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A massive storm has manifested around Beacon Hills as well as the surrounding areas. The hospital is busy transporting all of their patients to other facilities outside of the storm area.
Peter stands in Cora's room dabbing her head with a cloth, she has a fever and is practically pouring sweat. He looks out into the hallway. "Hey, anyone want to tell me when they're getting my niece out of here?" He turns back to dab her head.
"Sorry, but she wasn't, uh…" Melissa walks into the room not realizing Peter is standing there until she looks up. "You're supposed to be dead."
"I get that a lot actually."
The monitor starts beeping rapidly as Cora jolts awake, quickly leaning on her side, she vomits a pool of black blood onto the floor.
Tahlia sits in the back of Stiles' Jeep with the first aid kit on the seat beside her. She diligently stitches up the knife wound in her leg then wraps a bandage around it.
By the time she finishes they have arrived at the apartment building. The three quickly go up to Derek's loft, finding him sitting on the couch. He straightens up as he sees them, his eyes instantly going to the bright white bandage on Tahlia's leg.
"Derek." Tahlia says stepping forward as he stands in front of her. "Do you trust me?"
"Derek?" Jennifer opens the door to the loft, rushing down the stairs. "Derek, where are you?"
"Right here." He steps out from her left. Jennifer sighs, "Thank God."
She rushes towards him hugging him tight. She pulls back from him, but she takes a hold of his hand. "Something happened at the recital. At the school. Okay, I needed to tell you before you hear it, before you hear any of it from them."
"From who?"
"Scott, Stiles. Tahlia." She spits out the woman's name drawing a curious look from Derek. "They're gonna tell you things. Things you can't believe. You have to trust me, okay? You trust me."
"What is it?"
"Promise you'll listen to me."
"I promise."
Jennifer leans in kissing him, but soon realizes something is not right. She pulls away staring into his eyes, "They're already here, aren't they?"
Derek's eyes shift behind Jennifer where the trio steps out from behind the broken brick wall. The huntress and the woman lock eyes, Jennifer smirks as she sees the bruise around Tahlia's neck.
"So… They told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?"
"We told him you're the one killing people." Scott states.
"Oh, that's right." Jennifer chuckles. "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."
"Where's my dad?" Stiles chokes out, tears falling from his eyes.
Jennifer gives the two boys her best innocent look. "How should I know?" She turns to Derek to find the dark look on his face as his eyes shift between her and the others. "Derek, tell me you don't believe this."
Derek's eyes shift from Jennifer to the two boys, he takes in Scott's venomous stare and Stiles' tear filled eyes. His eyes move to the huntress, the dark bruise around her neck contrasting against her pale skin. "Do you know what happened to Stiles' father?"
Her tone is pleading, "No."
"Ask her why she almost killed Lydia."
Jennifer's head whips around to stare at Scott, "Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that."
"What do you know?" Derek demands.
"I know that these boys for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story." She turns back to the boys. "And one they can't prove, by the way."
Scott holds up a bottle filled with a white substance. "What if we can?"
"What is that?"
Scott steps forward slowly opening the bottle top. "My boss told me it's a poison and a cure… Which means you can use it… And it can be used against you."
Jennifer catches the scent as Scott removes the top, she backs up several steps. "Mistletoe."
Scott flings the bottle towards her sending the powder through the air. As it reaches her, the four watch as she roars, transforming back and forth between her body and the Darach. She comes back to herself as the powder dissipates, Derek's face is a mixture of disbelief and hurt. Jennifer sees the look the Alpha male gives her and bolts for the door, only to have a powerful hand wrap around her throat and drag her backwards.
Jennifer claws at Derek's hand, "Derek, wait, wait! You need me."
Derek flicks out the claws on his left hand, his teeth clenched prepared to kill her. "What are you?"
"The only person who can save your sister. Call Peter. Call him!"
Derek keeps his hold on Jennifer and takes out his phone calling his Uncle.
"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness. She's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance."
"Mistletoe." Derek says earning a scowl from Peter. "How did you know that?"
Derek ends the phone call, his lips set into a tight line as he squeezes his hand preparing to crush Jennifer's larynx, she gasps for air as his grip tightens.
"Derek. Derek, what are you doing?" Scott's question goes unanswered as the Alpha applies more pressure.
"Her life— It's in my hands!" Jennifer chokes out.
Derek lifts her into the air, her legs dangling a few feet off the floor. Stiles hurriedly steps forward knowing Jennifer is the only way to find his father. "Stop. Derek, stop!"
"Stilinski, you'll never find him." Jennifer grits out knowing her last hope for Derek to release her is the two boys.
"Derek." Scott says knowing he has to save the woman. "Derek!"
The Alpha lets Jennifer go, she crumples to the ground gasping for air, the thunder outside rumbles loudly. The four observe as Jennifer begins chuckling looking up from the floor directly at Derek. "That's right. You need me." Her head whips towards the other three. "All of you."
The group moves down to the vehicles splitting up Stiles and Scott in the Jeep, while Derek pleaded with Tahlia to ride with him. So here the huntress sat in the backseat grimacing at the pain in her leg while she listened to Jennifer speak from the front seat.
"You should know I'm not doing this cause I have too. I want too. I could still run, and you wouldn't have an easy time stopping me. But I don't want your sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do."
Derek meets Tahlia's eyes in the mirror, her gaze comforting the Alpha. "Shut up."
"You need to hear the whole story Derek. You need to know just how connected we really are."
"Stop talking."
In the Jeep behind him Scott notices Stiles' troubled face. "I don't know, something feels wrong about this. We proved it to Derek, but she still had this look like it didn't matter. You know, like it was all still going according to plan. You saw it, didn't you?"
The two vehicles pull up outside of the hospital, the group climbs out. Scott, Stiles and Tahlia lead the way, the huntress' hands on her guns at her thighs. Scott looks over seeing Stiles holding a bat. "Why do you have a bat?"
"Well, you two got claws and guns. I got a bat."
Derek and Jennifer lead the way through the hospital, the Alpha holding the woman's arm in a vise grip as they walk through the halls.
"Scott! Scott!" The Beta turns to find his mom running up behind them, she eyes the group mainly Tahlia whose hands rest on the hilts of her guns in her thigh holsters. "What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating."
Scott turns around, "We're here for Cora."
"What? All of you? Why does Stiles have my bat?"
"Mom, just trust me on this. You need to get out of here." A beat passes, the thunder rumbles as Scott eyes his mother. "Right now."
Melissa's gaze moves from Scott to the others behind them. "The building is supposed to be clear in thirty minutes. We've got two ambulances that are coming back. One's ten minutes out, the other's twenty. Cora needs to be on one of those. They'll be picking up in the basement garage."
"Got it."
"Okay." Melissa watches as the group heads down the hallway towards the elevator.
Jennifer sighs as the elevator doors close, she glances down at Derek's clawed hand on her arm. "You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help." She turns her head to the left to find both Scott and Tahlia watching her closely, the huntress's guns in hand. She then turns to her right to find Stiles behind Derek, bat poised ready to strike her. She rolls her eyes as the elevator comes to a stop, the bell dinging as the doors open.
The five walk down the hall towards Cora's room, the lights above them flickering. Derek pauses in the doorway noticing Cora's empty bed, then the puddle of black blood on the floor.
"Derek." He follows Scott's gaze to the floor seeing the dark drops heading out of the room and down the hall leading through a set of closed doors where they can hear muffled grunting coming from the other side.
Seconds later a body is thrown out of the doors on his back, sliding to a stop at their feet, Peter looks up at them with a groan. "We got a problem." He lifts his head up glancing back through the doors. "Big problem."
The giant Alpha stands inside the doors roaring at them. Derek shifts, both Alphas roaring at one another they rush the other. Derek hits the giant down low around the stomach with a shoulder shoving him back a few feet. The giant drops an elbow on Derek's back, the Alpha retaliates with a punch to the giant's stomach. The giant grabs Derek by the back of his neck, nailing him in the face with several elbows, then picks him up and slams him against the wall.
Scott shifts charging the giant, he jumps up shoving himself off of the wall towards the giant. He swipes at the giant missing as he lands in a crouch. The two trade swipes of claws neither hitting their mark on the other. While the two fight Stiles sees an opening to reach Cora who lies on the ground behind the giant unconscious. He turns to Tahlia then leans down tugging on Peter. "Help me." The three rush past the two fighting wolves grabbing Cora.
The giant lifts Scott up pinning him to the wall by a massive hand on his throat. "Ethan, Aiden, Stop! You don't know what you're doing."
"All we want is her."
Derek and the giant look up as the doors to the elevator begin to close, Jennifer gives Derek a sorrowful look.
Tahlia takes off towards the stairwell, she can hear the elevator moving towards the ground floor. Halfway down she pauses, something was wrong, the elevator was coming back up again. Tahlia rapidly climbed the stairs back up to the floor she had just left. The elevator had already stopped the doors open, but no sign of Jennifer.
Tahlia stood calmly against the wall her guns in hand. She wouldn't chase the monster, she would stand and wait, it would come to her. Sure enough the sound of footfalls approached from around the corner.
Jennifer turned the corner coming face to barrel with Tahlia's gun. "Please run. Give me an excuse to shoot you because I'm barely containing myself."
Jennifer raises her hands, "I'm only trying to protect myself. You must understand that. I didn't intend to hurt Derek, I never wanted him to find out about me."
"And yet he did. I told you if you hurt him I would cut out your heart." She draws her knife from her waistband holding it up to Jennifer's chest. "But, now that I know what you are. I know you'd sooner heal before I could inflict that much damage. But I'm not above handing you over to the Alpha pack."
"But you won't will you Tahlia? You're a protector."
"Yes I am."
Jennifer smirks as Tahlia puts the knife away, but without a warning Tahlia fires a round into Jennifer's stomach garnering a gasp from the woman. "However, I don't protect killers. So the only way you are going to walk out of this hospital alive, is if you come with me right now and heal Cora."
Jennifer groans as the gunshot heals, standing up she nods to the huntress. Tahlia motions for Jennifer to walk ahead of her, Jennifer obliges but drops to her knees as a bullet penetrates the middle of her back. Tahlia steps over leaning down beside the woman. "That was for Derek. Betray us and I will unload both of these clips into your brain. Can you heal from that?"
Peter picks up Cora holding her over his shoulder. The group rushes down the hall, maneuvering into an exam room. Derek rushes them towards the doors on the opposite end. "Don't stop, don't stop!"
Stiles looks down at the bat in his hand, hearing the giant roaring behind them.
Derek notices the teen has stopped and hollers to him. "Stiles!"
Stiles stands in wait on the left side of the doors and waits for the giant to come through. When it enters Stiles moves forward smashing the bat on the back of its skull. All this serves to do is shatter the bat into pieces and irritate the giant who turns towards the teen with a deep growl. Stiles slinks along the wall working his way over behind Derek.
Scott looks up at the ceiling at the florescent lights. Derek sees what Scott is going for so as the Beta leaps into the air Derek grabs his foot lifting him up to the ceiling. Scott grabs the end of the light tearing it from the panel and slamming it into the giant.
The group hears the power shutting down, followed by the lights flickering before the hospital is blanketed in darkness. Seconds later the backup generators come on, low emergency lights come on, but it still leaves the hospital nearly black.
Peter steps into another exam room with Stiles in tow, he lays Cora down on a table as Scott and Derek run in, the Alpha slamming the doors shut behind him.
"Where's the big guy?"
"He's close." Derek answers looking out the doors.
"Where's Tahlia?" Peter asks looking around for the huntress.
"She went after Jennifer." Derek answers again, worry in his tone hoping the huntress is alright alone.
This gets Stiles' attention. "What about Ms. Blake?" Stiles questions even though somehow he knows the answer is something he won't like as Scott shakes his head.
"What do you mean? What does that mean? Like, she's gone? Scott, are you kidding me?"
"Shh, quiet." Derek snaps.
Stiles steps up face to face with the Alpha. "Me be quiet? Me, huh? 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, they're still out there." Scott reminds him.
"And— And they want her, right? Which means now we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!"
"Not yet." Scott says defiantly as he turns to Peter. "Is she really dying?"
"She's definitely not getting any better."
"There has to be something that we can do. We have to help her."
The door to their right snaps open revealing Jennifer, behind her stands Tahlia, gun in hand but not pointed at the woman.
"You can't. Only I can. I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is. 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. Only then."
Derek tosses a table to the side advancing on Jennifer, but he's stopped by Tahlia who steps in front of the woman setting a hand on the Alpha's chest. "Derek, wait!"
"She was trying to get out."
"I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that."
Stiles steps forward, "If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her."
"Not until I'm safe."
"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion." Peter grins, "Let's torture her."
"Works for me." Derek says snatching Tahlia's wrist from his chest, holding it tightly in his hand.
"Um, can I have your attention?" The group recognizes Melissa voice over the intercom. "Mr. Deucalion. Excuse, me, just Deucalion— requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R. Reception. Do this, and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes."
"He's not gonna hurt her."
"Shut up." Derek says pointing a finger at Jennifer.
"He won't!" She states. "Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true."
"What does she mean?" Derek questions eyeing the teen.
Jennifer sighs seeing that Scott isn't going to tell them. "You're not the only one he wants in his pack. Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of Alphas to his ranks."
"A true Alpha." Peter says with an unbelieving tone.
"What's that?" Stiles asks.
"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another." Peter informs them. "One that can rise by the force of his own will. Our little Scott."
"It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here."
"Scott, your mom—" Stiles says stepping forward.
"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in twenty minutes. Now, 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."
"The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out." Peter reminds him of the two pissed off Alphas.
"I'll distract them."
"You mean fight 'em." Derek states.
"Whatever I have to do."
"I'll help you."
"Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek." Jennifer says shaking her head.
"I'll do it." Peter says receiving skeptical looks from the others. "But I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage."
"An advantage like what? You mean like a weapon?" Stiles asks.
"Something better than a baseball bat."
The group starts rummaging through the drawers looking for anything that would equalize the playing field. Stiles picks up the defibrillator paddles. "Hey, wait. What about these?"
"Do you know how to use those?" Derek asks.
"Well, no."
"Put 'em down," the Alpha orders.
Scott picks up a giant syringe uncapping the three inch needle on the end. "Epinephrine?"
"That's only gonna make him stronger." Derek says looking up from the cabinet he is rummaging through. However this gets Peter's attention. "How strong?"
Tahlia takes the needle from Scott giving a almost evil smile. "May I do the honors?" She jabs the needle into Peter's chest without so much as a flinch, depressing the plunger sending the drug coursing through Peter's body.
Peter steps out into the hallway, panting heavily he looks down at the syringe still pierced through his pectoral. He rips it out, joined by Scott he looks at the twins standing at the end of the hall. "All right, boys. Let's rumble."
Yellow and blue clash with red as the four growl rushing one another. The twins form the giant, grabbing Peter first and sending him slamming into the wall. While Scott and Peter continue to be tossed around like rag dolls the other three make their way down to the garage with Derek carrying Cora.
"It's still here!" Stiles rushes over opening the back doors and climbing in, he takes hold of Cora as Derek hands her to him setting her onto the gurney inside.
"Derek, over here." The Alpha steps over to the left side of the ambulance where Jennifer and Tahlia stand prone staring at the dead body of the paramedic. The three approach the body slowly, but stop hearing footfalls.
"Julia." Kali steps around the front of the ambulance, her bare feet leaving bloody footprints behind her. On her finger she twirls the ambulance keys. "It is you."
Stiles shuts the doors as Jennifer steps behind the Alpha. "You can't beat her on your own."
"That's why we're gonna run." The three move slowly backwards, Jennifer bolts for the door followed by Tahlia and Derek. They rush inside Tahlia and Derek heading down the hall, before Jennifer stops them, "Wait, wait! The elevator!"
Kali shows up at the end of the hall, Tahlia pulls her guns, looking over her shoulder at Derek. "Go."
"You can't take her on your own." Derek protests.
"Go!" The huntress orders.
"Tahlia." Derek's face is a mixture of fear and regret.
The huntress takes a deep breath. "Just go."
Jennifer pulls Derek into the elevator as Kali rushes Tahlia, Derek shuts his eyes breathing hard as the doors shut, gunshots ringing out behind them. All of a sudden the power goes out, the elevator stops blanketing the two in a dim glow.
Tahlia hits Kali with four perfect shots to the torso slowing the Alpha down. But it doesn't stop her, as she barrels down the corridor towards the huntress. Tahlia runs towards her then drop slides across the floor taking Kali out at the knees dropping the wolf to her back. Tahlia stands up firing at the Alpha, but Kali avoids them jumping from the floor to the wall and off again. She lands in front of Tahlia kicking out and knocking both guns from her hands. The she-wolf swings her razor sharp claws at Tahlia but the huntress blocks both shots with her forearms. She head butts the wolf dazing her for a moment but she comes right back on the offensive slashing Tahlia across the right bicep.
"Ahh!" Tahlia screams clutching the four deep gashes with her free hand. She looks up as Kali comes to stand before her.
"You'd make a great wolf Tahlia. But you need to work on who you choose to protect."
"I'm not protecting her. I'm protecting my friends, and unfortunately we need her to save one of them. Of course, had you not left her for dead, she wouldn't be here trying to kill us all now."
"I didn't have a choice."
"Is that what Deucalion made you believe? Do you believe everything he tells you, cause I got news for you. He lies to you Kali."
"What are you talking about?"
"Derek didn't kill Ennis. He was alive when Deucalion went into that room. Deucalion killed him."
"You lie!" Kali snaps baring her fangs as Tahlia struggles to her feet. "Listen to my heartbeat." The she-wolf does as asked. "Deucalion killed Ennis."
Kali is awe-stricken as Tahlia's heart stay perfectly still. She stumbles backwards before taking off back down the hallway. Tahlia slides down the wall, her vision blurry as her body weakens.
Up on the roof Deucalion releases the switch for the power, turning to Melissa. "Thank you. That was more than helpful."
"What now? What do you want with me?"
"You ? You're my gesture of goodwill."
"What?"
"Go find your son." She slips around him and rushes for the door. "Do yourself a favor, Melissa. Be careful out there."
Inside the ambulance Stiles realizes that Cora isn't breathing. He starts panicking but calms himself down realizing he has to save her. "Okay, come on. You can do this. Tilt the head. Fingers on the chin. Clear the throat. Great nothing. I see nothing. Okay, just pinch the nose and blow."
He starts blowing into her mouth, stopping after a few times to check her heart.
Derek opens the doors of the elevator, they will only open about a foot. He moves back looking up at the ceiling, Jennifer notices what he's looking at.
"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."
"Kali already knows."
"Not necessarily. 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."
"Or you'd end up fighting them alone in an elevator shaft. They'll rip my head off before you even have a chance to land a punch."
"Then someone needs to get the back up generator running again." He states pulling out his phone.
Inside the ambulance Stiles is still working to get Cora's heart started. "Oh, come, Cora. (breath) Come on, breathe. (breath) Come on, Cora, breathe."
One last breath later Cora gasps, coughing. Stiles sits back with a relieved sigh and a laugh. "You know, next time I put my lips to your mouth, you better be awake."
Elsewhere in the hospital Peter trips sliding into the wall, Scott rounds the same corner helping him to his feet. "That shot didn't last very long."
They rush down the hall, Scott kicks open a door and moves them inside. Peter leans against a rack inside the storage room. "Those twins are really starting to piss me off."
"How the hell are we supposed to get past them?"
"Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up."
Scott's attention is enraptured by something behind Peter, the former Alpha turns to see a door marked laundry shoot. Peter goes first landing in the cart at the bottom. Before he can get up he's pummeled by Scott. He shoves the teen off of him, "You couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds?"
Scott's phone vibrates, he takes it out of his pocket staring at it. Peter sees the look on his face. "They didn't get out, did they?"
"Don't move. On our way." Derek reads.
Stiles is talking to Cora, telling her how maybe she was right about them just finding the bodies. He says that Scott will get them out of this, which bugs him because he used to be the one with the plan. He says he doesn't want to find his father's body. He quips how she's a lot easier to talk to when she's completely unconscious.
Suddenly he hears a banging outside the ambulance followed by a growling. He looks out the window seeing the shadow of the giant wolf, he sits back quickly watching as it walks by.
Stiles hears footsteps approaching, he's startled as Scott and Peter appear outside. "Stiles! Open the door."
"Sorry,"
"Help me get him in." Scott says shoving Peter into the ambulance where Stiles sits him down on the seat beside him.
"Where's Derek and Jennifer?"
"We have to go back for them and my mom."
"Okay, two problems. Kali's got the keys to this thing, and I just saw the twins like, 30 seconds ago."
Scot hears a banging in the hallway, he turns to the others. "Stay here." He heads inside slowly making his way down the hall. From behind the giant comes swinging at Scott who ducks out of the way. But the giant grabs him slamming him off the wall, then a rack before dropping him to the floor. They pick Scott up by his neck pinning him against the wall.
"Where is she? We're trying not to hurt you."
"Try harder," Scott chokes out.
"Hey!" The giant drops Scott to the floor, turning towards the voice. "I'd like to try something." Melissa stands with the defibrillator pads in hand, she shoves them into the giant abdomen shocking the hell out of him. The giant splits back into the twins as they fall back onto the floor. "Sweetheart, get up!" She holds out her hand to Scott who takes it and the two run down the opposite hallway.
"Anything?" Jennifer asks as she stands behind Derek who is staring at his phone. "Derek, I know what you're thinking— that I'm using you. That everything that has happened between us is a lie, or that I'm evil. A bitch. But I hope you're not thinking the most superficial thought… "Is that her real face? The slashed, mutilated face revealed by the mistletoe… Is that what she really looks like?" Julia Baccari. That was my name."
"I don't care."
"I guess I should have changed it to something with different first letters. 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. Do you know what else is? Your face. The one that's supposed to be staring back at you in the mirror. Not some hacked up atrocity you can't even recognize."
"I still don't care."
"But I bet you're curious. I bet you wonder exactly what happened."
Derek turns his head looking at Jennifer for the first time. "You were an emissary. 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. For years, the Nemeton's power was virtually gone, like the dying ember of a burned out fire. But a few months earlier, something happened, that caused that ember to glow a little brighter. Something that gave it a spark of power again. The sacrifice of a virgin. 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."
Derek stood leaning against the wall, his arms crossed over his chest. His jaw set in anger as he realizes that he gave Jennifer the power to attack them all now.
"You gave it power again. You gave me power. Just enough to hold on to life a little longer. Long enough to be found."
Scott and Melissa moves quickly through the hospital. "He just let me go, said it was a gesture of goodwill. No other reason."
"He had to have a reason. I don't think he does anything without a reason."
"Well, if that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified, then don't worry about it. I got that covered."
Scott stops his mom, from around the corner he hears a gun click. He slowly rounds the corner the two coming face to face with Chris's gun. The hunter takes a breath lowering the gun, behind him stand Allison and Isaac.
"You know Mistletoe is important to Druids, but do you know the myth of why people kiss under Mistletoe?"
"No."
"It's a Norse myth. Baldur, the Son of Odin, was the most beloved by the other Gods, so much that they wanted to protect him from all the dangers in the world. 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. Loki discovered that Frigg had forgotten to ask Mistletoe, a tiny, seemingly harmless plant. And completely overlooked. 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. We were the overlooked… The Emissary's. 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."
"You killed innocent people."
"So have you. I know the real color of your eyes, Derek. And I know what it means. 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 'em."
"Are you sure about that? 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? What happens, Derek? During the total Lunar Eclipse?"
"We lose all our power."
"So then they're essentially trapped?" Chris says walking into an exam room with the others.
"Yeah, right."
"There's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on." Isaac states.
"Wait, wait, wait, if the power's back on, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right?" Melissa asks.
"And they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops." Scott says. "We can't get in a fight with them."
"You've got us now."
"It's too much to risk. They want her dead, and if she dies, there's nothing that we can do for Stiles' dad or Cora." Scott reminds him.
"I don't even think I know which teacher this is." Chris wonders, thinking.
"She's— She's the one with the brown hair. She's kind of hot." The group turns and looks at Isaac. "No, it's jus— Just an observation."
Allison looks at her reflection in a nearby mirror. "I've got an idea."
Derek gets a text from Scott. 'We have a plan.' He opens the doors to the elevator all the way making sure they make noise. Which attracts the attention of the twins who hear the noise.
Isaac sits in the Argent's car downstairs, he clips his phone to the dash and dials Allison, her face pops up on the screen. "You ready?"
"Yeah." His tone is less than convincing.
"You're not nervous, are you?"
"Do I look nervous?"
"No, not at all." Now she's the one with the unconvincing tone as she sets the phone down pointing towards the double doors.
"Did he look nervous?" Isaac hears Chris ask.
"Terrified." Is Allison's response.
"Yeah, I can still hear you, very, very clearly."
Allison's head pops back into the frame, "Just go as soon as you see them, okay?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I got it."
On different floors the twins and Kali hear Jennifer running down the hallway towards the front doors of the hospital. The twins catch up with the woman seeing her running out the front doors. They pass by the phone, Isaac sees them and takes off in the car.
Outside the front of the hospital Kali jumps out of an upper floor window, landing in a crouch on the walkway, the twins running out behind her.
In front of them the woman turns revealing her to be Allison, she picks up her bow firing an arrow at the Alphas. Kali catches it in her hand, it explodes into a flash, blinding them for a moment. Chris steps out from behind his daughter both guns in hand firing at the Alphas. Together they drive the Alphas away, giving Melissa enough time to get up to the roof and flip the power back on.
Derek looks around as the lights in the elevator flicker and come back to life. He reaches down and presses the button for the ground floor, the elevator whirrs as it starts moving.
"Derek, please look at me."
The Alpha doesn't turn around but instead looks at her in the elevator doors, the hideous face of the Darach staring back at him. It screeches and the last thing Derek sees is darkness.
Isaac pulls up to the back of the ambulance, getting out he hollers to the other two. "All right, come on, come on, come on!"
"I got her." Peter picks Cora up and carries her to the car. "Okay, get the door."
"Stiles, let's go!" Isaac hollers to the teen but something on the side of the door has caught his attention. The release form which says parent or guardian on the bottom.
"Stiles!" Isaac yells as the boy takes off into the hospital.
Scott rushes to the elevator where he finds Derek laying on the floor of the car unconscious. "Derek!" He looks up seeing the emergency hatch open. "Mom."
Stiles rushes inside in time to see Scott rushing up to the roof. He takes one look at Derek before following his best friend.
"Come on, we gotta go. Drive you idiot." Peter urges the Beta.
"I can't. Not without Scott."
"Come on, you want the Argents dead too? Make a choice! Oh, for the love of God! Go, now!"
"All right!" Isaac backs p baring missing the twins as they come running out of the hospital.
Up on the roof Scott rushes out of the door…"Mom! Mom!"
"They're gone." Deucalion steps out from behind the cage. "Guardians, Scott. If you were with me, I could've told you what it meant. I could've warned you. Let me help you, Scott. Let's help each other. You help me catch her, and I'll help you get your mother and Stiles' father back."
Tears fill Scott's eyes as he steps towards Deucalion. Behind him Stiles rushes out onto the roof. "Scott. Scott, don't do this. Don't go with him."
"I don't know what else to do."
"No, there's g— There's got to be something else, okay? We always— We always have a plan B."
Scott sobs turning back to his best friend, "Not this time."
"Scott."
"I'm gonna find your dad. I promise."
"Scott!" Stiles looks on in despair as his brother walks away with the Alpha.
Melissa wakes up finding her hands and feet bound in front of her while the rest of the rope runs around her torso biding her to the post behind her.
"Hey. Hey." She looks in front of her to find Stilinski bound in the same way. "You all right?"
She nods, "Oh, God, where are we?"
"I don't know. Looks like a root cellar to me, but, uh, she called it something different. She called it a Nemeton."