Disclaimer: "I do not own Teen Wolf. The show, the characters, and any quotes from the show belong to Jeff Davis and his amazing team of writers. I only own Nixie, and anything I make her do or say."

Also, just a heads up. I know this is the episode where Gerard and Chris tell the story of the Maid of Gevaudan and in the episode we see in detail all of what happened to the beast. How he came to be and how he was killed. In my story though, and this is just a personal choice of mine, I'm not quoting or going into all that detail. So the bits of the story that are the flashbacks in the TV episode... those will only be referenced here, I'm not including all the details. Just wanted to let you guys know.

Okay... sorry for interrupting again. Enjoy!

Chapter 9: Episode 5x18

Lydia doesn't take this task lightly. After all Nixie and her conflicting supernatural emotions had been through, she felt like it was a lot being said that Nixie had charged her with keeping Jordan here. Nixie had always known it was stupid to think Lydia and Jordan would get together, behind her back or otherwise. Still, Lydia knows for a time it had tormented her thoughts because the dragon hadn't been on the same page as her.

Nixie is back, and that's all well and good. But Lydia still feels like it says a lot that Nixie didn't even hesitate to leave Lydia here with Jordan; that she had tasked Lydia with making sure Jordan didn't leave the county. If Lydia knew her well enough, Nixie really didn't even want Jordan to make it to the county line to wait for her to meet him and say any sort of goodbye.

Which is why she turned swiftly and tried to catch his arm as he said, "Maybe someone should resurrect her."

He's referring to Marie-Jeanne, the Maid of Gevaudan that Chris and Gerard were just telling them about. Jordan looks down at the picture, showing a woman victorious in taking down the beast.

Jordan imagines Nixie could probably be that successful. But him… that thing just comes after him, follows him sometimes, and in the wake of all that chaos is death. No, he can't stay. It's better if he's gone, at least until the beast is taken care of. Maybe if he's out of the way, there won't be anymore killing. Maybe the beast is only acting out so much because of the hellhound.

Lydia moves towards him and says, "Don't leave."

He turns back to her, and then sighs and says, "My dreams aren't like yours Lydia. I'm not just a harbinger of death. I'm the cause of it." "Jordan, you know that's not true. If…" He's already walking out the door, but as Lydia makes to go after him, Gerard says, "Let him go."

Lydia snaps her gaze back to them and asks heatedly, "Why?" Chris sighs and says, "Because as much as we believe Parrish could take on the beast, neither of us think he's our only hope at stopping it." Tilting her head now, in curiosity and annoyance, Lydia asks, "What do you mean? And for the record, I don't care whether he stays to take on the beast or if we need to lock him in your big freezer until everything's taken care of. You did hear Nixie didn't you?"

Chris nods, but as Lydia turns again, he says, "We have some time Lydia. Please stay and hear us out. If by the time we're done, you need help catching up to Parrish, I'll get you to him myself to stop him from leaving." Lydia narrows her eyes at him, but finally nods. She adds on though, "If he makes it across the county line by the time I get to him, I am telling Nixie it was your fault." "Agreed."

Lydia then asks, "Now, what do you mean about Parrish not being the only option?" Chris looks at her pointedly and says, "We think there's another." And Gerard finally comes up beside Chris and says, "You."

Nixie swoops down to the ground, landing a heavy blow to the back of the beast's head. It's enough to disorient it as she helps Stiles grab Liam and drag him into the school for some kind of safety. Hayden is behind them, looking over her shoulder every other second to make sure it's not right behind them.

In one of the classrooms, Nixie hefts his body onto the table to lay down, and then she asks Stiles, "What the hell happened? He looks like the beast just went straight for him." "Actually, Liam went straight after the beast."

Nixie freezes for a second, and then shakes her head and says, "Stupid. Liam, that was incredibly stupid." All he can do in response to her right now though is to yell and groan in pain. Nixie makes to take his hand in hers, to steal some of the injury, but Liam quickly pulls his hand back and says, "No. I'm okay. I'm fine." "You are not fine. You are the furthest thing from fine I've seen since… since…"

She pauses while Stiles works on ripping off Liam's jersey to look at the damage. Hayden finally says, "Since Corey and I died from mercury poisoning." Nixie points at her and says, "Sure. Let's go with that."

As they try to peel away his shirt to show the wound, Hayden gasps and hunches over as though in pain herself just from looking at it. Stiles looks like he might throw up. Nixie just grabs for Liam's hand again, but he pulls away. "Liam… so help me…" "What? Is it that bad?"

Hayden quickly tells him that it isn't, while Stiles just straight up says, "Very." Both Nixie and Hayden give him a look, and then Nixie says, "Look, Liam… just let me…" "No. You've taken enough from everybody. I'll be fine. I'll heal."

Hayden points out, "But you're not healing. Why isn't he healing?" Nixie turns to her and says, "Contrary to popular belief, we're not complete experts on this. I don't have a damn clue." She turns to Stiles then and asks, "What should we do?"

He looks like he's about to pass out in the floor, so she slaps his shoulder and says, "Focus Stiles! I need you awake!" "Okay, okay. Right." He looks at the wound again, and then says, "Okay, Scott did this with pain before. He could trigger it. Pain makes you human, remember?" Nixie nods, but Hayden says, "He's already in pain!"

Nixie turns to her and says, "You have the least amount of knowledge out of anybody. Hush." Back to Stiles, she says, "But she poses a good point. He's already hurting. What more can we…" "Right, okay, but maybe adding a little more could help take away the pain."

Hayden gives them both a look and asks, "How does that…" Nixie cuts her off with a shrug and says, "Supernatural rules of healing. None have ever made a damn lick of sense to me. But I think somehow the supernatural side of him is somehow just braced for handling this amount of pain now. Like all the adrenaline and what-not when he attacked the beast made him ready for it. Now, to get him to heal, we need to add more that's he's not so ready for. Maybe?"

Stiles shrugs, but it's the best they've got. Liam then lurches up off the table and yells in pain. Nixie moves behind him to hold him in the sitting position he's moved into, and Hayden is in front of him, looking desperate. Apparently she'd finally pulled her head out of her ass and joined the good guys permanently, like Corey. Thank God for small miracles.

"Take away his pain." Nixie looks at Hayden in confusion when she says that aloud. Weren't they already trying to do that? She didn't need to state it again.

But then Nixie watches as Hayden leans forward and kisses Liam, just like Liam had done for her after they'd been rescued from the dread doctors' lair. The black lines spread up into her cheeks as she took some of his pain away. Nixie feels his body relax where it leans against her, and when Hayden pulls back, Liam slumps back and rests his head on Nixie's shoulder. Utter relief shows on his face, and he looks up at Nixie and smiles a little before saying, "Told you I'd be fine." "Whatever. That's only because your girlfriend has the lucky ability in her mixed up genes to take pain. Now, let me take some of the injury." "It's healing. It'll be gone soon. And besides, we need to find Scott, and we both need to be ready to help him fight when we do find him."

Nixie stares at him for a moment, and then runs her hand over his hair gently before saying, "I hate how right you sound right now. Just FYI." He laughs a little, and then Nixie bursts out a laugh of her own when Stiles comments, "Okay, next time I'll kiss him."

Hayden laughs lightly, but still looks at him as though he's the weirdest person she's ever met. Nixie nods in confirmation and says, "You get used to him. And me for that matter." Hayden nods, and then asks, "So… are we friends?" "We never weren't friends. It just happens that for a time you were being an ass. Now you're not. So now we're all good." "Great."

Nixie hops off the table and lets Liam lay down flat again. Pulling Stiles aside, she says, "I'm going to look for Scott now. Come find us when Liam is ready. Don't let him leave before he is." "How am I supposed to stop him?!" "Hayden will help you. Chill out."

Then Nixie steps out into the hall as quietly as possible. For the moment, it's dead silent. But she knows that won't last long. She needs to find Scott and fast, so she can help him chase this damn monster away.

In the back of her mind, she really hopes that Lydia has succeeded in getting Jordan to stay. Judging from how badly Liam got beat up, she couldn't just wish for Jordan to remain here for her sake. They were going to need him here because they'll need all the help they can get.

"Marie-Jeanne was a lot like you Lydia. Skeptical of her own abilities. And once, actually, just as skeptical of the supernatural."

Lydia glares at him and says, "I'm not skeptical of my own abilities. I know what I am, and I'm learning every day more and more about what I can do as a banshee. And yes, I used to be skeptical and I used to be terrified of what I am. But that has been long over. And you want to know why?"

Gerard does in fact look curious, but before Lydia can say it, Chris steps up and says, "Nixie."

When Gerard give his son a confused look, Chris says, "Whenever someone goes missing, Nixie makes it her mission to find out why and where they went. There might not even be anything wrong, but she demands to know the whereabouts of everyone at some point. And when Lydia started going missing more than the others, Nixie took to following her, tracking her, and finding her wherever she ended up."

Chris put a hand on Lydia's shoulder and says, "A banshee on her own can sometimes be overwhelmed by their abilities, by their talents and gifts. But a banshee with a friend, one who is determined to share in those burdens with her… that is a banshee set on the fast track to becoming one of the most powerful and revered supernatural creatures in existence."

Shrugging, he adds, "Aside from Nixie herself, as a dragon… and Jordan as a hellhound, simply because I've never seen a hellhound until now."

Lydia nods, and then says, "Look, get on with this story. If you're not going to tell it, I'm leaving right now. Nixie gave me one job, and that was to keep Jordan here. And so help me, I will leave before you're finished if I have to."

Chris nods and says, "Very well. Gerard…" "Well, I suppose the place to start is in the tavern, where Marie-Jeanne was reading her brother's letter."

As the story progresses, Lydia asks, "Why didn't he warn her?" "Sebastien told her about everything that they'd seen during the war. But, like I said… Marie-Jeanne was a skeptic."

Lydia rolls her eyes at all the drama Gerard manages to put into the centuries old story. Yes, it's fascinating. But she does not have time for the theatrics. She needs to know why they think she's an option for killing the beast. And then she needs to get Jordan.

She sends a text message to Noah, hoping that maybe he'll be at the station and can maybe intercept Jordan if he stops there to clean out his locker or anything. For now, it's the best she can do, until the old man finally finishes his story.

Nixie finds Scott as he's thrown down a stairwell and into a nearby wall. Rushing to his side and helping him up, she asks, "What can I do?" Scott glares up at the monster at the top of the steps, and then says, "Follow me. We can't let him hurt anyone else." "Right."

They try to follow it, running down every hallway and leaping through the windows that the beast crashes through. Nixie takes to the sky again at one point when they're back outside, but the beast is even faster than the first time she saw him, just a black blur darting around in the rest of the darkness. Even her sharp eyes are having trouble following him.

Swooping down to join Scott again, she asks, "You see him?" "No, but there's screaming at the back of the school now. Come on!"

They race that way, and when they get there, a horde of terrified students runs at them, nearly knocking them over. They press themselves against the wall until the majority pass them by, and then Nixie races around the corner.

And some girl that she's pretty sure is a freshman is slowly getting to her feet, and now she's just standing there.

Standing there. A beast is about to come in, and she's standing there.

Scott grabs her and shoves her into a nearby room. Nixie follows, and as Scott shuts the door behind them, Nixie turns to the girl and asks, "Seriously? What was your big plan? Stare him to death with your terrified eyes? I mean, geez."

Scott holds up a hand for her to be quiet, and Nixie comes to stand beside him. Both of them are bloody and bruised already, and the girl on the floor stares at both of them in awe. Particularly Nixie actually, because of how much skin is showing on her torso, and therefore also showing the scars from battles past and present.

Nixie can hear the heartbeat of the beast as well, and she and Scott share a knowing look before turning back to the girl.

The heavy bang on the door, that nearly knocks it off the hinges from the start, shocks them all. Nixie puts her weight into it as well while Scott shouts, "Go. Go out the window!" The girl scurries to her feet to do what he says. She pauses briefly, looking back at them. Nixie yells in exertion as they try to hold the door shut, and then Scott shouts, "Just go!"

She tumbles out the window, and that's when the glass in the window above the door shatters. Nixie and Scott look to each other again, and then Nixie shouts, "Look out!"

It's too late though. Two large clawed paws punch through the door on either side of them. The right wraps around and grabs onto Scott, digging into his stomach and chest. The left one grabs onto Nixie, claws digging into her back, one piercing dangerously close to her spine. Roaring in pain, she matches Scott's roar in magnitude before they're both suddenly silenced as the entire door is ripped from the frame… with them still on it.

"Lydia?"

She feels faint, if she's honest. Someone's hurting. Her friends are in trouble.

Nixie is in trouble. Somehow, she thinks the link between them that allowed Nixie to steal so much of her pain while there had been a hole in her head; is also allowing her to feel some of what's happening to Nixie. Maybe it's just because Nixie had done it to her from afar that Lydia can do it back. Or maybe it's because Lydia's a banshee and that has something to do with it.

Whatever the case, the pain in her back is terrible, so she knows it must be that much worse for Nixie. Chris pulls her over to a chair to sit, and Lydia says, "Something's happening." Chris leans back and asks, "Now?" "I don't know. Yes, I think. I think Nixie's hurt, or being hurt… I don't know. But something's wrong."

Shaking her head, she says, "I can't stay here. Nixie would never…" Gerard cuts her off and says, "You should hear the rest of the story." Lydia turns and says heatedly, "Why should I be listening to you at all?"

Chris puts a hand on her shoulder and says, "He knows it better than any of us." Lydia looks up at him and says, "Everything I've read says that the beast was killed by Jean Chastel."

Gerard looks up at her in surprise and asks, "Who told you that? The internet? If that's your most reliable source of information, then you might as well go."

Lydia glares at him, but then looks to Chris, who shakes his head. She apparently really needs to hear this. Back to Gerard, she says, "Then quite wasting my time with useless bits of information that you only insert for your own pleasure. Tell me the story, no added gimmicks and no added theatrics. Just tell me what happened next."

Gerard watches her for a moment, but instead of continuing, he asks in curious wonderment, "She truly means a lot to all of you, doesn't she? Even my own son, who tolerates my presence very well with everyone else, glares at me if I so much as whisper a word that makes her angry. What exactly is she that makes her so special to all of you?"

Lydia looks to Chris, who shakes his head again. Gerard might now know that Nixie is a dragon, but Chris apparently hadn't explained why nature chose her to be a dragon, and more specifically a blue dragon, in the first place. He only knew what she was, and not the reason behind it.

She wasn't going to give him more than he already knew. At least, not right this second. Steeling herself against his curious gaze, she says, "She is the most loyal and protective friend we have. She will die… literally… to protect us and keep us safe. Now tell me what happens next, so I can go make sure she doesn't have to do that."

Gerard, after a moment more, finally concedes, "Very well. Here's the rest of the story."

Bursting through the doors together, Nixie nearly slips and falls. Looking down to see what she might've slipped on, all she sees is her own bloodied jeans and sneakers. She was slipping and tripping on her own blood.

Great. Because she didn't have enough problems to deal with today.

Looking up at Scott, who is leaning on a table and holding his side, she asks, "You alright?" "I will be. You're worse than I am." "I'll manage."

They both turn to look at the doors when the loud growling comes from outside. Huffing in exhaustion, Nixie asks, "Not that playing hide and seek and cat and mouse with this thing isn't great and all Scott… but I'd love to know what the current plan is right now. You know, since we have a moment for you to tell me what we're supposed to be trying to do. Because there is no way in hell we're actually stopping that thing, just the two of us."

A gasp from beside her draws both of their attention, and Scott and Nixie look to see that several students had taken refuge in the library. One young woman, a friend of Hayden's if Nixie remembers right, is staring at her with wide eyes. Another guy nearby also stares at them, at how bloody and damaged they are.

At how they apparently have no intention of stopping their attempts to beat this thing either.

Scott looks all around him, taking in the many bodies in the room. If the beast comes in, and since both of them are here, it most definitely will; everyone else in the room will be in the cross fire. And unlike with the girl in the classroom, the library windows don't open, so no one can get out that way.

Nixie glances around them, and then looks up above them. "Scott." He turns to her, and she flicks her eyes to the floor above them. It's not exactly the safest if the beast comes in, but it's certainly safer than being down here with them.

And as a loud roar echoes through the hall, Scott says softly to everyone, "Go upstairs!"

Shoes squeak and scuffle as everyone moves to do as he said. Nixie watches them hurry their way to new hiding places, and then she turns back to Scott. "So… about the plan?" "Track him."

Nixie raises an eyebrow and says, "Not following. Kind of pointless right now. He's right here." "No, not now. For later. I want his scent. I want to memorize it like this, so I can find it later when it finally has to leave to change back."

Nixie nods after a moment, and then says, "Alright. Solid. And I'm assuming neither of us is supposed to die in this plan?"

Scott turns to her and asks, "Is now really the time?" "For sarcasm? Always. Do you know me at all?" And he finally grins and admits, "Fortunately, yes I do." She smiles back, and then looks up above them again. Nodding towards the other kids, she says, "They'll be watching." "I'm sure the sheriff or someone will come up with some story to convince them none of this was real." "Right. Because this will be so easy to play off."

The doors burst open, and Scott says, "We do everything we can to protect them and each other." "It's like you're reading my mind."

Two sets of eyes glow back at the beast, and as he growls at them, both Nixie and Scott roar together before they sprint in his direction.

The beast actually seems confused and also amused at the fact that they never quit. He throws Scott into shelves and tables, he throws Nixie into walls and railings and even up to the ceiling. Still they come back, and still they fight him, keeping him on the ground floor and away from the others.

Nixie has a piece of wood sticking out of her side that she pulls out with a gasp. Scott pulls himself up to stand on the steps, and then pushes her slightly behind him and asks, "Are you alright?" "I'm fine. But we can't do this forever Scott." "I know."

The beast rises up on his back legs, to his full height, and Scott snarls at him. Nixie makes her eyes glow at him again, which confuses the beast. He, like so many others, apparently had no idea what her eyes made her. If she has her way, he'll never live long enough to figure that out.

Well, after they figure out how to save the kid that keeps turning into the beast. Then she'll kill him.

She crouches, preparing to attack again, when they hear the door behind the beast open, and Liam's figure springs into the air, both hands balled into one fist above his head. "Move!" Scott screams it and grabs Nixie and pulls her to the side with him as Liam lands a smashing blow to the beast's jaw. It just went to show how pissed off Liam must be to have that much strength in him at the moment.

Then gunshots go off, and Nixie sits up and scrambles with Scott off the stairs to see Braeden walking into the room.

The woman, while not nearly as protective of everyone as Nixie, was still clearly caring and brave enough to walk into the room like she owned it, marching forward step for step, never stopping her firing as she backed the beast up the stairs and towards the grand windows of the library. And as Malia snarls at him and the bullets and pellets keep hitting him, the beast finally decides that he will have to win this fight another day. He bursts out the windows with a mighty leap, leaving them all behind in the now eerily quiet library.

Nixie almost can't believe it. Not that they won. They always win in the end… somehow. Through sacrifice or skills or smarts… they always come out on top.

She just can't believe that out of all the things they've tried in just this night alone, the thing that finally chased the beast away was a shotgun. She'll have to invest in buying some of those, along with the rest of her arsenal.

Standing up and moving to be with them, Nixie looks to Braeden as the woman asks, "You two didn't seriously think you were gonna have a chance against that thing did you?" Scott shakes his head with relieved and wide eyes, saying, "No. But we finally got its scent."

Braeden looks to Nixie, who then says, "He's speaking for himself. I totally thought I could beat his ass and then torture the name of whatever kid he is in real life out of him. Yeah. I totally thought I could do that." Braeden raises an eyebrow, and then looks to Malia.

Malia just nods and says, "Just like Stiles. Always." Nixie grins, and then says, "Alright Scott. Lead on."

"Damnatio Memoriae." Chris nods at Lydia's statement and says, "They erased every detail of him. Everything he signed. Everything he owned." Gerard nods and adds, "They burned it all. The name Sebastien Valet has been forgotten for over 150 years. But when it's remembered…"

Seeing that Lydia might actually try to rip Gerard's throat out if he adds any more dramatic flair to the story again, Chris interrupts and says, "When the beast remembers, the teenager inside is forgotten." And because he can't help it, Gerard adds, "Gone. Forever."

Lydia gives him a nasty look, and then turns to Chris and says, "You've been with him too long." Chris blinks in confusion, so Lydia continues and says, "Marie-Jeanne didn't do it alone. She was never alone. She had help from Henri, the Magistrate, the town, and even Marcel."

Shaking her head, she says, "We need Parrish. And not just for Nixie's sake. We need him to help us end this."

At that very moment, Jordan is leaving his badge and gun on Noah's desk in the sheriff's station. He can't very well keep it with him in another county. And he has no idea when he might come back; when it'll be safe again.

He hops into his truck, and starts heading down the road to the county line, where he promised Nixie he would wait for her to say goodbye for a while. He wasn't leaving her. She at least knows that. She has to. But he can't stay, not while the battles the hellhound has with the beast bring about so much destruction and death. No… he can't stay.

Back in the bunker, Lydia says, "I've wasted enough time here. I promised Nixie I wouldn't let him leave, and I meant that. I'm going to go find him." Chris turns to her and says, "Lydia, he's dangerous. He's still a shapeshifter. And he's one who's just beginning to understand his power."

Lydia snaps back around to face him and says, "And I'm not? And Nixie's not?" Chris points to her and says, "You're not the same. Neither you or Nixie are the same as Parrish. You, Lydia, access the supernatural. It works through you. And Nixie…" He glances at Gerard, and then shrugs before saying, "She is what she is because of the person she is at heart. Her protective nature; her willingness to lay everything down on the line to keep and protect all of you that she holds dear. That is who she is, and is why she's a dragon. In that sense, it worked through her as well."

Gerard steps forward and says, "But it doesn't control either of you apparently." Lydia snaps her harsh eyes back to him and asks, "How would you know? Why do you even care? Nixie still hates you, so there's no way you've changed or become any better than you once were. Why are you suddenly on our side?"

Gerard slides a silver block across the table to her and says, "Because it's my name as well. Marie-Jeanne never left Henri after the death of her brother. And their relationship became more than a partnership. They married and she took his name."

Lydia fingers the crest on the silver block, and then says, "Argent." Chris nods and says, "Marie-Jeanne, was the first hunter."

Gerard smirks and says, "Our name will be remembered as well Lydia. For killing the beast." Lydia glares at him again and says, "But I'm not an Argent."

She turns her attention to Chris, who is glancing back at his father wearily. Nixie still has no problem with Chris, so he wasn't on the same page as Gerard was. Still, she felt it would be nice to know what exactly his plan was in all of this, or how he was going to ensure that Gerard couldn't take credit where he wasn't supposed to.

Or how he was going to ensure that Gerard didn't kill anyone he wasn't supposed to either.

When Chris looks at her again, she tilts her head at him, and then says gently, "And I'm not Allison."

Turning to leave, she pauses, and then turns back to him. "And Jordan isn't dangerous." Gerard makes to disagree, but Chris puts up a hand to stop him and asks, "Why do you think that?" "Because Nixie, from the very beginning, has insisted that he's not. He's not dangerous. He's not a threat to us. He's only a threat to the beast. And if that mural on the wall explains anything at all, it's that the hellhound is one of the only creatures capable of withstanding and holding onto the beast at all."

Shaking her head, she says, "Nixie would've never made me promise to keep him here if she thought he was somehow going to be a threat to us in all of this. She would've let him go, assuring that he told her where he was going so she could find him later. But she didn't. She made me promise to keep him here. And that's what I'm going to do. If I have to take him hostage, I will."

Chris watches her leave, and then sighs heavily when Gerard says, "Not a bad plan. Why's it okay when she says it and not me?" "Because unlike you, she doesn't actually mean it. Shut up and let's get to work. We need to find the pike."

"Scott wait!" And even though Nixie was the one who suggested they hurry up and track the beast, she has to agree with Liam. Scott is still bleeding and hurt, and he honestly looks like if a cop asked him to walk a straight line, he'd just fall right over.

Liam follows frantically behind him and says, "You're hurt. You've gotta slow down."

Scott just pushes on into the parking lot, and as he moves, Liam says to Nixie, "Say something to him." "Sorry Liam. But I'm pretty sure he wouldn't listen to either of us right now. He's on a mission. He's an alpha on a mission. I'm not getting in his way. But you go right ahead and let me know how that works out for you. I'll just stand over here and wait to take you to the hospital."

Liam rolls his eyes and hurries after Scott.

Scott suddenly stops though and Nixie nearly runs into Liam's back from the abrupt halt. Frowning in confusion along with Liam, she asks, "Scott? What's up?"

He pulls up hard on the trunk of the black car he's stopped at, and after a moment Nixie shrugs and helps him break it open. And sitting inside, innocently almost, if that's possible for a pair of shoes, is the pair of converses with blood on the soles.

Nixie looks to Scott and says, "We need to figure out who owns this." "Right."

But as he slams the trunk lid shut, they all turn when Mason asks from nearby, "Scott?"

Nixie looks at him and smiles a little before saying, "Hey Mason." He nods to her, but then asks, "What are you guys doing to my car?"

Nixie's stomach plummets to the floor, her smile vanishes, and in it's place is a look of fear and dread that Mason had only seen on her face when she'd burst in and found Scott dead on the library floor after Theo had tried to kill him. Whatever this was, whatever had just happened… he's apparently made it worse. He wasn't sure how, but he had.

Scott and Liam are both staring at him with their own horrified looks as well, and then finally Scott just says, "It's you." Mason blinks and asks, "What? Liam, what's he talking about?"

Liam can't answer. His best friend is the beast. Nixie can feel his pulse rising, can smell the fear coming out of him far more than anyone else. Mason steps closer and asks, "Liam?"

Nixie looks at Mason and says softly, "We will figure this out Mason. We will get him out of you. We'll…"

Corey materializes from the side of the car on Mason's other side. Grabbing him with both hands, he looks at all three of them for a moment before landing on Nixie. Finally, he just says, "I'm sorry." "Corey wait!"

Scott rushes forward to try and catch them, but Corey is already gone. He probably picked Mason up and sprinted away.

He's gone. Mason is gone. And even though Nixie knows that Corey is just trying to protect Mason, because he loves him, she can't help but curse and kick the back of Mason's car with her foot. She puts a dent in it. Huffing, she then looks over at Scott and Liam.

Liam looks better, his injuries healed over a great deal since she'd left him with Stiles and Hayden, but he's still worse for wear. Not to mention he just found out Mason is the beast, so that's not exactly doing anything for his own personal moral right now. And Scott was already in no condition to go beast hunting when he first started tracking the scent to Mason's car. He can't go after him now, not like this.

Nodding to herself, she says, "Liam." He turns to her, and she says, "Go find Stiles and Hayden. Fill them in. Then find Kira and tell her to meet me at Scott's house." He nods and takes off. Nixie moves up to Scott and moves one of his arms around her shoulders. She helps him move the other one as well so their wrapped around her neck and shoulders, and then wraps her arms around his waist.

Her wings come out gently, so as to not startle the now dreadfully weary looking alpha. Then she says, "Alright Scott. Hold onto me." "Where are we going?" "Home. I'm taking you home for now. We can regroup there."

She'll let Kira talk him into sleeping. Nixie knows she won't be able to right now. But at the very least, she can convince him that going back to his house in general is the best move for now.

Then she can call Lydia and see what the situation on Jordan is. Well, unless something else goes catastrophically wrong by the time she gets there.

Knowing their luck as of late… she thinks she ought to knock on some wood, just to be safe of not jinxing herself.

Chapter 8! Finally! Just three more chapters to go guys. And the next chapter will come soon. :)