"You and I have a problem," is what I was greeted with at school the next day. I sighed as Lydia glowered at me. You know she's mad when she doesn't even fake a smile at the people who say hi to her in the halls.

"Hi, Lydia,"

"How can you be with him after what he's done?" she demanded

"You mean how can I be with someone who has murdered probably hundreds of people, including Boyd? Oh, wait….that was Aiden," I deadpanned.

She stomped her foot "It's not the same thing!"

"Right, Peter hasn't killed that many people. I also trust him, Aiden not so much,"

"You're going to regret this," She spit out before turning on her heel and stomping away.

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The rest of the day wasn't much better, much of the pack seemed baffled. Scott just looked immensely worried since Stiles was still in the hospital. It didn't surprise me when he ignored Kira calling out for him at the end of lunch. What did surprise me was Derek stepping out of a side hall in all creeper wolf glory, his full focus on the newly discovered kitsune.

"He's a little preoccupied. But I can help you,"

"Why would you want to help me?"

"Because I want you to tell me everything that happened at the power station with William Barrow. Actually, I want you to show me." He told her intensely

"I'm in," I called out as I navigated down the rest of the steps in the hall. His eyes narrowed at me.

"You weren't invited,"

I smirked "Sure I was, Kira doesn't know you. She is too smart to get in a car with a stranger, handsome or not. Right, Kira?" I questioned looking at her. She nodded with big eyes. The car ride was silent. Derek was trying not to look at me while Kira couldn't stop looking between us. I gave her a reassuring smile and she seemed to calm down till we got to the power station.

"It was around here, I think. But everything kind of looks the same now." She looked worried like he might yell at her for not knowing. He silently took everything in, only stopping to look at one of the power breakers. "What is that? Is that a baseball bat?"

"It's Stiles's bat. It's magnetized," he said and looked at us in confusion after he lost control of it, almost smacking into the breaker himself "Kira, I'm going to need you to tell me everything you know about foxfire,"

I'll be honest, I had known about the existence of kitsunes. I don't know a lot about them though. Foxfire sounded pretty cool but the legends in old books didn't sound true, because as far as I knew Kira didn't have any tails. Not that I could see anyway.

My thoughts were interrupted by my phone ringing. Scott asked for me to come to the hospital, they were going to run some tests on Stiles and the Sheriff has asked him to invite people to visit with him before.

Arriving there was awkward as Lydia was glaring at me, and so was Derek. Issac just bumped fists with Stiles and told him that when he was better they should have another guy's night.

"Where's Ally?" I asked once he reached me.

"Uh, probably catching up on some work she missed. She still is feeling a little weird around everyone. Speaking of weird…." He gave me a look.

"Come on! You're going to judge me too?" I asked assuming he was hinting at Peter.

He rubbed the back of his neck "Okay, I mean...I know you flirted with him and stuff, but I didn't think you liked him like that," He told me "I thought it was more…. Trying to get his confidence up or something."

"Oh trust me, I've been keeping his confidence up. Almost every day for the last two months." I narrowed my eyes on him. He looked baffled, and like he was going to say something but I hurried off to see Stiles.

"So Peter huh?" He asked. I growled in frustration, and he made a surrender motion "I'm not saying anything bad. I know you and I keep going off and on with relationships and friendship. Honestly, I don't know what I did the last time, but with Peter...I don't know. I just don't see that lasting," He told me.

I rolled my eyes "We were fine until you and Lydia kissed in the locker room," I told him, his eyes widened comically "We had just started sleeping together and bam, she started looking at you like you were a real boy. I knew I didn't have a chance after that,"

"I don't know how you know that. But, I hope you know that it didn't mean what you may have thought it was. Also, for your information she has always known I'm a real boy," He reached out to hold my hand "I didn't mean to push you away. Will you stay with Scott and me while they get me ready for the tests? I need my best friends here with me,"

I smiled and kissed him on the cheek. I could do that.

Everyone else left in the next fifteen minutes. Scott and I walked with Stiles to the MRI machine so we could be with him when he was given his instructions.

"Okay. Stiles, just to warn you, you're going to hear a lot of noise during the MRI. It's due to pulses of electricity going through metal coils inside the machine. Uh, if you want we can get you earplugs or headphones,"

"Oh, no, no, I don't need anything,"

His dad looked at him with the sweetest smile "Hey, we're just on the other side of that window. Okay?" Stiles nodded. I knew Stiles wanted some time alone with Scott so I gave him a quick hug and told him I'd see him after, then followed the Sheriff behind the glass wall. I tried to ignore their conversation, but couldn't.

"You know what they're looking for, right? It's called frontotemporal dementia. Areas of your brain start to shrink. It's what my mother had. It's the only form of dementia that can hit teenagers. And there's no cure," I wrapped my arms around my stomach like I could hold in the pain for him.

"Stiles, if you have it, we'll do something. I'll do something," Scott sounded so sincere. I don't know if he was hinting at turning Stiles into a werewolf to cure him. I couldn't tell if I agreed with this plan of action or not. I could hear them get choked up in there and then they hugged. I saw Melissa and the Sheriff try to hold back tears. I felt like I was intruding.

The doctor told Stiles that it could be up to an hour to get the results. I decided to go get a snack since I was waiting. At the end of the hall, I saw him, Derek. I met him in the middle. He didn't look into my eyes but did acknowledge me "I'm here to talk to Scott," I felt sad that someone I am so close to felt so far away. He walked past me, but before he got far I had my arms clenched in his jacket from behind. He froze. I kept him there and rest my head on his back. We stayed like that until his breathing evened out. Then he shook me off. I felt hurt but understood until he turned around and gathered me close to him for a tight hug. This time I relaxed and breathed him in. He was the first to pull back again but gave me a wavering smile. Then he went to meet with Scott.

I sat alone my earbuds in trying to zen. I put a timer on my phone so that I would know 10 minutes before Stiles got out. I laid back and let myself breathe. I was feeling calm when I felt someone knock into my chair. I opened my eyes to glare at them, instead, I looked around in shock as there were people running and lights flashing. My anxiety ramped up and I reminded myself this was not the same flashing as in the police station. I ripped my earbuds and called out to the people running past "what's going on?" I got a lot of rushed answers but it sounded like there was a power surge or something. It was clear no one really knew.

I followed the crowds outside the hospital where it was chaos. Water was everywhere. We all watched in horror as an EMT stepped out of his ambulance and was electrocuted. Kira was shouting at everyone to stay back but Allison was moving forward to help the EMT. Everything stood still when I saw Isaac throw her backward only to get shocked himself. I screamed and moved forward to get to him, strong arms pinned me against whoever was holding me.

"Isaac," I screamed thrashing against whoever had me. I could hear someone yelling at me. I stomped on their foot and threw them off, running forward only to be grabbed by my arm. I was swung around to meet Scott face to face. I punched him in the nose, hard. He groaned as he held his nose letting me go. I turned around again only to be met with Derek's chest. He grabbed me and held me to him even though I tried everything to get away from him, he just held me tighter until I felt like I was going to break. I felt him tense at something behind us, the buzzing of electricity faded away. He finally let me go and rushed past me, I followed quickly behind. I sobbed as I saw Isaac laying in the water, not moving. I was afraid to reach out even as I fell to my knees next to him.

Derek gasped "He's not breathing," then he started yelling for Scott. This broke my shock and my hands fluttered around him trying to feel any hint of being alive. I couldn't feel anything, I started sobbing out his name and put his head in my lap concentrating on healing him. I don't give a fuck what they thought, if he was dead he wasn't going to get to stay there if I had anything to say about it. I fought against hands pulling me away from him, I felt a prick on my arm and black overtook my vision.

Please, not my brother.