ICARUS¹ [ on hold ]

chapter eight.

☄▐ PISSED OUT of her fucking mind, didn't even begin to cover how Icarus McCall was feeling as she pushed through cation tape and police officers towards her brother -- who didn't see her coming until she punched him in the back of the shoulder, sending him stumbling forward,

"What the fuck, Scott!" She exclaims, shoving him, "Why am I the one getting a call from Noah about you and Stiles finding a god damn dead body?!"

"I -- "

"Do you have any idea how mom would react if she found out about this? We'd get both of our asses beat because you're stupid!" She ranted angrily, "Dude, you are so dead when you get home! You and Stiles!"

The announcement of Stiles' name made the boy look away from Derek to the very angry Icarus McCall standing with her brother and telling at him. Derek followed his gaze to the siblings as well, watching them,

" -- were you even fucking thinking!? Did you even put any thought to this, Scott? You are so lucky I'm not telling mom but you better be prepared for me to be on you ass for the rest of your -- "

Stiles was suddenly yanked from the police car, making Derek look away from Scott and Icarus to the spastic teenage boy that was pulled from the cruiser bu his father. The werewolf huffed and turned his attention back to the siblings behind him,

"Icarus, I know this looks bad -- "

His sister laughs humorlessly, hands covering her face, "This looks worse than bad! Why were you even here? Whose house is this?" She demands

"Derek Hale's."

Icarus stared at her brother for a moment, "Are you gay?"

Scott's eyes blew wide, "Wha -- no, no! I'm not gay!"

"So, you are just sneaking around the woods to a house you've never been to before and finding a dead body? Yet, you knew whose house this is. Please explain to me how that makes sense."

Her brother doesn't answer and Icarus looks away from him to the other boy who she considered family as he quickly walked towards the two of them. Stiles' head hung low to avoid the burning stare that she was giving him,

"Both of you outta my right before I hurt you." She sighs, closing her eyes

"Okay -- "

"And Stiles, I'm chewing you out too, don't worry."

The boy gulps and quickly clambered into his Jeep with Scott as Icarus walks away from it. She stops in front of Noah Stilinski and his police cruiser, sighing:

"I wish I could explain what they were doing but I have no fucking clue." She stated tiredly

"I think this had something to do with the fact that they were looking for the other dead body a few days ago." Noah replies, crossing his arms

"They went looking for a dead body before this?" She exclaism in shock

"Scott didn't tell you?"

Icarus glowers, her eye twitching, "I have a feeling that he hasn't been telling me a lot more." She mutters, the young woman looks back to Noah and takes a deep breath, "I don't know what to say about them other than they're idiots and I'm sorry for that."

Noah shakes his head, "I'm just glad that the killer wasn't out here with them." He peers at the girl, "Have you been sleeping?" He asks

She opens her mouth and closes it, looking away from him without giving an answer. Noah sighs and smiles sadly at the girl in front of him. He pats her arm gently, "Go home, get some sleep, kiddo. I can tell that you need it."

Noah was probably the only person Icarus couldn't lie to and that was slightly irritating.

Icarus looked at him, "I have a shift in an hour or so, I'm not gonna be able to sleep." She replied, hands tucked into the pocket of her jeans

"That jobs gonna kill you, kid." Noah sighed, shaking his head with a sad smile

Icarus looked at her boots and frowned, "The war already did that, Sheriff." She replied sadly,

She offers him a forced smile, "I'll see you later." The elder McCall turns and walks off, shoulders hunched

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☄▐ QUIETLY, ICARUS pushed open the door to Peter's room, her eyes on the clipboard in her hands. She wore new pink scrubs today and her hair was tossed haphazardly into a bun as she looked up to Peter.

"Hi." She greeted quietly, stifling a yawn, Peter glances towards, sensing the change in his nurse, "Sorry if I'm lame today." She apologized, moving towards him, "I got about one hour of sleep so far in the last two days so I'm running off of four pots of coffee and a whole bag of sugar."

He stated at her, unable to answer as she pulled her stethoscope from around her neck and began to check his vitals. Her hands were cold and kind of shaky, he looked at her, noticing the dark purple bruise like formations brushed under her eyes and concern washed into his blue eyes.

She chuckled quietly, "Sorry, about my hands, it was super cold earlier -- especially when you have to trudge through the woods to scold your brother and his friend for finding a dead body at a place they shouldn't have been in the middle of the night."

Peter would have widened his eyes if he wasn't "practically brain dead". She moved her hands away from his body and placed her stethoscope back around her neck as she stepped back,

"You're doing really good today, Peter. You should be proud of yourself." She smiles

She sits down and pulls her phone out of her pocket and unlocks it, "Do you wanna see Boston and Auggie?" She asks, looking to him with a smile, "I promise you'll meet them soon."

Icarus held her phone up, showing him the picture of her two babies, the corner of his lips twitched as he looked back to her and the young woman's grin grew wider. Icarus slipped her phone back into her pocket and leaned forward,

"So, I have some news." She stated happily, "I've been given permission to take you for the night. It's just to see my brother lacrosse game so nothin' too fancy, but I promise you'll have fun." The young woman assured him

"That is, if you want to do it." She adds, appraising his face

His lips twitch and her smile grew again, "Great!" She exclaims, clapping her hands together, "I'll pick you up tonight then!"

Peter just stared at her with happy eyes and she hugged her clipboard to her chest. She narrows her eyes at him playfully,

"You better be dressed to impress tonight, Peter Hale. Especially if you're coming as my date." She stated jokingly serious

The older man stared at her and she laughed, "I'll see you tonight."