"Get your ass down here now. We have a job to do."
"Dude, I'm already in bed." Scott groaned on the conference call between him, Stiles and Jewel
"Seriously Stiles, me too. Besides why the hell do you need me?" Jewel asked
"Because you are an as equal partner in my crimes as Scott is" Stiles harshly whispered going around the locker room in school. Jewel muttered something which sounded vaguely like "incompetent company"
"And aren't we getting a little old for this?" Scott asked
"We do this for Coach." Stiles argued
"I thought we did this to Coach." Scott chuckled
"Whatever, okay? You know he needs this. He lives for this stuff. He loves it." Stiles chided
"But it's the middle of the night." Jewel slightly snapped
"Which means it's after midnight and officially Mischief Night/Day, and, by perfectly awesome coincidence, it's also happens to be Coach's birthday."
"No, Stilinski. it means that its our bed time and with everything going on, I think the least I deserve is some hours of peaceful lumber"
"So what, you are just going to sleep through the official start of Mischief Night?"
"No. I'm going to sleep like a baby through the official start of Mischief Night" Jewel snorted making Scott snicker
"Real funny. You are a marauder, Jewel. A Pankster Royale. You just cannot turn your back on this"
"None of what you said made any lick of sense" Jewel said, yawning loudly for both of them to hear
"Look, like i said. We do this for Coach. It is a tradition, a ritual. And we just cannot be diverted. That includes you too Jewel. So if you both are not down here in five seconds, I will destroy you. Okay? And I mean five, four, three, two -"
"One."
Stiles jumped up hearing two voices behind him. From the ground, he glared at Jewel and Scott who were grinning at him
"I hate you. Both of you"
Scott pulled outside the school and took off his helmet to see the twins there on their bikes. He got of his bike and walked to them
"You're back in school?"
"No, just to talk." Ethan said asked
"Oh. That's kind of a change of pace for you guys." Stiles said, joining in "Usually, you're just hurting, maiming, and killing."
"You need a pack. We need an Alpha." Aidan said
"Yeah. Absolutely not. That's hilarious though."
"You came to us for help. We helped."
"You beat his face into a bloody pulp. That's not helping. In my opinion, that's actually counter-productive." Stiles piped in
"Why would I say yes?" Scott asked
"We'd add strength. We'd make you more powerful. There's no reason to say no."
"I can think of one. Like the two of you holding Derek's claws while Kali impaled Boyd. In fact, I don't know why we're not impaling them right now." Isaac joined them
Aidan growled, half shifting "You want to try?"
Isaac was about to take Aidan on but Scott held him back
"Sorry, but they don't trust you. And neither do I." and the three walked in the school
Jewel and Allison entered just in time for someone to throw a toilet paper roll at Allison, which Jewel caught just inches away from her sister's face
"Get a better aim that is not my sister, jerk" Jewel snapped at the guy
"You seem snappy" Allison noticed
"I hate Halloween." Jewel grumbled "I hate everything to do with Halloween"
Allison slightly winced "Just hold on to your sanity today"
"No promises" Jewel frowned. Allison slightly tilted her head with a smile
"I'll be fine" Jewel nodded but Allison didn't seem convinced. Jewel gave out a huge sigh and looked around spotting Scott and Stiles
"I'm fine, for sure" she patted Allison on the arm and headed for the boys. she ducked at another thrown toilet paper roll and muttering to herself stood next to Scott, and noticed him looking at somewhere else
"A new crush?"
Stiles jumped again, slightly knocking on his locker, while Scott didn't budge
"Stop doing that" Stiles whispered at her and frowned seeing her frown
"You okay?"
Scott also turned to look at her
"I just hate this day. Halloween" she bristled
"What? You hate Halloween? Halloween is like the best day for people and pranksters like you and me and Scotty. I mean what is there to hate about Halloween?" Stiles asked
Jewel kept a poker face and spoke "My parents getting murdered on the night of Halloween and someone trying to murder me on Halloween since i was 11"
Both the boys looked at her
"You really do hate this day, don't you?"
Jewel just snorted and noticed Scott's sight going back to Kira
"What are you looking at?" Stiles asked, following Scott's gaze
"Me?"
"You. You looking at her?"
"Her? Who her?"
"Her her. Kira. You like her?" Jewel chuckled
"No. I mean Yeah, yeah, she's okay. She's new." Scott stammered
"So, ask her out." Stiles added
"Now?"
"Yes, now." Jewel and Stiles said at once and shared a smile
"Right now?"
"Right now." they said in complete sync. They got off Stiles' locker and started walking towards the class
"Scott, I don't think you get it yet. You're an Alpha. You're the apex predator. Everyone wants you. You're like the hot girl that every guy wants."
"The hot girl?"Scott asked, making Jewel snicker
"You are the hottest girl." Stiles confirmed and walked away, showing Scott his thumbs-up
Isaac approached the remaining two
"What?" he asked seeing Scott's weird expression
"I'm the hot girl." Scott whispered half in daze
"Yes, you are." Isaac confirmed, snickering. Unable to hold longer, Jewel started giggling a little louder and walked in front of the boys
"Oh Scott" she smiled "Lemme know if you need any tips on how to be the hot girl" she patted his cheek softly and turned and left
"Sheriff? Sheriff." Melissa called
"Hey."
"These dead flies everywhere? They came out of Barrow. Out of his tumor." Melissa said. They had just been operating on Barrow when his tumor exploded into flies and Barrow woke up even with heavy doze of anesthetic and just walked out after attacking a doctor
"Is that even possible?"
"Maggots can come from the body. It's called myiasis. But from the stomach? It's not likely. And there's something else. Last night, he told me why he killed those teenagers."
"Yeah, I know. I read the report. Glowing eyes."
"We know a few kids that fit that description."
"Barrow went after kids with glowing eyes?" Isaac asked. Stiles had rounded up as much of the pack he could find- Jewel, Isaac, Allison, and Lydia- filling them up on what he had learned. Barrow was last seen three blocks from the school and it had gotten all of Sheriff's department there
"He said those exact words?" Isaac asked
"Yeah. And no one knows how he woke up from anesthesia. Just that when they opened him up, they found a tumor full of live flies, which in any other circumstance would be all kinds of awesome." Stiles ranted
"Did you say flies?"
The four turned around and spotted Lydia stopped some distance behind
"Lydia?" Allison slowly approached her
"All day I have been hearing this sound. It's like This buzzing." Lydia said
"Like the sound of flies?" Allison asked
"Exactly like the sound of flies."
Scott crept into an empty corridor where Melissa met him halfway
"You got it?"
Melissa nodded and handed him Barrow's hospital clothes
"Promise me you'll be careful. I looked right in this guy's eyes, and it was terrifying."
"Yeah. Okay, Mom, I promise. Okay?" he kissed her forehead
"Okay."
"Lydia thinks that he's still here even though the cops searched the whole school. But they didn't have one thing, our sense of smell." Scott said as he distributed barrow's clothes among Isaac, Ethan, Aidan and Jewel, each taking a sniff
"Think i can scratch smelling a shrapnel bomber's hospital scrubs off my bucket list" Jewel frowned hard
"The Bestiary is literally 1000 pages long" Allison said, opening a window to leave "If I'm going to find anything about flies coming out of people's bodies, it could take me all night."
"And remember, the word in archaic Latin for fly is musca." Lydia said
"Got it." Allison jumped down the window and left
"Where do we start?"
"Upstairs. We gotta go."
Jewel walked around the boiler room. Scott and isaac had paired up and so had the twins, leaving her alone and she didn't mind it. She slowly walked around her Holly wand twirling in her hand. It gave her a sense of safety, to have a wand in hand. To others it might appear more as a twig or something, so Statue of Secrecy was maintained
"Jewel,Scott and Isaac are in the basement, right?" Lydia asked as they checked the arm room
"Yeah, with Ethan and Aiden. The plan is they meet in the middle, in the boiler room."
Lydia looked around, spotting a drawing of an explosion when it hit her
"All of the shifters at one place." she muttered, looking at Stiles who looked at her in confusion "All of the ones with glowing eyes are in the basement at the boiler room?"
"Oh, my God! An engineer could use a boiler room to blow up the whole school."
"We have to get them out of there."
"We have to get everyone out."
"How do we do that?" Lydia asked
Jewel was about to turn when she heard the fire alarm go off. slightly frowning, she turned around and walked back, unknown that Barrow was just around the corner
She met with others in the school compound
"We didn't find anything." Aidan declared
"Not even a scent." Scott joined in
"Or a heartbeat" Jewel scoffed
"It's 3:00, so school's over. If there was a bomb, wouldn't he have set it off by now?" Stiles asked
"Does that mean everybody's safe?" Aidan asked as everyone looked at Lydia
"I don't know." She sighed deeply "I just I don't know."
Stiles had taken upon him to drop Jewel home as Allison had taken her car. She tried to say no, but it was Stiles. You just simply cannot say no to him because he's so damn bloody stubborn!
Right now, Jewel was heading for the jeep when she heard Scott call her from behind.
"Hey" she smiled
"How're you feeling?" Scott asked
"Not sure" Jewel shrugged "It's still Halloween. I still hate today" she looked at him "So, what's up?"
"i need your help"
"With what?"
Scott nervously rubbed the back of his neck. the last time she had seen him do that was when he was struggling to ask Allison out. Wait a minute. Jewel's eyes widened in realization but before she could say anything, he spoke up
"Mr. Yukimura invited me over dinner for saving Kira."
"Sounds good"
"It is. But you know I end up making a fool of myself on such occasions"
"Well, if you are referring to that awkward dinner you had with my family that ended with Lisa stealing condom from Kate's bag, than yes, I'm aware" she smirked
Scott sighed "Can you come with me?"
"What?! Are you crazy, McCall? You get invited for dinner by the father of the girl you crush on and you want me to be there? Are you insane or what?"
Scott slightly pouted "You are one of my best friends. and I need someone to save me from potential embarrassment and self destruction"
"Scott, you are the true alpha. The only one. You defeated the demon wolf. and you are trouble going to a simple dinner?" Jewel raised her brow
Scott frowned "You coming or what?"
Jewel sighed and ran a hand through her hair "The things I do for friends" she muttered quite loud then faced him "But I'm not staying overnight. Derek's back and I want to spend some time with him"
"Deal"
Scott drove the two to the Yukimura residence on his bike. She was thankful that for once she was wearing some black leather pants, a dark grey crop top and a floral shrug and some some dress or skirt. they both got down and walked to the house
"The door's not gonna knock itself" Jewel muttered. Scot looked flushed for a moment before he knocked. the door opened to reveal Mr. Yukimura in his suit and Kira in very comfortable pajamas
"Hey." Scott greeted her
"Oh, God." Kira groaned to herself with a smile and walked inside. Scott blushed and tried to look everywhere when his gaze landed on his teacher when Jewel spoke up
"sorry sir. I didn't mean to intervene your dinner night with Scott. It is just that Scott thought it was a good idea to bring me along. I don't think it is. I really should leav-"
"Nonsense" Mr. Yukimura laughed "It's perfectly fine, Jewel. The more the merrier"
"So, Scott, Jewel, I'm sure that as a native Californian, you've eaten at some pretty impressive Japanese sushi restaurants. But I have to tell you that my husband is a superb chef." Mrs. Yukimura said as Mr. Yukimura came out with a plate of different types of sushi
"Okay, we have hamachi, uni, ikura, and hirame." Mr. Yukimura said indicating them all. Scott closely observed them, as if seeing them for the first time, but Jewel wasn't so obvious. and she didn't need to be. She had eaten sushi before a couple of times
"Actually," Jewel intervened "I'm British. West Coast."
"Really?" Mr. Yukimura asked, intruiged "Then how come in Beacon Hills?"
"dad's job." she smiled "That's the reason we keep on shifting every couple of years."
"Isn't Argent a french name?" Kira asked meekly
"It is. I came here when i got adopted"
"You are adopted?" Mr. Yukimura asked
"Yes, sir. My parents died when i was a baby. I got adopted by Argents later. But originally I was raised in UK before my adoption"
"You've never eaten sushi before, have you?" Mrs. Yukimura said
Jewel was about to retort when she realized that the question was aimed at Scott
"Is it all raw?" Scott weirdly asked in awe, making Jewel wanting to slap her forehead and realize why Scott wanted her there
"Not the rice." Mr. Yukimura chuckled. Jewel harshly but silently stepped on Scott's foot, making him perk up due to pain but he didn't show it in his expressions
"Oh, my God, guys." Kira said, exasperated "We were supposed to have lasagna tonight."
"I was trying to impress them. I didn't want to bring out the...You know what? I'll make lasagna." Mr. Yukimura started getting up but Scott and Jewel stopped him
"Oh, no, no! It's okay." Jewel said as their teacher sat back
"She's right. I can try anything. Really." he looked at Kira "Okay."
While Scott struggled with his chopsticks, and with Kira helping him out, Jewel easily held her chopsticks and started eating the sushi. She took a few minutes to savor the taste, eyes closed. But when she opened it, she was surprised to find the gazes of the Yukimura couple of her. Her cheeks warmed up as she swallowed the sushi
"It's amazing" she smiled "Very authentic"
"You've eaten sushi before?" Mrs. Yukimura asked
"Oh yeah. Me and my friends back in London used to go to this Sushi shop almost every week"
Jewel noticed Mrs. Yukimura snickering and followed her gaze to see Kira feeding Scott a sushi. Jewel just chuckled and shook her head slightly at it, taking another sushi
Deeply engrossed in the beastiary, Allison's head suddenly perked up when she heard a noise. she stood up, her hand reaching for a dagger when she heard a familiar yelp and a sizzling noise, which repeated itself a couple of times. with a smile, Allison sunk back on her chair, looking through the beastiary
"Electrified the windows?" Isaac asked, standing at the doorway
"Yep."
"Didn't wanna say anything about it?"
"Nope."
"Okay." he walked to her "Seriously?"
Allison didn't take her eyes off the screen "I'm happy to share Jewel's paranoia" said and looked at him "What are you doing here?"
"I figured you could use an extra pair of eyes."
"Can you read Latin?"
"No. But I can look at pictures." Isaac said, and taking the computer mouse, clicked a picture of a red demonic face, making them to exchange a look
"So you guys moved here from New York?" Scott asked
"I have family ties here. Several generations." Mrs. Yukimura said
"Yukimura is Japanese, right?" Scott asked, now able to eat sushi
"Yes. Yes, but I'm actually Korean. When my wife and I married, I took her name, as she was the only surviving member of her family." Mr. Yukimura said
"You didn't want to take both names?" Scott asked
"We were married in Japan, where the law says that the couple must share the same name." Mr. Yukimura said
"To belong to the same koseki, right?" Jewel asked as the older couple looked at her, impressed. She blushed under their gaze and looked down at her plate
"My wife's lineage is quite unique. I was actually going to discuss it in class." Mr. Yukimura added
"Please don't." Kira groaned just when Jewel said "Please do"
they all shared a look and the couple glanced questioning looks towards the redhead
"I actually like learning about other countries and their cultures" she gulped "And honestly I've never had any chance of exposure towards Japanese culture. I don't think i want to let got of this chance, no offence"
Mrs. Yukimura smiled at her while Mr. Yukimura gave her an appreciative nod.
"Kira. You should be proud of your heritage. It was a profound honor to join your mother's family." Mrs. Yukimura scolded her, when suddenly Scott's face twisted into pain. he started gagging grabbing everyone's attention
"Scott? What happened to your wasabi?" Kira asked, worried
"I thought it was guacamole." Scott gagged before everyone dove to help him
"So what are we looking for?" Lydia asked as she and Stiles entered the chemistry lab and opened the chemical cabinet "That was supposed to be locked." she noted
"Yeah. I know. Notice anything else?" Stiles asked
"It smells like chemicals. They wouldn't have been able to catch his scent." Lydia said. Stiles looked around with his phone light and spotted some blood and staple pins
"He was here, performing very minor surgery on himself. You were right."
"Then why don't I feel good about this? A-And what about no heartbeat?" Lydia asked slightly shaking her head when she noticed something "Stiles, what is that?"
Stiles turned and lghted the place where she pointed and grabbed something small and made of glass. he opened his palm and inspected the vial in his hands when his eyes widened and he closed his palm
"Stiles?"
"It's Jewel's. She keeps potions in them" he said. Lydia gave him a look
"when i started having panic attacks, she told me to feel free and take them whenever i want from her locker"
"She told you the locker code?"
Stiles gave lydia a look back
"why din't i feel good about it?" Lydia asked, wrapping her arms around herself
"Probably because he was here to kill somebody."
"But who?"
"That's what we gotta figure out. We could spread out, start looking for Anything." he said as the two looked around the class. Lydia noticed something on the board and walked to it
"Lydia, what are those?" Stiles asked
"Atomic numbers."
"Is it a formula?"
"Not really. 19's potassium. 53's Iodine. 88's Radium. The first two make potassium iodide" she said and went to write their symbols
"Potassium is K?"
"From kalium, the scientific neo-Latin name." she said, writing I for Iodine
"What's radium?"
"R-A."
"Kira." Stiles sighed, looking at the name
"Yes, Mom. I ate sushi." Scott proudly said, making Jewel chuckled "And Jewel too"
"I didn't even know that you could use chopsticks. Though I don't doubt Jewel's capabilities"
"Mom, can I ask you something?"
"Yeah."
"Why didn't you How come you never changed your name back to Delgado?"
"Do you mean, why did I keep your father's name?"
"Yeah."
"Yeah. Because it's your name, too, honey. I gotta go, sweetheart, okay? I love you."
"Love you too" Jewel called out
"you too, Jewel" Melissa chuckled, hanging up.
Jewel chuckled and nodded when the door opened and Kira entered with two pizzas and three cans of coke
"Oh, thank God. No offense to sushi." Scott said and winced at the smack he received from Jewel
"a little respect would be nice for a change you know" she mock scolded "The sushi were amazing and your dad is an amazing chef. don't let anyone tell you otherwise"
Kira smiled and went to sit on the bed
"about that" jewel spoke up "I should really go"
"W-why? You haven't eaten anything"
"I'm fine. Besides, your dad invited Scott only. I really shouldn't be here" she smiled.
Kira smiled "No, it's fine. You can stay. I insist"
"Yeah Jewel, stay" Scott grinned. Jewel gave Scott a look which promised some degree of pain in future, making him gulp. she knew what he was doing and wished to hex him but seeing an innocent *cough*Kira*cough* person nearby made her change her mind
"this is the last time I'm ever listening to you" she harshly whispered and went to sit on the nearby bean bag while Kira and Scott sat on her bed. Kira passed a can to Jewel and opening the pizza box, passed it around. Eating around, Jewel multiple times noticed Scott sneaking glances at Kira. she softly smiled and shook her head slowly. Scott was falling and falling hard
"Thanks for dinner." Scott smiled as Kira walked her two guests out. Kira and Scott walked ahead while Jewel followed them, busy on phone
"For the sushi or the pizza?" Kira asked
"Uh The pizza was good." Scott smiled and climbed on his bike. He looked behind and spotted Jewel looking troubled
"You okay?" he asked
"Huh?" she looked up at him and stuffed her phone in her pant's pocket "Y-Yeah. Yeah. I'm fine" she softly smiled
"You seem like a really nice people." Kira said, making the two to look at her "And not just because you kept me from getting eaten by a coyote and making sure i was 'kay."
"Did we do something else?" Scott asked
"Yeah. You remembered my name." Kira shyly said, which made them both smile. Jewel could feel her. While Kira, apparently, struggled with people unable to remember her name, Jewel struggled most of her life with people always remembering her and recognizing her.
Scott extended a spare helmet towards Jewel but before she could take it, something hit her hard on the head from behind and everything blackened
"Jewel! Jewel? Jewel!"
Jewel woke up with a start to find Lydia crouched over her
"Are you okay?" Lydia asked as she helped her up
"Kinda, yeah" Jewel answered and touched the back of her, feeling some dried off blood. She looked beside her just as Scott woke up with a start
"Barrow, he took Kira!" Scott exclaimed and Stiles helped him up, making Jewel to look around. Kira was missing
"We know. He was after her the whole time." Stiles said
"No, nothing. Just stuff about flies and the dead. Nothing else." Isaac said when Jewel phoned home
"Alright. call us if you find anything" she said and hung up
"We have to think of something. He's going to kill her." Scott said
"I knew he was there. How did I know that?" Lydia asked herself more than others
"Because you heard the flies, right?" Stiles asked
"What do you hear now?" Scott asked
"Nothing." Lydia grunted, irritated
"Lyd" Jewel faced her friend "You are a banshee. you can hear things no one else on the planet can. Try to focus"
"I feel like I can do this. But I don't know what to do. It's like it's on the tip of my tongue, and I don't know how to trigger it. I just...I swear to God, it literally makes me want to scream." Lydia complained
"Okay, then scream." Stiles said and paused "Lydia, scream."
and then Lydia let out one of the shrillest scream anyone had heard. Jewel was forced to close her ears. when the scream stopped, and Jewel removed her hands, she found Lydia looking at the street lamp in a bizarre way
"It's not flies." Lydia turned around and faced the trio "It's electricity."
"Wait a second, Barrow was an electrical engineer. He worked at a power substation." Stiles said
"What substation?" Scott asked
A green motorcycle and blue jeep pulled outside a substation. Jewel and Scott got down the bike as Stiles came out of the jeep. Jewel didn't waste another moment. she just ran inside, Scott following her. She could hear Stiles and Lydia bickering but she wasn't interested. Both Scott and Jewel ran around
"Scott" Jewel stopped him as they both noticed Kira in one of the room full of transformers, tied to a metal gate.
"No! Look out!" Kira yelled as they ran in. Suddenly someone hit something hot and sizzling on Jewel's side which sent her into one of the transformers and then on the ground. Scott was attacked next.
Still in pain, Scott tried getting up looking at Barrow with pleading eyes "Don't...She's not...She's not the one you want."
But Barrow didn't listen. He just walked to Kira and lowered the severed thick electric wire
"No Don't. Stop! No!" Kira yelled and the next thing there was a huge explosion in the room with a enormous spark. When the light went out and Scott lowered his hands from his eyes, he saw barrow, burned and twitching but what amazed him was Kira, standing perfectly fine and appearing as if she was absorbing the sparkes of electricity into herself.
Once finished, Kira looked at Scott in fear and shock.
"Scott"
Both of them turned to see Jewel on her knees and slowly trying to get up. and then the next moment, she collapsed