We pulled up to an animal hospital. I was confused about how this would help Luca. He was already practically dead. Malia helped me get him through the doors. A man cleared two tables, one for Luca and the other for Derek Hale.
He hooked up an IV and a heart moniter to Luca. The man tried to bandage his wound as best he could.
"I'm sorry your name is?"
"Alexa. It's nice to meet you…"
"Dr. Deaton. Who is this?" He gestured to Luca.
"This is my brother, Luca." I lied. He wasn't my actual brother, but my best friend, so that's what it felt like.
"No he's not." Scott said, "Who are you?" Everyone stopped talking and looked at me.
"I didn't lie. Not really. He is my best friend, so it feels like it." I explained.
"What is your name again?" Lydia asked. Crap, I forgot I didn't tell them.
"It's not Paige and this isn't Xander. Our real names are Alexa and Luca. We met in foster care when I was six and he was seven parents were brutally murdered. His were hit by a drunk driver."
"I'm so sorry." Kira stated. I grabbed onto Luca's hand.
"He's cold. Really cold." I said.
"Derek is too." Lydia said.
"Do you think he is dead?" I asked.
"Do you think this is permanent?" Scott questioned.
"Derek? I'm not sure this is even something science can help. As for Luca? I don't think he has long." Deaton explained.
"So do we take them to a hospital?" Stiles asked.
"No, Luca and I deleted ourselves from all existence a long time ago. Taking him to hospital will just raise questions that I don't want to answer."
"I think it would just be safe to leave him here with will be safe here, I promise." Deaton promised.
"You mean from Kate." Stiles clarified.
"If she's alive, and is what you say she is, she won't be able to walk past that gate."
"Why would she want to do this to him?" Lydia questioned.
"Knowing Kate, it's probably for a reason that won't be good for anyone, but herself."
"And bad for everyone else." Stiles piped in.
"Well that's comforting." I said.
"You guys should go home. He doesn't look to be in any danger. So maybe the rest of you can get some sleep. It's a school night. And you guys need to start worrying about your own lives again." Deaton said.
"Someone should stay with you." Scott said.
"Well I can. For two reasons. One, I don't have a place to go. And two, I'm not leaving his side." I explained.
"I'll stay. My grades are missing a few classes." Lydia volunteered.
"I am so not okay with this." Stiles said protectively. It made me laugh, he was crushing, hard.
"Stiles, go."
"No."
"Text us if anything happens." Scott told her.
"Nope. Still not okay with this. Not going anywhere. Alright just because you're stronger…" Stiles trailed off as he was drug out of the room by Scott.
"So, what's with you and Stiles?" I asked Lydia. At that point, Deaton had walked out of the room.
"What?"
"You heard me. Oh come on. Can't you see he has a total crush on you?"
"Yeah, but I couldn't be with him anyway, he's with Malia."
"So you do like him."
"Subject change please! What's with you and Luca?"
"What?"
"You heard me. Can't you see he has a crush on you?"
"No, no, no, no. It's not like that. We are like brother and sister. It would be weird."
"Would it?"
"Subject change please!"
"So do you really not know about the supernatural?"
" you explain it? Please?"
"Okay so what do you know so far?"
"Scott is werewolf."
"Oh god."
xXx
I was awoken by a blaring noise. Dr. Deaton rushed in. Luca's heart monitor was beeping.
"He's flatlining!" Deaton explained. Oh my god, he is dying. He is dying. My best friend. He is going away. Just like my parents.
Air left the earth. I couldn't breathe. The world was spinning, nothing felt right. I just wanted to give up, on life, time, everything. Because in that moment, my best friend, my brother… died.
xXx
Do you ever feel like nothing is right in the world? Do you ever feel like you don't belong? Have you ever catch yourself thinking back to that one embarrassing moment five years ago and you wish you had the ability to change it all? That's how I feel.
We finally decided to take Luca to a hospital. But it was too late. Luca McKinnon was dead. He left me with this guilty feeling. He left me knowing that it was my fault he was dead. I was the one that forced him into the church. It was always me.
Now, I can't shake that feeling. That feeling of guilt. That night, I had a panic attack. That's what the doctors say at least. But in the supernatural world, I had a separation attack. It's when your mate, sibling, or parent dies and you almost do, too.
Ten years ago, the same thing both had a separation attack, me and Luca. Our rooms were right next door to each other. Science couldn't explain it. We were the impossible, partners in crime, best friends… irreplaceable.
I wasn't allowed to see him. He wasn't able to have a funeral because there was no way to ID family. But even though I hated myself, life had to go on.
xXx
"Alexa?" Someone said.
"What." I wasn't in the mood for talking, I was fine curled up in a ball.
"Hey, it's Lydia." Again, I didn't want to talk. I just wanted to hate myself.
"Look, you don't have to talk, just listen. A little while ago, I lost my best friend, too. She was stabbed in the stomach. I just want you to know that I am here for you. All of us. I know you don't have a place to stay. You can come live with me. Our house is big enough."
"Does it get easier?" I asked, I looked up at her, and saw genuine love and worry.
"Does what?"
"The guilt."
"Oh, honey." She came and hugged me and I just cried and cried. I didn't want to accept that fact.
I slept at the Martin's that night. They are a sweet family. But I wanted mine. I took everything for granted. And I wanted to be selfish and have my family back.
"Lex? I am headed to the vet to help Deaton, okay?"
"Can I come?" Lydia looked at me like I had lost my mind.
"Are you up for that?"
"Yeah, I need to accept it and move on."
"Of course you can come."
xXx
We pulled up to the vets office.
"How's he doing?" Lydia asked Deaton as we walked through the door.
"His heart rate is alarmingly high. I want to try something. I want you to keep holding his hand. Alexa, hold his other hand." He grabbed a scalpel from the tray beside him. He cut into him and it healed right after.
"That looks like it healed really fast." I said.
Deaton looked at me and explained "Unusually fast."
"What does that mean?" Lydia asked.
"I'm not sure. Let's try something else. Alexa grab me a five milliliter syringe. Top drawer. Lydia, grab some of that anesthesia." I did as I was told and walked back to the tray.
"Guys. Guys? Guys!" I yelled. He was flexing his claws, ready to attack. He sat up and turned toward Lydia and Deaton.
"Derek? Derek?" They said his name over and over again.
Derek's POV:
They said my name over and over again. All I saw were demons. I don't know these people, but something smelled familiar.
"Jael?" I asked. It had their scent, but it was a little different.
"How do you know my mother?" Someone said.
Everything went red , my vision was blurry. My head hurt. One of them was an imposter. I punched him, I couldn't take it. So I ran.
Alexa's POV:
"Oh my god!" I rushed over to Deaton.
"Get my phone, it's in my bag, call Scott!" Lydia yelled.
"Passcode?"
"2784!" I dialed Scott's number, it rang, then went to voicemail.
"He won't answer!"
"Call Stiles!" Try again, fail.
"No answer!"
"Call Ken Yukimura!"
"No answer!"
"Text him to tell Scott to call Lydia."
"Hey, Scott! It's Alexa. Yeah, so Derek may have punched Deaton and then ran away. You and Stiles need to get here. Now!"
Lydia was bandaging deaton when the boys arrived.
"I don't think he is younger in just the body, but the mind, too."
"He didn't recognize either of us, but he recognized Alexa."
"Have you ever seen him before?"
"Oh I have never met him. But if I met a family member I can try."
"How?" Stiles asked.
"It's this thing I can do. If I go somewhere where they were or touch a precious item, I get the whole memory back. I can do it with all five senses, but I have no control over which one. Think of it as deja vu on steroids."
"Seriously?" Scott asked, I nodded.
"Okay well we need to find him." Lydia said.
"Okay, well if you were a teenage werewolf and you are scared where do you go?"
"Well a wolf goes back to its den, Derek lives in the loft."
"Not when he was a teenager." Stiles added.
"The Hale House." Lydia stated.
"He wouldn't remember the fire. It wouldn't have happened yet."
"We should probably tell my dad first." Stiles said.
"Who is your dad?" I questioned.
"The sheriff." Lydia stated.
We burst through the doors at the station. The man staring back almost looked relieved. He said something to the other two deputies. Then he waved us over to his office.
"I want you to be honest with me, have you two been time traveling. Because if time traveling is real, you know what, I'm done. I'm out. You are going to be driving me to Eichen House."
"We found him like that." Scott pitched in.
"Where?! Swimming in the fountain of youth?!" The Sheriff said.
"No, we found him in a tomb of wolfsbane in an aztec temple in Mexico underneath a church int the middle of a town that was destroyed by an earthquake."
"You told me you were camping!" Sheriff yelled.
"We were, in Mexico."
"And who is this? Let me guess, she comes from a long line of freaking werewolves?!"
"Close, hunters actually." I sarcastically stated.
"Oh my god."
"Look Derek has been aged backwards." Scott told the Sheriff.
"Dad,she just needs to talk to him."
"Why do they have a special connection?"
"Possibly" I retorted.
"Well so far he's not talking to anybody." The sheriff informed.
"He'll talk to me." Scott and I said at the same Sheriff got the boy and brought him in. Derek sat on the couch in front of us.
"Jael. Jael Black?"
"Talia, you can't tell my daughter. I won't let you. I want her to have a normal life."
"Jay, you know she won't. You know if you don't tell her, something bad will happen."
"Mom? Who is that?"
"Derek, this is Jael Black."
A black SUV swerved toward a tan Saturn. "Talia, please don't do this."
"I told you something bad will happen. Oh don't worry, I am only killing you and Michael, not handsome, little Lucas."
"It's Luca."
"What do you care? You are dead!"
"Jael? Michael? Where are you?"
"Who are you?" The woman put the knife behind her back when talking to the child.
"I'm Talia Hale. Where is your mommy and daddy?"
"My mommy said not to talk to strangers."
"Oh sweetheart, I'm not a stranger. I know your mommy. She is my sister. So I am your aunt."
"My mommy is in here."
"Goodbye, Jael don't worry I'll take good care of Alexa."
"Talia? Talia stop! Don't hurt her!"
"Sorry Nate! I have a promise to keep!" The knife struck through the woman's heart.
"Nate, I am going to kill you, but it won't be me. I have two little betas here dying to be alphas, they are twins actually. Ethan! Aiden!"
"Talia! You are teaching six year olds how to murder!"
"Do it boys!"
"Ethan, Aiden! Oh my god! Mom! Dad! Luca!" I yelled. Images flashed before my eyes.
"What did you do to her?" Scott yelled.
"No, no wait Scott. Don't hurt him" I tried to explain, but he ignored me.
"What makes you think I will talk to you." Derek questioned. I tried to stand up, but I couldn't breathe.
"Alexa, look at me. You need to take deep breaths. In. Out." Lydia tried to calm me down.
"You lost some memory, but we can help you get it back. You can trust us."
"Stiles! Scott! What do I do?" Lydia yelled, I held out my hand trying to grasp onto the air that I had time stopped. Literally. All of time, frozen. I could breathe again.
I walked over to Scott. He was crouched down in front of Derek, his eyes shone a bright red.
"You are an alpha." Derek stated. And time resumed once more.
"Alexa? How did you get over there?" Lydia asked.
"I think I just stopped time."
"Who are you? All of you?" Derek interrogated.
"Well I am the daughter of Jael and Nathaniel Black."
"We are the people keeping you out of jail." Stiles retorted.
"Let us help you." Scott tried to convince him.
"No, I will only talk to Jael."
"Can't do that at the moment."
"Why?"
"Unless you want drive to the cemetery. My parents died ten years ago."
"Alexa, can I talk to you?" Lydia asked.
"Sure." She took me out of the office into a conference room.
"What did you see?"
"Do you know anyone by the name of Talia Hale?"
"Yeah that's Derek's mom."
"Well she killed my parents and Luca's. And she was my mom's sister, as well as Araya Calavera. Do you know anyone by the name of Ethan and Aiden?"
"Uh-oh"
"They killed my dad, who was apparently an alpha. That's how they got their Alpha status."
"Nice."
Stiles walked in, "Derek agreed."
"Ok well I need to go pick up Kira. Alexa,do you want to come?"
"Sure. Let me grab my bag."
xXx
"Let me pump some gas." Lydia said, leaving me and Kira in her car.
"So about Mexico," Kira started "I'm sorry about having to turn the dial on you. Do you, well… Are you… um."
"Mad?" I tried to finish.
"No, because I know you had no choice, even if I didn't know you. Think of it this way, think of it the other way around, would you be mad if Scott had to turn the dial on you?"
"What?"
"I can see that he likes you."
"Hey! Can someone grab me my credit card please?" Lydia shouted through the window.
"Lydia, it looks like you have a full tank." Kira said, "Alexa, look."
"Where did she go?" We both got out of the car.
"Lydia?" She was frozen still, but not like before. She was standing in front of the bathroom. Just standing there.
"Are you okay?"
"Don't look."
"Oh my god."I said, dumbfounded. Before us lie a once living man. Blood was all around the bathroom. His intestines ha been ripped from his body.
"Oh my god." Kira whispered.
"Lydia, call the sheriff." I commanded. She did do as someone's phone began to ring. Lydia pulled out her pastel pink phone and answered the call. Flies buzzed around the body.
"We called Stilinski. They are on their way." Lydia began.
"What does it look like? Can you send pictures?"
"It looks like death." I commented. Lydia put Scott on speaker and opened her camera. She began to take pictures of the murder.
"To be honest, I have a 4.0 in AP biology and there are things on these walls that I have never seen before."
"I took college level classes in medical sciences and I have never seen 15% of these intestines." I stated, the two girls started at me, awed that I took college were talking on the other side of the phone.
"Hey can you guys speak up?" I asked.
"They are going to the Hale vault at the school!" Scott yelled, and then they hung up.
"Let's go!" Kira yelled. We hopped in the car and drove off.
"What's the Hale vault?" I questioned.
"It's a vault under the school. It belonged to Talia Hale. Only a Hale can open it."
"Okay. I got that now. I'm still learning."
"Do you have any swords?" Kira asked.
"Yes, but not here. It's at Lydia's"
"You brought weapons into my house!?"
"Yeah. Did you want me to leave them on the doorstep?"
"My house is on the way there. We can stop and get them."
xXx
I opened my bag and took everything out. "Jesus." Kira exclaimed.
"Let's go!" Lydia yelled.I grabbed my Chinese ring daggers and my glock. I gave Kira a sword.
"I hope they are ok." KIra said, once we were in the car. We pulled up to the school and ran towards the vault, leaving Lydia behind. I heard a loud roar and followed the sound.
Kira and I ran to find Scott and Malia surrounded by bone covered giants.
I shot a full round at the beasts, but nothing worked. They were the same things that killed Luca.
"Stop! Lex stop!" A familiar voice yelled. I turned and saw the same platinum blond hair I thought was dead.
"Oh my god! Luca!"I ran over to hug him, but then a thing came up behind him and started choking him. Someone came and attacked the other two beasts. When I turned back to Luca, he was gone. Derek kept fighting the beasts until a roar summoned them back. He turned back to us as someone completely had glowing yellow eyes and a beard.
"Alexa? Long time no see." The man said.
AN: Ok, guys I cried when I wrote this. I know it is a long chapter, but this is how the chapters are going to look from now on. Happy reading! Fav, Follow, Review! Love, Z!
