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Chapter 12 - A BETA?

CAFETERIA, BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL

"Dreams aren't memories." Stiles said trying to reassure him as he sat on chair.

"Then it wasn't a dream." Scott said seriously as he sat opposite him

"What wasn't a dream?" Nick asked intrigued as he sat near Stiles.

"Something happened last night and I can't remember what. Can you help me?" Scott asked Nick desperately hoping to make sense of what happened last night.

"I am really sorry, Scott. I am also new to this. It's best you go to Derek for help. I don't know how to help you." Nick said in a serious and firm tone.

"What makes you sure that Derek has all your answers?" Stiles questioned Nick

"Because he is wolf by birth. So, he would have had help from family." Nick replied

"Is that why he didn't change during full moon? Wait, now that I think about it. you also didn't change during full moon. You and Derek were in full control. How did you do that?" Scott asked in a questioning tone.

"That takes practice, Scott. I had a year to get it under control. Find an anchor for your humanity and from there it will become easy." Nick advised him based on his experience. 

"A year, that's a long time. I can't go out with Allison. I have to cancel." Scott said in disappointment.

"No, you are not canceling, Okay? You can't just cancel your whole life. We will figure something out." Stiles said supporting him

"Figure what out?" Lydia asked with a curious smile as she kept her plate down on the table and sat near Scott.

"Just, uh, homework." Scott blurted it out while Stiles was shocked with his mouth gaped open and looking at her wondering why she was sitting here.

"Yeah." Stiles said confirming what Scott said while Nick was looking at the duo amused at their interaction with Lydia. Beth, Amanda, Danny, Jackson and Allison came to the table. Nick and Scott lifted the bags of the seat by their side as Beth and Allison sat by their side respectively. Nick looked at Beth and said with smile

"Hey, how was the morning?"

"It was fine." Beth said with a smile while drank some water.

"Get up." Jackson said to his friend who asks back in annoyance

"How come you never ask Danny to get up?"

"Because I don't stare at his girlfriend's coin slot." Danny rebuked with mocking tone as the guy gets up from his seat and Jackson sits.

"So, I hear it's some kind of animal attack? Probably a cougar." Danny asks as he bites down on an apple.

"I heard mountain lion." Jackson says ignorantly with confidence.

"A cougar is a mountain lion." Lydia says correcting her boyfriend's mistake but quickly questions when Jackson looks at her weirdly "Isn't it?"

"Who cares?" Jackson replies in a nonchalant manner and continues to say

"The guy's probably some homeless tweaker who's gonna die anyway."

"Actually, I just found out who it is. Check it out." Stiles says he takes out his Sony phone and opens the video as he extends it to center of the table so everyone at the table can see it. Nick also leans in to see a video showing the scene of the crime as Stiles's father and Nick's father is seeing canvassing the crime scene.

The reporter said "The sheriff's department won't speculate on details of the incident but confirmed the victim, Garrison Meyers, did survive the attack." The video played showing the photo of the victim smiling.

"I know this guy." Scott says stammering and afraid.

"You do?" Allison asks inquisitively.

"Yeah, when I used to take the bus back when I lived with my dad." Scott replies with confirmation while Stiles looks at me shocked as Scott continues to say "He was the driver." While Stiles looks at Scott worried about him.

"Can we talk about something else, please?" Lydia says trying to avoid the depressing topic and then continues to say in excitement

"Like, oh, where are we going tomorrow night?" Scott looks at her while she asks Allison

"You said you and Scott were hanging out tomorrow, night?" Allison gulps her food down suddenly and stammers as she says with an awkward smile

"Um, we were thinking of what we were going to do?"

"Well, I am not sitting home again watching lacrosse videos, so if four of us are hanging out, we are doing something fun."

"Hanging out?" Scott asks confused and awkward as Allison starts drinking water while Stiles felt pain for Scott's situation. Nick almost spit out the water in his mouth when he felt the desperation and helplessness in his words as he was amused seeing how Allison was trying to brush of the meaning behind the word.

"Like, the four of us? Do you wanna hang out like us and them?" Scott asks in uneasy tone.

"Yeah, I guess. Its sounds like fun." Allison says like as if their date didn't get botched just now and tried to salvage what's left of it.

"You know what else sounds fun?" Jackson asks as he takes and fork and continues to say

"Stabbing myself in the face with this fork." Jackson said as he actions stabbing the fork at his face while Lydia grabs it off his hand. Nick raised an eyebrow at their interaction watching the fun unfold slowly While Lydia asks in an exaggerated tone like trying to please him

"How about bowling? You like to bowl."

"Yeah, with actual competition." Jackson says in a mocking tone.

"How do you know we are not actual competition?" Allison asks with a smug smile on her face as she turns to Scott and questions

"You can bowl, right?"

"Sort of." Scott replies haft heartedly.

"Is it sort of or yes?" Jackson asks trying to assert his dominance

"Yes, in fact, I am a great bowler." Scott with backing down replies back trying to intimidate him.

"Pfft. Sorry." Nick laughs and apologizes as everyone turns and looks at him weirdly as he continues to say

"It's funny like seeing two wolf cubs trying to fight." Scott and Stiles becomes alert to the word wolf but calms down fast as Lydia rebukes back mockingly

"Well, you both should also come. Let's see how adult wolf performs."

"Sure. We will come." Beth accepts the challenge with a smirk.

After having lunch, they spilt up in groups to go for the class. Beth and Nick were walking together as she asked

"Why did you laugh at Scott?"

"Because he is a terrible bowler. I couldn't take it anymore, he was lying with a straight face trying hard to challenge Jackson. But do you really want to go out with them." Nick questioned her

"Well, it will be fun and I want to beat Jackson cocky ass." Beth replied earnestly with a devilish grin.

"Okay then. We will beat him up so much that he will go cry to his daddy." Nick replied with equal enthusiasm to her in a devilish grin as they both hi-fied and went to their own class.

NIGHT, BEACON HILLS PRESERVE

 Nick and his brother, Zach were chilling out in the forest. They sat around a grill, grilling two squirrels they hunted just now while having some beer.

"You know mom's gonna beat us if she found out I gave you beer." Nick replied in despondent tone thinking about how his angry mom even with his supernatural power will be able to nail him down to a wall.

Zach also shivered thinking about their angry mom as he said teasingly

"I will just say you wanted to have a brother's night and beer is must."

Nick gave him a glare seeing him throwing under the bus without even a slight remorse.

"How is School? Have you made any friend?" Nick asks

"Well, there is one. He is in my chemistry class. A nerd. James Willamette." Zach replies

"Good." Nick replied satisfied that Zach made a friend and continues to ask with mischievous smile

"What about someone you like?" 

"No." Zach cuts him off sharply with a sheepish expression, not intending to continue the topic. Before Nick could continue to press him for more details, he hears a twig snap from behind. Nick swiftly reached for his gun and turns back only to a pair of golden yellow eyes staring at them.

 Zach seeing his reaction also took his gun and turned to see the golden yellow eyes. He was shocked as he asks

"Nick, is that a beta?"

"Stay behind me, Zach. Whoever you are, wolf, you should come out or you will get the taste of aconite tonight." Nick warns the werewolf as he stands in front of Zach.

The werewolf walks out from behind the tree and looking at me for a moment and howls. Then it turned back and ran.

"Nick, is that a werewolf full turned into wolf." Zach asked intrigued.

"Yes, it seems. It has forgotten how to turn back to human. And it is young, too young for that fact. Come, let's go help it." Nick said as he packed up their things and walked into dark forest following its scent.

 After walking for some time, they found the wolf's den. The wolf cub walked out of its home and growled at us as a warning. Nick shined his bright red eyes and howled back, communicating with the child to turn it back to human.

 After the howl was finished, the wolf slowly stepped back and then transformed back into human girl about 10 to 12 years old. Nick took out his coat and covered her with it as he lifted her into his arms and then both of them walked back to their house.

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