The Stranger in the Woods

Chapter 11

It's been a couple of weeks since I came home and found Derek waiting for me in my room, I've been trying to avoid him ever since, but I can't help but feel the need to see him. Every time Scott or Stiles mentions him my heart skips a beat, I get a weird feeling in my stomach, I start to get hot and sweaty, and the worst thing about it is I know that Scott can tell, so I've been spending less time with Scott as well.

I've just been trying to stay home and inside as much as possible, but my grand-mère had a different idea as she send me out to the video store.

As I got to the store I parked next to a car and got out of mine. As I started walking towards the door, my phone started to ring.

"Oui grand-mère?" (Yes grandmother.) I answered my phone, knowing that it was her.

"Vous devez rentrer à la maison!" (You need to get home!) my grand-mère said as if she was in a panic.

"Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire, je viens d'arriver au magasin. Je vais aller bien et je rentrerai dès que j'aurai le film, d'accord?" (What do you mean, I just got to the store. Look I'll be fine and come home as soon as I get the movie, okay?) I told her as I looked around the parking lot and noticed that Lydia was in the car that I parked next to.

"Katherina, j'ai eu une vision et tu dois rentrer à la maison et rester loin de ce magasin.De mauvaises choses vont se produire là-bas et je n'ai pas besoin que tu te blesses." (Katherina, I had a vision and you need to come home and stay away from that store. Bad things are going to happen in there and I don't need you getting hurt.) Grand-mère told me not even taking a breath.

"D'accord, grand-mère, je serai à la maison dans un petit peu." (Okay, grandmother, I'll be home in a little bit." I told her as I opened the store door and hung up my phone.

As I walked inside I could hear the phone winging and Jackson yelling for someone who works here.

"Jackson, what are you doing here?" I asked him as I started to walk towards him.

"You gotta be kidding me." I heard him sigh as I finally stood close to him but he just started walking and went back to looking for a movie, so I decided to look for my movie.

All of a sudden as I was looking for a movie I heard something fall over and the lights started to flicker, so I turned around towards Jackson and started walking to him. As I got close to him, that's when I heard a low growl. I know that I shouldn't have turned around but the look on Jackson's face made me want to, and what I saw made me want to piss my pants. There on all fours was a creature, it liked to be half man, half wolf, but more of a demonic wolf, just staring at us. It suddenly let out a growl and as it did I grabbed Jackson's hand and hid behind the closest shelf. Jackson was breathing heavily and decided to peak his head to the side of the shelf and looked to see if it was still there.

"Is, it still there?" I asked him but before he could answer he pulled back and I heard another growl.

"Yeah." He breathed out, taking deep breathes and letting them out.

Movies started to fall off of the shelves and I couldn't help but to start saying my protection spell.

Jackson looked around the shelf again but this time I didn't say anything.

There was a big bang and I let out a small squeal, soon the shelves started to fall over one by one and we didn't react until it was too late and the shelf that we were hiding behind was on top of us. With Jackson being the first one under the shelf, I had just enough room to wiggle out from under it, but Jackson was being crushed by it. I tried to get it off of him but when I looked up I saw two red eyes staring into mine.

I backed up slowly as it got closer to us. It seemed to never take its eyes off of me and I didn't know what to do. It went to Jackson and touched the back of his neck, looking at it as if it saw something that it didn't like. I went to go and get it away from Jackson but as I moved its head snapped up at me and showed off its teeth. The next thing I knew was it was reaching its claws out to me and went to touch my face. I was so scared that I shut my eyes tightly and waited for the feeling of its claws. The weird thing was that I could feel what it was feeling and I got a mix of hatred, angry, confusion and the want for revenge, and to kill. I didn't know what it wanted to do now so I sat there perfectly still. I could feel as its claws ran down my cheek, ever so softly and that's when I got really scared, I must have let off some of my energy because the next thing I knew was it pulled its claw back and I heard a growl and glass breaking.

I opened my eyes and looked around for the beast but saw that it was gone, I looked over at Jackson and saw him freaking out, so I helped him get from under the shelf. Once that was done I pulled out my phone and called 9-1-1 along with Jackson doing the same.

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When the police and ambulance finally arrived they had Jackson, Lydia, and me all by the ambulance getting checked out.

"I'm fine, but thank you." I tried telling them but they wouldn't listen to me.

"Ma'am, you have a cut on your cheek." The paramedic told me and went to clean it up. "It's just a scratch; it should heal in a couple of days." He told me once he was done cleaning it up.

He turned to Jackson and started checking him out and saw that he hit his head so Jackson started having a huge fit when the paramedic told he couldn't leave.

I rolled my eyes at how childish he was acting and started to look around for my grand-mère, she's going to kill me when finds out that I didn't listen to her. As I was looking around that's when I saw the sheriff's car and Mr. Stilinski walking our way.

"Why the hell can't I just go home? I'm fine." Jackson asked him as he started to approach us.

"I hear ya, but the EMT says you hit your head pretty hard. They just wanna make sure you don't have a concussion." Mr. Stilinski told him trying to get Jackson to understand.

"What part of 'I'm fine' are you having a problem grasping? Okay, I wanna go home." Jackson started being an ass because he wasn't getting his way.

"And I understand that." Mr. Stilinski said calmly.

"No, you don't understand, which kind of blows my mind since it should be a pretty basic concept to grasp for a minimum-wage rent-a-cop like you! Okay, now I wanna go home!" Jackson yelled at Mr. Stilinski and I was just ready to slap the shit out of him.

"Oh, whoa, is that a dead body?" I looked over and saw Stiles out of his dad's car. He suddenly made a face as if he was in trouble and slowly started to sit back in the car, I smiled at Stiles and started to push through the crowd and walked towards him.

"What happened?" Stiles asked me as soon as I got to him.

"The Alpha . . ." I looked at him and then back at the store. "I think." I whispered to him so that no one could hear me.

After Stiles kept trying to get me to tell him what happened, I had enough and just went to tell the police a lie about everything, my grand-mère was called and was told what happened by the police.

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Once grand-mère came, I got the okay to leave and she followed me home in her car.

"Qu'est-ce que je t'avais dit?" (What did I tell you?) grand-mère yelled as we got inside.

"To come home." I whispered looking down at the floor.

"Et pourtant, vous êtes toujours allé quand même.Vous pourriez avoir été blessé ou pire.Ne comprenez-vous pas que ce n'est pas un jeu, les gens meurent par les mains de ce monstre et vous pourriez être le prochain." (And yet, you still went anyway. You could have been hurt or worst. Do you not understand that this is not a game, people are dying by that monster's hands and you could of been next.) grand-mère cried out at me so I looked up at her and saw tears falling down her face.

"Je suis désolé grand-mère, je ne pensais pas à ça." (I'm sorry grandmother, I wasn't thinking of that.) I told her as I walked over and hugged her. I knew what she was thinking and just thinking of them my eyes started to get watery.

"Je ne peux pas te perdre aussi." (I can't lose you too.) She cried into my shoulders.