A helicopter, spotlight shining, circled above Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital. On the roof, Sheriff Stilinski along with Deputy Parrish and several other officers were cataloging the crime scene. Sean's corpse laid where it had fallen earlier. The Sheriff looked around and directed his attention toward Deputy Parrish, "Hey, let's get everyone off the roof." He ordered him and Deputy Parrish signaled every officer to clear the rooftop, "And see if you can stall the ME for five minutes. I've got an expert of my own coming to take a look."
"You have an expert on teenage cannibals?" Deputy Parrish questioned him with a hint of disbelief.
"Five minutes, Parrish." The Sheriff told him and of course the young deputy left without question.
From out of nowhere, Derek had appeared, "Hey." The Sheriff greeted him, "I know you and Stiles were planning on catching up tonight, but I honestly didn't know who else to call."
"No, its fine," Derek informed him, "She got a call from Scott and I guess it's safe to say it was about this." He looked over the crime scene himself. There was a splatter of blood that led to Sean's body and a gaping wound on the young man's back.
"So much for keeping them out of this," Sheriff Stilinski told him, "But that's another problem to deal with later, Scott said he called himself a wendigo."
"Cannibalistic shape-shifters." Derek shared with him as he looked over the body, "But I haven't heard of them in Beacon Hills for a long time. Must have been well-hidden." But then Derek caught another scent in the air, "How many people did Scott say were up here?"
"Just Sean and the axe-murderer who apparently has no mouth." Sheriff Stilinski supplied tiredly, "You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?"
"There was someone else." Derek said as he took another whiff, "Someone young. And male."
"You can smell his fear?"
"And his blood."
Stiles was now at the McCall residence with a panicked Scott right in front of her, "Like I said, I told my dad everything I could." Stiles told him while she watched him pace back and forth.
"What about Derek?"
"Nothing, because you practically told me nothing."
"You didn't tell you your dad or him about Liam?"
"Again, you barely told me about Liam." She repeated, "What did you do with him anyway?"
"He's upstairs." Isaac said coming into the McCall living room.
Not the answer Stiles was looking for, "Doing what?" Stiles questioned Isaac with some suspicion.
"Laying down."
Okay, so Isaac wasn't exactly lying when he said Liam was laying down. What he had failed to mention was that he had duct taped Liam's mouth and his entire body and stuck him in the tub.
Which was exactly the scene, Scott and Stiles were looking at as Liam grunted and whimpered from the tub, "So you bit him." Stiles said aloud trying to wrap her head around the situation.
"Yeah."
"And you kidnapped him." She pointed out to him.
"Yeah."
"And brought him here." She said slowly, "And Isaac pretty much bound and gagged him."
"We panicked." Isaac reasoned.
"Yeah that's pretty obvious," She said mockingly at the two werewolves, "This isn't going to end with us burying the pieces of his body out in the desert, is it?"
Upon hearing Stiles statement, Liam started to freak out, but couldn't move at all. Stiles pulled back the shower curtain, covering Liam back up and went into Scott's room where they both sat on his bed in sync.
"As a reminder, this is why I always come up with the plans." She told the two werewolves, "Your plans suck." She specifically aimed at Scott.
"I know. Which is why I called you." Scott agreed easily, "So, what do we do?"
Isaac and Scott moved Liam's body from the tub to Scott's computer chair. Of course, Liam was panicking as to why three people had him now bound to the chair, "Liam, we're going to take the tape off your mouth." Stiles told him in a calm voice, "If you scream, it goes right back on." She said carefully, "If you talk quietly, it stays off. Got it?" Liam gave her a quick head nod, "Okay."
Without waiting another second, Isaac ripped off the duct tape and Liam screamed painfully, "Sorry." Isaac told him.
"Okay, Liam, now you've seen a lot of confusing things tonight." Stiles informed him, "And more confusing things are going to happen because of the confusing things that happened tonight. Do you understand?"
"Not really."
"Good." Stiles told him with approval in her voice, "That's good."
"I don't understand either." Scott shared with Stiles.
"Maybe you should tell him." Isaac told Scott, "You've gone through this before."
"You can't be serious." Scott said knowing exactly what Isaac was talking about.
"He's right Scotty." Stiles admitted agreeing with Isaac, "You should tell him."
"Tell me what?" Liam questioned since they were all too focused on who should be telling him something.
"Liam... What happened to you, what I did to you," Scott struggled as he kneeled to Liam's level, "Which I had to do in order to save you, it's going to change you."
"Unless it kills you." Isaac shared, but he noticed how Stiles gave him a look, "Shouldn't have said that." He realized.
"What?" Liam asked in a small voice. In that moment, Liam released a small sniffling sound.
"Uh... Uh-oh." Stiles said, "Oh-oh. Is he... Is he crying?"
"Liam, it's okay." Scott assured him, "You're going to be all right."
"You're not going to die." Stiles agreed with him.
"Probably not." Isaac offered.
"Stop it."
"Okay, possibly not." Isaac corrected himself.
"Still not helping."
"Would you just help me untie him?" Scott asked Stiles, they both get to work to untying Liam, but once they were completely done Liam made no muscle movements, "Liam? Are you okay?"
"We're sorry about that." Stiles told him as the boy remained quiet, "We're really sorry."
After a moment, Liam jumped up, grabbed the bottom of the chair and smashed it against Scott who completely collapsed, "Liam, what the hell is your..." Stiles claimed in shock. Liam doesn't respond as he shoved Stiles right into Isaac causing them to be thrown against the wall.
"Are you okay?" Stiles asked, recovering since somehow Isaac had managed to prevent her from actually making impact against the wall.
"I'm fine," Isaac grunted, "Just get him."
Liam had managed to run out Scott's door and realized that his ankle (injured during the afternoon's lacrosse tryouts) was now healed. He made it to the end of the hall, when he turned to see Stiles hobbling out of Scott's room.
"Get him!" Stiles ordered when she set her sights on him. Just behind her Scott made his way out the room and the two friends both zoom in on him.
The only warning Liam got was to the two friends yelling and charging at him. And that was how Liam found himself getting body slammed into a wall by the best friends as they managed to grab a hold of him while they all let out screams as they rolled to the bottom of the stairs with painful groaning and a lot of yelling.
But despite the pain Scott and Stiles began to wrestle in the pile trying to hold Liam in place, "Leg! I got him! I got him!" Stiles shouted victoriously, "I got him, I got him!"
"Uh, guys?" Isaac's voice came from upstairs, "You have each other."
Stiles and Scott stopped struggling and noticed that Isaac was right. Somehow, in the middle of their struggle Liam had escaped while Stiles had a grip on Scott's leg while her foot was in his face. They both turned their attention to the opened front door.
"Your plan sucked, too." Scott shot at Stiles.
The alarm light was flashing at Derek's Loft, but the alarm was not sounding when Peter shut it off, "Derek, you here?" Peter called out into the darkness. He had looked over the case file as well, "Derek!"
Out of nowhere, the air suddenly was filled with a whooshing sound as Peter suddenly had a tomahawk in his chest and he dropped the case file, "Derek..." Peter tried calling out in shallow breaths.
The Mute then stepped out of the darkness, "Don't worry, Peter." The distorted voice told him, "Derek's next."
The next morning, Stiles was attaching chains and restraints to Micah in her bedroom, "I hate full moons." Micah told her as she tested them out around him wrists.
"It's going to get easier." Stiles assured him, "I promise."
"It better." Micah regarded holding up a restraint that looked ready to snap at any given moment, "Because this isn't going to hold much longer."
"Well, then let's try and make tonight the last time we have to use these." Stiles advised as she continued on tightening, "Besides, we might need them for Liam."
"You guys sure he's going to turn into a werewolf?"
"We're not even sure if he's going to live." Stiles answered instead, "Is that too tight?"
"No."
While Stiles worked to undo the restraints, Derek walked into the bedroom without a shirt on, "So, are you going to tell me why Scott called you last night?" Derek questioned her when he watched her not facing him.
"I know what you're trying to do," Stiles claimed not making eye contact, but remained focused on the restraints, "It's not going to work so you might as well put a shirt on."
For some reason that was the exact moment, "Hey." The Sheriff started to say until he noticed that Micah was in restraints on Stiles' bed and Derek was without a shirt, "Ummm."
This prompted Stiles to turn and see her father's confused expression at what was happening in the bedroom, "This is not what you think at all." She told him even though she was pretty sure she knew what her father was thinking.
"I don't even want to know." The Sheriff in a tired tone before walking away from the scene.
"There is nothing to know," She shouted out to him, "'Cause I just..." She stopped even she realized that he wasn't coming back.
"I don't get it." Micah stated clearly confused as to what had just happened.
"Don't worry about it."
"Are you listening to me?" Derek questioned her. Stiles gave him a serious look before turning her attention back to the restraints she had been working on.
"Put on a shirt and maybe I will."
"Seemed to work last time when you wanted something."
"Actually, I didn't want to do that. You had blood on shirt and you were scaring Danny with it." Stiles reminded him, "Not to mention you were an enemy of the state and was lucky that Danny didn't even recognize you. Also I needed to do it since Danny refused to track down that IP address in the first place. So really a thank you would be in order because had it not been for him, you'd probably still be on the run and probably hiding here."
Derek made a low growling sound, "Maybe I should go." Micah voiced shifting uncomfortably sensing the raising tension that was developing between the couple.
"And go to school looking like that?" Stiles questioned him, "No, you're staying here."
"Stiles, don't ignore me." Derek told her in a tight tone.
"I'm not ignoring you." Stiles countered looking at Micah and not even looking over at Derek, "I'm simply trying to undone these chains before Micah and I go to school."
"You're still struggling with a full moon?" Derek asked Micah, but he doesn't give him a chance to answer as he turned his attention back to Stiles, "Wait why are you-"
"Derek it wouldn't be the first time I had to deal with a supernatural creature struggling with a shift." Stiles told him cutting him off in a bored tone. Stiles could feel the glare Derek was giving her from behind her back and also feel the annoyance he was radiating.
"And there," Stiles chirped proudly once the rest of the restraints came undone, "All free." Micah could still sense Derek's irritation and quickly got away from the brooding man, "Really wish he would use the door." Stiles commented as Micah ducked out the window, "Then again no one does, except Landon."
"Scott bit someone last night."
"Has that been reduced to a statement now?" Stiles responded as she got up to get her school supplies ready, "Because last night felt otherwise, but with you it's kind of hard to tell."
Derek could see that he wasn't going to get any answers, "Stiles." He said in a tone. That same tone he used when she was being difficult. It was the same tone he had been using when she got back from Scott's, but Stiles ignored him and went to sleep.
"Yes, but it's nothing for you to worry about."
"Two shifters, who can't control their shifts." He pointed out to her, "That's plenty to worry about."
"Well, technically three if you want to count Kate."
"Don't be a smartass."
"Not trying to be," Stiles opposed as she stuffed a textbook into her backpack, "It just comes naturally." Stiles noticed the glare Derek was giving her, "Relax, I've done it before I can do it again."
Derek knew Stiles was right. After all, she had helped Scott with his shift all on her own, with the occasionally guidance of Derek, but when he really thought about it Stiles handled it better than any normal person would, "You're right." He found himself saying.
Stiles gave him a shocked look before it was replaced with a smile, "I'm always right." She placed a kiss on his cheek and left.
And put on a freaking shirt before my dad changes his mind and decides to shoot you after all
The school bell had rang as Landon and Kira sat at their chemistry table. Landon had his math notes out on his laptop and Kira couldn't help, but notice how weird that they looked, "These are your math notes?" She questioned, "No wonder Micah's failing."
"Um, some of them are my notes." He told her as he pointed at a formula, "The rest I think might actually be a code." He said in awe.
"But you don't remember writing it?" Kira guessed by the look on his face.
"Not in the slightest." He confirmed, "But considering my drawing of a tree led us to the Nemeton, I should probably figure out what it means before it tries to kill us."
"Maybe it's like the Enigma Code the Allies used." Kira offered, "Remember my dad was a World War II buff? And my mom was, well... In it."
Landon continued to look over his notes and the mix of the code, "I think it's a variation on something called the Vigènere Cipher." Kira gave him a questioning look, "A code in which letters are substituted based on a code word or "key."" He explained.
"Do you know how to crack it?"
Landon's Mom, who sometimes taught at Beacon Hills High School, appeared and dangled a set of keys in front of Landon, "Remember the rules. No more than six people allowed in the lake house. Stay out of the wine. And if anything gets broken, it's getting added to your credit card debt."
"Fine." Landon agreed, taking the keys.
"And lock up the basement." She added in, "From all the scratch marks I found on the walls, it looked like a pack of wild animals got down there."
Landon and Kira both gave uneasy glances at each other.
Garrett, Violet, and Mason exited the school bus, "I'm not watching another movie on a Friday night." Garret complained to them, "Mason, there's gotta be something going on."
"You remember we're freshmen, right?" Mason reminded him as they walked along the corridor, "We just got off a school bus. We're not exactly gonna be hitting the clubs till 4 a.m."
"Okay." Violet agreed with him, "Movie at your place." She said with a smile as she and Garrett walked away.
Just as Mason was left alone, Liam suddenly appeared beside him panting, "Hey. Liam, why weren't you on the bus?"
"I ran."
"You ran three miles to school?" Mason asked with disbelief.
"Yeah." Liam said, "I just started running."
"So I guess your leg's okay?" Mason gestured, but he also noticed that Liam had a bandage wrapped around his arm, "What happened to your arm?"
Liam had a dizzy spell and noticed Scott watching him from across the quad, "Dude, are you okay?" Mason asked his friend with some concern.
Liam shook his head and Scott somehow managed to disappear within the crowd, "I'll talk to you later." Liam told him, earning a questioning look from Mason, "I gotta get to class."
Inside the school, Liam was by his locker when he heard a familiar voice, "Liam, hey!" He looked over his shoulder and saw Stiles heading in his direction. He quickly rushed to put everything in his backpack. But just as he was about finished he got cornered by Isaac and Scott.
"We need to talk." Scott told him.
"No, you need to back the hell up, okay?" Liam told him and gestured at Isaac was well, "Both of you."
"Can you just listen for one second. Please?" Scott asked him before he took a breath, "Liam...We're brothers now."
"What?" Liam asked him as if he had lost his mind, Stiles who was standing right beside him gave Scott a "Really?" look.
"Oh, God. That's..." Stiles groaned with a slow head shake knowing full well where exactly Scott was getting his words from.
"What are you talking about?" Liam asked unimpressed, "We just met and you bit me."
"The bite..." Isaac offered to him, "The bite is a gift."
"Okay just stop." Stiles told the two of them, "Please stop." She begged as she turned her attention to Liam with her attitude completely changing, "You," Stiles pointed a finger at him, "We're trying to help you little runt."
"By kidnapping me?"
"Just to clarify, Scott kidnapped you. Okay?" She told him, "Isaac and I aided and abetted."
"Liam, I've gone through this before." Scott tried to tell him, "Something's happening to you. Something big."
Liam just glared at Scott, "Nothing's happening to me." Liam then ripped off the bandage and Scott's bite had healed completely, "Nothing."
With that being said Liam left the trio watching him walk away.
Sometime later in the school day by the school buses, Landon, Isaac, Micah, Kira, Stiles, and Scott were discussing what to do with Liam, "I'm not sharing my basement." Micah declared with his arms crossed.
"Actually, it's my basement." Landon corrected him, "And my mom noticed how you tore it up last time."
"I'm still learning." Micah said defensively.
"Well learn faster." Isaac advised him in an unfriendly tone.
"Hey hey hey," Stiles intervened interrupting the glaring match Isaac and Micah were having with each other, "We're going to use the boathouse for Liam."
"It's got support beams." Scott told them, "We can chain him to one of them."
"But how do we get him out to the lake house if he doesn't trust us?" Kira questioned them.
"I say if it keeps him from murdering someone we chloroform the little bastard and throw him in the lake." Isaac offered.
"I'm in." Micah approved with a hand raise.
"Glad to see that the two of you can agree on something," Stiles told the were-creatures, "But we're not killing or kidnapping him."
"Then let's be smarter." Landon told them with a brief moment of silence, "We tell him there's a party and invite him."
"So, you're going to ask out a freshman?" Stiles questioned incredulity.
"No, I'm done with teenage boys." Landon said in disinterested tone, "But, if we're playing a trick on someone, we'll have to use the trickster."
Landon gave Kira a side-eye look. Kira looked from Landon along with everyone else staring right at her, "Who? Me?" She questioned noticing the looks, "No way. Not me."
"Yes, you." Landon said with a smirk, "You know what they call a female fox?" But Landon doesn't wait for an answer, "A vixen."
"Me?"
"You can do it, Kira." Landon assured her with another smirk, "Be a vixen."
Mason and Liam were walking in the school halls when Kira suddenly appeared from the top of the stair. Liam immediately caught sight of Kira as Mason's words began to drift into the background.
Kira caught sight of Liam staring at her and in slow motion, Kira sexily descended the stairs. Liam was obviously smitten with her, but somehow Kira tripped on the last one and fell on her face.
Liam was quick to rush to her aid, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah. Fine." Kira said easily recovering, "You want to go to a party tonight?" She asked with a flirtatious smile.
At the loft, Peter has a gaping chest wound, oozing black puss, but was still alive after his encounter with The Mute, "The axe was laced with wolfsbane." Derek explained to him, "I don't know the species so I'm going to have to burn it out."
"I think I can handle a little fire." Peter sassed at him. Wordlessly Derek held up a blow torch (along with slightly amused look on his face) and fired it up, "Ah, hell." Peter muttered just as Derek cornered him onto the table and Peter started to scream.
Once he was recovered, "He said he was after you." Peter told him.
"How does a guy with no mouth say anything?"
"With this." Peter apparently stripped the assailant of his key board speaking device during their fight.
Kira drove Liam through the woods. The full moon was out. Liam's hearing had become very sensitive and while her car stereo is playing low – he could hear a cacophony, "It's Landon Martin's lake house." Kira explained to him, "Actually, it's his grandmother's lake house. But she's dead, so it's okay." Kira quickly realized how horrible that sounded, "I mean, it's not okay that she's dead. Unless she was in pain."
"Can you turn the music down?" Liam asked once the music was beginning to become too much.
"You want me to turn the music up?" She asked him. Liam noticed that the music was actually playing softly and not as loud as he thought it was.
Liam phone began to buzz, it was a message from Mason, "Where are you?
"Who'd you say was coming to this party?" Liam asked her.
"Um... Everyone."
Liam quickly responded back to his friend.
Scott arrived at the lake house on his motor bike. Landon, Micah, Isaac and Stiles were already waiting, "I just talked to Kira." He told them once he got inside, "She's on her way." He noticed the worried look Stiles was giving him, "She said it's all going fine."
"It's not that. We have to tell you something." Isaac confessed. Scott looked between his best friend and Isaac realizing that they both were wearing the same facial expression, "Stiles asked around about Liam and found out why he got kicked out of his last school."
"This is going to be bad, isn't it?" He asked already dreading the answer he was probably going to get.
"He kind of got into it with one of his teachers. And..." Stiles struggled to find the right words to say, "The kid's got some serious anger issues."
"How serious?"
"Well," Stiles showed him a picture of a car on her phone, "That's his teacher's car." She explained, "After he took a crowbar to it."
The image showed a smashed and dented car with windows busted out and the words "THIS IS YOUR FAULT" scratched across the passenger side doors (front and back).
As they get closer to the lake house, Liam's breathing became labored and Kira looked worried. Once they arrive he seemed to fine, but he was suspicious that there aren't more vehicles there.
"Where is everyone?" Liam asked once they got out of her car.
"They're here." Kira assured him, "It's a small party."
"You said everyone was coming."
"They are. They're late. And we're early." She said quickly as she headed to the front door, "So we better hurry. Yay! Party." She enthused to him, but Liam stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Landon, Scott, Micah, Isaac, and Stiles waiting for him, he turned his attention to Kira, "Sorry." She apologized meekly closing the door.
"What the hell is this?" Liam asked the older students.
"Think of it like an intervention." Stiles offered to him, "You have a problem, Liam."
"And we're the only ones that can help." Scott told him.
Derek had brought the wrist keyboard (which was attached to a leather glove) to the Sheriff's Station, "I still don't get how this guy has no mouth." The Sheriff wondered aloud, "How can he eat?" He asked Derek.
Derek looked over at the Sheriff and finally realized where Stiles' odd questioning came from, "Peter didn't get a chance to ask." Derek informed him, "He was fighting him off with a tomahawk buried in his chest." He wisecracked.
The Sheriff ignored the wise crack and commented, "But who runs around with a tomahawk?"
Parrish stuck his head in the Sheriff's office they had been occupying, "I carried one for IED removal in Afghanistan." He informed him, "It's military." He looked at the wrist keyboard, "And so is that."
"Do you know what it's used for?"
"Well, this one looks like it's been modified." Parrish shared as he got a better look.
At a nod from Derek, the Sheriff gestured Parrish to come into his office. He closed the door between his office and the bullpen and turned back to Parrish, "Show us."
"Werewolf?" Liam questioned at Scott and Isaac, "Werecoyote." He stated at Micah, "Reaper." At Landon, "Fox?" He questioned towards Kira.
"Kitsune." She corrected him, "But fox works."
"What are you?" Liam questioned Stiles.
"Uh, for a little while, I was possessed by an evil spirit." She said uneasily, "It was very evil."
"What are you now?"
"Betterish?" She asked/said and looked at the others for help. It was better than saying "A mate to a werewolf" which probably would've lead to more questions than necessary. Because face it, even after a year it still sounded weird.
On the table in front of him, Liam noticed the chains and restraints, "Are those for me?" Liam questioned them.
"No, they're for me." Micah answered as his eyes glowed blue.
Liam immediately stepped back away from the group, "How did you do that?" Liam asked slightly panicked.
"You'll learn." Scott told him, "But first, you need to get through the full moon."
"The moon's already out." Liam told him. Just then Liam could start hearing the sound of a heartbeat and he covered his ears.
"And you're starting to feel something, aren't you?" Scott asked calmly, noticing the reactions.
"I feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of psychotic nutjobs." Liam said in a struggled breath, "You guys are out of your freaking minds. I don't know how you did that eye thing and I don't care. I'm walking out the door right now! If any of you try to stop me, I swear to God, I'm gonna..."
Liam continued to get angrier and angrier until his hearing was overwhelmed by a scream only he could hear, "What's wrong Liam?" Scott asked him.
"You don't hear that?" Liam asked him.
Just then on the outside, headlights shined through the window, "Did you tell someone about this?" Landon asked him worriedly.
"My friend Mason." Liam told him as he ears was suddenly filled with noises of students arriving to the Lake House, "You said it was a party."
"Who did Mason invite?" Isaac asked just as worried.
"Everyone." Kira said as she peered outside the window.
Liam's nails shifted into claws and he began to scratch the floor, "The floors!" Landon yelled out to them, "Get him off the floors!" He demanded.
Liam raised up, bared his fangs, growled at Landon and made his way toward Landon, "Stiles!"
Stiles clapped her hands together, just as Liam rushed toward him, and held her hand out.
As expected, Liam rammed right into the force field that surrounded Landon and was knocked back down immediately, "We have to get him to the boathouse." Scott told Stiles as they both rushed to Liam's side.
Then out of nowhere, Micah made a sudden body jerk and fell to the floor, "Micah are you okay?" Kira asked him, but the only response she got was Micah releasing a low roar as he turned her direction, eyes glowing blue.
"Hey... Okay, basement." Stiles stated toward Kira and Isaac, "Now."
Landon quickly realized what happening as he was to be left alone with a horrible situation, "What am I supposed to do with the hordes gathering outside the door?" Landon asked them.
"Landon, who throws the best parties in Beacon Hills?" She asked him from the back door of the house.
"What?" Landon challenged in an offended tone, "Me, obviously."
"Okay, then throw a party." She suggested to him as she and Scott rushed Liam to the boathouse while Kira and Isaac took Micah to the basement.
Landon made a dis-pleasured face and made his way to the door. When he opened the door he was faced with Garrett and Mason with large group behind them.
"Hey. Uh, are we in the right place?" Mason asked him. Landon gave him a glare.
"For the party?" Garrett sweated from the look on Landon's face.
Landon forced a grimace-like smile, "Absolutely." The crowd cheered and flooded inside.
At the station, Parrish had managed to hack into The Mute's keyboard glove device, "Okay, I think I got an IP address."
"That means we can find him, right?" The Sheriff questioned.
"Definitely. Especially if..." Parrish got cut short when the glove made a whirring sound and twitched.
"What was that?" Derek questioned Parrish.
On the keyboard Parrish made some keystrokes, "I think I found a message." He told them. Both Derek and the Sheriff looked onto the computer screen. On the screen there was a jumble of letters and numbers, but one line was easier to read. D; BENEFACTOR: MONEY TRANSFERRED
"Does anyone recognize the handle "Benefactor"?" Deputy Parrish asked them.
"Money transferred." Derek read the screen, "What does that mean?"
"That means this guy is not just a killer." Sheriff Stilinski told them, "He's an assassin."
Landon's lake house sat on a hill above a lake that was reflecting the full moon. Along side the lake, a small metal boat house sat on the water. Inside, Scott tried to hold a now conscious and snarling Liam back while Stiles fastened the chains to one of the buildings support beams, "Get his hands." Scott directed to her.
It seemed to only work for a short moment, because Liam managed to break free and landed on top of Scott. The two werewolves wrestled until Stiles suddenly attacked Liam from behind with a nearby boat paddle knocking him out cold.
"You were a lot easier to manage." Stiles told him as she helped him up from the floor.
"If I recall correctly I nearly attacked you in the locker room."
"And I stopped you then."
"With a fire extinguisher."
"Stopped you anyway."
"And then there was that time when-"
"Do you really want to do a countdown of all the times you tried to kill me?" Stiles interrupted him, "Because it's honestly nothing compared what I did to you."
A blanket of silence fell over them, "You remember at the hotel during the sacrifices." Scott spoke breaking it, "Almost killed us both."
"That wasn't you." Stiles countered, "Something was inside your head."
"That wasn't you either."
Micah had managed to calm down a bit as Kira tighten his restraints, "Too tight?"
"Tighter." Micah told her, "You both can leave if you want."
"We're not going anywhere." Kira told him.
"To be honest, I feel safer down here than in a party with fifty freshmen and a very pissed off Landon." Isaac told him.
Upstairs a delivery man rolled in a keg of beer, "Okay, I didn't order a keg of beer." When he saw the keg and held up the bottle, "Especially not domestic."
"Somebody ordered it." Demarco, apparently, told him, "Are you trying to tell me nobody here wants to drink?"
Landon acquiesced and took the bill, when he noticed that someone placed a glass of wine on her laptop and he started to freak, "This laptop is $2000 and..." He turned to see that Garrett had a bottle of wine in his hand, "That's $400." He said taking the bottle away from him, then Landon looked at the bill he had taken from Demarco, "What's this extra hundred dollars?"
"I call that the "Yes, you do look 21 to me" surcharge." Demarco told him.
Landon relieved an irritated sigh and noticed that Mason was heading upstairs, "Let me get you some cash." He told him as Landon quickly followed Mason upstairs.
"I opened the wine." Garrett told Demarco, "I should probably pay for the keg." He handed the delivery man several bills.
Stiles and Scott were both sitting at the dock by the boathouse. Liam was still out cold and was now tied up in chains, "He looks so young." Stiles said softly.
"He is." Scott said as they looked over at Liam, "He's only fifteen."
"What are we going to do with him?" Stiles asked facing back to the full moon, "He's not like you were."
"We're going to help him." Scott told her.
"What if he doesn't want our help?
"He will. And why are you suddenly becoming so worried about him?"
"He's your beta, Scott," Stiles reasoned to him, "I think it's becoming a natural thing for me to worry about everyone in this pack."
In the basement, Micah was struggling with his shift. He yanked against the restraints as both Isaac and Kira stayed on guard.
"Just go." Micah told them as he lets out a snarl.
"It's okay." Kira told him. "We're not going anywhere."
"How do you do it, Isaac?" Micah asked he lets out a pained breath, "How do you stay in control? How do you not feel like this?"
Isaac looked as the werecoyote struggled through his chains. The chains that were locked around his wrists just as Isaac's were during the Kanima Incident. Back when he Erica and Boyd were struggling with the moon.
"Find an anchor." Isaac told him as he repeated the same words he was taught so long ago, "Something meaningful to you." Isaac said as he kneel beside Micah, "Bind yourself to it. Keep the human side in control."
"What is it for you?" Micah managed to ask just before he lets out a pained roar.
"My Dad." Isaac told him, Micah looked at him confused, "Our anchors don't always have to be present in our lives." Isaac explained to him, "Sometimes even good memories are enough to keep our human side in control."
Micah slumped back against the wall as he slowed his breathing and focused. There was a brief moment of silence before he started to slowly transform back into his human form. Micah opened his eyes as they glowed blue, but now he had control.
"You did it." Isaac told him as he loosened the restraints.
Micah then jumped into Isaac's arms, "Thank you." Micah told him.
Isaac was shocked by Micah's reaction, but he also remembered the struggles he had as well. From over his shoulder, he could see Kira giving him an innocent smile just as she had finished texting someone.
Outside, Demarco returned to his car only to find that he had a flat tire,"Oh, come on. You got to be kidding me." He said aloud into the night, "Son of a bitch. Son of a..."
On his profanity rant, Demarco started to feel the pull of the full moon as he grew claws and his eyes glowed yellow as he grunted and growled. Knowing what was happening he took several breaths and started to chant, "Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, the truth." The mantra seemed to help as his claws retracted, "Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, the truth." His eyes returned back to normal, "Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, the truth."
As he was kneeling, a figure came up behind and looped a chain around his neck. It was pulled tight and as Demarco struggled with his assailant. Had anyone been on the street, they would see that Violet, Garrett's girlfriend, attacking him.
She pulled the chain tight and then pushed a silver brooch attached to it. The chain began to glow and Demarco's neck began to smoke. Within seconds, his head was detached from his body and flopped to the ground. Violet snapped a picture with her cellphone and walked away from the body.
She returned to the Landon's Lake House. The music was playing loud as she refashioned the deadly wire into a necklace and the brooch/button mechanism hangs bolo-like around her neck. She walks up to Garrett who was apparently waiting for her.
"What are you smiling about?" She asked him.
"Our friend just sent me a text." Garrett told her. He showed her his screen with a message from "The Benefactor" that said "The money has been transferred into your account." Violet smiled broadly and they kiss.
