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Holy crap, guys, Lacy here with the final chapter of season five. Can you believe it? *crickets* Okay, hush. We've done it, we've reached the end of season five. That means the end of the Beast, the end of the Dread Doctors and the end, for now, of Theo. That last one is so satisfying. I know he comes back, and I even grow to like him when he does, but right now, I can't stand the little bastard. This final showdown is gonna be epic and it's gonna be wild. Read on!
Disclaimer: I own only Effie.
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"This is a bad plan."
Effie had repeated the words at least seven times since Scott decided they were taking the last living Doctor to Deaton for treatment.
"No worse than any of our other plans." Liam commented, grunting as he helped Scott support the Doctor.
"Oh, I can think of a few worse." Derek said, checking behind them to make sure they weren't being followed. "A couple before your time. But this one is definitely up there."
Effie yanked the clinic's backdoor open and followed behind Liam and Scott with Derek. The four, the Doctor between them, stopped and looked at Stiles and Deaton.
"He's still alive." Scott declared.
Effie saw their faces. "We know, bad plan."
"Terrible plan." Stiles agreed.
Deaton sighed. "Get him on the table."
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"Can you keep him alive?" Scott asked as Deaton got to work.
"I'm not sure he technically is alive." Deaton responded.
"Screw keeping him alive." Liam said. "How do we get him to talk?"
"Personally," Stiles spoke up. "I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough."
"Come,"
The shifters froze.
"Did you hear that?" Liam asked.
"Come to me," They looked around, trying to find the source. "To me."
The Doctor sat up suddenly, emitting a high pitched noise that had everyone dropping back, covering their ears in pain. Liam started to charge the Doctor, ignoring Scott's call of warning, and was rewarded for his efforts by being slammed back into the shelving by an electromagnetic pulse straight from the Doctor's hand.
Feeling a shift in the room after the Doctor vanished, Derek grabbed Stiles and Effie and moved them back as everything metal was yanked towards the open doorway and held there. He could hear the sounds of electricity crackling between each object, locking them in.
"Stop!" Deaton warned Scott and Liam. "It's electrified."
"Someone else is here." Effie said, head tilted towards the outside. "Sebastian."
"Marcel,"
"He knows who the Doctor is." Derek filled Deaton and Stiles in.
"If this is what immortality looks like, I think you might have been misled."
"For you. All for you."
"What did you do with it, Marcel? Where is the pike?"
"The Argents. The. Argents."
"The cane." Scott figured out.
"But they took it." Liam said. "They took the cane."
Effie stepped towards their barrier, hands crackling with power. "I'm ripping Gerard's arms off and beating him to death with them." she grabbed the first object in the way and growled as she reversed the charge. Derek touched her shoulder, wincing at the current running through his mate, but pulling her pain so she could focus. The others stood back, watching as Effie removed each and every piece of metal blocking the entrance to the room. Derek's hold never wavered and the druidfox never stopped.
When the last piece fell to the floor, Effie sagged into Derek's arms and exhaled heavily.
"Aggression taken care of, sis?" Stiles asked casually.
Effie huffed a laugh. "For now." she faced the others. "What do we do now?"
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"Maybe there's something in here." Scott flipped through Mason's medical records. "Something about how he was a Genetic Chimera."
"Mason had a vanishing twin." Deaton told them what Stiles had shared with him.
"Now we've got a vanishing Mason." Stiles unhelpfully added.
"What does that have to do with him turning into a two-hundred and fifty year old French guy?" Liam asked. "How does that even happen?"
"Hold on," Deaton said. "Scott might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone. That's what made him a Genetic Chimera."
"The DNA was still there." Scott connected what Deaton was saying.
Derek crossed his arms. "Then, on some level, shouldn't the DNA of Mason still be inside Sebastian as well?"
Stiles frowned. "How?"
"Life is energy." Deaton explained. "Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural world, but there are some rules that simply won't break."
"So Mason can't just be gone." Liam guessed.
"Somewhere in Sebastian he has to still exist in some form." Effie said. "In energy or even a memory."
"Hang on," Stiles had picked up the Doctor's mask. "Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned."
"He said, 'That's not my name.'"
"He finally remembered his name." Scott said.
"Damnatio Memoriae." Stiles said.
Effie exhaled. "That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastian to remember his name."
"Scott," Derek looked at the other alpha. "You know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?"
Scott looked at him. "It turns back to human."
"What does that mean?" Liam asked. "Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name and turn him back?"
Scott shook his head. "Not someone."
The twins looked at each other. "Lydia."
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Knowing Lydia was hurt, again, was like a punch to the stomach. Knowing her voice was the only way they would get Mason back and now she couldn't use it? That was even worse. But Melissa, as always, had a solution. Even if it could get her fired.
A cortisone shot right into Lydia's neck. Not only would it bring the swelling down from her wounds, but it would allow her to use her voice. Both of her voices.
The plan was for Scott, Effie, Liam and Lydia to head for the sewers to find the Beast, while Derek and Stiles went to get Malia. Originally, Derek had been going with the others, but Effie kept sketching Malia's mother and didn't want Stiles going alone.
"Okay, we'll get Malia." Stiles and Derek started to run off. "Text when you find Parrish."
"Hold on," Scott pulled something from his jacket. It was wrapped in a brown paper bag.
"What is this?" Stiles asked. He looked at Derek, but the older wolf shook his head. He had no idea.
"Something I've been working on for a while." Scott said. "Just make sure Malia gets it."
"Okay, is it a plan B?"
"It was plan A."
"Plan A never works." Stiles and Effie said.
"This one will."
Derek grabbed Stiles's arm. "We don't have time." The two shared a look with Effie before turning and running. Effie looked at Scott.
"He's right." she said. "We don't have time. Let's go."
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Effie cringed as she felt the electricity running through her body. Because she hadn't been prepared for Theo's surprise attack, Effie was as vulnerable to it as Liam and Scott. She watched, body twitching from the charge, as Theo paralyzed Scott and forced him to drop Lydia. She could hear her best friend scream as she fell into a dark opening in the floor. Once quiet, Theo stood from Scott's side and smirked.
And then the Beast roared.
"Hear that?" Theo taunted. "That's the sound of real power."
Effie growled low. Oh, she was getting sick of his real power shtick. Picking up on another set of footsteps, Effie's growl morphed into a smirk of her own. Theo would never see this coming. Shortly after the bastard vanished from sight, a pair of shoes appeared within Effie's line of vision.
"Need a hand?"
Effie laughed, only to quickly groan. "Electricity is a bitch when you're not prepared."
Deucalion leaned down, syphoning Effie's pain. "As I've only been on the receiving end of it, I'll have to agree. At least, partly." Once enough pain was gone, he helped her up and they moved to help Liam and Scott. Effie winced at the sound of Deucalion breaking Scott's arm to help get the Kanima venom out of his system faster, but kept her focus on getting Liam on his feet.
"What now?" Liam asked once they were all up.
"Theo doesn't stand a chance at actually taking the Beast's powers." Deucalion shared. "Not with his own claws. If I'm right, we'll find him licking his ego not too far away."
Effie shook her head once. "Almost wish I could stop and savor that moment."
"Later, my dear." Deucalion chuckled. "Later. We have a Beast to stop."
The four took off, Deucalion in the lead, as they searched for Theo. It didn't take long, the other shifter was shouting after the Beast left him on the ground. Theo saw them coming, saw Deucalion leading his enemies towards him.
"You lied to me." Theo accused. Deucalion squatted beside him. "You and Scott,"
"That's right, Theo." Deucalion confirmed. "And Derek, as well." he removed his sunglasses, returning his eyes to their normal, healed state. "The whole time."
"It would've never worked." Theo said, referring to taking the Beast's powers.
"It could have worked." Deucalion informed him. "With Belasko's talons." With a smirk, Deucalion reached out and broke Theo's neck. Just enough to paralyze him, but not kill him.
"You broke my neck." Theo tried to growl from his prone position.
Deucalion stood. "And good luck with that." He looked at the others. "There's an access gate that leads to the sublevel. I think we can get to Lydia there."
"What about Mason?" Liam asked.
"We can still save your friend."
"Let's go." Scott turned, Liam, Effie and Deucalion following. Until a gunshot rang out and the former demon alpha fell against the wall.
"This just isn't my day." Deucalion groaned. Effie dropped beside him, hand going to his wound.
"This is a surprising alliance, Scott." Gerard and Chris walked towards them, the older Argent holding his gun out. "You and Deucalion? How long have you been planning this clever little double cross?"
"About as long as he and I have been planning this one." Chris stepped forward, tossing the Doctor's cane to Scott.
"What are you doing?" Gerard asked in disbelief.
Chris glanced at Scott over his shoulder. "I knew when I brought you back, it would never be about saving lives. Only about immortalizing your own." he quickly pulled his gun as Gerard did and aimed it at his father's face. "Scott, go. Go, now!"
Effie looked at Scott. "I've got Deucalion. Go. Save Mason."
Scott exhaled heavily, but nodded. He and Liam vanished down the corridor as Effie started helping Deucalion to his feet.
"Just leave me." the older shifter insisted.
"Shut up." Effie snarked back. "You're our ally. In case you missed it, we don't abandon allies." she took one last look at Theo near Gerard's feet, then at Chris. The hunter knew without looking at Effie was waiting for reassurance he'd be okay.
"Go." Chris said, never taking his eyes off his father. "I'll find you when it's over."
Adjusting her grip on Deucalion, Effie gave a sharp nod and took off after Liam and Scott. No sooner did they turn the corner did a gunshot ring out. Effie stopped, scenting the air, before continuing with a wide smirk.
"Forearm." Deucalion said. "Grazing shot."
"More than enough for Gerard to realize he doesn't control things anymore." Effie said. She set Deucalion down on a small ledge and knelt in front of him. "I've gotta see the wound in order to get any bullet shards out."
Deucalion frowned as Effie lifted his shirt. "You can do that?"
Effie smirked. "Kali made a huge mistake turning me. I've got the perks and powers of both my druid spark and my fox. Meaning I can focus on any metal left behind and draw it out through the exit wound." she held her hand over the wound. "Try not to scream. Last thing we need is the Beast coming down on us. And any distraction might cause me to slice you up, instead of saving you."
"Oh, that's comfor-" Deucalion growled and clamped his mouth shut as he felt movement from his torso. He saw the pinched look on Effie's brow as her eyes glowed bright lilac. The pain was a burning he hadn't felt since Gerard took his eyes so many years before, but unlike that time, once Effie was holding three metal shards in her hand, the pain was gone and a warmth spread over the area.
"There," Effie stood with only a slight stumble. "You'll heal just fine, now."
"And you?" Deucalion stood with a groan, reaching out to steady Effie. "You're incredibly pale."
"Side effect." Effie shook her head slowly. "I'd bounce back faster if Derek was here, but that's not an option." she tossed the shards aside. "Let's go."
"Are you sure?" Deucalion felt he was almost healed, but he wasn't sure Effie was strong enough to keep fighting.
"Scott may not be my alpha," Effie said. "But he's my family. And we both know how precious that is."
Deucalion smiled, proud of the druidfox before him. "Then let's go."
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Effie and Deucalion rounded the corner just as Lydia and Kira did from the opposite side.
"Mason." Lydia asked the boy's name. Sebastian turned to look at her, and began marching towards her, shifting as he went.
"I think you're gonna need to try it a little louder." Kira advised.
"MASON!"
Lydia's voice echoed through the chamber, causing everyone to shrink back and wince from the force. The cloud around the Beast seemed to explode and slowly, almost too slowly, Mason appeared and began falling forward. Corey, who had been hiding the entire time, appeared and grabbed his boyfriend with gentle hands.
But the Beast wasn't done yet. Appearing as almost a phantom, it started twisting away, trying to escape, or find a new host. But Parrish grabbed it at the opening of the chamber and looked at the alpha.
"Scott!" he called out.
Scott ran, grabbing the cane and threw it with perfect accuracy. It drove right through the torso of the Beast and the entire thing vanished. Almost as if it had never existed at all. The flames around Parrish vanished and everyone shared startled, but excited looks.
"Is everyone okay?" Scott asked.
"Not everyone." Theo snarled. The shifter was sparking with electricity and looked more pissed than Effie could ever recall.
"I am done with-"
"Hold up," Deucalion stopped Effie before she could charge Theo. His eyes were on Kira as she came running forward, stopping Theo's lightning with her sword. "I think Kira has this one."
"The Skinwalkers have a message for you, Theo." Kira said, her eyes glowing bright orange. "Your sister wants to see you." Kira stabbed her sword into the ground, causing a large crack to appear and shoot towards Theo. Right in front of him, a hole opened up and a body started climbing out. It didn't take a genius to figure out it was Theo's sister. She looked up at her brother, grabbed a hold and began pulling him back down with her.
"Scott, help me!" Theo screamed. "No! No! Scott, help me! Scott! No! Scott! Help me!"
Theo vanished and the hole along with him. Silence rang through the chamber before Effie snorted in amusement. The group turned to her, some frowning, others smiling.
"His voice squeaked." Effie managed before she started laughing.
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Effie walked slowly through the graveyard, a small bouquet of flowers in her hands. She knew Chris and Derek were behind her, watching as she made her way towards one certain grave.
"You did it, Ally," Effie said softly as she placed the flowers and knelt down. She looked at the name written in the stone, running her fingers over it. "You saved Scott's life, again. His memories of you, the love you two shared, it saved his life." she licked her lips, fighting to keep her tears at bay. "You know, I drew this moment weeks ago. And I couldn't figure out why, but now that I know, I'm so glad I'm here." she kissed her fingers and touched the grave. "We love you, Allison and now we know for sure that you're watching over us."
Standing, Effie looked towards where the Hales and her mother were buried, but made her way out of the cemetery instead of going to them. Her visit was about Allison and she knew the others would understand.
Walking straight into Derek's arms, Effie smiled at Chris as he kissed her head and moved to have his own visit with his daughter.
"You okay?" Derek asked softly as they headed towards Effie's jeep.
"Yeah," Effie nodded. "Yeah, for once, I'm okay." she smiled as Derek released her. "It feels good to know we saved Mason and that Allison is still with us. Gives me hope that Boyd, Erica and Aiden are, too. Maybe even Mom and your family."
Derek exhaled, but nodded. "Yeah, I think I'd be okay with that. You can never have too many people watching your back." he kissed Effie quickly. "Come on, let's get you to school. I promised your dad you'd only miss one period."
Effie laughed and climbed into the jeep. Maybe certain people weren't physically with them any more, but if the fight with the Beast proved anything, it was that those who had been lost were never really gone. They would always be carried in the minds and hearts of those they loved. And that, Effie smiled at Derek as they started driving. That was something she would always cherish.
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I may have just topped myself for sappy endings to a season. But after everything Effie went through in season five, it felt like the right way to end things. I don't know yet if there will be an in between story before we start season six. If anything, it'll be a one shot. Probably a smut. With all the drama of this season and the crap I have planned for both parts of next season, we might need a little alone time for our favorite pairing here. Until then, let me know what you think, flame policy stands, thank you so much for reading and I'll see you in the next chapter of Effie Stilinski's life!
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