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                   "Maia it's fine, I'm fine, Okay" Harper spoke into the phone "So you can stop packing your things"

"How'd you know?" Maia questioned with furrowed brows, the girl picking up her phone that was resting on her bed.

"Because I know you" Harper answered as she walked through the old warn down subway car- where Derek had them staking out for the time being.

Maia sighed "Fine, but if I hear of one more supernatural creature or someone else you care about dies I'll be in Beacon Hills in like- within the hour it happens"

Harper chuckled as she nodded "Okay" a faint smile covered her face.

"are you sure you're okay?" Maia asked her friend, the genuine concern in her tone that Harper caught up on right away.

"yes, I'm moving on, you know?" Harper shrugged "Acting as if nothing had happened."

"Harper" Maia said in that tone of voice that made the Hale want to roll her eyes "You can't just bottle everything up and act like you're fine when you're not"

"Maia-"

"I'm serious, Harper" Maia took a deep breath as she spoke in a softer tone "It will come out one way or another whether you want it to or not. Remember what happened last time?"

Harper's eyes fall closed as she sighs "yes, I remember" she takes a breath plastering a smile on her face even though the girl on the other side of the phone couldn't see "But I'll be fine, Okay. I'll talk to you later"

Maia nodded "Okay, call me if you need me"

"I will" Harper said before removing the phone from her ear as she hung up.

"If you're trying to be discreet about listening in on my conversation you're doing a bad job" Harper stated as she turned around looking at Derek "I can literally feel you staring holes in the back of my head"

Harper slid her phone into her pocket while she spoke "I'm sure if you stared any longer I'd start to bleed"

Derek took a step towards her with a slight roll of his eyes "well, I figured if you're gonna talk to anyone, About anything even remotely close to what's going on with you it'd be Maia"

Harper's brows furrow, confusion falling upon her face "What are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about you waking up at almost the same time every night"

Harper's face fell as she looked at him with a blank expression, her mouth opened but no words came out. The Hale girl met his gaze once again.

Derek's concerned eyes scan over her as he waited for an answer though he already knew it.

Harper scoffed lightly as she shook her head raising her hands "I don't want to talk about this"

"Harper" Derek persisted taking a step towards her.

"I said I'm fine, Okay!" she snapped taking a deep breath.

Harper was never good at dealing with her feelings or talking about them. Even expressing the way she felt was difficult for her. And she most definitely didn't like to acknowledge them.

"You and Maia need to get that through your heads. This isn't my first time losing someone I care about" Harper grabbed ahold of her jacket "I've lost my mom, my dad twice, my aunt, my cousins- the list continues, Derek"

"I've gotten used to the feeling of loss"  the Brunette girl made her way out of the subway car, shoving her arms through her jacket sleeves harshly.

Derek called out for her a few times but she didn't stop moving not until a frantic voice calling for the older Hale had filled her ears.

Isaac flew down the stairs as he hollered "Derek!"

Harper jogged up to the boy taking his shoulders causing him to stop his quick movements.

She looked him over with slightly widened eyes and furrowed brows "Isaac, what's going on?" Concern covered her face.

Harper listened to his racing heart before he spoke "It's- its's my dad- Where's Derek"

Harper pointed in the older Hales direction "in there"

Isaac quickly rushed past the girl and into the subway car Harper following after as she stopped in the doorway.

Seeing as Isaac was dragged into this life of supernatural creatures because of her cousin Harper felt like she needed to watch out for them.

"what's wrong?" Derek questioned looking at the boy, glancing at Harper for only a moment.

"My dad" Isaac Answered while trying to catch his breath "I- I think he's dead"

Derek quickly takes a step forward "What did you do?"

"that's the thing" Isaac paused before shaking his head "it wasn't me"

Harper and Derek share a look, confusion covering their faces before looking back at the Lahey boy.

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Harper walked out towards the lacrosse field just as she watches Scott rush out from the net and tackleDanny to the ground who was running towards the net with the ball.

Harper winces slightly as she looks from Scott to Stiles giving him a confused look but her confusion only grows as she watches Scott smell the boy.

Harper's mouth hung open slightly while staring at the McCall.

she shakes her head walking towards Stiles- desperately wanting answers before she goes down the road of seriously judging Scott "what the hell is he doing?"

Stiles gaze moves from Scott to her as he whispered "he smelled another wolf"

Harper tried to put on her best poker face as she nodded, it's not that she didn't want them to know she was planning on telling them anyway.

But there was this tiny mean girl part of her that just wanted to see how long this would go for.

Harper glanced at the boy before motioning to Scott "And this is his way of figuring out who?"

he hummed in response as he looked at her Stiles' eyes studied the girl for a moment, noticing her gnawing on her lip in a way to hide the smirk playing on her face.

his eyes widen slightly "Oh my god, you know something!"

"what!?" Harper turned to him her brows drawn together but the smirk she was desperately trying to hide still prominent on her face.

he turned to her slightly "you know who it is, don't you?"

Harper tossed her hands up slightly "Come on, I'm not that easy to read"

"yeah, tell the smirk on your face that" he waved his finger in her face- the girl smacking it away.

Harper nudged the boy "Oh come one, you cannot tell me that watching Scott do that" she motions towards the McCall boys before she continues "isn't the least bit amusing"

He looks to his friend before back to Harper- the boy shook his head "Okay, maybe a little but I'm dying to figure out who it is"

the whistle blows as the boy in front of Stiles breaks off into a sprint down the field

Harper looks at the remaining boys in the line then in search of the Lahey boy her attention shifts to the one running down the field as she nods her head towards the boy "him"

Stiles follows where she nodded, watching as Scott and Isaac collide, the two falling onto the ground staring at each other.

"Isaac Lahey" Harper adds as she looks to Stiles "I don't know when Derek bit him, I just know that he did"

her and Stiles share a look before their attention was turned towards the sound of radio chatter and their gazes land on the two deputies and the Sheriff walking onto the field towards the group of teens.

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Stiles, Harper, and Scott were now stood near the bleachers as they watch the Sheriff talk to Isaac while Scott listened in on the conversation.

"His father's dead" Scott said his eyes still trained across the field "they think he was murdered"

Harper scoffed lightly "I'm pretty sure he was"

The two boys gaze shifts to her with confused looks covering their faces.

Harper glanced at them but she had to do a double take looking at the same expression covering their faces "Isaac ran down into the abandoned railway depot where me and Derek have been staying, he said he thinks his dad's dead but then said he didn't do it"

Stiles gives her a look with slight narrowed eyes "see these are the things we need to know"

her head tilted as she crossed her arms "Okay first of all, You didn't tell me about the whole werewolf thing, could of saved you guys a lot of time. Second of all it just slipped my mind until now"

Stiles let out an exasperated sigh "Okay, the next time Scott smells something interesting I'll let you know, and the next time you know something, like a new werewolf you let us know"

Harper tilted her head "Alright, now back to the Isaac thing"

Stiles nodded as he turned to Scott as he asked "are they saying he's a suspect?"

Scott shrugged "I'm not sure, why?"

Stiles sighed looking back to Isaac "because they can lock him in a holding cell for 24 hours"

"Like overnight?" Scott looked away from Isaac and to his friend.

Harper watched as the Sheriff lead the Lahey boy away. Harper turned towards the two beside her as she added "during the full moon"

"How good are these holding cells at holding people?" Scott questioned- hopeful for a break on this one.

Stiles brows raise "people, good. Werewolves, probably not that good"

"well, he's more of a homicidal werewolf, it's his first full moon" Harper pipped in looking between the pair.

Scott nodding in agreement "remember when I said I didn't have the urge to maim and kill?"

Stiles nods "yeah"

Scott took a breath his eyes back on Isaac "he does"

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Harper was sitting in between the two while Mr. Harris wrote on the chalkboard, Harper's attention was pulled away from the doodle she was doing on her piece of paper at the sound of Scott's voice.

"Why would Derek choose Isaac?" he whispered to the Hale girl.

both boys eyes fall onto Harper as she bunches her shoulders "I don't know, I was running through the woods looking for Lydia, if that's even when it happened"

She gave Scott a look with raised brows- blaming the boy for sidetracking them from their Hunt for Lydia Martin mission.

Scott sighed in slight defeat before Stiles spoke "I remember Peter said that if the bite doesn't turn you it kills you"

Harper tensed slightly at the sound of her fathers name, the girl took a deep breath looking at Stiles as he continued to talk "And maybe teenagers have a better chance at surviving"

"doesn't being a teenager mean your dad can't hold him?"

Stiles taps his pencil on the table "well, not unless they have solid evidence, or a witness"

Stiles eyes light up as if a lightbulb went off in his head, he quickly spun around in his chair "Danny" he whispered causing the boy to look at him "where's Jackson?"

"In the principles office, talking to your dad" he replied, shrugging before looking away from the Stilinski.

Stiles eyes widen "what, why?"

Danny looked slightly confused before he answered "maybe because he lives across the street from Isaac"

"witness" Harper muttered with a sigh.

Stiles looked between them "we gotta get to the principles office"

Scott's brows draw together "how?"

Harper watched as Stiles quickly takes a piece of paper crumpling it up into a ball.

Mr. Harris spoke while writing on the chalkboard "everybody please turn to page 73-"

just as he finished talking Stiles tosses the paper at the man hitting him in the back of the head, students laughing at the action.

While the unamused Mr. Harris turns around eyeing every student with a glare "who the hell did that?"

Scott and Stiles point at Harper as she looks back and forth between them eyes widening slightly before she points to the both of them.

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Stiles' plan had worked in getting the three of them up to the office- Harper would say she was surprised but it was Mr. Harris. He'd send you up to the office for dropping a pencil if he could.

The three leaned back in their chairs, listening in on the conversation about Jackson saying that Isaac's father was hitting him and how Jackson hadn't said a thing about it to anyone.

The conversation ended as the Sheriff walks out, Stiles quickly grabs ahold of a magazine trying to hid that it's him which clearly didn't work but Noah had chose to ignore his son and his antics.

He looked at Harper and Scott as he nodded "Scott, Harper" the two smiled back as Noah glanced at his son once more before shaking his head and walking away.

Stiles lowered the magazine as they watch the Sheriff walk away when a gruff voice filled their ears "Boys, Harper"

Harper turned towards the voice as her face paled at the sight of Gerard Argent.

The man she watched cut another wolf in half with a sword barley 24 hours ago. She swallowed thickly as she gave him a tight lipped smile

"Come on in"

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The three were now sitting in the principles office, Gerard sitting behind his desk while Harper's leg bounced anxiously as she gnawed on her cheek.

"Scott McCall" Gerard spoke looking at the boys file "Academically not the most accomplished, but I see you have become quite the star athlete"

Gerard's gaze turns to Harper as he grabs her folder setting Scott's down "Harper Hale"

The man even just saying her name caused a foul feeling to stir inside the girl- almost making her cringe like you would with nails on a chalkboard.

Harper's heart raced in her chest, her leg continued to bounce.

The Stilinski looked at the girl in her anxious state- which he knows all too well but there was nothing he could do to calm her from where they were right now.

"Grades aren't exactly the best nor at your old school but here seems like there's a slight improvement" he glanced up at her "and no extra curriculars"

Gerard tosses her file on the desk causing Harper to flinch slightly, the girls whole body tense.

He grabs ahold of Stiles' "Mr. Stilinski. Oh, perfect grades but little to no extra curriculars" he closes the file "Maybe you should try lacrosse"

"Oh, actually I'm already--" Stiles gets cut off by Gerard as he holds up a finger "hold on"

his looks at Scott "McCall. . You're the Scott that was dating my granddaughter"

"we were dating, but not anymore. Not dating, not seeing of any of each other or doing anything with each other" Scott stammers out before squeezing his eyes shut "At all" he sighs out.

Harper's nose scrunched up at the boys ramble, giving the McCall a look.

"Relax, Scott, you look like you're about to crack cyanide pill with your teeth" the old man chuckles.

Scott takes a breath "just a hard breakup"

Gerard leans back in his chair "that's too bad, you seem like a pretty nice kid to me. Now listen, guys. Yes I am the principle, but I really don't want you to think of me as the enemy"

Stiles faked a laugh looking at the two beside him "is that so?"

Harper couldn't help but laugh slightly which she covered up with a cough before looking back at the older man.

And every time she looked at him it replays in her mind what she had saw just the other night.

Gerard leaned on his desk "however, this being my first day, I do need to support my teachers. So unfortunately someone is going to have to take the fall and stay behind for detention"

Harper bit her lip as hers and Scott's gaze slowly turns to Stiles who looks at them with wide eyes then to Gerard and back to them before sighing.

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As soon as Harper and Scott exited the office they quickly broke off into a sprint down the hall. The pair burst through the doors only to see Isaac in the back of a squad car that was already leaving the property.

"Shit" Harper muttered as she sighed glancing at Scott, the two were about to turn around and walk back into the school until the all to familiar black Camaro skidded to a stop in front of them.

Derek looked at the two as he spoke "Get in"

"Are you serious?" Scott held his arms out "you did that, That's your fault"

Harper tilted her head with a shrug "He has a point"

"I know that" Derek sighed out "Now both of you get in the car and help me"

The Hale girl pursed her lips "you could say please"

Scott shook his head "No, I got a better idea. I'm gonna get a lawyer, because a lawyer might actually have a chance at getting him out before the moon goes up"

"Not when they do a real search of the house" Derek stated with a tilt of his head.

Harper's brows to draw together "what do you mean?"

his gaze landed on her "whatever Jackson said to the cops" he paused taking a breath "what's in the house is worse. . . A lot worse"

Harper and Scott share a look before she walked towards the car opening the door glancing over her shoulder to the McCall as she motioned towards the Camaro.

Scott let out a breath in defeat as he swung his backpack into the backseat before climbing in himself, Harper following and she had barely shut the door before Derek sped out of the parking lot.

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Scott glanced over his shoulder to Derek as he asked "If Isaac didn't kill his father then who did?"

Derek took a breath "I don't know yet"

Harper looked around the dark Lahey home as they made their way through it. Her eyes landing on broken glass in the dining room- which only grew her confusion.

"then how do you know he's telling the truth?" Scott asked once again.

"because I trust my senses" Derek deadpanned "and it's a combination of them. Not just your sense of smell"

Harper gave the man a look "you could listen to his heart beat- it's pretty easy to tell when someone's lying by that" she commented causing Derek to sigh.

Scott stopped moving as he put his hands in his pocket "you saw the Lacrosse thing today"

Harper chuckled lightly "That was pretty entertaining" she turned and pointed to Derek "do you always just stand hiding somewhere like a Perv?"

Derek gave her an unamused look and she just shrugged and turned back around.

Derek looked back to Scott "and yeah, I saw it"

Scott squeezed his eyes shut "did it look that bad?"

Derek placed his hand on Scott's shoulder pausing for a moment "yeah"

Harper walked down the hall glancing at the two men "where exactly are we going?"

Derek nodded his head towards a door before opening it "Here" his gaze shifted to Scott "you wanna learn, start now"

Scott eyed him before giving Harper a look. She shook her head motioning for him to go first.

Scott began to slowly make his way down the steps to a basement Harper following with furrowed brows "what's down here?"

"Motive" Derek simply answered.

"Thanks, Jackass" she muttered.

"what are we looking for?" Scott questioned the Hale.

"follow your senses" Derek replied as Harper's feet landed on the concrete floor as a feeling of fear washed over her but it wasn't her fear it was someone else's- Isaac's.

Scott looked around the room before he asked another question "what happened down here"

"the kind of thing that leaves an impression"

Harper stopped walking as she looks at the ground her brows furrowing as she nudged Scott who was beside her.

Scott looked at her before following her gaze, his own brows draw together as he crouches down as he runs his hand along a pair of scratch marks along the floor.

The two share a look before their gazes land on a freezer just a few feet in front of them. Scott and Harper slowly make their way towards it.

Scott hesitantly takes ahold of an old rusted lock as he and Harper share a warry look.

"Open it" Derek ordered as he walked up beside the pair.

Scott took a breath as he removed the lock before lifting the freezer open and Harper's heart sunk at what she was seeing.

Scratch marks and blood stains covered the inside of the freezer- the signs of struggle, like someone was trying to break free-

like Isaac was trying to break free.

Harper took a shaky breath as she teared her eyes away from the scene in front of her

"he was locking him in here?" She questioned, her voice soft and almost pitiful.

Derek had a solemn expression on his face as he nodded in response.

"this is why he said yes to you" Scott spoke up, looking at the Hale.

Derek's attention shifts to him as he answered "everyone wants power"

Scott looked at Derek with a serious expression "if we help you, then you have to stop. You can't just go around turning people into werewolves"

"I can if they're willing" Derek retorts, his hands resting in his leather jacket pockets.

"did you tell Isaac about the Argents, about being hunted?" The McCall questions the man.

Derek rolled his eyes slightly "yes and he still asked"

Scott's eyes widen "then he's an idiot"

"And you're the idiot dating Argent's daughter" Scott's eyes immediately dart towards Derek at those words "yeah, I know your little secret. And if I know, how long do you think it's gonna take for them to find out?"

"you saw what happens to an Omega" Derek placed his hands on the McCall's shoulder as he continued "with me, you'll learn how to use all of your senses. With me, you learn control"

Derek reaches down holding up Scott's hand, Harper watched as his nails slowly begin to be replaced with claws.

"Even on a full moon"

Scott ripped his hand out of Derek's grasp "If I'm with you, I lose her"

"you're gonna lose her anyway" Derek said to the boy with a blank expression as he begins to walk away "you know that"

Harper knew Derek was talking from his own experience- she knew about Paige.

Harper gave him one last look before beginning to make her way towards Derek knowing he was on his way to break Isaac out.

but before either could get too far Scott called out to them "wait!"

the two turn to him as he spoke "I'm not part of your pack. But I want him out. He's my responsibility too"

Confusion fell upon Harper's face "How?"

"Why, because he's one of us?" Derek added

Scott looked at the pair "because he's innocent"

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After Scott had came up with a plan Stiles had gotten Harper and Derek from the Lahey house and the three were now parked out in front of the Sheriff's station.

"Okay, now the keys to every cell are in a password protected lockbox in my father's office" Stiles explained to the two, pointing at the police station. "The problem is getting past the front desk"

Derek shrugs "I'll distract her"

He begins to reach for the door but stiles takes ahold of his jacket stopping him "Woah, woah, you? You're not going in there"

Derek's eyes dart back and forth between Stiles' hold on his Jacket and the boy himself.

Stiles eyes widen slightly as he quickly lets go of his jacket "I'm taking my hand off"

"I was exonerated"

"you're still a person of interest" Stiles states but Derek quickly shot back a response "An innocent person"

"An- You!? yeah, right" Stiles laughed out.

Harper rolled her eyes at the two as she leaned between the seats "Okay, stop both of you, we're sort of on a time limit here" she points to a metaphorical watch on her wrist.

Stiles sighs "Okay, fine. What's your plan?"

Derek's brows cinch together as he gives the boy a look "to distract her"

Stiles raises his brows at the man "Uh-huh, How? by punching her in the face?"

Harper took a deep breath as she rested her head in her hands, shaking her head at the two.

Derek fakes a sarcastic laugh "By talking to her"

"alright, give me a sample." Stiles looked at him "what are you gonna open with?"

Derek took a breath as the two look at each other in silence.

Stiles sighs with a nod of his head "Dead silence, that should work beautifully"

Harper sat up as she smacked Derek's arm lightly "great, she'll never see it coming" her tone was laced with sarcasm as Derek gave her a look.

Stiles bunches his shoulders "Any other ideas"

Derek's brows raised as he nods his head side to side "thinking about punching you in the face"

Stiles mouth hung open slightly as he stared at the man.

Harper pressed her lips together as she nodded "great, let's go" she leaned across Derek as she pushed the door open and began to shove the older Hale slightly to get out of the car.

Stiles looks at her with wide eyes "great!?"

Harper glanced at him as she began to climb out of the car "Stiles, there's a homicidal werewolf in that Sheriff's department on a full moon, There's is no time to go back and forth over something I had said"

"Fair point" Stiles tilted his head before he quickly climbed out of the jeep following after Harper as they made their way up the steps the two stopping at the doors as the peer their heads in

"Hi" Derek smiled brightly a the woman at the front desk.

"hi" she smiled back

Derek leaned on the desk as he spoke "Um, I had a question, um- Sorry I'm a little thrown I wasn't really expecting someone-"

Harper's face fell with a disgusted expression as she looked between Derek and the woman her gaze got torn away as Stiles took ahold of her hand pulling her past the front desk and down the hall.

The pair stop in front of Stiles' dad's office, Harper glances down to their intwined hands as she takes a deep breath, goosebumps rising on her skin as her stomach spins.

Harper quickly pulled her hand away from his, running her hands down her jeans.

Stiles glanced at her for a moment, their eyes locking. Harper gave him a tight-lipped smile before the Stilinski opened the door and he rushes towards the lockbox quickly punching in the code and opening it.

Harper's brows furrow "where are the keys?" she looks at the boy.

Stiles shrugs "I don't know"

Stiles' head turns to the door before looking at Harper "Okay, you look around in here"

confusion falls upon her face as she watches the boy rush towards the door "Wait, where are you going?"

he holds her hand out to her as he opens the door "I'll be right back"

Harper sighs as he shuts the door behind him.

The Hale begins to search the room, her eyes scanning over the office for any sign of keys until she suddenly stops crouching down to the ground, her eyes landing on a small patch of blood.

her attention quickly gets pulled away as her head shoots up, the blaring fire alarm hitting her eardrums the fluorescent red lights flash around in the room.

Her eyes widen slightly "Stiles" she shoots up from the ground and runs out the door the Hale sprinting down the hall towards the cells.

"Stiles!" she shouts as she skids to a stop her eyes landing on the boy, a relieved feeling washing over her but her gaze trails to the fake deputy and then to the open holding cell where Isaac Lahey was supposed to be.

In an instant Isaac has ahold of the deputy slamming him into the desk and then tossing him into the wall.

Stiles' looks at the Hale as he rushes towards her pulling her to the ground next to him as they back away behind the desk- well Harper was more so dragged behind the desk.

The Lahey boy knocks the wolfsbane out of the deputy's hand before smashing his head into the wall.

Derek walks into the room his foot crushing the needle filled with the toxic mixture. Isaac's gaze darted towards Derek and then to Stiles and Harper.

Stiles' arm flies across Harper as he backs the two up further towards the wall while Isaac begins to stalk towards the pair but he didn't get too far as a menacing roar leaves Derek's lips causing Isaac to drop to the ground and cower back against the far wall.

when Isaac had looked back at them he was back to looking like a person and all the animal like characteristics were gone.

Stiles glances from Isaac to Derek as he asked "how'd you do that?"

Derek looked at the pair and bluntly stated "I'm the alpha"

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Lowkey kinda hate this near the end buttt I hope you enjoyed :) love yall <3