At the Animal Clinic, Scott was assisting Dr. Deaton by holding down a dog for an injection while its owner was fretting over the procedure. The dog's name was Bullet. The owner explained that all of his dogs have gun-related names because he is from a military family.
When Scott reached out to touch Bullet, Bullet immediately fell onto his back showing his belly. Almost as if he were submitting. "Looks like he knows who the Alpha is." The owner commented, this surprised Scott, but Deaton seemed more disturbed than anything else.
Outside, the dog owner was having an unsuccessful attempt to get Bullet into his car. Bullet was whining and refusing to get into the car. Instead, the little dog took off down the alleyway. Bullet's owner chased after him. It didn't seem like he could find his dog, until he heard a whining sound fill the air. It was coming from under the dumpster. The owner got on the ground and tried to coax the dog from coming under. But it continued to bark and whine.
Knowing his dog wasn't going to come out from under the dumpster, the owner sighed and reached in get him, but instead he gets bitten and blood wells on his hand. "Bullet, did you seriously just bite me?" However, he had noticed upon looking at his bleeding hand that Bullet was nowhere near the dumpster. Chanting sounds filled the air.
Scott discovered a single mistletoe berry while sifting through a sample of Bullet's stool. Deaton explained. That the plant is poisonous to dogs and humans. Just outside, Scott heard Bullet's barking and went to investigate.
Once he reached the outside, the little dog ran to him and jumped into his arms. While, holding the dog, Scott realized that the owner was missing.
At school, Ms. Blake found Derek waiting in her classroom. They eyes meet as she picked up a wooden pointer and wielded it awkwardly as a defense. "What do you want? You gonna threaten me? Tell me that no one's gonna believe me? Try to scare me?" Derek remained silent, "Kill me?"
"I was gonna see if you were okay." Derek said softly.
"Physically or emotionally? Although I guess that presupposes I was emotionally okay before any of this." The woman said awkwardly, "And according to my therapist, it's been debatable for a long time."
"I think you're gonna be okay."
"Obviously, you've never taught high school. In 20 minutes, I have to start two dozen teenagers on the crucible, and I honestly have no idea what I'm gonna say."
"Well, why don't you start by telling them that it's an allegory for mccarthyism?"
"Is that a subtle way of suggesting that I shouldn't say anything? Because I won't. It's Stiles you would have to worry about, the girl talks nonstop."
Derek actually laughed, "Believe me I know." He said walking away.
"Who are you?" She asked him.
Derek stopped at the door, "I'm Derek."
"Jennifer." The woman told him.
"So you and Derek kissed, huh?" Scott noticed Stiles putting the arrowhead it in her backpack. "Could that mean something?" Scott asked Stiles inside the locker room. Stiles rolled her eyes at her friend's lack of subtlety.
"It's all part of the bond and it was in the heat of the moment." She told him in a bored tone.
"So that could mean something."
"I doubt it, I saw him and Ms. Blake earlier having a very pleasant conversation." Stiles informed him. Stiles arrived earlier to ensure that Ms. Blake wasn't going to tell anyone what she saw last night, but when she saw Derek and her talking she quickly backed away. They actually looked like a normal couple rather than one that was consistently fighting off hunters and kanimas. It stuck a chord, but Stiles wasn't going to admit it.
"You sound and," Scott took a step forward and took a sniff of her. Stiles made a 'what the hell' face. "Smell jealous." He told her while giving a questioning look,
"Dude, totally uncalled for. I will smack you upside the head with a roll of newspaper." She deflected, "Now onto what happened at the clinic."
"Fine, I won't pester you. But I have no idea what happened to him. I looked everywhere. It's like he just walked away. Left his car, his dog." Scott told her.
"Okay." She told him, "Was he, like... could he have been a virgin maybe?" Scott gave her a weird look, "Did he look like a virgin? Was he, you know, virginal?"
Scott shook his head, "No, definitely not. Deaton makes me have sex with all of his clients. It's a new policy." Scott laughed at his own joke. But Stiles looked at him with 'don't even try to funny' look. Scott sighed at his failed attempt to make his friend laugh. "No, I don't know if he was a virgin. And why are you talking like he's already dead? He's just missing."
"Missing and presumed dead because he's probably a virgin, Scott." She placed her bag inside the locker. "And you know who else is a virgin? Me. I'm a virgin, okay?" She whispered to him, "And you know what that means? It means that my lack of sexual experience is now literally a threat to my life." She began to rant. "Okay, I need to have sex, like, right now. Someone needs to have sex with me, like, today. Like, someone needs to sex me right now!" She said slamming her locker.
"All right, I'll do it." A voice offered, Stiles ended up shouting and turned around to see Danny, who had a smirk on his face.
"What?" Stiles asked in surprise, it was a known fact that Danny was gay and that fact that he was willing to offer was beyond her.
"Come to my place at 9:00. Plan to stay the night. I like to cuddle." He told her simply.
"Oh. That was so sweet." Stiles told him, but that smirk on his face still hadn't left, "Are you kidding?"
"Yes, I'm kidding." He told her as if she was stupid, which she was. She should've known better. Danny walked away smiling to himself.
"Okay, you know, you don't toy with a girl's emotions like that, Danny. It's not attractive, all right? Sure it goes for the guys too." She shouted at him.
Just then, the door from the changing room opened and Isaac walked in. Coach was already there and noted Isaac's arrival. "Mr. Lahey, happy to have you back. Not happy that you're late."
"Sorry, coach."
"I'll remind you all, cross-country is not optional for lacrosse players. I don't need you turning into a bunch of fat-asses in the off-season." Coach told them, Stiles looked around and noticed that no one out the team was even close to being fat. Coach must've noticed it as well because he added, "So work on that."
They were outside now and the sun was shining, along with the birds tweets filling the air. While Stiles was tying her shoes both Ethan and Aiden stood beside her. She found it a bit weird that they were so close to her, but she thought nothing of it. However, she knew something up when Isaac suddenly took a strong hold of her and pulled her away from them, while growing.
"Isaac!" Stiles whispered beside him.
"Stay away from her." Isaac told him, the twins both looked at each other and gave them a smile. A smile that Stiles found very discomforting. Their eyes flashed the Alpha red.
Coach, then blows the whistle for the players to run and the Alpha twins run ahead of everyone else. Stiles noticed the look on Isaac's face as he turned to her.
"Stay here." Isaac said simply, before chasing them not even giving Stiles a chance to stop him. Not a second, later Stiles noticed that Scott took off along as well.
Isaac had them in his sight for a minute until they hit a corner and they disappeared. It wasn't until he was completely around the corner when one of them rammed into him causing him to fall off the path. He quickly tried to get up, but the twins easily have him down.
"Ethan, I always forget, how many bones in the human body?" Aiden asked his brother, in murderous manner.
"I don't know. Let's count." Ethan told him, but Aiden was punched off Isaac by an incredible force. His jaw was broken.
"That's one." Scott told them. The four werewolves were all wolfed out and ready to fight, when a scream filled the air.
They ran to find the source, they reached a group of students surrounding the body of Kyle, Bullet's owner. He had been killed in the same manner of the other three, throat cut, bludgeoned and strangled with his dog's leash.
"It's him, isn't it?" Isaac questioned.
The Sheriff suddenly appeared with Tara at his side, "Hey, get out of the way. Get this area cordoned off before they trample every piece of evidence."
"Back it up everyone!" She directed the group.
Looking at the body, Stiles noticed that it was exactly the same as the others had been killed, "Dad, just come here." The Sheriff followed as they got closer to the body. "It's the same as the others." She told him.
The Sheriff looked back at the body and nodded his head, "Yeah, I see that. Do me a favor. Go back to school, yeah?" He told her. "Coach, can you give us a hand here?"
"You heard the man." Coach began to yell at the students, "Nothing to see here. Probably just some homeless kid."
"Coach, he was a senior." Scott called to him.
"Oh." Coach sighed, "He wasn't on the team, was he?"
They were all forced to head back to the school. Stiles had managed to catch with Isaac and Scott. "You see the way the twins looked at him?" Isaac asked them. The trio looked over and see that the twins and saw that they had unreadable expressions.
"Yeah, you mean like they had no idea what happened?" Stiles told them.
Isaac disagreed, "No, no, they knew." Isaac told her.
Stiles shook her head, "The kid was strangled with a garrote, all right?" She told them, "Am I the only one recognizing the lack of "werewolfitude" in these murders?"
"Oh, you think it's a coincidence they turn up and then people start dying? Oh and were targeting you." Isaac snipped at her.
"Well, no, but I still don't think it's them. I doubt they would've done something in public." Stiles told him. "Scott?" Scott gave them both questioning looks. He realized he was in the midst of a debate.
"How 'bout you?" Isaac asked him.
"I don't know yet." Scott answered simply. He really just didn't want to have to choose sides. Stiles smacked him in the arm.
"You don't know yet?" Stiles asked in a disapproving manner.
"Well, he's got a point." Scott admitted. There was a look of disdain on Stiles' face. "Seriously, dude, human sacrifices?" He asked her.
"Scott, your eyes turn into yellow glow sticks, okay?" She pointed out, "Hair literally grows from your cheeks and then will immediately disappear," She added, "And if I were to stab you, it would just magically heal, but you're telling me right now that you're having trouble grasping human sacrifices?" She asked in disbelief.
Scott sighed knowing that Stiles had a point too. "That's a good point too." Scott told Isaac, but that still didn't change Isaac's attitude towards the whole thing.
"I don't care." He told them blankly. "They killed that kid, they killed the girl that saved me. I'm gonna kill them too."
At the loft, Derek's sister, Cora was in the middle of her workout session. She was doing pulls-up, before she dropped to the floor doing push-up. Derek entered the room and noticed that Cora was overdoing it.
"You're not done healing." Derek told her. There had been tension between them.
"Yeah? Well, I'm done lying around." She shot at him continuing to do her push-ups. Derek, then walked over to her and kicked her hand out from under her and she tumbled to the floor.
"Then sit." He told her.
"Are you gonna help me go after them?" Cora asked him, but Derek doesn't answer her. This irritated her. She made a scoffing noise. "Come on, fight back! I came back for this?" She yelled at him. Derek still doesn't reply and that just made her even angrier.
"I can't believe I got my ass thrown in a vault for three months for you. All those rumors I heard. A powerful new Alpha, one of the Hales with a mate, was building a pack." She yelled at him. But Derek remained neutral. "Do you know how long I waited to hear something like that? Do you have any idea how it felt to find out you were alive?"
"I'm sorry to disappoint you." Derek told her. Before she could respond an alarming sound filled the air.
"What's that?" She asked, looking over a red light that was flashing.
"Trouble."
She made a growling noise towards the door ignoring Derek's protests. Kali and Ennis, the orderly from the hospital, showed up at the door already in their wolf forms. The four begin to fight. But it doesn't last long. Cora faced with Ennis only to have herself get pinned down with him on top of her. Kali went for Derek, she managed to break off a steel pipe and stab it through Derek's chest.
Deucalion appeared at the door of the loft. "Everybody done? 'Cause just listening to that was exhausting." He said smoothly, "So... Let's chat."
Allison fell asleep in Ms. Morrell's French class. Allison was dreaming of her mother, who was yelling at her and snapped herself awake. She noticed that Ms. Morrell was standing over her desk. The bell rang for the dismissal of the class, but Allison stayed behind to talk to her teacher about the events that happened at the vault. "You're starting to concern me, Allison. Maybe we should chat in the guidance office sometime." Mrs. Morrell told her.
"Or maybe you should tell me what you were doing at the bank the other night." Allison countered.
"Maybe you should tell me what you were doing there." Ms. Morrell told her. Her facial expression didn't change at all. It was clear that neither one of them was willing to share information with each other. "Looks like we have a situation here." The teacher told her, "Tell you what, give me the French word for it that's the same in English, and you can avoid lunchtime detention."
Allison didn't have an answer and ended up getting the detention.
Mr. Harris was teaching Inertia vs. Momentum. Scott was trying to convince Isaac to wait to confront the Alpha twins but Isaac was still reeling. Isaac then excused himself to the bathroom, which Mr. Harris allowed, but when Scott tried to go as well Mr. Harris doesn't let him.
In the hallway, Isaac gets confronted by the twins but not in a way that he expected. To his surprise Aiden begins beating Ethan, slamming his head into the locker and then throwing him at Isaac's feet. When Harris and the class spill into the hallway, Ethan blamed his injuries on Isaac.
Back at the loft, Deucalion made his way in. For someone, who was blind he didn't have a hard time walking through the loft without a problem. "Sorry about this, Derek. I asked Kali to be gentle, but..."
Kali still held onto that bar that was still penetrating Derek's chest. "This is me being gentle." She commented, before twisting it around. Derek made a groaning noise, but he could still see that Cora was still in Ennis' grip.
"Let... let her go." He managed to get out. Deucalion gave a smile, before signaling Ennis to let her go.
"See? We're not unreasonable." He told him.
"What do you want?" Derek managed to get out. "You want to kill me?"
Deucalion chuckled at the thought, "You really think I'm that boring? Don't throw me in with sociopaths like your Uncle." Deucalion told him, before kneeling to his level. "I'm a man with far more vision than simple murder. In fact..." Deucalion removed the sunglasses he was wearing. "I'm here to show you just how much vision a blind man can have."
Derek looked up at the man's face. His eyes revealing to be Alpha red as well, but they were cloudy.
Back at school Scott attempted keep Isaac calm. "Don't let it bother you. It's just lunchtime detention. If all they want right now is to piss you off, then don't give in. They're just trying to get to you."
"It's not just me." Isaac told him and looked over to see Aiden flirting with Landon, thanks to their enhanced hearing they hear the entire conversation.
"What about tonight?" Aiden asked Landon by his locker. Landon gave him a smile.
"Nope. Studying." Landon told him placing a book into the locker.
"I could help you." Aiden offered, but Landon simply laughed at the statement.
"Do you have an IQ higher than 170?" Landon questioned him.
"Okay. You could help me." Landon made a scoffed noise, while rolling his eyes.
"Tonight then?" Aiden asked.
Isaac stopped listening and noticed the stoned expression on Scott's face. Scott noticed that Isaac was looking at him. "What?"
"Now they're getting to you." Isaac told him.
Stiles was totally skipping school right now. She was at the hospital and tried to get information from the girl who found the body. Turned out it was Kyle's girlfriend, Ashley. She had finished crying and Stiles walked over to the girl nervously.
"Um, hi, Ashley. Hi. Can I talk to you just for one sec?" She asked the girl. The girl simply nodded her head, "Sorry. I just need to ask you something really quick, and it's gonna sound really unbelievably insensitive, so I apologize in advance." She explained to her. "Um... Was Kyle a virgin?" She asked her.
Ashley made a displeasuring face. "What?"
"Your boyfriend, was he a virgin, or did you guys…I swear I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important." She told her.
Stiles was afraid that Ashley was going to yell at her. But Ashley just sighed and looked at her. "No. He wasn't a virgin." She told her and walked away.
Stiles was about to leave, but her father appeared out of nowhere, "Have you completely lost your mind?" He yelled at her, pulling her by the arm. "I've got four murders, Stiles. You see those men in there?" He pointed down the hall to men that wore black suits. "That's the FBI. They're pulling together a task force to help because it looks like we've got a full-blown serial killer on our hands. You get that?"
Stiles nodded, "Yes, dad. I get that."
"Then what are you doing?" The Sheriff questioned.
"I'm trying to find a pattern."
"You're killing him!" Cora shouted at them. Kali still hadn't removed the steel pipe from Derek and Kali had this look on her face like she wasn't going to anytime soon.
"Not yet, little sister." Kali told her, looking at her. "But I could." Derek made a coughing noise. Kali had a smile on her face. "Who knows if it's five minutes or five hours before it's too late to take this thing out? But just to be on the safe side, Duke, you might want to get to the point." She advised Deucalion.
"Now you see the one problem with being in an Alpha pack." He said with a laugh, "Everybody wants to make the decisions. Me? I'm more about discovering new talents... Like you."
"Not interested." Derek told him.
"But you haven't even heard my pitch." The man said wearily.
"You want me to... Kill my own pack." Derek told him, letting him know he knew Deucalion's plan already.
"No." Deucalion explained, "I want you to kill one of them. Do that, and I won't have to ask you to kill the others. You'll do it on your own. I did it. Ennis did. Kali did. Tell him what it's like, Kali, to kill one of your own."
Kali laughed at the memory, "Liberating." She told him.
"Listen to me, Derek. Do you really want to stay beholden to a couple of maladjusted teenagers bound to become a liability?" Deucalion asked, "Don't think they won't because they will. In fact... I have a feeling one of them is getting himself into trouble right now."
It's lunch time detention with Mr. Harris, who paired up students for some school work. "The two of you will wash all the boards in this hall." He pointed at two students, "Reshelving the library." He pointed at another pair, "Restocking the janitor's closet." He pointed at Isaac and Allison.
They both looked at each other worried expressions. After, all they hadn't talked since she stabbed him with those knives those months ago.
Isaac walked over to the teacher's desk, "Um... Does it have to be with her?" He asked him quietly looking over at Allison.
"Now that I know you prefer not to... Yes." Mr. Harris told him with a smirk, "You have to be with her."
"Great." Isaac mumbled.
Stiles was looking at a memorial that had been set up at Kyle's locker. Out of nowhere, Boyd approached and pined up an Air Force ROTC patch attached to a note card with "Crossed Into the Blue" written in sharpie.
"Whoa. Hey, Boyd!" Stiles greeted him, "I didn't know you were back at school."
"Yeah, I would have told you, but we're not actually friends." Boyd told her glumly.
"Oh, right." Stiles nodded. Boyd was right, they were try on opposite sides before the summer. "Hey, so did you, uh... so did you know Kyle?"
"Yeah, we were in junior R.O.T.C. together."
"So you two were friends, then?" She prompted.
Boyd shook his head, "I only had one friend. She's dead too." That hit Stiles like a wave. She remembered how Boyd would sit at lunch by himself before he ever joined Derek's pack. He was alone, but when he joined the pack, he had something close to friendship despite the murderous want to kill, but they became somewhat allies.
Without, thinking Stiles wrapped her arms around him into a hug. This caught Boyd off guard, but he didn't bring himself to hug her back. However, he did realize that Stiles hadn't exactly let him go either. He cleared his throat as if to signal his uncomfortableness.
"Oh, sorry." Stiles told him, before letting him go. Boyd gave her a weak smile and walked away. He wasn't going to admit that being hugged from his Alpha's mate made him feel a bit better.
Allison and Isaac were in the janitor closet restocking it. They were working in silence, but Allison noticed Isaac's edgy body behavior, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm just..." Isaac looked over at the opened janitor's door before shelving again. "Not a big fan of small spaces." That will happen, when you spent your life in a freezer.
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Do you have to?" He grunted, he still hadn't forgiven for what happened at the warehouse with Gerard.
"I guess not. I'm gonna ask anyway." She told him, ignoring his don't talk to me attitude, "Did you tell anyone that I was at school the other night?"
"Was I supposed to?" He questioned confused.
Allison laughed, "It would make me really happy if you didn't."
"Yeah, well... Your happiness really isn't a big priority of mine, since you stabbed me... 20 times... With knives." He reminded her.
"They were actually Chinese ring daggers." She corrected him.
"Was that... was that an apology?"
"Would you accept an apology?"
The sound of the janitor's door slammed shut and Isaac was the first to reach over and attempt to open it, but it didn't work. "Uh, maybe it locked from the outside." She suggested clearly seeing Isaac about to go in panic mode. But Isaac continued to push on the door.
"No, there's something against it." He gritted. He continued pushing and didn't seem to stop.
"Okay, uh, all right. Just relax." Allison advised when Isaac's breathing began to pick up pace. But Isaac didn't relax at all. He went from pushing onto the door to punching it continuously. His mind flashed to the memories of his father locking him in the freezer and caused him to shift halfway into his wolf.
