Alright, it starts to get slightly confusing from the end of this chapter because I don't specify Point of Views, it is technically from Alice's still though it seems as though it's from a Third Person, like at the end of number 5 and 8.
Tell me if it's annoying or something, I don't really want to put any in but if it's really bad, I will.
Chapter 10:
"I'm sorry." I shook my head as I sat on the floor "I'm so sorry." tears ran down my cheeks unwillingly
"Alice, it's not your fault." Scott assured me
"I saw the teacher die, I saw Ms Blake trick Lydia… but I couldn't do anything. Somehow she tied me up while I was out. And then I couldn't stop her from hurting Lydia." I sobbed "In the end I couldn't do anything to help." I put my head in one of my hands, the other in pain from the crack.
"I'm sorry Stiles. I'm so sorry." I mumbled over and over.
"Alice," Stiles kneeled before me "I know you tried your best. I saw you keep trying. It's not your fault." he assured me.
I looked up at him and he gave me a watery smile.
"It wasn't fair to ask you to do so much after what you said." Scott muttered. "But we'll get him back." Scott assured us both. I took a deep breath and nodded, wiping my cheeks with my good hand
"First we have to fix your shoulder." he pointed
I nodded and Stiles took my free arm and Scott got ready to push my shoulder back in place.
"We need to get to Derek's." I said. Scott suddenly pushed and I gasped as it popped back in.
"Why Derek's?" Stiles asked
"He's bloody sleeping with her, she'll go there first." I snapped angrily
"He's what?!" Stiles snapped looking at Scott.
"That's why she's been so angry." Scott admitted. I stood up immediately and moved over to Lydia who still sat sobbing in the chair.
"Lyd's," I took a deep breath "Are you alright?" She rolled her lips, took a deep breath and nodded
"I'm okay, I'm okay." She had a serious bruise around her next from the garrotte.
"You need to go." she said suddenly "I'm okay." she nodded
"Lydia…" I began
"Alice, it wasn't your fault. You tried." she said "But you need to go." she said in her usual serious Lydia tone.
I hesitated and turned to the boys.
"Scott, will you call Allison." He nodded and immediately began to dial the number.
"I'm not leaving you alone." I said strongly "There was a reason she did this too you, and I'm not gonna give her another opportunity." I muttered. She looked at me and nodded.
"Be careful." she said
"Get better." I kissed her forehead before standing up. Scott hung up the phone and the three of us moved to Stiles' car.
"I don't really want to go to be honest."
"Do I want to ask why?" Stiles said
"Well I'm worried I'm going to kill both of them." I admitted. The two boys turned to look at me in the back seat.
"Though now Jennifer more then Derek." I muttered "He's going to be hurt enough about this without me adding to it."
"Why would he be hurt? He's Derek." Stiles disagreed
"Maybe because this is his second homicidal girlfriend." I said obviously. The boys shared a look.
"Yeah that might do it." Stiles muttered and they were silent as I leaned back.
"How are you going to make Derek believe us anyway?" Stiles questioned
"We need to expose her true face." I believed "The slashed up white one."
"How?" Stiles asked
"Mistletoe." Scott suddenly muttered. Stiles and I shared a glance before looking at my twin.
"We need to make a stop before getting there." Scott said.
I followed the boys up to the loft and Scott opened the door quickly.
"Derek!" he called
"What?" Derek asked as he sat at the table.
"We know who it is." Stiles said "We know who the Darach is."
"Who?" Derek stood up immediately
"Jennifer Blake." I spat her name like it tasted fowl. Derek looked at me, his eyes hardened but my glare stayed. "And she took her next victim." Stiles took a deep breath and I saw Jennifer running through the loft door.
"Oh and here she comes ready for a lie to feed you." I admitted. "Shall we see what excuse she gives you." I decided
Scott suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me around the corner. Stiles followed just as the loft door opened.
"Derek?" Ms Blake called as she ran down the stairs "Derek, where are you?"
"Right here." Derek walked out from the room next door and towards her. Jennifer let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank god." she ran up to him and flung her arms around his neck. He hugged her back before she pulled away quickly, getting to the point. "Something happened at the recital. At the school." she rushed "Okay, I need to tell you before you hear it, before you hear any of it from them."
"From who?" Derek asked
"Scott, Stiles. Alice." Jennifer listed "They're gonna tell you things. Things you can't believe. You have to trust me, okay? You trust me." she said quickly, holding his hand.
"What is it?" Derek wondered
"Promise you'll listen to me." she asked
"I promise." he answered. She smiled and leaned up to kiss him. My fists clenched and Scott took my hand to calm me down before Jennifer pulled away.
"They're already here, aren't they?" she realised.
Derek looked towards us as we rounded the corner and I crossed my arms. Jennifer turned to us.
"So they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?" she asked turning to Derek
"We told him you're the one killing people." Scott corrected. Stiles eyes were welled up with tears as he looked at her, remembering his father's life was on the line.
I took one of his hands for comfort, as well as to keep myself remembering this was important.
"Oh, that's right." she chuckled as though it was stupid. I looked at Derek, he looked like he didn't know what to believe, a frown upon his face. "Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour. That way, I can get back to teaching high school English the rest of the day. That makes perfect sense." she scoffed
"Where's my dad?" Stiles asked simply, a tear rolling down his cheek
"How should I know?" she asked and I clenched my free fist in anger, causing the table beside us to shake. "Derek, tell me you don't believe this." she spun back towards him.
Derek looked at us and I held his gaze, begging him to listen.
"Do you know what happened to Stiles's father?" he asked calmly
"No." she shook her head
"Ask her why she almost killed Lydia." Scott said "Or tied Alice up and dislocated her shoulder." Scott added. Derek's eyes hardened as I glared at the lying bitch before us.
"Lydia Martin?" she didn't mention anything about me. "I don't know anything about that."
"What do you know?" Derek asked
"I know that these boys, and that jealous girl," The table went flying but Ms Blake ignored it, the two boys jumped and Derek looked at me "for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story. And one they can't prove, by the way." she turned back to us.
"What if we can?" Scott said holding up a small jar of yellow dust.
"What is that?" Jennifer questioned. Scott took a few steps forwards.
"My boss told me it's a poison and a cure," Jennifer tok a step back as Scott unscrewed the lid and Derek took one away from her also. "Which means you can use it and it can be used against you." Scott explained
"Mistletoe?" She asked
"Just answering that proves we're right." I said simply as Scott threw the dust all over Jennifer. She raised her hands and shook her head. Screeches sounded and we watched as she struggled and the white slashed up face appeared through the dust. It screamed at us and Derek looked shocked that what we said was the truth.
The dust all settled and Jennifer stopped, her hair over her face as she panted. She glanced at Derek before turning to run for the door.
Derek grabbed her throat and pulled her back.
"Derek, wait, wait!" she shouted, her hands on his wrist. He raised his claws on his other hand as he glared at her. "You need me."
"What are you?" Derek demanded angrily
"The only person who can save your sister." she gasped "Call Peter. Call him!" she shouted. I threw my phone to Derek and he dialled the number.
"How's Cora?" he asked
"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness. She's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance." Peter admitted
"Mistletoe." Derek guessed
"How did you know that?" Peter questioned. Derek didn't answer, just hung up the phone. I caught it as he threw it back.
Jennifer looked at Derek before he squeezed his hands harder. She gasped her mouth open in pain.
"Derek. Derek, what are you doing?" Scott demanded
"Her life it's in my hands!" Jennifer tried to convince. Derek lifted her off the ground with his hand and she chocked and gasped some more.
"Alice, do something." Scott said. I didn't move.
"Stop. Derek, stop!" Stiles demanded
"Stilinski, you'll never find him." Jennifer said. Derek glared some more as Jennifer grabbed at his wrist.
"Derek." Scott said seriously, he didn't listen "Derek!" he said fiercer. Still nothing. "Alice!" Scott shouted. My eyes glowed and Derek froze, his fingers uncurled and Jennifer fell to the floor.
"I'm not letting her live a second time." I said lowly as I glared at her and released Derek from my hold.
Jennifer quickly regained her breath
"That's right." she looked up smugly at Derek "You need me." she turned to Scott, Stiles and I. "All of you."
Derek looked at us and I just glared at the bitch on the floor.
"I'm going to regret that." I said immediately.
Derek grabbed Jennifer and we followed him and her down the stairs and to Stiles Jeep and Derek's car. Which wasn't the camaro by the way.
Derek and Jennifer got into Derek's car and Stiles moved to the Jeep.
"Go with them." Scott said. I looked at him like he was crazy
"No." I sneered
"Please." Scott begged.
"I'm going to kill you." I said to his face before I moved through the pouring rain to the car and got into the back. I pulled on my seatbelt and stared at the rain on the window, trying to ignore my company.
"You should know I'm not doing this because I have to." Jennifer tried to convince as Derek drove. He refused to look at her, his face was the hard cold mask he'd worn when I'd first met him almost a year ago.
Surprise there, he drops his mask to a women he hardly knows and he get's betrayed again. I'd really like to say he should've stuck with me, ask why I wasn't good enough at the same time, but I couldn't bring myself to have any conversation with him. Let alone that conversation.
"I want to." Jennifer continued "I could still run, and you wouldn't have an easy time stopping me." she believed. I scoffed. "But I don't want your sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do."
"Shut up." Derek replied not sparing her a glance.
"You need to hear the whole story, Derek. You need to know just how connected we really are." she thought and I rolled my eyes.
"Stop talking." Derek said in his cold voice.
Wow, maybe she really has broken him back to the non-trusting Derek. And I worked so hard to fix that.
What a waste of time.
I saw Stiles' headlights behind us and wished I was in the crappy jeep instead. I didn't want to be anywhere near these two. Let alone when they were together.
Derek pulled up at the hospital and the Jeep pulled up next to us.
I got out of the car and immediately made my way for the door, not caring that I got drenched on the short walk there.
"What's that?" Scott asked as Stiles carried a bat in his hand
"Well, you got claws. I got a bat." Stiles shrugged.
Derek yanked on Jennifer's arm as they followed me through the halls.
We stopped when a familiar voice ran out.
"Scott! Alice! Scott!" we stopped and turned to our mother. "What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating." she said.
I could tell, everything was a mess and people ran everywhere. Most of the rooms we'd past were empty.
"We're here for Cora." Scott admitted
"What, all of you?" Mom asked "Why does Stiles have my bat?" she wondered spotting it
"It's a long story." I admitted "And it's not good." she saw my expression and turned to Scott
"Mom, just trust me on this. You need to get out of here. Right now." he ordered
"The building is supposed to be clear in 30 minutes. We've got two ambulances that are coming back. One's 10 minutes out, the other's 20. Cora needs to be on one of those." she nodded seriously "They'll be picking up in the basement garage."
"Got it." we nodded and quickly headed down the corridor to the elevator.
"You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help." Jennifer assured as the elevator moved.
She suddenly turned to look at Scott who glared at her. Stiles stood one other side with his bat raised seriously and Derek watched the numbers above my head as I stared at the door.
We moved out as the elevator dinged and straight to Cora's room, Derek dragging Jennifer.
We turned to Cora's room to find it empty other then the black go and mistletoe on the floor.
"Where are they?" Derek looked at me and I slowly turned to the double doors before us.
"Derek…" Scott followed a trail of the black goo to the same doors.
We listened as grunting and groans came from the other room followed by serious growling.
Suddenly the doors bursted open and Peter came skidding across the floor towards us.
"We got a problem." he confessed as he looked up at us. He turned to look down the corridor. "Big problem."
I looked up to see the giant conjoined twins ahead of us. Cora was lying on the floor, unmoving behind him.
They growled at us as the lightning lit up the hospital hallway. Stiles raised his bat as the to werewolves gapped.
Derek immediately wolfed out and handed me Jennifer's arm. I took it, not at all gently, before Derek ran at the giant alpha.
The twins ran at Derek also as Derek grabbed their middle and pushed them back. They elbowed the alpha in the back and Derek stepped backwards before throwing a punch at their stomach.
It didn't effect them in the slightest. He raised his arm to hit their head and they stopped him before raising their own and grabbing his head. They elbowed him in the chin and then punched him.
Scott changed and growled at them as Derek was thrown at the wall.
Scott jumped on the wall and launched at the twins. He sped at them and they ducked before Scott did the same, allowing their claws to miss him.
Stiles walked up next to me, lowering the bat before turning to Peter, he tapped his arm to get his attention.
"Help me." he said. Peter got up as Stiles moved off towards Cora.
Scott grabbed the twins shoulder ready to punch their face but they grabbed Scot instead and held him to the wall, making it easy for Stiles and Peter to get past.
Derek was still lying on the floor against the wall.
"Ethan, Aiden, stop!" Scott said as they had their hand around his throat "You don't know what you're doing."
"All we want is her." at those words Jennifer turned around and twisted my arm. I spun to untwist before I launched my fist at her face, glad to dismantle it. She ducked and grabbed my arm, forcing me to let go before throwing me against the wall. I Immediately waved my arm and she went flying into the elevator doors with a loud groan.
Ms Blake glared at me as I stood up before the touched the button for the elevator. The doors opened and she immediately stepped back into the elevator as I ran at the doors.
They closed before I got there.
I based the elevator door as the twins dropped Scott and Derek sat up. I turned to look at them frustrated and saw Derek's guilty expression.
Peter picked up Cora and ran through the corridors, Stiles behind him. Derek grabbed my arm and pulled me with him after Scott.
"She's gone."
"I noticed." I hissed removing my arm from his grip and running after Scott, ignoring the alpha.
I felt so much anger at him, but I knew below the anger was a hell of a lot more pain. If I stopped and spoke to him, no matter what about, it might rise to the top. I didn't need to feel that pain, and definitely not now.
"Don't stop, don't stop!" Derek shouted as we ran through the morgue.
Stiles however being Stiles, didn't listen. He looked at his bat and moved to stand behind the door.
"Stiles!" The door opened as the twins walked in with a growl and Stiles raised the bat, hitting the two over the head.
The bat smashed into splinters.
The alpha turned and growled at Stiles who moved around the sink and joined us, discarding the broken bat handle.
Scott raised his claws and looked around before his eyes fell on the roof. He jumped up and Derek, quickly understanding, grabbed his leg to give him a boost.
Scott swiped the light with his claws and it swung down to smack the giant alpha twins in the head.
They fell to the floor and we ran in the opposite direction. We didn't even bother to turn and see what happened to them.
As we ran we lost the twins. Scott and Derek quickly caught up with Peter, Stiles and I as Peter put Cora down on a bed within the room.
"Where's the big guy?" Peter asked
"He's close." Derek admitted as he shut the door and glanced out the window.
"What about Ms. Blake?" Stiles asked. He looked from Derek to Scott who didn't look at him. Stiles looked appalled. "What do you mean? What does that mean? Like, she's gone?" Scott sighed "Scott, are you kidding me?"
"Shh, quiet." Derek demanded walking towards him.
"Me be quiet? Me, huh?" Stiles got up in Derek's face angrily. "Are you telling me what to do now? When your psychotic, mass murdering girlfriend — the second one you've dated, by the way — has got my dad somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles snapped
"Stiles, they're still out there." Scott whispered
"And— and they want her, right? Which means now we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!" Stiles shouted at Derek who didn't budge.
"Not yet." Scott said strongly. He looked at Derek before turning to Cora as Peter looked her over. "Is she really dying?" he asked
"She's definitely not getting any better." Peter admitted.
"There has to be something that we can do. We have to help her." Scott said strongly.
The door suddenly opened on the other side of the room and we all turned to see Ms Blake standing there.
"You can't. Only I can. I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is." he promised "But there is a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead. So I'll help you but only when I'm out of here and safe." She said strongly "Only then."
Naturally that didn't sit well with Derek. He pushed a table out of the way and launched at Ms Blake. I stepped out of his way while Scott grabbed the alpha to stop him.
"Derek, wait!"
"She was trying to get out." Derek pointed
"I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that." Jennifer defended
"Oh he can." I nodded
"If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her." Stiles pointed
"Not until I'm safe."
"And in that time, if she dies, Derek kills you for being selfish." I snapped "We still need you for Stiles' dad so you can heal Cora and we'll still help you." I assured her "At least then we know it's for a believable cause and not some petty squabble for life." Jennifer turned to Scott, the only one assured to keeping her alive at the moment.
"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion." Peter said coming up behind Derek "Let's torture her."
"Works for me." Derek agreed, removing Scott's arm. They looked at me
"Yeah that'll work too." I nodded. The carefree expression vanished however as my yes flashed.
"Oh god." I muttered
"Alice, what?" Stiles asked worried, he glanced at Jennifer but the question was answered for me.
"Um, can I have your attention?" my mother's voice sounded over the speakers. "Mr. Deucalion —excuse me, just Deucalion—" Scott stared at the speaker and then looked at me as my expression went from angry and hard, to plain out worried. "Requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R. reception." Ms Blake sighed and lowered her gaze "Do this, and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes." the speaker cut off and Derek turned to the english teacher. Scott did the same, looking at me.
I balled my fists. This was too much a time. A crazy bitch killing darach who we needed help from because she's a bitch and a power crazed alpha who also wanted said bitch, wanted my brother and apparently had my mother.
"He's not gonna hurt her." Ms Blake said assuringly
"Shut up." Derek pointed as Peter turned to Cora.
"He won't!" Jennifer said strongly before turning to my brother "Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true." Scott didn't look at anyone but me.
"What does she mean?" Derek asked. Scott didn't answer and Jennifer rolled her eyes
"You're not the only one he wants in his pack." Jennifer admitted. Derek turned to look at my twin and Scott returned the look. "Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks." she explained
"A true Alpha." Peter knew
"What's that?" Stiles questioned as Derek looked at his uncle.
"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another." Derek turned to Scott as Peter explained "One that can rise by the force of his own will." Peter looked at Scott who looked at me. "Our little Scott."
"It doesn't matter." Scott shook his head at Peter "We still need to get her out of here." he talked about Jennifer who smiled cockily.
"Scott, your mom—" Stiles began
"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in 20 minutes. And I don't think we've been here that long, so if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here." Scott planned
"The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out." Peter reminded him
"I'll distract them." Scott agreed
"You mean fight them." Derek corrected
"Whatever I have to do." Scott said
"I'll help you." Derek nodded
"Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek." Jennifer admitted
"And he's not going anywhere without Alice." Stiles suddenly said
"What?!" I raged as something else went flying across the room making everyone duck.
"I don't trust them alone and you're the only one who can go with them." Stiles explained. I ground my teeth and reminded myself how I let Jennifer take Stiles' father.
I have to make it up to him… "Fine." I agreed through my clenched jaw.
"I'll do it." Peter said to Scott "But I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage."
"An advantage like what? You mean like a weapon?" Stiles wondered
"Something better than a baseball bat." Peter nodded.
"Well, there's gotta be something in this room." I said
"If you haven't snapped it." Peter said. I turned and glared at him
"I have a hell of a lot of anger in me at the moment Peter, don't you dare push me." I jeered.
I turned and began to look through all the draws. Derek, Peter and Stiles joined me as we quickly rummaged through everything in the room.
"Hey, wait. What about these?" Stiles asked picking up a set of tasers.
"Do you know how to use those?" Derek wondered
"Well, no." Stiles admitted looking at them
"Put 'em down." Derek ordered and Stiles did so.
Scott lifted up a huge syringe filled with liquid and took off the cap.
"Epinephrine?" Scott asked
"That's only gonna make him stronger." Derek shook his head. Peter stopped and looked at it.
"How strong?" he questioned. I looked at the syringe and took it before turning to Peter. I smirked and he looked somewhat worried before I stabbed him in the chest with it. I pushed down on the end and Peter gasped slightly before looking disorientated.
"Well?" I asked. Peter turned to Scott
"Lets go." he walked to the doors and finally pulled the syringe from his chest as Scott followed.
"All right, boys. Let's rumble." Peter decided as he stood facing the twins. Peter and Scott both growled as their eyes glowed and they ran at the twins. Stiles and I opened the door as Derek grabbed Cora.
"Come on." I said and I headed down the other end of the corridor, the three following me.
"Are they going to be alright?" Stiles asked me
"I don't actually believe the twins will kill Scott. Peter I can't account for." I said with a shrug
"Really?" Stiles asked surprised. I sighed and thought.
"Alright. Ethan wont hurt Scott." I corrected. Stiles seemed satisfied with that.
We reached the basement to find the ambulance sitting their waiting. The engine was off and Stiles ran past me.
"It's still here!" he cheered as he opened the back of the van.
It was too quiet. I walked around the van, Jennifer following me before seeing the dead driver, a pool of blood blow him, lying on the floor next to the vehicle.
"Derek, over here." Jennifer called. Derek look at us as Stiles tended to Cora before he turned and saw the body.
"Kali got here first." I muttered as I looked up, there were bloody bare footprints on the ground. Jennifer began to walk towards the body with Derek.
"Julia." Kali's voice echoed through the basement. The two stopped and looked up as Kali walked around the front of the van. She had the keys to the van twirling around her finger. "It is you."
Ms Blake moved to stand behind Derek and the two backed up to stand with me. I glanced at Stiles I nodded my head. Immediately, and quietly, Stiles closed the doors of the van. It went dark inside and he sat still.
I turned back to Kali as her eyes glowed and Derek glanced at me.
Kali launched forwards and Derek went to move but I grabbed his arm. He looked at me as I let out a breath, calming myself and closing my eyes concentrating.
Kali collided with an invisible wall. She hit the ground and looked up before getting to her feet and bashing on it several times. She growled in anger as she did, glaring at us through her red eyes.
"Now what?" Jennifer asked
"We still don't have the keys." I admitted, I didn't dare take my eyes from Kali.
"You can't beat her on your own." Jennifer said as she raised what I meant.
"That's why we're gonna run." Derek decided. He took my hand in his and began to back away. I did also, my eyes on the raging werewolf before I was yanked around the van and I sprinted after Derek, Jennifer behind me.
We ran into a room, but it was a dead end. Derek left the room and turned to run down the corridor as Kali appeared at the other end. Derek stopped before Jennifer shouted
"Wait, wait! The elevator!" she decided and ran in. Derek stared at Kali as she came down the hall, he grabbed the gurney on his left and wheeled it into her way. Derek grabbed my arm and yanked me with him into the thing as the doors began to shut.
"Faster…" Derek muttered. I waved both arms and the doors slammed shut, Kali on the outside. Derek looked at me and nodded with a sigh. I looked at them both before turning to the doors.
They both panted as the lights above us flashed. My eyes changed and I saw my mother on the roof with Deucalion. He cut the power to the building and the Elevator stopped.
"Thank you. That was more than helpful." Deucalion admitted
"What now? What do you want with me?" Mom asked
"You? You're my… gesture of goodwill." he said
"What?" she breathed
"Go find your son." Mom looked at him for a minute before running past him and to the door. "Do yourself a favour, Melissa. Be careful out there." Deucalion muttered. My eyebrows furrowed as I stood in the dark lift. There was something about the way Deucalion said that… and I don't like the feeling.
I glanced at Jennifer behind me, she was here so it wasn't her Deucalion was warning about… was it?
"Deucalion cut the power." I admitted
"What else?" Jennifer asked
"He released my mom…" I muttered. She let out a sigh and nodded.
"What about Cora? How's Cora?" Derek questioned. I closed my eyes.
"Why do you look like you're not breathing?" Stiles asked. He leaned over her, his ear to her mouth "Cause you aren't breathing are you."
I opened my eyes.
"What?" he must have noticed the look I wore.
"She stopped breathing." I muttered. He looked at me and grabbed my shoulders, shaking me.
"She's going to be alright though right!?" he asked worried
"Do you trust Stiles enough to save her?" I asked him, slightly too calm for my liking. He looked at me and released me. "If so, then I believe so. Stiles being Stiles, wont let her stay that way." I assured him "How about we work on getting out of here." I said looking around.
Derek turned to the door and opened it. There was a small hole to the next floor but it wasn't enough for even me to get out of.
Derek turned around and noticed a hatch on the roof of the elevator. Jennifer followed his gaze.
"If you're thinking service hatch, they bolt from the outside, so you'd have to break it. All you'd end up doing is creating a lot of noise, telling them exactly where we are." she strategised
"Kali already knows." he said still eyeing the hatch.
"Not necessarily." Jennifer shook her head "She saw that we got in, but she might not know that we didn't get out."
"Yeah, well, if I get through, then we can go to another floor." Derek admitted
"Or you'd end up fighting them alone in an elevator shaft." Jennifer disagreed
"It'd probably end with the elevator falling, which leaves us two in worse condition then you." I said casually, staring at the roof.
Derek turned and looked back at the door
"They'll rip my head off before you even have a chance to land a punch." Jennifer continued
"Doesn't sound too bad." I muttered. Derek looked at me and I shrugged innocently.
"Then someone needs to get the backup generator running again." Derek said as he pulled his phone out, coming to stand beside me.
"Where's Scott and Peter?" Derek asked me
"Running through the corridors." I admitted
"That shot didn't last very long." Peter said as Scott took his arm and dragged him into the laundromat.
"Heading to the laundromat." I muttered
"Those twins are really starting to piss me off." Peter confessed as Scott shut the doors.
"How the hell are we supposed to get past them?" Scott whispered
"Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up." Peter shrugged. Scott looked at him, blood running down his face before he turned and saw the laundry shoot. Peter followed his gaze and they shared a look.
Peter jumped down first and Scott followed, landing on the ex-alpha. Peter shoved the yellow eyed Beta off annoyed
"You couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds?" he questioned. Derek sent the message and Scott received it, Peter looked at him with a sigh
"They didn't get out, did they?" Peter guessed as he climbed out of the basket.
"Don't move. On our way." Derek read.
"Scott's taking Peter to Stiles first." I said.
"You got any good news?" Jennifer asked.
"Well," I said thinking. I heard the click of a gun from the second floor.
"I'm gonna take that as a sign you're a little worried." Isaac whispered
"Stay close to me." Argent said strongly.
"Isaac and Argent are here." I said "And probably Allison too."
"How's that good?" Derek asked
"More on our side." I shrugged "More fire power. More help. Want me to go on?" I closed my eyes with a sigh as I waited.
"Why aren't you more worried?" Jennifer asked
"Cause out of all of us I think I dislike you the most." I admitted opening my eyes to look at her "Personally I believe we can find Stiles' dad and save Cora without you, for everyone always says things like 'you need me' when they're dying." I admitted "Remember Harris," I smiled, her expression was serious "He said the same thing. Too bad you didn't listen, he could have kept Danny's report from us and could have stopped Lydia too." I nodded "What ever is it she's doing." I added more to myself.
"You're no different." I believed "And so I'm kinda okay with handing you over to the alphas. At least then I'm sure we'd find the Sheriff alive." I snapped "Derek's in no danger cause of Kali. Scott's in no danger cause of Deucalion…" I thought "Shall I go on?" I asked
"Cause so far you're the only one in danger here."
Jennifer glared at me and Derek looked between the two of us. I could see him thinking over what I'd said.
"That's how I'm not worried." I closed my eyes again as we were all silent, waiting for anything.
Derek checked his phone again.
"Anything?" Jennifer asked. He didn't answer as he stared the device, waiting.
Jennifer sighed.
"Derek, I know what you're thinking—" Derek lowered the phone "That I'm using you, that everything that has happened between us is a lie, or that I'm evil. A bitch." She walked up to Derek from behind.
"No denying that." I breathed. I saw Derek's eyes flicker to me but I ignored it
"But I hope you're not thinking… the most superficial thought "Is that her real face?"" Jennifer looked at her reflection in the metal doors of the elevator. "The slashed, mutilated face revealed by the mistletoe, is that what she really looks like?"" Jennifer stepped away from him and sighed.
"Julia Baccari. That was my name." she admitted
"I don't care." Derek said without looking at her.
"I guess I should have changed it to something with different first letters." Ms Blake smiled slightly, ignoring Derek's comment "I think I read somewhere that people always pick aliases that are subconsciously derivative of their original name. It's a way of not completely letting go of your identity, since your name is so tied to your sense of self." her eyebrows furrowed slightly as she thought it over. "Do you know what else is?" Derek glanced at her as she stepped towards him."Your face." she said simply. "The one that's supposed to be staring back at you in the mirror. Not some hacked up atrocity you can't even recognise."
"I still don't care." Derek shook his head
"But I bet you're curious." she admitted "I bet you wonder exactly what happened."
"You were an emissary." she looked away as Derek turned to her "They tried killing you along with the rest of the pack. Mystery solved."
"I was Kali's emissary. And I was the one she couldn't kill." Jennifer admitted
I looked up at her as she explained Kali turning and walked away from her, leaving her to die in suffering.
And she explained crawling towards a certain place.
"For years, the Nemeton's power was virtually gone, like the dying ember of a burned out fire." Jennifer confessed as she stared at her reflection. "But a few months earlier, something happened that caused that ember to glow a little brighter." she turned to Derek "Something that gave it a spark of power again. The sacrifice of a virgin."
I looked at Derek.
Paige.
"You didn't know what you were doing back then, but killing Paige in the root cellar, sacrificing her there, gave power to the Nemeton. You gave it power again. You gave me power." she sounded grateful and I rolled my eyes. Derek didn't do it on purpose.
Derek looked over the ground, swallowing. He didn't want to remember that.
"Just enough to hold on to life a little longer. Long enough to be found." she smiled
Jennifer turned away again, back to her reflection.
She took a deep breath, a sort of fond smile forming.
"You know mistletoe is important to druids, but do you know the myth of why people kiss under mistletoe?" she said randomly.
"No." Derek actually answered.
"It's a norse myth." Jennifer smiled slightly, she didn't acknowledge the fact that Derek actually answered. "Baldur, the son of Odin, was the most beloved by the other gods, so much that they wanted to protect him from all of the dangers in the world." she smiled
"His mother, Frigg, took an oath from fire and water, metal, stone, and every living thing, that they would never hurt Baldur. At a gathering, they tested him. Stones, arrows, and flame were all hurled at him. Nothing worked."
"But there was one God who wasn't so enamored of Baldur. The God of mischief,"
"Loki." I spoke without giving her a glance. Though I knew she looked at me surprised.
"Yes. Loki discovered that Frigg had forgotten to ask mistletoe, a tiny, seemingly harmless plant. And completely overlooked." she shook her head.
"Loki fashioned a dart out of mistletoe, and it killed Baldur. Frigg was heartbroken. She decreed that mistletoe would never again be used as a weapon and that she would place a kiss on anyone who passed under it."
"So now we hang mistletoe underneath our door during the holidays so that we will never overlook it again."
Her expression turned hard and serious as Derek watched her.
"We were the overlooked— the emissaries. It was a mistake Deucalion and the alphas should never have made, because I made an oath of my own. From virgins and warriors, from healers, philosophers, and guardians, to loan me their power so that I could teach these monsters that their monstrous actions would never be overlooked." she said strongly
"You killed innocent people."
"So have you." she snapped back "I know the real colour of your eyes, Derek. And I know what it means." she said "I'm not asking you to save just my life. I'm asking you to save everyone they'll ever hurt again."
"You can't beat them." Derek disagreed
"Are you sure about that?" she asked confidently "Boyd asked you right before he died, what happens to a werewolf during a lunar eclipse? You didn't get the chance to tell him, but you know, don't you?" Derek looked away and I looked at him curiously. "What happens, Derek? During the total lunar eclipse?"
"We lose all our power." he answered.
I looked at him as Jennifer smiled and he met my gaze.
Does that mean me too?
Oh Scott where are you? I wondered with a sigh.
"So then they're essentially trapped?" Argent realised
"Yeah, right." Scott nodded as they walked into a room and surrounded a table.
"There's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on." Isaac reminded them
"But wait, wait, wait, if the power's back on, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right?" mom asked
"And they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops." Scott nodded "We can't get in a fight with them."
"You've got us now." Argent assured looking at Allison
"It's too much to risk. They want her dead, and if she dies, there's nothing that we can do for Stiles's dad or Cora." Scott admitted
"I don't even think I know which teacher this is." Argent admitted
"She's— she's the one with the brown hair. She's kind of hot." Isaac described. Everyone stopped and turned to him. He looked at them all slightly embarrassed. "No, it's jus just an observation." he assured nervously.
Scott sighed and Allison turned, looking at a mirror before her. She looked at her hair and then thought.
"I've got an idea." she admitted
"Alice, what do you see?"
"Everyone." I whispered
"What are they doing?" Jennifer asked
"Plotting." I chorused with Deucalion.
"They have a plan." I said as Derek's phone buzzed twice. Jennifer read over his shoulder and Derek moved to the door as Ms Blake removed her shoes.
Scott appeared at the elevator and Derek passed Jennifer's shoes up to him.
"Careful." I whispered. He nodded before he vanished again.
We listened as the sound of Jennifer's shoes on the floor reached our ears. A cars wheels screeching followed as well as breaking glass and gun shots.
Derek and I stared at the door as all the lights came back on and the power began. Derek stared at the lights before hitting the button.
The elevator began to move.
I stood beside him and he shared a look with me before my eyes hardened and I turned away.
"Derek, please look at me." Jennifer spoke. My eyes flickered towards her reflection and I saw her slashed up face.
Derek did the same before she screeched at us. He placed his arm across me as he turned to her.
Isaac pulled Argent's car into the basement and next to the ambulance. The doors opened and Peter carried Cora into the back seat with Isaac's help.
"All right, come on, come on, come on!" Isaac ushered
"I got her. Okay, get the door." Peter ordered. Stiles jumped out to follow but stopped as he looked at a form hanging on the side of the ambulance. At the bottom was written 'Parent or Guardian'.
"Stiles, let's go!" Isaac shouted. Stiles looked at them and back to the paper, rereading it to double check. Stiles turned to the hospital before he took off running. "Stiles!" Isaac shouted.
Scott ran towards the elevator just as the doors opened. He skidded to a stop as he saw Derek lying on the floor alone.
Scott looked at him shocked before his eyes travelled to the hatch above him. It hung open.
"Mom." Scott turned and ran for the stairs as Stiles ran into the hallway.
"Scott! Scott, wait!" Stiles shouted. He turned his gaze from Scott to Derek on the floor of the elevator as he skidded to a halt. Stiles stared at the unconscious alpha before he turned and ran after his best friend.
Isaac put the car in gear and watched the camera screen, waiting.
"Come on, we gotta go. Drive, you idiot." Peter ordered as he sat behind Isaac.
"I can't. Not without Scott." Isaac disagreed. Peter hit the seat and both of them turned to look out the window as gun shots sounded.
"Come on, you want the Argents dead too? Make a choice!" Peter said quickly. Isaac watched the camera as the twins round the ambulance
"Oh, for the love of God! Go, now!" Peter shouted.
"All right!" Isaac stomped on the pedal and the car reversed before he changed gear and quickly drove forwards and towards the front doors of the hospital.
Scott ran up the stairs and out onto the roof of the hospital. He looked around but it was empty.
"Mom! Mom!" he shouted
"They're gone." Scott looked up to see Deucalion walked out from behind one of the protective cages." And not just you mother." Scott stared at him before realisation dawned.
"Alice."
"She took your sister too Scott. The girl who can see what ever she wants. Poor Volva." Deucalion sighed heavily. Scott stared at the floor "Guardians, Scott." Deucalion elaborated "If you were with me, I could've told you what it meant. I could've warned you." Scott stared, his mouth open "Let me help you, Scott. Let's help each other. You help me catch her, and I'll help you get your mother, sister and Stiles's father back." Scott stared, his face broken and unsure.
He stared at Deucalion before walking forwards as Stiles ran out behind him.
"Scott." he said and Stiles stopped. Scott turned to his friend slightly but didn't stop. "Scott, don't do this. Don't go with him." Stiles disagreed
"I don't know what else to do." Scott admitted
"No, there's g— Scott, there's got to be something else, okay? We always— we always have a plan B." Stiles admitted, his voice cracking.
"Not this time." Scott said, his eyes watering.
"Scott." Stiles called. Scott stopped again
"I'm gonna find your dad. I promise." he said before walking towards Deucalion, ignoring Stiles shaking of his head.
"Scott!" Stiles called as he watched them disappear from the roof.
I opened I my eyes and looked around. There were tin walls, wooden pillars, shelves and dirt floor. Above me was all concrete and dirt.
I turned and saw my mother on my left, she was heavily tied to the pole, her wrists tied and connected to her bound ankles. The rope around her middled surrounded her shoulders and crossed over her chest.
I raised an arm to hear rattling chains. I looked down to see cuffs on each of my wrists and ankles. The chains connecting them were unnaturally thick. I eyed them and followed them through the root cellar to see them drilled into a cemented block in the floor.
She went through a lot of trouble to keep me here.
"Alice," I turned and saw the Sheriff opposite my mother to my right. He was tied up the same way as my mother.
"Sheriff," I was relieved to see him still alive "Are you alright?" I asked thickly, remembering his shoulder. He nodded
"You?" I nodded
"I'm fine." I assured as I looked around. Behind the Sheriff I noticed a heap of tree roots. They were huge and filled the majority of the root cellar.
"What happened?" the sheriff asked
"We need Jennifer to help find you… save Cora, she's dying. But, she backstabbed us." I muttered my expression hardened. "Attacked Derek, kidnapped me and…" I looked at my mother.
"I need to listen to myself more often." I muttered shaking my head.
"Why?" the sheriff asked
"I said before Mr Westover was found, Guardians could mean Parents." I sighed "I should have paid attention to what my mind thought." I muttered as I put my head in my hand. "No wonder Deucalion told her to be careful." I whispered and looked at my mom.
"Hey, Alice," I turned to the Sheriff "It's going to be alright." determination set in in my eyes
"You're damn right it will be." I agreed. I was going to kill Jennifer. But first, it was time for me to see what kind of messages I could send through my head. I didn't know much about what I could do or why, but I guess it was time to try and expand it.
I turned to my mother as she groaned and moved her head. She looked around and panted before looking up.
"Hey. Hey." Sheriff called her attention "You all right?" he asked
"Mom," I muttered, she turned to me
"Alice," she looked worried before looking at the stairs behind her.
"Oh, god, where are we?" she asked
"I don't know." Sheriff admitted looking around "Looks like a root cellar to me, but, uh— she called it something different." he said as mom and I looked at him "She called it a—"
"A Nemeton." I muttered, eying the roots. The sheriff nodded.