Red Ribbon ✦ 1

Chapter 14

She dropped her towel and stared at herself. Out in the woods there were no mirrors but maybe she'd see her reflection in a puddle of water. But even then she wouldn't see this. She'd see fur, a snout, sharp teeth, and on full moons her eyes would be white. Now she had skin, long curly blondish brownish hair, a nose, little hairs on her arms and legs, cheeks and straight dull teeth. She made her eyes changed from brown to blue.

After her first few couple of days of being human she had asked Scott why her eyes glowed blue but Isaac's were yellow and his were red. He got a bit hesitant as he explained. Yellow eyes means beta or omega, red eyes meant alpha and blue eyes were beta or omega that has killed innocents. She held herself together in front of him and the rest of the pack.

Stiles took her back to his place for studying and left her alone in his room while he went down stairs to order pizza. While she was alone she broke out crying. Her eyes would always be a reminder of what she did to her own family. She heard footsteps running up the stairs and Stiles burst in. He didn't ask questions he just held her in his arms. It took a while but the tears finally stopped but they still didn't speak.

He knew why she had cried but he wasn't gonna say it. Malia lay down on the bed when Stiles left to go get the pizza. She was just silent and heard him come back. He had brought some plates and cups with him for the pizza and soda.

"Why did my eyes turn blue?" she asks with a simple tone,

"Something changed inside you that night and so did your eyes." he answers,

"And how can you see me like that. On full moons, pulling at the chains my eyes glowing blue. Reminding everyone that I killed my family."

Stiles sighed letting the room fill with silence before asking something else.

"Haven't I told you how I use my color strings during an investigation?"

Malia had been lying face down on the bed staring at a blank wall. She picked herself up and turned around. She sat on his bed and looked at his desk. He had the four color strings in a bunched up mess, red, yellow, green and blue.

"You use them the same way I use my highlighters. Green means solved or in my case it means I understand the material. Yellow is to be determined meaning for me I'm working on it. Red is unsolved meaning I have no clue." she says,

"And what's blue."

"I don't know. It means you really get it or you'll go back to it later."

"Nope."

"Um...for very confusing things."

"Malia."

"What." she snaps her voice sounding desperate and sad,

"Blue..." Stiles turns around to look at the strings before looking back at her, "...it's just pretty."

Malia looked away and blushed. She understood what Stiles was telling her and she couldn't help but smile. When she looked at him again she tried changing the subject feeling better.

"Is that why your jeep is blue?"

"I guess."

Stiles grabs a plate and hands her a slice of pepperoni pizza. She bit it and savored the flavor of the cheese and tomato sauce with pepperoni.

"You missed pizza huh." he says sitting down next to her with his own slice,

"Definitely." she mumbled through a mouth full,

She saw his little smile before he bit into his own slice.

Her eyes changed back to brown and she looked down at the rest of her body. She had fingers and tip-toeing wasn't as easy anymore. She had a belly button and breasts something she definitely didn't have as a coyote. Her body was human now and Stiles loved it just as much as she's grown to love it too. A lot of things changed for her but her life was better now. She had a pack, a family, friends, a boyfriend, a mate. She wasn't alone anymore.