After Smoke and Mirrors part 1 Enjoy!
"All for power." Peter confessed in a cool tone, "For my family's power. To be rightfully inherited by me." With eyes glowing blue, Peter slowly began going through a transformation that included much head twisting and bone cracking, "Not usurped by some idiot teenage boy, so incorruptible, he won't shed the blood of his enemies even when justified." His forehead became more triangular and pronounced with deep ridges, "You don't deserve your power. Not power like this." Peter had finished the transformation with his ears enlarged and point and he has bigger fangs.
Micah, Kira, Allison, and Liam were all still ready to attack Peter at the same time, but Scott held them back strongly, "Don't." He told them.
"You were my Beta first, Scott." Peter reminded him as he crouched down ready to attack, "It was my bite that changed your life. And my bite that can end it."
"Then, end it, Peter." Scott challenged him as he began shifting himself, "Because you won't get another chance."
"Both growled and launched themselves, crashing into each other in the air. However, Scott doesn't get an upper hand as Peter began to get the best of him as he threw Scott into the walls, "Come on, Scott." Peter taunted him as he grabbed him by the neck, "Fight like an Alpha."
This seemed to help Scott a bit as Scott was able to gain the upper hand briefly landing several blows to Peter's face. This seemed to work for a second, only for Peter to recover the lead and send Scott a powerful blow causing Scott to stagger, "You want to defeat me?" Peter questioned the fallen Alpha, "You're going to have to kill me!" He then threw Scott across the room.
With Scott down, both Liam and Micah stood ready in front of Peter ready to take him. However, Peter doesn't even seem bothered by the two as he threw an old church pew which crashed over theirs head. Kira and Allison quickly armed themselves with their respected weapons as Peter was ready to attack them.
Seeing this seems to set something off in Scott. He raised to his feet again and attacked Peter again. This time the old wolf couldn't land a punch as Scott easily avoided every single one.
He then punched Peter so hard he flew across the church landing hard on his back. Scott leapt up on the alter with his eyes glowing red, "You were never an alpha Peter," Scott told him, "But you were always a monster." This seemed to enrage Peter who tried to make a move, but Scott was ready and smashed a fist down on Peter seemingly breaking his jaw and knocking him out.
Seeing the older wolf out Scott transformed back into his human form. He turned to see the others look at him in awe, but he noticed that someone important was missing from the group, "Where's Stiles?"
In all the chaos that was happening on the outside of the Church. The berserker was still running down all the hunters that were in its way, the only thing Stiles could see was Derek's dead body. She even tried counting her fingers, hoping she was just having some kind of horrible nightmare. But when she counted all the way to ten, making her realize that it was very all real. Even Derek's unmoving body in front of her.
Stiles didn't know how she could tell that he was gone without the bond. She had felt in the tunnels after she had found Kira. It was nothing compared to the first time she thought he was dead, when Peter had trapped them in the school. No, this was something a lot worse. It was like she literally had been torn into two.
Now seeing him and feeling him actually not breathing made all the control she had struggled to not go berserk herself disappear. She didn't even try to the breathing technique that Derek had taught her. She simply had just let it go to a point where she couldn't handle the sudden need for a powerful release.
The battle between the berserker and the hunters had halted when Stiles appeared right in the middle of the battlefield and slammed her fist into the ground causing the ground surrounding them to crack and shake.
Everyone looked around them confused until the ground shook above them. "What was that?" Liam asked them, looking around worriedly.
"Stiles." Kira answered knowingly.
FLASHBACK
Kira and Stiles are running through the cavern with Stiles leading the way, "They're just up ahead." Stiles tells her as they continue running. Just as they turn Stiles out of the blue felt her heart give two lub dubs, before she crashes down to the ground.
Kira is by her side, "Are you okay?" Kira asks worriedly.
"Yeah I'm-" Stiles starts to say until she is overwhelm by a burning sensation coming from her heart. Stiles clenches her in pain.
"Stiles," Kira calls out to her, "Stiles, what's happening?"
"I don't...I don't..." Stiles struggles to say, but she can't get a full sentence out when stabbing sensation surfaces to her side, "My side. Check my left side."
Kira quickly lifts up Stiles' shirt, "There's nothing-" Kira starts telling her, only to see Stiles' skin develop a dark blue bruise, "A bruise, but it doesn't look like you hit anything."
"That explains alot." Stiles comments in pain, "Not too bad." Kira just gives her a confused look, "I'll explain everything later. Help me up?"
Kira nods as takes hold Stiles hand and realizes that it is the hand that has blood on it, "Stiles-"
"Later." Stiles tells her as she attempts to move them forward. Stiles doesn't even give three steps when her entire body jerks back, throwing herself against the wall. Kira tries to reach Stiles' side, but stops when Stiles puts her hand out, "Stay back!"
Kira watches helplessly as Stiles releases a loud cry of pain as Stiles suffers through a pain that Kira can't quite understand.
END FLASHBACK
"She said she felt like she had been ripped apart physically." Kira told them, "The markings were turning to black. I think she's been pushed too far."
"How is that possible?" Scott questioned them.
"The moment we got here Derek was attacked by a berserker," Micah told them, "It didn't look to good. He was suffering from a wound on his left side. The same side."
"We need to get out of here." Scott informed them. Without needing to be told twice the group broke out into a run in the caverns.
Due to the trimmers, everyone and everything around them seemed to have been shaken and collapsed in the process. Isaac was the first to recover and noticed that Stiles wasn't behaving like herself, "Stiles!" He tried calling out to her. In response he feels a warm sensation overcome his body. Even Chris and Deputy Parrish were overcome with the sensation.
"Isaac what is about to happen?" Chris asked, sensing something wasn't right.
"Stiles is about to lose control." Isaac realized just as Stiles clapped her hands together and sent another wave of force throughout the field knocking over the Calaveras family, while Isaac, Chris and Jordan remained standing.
"Araya," Stiles called out finally speaking. Her voice was different. Everything about her was different. There were a series of red markings that covered all over her arms and legs. She stood firm and confident, just like she had done during the possession, "When we met you wanted to know why I haven't done anything to protect my pack," Stiles said, "Because back, I didn't have much control and would've destroyed a lot of innocent lives that day."
At that statement, Araya and her family were also covered with a warm sensation while Stiles continued on her explanation, "I remember everything I did during my possession. And the worst part is I remember liking it. Because I felt powerful. I felt fearless. And most of all, in control. But as a fallen pack member once said... Control is overrated." This time Stiles turned to the Calaveras family, Isaac, Chris, and Jordan. Every one of them could see that Stiles' face now covered with the black markings now.
From a fallen pillar Kate appeared as she had suffered from the second aftershock Stiles had sent through the air. It was like Stiles could sense her movement as she snapped her head in Kate's direction, "You," Stiles claimed making a hand gesture that had sent Kate flying into a rock column that had fallen in the middle of the hunters and the berserker, "This is all your fault."
Kate recovered easily from the assault. She got up with a growl easily transformed and sprung at Stiles only to get hit by a force field that had been surrounding her, "You can't touch me." Stiles said grimly, "Your God isn't here to protect you from the likes of me."
As to prove her point, Stiles lifted her palm up again and this time lifting Kate into the air, before slamming her palm onto ground causing Kate to crash into the ground hard.
Scott and the others made out of the church just in time to see Stiles send Kate flying through a nearby column repeatedly. At one point one of the attacks sends Kate falling in front of them. Scott looked in shock as Kate recovered from the throw, "You." Kate growled at him, "You're supposed to be dead."
"Sorry to disappoint."
"Kate!" Stiles voiced filled the air as she came charging at them she had another fist ready.
"Stiles! Don't!" Scott cried out. Stiles ignored Scott's plea as she connected the fist to ground one more time and instead of the Scott and the others suffering from the impact, only Kate's body reacts as she is sent forward this time. Kate landed right in front of Stiles.
Chris Argent and Isaac were now standing behind Stiles. Chris was armed with his gun that was now loaded with the yellow wolfbanes at Stiles, "Stiles, you don't want to do this." Chris tried calling out to her.
"Why not?" Stiles told him as she had her palm flat holding Kate down to the ground, "This is all her fault. She couldn't just leave us alone. She went after Scott and Kira."
"I'm okay Stiles." Scott tried as well. It seemed to work as Stiles looked over to him and Scott could see a brief moment of relief on her face, "I'm okay and so is Kira. We're all okay."
"Not all of us are." Stiles spoke darkly, returning her attention back to Kate, "I know she's your sister Argent and your aunt Allison, but she's got to pay for what she did."
"And she will," Allison spoke walking slowly up to Stiles, "There's always another way. We know, okay? Just let us handle it. You've done enough."
For a moment, Stiles looked between the pack and Kate. She even turned her to see Chris Argent with his guns armed at her. It was tense and the markings were still black, "No I haven't." With another wave of her hand the pack and Chris Argent found themselves back in the fray of the Calaveras family.
She looked down at Kate, who was struggling against the invisible weight on her, "Do you know what happens when someone has threaten or hurt this pack?" Stiles questioned her as she formed a flame into the palm of her hand, "Let's see how you like being burned alive."
"Stiles no!" Scott's voice rang out. He tried to make a run for it, only for Chris to hold him back.
Just before Stiles could even launch the flame at the were-jaguar the sound of a howl echoed off the ruined buildings behind them.
Everyone looked in the direction of where it came from as a black wolf suddenly appeared from bounding over a broken wall where Derek's body had been before.
It looked at Stiles and it's eyes glowed blue at her. In result, the markings on Stiles changed back into a lighter shade of red and faded almost instantly as the flame that was once in her hand now disappeared causing Stiles to fall knee first to the ground.
Kate attempted to take a chance at Stiles' vulnerability and ran towards her,only for the black wolf to react quickly and jumped over Stiles to attack Kate. It took her down, snarling and biting as Kate screamed and tried to crawl away from the wolf, which was slowing transforming into a man.
As the wolf transformed, Scott and the others were shocked to see a naked Derek Hale staring down the fallen were-jaguar.
"You were..." Kate babbled in shock as she still backed away, "You were dead."
"No." Derek said with a victorious smug smile, "I was evolving. Something you'll never do."
The berserker that had been fighting against the hunters, randomly appeared making its way to attack Stiles, but Derek was quick to it coming and able to intervene and avoided the claws and instead grabbed onto its skull mask with both hands – ripping it in two pieces. With a flash of yellow light the berserker turned to dust.
Kate scrambled to her feet away to retreat. She doesn't get far as Chris quickly moved closer to them and took aim and fired another yellow wolfsbane bullet. It made impact in her leg and sent Kate flying back onto the dusty street. She managed to get up and run inside the church.
"You're alive." Stiles' voice echoed through the quiet air. Derek turned to see red markings on Stiles' back. Only they were no longer jagged ones, like they always had been. Instead, they took form of a familiar shape. It was the same marking as the tattoo on his back. The Triskelion glowed a bright red on hers as well, before disappearing. Stiles turned her head toward him, but still made no sudden movements, "You're alive." She repeated, this time she started breathing quickly and heavily. She remained on her knees even as Derek walked over to her and got on the ground with her.
"Breathe Stiles." Derek commanded her gently, even though Stiles started shaking her head, "You can do it."
"You...ass," Stiles huffed at him between breathes, "You died on me..."
"Stiles-"
"I can't with you..." She whispered as she struggled to breathe, "Stop it. Just stop it."
"Now is not the time to be arguing with me," Derek advised her, still using his gentle tone, "You need to focus on-"
Stiles cuts him off as she kissed him heavily. Derek wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her closer. When they pull away, Stiles' eyes have a purple glow.
Kate had made it deep into the church, but both Chris and Allison were following her. Chris kept shooting at her even as he was close to running out of ammo. Kate stopped at a dead end and faced her former family.
"You want to kill me, Chris?" Kate asked when she stopped running, "Allison?"
"No." Allison told her, but she still had her bow pointed at her, "But we don't want to save you anymore either." Allison told her aunt in a hard tone. Kate turned to her brother for some confirmation.
"Is this true?" Kate asked her brother.
"I don't know that you're worth saving." Chris told her without a hint of remorse. He still had his gun trained on her.
"Just like when we were kids." Kate said with a slow nod, "Always trying to make me the bad guy." She said to her brother, "You can't see them clearly anymore, can you?" She looked between her brother and her niece, "Scott's not your little hero." She spat at them, "None of 'em are. They're all monsters."
"The only monster I see is you." Chris told her.
"They nearly killed you Allison." Kate reminded her niece, "They killed your mother."
"My mother died honoring the family code." Allison corrected her, "Something you and Gerard never did."
"We operate under a new code." Chris said to his sister.
"We protect those who can't protect themselves." Allison finished.
But it doesn't seem to move Kate one bit, "You're not gonna kill me." Kate told them, shaking her head at them, "And you're not gonna catch me." Kate said panting as she made her way through her former family, "Not you." She groaned getting closer to the exit, "Not Peter. And not the Calaveras."
Neither one of the Argents followed her.
As morning dawned, everyone was out of the temple and the church. The Calaveras family were loading up their weapons into their vehicles.
"There's enough yellow wolfsbane to keep Peter out for the trip back." Chris informed them as he watched Derek loaded his unconscious uncle into the back of his vehicle.
"You're really going with them?" Stiles asked the Argents and Isaac when she realized that both of them and the werewolf had packed up their weapons with them, "Including Isaac?"
"I made a deal with the Calaveras weeks ago. They agreed for Isaac and Allison to come along." Chris informed the pack, "They'll leave you alone. All of you." He looked over at Scott, "But only if we help them catch Kate."
"What if you can't?" Kira asked him.
"We'll find her." He assured them, "Someone has to."
Braeden had just finished loading up her weapons, "So you're not really a U.S. Marshal, are you?" A voice asked her from behind. She turned to see Stiles looking right at her with a knowing glance and a smile on her face.
"I was." Braeden admitted to her, "But I spent too long looking for one person." She confessed, "It's hard to keep a job when part of it becomes an obsession."
"Who were you after?" Stiles questioned her.
"All I know is a code name." Braeden shared with her, "The Desert Wolf."
Chris and the others left to give Scott and Allison some privacy, "So I guess this is goodbye again?" Scott asked Allison, who had remained quiet the entire time.
"It looks that way." Allison told him, giving him a sad look, "I wish it didn't have to be this way."
"Me neither."
Together Scott and Allison had their final kiss and embraced each other.
Stiles and Isaac watched as the others were finishing getting ready for the trip back to Beacon Hills by Derek's car, "I can't believe you're leaving, but at the same time it doesn't surprise me."
"What makes you say that?"
"Because you and the Argents work well together." Stiles told him, "You did with the Darach and when we save Micah…It only makes sense."
"So what lie are you going to tell Coach about me not being around?"
Stiles smirked, "Don't worry, I'll think of something."
"You always do." Isaac agreed throwing an arm over her shoulder pulling her close.
"I'm gonna miss you," Stiles shared with him, leaning into him, "Stay in touch baby beta."
"You're not gonna stop calling me that are you?"
"Probably not." Stiles informed him.
"Figures."
On the way back to Beacon Hills, Stiles made a point to look out the window while Derek drove. Even though she hasn't said anything to Derek since the battle she could feel Derek's annoying pestering through the link, "I'm not talking to you." Stiles told him, refusing to look in his direction.
"That wouldn't be a first." Derek commented with a head tilt as he drove, "You can't ignore me forever."
"Is that a challenge?"
"Stiles-"
"No, Derek, I thought you died..." Stiles shot at him, finally turning away from the window, "I felt it. I literally felt you stop breathing and it...it was horrible. Honestly, I'm not sure if it was because Landon predicted it or if it was part of the blood exchange-"
"It was probably a bit of both."
"That's not helping your case right now." Stiles countered annoyed, "You knew you were going to die!"
"I did," Derek confessed to her, taking a hold of her hand even though Stiles didn't return the gesture, "But the last time Landon told you someone was going to die you got yourself stabbed. I wasn't going to let you place yourself in danger like that again." Stiles looked ready to interrupt, but Derek doesn't give her a chance to interrupt, "It's in my nature to protect you. Just like it's in yours to try and protect everyone. Do you understand?"
Stiles squinted her eyes at him, before turning her attention back to window. A blanket of silence fell over them, "You're going to make up for that."
"I know."
"Any ideas on how?"
Derek smirked as his eyes started glowing blue looking over at her, "Go on a real date with me."
In reaction, Stiles turned away from the window as her eyes were glowing purple, "It's a start." She commented nonchalantly. Even though Stiles returned her attention back to the desert, Derek could see a smile creep on her face just as she tightened her grip around his hand.
Noshiko met with Kira at the school after bell had rang, "The shard of obsidian that you brought back, Kira." Noshiko told her with pride in her voice, "There's a reason you kept it and a reason your father took the liberty of making an alteration to it."
Noshiko handed Kira black stone that was shaped into a hira-shuriken known more commonly as a throwing star.
"Do you know what it is?" She asked her.
"A tail." Kira said with a smile.
"Your first." Noshiko informed her.
At the school in the locker room, Liam was trying to explain the reason as to why Stiles, Scott, Liam, and Kira missed not only a lacrosse game, but some practices as well, "Then Stiles said that Scott and Allison were stuck in Mexico and Kira was the only one who knew how to get there which was they missed the game." Liam explained.
"Yeah," Stiles agreed, "So we went down to Mexico to drive them back from Mexico and that's why we all missed practice." Coach Finstock narrowed his eyes at her, "'Cause...We were all in Mexico."
He looked at Stiles with some suspicion, before turning his attention to Scott, "You took Allison on a date to Mexico?"
"It was our first real date." Scott said lamely as he got stared at intensely.
"In Mexico?" Coach Finstock repeated once more.
"They wanted to do something special." Stiles interjected jumping to Scott's defense, "Since it would be their first one since she got back from France."
Coach Finstock looked at Liam, Scott, and Stiles questionably, "Okay. I believe you." He told them.
The werewolves and Stiles tried really hard not show the shock on their faces, "Really?" Stiles couldn't help, but ask.
"Absolutely not." Finstock said strongly, "But I've had experiences south of the border that would knock the genitals off you." They all made displeasured faces, but they went unnoticed by Coach.
"Still, let me be clear to you two." Coach Finstock said gesturing between Scott and Stiles, "This kid's the best talent I've seen in years. So he's your responsibility now." He said placing a hand on Liam's shoulder, "You're the Triple Threat and you are gonna stick together." He told them, "You're gonna look out for each other and you're gonna have each other's backs." He lectured them, "You got it?"
Scott and Stiles looked over at Liam with a smile, "We got it." Scott told him.
Coach was just about to walk away, but he did a double take to Scott and Stiles, "Sorry to hear your significant others both dumped you and ran off with each other at the same time. Obviously a trip to Mexico wasn't a way to go." Coach doesn't even wait for Scott and Stiles to reply as he walked away.
"Oh Coach." Stiles commented quietly.
Peter was still woozy from the yellow wolfsbane when she found herself in a Plexiglas cell on the secret supernatural floor in Eichen House, "You actually think this is gonna hold me?" She roared aloud as she started to bang on the glass, but realized that it was useless, "You think you can shoot me up with wolfsbane, make me docile and weak," This time Peter smashed his fist into the glass, but it too was useless, "And I won't find a way out?"
In response to Peter's challenge a new voice filled the very room he was in, "It's not just the wolfsbane." Peter's cellmate told him, "It's the mountain ash wood framework of the cells. It's all around us."
"Who the hell are you?" Peter asking in an unfriendly tone.
"I could tell you." The cellmate told her as he stood up from the bed, "But it's easier if I just... show you." Peter's cellmate then stepped into the lightening and Kate could see that he was sporting a bandage around his head.
Wordlessly, the man then removed bandage that had been wrapped around his head and opened his "third eye"
Peter suddenly threw himself onto the clear wall the cell and screamed. His screams echoed along with the other trapped supernatural beings.
At the Sheriff's station, Landon handed over a book to Deputy Parrish. Of course, the deputy gave him a confused look, "This used to be on a hard drive." He explained to him as he opened up the book to the Kanima section, "But we eventually decided it might be a good idea to have a hard copy around. So we put it in a book."
"What is it?"
"It's called the Bestiary." Landon explained to him, "Whatever you are, it might be in here."
Deputy Parrish looked at Landon completely uncertain, "I'd like to help you figure it out."
In the Sheriff's office, Stiles was able to reunite with her father with a hug, "Dad, you smell terrible." Stiles mumbled into his shoulder.
"Yup." Sheriff Stilinski told her, "You do too." Derek stood by awkwardly when the Sheriff looked Stiles' shoulder, "Come here." He told Derek.
He too also embraced Derek, "I'm just so glad you're both safe." He said with some heavy relief, "Hey, what do you say we get outta here, get something to eat?"
"Great." Stiles chirped, "I'm starving."
"Okay." He told them. As they broke up the hug Stiles realized that she couldn't move nor could she materialize her way free. She quickly realized that she had been handcuffed to a desk.
"Yo, Daddy?" She tried to get her father's attention, but he was too busy focusing on Derek.
"What's your favorite food?" The Sheriff asked him as he led the way out the station.
"Uh, pizza." Derek told him also ignoring Stiles' protest.
"Hey!" She yelled at them, but neither one of them paid her any attention. She tried to yank of the handcuff, but it made a clanging sound as it was unable to be broken, "Dad?" She tried, but got no answer, "Derek?" Still she was ignored, "You two aren't supposed to be ganging up on me!"
I hope he comes through with his threat Stiles sent to Derek as she still doesn't get a response.
I highly doubt you dad is going to shoot me considering how I protected you in Mexico Derek sent back to her. Stiles could hear the mocking tone underneath.
Wait till I get my hands on you!
Stiles could practically hear the laughter coming from Derek, I love you too.
Bring me back a slice at least.
Maybe.
Well that's it guys. The New Hellmouth: The Benefactor is officially over. Thanks for dealing with this rewrite. Probably the hardest one ever since I didn't actually watch the season, but I hope everything was to your liking.
As I said before season 5 will not being posted until the ENTIRE season has been premiered and if they do it the way they did season 4 it won't happen until next year.
Don't fret. I have some fics in process for the summer, so think of it as an hiatus for this written series haha. Anyways, thanks again and you guys are the best!
Feel free to comment about this season and put in a request for what you would like to see happen next season and I'll try my absolute hardest to make it happen.
It's been a Hale of a ride!
Until next time
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