After showering off the gasoline that they had been doused in Logan and Jeff made their way back to Logan's car. They noticed out of the corner of their eyes two people being chased by hunters. Logan grabbed his nun chucks from the truck well Jeff pulled out a retractable Bo staff he had with him. Logan noticed they were heading for the lacrosse filed and told Jeff to follow them as they took a short cut. They got to the field just as they realised one of the people being chased was Bret and one of the other wolves from Satomi's pack. Jeff knocked an arrow to the ground with his staff well Logan caught another looked at it and looked at the hunter who shot it and said "ninja skills and werewolf reflexes not a good combo for you."
He then smelt the tip and licked it as Jeff said "seriously you're tasting the arrow?"
Logan replied "yeah I Just wanted to check and see how much of an amateur these guys are they didn't even think to use wolfsbane."
He then turned to Bret and said "come on will take you somewhere safe."
Logan pulled out his phone and called Scott who had taken Liam to his house to clean up after being doused with gasoline.
* - McCall House -*
Scott had just gotten the call when Liam came down. He turned to him and said "Logan and his friend just helped Bret and some of his pack to find a safe place to hide after they got attacked by hunters."
Liam then looked at him and said "I'm not sure I'm like you and your brother or if I really fit in with you guys?"
Scott looked at him and said "what do you mean?"
Liam then said "it's not the whole werewolf thing it's constantly saving others I just don't know how you guys do it without getting killed."
Scott then said "not all of us were so lucky." He then told him about Kira and how she had been stabbed by an Oni just as she stabbed the nogitsune.
Liam then said "is that the same night Aiden almost died?"
Scott said "yeah so he told you about that?"
Liam nodded and said "yeah when he took me to an old distillery to train me a song came on the car radio he said reminded him of himself and he told me about how he almost died."
Scott then said "if you want I'll take you home ok. If you need us you have everyone's number now right."
Liam said "yeah tanks and I have everyone except Logan's friends."
Scott said "don't worry I don't have it either."
Scott then grabbed his helmet and grabbed a spare for Liam as they headed out to take Scott's bike.
*- At the school -*
Danny saw Malia sitting by herself and said "do you want to talk to someone who knows what it's like to be kept on the outside of a secret?"
Malia and said "what would that one be?"
Danny said "Ethan didn't tell me right away he was werewolf I kind of found it out when I looked up what his last name was, then I found him crying on my bathroom floor one night and he had glowing blue eyes and fangs."
Malia then said "hell of a way to find out."
Danny said "yeah but I knew he wouldn't hurt me as he hadn't up to that point, well at least physically."
Malia then said "did he ever tell you why his eyes are blue?"
Danny nodded and said "yeah he did eventually. It was after the first pack meeting I got invited too and Isaac had said something about him and his brother killing Boyd. A few days later I had him tell me everything."
Malia then said "are you're still going out with him?"
Danny said "yeah he's cute charming a good kisser and great in bed too, and not just in a sexual way he keeps me warm when it's cold too."
Malia then said "I guess I should talk to Stiles then."
Danny then said "talking is always good especially when a secret has been brought out. Do you want a ride to his house or anywhere?"
Malia then said "he sent me a text that he's at the hospital."
Danny then said is he ok?"
She replied "yeah he said it's just a concussion."
Danny said "common I'll give you a ride. Aiden took off to find Lydia and Ethan has gone with Logan and his Friend so I could use some company."
*- The Hospital -*
Stiles was pacing around the room and opened the door to look around before leaving, he didn't really want to stick around too much longer as he knew the rest of the pack might need him plus he had to tell Scott about Brunski and Meredith. Just as he was about to make his escape Melissa McCall came over and said "oh no you're staying right here until you get cleared you had a concussion and the doctor wants a ct scan."
Stiles then said "but Dad hasn't paid for my last one."
Melissa said "relax that was an MRI anyway ok don't worry about your Dad and money ok he'll take care of it ok."
Stiles then said "yeah he said the same thing too. It's just I feel kind of responsible for some of it."
Melissa then said "look if anyone is responsible for you being possessed its Mrs. Yukimura ok."
Stiles then smiled and said "ok I'll stay for now. Can you get me a tape player?" The last part was said as he held up the tape that Brunski had played for them.
Melissa then said "I'll see what I can do."
*- the sheriffs' office -*
Aiden had just arrived and sat next to Lydia who looked over to him and said "where's your partner in crime?"
Aden replied "Eth went to help Scott and Logan with Bret and his pack. Plus when you told me you almost died I figured I should be here to talk to you cause I kind of know what it's like."
Lydia said "yeah I guess you do and you had another brush with it again tonight."
He nodded as the Sheriff came out and said "well I'm getting nowhere with Meredith I think we need a psychologist or a medium."
Aiden then said "if you want I could rough her up and make her talk."
The Sheriff looked at him and said "I'll pretend I didn't hear that."
Aiden nodded and said "ok but the offer is on the table if you need it."
The Sheriff then said "look why don't you two go home or something."
Lydia then said "I'm not going anywhere until she talks."
Aiden then said "are we sure she's competent after all she was in Eichen house for awhile?"
Lydia then said "she was able to bribe Brunski and somehow get Kate to open the hale vault. Plus she also wrote the death poll and arranged to and pays people to kill so I think she has to have some sort of competence to know what is going on."
*- Beacon Hills Animal Clinic -*
Scott had just arrived as Allison opened the door and kissed him and said "I got her just after Logan called me."
Scott then walked into the room just as Satomi approached Jeff and said "you seem familiar."
Jeff put his hands together and bowed to her and said "I know you too Satomi my names Jeff Varulv."
Allison then said "interesting I wonder if it means anything."
Jeff turned to her and said "it means Werewolf in Norwegian, Silver."
Allison nodded and said "so where do we go we can't all stay here."
Scott then said "what about a warehouse?"
Logan then said "wherever we take them we're going to need help. None of these guys are much in the way of fighting."
Jeff then said "yeah Buddhism is good at teaching control but not much else."
*- Back at the Sheriff station -*
Lydia was lying down with her head in Aiden's lap, Aiden had his head against the wall also sleeping well the psychologist was talking with Meredith. The Sheriff then came out and said "I should have gone with the medium."
Deputy Parish then came in and said "we've gone through Brunski's office and haven't found anything."
The Sheriff turned to them again and said "look why don't you two just go home. You two can't be comfortable sleeping there."
Aiden said "I've slept in worse places. Although I'll admit I'm not like Ethan and I can't fall asleep anywhere like he does."
Lydia then said "let me talk to her banshee to banshee."
*- At the hospital -*
Melissa came back to the room Stiles was in and said "I didn't find a tape player but I did find these two." Danny and Malia walked into the room.
Malia then said "Danny talked to me a bit about the rough patches him and Ethan had so I want to talk to you."
Melisa then whispered to Danny "we should leave them alone."
Danny nodded as he followed her out of the room and notice she locked the door behind them she then slipped him the key and said "give them a few minutes on their own before you unlock it."
Melissa then took him to another room and said "so how are things with you and Ethan?"
Danny said "not bad I try and keep out of this stuff as much as I can I have been looking at the code for the dead pool list and can't figure out how it was made. But that doesn't really mean much as it's in an older computer code."
Mellissa then said "so where is Ethan right now anyway?"
Danny said "he's with Scott and Logan their helping hide another pack somewhere."
Melissa then said "another pack of werewolves?"
Danny said "yeah somebody called Satomi."
Melissa replied "she's very nice actually and very old apparently."
Danny said "yeah Logan said something about her knowing Derek's mom."
Melissa then said "yeah and Logan knew her too apparently he knew everything about the hale family, but he couldn't say anything unless they knew about them and they weren't hunters."
Danny said "I can understand that outside of the pack no one knows what Ethan is, even some of my closest human friends except for Jackson as he's kind of involved even if he is out of town."
Melissa then said "I need to get back to work but if you need someone to talk to about any of this I'm here anytime and I can try and talk some sense into Ethan if you need me to do that anytime."
Danny said "thanks, Ethan's actually not to bad now there was only one time where he left me without saying anything but I forgave him for it because him and Aiden had to figure some stuff out."
Melissa then said "was that when Scott offered to have them in his pack?"
Danny said "no before they were in his pack after they weren't Alphas and had no pack except themselves. It was before the whole Stiles thing too."
Melissa nodded and said "here's my number all of the pack has it anyway so you should have it too."
*-Back in Stiles room in the hospital -*
Stiles tried the door and said "they locked it."
Malia then said "I can break it if you want?"
Stiles the realised why she had locked it and said "no I've done enough damage in this hospital", as he thought about everything he had done as the nogitsune, he then turned back to her and said "we should talk"
Malia nodded and said "I talked to Danny and he told me a little about some of the stuff in his and Ethan's relationship and I kind of get why you kept Peter secret from me."
Stiles then said "yeah Danny's a good guy for relationship advice although what he see in Ethan I don't really get."
Malia then said "there are some people that don't get our relationship but I like you and want to give it a try."
Stiles then said "you like me?"
Malia nodded and said "yeah I do I like you a lot."
Stiles then leaned in and kissed her.
As they kissed Danny watched from the window and turned the key before he headed to the desk were Melissa was and said "they just kissed and made up. It kind of reminds me of the time Ethan first told me he loved me. He also said I was the first person outside of Aiden he'd said it too for a long time."
Melissa then said "that's good for both of you and for Stiles."
She then said "look if he needs to go do something to help I'll let him go but only if you stay with him and get him back her if anything happens to him."
Danny nodded and said "yeah I will."
Mellissa then said "good now we need to get him to his Cat Scat first."
*- Argent Arms International -*
Chris walked in and put a plant of some kind of wolfsbane in a safe in one of the offices there. He then saw some muddy footprints on the ground. He raised his gun back up ready to confront whomever had left them. A shadowy figure appears behind one of the hanging pieces of plastic and Chris is ready to fire but one of Satomi's metal spikes grazes his hand and embeds itself into the wall behind him.
Bret then growled and bore his teeth well Jeff held out his Bo staff. Scoot then said "Jeff, Bret Stand down he's on our side?"
Chris then turned to Scott and said "next time you bring guests over let me know in advance."
Scott nodded as Satomi approached and said "we've met before but yet I think I should trust you because Scott trusts you."
Chris then said "I'm not here to hunt you I'm here to help now."
Jeff then step forward and said "I don't think we've met but I know your daughter and Scott trusts you so can I silver. I'm Jeff Varulv."
Chris then said "insetting Norse for werewolf."
Jeff then said "yeah and I'm the last of my family here in North America."
Chris then said "what happened to them?"
Jeff then said "they were killed by hunters like your family and I was spared only because I was hiding at our emissaries' animal clinic. I had fight with my sister and walked out to pout. When I found out he comforted me and said he'll look after me no matter what and he does what can to help me."
Chris then said "do you know who was responsible for it."
Jeff nodded and looked over at Logan's shirt and said "them the Calvarias."
Chris looked at Logan and said "she'll kill you for wearing that you know."
Logan said "nah she'll kill me for being a werewolf I just thought it was a funny souvenir to buy well we were there."
Chris nodded and laughed as he said "good point."
Satomi then said "I don't know how much I can trust you after all everywhere now that my pack turns to escape town we get corralled by hunters."
Chris then said "there not hunters if there accepting payment to do it now."
Another man who was laying low in the room stepped forward and said "what about me you pay me to watch over Logan."
Chris then said "Mark you're a good hunter that's why I chose you for the job plus you've remained loyal to me well the others left when they heard about the change in the code. It's good you're here though were going to need all the help we can get"
Scott then said "look all we need is some time for Lydia to talk to Meredith."
Chris said "we'll buy as much time as you need."
*- Stilinski house -*
After Stiles had been released from the hospital after his CT scan Danny followed him and Malia there. They found a tape player and started listening to it. Danny commentated that Brunski must have been one really sick kind of guy to make tapes of him killing people. As they were listening to it again Stiles realised it wasn't recorded at Eichen house but somewhere else as he pointed out that Brunski was talking about bringing her back well Loraine (Lydia's Grandmother )was somewhere else as she said "he wouldn't be doing that as she heard the recorder in his pocket.
*- Sheriff Station -*
Lydia and Aiden entered the room where Meredith was being held she looked at Aiden and said "you're supposed to be dead."
Aiden said "yeah well you can thank my brother, the Valkyries and Odin for that one. Apparently my life still has some value to it."
Meredith replied "interesting, you've seen the Valkyries, and they let you return."
Aiden said "yeah they did it because I did the same for Ethan when he was 12."
Lydia then said "ok let's talk we need to figure this out we talk it out banshee to banshee or Aiden her will get physical."
The Sheriff looked at her well she continued and said "You used Brunski right? You knew he'd killed people and that he would do it again. He used my grandmother's code for the dead pool, he put it online. He took the money from the Hale Vault, and then turned the bearer bonds into cash. He made the payments. So did he make you fake your death too to cover up for everything?"
Meredith then said "I want to help but I need to talk to Peter Hale first."
*- Meanwhile in Stiles room at home -*
They were still listening to the tape when Malia noticed something in the background and told Stiles to turn up the sound she then said "that's the record player at the lake house."
Danny then said "what record player in the lake house?"
Stiles then told him about the sound proof room and filled him in about Lydia's grandmother as well.
Danny then said "do you want me to drive or should we take your jeep?"
Stiles then said "we'll take your car and thanks for helping."
Danny said "don't worry about it I want to help end this. Ethan has been on edge so much lately after he found his name on this dead pool we haven't really had much time together except at school."
*- Back at Argent Arms International -*
Chris and Mark went around checking the various motion sensors around the building so they would know if anyone came in, that was following the pack of werewolves hiding there. Scott had also called in Derek for help who commented that Satomi's pack may have claws and Fangs but they're not fighters. Jeff replied "yeah it's one thing to control yourself, it's another to knew when to let loose to defend yourself."
Derek looked at him and said "who are you?"
Jeff then introduced himself and said he was here to help. Braden then said "that's why I'm here too," as she cocked the shotgun she had with her.
Scott then said "Lydia and Aiden are still talking to Meredith. Stiles is going to the lake house with Malia and Danny. They're all trying to stop this."
Bret then stepped forward and said "what if there is no stopping this? What if it doesn't end until we're all dead?"
Derek then said "this needs to end now we need to send a message to every hunter professional killer whoever has the list we are going to create our own dead poll with them on it. We won't stop until this ends. If they think they can kill us for money then they end up on our dead pool."
Chris then turned to Satomi and said "I remember meeting you before but you weren't a Buddhist then."
Satomi replied "you weren't protecting werewolves then either."
Chris then said "can I ask you something about your mantra?"
Satomi then said "The sun, The Moon, The truth three things that can't be hidden. The truth for me is that werewolves can be violent creatures."
Jeff said "yes we can but we can also be loyal, kind, docile, but when we need to we should be able to fight."
Satomi then turned to him and said "you didn't always think that."
Jeff said "no but I also didn't think I would be an Alpha when I was 13. Well I was teaching Logan control he taught me some stuff too. He taught me to fight with martial arts. I find now that fighting with a Bo staff balances me."
Chris then said "it goes to show all of us are violent."
Satomi then said "yes but some more than others."
Just then one of the motion detectors went off and some smoke grenades rolled into the room.
*- Back at the sheriff station -*
Peter has arrived and looks at Meredith through the two way glass into the interrogation room as her consider why she took the money from him. He then went into the room and demanded to know why she stole from him put his nephew and daughter on a dead pool list.
Meredith looked at him and put his hand on his face and said "your burns are gone?"
Lydia then realised "she knew him."
Peter insisted that he didn't know her to which she replied that he must not remember her. Peter then garbed her and put his claws into her to read his thoughts. Deputy Parish who was in the room drew his gun as Lydia Aiden and the Sheriff came in Aiden then stood in front of the gun and said "don't shoot him it could kill Meredith. Breaking a connection like that between a werewolf and anyone can be deadly. Which is one of the reasons why Eth and I have never done it."
Lydia then said "didn't Ethan do something like this the night you almost died."
Aiden said "yeah but other then that neither of us have ever done it."
Lydia suddenly realises she can hear what Meredith is thinking and narrates what's happening. Inside Meredith's memory we see her getting hurt at the lake house and her time in the hospital after. She remembers a Doctor describing her injuries. "Patient has been unresponsive for several weeks. No sign of physical trauma, no response to external stimuli, our feeling is that the damage is primarily psychological."
Meredith begins mumbling, neither the Sheriff or Deputy Parrish can understand her but Lydia says she's getting it "perfectly."
Meredith and Peter had been hospitalized side by side. Peter was in a coma after the fire that left him badly burned and killed most of the Hales. It seems Meredith could hear Peter's thoughts while they were there for "weeks or months."
While he was in his coma, Peter was ranting the whole time about how he warned his sister Talia that something like the fire was going to happen, that the Argents were going to strike at them, but she wouldn't take him seriously. Peter said Talia made the family weak and the weakest in the herd get picked off by the predators. They used to be the Apex Predators until Talia turned them into sheep.
Peter vows to act as a "Vengeful god" and raze this Earth to the ground. He vows to take out all the supernaturals, Banshee, Windigo and all the other weak shape shifters in Beacon Hills and start over, with a stronger breed of supernaturals fathered by him.
He lays out his plan to hire people to do the killing; he mentions The Mute, The Chemist and The Desert Wolf specifically, using the family money in the Hale vault. He even says the list of targets will be known as The Dead Pool. He says anyone can become a killer for the right price because when it comes down to it, everyone can be corrupted by money.
Peter then released Meredith and the two of them fall backwards. Parish and Aiden help Meredith to her chair well Lydia looked at Peter and said to him "it was your idea all along but you don't remember it."
* - At the lake house -*
Stiles, Malia and Danny were sitting in the quiet room with the record playing. They realised they were getting nowhere with it so Stiles turned it off. Malia then looked at it again and said "guys I can still hear something."
Danny and Stiles looked at each other and walked over to the record player and studied it. Danny looked down at the cord coming out of the wall and said "that's a pretty odd plug for this thing, what if there's something else here we're not seeing?"
Stiles said "yeah give me a hand with this." The two of them then moved the record payer away from the wall. Stiles picked up the cable and pulled on it and it pulled some of the wall with it. He pulled on more of it until part of the wall came away and exposed an old computer.
Danny looked at it and said "I've only seen pictures of these things, how is this still working?"
Stiles then said "it must be coined to the dead pool in some way."
*- Meanwhile at the Argent Warehouse -*
All hell was breaking loose the werewolves who could fight were helping protect those who couldn't. Bret actually turned out to be a pretty good fighter when he had his back against the wall; Logan made a note to himself to talk to him about it later.
It seemed liked there were more of them coming and Bred said "there's too many of them to deal with."
*- Back in the sheriff station -*
The Sheriff and Parish both had their guns drawn on Peter; the Sheriff was talking about arresting him.
Peter then said "how can you hold me accountable fro something that happened well I was in a coma."
Lydia then said "Meredith got the whole plan from you."
Peter then said "I was in a coma, I was a raving lunatic do you have any idea what it's like for my kind to be like that. I was out of my mind she was listing to the ramblings of a mad man."
Lydia then looked at the Sheriff and said "we need to stop this, there are four of us in here on the dead poll and Meredith wants Peter to kill us."
The Sheriff still has his gun aimed at Peter who said "you better be a perfect shot."
The Sheriff replied "I figure even a bullet through the head will be pretty hard to heal from."
Peter then said "so just curious how do you plan to charge me. Will a judge really believe you when you tell him a werewolf in a coma told a banshee to create a list of people to kill?"
Aiden said "he has appoint, it would be like charging Mrs. Yukimura for the Oni attacks. Who would believe you other then us."
The Sheriff lowered his gun and said to Peter "that's twice there won't be a third."
Meredith seemed to be agitated as Peter left the room promising that it was finished.
*- Back at the lake house -*
Malia is ready to smash the computer when Stiles and Danny worn her not to. Danny said "look you can't just smash this thing you could get hurt even if you can heal from it. You don't know how much electricity is going through this thing we need to find a way to turn it off."
Stiles then said "maybe Lydia knows."
Danny then said "why is she some sort of ancient computer expert or something?"
Stiles then said "I don't know it's just a feeling."
Stiles then called Lydia using a video chat that the pack had found for their phones just in case they need to show each other something.
Lydia then said "I'm not really sure how to shut it down." Danny looked at it well Stiles was showing her the old computer and said "there's some sort of lock up there that looks like it needs a key but I can't see one around here." Danny then pulled out his phone and used it like a flashlight to see if it had fallen on the floor or something.
Just then Lydia said "wait show me the floor again," to Stiles who asked why as she said "the satins gone, what if it wasn't wine in the wine bottle that spilled on the carpet?"
Stiles then asked her what wine it was and ran to the kitchen to grab it. When he came back he had a bottle that sounded like it had something in it. He then said "does anyone have a wine opener?"
Danny then said "you went downstairs to grab a bottle of wine and you didn't bring a corkscrew?"
Stiles then said "I wasn't thinking about that."
Malia then took the bottle and threw it on the ground and said "see problem solved."
Stiles then picked through the broken glass as Danny said "shouldn't the werewolf in the room do that."
Malia then said "I'm a werecoyote."
Danny said "sorry I just assumed I didn't know."
Malia then said "that's ok I didn't know anyone outside of the pack knew."
Danny said "I'm not exactly outside of the pack; I just stay out of this stuff when I can, my Boyfriends a werewolf in the pack so it makes me pack."
As they were talking Stiles had taken the key and put it in the lock and turned it the computer then shut down.
*- At the Argent Warehouse -*
Scott had gotten one of the hunters on his back and was about to kill him. Scott looked like he was turning into something like Deucalion or Peter. Logan ran at him and threw him off the hunter. Scott was about to attack him again when the phones of all the hunters rang. Scott garbed the one from the hunter he was on top of and looked at it. There was text from the Benefactor saying "ALL CONTRACTS TERMINATED."
As they looked around Scott looked at Logan and said "thanks you saved me from killing him."
Logan said "you're welcome that's what older brother are for making sure their baby brother doesn't do something stupid Lobito."
He then put his arm around Scott as he said "I thought I said not to call me that Loggie."
Logan smiled and said "whatever you sat Scotty, whatever you say."
Allison was also looking around and turned to them and said "is it over?"
*- Back at the Sheriff station -*
Lydia was sitting beside Meredith well Aiden came in with some tea and sat beside them after he handed them both a cup. Lydia then said to her "why did you do it?"
Meredith then said "because I heard you and I took it as a sign."
Lydia then said "what do you mean you heard me?"
Meredith then told her how she had heard her call out that night at Oak Creek. Lydia then said "Allison was supposed to die that night but Scott got to her somehow and saved her."
Meredith then said "I knew it was time then to stop all of this and get rid of the monsters like us."
Lydia then said "you know not all werewolves are monsters look at Scott and his brother."
Aiden then said "my brother and I may have blue eyes and we may have done some bad things but it doesn't make us monsters."
Lydia then said "look not all monsters do monstrous things, sometimes they do and have a reason for them." She said the last part as he put an arm around Aiden.
Meredith then said "oh my god what have I done."
Aiden then said "relax what's done is what's done ok and all that matters is that people who care for you are safe."
Meredith then said "not all of them are."
*- Down in the sewers -*
Peter had retreated there to find Kate and think about everything he had found out. She pointed out to him other then the dead poll things were seaming to go his way. Peter then said "not exactly but close enough, but it's not over yet, not when I'm this close to killing Scott McCall."
Sorry about this chapter being late but I was at my families cottage earlier last week and didn't have internet to be able to get a sinopsis to use for help writing the chapter. I hope you ll like it. I figure I will do the last two chapters and then go back to stuff in my other McCall pack stories until the start of season five and take it from there. For anyone who has read this before or is reading it for the first time the next two chapters are coming soon I just wanted to revoke and fix any mistakes/ typos i had in the previous chapters.
