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This is purely a work of fiction. None of the characters, places, items, or events that will be read is mine.

AS THE LAST PETAL FALLS

SUMARRY: Sirius Black's promise to his friend far outweighs his need for revenge, so he took his goddaughter out of the ruins of the Potter home and decided to build a life away from the Wizarding World. Iris Potter lived her life in Beacon Hills far away from the clutches of the wizards but that doesn't mean that the world she never knew won't come back for her, especially since she is in love with her best friend Scott McCall, a werewolf.

CHAPTER 7: THE FIRST SIGNS OF LIFE

"Bye you two." Iris said as she got out of Stiles' jeep "See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Scott replied to Iris with a bright grin and a wave of his hand

"I expect my curly fries tomorrow, Iris!" Stiles shouted as Iris walked away from them

"Shut up Stilinski!" Iris exclaimed with a laugh, sticking her tongue out for the two boys to see and walking to the door of the Whittemore house.

Stiles and Scott waited for Iris to get inside the house before driving off to Scott's job at the animal clinic.

"Alright, now I got you all alone." Stiles said as he stopped his car on the side of the road

"Dude, what?" Scott asked in confusion

"Come on Scott, I just need some questions answered, that's all." Stiles said with a wave of his hand

"I'm going to be late for work Stiles." Scott reminded him

"It's still early, Scotty-boy." Stiles said "You won't be late, trust me."

"Fine, ask your questions." Scott said "The sooner we get this done, the sooner I could get to work."

"Alright, that's what I'm talking about!" Stiles exclaimed "First question, what was with you today dude?"

"I don't understand?" Scott asked

"First, you ran in the corridor because you heard Iris shout. That happened to be true but what I don't understand is how you could have heard her when she was nowhere near us." Stiles explained

"Man's intuition?" Scott lamely offered

"First, what? Second, it's woman's intuition and if this is your way of telling me you're gay then I want you to know that I totally accept you and that this would not change anything between the two of us." Stiles said

"Dude, no! I'm not gay." Scott hurriedly answered

"Then are you taking drugs?" Stiles asked "Because if you do we will be having problems because I'm gonna kick your ass for even thinking about taking those things."

"Stiles, what?!" Scott exclaimed

"Look, if you are really taking them then Iris and I can help you fight off the addiction!" Stiles answered "Then we could approach my dad and tell him where you are taking your fix and he could raid the place. It's like hitting two birds with one stone, you get to kick the habit and we can arrest the person behind it."

"For God's sake, I'm not taking drugs Stiles!" Scott shouted, causing two passing girls look at them oddly and walking a tad bit faster away from them.

"Then what is up with you Scott?" Stiles asked once more "If you don't tell me the truth then I'm just gonna assume that you are really taking drugs."

"Fine!" Scott said, throwing his hands up "I'll tell you but promise that you won't laugh at me?"

"Alright, I promise to not laugh, well it depends on what you will say" Stiles answered "If what you're going to say is funny then I promise to not laugh too hard."

"Stiles." Scott said with a glare

"Look, I'm just being honest here Scott." Stiles said "Now get on with it."

Scott sighed and just looked at Stiles in defeat.

"I think something's wrong with me." Scott said after a few seconds of silence

"Wrong?" Stiles answered "Define wrong."

"I can hear things that I shouldn't be able to hear." Scott said "Remember that new girl in school today? Allison? I heard her talking to her mom on the phone when she was outside the school. I don't know how that happened but I just can hear everything so clearly."

"Alright." Stiles drawled out looking at Scott like he has a few screws loose

"It's true!" Scott exclaimed "Look, we can even test it out. You go outside then whisper something, ask me a question and I will be able to hear it."

"Okay let's save the tests for later." Stiles said "What else has got you in jitters except for the fact that you think you are suddenly Bugs Bunny."

"I can smell things." Scott continued "It's like everything smells so strong all of a sudden and I can smell everything around me."

"Not only are you Bugs Bunny you also think that you are Goofy." Stiles said "Alright I'll bite, what can you smell?"

"Like the mint mojito gum in your pocket." Scott answered

Stiles snorted at Scott and looked at him in amusement

"I don't have any" Stiles started to say, only to falter when he reached in his pocket and pulled out a lint covered piece of wrapped gum "well that could have been a lucky guess."

"I guessed that you have a gum in your pocket?" Scott asked "Really Stiles?"

"Alright I'll give you one final test and if you pass then I will believe that you are turning into a character out of a kid's cartoons show." Stiles said

"Alright." Scott agreed "What do I need to do?"

"You get out of the jeep and walk away until I sign for you to stop." Stiles said "I will ask you some questions and you will write down your answer, is that okay?"

" Okay, I can do that." Scott said with a nod.

Scott took out a piece of paper and a pen from his bag before stepping out of Stiles jeep. Stiles gestured for Scott to walk away and he did so until he saw Stiles motion for him to stop.

Stiles and Scott were a fair bit away from each other that a normal person won't be able to hear whatever the other is saying.

Scott focused his attention on Stiles and waited for him to ask a question.

"What did Iris give us as a sign of our friendship?" Scott heard Stiles ask

Unlike the first time with Allison, Stiles voice seemed to be carried through the wind, like the last few echoes when you shout in a big hall unlike the tin-like sounds that Scott heard when he unintentionally eavesdropped on Allison's and her mom's conversation.

'Anklets for us, Bracelet for her.'

"What is Iris' favourite movie?" Scott hears Stiles ask the second question

'Anything Disney or fairy tale inspired, she likes Beauty and the Beast the most and her favourite character is Dory from Finding Nemo.' Scott wrote down

"How long have I been in love with the very beautiful Lydia Martin?" Stiles asked

Scott rolled his eyes at Stiles' question but wrote the answer down anyway.

'Since third grade.'

"Last question" Scott heard Stiles say "Who is your first crush?"

Scott's head snapped up to look at where Stiles was. He felt his face heat up and knew that he was sporting a very bright blush but if he wants Stiles to believe him then he needs to answer his questions thoroughly and correctly.

'Iris'

Once Scott was finished writing his answers he ran towards where Stiles was.

"Here." Scott said to Stiles, handing over the paper as he got inside the jeep

"Okay, let's see if you can really hear from afar."

Scott looked at Stiles' face as he read the answers that he wrote. He felt relieved and satisfied as Stiles' eyebrows raised in amazement.

"Wow dude." Stiles said after checking over his answers "You actually heard me."

"I told you so." Scott can't help but point out

"Alright, okay, I can work with this." Stiles said "When exactly did this whole enhanced senses thing start?"

"I don't know." Scott answered "I guess, today?"

"Just today?" Stiles asked "You were not injected with a super soldier serum, exposed to gamma radiation, underwent a procedure for arc reactor implant or perhaps bitten by a radioactive spider, were you?"

"What?" Scott asked in confusion "Of course not, if you can count getting bitten by a wolf thing then yes."

"That's right, you were bitten last night." Stiles said as his eyebrows furrowed in thought

"Do you think this has got something to do with the bite?" Scott asked "Maybe my body is just getting flooded with so much adrenaline then my body will just collapse in shock or something. I knew I should have listened to Iris and got myself checked out in the hospital."

"Show me your bite wound" Stiles ordered Scott

"What has that got to do with anything?" Scott asked Stiles

"Just do it." Stiles said

Scott looked at Stiles for a second before hesitantly raising his shirt and showing stiles the gauzed wound on his stomach.

Stiles leaned in and quickly stripped off the gauze covering Scott's bite wound.

"What the hell dude?!" Scott exclaimed

"Oh my God." Stiles whispered as he looked at Scott's stomach

Scott followed Stiles line of sight and felt fear and fascination grip his body.

The bite wound was gone.

"So what did you think of new girl?" Iris asked her brother as she sat on Jackson's bed, watching him do his homework in silence

"She's hot." Jackson replied, his gaze still focused on the problem he was solving "Totally girlfriend material."

"You have a girlfriend already Jacks." Iris said to Jackson

"Doesn't mean I can't look." Jackson answered

"As long as you just look." Iris warned her brother

"Yeah, yeah, I know." Jackson said dismissively "Why are you here in my room anyway? Don't you have homework to do as well?"

"Finished mine, already." Iris answered "And I'm bored so I decided to bother you for a while."

"Should have known." Jackson said with an amused snort "Here, use my phone and nag Danny instead."

"Love you Jacks!" Iris exclaimed as she caught the tossed phone in her hands.

Iris kissed Jackson's cheeks before going out of his room and entering her own.

"Danny, Danny, Danny." Iris whispered as she scrolled through Jackson's contacts.

Once he reached Danny's name, Iris pressed the call button and did not have to wait long for Danny to answer.

"What's up Jackson?" Iris heard Danny say

"Wrong twin." Iris answered

"Iris?" Danny asked from the other line "Why are you using Jackson's phone? Did yours get broken?"

"Nope." Iris said "Jackson gave me his phone to use so I have it."

"You're just using Jackson to lower your phone bill aren't you?" Danny said with a laugh

"Shh! Don't tell Jackson!" Iris said with a laugh

"Alright, so why the call?" Danny said

"Nothing just casual talk." Iris answered "You met the new girl yet?"

"Saw her but did not bother talking to her." Danny answered "Had a feeling that the two of us will clash and never get pass the acquaintance phase so I did not put in the extra effort to introduce myself."

"Is this one of those infamous instincts of Danny Maheleani?" Iris asked with an amused laugh

"You can laugh at it all you want but you can't deny its effectiveness." Danny said "And yes, my instincts are telling me that I and new girl will not be the best of friends. What is her name anyway?"

"Allison Argent." Iris answered "She's from San Francisco."

"See, that there is one of the reasons why we won't get along so well." Danny said on the other line "Who the hell would want to trade San Francisco for Beacon Hills"

"Jackson said the same thing." Iris told Danny "But in her defense, it wasn't her choice you know, it was like a family thing. They move around a lot because of her dad."

"Look at you! So grown up!" Danny said with a laugh "But I would stop doing that if I were you."

"Doing what." Iris asked as she rolled over her bed so she was on her stomach

"Defending the competition, Iris." Danny explained to Iris

"Competition? There's no competition." Iris said

"Trust me there is a competition." Danny told Iris "I saw new girl making googly eyes at the man of your dreams during first period."

"And pray tell how did you see that?" Iris asked

"I was sitting behind your twitchy friend and beside new girl." Danny answered "Scott gave her a pen and she suddenly fell in love with him, it's like a scene from a romance or Disney film."

"Hey, what's wrong with Disney?" Iris asked

"Let me tell you something Iris." Danny said from the other line "While I find it cute and sometimes adorable that you believe in all those Disney things I know for a fact that waiting for true love's kiss would get you nowhere."

"I'm not just waiting!" Iris denied "I just don't think that it's the right time."

"Yeah, and I'm the Queen of England" Danny said "Look if you want to stay Disney then at least try to be Mulan. You know, make McCall realize that the girl of his dreams has been right in front of him all along. Don't wait for him to approach you do something so that he will knock on your door to make you his."

"Okay, first Mulan saved all of China so it's natural for men to try and woo her. Second, General Shang did not notice Mulan because she was masquerading around as a boy." Iris said

"You know what I mean." Danny said "I know it would be hard for you since you're still child-like but you have to take the first step."

"Did you just call me childish?" Iris asked

"I said child-like not childish, there's a difference." Danny replied

"And how can you say that I'm 'child-like'?" Iris asked Danny

"Jackson called me earlier and ranted about how you came home with a scratched hand." Danny said "What did you put on it?"

"Just a band-aid." Iris replied

"And the design?" Danny asked

"Dory from Finding Nemo" Iris shyly whispered as she looked at the blue fish decorating the band-aid in her hand.

"See what I'm saying?" Danny asked Iris

"Jackson bought it for me!" Iris defended herself

"And Jackson would gladly lock you in a tower so you can stay safe." Danny said to Iris "We both know that Jackson would never say no to you, you can ask him to buy a Barbie doll or a napkin and he would waltz to the nearest store to buy them for you."

"And that's bad?" Iris asked

"If you want to get McCall's romantic attention then yes." Danny answered "Jackson already hates McCall and once he learns that you have your sights on him then he would be calling the entire lacrosse team to beat McCall up."

"He wouldn't do that to Scott, would he?" Iris asked in worry

"Trust me Iris, when it comes to you there is nothing that your big brother won't do." Danny said "Honestly he's sister complex is bigger than his ego, and that's saying something."

"He's just being a good brother." Iris defended Jackson

"I know that but that is also the reason why McCall would never approach you on his own." Danny explained to Iris "He'll be too scared of what Jackson would do to him to even think of going near you with a love letter."

"Then what should I do?" Iris asked Danny

"Take the first step; if you are the one to approach McCall then Jackson would be too worried about how he can threaten McCall without making you angry." Danny replied "I mean it Iris; you can't wait for prince charming forever. He might be lost somewhere or his horse could have ditched him in a forest somewhere or he might be stuck in a tree. The only way you could meet your prince charming is you meet him half-way and act as well.

"I can't do that Danny!" Iris complained "My knees get weak just thinking about it!"

"Then leave it all to me Iris." Danny slyly said "We're going to rip that Disney pants off of you and turn you into the personification of McCall's fantasy."

"Danny, you're scaring me." Iris said to Danny

"Just trust me and I will make sure that you get to live happily ever after." Danny said to Iris "Think of me as your fairy godmother but way better than her cause my spell won't vanish when the clock strucks twelve."

""You're still scaring me Danny." Iris said

Iris gave a small whimper when Danny laughed loudly on the other side if the line.

-popo—

Scott was distracted.

Ever since that small freak out that he and Stiles shared when they saw that his bite wound was practically non-existent, his mind had been in shambles.

Even his boss, Deaton, saw his unease and asked him if he was feeling under the weather. He assured his boss that he was okay, and that's where his problem lies; he was okay.

He was expecting to have a reminder of that bite for the rest of his life. He was prepared to see a scar in his stomach forever and then he would tell his kids and grandkids about how he got that scar when he is old and wrinkly.

Now, any evidence of that day was erased.

It was as if nothing happened. The only proof that he really got bitten was the memory in his and his friend's mind.

He lost the bite wound and now he gained enhanced senses like one of those cliché superhero origins.

Stiles promised him that he would do some research about it and ever since then Scott's mind had been going over what Stiles would be able to tell him the next day.

Whatever is happening to him, he just hoped that it was not one of those new diseases that no one's got a medicine for.

Scott sighed heavily and flipped the sign on the animal clinic's door to CLOSED. He then grabbed a few packages from the reception desk to arrange.

"Alright Scott." Scott said to himself "Forget everything for a while and focus on working, Stiles would have all the answers you need, he always does so there is no need to worry about anything."

Scott nodded to himself and set on cleaning up the entire animal clinic.

Once he was finished with cleaning the place up, Scott hauled a sack of kitty litter from the clinic's storage room and set it on the wall next to the door leading to the animal cages.

He takes out the keys to the room and unlocked the door to the cages.

Just when he was about to open the door, his ears were once again assaulted with a loud noise. Scott flinched at the loud sound of what he assumed were pebbles hitting metal.

He looked up and released an agitated sigh when he saw that it was just raining.

Scott shook his head before twisting the knob and opening the door.

"Hello kitties." Scott said as he grabbed the sack to take into the room filled with cats.

He barely stepped a foot inside the room when the cages filled with cats came alive with activity.

The frightened felines suddenly bared their teeth, hissed and clawed wildly and frantically at the cage doors. All of them focused and glaring at Scott, their backs were arched, their fur sticking up and seemed to be struck with absolute terror.

Stunned, Scott staggered out of the room and quickly slammed the door shut.

Scott retreated into the waiting room but his ears could still pick out the commotion that was happening behind the closed door.

His paranoia was inflated even more when his ears was attacked by a sudden sharp hammering sound.

Scott turned to where the sound was coming from and saw a girl banging the glass doors with her fist, it was Allison.

Scott approached Allison and quickly opened the door to the clinic. She was soaked, probably ran from the rain, and was clearly panicked judging by the tears running down her face.

"Hi" Scott said to Allison, confusion clear in his voice "We're clo-"

"I didn't see it. I took my eyes off the road for, like, two seconds to change the song on my iPod, and then this dog, it just came out of nowhere!" Allison began to say once the door to the clinic was opened, clearly ignoring whatever Scott was about to say

"Okay, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right. Do you remember where it happened so I can send out animal control to find it?" Scott interrupted Allison as he tried to calm her down before she could go on her panicked rant

"No! I mean, yes, I know where I hit it, but the dog is-" Allison said, her voice losing its panicked tone as time went on

"Right. Where is it?" Scott asked Allison

"It's in my car." Allison said in a low voice

"All right, let me see her." Scott said as he got out of the clinic, silently cursing himself for not bringing an umbrella when he was hit by the drizzling rain.

Allison nodded at Scott before leading the way to her car.

Allison looked at Scott hesitantly before going to the back of her car and popped the hatchback on her blue Pontiac G3, which revealed an injured stray.

When the dog saw Allison, its hackles raised and began to growl and bark at the clearly distraught girl.

Allison tried to reach in and pick the injured dog up but it snapped at her. Allison pulled her hand back and flinched as the dog continued to growl at her. She took a step back which caused her to slip and lose her balance. Luckily Scott caught her and was able to save her from face planting on the ground.

"You alright?" Scott asked Allison as he took away his hand from Allison

Allison nodded to him in thanks.

Scott stared back at Allison uncomfortably. Now that he knew what to look for thanks to Stiles and Iris, he was able to recognize 'the eyes' that Allison was giving her.

"She's not going to attack." Scott said, clearly wanting to take away Allison's attention from him.

"She?" Allison asked "The dog's a girl?"

"Yeah and she's just frightened." Scott answered

"Well that makes the two of us." Allison said with a small chuckle

"Let me see if I have better luck." Scott said

Scott stepped closer to where the dog was.

"Be careful." Allison said to Scott

Scott's eyes connected with the dog's. Sound seemed to drop all around him and all he could hear was the dog's laboured and pained panting.

A few seconds pass and the dog's harsh gasps began to ease.

Scott's eyes flashed and unknown to him and Allison, his eyes took on a strange yellow sheen.

The dog lowered its body submissively and let out a whining sound.

Allison watched in amazement as Scott gathered the dog into his arms and carried the dog into the animal clinic, straight to the vet's office.

Once inside the vet's office, Scott gently laid the injured dog down on the examining table. Allison stayed back and watched Scott as he inspected the dog while petting it, doing an expert job of calming the dog down.

"I think her leg is broken. I've seen the doctor do plenty of splints. I can do it myself and then give her a painkiller for now." Scott said after he finished examining the dog.

Allison stole glances at Scott, looking on with admiration as he worked. But Scott didn't notice, too busy and focused with the injured animal to even pay the girl any attention.

When Scott finally looked up to see if that was alright with Allison. His eyebrows furrowed when he saw that Allison was hugging herself and was visibly shaking due to her wet form and the cold temperature inside the office.

"Hey, I have a shirt in my bag." Scott offered to the shivering girl "You can borrow it, get out of your wet clothes."

"Oh, I don't want to trouble you." Allison protested

Scott reached into his bag for the shirt and handed it to Allison.

"Here change into this and I'll get some of the stuff for the dog while you change." Scott said

Allison took the Scott's shirt with a smile and a small thank you.

Scott left the vet's office to get some materials for the dog. He easily collected the stuff he needed but there was another reason why he left Allison alone.

Scott dialled Stiles' number on his phone.

"Hello, Scott?" Scott heard Stiles ask from the other end of the line

"Hey." Scott answered "I need your help."

"Look Scott, I'm still reading through all this stuff and I can't give you anything foolproof as of now so you'd have to wait till tomorrow, okay?" Stiles said to Scott

"Yeah, I know, I was expecting that but I need your help on another matter." Scott said

"Fine, shoot." Scott heard Stiles move around a bit on the other line

"Allison's here in the clinic." Scott said to Stiles

"Who is in the where?" Stiles asked

"Allison's here in the clinic. She run over a dog and brought it here." Scott answered

"Funny, Scott. We already used that excuse for your mother, remember?" Stiles said to Scott

"Trust me, this time it's real. There really is an injured dog inside the clinic." Scott explained

"So? I don't see the problem here." Stiles said

"She has been giving me 'the eyes' Stiles." Scott hissed to Stiles

Scott heard Stiles laugh at him from the other line.

"Way to go Scotty boy!" Stiles cheered Scott "But what is she doing there, shouldn't the clinic be closed now?"

"She was banging on the doors so I opened it for her." Scott answered

"You're way too nice dude!" Stiles said "Trust me, if she didn't like you before then she definitely has the hots for you now."

"What do I do?!" Scott asked Stiles

"Do you like her?" Stiles asked Scott

"No, I just met her like a few hours ago." Scott answered

"Do you think you can like her if you spend time with her?" Stiles continued to ask

"Maybe? I don't know, I don't exactly see the two of us hanging out." Scott answered

"Then don't do anything." Stiles said

"I won't do anything?" Scott asked

"Yeah, just do what you do and if she does something or says something, you know, to ask you out or see if you like her then just say that you're not interested. It's that simple." Stiles answered

"Yeah it's simple." Scott repeated "I can do this."

"That's right Scotty, now if you don't mind I have a lot of stuff to read so bye." Stiles said before hanging up

Scott took a deep breath before taking the stuff and heading towards the vet office.

Scott saw Allison gently petting the dog on the table. She was now wearing his shirt and was no longer shivering from the cold.

"Thanks for doing this." Allison said to Scott once he entered the room "I feel really stupid."

"How come?" Scott asked as he started to get to work

"I don't know. 'Cause I freaked out like a total girl." Allison said

"You are a girl." Scott said to her

"I freaked out like a girly girl, and I'm not a girly girl." Allison corrected herself

"What kind of girl are you?" Scott asked Allison

"Tougher than that. At least, I thought I was." Allison said with a sigh

"I don't think being a girly girl is wrong." Scott said

"You think so?" Allison asked

"Yeah, the greatest girl I know is a girly girl." Scott said, his lips lifting into a smile as he thought of Iris "She can quote every Disney movie and sing every Disney song in existence and she only wears band-aid with cartoon characters on them."

"She does sound like a girly- girl." Allison said with a small laugh

"She totally is but she's also the greatest friend a guy could ask for. She helped me practice lacrosse during the break and it paid off. I owe it all to her." Scott said

"It did pay off, you were amazing." Allison praised Scott

"So–It looks like she's gonna live. And I'm pretty sure she'll even let you take her home now, if you want." Scott said once he finished wrapping up the dog's leg.

"I don't think so." Allison said with a shake of her head

"Why? Not fond of dogs?" Scott asked as he started to pet the now docile dog.

"My mother's not exactly a dog person so, no dogs for us in the family." Allison said with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Oh that's alright, she can stay here for the night and the doctor could take a look at her tomorrow morning." Scott said

"Really? Thanks." Allison said

"Don't you need to go home?" Scott asked as he pointed at the wall clock "It's late."

"Oh God! My dad's gonna go ballistic." Allison exclaimed "Thanks again for all of this."

Allison hurriedly got out of the office and Scott followed her so he can finally lock the animal clinic down.

Allison reached her car and was about to get in when she stopped and hesitated.

Scott watched in confusion as she seemed to be having a internal battle with herself. Scott saw Allison turn back and walk towards him.

"Hey, you forgot anything?" Scott asked in confusion

"Well, no but I was wondering" Allison hesitantly said "are you going to the party this weekend?"

"Yeah, I'm going there after lacrosse practice." Scott answered

Scott may be oblivious and could sometimes be an idiot but even he can tell where this conversation was headed.

'Please let me be wrong, please don't ask me out' Scott repeated like a mantra on his head

"Oh, then would you like to, you know, go to the party with me?" Allison asked as she looked at Scott under her lashes

"I thought you had Family Night on Friday." Scott said, trying to say no without sounding like a jerk

"Oh, I just said that. Jackson and Lydia sort of scare the hell out of me." Allison explained "So will you accompany me to the party?"

"Sorry" Scott replied hesitantly "but I already promised to take Iris to the party."

"Oh, is that so?" Allison replied dejectedly "Sorry, I did not know that the two of you were dating. I'll just go now. Thanks for the help again."

Scott winced to himself as he watched Allison walk quickly back to her car.

"God Scott, I never thought I'd see the day that you would reject a girl asking you out." Scott said with a shake of his head

Scott then blushed as he just realized that he did not correct Allison when she thought that Iris and he were an item.

'Scott, this is your chance just make it sound like you are asking her as a friend and not a suitor, you can do this!' Scott thought to himself

Before he could change his mind, Scott took out his phone and dialled Iris' number.

"I am not going to wear a sexy kitten costume at the party Danny!"

Scott felt his face blush and could almost swear that his nose was about to bleed when he heard Iris shout at the phone.

"Uhmm, this is Scott, Iris." Scott hesitantly said

"Oh my God." Scott heard Iris say "Can we just, I mean, well, just forget whatever I said, okay?"

"Yeah, of course, I mean why would you want to wear a sexy kitten costume right?" Scott nervously rambled

"Scott, please, just don't" Iris groaned out

"Sorry." Scott meekly said

"Why are you calling anyway?" Iris asked Scott

"I was just going to ask what I need to wear for the party this Friday." Scott said to Iris

"Anything would do." Iris answered "It's just a back-to-school slash celebration party."

"Oh, then I'll see you there, right?" Scott asked

"Jackson would literally drag me there Scott." Iris said with a laugh

"I'll be the guy wearing a hoodie." Scott jokingly said

"Then I'll be the girl in green." Iris replied with a small laugh "Bye, Scott."

"Bye." Scott said before hanging up

'Now do I have any green shirt in my closet?' Scott thought to himself

Scott removed the chain from his bike and got ready to go home.

He rode his bike down the road silently.

He stopped for a second when he saw something move at the corner of his eyes. He turned to look at the direction he saw the movement but saw nothing there.

Scott shrugged and continued on his way home.

Then he heard the sound of movement. Scott once again stopped.

He turned and peered into the woods. Scott saw nothing.

He started pedalling again as he glanced to each side of him as he picked up speed.

That is when he noticed a shadow moving through the woods, moving at the same speed as him.

Panicked, Scott started to pedal even faster, that strange moving shadow speeding up as well.

Scott pushed his legs to pedal harder and harder, he pushed his rather old bike to its limits, the steel chain threatening to come off.

His unwanted companion slowed down.

Instead of relaxing, Scott kept up with his pace. He chanced a look only to be met with an even bigger shadow crossing the roads just a few yards behind him, quickly taking shelter into the dark of the woods.

Now on the other side of the road, it drove Scott's panic higher and higher as it kept pace with him once again until it suddenly disappears.

A breathless Scott gave a last glance back to the woods on both sides and then forward where a fast moving truck veered in front of him.

An eighteen wheeler truck was coming from a side road. Scott hurriedly puts his bike into a stop as the truck loomed before him.

Scott's bike crashed against the hood of the cab, it flipped up and smacked down on the road, the metal scraped the pavement as it came to a stop.

The truck driver jumped out and glanced around in panic.

But there's no body on the ground.

The truck driver looked up only to see Scott standing on top of the truck.

Scott looked down at the truck driver, his eyes were wide in terror and exhilaration.

"What the hell?" the truck driver breathed out

'Another thing to tell to Stiles' Scott thought as he tried to come up with a reason for his position.

Stiles' eyes were quickly moving from left to right as he read through the contents of the pages in a quick pace. His fingers clicked furiously over a keyboard, his eyes remaining locked and never leaving the computer screen.

He switched tabs from one web page to another, from one web site to the next.

He absorbed every word and image that popped up on the screen.

Whichever web site he went several things were the same.

Wolfsbane, silver bullets, lycan, aconite, full moon, curse, bite; everything returns to one creature.

Drawings of werewolves could be seen on the computer screen, werewolves in different shapes and sizes. There is one who is mostly human, another one with massive fur covering his entire body and another that looked like a normal wolf but gigantic in measure.

Picture after picture, site after site, video after video, Stiles looked at all of them.

As Stiles' room darkened, a clearly panicked and agitated Stiles paced through his room as he waited for the printer to finish its job.

Stiles quickly snatched the paper away once the printer spat it out.

In the paper is a picture of a detailed wood carving of a medieval hunter standing over the body of a werewolf, the hunter aiming a crossbow at the creature.

Stiles looked at the picture with a look of escalating horror and fear while on the other side of Beacon Hills a man was getting out of his car.

The man looked from side to side, clearly checking if he is truly alone.

Once sure that no one else is there the man walked towards the back of the car and opened the trunk to reveal silver arrows and bullets, several guns, and a crossbow.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry for those who wanted Scott with Allison but I just can't do it! The mere thought of getting them together and watching Iris in pain makes my heart hurt too much. But don't worry! I've planned accordingly and my update speed would not be hindered by this change. Also, Allison will play a role on the story even if she is no longer with Scott. I hope that you would all like what I have planned and please read on because if you were reading closely then hints of Iris' magic is slowly unfurling and as time goes on it will grow bigger and bigger and I assure you that you would have a grand time reading through it.

LOVE LOTS

THE TROUBLED NEOPHYTE