"Jesus. It's freezing in here." Isabelle shivers as she walks onto the bleachers in the ice rink. Rowan on her right and Stiles on her left. Lydia was on Rowan's left and Scott and Allison followed behind the four, taking a seat a couple seats down.

"You want my—."

"Don't." Lydia cuts Rowan off, slapping a hand over his mouth. "That's not your job. It's Stiles's. So let him."

"Right, yeah." Rowan nods with a hum. Stiles who still hasn't done nothing gets a hard slap in the back of the head by Rowan.

"Ow! What was that—."

Rowan just gives him a hard lookin making the Stilinski boy shut up. With his eyes as Izzy was putting on her skate, he motioned to the scarf he had around his neck and then to Izzy. Realization hits Stiles. He gives Rowan a nod.

"Look at you giving Stiles so gentlemen tips." Lydia teases giving Rowan a small nudge.

"My sister deserves the best and to her the best is him and if I have to teach him how to do things, then so be it." Rowan rolls his eyes playfully making Lydia let out a small chuckle. They get up and make their way towards the rink.

"Here." Stiles hands Izzy the scarf once she was done fixing the skate. "To help you not feel as cold. I know it kinda ruins your outfit and everything, but at least you won't be cold right?"

"Right." Izzy takes it with a smile on her lip. She wraps the scarf around her neck and looks at it before looking at Stiles. "The Mets?"

"Wha-How did you know?" Stiles looks at her flabbergasted.

"Because I know you Stiles." Izzy let's out a small laugh.

"Right. Yeah. You know me." Stiles nods with a beaming smile making Izzy smile harder.

"This scarf is really working on me." Izzy touches the scarf. "I like the color and stuff."

"Um, sometimes, you know there's other things you wouldn't think would be a good combination, end up turning out to be, like, a perfect combination." Stiles starts not daring to look at Izzy who knew where he was going with this. "Like, two people together... who nobody ever thought would be together ever..."

"No, I can see that." Izzy stops him from continuing to speak.

Stiles looks at her shocked. "You can?"

"Yeah." Izzy nods and looks over at Allison, Scott, Lydia and Rowan all together. "They're cute together."

Stiles's smile drops from his face and he sighs. "Oh, yeah... them..."

"But..." Izzy looks away from them and to Stiles as she slowly stands. "I think we're cuter. Don't you?"

"Before we go." Stiles stops her from walking. "Why-Why won't you give me a chance?"

"We're supposed to be here trying to have a great time, Stiles." Izzy huffs.

"Right, yeah. Fine." Stiles clears his throat. "Let's go then."

"Yay!" Izzy squeals, dragging Stiles down the bleachers and to the rink.

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"You suck at this." Izzy laughs at Stiles who struggles to stand back up on his feet after failing...again. "I would've at least thought you knew how to stand with skates."

"Hahaha." Stiles laughs sarcastically as he finally stands and gives Izzy a look. "Can you do more then just stand with skates?"

"Why yes I can." Izzy gives him a wink before skating off to the center of the rink. She   stuck her right leg out before do a ballerina twirl. Multiple of them. She then graciously skated around before jumping and twirling in the air landing perfectly. She looked up and smiled at Stiles widely who stared at her with wide eyes.

"Wha-How could-She's amazing." Stiles gushes.

She went to go back to him, when suddenly she felt a weird pain in her chest before collapsing on her knees. She let out a loud scream, tears running down her cheeks.

Stiles looked between her and Lydia with big eyes before he rushes over to Izzy pulling the still screaming girl into his arms. Izzy who was still in her head, looked down at the clear ice and saw the face of Uncle in the ice.

With one last scream, she collapsed into the Stilinski's arms unconscious.

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"Stiles, you didn't have to walk me all the way to the door." Izzy turns to him, releasing a small chuckle.

"I know." Stiles stuff's his hands in his pocket. "I just wanted to make sure you got here safely...without passing out."

"Thank you." Izzy tells him as she runs her eyes over his face. "For everything tonight. I needed this escape even though it ended in a disaster."

"I'm here for you no matter what, Iz." Stiles reaches and takes her hand in his. Izzy looks at their intertwined hand and then back up at Stiles who was slowly leaning in.

Izzy shakes her head softly and slips her hand out of Stiles's. "I can't, Sti."

"I've been getting that response since we confessed our feelings!" Stiles exclaims.

Izzy stays quite looking at her feet while anxiously playing with her fingers. Stiles rubs the back of his neck. "Why can't we, Izzy? Is it because you like someone else? Is it Isaac? Am I just the other guy?"

"No!" Izzy says immediately. "You are the guy. There's no one else."

"Then please." Stiles begs. "Tells me why we can't be together. What is holding you back?"

"I'm a monster, Stiles." Izzy finally looks up at him. "I'm a monster that can hurt you. I have so much baggage that I don't want to put on you. I don't want to hurt and break you down. I don't want to become a burden to you, Stiles. I will hate myself if I put the two of us in a position where I hurt and lose you. I just can't Stiles."

Silence fills the air and Izzy takes Stiles frozen state as a sign to kiss his cheek and run into the house before anything else could be said. She leans against the door letting out a shaky breath before looking up and her eyes come in contact with Noah and Isaac's. The two giving her that look.

"Leave me alone." Izzy glares at them playfully. "I'm doing what's best for him."

"Are you sure it's for him?" Noah raises an eyebrow at her.

"Yes."

"That's a lie." Isaac butts in. "You're doing what's best for you and you know it."

"I don't want to hurt him. Leave it at that."

"Whatever you say." The two boys say in unison knowing they weren't gonna get through to the girl.

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The next day, after leaving Erica's side from coming out of math class. Izzy kisses her on the cheek before she links her arm with Noah's and the two walk to lunch.

Rowan had stood back with Marcel trying to find the new vampire he had picked up on again when he went out hunting. Izzy offered to stay, but Derek and Marcel pushed her to go.

They walk into the cafeteria, Allison passing them on the way out. Izzy gives her a small
nod before walking in, dragging Noah with her.

"That's Allison, right?" Noah looks at her for clarification.

"Yup. That's her." Izzy nods as she looks around the cafeteria.

"At least she's pretty."

Izzy chuckles. "That nobody could deny. Now let's find somewhere to sit."

"There's a space next to your all time lover and his bestie."

"I don't know, Noah...It's going to be aw—." Noah cuts her off by dragging her towards the table the two boys were sitting at. When they get to the table, Noah gives them a wide smile. "Can we sit here? Actually it doesn't matter we're gonna sit here anyway."

Noah sits and pulls Izzy down next to him. Izzy gives the two a small smile before looking over at Noah with a glare. She slaps his arm.

"You guys can go back to your conversation." Noah tells the two quite boys who just nod and go back to what they were saying. Noah didn't miss the longing look Stiles gave the Hale girl.

"Do you see that?" Stiles points to an empty table behind Noah.

"What?" Scott gives him a confused look. "It's an empty table?"

"Yeah, but whose empty table?"

"Boyd." Scott says in realization. He jumps up and starts going for the exit. The others quickly follow. "I'm going to the ice rink, see if he's there. And, if he's not at home, you call me, got it? What?"

"Maybe we should let him..." Stiles trails off.
"Boyd, you know, ma? You said Derek's giving them a choice, right?"

"We can't." Scott shakes his head.

"You gotta admit, Erica looks good after the transition."

Scott scoffs. "Yeah, how good do you think she's gonna look with a wolfsbane bullet in her head?"

"Don't even say that." Izzy snaps at Scott. "You have to sit this one out Scott. This time none of this is your responsibility."

"You know this thing's gonna get out of control." Scott tries to get the others to understand why he needs to involve himself.

"It is." Noah agrees. "But you don't have to save everyone Scott."

"I'm with you." Stiles sighs. "And, I also gotta say... this new-found heroism is making me very attracted to you..."

"Shut up."

"No, seriously! Do you wanna just try making out for a sec? Just to see how it feels?"

"We'll go with you." Izzy looks to Scott after calming down her laughter. Noah hums along with her. Her father most likely had something to do with his disappearance and him not telling her Boyd, another one of her friends, was going to get bite really pissed her off.

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"Boyd!" Izzy shouts his name in relief as she runs to him, Scott and Noah following her. Boyd stops the zamboni and allows the girl to pull him into a hug. "I thought you died or something."

"I'm alive and well." Boyd gives her a small
smile. "You can leave now."

Izzy frowns as she pulls away from him. "Boyd, we just wanna talk..."

"Hey, come on." Scott says watching as Boyd got back on the zamboni. "Boyd, please. Did Derek tell you everything? And I don't just mean going out of control on the full moons-- I mean everything."

"He told me about the Hunters."

Izzy scoffs. "That would've been nough for me to say no. Whatever you want, there's other ways to get it. You don't have to live your life in constant fear that you someone is gonna kill you."

Boyd looks at her with sad eyes. "I just wanna not each lunch alone every day."

"What am I chopped liver? Plus, let's be real if you're looking for friends, you can do a lot better than my father." Izzy says simply.

"That really hurts, Iz." Derek's voice suddenly makes an appearance. They turn and see Derek with Isaac and Erica behind him, smirking at Scott.

"What hurts is that you're still lying to your daughter after promising you wanted to change." Izzy retorts.

"I wasn't lying—."

"Bullshit."

"So much for doing better, huh?" Noah mumbles. His eyes meet Isaac's, the Lahey boys eyes dropping to his feet.

"Erica, how's life been for you since we met?" Derek looks to the girl.

"Hmm." Erica hums. "In a word?"

"I'm sorry, but no one gives a fuck." Izzy eyes her. "Are you wearing my clothes?! Without my permission?!" She looks to her father. "And you let her?!"

"Izzy, I—."

"Tell us what the fuck you want." Izzy sneers. "You know if we fought now you nor your betas will come out walking."

"Let Boyd go and walk out with us." Derek says. "That's all."

Izzy moves Scott back and gestures for Boyd to get off the zamboni. Boyd goes to walk to Derek, but Izzy places a hand on his chest.

"You don't wanna be like him...Don't let all the power you gained get to you and your head because everything you want you will lose."

Boyd gives her a small soft smile. "I wanna be like you, Izzy."

"You have my father, he raised me, but right now it looks like all I have is Marcel." Izzy turns back to her father who held a pained expression over his face. She grabs both Scott and Noah and pulls them to walk out the back exit. She stops before they could get too far. "Isaac...Secrets? Again?"

With that she walks off, Scott and Noah by her side. The Rivers boy wrapping an arm around her shoulders as they walk away.

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"Marcel, I'm home!" Izzy shouts.

"In here!" She heard him reply from the kitchen.

Izzy ties up her hair as she walks into the kitchen. She freezes in her spot when she sees two people standing next to her brother. "Aunt Davina! Uncle Kol!"

Izzy takes off and rushes into their embrace. She never felt more happy. She missed them so much. She truthfully didn't realize it until now, but after everything that has happened to her so far. She needed them now more than ever.

"I missed you guys so freaking much." Izzy mutters into their necks.

"We missed you more, my darling." Kol kisses the side of her head.

"I definitely missed you more than he did." Davina jokes kissing her cheek as she pulled away.

"You did not!" Kol denies.

Izzy laughs. "I missed you guys more than you missed me. With everything going on, I'm glad you guys are now here by my side again."

"Before you fill us in on that, we have one more surprise." Kol says now becoming nervous, looking to Marcel and then Davina.

"What is it?" Izzy raises an eyebrow. "It can't be bad right?"

Before they could answer, she hears the sound of a voice clear from behind her, causing her to slowly turn around. Her body went cold when she saw who it was.

"I don't know if you remember her, but this is—."

"Hope."