Everyone Has Demons [Teen Wolf]

4

A whole week went by without much event. The pack was hiding out after the hunters had tried to attack them, and therefore I was too. Derek and I spent hours reading old books trying to find something that might help us with Jackson or Peter or even the hunters. A whole week and we barely spoke more than a word to each other. I don't know what I was hoping for but silence wasn't it. So when Isaac came into the creepy burned up house that afternoon I was glad to have a change. "Hey, Isaac," I said looking up from the giant leather bound book I was flipping through.

"Hey," he said. He was carrying a big brown paper bag and I wondered what was in it. Derek grunted but didn't say anything, I rolled my eyes in his general direction but of course he didn't notice. "Ava, do you want to take a walk with me?"

"Yeah, sounds great!" I grabbed my jacket from where I'd hung it on the railing. "Be back later," I called though I doubted Derek would even notice I was gone.

"Sounds like you two were having a great time in there," Isaac said.

"Oh just lovely." I rolled my eyes again. "He's said maybe three words two me this entire week and that was just something along the lines of 'pass that book'. What's in the bag?"

"You'll see." He smiled and I sighed. We kept walking through the woods for a while till I found a group of big flat rocks and he sat the bag down on one of them. I plopped on one of the rocks and he sat next to me. He started pulling things out of the bag as I watched, he sat a box with a bunny on it and I snatched it up immediately.

"No way! I love Annie's cheddar bunnies!" Next was a huge bag of Wale Tail tortilla chips and I gasped dropping the box back down on our makeshift table. The rest of the stuff was more delicious organic snacks and sweets that I loved and a huge bottle of chocolate almond milk. "Where did you get all of this stuff?"

"I went to Trader Joe's; I'd never been in there before. Is this stuff even good?" He looked suspiciously at my Whale Tail chips which I'd opened and was munching on already.

"It's amazing. It's all amazing. How did you even know I'd like this stuff?" I asked.

"I asked one of the cashiers what she liked and then all of this," he motioned to the pile of snack foods.

"You have to try everything it's all so good!" I handed him the box of cheddar bunnies. He laughed and I realized I probably looked like a pig here ripping into packages and stuffing my face; I blushed and sat down the bag of chips. "Thanks, this stuff is awesome. I could just kiss you!" I paused. "You know what I mean."

He nodded. "Hey, you aren't the only one that's been stuck eating Derek's convince store meals for a week. I figured if you liked this stuff, it must be pretty good. I mean you've been around for a while you should know what you're talking about."

I laughed, "Yeah, I guess I should." Isaac was watching me without saying anything. "What? Do I have something on my face?"

"No, I was just thinking about how much you've gone through."

"I guess Derek told you guys about my sister." Isaac nodded. "I miss her, but it's been years. I guess you never really get over losing a family member. I mean...You've lost a lot of people too, you understand."

"It's like they never leave, no matter how long they've been gone. You always expect them to be there." He looked down for a moment before looking back at me. He shook his head and tried to smile but I could tell he didn't really want to talk about his family; I had to remember he was younger than me and he had lost people a lot more recently than I had. "I want to know more about you."

"Like what?" I asked.

"Um...what's your middle name?"

I laughed. "Really, anything you could have asked and that's what comes to mind? Anyways, I don't have one." He gave me a funny look. "I mean I guess Brooke and I could've given ourselves one when we changed our names but we'd never had one before so-"