Vitality

iv.

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Adele had continued to tell her parents she was staying at Allison's while they left for another work trip, but tonight she wasn't lying. "If Jackson doesn't know what he's doing, then he probably doesn't know that someone's controlling him." Allison spoke into the phone as the two girls lay facing it. "Or he doesn't remember." Scott corrected from the other side of the line. "What if it's the same kind of thing that happened with Lydia when she took off from the hospital?" Stiles suggested next. "A fugue states." Adele caught on to his thinking.

"He would have to forget everything." Scott was weary of the concept. "The murder." Scott began to list off the events. "Getting rid of the blood." Adele shuddered at his words. "He had help with one thing though, the video." Stiles interrupted the list of horrors. "Maybe someone else helped him forget that." Stiles suggested. "Whoever's controlling him." Adele played into his theory. "Are we sure Jackson has no clue about any of this?" Allison was still unsure. "He doesn't, the night the video was taken, his first full moon. He attacked me, but there was somebody else in his room that night. Another guy, I can't remember his face, but I remember somebody knocking me out after Jackson left." Adele looked over at Allison.

"He thinks he's still becoming a werewolf and being with Lydia somehow delayed the whole thing." Stiles jumped back into the main theory. "So, do we try to convince him he's not?" Allison looked for a solution. "No." Adele denied at the same time as Scott. "If it helps us find out who's controlling him, then yeah." Scott agreed with the brunette.

"He won't believe you, he's too stubborn and sure of himself." Adele rejected the idea. "Do you think he'll talk to us after what we did?" Allison questioned the group, somewhat aiming at Adele. "Yeah, it's us. He'll talk to us." Stiles immediately answered confidently. "Right?" Stiles then questioned his confidence as Adele shook her head no.

Adele walked down the train station staircase and entered to see Derek pulling very painful-looking objects out of an old trunk. "Well, this looks fun." Adele announced her presence. "Hey, Ads." Isaac greeted the girl with a side hug, leaving his arm around her shoulder. "You said you were going to teach us to change whenever we wanted." Isaac turned back to the chest. "There hasn't been time." Derek denied as he took the harness from Erica. "But if you have to lock them up during the full moon, that means you're alone against the Argents." Adele peered into the trunk. "They haven't found us." Derek snapped, shutting the trunk aggressively as he began to walk away. Adele looked at the alpha wearily, before continuing to inspect the outside of the trunk.

"Yet." Isaac took Adele's side as the blonde's eyes found the triskelion. "So how about we forget the Kanima?" Isaac tried to get Derek to teach them control. "We can't!" Derek stopped walking away and turned back angrily. "There was something about the way Gerard looked at it." Derek justified his decision. "He wasn't afraid. At all." Derek looked confused at the memory, back still strong in his stance.

"I don't know what he knows or what he's planning." Derek looked up at the teenagers. "But I'm sure about one thing, we have to find it first." Derek demanded, before leaving the room. "Sooo, you ready for school?" Adele looked up at Isaac with a slight mock. "No." Isaac groaned but let Adele pull him out of the station anyway.

"Allison?" Adele yelled as she entered the boy's locker room quietly. Adele glanced down at her phone again, rereading Allison's emergency text. After clearing the girls' locker room, Adele hesitantly made her way to the guys'. Allison's text was vague, but her location gave some light. However, she arrived too late as Scott soon joined her side. The pair entered to find a very naked Jackson standing over Allison on the ground.

"I'm fine. I'm fine." Allison promised when Adele immediately made her way over to the brunette. "Scott." Allison noticed the anger in the werewolf's eyes. "Scott, I'm fine." she tried to distract her boyfriend from doing something stupid. "Scott, I'm fine!" she promised again, but Scott already launched himself at Jackson. "Scott!" Adele immediately feared for the lives of both teenagers. Jackson was slammed into the lockers as Scott pushed him roughly.