Animagus

Chapter Seventy-Nine: A Promise To The Dead Part Two

~Stilinski's House~

The next morning, Malia tried waking Stiles up. "Stiles... Stiles. Stiles."

"Hmmm?" he moaned.

"You've got an early morning practice for the big game tomorrow, remember?" she reminded.

He rolled over, "Hm..."

"If I'm going to watch you play an entire lacrosse game, you better not suck."

"Not gonna suck..." he mumbled.

"Remember? You were supposed to drive me to school early so I can get more studying in for the math test? The one that determines whether or not I'm gonna be a senior with you next year?" Malia said as Stiles continued to sleep. She became annoyed and began looking around the room, and looks at the crime board. She smiled and jumped next to him, shouting his name before planting a long kiss on him. He immediately kissed back.

"What are you doing? I haven't even brushed my teeth yet..." Stiles said fully awake now.

"I don't care," she said as they kissed more.

The thing that caught Malia's attention on his crime board was a new mystery that Stiles had been working on. "Who is the Desert Wolf?"

~Hale Loft~

Derek pushes the bag of cash Scott placed in front of him, "Don't you want to know why it took so long to return it?" Scott asked.

"How much do you make at the animal clinic?" Derek asked.

Scott furrowed his eyebrows, "Minimum wage..."

"That's why. Everyone can be tempted, Scott— even a True Alpha."

Scott is stunned that Derek's not angry with him. "You're not angry?"

"It's not even mine. It belongs to Peter." Derek informed him.

"Where's your money?"

"You're standing on it," Derek answered.

Scott looked down, stunned. "There's another vault?!"

Derek laughed, "No, I own the building. And I have my own bank accounts. All the money from the vault was Peter's. I think we'd actually be better off if the rest of it never came back." Derek zipped up the bag.

"I know Lydia was here last night. Deaton's still working on figuring out what Kate did to you. If anyone can find an answer, it's him." Scott admitted.

~Beacon Hills High School~

At school, Malia received her test grade. "Lydia? Lydia. Did you hear me? Look! I passed!" She said excitedly, waving her paper side to side.

Lydia wasn't impressed with the grade, "C-minus..."

Malia continued to smile, "Your notes are great when they're not written in code."

Just then the Coach slammed down another test on Malia's desk, "Disappointed, Malia—profoundly disappointed." She looked at her test, the grade was an F.

Lydia peeked, "I'll send you my notes." Lydia said before looking up at the board. She saw several rich people's net worths at the time of their deaths, but it was adjusted like, the Deadpool. Kira saw the effect the words were having on Lydia. She leaned over, "It's over. The computers are off. No more assassins. No more murders. No ones dying." Kira assured her.

Lydia looked at Kira, "...Not yet."

~Weight Room~

Liam and Mason are in the weight room. Liam is putting weights on the bench press and Mason spoke up, "That's a lot of weight..."

"I'm trying to get ready for the game tomorrow."

"You need a spot?" Mason asked.

Liam defensively said, "No... Do you?" he continues to lift the bar to prove Mason wrong. Mason goes to help Liam, "Wait? What are you doing?" Liam hung the bar up and sat up.

"I'm spotting you."

"I said I don't need one," Liam said rudely. He started putting more weights on the bar.

"Are you kidding me? This is like, three hundred pounds. You're going to kill yourself."

But Liam just lays back and gets ready to lift. As he began lifting with ease he asked Mason, "Do I look like I need help?"

"Liam...?"

"I'm fine," Liam firmly said. Mason has had enough and left. While lifting the weights Liam had a flashback of being on the roof with the Berserker. He began to panic and couldn't hold the bar any longer. Scott arrived just in time to lift the bar off him. Liam sat up and looked at Scott while rubbing his shoulder, "I'm fine." Liam said.

Scott sat down next to him, "If you don't want to be with us, that's okay. But don't push your friends away, too." All Liam thought of was those ocean blue eyes until he glanced behind Scott and saw a Berserker in the mirror.

~To Be Continued~