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The breaks are to show a jump in time, from scene to scene.
The next day, Caitlin woke to the loud sound of snoring filling her mind. Grumbling, she crawled out of bed and stumbled to her door. She walked slowly down the hall, stopping to rub her forehead to try to relieve the building headache from the snoring that she was having trouble blocking out. It had been a while since her brother had snored so loud it had invaded her mind. Finally, she came to stop at his door, and started pounding on it.
"Scott!" She yelled. "Cut it with the snoring!"
All of a sudden the door swung open, revealing a sleepy-looking Stiles with his hair sticking out in all places, still dressed in the same clothes he was wearing the day before. "Caitlin?" He looked her up and down, noting her Hello Kitty pajama pants and black tank top, and smiled. "Nice PJ's."
A confused look took over her expression. She decided to ignore the remark regarding her sleepwear. "Stiles? Did you sleep here? Is everything okay?" She brushed past him into her brother's room. "Scott? What's wrong?"
Scott was sitting on the end of his bed looking down at his floor, a worried look etched on his drowsy face. His blankets were strewn across the floor and a broken chair lay in the middle of the room. "He got away."
"Who got away?"
"Liam."
"Who's Liam? What's going on?"
"He didn't tell you?" Stiles asked cautiously.
Caitlin turned to Stiles. "Didn't tell me what?"
Stiles raised his eyebrows in response and looked to Scott for help. "Uhh…"
"I bit someone. An innocent." Scott thought.
Caitlin whirled around to again face her brother. "You did what?! Why? How? When?"
"You might wanna sit down." Stiles thought and Caitlin sat at Scott's desk.
Scott groaned. "Last night, when I was at the hospital, Lydia called. She'd gone to the house where those murders happened, and she and Parrish found a hidden freezer with a bunch of bodies in it. Turns out, the family were something called wendigos, I think. They're cannibals."
She shook her head to try to rid her mind of the mental image the words freezer with a bunch of bodies and cannibals created. "Gross, but what does this have to do with you biting an innocent?"
"Remember how I said someone got hurt during lacrosse practice? That was Liam, a new freshman-"
"Who is impossibly good at lacrosse, by the way." Stiles interjected loudly, making Caitlin roll her eyes.
"Anyway, Sean, the wendigo, took Liam to the roof to eat him or something-"
"Oh, gross." Stiles interrupted again.
"Stiles, shut it. Let him finish." said Caitlin.
"Right. Sorry, yeah. Go on." He apologized sheepishly.
"Anyway," Scott continued, "stuff happened, and all of a sudden Liam was hanging over the edge of the building, he was slipping, and Sean was holding my arms. I had to catch him somehow."
"So you caught him with your teeth?!" his sister exclaimed.
"…Yeah." Scott replied quietly. He had yet to make eye contact with her.
"Okay, so…you bit him. What happened to Sean?"
"Well that's the other thing. There was another guy there, I think he was the original murderer, the one who killed the rest of the family. He killed Sean, too. But…"
"But…what?"
"He didn't have a mouth."
"Wait…what? No mouth? How can he eat?"
"That's what I said!" Stiles shouted.
"That's not the point!" Scott yelled in return.
Caitlin shook her head. "Okay, let me get this straight. Sean was going to eat Liam on the roof so you confronted them and Liam fell over the edge and you caught him with your teeth, thus biting him in werewolf form, and a guy with no mouth killed Sean and left while you pulled Liam to safety?"
"Pretty much."
"Okay," she said slowly. "So what happened to Liam? You said he escaped? Where did he escape from?"
"Scott kidnapped him." Stiles explained and Scott finally looked up from the floor to give Stiles a dirty look.
"I didn't kidnap him."
"Scott, he was tied up with duct tape in your bathtub when I got here."
"Okay, maybe a little." He admitted, looking at Caitlin. "But I just wanted him to let me explain what was going on and what's going to happen to him."
"You mean what will happen if he doesn't die?" Stiles asked.
"Will you stop with the dying stuff?" Scott cried exasperatedly.
"Alright!" shouted Stiles dramatically, holding up his hands in surrender.
"Wait, you brought him here?" Caitlin asked.
"I didn't know where else to take him!" Scott said. He ran his fingers through his hair and sighed. "He smashed me with a chair."
Caitlin looked down at the broken chair on the floor in response to her brother's statement and tried to suppress a laugh. "That was that crash last night? You said you knocked over a lamp!"
"I didn't want you to worry!"
"Well I would start worrying pretty soon because we still don't know where he is or what he's doing or if he's killed anyone or if he's even ALIVE and school starts in ten minutes!" Stiles shouted quickly, trying to catch his breath after he finished. Everyone turned to the clock, noting that Stiles was right about the time. Scott groaned and hung his head.
"Well, we can't do anything about it now. Who knows, maybe he'll show up at school." Caitlin tried to make her brother feel better. "C'mon, let's go. Scott. Get up." She pulled him from the bed. "Come on, get dressed. I need a ride."
Soon they were at the school, their morning routine back on track. They parked next to the buses, and Caitlin hopped off the bike, removing her helmet and adjusting her bookbag. All of a sudden, a voice forced itself into her head, somehow getting past her barrier. Typically, when her barrier was up (which was what she called it when she was trying to keep the voices out), the only voices that got through were those with a deep personal connection to Caitlin.
"What's happening to me?" muttered the sound.
Quickly, Caitlin looked around her, trying to find the source.
"You okay?" Scott looked concerned.
Caitlin smiled. "Yeah, fine. You?"
The alpha shrugged. "Just worried about Liam. Tonight's a full moon and I still have to explain everything and I don't know what to do."
She thought for a moment until an idea popped in her head. "What about the lake house?"
"The lake house? Malia uses the basement, and besides, it wouldn't be able to hold him."
"What about the boathouse?"
Scott got quiet, thinking. His mind ran through different possibilities and scenarios. "That could work. There are those big support beams. We could chain him to one."
"Chain who to what?"
The siblings turned to see Kira headed towards them, followed closely by Lydia, Stiles, and Malia.
"We need to find a place to put Liam so he'll be safe." Scott explained.
"Don't you mean so we'll be safe?" Stiles said.
Scott ignored his best friend. "We were thinking the boathouse?" He looked pleadingly at Lydia.
She shook her head. "No! Absolutely not. One raging monster is enough." She added, looking at Malia.
"Hey, it's not like she can help it." Stiles came to his girlfriend's defense as Malia stayed quiet. "Anyway, I suggest we just kill the bastard."
"Agreed." Malia nodded.
"What?! No, we can't kill him." Scott said quietly as a group of freshmen passed. He turned to Lydia and gave her a desperate look. "Please."
The strawberry blonde rolled her eyes. "Fine. But just for the night."
"Hey, guys…you're forgetting something. How are we even supposed to convince him to go?" Stiles brought up a good point. From what Scott had told her of the previous night, Liam would never agree to go somewhere with Scott, especially out to the middle of nowhere.
"That's easy." Lydia remarked with a smile. "Tell him there's a party and invite him."
Stiles looked at her. "You're gonna invite a freshman to a party?"
Lydia shook her head. "No, no way. But…we could use the trickster." She added thoughtfully.
Everyone turned to Kira. She stammered, "M-m-me?"
"Shouldn't they be here by now?" Scott said as he paced back and forth across the front living room of the Martin lake house.
"She said everything's fine, Scott. Quit worrying. You're gonna wear out the floorboards." Caitlin reassured him. Kira had been sending her messages the entire way, although most of them had been just her hectic panicky thoughts about how this so wasn't going to work. There were also a lot of thoughts about Scott, some of which Caitlin was still trying to un-see.
All of a sudden, headlights flashed through the window as a car pulled into the driveway. Scott's head jerked up from the floor to take a look. "They're here! Everyone get in their places!"
The group scurried to form a line along one wall – Scott, Lydia, Malia, Stiles, and finally, Caitlin. She could practically feel the anxiety in the room – the fear of what was to come. The door opened slowly as a medium-height, athletic-built boy with golden brown hair walk through the door, shortly followed by Kira. Caitlin immediately recognized him as the boy who had bumped into her in the hall the previous day, seemingly in a hurry - she realized now that he had been late to lacrosse tryouts. Her mind started racing with flashbacks to that moment, but she hadn't said anything to anyone about what had happened.
"Here we are!" Kira exclaimed nervously with a smile.
The boy's blue eyes darted around the room before turning to Scott. "What is this?" he demanded.
"Think of it as…an intervention, Liam." Stiles said cautiously. Earlier, Stiles had informed Caitlin and Scott of just how Liam had been kicked out of his last school. Apparently, he had taken a crowbar to his teacher's car (he had some anger issues, as it turned out). "You have a problem."
"We're the only ones who can help." Scott explained.
"Help with what?" Liam looked confused.
"You're a werewolf, Liam. I'm a werewolf, too. An alpha, actually." started Scott.
Liam raised his eyebrows. "You've gotta be kidding me. You don't seriously expect me to believe you, do you?"
Scott shrugged. "It's true."
"So is everyone here a werewolf then?" Liam said mockingly.
"Actually, I'm a banshee." Lydia began to speak. "So no."
"Maybe we should go around the room?" Scott suggested.
"I'm a kitsune." Kira spoke from behind Liam. "Like a fox. But I use a sword and can sometimes control electricity. It's really complicated and I haven't figured it all out yet but I'm working on it." She added quickly when Liam looked at her, confused.
"Werecoyote." Malia said, giving no further explanation.
Stiles was next. "Human, but uh…I was recently possessed by an evil spirit called the nogitsune, if that counts for anything. Very, very evil."
Liam shook his head. "You people are insane."
"You missed one." Caitlin said. Immediately, Liam's head spun towards her as he stared at her, bewildered. It was silent in the room for a seemingly long thirty seconds as Liam and Caitlin held each other's attention, Caitlin spending the time reading Liam's hectic thoughts.
Finally, the young beta broke the silence. "So what are you?" he asked calmly and quietly.
Caitlin smiled. "According to someone," she created air quotations with her fingers, "smokin' hot." The reactions in the room were all different – Lydia, Malia, and Kira tried to suppress their laughter, Stiles let his laughter fill the silent air, Liam's eyes widened and his face went red with embarrassment, and Scott's face fell into a grin.
She started to walk towards him, a flirty smile played on her expression. "But you're not too bad yourself."
Scott laughed. "You should probably be more careful with your thoughts. She's a telepath, Liam. She's also my little sister."
Caitlin rolled her eyes and turned to look at her brother. "By a minute and a half, Scott. Get over it."
"You're twins?" Liam asked.
She nodded. "Fraternal, thank goodness." she replied with a nod towards Scott.
"Hey!" Scott said, jokingly offended.
Caitlin's expression became serious as her mind again flashed back to the day before. "Can you…hear me?" She sent out a tentative thought to Liam without concentrating.
Liam's eyebrows scrunched together. "How did you do that?"
Everyone's jaws fell, Caitlin's further than most. She turned to Scott. "He can hear me." she whispered.
Scott shook his head. "That's impossible."
"What's impossible? What's going on?" Liam demanded.
Caitlin turned to face Liam, speechless, noting that everyone's minds were racing with thoughts and possible explanations. "I…"
Headlights shone through the window. Lydia glared at Liam. "Who the hell did you tell about this party?" she insisted.
"Liam?" Scott asked, concerned, as more cars pulled into the driveway. "Are you okay?"
Liam fell to the floor, his heads over his ears. At the same time, a loud, blaring noise exploded in Caitlin's mind as she, too, crumpled onto the hardwood floor of the living room. A car's horn went off outside.
"Caitlin?!" Stiles cried, immediately crouching to make sure she was okay.
Malia looked at Scott. "What's going on?"
Scott was looking between Caitlin and Liam frantically as they both shouted in pain, writhing on the floor. His breathing was picking up and his heart began to beat faster and faster.
"Scott?" Kira asked.
"I don't know!" He exploded, his chest rising and falling heavily with every breath. "I don't know what's happening, I don't know what to do!"
There was a knock on the door.
"Well get them out of here!" Lydia cried.
Scott moved to try to pick up Liam, but the boy's head snapped up and revealed him to be already in wolf form, his eyes glowing with the bright gold shimmer of a beta. "Liam, please. Let me help you." Scott pleaded.
The knocking on the door persisted, making Liam and Caitlin cry out in agony.
"Get him out of here!" Stiles shouted, still hovering above Caitlin's fallen body.
"Stiles?" Malia's voice rang angrily as she groaned, beginning to turn.
"Crap." Stiles muttered as he abandoned Caitlin to lead Malia out of the room, grabbing the bag of restraints on his way.
"What am I supposed to do with all these people?" Lydia was frantic.
"Throw a party!" Stiles shouted from the next room.
Scott growled as his eyes began to glow red, "Kira. Help me." Together, they managed to pick up a thrashing Liam and started to lead him towards the back door. Scott stopped and nodded to his sister, saying to Lydia, "Make sure she's okay."
Lydia let out a moan of frustration as she was left alone with a now quiet telepath and a countless number of party guests.
Caitlin rubbed her head as the music blared through the house. Her thoughts were racing as she tried to soothe her growing migraine. She had so many questions.
"How could Liam hear her?" was the most prominent one. Typically, she was only able to hear the thoughts of others, and sometimes see the mental images they formed. It was rare that she was able to project her thoughts into the minds of others, and even then the connection needed to be strong. It had taken years to be able to communicate with Stiles, Lydia, and Derek; however, she had always been able to speak with Scott and her mother through thoughts, because the blood connection created such a strong bond. It sent chills down her spine to know that Liam had been able to hear her thoughts without even the slightest bit of concentration on her part. Could he be a telepath as well? Caitlin had eliminated this as a possibility. She was sure she would've been able to tell. So how was it possible?
And how could his thoughts get past her barrier? Sure, she wasn't sure her family was the best-fitting anchor, but it worked. Her mind went back to when she had unwillingly shared the pain of the car horn blaring in Liam's mind. She had never experienced anything like it.
"Caitlin?" Lydia touched her shoulder and her head snapped up.
"Yeah?"
"Are you alright?" asked the banshee.
"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks. The music's a little loud, I can't concentrate. I think I'm gonna go for a walk to clear my head." Caitlin reassured her with a smile.
Lydia nodded, understanding what it was like to have voices in your head, what with being a banshee, and all. Suddenly, she heard a crash behind her and her eyes went wide. "Excuse me," she said quickly and ran out of the room to yell at someone as Caitlin chuckled.
She felt the cool breeze of the night hit her lightly tanned skin as she slipped out of the back door. Taking a deep breath and focusing on a mental image of her family, she smelled the fresh air and felt her mind clearing.
Her relaxed mind was soon disturbed by a thought popping into her head. 2 words.
"Help me."
Caitlin ran to the front of the house to see if she could see anyone around. She looked up and down the road, not seeing anyone or anything out of place until her eyes landed on him. She walked slowly to the body lying in the road, and thought it looked off, until she saw the head next to it. She tried to suppress her screams and turned away quickly, covering her mouth. His head had been taken completely off with a clean cut. Desperately, she tried to contact her brother.
"Scott? Scott, we have a problem."
Her brother's voice came to her, panicked. "So do we."
"What do you mean, he got away?" Caitlin asked as she arrived at the boathouse as fast as she could.
"I mean, he broke out of the chains!" Scott said with wide eyes, gesturing to the metal that lay spread on the floor. Kira was on the phone with someone whom she assumed to be Sherriff Stilinski from her thoughts.
"Why aren't you looking for him then?"
"I thought…well…I thought you could…y'know." he started the sentence out loud and finished it in his thoughts.
"You want me to track him telepathically?" Caitlin sounded surprised.
Her brother shrugged. "I don't know how, Caitlin, but you two have a connection. A bond. One stronger than maybe even ours. Just…try. Please."
Caitlin sighed, but nodded and closed her eyes. She began to concentrate on the image of Liam's face. She shook her head. "Everything's clouded. He's confused. Angry…wait…" Suddenly, the image cleared, and she gasped. She could see where he was running. She felt the wind whip around her and grass beneath her feet. She felt the power of the full moon surge through her and her eyes opened. "He's in the woods, about a mile from here. Headed south."
Scott and Kira looked at her, bewildered. Scott was the first to speak. "Let's go."
They arrived at a clearing in the woods where Liam was nowhere to be seen, although Caitlin assured them was the right place. It was quiet…but almost too quiet. Caitlin knew Scott thought something was wrong. It felt like someone was watching them.
All of a sudden, something pounced out from the trees and tackled Scott to the ground.
"Liam! Stop!" yelled Scott, desperately trying to hold back the rogue beta. They continued to struggle until Caitlin sensed someone.
"Everyone, duck!" She yelled as an arrow flew by Liam's head and exploded into a tree trunk. Liam was blinded by the bright explosion and raced off into the woods. Scott jumped up and looked in the direction of the woods. A figure stepped out of the shadows.
"Argent?" Scott asked. "What are you doing here?"
Chris Argent didn't take the time to explain how he had known they were there. "He's headed south, Scott. There are a circle of ultrasonic emitters in about a quarter of a mile. He'll be trapped."
"What's going to happen to him?" Scott posed another question.
"That's up to you, Scott."
Scott, Kira, and Caitlin arrived at the clearing that Argent sent them to and immediately Caitlin fell to her knees, a high-pitched sound ringing in her ears.
"Caitlin?!" Scott exclaimed. He noticed that in the middle of the clearing, there was a figure on its knees, covering its ears, surrounded by emitters. "Liam."
Scott walked over and turned off the emitters, and Caitlin's mind was relieved of the pain as she collapsed onto the ground with exhaustion. The alpha noticed that Liam was no longer in wolf form. As he was talking to his beta, Lydia's voice barreled into Caitlin's mind.
"Caitlin? We have a problem."
Caitlin was too drained to answer. She was beginning to fall asleep on the cool grass of the clearing.
The banshee continued, panicked. "Caitlin, if you can hear me, we cracked the code to the symbols. It's a dead pool. A dead pool of every supernatural creature in Beacon Hills. We're all on it. And…you're on it, too."