Thanks for all of the reviews! OMG MY FEELS! I don't think my heart could take it if they do anything to Stiles. Sorry if that's a spoiler. Not really sure. I do have some ideas for Laci though, and I can't wait to write them. I do not own anything in this chapter, besides Laci, everything else belongs to their rightful owners.
Chapter 11
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Melissa was downstairs talking with Scott, leaving Laci upstairs keeping pressure on her dad's wound. He was loosing a lot of blood, and she knew without needing to be told that that wasn't a good thing. Yet, here she sat, with her dad alone in the room. He was in and out of consciousness, and when he was awake, he didn't say anything that made any sense. She wasn't even sure he knew he was talking to her. Right now he was out of it, and she was holding the rag to his shoulder.
Tears swam in her eyes as she watched him. His chest was rising and fall, showing that he was breathing, even if it was shallow. She had blood on her hands again, but she wasn't going to break down like earlier. The ash wasn't going to keep those creeps out for long, and they needed her help. Her dad needed her help. She had never seen him like this before, and it terrified her. He had always been the strong FBI agent, the man who couldn't be broken down so easily. Now he laid on the bed in front of her, broken and dying right before her.
She didn't know how to help him, all she could do was sit here until someone else could really help him. She was knew that they couldn't wait until morning, they needed to get him out of here sooner rather than later. She just wished she could help him now, do something, anything, to help him. "I-I'm so sorry, daddy. I-I-I'm not mad, I swear. You coming home, I've been waiting for that to happen forever. Every recital, I was hoping I-I'd, you know, see you in the crowd watching me. You-you weren't though, and-and it hurt so much. I want-want to, um, to hate you for never coming back. For never calling to just say hi, how you doing today? For-for not being there when-when I got my heart broken. I needed you there, daddy. I-I need you now too," she told him softly, tears rolling down her eyes as she spoke.
She wasn't sure where she was getting the courage to say all of this, maybe it was because there was a good chance he won't remember her saying any of it. Squeezing her eyes shut, she could feel two big tears roll down her cheeks. Her lip was trembling as she fought back the sob that wanted out. She wasn't sure how much longer she could keep herself from full out sobbing right now.
Her breath caught when she felt her dad touch her cheek. Her eyes lifted up to see that he was looking right at her now. His thumb stroked her cheek. He was trying to give her a weak smile, even though he was in a lot of pain. "I-I'm not going anywhere, Lace. Promise," he said out weakly to her. Wiping her eyes, she gave him a shaky smile as she nodded. Even if she wasn't sure if she could believe him, it was nice to hear him say it.
She jumped away when her mom came back into the room. Quickly wiping her eyes, she shot up from her seat and crossed the room. Her mom looked at her worried as she caught her arm, wanting to know if she was okay. Laci just shook her head, not wanting her to ask what they both knew she wanted to ask her. "I-I'm going go get him some water. He-he should keep hydrated," she told her as she pulled her hand out of her hand, trying to get out of the room as soon as she possibly could.
She was halfway down the stairs when the first vibration hit the house. She stumbled, gripping tightly onto the banister. Hurrying down the rest of the stairs, she walked into the next room to see them all watching two of the shadowmen beating against the invisible wall that was keeping them out. "What's going on?" she asked them as she approached the group. As far as she knew, Scott was the only one to ever get through the ash. Even then it shouldn't have been possible for him to do that.
Before any of the could answer her, two of the shadowmen managed to make a tear in the shield keeping them out. It would seem Laci's question was answered for her when one of the creatures pushed their hand against the shield, trying to push it through completely. "Guys . . . we have a problem," Aiden said out when they saw that the creature had done what it was trying to do. It wouldn't be long before they got back into the house.
Scott pulled out his phone and quickly dialed Allison's number. He knew that she, her dad, and Isaac had gone to find out whatever they could about these guys. He was just hoping that they had found something out by now. They could really use the help right about now. Thankfully, Allison answered her phone. "Please tell me that you have something. They're here. They're trying to get in, and it looks like they're going to be able to," he said into the phone, knowing that they didn't have a lot of time left. "The Nogitsune," he cut her off, already know what she was telling him. Which confused her, and everyone around her. No one else knew what he knew. They didn't even know what Kira was until Derek told them a few minutes ago. "I just . . . just tell me what else," he asked her, avoiding the question of how he knew that already.
As he listened to Allison explain it all to them, he found that he already knew most of this from the book Kira had showed him. The shadowmen, the Oni, weren't going to hurt them. They were on their side, if he understood her right. "I'm right, aren't I? They're looking for me," Kira asked him as he hung up the phone. She had misunderstood the expression on his face.
"They're looking for the dark spirit, and I know it's not you," Scott whispered down to her.
Laci stood in front of them next to Derek and the twins, watching as the Oni kept trying to get into the house. Now that they found their weak spot, they were getting closer and closer to actually getting inside. "Scott, we have to do something," Derek warned him. No long after, the Oni had broke through the opening and one of them stepped inside the house. Laci tensed as Derek took a step in front of him, the twins flanking his sides.
"Don't do anything," Scott suddenly told them.
Laci looked back at him surprised. That wasn't what she expected him to say. How could he want them to do nothing? These things ran a sword through their dad's body. He was currently dying upstairs, and Scott wanted to do nothing? He had to be joking, he just had to be. She wasn't the only doubting that those words had actually come out of his mouth. Aiden couldn't believe him either. "Is he serious?" he asked him, his eyes trained on the Oni standing in front of them.
"I said don't do anything," Scott told them again, his voice more firm.
He was serious about this. He knew that if they didn't fight them, they wouldn't fight them back and hurt someone else. At least, he was hoping that would be what would happen. Turning back to Kira, he held out his hand to her, silently asking for her to trust him. Slowly, she slipped her hand into his own, entwining their fingers together. "Trust me," he told her, locking his eyes with her. She gave him a nervous nod of her head before he led them past the trio of wolves and his sister. He was just hoping that this didn't backfire in their faces.
Derek was caught off guard when Laci grabbing ahold of his hand, entwining their fingers together like Kira had done with Scott. He looked down at her in surprise, his expression softening when he saw how scared she was for her brother. Giving her smaller hand a gentle squeeze, he was hoping to show her some kind of comfort. Looking forward again, he saw that two of the Oni were standing in front of Scott and Kira now. Laci jolted when the Oni latched onto Scott and Kira without warning, a squeak escaping her lips as she moved closer to Derek out of habit.
Scott and Kira lowered to their knees, their head leaned back as they stared up at the Oni with blank stares. Their hands broke apart from the other. Aiden moved to go help Scott, needing to do something other than just standing there. Derek grabbed onto his jacket with his free hand, yanking him back into place. The Oni's leaned in closer, tilting their heads as they seemed to search intensely for something that wasn't there. A moment later, Scott was let go of and he fell to the side, Kira soon doing the same once she was let go of. Laci wanted to go to her brother, but Derek's grip on her hand kept her in place.
The second the Oni were gone though, she was the first to get to her brother's side. Derek was close behind her as she cradled her brother's head in her lap. She was relieved to see the backwards five on the back of his ear. The fact that they had marked her still confused her. She wasn't anything supernatural like the others were. If they were just testing anyone, they would have gone after Allison or Stiles, but as far as she knew, they hadn't done that. Looking down at Scott, she knew that she couldn't bring it up now. There was too much going on. There was more important things to figure out.
Like who the Nogitsune is?
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Scott drove Laci to the hospital with him while their mother drove in the ambulance with their dad. He was going to pull through as long as they got him to surgery in time, which it looked like they were going to. The twins followed closely behind their mother as she was shouting orders to the nurses on duty. Both women were distressed, both worried about the man currently bleeding to death. Scott was worried too, but one of them had to be the strong one, and it had to be him this time. "I'll find Stiles," he whispered to his mother.
She nodded, watching as he turned to. Laci hesitated before following behind him. She was worried about her friend, and hadn't seen him since yesterday morning. It had been too long since she got to see Stiles, and they had never gone that long without so much as text before now. Luckily, Scott was able to sniff him out down to the lower levels of the hospital. They were on the third floor, rounding the corner, when something caught Scott's eye. He backtracked and saw that Stiles was in the empty room, just standing there in the middle of the room. Walking inside, the twins hesitated a moment, waiting to see what he was doing before Scott called out to him.
"Stiles, you okay?" Laci called out to him.
It worried them both for a moment when he didn't respond right away. He seemed to snap out it then though as he turned to face them. Laci noticed something off right away with her friend, the look in his eyes was wrong. "Yeah, fine," he answered her, telling her opposite of what she felt when he looked at her. There was just something . . . off. She couldn't figure out what it was, and honestly, she was too tired to figure out what it was. She was probably just tired and seeing things that weren't there. "What's been going on?" he asked them as he approached them, throwing an arm around both of them as they left the room together. None of them seeming to notice the firefly on the floor disappearing in a small puff of smoke.
