Everyone Has Demons [Teen Wolf]

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The next day in precal there were a lot of empty seats. "Has anyone seen Stiles, Lydia, or Kira?" Our teacher asked. "Ava? Malia?"

I shrugged. "I could try catching their scent," Malia offered.

"Right, I'll just mark them as absent."

I laughed and turned around to look at Malia. "What? I was trying to be helpful."

"Most people don't use super sense to track down their friends."

She blinked. "Oh, right." Suddenly she turned towards the door. "Do you hear that?"

I shook my head. "Hear what?"

"Someone is calling my name." She turned around again. She reached down and picked up her bag and stood up. She grabbed my arm and lifted me out of my seat, barely giving me enough time to pick up my own bag.

Our teacher stopped us. "Do you need to be excused from class?"

"Obviously," Malia said, yanking me towards the door.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"I told you, someone is calling my name. In case they're dangerous, I can throw you at them and run."

"For a second there I thought maybe you were starting to like my company," I muttered. Malia turned around and I followed her. "Derek?" I said surprised.

"Brett's still out, but we need to warn his pack about the deadpool," he said. "I know a little bit about this pack, they have a meeting place in the woods." He tossed Malia a jersey. "This was Brett's, breathe it in."

"I'm not good at that yet," she said.

"Try. I'll teach you. Focus on the different smells, some are identifiers."

Malia inhaled the scent. She looked up and nodded. "Okay."

I walked with Derek, ahead of Malia out to his car. "Has it really gotten that bad?" I asked. "You can't track a scent?"

"I can't even smell blood from the other room," he said.

"I saw that scratch last night," I said. "Did it heal?"

He nodded. "But I don't know how much longer I'll be able to heal."

"We're going to figure out what Kate did to you, and we're going to fix it."

"Maybe there's a spell," Brooke suggested.

"I'm not a witch," I reminded her.

"Yes, you are. You're just not a very good one. If you'd let dad teach you magic when we were kids, maybe you'd be better at it."

"I'm sorry I didn't want the Council to burn our family for treason," I hissed.

Brooke rolled her eyes. "Are you still blaming me for that one? The Great Fire of London was started in a bakery two houses over. If the Council was trying to kill us, don't you think they'd have been a little more direct? If anyone's to blame, it's dear old dad. What a way to go out." She shook her head. "Anyway, as I was saying, maybe there's a spell I can do."

"Don't forget you're dead." I looked at Derek who was watching me argue with my sister patiently. "Brooke is trying to be helpful, in her own way."

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Derek drove us to the middle of nowhere and parked the car on the side of the road. "Their alpha Satomi is one of the oldest werewolves alive," Derek said as we got out. "She's learned a lot."

"What does that mean?" Malia asked.

"She was a bitten werewolf, control wasn't easy for her. The mantra helps them with control."