Chapter VII: Red Eyes Sparkling in the Darkness
"Did you hear something?" I mouthed to Liliya, as I stood still in the middle for Beacon Hill's Preserve with darkness all around me. Her reply was a simple nod, the witch was more worried with searching for monsters in the shadows.
Waiting no more I grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind a tree, making sure we were at least somewhat hidden from whoever was roaming the woods in the middle of the night. "I just hope it's not a supernatural being, I'm to young to die!" I thought, ignoring the fact that I should have died centuries ago.
"Katerina, do you see anyone?" Liliya mumbled quietly, however in the silence of the night it could be easily heard and seeing as we here trying to hide I covered her mouth with my hand in response, shutting her up.
I could feel my heart beating insanely against by rib cage, my blood pumping fast in my veins, the sweat drops falling from my forehead, the moonlight hitting my backside, the strands of my hair on my shoulders and nature all around me. Most of all I felt human, and that scared me the most.
"Do you have your inhaler?" I her a voice I recognized say. "You have to be fucking kidding me!" I think to myself, letting a growl escape my throat.
"What the fuck are you both doing here?" I say loudly, getting from behind the tree while glaring at the two teen boys I had met when I first moved here, Stiles and Scott.
"AHHHH!" They both scream looking at me like I was the Bigfoot, or Klaus. I let a evil smirk caress my lips, enjoying the freaked out look they had on their faces and forgetting the fact that moments ago I had a worst expression on mine. I heard a giggle, and noticed that Liliya was also enjoying the show.
"Oh my god." Stiles said shakily, still trembling somewhat. "I just had a mini heart attack! What are you doing here you psycho? I knew it, you are a murder. Your probably the one that killed that girl!"
I rolled my eyes in irritation and turned towards Scott, who was using his inhaler like a mad man. "You alright Scotty?"
Scott looked at me with a startled expression on his face and nodded in affirmation. "What are you doing here Katherine? Who's you friends?"
"This is Liliya, she's my ... cousin." I reply, the lie rolling out of my tongue easily. "We were jogging." Luckily I was wearing my yoga pants with a comfy shirt and Liliya was wearing sport's clothes, so the lie couldn't be easily spotted.
"Jogging in the middle of the night after a body was found in these same woods?" Stiles inquired, his voice laced with skepticism. Scott too looked at us with a arched brow.
"Well, I prefer to jog in the night and I forced my cousin to come with me." I huffed in reply, lying through my teeth. "Plus, how the hell would I know somebody died? I didn't see anything on the news."
"She's got you there Stiles, she couldn't possibly know that they found a dead body." Scott said, looking at Stiles with a look that meant 'Shut up you idiot!'.
"Well...She's the murder so of course she knows where she dumped the body!" The green eyed boy tried to defend his point of view, yet he knew that his best friend was going to ignore him.
"Anyway..." Liliya spoke up for the first time. "What are you doing here if you knew somebody got killed in these very creepy woods?"
"They were obviously looking for the body." She answered her friend's question while rolling her eyes in irritation, and crossing her arms over her breasts.
"For your information were hunting for half a dead body." Stiles huffed and glared at the brown eyes girl he was starting to despise.
"Half?" Liliya inquired, as her eyes wider than ever in shock. While Laura wasn't that close to her she didn't despise anyone enough to wish that kind of death upon them.
"Yes, they only found half body. It was cut in half." Scott explain, uncomfortably.
"And you, knowing this, actually came looking the body?" I inquired, while groaning inside. 'What a bunch of idiots! I'm surprised they haven't been made dinner by a newly turned vampire...'
"Hey, we- shit, get down!" Stiles exclaimed. Within seconds, I tackled down Liliya and Scott down to the ground. I could see, up ahead, dim lights that were probably from flashlights and I heard distant yelling. Great, it was probably the cops, or hunters. Or an Alpha with a flashlight, tough I doubt that.
"We are so dead." I heard Scott moan, next to me. The little brat was probably thinking about of being grounded or something of the like.
"Not us." Liliya said in a happy tone, while smirking. "We were jogging, not hunting for dead bodies."
"This would be the second crime scene your cousin as been at, so she's probably going to be interrogated." Stiles replied, somewhat gloating, and ignoring the fact that he would also be caught.
"You're also going to be caught, idiot." I informed the brat, glaring at him.
"As if! Common Scott, maybe we can make it past them." Stiles said, before running of without waiting a reply from Scott.
"Ignore the idiot Scotty, let's hide." I said, before grabbing both him and the witch and runing in the opposite direction Stiles had gone.
Before long we hear a loud voice say- "Hang on, Hang on. This delinquent belongs to me."
"Well, he's been busted, let's get the hell out of here." I said, knowing that Stiles, while an idiot wouldn't betray Scott to his father, even if he wanted to get me into trouble.
"Wait!" Scott exclaimed, grabbing my arm. "Did you hear that?"
"Heard what Scott? If this is a plan to go back for Stiles I'm smacking you into next Friday!" I growl out.
"I swear I-" Scott started. And that's when several deer came racing towards us.
"Fuck!" I screamed, as Scott and Liliya shoved me to the ground. The deer just sprinted past us, running from something.
"Are you both ok?" Scott asked worried about us, before a scream rippled through the night. We looked worried to Liliya who was shaking. "What's wrong?" I inquired, and she in reply pointed to something behind us.
There, behind me, was the body. Not just any body, no. Laura's body, all mangled and bloodied.
"Oh God." Scott breathed, as we stood there looking at it.
"Can we go now?" I inquired softly, but not letting any emotion into my face. I was frightened, but I wasn't some damsel in distress. Sure there was probably an Alpha in these woods, somewhere, and sure I smelled like a freaking pizza to the guy but this bastard wasn't as scary has Klaus and I had survived Klaus.
Scott started to nod when I was slammed backwards from an unseen force, I was sent me back at least ten feet. The Alpha, I thought.
I landed on the ground with a thud and hit a tree. I slowly blinked and saw the Alpha approach Scott at a rapid pace, before sinking it's teeth into his side. Scott let out a cry of pain, grabbing his torso.
Then the beast turned it's head and looked right back at me, it's red eyes sparkling in the darkness, before it started walking towards me. I tried to crawl back, but that damn tree was in my way.
The beast was almost on top of me, sniffling the air- my scent. I was panicking, I really didn't want to die in the woods as wolf food and neither did I want to became a wolf myself. I was almost dog food when I hear the wolf whine in pain. Looking up I saw Liliya with her hand extended working her hocus pocus on the animal. The Alpha growled in rage, and quickly ran into the night.
I controlled my shaking hand and my raging breath before getting up on my feet. Liliya was laid back against a tree, trying to control herself also, while Scott was still on the ground groaning in pain.
"Scott!" I called, why voice still shaky from the encounter with Laura's murderer. "You alive?"
"Yes." Scott grunted out, as he got up. He gently pulled his shirt up, to check his wound and Liliya and I got a clear shot of the large bite.
"Shit." I cursed softly, my eyes popping out of their sockets. Wolf bite equals either death or beta. Beta means increased senses than can sense say, for example, a vampire-turned-mortal. Not to mention the crazy ass Alpha, and Laura's brother- who should be in town soon. My life just got more and more complicated.
"Let's go home." Scott said, hiding his wound beneath his clothes.
"You're not going to the hospital?" Liliya inquired, though she to knew what that bite meant for Scott.
"I'll be fine." He replied, while a howl was heard throughout the forest- a wolf howl.
'Yeah Scotty, sorry to burst your bubble but you're not going to be fine...'