Chapter 10: The Overlooked
Alice pace in the Loft, worry about that scream she heard, but her was snap out of her thoughts when Stiles, Scott and Derek showed up, Scott and Stiles filled her in on what happen and they form a plan on how to expose Jennifer's true form. So Alice waited for Jennifer to come to the Loft.
"Alice! Alice where are you?" Jennifer calls out, "Here." Alice calls out walking out from the shadows, "Oh thank god." Jennifer ran up to her and hugs her, Alice returns the hug. then Jennifer pulls back, gently griping her shoulders. "Something happened at the resightle. at the school, but I need to tell you before you hear it from any of them." Jennifer states, "Who?" Alice asks her. "Scott, Stiles. they're going to tell you things, things that you can't believe. you have to trust me, okay. do you trust me?" she asks the teen, "What is it?" Alice asks her, "Promise you'll listen to me?" Jennifer asks her again, Alice nods a little. "I promise." Alice tells her, Jennifer smiles and hugs her again, but then realizes that Alice didn't hug her back this time, so Jennifer pulls away and looks at her, "But they're already here." she states, Alice looks over at the hole in the wall, Jennifer turns around and there stood, Derek, Stiles, and Scott.
"So, they told you it was me?" she ask Alice as Derek walks over and stood next to his mate. "That I'm the one taking people?" Jennifer looks at Alice, "We told her you're the one killing people." Scott shot at her. "Oh, that's right, committing human sacrifices, cutting their throats. yeah I probably do that on my lunch hour so I can get back to teaching high school English, for the rest of the day, that makes perfects sense." Jennifer laughs a little. "Where's my dad?" Stiles asks as a tear slides down his cheek, "How should I know?" Jennifer asks and looks back at Alice, "Alice, tell me you don't believe this." she asks her, Alice looks at her English teacher, then Stiles and Scott, then at Derek. "Do you know what happened to Stiles's father?" she asks her, "No." Jennifer whimpers a little, "Ask her why she almost killed Lydia." Scott tells his sister, "Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that." Jennifer tells Scott, "Then what do you know?" Alice demands of her, "I know that whatever these boys, for some misguided reason, are filling your head with absurd story and one they can't prove, by the way." Jennifer then shot at Scott.
Scott then held up a jar of orange power, "What if we can?" he asks her, "What is that?" Jennifer asks. Alice just eyes her, "My boss told me it's a poison and a cure, which means you can use it and it can be use against you." Scott uncap the jar. "Mistletoe." she states and Scott throws the power of Mistletoe at her and her form project between the Darach and her human forms, Alice looks at her in shock, Derek held her close, Jennifer pants at her was back in her human form, she looks between the werewolves and Stiles, then tried to run for it, but Derek grip her throat, "Derek, wait, wait, Alice call him off." Jennifer states, Derek flicks out his claws, "He's not a dog." Alice shots back at her. "What are you?" Derek demands of her, "You need me, I'm the only person who can save Cora." she throws out. Alice raise an eyebrow, "Call Peter. Call him." she states.
Derek pulls out his phone and quick dials Peter's cell. "Derek, it's not good, she's in and out of conscious, she vomiting up black blood, along with one other alarming substance." Peter informs him. "Mistletoe." Derek answers. "How did you know that?" Peter asks him, Derek hung up. Derek grip tightens on Jennifer's throat, "Derek, Derek! what are you doing?" Scott asks him, "Cora's life it's in my hands." Jennifer chokes out. Derek then raise her off the ground, "Derek, Derek, stop." Stiles stood next to Scott, "Stilinski, you'll never find him." she taunts Stiles. Alice walks up to him and place her hand on his shoulder, "Derek." Alice states soft, he looks at her, then back at Jennifer, letting go of her throat, letting her drop to the ground. Jennifer slowly lifts her head, "That's right. you need me." she continuessly taunts them, thunder sounded in from outside, she looks at them, "All of you." Derek glares at her, his arm wrap around Alice's waist tightly, he then shot a look at the two boys, that still was staring at Jennifer.
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Derek drove down the road in a hurry, Alice sat in front next to him, Jennifer sat in back, "You know I'm not doing this because I have to, I want to." Jennifer tells Derek, he said nothing, "You know I can still run, and it won't be a problem stopping me. I don't want your sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do." she tells him, "Shut up." both Alice and Derek tells her, "You need to hear the whole story, Derek, Alice. you need to know how connected we really are." she tells them, "Stop talking." Alice warns her, then Jennifer stop after that. Scott and Stiles follow behind them in Scott's Jeep.
They then arrive at the hospital, Derek and Alice got out, Derek went to the back seat and pulls Jennifer out, gripping her arm, then Stiles and Scott park next to Derek's car, and they both got out, Alice walks up next to her brother, "What's that?" Alice asks him as they were getting soaking wet from the heavy rain, as Stiles held a wooden bat, "You two got claws, I got a bat." he tells her, they then ran into the hospital, and pass the waiting room, "Scott, Alice. Scott Alice." Melissa calls out to her children, the group stop as Alice and Scott turn to their mother. "What are you two doing here? The hospital's evacuating." she asks them, "We're here for Cora." Alice informs her
"All of you? Why does Stiles have my bat?" she asks. "Mum, just trust us on this, you need to get out of here. Right now." Alice tells her, Melissa licks her lips, "The building is suppose to be cleared in 30 minutes, we got two ambulances that are coming back. One's 10 minutes out the other 20, Cora needs to be on one of those, they'll be picking up in the basement garage." she informs her kids. "Got it." Alice nods at her and then they walk to the elevator, Melissa watches her children walk away, Alice looks over her shoulder at her mother one last time before they all entered the elevator.
Derek roughly drags Jennifer into the elevator and looks up at the floor number, "You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help." Jenifer tells him, then realizes that Scott, Stiles and Alice all had their glare on her, she sighs then looks back over at Alice, feeling sad that she lost the trust of the Younger McCall. Then turns her head forward and her eyes cast down. The doors open and everyone walks out of the elevators and into the hallway, the light flicker a little, and the group stops where Cora was suppose to, but the room was empty, Alice looks down at the ground and saw the black vomit on the ground, and small drip spots on the ground, forming a path, "Derek." Alice calls out to him, he looks at her and follow her gaze, the black drip spot lead to the other room behind the double doors.
Then they heard grunting then the doors burst open and Peter was throw from the room, and he slid across the floor, landing in front of Alice, Derek and Jennifer, he looks up at them, "We got a problem. A big problem." he raise his head looking into the other room, everyone followed his gaze and they saw the giant Alpha wolf, roaring at them, everyone stiffen in their spots.
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Derek, Alice, and Scott shifted into their wolves, Derek growls at charges at the Giant Alpha, Scott then ran over and charges at the giant as well, after Derek was beaten. Alice growls as charges as well, the giant went to slash at her, Alice grip their wrist, making it stop right on it's tracks. The giant swung it's other hand at her, but she grips that on as well and headbutted them, making them stagger back a bit.
"Ethan, Aiden, Stop. You don't know that you're doing." Alice tells them, she went to slice at them, but they grip her throat and lifted her up in the air, Alice struggles as she grips their hand, "All we want is her." they tell her. And slam Alice against the wall."But do you know why? Didn't Deucalion tell you why?" Alice snaps back, never loosing her nerve. Then both them and Alice look over at Jennifer as she was now in the elevator and the door close, Alice glares at her, and she gave the young teen a regretted look when the door closed shut. Alice then turns her hatred glare back at the giant wolf, and with one punch they went flying through the hallway, letting go of Alice and slams against the elevator doors.
"Go! Go!" Scott tells them, and they all ran through the double doors, and out the other doors. "Don't stop, don't stop." Derek shouts, but Stiles stops, looks at the door and back at the bat in his hand, so he waited by the double doors, "Stiles!" Alice shouts, as her, Derek, and Scott stop at the double doors. Then the giant walks through the door and Stiles took a swing at them, but destroying the bat in the progress. The giant looks at him, the giant looks at him and growls, Stiles stumbles back to the three werewolves, and the Alpha looks at them, Alice glares at them, then looks up at the light, "Scott, Boost!" Alice shouts, she took a step forward, Scott readied himself. She then took another step forward, but into Scott's hands and he boosted her up.
She then swung at the light, breaking one end of it and it fell forwards and hits the giant Alpha, making electricity course through them.
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Peter burst through the door, the back up lights went on as the power went out, carrying Cora over his shoulder, Stiles right behind him and Peter gently laid Cora down on the table, then the three burst through the door, all shifted back, "Where's the big guy?" Stiles asks them, "He's close." Derek said as he looks out the window when he closes the doors behind them, "And Ms. Blake?" Stiles ask Scott, he shook his head, "What do you mean. What does that mean, like – she's gone? Scott are you kidding me?" Stiles shouts, "Quiet." Derek growls at him, "Me, be quiet me, me? Huh, are you telling me what to do?" Stiles got into his face.
"May I remind you, that a psychotic mass murdering woman – that use to be our English teacher by the way – has my dad somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles states, then Alice got in between them, placing her hands on their chest and pushing them apart, "Stiles, Derek's not the one you should be angry with, it's me. I was the one who was the closest to her, I should of know she was the Darach, I wasn't there to save your dad." Alice tells him.
Stiles looks at her, feeling his anger melt away, "They're still out there." Scott whispers to him. "And they want her, right. Which now means we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead." he snaps, Alice stood next to Derek, a worry look on her face. "Not yet." Scott tells him and went to Cora's side, Alice went along with him, "Is she really dying?" Scott ask Peter, "She's definitely not getting any better." he tells her.
"There has to be something that we can do, we have to help her." Alice throws in, then the doors on the other side burst open, everyone looks over and saw Jennifer. "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, only when I'm out of here and safe." she tells him, Alice stood next to Scott as the two Hales glare at her. "Only then."
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Derek slams the stand over and went to charge at her, But Alice grabs a hold of him, stopping him. "Derek, wait." Alice tells him, "She was trying to get out." Derek points at her. "I was trying to keep from getting killed, you can't blame me for that." she snaps back. "If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her." Stiles tells her. "Not until I'm safe." she tells him, "I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion. Lets torture her." Peter throws in, "Works for me." Derek went to walk over to Jennifer, but Alice gently push him back, then the comm speakers went off.
"Um... can I have your attention." Melissa's voice was on the comm, Alice and Scott look up at it, "Mr. Deucalion. Excuse me, just Deucalion, request you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R. Reception. Do this and everyone can leave. You have ten minutes." then the comm went off.
Alice and Scott exchange worried looks with each other as Jennifer shook her head. Derek looks over at his mate, feeling her worry for her mother. "He's not going to hurt her." Jennifer tells them, "Shut up." Derek snaps at her, "He won't. Scott, Alice, you know why. Tell them it's true." Jennifer states, then Derek looks at Scott and his mate, "What does she mean?" he asks them, either one answers his question.
"You're not the only one he wants in his pack." Jennifer tells him, then Scott and Alice meet his gaze. "Deucalion just doesn't want an Alpha pack. He want perfection, that means adding the rarest of two Alphas to his ranks." she tells him, "A True Alpha." Peter states, "Not just that, haven't any of you notice the change in Alice or how she can make anyone back down?" she asks them, Derek looks at Alice. "She's becoming more stronger, more powerful; A Supreme Alpha." Jennifer states, now Peter looks at Alice in shock. "What are those?" Stiles asks, "A true Alpha is the kind that don't have to steal his power from another. On that can raise my the force of his own will. A Supreme Alpha are the higher chain of commander, ones that keep order. Ones that can also rise by the force of their will, purest of hearts and selfless people." Peter informs them.
He then reaches over to Alice, she flinch a little as Peter brush a strain of her hair behind her ear. "Our little Scott and Alice." he states. Alice looks at him, grips his wrist and throw his hand away from her, "It doesn't matter now." she states and the two look at Jennifer. "We still need to get her out of here." Alice states, Jennifer looks at Alice in surprise. "Alice you're mom..." Stiles took a step forward, "Our mum said there's one more ambulance leaving in 20 minutes and I know we haven't been here that long." she then looks up at Derek, "If we can get to the garage, get to the ambulance and we can get Cora and her, out of here." Alice states, "The twins aren't going to let us just walk out." Peter tells them, "I'll distract them." Scott states, "You mean fight them?" Derek asks him, "Whatever I have to do." Scott tells him. "I'll help you." Alice volunteered, "Same here." Derek offered, "Um... sorry I'm not going anywhere with out you, Alice." Jennifer throws in.
"I'll do it, but I prefer to be out there with advantage." Peter states, "You mean like what? A weapon?" Stiles asks him. "Something better then a baseball bat." he states. Then the five rummage through draws, and cabinets, "Hey what about this?" Stiles held up two pads that start up someone's heart, "Do you know how to use it?" Derek asks him. "No..." he answers, "Then put them back." Derek tells him, Stiles did and went to find something else. Alice open a draw and pulls out a large syringe, she removes the cap, "Epinephrine?" she said the name. "That will only make them stronger." Derek tells her, then an idea pops in her head.
"How strong?" Peter asks, Alice beckoning Peter over to him and then she stabs the needle into his chest and inject the chemicals into his system.
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Peter walks out of the room and into the hallway, the syringe still inserted into his left pectoral, he pants like crazy and pulls it out as Scott walks out of the room, he toss it to the side and they both look at the twins at the end of the hallway, Scott and Peter's eyes glowing. "Alright, boys, lets rumble." The two then charge at them, the twins became the giant Alpha and they fought, Alice, Stiles and Jennifer look out the window, Derek held Cora over his shoulder and they took off at the two distracted the twins in giant form.
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"Still here." Stiles tells them as they enter the garage, Derek, Stiles and Alice walk to the back of the ambulance, Stiles opens the doors. Derek pulled Cora off his shoulder and set her in the back. "Alice, Derek, over here." Jennifer calls out, Alice exchanges looks with Derek and they both slowly walk over next to Jennifer; a dead body was on the ground and bloody footprints lead away from the body.
The three walk over to the body and then a voice rang throughout the garage, "Julia." Alice stiffen, then the foot steps came out, Kali twisted the keys on her finger. "It is you." Kali states, Alice glares at her and took a step in front of Jennifer. Stiles closes the back. "You two can't beat her on your own." Jennifer tells her, "That's why we're going to run." Alice tells her, Jennifer took off first, Kali roars at them and Derek and Alice follow after her.
They ran back into the hallway, "Wait, wait. The Elevator." Jennifer tells them, Derek turns to the hallway and saw Kali, "Go, I'll keep her busy." Alice tells him when the back to the Elevator, "What no.." Derek wanted to argue, but Alice push him into the Elevator and press a random button, then took a step back, and turn to Kali. "No, Alice!" Derek went to help her, but it was too late, the door closed as Derek was now press against the doors, "Damnit!" he slams his fist against the doors as Jennifer pants, leaning against the wall.
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Alice growls at Kali, as Kali charges at her, Alice grab her wrist twisted it and slams her foot into Kali's chest, sending her back into the ground, Alice walks over to her, kneels in front of her, grips her by the throat, "You really are stupid, thinking that Derek, killed Ennis." Alice tells her, tightening her grip. "Because he did!" Kali shouted back at her. "Listen to my heartbeat then: Derek. Didn't. Kill. Ennis. It. Was. Deucalion." Alice said, nice and slowly.
Her heart, steady beat. No up, no down. "Deucalion killed Ennis, to eliminate a weakness, you should ask him, the next time you see him." Alice advice her. Kali growls, throwing Alice off of her and took off. Alice went to go follow her, but the light flick off and the emergency light flick on, Alice turn to the elevator and began to force it open, she growl as she open the doors. Then saw the top of the elevator she then opens them with ease, "Derek, you okay?" she ask him, he ran up to her and grips her hand tightly. "I should ask you that." he states, "Where's Kali?" Jennifer asks her, "Took off right after I told her the real killer of Ennis." Alice informs her.
"Alice any idea what happened?" Derek asks her. "My guess, Deucalion turn off the generator." she tells them, "I'm gonna go find Scott and Peter, then know about the generator, see if they got the twins off them, and if not, I'll kick their ass myself." she tells him, with a wink, letting go of his hand and closes the elevator door behind, then look off down the hall.
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She ran and ran through the hallway and suddenly bumps into her brother, "Scott!" she whispers, "Alice." he pulls her into a hug, which she returns, "What are you doing here?" he asks her, "Looking for you, you?" she asks, "Looking for Derek, Jennifer and our mum, Derek texted me and I need the keys to the ambulance." Scott informs her, Alice reaches into her pocket and pulls out the keys. "You mean this one? She asks with a smirk, Scott looks that them with rejoice. "How?" he asks her.
"Little, trick I've learn from my mentor." she tells him. "Fantastic, now we need to get this to Stiles." he inform her, stuffing the keys in his pocket. she nods, but then heard something drop, they both were alert, then dodge the twins swipes, he grips both of their throat and slams them against the wall. "Where is she? We're trying one to hurt you." he tells them, "Try harder." Alice hiss at them, "Hey! I like to try something." Melissa states, the alpha drops Scott and Alice and Melissa then press the pads against their chest and electric current flowed through them, the Aiden and Ethan drop to the ground, separated from their form.
The two look up at their mother, amazed that she just did something like that. She then drops the pads, "Sweetheart, honey, get up." she orders them, then held out a hand to Scott as Alice uses the wall and push herself to her feet. Scott stood on his feet and the three took off.
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Derek looks at his phone, "Anything?" Jennifer asks him, he said nothing. "Derek, I know you think I'm a cruel heartless bitch, but I swear to you, I wasn't going to hurt Alice." she tells him, "Then what were you going to do, turn her into a killer, like how Deucalion wants?" he question her, Jennifer shook her head, "No, far from that, I want her to mature probably into the Alpha she's meant to become, not a killer." she tells him, Derek looks away, not believing her for a second.
"Derek, I really hope you're not thinking, 'is that her real face, the slashed mutated face reviled by the Mistletoe, is that what she really looks like." Jennifer looks at her refection in the door.
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"You should of kept their mother." Kali states in annoyance, "Is that so?" Deucalion asks her. "You have a safe spot for them." she growls, leaning over the table a bit. "I have investments I'm trying to mature. If you want to talk about soft spots, lets talk about Jennifer Blake or... what was her name again?" he turns and face her. Kali push back away from the table, "Julia." she answers, "Ah..." he answers, finally getting her to talk.
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"Julia Baccari. That was my name." she tells Derek the story of what happen to her, how she got life again, what gave the Nemeton life again, the killing of a virgin; Paige.
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Scott, Alice and Melissa walk into the next hall, "He just let me go, said it was a gesture of goodwill. No other reason" Melissa tells him, "He had to have a reason, I don't think he does anything with out a reason." Scott tells her.
"Well that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified, then, don't worry about that, I got that covered." she tells them, then Alice and Scott stop on their tracks as they heard a clicking sound. Scott and Alice eyed each other and slowly walks to the corner of the hallway. Alice steps out first trying to see who it was, then a gun was pointed at her.
Chris sighs, lowing his gun; Allison, Issac, Matthew, and Rosalie relax as they saw Scott and Melissa step out as well.
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"So then they're essentially trap?" Chris ask Scott, when the two filled them in as they walk through double doors into a room. "Yeah." Scott answers. "But there's no way of getting them out without turning on the power back on." Issac states. The eight crowed around a gurgle, "But, wait, wait, wait. But if the power's back on, they're going to here the elevator moving right"
Melissa asks as she stood next to Alice. "And then they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops. We can't get in a fight with them." Alice tells Chris, "Well, you got us now." Chris looks at Allison, Rosalie and Matthew.
"It's too much to risk. They want her dead, and if she dies, there's nothing we can do for Stiles's dad and Cora." Scott said firmly, his head bleed as Alice's neck bleed as well from their last encounter with the twins, "How do you think I know which teacher this is?' Chris asks him.
"She's– She's the one with the brown hair, she's kind of hot." Issac states and everyone looks at him, not impressed. "Uh... it's– it's just an observation." he states, Allison eyes her refection in the mirror, "I have an idea."
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Issac sat in the SUV with Rosalie in the passenger seat, Issac's cell rang and he turns on the video chat. "You ready?" Allison ask them as Matthew stood next to her, "Yeah." Issac tells her, "Not nervous are you?" he asks him, "Do I look nervous?" he asks her.
"No, not at all." she tells him. Then set the phone down, "Did he look nervous?" Chris asks. "Terrified." Matthew answers. "Yeah I can hear you, very, very, clearly." Issac reminds them as Rosalie snorts alittle, he looks at her, "Sorry." she whispers ans shut up. "Just go as soon as you see them, okay?" Matthew reminds him, "Yeah, yeah. I got it." he tells them
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Allison and Matthew ran down the hallway, the twins ran after them, giving Issac the go ahead. The two ran outside. Ethan, Aiden ran out the door as Kali jumps through the window and lands on the floor, Allison then turns, pointing her arrow at them, they were surprise that it wasn't Jennifer, then Allison fires at them, Matthew formed a fireballs in his hands and throws them at the Alphas.
Chris fires his guns at them, the twins and Kali took off and away from the hospital. Allison stood up as Chris stood next to Allison and Matthew.
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Alice and Scott ran to the elevator and saw the doors wide open and Derek unconscious and laying on the floor, Alice looks up and saw the shaft hanging open, "Mum." they mumbles and took off to the roof, "Scott, Alice! Wait!" Stiles shouts after them, she saw Derek laying on the elevator floor and chase after them
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The two bust through the door and were now standing on the roof top and were looking around, "Mum!" Alice calls out. She walks around, running her hand through her hair, "Mum!" Scott calls out, following his sister. "They're gone." Deucalion shouts out. "Wha..." Alice mumbles as she felt panicky, Deucalion walks up, "Guardians, Alice. If you two were with me, I could of told you what it meant. I could of warn you." he tells them, Alice's eyes tears up.
"Let me help you Scott, Alice. Lets help each other, you help me caught her and I'll help get your mother and Stiles's father back." he tells them, Scott then started to tear up as well. Then they both slowly walk over to him, running out of options. "Scott, Alice." Stiles calls out to them as he walks onto the roof, they stop. "Guys don't do this, don't go with him." Stiles begs him."We... I don't know what else to do." Alice chokes out. "Alice... Scott. There's go to be something else. Okay, we... we always have a plan B." he tells them.
Alice turns and looks at Stiles, tears rolled down her cheek, "Not this time." she states, then turns and walks back to Deucalion. "Guys." Stiles took a step, Alice turns and looks back at him, "We're going to find your dad, I promise," she tells him and they walk away, next to Deucalion. "Scott, Alice." Stiles calls out to them, but they disappear into the mist.