chapter three, BABYSITTERS

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Noah Hall

"You went after I told you not to?" My mother yells.
I sit calmly and let her yell out her anger. I do have to admit, running off to Mexico on a school night after she told me not to is a new one for me.

"I mean I thought you died." She yells.
I haven't mentioned the actual torture I went through because she'd kill me if she knew that too.

I would have loved to hear what is happening with Derek right now, but I knew I should have gone home right when we got back in town.

"I mean seriously? You are never leaving this house again. I don't care how strong you are now. You're a teenager, you think you know everything." She rants.

She stops and looks down at me. She places her hands on her hips and sighs. "Are you okay?" She asks softly. I sigh and nod.

"I'm exhausted" I reply.

She sits down next to me and hugs me tightly. "Don't you ever leave me like that again" she whisper. "I'm sorry" I say to her.

He places her hands on the sides of my face and rubs small circles on my temples.

"Now go shower, and get to bed, you have school tomorrow. New term remember?" She states and pulls away.

"You're not going to ground me?" I ask
She furrows her brows "do you want me to ground you?" She asks. I shake my head and run up stairs.

I get into my room and close the door behind me. I go to my bathroom and take my clothes off. I start the shower and jump in.

As the water streams down my face, I close my eyes and just stand here. I feel absolutely disgusting.

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"She just sneaked into my room" Stiles complains as we walk up the stairs. I roll my eyes and push past him. "Shouldn't that be something you're ok with?" I state.

"Ok, after she sneaks in then what happens..." Scott asks. Stiles stops and sighs. He lifts up his shirt and I scratches are all down his back. "This." He states.

My eyes widen and I laugh.

"Shit, I didn't know you were into that stuff." I laugh.
As we walk my shoulder hits into someone and I stop to look over at them. My eyes meet his blue ones and I freeze for a moment.

"I'm sorry" I state with a laugh and walk past the guy, I've never seen him before. He's kind of pretty.

I walk back to Scott and Stiles and we go towards our class. "Then after she does that, we spoon all night." He states. "That sounds okay." Scott adds.
"But I'm always the little spoon" Stiles groans.

"Yea you seem like you'd be a little spoon" I laugh.
He looks over at me and glares. I put my hands up in surrender and shake my head.

"So wait, does this mean you guys are together, you're dating?" Scott asks. Stiles shrugs. "I don't know, sometimes the way she looks at me, I think she knows I'm not telling her something" Stiles states.

"Because you aren't telling her something." I state firmly. "Peter?" Scott asks and I nod.
"You've got to tell her, I'm telling you it's going to come back to bite you in the ass if you don't." I explain to them.

"I know," Scott groans. "I don't know how to tell her that" Stiles states.

We walk into class and take our seats.

Kira's dad starts the lesson and I stare at my textbook. I love history, it's my favorite subject, but since Mexico I haven't been able to focus. I couldn't even brush my teeth last night without spacing out.

After awhile of just staring out the window I hear a phone go off bringing me back to class. "Scott, cell phone off." Mr. Yukimura states firmly.

I look over at Scott and he shuts his phone off.
My phone buzzes on my desk and I furrow my brows. "Off." Kira's dad states and glares at me.

I look at the others and shut my phone off.
He continues to ask his question and another cell goes off. "I said cell phones off!" He yells.

We all look at him and Kira sighs. "Dad, that one was yours" She states. He pauses and grabs his phone.

"Scott, call Lydia" He mumbles as he reads off his phone. My eyes widen and I look at Scott and Stiles.

Just in time the bell rings and we all rush out of the room.

We run down the stairs and towards the parking lot. "We'll take my car, yours is parked on the other side of school" I tell Stiles. They nod and we get in.

We start driving and Scott opens his phone. "He got out." Scott groans. "Fuck." I state.

After awhile we finally get to the clinic and I park. We get out and walk inside. Lydia is patching up Deatons arm as we walk into the back room.

"What happened?" Scott asks. "He freaked out, ran out of here" Lydia explains. "I told you I didn't like this" Stiles says and points at her.

"I don't think his body is the only thing younger, I think his mind is too" Deaton explains. I furrow my brows and look at Scott.

"He didn't recognize either of us" Lydia adds.
"Did he say anything before he left?" I ask. Lydia shakes her head.

"He looked like he was scared out of his mind" She explains and walks towards us. "Okay, so if you're a teenage werewolf and you're scared, where the hell do you go?" Stiles asks.

"Home." I state after a second of silence. "You go home."

"The loft?" Scott says. "No, no, he was a teenager," Stiles adds.

"The fire, he doesn't remember the fire." Deaton states. "Do you think he'd recognize you?" Stiles asks and they all look at me.

"It depends on how old he is, I was born when he was sixteen. Anything younger than then and he probably wouldn't even know who I am." I explain.

"Okay wait, so if you guys do manage to catch up to him, what are you going to say to him?" Lydia asks.

"That his entire family is dead." She adds.

"That could set him off into a spiral" I state "I think at this time of his life, he wasn't doing so well." I explain.

"What do you mean?" Scott asks. "Well he couldn't control his shift yet" I state. They furrow their brows. "I thought it was easier for born wolves?" Scott asks.

"Well it is, but sometimes, if you're fearful of it, you can get out of control. If anything were to set him off, he could turn." I state.

"Well we can't lie to him" Scott states. "Oh yea, good luck with that." Lydia says and shakes her head.
"Lydia and Noah are right, maybe we shouldn't tell him the full truth." Stiles whispers.

"At least until we figure out how to get him back to normal" I add. "I can't lie to him" Scott states. "Okay I'll do it" Stiles says boldly.

"I don't think any of us can, remember he can hear heartbeats rising" Scott states.

"Well I don't know about that, if he's not in control of his shift, maybe he isn't in control of his ability's" I warn. "I don't want to take that chance" Scott states.

"When we find him, we've got to tell him the truth" Scott explains. "If he gets to the house first, you won't have to." Deaton states.

We nod and head out the door. We go back to my car and I start it. "Aren't they doing construction on the house right now?" I ask.

"Shit, he'll be so freaked out" Stiles says.
Stiles phone starts to ring and he picks it up.

"Okay, we'll be there soon" Stiles says.
"Shit! Turn around. Head to the station. My dads got him." Stiles says.

I furrow my brows and quickly u-turn.

We pull up to the police station and quickly get inside. We rush to the door and Stiles stops making Scott and I run into his back.

Stiles waves at his dad and we walk towards them.
"I'll handle this" the sheriff says the new Deputy and waves us into his office.

"I want you to be honest with me." He states. We all nod and sit down. "Absolutely honest." He adds.
"Have you been time traveling?" He asks.

I snort and they shake their heads. "Hang on what?" Stiles laughs.

"Because of time travel is real, you know what? I'm done. I'm out." Stilinski rants. "You're gonna be driving me to Eichen House." He pleads.

"Dad, dad, calm down." Stiles says and holds out his arms. "We found him like this" Scott states.
"Where? Swimming in the fountain of youth?" He exclaims.

"If we knew how it happened we'd tell you" I state.

"We found him buried in a tomb of wolfsbane under an Aztec temple underneath a church in Mexico, in the middle of a town that was destroyed by an earthquake." Stiles explains. I slap my hand on my forehead and shake my head. Scott sighs and closes his eyes.

"You told me you were camping!" Stilinski yells.
"We...were...in Mexico" Stiles says, saying Mexico is an accent. Stilinski points a finger and Stiles and shakes his head.

"Look Derek's been aged backwards. He can't remember anything, and we have no idea how to fix him let alone know how it happened" Scott explains.

"We just need to talk to him" Stiles says. "Yea, we'll so far, he's not talking to anyone" Stilinski says and leans on his desk.

"Maybe he'll talk to me." I state.

They nod and Stilinski stands up. He walks out and brings Derek in. Derek sits on the couch in front of us and Stiles dad leaves.

"Hey, Derek...we uh...need you to come with us" Scott says awkwardly. "Why would I go anywhere with you?" He asks.

I sigh and roll my eyes I push past Scott and stand in front of Derek.

"Who-" Derek pauses and looks me up and down. "Monica?" He asks. I furrow my brows and and look at the others. "Uh no, sorry" I state awkwardly.

"Look, there was an accident. You lost your memory but we're going to help you get it back" I state. He slowly nods and sits back in his seat.

"How much memory?" He asks. "Quite a bit," I answer.
"You can trust us though" Scott states.

Scott leans down and shows him his eyes. He looks over at me and I show him mine. "You're eyes, there like mine. And you're an alpha?" Derek asks. Scott nods and stands back up.

"Okay..who are you people?" He asks. "And who's he? Who are you?" Derek asks and looks up at Stiles.

"Oh me? I'm just...me?" He mumbles. I glare at him and shake my head. "And uh, we're also the guys keeping you out of jail." He states.

"Let us help you." Scott begs. Derek shakes his head and sits up. "Okay dude, you almost tore apart two cops. You've got to listen to us. That means no fangs, no claws, no wolf man" Stiles explains.
I furrow my brows and look over at him "wolf man?" I laugh.

"Im fine as long as it's not a full moon." Derek states.
"You still have trouble with the full moon?" Scott asks and looks over at me. "I said I'm fine." Derek states coldly.

"You've got to come with us Derek" I say calmly.
"You want my trust? Where's my family?" He asks.

I look between Scott and Stiles and I'm about to speak but Scott starts first. "There uh, there was an accident." Scott starts. I look over at Stiles and he looks at me.

I don't think this is going to go well.

"There was a fire..." Scott pauses and looks at us. "There not here anymore, there fine." He says frantically.

I snap my head to Scott and scrunch my forehead. He lied.

I listen to Derek's heartbeat and it's slow. He doesn't suspect anything.

"We'll take you to them. Just as soon as we get your memories back" Scott explains.
"Look Derek, you mentioned Monica? I know where she is. I can take you to her." I state.

He furrows his brows.

Derek exhales and nods. "Okay..." he whispers.

I go to open the door and Derek walks out. We walk out behind him and head to the door while he signs paperwork.

"I shouldn't have done that" Scott says and shakes his head. "I lied my ass off" Scott states. "You're ass is fine" Stiles jokes. "You saved him a lot of unnecessary pain"

I nod in agreement. "Stiles is right. He would have gone crazy if you told him the truth in there" I explain.

"We'll figure this out in a day or two, then everyone will be happy again, except Derek, who's never happy. But at least he'll be normal again" Stiles reassures.

"He's just another person we're lying too" Scott states. I shrug "well if we figure it out fast enough, we don't have to lie for too long" I say and pat Scott's back.

Scott sighs and looks at us. "Take him to my house, and call your mom" Scott explains and starts walking out the door. "And uh, where are you going?" I ask.

"To the person we should have gone to in the first place." He says with a grin.

"I hate that guy" Stiles states.

Derek makes his way towards us and we leave.
I drive us to Scott's house and look down at my phone. I look in the mirror and see Derek look out the window of the car.

I turn my head to Stiles and nod "can you uh, call Monica?" I ask him. Derek looks at us and I take a deep breath in.

The last thing Derek needs right now is finding out who I am. It would confuse him even more.

We pull up to Scott's house and my mom is standing at the door. I get out quickly and rush towards her. Luckily Stiles explained the situation to her over text.

"He doesn't know who I am." I whisper to her and she nods.

"Monica?" Derek says and walks up to her. My moms eyes slightly widen and she freezes. "Derek." She says calmly.

She hugs him and he relaxes.

"I've been so scared, I don't know what's happened. Where's my mom?" He asks.
My mom flashes her eyes towards Stiles and I and looks back at Derek.

"Don't worry hun, she's ok. She not in town anymore. But like they said. We'll find your memories and you'll be ok." She explains.

"Look, I have an errand to run. But I will be back as soon as I can okay? Stay with them, you're safe with them" my mom reassures him.

We walk inside and Stiles quickly closes the door behind us. "Look. We're gonna stay in here, and talk to no one." Stiles explains to him.

"Can I talk to you?" Derek asks. "No." Stiles states.
"Good."
"Good." Stiles mimics.

"Can I talk to him?" Derek asks and points in front of us we look forward and jump when we see Scott's dad towering over us.

"Ah!" Stiles yells. "Are you getting taller?" Stiles asks and waves his hands around.

"What are you guys doing here?" Mr. McCall asks.
"Waiting for Scott" Derek answers and glares at Stiles.

"So am I, we're supposed to have dinner" he states.
"I brought extra, you guys hungry?" He asks.

"Starving" Derek and I say in unison. "Uh, nope, we're good" Stiles glares at me. I roll my eyes and walk into the dinning room.

"Thank you, Mr. McCall." I state and glare back at Stiles. "Nope nope we're not hungry" Stiles repeats.
"Okay...Stiles if you're not hungry, clearly Noah and uh- what's your name" He asks.

I look over at Derek and see if he noticed my name.
I sigh in relief when he continues to look at Mr. McCall.

Derek is about to answer and my eyes widen. "Miguel." Stiles states. "This is Miguel. My cousin. From Mexico" Stiles explains frantically.

I slightly shake my head and sigh.

Mr. McCall says something in Spanish and Stiles and I freeze. "Oh my god" Stiles whispers.
I look over at Derek and he starts to say something back.

Stiles and I look back at Mr. McCall and he smiles.
I sigh in relief and we walk towards the dinner table.

"Miguel? Really?" I whisper yell to Stiles. "Yea, shut the fuck up" he snaps back.

Derek sits next to me and Stiles sits next to Derek.

"You guys like egg rolls?" Mr. McCall asks. "Hell yea!" Derek states.

For the past thirty minutes we ate, and talked and things went terribly wrong.

Derek smashes Stiles against the wall and holds him there. "Calm down!" I state.

"Okay, I didn't lie!" Stiles mumbles and his face is smushed against Scott's wall.

"I don't want to talk to you two...I want to talk to the alpha I want to talk to Scott." Derek states.

"Okay...Derek listen to me. I'm going to tell you something." I state and walk towards him.
"You know me," I explain.

"What are you talking about?" He asks. "Remember when you thought I was Monica?" I ask. He nods and steps back.

"She's my mother." I state. He furrows his brows and looks me up and down. "Baby Noah?" He whispers. I nod.

"You can trust me okay? I promise." I state. "How are you possible? What's going on?" He asks.
"We're trying to figure that out." I state.

"We'll call Scott and tell him to come. Just stay here okay?" I ask. He pauses then slowly nods.

Stiles and I slowly leave the room and Stiles grabs the door knob. "You stay here okay? Right. Here. Don't. Move." He warns.

We run down the stairs and Stiles grabs his phone.

"Nope Scott he's in you're room. Everything's good. We've got it handled" Stiles explains and give me a high five.

We walk back to Scott room and worry washes over me when I hear loud footsteps in the room. I run to the door and see Kate leave the window she winks at Stiles and I and disappears, with Derek.

"Shit. Shit. Shit." Stiles groans.

"She's got him." He exclaims. "This is why we shouldn't have been left as babysitters!" I yell.
"You don't think I know that" he yells and throws his arms up in the air.

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We pull up to the school and we get out. We run up the steps and see Malia, Peter and Scott.
"Hey!" I call out they stop and turn to us.

"You're sure there here?" I ask Peter. "If she's getting what I think she is, then definitely" He states. I nod and we start walking.

Malia and I stop and look at each other. I lift my head up and smell the air. My brows furrow and the others stop and turn to us.

"What is it?" Stiles asks.

"It's the same scent" I state.
"The same as what?" Peter asks. "The same one from Mexico" Malia answers.

"What?" Peter asks and turns to Scott. "Whatever attacked us in the tomb" he answers. "It couldn't have followed us right?" I ask.

"Unless Kate brought it" Scott says and tilts his head. We hear a loud growl behind us and Malia and I turn.

"I've heard that sound before" Peter states.
"Did it have an animal skull?" He asks.

We all nod. "I'm pretty sure" I say. "Fuck." He mumbles under his breath.

"What are they?" Scott asks. Peter looks behind us and sighs. We all look and see one slowly making its way towards us.

Fear rushes through me and I stand tall.

"Berserkers" Peter groans.

"Ah shit!" Stiles states. "What are we going to do?" I ask. I stand in front of Stiles and Scott stands in front of me.

"Can we kill it?" I ask Peter.
Malia moves but Peter grabs her. "There's only one" She says through her teeth. "Yea, that means we have a chance" Peter states.

"To beat it?" I ask hopeful he'll say yes.

"To survive."

Peter let's go of Malia and starts sprinting up the stairs. We all look at each other then run towards Peter.

I hear it's large footsteps on the ground as it runs after us.

"It's so fast!" I yell.

Malia stops making me crash right into her. I peak over her shoulder and see another one standing in front of us. I look around and see the main stairs.

"This way!" I yell and the three of them follow.

The first one that was after us turns the corner and follow us up the stairs. "There both here, what do we do Scott?" Malia asks.

"I don't know, where's Peter?" Scott yells.

"He just took off" I state. "I told you I didn't like that guy." Stiles yells. "Not the time Stiles" I yell back.

We run up the stairs but stop when we're met with another one. "We're gonna die" Stiles screams.

Scott roars and chills run up my spine. Scott jumps towards the wall and jumps around the Berserker.

Malia, Stiles and I run down the stairs and onto the ground. "Ah fuck that hurt" Stiles says and pants as we run.

Scott hits the Berserker and throws his against the wall. I run and pull him away from Scott but the other comes barreling towards me.

A sharp pain erupts from my side and I look down to see one of its sharp claws through my stomach. I groan in pain and the Berserker lifts me up and throws me to the ground.

I get up and hold my side as blood pools onto my shirt.

Lydia runs up behind us and throws Stiles his steel baseball bat. He catches it and holds it outward.
Kira jumps out in front of Scott and swings her sword at the Berserker.

I run to Scott and help him up.

Kira looks back at us for a slight second. Scott's face drops and he steps forward. "Kira!" He yells.
The berserker lunges toward her and hits the sword out of her hand. He back hands her and she falls to the ground.

Blood drops from her nose and Scott goes to help her up.
I stand in front of them as he helps her and barricade them from the berserkers.

I see someone running behind them, and the berserkers turn. Derek comes into the light of the hallway and I see him start to swing at the berserkers.

We all watch in awe as he ducks from their swings.

I blink my eyes when I see Derek change into a wolf. He goes in and out of transformation but there's something else.

"Uh, guys I think...I think something's happening to him." I state as we watch. As his face changes something else changes too.

We hear a loud roar and all turn our head. The berserkers flea and we all relax.
I step forward and move towards Derek.

"Derek?" I ask as he kneels on the ground.
He slowly turns his head and I see he's back to normal. His eyes glow and I freeze.
There yellow.

I look at Scott and he has the same confused look as I do. I slowly shake my head and run towards him. He fully stands up and I hug him tightly.

"You're ok!" I whisper as I hold my side. He looks down at me and holds my arm. "You are not." He states.

"I'll be fine" I say and wince in pain. "Are you healing?" He asks. I nod.

"Let's go!" Stiles says. We all follow him and go to the Hale vault.

We see Peter on the ground in front of an open safe and he's mumbling. "They took it."
"While I was blind." He adds.

"Took what?" Lydia asks.
"Bonds." He states.
"What?" Derek exclaims.
"What are you saying you got robbed?" Stiles laughs.
"Seems like you let them take it" I laugh.
"How much did they take?" Kira asks. "117..." he answers.

"Thousand?" Stiles exclaims.

Peter turns to us and sighs "million."
My eyes widen and my jaw drops. "How the hell do you have that kind of money?" I ask.

"This was planned. This was a planned attack. It was never about Kate." He yells.