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Harper's feet hit the concrete below her as she began to pick up speed, trying to stay close to the McCall boy who had a head start. The two teenagers following Derek closely while also following the Kanima.

Gunshots rang through the air which only made the Hale push herself more, forcing her legs to move faster than the could.

Harper's eyes dart from Chris Argent who was knocked on the ground and then to Gerard and the Kanima. The Hale stopped her running, skidding to a stop as she watched intently.

They were just standing in front of each other, nothing was happening which Harper couldn't understand she watched that man cut someone in half so why wasn't he doing anything? And she damn well knew what the kanima could do to people.

Scott practically tackled the Kanima to the ground and not long after the Kanima fled once again. Harper rushed over to the McCall, coming to a stop beside him who was just sharing a look with the older Argent.

"Scott, let's go. Homicidal lizard and all" Harper said glancing at Gerard before she broke off into a sprint once again, Scott quickly following in pursuit.

after awhile of running the two teens slow down to more of a fast walk as the look around the ally way they've found themselves in. Harper followed Scott as they peak around the corner of a brick building noticing the line of people and a bouncer.

Harper felt a hand on her shoulder as she quickly spun around her hand raised on a fist, Stiles quickly threw his hands up as he ducked slightly.

"Stiles!" Harper exclaimed with a roll of her eyes, her hand letting go of the boys shirt.

"I told him not to do that" Maia commented with a cross of her arms, earning a glare from the Stilinski.

Stiles scoffed "Coming from the supernatural person who didn't want to run"

Maia's eyes narrowed as she motioned at the boy "look at you- if you got left alone you'd be dead"

Stiles shook his head before looking around them "you guys find him?"

Harper shook her head in reply "No we lost him" Scott answered.

Stiles looks at the pair with shock on his face "what, you couldn't catch a scent?"

"I don't think he has one" Scott announced, looking at the two.

Harper nodded in agreement "I guess he's more different from us than we thought"

"Alright, any clue on where he's going?" Stiles questioned the pair, holding his hands out.

"What is this 21 questions?" Maia uttered sarcastically earning another look from the Stilinski.

Scott gave his friend a look "to kill someone" he bluntly answered.

"So helpful, thanks" Maia rolled her eyes.

"Oh! that explains the claws and the fangs and all that. Good, Makes perfect sense now" Stiles retorted sarcastically. Scott rolled his eyes with a sigh looking at his friend

Stiles shrugged "Scott what? come on, I'm 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bone, Okay? Sarcasm is my only defense"

Maia snorted as she eyed the Stilinski "ha, I can see that"

"Just help us find it-"

"Not 'it' Jackson" Stiles states cutting his friend short.

Scott sighed "yeah, I know, I know"

Harper raised her hand ever so slightly "I think we should take a vote, I feel like it wouldn't really bother me that much if Derek killed him"

The two boys give the girl a look, Harper bunches her shoulders as she peaks around the corner "Just a suggestion" she sang out.

Maia leaned forward, whispering in her friends ear "I'm with you on that"

"Does Jackson even know he's this thing?" Stiles questioned.

Harper pressed her lips together as her head shook "I don't think so, he doesn't even think anything happened on the full moon"

Stiles nods "Okay, well did anybody else see him at Scott's house?"

Scott bunches his shoulders as his brows draw together "i don't thinks so, but he already passed Derek's test anyway"

"Yeah, but that's just the thing. How did he pass the test?" Stiles fires out another question.

Harper looks at the boy "How did Lydia fail the test?" she looks to the McCall boy "do you think she really is immune?"

Maia frowned "could you imagine, someone immune to the bite" she laughed lightly "that'd be so cool!"

Harper gave her friend a slight look causing Maia to shift slightly "right, not the time" she uttered.

Scott looked between the three his mouth falling slightly "I- I don't know"

Stiles looks around the ally as he continued to talk "maybe it's like an either or thing? I mean Derek said a snake can't be poisoned by it's own venom, right?" he looked at the two "when's the Kanima not the Kanima?"

Harper quickly caught on to what Stiles was hinting at "when it's Jackson"

Stiles nods just as the girl looked back towards the bouncer checking Id's "uh, guys" Stiles hands hit the girls shoulder repeatedly.

"Harper" Maia slowly let out.

Harper growing slightly annoyed spun around and looked at the boy "What?" She questioned before noticing he wasn't even looking at her but looking up, her eyebrows cinch together confusion covering her face as she goes to where Stiles and Maia had backed up to following his gaze.

Her eyes land on the Kanima, well, it's tail crawling into an open window on the second floor, Scott came to the other side of his friend seeing the same thing they were.

"You see that?" Stiles points towards the disappearing tail as it entered the building

"He's inside" Scott stated, the obvious. "What's he gonna do in there?" The Stilinski questioned

Harper shrugged "Kill somebody"

"Oh, possibly maim someone if you prevent the killing" Maia added on while Stiles gave the girls an unamused expression.

"I think I know who he's after" Scott's announcement gained Harper, Maia and Stiles attention.

"What, how? How? did you smell something?" Stiles swiftly questioned

Scott nods "Armani"

Stiles walks towards the back door as he pulls on the knob quickly figuring out the doors locked "Aw, come on" he begins to look around "alright maybe there's, like, Like a window we can climb through or-"

Harper's eyes rolled slightly as she walked up towards the door "Dissero" she mutters with a flick of her hand the door quickly flung opened.

"or, just open the door by using some weird magically witchy words" Stiles mumbles "How did I not think of that one"

"Cause you're not that smart" Maia smirked cheekily at the boy.

Scott and Harper walk into the building, Stiles and Maia following shortly after, while Stiles rambles on at Maia about her insult.

Harper's eyes squint slightly from the flashing lights filling the club as she looks around not even noticing another woman in there besides her and Maia.

"Why are we the only girls?" She questions her voice loud to be heard over the loud music blaring in the club. Her eyes widen quickly realizing what type of club they were in.

"Dude, everybody in here's a dude" Scott's voice filled her ears as she turns her attention onto him "I think we're in a gay club" he adds

Harper, Maia and Scott look to their right towards Stiles, Harper couldn't help but laugh at the boy, she quickly covered her mouth but that did little to help.

"man nothing get's past those keen werewolf senses, huh, Scott?" Stiles stood with an unamused expression as he was surrounded by drag queens, one running their hand through his hair.

Maia laughed abruptly, the girl pulling out her phone and taking a picture of the interaction

Stiles rejoined his friends giving a stern look at the Levine "delete that"

Maia chuckled "not a chance" she wiggled her phone "this is my blackmail"

The four begin to walk towards the bar, Stiles hands pat along the table as he spoke "four beers"

"Id's" The bartender asked as he walked towards them. Harper gave the two boys a look not believing they actually think he's going to serve them. the two boys grab their wallets pulling out some sort of identification.

She just looked at the bartender with a shrug and a smile "Forgot my wallet"

"I don't want anything" Maia pipped up.

The bartender eyed the girls "this doesn't exactly seem like your type of club"

Harper placed her hands on Scott and Stiles shoulders "we're their personal wing- woman" she lied with a smile.

The two boys head snap towards her.

The bartender nods as he picks up Scott and Stiles Id's before chuckling "How about three cokes"

"Rum and coke? Sure" Stiles said to the bartender who had an unamused look on his face, Harper's head fell forward.

Stiles waved himself off "You know coke's fine, actually. I'm driving anyways"

the bartender signals to a different one as he moves on to the other people. A different bartender sets the three drinks onto the table "That one's paid for" he nods his head towards another guy who raises his beer.

Scott grabbed his drink with this almost proud smile on his face as he looks at Stiles.

Stiles rolled his eyes grabbing his drink "Oh, shut up"

Scott chuckled "what? I didn't say anything"

"yeah, well, your face did" Stiles retorts as he turns around. Harper tilts her head to the side as she grabs her drink doing the same "Hate to agree with Stiles but he has a point"

"Then why agree" Maia commented with a shrug earning a slight chuckle from Harper.

Harper's eyes search the crowd for Danny until she finally spots him setting her drink down "I found Danny" her and Stiles say in unison, the two sharing a look.

"I found Jackson" Scott's words quickly gained the Hales attention as she looks at him before following his gaze to the ceiling, she looks down towards the dance floor the Kanima- Jackson being right above Danny

"Get Danny" Scott uttered just loud enough for his friend to hear

"What are you gonna do?" Stiles asks him, Scott's nails quickly replace with claws.

Harper glanced at Maia "go with stiles" before Maia could even protest the Hale had already began following the McCall boy.

Harper and Scott break apart for a moment, the girls eyes trained on the kanima crawling across the ceiling. The Hales brows pull together as fog emits from the fog machine covering the scaly creature.

She glances to Scott for a moment but once she looks back up, the kanima was nowhere to be found.

"Scott, I lost it" Harper announced, her eyes scanning the club.

"Keep looking" Scott answered in reply to which Harper could assume he lost sight of 'Jackson' too.

Harper closed her eyes for a moment trying to concentrate, searching for any sound that the kanima could be making until the faint thudding of people hitting the floor quickly caught her attention.

"Jackson!" Scott shouts, Harper's pace quickens through the club until she comes to a stop, her eyes landing on the bright red glow from Derek's own.

"Derek!" She shouts.

"No, Don't!" Scott protest but the pair were too late Derek had sliced open the kanima's throat, a faint hiss leaving its lips.

Screams begin to echo throughout the club, people finally noticing the trail of paralyzed men.

People began to run shoving past everyone, Harper stumbled slightly before looking at Scott the pair rushing out the back entrance.

The run slowing, Harper pointed to the trail of blood going through the parking lot.

"Let's hope this son of a bitch can heal" she uttered as the two wolves follow the trail.

After walking a few more feet, Harper notices Jackson body laying behind a car, blood covering his chest and the boy laying completely still.

Scott continued to take more steps closer to the boy while Harper stayed put, believing he was dead anyways. That was until Jackson stirred coughing.

Harper and Scott sharing a shocked look, the McCall rushing to Jackson's side.

Faint footsteps gained the Hales attention as she notices Stiles and Maia running their way.

Scott looked between the group "what do we do with him now?"

Maia pursed her lips "I think we need to start thinking these plans through"

Harper took a deep breath before her gaze moves back to Scott and Jackson.

⇜⇝

Scott climbed back into the jeep as he spoke "I couldn't get anything out of Danny"

"Okay, can we just get the hell out of her now before one of my dad's deputies sees me?" Stiles questions with urgency

Scott nodded as stiles went to start the vehicle, Maia glanced into the trunk where Jackson was lying.

Sirens pulled each teens attention in front of them as a squad car comes to a stop.

Stiles hands fly up "oh my god. Oh my god, could this get any worse?" He looks to the others.

Jackson groans causing the Stilinski to spin around with wide eyes "that was rhetorical!"

Harper's lips pursed "I'd suggest you hurry up so we can get the hell out of here with, Lizard boy" she points over her shoulder towards the trunk.

Scott points to Stiles' dads car "get rid of him"

Stiles eye twitched "get rid of him? We're at a crime scene and he's the sheriff!"

Scott's mouth opened and closed, trying to think of an answer "do something"

Maia leaned forward "literally anything at this point"

Stiles flung his arms drastically as he flung the jeep door open and slamming it shut.

"Is he always this dramatic?" Maia questions looking between the McCall and Hale.

Harper laughs with a nod. The Stilinski moving towards his father. Ruffling coming from the trunk pulled the three's attention as Jackson began to sit up "what's- what's going on?"

Harper looked to Scott with wide eyes "Jackson, Jackson, be quiet" Scott whispered as he leaned back trying to shove the boy back down. Which worked successfully.

Harper looked back at the two Stilinski's the girl focusing on them as she listened in on the conversation.

Noah walked up to his son, arms crossed "what are you doing here?' He questioned the boy.

Stiles scoffs "what do you mean what am I doing here? What? It's a club" he motions to the building before his shoulders bunched "it's a club, we were clubbing, you know? At the club"

Harper's eyes fall closed, her head falling forward with a sigh.

Noah looked at the building "not exactly your type of club"

Stiles falls silent for a moment "uh" the boy trials off "well, dad, there's a conversation that-"

"You're not gay" Noah bluntly said, cutting his sons short.

Stiles mouth falls agape, the boy looking almost offended by that statement "I could be!"

Noah shook his head, eyeing the boy "not dressed like that"

Stiles looks at his clothing from that statement.

"Dumbass" Harper uttered before she climbed into the front seat, and opening the door and getting out herself.

Her gaze landing onto stiles who was trying to stop his father from going towards the vehicle.

Noah holds up a finger "this is the second crime scene that you just happened to have shown up on. And at this point I've been fed so many lies, I'm not sure I know the kid standing in front of me. Now what the hell is going on?"

Maia looked to Scott as Jackson sat up again "Scott" she uttered the McCall boy looking slightly panicked.

Jackson clearly wasn't as unconscious as he was before so telling him to be quiet and shove the boy down wasn't an option.

Maia moved her hand back as she punched the boy directly in the face, knocking him unconscious.

Scott looked at her with wide eyes, the Levine just shrugging "he's quiet now"

Harper jogged up to Stiles and the Sheriff. The girl plastering a bright smile on her face "sheriff" she greeted "I don't know what your son has been out here rambling about, but, I'll tell you what happened"

Noah looked at her "alright, well why are you four here?"

Harper nods "well, Danny just broke up with his boyfriend and Scott and Stiles wanted to take him out to have some fun" the girl shrugs "me and Maia tagged along 'cause your son here doesn't really know much about men" she laughed lightly earning a look from Stiles.

Noah was silent for a moment which caused the Hale to give an anxious glance to Stiles then to Scott and Maia.

Noah nodded "that's really nice of you guys, you're good friends"

Harper smiled with a nod, Stiles patted his dad's arm with his own smile the two teens heading back to the jeep.

Harper gave the boy a look "the hell was that?"

Stiles looked at her with furrowed brows "what?"

"Dad there's a conversation that" she said her tone mocking his as she shoved him lightly "like he's gonna think you're gay"

Stiles opened the door allowing the girl to get back in "I could be!" He shouted once again before he got back in himself.

⇜⇝

The group were traveling down the road, trying to figure out where to bring Jackson who still lay unconscious in the trunk.

"What about your house?" Stiles suggested, looking to the McCall boy.

Scott quickly shook his head "not with my mom there"

Harper leaned forward "so where are we supposed to take him?"

Scott sighed with a shrug "we need to take him somewhere... where we can hold him long enough to figure out what to do with him- Or long enough to convince him he's dangerous"

Stiles nods, his face contorting slightly "I still say we just kill him"

"Oh, yes, I agree" Harper pipped in with a nod.

"Wait" Maia hold her hand up "didn't we just watch this kid get his throat slit open almost clean of his head and live- how would we kill him?"

"We're not killing him" Scott exclaimed with wide eyes looking at each of them.

Harper tossed her hands in the air with a roll of her eyes.

"God, fine" Stiles groans out taking breath "okay- I got an idea"

"Does it involve breaking the law" Scott questioned

Stiles lips pursed with a nod "by now, don't you think that's a given?"

Scott leaned back in his seat "I was just trying to be optimistic" there was a certain type of sass behind his tone.

Harper snorted "it's a shock we haven't all been arrested yet"

. . .

It was now morning, the four stood at the top of the hill, trying to figure out what exactly to do.

"I'm gonna kill you" was faintly heard from the van a few feet away from them.

Harper pursed her lips "killing him might be the only option left now"

The four share a look of slight concern.

⇜⇝

Harper leaned against the sheriffs van, Stiles coming from the back with an angered look "fun conversation, huh?"

Stiles rolled his eyes "he doesn't believe me"

Harper shrugged "he probably doesn't remember him being the Kanima- like an alter ego"

Stiles tossed his arms up "yeah, but this alter ego is out killing people"

Harper's head tilted with raised brows as she hummed. The Stilinski pulling out Jackson's phone, texting Jackson's father.

Harper heard faint rustling of leaves crunching underneath feet, the girl looking over her shoulder noticing the Argent girl making her way towards them- Stiles still not noticing.

Stiles shot back with a light scream as she came up beside him "oh my god!" Stiles bumping into the Hale girl "relax" she uttered.

"They know" Allison quickly spoke looking at the two men.

Stiles brows furrow "what?"

"They know Jackson's missing" she exclaimed.

Harper stood straight, holding a hand up "wait how, Stiles been texting his dad"

Stiles motions the girl "exactly, they don't have a clue"

Allison shook her head "my grandfather told me his parents went to the police. They know" she spoke slowly so that her words would get across.

Stiles mouth falls open the boy holding the phone with his index finger and thumb, he jumps up and down slightly before holding it out to Allison "chuck that" he drops the phone, running to the door of the van pulling it open

Allison and Harper follow him as his listens to the radio dispatcher "all available units proceed to Beacon Hills Preserve as instructed. Proceed with caution until Sheriff Stilinski's arrival"

Stiles looks over his shoulders to the two girls with wide eyes.

. . .

After they had moved the van to a different location not long after Scott had met up with them along with Maia.

The McCall sighed "if Jackson doesn't remember being the Kanima, he's definitely not gonna remember stealing Danny's tablet"

Stiles eyes narrow with a shake of his head "why would he steal the thing if he doesn't even know what's on it?"

"What if someone else took it?" Allison suggested.

Maias brows pull together "wouldn't that mean someone else knows who he is?"

Harper raised a hand "which could mean someone is protecting him"

Allison nods "like the bestiary says, 'The kanima seeks a friend,' right?"

Stiles shifts "okay, hold on. So, somebody watches Jackson make a video of himself turning into the kanima and then just erases part of it so he wouldn't know? I mean, who would do that?"

Allison's lips form a line as she looks at the others "somebody who wanted to protect him?"

"There's something else" Scott added, looking to Stiles "you said the only thing you found online about the kanima is that it goes after murderers. What if that's actually true?"

Stiles shook his head "well, no, it can't be. It tried to kill all of us, remember? I don't know about you three, but I haven't murder anybody lately" Stiles glances to the Hale.

He watches as the girl shifts, scratching her brow "um, I did on a full moon when I was thirteen, so" she uttered avoided their gazes.

Allison and Scott looking shocked at this information "it was an accident" she clarified.

Maia took a step forward "yeah but an accident is different from cold blooded murderer right? So you shouldn't be a target"

Scott shakes his head holding a hand out " but I don't think that it was actually trying to kill us." He looked to the Argent "remember when we were at Isaac's the first time, it just, went right by us, didn't it?"

Allison nodded "you're right, it just ran off"

Scott turned to Stiles "and it didn't kill you in the mechanic's garage"

Harper raised her brows "yeah but it tried to kill stiles, Derek, and myself in the pool"

Scott's face contorts "did it?"

Stiles scoffs "it would've it was waiting for us to come out"

Scott was silent for a moment "what if it was trying to keep you in?"

Stiles mouth opens as he lets out a breath "why do I feel so violated all of a sudden?"

"Because there's something else going on. We don't know what it is. We don't know anything about what's going on with Jackson or why someone's protecting him-"

"Know thy enemy" Allison uttered cutting the McCall short "just something my grandfather said"  she clarified noticing the looks she was receiving.

Stiles raised a hand "alright, I got it. Kill Jackson. Problem solved"

Harper gave him a look with crossed arms before she paused considering the motion.

Scott and Allison give him a look, along with Maia. Stiles held his arms out with a shrug.

"He risked his life for us. Against Peter, you remember that?" Scott countered

Harper scoffed "it was for his own personal gain, he wanted the bite, we all knew this"

Stiles looks at her with raised brows "exactly, he got the bite from Derek. It's funny how he just got exactly what he wanted by supposedly risking his life for us, it's funny"

"It doesn't mean he's still not worth saving" Scott argued.

"Debatable" Harper uttered before looking at Maia as she took a breath "I might have to side with them here, killing him might not create a solution"

Stiles motions to the van "it's always something with him though"

Scott tossed his head back "he doesn't know what he's doing"

"So what" Stiles asked with a roll of his eyes.

"So, I didn't either!" Scott stated motioned to Harper "Clearly Harper didn't"

Harper looked to her feet, as she adjusted her crossed arms. "I didn't as well" Maia added.

Scott turned to Allison "you remember when I almost killed you and Jackson?" Allison slowly nods while Scott continues "I had someone to stop me, Harper and Derek. He has nobody"

"That's his own fault"

Scott shakes his head "doesn't matter if we can save him, we should try"

⇜⇝

Harper stood next to stiles staring at the open back of the van "you should probably get Scott and Allison" she uttered the Stilinski nodding saying a yep as he jogged towards the vehicle.

Shortly after the three come running back over. The two staring at the back of the van.

" I have to tell my father" she announced, while Scott was slowly walking away from the group "Scott? He's gonna kill someone"

Scott took a shaky breath "okay, tell him, tell him everything"

"Scott" Stiles began with a shrug "I gotta tell mine too"

"I don't have anyone to tell, so" Harper muttered as she shifted.

"It's all my fault"

"It's not" Allison countered the McCall's statement "but we have to tell them, we're just a bunch of teenagers, we can't handle this"

"You're right" Scott agreed with her.

"How are you gonna make your dad believe this?" Allison's question was to the Stilinski

Scott turned to them his eyes glowing amber "he'll believe me" he looked to Harper giving her a nod "us"

. . .

"Can you buzz us in, I gotta see my dad" Stiles said the man sitting at the front desk the man giving him a nod the faint buzzing sound hitting Harper's ears before Stiles pulled the door open.

Harper walked beside the Stilinski "so, you sure you wanna do this?" She asked the boy, knowing how badly he wanted his father out of the whole mess.

"I have to" was all he said in response as they reach the Sheriffs office door.

Harper's eyes widen as she notices Jackson sitting and talking with his father, the boy giving the three a cocky smile.

"Scott, Stiles, Harper" Noah began as he stepped in front of the doorway "perfect timing" he motioned over his shoulder "have you met Jackson's father, Mr. David Whittemore? Esquire"

Jackson leaned forward "that means lawyer"

Harper glared at him with a fake smile.

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