"So Stiles. It's been nearly 3 months since you came back. Are you ready to talk about what happened yet?" Lydia asked from her place on the sofa.
"Not yet Lyds. Sorry. Hey uh- guys can we have this conversation another time cause I'm kinda busy at the moment." I replied with a tight-lipped smile addressing the whole pack who were scattered around the living room.
Just as Scott opened his mouth to respond the sound of a car pulling up into the driveway made me wince internally. As the engine continued a yelp sounded upstairs before a voice - which i knew as Veras - shouted out the window "ARIS I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU HONK THAT HORN" as if in retaliation a long and drawn out honk was heard.
As the sound of footsteps came closer I tried to hide the smile that had spread onto my face while the siblings conversed. Once Vera got to the bottom of the stairs I could see her in my old lacrosse jersey which had a peeling '24' on the back. Before turning to me she poked her head out of the door presumably to flip him off "SHUCKFACE" she exclaimed.
Once the door shut again she turned to where me and the pack stood pausing for a second before smiling and letting out a small "Oh I didn't know there were other people here. Hi I'm Vera"
She dropped her bag next to the door before walking over to me with a smile "Bye Tom I'll see you when me and Ari start at school next week" she stated as her smile widened before giving me a peck on the lips. She hugged me for a little longer before letting go with a scowl when she heard the sound of the car horn honking.
She walked off to the door with a grin plastered on her face. Once the car door shut with a slam a yelp sounded out causing me to laugh while the pack looked between me and the window where a black range rover was parked.
As far as my pack knows, the reason I was missing for 2 years is because I was taken after the nogitsune incident. Which yes is partially the truth. But it's not the whole truth.
I was taken by WICKED while I was interning for them though I hadn't been there since before being possessed. How they knew what happened to me is a mystery I don't want to solve.
Even though I did work for WICKED, we all did really. WICKED was using a different front for each of the people it wished to attract to find suitable test subjects for the trials they were creating.
For Aris and Vera - the twins with a flare for programming and snooping - they acted as a group of government officials that were looking for trainees to become future agents in the CIA or FBI - they never could decide. Though when they found out about what they were really doing, WICKED had to blackmail the twins to stay as interns.
For Fry- the enterpreneur - they acted as a group which would help him create his own resteraunt and due to him never finding out the truth about them Fry was deemed safe from threats of his familys safety.
For Minho - the aspiring athlete - they said they'd support him in his challenge to raise money for his best friends surgery. While he never found out about the reality of what was happening, his friend got the money for the surgery as what they had called 'compensation for the loss of such a sweet boy'.
For Newt and Sonya- the siblings determined to help their older sister - they acted as a business which could help them greatly, and once they were put in their respective mazes they gave their last two paychecks to their sister - after all they'd earn that money back when the flare was released.
For Harriet- the ambitious girl who just wanted to achieve her dreams - they said they'd be able to give her a scholarship into the university of her choice once she leaves highschool. Though she never found out, they used their connections to allow her older brother into the university of his choice instead.
And with me, they said they'd be able to up my chances of being an FBI officer and once I found out the truth, they threatened to reveal everything about the pack to the world causing me to live in fear for the packs safety. Causing me to do their bidding which included creating the maze.
Now as we're all at age 18 - apart from Sonya who's 17 - and while we've not all got what we were promised we're all suprisingly happy and all healing from the trauma that WICKED gave us in the time we were missing. Even though they were terrible people doing a terrible thing, we all found happiness through the trials and experiments that WICKED put us through.
For me, well myhappiness came in the form of a girl from Maze B who was revealed as the younger sister of Aris - or Jonah if we're talking about real names - once we escaped. The girl that WICKED had named after Vera Atkins, - due to the fact that she was never left out of the loop and know things she wasn't meant to know.
The girl who gave me happiness was the girl named Vera Wilson.
So. I'm not gonna update the other story cause
a) it's terrible
b) ew
c) i have no ideas for it.
so you can have this instead.
welcome to my shit updating and coping schedule.
sincere apologies ig
IT WONT LET ME PUT EMOJIS