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25-You Recognise It, Don't You?
Ashlee's p.o.v
"Lydia, what happened?" I ask her when Scott, Stiles, Malia and I arrive at the school after Lydia called telling us to meet her here.
"I-I went into a fugue state and found..a uh..a body" Lydia looked over at Stiles apologetically.
"Whose body?" Stiles immediantly asked, concerned by the look Lydia had just given him. Lydia looked away andher eyes shimmered with tears. "Lydia! Whose body?" Stiles demanded.
"Deputy Grahame" Lydia answers quietly. Shit, it was Tara. "I'm sorry Stiles" she says. Stiles was always close with her, she would look after his father and she would help him with his maths homework while Stiles waited for his Dad at the station.
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I don't like this idea. I don't like this idea. I don't like this-
"Ash" someone calls out to me. I turn around and Jax is walking up to me with a smile. I force myself to return his smile. It's not that I don't like him, it's just..he's different to the sweet kid I first meet at Lydia's party.
"Hey Jax" I say softly.
"You okay?" he asks, the delicacy of my voice catching him by suprise. To my own suprise, I find myself shaking my head.
"No, i'm not" I tell him. As soon as the words leave my mouth though, I regret them.
"Ash, what's going on?" Jax asked concerned as he holds my face with one hand. Then the old Jax is back. The one that's gentle, caring.
"Just family stuff..I can handle it" I tell him. He looks at me with skeptical eyes and I force another small smile. "Really, i'll be fine"
"I'm here if you need me" Jax said softly. I nodded and then his lips are on mine. Here's the Jax I came to know at the rave. I pull away from him.
"I have to go" I whispered.
"Okay" he said and pressed another small kiss to my cheek before walking back the way he came. I let out a breath and continued walking down the hallway, this kid was messing with my head! One minute he's nice then he's all touchy-feely, then he's caring then he's just another hormonal teenaged boy. I hear banging coming from Coach's office. I ignore it, being able to smell Lydia and Aiden in there and not wanting to walk in on that. We had talked Lydia into distracting Aiden so Scott and Stiles could talk to Ethan about the Darach possibly being the alpha pack's emmisary. I knew Lydia didn't really want to do it, having her eyes on Jackson, the two seem to have connected really well since the night of the rave. Lydia wanted to help anyway she could though and if this was it then she would do it. I heard a loud crash.
"Aiden stop!" I heard Lydia yell and I spin around, running over and bursting through the door. I see Cora and Aiden fighting while Lydia is backed in the corner in fear.
"Aiden!" I yell as I see him picking up an 20kg weight. He growls at me and I charge towards him. He throws it at Cora and it crashes into the side of her head. I tackle Aiden to the ground and claw across his face, letting out a menacing snarl right in his face. Scott, Ethan and Stiles coming running through the door. Ethan throws me off of Aiden and Scott and Stiles run to Cora's side. Before I can attack either of them, rage bubbling up in me at the memory of them helping Kali impale Boyd, Ethan is dragging Aiden out the door. Lydia runs over to me, helping me up.
"Guys, she's not healing" Scott says and I run to Cora's side. Her head is bleeding black blood, a sign that she is dying. I grab her hand and try taking her pain but I pull away when a wave of hot, white pain fills me. I grab her hand again, taking as much as I can before having to pull away again. "What's happening to her?" Scott asks me.
"She's dying" I tell him fearfully.
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Derek's p.o.v
After what happened with the twins, I decide to check on Jennifer. I see her walking through the tunnel and I stop and wait for her. She sees me and runs up to me smiling. She hugs me and pulls me into a long, soft kiss and I don't push her away even though, in the back of my head, my wolf is telling me too.
"Where have you been? And don't say 'I needed to be alone'" Jennifer asks me.
"I knew you were safe" I tell her.
"I didn't feel that way with the 'evil twins' acting as if they didn't grow claws and murder another one of my students right in front of me" Jennifer says in a hushed whisper.
"They won't hurt you" I promise her. The bell rings and Jennifer looks around slightly scared. "You should take the rest of the day off, come with me" I tell her.
"I can't, i've arranged the memorial concert for Boyd" she says with a tired sigh. She pulls me into another deep kiss and waves goodbye as she runs back to her classroom. I begin walking back to my car when i'm approached by Ash. She looks beyond pissed off.
"Where the fuck have you been!?" she yells.
"I needed-" I begun but she cut me off.
"To be alone?" she throws at me, immitating Jennifer's words. "I thought you said she was a mistake" Ash said angerily.
"I thought you said Jax was gonna be your's" I threw back at her. His smell was all over her, fresh too, I was jealous..not that I would ever tell her that. She definity seemed hurt when she saw me and Jennifer together and I felt like shit about it, but she easily jumped into that blonde boy's arms, she can't have been that hurt. Ash and I had danced around each other alot back when we were younger, back when we were close friends, but neither took the chance, made a move. Ash's face became angrier.
"Well while you've been off doing whatever, Cora is really hurt, Stiles is driving her to the hospital. I suggest you be there when they arrive" she spat at me and walked away. Shit, I turned and ran for my car, I had to get to the hospital.
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Lydia's p.o.v
"I'm telling you, Mr Westover is going to be the second murder!" I yell at Ms Blake as I point to the number 2 on one of the five knots of the celtic fivefold knot on her board.
"Lydia..I just watched you write that" Ms Blake says like i'm crazy, she rolls her eyes at me.
"Why would I volunteraliy talk to you? I'm trying to help you, you need to call the police" I tell her.
"Why because I 'stole' Derek from a 17 year old?" she says with a chuckle.
"Just call the police and tell them he's MISSING" I ground out at her.
"Why would I believe anything you say?"
"Because i'm psychic!" I yell at her. She burrows her eyebrows in doubt. "Well i'm something!" When Ms Blake doesn't do anything, I storm from the room. I pass Ethan and Scott who were listening at the door.
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Me, Dad and Isaac found Mr Westover, he's dead. It's not guardians, it's philosophers as in teachers. Heading to the memorial concert now From Allison. It had been sent to the whole pack. I walked to the auditorium where the concert was being held.
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Derek's p.o.v
I was sitting beside Cora in the hospital. Stiles had dropped her off here to me, then left for the memorial concert.
"D-Derek?" Cora calls out weakly. My eyes widen in horror at her pain filled voice and the large bandage around her head.
"Yeah, i'm right here" I tell her softly.
"What's happening to me?" she asks, fear in her voice.
"I don't know but i'm not leaving, not again" I tell her and kiss her forehead gently.
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Lydia's p.o.v
I walk out of the auditorium after I get a text from Aiden saying he needs to see me and it's life or death. I enter a empty, dark classroom. The door is slightly open so i'm guessing Aiden is in here. "Aiden?" I call out. I heard shuffling coming from the back of the classroom so I step further inside. I hear music. It gets louder and louder. The classroom door slams shut and I recognise the music now. It's the death chanting. The same death chanting as when I found the boy at the pool and I may have even heard it at Glen Capri. I hear footsteps and soon my back is pressed againist the wall as I try to get away from the evil presence I feel surrounding me. The room darkens and I can't see anything an arm's length away from me. The music gets even louder and I cover my ears.
"You recognise it, don't you?" Ms Blake says as she steps out from the shadows. Before I can run, she smacks me across the face and i'm knocked out cold.
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I wake up and my breathing is coming out short and quick. I feel something on my head and I touch it with my fingers. It's blood, my blood. I feel a cord around my neck being tightened. "Stop" I choke out.
"You're not a sacrifice Lydia" Ms Blake says from behind me. "You're just a girl who knew too much" My vision darkens as she strangles me. I manage to get my fingers up under the cord and I let out a loud scream. The strangling stops and I gasp for breath. "Amazing, The Wailing Women" Ms Blake says to me, coming to stand in front of me. I look at her in confusion. "You're a banshee" she says in suprise and I understand because Ash had already told me. "We're not so different you and I. We both look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it" Ms Blake says.
"I'll never be like you" I spat at her.
Ms Blake starts to duct tape down my hands and starts winding the cord tighter around my neck again. "One last philosopher" I now know for sure that Ms Blake is the Darach. She pulls out a dagger and puts in to my neck as tears fall down my face in fear.
Ashlee's p.o.v
"Where's Lydia?" I ask Scott and Stiles. The two begin looking around the room. The concert has turned dark, the songs turned to frantic, chaotic mismatched chords. The musicians look wild and crazy as they play, the pianist to hammering the piano keys. She pushes down on a key especially hard and the string breaks and slits the piano teacher's throat open in front of everyone. Everyone starts to freak out and run out of the room. A piercing scream attacks my ears and I see Scott fall to the ground clutching his ears. I put my own hands over my ears and see that it has effected the twins too.
"It's Lydia! We need to find her!" I yell and we take off, dismissing the dead teacher on stage. I turn and see Allison looking the teacher over. I take off, picking up Lydia's scent.
"Help!" I hear Lydia scream from a nearby classroom. Her voice is choking and struggled. I burst through the classroom door to see Jennifer strangling Lydia with a garrote. I growled at her, wolfing out and charge at her. She throws me and Scott at the wall with some sort of telekinesis power. We both smash into the wall and I see blood pour from Scott's mouth as he is badly injuired. I try to get up but I feel like my legs are broken and I can only cry out in pain. Jennifer smirks at me and Shrieff Stilinksi comes bursting through the door, gun raised at Jennifer.
"It was you wasn't it? The girl we found, face and body slashed up, in the woods years ago?" John asks her. Stiles told me he tried to explain the supernatural to his Dad but he wouldn't listen. Ms Blake throws the dagger she has at Lydia's neck at Shrieff. It gets his shoulder and his stance falters. Stiles appears at the door and Jennifer pushes a desk into the door, shutting it and locking him out. Jennifer struts towards Shrieff Stilinski.
"Maybe I should have started with philosophers, with knowledge and strategy" she says and John shoots her in the leg. The wound heals instantly. "Healers.." she says and lifts John up by the dagger embedded in his shoulder. I can hear Stiles banging viciously at that door, begging her to stop. I try to get up again but pain flares up in my entire body and I can only watch. "Warriors.." she continues and rips his badge off. "Guardians.." and she crushes his badge, throwing it to the floor. "Virgins" she says and kisses John who squeezes his eyes closed and doesn't kiss her back. I try to protest but am cut off by the screeching of Jennifer, now the Darach once she has pulled away from John's lips. A look of pure fear flashes across his face and the Darach jumps out the window, dragging Stiles' Dad along with her. Stiles manages to push the desk away from the door and comes charging through the door but he's too late.
"No" Stiles whispers to himself as he stares at the broken window. "No, no, no.." I crawl towards him and he runs to my side, helping me stand.
"Scott, help Sc-Scott" I say weakly and he carefully leans me againist a desk and runs to Scott's side. Scott groans and Stiles helps him up. I make my way to Lydia, undoing the garrote and using my claws to break her hands free before falling to the ground in pain. Whatever Jennifer did to me was having a pretty significant effect to my body. Lydia jumped from the chair, helping me stand again.
"I'm sorry Stiles" Scott says, leaning againist him. "I'm sorry I let her take him"
"It wasn't your fault, either of you" Stiles tells us both. Stiles sighs sadly.
"I promise you Stiles, we're gonna get him back, I swear" I tell him and his eyes shine with unshed tears, breaking my heart.
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Fucking Jennifer :O I actually HATE her. Oh well, stay tuned, leave a review, a favourite and a follow and of course, stay golden! :)