orphic [1] ⇻ stiles stilinski

xvi. night school

[ start of night school part three ]

  "IT WAS DEREK. Derek Hale."

  Eleanor's mouth gaped open in horror and her heart dropped to her stomach as Scott lied to the oblivious trio before them. Her head hammered and for a second, she felt pure anger at the Hispanic boy. How dare he? Derek was alive, she knew that much, and now everyone would think he was a murderer.

  Jaden, acting instinctively as always, stepped forward toward Scott in a threatening manor, his eyes almost glowing yellow if it were not for Allison, Jackson and Lydia. Eleanor held her hand out to the side and stopped him from going any further, her eyes wide as she tried to swallow the lump in her throat.

  Jackson however immediately took action, moving both Allison and Lydia behind him as he backed away from the twins in pure disgust. "Get away from them. They could be working with him!"

  And that's when things turned to utter shit. Eleanor and Jaden immediately turned to the oblivious three teenagers and furrowed their eyebrows. "What?"

  Stiles shuffled closer to Scott, bringing the both into a heated conversation about what the hell Scott had just said, and how they were going to get Jaden and Eleanor out of it. Meanwhile, the twins had a fiery and angry Jackson on their hands, with a petrified Allison and Lydia cowering behind him.

  "Step back! You're working with Derek, aren't you?" Jackson shouted, his teeth gritted and his nose scrunched in revulsion.

  "Are you sure?" Allison questioned Scott, trying to ignore the possible murderers in the room as she stared tearfully at her boyfriend.

  "I saw him." Scott falsely admitted, going along with his lie as he tried not to look at his best friends. He felt awful, but he had to stick with his lie, he couldn't have people knowing about the supernatural.

  "The mountain li-"

  "No, Derek killed them all. Starting with his own sister."

  Eleanor felt sick to her stomach. Instead of the immense anger she had felt before, all she felt was sadness. It enveloped her and drowned her all at once, and she was suddenly finding it hard to breathe. Her hands began to shake and her heartbeat began to pick up its pace.

  "Move! Move to the back of the classroom! Get away from us!" Allison shrieked, turning against the twins almost immediately after Scott built up his thread of lies.

  Jaden furrowed his eyebrows, both angry and upset at the demand and the lies Scott had told. He was the more calm of the two however, and therefore reached forward to grab Eleanor, his voice calm and gentle as he murmured. "C'mon El."