Galvanize Part 2:
Lydia and Bex stood off to the side as they watched Stiles frazzling explaining to his father everything. After hearing that Lydia heard the buzzing closer, they figured that Barrow was still in the school. It made sense, but it wouldn't be easy to convince anyone. Bex did feel bad for the poor Sheriff. He was getting faced with all these supernatural creatures, not knowing who was who. "What's going?" Lydia asked twirling her red hair around her finger curiously looking at the Stilinski.
"Oh, you know the usual. Son telling father that his friend is Banshee, no big deal." She turned to her, who rolled her eyes. The Sheriff glanced over at the two girls. Lydia just waved, cutely. The Sheriff waved back before saying something to him and hurrying off.
Lydia sighed. "What the hell are we going to do now without the cops here?" She said exasperated.
"Plan B." Bex decided. "Go tell Stiles that I'm meeting Scott to try and find them. Stay together. If he's here than he could be anywhere."
Lydia hesitated before nodding. "Hey, you be careful too yeah?"
Bex nodded as she went into the school. Scott had just left his mother with clothes in his hand. "Hey, I've got the things from my mom. Isaac and the twins are waiting for us near the stairwell."
Bex began walking with her friend. "Are you sure that this is the best idea? Letting the twins help, I mean. They haven't exactly proven to be the most trustworthy or helpful, like when they were kicking your ass." She reminded him.
He looked down sheepishly. "Yeah I know, but I can handle them now, especially with you and Isaac here. They're only here to help. It'll be fine, Bex, really. Trust me on this one, okay?" He lead her to where the boys waited for them to arrive.
"Lydia thinks that he's still here even though the cops searched the whole school." Scott explained to the two of them. Isaac had already filled them in on the gist of it all. "But they didn't have one thing."
Scott took out the hospital gown. "Our sense of smell." Bex looked between them. "They're going to let everyone out at 3. We need to make sure that he hasn't planted something to explode when all of the students get out."
Ethan glanced at her. "So what do you want us to do then?"
"We'll split up, each person with someone and try to find this creep." She handed him the nightgown to smell. They took a whiff before putting it back into the bag.
"We'll start this way, call us if you find anything." Ethan said for both of them. The twins started off.
Bex led the group to the opposite direction after obtaining the scent. "I still think that someone should've stayed up there with Lydia and Stiles." She told Scott as she handed him back the hospital gown.
"I promise, he'll be fine," Scott assured her. Stiles was smart and he knew what to do if something bad happened. "Besides, if Barrow is anywhere, he's going to be down here, where no one would be able to find him easily."
Bex hesitated as she glanced behind them. She was still nervous. Just knowing the person who killed 3 students was in her school, made her sick. "Lydia is with him anyways, Stiles is working with her, I guess to try and channel her banshee side. You're right, they'll be fine together."
Isaac looked uneasy at her concern for Stiles. He knew they were friends, but as of recent they seemed to be getting even closer and he didn't like it. "So this is how it's going to be now." Isaac turned the conversation back to something else. "We trust them?"
"Just because I'm letting them help doesn't mean I trust them." Scott corrected him.
"Good, because I don't trust them or like them. In fact, I hate them and I just want them to die." Bex shot him a look. Now, was not the time to go through his.
"Well if we don't stop Barrow and whatever plan he has than your wish just might actually come true." Bex muttered as she walked past him.
Isaac smiled to himself before catching up to her. Scott stopped a few feet behind looking around the corners. "It wouldn't be anything that they didn't deserve. Don't you wish sometimes that you could kill Peter, you know, for what he did to you?" Isaac asked her honestly.
Bex glanced at him. Stiles once asked her the same thing. She couldn't say that she didn't hate him. He put her through the worst pain that she has ever felt, her life became that much more complicated not to mention the fact that some days she didn't feel in control, but she wasn't him. "I'm not Peter, Isaac. I would never want to be someone like him. As much as I hate him, I wouldn't kill him for revenge for what he did to me. I would be just as bad as he." She answered him.
Isaac looked at her curiously, but didn't have time to respond as they heard the fire alarm go off throughout the school. They all glanced around at each other, hearing the noise. "Stiles." She smiled, of course it was him. Who else would it be?
They ran up the stairs to the entrance of the school, where they saw the twins who came over at the same time as Stiles and Lydia. "We didn't find anything." Ethan told them
Scott glanced at him. "Not even a scent."
"It's 3 o'clock school's over. If there was a bomb don't you think he would've set it off by now?" Stiles questioned.
Bex nodded in agreement. "What else would he be waiting for if he were here?" She still didn't feel right. There was just this feeling that she couldn't shake. It was like evil was close and she couldn't seem to ignore it. Barrow had to still be here.
Aidan glanced over at Lydia. "Does that mean everybody's safe?"
She hesitated. "I don't know I just….I don't know." She resigned with a sigh. It was clear that we no evidence or scent of him, but something wasn't right. She knew that much.
xxxxx
Bex watched Stiles nail one end of the string to one picture and then bringing it over to a different one. She smiled as he continued to do that. It wasn't like Stiles to just give up. He would always keep at it until he found something that made actual sense. He was persistent like that. "Remind me what do those colors mean again?"
"Those are the different stages of the investigations." He turned to glance at her. "Green is solved. Yellow is to be determined. Blue is just...pretty." He shrugged.
She laughed kicking off her shoes sitting up on his bed closing her notebook. "And the red?"
"Unsolved."
Bex hesitated. "You only have red on the board." She reminded him of the streaks of red strong hanging all over his wall.
He turned to her. "Yes, I'm aware. Thank you."
Bex smiled sheepishly playing with the leftover yarn of string. "Sorry. Did Coach give you detention for pulling the fire alarm?" She asked glancing up at him.
"Yeah every day for the rest of week, but it was worth it.. We were on to something." He nodded as his eyes swept over the old articles again.
"You pulled it to get us out. You should've have to do that. We were close, so close. I could feel it. I know it I just...I couldn't find him." She looked down guiltily. He didn't need anymore strikes against him, especially now. Finstock wouldn't go easy on him.
Stiles glanced over at her, kneeling in front of her. "Hey, and you could've died. Bex, Lydia said he was there, you felt something bad. If there was any chance that there was a bomb and you were down there, I would do it again." He assured her as he wrapped the string back around her finger rubbing her hand with his thumb. "If you wanted to even now we would go back and search the school till dawn." She smiled weakly at him. Stiles glanced down at her lips before looking to the bed.
Bex glanced at him, touching his cheek lightly with the tips of her fingers. Her touch guided Stiles to look back up at her. Stiles, almost automatically, leaned in towards her. He bit his lip before a thought came to him. "Get up. We have to go back to the school." The moment was killed, but they both knew this was more important than anything else.
They rushed over to the school in his jeep, after picking up Lydia. If they would need anybody's help it would be hers, especially since Scott wasn't picking up the phone. Stiles easily broke into the school and the two girls followed him down the hallway into the chemistry lab. "So what are we looking for?" Stiles opened up the closet full of chemicals.
Bex looked around. "Um, isn't this supposed to be locked? So the students don't try to you know blow up the school?"
Stiles nodded. "Yeah, that's the point. Notice anything else?" He brought out a flashlight as he shined it upon the bottles.
"Other than the smell of chemicals?" Bex understood then. It would be impossible to smell anything other than this. "That's why we couldn't catch a scent. He masked it."
Stiles bent down looking at the beakers before seeing something red. He looked down shining his flashlight at the floor to see spots of blood. "He was here performing very minor surgery on himself. You both were right." Stiles confirmed.
"Then why don't I feel good about this?"
"Probably because he was here to kill somebody."
"But who?"
Stiles looked up at both of them. :I don't know. That's what we've got to figure out." He stood up walking past them out of the small room into the lab. "We could spread out and start looking for anything."
Bex walked looking for any sign of him using any type of phone or tools before her gaze went to the chalkboard. "Hey, Lydia are these atomic numbers?" She asked as both girls walked over to get a closer look. Stiles followed them, slightly behind.
"Yeah, but I don't think it's a formula."
Stiles looked at Bex. "Why not?"
Lydia interjected. "Because 19 is potassium, 53 is iodine and 88 radium. The first two make potassium iodine." She drew a K in front of potassium which surprised Stiles.
"Potassium is K?"
"From Kalium," Lydia replied knowingly. "The scientific neo laitn name." She drew a I nex to Iodine and finally a RA.
"Kira."
Bex stared at it before shaking her head. It didn't make any sense but right now they were running low on time, especially if he knew where she had a head start. "We have to go now. Call Scott on the way." She told Stiles as they rushed out of the school.
xxxxx
"Scott." Bex yelled trying to wake him up. "Scott!" Scott seemed to be waking up, but he was still disoriented, which was to be expected. When Stiles pulled up besides Kira's home, he was found next to his bike, and Kira wasn't there. She couldn't even hear her near.
"Scott," He finally seemed to be coming to and sat up, gasping. There was a cut on his head.
"B-Barrow, he,...he took Kira!"
Bex stood up a little straight, feeling better now that he was awake. 'Yeah, we know. He was after her the whole time. It's a long story."
Scott stood up trying to call Isaac, but there was no news from end. They didn't find anything that could possibly help them find Barrow. Scott walked back over to his friends. "We have to think of something. He's going to kill her."
Lydia was the most upset out of all of them. "I knew he was there! How did I know that?"
Stiles looked at her. "Because you heard the flies."
"Lydia, concentrate. What do you hear now?" Bex asked her softly.
She hesitated trying to listen, but something was wrong. "Nothing. I feel like I can do this. But I don't know what to do. I-It's like it's on the tip of my tongue and I don't know how to trigger it." She teared up frustrated. As she paced. "I swear to God, it literally makes me want to scream."
Stiles shared a look with his friends. "Okay, then scream. Lydia, scream." Their friend let out an ear-shattering, glass breaking shriek that had them all covering their ears. When she finally stopped, it was clearer to her now.
"It's not flies, it's electricity."
"Barrow was an engineer, he worked at a substation." Stiles remembered turning to Scott.
"Which substation?"
It didn't take long for them to get to the building. As soon as they caught sight of it, Scott was running inside, to afraid for Kira to stop. Bex ran in after her friend and they stopped hearing the sound of electricity. The same noise that Lydia kept hearing. They ran in seeing Kira. "No, Scott! Look out!" Barrow slashed them both with the open wires, they slammed into the wall, feeling the jolts of electricity running through their bodies.
"Don't!" Scott got out as Barrow walked closer to her. "She's not the one you want!" He insisted. Kira turned away scared.
He just looked at them before lowering the exposed wires to her neck. "S-Stop!" Bex yelled, but something happened. As soon as the wires touched her they both were captured by electricity, the whole substation was. Scott pulled Bex away, shielding her from the power. He finally loosened his grip as they both saw Kira standing there, unharmed. They gaped at her as she absorbed every bit of electricity into her body. She was perfectly fine.