Following the Stars

Under Control

"This better be good Stiles" Allison yawned into her cellphone, eyeing the clock on her bedside table
"I held back from calling you for hours!" he defended
"It's 5am"
"Like I said, I held back"
"Do you even sleep any more?" Allison asked as she struggled to pry herself from Lydia's iron grip, clearly at some point Lydia had decided to become the big spoon (the irony wasn't lost on Allison) "What's up?" she asked as she dropped her voice into a whisper as she tiptoed across the room
"I have some ideas on how to help you control your hocus pocus shit"
"Call it magic Stiles" Allison yawned "I'll just wake Lydia"
"No don't! Come alone"
"Stiles this is creepy..." Allison frowned
"Just do it, meet me at Derek's"
"Why there?" Allison asked just as the line went dead. Muttering under her breath she pulled on a pair of jeans and a shirt over her head as she turned to the girl in her bed, fast asleep and oblivious to the world. Moving as silently around the room as quickly and quietly as possible, she grabbed her keys and slipped out of the window.
Looking up towards her bedroom Allison let out a sigh
"Derek better have coffee"

She could kiss him, as soon as Allison stepped out of her car, Derek was by her side with a chipped mug full of coffee. She settled for a grin and an affectionate hip bump. Stiles ran out of the house and stopped short of the pair
"You better have good reason for dragging me out here Stiles" Allison said after she took a drink from her coffee, letting out a pleased sigh
"Walk with us" Stiles stepped past her and walked into the forest, Allison shot a questioning look to Derek who shrugged his shoulders in response and set off after the boy, the sun had only just started to rise, lighting the woods in a pale orange
"So things explode when you get emotional right?" Stiles asked when she caught up to him
"Well it only happened yesterday so we can't be like one hundred percent sure, but I guess so?"
"Well Deaton wanted to you to learn to control your emotions and shit so-"
"So you wanted to drag me to the middle of a forest to see what happens?" Allison asked with a smirk
"Pretty much" Stiles nodded
"That's a terrible idea" Allison shook her head
"I told him that" Derek huffed from behind them
"What's the worse that could happen?" Stiles asked as they came to a stop in a small clearing
"Fire, explosions,"
"Okay-"
"I die, you die, any variation of one us dying really..." Allison replied
"It was a rhetorical question, Jesus Argent" Stiles groaned as he rolled his eyes "Okay so you make shit explode when angry and you started a thunderstorm when you were scared" Stiles held his chin thoughtfully
"How do you plan on making me emotional?" Allison asked
"Improvisation!"
Derek and Allison shared a concerned look

Two hours later Derek was sat against the base of the tree, watching the two teens bicker back and forth
"Any other smart ideas?" Allison asked with a groan "I'm missing out on hours of sleep"
"Why won't you just blow something up?" Stiles snapped
"Because I'm not exactly emotional!"
"Think of Lydia naked!" Derek yelled suddenly
The tree closest to Stiles caught fire. Stiles leapt towards the alpha with a yell Allison held her hands up, the flames burnt brightly, the heat reaching them all suddenly
"Oh my god what do I do?" Allison asked, panicked
"YOU'RE THE WITCH YOU TELL ME"
"THIS WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA STILES" Allison screamed, as the pair continued to yell the flames eventually died down, leaving behind a scorched trunk. The trio stared at the tree in shock for several minutes before Stiles broke the silence
"Well...At least it wasn't a bush?"
Allison threw the coffee mug at him

"Allison... Don't set anything on fire but, do you have a crush on Lydia?" Stiles asked, Allison's hand flinched, causing her to clench it to attempt to hide the movement "No"
"You set fire to a tree when Derek mentioned her naked"
"You caught me off guard!" Allison defended, getting to her feet, after the fire débâcle Derek had firmly told them no more practising unless they wanted a forest fire on their hands. Stiles gave her an unimpressed look and glanced over to Derek
"I may not have your fancy wolf powers, but I didn't buy that, did you?" he winked to Derek who levelled his glare at Allison
"Do I have a crush on Lydia?" Allison asked them
"You don't even know?"
"I've been a bit pre-occupied with the whole 'werewolves are real and so are many other supernatural creatures' situation, AND dealing with high school AND my mom dying AND being attack by a witch AND the possibility that I am a witch. MY SEXUALITY HASN'T REALLY HAD MUCH TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT!" Allison yelled as she waved her hands in the air.
"Okay okay!" Stiles held up his hands "Don't freak out"
"I'm not freaking out!"
The clouds ahead began to darken dangerously
"You're kinda freaking out" Derek said, his gaze focussed upwards Allison glared at him
"Okay, everybody breathe. Calm down" Stiles interrupted "Happy thoughts Allison" She sighed and took several deep breaths before sitting back down on the cold ground
"Happy thoughts" Allison repeated, she found herself thinking of Lydia, shopping with Lydia, watching movies with her. Sharing a bed with her
"The sky is clearing up" She heard Stiles whisper
"What are you thinking about?" Derek asked. Allison sighed and opened her eyes and met Derek's gaze
"Lydia"
"Okay so this is progress!" Stiles clapped "kind of anyway" he added with a shrug
"Explain" Derek said
"Okay so Allison, whenever you start going all witch on us think happy thoughts, but mix it up a bit, so like next time you start a thunderstorm think different things until you find a bunch of different memories that stop you going all crazy on us"
"That does make sense" Derek nodded "So we just figured out that Lydia acts as a buffer"
"Is it because I have a crush on her?"
"You don't even know do you?" Stiles asked
"I haven't really thought about it" Allison shrugged, she wasn't kidding when she said her sexuality hadn't gotten much time for her to think about, sure Lydia was beautiful and everything but that didn't mean anything right?
"Focus on it" Derek stated, dragging her from her thoughts "It's important for you to understand your emotions and what triggers them"
"so figure out whether you have the hots for Lydia" Stiles added with a wink