them as she innocently waved.

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"I can't find anything about wolfsbane being used for burial." Scott said looking through a book in the back. "Diddo," Mel said leaning her back against the back door as Stiles kept driving down the backroads, "Just keep looking."

"Maybe it's like a ritual or something, like maybe they bury you as a wolf. Or--or maybe it's like a special skill, you know? Like something you have to learn." Stiles suggested honestly just rambling off his thoughts would stick.

"I'll put it on my to-do list, right underneath figuring out how the hell I'm playing this game tonight." He muttered.

"Maybe it's different for girl werewolves?" Mel suggested not knowing all that much about werewolves.

"Okay! Stop it!"

"Stop what?" Both asked glancing back at him.

"Stop saying 'werewolves'! Stop enjoying this so much." He snapped. "Are you okay?" They both asked in unison not knowing why he was so made. "NO! No, I'm not. I'm so far from being okay."

"You know, you're gonna have to accept this Scott, sooner or later." Stiles pointed out.

"I can't."

"Well, you're gonna have to."

"No! I can't breathe. Aah!" He yelled as Mel leaned over and hit Stiles, "Pull over,"

"Why? What's happening?" He asked looking back and forth between Scott and the road. "I don't know but he's in pain!" She yelled before seeing Scott open the backpack with the rope. "You kept it?" He yelled between the two.

"What was I supposed to do with it?"

"Stop the car!" He yelled as his eyes turned yellow.

Stiles quickly stopped the car and the two quickly got out while Scott still groaned in pain. They ran a little bit before both grabbing the bag and chunked it across the forest. They both sighed, "Okay,"

"Okay. We're good, you can.." Stiles trailed off as the two turned and saw Scott wasn't there the passenger door was wide open with the front and back door that the two had left. "Scott?" They both looked at each other before glancing around, "Scott..."

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"Stiles you know you can't call the dispatch line when I'm on Duty."

"I just wanna know if you've gotten any odd calls." He said into the phone driving. Mel was calling Scott's phone while listening to everything that was coming through. Both franticly looking for Scoot.

"Odd how?"

"Uh, like an odd person or...a dog-ish-like individual roaming around." He asked manically. "I'm hanging up on you," Her eyes widen, "No! Wai-wai-wai-wai-wait!" They yelled but was quickly hanged up on. "Damn it!" She cursed before trying Scott's number again, only for the voicemail. "Voicemail yet again."

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It was now the big game night, the game that Scott was was gunna be front and certain for. Mel ran up to her to her two best friends walking down the filed. "Your playing for real?" She asked pulling at the ends of her jacket together.

"I'm gunna try," He muttered.

She looked at Stiles who shrugged, knowing what each other were thinking in the moment.

"Scott!" Lydia called walking over and grabbing his collar and pulling him towards her, "I just want you to remember one thing for tonight."

"Uh...winning isn't everything?" He asked unsure making her giggle, "Nobody likes a loser." She corrected before patting his chest and walking away.

"Stilinski!" Coach Finstock called but with more of a b. "Get over here!"

"Goodluck," Mel muttered before walking off to her parents that were in the bleachers.

"We have a problem," She muttered sitting next to her mom. They both gave their daughter a confused look. "Scott saw me and he told Stiles." They both looked at each not knowing what to do. "That's not the only problem."

"There's more?" Eric asked.

She leaned in closer, "Scott's a beta." She whispered as they heard the starting whistle looking onto the field. "The same Scott that's playing tonight?" Mia asked as Mel nodded nervously smiling, "Uh-huh."

They all turned towards the field watching the players run onto it as they let out a heavy sigh. "Please let this go okay," She muttered resting her elbows on her knees and her chin on her fingers.

The game started and Mel had instantly lost track of the ball. Utile she saw both Scott and Jackson go after it on the ground. Which ended in Jackson checking Scott's shoulder and sending him to the ground. The whistle blew after Jackson threw the ball into the net making the first point. Annoyed but happy that Scott hadn't wolfed out yet.

But quickly saw Scott's face fall looking behind Stiles as she glanced over to see Lydia and Allison a 'We Love U Jackson' sign.

"Wonderful," She muttered breathing heavily.

"Here," Mia said handing her a bag of seaweed chips. "Stress eating helps,"

It was now down the last minute and Mel was already half-way down the bag of chips, stopping to see Allison and Lydia holding up yet another sign. 'Jackson is #1'

"Fan-freacking-tastic," She remarked before turning back to the game.

She watched the fight over the ball before the other time threw it up. And out of nowhere Scott jumped over the sea of players and caught the ball. Leaving her speechless watching him dodge every player and than threw it straight into he net.

"Yes! Yes! That's what I'm talking about!" She yelled throwing her arms in the air and making as much noise as possible. Looking over at Stiles who was jumping around.

The whistle blew as everyone got back into position and than it blew again making the two fight over the ball. Which the opposing team got, and went to run off but stopped seeing Scott and than threw the ball at him.

"Did that guy give Scott the ball?" Eric asked turning towards his daughter who shrugged. "I, uh, believe so." She muttered not looking away from the game biting into another chip.

Scott snaked through every player and chucked the ball to the net. The goalie tried to block it but it went through it, like it broke through the middle of the net causing the game to be tied. "Yes! Yes! Yes!" She cheered knowing her voice would probably be gone tomorrow. And now it was thirty-nine seconds left and the game was tied. She brought the pom poms up and under her chin as she watched anxiously about what would happen next. They win the fight and tossed the ball to Scott, and he went for the net but stopped. Looking around franticly. "Scott, no, no, no." She muttered to herself, leaning closer to the edge of her seat.

He snapped out of it and looked seeing two guys running towards him and he chucked it into the net with a second to spear.

"Oh my god!" She yelled before running over to Sties smiling ear to ear seeing the last few people running off the bleachers and onto the field to celebrate.

He glanced behind him seeing his dad on the phone, not looking to happy. "Dad, what's wrong?" He asked making Mel turn to him as well he held up a hand for them to wait.

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They walked into the locker room on Scott and Allison kissing which both of them smiled seeing him finally happy. Both backed up to try and hide but failed seeing Allison smiling at them. "Mel, Stiles."

"Hey, yeah." Both muttered smiling innocetly.

They made sure she was totally gone when they all broke into grins. As Melanie quickly hooked her arms around Scotts neck. "See you did amazing out there." She gushed before pulling apart.

"I kissed her," He gushed staring out the two just in glee.

"We saw," Stiles pointed out

"She kissed me."

"We saw that too." She added tightening her pony tail while her sweet smile not leaving. "That's pretty good, huh?" Stiles asked as he sighed in relief. "I-I-I don't know how, but I controlled it. I pulled it back. Maybe I can do this, maybe it's not that bad." He explained the grin not leaving his face.

"Yeah, heh. We'll talk later, then." The Stilinski said before going to walk off.

Scott looked at Mel and saw it on her face, "What is it Melanie?" She sighed looking down and shoving her hands into her pocket glancing at Stiles. "The, uh, medical examiner looked at the other half of the body we found." He informed. "And.." He asked waiting for someone to continue. "Well, to keep it simple. Medical examiner determined, killer of kill to be animal not human. Derek's human, not animal. Derek is not the killer and was let out of jail."

"Are you kidding?"

"No, and here's a bigger kick in the ass." Stiles added. "My Dad I.D.'d the dead girl both halves. Her name was Laura Hale."

"Hale?"

"Derek's sister."

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Melanie lead the two into the backyard, showing the biggest pool anyone could have. "We have one of the biggest pools in Beacon Hills," She said walking around the pool edge. The lights at the bottom of the pool made it light up.

"Mel what are we doing?" Scott asked making the Meri teen turn towards him. "What you saw on the full moon was true. I've been dying to tell you two this secret since forever, but couldn't."

"Why? Don't you trust us?"

"Of course I do. All I've wanted to tell you two. It's just a family secret that only my family knows. But I've realized that not all of our family members now about the secret." She said seeing they clearly didn't understand what she meant. "You two knuckle heads are family!"

They smiled at her before looking at each other nodding, "Well? Are you going to show us or not?" Stiles asked making her laugh.

She laughed before the hoodie off and over her head and jumping into the pool.

They both stepped closer to the edge seeing her legs start to cover in pink iridescent scales. Her feet transforming in a matching tail. They looked up to see her already on the water surface. Her chest was covered with scales and gills had form on her ribs. She brought her newly webbed hands push back her soaking hair. Her smile not leaving her face, "You guy's jumping in or am I gunna have to pull you in?"