This IS My Normal

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"Emilia, you didn't call me last night" Stiles said to me the moment I opened his jeep's door. "You texted me, and I tried to call you. You're the one that didn't answer."

Stiles looked back towards the road that we still haven't started to move on. "I didn't want to seem clingy." he admitted. "Is there something to be clingy over?" "Maybe" he said quietly.

"I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Also, Jackson filed a restraining order against Scott and I".  I started to laugh a little. "Well, as you can see, I'm fine. As far as Jackson, that's crazy. He still doesn't believe us? Why didn't he file one against me?" "Because he doesn't have one sided hate against you" Stiles says as he begins to drive us to school.

"When we get to school, Allison has something to show us. Apparently the Kanima doesn't seek a friend, it seeks a master". "What does that mean?" "Scott thinks that it means that someone isn't covering his tracks, but is controlling him".

I took a deep breath and closed my eyes. This life was getting to be too much.

"Are you okay?" Stiles asked me. "What? Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" "You just got really quiet". "Well, there's just a lot going on. I just want one normal week, ya know? But we're not gonna get that any time soon".

Stiles looked at me and opened his mouth to say something then just looked back at the road. I felt bad. I felt as if I brought the mood down. That wasn't my intention.

••••

As soon as we walked into the school, Isaac and Erica pulled me aside. I tried to put up a fight but it was no use.

"What do you want"? "Derek says that one of us have to get close to either Scott or Stiles." "What does that have to do with me?" "You're already close to them. Why does it have to be us" Isaac asked. I rolled my eyes. "If I relayed everything they told me, they would figure me out... let's use our brains. Now let go of me".

I started to walk away and got pulled away again. This time by Stiles.

"Okay, I really need you guys to stop pulling me by my arm". "Right. Sorry. Um, do you think you could get Lydia to try and tell us about Jackson's birth parents?" "I don't know why?" I asked as I followed Stiles down the halls.

"Well, Allison said that the Kanima could still become a were wolf. It just can't until it solves some problem of the past." "Hmm". "Look there, she is." he said to me as he grabbed me by my wrist. "Stiles!" "Hmm, what"? I lifted up my arm that was still being held by him. "Sorry" he said as he let go and I followed him.

"I'm not supposed to tell anyone." "Come one, anyone who is never supposed to tell someone is always dying to tell someone, so tell me!" Stiles spit out. "Why do you wanna know?" "I can't tell you that". "Then I'm not telling you".

I rolled my eyes at Stiles' pathetic attempt of getting any type of information from Lydia.

"But you are telling me that you could tell me something if you wanted to tell me?" "Was that a question" Lydia asked him. "It felt like a question." "Well, tell me if this feels like an answer, no." Lydia finished as she kept walking away from us.

"Thank you so much for your help, Emilia." "Stiles, you wouldn't shut up. What was I supposed to say?"

Just then, Erica comes and shoves Stiles into a wall. "Why are you asking Lydia bout Jackson's real parents"? "You might wanna put those claws away" Erica looked at me, "Cameras" I said I looked up at the one behind her.

"That's right. Not so threatening now, huh" Stiles said as he started to walk up some stairs. "If you're wondering about Jackson's real parents, they're about half a mile from here. In Beacon Hills Cemetery."

Stiles walked down from the steps and started to follow Erica.

"Wait! Do you know how they died?" he frantically asked her. "Maybe, if you tell me why you're so interested."

She stopped in her tracks. "It's him, isn't it?" she thought aloud. "What's him?" I asked. "The test didn't work, but it's still him. It's Jackson" Erica continued as she started walking away again.

Stiles and I looked at each other then started to follow after her.

"You can't tell Derek, okay? There's a lot more to this that you don't know about. And just because you got the alpha bite makeover doesn't give you a license to go around destroying people." Stiles tells Erica.

She turned around to face him. "Why not? That's all anybody ever used to do to me. I used the worst crush in the world on you. Yeah. You Stiles. And you never even noticed me. Exactly how you're not noticing me right now".

Something about her little confession didn't sit right with me. Would he randomly develop something for her? That happens sometimes. When one person likes another, then the other person randomly decides they like them back.

"I mean, Stiles has the biggest crush on Lydia. She doesn't notice him. You don't see Stiles going around ruining everyone's life".

Stiles ignored me and I followed his eyes to a puddle of water on the ground. Soon after, Jackson came flying out of the locker room with Scott on top of him. Erica grabbed Jackson, while Stiles and I grabbed Scott. Followed by Allison leaving the locker room as well.

Moment after, Mr.Harris appeared to yell at us. He gave us all detention even though we didn't do anything.

••••

In detention, Mr.Harris left early then instructed us to shelve all of the books before we could leave.

I was in a row, alone when books started flying and something jumped in the ceiling. I ran to the middle of the library. It was Jackson, except he was half shifted into the Kanima.

He wrote on the chalk board mindlessly while staring at the rest of us. Stay out of my way or I will kill you.

Jackson jumped out of a window. I heard Erica groaning. I ran over to where she was and saw that she was seizing.

"How long has she been seizing? We need to take her somewhere". "To Derek, only to Derek".

Scott picked her up and we all got into Stiles' jeep and went to find Derek.

When we go there, Derek broke her arm. "What was that for?" Stiles asked him. "To trigger the healing process. We need to get the venom out of her" Derek said as he squeezed Erica's arm and she screamed in pain.

••••

Around thirty minutes later, Scott told Derek that he'd join his pack. Only if we didn't kill Jackson and if we did things Scott's way.

"Derek" I started. "What?" "I'll join too. Your pack" I told him.

"Alright, what's the next step?" Derek asks us.