I woke up chained to a chair next to Scott. Well, I didn't think it was going to end up this way. I sighed and glanced over to see Scott staring at me.
"How lovely." I muttered as I saw Lydia and Kira. Lydia was also strapped to a chair like we were. I looked down at the ground to see us attached wires and everything else. I followed the path of the wires to the machine Kira was standing in front of. I heard the hum of electricity.
"Okay, so this is how it's going to work. The fox is immune to electricity, so she's going to turn the up the electric on the alphas and if she doesn't, I turn it up on the banshee." The guy standing next to Araya said. I rolled my eyes straightening up.
"No I won't do it." Kira said struggling against him.
"Are you sure? Two of your friends have the power to heal the other one not so much." The man said. I growled at him and he just smirked. I saw Araya shake her head and I knew she knew about me.
"Sennett." She said. I glanced up at her recognizing my mother's maiden name. I chuckled but nodded.
"Wise one. Your mother was not wise marrying your father and breeding you." She said. I shrugged.
"Born werewolf. I don't care about what I am. It's a gift to be able to protect people." I muttered. She just shook her head and I chuckled.
"Is this a game to you?" Scott asked. I raised my head looking at her as she came around in front of both of us.
"This is a test, for both of you. Let's see if you pass." She said. A test? Really? This wasn't fucking school, we were bartering on someone's life right now. This was no time to fucking test us.
"We're going to ask some questions. You both answer them, nobody gets hurt. You don't answer, we turn on the dial." She said. I shrugged and nodded.
"Fine." I said.
"Do what they say. Okay, whatever they want. We can take it." Scott said looking at Kira. I nodded giving her a thumb up smiling. Kira nodded as she glanced over at me before looking over at Scott again.
"So, we don't know where Derek is. We want to find him as well. You know who took him." She said. I shook my head.
"What? How would I know that?" Scott asked.
"I just moved back to Beacon Hills a few months ago. That's impossible for me to know!" I said quickly.
"We don't know. Why do you think we came here?" Lydia asked.
"Kira turn the dial." Araya said. I saw Kira shaking her head not wanting to.
"Should we turn the dial on Lydia instead?" She demanded as the guy went for the other knob. I pulled the chains up as far as they could and growled at her.
"No!" Scott and I yelled out at the same time.
"Do it, Kira." Scott said. I tensed up as the power went on shocking me. I groaned in pain as I went straight as a board. I was straining so hard against the chair pulling at the chains holding me down.
Max sighed as he looked over at Stiles and Malia. He couldn't believe that his baby sister was so hooked on this kid, because he really didn't see what was special about Stiles at all. He liked Stiles and everything but the first time Skylar had come home sobbing after Stiles had told her what had happened between him and Malia at Eichen House then he wanted to beat the snot out of the twitchy loser. No one hurt Sky.
"Stupid…" Max muttered and right when he was about to do what they were trying to accomplish Malia kissed Stiles. He didn't even fucking pull away from it but when Malia did her eyes were glowing a blue.
"They're being electrocuted…" Max said as he leaned against the wall crossing his arms over his chest. Stiles swallowed as he looked over at Max. Stiles knew he didn't just miss what had happened because Max had a blood lust come over his face as he stared at Stiles. He just smirked and cracked his knuckles lightly. If it wasn't for Skylar and Scott still liking Stiles, Max would've pounded him into dust a long time ago. Max knew though that Sky would be so pissed about him hurting Stiles, it just wasn't worth it.
"You're a prick…and I swear to god…you know what nope. I'll let her go full on alpha on you during the full moon. Won't even stop her." Max muttered shaking his head in disgust turning away from the two.
"Tell me who has Derek! Who had a reason, a vendetta against the Hale's?" Araya asked. I shook my head.
"We don't know where he is!" I screamed out in pain.
"You don't know because you haven't figured it out yet. So think. Who could've taken him?" Araya demanded. I heard the guy say three in Spanish over the buzz and the zaps got more powerful. I went rigid again before getting used to it and settling back against the chair.
"Who had the power? The power of a shape-shifter!?" She yelled. Scott shook his head.
"I don't know!" He said.
"Oh! Someone who could've turned without you two knowing." She asked. I looked at her confused as sparks came off the cuffs binding my wrists to the floor. I looked at Scott confused.
"Turned but not by a bite!" She said. I shook my head trying to get my thoughts in tuned with Scott's. I learned that Scott and I could sometimes communicate through each other if we tried hard enough.
"Diez!" Araya demanded and when Kira didn't do it she yelled the same thing again and that's when I screamed in pain.
Max heard his baby sister scream out and he covered my ears as the lights flickered. Max glanced over at Malia and Stiles as they glanced over at him. He knew that her screams were going to echo in his mind now for weeks. Thanks a lot Sky He thought mentally.
"They're killing them." Malia said. Stiles's eyes went wide and Max closed his own trying to lessen the screams of his sister in his ears.
"Skylar…" Max groaned digging my fingers into his ears.
I screamed and I felt my teeth grow and after a moment I saw a woman flash through my mind before I ripped the chains off my wrists by standing up and falling off the chair to the floor panting. I buried my face into the crook of my arm as my muscles tensed and then finally rested and relaxed for a moment. I sighed before looking up at them both.
"Say the name Scott." Araya said.
"Kate." Scott said. I glanced over at Scott before looking over at Lydia. I grunted as I sat up on the floor staring at Araya through clenched teeth. Why did I have to go through that if I didn't know about Kate? I glanced over at Kira to see her just as confused as I was so that meant it was before her time in Beacon Hills as well as mine.
Max finally heard her break through the chains and that's when her screaming stopped. He heard her heart beat thank god.
"Kate…" Max and Malia said at the same time. Stiles's glanced at both of them with wide eyes shaking his head as he leaned back onto his heels.
"Are you sure he said that? It's impossible. That can't be what he said." Stiles said. Max glanced at him and then at Malia, wondering if she had heard the name before. If she had she wasn't letting on. Then he stood there for a moment and played it over in his head. The name sounded familiar alright.
"Why? Who…who's Kate?" Malia asked. Max sighed and looked at Stiles.
"Well, from your expression I take it a ghost from Christmas past…" Max muttered darkly. Stiles nodded slightly looking at him and then Malia.
"She's a hunter. An Argent." Stiles said. Oh yeah, that was familiar alright now as he thought about it. He had overheard his mother talking to someone on the phone talking about Kate and things back while they were in Sacramento. He remembered mom saying no that they weren't going to go to her funeral because of the fact she once tried to kill their father. He shook his head and growled slightly thinking of the conversation back when he was young.
"Oh goodie another hunter." Max muttered as he pulled himself off the ground. He walked over to the two trying to get the echo of the screams out of his ears. He stuck a finger in his ear moving it around slightly before pulling it out.
I sighed as they led us out of the house. Scott was talking to Araya about Kate and how we were going to try and bring her back. I walked over to where Lydia, Stiles, Malia, Kira, and Max were. Max was on the side of Lydia clenching his fist of his left while twirling the keys of my car with his right. He was going to drive it since I apparently looked like shit, I take.
"I gotta talk to you in the car." Max murmured as I walked over to him. I nodded and I saw Stiles glance over to us. I thought I saw him pale slightly as he looked over towards us but it might just be my imagination.
"Skylar I know you can hear me…I'm telling you now like I just told Scott. When you take the bite of an innocent, when you make a wolf of your own, then I will cross your border and come knocking at your door." Araya said as I turned around and looked at her. I nodded.
"Then I don't plan on seeing you again." I muttered.
"So what now?" Stiles asked as Scott joined us.
"She thinks she knows where we can find Derek." Scott said.
"She gonna tell us where?" Malia asked. I snorted.
"She's giving us a guide to the place believe it or not." I said. Stiles and Scott looked at me and Scott nodded in agreement. That's when I heard the engine of a motorcycle and it pulled up between us. The person pulled the helmet off and I nodded. So this is who they were going to give us to guide us. I smiled at her as her eyes swept over us.
"You know her?" Stiles asked. I nodded.
"Braeden." Scott and I said. I didn't know Scott knew her but she had helped my family a few times when we had been in some bad spots.
"Who's Braeden?" Kira asked.
"She's a mercenary." Lydia said. I nodded because it was part true. She was also an assassin if I remembered correctly.
"Right now, I'm the only one who's gonna take you where you need to go, la iglesia." She said. Lydia glanced at her curious.
"The church?" She asked.
"What's The Church?" Stiles asked. I chuckled.
"It's not a place you'll find God." She answered back. I chuckled louder and clapped my hands. Well, I'm glad that comedy was still going around in the world because it seemed to be seeped out of Beacon Hills with all the shit that had been going on lately. Poor Caleb too, he just wanted to relax about things, well, guess this was never going to happen now.
"Okay y'all let's get to going. Let's do this thing." I said as Max unlocked my car and we both climbed in. I waited as they all climbed into Stiles's jeep before starting after Braeden. Max and I were silent for a moment until we got a little further out into the desert.
"They kissed while you were being fried." Max said. I sighed and leaned my head back shaking my head as tears threatened to spill down my face. Come on Sky, keep it together. You can't get all stupid now. I thought to myself as we sat in silence in the car, driving down the road.
"You couldn't wait till home to tell me this?" I whispered as I turned my head to watch the dust fly behind us. I was going to have to give my baby a good clean when I got her home that was for sure.
"I couldn't wait to tell you. It was eating me alive Sky, knowing that he's doing this to you and he knows it." Max growled as he glanced over at me. I shook my head and sighed.
"Right now I'm not even gonna worry about it till we get home." I said as I pulled my phone out of my pocket. Max growled slightly as his hands tightened on the wheel as I dialed Stiles's number. It rang twice before he picked up.
"Okay who's Kate Argent?" I asked. He sighed.
"Malia and you must have freaking telepathy or something." Stiles answered. I rolled my eyes and suppressed a growl from myself as Max let an audible one out.
"I'd like to know to." Kira said.
"We were at her funeral so I'd like to know how she got out of a casket that was buried six feet underground." Stiles said. Then I thought back to something that Araya had said.
"She was scratched by someone, wasn't she Scott?" I asked.
"Yeah…and she was never in the casket." Scott answered.
"She was Allison's aunt and a total sociopath." Lydia said quietly but Max and I still heard her over the background noise. We glanced at each other.
"Who isn't a total sociopath now a day honestly?" I said. No one said anything but I knew Scott was hurting a little by the way his heartbeat jumped.
"You don't have to talk about it right now if you don't want to." Kira said.
"No, he does." Max and Malia both said. I glared at the phone ready to scream but Max put his hand over my mouth glaring at me telling me to not start anything right now.
"Yeah, they're right. You guys should know. You need to know." Scott said. I heard Stiles take a deep breath before starting.
"Okay, Kate was the one who started the fire that killed most of Derek's family." Stiles said.
"But some survived the fire like Cora and Peter." Scott said. Max and I glanced at each other confused.
"A very angry Peter." Lydia added.
"Peter? I've met him once…he didn't seem too bad." I said. Stiles just chuckled but there was no humor intended behind the laugh. It was something else that sent a shiver down my spine.
"Hopefully you won't have to again. He's an ass." Stiles said. I also wanted to added he's the one who saved Stiles when the Nogitsune took him over.
"Yeah he's the one who bit and turned me." Scott said. I nodded and shook my head, Scott hadn't told me who had bitten him because he didn't want me to do anything stupid because I would've gone after the guy. Then who knows what would've happened after that. Well, I know. I'd probably be dead right now but since Peter was a beta again I might have actually been able to beat him, maybe.
"And the one who finally caught up to Kate and killed her." Lydia finished. I nodded. Okay, so Kate may have a revenge agenda up her sleeve.
"And we saw her buried." Stiles said.
"No, we saw her buried. We saw a casket, remember? She wasn't in it. The Calaveras's had heard that Kate had been killed by an Alpha's claws. They wanted to make sure she was really dead. Her body was healing more and more as she got closer to a full moon. She was coming back so they switched out the bodies." Scott said. I nodded knowing the rest. They were going to take her somewhere she could kill herself with the dignity of a hunter or have to kill her themselves because she refused to be noble. Blah, blah, blah, like the rest of the hunter bullshit. I understand why my mom didn't care about it but still trained with them. It was very useful.
"If a hunter is bit, they have to take their own life before they change." I finished for him.
"Our grandparents taught us that motto in case we wanted to follow up in the family business if we never changed." Max muttered. For all werewolves born there was a chance of never changing but that wasn't the case for our family. We had all changed underneath the light of a full moon one at a time, you know, except for the twins. I thought it was lucky that we all got the change. If one of us didn't change that would make them more vulnerable to attacks because they couldn't protect themselves or anything.
"Great grandparents you guys got there." Stiles said.
"The Calaveras they treat the code like law. They make it their responsibility to enforce it." Scott explained.
"That's why when my mom married my dad my grandparents had to stop being hunters. They couldn't hunt something that their daughter was marrying into. The first 7 years of my life I never knew my grandparents because they didn't accept what their daughter had done." I said.
"Kate had tried to kill dad once. I overheard mom talking about it to someone when they wanted her to come to Kate's funeral back last year while we were in Sacramento. Mom refused because of what had happened and because of Skylar not having control of her powers yet. She didn't want to trigger an all out war between the hunters and the family. The Argents never knew about dad because he represented some of them in court if they ever got into a tight space. The only person " Max muttered and I stared at him with a raised eyebrow and he shrugged.
"Good for her. I wouldn't do it either." Malia said. I shook my head.
"Would you kill half a dozen people to get out? Because that's what she did." Scott asked her.
"So she's changed into a werewolf?" Max asked.
"I don't know. You know there's a saying, sometimes the shape you take reflects the person you are." Scott said.
"What shapes sociopathic bitch?" Lydia asked. That's when we heard a pop and Max just barely swerved out of the way of hitting Stiles's jeep. I braced my hands against the dashboard and took a deep breath. My poor phone had flown to the ground with a loud thunk hitting against something and I winced. I picked it up off the floor and glanced at the screen to see it was crack free. I smiled and breathed a sigh of relief. The call had disconnected in the almost accident.
"Okay I am awake now!" I said. We got out of my car and headed over to the jeep where they were all looking around for something.
"We need to get there by nightfall or it's too dangerous otherwise." Braeden said.
"I'll come with you guys. Max stay here and see if you can help Stiles with his jeep. You know cars better than I do." I said. Max grabbed me by my upper arm and I glanced at him with eyes. He was smirking and my eyes grew red in anger and his eyes flashed yellow, smirking at me.
"Liar. I'll go with Scott. If anything happens here then they're going to need an alpha. Two Alphas one spot….stupid stay here." Max said as he grabbed the keys out of my hands. I glared at him but Scott just nodded at the logic.
"Yeah Sky, go ahead and stay with them in case." He said as Kira came running over to them. I nodded.
"Don't hurt my baby." I said. He just shook his head and then got back into my car. I watched them drive off and I shook my head.
"Hey, Stiles. I don't think we hit something. I think someone hit us." Malia said holding up a claw the size of my hand. I went over to it and looked at it and then Stiles.
"You haven't seen something like that before Sky, have you?" He asked. I shook my head.
"Nah, but it can't be good. That thing is the length of my head, so get that jeep running Stilinski." I said. Lydia leaned against the jeep and looked at me as I started to pace back and forth. The hair was standing up on the back of my neck which was never a good thing.
"Maybe we should walk." Lydia suggested. No offense to Lydia but I think that was the worst idea I have ever heard come out of her mouth. This place was not meant to be traveled at night on foot.
"Hey, I will never abandon this jeep. You understand me? Ever. Ever." He said and then that's when I felt it and I growled slightly.
"Sky what are-?" He asked.
"Work faster, Stiles. Sky's sensing something and I feel like we're not alone. Something's out here with us." Malia said. I started to get real twitchy as night fell upon and I knew that Stiles kept watching me out of the corner of my eye.
"Work faster Stiles…" I muttered as I started to bounce on the balls of my feet. I heard the scrap of a sword and I saw Kira come over to stand between Malia and me. Lydia and Stiles were arguing with each other about the light.
"Anything?" Kira asked.
"It's too hard to see. We should've brought another flashlight." Malia said. I looked over at her and then when Kira went to the lights of the jeep I took a deep breath and looked over at Malia to see red reflecting eyes in hers. Good. I was looking around when I saw a skull head pop up over a rock. I saw a light go over that spot and it ducked down and I brought out my full alpha now. I roared at it as Kira asked if we had seen it. I heard Malia growl and I turned to her.
"Stay here and that's an order." I growled at her. She believe it or not stayed while I ran after it.
"Sky wait!" Kira yelled as I chased it. I knew I was going to be faster than Malia and more ready for it. I heard Stiles call after me as I chased it. I chased it up a slant where it turned around and swiped at me. I growled at it and swiped my claws against it and didn't even phase it. It swiped at me again with inhuman speed and stabbed me in the side. I let out a strangled cry as it pulled back. I stared at it with wide eyes before I stumbled backwards. I started to run back towards where I had come from when I saw Kira. She swung her sword around when she heard me and I stopped short from getting my head sliced off.
"Sky! What's out there?" She asked. I shook my head.
"I don't know what that thing way but its fast and it slices deep." I said. She saw my side and her eyes widened as we heard rocks sliding behind us. She took my hand and we started to run as best as we could back to the Jeep. When we got back to the jeep I growled slightly.
"I'm so fucking tired of being sliced at!" I growled.
"Here let me see it." Kira said. I nodded and rolled my shirt up past the cut which made me scream quietly.
"It's really deep." Kira said. I nodded and Stiles's looked over at us as I stood in the light and I saw him pale. After a few seconds he got the jeep running and we all crawled in.
"All bloody and wounded up front please." He said. I growled at him and right before I got back in the jeep every hair stood up on my neck again. I went to turn around and Stiles grabbed my collar.
"Oh no you're not!" He yelled literally dragging me into the jeep. He started it and went down the road. He started to criticize Malia for trying to run and leave and then they had a sickening moment where she was saying she wouldn't leave him from the back seat. I was trying not to scream and my nails were bringing blood in my thighs. I had a lot of scars from that recently.
"Okay touching moment over." Lydia said seeing what it was doing to me because apparently Stiles's was being oblivious.
"Are you okay, Skylar? It looks deep." Kira asked. I nodded.
"Yeah, it went way too far though for comfort." I said.
"I can't believe you told me to stay." Malia growled. I looked back at her.
"Because I knew you do that and I'm the alpha so I protect you…" I muttered.
"I don't need to be protected." She snapped.
"Shut up!" I growled at her.
"Okay!" Lydia said silencing both of us as the tension in the jeep got too palpable.
"Did you see anything?" She asked. I shook my head.
"Long claws…bones…lots of bones. That's it; it moved way too fast for me…but it smelled like death." I said and a few minutes of driving I heard a roar and I growled as my teeth grow in and my eyes flashed red.
"Scott just roared." I murmured looking over at Stiles. He started to drive faster and within ten minutes we were there pulling up in front of the church. We quickly got out of the jeep to see Scott and Max carrying someone who was pretty young. I walked up to them and my mouth dropped open.
"Is that him? Is that Derek?" Malia asked me and Stiles as the rest of them walked up beside us.
"Uh, sort of." Stiles said. I stared at him blinking for a few times when he looked up at us and his eyes landed on me immediately.
"Sky." He said.
"He said Max to when he first saw him." Scott muttered. I nodded.
"Cause he knew us back when he was this young." I whispered. I was staring directly at the younger version of Derek Hale. This was him before the fire, back when I was like in single digits for my age. It was when I had developed my school girl crush on him before the fire happened. I just stared at him and shook my head. Oh my god, what did Kate do to him? I glanced over at Max who shrugged as confused as both Scott and I were.
"Holy shit." I said.
