The Runaway - Scott McCall [On Hold]

6.

As they were all sitting around the Coach's office they were trying to make a plan to make sure Lydia is safe.

"Derek's outside. Waiting for her." Scott tells them.

"You mean waiting to kill her?" Henrik asks, worried about one of his new friends.

"If he thinks she's the Kanima? Then, yeah. Especially after what happened in the pool." Scott replies.

"But it's not her." Stiles tells them.

"She didn't pass the test, Stiles. Nothing happened." Scott tells them.

"Yes, but it isn't her." Mercy tells them.

"It can't be here." Stiles says.

"It doesn't matter. Derek thinks it's her. So either we convince him he's wrong or we figure out how to protect her." Allison tells them all.

"I don't think he'd do anything here. Not during school." Scott replies.

"Yes but what about after school?" Mercy begins to tell them, "What if we can just prove him wrong?"

"By three o'clock?" Stiles asks.

"There could be something in the Bestiary." 

"You mean the nine hundred page book written in Archaic Latin that none of us can read? Good luck with that." Stiles tells them sarcastically.

"Actually, I think I know someone who might be able to translate it." Mercy tells them.

"I could talk to Derek. Maybe convince him to give us a chance to prove it's not her." Scott tells them, before looking around and seeing everyone nodding and agreeing, "All right. But if anything happens you guys let me handle it."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Mercy asks him, raising one eyebrow and intimidating him.

As Scott looks around for one of his friends to help him but see them all trying to look away and not get involved, he began to say "It means you may not be able to use all of that power, and it could wear you out."

"I literally set Derek's betas on fire, kept that lizard freak- whatever you wanna call it- from killing all of us at the pool, and for some reason, all of a sudden my eyes are turning red Scott. I think I can handle it." She said while slowly raising her voice and becoming angrier as everyone around her had shocked looks at her outburst. 

After a moment of silence Allison puts her bag on Coach's desk and unzips it. She pulls out a black item with a pistol grip on it. With a snap of her wrist, the sides fly out and lock into place to reveal a crossbow. "And besides we will help her" She tells him. As she can still see Scott wasn't fully on the idea she asked, "What? Did something else happen?"

"I just don't want anyone getting hurt. If something goes wrong, you call me, okay?" he replies to them all, "I don't care if your Dad finds out. Call, text, yell, scream, whatever. I'll hear you and I'll find you all. As fast as I can. We've got until three."

As he began to turn around and walk away a sudden snap sounded making him turn around and was about to be shot in the face with an arrow, until Mercy shot her hand out and caught it.

"Sensitive trigger on this thing..." Stiles tells them with a guilty smile on his face.

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"If we're doing a study group, why didn't we just stay in the library?" Lydia asks as her, Mercy, Allison, Stiles, Henrik and Jackson are leaving the school to go to Scott's house.

"Because we're meeting up with someone else." Henrik tells her.

"Why didn't they just meet us in the library?"