Chapter 16

I wake up and take my head off of Derek's chest. I didn't really know what to do, as he was still asleep.

So I just climbed out of bed, put on my pyjamas and headed downstairs. "Morning." I say when I see dad buttering some toast. "Morning sweetheart." He says and I smile. "I'm gonna head out in a minute." He says and I nod. "Alright, well have a good day." I say and he smiles. "You too." He says before heading upstairs to check on the boys.

Whilst he's up there, I ger started on breakfast.

"Make sure these boys get to school." Dad says as he leaves. "Will do dadio." I say making him chuckle.

I was in the middle of cooking when Scott and Stiles came down to pester me. "Did you find anything out?" I ask them and they reply with a sad "no."

When Derek comes into the kitchen, I hand him some coffee. "Thanks." He says before leaning against the counter and taking a sip.

"When did you get here?' Scott asks. "He's always here. He's never at his own place." Stiles says and I roll my eyes.

"Let's go." I say pushing Scott and Stiles to the table, with their plates in my hands. "No seriously Nia and Derek are connected at the hip. They're always together. It's actually quite disgusting." Stiles says and I roll my eyes.

"Just because you're jealous Stiles, doesn't mean you can be cruel." I say putting their plates infront of them.

"Did you find anything last night?" Derek asks. "Not really." Stiles says and Derek sighs.

"Look, we have to get them out tonight." Derek says and I agree with him. "Meet at my place at 5, we'll go over the plan." Derek says and the boys agree.

After Derek showers and gets dressed, he heads back to the loft to check up on Issac.

After he leaves, I get in the shower and get dressed and ready for the day myself. I put on some light blue jeans and a lilac crop top, do my makeup and beach curl my hair.

****

I did some simple chores around the house and an early dinner, which was put in the microwave for dad and Stiles.

I also went to the coffee store between 11 and 3 to help out and make sure things were going okay.

When I get to Derek's it was like 4:15. I head up to the loft and help myself in. "Hello." I call walking into the loft.

"Yeah we're here." Derek says coming into my eye view. "Hello." I say and walk past him, brushing his arm slightly.

"How's Issac?" I ask sitting down on the sofa. "Issac is fine." Issac says coming down some stairs. "Good, im glad. The quicker the return for you to go back to school." I say and Issac groans.

"What is your obsession with me going to school?" Issac asks and I smile and shrug. "Education is an important thing." I say and he rolls his eyes before sitting down with me.

I sat with the boys until Peter got here and which was slowly follwed by Stiles and Scott. We then proceed to stand around the table as Stiles goes over the plan.

"You see this." He says pointing to a point on the blue prints of the building. "This is how they got it. It's a rooftop air conditioning vent. It leads down, inside into the wall of the vault. Which is here." He says circling stuff in red.

"One of the robbers was lowered into this shaft. Now that place is so small, it took them 12 hours to drill into that wall. Which is stone by the way." He says looking around at us.

"Then throughout the rest of the night, they siphoned the cash to the guys back on the roof, through that one little shaft through the wall. Boom." Stiles says and me and Derek exchange looks.

"Can we fit in there?" Scott asks. "Yes we can but very very barely. And they also patched the wall obviously so we're gonna need a drill of some kind. Im thinking maybe a diamond--" "look forget the drill." Derek says cutting Stiles off.

"Sorry?" Stiles asks turning to me and Derek. "If I go in first, how much space do I have?" Derek asks.

"What do you think you're gonna do Derek?" Stiles asks standing up properly. "You're gonna punch through the wall?" Stiles asks cockily and I roll my eyes. "Yes Stiles, Im gonna punch through the wall." Derek says dryly to Stiles.

"Okay big guy, let's see it. Let's see that fist. That fist. That big old fist. Come on. Get it out there." Stiles says sarcastically  as Derek raises his fist. "Big bad wolf, yeah look at that." Stiles says and I look at Stiles utterly confused.

"You see this?" Stiles asks putting his hand out infront of Derek's fist. "That's maybe three inches off room to gather enough force to punch through solid--" Derek cuts Stiles off by punching him.

Stiles stumbled around repeatedly muttering the word "ow." Whilst I tried not to laugh at the pain he was in. I am the best big sister.

"He can do it." Stiles says and I pat Derek's back proudly.

"I'll get through the wall. Whose following me down." Derek says looking towards the other werewolves.

"Don't look at me. Im not up to fighting speed yet." Peter says and I nod. "Issac isn't going either. He still needs to recover from yesterday's antics." I say and Derek agrees.

"Honestly, without Issac out of commission you aren't looking at very good odds for you." Peter says and I look up at Derek worried.

"So im supposed to just let them die." Derek states annoyed at Peter. "One of them is already dead." Peter says and I roll my eyes. "We don't necessarily know that." I say the same time Derek says "We don't know that."

"Do I have to remind you what we're up against here? A pack of Alphas. All of them. Killers. And if that's not enough to scare your testicles back into your stomach, try and remember two of them combine bodies to form one giant Alpha. Sure Erica and Boyd were sweet kids and they'll be missed." Peter says and I groan.

"Can someone kill him again please?" Stiles asks and I scoff. Peter glares at Stiles and then turns to Derek. "Derek. Seriously not worth the risk." He says before folding his arms over his chest.

"What about you?" Derek asks turning to the boys. "Yeah, if you want me to come--" "not you." Derek cuts Stiles off. "Scott." Stiles says then points at Scotf nodding and I scrunch my face up and laugh.

"I don't know about Erica. But if Boyd is still alive, we have to do something. We have to try." Scott says. "But..." Derek says waiting for Scott to add. "Whose the other girl? The one locked in there with Boyd?" Scott asks

"Derek be careful." I say as him and Scott head for the door. "Will do." He says and smiles at me gently before heading out. "You too Scott." I call after them.

I sat down on a chair whilst playing some games on my phone, whereas Peter on the sofa and Issac went upstairs. Stiles however, just stood by the window staring at the moon, whilst it was full.

"I can't take waiting around like this, you know? It's nerve-racking. My nerves are racked. They're severely racked. Racked." Stiles rambles.

"I could beat you unconscious and wake you when it's over." Peter says and I laugh to Stiles looks at me firmly. "Sorry." I say and turn my focus back to my game.

"You think Erica's really dead?" Stiles asks and I look at Peter. "You think I really care?"  Peter asks.

"I just... I don't understand the bank, though okay? Like, why wouldn't they chain them up in some underground lair or something? They're an Alpha pack, right? So shouldn't they have a lair?" Stiles asks ans I scoff. A lair? "They're werewolves, not Bond villains." Peter says.

"Wait a sec. Wait a sec. Maybe they're living there. You know?" He asks walking pacing the room. "Like, maybe the bank vault reminds them of their little wolf dens." Stiles rambles and me and Peter look at each other confused.

"Wolf dens?" Peter asks. "Yeah, wolf dens. Where do you live?" Stiles asks and I turn to look at peter curiously. "In an underground network of caves hidden deep in the woods." Peter says and I chuckle. "Whoa, really?" Stiles asks enthusiastically. "No, you idiot. I have an apartment downtown." Peter says and I laugh.

"Okay, fine but still that just proves that there's something up with the bank. And why wait around for the full moon, huh? Why not just kill them whenever they want to." Stiles asks and I agree with him, it doesn't make sense.

"Maybe they think it's poetic." Peter says sarcastically. "They've had three full moons to be poetic." Stiles says annoyed. "And here you've only had one full hour to be so annoying." Peter says and I scoff. "He's kinda right. Have you taken your adderall?" I ask and Stiles groans.

Peter suddenly stands up and me and Stiles look at him confused. "What were the walls made of?" He asks. "What?" Stiles asks looking around the loft as Peter heads over to the blue prints.

"I don't know, like wood and brick or...." "No, no, no the vault. The vault. The walls what are they made out of?" Peter cuts Stiles off.

I follow them over to the table and look down at the blue prints. "Doesn't say anything. Where would it say the materials, the type of stone?" Peter asks and I glance at him confused then look at Stiles worried. "Oh, hang on." Stiles says before ruffling through more papers.

"Here. It's gotta be in there." Stiles says putting a thick stack of paper on the table. The two boys then begin skimming through the papers.

"There. That's it." Stiles says and I strain my neck to read it. Hecatolite? "Hecatolite." Peter reads aloud. "Is that awful? It sounds awful." Stiles says and I nod. "I agree with Stiles." I say to Peter.

"Get them on the phone. Call them. Now!" Peter says to Stiles and Stiles immediately starts ringing them. "Okay why?" Stiles asks as he starts to dial. "Boyd and that girl aren't gonna kill each other. They're gonna kill Derek and Scott." Peter says and my eyes widen as we wait for the response from Derek and Scott.

"Stiles, now is not the best time." Scott answers whilst whispering. "Scott! No, listen to me, okay? Look, you gotta get out of there. The walls of the vault are made with a mineral called Hecatolite. It scatters the moonlight." Stiles rambles.

"What does that mean?" Scott asks and I just sigh and grow more and more worried. "It keeps the moonlight out, okay? They haven't felt the full moon in months." Stiles shouts down the phone. "Think of it like the gladiators in the Roman Colosseum. They used to starve the lions for three days, making them more vicious and out of control. Deucalion has kept them from shifting for three full moons, diminishing their tolerance to it." Peter adds.

"Scott, they're gonna be stronger--" Stiles says before gettinf cut off by Peter. "More savage, more bloodthirsty. Scott, they're the lions. They're the starved lions, and you and Derek just stepped into the colessum." Peter says.

"Derek we got a problem, a reallt big problem." We hear Scott say. Then we don't hear much so Stiles shouts "Scott" repeatedly.

"No! Wait!" Scott yells and I look at Stiles worried. This was followed by growls and Stiles shouting for Scott, but no answer and the call ends.

We get a call of help asking for Issac and possibly Peter if it gets worse.

"I need to go. I need to go see Lydia." Stiles says after a while and I nod. "Good luck." I sat before sitting on the sofa and sinking in.

I sat for hours on the sofa just hoping and waiting for Derek to come back, with everyone and tell me how it went.

It got to a point where I was on the verge of falling asleep, I couldn't stay awake.

****

"Nia." A voice repeats and I jump up. "I'm awake. I'm awake." I say meeting Derek's eyes.

"How is it? Did everything go alright? Where's Issac? Where's Boyd? Is Erica okay?" I bombard him with my questions.

"Oh my god, what happened to you?" I ask noticing his shirt had been ripped and he was previously bleeding. He was covered in dry blood and I instantly felt sick. "Im okay." He says reassuring me.

I notice two people behind him, one was Issac and one was a girl. I rush over to Issac and hug him. "It wasn't too much was it?" I ask and he shakes his head; no. "Nia, you need to calm down im a werewolf, of course im okay." Issac says and I nod. "I know, I just... I just worry about you guys." I say looking between them.

"Hi, I'm Nia." I say smiling at the petite girl infront of me. "Cora." She says and something strikes inside me. "Cora." I mutter confused.

"She's my sister." Derek says and my eyes widen. "Oh that's amazing." I say before hugging her. She doesn't hug me back at first but she just pats my back awkwardly till I move away.

"Boyd? Erica?" I ask Derek and he sighs. "No." I say sensing that Erica really is dead. "Not Boyd, but Erica." He says and  I sigh as my eyes become glossy.

"Um... I'm gonna need to get home. You know, check on Stiles and my dad. Um... It was nice to meet you." I say to Cora whilst grabbing my stuff and she smiles at me. I kiss both Derek and Issac's cheek before heading to the door.

"Wait." I say when I get to the door and turn around. "Boyd? He's okay right?" I ask Derek and he nods. "Thank god." I mutter and head to my car and home.

When I get home, Dad hadn't come or gone all night. I lock up and head upstairs. I check in on Stiles who was fast asleep in his room. I smile knowing that he was okay tonight and then head to my room.

I lock the windows and make sure everything was secure before getting ready for bed. Once I was ready for bed, I climbed onto my side of bed and squeezed my eyes shut and hoped to fall asleep.