aurora had been picked up by derek and scott to go to their old house. derek had told her the alpha had killed someone in a video store but had left jackson whittmore alive.

they soon arrived at their house, and as usual, scott was complaining. "you know, i have a life." he told derek as he walked into the house.

"no, you don't." derek simply said, walking up the stairs.

"yes, i do!" scott yelled, making aurora let out a small laugh. "i don't care what you say about him making me his pet or-"

"part of his pack." aurora added.

 scott turned to aurora. "whatever." he looked back at derek. "i have homework to do."

derek sent aurora a look, reminding her she also had homework to do.

"i have to go to a parent/teacher conference tomorrow. because i'm failing chemistry." scott flew his arms in the air.

derek sent aurora another look, she never told him about the parent/teacher conference. the girl pursed her lips and sent him a sweet smile, derek just shook his head.

"you wanna do homework? or do you not wanna die?" derek questioned the boy, scott let out a sigh. "you have less than a week until the full moon. you don't kill with him, he kills you."

"okay, seriously, who made up these rules?"

"it's a rite of passage into his pack." aurora told scott, glancing down at her nails with a frown.

"you know what else is a rite of passage?" scott asked. "graduating from high school! and you don't have to kill anyone to do it! why can't you just find him yourself? why can't you just sniff him out when he's human."

"because his human scent could be entirely different." derek replied like scott was dumb. "it has to be you. you have a connection with him, a link that you can't understand. if i can teach you to control your abilities, you can find him."

scott was silent for a moment. "so if i help you, you can stop him?"

"not alone. we're stronger in numbers." derek glanced at aurora, who was bored out of her mind. "a pack makes the individual more powerful."

"how am i supposed to help if i have no idea what i'm doing?"

"because we're gonna teach you, scott! oh my, god." aurora said in annoyance. 

"do you remember what happened that first night you were shot in the arm?" derek asked. "right after you were hit?" 

"i changed back." scott said quietly. 

"mm-hm. and when you were hit by his car, same thing, right?" scott nodded. "what's the common denominator?"

scott didn't say anything and derek reached for his hand squeezing it tightly, making scott groan in pain.

"der..." aurora warned.

scott went to the ground and derek didn't let go of his hand. "what is... what the hell are you doing!?" 

"you'll heal." derek said as he let go of scott's hand.

"it still hurts!" scott seethed.

"that's what keeps you human. pain."

scott groaned as he tried flexing his hand.

"maybe you will survive." derek simply told him as he went up the stairs.

"i'm sorry, scott. he's an ass." aurora said to scott, helping him up from the ground. 

"he's a total dick." 

"i know, but he just wants to help you. it's just derek being derek, i had to grow up with it." aurora softly laughed. "you want a ride home?"

"sure. thanks, rory." scott smiled.

...

"derek! don't forget it's the parent/teacher conference tonight. i'll be pissed if you don't turn up." aurora shouted from the kitchen. 

"well, maybe if you told me about it in the first place i wouldn't need you to remind me about it." derek complained.

"i forgot, you know having to make sure scott doesn't kill anyone or i don't get killed by the werewolf hunters!" aurora argued.

"rory, shut up. i'll be there." 

"asshole."

...

aurora sat with stiles in mr harris' class. he was highlighting everything in his textbook, she looked at him in confusion.

"just a reminder, the parent/teacher conference is tonight, students below a c average are required to attend. i won't name you because the shame and self-disgust should be more than enough punishment." mr harris spoke as he walked over to aurora and stiles. "has anyone seen scott mccall?" he asked, looking down at stiles who slowly looked around the room then up at mr harris with the highlighter lid in his mouth.

then jackson whitmore walked into the class, he silently sat down as mr harris went over to speak to him. 

"everyone, start reading chapter nine." he said as he walked to the front of the class, the man paused for a moment. "mr stilinski. try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs. it's chemistry, not a coloring book."

aurora snickered from beside stiles. "i told you so." 

stiles rolled his eyes at the girl and spat the lid into the air, then caught it in his hand. he then turned to danny. "hey, danny. can i ask you a question?"

"no." danny simply replied.

stiles was silent for a moment. "well i'm going to ask you anyway. um, did lydia show up in your homeroom today?"

"no."

"can i ask you another question?"

"answers still no."

stiles obviously asked his question anyway. "does anyone know what happened to lydia and jackson last night?"

"he didn't... tell me." danny replied.

"but, he's your best friend." 

danny just slightly shrugged and went back to doing his work.

"one more question." stiles leaned further towards danny. 

"what?" danny asked in annoyance.

"do you find me attractive?" 

"oh, my god." aurora muttered to herself.

stiles leaned closer and fell off his chair, awkwardly standing back up and sitting back onto his chair. 

"you're really weird. did you know that?" aurora whispered to stiles.

"and you're really mean. did you know that?" stiles sent aurora a sarcastic smile.

...

stiles and aurora had left another one of their classes and stiles called scott after sending him way too many messages.

"what?" scott answered the call.

"finally! haven't you been getting any of my texts?" 

"yeah, like all nine million of them." scott replied in annoyance. 

"do you have any idea what's going on?" stiles asked his friend. "lydia is totally m-i-a, jackson looks like he's got a time bomb inserted into his face, another random guy's dead, and you have to do something about it." stiles ranted on.

aurora rolled her eyes. "are you ever chill?" she asked him, stiles just rolled his eyes in response.

"i'm also stuck with aurora all day." he added on, sending a sarcastic smile to the girl. 

"what am i supposed to do about it?" scott asked.

"something." stiles told him.

"okay, i'll deal with it later." scott quickly said, hanging up the phone.

"looks like you're stuck with me." aurora grinned at the boy.

"lucky me." stiles replied with annoyance.