After a long night, the alarm rang on Stiles' nightstand. It was 6am. Mackenzie had fallen asleep sometime during the night without meaning too. She was currently hanging off one side of the bed heading resting at the bottom snoring lightly. Stiles smirked at her before throwing his pillow at her face. She bolted up in a sitting position arms flailing out in front of her as if to ward off her attacker. "Huh? What? What's going on?" She asked.
Stiles snickered. "It's time to get ready for school. You fell asleep during Empire Strikes Back." He informed her.
Mackenzie frowned when she heard that she had fallen asleep. "I'm sorry. I meant to stay awake with you. I made it through the first movie and half of the second."
"Don't worry about it." He told her.
She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and got up to stretch. "Feeling any better?"
"Aside from being exhausted yeah I guess." Stiles said as he made his way into his bathroom.
Mackenzie walked across the hall to her own bedroom to get ready for school. She came out half an hour later dressed and ready to go. She stood in her brother's doorway back pack strapped to her shoulder and saw that he was staring at a book almost like he couldn't make out the words. "Stiles?" She asked entering the room.
"Yeah?" He asked as if nothing happened.
Before she could get a chance to answer their dad beat her to it. "You alright? You ready for school?" His attention was focused on Stiles a look of concern on his face.
"Yeah. I'm good." Stiles tried to assure his dad. But his dad gave him the I don't believe you look. "Dad seriously I'm fine. It was just a nightmare."
"He'll be fine Dad. I'll be at school with him. I'll let you know if something happens." Mackenzie assured him.
"You better. Keep an eye on your brother okay?" He asked and she nodded.
"What's that?" Stiles asked noticing the box in his dad's hands.
"Files from the office." He answered.
"It says sheriff's station do not remove." Mackenzie pointed out.
"Well yeah unless you're the Sheriff." He reminded her with a smile. "Get your butts to school alright?"
They nodded grabbing their bags and heading out to his jeep. The ride to school was quiet. Mackenzie kept her attention focused on her brother. Out of the corner of his eye he caught her staring and a look of annoyance appeared on his face.
"Would you stop that?" He asked.
"Stop what?" She replied.
"Stop staring at me like I've gone crazy. I'm fine. Just like I told dad."
"You are not fine and neither am I." She said firmly. "You couldn't read this morning could you?"
"How did you know that?"
"You were holding a book and looking at it like the words on the cover were in a foreign language."
Stiles sighed as he pulled into the school parking lot and parked the jeep. "No I couldn't. It's been happening ever since the nightmares."
Before Mackenzie had a chance to respond, she saw Scott through the windshield. It looked like he was running from something.
"Stiles look." Mackenzie pointed out as she scrambled out of the jeep after her friend.
Stiles was right behind her and they quickly caught up to a terrified looking Scott. "Hey. You alright?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded. "You don't look alright Scott."
"I'm okay." Scott lied.
"You're a terrible liar." Mackenzie said. "It's happening to you too. You're seeing things aren't you?"
"How'd you know?" Scott asked.
"Because it's happening to all of you?" Lydia said as she and Allison joined them. The pack walked into the school with Lydia in the lead. "Well well, look who's no longer the crazy one."
"We are not crazy." Allison told her.
"Hallucinating. Sleep paralysis. Seeing into someone's nightmares. Yeah you guys are fine." Lydia said sarcastically.
"We did die and come back to life." Scott reminded them. "That's gotta have some side effects right?"
"Uh you guys did I didn't." Mackenzie said. "Why am I affected by this?"
"You were connected to Stiles when he went under. And he's your twin. Could be something to do with it." Lydia said.
The bell rang signaling class was about to start. "Keep an eye on each other okay?" Stiles said. "And Lydia stop enjoying this so much."
"What?" Lydia asked innocently.
"Morning everyone." Their new teacher said. "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 home a friend for that matter." There was a noise in the back and everyone turned to see a girl had banged her head on her desk out of embarrassment. Mackenzie felt sorry for her. "Either way, there she is." He pointed out. Kira looked up and gave an embarrassed smile and she and Scott made eye contact. Mackenzie noticed and smirked.
"Maybe we need a little more time to get back to normal." Scott told the twins after class as they went to their lockers.
"Scott we hit a reset button on a supernatural beacon for supernatural creatures. There's a pretty good chance normal doesn't exist anymore." Mackenzie said as her brother fought with the lock on his locker. "By the way I saw that in class."
"Saw what?" Scott asked. He then focused his attention on Kira when she came out arguing with her dad completely ignoring his friend.
"Yo earth to Scott?" She said bringing back his attention to her. "I saw that. And what is with your eyes?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
Stiles looked up and started panicking. "They're starting to glow."
"Like right now?" He asked.
"Yes right now. Stop it!" Stiles said looking around making sure no one was looking.
"I can't control it." Scott told them covering his eyes.
"Okay keep your head down. Look down. Mackenzie help me get him away from everyone." Stiles said.
She nodded and they managed to get him into a spare classroom. Once inside, Scott started acting berserk. He removed his coat and started growling low and dangerous.
"Scott it's okay." Mackenzie told him.
"No get away from me!" Scott yelled. "I don't know what's gonna happen get back!"
"Let us help you." Stiles said.
"We're not afraid." Mackenzie added moving closer.
Scott let out a growl and lashed out at her. His claws took a gash out of her shoulder and she let out a gasp of pain falling to her knees.
"Mackenzie!" Stiles shouted as he rushed to her side.
Blood was soaking through her shirt and she was wincing in pain trying to apply pressure to the wound with her hand.
"Scott stop! It's us!" Mackenzie shouted.
Scott dug his claws in his palms causing them to bleed. He howled in pain falling to his knees as he changed back. "Pain makes you human." He then noticed that he hurt his friend and a look of guilt appeared on his face. "Mackenzie I'm so sorry. It wasn't me. I didn't mean to."
"It's okay. I'll be fine. Really." She assured him.
"Scott this isn't just in our heads. This is real." Stiles told him. "It's starting to get bad for me too. I'm not just having nightmares I'm having these dreams where I literally have to scream myself awake. And sometimes I'm not even sure if I'm even actually waking up."
"What do you mean?" Scott asked.
"You know you can tell if you're dreaming." Stiles said. "You can't read in dreams. More and more the last 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?" Scott asked.
"This morning. And with the locker too." Mackenzie said turning to look at her brother. "You were fighting to open it."
Stiles got to his feet and looked at the board and all the posters on the wall none of it making sense. "I can't read a thing."
Let me know what you think. Things are about to get intense. Reviews help motivate me. And be prepared to be introduced to a supernatural creature we haven't been introduced to. Yes it'll be the OC :)
