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MIAH AWAKENS with a sharp gasp as the car she's currently in goes over a bump on the road.

Alongside Allison and Lydia slowly following behind the bus Scott, Stiles, Isaac and the others are on heading towards a meet for lacrosse.

The car jolts over a pothole again leaving Miah winces from the sudden discomfort, "You okay, Memi?" Lydia asks noticing the winces coming from her cousin.

"Yeah. I'm all good. Just healing still." Miah shrugs sadly, Allison looks at the girl sitting behind her concerned understanding why she's staring off into the distance and wincing from the wound on her torso's side.

"Stay hydrated Mims, please." Allison softy says, Miah nods picking up the drink bottle Lydia previously passed back to the blonde.

"I will. Thanks Als." Miah says taking a large gulp of the water.

"Am I getting too close?" Allison asks both of the girls who share the same look.

"I'm getting too close. Aren't I?" Allison asks nervously, "That depends. Are you just following the bus, or are you planning on mounting it at some point?" Lydia asks tilting her head.

"Yeah, I should back off." Allison replies sitting back into her seat backing off a little bit.

"Well, that also depends. Do you mean the bus, or the ex-boyfriend you're currently stalking?" Lydia asks looking at the short haired brunette beside her.

Before looking back at Miah's who staring off into the sun, "Well, after what happened─ I'm not letting him out of my sight." Allison says.

Miah looks up curiously wanting to know what happened but decides against asking.

"Hmm." Lydia hums, "And, by the way, this all started when he came knocking at my door." Allison states.

"For what?" Miah asks, remembering seeing Scott entering Allison's apartment while she was leaving to head home.

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ALLISON BEGINS telling her two best friends what happened the night Miah left and how Scott came into her bedroom.

And that they got carried away with Scott trying to prove to the girl that she wouldn't be able to take him in a fight and proving her right pinning her to the wall.

Scott then leaves the apartment turning towards his ex girlfriend telling her that the alpha's scare the hell out of him and they should scare her too.

Miah gets a text message a block away from her house and rushes over to Derek's loft reading the text message off Cora, "Okay. I'm here." Miah says entering the open sliding door.

Derek softly smiles at the blonde girl, Cora hugs the blonde, as someone comes running into the loft ten minutes after Miah's arrival.

"I know where they are." Scott states looking at Miah confused at how she got here so fast, "Same building as the Argents. We know." Derek says looking at the boy.

"Cora and I followed the twins." Boyd states looking at Scott, "Then they want you to know." Scott states as Miah nods agreeing with the boy coming to stand at her side.

"Or, more likely, they don't care." Peter suggests shrugging, "That's true too." Miah mumbles, "What is this?" Scott asks looking at the layout on the table.

"Isn't it obvious? The schemers are scheming, coming up with a coup de main. Better known as a pre-emptive strike." Peter says looking at his nephew beside him.

"You're going after them?" Scott asks looking from Derek to Miah, "Tomorrow. And you're gonna help us." Derek orders.

"You know I'm in. Always." Miah states patting the alpha's back and smiling at Cora who immediately returns the gesture.

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MIAH CONTINUES looking out the backseat windows remembering the fight they previously went through, "He can't be dead." Miah mumbles sadly.

Lydia taps her thigh in sympathy hearing the mumbles coming from her cousin's mouth from the passenger seat.

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MIAH SITS on the couch listening in what the plans are for taking down the alpha pack, "They're one floor above them. In the penthouse right about Allison." Derek says.

"So, kill them first? That's the plan?" Scott asks sceptically, "They won't even see it coming." Boyd says looking at the beta standing beside him.

"Why is the default plan always murder? Just once, can someone try to come up with something that doesn't involve killing everyone?" Scott exasperatedly asks.

"You never get tired of being so blandly moral, do you?" Peter scoffs looking Scott up and down, "Not that I disagree with him." Peter states looking at Derek beside him.

"I do. Why do we need this kid?" Cora asks annoyed, "This kid helped save your life and you know we can't just sit back and wait for them to make the first move." Derek states looking at his younger sister.

"You can't beat a pack of Alphas." Miah states getting up from where she's seated earning confused looks from Derek, Peter and the teenagers.

"That's why we're going after Deucalion. Just him." Cora states while Miah chuckles in amusement getting annoyed and frustrated looks from everyone but Scott in the loft.

Miah holds her arms up in surrender and motions for them to continue.

"Not like I was held captive for three months by these alpha's. But hey what would I know." Miah says shrugging looking at Scott, who's smiling softly at the mage hybrid.

"Cut off the head of the snake, and the body dies." Boyd says looking at Miah and Scott.

"Only this isn't a snake. It's a Hydra and, like Scott and Miah are saying. They're all Alphas." Peter says.

"Deucalion's still the leader." Derek states looking at his non related younger sister trying to figure out why she's so frightened of these alpha's.

She shrugs seeing the look of the man's focus on her, silently telling him she'll still be here every step of the way, knowing her powers are needed for this situation.

"Let's hope so. Because you know what happened when Hercules cut off one of the heads of the Hydra?" Peter asks, "Two more grew back in its place." Scott states.

"Somebody's been doing their summer reading." Peter states impressed with Scott.

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LYDIA CONTINUES reading the textbook she burrowed highlighting the important facts she needs.

"So, is that whole not letting them out of your sight-thing literal, or more like a general rule?" Lydia asks.

"Why?" Allison asks confused, "You're running on fumes." Lydia states, Allison groans looking at the fuel light sitting on empty.

"Yeah. And I'm pretty sure that bus holds a lot more gas than this Toyota." Lydia states, "What if we stop?" Allison asks.

Miah swallows leaning forward listening in on the conversation more closely.

"Is it really that big of a deal? I mean, so we lose them. We know where they're headed." Lydia states.

"You didn't see what happened." Miah states from the backseat now joining the conversation.

Allison agrees nodding at what the blonde girl just stated, "I know who started it." Lydia mutters.

Both Miah and Allison scoff, "Is that what Aiden told you?" Allison asks, Miah leans on the console in the middle of the two front seats.

"Aiden? Whoa. Woah, whoa. Hold on a second, is that why you invited me on this whole road-trip-thing? Oh, my gosh. You're keeping an eye on me and them." Lydia says looking from Miah and Allison.

"So, there's nothing going on between you two?" Miah asks, "I'm appalled by the insinuation." Lydia says, "Nothing?" Allison asks sceptically.

"Nothing." Lydia states, Miah watches as the strawberry blonde applies more of her lip gloss while her eyes look into the mirror like she's remembering something that happened.

Lydia looks to her side sensing both Miah and Allison's gazes in the side of her head, she looks at them both.

"What?" Lydia asks clicking the lipgloss back into its pocket; just as the bus and the other traffic stops attend of them.

Miah groans from the sudden pain shooting up at side, "Memi?" Lydia asks noticing the frown, "I'm okay." Miah nods holding down on the side of her torso.

Seeing the black substance on her grey sweater and curses out loud, gaining the attention of both Allison and Lydia.

Lydia's eyes widen seeing the black blood, "Is that black blood? What the hell Memi?" Lydia screeches worried for the blonde girls health.

Scott gets up from his seat beside Stiles in the bus going towards an angry Boyd sitting beside Isaac, stopping the beta from attacking Ethan on the bus with the other innocent people.

Isaac notices that the teenager is still injured from the previous night's fight against the alphas.

Promising the two betas who look at him worried that his fine and asking both of them to give him a chance to figure something out, which they both agree too reluctantly.

Scott then gets up from where he was leaning against the seat, heading back in the direction of Stiles and his seat beside the window.

"Crisis averted?" Stiles asks letting Scott squeeze his way back into his seat, "Mmhmm." Scott mumbles.

"Okay, good. 'Cause we got another problem. Ethan keeps checking his phone, like, every five minutes, it's like, he's waiting for someone, you know? Like, a message or a signal of some kind. I don't know, something evil though. I can tell, I have a very perceptive eye for evil, you know that." Stiles explains.

Both of the boys look in the direction of Ethan and one of their classmate's Danny sitting beside him.

"I don't like him sitting with Danny." Scott states, "Yeah. Neither do I. I'm gonna see what he's waiting for." Stiles says getting his phone from his pocket.

"What are you doing?" Scott asks confused seeing his best friend texting Danny on his phone.

"I'm gonna ask." Stiles states beginning to spam Danny who denies their request over and over again until he grows annoyed with the Stilinski boy and asks Ethan what's been happening.

Which he messages Stiles and lets him know that someone close to him is very sick and might not make it through the night leaving both Stiles and Scott sharing looks and mumbling the name of Ennis out loud realising that the older alpha man isn't dead, well at least not yet he isn't.

Soon Coach starts blowing his whistle aggressively towards the students that aren't listening to him, he then notices Jared sitting in one of the front seats not looking to crash hot.

Stiles suggests they take a break and pull over and get some fresh air which the Coach immediately shuts down and angrily break downs about the situation.

Stiles shuts up eventually leaning into the seat muttering how much he hates the Coach and then asks Scott if he got ahold of Deaton.

Which Scott denies and says he keeps getting his voicemail, sighing and leaning his head against the bus window.

"That's it. I'm calling Lydia, Miah and Allison." Stiles states getting his phone out of his pocket once again, "How are they gonna help. They're back in Beacon Hills?" Scott wonders confused.

"They're not. They've been following us for hours," Stiles states pointing behind them seeing the Argent girls car not that far behind them, "Pathetic." Stiles scoffs dialling Lydia's number.

Miah looks up from the window hearing a buzzing sound coming from Lydia's pocket signalling she's getting a phone call.

Lydia looks at the two with a look showing the contact labeled Stiles calling her, she sits up straight sighing before answering.

"Hey, Stiles. Yeah, we're just about to walk into a movie. Uh, you know, the popcorn, and..." Lydia says answering the phone call.

"I know you guys are right behind us. Put me on speaker." Stiles says interrupting the strawberry blondes ramble, "Okay." Lydia says putting the phone on speaker for the other two girls to hear.

"Okay, look. Scott's still hurt." Stiles states, "What do you mean still? He's not healing?" Miah says leaning forward from the backseat.

"No, he's not healing. I think he's actually getting worse. The blood's turning, like... a black colour." Stiles explains, which Lydia and Allison look at the blonde knowingly.

"Miah's the same. What's wrong with them?" Lydia asks, "'What's wrong with him?'. I don't─ do I have a Ph.D in lycanthropy? How am I supposed to know that?" Stiles states.

"We need to get him off the bus. We also need to help Miah as well." Allison states.

Miah shakes her head, "I'm all good. Scott comes first." Miah says, "And take him where, a hospital?" Lydia asks.

"If he's dying, yeah. Stiles, there's a rest area about a mile up. Tell the coach to pull over." Miah suggests.

"Yeah. I've been trying." Stiles says annoyed, "Well, reason with him." Allison says, "'Reason?' Have you met this guy?" Stiles frustratedly replies.

"Just try something!" Both Allison and Miah say worried for the boy, Miah leans against the window worried for the boy.

Not noticing Lydia and Allison looking at her from the front with shared glances.

Stiles begins trying to reason with the Coach growing more and more frustrated with the man who keeps interrupting him with his whistle.

Stiles grows more and more angry once the Coach yells in his face which results in the boy yelling back at him.

Hearing the Coach say something to Jared about keeping his eyes on the horizon which makes the Stilinski boy come up with a solution in his head.

Sitting beside the innocent kid who has travel sickness looking at him with a smirk making Jared throw up on the bus, making the bus stop at the rest stop a few miles ahead of them.

Miah watches as students pile out of the bus covering their noses and coughing from the student throwing up on the bus, also hearing the Coach yelling about needing a new bus.

Miah walks beside Scott and Stiles carrying the injured boy into the bathroom, Allison and Lydia look around concerned at someone seeing them.

Scott groans as Miah and Stiles lean him in-between the sinks in the restroom.

Miah looks at the boy groaning and sweating lifting his shirt slowly, seeing the wound and gasping alongside Allison, Lydia and Stiles.

"Oh, my god. Why didn't you tell us?" Allison asks looking at her ex boyfriend, "Sorry." Scott replies weakly looking at Miah who's biting her lip nervously.

"Okay, just give us a second. Okay?" Miah says softly getting off the restroom floor standing beside the others.

"This shouldn't be happening. I've seen him heal from worse than this." Allison says.

"Okay, what do we do, then? Do we just call an ambulance?" Stiles asks.

Miah looks over at Scott noticing his eyes rolling in the back of his head, "What if it's too late? What if they can't help?" Miah asks biting her lower lip.

"We gotta do something." Stiles states, "You know. It could be psychological." Lydia suggests, "What do you mean? Like, psychosomatic?" Stiles asks.

"Somatoformic." Lydia says, Stiles tries to repeat the word Lydia previously said.

"A physical illness from a psychogenic cause? Yes, it's all in his head." Lydia suggests looking at the three who are worriedly looking at one another.

"All in his head? Because of Derek, he's not letting himself heal 'cause Derek died." Stiles explains while Miah and Allison nod.

"So, what do we do?" Allison asks.

Lydia goes through her bag looking for a sewing kit, "Stitch him up." Lydia says showing the three the kit.

Miah exhales, Allison runs her hands in her hair anxiously, "I'm serious. Maybe all he needs to do is just believe it's healing." Lydia states.

Allison, Miah and Stiles look at and rush to get things ready for the mini procedure they're going to be doing on the McCall boy.

Miah begins heating up the needle as Allison looks at the even more sweaty Scott leaning against the wall, "He's gonna need another shirt. Where's his bag?" Allison asks.

"Um. I'm gonna get it. I hate needles anyway, so..." Stiles says looking at Miah who's hearing the needle up.

"Uh. Do you know what you're doing?" Stiles asks.

"Yeah, my father taught me." Allison confirms, "I mean, how fast are you gonna? I mean, the bus, like the bus could leave." Stiles rambles anxiously.

"Well, you just make sure it doesn't leave." Miah says, "I can help." Lydia states, Miah goes to leave with both Lydia and Stiles.

Scott groans out, "Mi. Stay." Scott weakly says looking at the blonde who nods and motions for the two to rush outside and get the things they need.

Allison anxiously smiles at Miah, who leans down beside the Argent girl.

"Okay. Okay, stay with me. Stay with me, okay? Stay with me." Miah says running her hands against his jaw and cheek bones.

"I'm tired." Scott weakly mumbles, "Scott, just look at me, okay? Just keep looking at me." Miah demands softly.

Scott looks at the blonde getting lost in her eyes and softly smiling at the girl he's forming a crush on.

Both Miah and Scott block out Allison from the side of them as she begins stitching the boy up.

Miah looks down seeing that Allison's done stitching the boy's wound up.

"I'll go outside to see where Stiles and Lydia are." Allison says nervously exiting the restroom leaving Miah in the bathroom alone with the McCall boy.

"Okay, Scott." Miah says looking up at the boy seeing his closed his eyes and fallen unconscious.

Miah begins calling his name over and over again growing worried the boy won't wake from being unconscious, "Scott!" Miah yells making Scott gasp awake startled.

"It's my fault." Scott says sadly, "Scott, hey. Look at me, it's okay." Miah says softly.

Scott looks down seeing his wound stitched up, "Did you do that?" Scott asks.

"Allison did." Miah smiles softly, "Nice." Scott says still weak but impressed, "Can you stand?" Miah asks backing off the tiled floor.

Scott grunts standing up from being situated on the wall, "Okay. Put this on." Miah says grabbing the shirt Lydia brought into the restroom, helping the McCall boy put the material over his head.

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SCOTT BEGINS putting his jacket on getting ready to leave his house.

Turning around seeing Isaac leaning against his doorframe, "Woah." Scott says gasping from the sudden scare.

"Where are you going?" Isaac asks curiously, "Uh. I was gonna go get some food to eat." Scott says.

"Oh, cool. I'll come with you." Isaac states, "Nah, dude, it's okay. I can eat alone." Scott says.

"What are you getting?" Isaac asks already knowing what his roommates doing.

"Uh, Mexican." Scott answers, "Dude, I love Mexican." Isaac states.

"Isaac. I can eat alone, it's okay." Scott says anxiously, "You're not going alone. Come on." Isaac says grabbing the helmet off Scott leaving the house and setting off for the abandoned mall.

Getting off to motorcycle together, Scott looks at the beta, "We're just gonna talk to him, okay? Try to reason with him, that's it, all right?" Scott states seeing the look on his friend's face.

"What?" Scott asks, "Nothing. It's just that... uh, I'm actually kind of hungry now." Isaac states shrugging, "So am I." Scott says walking towards the direction Deucalion currently is.

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SCOTT WRAPS his arm around Miah's shoulder as the blonde leads them out of the rest room.

"Is he okay? Are you okay?" Lydia asks rushing up to the two alongside Allison who's looking her ex boyfriend over making sure his okay.

Scott nods looking around, "Yeah. Stiles. Where's Stiles?" Scott asks making Lydia sigh lightly.

"Trying to stall Coach." Lydia states, Allison wraps her arm around Scott's other side helping him walk.

"We still don't have gas." Lydia says, "I'm not leaving him. I'm also guessing neither is Allison." Miah says.

"Then we have to leave the car." Lydia suggests.

"Sounds good." Allison says looking at Miah who's already nodding, "What?" Lydia asks.

Miah and Allison help Scott walk over to the crowd of people.

"That wasn't an actual suggestion. Allison, Miah, wait! Aw, screw it." Lydia says following after the mage hybrid and huntress.

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SCOTT AND Isaac walk over towards the escalators where Deucalion's standing─ looking at one another unsure about their decision, "You didn't come alone." Deucalion states.

"Yeah. This is Isaac." Scott says, "I'm not talking about Isaac." Deucalion says.

Scott turns around seeing Derek and the others minus Miah walking towards them.

Transformed into their werewolf sides, "You knew I would do this? Derek, don't. You can't do this so no one gets hurt, if someone else dies." Scott says.

"Him. Just him." Derek points at the lead alpha on the escalator, "Just me? Now, how's a blind man find his way into a place like this. All on his own?" Deucalion asks smirking hearing the incoming scraping is heard coming from beside them.

Scott turns his head noticing Kali sliding down the wall, Scott jumps seeing Ennis coming from behind him and Isaac growling at the two.

Boyd looks up to the second floor noticing the twins walking towards them shirtless and ready to morph together.

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MIAH LOOKS at Stiles confused once both her and Scott walk up towards the group of people leaving Allison and Lydia behind them, "Stiles, what's happening?" Scott asks.

"They went after him. I told them what was happening with you, and they just went after him." Stiles says, "Who, Boyd?" Scott asks worriedly.

Miah looks around hearing the Coach yelling at Isaac who's punching Ethan over and over again.

"Isaac. Isaac. Isaac, back off. Stop!" Coach yells trying to break up the angry beta and Ethan.

Scott nods at Miah to let him go and she does as so, Scott steps into the crowd, "Isaac!" Scott yells at the boy.

Miah looks at him curiously though almost hearing a roar come from the back of his throat questioning to herself why he sounded like an alpha at that moment.

Miah looks down at her side noticing she's healed and sighs to herself knowing that she wasn't letting herself heal either for the loss of someone who was like her brother towards her.

Lydia looks at her cousin beside her seeing the wound completely healed and sighs in relief, "Thank god." Lydia says under her breath making Miah look at her and wink.

"I told you I was fine." Miah shrugs, Lydia wraps her arms around Miah's shoulders softly smiling at the blonde girl.

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SOON A fight breaks out between the alphas, Derek, Scott and the others.

Scott looks around noticing the twins growling at them morphed into their combined werewolf.

Kali and Derek continue fighting and Boyd and Ennis start their fight.

Scott sighs transforming into his werewolf form when Isaac runs towards the twins and pushing the beta away from them onto the dusted flooring.

Scott growls and lunges for them as well, only for them to throw him into the nearby wall putting a large dint in the plaster, grunts and groans are heard coming from the werewolves.

Kali and Ennis team up and Kali swings her claws on the beta's chest leaving him bleeding on the floor.

The alpha's and the others are occupied and don't notice the presence of the two girls coming into the mall.

Allison carrying her own weapons and Miah flicking her chaos magic around and in her werewolf form.

She notices Boyd on the floor as Kali has her foot on Cora's throat blocking the girls airways.

Miah smirks at Allison─ who's aiming her bow and arrow and letting the arrow flow through the air hitting the twins in the chest sending a blinding light towards the alphas and others.

Miah sends purple-red chaos magic through the air towards Deucalion who falls down on the escalator, "Ah. All─ your eyes. Cover your eyes." Deucalion calls out to his pack.

Allison and Miah sit beside each other after the blonde girl agreed to come to argents apartment to study only to be stuck in the crossfire of Allison and her father's battle.

"Someone needs to help them." Allison says, "Not us. I'm getting the consulting business back up and running again. And you need to graduate. That's a normal life, and it's what we agreed to." Chris says flicking the textbook open.

"So, we just ignore it?" Allison ask's appalled, "We stay out of it." Chris states, "There's a pack of alphas trying to kill my friends. Miah included. How do I stay out of that?" Allison incredulously asks.

"There's a saying for these kinds of situations. The kind you have to navigate carefully. It's called 'threading the needle'. It's finding a safe path between two opposing forces." Chris explains.

"Sounds like saving your own ass." Allison says looking at Miah nodding at her to get up alongside her, "They're not your family." Chris says.

"With all the family that I've lost. I could use a few friends." Allison states leading Miah out of the room towards her room and allowing Miah to explain her plan.

Allison and Miah continue shooting the arrows and aura strikes towards the alpha's letting the others get free and ready for the battle once again.

Scott looks up at Allison already seeing Miah rushing down the nearby escalator ready to fight.

Allison smiles at Scott and nods at him as he looks around for Miah and making sure she's safe.

The blonde comes to a stop beside him and winks at him, forming a ball of chaos magic in her hand ready to fire at anyone coming her way.

Ennis growls at the newcomer and runs towards her only for Scott to notice and take the alpha on.

Letting both of them to get sent back by a forceful wave of force.

Scott skids backwards coming to a stop beside Miah looking at her as she tilts her head in confusion seeing the red eyes signifying the alpha status.

Scott shakes his head and she notices as his eyes go back to their golden yellow.

"Derek. No!" Miah calls out only for the twins to attack her and scratch up the side of her torso knowing she was sidetracked.

The blonde sends an aura strike towards them sending them flying back before turning towards Derek and Ennis falling backwards off the side of the hole in the ground.

Miah wails letting out a sound of horror affecting all of the werewolves making them cover their own ears.

"Derek!" Miah shrieks rushing towards the hole in the floor only for Isaac to hold her from seeing Derek's body staring back at them from the bottom of the escalator.

Scott turns towards the sobbing hysterically Miah and looks at her sadly, blaming himself.

In that moment she felt like she lost the only family she really had left and this time she watched the life flash before that persons eyes and saw the true fear.

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SITTING IN the bus beside Scott, Allison sits in front of them sharing looks with the blonde girl while Lydia and Stiles sit together travelling towards the meet.

"All right. Let's go over this one more time. So, it's the sacrifices, right? Everything has to do with them and someone who thinks he's, like, a dark Druid of some kind." Stiles says.

"Or actually is a dark Druid." Lydia states, "A Darach." Stiles states, "You know, some ancient cultures sacrificed people in preparation for battle." Lydia states.

"So, we've got alpha werewolves against a dark Druid?" Stiles asks grimly, "Yeah." Lydia nods.

Allison turns around in her seat looking at her ex boyfriend, "You know, if he's really dead, it's not your fault." Allison says.

"Maybe. But, remember that whole thing that we talked about? Where I wasn't accusing you of being there, and if you were there, you shouldn't be?" Scott starts to say hearing Miah chuckle now fully knowing what happened the other night between the two ex lovers.

Allison nods, "Thanks for not listening." Scott states before looking at Miah beside him who's softly smiling at him and looking at him.

"What?" Scott asks, "I was just looking at your eyes." Miah states, Allison looks at the two of them already knowing they're slowly falling for one another.

Scott chuckles softly while Miah shyly puts her head into her arms before laying her head on his shoulder gently.

As both teenagers watch the horizon together, both unaware of their close friends looking at them with soft smiles.

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TO BE CONTINUED...

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they're slowly coming together
and so are Miah's powers
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