She turned around on her bed and the next thing she knew she felt like falling. she opened her eyes only to realize that she was falling in free air. She closed her eyes. she opened her mouth to scream but no voice came. she flailed helplessly.

"Harry? Harry! HARRY!"

She opened her eyes at once and sprung up on the bed with deep short breaths. she looked around and finally next to her where Hermione stood, worry etched on her face. she gulped and looked around to notice other girls around her too. what? she looked down at the bed and it took her a minute to realize that she was in Hogwarts, in her dormitory.

"Are you okay?" Parvati asked

"you were screaming. In your sleep" Lavender added to Harry's confused face

Harry swallowed again "Yeah. I'm okay" her voice had its original british accent "Just a nightmare. Sorry to wake you all up"

"It's okay" Parvati patted her leg and all the other girls, except Hermione, went back to bed. Hermione sat down near her legs, her hand on Harry's thigh.

"Really? Is it" her voice lowered to whisper "Voldemort again?"

Harry slightly frowned "What? Voldem-" she stopped when she saw something flicker across Hermione "Mione?" she asked cautiously. suddenly Hermione flickered more and slowly changed into one of her worst enemies.

"We meet again, Potter?" Voldemort sneered

"You" Harry gasped and tried to crawl back only to hit the headboard of the bed. Voldemort stood up, wand in his bone-y hands which he pointed at her

"It's about time to finish what i couldn't 15 years ago" he smirked with victory "Avada Kedavra" a jet of green light shot from his hand and Harry found herself paralyzed and totally unable to do anything


Jewel woke up with a gasp on the bed. she looked around. It was a dream. No, a nightmare. she just had a nightmare. she hadn't had those things since just after the war, for about 7 years. Now she was in her room, in her house in Beacon Hills, California, United States. Not Scotland.

she sighed and ran a hand through her red hair and checked the clock. 5.30 in the morning. she kept it back and sat on the bed.

She frowned when she realized that her nightmare wasn't the only reason she woke up. there was a small whimper. she slowly got off the bed and walked out of the room to the source of whimper. Allison's room. she quietly opened the door and entered to find her sister twisting and turning wildly on the bed and letting out a small whimper. she walked to her sister and bent over her

"Lisa?" she called and slightly shook her "Lis"

she repeated the action until Allison got up

"Jewel?" she asked, taking deep breaths "What happened?"

"You tell me. Nightmare?" she sat on Allison's bed foot

Allison just slightly nodded. Jewel nodded in reply but didn't push the subject

"Wanna go out for jog?" Jewel asked


the two girls return after about an hour and half, smiles on their sweat covered faces. they entered their respective rooms to get ready. By the time Jewel got ready, Allison had just exited the shower.

"Hey" she peeked inside as Allison looked at her "I forgot some of my books at Derek's. So, I'm gonna get that and get school? drive yourself?"

"Sure" Allison nodded with a smile

"Okay" Jewel smiled and walked into the kitchen, telling the same to Chris. He nodded and she left. she walked to Derek's loft, took the lift and entered the apartment. Keeping her stuff on the couch, she went to search his bedroom and finally found her jacket and some books on Derek's bed, neatly kept. Of course he knew he had them. picking them, she apparated in the forest, just outside the school, so no one would know. and then she casually walked inside.

she opened her locker and was arranging the books when she felt a presence behind her

"How're you feeling?" Lydia leaned on the next locker

"Lyd, it's been two weeks since the morgue incident." Jewel chuckled "I'm fine"

"Yeah, but you said things would coming here" Lydia pointed

"For me" Jewel added and closed her locker door "And I can take care of myself" she let her eyes glow green just for emphasis. Suddenly the door slammed open and Allison burst in, looking haphazard and startled.

Lydia and Jewel exchanged a look and then walked to her

"Allison, are you okay?" Lydia asked, for which the brunette just nodded

"We need to find Scott and Stiles" Jewel muttered and walked out, followed by the two.


they found the two in the compound, in discussion

"No, you're not. It's happening to you too. You're seeing things, aren't you?" Stiles said

"How'd you know?" Scott asked

"Because it's happening to all three of you." Jewel piped in as they all looked at each other


"Well, well, look who's no longer the crazy one." Lydia mused as the five re-entered school

"We're not crazy." Allison said

"Hallucinating? Sleep paralysis? Yeah, you guys are fine." Lydia gave them a smug look

"We did die and come back to life. That's gotta have some side effects, right?" Scott asked

"Jewel?" Lydia asked

"What?"

She gave her a look, which made Jewel realize what Lydia was asking

"Look, i was killed and then brought back. I didn't sacrifice myself. they are totally unrelated" she explained just as the school bell rang

"We keep an eye on each other. Okay?" Stiles suggested "And Lydia, stop enjoying this so much."

"What?"


"Good morning, everyone. My name is Mr. Yukimura. I'll be taking over for your previous History Teacher. My family and I moved here three weeks ago. I'm sure, by now, you all know my daughter, Kira. Or you might not since she's never actually mentioned anyone from school. Or brought a friend home for that matter." the new History teacher introduced. suddenly all heard a thud from behind of the class and nearly the whole class turned back when Mr. Yukimura said

"Either way, there she is."

the girl slowly raised her head and sheepishly looked at the whole class. Stiles looked away, totally uninterested and so did Jewel. But Scott's gaze lingered on her for a while. Jewel's lips turned into a soft smile noticing it, but it dropped when she also saw something. she quickly kicked Scott from under the table, making him slightly jumped and look at her in question

"Eyes" she harshly whispered and Scott sheepishly looked away, closing his eyes for a split second and changing them back to brown. Jewel smiled and leaned back

"Now, let's begin with American History at the turn of the 20th century."

Jewel was half heartedly listening to the lecture when she heart a rapid heartbeat. she looked on her right, towards Scott, and saw him looking at something on the floor and shaking in terror. when the teacher was busy writing on the board, she leaned and placed her hand on his, making him look at her

"Hey" she smiled at him softly. Scott gave her a smile in return and placed his other on her, before she pulled her hand back


"Maybe we need a little more time to get back to normal." Scott guessed, as he, Stiles and Jewel made their way to the lockers. Jewel opened her locker while Stiles seemed to struggle with his

"Yeah, try not to forget we hit the reset button on a supernatural beacon for supernatural creatures. There's a pretty good chance things are never going back to normal." Stiles muttered back

"Yeah." Scott nodded and his attention drifted away

"What?" Stiles muttered, looking at the lock and suddenly it popped open. she looked next to himself and noticed Jewel smirking

"I hate you" he muttered and opened the locker and looked at Scott, zoning out and then at Jewel in question

"Eavesdropping" was all she said, not interested in eavesdropping in the eavesdropping. she closed her locker and just turned for a second to see what caught Scott's eye. Kira Yukimura. she turned and frowned. Stiles also noticed it- Scott taking deep breaths and looking restless

"Oh, dude, your eyes." Stiles left his locker and turned to Scott, as Jewel tied to over up more for him

"What about them?"

"They're starting to glow." Jewel said

"You mean like right now?" Scott asked

"Yes, right now. Scott, stop. Stop it." Stiles urged. Scott's breaths became deeper and shorter

"I can't I can't control it." she almost snarled

"All right, just keep your head down. Look down, come on. Keep your head down." Jewel took his hand and guided him to an empty classroom, none of the three noticing Kira, as she took in their weird behavior

"Get back away from me." Scott snarled, as he tried to go away from Jewel and Stiles

"Scott, it's okay." Stiles said and Jewel took a step but Scott looked at them, falling on his knees

"I don't know what's going to happen. Get back." he snarled

Jewel quietly approached and got on her knees and looked at Scott

"Derek's gonna murder me" she muttered and next thing they knew, she cupped Scott's face and pulled him for a kiss. she distinctly heard a thud, but didn't give it much thought. a second later Scott started returning the kiss and then they broke up. she looked down and noticed his blood palms. she took one and frowned at Scott

"Pain makes you human." he gave her a soft smile

She looked behind her and saw Stiles on the floor and shocked

"not a word to Lydia, Lisa or Derek" she warned him

"Okay, alright" Stiles got up and sat on a desk "How did you do that?"

"Who do you think helped Derek when he had trouble controlling his alpha status?" she asked. she frowned, helped Scott up as Stiles shook his head violently

"This isn't just in our heads. This is real." Stiles began "And it's starting to get bad for me too."

Both Scott and Jewel looked at him in worry

"I'm not just having nightmares. I'm having dreams where I have to literally scream myself awake. And sometimes I'm not even sure if I'm actually ever waking up."

"What do you mean?" Scott asked

"Do you know how you can tell if you're dreaming? You can't read in dreams. More and more, the past few days, I've been having trouble reading. It's like I can't see the words. I can't put the letters in order."

"Like even now?" Jewel softly asked. Stiles got up and walked to the board. he tried and looked around the posters

"I can't read a thing." he declared


after school, Lydia had taken Allison with her. Scott and Stiles were god knows where. Chris had gone town over for some grocery refilling. Derek was still not answering her calls. so that all left Jewel alone and bored.

she exited the lift to her apartment, she noticed the open door. she put the keys back in the bag and slowly drew a dagger she hid under her skirt. dagger ready in hand she silently walked inside, examining all the rooms.

she opened the door to Chris' study and stopped seeing a man there, reading a book. she completely opened the door.

"Potter" he said in accented voice, placed the book back and tuned to face her.

"Remember me?"

Oh she did alright

"Dolon" she tensely greeted

Dolon just smiled "Good to know. So, how're things going?" he looked around the room

"What do you want?" she demanded, slowly stepping back, dagger still tightly clenched

"Straight to business?" he chuckled "I want the bite"

"Pardon?"

"You see, I was not blessed with the great powers of the Greyback family. I was born human. I tried, but my uncle, the Great Fenrir, refused to bite me but he did bite Remus Lupin. Now where is that any fair?" he pouted at her "But then i heard about a certain alpha that you have influence over. Thought you won't hesitate helping an old friend"

"Yeah, Go to hell" she quickly picked the gun kept on the table and pointed it at Dolon "What makes you think that I'll even consider that?"

"Because I have what you don't" he smirked "Magic" he whispered

"Expelliarmus"

At once, Dolon was thrown back and hit the bookshelf and then fell down. he slowly got up and looked at the redhead, who had her hand out

"So..." he inhaled "the rumors weren't true. You do have your magic"

"Afraid so" she answered and cocked the gun

"i was hoping it wouldn't come to it, but" Dolon stood up "You know some brilliant collection your adoptive father has got here. Heard he's in for some shopping." he looked at her "And your beautiful sister, oh she has gorgeous brown hair, she's in the forest with another red head. Equally beautiful."

Jewel gulped, getting the message. Bite or her family.

"I'll leave you to it. Don't keep me waiting" he smirked and strolled out. Jewel sighed until she heard his heartbeat out of the building. she fell on the couch, and wiped a hand over her face. she was screwed


"You know, the last time we bought one of these to her grave was stolen the same day. Hundred bucks down the drain." Stiles complained, entering his father's office with a big flower bouquet "Hey, Dad? Hi, what are you doing down there?" he looked over the desk to see his father among files on the floor

"Working. And hey, if somebody wants the flowers that badly, they can have them. It's the gesture."

"Hey, Dad, what is all this?" Stiles rounded up

"I've been looking over some old cases from a more illuminated perspective, if you know what I mean."

""Strange sighting of bipedal lizard man sprinting across freeway." Stiles read from a random file

"Kanima pile." Sheriff pointed and Stiles dropped it there

"Dad," he crouched to his dad's level "you're not going back through all your old cases seeing if any of them had something to do with the supernatural, are you?"

"I admit the recent opening of my eyes to the greater mysteries of the universe has got me reassessing. There's at least 100 cases here where I look at the details and I can ask myself, "If I knew then what I know now""

"Right, but are you sure you wanna go down that path?"

"Do I have a choice?" Sheriff chuckled "Besides, Jewel already tried talking me out of it. Didn't work"

"She knew?"

Sheriff nodded "She's been helping me wherever i stuck. Like this one. This one case in particular that I can't get out of my head." Sheriff stood up with a file in hand, Stiles mirroring his actions "Eight years ago, I was elected Sheriff of County, my first official duty was to tell a man" he handed the file to Stiles "that not only had his wife and two kids died in a car accident, but, as best we could tell, the body of his had been dragged from the wreck by coyotes."

"You mean dragged and eaten?"

"We didn't find the car until three days after the crash. They had driven off the road into a pretty deep ravine. Two bodies that were still in the car were covered in bites and slashes."

"So you're thinking bites and claw marks, probably a werewolf attack?"

"Maybe."

"But coyotes, they scavenge, right? So, couldn't they have just left the bites and the slashes?"

"Absolutely. But guess what night the accident occurred on?" Sheriff pointed at the date and a note he had written

"The night of a full moon." Stiles groaned

"Yeah." Sheriff nodded

Stiles closed the file when he noticed a lot of boxes around

"Hey, Dad, where are all these going?"

Sheriff slightly fidgeted "Yeah, we, uh We probably need to talk about that."


Next Day during lunch break, everyone- minus Stiles, gathered. they all sat at one of the group tables. the School bell rang and Stiles rushed in joining them

"Okay, so what happens to a person who has a near-death experience and comes out of it seeing things?" Scott asked first

"And is unable to tell what's real or not?" Stiles added

"And is being haunted by demonic visions of dead relatives?" Allison said

"They're all locked up because they're insane." Isaac piped in, looking slightly uninterested and earning glares from others

"Ha. Can you at least try to be helpful, please?" Stiles asked

"For half my childhood, I was locked in a freezer. So, being helpful is kind of a new thing for me." Isaac snapped

Before the argument could further, Lydia grabbed everyone's attention

"Jewel?" she called. Jewel suddenly looked up and around, and stopped biting her nails

"Hmm?"

"You are being awfully quiet" Lydia noted

"It's nothing" Jewel dismissed

"Jewel I've known you for more than a year and when you are stressed, you bite your nails" Lydia added

"And shake your leg" Allison added, noticing her sister bouncing her leg

"and you just lied" Scott frowned

Jewel sighed, knowing that no matter what, she cannot lie to them.

"are you having nightmares too?" Stiles asked

Yes, she wanted to answer, but shook her head.

"Remember i said things would be coming here to check up on me?" she asked and the three who had this conversation with her nodded

"did someone come?" Allison asked

"Dolon Greyback"

"Related to Fenrir?" Lydia asked

"Nephew"

"Wait. Fenrir Greyback? Voldemort's pet werewolf bitch?" Stiles asked and Jewel eyed him "I..uh..I've been reading the books"

Jewel nodded

"What does he want?" Isaac asked

"A bite. From Scott" she looked at the alpha "Apparently he was born without the genes. wants to be a werewolf"

"Wouldn't be surprised if that happened with the amount of inbreeding the purebloods of your society show" Lydia scoffed

"You said no, right?" Allison asked

Jewel sighed "He threatened you and dad. I didn't say anything"

"Nothing will happen to you, Allison or your dad. Don't worry," Scott smiled "I'm not giving a bite to anyone"

Jewel nodded with a smile

Suddenly Stiles turned to Isaac "Hey, dude, are you still milking that?"

"Yeah, maybe I am still milking that." Isaac answered back before they could proceed further, the girl from their history class, Kira approached them shyly

"Hi. Hi, sorry. I couldn't help overhearing what you guys were talking about." she shyly said

They all exchanged a look, worried on might she have heard

"what did you hear?" Allison asked

"Uh.." she fidgeted "Dying and brought back to life? Ugh...Demonic visions?"

They all exchanged another look and mentally sighed in relief that she heard nothing about werewolves

"And I think I actually might know what you're talking about. There's a Tibetan word for it. It's called "Bardo." It literally means "in-between state." The state between life and death." Kira explained

"And what do they call you?" Lydia asked

"Kira." Scott looked at her with a fond smile. Jewel smiled, looking at her hands. Maybe Kira was what Scott needed. after his breakup with Allison, he had problems with control and this new crush might help him move on. She looked up, happy for her friend, when she noticed his brown eyes starting to turn red. she kicked him under the table again and raised her brow. Scott shook his head with a small smile

"She's in our History class." Jewel quickly added

"So are you talking Bardo in Tibetan Buddhism or Indian?" Lydia asked

"what's the difference?" Allison muttered

"Either, I guess. But all the stuff you guys were just saying?" Kira sat down next to Scott "All that happens in Bardo. There are different progressive states where you can have hallucinations. Some you see, some you just hear. And you can by visited by peaceful and wrathful deities."

"Wrathful deities? And what are those?" Isaac asked

"Like demons."

"Demons. Why not?" Stiles scoffed and spared a glance a Jewel

"Hold on, if there are different progressive states, then what's the last one?" Allison asked

"Death. You die."

a grim and tense atmosphere settled in which was broken by Jewel's phone ringing. she checked he ID and answered

"Hey"

"Think you and the boys can get here? think i found something"

"Sure, Doc"

she looked at Scott and nodded, who of course heard the conversation. she turned to Stiles

"We got a doctors appointment" she said as they all understood. Scott and Stiles stood up, following Jewel out. On their way, jewel held Scott's hand. The gesture was not in the way she held Derek's when she was helping him control. With Scott, it was more platonic, friendly. Letting him know that he can rely on her no matter what.

None of the pack noticed Kira's fallen face at the sight.


"It sounds like your subconscious is trying to communicate with you." Deaton said when Stiles informed him and Jewel about his dream where everyone was talking to him in sign language

"Well, how do I tell my subconscious to use a language that I actually know?" Stiles asked

"Do you remember what the sign language looked like? The placement and movement of the hands?" Deaton asked

"You know sign language?" Stiles asked

"I know a little. Let me give it a shot." Deaton shrugged

"Okay, the first one was like this. Then" he moved his hands in the motion he saw in the vision

"That's "when."" Deaton said

"Then there was this, twice." Stiles moved his one hand around the other and Deaton concentrated hard

"That's door." Jewel piped in, sitting on the counter. Deaton nodded at her with a smile then looked back at Stiles

"And this in between it." Stiles said, finishing it

"That's it?" Deaton asked

"Yeah."

" "When is a door not a door?" " Deaton mused

""When is a door not a door"?" Stiles repeated in confusion

"When it's ajar." Scott answered

"You're kidding me. A riddle? My subconscious wants to tell me a riddle?" Stiles demanded, incredulously

"Your subconscious reflects your personality and true nature more than your conscious" Jewel said

"Not necessarily. When the three of you went under the water, when you crossed from unconsciousness to a kind of super-consciousness You essentially opened a door in your minds." Deaton explained

"So what does that mean? The door's still open?" Scott asked

"Ajar." Deaton nodded

"A door into our minds?" Stiles asked

Deaton nodded "I did tell you it was risky. "

"What do we do about it?" Scott asked

"Well, that's difficult to answer." Deaton grimly answered and exchanged an equally grim look with Jewel

"Oh, no, wait a second, I know that look." Stiles said, looking between Deaton and Jewel "That's the "we know exactly what's wrong with you", "but we have no idea how to fix it" look."

"One thing I do know is that having an opening like that into your mind, it's not good." Jewel said "anything can easily possess you and then you'd be the passenger in your mind"

"you each need to close that door. And you need to do it as soon as possible." Deaton said

"What about the books?" Jewel asked

"I went through them as much as i could, but i couldn't find much on...our situation" Deaton answered

just then, Hedwig swooped in gracefully and landed on Jewel's shoulder. She stretched her leg, to which a letter was tied. Jewel took it off and read the front.

MS. H. POTTER

BEACON HILLS
CALIFORNIA
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

It was clear that the letter was from someone in the magical society

"You gonna open that?" Stiles asked, making her jerk up and look at him

"Not now. later" she pocketed the letter and looked at Deaton

"I got some books on mind arts. if it's any help..." she trailed looking at the boys too

"At this point, any and every kind of help is welcomed, Jewel" Deaton smiled

"Okay then" she jumped off the counter "I'll drop some of my books by tomorrow"

Deaton nodded.


the three exited the animal clinic only to come face to face with Sheriff who was trying to enter the clinic

"Dad, what are you doing here?" Stiles asked, stopping his father

"I'm here because I could use some help." he looked at the three "Actually Your help." he looked at two supernaturals

"Us?" Jewel asked, jerking her thumb between herself and Scott, making Sheriff nod in response

"Why us?" Scott asked

"Because eight years ago, almost an entire family died in a car accident. One of the bodies, a young girl named Malia, was never found. There's enough evidence to have me thinking that That a werewolf could have caused the accident, and then dragged her body away. If you could somehow get a lock on her scent if you could somehow help me find her body, it might provide the missing clue."

"But what if it was a werewolf?"

"Well, there's somebody out there who murdered an entire family. Someone who still needs to be caught."

Jewel sighed and slightly rubbed her temple

"don't wanna be a downer, but.." she looked at Scott "Can you handle it on your own? I mean with Stiles, of course?"

The said boys exchanged a look

"Okay" Scott nodded

"Cool" she smiled and turned around


Next morning, Scott and Stiles drove to their destination, following Sheriff

"Scott, what were you thinking?" Stiles broke the silence "we could need Jewel. She's the hunter here, remember"

Scott gave him a look "Something's not right with Jewel"

"What? How do you know?"

"For the past few days, she's smelling funny."

"Funny like 'She's dying' funny or 'She's in major trouble' funny?"

"don't know" Scott sighed "She's not smelling like her regular self. Besides, ever since she go that letter yesterday, her heartbeat had paced up. She seemed worried and on edge. So I just wanted to give her some time and space" Scott looked at his best friend and nodded

"Could it be Dolon?"

"I don't know, Stiles. All i know, that she's not okay"


Jewel laid awake on the bed, under the thick blankets. she heard the door open and sensed her father. a few seconds later, the door closed. she sharply exhaled and slowly looked over her shoulder at the door. Chris had left. Shifting slightly, she sat up on the bed and crossed her legs under the blankets. she checked one more time and both Chris and Allison seemed busy.

Jewel reached under her pillow and pulled the letter. Hedwig flew and landed on her lap, looking at her in anticipation

Jewel gave her familiar a small smile and slowly opened the envelope. she placed the envelope near Hedwig and unfolded the letter, her eyes skimming through the content.

Fear started settling in slowly as she continued to read.

Suddenly Hedwig hooted, grabbing the witch's attention. When Jewel looked at her, Hedwig just tilted her head, as if asking "What's wrong?"

Jewel smiled "I'm fine" she caressed her owl's feathers and then got off the bed and walked to the trash bin behind the door. she read the letter one last time, before dropping it in the bin with the envelope and setting both on fire with a silent "Incendio"

Hedwig again settled on her shoulder and slightly nudged Jewel's head, rubbing her own small head with hers as a way of assurance

Jewel just reached and petted her owl.

"It's all going to be fine" she muttered, to reassure herself more than Hedwig


About an hour or so before midnight,

Stiles was in his room, doing his work when the door opened Scott burst in

"Hey, what's going on?"

"You, me and Jewel. We're going to go out and find a body. A dead body."

Stiles got up and gaped at his friend


Jewel was sitting on her bed doing her homework. Both Allison and Chris and slept off. hearing a small sound, Jewel walked out of her room. She first checked chris' room, which was closest to hers, before checking on Allison. Both seemed quiet and peaceful for a change. a small smile crept on Jewel's lips as she looked at her sister.

Allison had begged her, quite literally, for some dreamless potion so she didn't have to wake up whimpering or having visions of Kate. She, Allison had told her what happened in the forest and it worried Jewel to no end.

Closing back the door, she returned to her room and sat on the bed, opposite to Hedwig

"Looks like everything's silent for tonight" she smiled at her familiar, who hooted as it in agreement. she resumed doing her her homework when she felt her phone vibrate. she jumbled through the blanket and finally found the device. she slightly frowned when she saw the caller ID.

"Guess I jinxed it" she muttered and answered the phone "Yeah, Stiles?"

"We could use some help"

"What?"

"Ugh, Scott and I are waiting outside."

Jewel rolled her eyes "I'll meet you outside" and she hung up

Changing into some denim and a jacket for the cold breeze, Jewel stepped out in the chill. she slightly shivered, spotting the blue jeep. Stiles opened the door for her and she entered, sitting in the back, and Stiles resumed driving

"What kind of 'help' do both of you need in the middle of night?" she demanded

the boys shared a look

"We are going to look for a dead body" Scott said

Before Jewel could say something, Stiles spoke up

"And considering that our previous endeavours akin to these never end with the result we are intending for, we thought we could use some expert help"

Jewel pressed her lips into a thin line, looking between the two

"Can you listen to yourself?" she asked in a sharp but calm tone "Looking for a dead body in the middle of the night. This is Beacon Hills, not some video game. Seriously," she sharply inhaled "How stupid are you both?"

the two exchanged another look

"something else i should know?" Jewel asked

"My dad is getting Stiles' dad fired" Scott said after a while, making Jewel to gape at at him in shock

"Come again" she muttered

"My dad is no longer going to be the Sheriff" Stiles sighed "We wanted to give him just one win"

Jewel slumped back and sighed, running a hand over her face

"This is crazy"


Stiles pulled outside the preserve from where, the three started walking

"You know, if my dad's right, that means there's another werewolf in town that we haven't met yet." Stiles said, manning the flashlight.

"I know." Scott muttered, looking around

"If it turns out to be something like triplets that form into, like, a three-headed hound of hell, I'm seriously not up for that."

"I don't think anyone is, Stiles" Jewel shot him one look

"Especially if I can't even control my own transformation anymore." Scott added

"and things coming here to kill me" Jewel finished

Suddenly the silence of the night was pierced by a fierce howl, which made Stiles jump and cling on to Jewel and stomp Scott's foot, rasulting in Scott to drop his phone into a small hole

"Sorry, guys." he muttered, still refusing to let go of the witch "I hate coyotes so much. They always sound like they're mauling some tiny, helpless little animal."

Scott sighed and climbed down a few rocks and picked him phone. he cleaned of the mud and switched it on

"How's it?" Jewel asked from above

"It still works." Scott looked at the two, raising a brow at Stiles literally clinging to Jewel. He shook his head and was about to walk back, when he noticed something in the dark

"Let me see the flashlight." He muttered and Stiles tossed him the flashlight. He switched it on and focused the light ahead f him "I think we found it." he said moving forward. Stiles and Jewel shared a look and Jewel moved to climb down, closely followed by Stiles. There they saw a a car, toppled upside down all rusted and seemingly very old

"Uh Why wouldn't they move it? Isn't it evidence?" Scott asked

"Probably too much of a pain in the ass to tow out." Stiles muttered, checking the wreckage

"Guys" Jewel grabbed their attention, looking at some big slash marks on the car "Look at this. See those?" she looked at the marks as Scott flashlighted it

"Animal claws would be closer together, right?" Stiles asked

"A lot closer." she muttered

Jewel unsheathed her claws and traced it over the marks, which fit with each other like missing puzzle pieces

"Then it was a werewolf." Scott concluded as Jewel put her claws back

"So, my dad was right." Stiles said but they both could feel a slight happiness in his voice. Scott frowned, as if noticing something and crouched to pick it up, which turned out to be a doll

"What is that?" Stiles asked. Scott shrugged and started fiddling with the toy when suddenly

"I'm hungry." came the electronic voice from the doll, making both the boys to scream like little girls and Scott to drop the doll. They both stopped and panted hard, hands over their chest

"I think I just had a minor heart attack." Stiles licked his lips and resumed panting. the tension was broken by Jewel's soft laughter, resulting in the both the boys to glare at her

"How come you aren't creeped out?" Stiles narrowed his eyes

"Because, I've seen so many of these toys. Teddy has a huge collection of these 'I'm Hungry' toys" she chuckled "for crying out loud, one of youis a true alpha werewolf and other is his trusted confidente and after all we've been through, a speaking toy scares you. Unbelievable" she laughed a little more.

"rude" Stiles muttered when they all heard a twig snap and Jewel quickly turned behind. There stood a coyote snarling and glaring at them

"Please tell me you see that." Scott muttered

"I see it." Stiles muttered and next moment, Scott rushed past two of them, after the coyote

"Wait, hey, Scott! Scott, wait!" Jewel called but in vain

"You are not leaving me" Stiles came to stand next to Jewel, whose eyes were now glowing

"Wasn't planning on it" she muttered tensely not knowing if the coyote was a coyote, and if it wasn't, what it was doing here?"