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viii. BEACON HILLS' YMCA

CHAPTER EIGHT
BEACON HILLS' YMCA

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Stiles groaned as Erica pulled he and Violet into Beacon Hills High's swimming pool area where Derek Hale stood waiting for them with a basketball in hand. "Stiles." he said.

"Derek." Stiles replied.

"Violet." Derek continued, Violet nodded, "What did you see at the mechanic's garage?" He asked straight off the bat. Violet took in a deep breath and Stiles threw her a protective look before standing slightly closer to her.

"Uh, several alarming EPA violations that I'm seriously considering reporting." Stiles answered with his usual wit. Erica laughed at the comment before looking to Derek, where he squeezed the air out of the basketball he had been holding. "Holy God!" Stiles exclaimed.

"Let's try that again." Derek said. "What did you guys see that night?" Stiles drew in an exasperated breath.

"Alright the thing was pretty slick looking. Skin was dark, kind of patterned—"

"Scaly." Violet cut in.

"Yeah, uh, is that enough?" Stiles asked frantically, "Okay? Because I have somebody I really need to talk to." He stated. Violet felt a twinge of jealousy in her heart when she knew that he was talking about Lydia. It seemed his previously false crush on the strawberry blonde was now becoming more and more real. Derek gave Stiles nothing but a look saying that he would need more information. Stiles groaned before elaborating more, "Fine. Eyes. Eyes are yellowish and slitted. It has a lot of teeth. Oh, and it's got a tail, too. Are we good?"

Derek and Erica looked up to the balcony above them with panicked looks and Violet and Stiles shared confused expressions. "What? Have you seen it? You have this look on your faces like you know exactly what he's talking about." Violet said. Now, Stiles was tugging at Violet's cardigan sleeve in the direction that they were all looking at. The creature that was at the gas station was now at the high school's pool. And it looked angry.

It jumped down in front of Erica once Stiles and Violet had backed away from the balcony. Derek growled at the creature as it launched Erica into a wall, thus knocking her out. "Run!" Derek exclaimed, shoving Stiles backwards. Stiles took Violet's hand as they started in the other direction when Stiles stopped to mention a cut on the back of Derek's neck. Derek reached up and immediately fell backwards, causing Stiles to give into his instinct and catch the alpha, sling his arm around his shoulder, Violet coming in on the other side to help.

"Where is it, can you see it?" Stiles asked.

"No, just hurry." Derek replied. "Call Scott!"

As they turned a corner to try getting away from the human sized lizard, Stiles began pulling out his phone, but it wound up falling to the floor with a clatter. Stiles immediately bent down to retrieve his phone, thus causing all of Derek's weight to fall on Violet, making her trip over, and Derek fall into the pool with a, "Stiles you son of a..." before a splash echoed through the room.