AUTHOR'S NOTE: I AM SO SORRY FOR ANY CONFUSION! IN THE EARLY CHAPTERS, I THOUGHT I FOUND ALL MY MISTAKES BUT I GUESS I DIDN'T. When I first started this story, I had Stiles' Mom named Miriam but then after the episodes came out, I switched it to Claudia. Someone caught the mistake and pointed it out so I'm sorry if you're confused. Now since I deleted that chapter from my documents, it's hard to go back in to change it since we're no longer allowed to copy and paste our work in here. So it will stay, which I'm not gonna lie, it's already making me cringe. I really want to go back in and change it.
On another note, thanks to those who keep reviewing! You really brighten up my mood, haha, and I hope you enjoy this chapter! :D
The Overlooked
Avery comes to when something flashes behind her closed eyelids and thunder rattles her once quiet mind. She suddenly realizes her head is pounding, her back and wrist are both sore, and there's a familiar coppery taste in her mouth. Lightning flashes yet again and Avery cringes at the brightness though her eyes are still closed. As she shifts in her seat, she realizes that she's in a moving vehicle and when she cracks open her eyes, she spots Stiles behind the wheel of his Jeep and Scott in the passenger seat in front of her as Stiles maneuvers his vehicle through the storm.
"Wha- what's going on?" She rasps.
The Jeep swerves as both Stiles and Scott turn in their seats to look at her, and Avery grimaces when her body hits the door.
"Sorry!" Stiles yelps as he quickly turns to keep his eyes on the road, glancing every few seconds over his shoulder. "It's good to see you join us in the realm of the living."
"Mhm." Avery hums as she sits up straighter, brushing her hair away from her eyes. "Where are we going?"
"To Derek's." Scott answers. "We need to warn him about Ms. Blake before she gets to him. You know, since they had their own thing going on."
Avery nods, breathing through the lingering pain in her body. "What the hell happened to me? I- I remember seeing Ms. Blake in the middle of everything going on in her classroom but I.. I don't-"
"You blacked out." Stiles mutters. "By the time I got into the room, Ms. Blake had taken Dad and I guess the pain became unbearable for you."
"S-she took Dad!" Avery's voice cracks as she yelps.
"Yeah but we're going to get him back." Stiles is quick to assure her. "We have to."
Stiles isn't paying attention since his eyes are on the road but Scott hears Avery's breath coming in short pants. As he turns in his seat, he finds Avery with her eyes clamped shut while trying to regain control of her breathing.
"Hey.. hey!" He calls out. "It's going to be fine. We will get him back, I promise, okay? But you need to calm down." He says softly and Stiles finally realizes that his sister is freaking out. "I'm going to do everything in my power to get your Dad back."
Tears leak out of Avery's shut eyes, the teen hanging onto Scott's words as she wills herself to calm down. She clutches at the seat belt that she finally realizes is strapping her to the seat before unlocking it and ripping it off. With the seat belt holding her down, it wasn't helping her with trying to calm herself.
"That's it." Scott sighs tiredly as he encourages her. "Breathe in and out slowly. It'll work with slowing your heart rate which is too high to be good at the moment."
Avery quickly nods, working on her breathing and sighs more-so to herself when she feels herself relaxing. She stretches out her arms after a moment, staring at her wrist and wondering about it's soreness. At her confused look, Scott fills her in. "Ms. Blake snapped your wrist when you attacked and then you got thrown into the wall. I'm not sure but I think you broke something when you collided with the wall. You were in so much pain." He tells her.
Avery frowns at that, bringing her wrist closer to eye level and rotating it once more. "But it's not broken." She mumbles. "I thought-"
"It was broken." Scott reiterates. "After you blacked out, we realized we needed to get you and Lydia-"
"Lydia?!" Avery suddenly cuts him off. "Where is she? Ms. Blake had her-"
"She's fine!" Stiles is quick to assure her. "Allison, her Dad, and Isaac stayed back with her- and by the way- you're going to need to contact that werewolf of yours." He sheepishly tells her. "He freaked when he saw Scott carrying you out from the school before the police could get there."
"Yeah. Okay." She sighs and pats down her pockets for her phone. When she finds it, she makes quick work of unlocking it and writing a quick message to Isaac; 'I'm okay. I'm awake though I'm not sure what happened. Stiles and Scott are still filling me in, I think.' She gently places her phone down next to her, going through her pockets in search of a hair-tie to keep her hair from getting in the way. When she finds one, she quickly ties her hair back in a messy ponytail, slightly grimacing at the soreness of her body. "So, again, why isn't anything broken if you said it was?"
"Well, Isaac wasn't the only one who freaked." Scott picked up his explanation. "Stiles and I didn't know what to do, and we almost let Allison and Isaac keep you to wait for an ambulance but then Stiles remembered that you had magical healing vampire blood in your room. We whisked you away, shoved some down your throat, and picked up some toys for you because I'm pretty sure you want to be there when we tell Derek about his girlfriend."
"You're damn right I do." She mumbles when the lit up screen of her phone catches her attention. When Scott and Stiles don't say anything else, she opens the text to find Isaac's reply; 'What happened? Scott and Stiles didn't tell us much and Lydia seems out of it. She keeps mumbling about Ms. Blake.'
Sighing, Avery tells him everything that she can remember. Isaac was quite shocked to find out that their teacher had been behind everything and livid when Avery told him of Ms. Blake breaking her wrist and possibly more when she got tossed into the wall. She was quick to assure him that she's all healed up now and that she, Stiles, and Scott are on the way to Derek's to tell him everything. Isaac tells her to keep safe and Avery tells him to keep an eye on the girls; that she'd text him when they needed him.
By the time they pull up to Derek's loft, Stiles and Scott are scrambling out of the jeep- both boys heading for the back where Stiles stows everything. Avery scrambles out too, going the fastest she can when she realizes that the lightning is flashing more frequently but the thunder isn't as loud. The wind is blowing rather harshly and it's starting to drizzle.
"Here." Scott says when Stiles slams the back of his jeep shut. "I figured you'd want these." He smirks as Avery gratefully takes her bow and quiver of silver-tipped arrows. "If Ms. Blake shows her face, you can get her back. Just don't kill her."
"I make no promises." Avery grunts as she drapes the quiver across her back. "Once we get the information we need, that bitch is dead."
Scott looks like he wants to persuade her to take a different route but Stiles beats him to the punch. "Sounds good to me. Now come on, we have an alpha to fill in."
Scott snaps his mouth shut, knowing full well he won't win this argument when the twins are going to be up against him. They quickly make their way inside, the three teens taking the rustic looking elevator up to the top, and racing towards Derek's place. Before Scott can slide open the door, Avery quickly notches an arrow- pointing it downward as they cautiously step inside.
"Derek?" Scott calls out. "We need to talk."
Derek appears through the gaping hole in the brick wall. When he takes in their appearance and lets their emotions roll over him, his brows crease in confusion. "Why does Avery seem like she's about to murder someone?"
"It's Ms. Blake." Scott blurts. "It's been her all along!" Avery holds her bow still, eyes darting all over the place and staying alert in case their teacher was hidden in the shadows.
Derek's eyes widen just a bit, the alpha stepping further towards them. "What do you mean it's been her-"
"The Darach." Stiles cuts him off. "Ms. Blake is the Darach and she just kidnapped our Dad."
"What are you-"
"She threw me across the room just by connecting her palm to my chest." Scott admits. "She broke Avery's wrist with a simple squeeze-"
"-and she sent me flying across the room with her white glowing eyes." Avery spits, her eyes ablaze. "The bitch is dead after we find out where she's keeping my Dad."
Derek lets their words sink in, his attention having been on the sound of their heart beats. Scott was a bit frantic- he wanting Derek to believe him while Stiles was all over the place. He could tell the pale teen was barely holding together if the tears gathering in his eyes were anything to go by. Ever since he's known the hyperactive teen, he'd never seen such emotion from him. But Avery- Avery was what made him believe. Her heart beat had been eerily calm as she spoke and not once did it jump even in her apparent numb rage.
They were telling the truth.
Before he can tell them to give him more information, his attention and Scott's both snap towards the door. "Hide." Derek quickly tells them. "I can hear someone approaching." Avery frowns, prepping her bow and arrow once more but Derek stops her. "No. Not yet, Avery. I want to see what she has to say for herself. I need to hear her out first." He says and when Avery locks gazes with him, she can see the emotion in his eyes and the way he shuts part of himself down, and reluctantly nods her consent.
"Fine. But afterward, I'm killing her."
"Fair enough." He concedes and then the three teens scramble to hide in the next room.
Before Avery hides around the corner, she sees the alpha exhale rather harshly- running his hand down the length of his face as if prepping himself for what's about to come. The loft door slides open and Scott pulls Avery out of sight before she can be seen.
"Derek?" Ms. Blake calls out, her voice grating on Avery's nerves and it takes every fiber of her being to not march out there and shoot arrow after arrow into the teacher. "Derek, where are you?" Her voice is frantic and scared as her heels click against the loft floor in search of the Hale alpha.
"Right here." He answers her.
"Oh, thank god." Ms. Blake sighs in relief, walking up to him and wrapping him up in a hug. "Something happened.. at the recital.. at the school. Okay, I need to tell you before you hear it- before you hear any of it from them."
The words spilling from her mouth has Avery clenching her jaw in anger and clenching her bow tightly in her hand. "From who?" Derek wonders.
"Scott." She immediately blurts. "Stiles.. Avery. They're going to tell you things. Things you can't believe- you have to trust me, okay? You trust me." And yeah, Avery is definitely going to kill her when she has the chance.
"What is it?" Derek asks calmly.
"You promise you'll listen to me?"
"Promise."
The duo lapse into a moment of silence, the thunder and lightning causing Avery to blink and remember that there was a storm going on. When the silence continues, she takes a quick peak around the wall and catches Derek and Ms. Blake kissing. For a split second, her mind whispers traitor but then she sees Ms. Blake tense and start to pull away.
"They're already here, aren't they?"
Derek's gaze jumps from Ms. Blake to over her shoulder and locking with Avery. The female Stilinski smugly smirks as she notches an arrow, holding it steady as she walks out with Stiles and Scott flanking her- pointing the arrow at a seemingly shocked and scared teacher. With Ms. Blake giving Derek her back, the three teens are the only ones who witness her gaze narrowing harshly directly at Avery before schooling her features back into that of a helpless victim.
Ms. Blake looks back and forth between Derek and the advancing group. "So they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?"
"We told him you were the one killing people." Scott grounds out, holding back his anger.
"Oh, that's right." She nervously chuckles. "Committing human sacrifices. What.. cutting their throats?" She says disbelievingly. "Yeah, I- I probably do it on my lunch hour that way I can get back to teaching high school English the rest of the day. That makes perfect sense."
Avery grits her teeth together, pulling the string back a little further to show the teacher they weren't messing around. "Where's our Dad?" Stiles sadly asks, tears running down his face.
"How should I know?" Ms. Blake answers before turning back to Derek. "Derek, tell me you don't believe this?"
Derek blankly watches the false emotions flash across Ms. Blake's face before he blinks and locks gazes with Stiles. "Do you know what happened to Stiles' father?" He asks instead of answering her.
"No." She shakes her head in denial.
Avery's fingers twitch as she thinks twice about letting her arrow fly. "Ask her why she almost killed Lydia."
"Lydia Martin?" Ms. Blake scoffs. "I don't know anything about that."
"Then what do you know?" Derek says and Avery can see the Hale alpha getting angrier as the seconds tick by.
"I know that these kids- for whatever misguided reason- are filling your head with an absurd story." She tries pleading with him before turning back to face Stiles, Avery, and Scott. "And one they can't prove, by the way."
Avery grins sardonically at that. "Let me nail you with an arrow so we can see your nifty little healing powers you displayed after my Dad shot you."
Ms. Blake quickly sneers at her before Scott speaks up next. "What if we can prove it?" He says before giving a look at Avery, a look that clearly says to back down before pulling out a small jar with white powder from behind his back.
"What is that?" Ms. Blake gulps and Avery knows that whatever Scott has, it has the teacher suddenly scared.
"My boss told me it's a poison and a cure." Scott says, stepping forward as he unscrews the lid of the jar. "Which means you can use it and it can be used against you."
"Mistletoe?" She sneers, taking a step back as Scott suddenly flings his hand out.
White powder circles around a now flailing Ms. Blake but it's when some of the powder clears and she screeches that has everyone gulping and taking a step back as they witness this woman's true nature. Her appearance is that of a bald and slashed apart face with missing lips- and it's this face that Lydia had told Avery about in confidence one night. The face Lydia saw during the explosion at the Motel but had been too terrified to speak to anyone about. As she flails some more, trying to get the powder away from her, the face of Jennifer Blake as they've come to know her is back in place.
Jennifer pants heavily when the mistletoe powder clears up- groaning and sighing harshly while Derek is looking at her in shock and then anger. Ms. Blake quiets down before trying to make a run for it and Avery nearly lets her arrow fly but Derek is there and gripping Jennifer by the throat. "Derek! Wait.. wait!" She pleads when Derek flicks his free hand out to the side- his claws making their appearance. "You need me!" She tells him.
"What are you?" He practically growls, his hand tightening it's hold on her throat.
"The only person who can save your sister." She gasps out. "Call Peter. Call him!"
Derek tightens his grip just little more, enough to make Ms. Blake flinch as he reaches into his pocket with his free hand- fishing out his phone. He takes his eyes off of Jennifer for a moment as he goes through his contact's list- finding Peter's name and calling him.
Putting the phone on speaker for the humans in the room, his gaze is back on Jennifer's face as she struggles to breathe. "How is she?" He immediately asks when Peter answers.
"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness. She's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance."
"Mistletoe." Scott breaths to which Derek repeats so Peter can hear.
"How did you know that?"
Derek doesn't answer and ends the call with his Uncle as he puts his phone away- glaring at Jennifer. He squeezes her throat, enough so that there's a small snap and she's groans out in pain- gasping for breath.
"Derek? Derek!" Scott raises his voice. "What are you doing?!"
"Her life.. it's in my hands." Jennifer gasps out, using the one excuse that she knows is certain so he doesn't kill her. Instead, it only pisses him off more and he raises his arm that's gripping her throat so her feet aren't touching the ground.
As Ms. Blake continues to struggle, Avery watches on in glee as the traitorous teacher struggles for breath. "Stop, Derek, stop!" Stiles suddenly pleads.
"Stilinski, you'll never find him." Jennifer then directs her words to Stiles, using the teen's love of his Father against him.
Avery snaps out of her moment of clouded judgment, the fact that it's her Dad too that's missing, before she blows out an aggravated sigh and lowers her bow. "Derek." She calls out, willing the alpha to stop. Derek holds his grip on her, glaring daggers at the woman who not only betrayed everyone but him as well. "Derek!" She yells louder, gaining his attention when he suddenly drops the teacher in a heap on the ground.
Ms. Blake chuckles, pressing her palms flat on the floor as she tilts her head up at Derek. "That's right. You need me." Her head then snaps toward the three teens. "All of you."
Gone is the helpless victim charade Ms. Blake was trying to pull off and in it's place is her true personality. The one of the conniving and manipulative bitch also known as the Darach with her sadistic smirk.
Jennifer smugly grins at them all- Derek and Scott gritting their teeth in anger at the fact that she's right while Stiles watches on helplessly. Before anyone can figure out what to do next, Avery releases her arrow and watches on numbly as it pierces through one of Ms. Blake's wrists.
The teacher hisses in pain, sneering and glaring at Avery. "Ouch." She grits out.
"What the fu-" Stiles nearly yelps as he then watches Ms. Blake easily rip out the arrow, the wound healing right before their eyes.
"That's for snapping my wrist earlier."
"A wrist that seems perfectly fine to me." Jennifer grins sardonically. "Tell me, Ms. Stilinski, what are you? You don't give off the aura of a supernatural being."
"Because I'm a human with excellent friends, you asshat." Avery says as she notches another arrow. "Now get your ass off the floor and start walking. You have a Hale to heal and a Father to return."
Ms. Blake grins at Avery mouthing off, standing up on her own two feet when Derek grips her upper bicep and starts marching her out of his loft. Avery follows behind them, an arrow notched and pointed at Ms. Blake's back as Scott and Stiles trail behind her. They all take the rickety elevator back down to ground level where Derek marches Jennifer through the rain and towards his vehicle.
Avery goes to follow but Stiles' hand coming down on her shoulder makes her hesitate. "Where you going? My jeep's this way."
"Yeah, well, I'm not letting her out of my eyesight." She tells him. "Scott can go with you and I'll be with Derek in case she tries to persuade him."
Stiles opens his mouth to argue but Scott's arm passing by his face cuts him off. "Here. You're going to need this then. I doubt you can shoot an arrow inside Derek's car."
Avery grins at him when she sees that he has her dagger. The dagger she dropped back in the classroom when Ms. Blake broke her wrist. "Thanks, Scooby."
"Just be safe, Scrappy."
Stiles rolls his eyes at their nicknames, biting his tongue and letting his sister go without another word. As soon as Derek situates himself in the driver's seat, Avery runs and climbs into the back seat behind him. When Jennifer makes eye contact with her, she rolls her eyes which only causes Avery to snicker.
"You didn't think you'd get off that easy, did you?"
Derek huffs when Jennifer goes back to staring out the windshield, Avery setting her bow down on the seat next to her while twirling the dagger in hand. The first half of the car ride is mostly silent- the only sound coming from the engine of the car as Derek presses down on the gas pedal. The rain is coming down in sheets as it pounds against the windshield and now it seems as if the lightning and thunder has disappeared.
"You should know I'm not doing this because I have to." Jennifer suddenly says. "I want to. I could still run and you wouldn't have an easy time stopping me." Avery rolls her eyes at the confession, twirling the dagger in her hand as she looks out her window. "But I don't want your sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do."
"Shutup." Derek deadpans.
But Jennifer just keeps on going. "You need to hear the whole story, Derek. You need to know just how connected we really are."
"Stop. Talking." Derek says which causes Avery to snort in amusement.
Avery's snort then catches Jennifer's attention and when Avery catches her staring, all amusement drains from her face as she fixes her teacher with her best fuck off glare. With a roll of her eyes, Jennifer turns back to face forward- keeping her mouth shut.
Before Avery can go back to twirling the dagger, her phone vibrates in her pocket. Quickly taking it out, she realizes it's from Scott.
'Stiles doesn't feel right about this. He says it feels like all this- Derek finding out- was part of her plan. Keep a close eye on her.'
Avery quickly sends back an affirmative before pocketing her phone and gripping her dagger tight. She sets her gaze on Ms. Blake's form and doesn't take her eyes off of her the rest of the ride to the hospital.
When they finally screech to a stop in front of the hospital, the rain is coming down even harder than before along with the lightning. Derek quickly gets out with Ms. Blake automatically following suit. Everyone scrambles to get out of the rain but Avery still ends up getting soaked because she has to pull out her bow and sling it across her back while also hiding her dagger from view in her back pocket. Given the emptiness of the parking lot, Avery feels confident enough that no-one is going to be paying her any attention with the storm going on.
"What's that?" She hears Scott say over the storm.
Turning to look back, she sees Stiles gripping a wooden bat. "What? You got claws, Avery has a bow, and I got a bat." He shrugs.
The female Stilinski grins as she turns back around, jogging to keep up behind Derek who was gripping Ms. Blake's arm rather harshly as he leads them through the halls. As expected, the remaining Doctors and Nurses are scrambling about with the remaining patients- trying to get together documents and medicines that they don't even see Derek pulling Jennifer along with him or Avery's bow and arrows slung across her back or even that fact that Stiles is wielding a bat.
"Scott!" Someone hollers, stalling the group and when they turn around, they find it's Ms. MsCall. "Scott, what are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating."
"We're here for Cora." He tells her.
"All of you?!" She replies, her eyes traveling over Derek and Jennifer before narrowing suspiciously at Stiles and Avery. "Why does Stiles have my bat? And is Avery planning on doing archery sometime soon?"
"Mom, just trust me on this." Scott says, focusing her attention back on him. "You need to get out of here." Her face seems to fall as she looks over the group one more time and takes in the seriousness of the situation. "Right now."
Reluctantly, Ms. McCall nods. "The building is supposed to be cleared in thirty minutes." She hurriedly tells him. We've got two ambulances that are coming back- one's ten minutes out, the other twenty. Cora needs to be on one of those. They'll be picking up in the basement garage."
"Got it." Scott murmurs as he catalogs the information in his mind, walking back slowly before the entire group takes off towards the elevators as fast as they can without drawing unwanted attention.
When Derek presses the button and they wait for the elevator, Avery slinks to the back of the group. When the doors slide open- Scott and Stiles stand in the back corners, Derek pulls Jennifer in with him as they stand in the middle, and Avery steps to stand in front of all of them as the doors slide closed. Derek reaches over, pressing the number for the floor that Cora is on before setting his gaze on the numbers at top.
Ms. Blake rolls her eyes as she glances down at his hand on her upper arm. "You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help."
Avery watches her closely, using the reflective doors to keep an eye the teacher behind her. She sees when Ms. Blake suddenly looks over her left shoulder only to find Scott glaring at her. Ms. Blake slowly turns back around, only to furrow her brows in confusion before looking over her right shoulder where Stiles is glaring at her too- the bat gripped tightly in his hands.
Ms. Blake looks forward with a roll of her eyes, an expression on her face that clearly says oh, please but when she looks directly at the door's reflective surface- she catches Avery glaring at her through the reflection.
Ms. Blake scoffs with another roll of her eyes and Avery has to clench her fists to keep from striking out. "Roll your eyes all you want, Jennifer, but believe me-" She says suddenly, her anger finally reaching it's breaking point and gaining everyone's attention in the elevator. "-if you do not return my Dad and heal Cora, I will have you hunted down to the ends of the Earth." Jennifer starts to grin only to have Avery harden her features further in order to show Ms. Blake that she isn't messing around. "Remember those friends of mine I mentioned earlier? All it will take is one call and you're done for. My friends will make your so-called powers look like poorly imitated magic tricks and when they find you, they will torture you. They'll torture you until they break you- mind, body, and soul- and then, they'll torture you some more before carving out your heart and serving it to me on a silver platter."
By the end of her warning, Jennifer actually looks visibly shaken at the lethal tone Avery's voice had took on. Scott and Derek look a bit wide-eyed at the threat Avery just issued, and Stiles looks just a tad proud. As the elevator dings and the doors slide open, Avery steps to the side to let Derek and Jennifer walk out first. Stiles and Scott flank her- both boys holding their fists out for her to bump with her own.
"That was awesome." Stiles murmurs, bumping fists with his sister.
Avery finally allows herself to grin, bumping fists with her brother and then Scott before finally hurrying up to catch up with Derek as the lights in the building flicker.
Derek finally comes to a stop outside of a room- an empty room that has a puddle of black liquid with black droplets leading out of the room. Everyone is puzzled as to where it could be that Cora has gotten off to.
"Derek." Scott suddenly says, gaining the alphas attention and nodding towards the droplets on the ground.
All their gazes follow the trail to where they led up to a set of brown doors. There's a commotion on the other side- grunting and groaning- and Avery slowly starts to pull her bow from her back.
The doors burst open, Peter sliding out on his pack as he groans. "We had a problem." He says up at them before lifting his head and looking towards the open doors. "Big problem."
Had this been any other day with any other problem, Avery would have laughed. But the powerful roar sounding next has Avery and everyone else looking up, and into the room Peter slid from only to find one very large alpha setting his sights on them. He's larger than a normal alpha werewolf and with the scar running from the middle of it's forehead to the middle of it's chest- Avery realizes it's the alpha that Aiden and Ethan morph into.
Derek, Jennifer, Avery, Scott, and Stiles each take a step back- Stiles gripping his bat just a little bit harder and without taking her eyes off of the alpha, Avery slips an arrow from the quiver on her back and easily notches it. Out of her peripheral vision, she sees Derek's features morph into his wolf.
Derek growls and the twins answer back with an even louder growl. At the same time, the twins and Derek take off at a sprint towards each other- each of them gaining momentum before Derek tries to tackle them.
Aiden and Ethan easily gain control of the fight and as Avery tries to find an available opening to launch an arrow, she hears Scott growling before he too joins in on the fight. Scott runs, leaps up on the wall before using that momentum to toss himself at the twins who easily dodge Scott's claws as he comes down.
"Cora." Avery hears her brother breathe. As her gaze snaps over to him, she follows his gaze down the hall and behind the fight where Cora is laying helplessly on the ground. "Help me." He says as he leans down toward Peter. "Cover us." He then throws over his shoulder at Avery.
Avery quickly nods, watching as Peter and Stiles run behind the alpha morphed twins as they pin Scott by his throat up against the wall. With Scott struggling to breathe, Avery forgets about Jennifer momentarily as she shuffles forward with her arrow directed at Aiden and Ethan.
"Ethan.. Aiden, stop!" Scott manages to tell them. "You don't know what you're doing."
Avery closes her eyes briefly- after watching Stiles and Peter successfully make it to Cora and pick her up- mentally apologizing to Ethan for what she's about to do.
"All we want is her!"
Avery lets the arrow fly, quickly reaching back for another one as the twins roar out in agony. She sees as they angrily rip the arrow out from their forearm after dropping Scott to the ground before locking gazes with her. As they drop the arrow at their feet, she pulls the string back after notching another arrow, ready to let it fly when the twins' eyes lock on something over her shoulder. The twins roar yet again, running towards her but doubt starts to creep in before she can release her arrow. Instead, she lunges to the side as the morphed alpha nears. When her back hits the wall, she looks at what was behind her that pissed off the twins only see catch a glimpse of Jennifer in the elevator before the doors closed- taking Jennifer to a destination of her own.
Fuck!
With the twins momentarily distracted, she turns back to Scott and Derek who are motioning for her to join them. She runs as fast as she can to them- slowing down to pick up the arrow she had nailed Aiden and Ethan with- and while slipping it back into the quiver, she follows the two werewolves as they catch up with Peter, Stiles, and Cora.
Peter has Cora draped over his shoulder as they rush into a room. "Don't stop. Don't stop!" Derek yells only to realize that Stiles has- in fact- stopped to stare at the bat in his hands, looking back to the door before stepping off to the side where anyone coming in won't see him. Peter has already rushed out the second set of doors- Scott, Derek, and Avery stopping to look back. "Stiles!"
The morphed twins stroll in growling and Avery quickly notches an arrow in case they advance. She sees Stiles raise the bat above his head behind the twins' back, swinging as hard as he can at the back of their head only to have to bat splinter to pieces upon contact.
Aiden/Ethan growls at him- Avery itching to release the arrow but they easily let Stiles get away. That right there is enough for her to realize that they really don't want to hurt anyone else. They're just after Ms. Blake.
The twins then set their eyes on Scott and Derek after Stiles runs behind them with Avery, the twins growling as if daring one of them to make a move. For a moment, Avery thinks it's just going to be a stare down but then she sees Scott looking up and down before he steps on Derek's conjoined hands- the Hale alpha giving the beta a boost- and launches him up toward the ceiling. Scott claws the end of the rectangular light fixture, letting it swing down and crash into Aiden and Ethan. The lights then flicker as Stiles, Avery, Derek, and Scott book it out of the room.
As Derek and Scott take the lead- using Peter's scent to trail him- the lights completely go out. The group pauses as one and Avery feels her phone vibrating in her back pocket but just as she pulls it out, the generators kick on and they're suddenly running again.
When they finally make it the room, Cora is laid out on a stretcher with Peter checking over her and Derek is shutting the doors and making sure no-one is behind them.
"Where's the big guy?"
"Close." Derek answers his Uncle.
"What about Ms. Blake?" Avery avoids her brother's gaze- putting the arrow back in it's quiver in favor of checking her phone. Derek doesn't even acknowledge the question but when Stiles finally looks to Scott- he shakes his head. "What do you mean- what does that mean? Like.. she's gone? Scott, are you kidding me?!"
"Quiet!" Derek whisper shouts at him.
"Me be quiet? Me?!" Stiles suddenly steps up to Derek. "Huh? You telling me what do now when your psychotic mass murdering girlfriend- the second one you've dated, by the way- has got my Dad somewhere tied up waiting to be ritually sacrificed?!" Derek lets the teen vent, clenching his jaw in anger but not lashing out. He has every right to be upset but mentioning that Derek dated two psychos was a bit of a low-blow.
"Stiles, they're still out there!" Scott finally moves to intervene muttering lowly as to not attract the alphas. Avery moves in as well and grabs her brother by the sleeve to pull him back away from an already fuming Derek.
"A-and they want her, right?" Stiles replies back. "Which means now we don't have her either so my Dad and Cora are both dead."
"Not yet." Scott tells him before moving back to where Cora is laid out- his attention on Peter. "Is she really dying?"
"She's definitely not getting any better."
"There has to be something we can do." Avery voices, the teen wracking her mind for an idea. "We need to help her."
The doors suddenly swing open- everyone's attention zeroing in on the intruder- only to see Ms. Blake standing there. "You can't. Only I can. I can save her and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is." Everyone watches the so-called teacher, Avery slowly putting her phone away thinking about notching an arrow or going for her dagger. "There is a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead so I'll help you but only when I'm out of here and safe." Avery's lips twist into a sneer- Jennifer's words not sitting right with her. "Only then."
Before anyone can say anything, Derek suddenly throws back a small table with medical instruments on it and lunging for Jennifer. "Wait!" Scott stops him.
Derek points at her angrily. "She was trying to get out."
"I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that."
"If you wanna show you're one of the good guys," Stiles says, stepping forward now. "-heal her." He points to Cora.
"Not 'til I'm safe." Jennifer immediately shuts him down.
"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion." Peter dead-pans. "Let's torture her."
"Works for me." Derek mutters as he tries to get out of Scott's hold.
"You've got a third vote from me." Avery smirks as she pulls out her dagger, twirling it before gripping it with her gaze set on Ms. Blake.
As Avery, Derek, and Peter have a stare down with Jennifer- the P.A system comes to life. "Um, c-can I have your attention?" Scott freezes from nudging Derek back, his head snapping up towards the speaker. Stiles softly curses and the blood in Avery's veins turn cold. It's Ms. McCall. "Mr. Deucalion- ex- excuse me, just Deucalion- requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R reception." All eyes snap towards Jennifer- the female in question gulping in fear before rolling her eyes. "Do this and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes." It sounds like Ms. McCall is about to say more but the system suddenly cuts off.
All eyes turn to Scott who looks pained and worried, and who's staring directly at Jennifer. "He's not going to hurt her." She shakes her head in denial.
"Shutup!" Derek snaps at her.
"He won't!" She says louder, almost angry. "Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true."
Avery's heart beat starts to quicken, Ms. Blake's words ringing in her ears as she realizes what she's talking about. Derek and Peter quickly glance at her before all eyes turn to Scott. "What does she mean?" Derek finally asks.
Scott doesn't want to answer so Jennifer does so for him. "You're not the only one Deucalion wants in his pack." Derek glances back down at Scott- the beta pup looking defeated. "Deucalion just doesn't want an alpha pack- he wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks."
The room goes silent for a moment, Derek staring down Scott as Peter suddenly mumbles, "A true alpha."
Avery hears, sucking in a breath quickly at his correct guess and when Stiles looks at her, she nods her head confirming that Peter is correct. "What's that?" Stiles asks.
"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another." Peter answers while looking at Derek before turning to look at Scott. "One that can rise by the force of his own will. Our little Scott."
There's a whole bunch of tense looks between Derek, Peter, and Scott but Scott finally settles his attention on Peter. "It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here." He then turns his gaze on Jennifer.
"Scott, your mom!" Stiles steps forward.
"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in twenty minutes and I don't think we've been here that long. So if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here."
Peter sighs. "The twins aren't going to let us just walk out."
"I'll distract them."
"You mean fight them." Derek says.
"Whatever I have to do."
"I'll help." Avery steps up, siding with Scott.
"Wait, what?!" Stiles yelps. "No. No! You're not going to take on a set of alphas who are conjoined like the freaks they are."
"I have to." Avery turns to her brother, talking in a soothing voice. "Whether we like or not, we need to get that-" She points an accusing finger at Jennifer. "-traitorous bitch to safety. As well as Cora. We need to get Dad back, Stiles, and since I can handle a bow pretty damn well- I need to be out in the field kicking some ass."
"I'll help them." Derek quickly says, cutting off Stiles' impending argument.
"Um, sorry but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek." Ms. Blake butts in.
"Oh, jump off his dick already." Avery groans to which Peter chuckles happily.
"I'll do it." Every head whirls towards Peter who volunteered to help. "But I prefer to be out there with an advantage."
"Advantage? Like what, you mean like a weapon?" Stiles asks since he knows he's going to get nowhere with his twin.
"Something better than a baseball bat." Peter quips.
There's a moments hesitation before Scott, Stiles, and Avery look around- the three teens lunging for the nearest set of drawers and cabinets that are full of a variety of hospital drugs in order to find something to use against the twins to weaken them. Derek and Peter immediately join in on the search while Ms. Blake stands uselessly by the doors.
"Hey, wait!" Stiles suddenly calls out and when everyone looks at him, he's holding up the paddles to a defibrillator. "What about these?"
"Do you know how to use those?" Derek asks him.
"Well, no."
"Then put them down."
Stiles does as he's told with a nod before continuing on with his search and Avery bites back a grin. She's standing next to Scott, looking through a red metal cabinet that has a bunch of drawers but all she's come across so far is gauze and tape.
"Epinephrine?" Scott suddenly calls out. Avery looks up at him to see him holding the largest needle and syringe she's ever seen.
"That's only going to make them stronger." Derek shakes his head.
Avery is ready to continue her search but from the corner of her eye, she sees Peter freeze mid-thought. "How strong?"
Peter's gaze is set on the syringe full of clear liquid as Avery and Scott's gaze dart back and forth between the syringe and Peter. They suddenly realize what he's hinting at and both teens scurry forward. "Where do you want it?" Scott asks as he gets the remaining air bubble out.
Peter rolls his eyes at Scott's thoughtfulness as to where he wants the needle stuck so Avery quickly takes charge. "Of for fucks sake, Scott." She says as she drops her bow, ripping the syringe from his hand. "He's a werewolf, there's no need to be gentle."
All of them cringe at the force of which Avery uses to slam the needle into Peter's chest and presses down on the plunger. Peter groans at the sensation, the epinephrine also known as adrenaline, immediately kicks in.
"Okay, when you hear the roar of the fight and I give the signal, duck out behind me." Avery tells Stiles and Derek. "Peter and Scott can do the fighting and I'll be there to cover you in case they spot you."
No-one argues with her, instead they're all kind of watching Peter as he zombie walks out of the room. Avery snorts a quick laugh, picking up her bow and notching an arrow as Scott follows Peter with his own claws extended and a mouth full of fangs. Avery goes to follow but Stiles reaches forward and latches on to her wrist.
With a pained expression, he tells her, "Be careful out there."
"I always am, bro." She tells him with a grin before leaving the room and setting up like a professional with her arrow pointed straight ahead.
"Alright, boys, lets rumble." Peter pants. Aiden and Ethan answer back with two ferocious growls and Peter answers back fiercely with one of his own.
Peter runs straight ahead and easily gets knocked into the wall by the once again joined alphas, and Scott is ducking their claws. Both Peter and Scott then grab the alphas by their waist, holding them in place and when Avery gives the nod of her head, Stiles and Jennifer scramble out of the room with Cora being thrown over Derek's shoulders.
As soon as they're out of sight, Avery finds an opening and lets her arrow fly- piercing the twins in the leg. They roar out- momentarily distracted enough for Peter and Scott to jump on their back. Avery runs forward, dodging the flailing arms and legs as the twins try to dislodge the two betas from their form, and gets to the other side of the hallway with ease. Scott and Peter go flying into the wall, Scott hitting a moving cart rather harshly as Avery notches another arrow.
Aiden and Ethan angrily rip out the arrow from their leg, and throw it to the side before they shove an advancing Scott into the wall. He quickly gets up, catching Avery's gaze and run towards her when the twins throw Peter into the cart that Scott had hit earlier. As the twins turn towards the room Jennifer had just been in, Peter quickly gets up and books it towards Scott and Avery as they run down the next hall. Behind them, they hear the twins roar and they know that they're pissed because Jennifer slipped away once again.
They're running as fast as they can, Peter and Scott stumbling a step behind as Avery zig zags them through hallways that she's never even been down before. It's when they're in the third hallway that the generators completely go out- the main building's power flicking on and off with the storm. Majority of the light that Avery is using to guide her is coming from the outside lightning.
They start running again, turning down the next available empty hall when Peter collapses to the ground against the wall. "That shot didn't last very long."
"For Christ's sake, Peter, get up!" Avery pants just when Scott suddenly kneels down, picking up the older beta's arm and draping it around his neck to help him up.
Scott takes the lead this time since his eyes are better adjusted for the dark and Avery follows while also keeping watch over her shoulder in case she needs to quickly let an arrow fly. A door is suddenly kicked open and when Avery turns back around, she sees that it was Scott who kicked open the door while shoving Peter inside. Avery quickly rushes in and Scott shuts the door behind them, locks it, and keeps watch through the small window.
"Those twins are really starting to piss me off." Peter groans as he catches his breath.
"How the hell are we supposed to get passed them?" Scott mutters, a trail of blood marring his forehead.
"Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up." Peter says while Avery just rolls her eyes but Peter sees it. "You know, Avery, we wouldn't have to be putting up with this if you had just called in your friends." Avery's eyes snap to his, narrowing in slight anger since she knows which friends he's referring to. "You talked about your vampire and hybrid friends as if they were the strongest beings around. Why didn't you call them in when you had the chance?"
"Because honestly," Avery slips her bow across her back so that she's able to cross her arms over her chest and fix Peter with her best bitch face. "-Elijah deals with strictly vampire politics. If I had called Nik in, he would have slaughtered everyone." She grits out, suddenly angry at Peter for bringing them up.
"Exactly my point." Peter drawls. "He could have taken care of the alphas for us and we wouldn't have this Darach problem as well."
Scott suddenly looks at Avery- wondering the same thing. If Nik was so powerful, why hadn't Avery called him in to help them? When Avery catches Scott staring at her, she shakes her head. "You don't get it. Nik would have killed everyone. Everyone includes those who I've befriended."
Peter's expression closes off after that with a huff and she can practically see the hope draining from Scott's face. "Why us too?"
"Because," Avery sighs as she moves around the room. "-when I moved here, this was supposed to be my fresh start with my real family. Nik was way excited for me to finally have the normal life away from New Orleans and if he found out just how many supernatural beings are actually in my life again, he'll get pissed and eliminate everyone to guarantee the normal human life."
Peter and Scott drop the topic after that but when Scott averts his gaze, Avery sees that something has caught his attention. Peter sees Scott staring intensely at something and when he turns to Avery, she's staring at the same thing with her lips pursed in contemplation. When he finally looks to see what they're both staring at, he sees it's a laundry chute.
"Seriously?" Peter groans when he sees it.
"Yep." Scott and Avery say in union. "But I'm not dropping first." Avery quickly tells them. "If there's no basket at the end of that chute, you two have healing abilities. I don't."
Scott nods along, agreeing with her while Peter rolls his eyes. Avery quickly runs up to the chute, opening it up and gesturing for one of the wolves to climb in. When Scott hesitates, Peter steps up and climbs in- letting himself drop out of sight. When there's no painful thump, Avery gestures for Scott to go. Scott doesn't argue and quickly climbs in, letting himself drop out of view as well. This time, there is a painful groan and Avery can't help but laugh despite the situation. Without wasting another second, Avery takes off her bow to hold in her hand before climbing in and letting herself drop.
Miraculously, she lands between the two wolves though she feels Peter shove her from behind and ends up hitting Scott in the face with her free hand. "You two couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds?"
Avery snorts in amusement, making sure her bow isn't broken before scrambling to climb out of the basket of sheets they landed in. Peter is still groaning, stretching his arm back when Avery hears something pop followed by the loud vibration of Scott's phone.
Simultaneously, Peter and Avery look to Scott who's staring down in worry at his phone. "They didn't get out, did they?" Peter says with confidence that shows he's correct before jumping out of the basket- Scott following suit.
"It was Derek." Scott mutters when he sees Avery staring at him, biting her lip in worry. "The ambulance was in the basement but Kali killed the driver and has the keys."
"Okay, and.."
"Stiles is in the back of the ambulance with Cora and Kali chased Derek and Jennifer into the elevator where they're now stuck."
"Fuck." Avery groans. "Okay, well, we need to get Derek and Jennifer first." She says as her face scrunches up as if the words left a bad taste in her mouth. "They're sitting ducks right now and if it's Jennifer they want, Stiles should be pretty much safe."
"You're right." Scott breathes out as he quickly texts Derek that they're on their way.
Once again, the trio is off running to figure out just where the hell it is that Derek and Jennifer are stuck. As they're running down empty hallways with the light of lightning through the windows guiding Avery- Avery realizes that Peter is in really bad shape. A second later, Scott too notices and doesn't think twice about draping the elder wolf's arm around his neck to keep him running.
"We need to drop Peter off somewhere." Scott grunts. "He's not healing as fast as he used to."
"Perks of being brought back from the dead." Peter grunts out to which Avery grins.
"Well, where do we leave him. The twins will harm him if they find him."
"Stiles." Scott tells her. "We drop him off in the ambulance with Stiles and Cora."
Avery just nods, watching out where she's running so she doesn't run into anything. The second Scott turns down another hallway, Avery hits a wayward cart, tripping over it. She cringes at the clatter that the glass vials make and Scott skids to a stop to make sure she's okay. Within seconds, Avery's back on her feet and running.
"There!" Scott mutters as he points to a doorway that looks to be leading into the garage. "Stiles is in the ambulance out there."
Avery pushes herself faster, easily running out in front of Scott who's still holding up Peter. When her eyes land on the ambulance, she sighs with relief as she heads for the back door.
"Stiles!" She breathes out quickly as she slams the window with her palm watching her brother's wide-eyed expression. "Stiles, open the door."
Stiles quickly unlocks the doors from the inside. "Oh god, sorry." He mumbles before briefly pulling Avery into a hug. "You're okay!"
"Of course." She scoffs before helping Scott push Peter forward, Stiles taking the hint and helping Peter inside. "I told you your little sis has skills."
He nods before looking around. "Where's Derek and Jennifer?"
"We have to go back for them.."
"-and Melissa." Avery cuts Scott off.
"Okay.. okay." Stiles takes it in and for once, he doesn't argue about his sister helping out. "Well, two problems: Kali's got the keys to this thing and I just saw the twins like thirty seconds ago."
There's the sound of metal hitting metal off in the distance that has Scott and Avery both turning around, and Avery immediately reaching behind her to pull free and arrow.
"Stay here." Scott tells him.
When Scott starts to tug on Avery's elbow for her to follow, she pulls out of his grip- lowering her bow. "Here." She says, reaching into her back pocket and pulling free her dagger. "Just in case." Stiles takes the dagger with a somewhat relieved sigh and just like that, Avery and Scott are back to running inside the hospital.
Their running soon slows down to a walk down an empty hall, and the walk slows down to a complete stop. The way Scott is curiously looking forward and then back has Avery notching her arrow again and setting up in case someone comes out. The sound of a metal instrument falls and both Avery and Scott turn to look in the other direction.
With both their attentions looking the other way- neither of them see the morphed alpha coming up behind them. Avery feels herself being shoved forward, the teen falling as the sound of a fist meeting something wooden echoes down the hall. The arrow goes sliding across the floor, Avery quickly scrambling to her feet when she sees the alpha pushing Scott into the wall before gripping his shirt and hitting the beta's back against a metal shelf.
Scott gets gripped by the throat, thrust up against the wall with feet dangling and as Avery looks down at her trembling hands- because she hadn't expected Ethan or Aiden to actually touch her much less shove her down- she feels a hand wrapping around her throat. In her state of shock and sudden fear, Avery drops her bow as her hands fly up to the much larger one that's holding her as she's pinned up against the wall next to Scott.
"Where is she?!" the mixed angered voice of Aiden and Ethan shout at them. "We're trying not to hurt you!" They yell.
With Avery being only human, and the grip the twins have on her throat, she's nearly out of oxygen from her struggling.
"Try harder." Scott manages to say.
Just before the black spots could morph together and completely take over her vision, Avery sags with relief at the sight of Melissa McCall sneaking up with the paddles of a charged defibrillator. "Hey!" She shouts, gaining the twin's attention. Aiden and Ethan look back at her, dropping Scott and Avery to the floor where Avery sucks in all the air she can and reaches blindly for her bow. "I'd like to try something." Melissa says. The twins take one step towards Melissa and then the twins are twitching rather viciously as if they were being electrocuted. When the twins fall back, coming apart so they're both themselves again, Avery looks up in awe at Scott's mother who's holding the defibrillator paddles. "Sweetheart, Sweetie- get up." She tells both Scott and Avery as she drops the paddles. Scott quickly scrambles to his feet as Melissa holds out her hand for Avery.
Once they're all steadied and Avery checks over her bow to make sure it isn't broken, Scott nudges his Mom down the opposite hall and they're running again. Running away from the twins who- when they come to- are going to be extremely pissed.
When it seems like they've put enough space between them- Scott slows down the girls to a fast walk so he can use his hearing to listen in for incoming enemies.
"What happened with Deucalion?" He suddenly murmurs, looking over his shoulder at his Mom.
"N-nothing." Melissa answers him. "He made me show him where the switch was for the generators, made me turn it off, and then he just let me go. Said it was a gesture of good will, no other reason."
"He had to have a reason." Scott finally realizes.
"Yeah, I don't think he does anything without a reason." Avery voices, butting herself in. "He doesn't seem the type."
"Well, if that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified then don't worry about it. I got that covered." She says quickly, trying to catch her breath.
Avery wraps her arm around Melissa's shoulders in a comforting manner, squeezing her just the slightest into her side. When she's about to open her mouth to verbally comfort her, they run into Scott's hand- stalling them in their tracks- and snaps her mouth shut. Scott's looking forward where a corner is coming up and he's creeping up slowly as if he suspects someone being there.
As Scott continues to slowly creep forward, Avery manages to hear a couple of clicks that has her suddenly putting herself in front of Melissa and reaching back for an arrow. Notching it rather quickly, she steps forward with Scott with her arrow poised and pointed and ready to shoot.
Their steps are slow and careful and just as they turn the corner, they're faced with a startled Chris who's pointing a gun at them, Allison, and Isaac. Avery breathes out a sigh of relief, her lips twitching into a grin when her eyes land on Isaac. She lowers her bow and Chris lowers his gun, and Isaac is rushing forward and wrapping Avery in a hug.
He knows better, knows not to do the whole sudden touching with her, but when it only takes two seconds for Avery to start relaxing in his hold and wrap her arms around him- he knows she's making progress with touching him and he touching her.
"You're safe." Isaac breathes out almost tiredly, tucking Avery's head beneath his chin. "I thought the worst when you weren't answering any of our texts."
"Yeah, well, I've been a bit busy." She nervously chuckles and when she feels Isaac pulling back, his eyes zeroing in on her neck, she tenses once more.
One of Isaac's hands come up, his fingers brushing over the skin of her neck. "Someone's touched you. Here."
Scott's eyes widen at what Isaac is picking up on and to keep the younger wolf from getting rage-filled because he realizes the relationship that's established between the two, he deflects for Avery. "Allison, h-how's Lydia?"
Avery's attention snaps to Allison- Avery quickly pulling away from Isaac as she realizes that Allison's there too and throws her arms around the Huntress. Chris looks shocked, he not knowing that his daughter and Avery were close.
"Hey, I'm glad you're okay. How was Lydia when you last saw her?"
"Fine." Allison assures her, squeezing tightly before letting Avery go. "She has some bruising around her neck but was more worried about you. We heard what happened, are you okay?"
"Yeah.. yeah." Avery quickly waves the attention off. "All healed up and it was totally worth it to see Derek nearly strangle Jennifer to death and then I shot an arrow through her wrist so yeah.. totally good." Allison's lip twitch in brief amusement. "And plus, once this is all over and we have my Dad back and Cora is healed. I have permission to kill the bitch."
Both Allison and Melissa snort at that- Chris and Scott rolling their eyes. "While all this chat is nice, we need to get somewhere safe and come up with a plan."
The girls quickly look at Chris who had spoke and see Scott agreeing along with him. "Okay, well, lead the way." Avery tells them.
Scott takes the lead followed by Melissa, Allison, Isaac who gripped Avery's hand in his own and is running behind them with Chris bringing up the end with his gun. After hurriedly walking for a while, Melissa points Scott to a room that they could use while they come up with a plan.
"Okay, so what are we doing?" Chris asks once he realizes they're heading to a room.
"We need to get Jennifer to safety. She's the only one who can cure Cora and give us Avery and Stiles' Dad back but she'll only do so once she's safe out of the hospital and away from the alphas."
"Well where is she?" Allison asks.
"She and Derek were chased into the elevator by Kali when the generators were shut off."
"So then they're essentially trapped." Chris came to the realization of what they weren't saying as he and Scott pushed open swinging doors to the room they were headed at.
"Yeah. Right." Scott confirms.
"So then there's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on." Isaac realizes.
Allison and Avery hang back, their attention torn between looking out the windows from the swinging doors to see if anyone's coming and listening to their family and friends plot.
"But wait, wait, wait." Melissa cuts in. "If the power's back on, they're going to hear the elevator moving, right?"
"And then they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops." Avery throws in- she and Allison joining the rest of the group by a stretcher they were gathered around.
"We can't get in a fight with them." Scott tells Chris when it looks as if he were about to suggest it.
Chris sighs and looks over at his daughter. "Well, you've got us now."
"It's too much to risk." Scott denies him. "They want her dead and if she dies-"
"-there's nothing we can do for my Dad or Cora." Avery mumbles, her eyes downcast as the weight of situation fully slams into her.
There's a moment of silence when they all see how it's finally affecting the usually held together Stilinski teen. "I don't even think I know which teacher this is." Chris finally shatters the silence, looking at all the teens and waiting for an explanation.
"She's, uh, she's the one with the brown hair." Isaac mutters without thought. "She's kind of hot." Avery, Scott, and Allison all seem to be nodding along but the moment Isaac says she's hot- they freeze and everyone looks at him with are you kidding me expressions. "I, uh, it's just an observation." He adds on.
Chris and Melissa look away while Scott and Allison then let their gazes travel to Avery who's glaring at Isaac. When he realizes he's being stared at, he looks down at her. "You want to run that by me one more time?" She says, her voice oddly cold and lethal.
Scott and Allison fight off matching grins, Isaac cheeks flaming red in the dim light. Luckily for him, Allison comes to his rescue. "I seem to recall- on the night I officially met you- you saying something about Ms. Blake strutting her sexy ass in the class."
This time, it's Avery's cheeks who turn red as Isaac calms down and lets a grin tilt his lips upward. "If I don't remember- it didn't happen." She quickly waves off their attention.
Avery ignores Isaac's gaze while Scott, Chris, and Melissa try to wrack their brains for a plan. When Avery looks towards Allison- Allison is grinning at her and Avery's about to tell her off when she realizes something. Her brows furrow together as she tilts her head, staring intensely at Allison when Allison shifts uncomfortably from foot to foot. "What are you looking at?" She mumbles.
"You." Avery tells her bluntly. "You kind of.. you look like.." She trails off and Allison's gaze snaps forward to where she remembered seeing a mirror.
Allison takes a moment to think of who she could possibly look like and when it hits her, she jolts with realization. "I got an idea." She tells the room and immediately has their attention. "They want Ms. Blake, right? Well what if we give them a decoy Ms. Blake." Everyone looks at her, really looks at and Scott is frantically pulling his phone out. "I'm going to need her shoes.."
"..and the sweater jacket." Avery throws in. "You need to look like her in the dark and smell like her."
Scott quickly nods along, typing out a text on his phone. Moments later, it buzzes back. "Okay, Derek gaze me his location. There's an opening where he can slip me the things. They're not far from here so I should be able to make it without attracting attention."
When Scott quickly leaves the room, Allison gains the remaining occupants attention. "Melissa, I'm going to need you to turn the power back on. You think you can manage that without getting caught?"
"Yeah.. yeah." She answers. "Deucalion had me earlier but he let me go. If I run into them, they won't hold me."
"Good." Allison tells her. "By the time you make it up there, we should have everyone outside and confused."
Melissa nods as she tries to calm her breath for what she's about to do.
"Isaac, Avery," Allison turns to them. "-get outside to my Dad's car. When Scott gets back with Jennifer's things, I'm going to take off and lure whoever is listening to the front entrance. I'm going to leave my phone on video chat on the floor and when you see the twins run by, floor it to the basement to pick up whoever needs to get out."
"Okay.. okay, yeah." Isaac gulps. "We can do that."
"What about me?" Chris asks as he tosses Isaac the keys to his vehicle.
"You'll be outside in the front hiding. Place my bow out of view so when I duck down to pick it up, you come around the corner and shoot. Shoot to kill."
Chris jerks his head in an affirmative manner. "Done."
Scott gets back with the shoes and sweater jacket, handing them to Allison who quickly slips them on. Allison then quickly relays the message to him, Scott finding nothing wrong when he says he's going to stay back on the first floor so when the power gets turned back on, he's going to get Derek and Jennifer. They all agree.
Moments later when they have the plan cemented- Avery and Isaac are sent out first to wait in the car, and Allison tells them that her Dad would be out there shortly. Having memorized the route they came from, Isaac easily leads himself and Avery back outside and inside Mr. Argent's vehicle. Once they get settled in and Isaac turns the car on, he hooks his phone up on the car charger by the radio as they wait for the call.
"So," He drawls when the silence becomes too much. "-are you going to tell me why I smelled another werewolf's scent around your neck or do I have to guess?" He casually asks.
Avery breathes out deeply, shutting her eyes briefly. "You're not going to like the answer to that."
"But it could possibly be better than what I'm thinking." He calmly fires back.
When Isaac calmly looks at her, his expression is hard to read. "Aiden and Ethan had me pinned by my throat against the wall." She finds herself blurting the truth.
Upon hearing the answer, Isaac's eyes dimly glow and yeah, that's not good. "They strangled you!" He grits out.
"Yes and no but it's totally fine." Avery quickly amends. "Ms. McCall was there and shocked the crap out of them with those paddle thingies you see all the time on those cheesy Doctor shows."
Whatever Isaac is about to fire back with, it's cut off with his phone buzzing. He takes a deep breath, calming himself before he reaches over and answers the video call.
"You ready?" Allison immediately asks when her face shows up on the screen.
"Yeah." Isaac sighs and Allison nods.
"You're not nervous, are you?"
"Do I look nervous?" Isaac sasses back.
"No. Not at all." Allison shakes her head with a detained grin and sets her phone on the floor. Isaac rolls his eyes as he looks out the windshield and Avery turns her gaze to the phone to keep an eye on the screen.
"Did he look nervous?" Chris' voice suddenly comes through the speaker.
"Terrified." Allison answers.
Avery holds in a giggle as Isaac looks disbelievingly down at the screen. "Yeah, I can still hear you. Very, very, clearly."
Allison's head suddenly swoops back into view, her expression sheepish. "Just go as soon as you see them, okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I got it."
Avery finally lets herself giggle and she can feel the tense atmosphere of the car lessen. She hears Allison tell her Dad to go that she needs to start running soon and moments later, she sees Chris exit through the front entrance. He quickly makes his way towards them, picking out Allison's bow from the backseat of the car and hiding it by the curb before he hides behind a tree.
Avery starts to get nervous the second she hears Allison's heels clicking in the distance over the phone and moments later, the twins are seen running by on camera. Isaac quickly unhooks his phone, tossing it into Avery's lap and shifts into gear, flooring the gas pedal to make his way around back and into the basement.
Avery can hear gunshots ring out seconds later, the lights are flickering to life through the windows that she can see and before she knows it, they're screeching to a stop by the ambulance where Peter throws open the doors.
Isaac and Avery quickly scramble out of the car to help.
"Come on, come on, come on." Isaac tries to hurry them, Stiles helping steady Cora's unconscious form in Peter's grasp.
"I got it, I got it." Peter assures Stiles. "Get the door." He then tells Isaac.
Avery sees her twin looking at her but then something to the side of him catches his attention. He's looking at a clipboard of forms, his finger running down paper before coming to a stop.
"Stiles?" Avery tries to gain his attention, his fingers trembling over a set of words.
"Stiles, let's go!" Isaac shouts at him.
Avery turns around and sees that Peter and Cora are already in the back seat with Isaac making his way to the driver's side. Stiles looks at Isaac then Avery before his gaze falls back to the paper. He quickly looks over his shoulder, clearly thinking about something before glancing at Avery and booking it in the opposite direction.
"Stiles!" Isaac calls out at his retreating form. Avery quickly runs up to the paper, her eyes catching what her brother had seen. Parent or Guardian. And just like that, it clicked. Parents are Guardians and Guardians is what Jennifer was collecting. Her stomach suddenly churns at the thought of Melissa being inside as well as Jennifer who she knew for a fact they shouldn't have trusted. "Avery?" Isaac gains her attention.
Her gaze snaps to him, tears clouding her vision- tears of anger for trusting the one who was the Darach and sadness because she knew she wasn't getting her Dad back. Before Isaac could stop her, Avery is running after Stiles.
Through her tears of frustration, she realizes just what a horrible runner her brother is when she easily spots him in her vision. "Hey, Scott! Scott, wait!" She hears her brother say.
She keeps running until she crashes into her brother's back. Stiles, who had stopped because he was staring down at something in the elevator. Getting around him, Avery gasps when she sees Derek sprawled on the floor- Jennifer nowhere to be seen.
"Go. Go!" She shoves her brother in the only direction Scott could have gone. "I'll stay with him." Stiles doesn't need to be told twice as he rushes off after his best friend. With the tears of frustration coming more frequently, Avery kneels down by Derek's body. "Come on, D, please don't be dead." She mumbles as she lays her head down on his chest, ear pressed over his heart only to hear the faint heart beat. She breathes out a sigh of relief, sitting up and moving so that she can maneuver his head onto her lap.
All she could do was sit and wait until Scott and Stiles came back.
Dun. Dun. Dun. Jennifer should never be trusted ;) Hope you enjoyed this chapter!