"Tracy wasn't just having trouble sleeping. It was a real disorder. It was night terrors." Lydia explained the next morning as they all crowded around Stiles' jeep.

"Well, now she's the night terror but since no one can find her..."Stiles trialed off knowingly.

"Okay, I know we're all tired and miserable." Scott explained, looking around the group before his eyes fell onto a beaming Mason. "Except you."

"Mason." Eli whispered, motioning toward his grin of joy. "Wrong facial expression, dude."

"Oh, i'm sorry. This is all just mind blowing." Mason explained as his eyes darted around the small circle before looking at Kira. "You're a Kitsune. I don't even know what that is."

"I'm still learning." Kira admitted with a forced smile.

"Liam, we said you could tell him. Not invite him to the inner circle." Stiles huffed in the Dunbar boys direction.

"I'm in the inner circle?" Masons eyes widened, pointing to himself.

"No." Liam and Stiles spoke on sync.

"I didn't even know I was promoted to inner circle." Eli's eyes widened as he looked around.

"Guys, back to Tracy. She's just one lone wolf." Scott grasped their attention again as he looked around the group. "We can find her."

"One lone, serial killing, wolf." Malia pointed out as she leaned forward some.

"She only killed one person." Stiles defended her in the slightly. "The other two were mauled."

"And very bloody, like, crime scene on Law and Order worthy." Eli shrugged his shoulders, yanking the collar of one of Malias hoodies he had borrowed for the day.

"What do we do when we catch her?" Stiles spoke the obvious.

"I say we put her down." Malia looked in Scott's direction. Eli threw an eyebrow raise toward the alpha, everyones eyes darting his way as well.

"Intense." Mason nodded with wide eyes.

"Mason." Eli sighed as he threw his hands up. "I said you'd be cool."

"You did say he'd be cool and you completely lied." Stiles rose his eyebrows in his direction. "As if your whole out burst last night wasn't enough."

"Don't even start with me, I don't wanna deal with you." Eli rolled his eyes, waving his hand in Stiles direction to get him to back off.

"Guys, let's concentrate on catching her first." Scott gave one more knowing look, mainly looking at Malia. "We'll figure the rest out later."

Eli had grasped his AP Biology book from locker, and made his way toward the classroom. Something had felt weird since he left his friends, something that lingered. He kept looking over his shoulder, eyes darting around the hallways to see if someone had been staring at him. It was weird, like his insides were sinking.

A gasp left his lips when hands grabbed his arms, causing him to spin back around and see Lydia giving a worried look as she held his arms. "You almost walked right into the stair case."

Eli realized how close he had been to completely falling over and embarrassing himself. "Sorry."

"Are you all right?" she asked worried, letting him go with a questionable look.

"Just on edge after last night." Eli shook his head, pressing his hand to his heart with small rubs. "Just a lot to take in so quick."

"I know." Lydia waited until he managed to cool himself off, a small smile on her face. "Think you're ready for class now?"

"Yeah." Eli breathed out with a grin, taking her books to carry for her as they headed into the classroom just a few feet away. Before they were even fully had down, Mrs Finch had passed back the test. Eli looked at him, glancing over at Lydia. "Did you do good enough to stay in class?"

"Yes." she looked his way. "And you did too."

"Nice to see where your priorities are, Scott." Mrs Finch's voice rung again, placing Scott's test upside down on his desk. Eli looked past Lydia's boobs to look at Scott, nodding for him to show him what he made. He faced the test his way, the 86 making Eli grin and flash him a thumbs up. "Since you have such a good grasp, how about you lead us in a review of last nights reading."

Eli's heart dropped when he realize she didn't even do the reading last night, too busy being a little spoon.

"Uh, sure." Scott forced a smile, a charming one that Eli swore if he'd been the teacher, he'd let him get away with anything.

"Oh!" Eli's voice caught everyone in the classes attention, looking toward the Foxx boy as he looked at the door. Liam ducked away quickly. Eli flushed in embarrassment when be realized how loud be had been, looking at Mrs Finch's questionable look. "Oh, what nice door knobs those are. Stainless steel?"

Mrs Finch looked over in the direction, facing him again with the same weird look. "Thank you, Eli."

Liam poked around the corner again to get Scott's attention. The McCall boy flipped through his books, making the excuse he was looking for the page when Mrs Finch called his name three times. Scott tapped his ear, indicating Liam to say whatever he needed to. It wasn't long after when he pulled the fire alarm.

Eli stood up, looking to Scott in questioning. "Go with Kira and Lydia, Liam knows where Tracy is."

"Be carful." Eli spoke quickly. "Don't let Liam do anything inane."

"I won't." Scott hurried of quickly with the sophomore following.

Eli turned to Lydia and Kira. "Okay, ladies, stay close while we go find Malia."

"They're taking her to the animal clinic?" Kira asked when they found Liam, getting the text from Stiles saying they took Tracy.

"Yeah, to see if Deaton can figure out what's wrong with her." Liam nodded his head.

"What's wrong is her is that she killed two people. Her father, and according to Parrish, her psychiatrist." Lydia dropped her voice into a whisper as she spoke to the three.

"We should talk to someone else. Someone close to her." Eli nodded his head confidently.

"Does she still have her mom? Any family?" Kira went along with his words.

"Alpha." Lydia spoke up a second later. "If she's a werewolf she had an Alpha, right? Anyone know if a new ones moved into Beacon Hills?"

"No, but there's an old one. One of the oldest." Kira looked her way before facing the boys. "We know her."

"Jesus." Eli huffed in disbelief.

Liam glared. "And her pack."

"Just why?" Eli spoke as the trio of boys walked onto the Devenford Prep lacrosse field, seeing Brett training already, and doing well. His eyes found theirs, pulling the stick behind his head to rest on his shoulders.

"So, he's a werewolf too?" Mason gapped with a grin.

"Yup." Liam crossed his arms.

"This just gets better and better." Mason grinned ear to ear before a faint chatter was heard.

"Is that the boy from the pictures?" one of the girls in the bleachers asked. The three looked up, seeing them staring in Eli's direction. "Look at his side profile. It's definitely him."

"Oh my god, we need to hurry." Eli shook his head, taking his eyes off the girls.

"If it makes you feel any better, you looked great in those pictures. Like profession magazine photos." Mason complimented him as Brett came their way.

"Mason, stop." Eli begged him.

"His arms look bigger now." the girls voice rung again, clearly not even making it seem like she wasn't talking about him. "Do you think he knows?"

Eli slapped his forehead quickly as Liam patted his back.

"At least no one is saying anything bad." Mason tried, getting two looks of disbelief by the pair of boys by his side. "And your arms do look bigger."

"Not that they looked like noodles in the pictures." Liam said quickly to spare Eli's ego.

"You saw them too?" Eli's eyes widened in his direction before his hands flew across his face. "I hate my life."

"Oh no." Brett grinned, clearly hearing him as he walked over. "You meet some fans?"

"Do not start with me." Eli held a finger up his way.

"He's so cute." Brett laughed as he looked at Liam and Mason, as if Eli wasn't here. "I can't take him serious with that little face."

Eli looked at Liam in disbelief, slapping his arm for him to stand up for him.

"Leave Eli alone." Liam spoke up with a clear of his throat. "We need your help."

After explaining the Tracy issue to Brett, Eli showed him a picture of the girl on his camera, one he had from taking the yearbook picture last year. Brett squinting as he looked at it better. "Cute. But never seen her."

"Could Satomi have turned her without you knowing?" Liam asked as Eli pulled his camera around his neck again, Liam grabbing it, causing his neck to strain slightly.

"After the dead pool, Satomia not exactly doing much recruiting." Brett said honestly as he packed his bag up, standing up straight.

Mason looked in shock. "That's how it works? Alpha werewolves just go around biting people? Why isn't Eli a werewolf yet?"

"Mason, why would I wanna be a werewolf?" Eli gave him a crazy expression.

"Or you can be born, like me and my sister." Brett pointed out with a raise of his eyebrow. "Satomi took us in after our family died in a fire."

"How is Lori?" Eli spoke up, getting Brett's attention. "She totally disowned our friendship because of you."

Brett gave him a grin. "You should come by, see her for yourself."

Eli looked away with a eye roll, shaking his head.

"Guys, I think I just found something." Liam's voice caught the three attention, looking his way as he stared down at the photo on Eli's camera.

•

kylie speaks

eli could pull this entire
trio and is just casually
standing in the middle of
all of them. iconic.