learning control

|car park|

Scott is walking through the car park looking for his car, having forgotten on which floor he parked.

His hands are filled with bags full of groceries, after looking through 2 floors he decides to use the car starter on his key, since it causes the car to make an unlocking sound.

Putting the groceries down he takes out the key and hits the button hearing the car unlock on the floor above him. A bottle of milk rolls out of one of his bags and rolls under a car, but after a second Scott sees it rolling back towards him with slash marks on it. Looking up he can see someone standing on the other side of the car where the milk bottle is located and hears a growl. Assuming that it's the alpha since Derek has no reason to attack him Scott immediately takes of running. He runs down a car park floor, and hides behind a car but realizes that his heart is beating to loudly and the alpha will be able to hear him, so thinking quick he jumps on the hoods of a few cars, starting their alarm and making noise. He runs around a corner and hides again, when his phone starts ringing and Derek gets on the hood of his car, hefting Scott up and slamming him onto the roof saying "You're dead."

"What the hell was that?" Scott asks Derek, as they were making their way back to his groceries his car.

"I said I was gonna teach you I didn't say when." Derek explains.

"You scared the crap out of me!" Scott yells.

"Not yet." Derek replies.

"OK, but I was fast right?" Scott asks.

"Not fast enough." Derek remarks.

"But the car alarm thing, that was smart right?" Scott argues.

"Till your phone rang." Derek replies.

"But that was, I mean, would you just stop. Please, with what happened the other night I almost lost control, please I need your help. I need you to teach me how to control this." Scott pleads.

"Look, I am what I am because of birth you were bitten. Teaching someone who is bitten takes time. I don't even know if I can teach you." Derek tells him.

"What do I have to do?" Scott asks desperate.

"You have to get rid of distractions. You see this? This is why I caught you, you want me to teach you? Get rid of her." Derek says showing Scott the caller id of his phone after grabbing it from him.

Derek then throws the phone against a wall causing it to break.

"You getting angry? That's your first lesson. You wanna know how to control this, how to shift? You do it through anger. By tapping into a primal animal rage and you can't do that with her around!" Derek explains.

"I can get angry." Scott says glaring at Derek.

"Not angry enough. This is the only way that I can teach you, now can you stay away from her? At least until after the full moon." Derek asks.

"Yes. If you can teach me, I'll stay away from her." Scott replies thinking, it will probably not be that hard since he's avoiding her at the moment anyway because of what happened 3 days ago.

|Argent house|

Stiles is currently in Allisons bedroom having snuck in through the window since Allisons parents disapproved of Stiles even more with him skipping school with her.

Allison is on top of Stiles making out with him, lying on her bed.

"Take it off." Allison says.

"You OK with that?" stiles asks.

"Are you OK with that?" Allison asks smiling at him below her.

"You are asking me if I'm OK taking off your clothes?" Scott asks sarcastically.

"Ha, stupid question." Allison laughs leaning in to kiss him again.

"Like world record stupid." Stiles replies also laughing.

"You first." Allison says smirking and Stiles tolls them over so he is on top.

They then sit up, kissing each other the whole time and Allison starts to slide up Stiles' shirt taking it off, and immediately getting back to kissing each other.

Allison lies back down, pulling Stiles with her by the waistband of his jeans.

Allison rolls them over so she is lying on top of him and he can take of her clothes easier.

Stiles slips her bra straps down her shoulders through her sleeveless top.

They roll back over and kiss again when they hear someone knocking on Allisons door.

Jerking up Allison says "just a second." hides Stiles in her wardrobe with his shirt in hand and closes the door.

"Coming, coming." Allison says hearing it knock again.

"Hey" Allison says opening her doorand seeing her aunt, she crosses her arms over her chest so that Kate won't notice the state of her bra.

"Hey what's up?" Kate asks going into the room.

"Nothing just doing homework, sending some emails." Allison lies going over to the computer on her desk.

"emailing the boyfriend?" Kate asks knowingly.

"No, I'm emailing peta about how my wingnut father gunned down an innocent mountain lion in the school parking lot." Allison jokes.

"And that wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that you're grounded and can't see Stiles?" Kate questions.

Stiles can hear everything from inside the closet and smiles at Allisons remark about her father shooting the mountain lion.

"I'm not gonna be one of those whining teenagers who looks at her father and says I hate you, I wish you were dead." Allison says.

"But." Kate guesses.

"But, I hate him and I wish he was dead." Allison jokes playfully.

"See now you start to sound like a normal angry teenager, what are you working on? Can I help?" Kate asks now standing beside Allisons desk.

"Uhh, history project and I just wanna be left alone actually." Allison tells her.

"Come on what kind of history project?" Kate asks.

"I have to come up with a report that has some relevance to my own family history." Allison explains.

"Specific to your family?" Kate asks.

"Why do you have any ideas?" Allison questions hopefully.

Kate moves behind Allison and tells her "Type this in la bete du gevaudan."

"Oh, what is this?" Allison asks interested.

"It's an old french legend, that believe it or not has something to do with your family." Kate informs Allison.

Allison starts reading "In seventeen sixty-six in a province of osera (AN: no clue how to spell what she said.) la bete killed over a hundred people.

"Mysterious animal attacks just like in a certain town called Beacon Hills." Kate says.

"So what was it? The animal." Allison asks.

"Nobody knows for sure but I'll tell you one thing, it definitely wasn't a mountain lion. What does it look like to you?" Kate asks.

"It looks like a wolf." Allison says looking at the picture on the screen.

Kate then wishes Allison good luck and Allison thanks her for the project idea and closes the door behind her and gets Stiles out of his hiding spot.

"Hey I guess I better go before your dad also wants to come in." Stiles says.

"Yeah probably a good idea." Allison replies.

Stiles goes out of the window and sits down on the edge of her roof and smiling one last time back at her he jumps down waving goodbye to her from the ground and goes home.

|Martin house|

Scott is standing in front of the entrance door, not sure if he should ring and talk to Lydia about what happened or if he should wait till after Derek has taught him. Scott thinks about how Lydia didn't even remember anything that happened on the night of the attack and the day after, he decided not to bring up the subject of her maybe still being in love with Jackson and wanting him back when he visited her the last 2 days. He guessed that it maybe would have been harmful to her recovery and there is also the possibility that she would forget it again and it's gonna be a much dreaded conversation he only wants to have once.

Deciding to wait after Derek taught him to control himself, since he is fearful what Lyidas rejection might do to his emotional state and thereby his control issues Scott goes back off the porch only to hear some bushes rustling next to him.

"Derek I'm staying away like you asked me to, I hope you will get to teaching me soon." Scott says thinking that Derek is in the bushes. Hearing no response he asks "Derek?" uncertainly and soon after hearing a growling, Scott runs to his car and gets in to escape the alpha. Scott can see the shadow of a standing man-like beast through his fogged windows and sees it draw a spiral on the window. After the alpha left Scott drives home and rushes to his bedroom.

|McCall house|

Scott runs into his room, shuts the door and peer out his blinds. Turning on the lamp next to him he jumps back seeing Derek Hale sitting in a chair in a corner watching him.

"You seriously need to stop doing that." Scott says.

"So what happened? Did he talk to you?" Derek asks

"Yeah we had a nice conversation about the weather. No we didn't talk." Scott says sarcastically.

"Did you get anything off of him? An impression?" Derek asks.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks confused.

"Remember your other senses are heightened, for you maybe not as much as a werewolf but still, communication doesn't have to be spoken, what kind of feeling did you get from him?" Derek explains standing up and walking closer to Scott.

"Anger." Scott says thinking about it a moment.

"Focused on you?" Derek questions.

"No, not me but it was definitely anger, I can feel it. Especially when he drew the spiral." Scott tells him.

"Wait what did you just say?" Derek asks intrigued.

"He drew this spiral on the window of my car. What? You look like you know what it means." Scott explains.

"No, it's nothing." Derek says walking past Scott.

"Wait a second, you can't do that. You can't ask me to trust you and then just keep things to yourself." Scott says annoyed at Dereks habit.

"Doesn't mean anything." Derek says.

"You buried your sister under a spiral. What does it mean?" Scott asks.

"You don't wanna know." Derek says opening Scotts door and leaving.

Scott sighs and lies down on his bed telling himself "stay away from Lydia." and soon falling asleep.

|school hallway|

The next day Scott is walking through the school chanting a mantra quietly to himself "stay away from Lyida, stay away from Lydia." He walks up some stairs and sees Lydia, turning around and walking the other way he is greeted to the sight of Jackson coming out of a classroom.

Turning to his left murmuring to himself "stay away from Jackson." walking away and to his class.

Scott makes his way to the back of the class and sits down in the chair behind Stiles who

says "Hey man I have to thank you for saving both my dad and my girlfriend."

"No problem anytime bro. But OK listen I'm trying to figure this whole thing out and I went to Derek." Scott replies.

"What that's a dumb move, you can't trust that guy." Stiles tells him.

Stiles tries to get back to is notes but gives in to his curiosity and turns around asking "What did he say?"

"I'll tell you after class." Scott replies and after the class is finished fills him in on what happened.

"What he wants you to tap into your animal side and get angry? Well correct me if I'm wrong but everytime you do that you get the urge to kill someone and loose control." Stiles asks stupefied.

"I know and that's also why he says he doesn't even know if he can teach me. I have to be able to control it!" Scott informs Stiles.

"Well how is he going to teach you to do that?" Stiles asks.

"I don't know and I don't think he does either." Scott replies downcast.

"When are you going to see him again?" Stiles questions.

"He has told me not to talk about it, just act normal and get through the day." Scott says.

"When?" Stiles asks again.

"He's picking me up at the animal clinic after work." Scott says.

"After work, well that gives me till the end of the school day then." Stiles says.

"To do what?" Scott questions.

"To teach you myself." Stiles says sounding unusually confident and walking off.

|lunch room|

Allison and Lydia are sitting in the lunch room both of them having food in front of themselves with Allison also having a book in her hand.

"The what of who?" Lyida asks Allison not understanding what she is talking about.

"The beast of gevaudane. Listen a quadruped wolf like monster prowling in south of doradoin France in the years 1764 to 1767 la bete killed over a hundred people becoming so infamous that the king Luis XV send one of his best hunter to try and kill it." Allison reads from the book.

"Boring." Lydia replies.

"Even the church eventually declared the monster a messenger of Satan."Allison continues on reading.

"hmm still boring." Lydia says.

"cryptozoologist believe it may have been a subspecies of a predator possibly the messanicen." Allison reads. (AN: again not sure about that)

"Slipping into a coma bored." Lydia says taking another bite of her salad.

"While others believe it was a powerful sorcerer who could shapeshift into a man eating monster." Allison reads.

"Any of this have anything to do with your family?" Lyida questions

"It is rumor that la bete was finally trapped and killed by a renowned hunter who claimed his wife and 4 children were the first to fall prey to the creature. His name was Argent." Allison finishes reading.

"Your ancestors killed a big wolf, so what?" Lydia asks not getting the point.

"Not just a big wolf, take a look at this picture. What does it look like to you?" Allison asks Lydia showing her a page of the book.

Lydia stares into the red eyes of the being on the picture and only gets snapped out of her trance by Allison asking "Lydia?" "It looks like a big wolf. See you in history." Lydia says taking off.

A few tables over Scott and Stiles are sitting together, Scott hiding his face behind a book, but puts it down after seeing Lydia leave. "I think the book just made it more obvious, besides she's gone now." Stiles tells his friend.

"Did you come up with a plan yet?" Scott asks.

"I think so. I mean your crap has infiltrated my life so I gotta do something about it, plus I'm definitely a better Yoda then Derek." Stiles says.

"Yeah you'll teach me." Scott says.

"Yeah I'll be your Yoda." Stiles argues.

"Yeah you'll be my Yoda." Scott gives in.

"Your Yoda I will be. I said it backwards." Stiles jokes amused.

"Yeah I know." Scott replies not really finding all that funny.

"Come on." Stiles says taking his stuff and walking out of the lunch room.

|Lacrosse field|

Scott and Stiles get to the Lacrosse field with Stiles carrying a bag.

"OK, now put this on" Stiles says handing him a belt like device.

"Isn't this one of the heart rate monitors of the track team?" Scott asks confused.

"Yeah I borrowed it." Stiles says.

"Stole it." Scott corrects him.

"Temporarily misappropriated. Coach uses it to monitors heart rates with his phone while he jogs, you are gonna wear it for the rest of the day." Stiles orders.

"Isn't that coaches phone?" Scott asks seeing the phone in Stiles hand.

"That I stole." Stiles confesses.

"Why?" Scott asks not getting the point.

"Alright, your heart rate goes up when you go wolf, when you play Lacrosse, when you get angry, maybe it's time to learn how to control your heart rate." Stiles explains.

"Like incredible Hulk." Scott says liking the idea.

"Kinda like the incredible Hulk yeah." Stiles gives in.

"I'm like the incredible Hulk." Scott says enjoying it.

"Just put the strap on." Stiles says getting Scott back on point.

Scott puts the device on and Stiles tapes Scotts arms behind his back afterwards.

"This isn't exactly how I wanted to spend my free period." Scott says.

"Alright, you ready? Remember don't get angry." Stiles says taking the bag and his Lacrosse stick a few feet away from Scott and starting the app to tell Scotts heart rate.

"I'm starting to think this is a really bad idea." Scott says more to himself than his best friend.

Stiles gets some balls out of the bag and uses his Stick to throw them at Scott who isn't allowed to dodge them.

"OK that one kinda hurt." Scott says taking a ball to the face.

"Quiet, remember you are supposed to think about your heart rate so stay calm." Stiles instructs.

"Stay calm." Scott tells himself.

Jackson walks by the bleachers and sees Stiles hitting Scott with the Lacrosse balls and grins at the display.

"Son of a bitch." Scott curses taking a ball to the chest.

"You know I think my aim is actually improving." Stiles tells Scott.

"I wonder why." Scott replies sarcastically.

"Ah, ah, ah don't get angry." Stiles says.

"I'm not getting angry." Scott says.

Scott gets hit by more balls till he falls over grunting and Stiles looks at the phone, it showing that Scotts heart rate is over 160 already.

"Scott?" Stiles asks.

Scott rips through the tape holding his arms behind his back and claws at the ground managing to calm back down.

"Scott you started to change." Stiles says.

"I know but it was more than that. The angrier I got the stronger I felt." Scott explains.

"So it is anger then, Derek's right. Stiles replies.

"I can't be around Lydia." Scott says to himself.

"Just because she makes you happy?" Stiles asks.

"She doesn't make me happy, and no because she makes me weak." Scott says.

"What do you mean she doesn't make you happy?" Stiles asks confused.

"Well while she was on pills I got the impression that she wants Jackson back and that makes me sad." Scott explains.

Jackson having heard with his enhanced hearing, looks a bit stunned but smirks to himself.

Scott and Stiles go into the locker room and put the equipment safe for the monitor and the phone away. Jackson followed them wanting to see what they're up to but feels sick for some reason and looks in the mirror after Scott and Stiles left. Looking in the mirror he sees that he has glowing golden eyes and fangs sprouting out his mouth. Jumping back in shock he blinks and sees his changes gone but thinks to himself "I gotta talk to this Derek, he said he knows what happened with the bite wound."

|school hallway|

Jackson calms himself down and searches for Lydia, finding her leaning against some lockers looking in her handheld mirror.

"Hey, listen can we talk?" Jackson asks nicely.

Lydia thinking that she probably has avoided Jackson long enough nods in agreement.

"OK, look I know what I did was totally stupid and I also shouldn't have gotten angry at you and Scott and I deserved how you treated me but I still like you and I wanted to know if we can be at least friends again?" Jackson asks Lydia sounding hopeful.

"I guess." Lydia agrees not seeing the harm.

"Cool thanks, so anything going on in your life I should know about?" Jackson asks her excited.

"No, not really, the only thing that happened involved you, so you know what happened." Lydia tells him hoping to avoid the topic of the supposed animal attack.

"Yeah, well anyway I better get going, classes are starting soon. Thanks for letting me be your friend again." Jackson says hugging her seeing that the conversation is over after bringing up the attack.

"You're welcome." Lydia replies hugging him back, not sure if she should be happy that she got Jackson back as a friend or if she should think about maybe dating him again. But she soon discards that thought since their relationship never really was very emotionally intimate it was more a physical relationship than anything.

She also remembers what her mother told her this morning again. Natalie informed her daughter about what happened during the last few days with Scott taking care of her everyday and her calling him Jackson on the day of the parent teacher conference.

Unnoticed by the two Scott was walking down the adjacent hallway and sees them hugging, looking downcast he continues on his way to class which much to his horror he shares with Lydia of all people.