Chapter 4 A Murderer Is Named
Stiles is pissed that his dad was hit by a car and that is was due to Scott for whatever reason. I didn't ask, instead while Stiles drove to meet his dad at the hospital I decided tomato some dinner for the two of them. My mom would always make us something amazing whenever one of us was upset if was from school, a fight with our siblings. Whatever it was, good food made it a little easier to deal with. I was done cooking the rosemary garlic steaks when both Sheriff Stilinski and Stiles walked through the door. I pulled the bake potatoes out of the oven and was met by the shocked faces of the Stilinski men.
"Mina, did you cook all of this for us?" Sheriff Stilinski asks me as he takes off his jacket
"Well my mom would always make a good dinner like this whenever one of my siblings or I was ever upset. It would help make the end of the day become a little bit better." I say as I plate up both Stiles and his dads steak and potatoes. I place them on the table and then begin to prepare my own plate as the two of them begin to dig in. Stiles looks almost sadden with the idea of someone cooking him and his dad a meal.
"Wow Mina, this great. How did you learn how to cook like this?" Sheriff says between mouth full of steak and potatoes
"I'm glad that you like it. When Stiles and I heard about you getting hit at the parent teacher conference I was so worried that you could be badly injured. But I'm glad that you are doing well." I say and I notice that Stiles still has that look on his face that makes me wonder what is wrong.
"Stiles son, why haven't you eaten all of your steak. You are normally a faster eater than me." Stiles doesn't respond but looks at me and then excuses himself and heads to his room. I didn't know what I should do but I knew he needs his space
"I'm sorry Mina for that. It has nothing to do with you and your cooking. I'm sure he loves it, but it just…" Sheriff can't even finish his sentence like something is bothering him.
"Sheriff if you don't mind me asking. Why did Stiles have such a sour reaction to a home cooked meal?" Sheriff gave me a small smile and nodded
"It really isn't a secret because I think pretty much everyone knows. But I lost my wife Claudia to a rare brain disease and it had a profound effect on Stiles from losing his mother at such a young age." I never knew that he lost his mother. I only assumed that his parents were divorced.
"I know Sheriff that you don't want me to say I;m sorry, and believe me out of anyone I know how tired the "I'm sorry for loss" speech gets old."
"Thank you Mina for not only making this amazing dinner but for being a real friend to my son. I know that he's not the most popular kid to be around, but he really is an amazing person." I smile brightly at how deeply the Sheriff really cares for his son. It's a love that I know my mother showed for everyone she met and especially to her four children.
"I'm going to put Stiles's plate in the fridge in case he wants to eat it later. You enjoy the rest of your dinner. And I brought a cake from the bakery." Sheriff didn't waste any time to slice himself a piece. I headed up stairs hoping that I could talk to Stiles a little bit before we all go to sleep for the night.
His door was slightly opened and I peered in to just see him sitting on his bed looking up at the ceiling. I slowly walk into the room waiting to see if he wants me to leave but he doesn't say a word. I sit next to him on his bed and just see if he will say anything. But he doesn't so I make the first move
"Your dad told me about losing your mother at an early age." no response
"I didn't know that a home cooked meal would upset you this much but I want you to know that out of any I know what you have gone through Stiles. I lost people that I love at a young age and there was nothing that I could do to save them. Before I blacked out from all of the smoke and wolfsbane I listened to every single one of my family members, werewolf or not take their last breath. There was nothing I could do to take their pain away and their is nothing that anyone can do to take mine away. Believe me when I say this Stiles. I understand the pain that you have had to endure and push through in life. You can trust me as your friend to know that I would never put either you, Scott or anyone in danger. Because I'm not the monster that everyone makes me out to be. I'm just broken." He turns to me with his sad caramel eyes and opens his arms for me and I move to lay by his side. I rest my head on his chest with our arms around each other. I listen to the silence around us until we both fall asleep.
Stiles and I haven't spoken about falling asleep in each others arm and I'm kind of thankful for that. Because I have shared more with Stiles, someone who I have only know for like a month than I have shared with even Derek. The morning after I woke up before Stiles and headed home to change my clothes for school. He looked peaceful when I left but that doesn't mean everything is okay. Tonight I'm trying to help Derek in training Scott to learn how to control his abilities so that we can find the alpha. This is why I am currently stalking Scott in a car garage in order to trigger his abilities but this kid is failing miserably.
"What the hell is that!" is all Scott can say to Derek and I
"Said we were going to teach you. I didn't say when." is Derek's ever so cheerful reply
"You two scared the crap out of me!"
"Really Scott? That was nothing." I stated
"Okay, but I was fast right?"
"Not fast enough."
"But the car alarm thing, that was smart, right?" Scott asks in trying to get our approval for his so called improvement
"That was until your phone rang." Derek cold replies
"Yeah but that was. I mean. Would you two just stop." Scott says to us to keep us from just walking away from him and brushing him off
"Please? What happened the other night, Stiles dad getting hurt. That was my fault. I should have been there to do something. I need you two to teach me how to control this." Scott pleads
"Look what Mina and I are is because of birth. You were bitten. Teaching someone who was bitten takes time. I don't even know if either of us can even teach you." Derek informs him and all of the color in Scott's face drains.
"What do I have to do?"
"You need to get rid of rid of distractions. You see this?" Derek shows Scott his phone with Allison on it
"Scott if you want us to teach you? Git rid of her." I stated
"What because of her family?" Scott questions Derek and I
"You getting angry? Thats your first lesson. You want to control this, how to shift. You do it through anger, by tapping into the primal animal rage, and you can't do that with her around." Scott says he can get angry and that makes me laugh, he still doesn't understand what we are asking him to do.
"Not angry enough Scott. This is the only way that Derek and I can teach you. Now can you stay away from Allison? At least until after the full moon?" I question
"If that's what it takes."
"Do you want to live? Do you want to protect your friends? Yes or no?" Derek demands and Scott stands his ground and says yes if we can teach him then he will. I know it wont last but we have to get through to this puppy dog at some point.
And of course Scott doesn't stay away from Allison intact he has a make out session with her the very next day after our talk. What worried Derek and I when Scott was telling us about his some what encounter with the alpha was the fact that he drew a spiral know as the triskelion. The sign for vendetta. This keeps getting worse and worse. Now we know that the deaths of the people in Beacon Hills isn't at random. But what would this alpha have such a grudge over some humans to kill them all in monstrous ways. While Derek decides to deal with Scott I head to the hospital to pay a well needed visit to someone important to me.
I enter my uncles room and I can automatically hear the death cries of my family the moment I step into his room. His back his faced away from me like it was the last time. I pull up a char and sit in front of the man who saved my life. I don't say anything at first but I can't hold it in any longer. I break down in front of him.
"Uncle Peter, there are not enough words to describe how thankful I am for what you did for me. I know that when I woke up form all of the smoke that the firefighters and EMT's had to pry your body off of me. You protected me from the flames and caused yourself to be burned almost to death." I look up from tear filled eyes and nothing has changed on his face.
"I don't know if you can even hear me but when you do get better I promise you that I will do anything to repay you for saving my life by giving up your own." I reach for my uncle's hand and smile remembering all of the memories I have following him around like a lost puppy.
"When you get your strength back I want to tell you everything that I have been through. You have always been that father figure to me that I dearly wanted. I want to tell you about how much I miss mom and you always teaching me life lessons. I miss our family and most of all I miss when silence comes I can hear nothing but now all I hear is death. I still remember hearing everyones hearts giving out on them. I watched as everyone died around me and I couldn't do anything about it!" I am a sobbing mess and I'm pretty sure I have alarmed one of the hospital staff members
"I wish you could tell me what to do with everything. You would always have something wise to inform me about how to make it thorough situations."
Stiles POV
Scott wont stop bugging me to speak to him, so of course I cave in. He's basically my brother and I could never stay mad at him for too long, no matter what he did.
"All right. Well correct me if I'm wrong, but every time you tap into your animal side, you try to kill someone. And that someone's usually me." I say to my best friend
"I know. That;s what he means when he says he doesn't know if he or Mina can teach me. I have to be able to control it." he replied
"Well how are they going to teach you to do that?"
"I don't know. I don't think they do either."
"Okay when are you seeing him again?" I say as we continue down the halls
"He told me to to talk about it. Just act normal and get through the day." I pester him to tell me when because I was not falling for the whole bullshit coming out of his mouth
"He's picking me up at the animal clinic after work."
"After work. Al right well that gives me to the end of the school day then." I state going over my genius plan to help my friend
"To do what?"
"To teach you myself." I smirk at my friend who just has a worried look on his face
Scott later on asks me if I had come up with a plan, and at the same time I want to tell Scott about the whole Mina kissing me and then falling asleep in my arms the other night. But I did get that chance because then Allison came over to speak with him. This just left me to go over my thoughts about what this thing between Mina and I really is. Because I know that I do have real feelings for her. She is all of the things that I blurted out at her and she must have feelings for me or she wouldn't have done what she did. The kiss completely threw me off guard but how I wish it wasn't cut short. I could literally spend forever kissing Mina Hale. She is also someone who is just as broken as me but even more so after listening to her describe how she was left to listen to everyone around her die in the fire. She has been through so much and yet she seems to hold it together.
Mina's POV
After having my emotional moment for the year at the hospital I head to school to only be avoided the whole day by Stiles. When we pass each other in the hall he literally starts walking the opposite way just to avoid me. Derek also visited our uncle but was sort of kicked out by Peter's nurse for yelling at him for no reason. My brother has no control over his anger but I can understand his frustration. He then text me to met him at the animal clinic so that we can question Scott's boss together. I have no idea what he is trying to get out of this but it must be something worth trying or Derek wouldn't have suggested it.
"Scott, you're late again. I hope this isn't going to be a habit." Scott's boss says thinking that we are someone else. When he turns around he is met by two pairs of cold green eyes
"Can I help you two?" is all he says to us
"Hope so. We want to know about this animal that you found with the spiral on its side?" Derek asks him stepping closer which makes the Vet step back from us just little bit.
"Excuse me? What animal?" he asks and I hear that his heart is racing a little bit meaning he is lying
"Three months ago. The deer. You remember this." Derek states showing him a picture of the animal
"Oh yes, it's just a deer. And I didn't find it. They called me because they wanted to know if I'd ever seen anything like it." The doc says trying to act all calm
"What did you tell them?" I ask
"I told them no." he says looking at me. Derek had to be the one to state that he can hear his heart beat rising meaning that he was lying about ever seeing it before
"Are you protecting someone?" I say stepping forward which just makes him more nervous
"All right. The key to the drug locker is in my pocket." He steamers reaching for the key, Derek stops him saying we don't want the drugs.
"We want to know why you're lying!" I glare at the Doc wondering what he has to hide. Derek shares the same feeling with me because before the doc knew it Derek and I had him tied up and his mouth taped and placed the back seat of Derek's car. I call Scott to tell him to about what we think hiss his.
"Look when he's conscious, he can keep himself from healing. But unconscious he can't!' Derek yells at Scott but I can tell he still doesn't fully understand why we did this
"Are you two out of your mind? What are you guys even talking about?" Scott asks frantically
"You want to know what the spiral means, Scott? It's our sign for a vendetta, for revenge. It means he won't stop killing until he's satisfied." I say staring Scott down hoping he understands why we had to stoop to this level
"You think he's the alpha?" Scott says as he points to his boss
"We're about to find out." is all my brother says moving back to Deaton ready to hit him again
"Hit him again, and then you'll see me get angry." Scott says trying to sound all tough but it just made me laugh
"Do you have a plan?" Derek asks
"Just give me an hour." Scott tells us to meet him at the school and he will tell us his master plan.
Derek and I arrive at the school to see Stiles Jeep parked a few spaces down from us. They see us and head over to inform us of what he is wanting to do to track the alpha.
"Where's my boss" Scott asks
"He's in the back." I say point to the car
"Oh well he looks comfortable." Stiles says and I just roll my eyes at him. Scott walks towards the school away from Derek and I. Derek starts towards him
"Wait. Hey what are you doing?" he asks Scott
"You said I was linked with the alpha. I'm gonna see if you're right." Scott says stepping closer
"Okay, one question. What are you going to do if he does show up?" I ask looking at Scott like he has completely lost his mind
"I don't know." is his only response. Really this guy never thinks anything through. This is one of the reasons why he does so poorly in school because he doesn't think about things before he does anything. Derek and I watch foolishly as Scott and Stiles sneak into the school to do who knows what to signal the alpha.
I turn to my brother and give him the really you are letting Scott do this look
"Don't give me that look Mina."
"I'm not giving you any look, but do you honestly think this is the best way to get the alpha's attention. By letting Scott call the shots on this whole thing we have been working to in finding out who killed Laura! Because if it is you are out of you're damn mind!" Derek was going to stop me from yelling when the most God awful dying cat sound boomed out of the schools speakers. I cringed knowing that this was Scott's shitty attempt in howling.
"Is he really doing this?" I ask looking at my brother and he is just shaking his head. Next thing I knew there was another howl and this one was more animalistic by far than the first one. But it was the most insane thing he could have done because it was so loud that he could have attracted the whole state. Scott and Stiles come running out of the school all happy because of what Scott did. Derek and I look annoyed and I'm literally about to kill Scott myself for being so irresponsible.
"I'm gonna kill both of you. What the hell was that? What are you trying to do, attract the entire state to the school?" Derek asks fuming mad
"Yeah it was loud. And it was awesome." Stiles states joyfully and I shove him in the return he gives what did I do look.
"Shut up." Derek warns them
"Don't be such a sour wolf." Stiles remarks back
"Really this isn't the time to be making jokes!" I yell at Stiles. I didn't even notice that Scott's worried look as he stared at the back seat of our car.
"What did you do with him?" Scott questions looking extremely worried at the fact that his boss is not in the back like he was just a second ago.
"What we didn't do anything with him." Derek states and then my brother is being lifted in the air with blood dripping out of his mouth by none other than the alpha himself
"DEREK!" I yell at my brother as he is thrown to the side of the school like he is nothing but a rag doll. I begin to run to him when Stiles pulls me along with him in the school shooting run to Scott and I. I follow them inside reluctantly, but the only thing running threw my mind is that my brother could be dead and I have no family. I will now be completely alone for the rest of my life.
We make it into the school and Scott is shouting to lock the doors. Stiles decides to be sassy and I have to be the one to jam a broom into the door handles. The guys are freaking out it not being able to hold off the alpha. But all I can think about is trying to control my anger. I normally have a great sense of control over it but I haven't really been in a situation that would cause me to loose control. I feel myself begin to transform
"Wow! Mina what are you doing? This is not the right time to go all wolf on us. We need to figure out how to hid from Scotts boss!" Stiles yells and I just try to calm my self down before I lash out the two idiots
"You think my boss is the alpha?" Scott asks all shocked at the idea of his boss murdering people
"Yes. Murdering psycho werewolf." Scott says looking at Stiles like he is insane
"Oh come on. He disappears and that thing shows u ten seconds later to toss Derek 20 feet in the air? That's not convenient timing?" Stiles says and then realizes what he said and looks at to see if I was going to break down again
"It's not him." Scott stands firmly that his boss is innocent
"He killed Derek." Stiles yells and thats when I lost it
"Okay both of you stop it! And my brother is not dead and you need to stop saying he is dead! What we need to do now is make sure we don't get killed tonight." both guys nod in agreement not knowing what to say to me
"Okay what do we do to stay alive?" Scott asks us
"We all get in my Jeep, we get out of here, Scott you seriously need to think about quitting your job." Stiles tells all of us with his little adorable smile. We are almost heading to an exit when Scott notices something outside the window.
"Stiles what is wrong with the hood of your Jeep?" Scott says as I follow where his eyes are. And that's when I notice that in fact the Jeep is bent and next to it is Stiles's battery. This means we have no way of making it out of this without being confronted by the alpha. We decide to head to a part of the school were there aren't any windows and thats why we are currently heading to the direction of the locker rooms. But before we can even make it Scott makes another wonderful suggestion about getting Stiles's dad involved.
"Really Scott what do you think Beacon Hills police is going to do with a murderous werewolf who is seeking out his revenge on people by killing them? Do you really think involving Stiles's dad is going to solve anything? No it's only going to get people killed! We need to find away to get past the alpha and try to survive the night!"
"They have guns." Scott states and I roll my eyes at his stupidity
"Yeah and Derek had to be shot with a wolfsbane laced bullet to even slow him down, you remember that?" Stiles sasses his friend
Then we have to find a way out and just run for it." Scott says
"There's nothing near the school for at least a mile."
"What about your brothers car?" Scott turns to ask me
"I mean that could work but Derek has the keys in his jacket." is all I say seeing the two guys jump with joy at the fact that we might survive
"That could work. We go outside, we get the keys off of his body, and then we take his car." I slap his arm for even thinking about leaving my brother for dead
"And him." Stiles says looking apologetic at me and then we all hear a noise coming from outside the locker rooms, we think the worst that it's the alpha but I can smell that it's someone else but that honest mean it's not the alpha in his human form. And then the doors are thrown open and a janitor is reveled looking pissed that some teenagers are hiding out in the school. The guys to keep him quiet in hopes to not attract the alpha to our whereabouts. He of course doesn't listen and try to shove out of the lockers but then he is grabbed and dragged away by the alpha. Stiles screams for us to go and we go to find another place to hid and think of another way out.
"God what is he doing? What does he want?" Stiles asks
"He want's Scott just like Derek and I tried to tell you idiots. He wont stop until he has him!"
"Oh great. A psychotic werewolf who's into team work. That's beautiful."
"Stiles this is not the time to make jokes. This is a serious situation that we are in. We need to find a way out of here before it's too late." we are finally safe in classroom with a desk when I guess both Scott and I hear someone's phone ringing. There shouldn't be anyone else in the school besides us but there is definitely someone else here.
"I know that ring tone. It's Allison's." Scott looks at us and we follow him as he calls Allison and tells her to meet us in the lobby. Come to find out someone sent a text from Scott's phone which is impossible since Derek broke it saying for her to meet us at the school tonight. I can only thin of one person who would do that and that's the alpha. Why would he want Allison to come here along with Jackson and Lydia.
:Why do I have the feeling that you didn't send me the message?" is all Allison can ask and that's when Lydia and her Jackass of a boyfriend decide to make a presence.
"Finally can we go now?" she says in her demanding voice, and thats when Scott and I sensed that the alpha was coming near and then he came out of the ceiling and charged at us. We all run to the nearest the door is blocked by a desk every takes a step back and asks the most important question. What the hell is going on? The alpha is toying with us and I can't think of why he wants a couple teenagers dead.
"What was that? Scott what was that?" Allison frantically asks
"What the hell just came out of the ceiling?" Lydia demands. Scott doesn't even answers them and begs everyone to help him stack some chairs in front of the door and this only causes Lydia and Allison to freak out even more. Scott tries to explain about how the janitor is dead and all the questions come in asking who did it. I was waiting for Scott to say he didn't know but then he does the most idiotic thing by saying my brother did it.
"What the hell! Really Scott you are going to frame m brother for another murder? Really how much of a dumb ass can you really be." I step mincingly to him and he's smart enough to back up. Allison steps in front of me to protect her little boy toy and I can see the eyes of everyone else look worried about what I am going to do next
"You can't blame Scott for saying its your brother killing everyone. You can't know what anyone is really capable of." I give Allison a smirk, only if she knew what her own family is capable of that would certainly shock her
"You're right Allison. You don't really know your own family, but I'm telling you my brother didn't kill anyone." I glare at Scott for saying this
"I'm sorry Mina I saw Derek kill that janitor right after he said he killed those other people. We have to get out no before he kills us!" he says directed to everyone else. Literally Scott is making me want to kill him and I don't care what it does to the color of my eyes
"Call the copes." Jackson suggests
"NO!" Stiles states
"What do you mean no?" Jackson ask bewildered
"I mean no. You wanna hear it in Spanish? No. Look Derek killed three people, okay? We don't know what he is armed with?" Stiles says and I literally am this close to killing everyone. Really when they don't have a straight answer for who's killing people they automatically throw my brothers name into the murder pile.
"Your dad is armed with an entire Sheriff's department. Call him." Jackass demands with his Greek God jaw clenching with frustration. Lydia was two steps ahead and is in the process of calling. But the police hung up on her saying that they got a tip saying that there would be prank calls about teenagers being at Beacon Hills high school needing help
"Why does your brother want to kill us? Why does he want to kill anyone?" Allison yells at me and I was about to hit her if it wasn't for Sties holding me back
"You listen here stupid bitch!" I push Stiles away from me and glare at him "You know what all of you listen. My brother did not kill anyone. Scott and Stiles are idiots and have no idea what they are talking about!" I say to them but they all have doubtful looks
"Sweetie I know this is hard for you to wrap your head around, but you need to face the music. Your brother is a murderer." and that's when I loose it I grab the nearest object which is a glass beaker and throw it against the nearest wall. Everyone steps back from me with scared eyes and they should they have no idea what they are dealing with.
"Mina.." Stiles tries to calm me down but I shrug off his hand on my shoulder
"Don't you dare touch me!" I say in a hush tone and walk away to keep myself in check
I block everyone out as they try to think of a way out of here and I over hear Stiles saying good job to Scott for throwing my brother under the bus. Is he serious? I thought he was different. Scott leaves the room to go and get the keys off of the dead janitor in hopes of saving us and deep down I hope we all die just so I wont have the possibility of living the rest of my life alone. An omega without any where to go. I wouldn't last long on my own without my brother and I'm not going to beg my way in to another pack or kill an alpha to take over their pack. I don't know what happened but when I started listening to everyone I heard the sound of police sirens and I knew the Sheriff was here and now everyone is going to think my brother killed people.I was escorted out with everyone to the so called safe zone. But I didn't pay attention to anyone as I was asked if it was alright for me to be taken in for questioning on if I knew anything about my brother being a so called murder. I didn't put up a fight but I did notice that Derek's body wasn't where he was thrown. That had to be a sign that he was okay enough to get somewhere safe to heal. I felt some grab my hand before I headed to the police cruiser.
"Mina? You know that we didn't have any choice but to say that your brother is killing everyone? Please don't be mad at Scott and I." I look into Stiles's caramel eyes and I shake my head
"Let go of me Stiles. You and Scott had other choices but again after everything you still are willing to pull my family under the bus." I turn away and let myself be put in the back of the police cruiser.
Stiles POV
"Well we survived, dude. You know? We outlasted the alpha. It's still good, right? Being alive?" I ask Scott
"When we were in the chemistry room he walked right by us. You don't think that it heard us? You don't think it knew exactly where we were?"
"Well how come we are still alive?"
"It wants me in its pack. But think, first I have to et rid of my old pack?"
"What do you mean do you mean old pack?"
"Allison, Jackson, Lydia. You." Scott says looking sadly at me and this is when I wish I hadn't pissed Mina off so much because Scott and I seriously need her and Derek's knowledge of werewolves to know what to do next.
A/N
I hop you all liked this chapter and I am really thankful for all of the nice things that you guys have reviewed. Please tell me what you think again about how the story is going and I will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible. Again Please review and until next time.