Stand Your Ground

Chapter 05: Nothing But Everything

Chapter 05: Nothing But Everything

A few days later and the noise had been terminated, and Argent had managed to send Sanders on his way – no one knew how he had done it. They were sitting around Derek's loft when Stiles had a thought.

"Oh oh! I just realised something..." Stiles trailed off as he looked between Derek and Elizabeth when he remembered an incident with the Kanima in the school pool. Derek shot him a glare and caused Elizabeth to raise her eye-brow at him.

"Fill you in later," Scott muttered, Elizabeth sighed she already knew what Stiles had realised.

'Don't I already know, Derek told me,' Elizabeth sent the thought straight to her nephew's head. "If you must,"

"Stiles leave it," Scott said before he watched as Derek dragged his aunt away from them.

"So what if Stiles worked out why you really freaked out? Derek, you would have freaked out whether I was there or not," Elizabeth told him pulling her hand away from his before forcing him to look at her. "Derek, you can't always have the strong façade, everyone is vulnerable,"

"What do you think they're talking about?" Stiles questioned looking at his best-friend who shook his head as Isaac and Cora went to answer him. "Never mind,"

"Tell me exactly what happened with Jackson," Elizabeth said as she and Derek walked away from the teens. "You told me a little on the phone,"

"Before we knew he was the kanima, he sliced me a across the neck with his tail..." Derek paused briefly glancing at her before he continued. "I fell in the pool, paralysed from the neck down. Freaked out as it brought back memories..."

"Hey, you know freaking out is perfectly warranted on occasions like that," Elizabeth smiled reassuringly at him before he went on.

"Stiles jumped in after, kept me a float for the most part until he let go for his phone, and then Scott turned up," Derek finished, it was the Stiles letting go part of him that was had really caused the freak out. Elizabeth shot Stiles a glare from where they were.

"I was trying to call Scott!" Stiles yelled as he worked out that was what they had been talking about.

"Scott you tell him," Elizabeth said, motioning for her nephew to tell his best-friend. "And only him!" Elizabeth emphasised the last part of her sentence. "I'm going for a walk,"

Elizabeth's walk by herself was short-lived as Allison, Kira and Lydia had joined her. The girls wanted to know as much about her as possible. Elizabeth sighed, as she came to a stop outside a small coffee shop that she had frequented and sat down.

"Tell us about you," Lydia said, as she sat opposite the older woman and the other two girls sat on either side of her.

"What exactly do you want to know?" Elizabeth questioned, raising an eyebrow at Lydia before her eyes fell on Allison who was staring at her.