4 days!
So i'll keep going... someone suggested I make a sequel then but I can't find a place i want to do that at with the ideas I have... also I'm doing that with my vampire diaries story, so yeah...
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"What was Peter talking about?" Scott asked Cat when they were well on their way to the hospital.
"I don't know yet but apparently there's a legend about Packs having a seer or witch and they were protected by the pack I don't know I shut him up."
"And how did this come about?" Isaac asked.
"I used Derek to find the pack and noticed I was connected to Scott and Derek in the pack sense."
"What?" Scott asked, super confused.
Cat shrugged. "I wish I could tell you more but I was too busy looking for Erica and Boyd. Derek has a pack, you're part of his pack but in your own way, you also have a pack."
"He's not an alpha." Isaac reminded her.
"And I'm not a werewolf."
"Good point." He replied.
They pulled up to the hospital and scrambled out, meeting his mom at the front, who pulled Cat into a hug.
"Oh honey, I was so worried. What happened? Where were you? Oh my gosh, your face, is that dried blood? we need to get you checked out, you look like you broke your nose."
"I'm okay, I promise." Cat whispered, smiling that someone, a parent actually cared this much for her well-being. "Derek fixed it."
"But he's not a doctor." Melissa protested, "We need-"
"Mom? What did you have to show us?" Scott asked, trying to hurry them along.
"Right." Melissa said, "Let's go to the morgue."
They were all silent as they followed her down, trying to look inconspicuous as they did so. When they entered the morgue, she led them over to where Jackson was and quickly looked around before unzipping the body bag.
"What the hell?" Cat asked, staring at him. Jackson lay on the table, his arms crossed over his chest, a layer of transparent goo covering all but his head.
"What's happening to him?" Scott asked.
"I thought you were going to tell me." Melissa replied. "Is it bad?"
"Doesn't look good." Isaac replied.
Jackson's head twitched and everyone stepped back a bit.
"Whoa." Isaac said, grabbing Cat and pulling him back with her.
"I thought you said he was dead." Cat hissed.
"He was, or is." Scott replied. "Mom, can you zip it up."
"You're the one with super powers and you're making your mom do it?" Cat asked in disbelief.
"If I end up paralyzed, I'm no help." Scott said.
"So you send your mom for that instead? Unbelievable."
"Cat, he's right." Melissa told her, stepping forward.
"Wait." Cat cried. "Someone give me their phone, mine was taken."
Isaac handed her his phone and she quickly snapped a few pictures for Derek before motioning for Melissa to zip it up. She complied, stepping forward once more and zipping up the bag. The zipper got stuck just below his head and as Jackson moved again, Kanima teeth now in his mouth, Melissa jumped.
"Zip mom, Zip."
"It's stuck." She cried, moving to tug on the zipper again.
Cat stepped forward, pulling her jacket over her hand as she grabbed the zipper and helped the older woman tug on it until it finally pulled free and closed over Jackson's head. She then grabbed Melissa's arm and tugged her back as all four stared down at the bag.
"Wusses." Cat grumbled.
"What was that?" Scott asked.
"His venom." Cat replied, making sure there was none on her jacket before sending the pics to Derek's phone and calling him.
"What did you find?" Derek asked when he picked up.
"I sent pictures." Cat replied. "Something really weird is going on. There is like a layer of his venom a few inches thick covering him up to his neck. Like a casing or a cocoon."
"That sounds, sufficiently terrifying." She heard Peter's reply.
"Thank you Mr. Positivity." Cat griped and she heard Peter's chuckle in the background.
"Also, he's starting to move." She continued.
"Hold on." Derek told her.
"It looks like what we see from Jackson is just the Kanima's beta shape." Peter was saying.
"Meaning what, it can turn into something bigger?"
"What?" Cat asked. "We couldn't take him down as the Kanima, and now we're going to be dealing with a bigger badder version of it?"
"What?" Scott and Isaac asked in disbelief.
She motioned for them to be quiet as she tried to listen to more.
"Bigger and badder." Peter confirmed.
"He's turning into that?" A panicked Derek asked. "That, has wings."
Cat glanced at the body bag before looking at the others trying to keep the panic out of her eyes.
"Catalina." Derek was back on the phone. "tell the guys to bring him to us."
Cat lowered the phone "Derek and Peter want you guys to take him back there."
"I'm not sure we have time for that." Scott told her as they looked at the moving body bag once again.
"We have to try." Cat told him. "You want to leave the thing that is about to sprout wings here in the morgue."
"Wings?" An incredulous Scott asked before glancing at Isaac. "Um, ready now?"
"Do I have a choice?" Isaac shot back.
"Cat." She could hear Derek calling her and she lifted the phone. "I'm sending you something. Peter found an animation."
"Oh, does it make it less scary?" She hopefully asked as she pulled the phone away to open up the message Derek just sent her. The guys gathered around and she opened it, pressing play. On the small screen, the creature appeared much larger than a kanima, with wings and it opened up his mouth to scream, showing even more teeth then it already had and making it ten times uglier and more terrifying.
"That's not less scary." She said, her eyes wide with fear as she stopped it and lifted the phone back to her ear.
"exactly our reaction. Get him out of there now, we'll meet you halfway, in the warehouse district. Whatever you do, always keep a gun on him." Derek told her. "It won't stop him but it will slow him down enough so you can run. And you have to run. Fast."
"Got it." Came Cat's strangled reply before hanging up the phone and passing it to Isaac as she pulled out a gun.
"Are you nuts?" Scott asked. "You can't walk through the hospital with a gun in your hand."
"Why do you always seem to have a gun?" Melissa cried. "I understand the police department but here? Our house?"
"Because I don't have super strength." Cat reminded her as the guys picked Jackson up. "But I'm not leaving my friends alone to battle this. I'm putting the gun in my pocket but a gun in my hand will probably be less inconspicuous then you guys carrying a dead body through the hospital."
"What are we supposed to do?" Scott snapped.
"I'll take you out another way." Melissa told them. "No one will probably see us this time of night."
She led them out to the hallway, looking out before leading them out to a side door, luckily she had been right and they hadn't come across anyone. Cat kept her gun trained on Jackson as she scanned the area to make sure they were alone.
"I'm going back inside to cover." Melissa whispered. "Please be careful."
The three teens nodded as the door closed behind her and they began moving around the side of the building. Scott pushed Isaac back around the corner when he spotted some people and Cat moved forward to take another look, motioning them forward when the coast was clear. They hurried across the parking lot and were almost at the car when Scott accidentally dropped his side. He looked at Cat with a wide eyes and a sheepish expression.
"Was that his head?" Cat asked, not sure which guy had taken what side.
"Yes." Isaac replied with a smile. "Maybe we knocked him out for a bit and bought us a little more time."
"He was dead, a knock to the head isn't going to do much."
"Right." Isaac said with a disappointed sigh.
Scott went to go pick up his side again when headlights from a car flashed upon them. Cat noticed it was a black SUV. A black Argent SUV and quickly pulled out her other gun. One aiming at Jackson, the other aiming it at the SUV.
"That is so hot." Isaac murmured, causing Scott to glare at him.
The door opened and Cat lowered the gun as Chris Argent stepped out.
"What are you doing?" both wolves asked, like she had gone insane.
"Problem?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I have what I owe you." Chris told her, holding up a bow. "I took it from Allison."
Cat bit her lower lip to keep from smiling. "How is she doing?"
"Just a slight limp but I think we need to rescue your friends soon."
Cat cocked her head to the side. "You have no idea I was there earlier, do you?"
Chris' look grew puzzled. "When? Why? How?"
"Gerard kidnapped Stiles and I after the game, he did this." She pointed to her face which was swollen, a bruise starting to appear across her nose and underneath her eyes.
"I didn't. Last I checked, I went downstairs and just the two wolves were there. I turned the electric current off, hopefully they will heal soon and can escape. If not, we'll get them out."
"What's going on?" Scott asked, looking between the two. Was everyone talking secretly to someone from the other side? He looked into the SUV, noticing something. "You're alone."
Chris finally looked at Scott and sighed. "More than you know. We don't have much in common Scott but at the moment, we have a common enemy."
Scott nodded. "That's why I'm trying to get him out of here."
Chris looked to her and she shrugged. "They don't know what you said I could do yet. I haven't gotten a chance."
"What can you do?" Isaac asked. "You are not helping the hunters, are you Cat?"
She gave him a dirty look. "No, I'm helping Mr. Argent. We're not talking about Jackson anymore."
"Will somebody please just tell me what's going on?" Scott asked.
"Gerard has twisted himself into Allison's head, the same way he did with Kate. I'm losing her and I know you're all losing her too, as her friend or whatever you and Allison still have." Chris explained to Scott.
"For the record?" Isaac interrupted. "I'm not friends with her."
Cat shot him another dirty look.
"You're right." Scott said. "So can you trust me to fix this?"
Cat shot him a puzzled look, it sounded like he had a plan and she didn't know about a plan.
"Can you let us go?" Scott asked.
"No." Chris finally replied. "My car has more room and it's probably faster."
"Maybe not faster." Cat replied, "I have Derek's car but definitely more room. I can keep an eye on him better."
Chris opened his trunk and the guys laid him in it. Cat scrambled into the back, one eye on Jackson as everyone else got in, Isaac beside her.
"You still haven't explained about Cat yet." Scott pointed out after he told Chris where to go. "What did you say she can do?"
"Kill Gerard." Cat softly replied as she glanced forward, a look of understanding passing between them in the rear view mirror.
"What?" Scott exploded. "You're going to let some 16 year old girl do what you're too much of a coward to do?"
"I had to watch my sister die then I had to help kill my wife." A distraught Chris replied. "I'm watching everyone in my family die but it will kill me if it's Allison who dies next."
"but Cat is only 16. She shouldn't have to kill anyone." Scott exploded.
"But I will." Cat replied, turning back to Jackson who was twitching some more.
"Why?" Scott asked.
"Because someone has to."
"Then I will." Scott said.
Cat motioned for Isaac to keep an eye on Jackson without meeting his eyes as she turned back to Scott. "It's not just up to you."
"And why is it up to you?" Scott asked.
Cat shrugged. "Am I thrilled about it? No, I mean, like I told Allison, I'm not a god, it's not up to me to decide who lives and who doesn't. Will it do something to me? Maybe. But that's a risk I'm willing to take."
"Why?" Scott quietly asked, his heart breaking at the fact that Cat, his Cat had to take something like this on.
"Because I would gladly do it to keep you all safe." She sadly replied. "You guys are all I have left. I have no family and it will kill me if I lost one of you."
"That doesn't mean it's up to you." Scott told her.
She glanced at Chris again, who nodded at her.
"I'm not just leaving it up to Cat either." Chris told him. "If I get the chance to do it, I will but I've given Cat that permission as well, I won't get in her way, or hold her responsible if she has to do it. If one of us has to do it, we will. He needs to be stopped, I need my daughter back."
"And we need our friend back." Cat finished.
"The one you shot in the leg?" Scott asked.
Cat glared at him. "Again with the not wanting to lose my friends. Allison tried to call my bluff and found out I wasn't bluffing. I didn't want to do that to her but guess what, she left me no choice and it very well could have saved Boyd and Erica's life." She turned back to Jackson, effectively ending the conversation.
Isaac's phone beeped and he picked it up, looking at the message and telling Chris to turn left in the warehouse district. Chris complied and after a few more directions from Isaac, brought the SUV to a stop.
Chris and Scott got out but before Cat could, Isaac stopped her.
"What you said about doing whatever to protect your friends, I get it, just so you know. My friends, my pack members, you. You're all I have left."
Cat grabbed his hand and squeezed it. "You wouldn't think less of me if I was the one to pull the trigger?"
He shook his head. "I'd be right beside you helping you."
She smiled. "Thank you."
She let go and glanced at Jackson before getting out. "I think he stopped moving."
"But where's Derek?" Scott asked, looking at Isaac.
Isaac shrugged, pointing down the alley and all 4 turned to see Derek running on all four legs. Just feet from them, he jumped up into the air, flipping and landing in a crouch, staring at them with red eyes.
"Show off." Cat muttered.
Derek ignored her as he stood up, looking uncertainly at Chris.
"I'm here for Jackson, not you." The hunter assured him.
"Somehow I don't find that very comforting." Derek replied.
"Trust me." Cat replied. "we all want the same thing now."
Derek stared hard at her before turning to Scott and Isaac. "Get him inside."