Alpha Pact
The next thing Dexter is able to see is Stiles. He is sitting on his stomach, slapping the former unconscious friend. The druid is able to push Stiles away before fully understand he was awake. He barely noticed Derek up when Stiles started to talk fast, as usual. Jennifer had Ms. McCall. Scott was with the Alphas.
That made a good incentive for Dexter to fully wake up. He left Stiles at the hospital and ran to the Argents house, predicting who the next target would be.
"I don't need a bodyguard." He said when Dexter got inside the house with him and Allison.
"Good, because I would be a terrible one." Dexter joked. "You didn't even gave me that bow I asked."
"It was my bow, buy yours!" Allison complained.
"Not that easy for me to buy stuff like that. And I'm not here because of it. I need to know everything you know about druids."
He actually didn't knew that much more about druids than Dexter already knew, but it gave time for Stiles to get there and make everybody aware of the situation.
"The word is guardian, Allison." Mr. Argent said. "More than anyone, you know that's a role I haven't exactly lived up to lately."
"But she took Scott's mother and Stiles' father." Allison reminded him. "That's not a coincidence."
"My parents are not here, so it's all up to you guys…" Dexter added.
"Yeah, I'd also consider the fact that someone put your name up in large block letters on the elevator doors. That kind of felt like a warning to me." Stiles said.
"I think it might be Morrell." Allison suggested. "She knows a lot more than she lets on, and she might even be trying to help us."
"Well, she needs to get on that a lot faster, okay?" Stiles complained. "Seeing as how the lunar eclipse is less than two freaking nights away."
"Stiles, don't give up hope." Mr. Argent asked him.
"They could already be dead."
"I don't think so. There's something about Jennifer's tactics. It's like she's still positioning, still moving pieces into place."
"And you're one of them." Allison warned him.
"Then let's not wait around to see the next move. Everything she's done has been on a telluric current, so Melissa and the sheriff have to be somewhere on one of those currents, right?"
He looked at the kids in front of them, all defeated. "Guys, if we're gonna find them, we need your help."
"You really want to do that?" Dexter asked. "She is a mass murderer. She is my murderer."
"You are alive, Dexter." Allison said.
"I know, but I was dead. By her hands. I am just saying, any of us could stop her, why do you think you can?"
"I'm carrying a .45. Maybe she can heal from a shot to the leg and a few slashes to the face, but personally, I'd like to see how she holds up with half her skull blown off. We've got one priority right now, and that is to find Melissa and your dad, Stiles. We've got a map and every clue we need to figure this out. The only thing we don't have is time, which is why I need the three of you."
Stiles looked at Dexter, who nodded.
"Where do we start?"
"The place where the sacrifices have been committed have usually been different from where the bodies have been found. I think the placement has to do with the strength of the current, so there's the school, the animal clinic, the bank." The man put the maps in the table.
"Wait a sec, she wouldn't use the same place twice, would she?" Stiles asked.
"Only if she didn't succeed the first time."
"The vault with Deaton!" Dexter said. "The only time she got wrong. Must mean something."
"That's just one place so far. We're gonna need a lot more help." Stiles said.
"What about Lydia?" Allison suggested.
"Lydia? What can she do?" Mr. Argent asked.
"Uh, Lydia's got sort of a talent. She somehow ended up finding a couple of the bodies, um, without actually looking for them." Stiles explained.
"What is she? Psychic?"
"She's something."
They called her and started preparing. Mr. Argent put a giant set of weapons in the table, which scared Stiles a little bit.
"I thought you guys were retired." He said.
"Retired, yes. Defenseless, no."
"Can I have the bow now?" Dexter asked.
"You are a druid, use your magic." Allison rolled her eyes.
"I don't know how!" He replied frustrated. "Aren't you listening?"
"What else you can use?" Mr. Argent asked.
"Guns, but I don't think you will lent me one, will you?"
"No." He didn't even thought.
"Exactly."
"Make sure your phone's on." The men reminded them. "If you hear from Scott, you let us know immediately."
"Yeah, I'm thinking that's gonna be kind of unlikely." Stiles complained, looking at his phone. Dexter did the same.
"The three of you, try to remember he's just doing what he thinks is right."
"I can't shoot a gun or use a crossbow, but..." Isaac said appearing in the entrance of the room. "Well, I'm... I'm getting pretty good with these." He showed his claws. The most people, the better.
Stiles went to Lydia's while the Argents, Dexter and Isaac got to the vault. But for their surprises, it was empty.
Dexter looked around, finding hard to believe they got it wrong. Not when Chris Argent was so sure of going there. He only realized too late before Isaac was on the floor; he and Allison handcuffed to the bars in the vault.
"Mr. Argent, don't do it!" Dexter yelled.
"You're just gonna have to trust me on this. I knew for a long time she didn't just operate on the currents. She was in sync with them."
Jennifer got in the vault and saw the three teenagers incapacitated and Chris looking at her. She smiles, which only made Dexter want her head even more.
"Now this is a sacrifice."
She took him, right in front of their eyes. A darkness that surrounded the man until the both of them were gone.
Dexter was angry. He was so pissed he could explode. And that's when he felt the energy, the same energy that took his body when Lydia was attacked. This time, he embraced. He focused and used. The handcuffs opened, realizing him and Allison.
Isaac was already up, helping Allison while she was in shock.
"Why did he do that?" She asked.
"I don't know. We need to go. Okay? We need help."
They looked at each other. Dexter didn't know Allison could see as scared as she was right now. Suddenly, he felt out of place.
"Allison..."
"We need to go." Dexter said.
"They're all gonna die. Aren't they?"
She hugged him and started to cry. Dexter didn't know what to do, so he just sat in the floor, trying really hard not to cry too.
Jennifer had took every living adult that had ever showed any interested in him. She took the parent of his friends. She killed so many people and used him for that. Used the powers he didn't even know how to use. She talked about his mother, that she saved her.
When they finally were able to leave, Dexter went to Deaton's clinic. He knew they needed his help, but he needed to ask something first.
"Did you know about me?" He said without ceremony. "Did you knew I'm a druid?"
"No." He answered. "I'm not even sure I know what you are now…"
"Stop that, I'm tired of you guys pretending to not know stuffs when I'm actually the one who knows nothing! I need to know!" He yelled, beating Deaton's table.
"You are a druid. But a full blooded druid. Did you ever get to know your real parents? Your birth parents?"
"No." Dexter confessed. "My mom and Stiles' dad found me when I was a baby in the woods. She took me home, took care of me, and adopted me. They looked, but never found anything about them."
"They were probably both druids, your parents. Or you would not have the energy you gave the Darach."
"But she killed me. How am I here if she killed me?"
Deaton sighed. "The druid culture was based in sacrifices. The biggest magic needed them. But that were one cult that didn't believed in that. They couldn't rip the life of innocents, so they chose one of them and gave him such a connection to his body that his soul could never fully leave. Every time he died, he came back."
"This is not serious, is it? For real?"
"Yes, for real. This is who you are. Who you always were."
"This is insane." Dexter sat in a chair close to him and stared at his feet for a moment. He shook his head before turning to Deaton. "And how the hell didn't I know about that? Shouldn't I… I don't know? Feel it?"
"Maybe you did, you just couldn't put a finger on it, didn't understand what it was. Or maybe the sacrifice triggered something in your body, I'm not sure either. All I can say is that this is your new reality. You were created to die for magic."
Dexter stood up. "Good thing I'm terrible doing what I'm supposed to do…"
He was still able to ask a couple of questions before Stiles, Allison, Lydia and Isaac arrived to the clinic. None that were much help, though. They still had too much in their plate to handle and Dexter knew too little about his powers to help. He would have to find another way to do so.
"It has to be on a telluric current, or maybe even at the axis of two or where they all intersect." Stiles said when all of them were in the same room.
"It has to be where Derek took Paige to die; that is such an important place for her." Dexter added.
"My dad and Gerard were there once. But Gerard said it was years ago, and he couldn't remember where it was." Allison commented. "And my dad obviously isn't here to tell us now."
"Yeah, mine either." Stiles shook his head.
"My mom died…"
"Then how do we find this place?" Isaac asked.
"There might be a way." Deaton said with that enigmatic tone that Dexter always hated. "But it's dangerous. We're gonna need Scott."
Dexter sighed. "Of course we do…"
So there goes Deaton, Stiles and Dexter to the middle of the woods after calling Scott and telling him to find them. The werewolf got to the meeting place before them.
"How'd you guys find out?" He asked.
"Lydia." Stiles answered. "You?"
"Morrell. None of the other alphas know where it is either."
"So, if we can do this, they will know?" Dexter looked at him.
"I can't stop Jennifer without them." Scott confessed.
"How about we concentrate on finding your parents first?" Deaton suggested.
"What's the plan?"
"Essentially, you, Allison, and Stiles need to be surrogate sacrifices for your parents."
"We die for them?"
"Yes, you do. But considering we don't really want you guys to go forever, I will chaperone you." Dexter explained. "So I can bring you back. That's what we hope, anyway."
"What do you mean you bring us back? We connect to our parents, and you connect to…"
"You guys. Without me, your souls can go straight to heaven or wherever it goes. With me, we can use the connection of my body and soul to drag you back. It is bound to be a fun experience."
"It's not something to make light of, Dexter. I said it was dangerous." Deaton reminded them. "If it goes right, the four of you will be dead for a few seconds, but there's something else you need to think about. This is a dangerous thing for more reasons than one. You'll be giving power back to the Nemeton, a place that hasn't had power for a long time. This kind of power is like a magnet. It attracts the supernatural, the kind of things that a family like the Argents can fill the pages of a bestiary with. It will draw them here, like a beacon."
"Doesn't sound any worse than anything we've already seen." Stiles said.
"You'd be surprised at what you have yet to see."
"Is that it?" Scott asked.
"No. It'll also have an effect on the four of you. You won't be able to see it, but you'll feel it every day for the rest of your lives. It'll be a kind of a darkness around your heart, and permanent, like a scar."
"Like a tattoo." Scott said.
"And for you" he turned to Dexter, "this will required a lot of energy. And will connect you to the Nemeton. Which means you will have an all lot of energy that you don't know how to control."
"How is that any different from what I have now?"
"It can make you go crazy, Dexter, I'm serious."
"Deaton, I can't even die. I'm like a fabricated sacrificed lamb. If that didn't make me go crazy, I doubt anything will. And also, we don't have a choice." He turned to his friends, who look as sure as he was. "We are doing this. Let's not waste any more time."
When they arrived in the clinic, Isaac and Lydia were already preparing the baths, filling it with water, ice and mistletoe.
As part of the preparation, Allison, Stiles and Scott had to bring something of their parents to keep with them. Stiles had the Sheriff's badge, Allison the silver bullet her dad made when she finished training and Scott had the watch from his mother. Dexter didn't need anything.
Deaton explained about the anchor, someone that would hold them down until they stopped breathing, but also the person that would keep them grounded, help bring them back. Lydia were going with Stiles, Isaac with Allison and Deaton with Scott.
"What about Dexter?" Lydia asked while they were getting ready.
"I die alone… Like always."
Dexter took a deep breath before getting in the tub. The water were colder than he imagined, burning his skin like he never felt before. He looked at his friends, looking as terrified as he was.
He had died before. At least once, he remembered, maybe more he didn't know about. But the others… They were doing that for their parents, they were putting their lives in risk for them and Dexter envied them a little bit. Because they knew if the tables were turn, their parents would do the same.
He tried to remember the words Deaton told him to say. The words that would make him unconscious time enough for him to die.
He heard Stiles telling about Scott's dad being in town. He didn't know that. He repeated the words again in his head, waiting the warning from Deaton. He saw the other putting his friends down and Deaton said now.
He repeated the words he was saying in his head for the last minutes. And everything went black.
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