Scott was in the bathroom, taking care of his wound. He noticed the wound doesn't appear to look better due to an almost hand-sized hole in his chest. The sound of a knock on his door snapped his attention away from the wound, "Hey." Stiles spoke softly, staring at the wound, "Still not healing?"
Scott placed another bandage over it and pulled down his shirt, "Sometimes it just takes a little longer." He said, brushing off the status of the injury. Stiles looked ready to say something, but Scott swiftly jumped to the punch, "What are you doing here?"
Stiles looked awkward at the question, "Ah, you heard about the guy who got killed out at the communication towers, right?" Scott nodded his head, "I think I may have figured something out."
"What," Scott breathed out, trying to hold back his delight, "You want my help?"
Stiles made a shoulder shrugged and stuffed a hand in a pocket, "Yeah, well you said you can find the clues that I can't." Stiles offered and pulled out a cell phone, handing it over to Scott. "Here, take a look."
Scott pressed the "play" and Stiles explained what was happening in the video, "This is when the technician first arrived." On the video, the tech goes in and the video fast forwards, "Then Deputy Clark goes in."About few minutes, past until something on the scene changes. "Then something really big and really fast comes charging out. And now comes Clark." The video ended when the deputy stepped out of the towers, "Eventually, technician's body is carried out by paramedics."
"Okay, what am I missing?"
"Two people go in." Stiles stated, "Three come out. I checked all the footage. Not a single person enters that building before the technician the entire day."
"So where does that something really big and really fast come from?"
The pair contemplated that question until Stiles figured out the solution, "There's another way."
The cleanup of the school was wrapping up. Liam and Mason were still watching Corey as he was finishing up his part, "He's leaving." Liam noted, "What's the plan?"
"I have a date with him on Saturday." Mason answered, getting an incredulous expression from Liam, "I thought that was the plan."
"You were supposed to ask about Theo."
"We can't wait until Saturday." The look deepened, "Sorry, but Theo leading an evil Chimera pack wasn't exactly a natural progression to the conversation." Liam gave him a disapproving expression, "Fine. I'll talk to him."
Theo entered the school and heard a locker close. Turning the corner, the only thing he could see was an empty hallway. However, his senses told him otherwise, "You don't have to hide from me, Corey." Theo called out into the empty hallway.
Corey appeared from the lockers, "I was trying to do something nice."
"You were trying to do something normal." Theo pointed out, "But you don't have to be normal anymore, and you definitely don't have to be nice."
"Well, I'm not going to hurt them."
"Look, I don't want you to." Theo assured him, "In fact, they don't know it yet, but we're going to protect them. Just like I'm going to protect you." The friendly expression on Theo's face turned into something else, "So you're going to come with me and you're gonna do everything that I tell you because I know you don't want to die again. Do you, Corey?"
Corey got the underlined hint, "Okay."
Stiles and Scott arrived at the Telecom building. The moment they stepped inside, "I smell blood." Scott shared as he continued smelling the air. Scott followed the scent leading them down the stairs that led them to grate, with a heavy piece of equipment, on the floor.
Scott tried to lift if, but his werewolf strength failed him.
"Let me," Stiles told him.
Stepping aside, Scott watched Stiles make a careful hand-wave motion, moving the piece of equipment to the side, revealing the hole in the floor.
The pair looked at each other.
Mason had been trying to text Corey, "Corey's not texting me back."
"Because he left with Theo," Liam answered, remembering how he sensed Theo from earlier.
"Are you sure?"
"He was here."
"Well then, we should do something, right?" Mason questioned, "We should tell someone. Liam, you have to tell him."
"You think he'll even talk to me?" Liam wondered, thinking about his actions during the Supermoon.
"You're his Beta." Mason reminded him, "Doesn't he have to?"
"Where would I even start? "Sorry for trying to kill you"? "Sorry for leaving you for dead so that Theo could kill you"?"
"If, if you start off with sorry, the rest probably won't even matter."
Inside Eichen House, Landon Martin stood under a steaming shower with a spaced out look on his face. On his side, there was an angry red scar, in shape of a bite mark just below his ribs. At the doorway of the showers, Cross, a nurse of the mental facility, stood with a towel waiting, "All right, you've had long enough." The nurse told him, however Landon doesn't move an inch. Instead, he continued staring at the wall in front of him, facing away from the nurse, "Let's go." The nurse demanded.
Unseen from the other side of the room, Landon and Meredith were watching, "You have to wake up." Meredith told him.
"What if I can't?"
"Then you won't be able to help your friends and they'll die without you."
"How am I supposed to help them like this?" He pointed at his catatonic body in the shower.
"You learned to fight, didn't you?"
"Only a little."
"You learned more than you think you did and faster than an ordinary person could."
"But that doesn't matter now."
"It does." Meredith told him, "Because I'll teach you the rest." Landon gave her a curious look, "I'm going to show you how to use your voice." A smile broke across her face, "How to use it as a weapon."
Scott and Stiles decided to descend to the tunnel below the Telecom building. With the help of Stiles' flashlight, they found more mercury on the floor, "What is that?" Scott questioned when he spotted the words "Damnatio Memoriae" scrawled on the floor.
"It looks like Latin." Stiles guessed.
"Hold up that light." Scott directed, pulling out his phone, "I'm gonna get a picture of it." As soon as he was ready to take the picture, the light source moved, "Stiles, hold the light still."
The sound of Stiles hitting the ground caught Scott's attention as he turned seeing Tracy standing over Stiles' paralyzed body.
Tracy started the fight first as she attempted to make a swipe at Scott, who managed to jump back from the attack.
From the ground, Stiles could see another chimera sparking behind Scott while he was distracted dodging Tracy, "Scott, behind you!" Stiles called out to him.
As Tracy reached to stab Scott with her claw, Scott dodged the claw and placed it directly in Josh's path. Tracy ended up sticking Josh with her paralytic claws, causing him to fall right next to Stiles. And due to Josh's electrical power Tracy was shocked backward down the tunnel.
"Sucks, doesn't it?" Stiles questioned the now paralyzed Josh. He doesn't give an answer.
Scott stalked to a wall in the tunnel growling with red eyes glowing and Corey easily became visible and visibly terrified.
"Okay!" A voice suddenly echoed through the tunnels. At the end of the tunnel, close to where Stiles laid stood Theo, "Maybe they're not ready to take on an Alpha." He stared pointedly at the frightened chimera as Tracy stood by Corey's side, "Especially one that can smell fear."
"He's got fangs." Corey pointed out, still shaken by the whole experience.
"What did you do?" Scott questioned stunned.
"I found some new friends." Theo shared as Corey and Tracy wordlessly move Josh's body out the way, "I don't take rejection well."
"First world problems, am I right?" Stiles commented from the ground.
Theo kneeled to the ground and turned Stiles over, "Hey Stiles." He acknowledged with a smirk, reaching under Stiles, he set the paralyzed human against the wall.
He noticed the words on the floor and with a smash of his fist, he caused the ground to break making the words disappear, "You're going to leave here thinking that you need to worry about me."
Stiles made an eye roll, "That's a given."
"But you're wrong. We're back on the same side." Stiles made a grunt of disagreement, "Because of that thing..." He indicated at the hole from which Stiles and Scott came from, "That's what we need to worry about. Your pack and mine." Stiles' eyes narrowed at him, "We're gonna go back to school and pretend like we're normal teenagers, but at night, we will be fighting for our lives."
"What is it?" Stiles questioned.
"It's not a Chimera," Theo answered.
"But it's just a kid underneath." Scott pointed out, getting Theo's attention, "Someone like us."
Theo shook his head, "Not anymore."
Liam headed to the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic to find Scott, "Scott, I need to talk to you!" However, the building was empty, but the sound of a vehicle approaching caught his attention, "Scott?" It wasn't Scott, "What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you," Hayden answered as she got out of the car.
Liam gave a raised eyebrow, "Is that okay with Theo?"
"Probably not."
"Why are you here?"
"Because you are." A moment of silence fell over them, "Did you really almost kill Scott to save me?"
"It was a Supermoon. But... Yeah, I guess I did."
"That's really screwed up, Liam." Hayden told him, "He's one of your best friends."
"Yeah, now you're with Theo who told me to kill him."
"Something's different now." Hayden told him, "I don't know why, but ever since coming back, nothing feels the same. Nothing feels right."
"Nothing?"
"Except for you." She admitted, "You're the only thing that feels the same. The only thing that feels right." She looked a bit embarrassed, "I guess I just want to know how you feel about me."
Liam stared at her silently, before taking one step closer in her space and placed a kiss on her lips, to which Hayden returned.
Scott sat next to Stiles up against the wall, "I swear, if I get paralyzed more one time, I'm will knock his face in." Stiles grunted.
"Well, you didn't get knocked unconscious," Scott offered with a teasing smile, "Consider it as a bonus."
The corner of Stiles' mouth twitched at the effort of Scott attempting a joke, "Yeah, I get enough hits playing lacrosse."
An awkward moment of silence fell between them, "He knew what it meant." Scott breathed with minor defeat, breaking the silence, "And I can't remember the words."
"Damnatio Memoriae." Stiles recited with knowledge, "It means the condemnation of memory." Translating the words easily, "I think it also means that whatever the Dread Doctors created, whatever this last Chimera really is, it's not something new." A theory comes to mind, "It's something old. Really old."
"So they didn't create a new creature?" Scott guessed.
Stiles breathed out a deep breath, "They resurrected one."
Chris Argent made a surprise visit to an old relative, "Nothing pleases me more than a surprise visit." Gerard commented. He was still sick and leaking the black goo.
Chris gave his father a passive expression, "Do you know why I'm here?"
"I have heard rumors." Gerard answered, "A few bits of gossip manage to reach even this dark corner of Beacon Hills." Chris produced the yellow wolfsbane, "How long have you had that?"
Chris doesn't answer and tossed it to the floor. Gerard automatically fell to the floor for it and began eating the flowers. As a side of effect, Gerard began coughing, but instead of it being black goo, it's bright red blood, "All this to help Scott?" He questioned with some disgust.
Chris doesn't answer that question either, "You know about the Dread Doctors, don't you?"
"So they did succeed?"
"Tell me what it is."
"Oh, not what it is." Gerard shared, "What it was." He corrected, "A monster whose only purpose was to kill. Not for sustenance, not for revenge, not for any rational impulse other than the drive to end life wherever it's found. It also has a rather personal connection to our family." He told his son, "La Bête." He shared, "The Beast of Gevaudan."
Scott and Stiles hadn't moved from their spots on the ground. In another silence, Scott drew the inner circle of his pack symbol in the dirt on the tunnel floor, "We need help." Scott admitted, breaking the silence. "If Theo's got his own pack then we need ours." Scott pushed. Things between them were still tense between them, but with hope, Scott assumed that maybe Stiles would still want to help, despite the strain on their relationship. "We have to get the others back."
"The others?" Stiles challenged, "You mean Kira who's battling a homicidal fox spirit inside of her and let me tell you from experience; it's not the easiest thing in the world," Stiles reminded him, "Micah who isn't even speaking to either one of us. Granted, I may have a part in that." Stiles admitted, "Landon, who's stuck in Eichen House, and let's not forget the legit baby beta of the group who nearly killed you?"
Scott shook his head at the expected reaction from Stiles, "Also known as our best friends."
Stiles knew Scott had a point there, "Okay, how?"
"One by one." He suggested, looking at the circle in the dirt and back up at Stiles.
Stiles noticed the expression and gave a judgmental look, "You're not seriously going to make me do it?"
"You're part of the pack, right?" Scott asked, not hiding the hope in his voice.
Stiles stared at him fleetingly before giving him a head shake, "No, I'm not." Stiles told him, getting up from the ground to avoid looking at the devastated appearance on Scott's face, "But I know that without them, this town may be doomed, so I'll help you get them back and rid whatever creature that is." Stiles turned around, making eye contact with him, "So…who do you want to get first?"
Kira and Noshiko Yukimura arrived in the New Mexico desert, "How do we find them?" Kira questioned her mother.
"Skinwalkers are powerful shapeshifters and not particularly welcoming to strangers on their land." Noshiko shared, "They'll find us."
Hands reached out from the desert floor and three people climbed up out of the sand. They were Native Americans dressed in animal skins.
"Mom..." Kira voiced nerved, "I think they already have."
"Take out your sword."
Without question, Kira does, looking completely uncertain.
NEXT TIME ON TNH: La Bête du Gévaudan (Nov. 27th)
"I killed someone, Isaac. I killed an innocent kid using my spark..." Stiles whispers, knowing full well that he'd still be able to hear, "The Nogitsune was different."
"It was self-defense. Derek will understand that."
Stiles makes a headshake, "If Scott didn't understand that it was self-defense, why would Derek believe me?"
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"If I hadn't left you…let you explained what happened, we'd figured out that there were two different stories." Scott sighed, "Filled-in a lot of blanks." Stiles stayed silent, "I guess remembering how you acted towards Kate after what happened with Derek is what got to me." Scott confessed, "I know the circumstances were different, but-" Scott looked a little ashamed, "I guess a part of me is always worried about you."
