Road trip? || itsnotvenison
Tess had always considered herself a rather rational, balanced person, and though that classified as lying to herself - she'd had her fair share of self-destructive moments in the past two centuries -, she'd never truly been reckless, especially when it came to the full moon. So it came to a surprise when she looked down at her arm and saw the bite the werewolf had managed to land there during their struggle. He was a young one, Scott's newest Beta - Liam, she thought his name was -, and she'd tried to play nice, to avoid hurting him, but he'd been too out of control for her to bring him back to sanity. And now there she was, in the middle of the woods, her arm bleeding and her fate most certainly sealed.
Elijah had given her two vials of Klaus' blood, but she'd run out of those months before, so she had no viable way out of this predicament. Unless... unless she drove to New Orleans. Which, in all honesty, seemed like a very poor plan, considering how fast the venom was and how stupid it would be to try and embark on an almost two days drive on her own, with the hallucinations and fever crippling her. Calling Elijah wasn't an option, he was in the middle of a war in the French Quarter, which left her with two plausible options: die or ask for help. She wasn't particularly fond of the former, so instead, she decided she needed to find someone who could drive her to New Orleans. The first one she thought of was Scott, after all, she'd been trying to get his Beta under control, but she knew that there was no way she was going to ask a teenager to drive her across four states. Derek was out of the question too, given his own precarious condition of receding werewolfness.
There was another name that came to her mind, one she'd read on the hit list. She decided to make her way to him before the venom started kicking in, and ran at full speed through the town. She could worry about awed witnesses later. Within minutes, she was at the police station, but much to her frustration, he wasn't anywhere to be found. She compelled one of the agents to tell her his address, and she took off again, knowing that she was wasting precious time. She was in front of his house ten minutes later, relieved when she saw the lights were on. She knocked, repeatedly and hurriedly, and when the door finally opened, she didn't hesitate to speak. "Parrish, I need your help."