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Chapter 11: Make It Out Alive
Three months later and Scott hadn't heard a word from his aunt and he was starting to get slightly worried, but that was quickly taken away when a new supernatural threat appeared. Scott called Elizabeth and yet again got her voice-mail which was starting to quickly annoy him. Elizabeth had left Derek and Braeden to go and finish doing two things – one was her job and the other was to finish tracking down the missing pack members.
"Hey Scott, what's the problem?" Elizabeth questioned, looking out onto the water from her car, she'd stopped briefly in Seattle. "If you want Derek I can't help you," she laughed rolling the window down.
'Hey Ace, it's not that. Something feels wrong,' Scott replied he couldn't pinpoint what it was that was wrong.
"I can feel it too, but I can't help...you know I would if I could," Elizabeth said as she ran a hand over her face. "How does it feel wrong?"
'Like something or someone is missing,' Scott answered, taking a deep breath as he looked around the school.
"Tell me exactly what happened?" Elizabeth questioned, looking around her car for her laptop to do some research.
'That's just it I don't know what happened...' Scott trailed off as Lydia entered the school and saw him standing in front of the locker from her vision. 'Ace, what do we do?'
"If you see something familiar but you don't know why send me a photo...and I'll tell you about it," Elizabeth answered pausing before she continued. "Scott, if you know something is missing then that's the first step, look for the missing pieces,"
'Okay, I'm starting to get really concerned about this,' Scott said trying to concentrate on what Lydia was telling him but finding it hard. 'I'll probably call you again soon...I know you said not to but I can't help it. It's hard when your not here,' Scott laughed, in truth he missed his aunt being there to help them out.
"I know, I'll be back soon. Still have a few things that I need to do," Elizabeth laughed, before the two of them hung up and Elizabeth continued her drive.
Later that night Scott was sending Elizabeth text messages and photos of random things that he'd seen that he knew had some kind of importance but not what. One was the locker number 1075 and the other a memory of when he turned into werewolf. Lydia was feeling the same things, like she had walked into the middle of the street trying to remember something and that Malia couldn't have chained herself up in the basement on the full-moons.
"Scott, you need to remember! I know what they all mean. But you need to remember," Elizabeth said the second that Scott answered his phone, he was standing in the middle of the reserve with Lydia and Malia. "This is going to sound crazy. But there's a person missing, one that all of you know and to some extent love,"
'Elizabeth, what makes you say that?' Scott questioned, as he held the phone between the three of them.
"Every message that you guys have sent me tells me that," Elizabeth paused taking a deep breath before she continued. "Like stopping at a locker and not knowing why they've stopped there. Malia couldn't have locked herself up in the basement,"
'What do we need to do?' Malia questioned, she wanted to know what they had to do to remember who the person is.
"Talk to Deaton. He should know what to do. I want to tell you who it is but I don't know, I'll see what I can dig up," Elizabeth replied closing her eyes for a split second and making them go violet as she tried to work out what they had to do. "Call me in a few days,"
'Thanks Ace,' the three of them said at the same time, having picked up on Scott's nickname for her.
Elizabeth looked around the hotel room that she had found herself in and sent Braeden a text telling her to tell Derek that something was wrong in Beacon Hills yet again, and they may need to go back sooner rather than later. Braeden and Derek were still searching for something that he wasn't telling Braeden what it was. He'd told Elizabeth but no one else about what he was looking for.
Scott sent Elizabeth another text telling that they'd worked out who they were missing but not how to get him back. Elizabeth simply replied with the way to get him back was to remember, remembering was the key.
Argent called Elizabeth while he was with Melissa, they were trying to work out a separate case. One they didn't want to call the Sheriff in on as they wanted to do a little digging themselves. Argent emailed the pictures and what they had to Elizabeth to see if her research showed anything.
"Elizabeth, did you get the email?" Argent questioned when the young woman answered her phone, as he and Melissa looked at the brain of another victim.
'I did, and a wolf's bite isn't strong enough to crush a skull alone,' Elizabeth replied, as she looked at the pictures on her laptop and enlarged one of them. 'A hybrid creature is – not a chimera, not me but something combined,'
"How strong a jaw are we talking?" Argent asked as both he and Melissa looked at one another.
'Well, looking at the photos the teeth look like they belong to a lion...' Elizabeth trailed off, had they really not looked at the teeth close enough. 'What? I had a fascination with animals when I was a kid...where do you think Scott got it from?'
"That explains so much," Melissa said thinking of the reason that Scott wanted to become a vet in the first place. "Elizabeth what else can you tell us?"
'Not much else I'm afraid. Tell Scott they need to remember Stiles to find him,' Elizabeth said, knowing that both of them knew exactly what she meant.
Looking around the hotel room Elizabeth jumped at as there was a knock at the door that she had expected no one was meant to know where she was. Elizabeth looked to the door, and then moved to the window to see who was at the door. She was surprised to see it was her one remaining beta, Elizabeth opened the door and pulled the young girl in.
"What are you doing here?" Elizabeth questioned, pinning her against the wall before dropping her. "No one knew I was here,"
"I've been looking for you," the young girl said quietly her eyes glowing yellow as she spoke. "The full-moons coming and I've been doing it but it's hard,"
"Have you killed anyone?" Elizabeth asked, the young girl shook her head she hadn't hurt anyone. The others had made sure of that. "I'm sorry I left you guys, I had to...and I will be again soon, but you know why,"
"You're going back to him aren't you? To the boy you told me about," the girl questioned, remembering why Elizabeth had gone away the first time around after the pack had been taken apart. "I understand I do, but what do I do"
"I am, and you need to do exactly what you have been doing. I may be far away from you, but you'll always be in my pack," Elizabeth told her as she moved her hand slightly forcing the laptop to close. "Beacon Hills is my home, I always end up back there. It's just who I am..."
"Elizabeth...what's so special about it?" the girl asked, watching the movements of her alpha as she spoke.
"Sara, Beacon Hills is what it's name says. That's why I go back, you can either come with me or you can go find the others and tell them that the pack is always together no matter how far away we are," Elizabeth told her, running a hand through her hair as she took a deep breath. "My nephew and sister-in-law need me, that's why I'm going home soon,"
"I'll tell them...and Elizabeth please stay safe," the girl told her giving her a hug as she spoke. "Don't keep looking for us...look for your friends,"
Meanwhile in Beacon Hills, Scott wasn't told anything about Liam and Hayden wanting to bring (and bringing) Theo back to help them with the Wild-Hunt, the Ghost Riders. Scott stood glaring at Theo telling him that it was taking everything he had not to tear the boy in half. Hours later they had found and captured a Ghost Rider – it had escaped and they found Theo cowered in a corner in stone cottage they had used.
"Can I borrow your phone?" Scott tossed him the phone and Theo stayed cowered in the corner and looked at the contacts – the first one being the one that he called. "Elizabeth...it's Theo Raeken and I know I'm probably the last person you're expecting to call you...but I didn't know what else to do..." Theo left the message on Elizabeth's phone before he hung up the second he hung up the phone was flashing at him.
'Theo? Calm down, yes you were the last person I was expecting to hear...Yes you killed my nephew, but your voice tells me that you want to help,' Elizabeth said, she'd heard something in his voice in the message. 'Scott, I know you're there. Stay together, trust me please,'
"Ace! Liam brought him back! What am I meant to do?" Scott exclaimed, as he heard her voice come through the phones.
'Theo wants to help, I can hear it. Scott you need to let him...let him make up for the shit that he's done,' Elizabeth said taking a deep breath before she continued. 'Give me five to talk to him,'
"Only five," Scott said before letting Theo talk again. "Talk to Elizabeth, we'll be out there...I'll be listening..."
'Scott you will not be listening!' Elizabeth exclaimed as Theo took the phone from Scott. 'Theo, you don't need to be scared, none of them do...'
"I'm not scared," Theo stated, his voice was telling Elizabeth otherwise.
'I can hear it in your voice. You know what? I'll do you a deal, you help Scott and I'll do something for you...You want a family...a pack...' Elizabeth said she could tell that he was slightly intrigued and calming down. 'And Theo tell them everything you know, and I mean everything,'
"Okay...but what are you going to do?" Theo asked, agreeing to tell Scott everything that he knew about what had happened.
'You'll find out when it's time. Also I know the creature is half wolf, half lion...tell Scott, you know,' Elizabeth said taking a deep breath before adding that she'd be back as soon as she could.
By the time that they had rescued Stiles and defeated the Löwenmensch (Garrett Douglas) it was nearly time to graduate High-School, and Stiles believed that only three days had passed since he'd been taken. In reality it had been three months, it had taken them three months to remember Stiles to defeat the Ghost-Riders and Wild Hunt. The group had all sent numerous texts and emails to Elizabeth telling her that her feelings about everything was right. One of Scott's messages had included one about Argent and Melissa being together, and him not knowing how he was feeling regarding it.
"Hey kiddo," Elizabeth said the second that Scott picked up his phone. "What's up?"
'Mom was taken by the Ghost-Riders...we got her back, we got everyone back,' Scott explained, as they all stood around the McCall kitchen. 'I've got you on speaker,'
"Let me guess, you're all there? Also, why the hell did you open with your mother was taken?" Elizabeth scolded as she drove, she was headed to the last place that Braeden had told her where they were.
'I admit that was probably my worst choice of word,' Scott laughed, Elizabeth rolled her eyes and could sense that the others had done the same.
"You did what I said didn't you? You remembered everyone, everything?" Elizabeth questioned, taking a deep breath before she continued. "Never forget anything that happens...it's all crucial,"
'Elizabeth, what Scott is trying to say is everyone is in one piece,' Sheriff Stilinski said, he had gathered with them and had his arm wrapped protectively around his son.
"I know, my nephew doesn't have the best way with words sometimes," Elizabeth said as Melissa said the same thing at the same time only replacing nephew with son. "Mel...can we talk later?"
'Of course,' Melissa replied, looking to Scott as she spoke and then at the phone before them. 'There wasn't anything you could do was there?'
"There was nothing, I could feel some of it to an extent...the lovely perks of being born a witch," Elizabeth said, that was one part that she had never liked about being a witch and a werewolf. "I never said I wasn't complicated,"
'Wait, that's how you know when shit is happening in town?' Stiles exclaimed, he'd always wondered that since he'd found out what she knew.
'When are you coming back?' Scott questioned, as the group slowly left the kitchen.
"Partially Stiles, and the abundance of text messages you all send me! Mainly Stiles," Elizabeth laughed, pausing before she continued and answered Scott's question. "Soon, have a couple of jobs that need to be done...and then I'll be home, yes it's still home,"
'Sorry?' Stiles grinned at Scott as he wrapped his arm around Lydia and pulled her close.
After everyone had finished talking with Elizabeth, she called Melissa back to have a private conversation with her. The two women putting Elizabeth had said to Theo earlier into play.