Too Long

Chapter 21 - Are You Threatening Her?

After Boyd's death, Derek took off for awhile. Ramie didn't blame him, she would've loved to take a few days away from reality, but the truth was the Darach was still on the loose, there were still more sacrifices, and they still had no lead on who this evil person could be. Stiles had a theory that the Darach may have some connection to the alpha pack, and Scott wanted to see what he could get out of Ethan about this theory. Ethan seemed to be the more approachable twin, while Aiden was not interested being nice to anyone in Scott's pack, unless that meant attaching himself to Lydia's mouth. After using Lydia to distract Aiden, Scott, Stiles and Ramie got Ethan alone to talk to him.

"Why are you even talking to me?" Ethan asked Scott. They were in an empty hallway during study hall, Stiles and Ramie leaning against the wall near the stairs, Stiles with one foot on the top stair, making him below the rest and nearly the same height as Ramie. "I helped kill your friend, how do you know I'm not going to kill another."

Ethan glanced between Scott and Ramie as he talked, his voice laced with an attitude, and Ramie felt slightly threatened.

"Is he looking at Ramie?" Stiles asked towards Scott. "Are you threatening her?"

"Stiles," Ramie warned, putting a hand in front of him, but Stiles ignored her, pushing past her hand and stepping up the steps towards Ethan.

"You know what I'm gonna do," Stiles continued. "I'm gonna break off an extra large branch of mountain ash, wrap it up in wolfsbane, roll it in mistletoe and and shove it up your fucking-"

"Stiles," Ramie grabbed Stiles' arm the same time as Scott grabbed his shoulders, stopping him from doing a crude arm movement signaling shoving something somewhere and moving him away from Ethan.

"Okay, we get it," Scott patted Stiles' chest as Ramie still had a hold of his hand, pulling him back to lean against the wall next to her again. Ramie looked up to see Ethan glance down at their hands and up at Ramie's face, and she immediately dropped her hold on Stiles, feeling her face get hot.

"We're talking to you because I know that you didn't want to kill Boyd," Scott explained and Stiles huffed next to Ramie. Scott sent him a quick glare. "And I know if something like that happened now, you wouldn't do it."

"It's not that simple," Ethan said. "We owe Deucalion. We weren't alphas when he found us, we were omegas. In real wolf packs, omegas are the ones that have to take the abuse from the rest of the pack, the last to eat."

"So you two were the bitches of the pack," Stiles nearly snorted. Ramie elbowed him in the side and he let out a small noise.

"Something like that. Regardless, Deucalion taught us control, how to take down our old pack and become alphas," Ethan said. Scott opened his mouth to ask another question, but Ethan flinched suddenly, grabbing at his chest.

"What's wrong, are you hurt?" Scott asked, stepping towards Ethan.

"Not me, my brother."

...

Ramie wanted to kill Cora. She was being reckless and stupid. Stiles told her she should cut Cora some slack, but Ramie put her foot down.

"Cora you cannot just attack an alpha!" Ramie glared at Cora through the rear view mirror in Stiles' jeep. "You could've gotten killed!"

"I was holding my own," Cora mumbled, not making eye contact.

"I refuse to lose another friend," Ramie snapped, turning in her seat and looking to Cora in the back. Her eyes snapped up to meet Ramie's.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled. Ramie huffed, sitting back in her seat to face the road. She could feel Stiles' eyes on her, glancing at her every few seconds between looking at the road. Her face was getting hot, like she was going to start crying. She needed to change the subject. "Are you really going to tell your dad everything?"