The Harpy and The Hellhound

XVII.

She rolls over and reaches out to place her hand on Parrish's cheek. His eyes open slowly and when he sees her, he smiles, pulling her in close to him and kissing her.
"Good morning." He mumbles against her lips.

"Good morning." She replies, smiling at him. She looks up at him and grins. "Who knew deputy Parrish was kinky." She teases.

"Shut up." He laughs, kissing her on the forehead. "I'll arrest you if you breathe a word of it to anyone."

Alisa erupts into a fit of giggles and leans in to kiss him. "Are you working today?" She asks. He nods and tells her when his shift starts. He offers her a shower together and she agrees giddily. Climbing into the space with him.

The water hits his back while he washes her hair. "Jordan." She says. 

"Hmm?"

"Being with is like being in a home." She begins.

He chuckles, "what? That makes no sense, Alisa." He laughs, massaging the shampoo into her long hair.

"I mean. When you walk into a home, you automatically feel safe and warm and like you can do anything any always know that you have the comfort of not being judged. Because it's your space and your safe zone, right?" She explains.

"Right." He replies, "I kinda understand."

"Well, that's what it feels like being with you. I feel safe and loved and warm." He pulls her back, tilting her head back to wash out the soap in her hair.

"You feel loved when you're with me?"

She turns to face him, water droplets covering her bare skin and she smiles at him sweetly. "That depends, do you love me?"

He returns the smile and leans in and kisses her. "Of course I do."

*****

After their shower, Jordan heads to work and Alisa rides with him. Asking for him to drop her at the animal clinic in the hopes that she can apologise to Scott and ask him for forgiveness and see if Deaton has any way of helping her control the Harpy side of her.

When Jordan drops her off, she kisses him on the cheek and tells him to stay safe at work before climbing out of the car.
He drives off and she heads into the animal clinic knowing full well that Scott isn't inside.

Deaton is at the counter waiting for her and opens up the door, letting her in. She thanks him and walks in, standing next to him. He closes the door behind her and moments later, Malia and Lydia walk in.

When Malia lays eyes on Alisa, she moves to lunge at her but is thrown back by the mountain ash barrier. She snarls at Deaton to open the door but he denies her.

"I will open the door after you listen to what Alisa has to say." He says simply.

"I'd much rather listen to her scream when I rip her limb from limb." Malia threatens.

"What could she possibly say?" Lydia asks.

"I have something you want." Alisa answers.

"And what might that be?" Lydia questions, crossing her arms.

"A way to kill me."

*****

They're in the back area of the animal clinic while Alisa explains the plan to them.

"What I did to Stile's is unforgivable and I don't deserve anyone's forgiveness. When Jordan told me what I'd done, it put into perspective that I can't keep living like this."

Malia interjects, "but we cant kill you. You just heal."

"Actually, I heal differently than you all do. I only heal when I'm the Harpy. I can't heal when I'm human."

"I remember." Lydia says. "When Theo attacked you in the woods, he attacked you when you were human and the only way you healed was when I screamed and you turned."

"Exactly." Alisa confirms. "If I stay like this, innocent people are going to die. You all are going to die. I can't kill my friends. What I did to Stiles was... if I'm alive, all of you will eventually die."

"So what do we do?" Malia leans against the metal of the operating table and looks at Alisa.

"I figured that I'm probably at my most vulnerable point when I'm turning from Harpy to human. I can't heal if I'm human. Lydia, if your scream can make us transform can it also make us turn back?"

Lydia looks between Malia and Alisa and shrugs, "it might. I think."

"There isn't anyway we can try and test it. If I change, I don't know if I'll ever come back. I lost four days when I took Stiles. Four days. Who knows how much time I'll lose if I change again. So we're going to have to try it the next time I turn."

"How do you know when you're going to turn?" Malia asks.

"That's where Lydia comes in."

"What do you mean?" The red head asks, moving closer to Malia.

"You're attracted to places where people are going to die, right? A harbinger of death. Can you find places where people are going to die?"

"Yes." She says honestly. "I've done it before."

"Good."

"Wait, how do we know this isn't a trap and you aren't leading us to our deaths? Stiles said that you were going to kill us all together." Malia says.

"I wouldn't be here asking you to kill me if it was a ploy just to lead everyone to their deaths." Alisa answers. "All my life, I've hurt people and I want it to stop."

Lydia asks the questions that's been hanging on her mind. "What about Parrish?"

Alisa drops and stares down at the floor. She's not sure what to say, she would've rather avoided the entire conversation about how this would affect Jordan.

"He doesn't know and I don't want to tell him because he'll do everything he can to try and stop me."

They're silent for a moment, before Alisa breaks the silence. "Are you doing to help me or not?"

Lydia and Malia look at one another before giving Alisa their answers.

"Yes."

*