Amber Waves of Angst

Chapter 14

A/N – For those who were following this story (if there are any still around...hello?...Bueller?...hello?) some pretty big changes are happening. Try to hold on to your hats as the entire Teen Wolf world is turned upside down.

Erik filled in the circle for the last answer on the physics exam. Some of the others were still frantically searching for their pencils. These tests bored him, asking him to prove he knew things that were old hat before he reached puberty. He turned the test in to Mr. Brighton who was long used to this phenomenon. He asked, and was given permission to wait out the rest of the period in the library. This was the last period, and he would be free to go as soon as the bell rang.

A low voice broke the forbidding silence of test time.

"Geek." A few of the students chuckled.

Erik froze. He turned and gave the offending boy a Glare worthy of his father. In the last few weeks, many at Beacon Hills High had learned to back down from that forbidding gaze. This boy was, however, braver than most...perhaps because he knew Erik was madly in love with him.

"Three o'clock, by the bike stand!" Erik growled the classic bully threat softly at Robin before stalking towards the door. Robin smirked and drew a heart in the air before pointing at himself and then Erik. Erik rolled his eyes and walked down the hall to the library, a huge grin on his face.

Robin sighed softly and stared at the closed door for a full minute before focusing on his test once more. Three seats over, Laurie rolled her own eyes. Crumpling a paper full of impossible physics formulae into a ball, she chucked it smartly at the head of a rather tall boy who, as it happened, was madly in love with her. The class chuckled more loudly this time.

Moose Bradley did not respond with words, but made a Ralph Kramden-esque 'Bang, Zoom!' gesture that Mr. Brighton failed to spot. Laurie chuckled softly. He was way too easy to tease. His ears were red, a sure sign he was embarrassed. Laurie felt that all was right with the world only when those ears were flaming. Humming contentedly, she devoted all of her concentration once more on failing her physics test.

She was almost done when a flash of something even redder than Moose's ears caught her eye. Looking out the window, she spotted Vivian Argent walking regally towards the main entrance of the school. A sense of panic rose in Laurie's stomach then, and she quickly filled in the last few answers without even looking at the questions (thereby increasing her chances of getting them right) and turned it in before fleeing the class room.

Vivian met her at the security desk. Laurie confirmed that this was a friend of her family and that this was a family emergency. The bored guard waved Vivian through after she signed the visitor log.

"Where's your brother?" she asked softly.

"Um, er, he's in the library. Should I get Robin and Moose, I mean Aaron?" she blurted out.

"That depends. Have either of them been...initiated into your family?" Vivian's ice cold blue eyes seemed to be trying to pull the answer from her by osmosis.

"Robin...yes. Aaron knows all about it, but is still...normal." Laurie was getting more flustered every second those eyes bored into her.

"Bring them both then. Lead the way." Vivian gestured grandly, as if expecting to be taken on a tour of her own private kingdom.

Laurie was about to text the boys, when she saw them emerging from the class room, probably having panicked when they saw her hasty exit.

"Everything okay Laurie?" Moose asked her. He gave Vivian a wary look. Vivian was almost a foot shorter than him, and he still felt like a bug under a microscope from the way she took him apart with her eyes.