Don't Give Up on Me

19

The next morning at school, Scott, Stiles and Allison were talking.

Allison was first to speak. "If Jackson doesn't know what he's doing, then he probably doesn't know that someone is controlling him."

"Or he doesn't matter," Scott said.

"What if it's the same kind of thing that happened with Lydia when she took off from the hospital?" Stiles asked.

"A fugue state?" Allison questioned.

"He'd have to forget everything," Scott said. "The murder--"

"Getting rid of the blood."

"Yeah, he had help with one thing though -- the video," Stiles reminded Scott. "And someone else helped him forget that."

"Whoever's controlling him."

"Are you sure Jackson has no clue about any of this?" Allison asked, matching my glare.

Stiles shook his head. "He thinks he's still becoming a werewolf and that being with Lydia someone delayed the whole thing."

Allison frowned. "So do we try and convince him he's not?"

"Well, first, we need to find out who this "master" is."

Scott nodded. "If it helps to figure out who's controlling him, then yeah. Basically what she said."

"Do you think he'll talk to us after what we did?"

"Yeah, it's us," Stiles replied. "He'll talk to us. Right?"

---

Ania made her way to subway station, to make sure Derek was behaving himself and to say hello, and Isaac asked, "So why do we need their help?"

Derek said, "Because it's harder to kill than I thought and I still don't know who it is."

"And they do?"

"They might. Which is why I need one of you to get on their good side."

"What about Ania? She's on their good side I think."

Ania shook her head. "I don't know what you're talking about.'

"Scott and Stiles."

"Oh. Well then yeah, I'm usually on their good side."

Erica thought for a moment. "Mm. Scott or Stiles."

Derek shrugged. "Either."

"You know, the full moon's coming, Derek," Isaac said.

Derek nodded once. "I'm aware of that."

He used various tools to lock werewolves up.

Erica looked at the chains. "Oh, my, these look comfortable."

Isaac frowned. "You said you were gonna teach us to change whenever we wanted."

"There hasn't been time," Derek retorted.

"But if you have to lock us up during the full moon, that means you're alone against the Argents."

"I have Ania. And they haven't found us."

"Yet! So how about we forget the kanima."

"We. Can't! There was something about the way Gerard looked at it. He wasn't afraid at all. I don't know what he knows or what he's planning. But I'm sure about one thing. We have to find it first."

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Ania, as she'd finished her paperwork and had chosen to make rounds, made her way to the school to check on the teens.