Stiles had found a way for the bus to stop at the rest area. His plan was very creative and fast thinking. Stiles had taken Scott off the bus, as Allison, Lydia and I had pulled into the rest area, seeing the bus. We all bolted out, Allison began to help Stiles with Scott, as Lydia and I walk behind them to make sure no one followed us.

They took him into the 'Men's' restroom, Lydia and I looked around before entering. Once inside, Allison began to gently place Scott to the ground in between the sinks, but he groans in pain. Allison lifts his shirt up to reveal claw marks, but the blood that oozes out was black. with black veins coming from the marks.

"Oh, my God. Why didn't you tell us?" Allison said, as she was really worried for Scott. We were all shocked to see Scott in this state.

"Sorry," was the only word Scott could muster up.

"Okay," Allison began lowering his shirt back down, before standing and turning to me. "Heal him," I gave her a nod, as I went to kneel on the floor where she was moments ago.

"Will you be ok, doing this?" Scott has pushed through the pain to ask me. I couldn't help be smile warmly, he was looking out for me because of what happened in the mall...

"I'll be fine, you should be worrying more about yourself," I spoke as I lifted his shirt up, but the fabric of the shirt had caught the wound a bit, making him wince in pain. "This is going to hurt," I said, but before he could reply, I place my palm flat against his wound without any warning. Pain clearly shot through his body, at my action. I could feel the wetness from the wound, leaking out onto his toned body. 

I took a deep breath as I closed my eyes as I focused on healing Scott. I was imagining his skin knitting back together, his blood returning back to normal. Suddenly, I could feel the ground tremble, my hand began to shake slightly on Scott's body. I snapped open my eyes to see that it wasn't working. 

I pulled my hand away from his wound, as my magic wasn't working, either it was me being faulty again. Or his body is rejecting my magic...

"Something isn't right," I began as I stood and turned to the trio, their eyes worried. "He's not healing from my magic," my voice sounded worried as it's never happened before. I know what happened at the mall with Derek and what I did, but I wasn't going to let my other friend die...

"I've seen him heal from worse than this," Allison states clearly worried. 

"Okay, what do we do then? Do we just call an ambulance?" Stiles asks, as there was no way he would heal on his own. 

"What if... What if it's too late? What if they can't help? " Allison ponders the possibilities of this.

"We gotta do something," Stiles rushes out as he didn't want to watch his best friend die. 

"You know, it could be psychological," Lydia pipped up, her eyes casting to the three of us.

"What do you mean, like, somatoformic," I spoke up, Lydia's eyes went to mine with a small nod of her head. 

"A physical illness from a psychogenic cause," Lydia went to the others as they had no idea what we were on about. Living so long you dabble into different things...

Stiles waves his hand around pointlessly as he had no idea what she was on about. "Yes, it's all in his head," Lydia replied with a roll of her eyes.

"All in his head?" Stiles sounded like he was connecting the dots together. "Because of Derek," I wasn't ready to hear his name aloud, but yet it struck a string in my heart. "He's not letting himself heal 'cause Derek died," 

"So what do we do?" Allison had asked, as Lydia began to look through her purse to find something. 

"Stitch him up," Lydia replied as she holds like a sowing kit in her hands. We look at her with disbelief in our faces as we all exhale deeply. "I'm serious. Maybe all he needs to do is just believe it's healing,"

We all shared a look for a brief moment before nodding to one another. Within that moment, we all took action, Lydia give the things to Allison as she wanted to do it, and Stiles and I we brought some paper towels over on the floor next to Scott just in case Allison needs them.

"He's gonna need another shirt. Where's his bag?" Allison states as she heats up a needle with a lighter she has.

"Um, I'm gonna get it. I hate needles anyway, so..." Stiles spoke as he and I stand next to Lydia, watching Allison. "Uh, do you know what you're doing?"

"Yeah, my Father taught me," She replied quickly still heating the needle up. 

"I mean, how fast are you gonna... I mean, the bus, like, the bus could leave," Stiles rushes out the words as he didn't want to leave Scott and Allison behind.

"Okay, just make sure it doesn't leave," Allison states.

"I can deal with that," I said to the gang, as I took Stiles's hand in mine and pulled him out of the restrooms. Stiles seemed to hold Lydia's hand as well as we exited the restroom together. 

Once we were outside the sun had hit us, making me squint my eyes for a moment before letting go of Stiles's warm hand. "Ok, you two go finds Scott's bag, and I'll stall the bus," we nodded at one another before we broke off. 

I went to the big school bus, as student's stood around waiting for the bus to be cleaned and for coach to tell them they could go back onto it. As I neared the bus, I see Coach counting the students to make sure that they were all here. 

"Coach," I began as he stopped counting and looked at me. 

"Damn it, I lost count," he replied to me. "What do you want?" He asked rather quickly, as I'm sure he wants to get the students back on the bus.

"We can't leave yet, and we aren't going to leave until I say so," I state to him, making direct eye contact, I could feel my iris get large and small as I was compelling him. 

Coach's expression seemed to go blank before nodding at me, as he was now under my thrall. "Now go and do whatever you was doing and when you hear me say aloud 'Time to Go', it's time for us to go," I counited to compel him as he just nods at the end of it. I smiled pleased before, walking away, as he counited to do what he was doing before.

As I turn back to the bathroom I see Lydia walking towards Scott and Allison, she must have stitched him up. My eyes wondered over to Stiles who was talking to Isaac, probably telling him what happened with Scott. Isaac's body seemed to go tense right away, like something had made him mad. I didn't like the sight of this, but before I could do anything, Isaac marched over to Ethan. 

Without any warning to Ethan, Isaac started to punch him with no remorse, his punches hardened when they made contact with Ethan's face. Students gathered around the fight, as coach marches over quickly calling Isaac's name out for him to stop. I made my move and rushed towards the fight, pushing my way through, just in time to see Isaac push Danny away as he tried to stop him. 

"Back off!" Isaac yells as he punch Ethan again. 

"Isaac!" I shouted at him, but he didn't seem to listen to me. So, it was time to play rough. I went forward and from behind I grabbed under his armpits and put my hands on the back his head, restraining his movements. He tries to use his wolf strength to shake me off, but I'm a vampire and I'm much older than him, so my strength was so much more.  

He wiggles in the hold, but I kept him restrained pretty good. "Isaac!" Scott yells as he pushes through the crowd and I faced Isaac to him. Isaac seemed to become less tense and worked up, his arms started to drop, and I began to let go of him slowly, his eyes locked with Scott for a moment. 

Students around us began to chatter and look at Isaac and me. All this attention isn't good, bet they are all wondering how I did that. Isaac was panting, Stiles, Allison and Lydia was looking at me with amazement in their eyes, but I saw a hint of something that didn't sit well with me. 

I turn to coach quickly, his eyes locking with me. "I think it's Time to Go," he seemed to take notice of my words and the compulsion which was set before he nods at me. 

"Alright everyone! Back on the bus!" He yells for everyone to hear. I turned back slowly to see students take glances to me, before going on the bus. Scott and Isaac looked at me with surprise. 

"I used a spell alright, to less Isaac's strength," I just said to them, and I didn't let them get a word in as I turned to the bus and boarded it. 

One day I will have to tell them what I truly am, and that day didn't sit well with me...

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A/N

The next chapter will be the flash back of this episode, as I wanted to do the present first. My plan for it had changed, so, the end of the flash back will be in the next chapter. So, I hope you enjoy this chapter!!

-Josh(Yoshi)