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I'm trying to incorporate the FB game and the series, so some incidents may seem off or out of place but i am trying to match them up properly.
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"I've been looking everywhere for you."
Cat startled, sending a nearby pencil holder flying and dumping all the pens in it all over the floor. She looked at Allison with wide eyes before dropping to her knees to pick them up.
"If I'm not in class, I'm usually here."
"Good to know." Allison said with a small smile kneeling down to help her. "I'm sorry for scaring you."
"Don't worry about it, I was just looking for something before lunch." In reality she had come in here at the beginning of lunch, hoping to hide from, oh most everyone after what had happened this morning. She knew Scott and Stiles would want an explanation, the one she gave this morning was weak. She knew it, they knew it but as long as she could avoid them until Lydia was found, she was fine by that. They needed to find her and she couldn't do anything to interfere with that.
So now, she was left with a huge headache from hitting the back of her head against the locker and she had spent all morning nursing it. She really hoped she didn't concuss herself that was all she needed right now. People asking how and coming up with some kind of plausible excuse that she really couldn't be bothered to think of right now because her brain was all mushy.
"I wanted to see if you wanted to hang out with me at lunch before I had to leave for the funeral."
She nodded. "I already ate but I don't mind keeping you company."
"Good." Allison replied, standing up. "I just need to stop by my locker."
"Fine by me." Looking around to make sure everything was okay, Cat followed Allison out of the office and to their lockers.
"So how are you doing?" Cat asked.
The taller girl shrugged. "I'm okay, all things considering, it's just a lot to take in, you know? What am I saying, I guess you really don't know, you've known even less longer than I have."
"I understand losing people." Cat whispered, leaning against her locker as she watched Allison open hers.
"But my aunt…" Allison sighed as she moved aside the dress and a note fluttered down. She opened it up and smiled at the words written in it.
'Because I love you.'
"What's that?" Cat asked.
Allison folded it up with a smile directed at her. "Just a note, from Scott."
"It's her aunt, the one who murdered all those people."
Allison's smile dropped and Cat looked across the hall to see two girls looking at Allison and talking about her. Not even having the decency to whisper.
"You mean the crazy bitch who killed all those people?" the other girl asked.
Allison quickly shuffled through her locker, grabbing what she needed.
"Yeah, the fire, all those animal attacks it was her Aunt."
"are you kidding? I sit next to her in English."
"Find a new seat." They both burst out into giggles and Allison grabbed her dress, slamming her locker shut.
"I'm sorry Cat, I think I'm just going to head home now."
Cat watched her go, her shoulders hunched in sadness and defeat. It wasn't fair, Allison didn't do any of that so why should anyone be saying anything about her.
"She doesn't deserve that."
Cat looked over, seeing someone from the lacrosse team. He was also a photographer and in some of her classes. Matt was his name.
"She really doesn't." She replied with a frown before turning back to the two girls and stomping over to them, anger etched on her face.
"I'm sorry, who are the crazy bitches exactly? I mean, you're worried about sitting next to her in English because of what her Aunt, not her, did but have no problem talking loud enough so she can hear every word."
"Who the hell are you?" The first girl sneered at her.
Cat gave her a big fake smile. "Your biggest problem if you don't learn to keep your mouth shut."
"are you threatening us?" the second girl asked.
"Oh no, I'm promising you. Leave Allison alone, no saying things about her, no being bitches to her, you stay out of her way, out of my way and I'll let you keep your somewhat pretty faces and your grades."
"You can't touch our grades." They cried outraged.
"Student Aide." She sing-songed
"Then we're going to the Principal."
"And who's he going to believe? Two catty bitches or his beloved assistant?" She stared between the both of them, noticing their dumbfounded looks and smiling even wider. "That's what I thought. Have a great day…bitches."
She walked away with her head held high, mostly in shock by what had just happened. She had never spoken to anyone like that in her life and now she just threatened 2 girls. Is this what having friends did to you?
"That was pretty cool." Matt said, coming up beside her. "I'll see you around and tell Allison I said Hi."
She nodded as her phone beeped and she pulled it out, smiling when she saw it was Scott.
'Allison and I saw what you did, thank you. Really.'
She sent off a quick reply before heading back to the office, she might as well work through her lunch now and get some work done so she could go to all her afternoon classes.
"Well, well if it isn't Cathleen Danvers."
She looked from where she had just sat down as her science teacher, Mr. Harris, entered the office. "It's Catalina, Sir."
"I don't really care. What I care about is all the excuse slips I am getting from students. They say it's to look for a missing student but I find that hard to believe. Have you been selling these or something?"
Cat's eyebrows shot up. She really, really disliked Mr. Harris. He was the most sarcastic, condescending, rude teacher she ever had and she sometimes wondered how the hell he still had a job.
"Excuse me? Where do you get off asking something like that? If you have a problem with this, please go take it up with Principal Thomas."
"Are you trying to tell me he condones this?"
"Are you trying to tell me you haven't read any of your emails since yesterday?" She asked with a fake sugary sweet tone.
"I don't appreciate your tone Cathleen."
"It's Catalina, what's so hard to remember about that? Cat-ah-lee-nah. And I don't appreciate you implying that I'm selling excuse slips on the side. Now you can either go talk to Principal Thomas or leave."
"Detention, Ms. Danvers."
"No." She simply replied, turning back to her computer.
"For two weeks."
She glared up at him. "Hold on and please wait while I page the Principal so you can explain to him why you're taking away his student aide."
He leaned down until they were practically nose to nose and Cat resisted the urge to move away. She would not back down from him, he was a bully and she couldn't stand bullies.
"This isn't over Cathleen."
He straightened up and glared at her one last time before walking away.
She really hated bullies.
"Oh good, you're still here." Stiles said as he entered the office before looking around. "Where is everyone?
She looked around in confusion, noticing for the first time how empty it was. "I have no idea? I just got here"
He shook his head, "Good because we have a problem. You know, when we asked you to destroy the footage, we didn't mean for you to trash the hard drives too."
"What are you talking about?" Scott asked, entering behind Stiles. "I got your text."
"My dad's here."
"Why?" Scott asked, looking at Cat with a smile who was staring at Stiles like he had grown a second head.
"He told me someone broke into the school, he was in the staffroom all morning interviewing all the teachers. They stole from the nurse's office, they trashed a couple of classrooms and they jammed the security footage hard drives. Which I'm sure they're trying to recover."
Scott shook his head. "Cat didn't do that."
"I'm aware of that, Scott." He said with a roll of his eyes. "I'm making what some people call a joke."
"not funny."
Stiles shrugged. "Cat gets me."
"So all this happened and your dad just told you everything about it?" Scott asked, ignoring him.
"Perhaps I overheard it through the thinly constructed walls of our school. But how I came across the information isn't important. What matters is making sure Lydia's werewolf bite doesn't become public knowledge."
"Guys-" Cat tried to interrupt.
"Do you know when they're going to start trying to recover it?" Scott asked, ignoring Cat.
"From the way they were talking, I think they might have already done it. I'm trying very hard not to freak the hell out right now."
"Guys-" She tried again.
"Maybe they didn't find anything. Maybe we're all good." Scott continued.
"I really thought I heard my dad say they found something. They were just waiting for a school official to give them permission to watch it."
"Hey." She yelled, getting both the guys to look at her. "How about letting me talk?"
"What?" Scott asked. "Cat, you've got to make sure they did not recover that footage. Or, if they did, just make sure you get it. You and no one else. You have to delete it. Once and for all."
"Twice and for all." Stiles reminded him.
She rolled her eyes at them, turning back to the computer yet again and entering the system. "They're not going to find anything."
"You need to be sure." Stiles said. "Chances are because it was recovered, it was labeled as something else."
"Oh for the love of-" She let out a frustrated sigh as she got into the School's system, bypassing everything to bring up the security footage to prove it wasn't there. "They won't find anything because I left no traces, I left no trail and it's so encrypted there's no chance in hell somebody could get into this fast, it would take- what the hell?" She frowned at the screen, typing some more, her frown only growing as she moved through the system.
"You found something didn't you?" Scott asked.
She nodded, "But I don't think it's Lydia's footage and I'm having issues getting into it. This could take a while."
Scott and Stiles exchanged a look, this was bad, very bad.
"Well, we need to get to the cemetery." Scott said "We'll leave you to it, then text us when you're-"
"Got it." She interrupted. "Man that took a while."
The guys went to move around the desk but stopped as the door opened and some of the office administration walked in. Cat shook her head at the guys, mouthing that she would text them later.
"Ok." She said out loud with a big smile. "Thank you for advising me, I will let your teachers know that Scott had an emergency and has to leave right away."
The guys smiled and left and Cat quickly opened another screen, turning to some work she had to get done while the office workers that entered quickly grabbed their food before leaving again. Cat made sure they were gone before switching back to the school files and entering the new file that was there, labeled Recovered File but with yesterday's date. Perhaps it showed who was in the school and why they tried to trash the hard drives.
She opened it up, frowning at seeing the parking lot at night, with only a single dark car there. Then someone came in from the bottom right corner and she peered closer at seeing they were dragging something, no, not something but someone. Oh god, that was a body being dragged across the parking lot and stuffed into the trunk of the car. No way. She clicked on the video to zoom in when the screen went black and a message flashed across the screen advising of a system crash.
"Oh hell." She whispered to herself, going back through all the steps and trying to get it back but it was no good. The file was gone. Probably done on purpose by whomever corrupted the hard drives. She didn't even know anyone else capable of that.
She had just seen a kidnapping and the only evidence they had, was gone.
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