I heard my bedroom door open and someone suddenly jumped on my bed, right on top of me and I'd recognise his laugh anywhere, it was as familiar as my own
"Skyler" my eyes flashed opened to find my brother next to me
"What do you want?" I moaned, rolling over burying my face in my pillow and looked over at the clock "It's twelve o'clock"
"You know what today is right?"
"Should I care?" I mumbled
"What is the scariest and funniest night of the year?" I turned over to him with wide eyes
"Mischief Night"
"Halloween" he replied and I quickly sat up in bed
"So what are we doing this year, we always do something to Coach every year"
"I don't know what Stiles has planned but I know he'll be at the school, I vote we freak him out first" I gave Scott a smile
"Let's do it" I quickly got dressed and Scott and I jumped on his bike speeding to school and we were in the parking lot when Stiles called him
"Get your arses down here now, we have a job to do" I heard Stiles say as soon as Scott picked up
"Dude, I'm already in bed" Scott said as we walked into the school heading for the locker room where we picked up Stiles scent "You know Skye will kill me if I wake her up before eight hours and aren't we getting a little old for this?"
"We do this for Coach" Stiles argued
"I thought we did this to Coach" Scott replied laughing
"Whatever, okay you know he needs this, he lives for this stuff, he loves it"
"But it's the middle of the night" Scott and I walked into the locker room and made sure we were quiet and Stiles didn't see us, we saw Stiles rattle open his locker, pulling out different tools
"12:15 actually, which means it's after midnight and officially Mischief Night/Day and by perfectly awesome coincidence, it's also happens to be Coach's birthday, so if you two are not down here in five seconds, I will destroy you okay and I mean five, four, three, two-" he turned around and screamed falling, at the sight of our glowing red eyes as Scott and I both walked out of the shadows, smiling at Stiles
"One" I said laughing with Scott
"I hate you's" was all Stiles could say
"You love us" I replied
Only a few hours later, Scott and I pulled up to the school on his motorcycle, we had worked till almost five getting done with our prank, so I had to spend extra time in the morning getting rid of the tired look on my face
"You think Coach is gonna mad?" I asked as we pulled up
"Isn't he always?" Scott replied, breaking the motorcycle
"True" I smiled but it soon vanished when I looked over, seeing two black motorcycles and their riders getting off of them, the evil twins, Scott sighed as he and I got off the motorcycle, walking over to the two
"You're back in school?" Scott asked them
"No, just to talk" Ethan replied
"Oh, that's kind of a change of pace for you guys" I turned and saw Stiles walking up to us then stand beside Scott "Usually, you're just hurting, maiming and killing" Aiden rolled his eyes and looked at Scott
"You need a pack, we need an Alpha"
"Yeah, absolutely not" Stiles answered for him "That's hilarious though"
"You came to us for help, we helped"
"You beat his face into a bloody pulp" I corrected "That's not helping in my opinion, that's actually counter-productive"
"Why would I say yes?" Scott asked
"We'd add strength" Aiden answered "We'd make you more powerful, there's no reason to say no"
"I can think of one" Isaac said, walking up beside me "Like the two of you holding Derek's claws while Kali impaled Boyd, in fact I don't know why we're not impaling them right now"
"You want to try?" Aiden growled with his fangs and eyes showing, Isaac smirked and was about to walk up to them but I grabbed his arm, holding him back Isaac looked at me and I shook my head, I didn't need Isaac getting into a fight even if they weren't Alphas anymore
"Sorry but they don't trust you" Scott said "And neither do I" with that, Scott walked away with us following towards the school, mischief night had brought a lot of pranksters and a lot of toilet paper the school seemed to be covered in it and as we walked in others were running around throwing it in the air
"All right, that's my face!" Stiles yelled as a toilet paper roll flew at him "Hey, dude good decision buddy, good Alpha decision" he said to Scott as we walked to his locker
"I hope so" I leaned against the lockers as Stiles emptied his bag into his locker, I looked over at Scott who was looking past us, I followed his eyes and saw Kira at her locker
"Are you looking at her?" I asked him
"Me?" Scott asked
"Yeah, you are looking at her?"
"Her, who her?" Scott asked
"Her, her" Stiles said, realizing who we were talking about "Kira, you like her?"
"No I mean yeah, yeah, she's okay, she's new"
"So, ask her out" I said nodding from Scott to Kira
"Now?"
"Yes, now"
"Right now?" Scott asked
"Right now" Stiles replied "Scott, I don't think you get it yet, you're an Alpha, you're the apex predator, everyone wants you, you're like the hot girl that every guy wants" I looked at Stiles with pinched eyebrows, Stiles closed his locker as we started towards class
"The hot girl?" Scott asked
"Yeah bro" I said "You are the hottest girl" Stiles and I laughed before and we made our way to class, Scott slowly following and sat down next to each other in class "So do you think Coach has seen it yet?" I asked Scott and Stiles
"SON OF A BITCH!" that answered my question, Coach came storming into the class from his locker room office "Mischief Night, Devil's Night!" he exclaimed "I don't care what you call it, you little punks are evil, you think it's funny every Halloween my house gets egged, a man's house is supposed to be his castle, mine's a frickin' omelette" he turned, seeing a small wrapped box on his desk "Oh, this we're gonna do this again?" he picked up the box "I don't think so" he threw it on the ground and stomped on it, causing a shatter then kneeled down and picked up the gift, it was a mug with #1 COACH on it, he picked up the card "'Happy Birthday' 'Love, Greenberg'" I chuckled and leaned over to Stiles, giving him a high five I forgot how fun doing normal human teenager stuff was
I walked out of English class later on and almost ran into a police officer, he excused himself and I saw more entering the school, followed by my dad
"Dad" I said, getting his attention
"Skye, what are you doing here?"
"I go to school here"
"Well I was hoping your bad attendance record would help me out today"
"What's going on?"
"I just need you to go to class" he replied and I didn't like the sound of that
"Dad, what's going on?" he looked around and walked closer to me
"William Barrow is somewhere in the school" he whispered
"The bomber?" I exclaimed
"Shh!" he shushed me quickly "I need this to lay low until we find him, now go be with your friends, go to class" I felt my phone vibrate as my father walked away, I looked seeing a message from Stiles but I already knew what it was about
"Barrow went after kids with glowing eyes?" I asked as Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Isaac and I walked down the empty school hallway "He said those exact words?"
"Yeah" Stiles answered "And no one knows how he woke up from anaesthesia, just that when they opened him up, they found a tumour full of live flies, which in any other circumstance would be all kinds of awesome"
"Did you say flies?" Lydia suddenly asked, stopping in the middle of the hall
"Lydia?" Allison asked
"All day I have been hearing this sound, it's like this buzzing"
"Like the sound of flies?" Isaac asked
"Exactly like the sound of flies" I turned to Stiles
"We need to find Scott, if Lydia's hearing flies he's got to be around here somewhere"
Stiles and I went off ahead of the others, running through the hall trying to find Scott, we turned the corner and saw Scott standing outside the history classroom
"Hey dude, where the hell have you been?" Stiles asked Scott
"The police are leaving" Lydia said, coming up behind us "Why are they leaving?"
"The police?" Scott asked
"They must have cleared the building and grounds, which means he's not here" Stiles said
"Who, what are you guys-" Scott asked
"He has to be here" Lydia interrupted Scott "That sound, the buzzing I've been hearing, it's getting louder"
"How loud?" I asked, Lydia looked up at the light
"Very" I stood in the hall, waiting for Scott our mom was bringing us some of Barrow's clothes, so we could sniff him out, Isaac walked up to me, just as Ethan and Aiden did
"What the hell are they doing here?" Isaac asked
"Scott and I asked them to help us" I replied
"Help us?" Isaac took me off to the side "Do you not remember that these are the guys that helped kill Boyd and technically drove Derek to leave right?"
"You know we can hear you, right" Aiden said angrily, I looked at him before turning back to Isaac
"Look, I know you don't like them, I don't like them but we need their help, Barrow is here at the school and we need to find him and fast" just as I finished, Scott walked up to us holding a plastic bag "Did you get it?" Scott nodded
"Look, Lydia thinks that he's still here even though the cops searched the whole school but they didn't have one thing, our sense of smell" he reached inside the bag and pulled out a hospital gown
"We're gonna start in the basement and then meet in the boiler room" I said "Barrow wouldn't be running around in the open, especially after escaping from surgery" we each took turns to smell the gown then separated into the basement, I went with Isaac and Scott making our way through the basement in silence until Isaac broke it
"So this is how it's gonna be now, we trust them?"
"Just because I'm letting them help, doesn't mean we trust them" Scott said
"Yeah, well I don't trust them either or like them, in fact I hate them and just want them to die"
"Well, if Barrow's actually here and he's got a plan" I told him "You might get what you want" Scott went ahead of us and Isaac wrapped his arm around my shoulders
"Have you talked to Derek?" he asked and I flinched again at Derek's name
"Not lately, he hasn't gotten back to any of my texts in almost a month" I paused "What about you?"
"No" Isaac paused "Do you think he's still alive?" I hesitated
"I'm pretty sure if he was dead, at least one of us would know" Isaac squeezed my shoulder and opened his mouth to say something, when the fire alarm sounded we looked up and ran back towards the stairs, making our way back up and outside then saw the other four and met up with them
"We didn't find anything" Aiden informed us
"Not even a scent" Scott added
"It's three, so school's over" Stiles said "If there was a bomb, wouldn't he have set it off by now?"
"Does that mean everybody's safe?" I asked then we all looked at Lydia
"I don't know" Lydia said "I just I don't know"
Stiles, Lydia and I had decided to go back to Stiles' place after school and I wasn't all that surprised when we got to Stiles' room and found pictures and strings taped and tacked to the wall, Stiles had always been one for detail and figuring out a case like this was no different
"What do the different coloured strings mean?" I looked up from my book as Lydia said this
"Oh, just different stages of the investigation" Stiles told her "So green is solved, yellow is to be determined, blue's just pretty" I picked up the red yarn as he said this
"What does red mean?" I asked
"Unsolved" Stiles replied
"You only have red on the board" I pointed out
"Yes, I'm aware thank you" he replied, I tasted the sarcasm that came off it
"Did you get detention for pulling the alarm?" Lydia asked, changing the subject
"Yep, every day this week, it's okay though" he turned to Lydia "We were onto something"
"Even though we couldn't find any proof of Barrow being there" Lydia asked
"Hey, Lydia" Stiles kneeled in front of her "You've been right every time something like this has happened, okay so don't start doubting yourself now"
"No scent, no bomb and I got you in trouble"
"Okay look, Barrow was there all right, you knew it, you felt it okay and look, if you wanted to, I'd go back to that school right now and search all night just to prove it" Stiles paused opening his texta and seemed to smell it then looked at me and Lydia "Get up, get up now"
"What, why?" I asked
"We're going to the school"
I always hated going to the school at night, we always seemed to have bad experiences here after hours, it usually didn't end well whether it was finding dead bodies or getting sent to the hospital, we made our way through the school I didn't know where we should be going I couldn't pick up a scent and had no idea where to look but Stiles led us to the chemistry classroom
"So what are we looking for" I asked rubbing my suddenly aching neck as we entered, Stiles went over to the chemical closet and opened the door
"That was supposed to be locked" Lydia said
"Yeah, I know" Stiles said, looking through the shelves "Notice anything else?"
"It smells like chemicals" I said then it clicked "We wouldn't have been able to catch his scent" I looked down and saw something on the ground so I bent down to look closer "It's blood"
"He was here, performing very minor surgery on himself" Stiles looked up at Lydia "You were right"
"Then why don't I feel good about this?" Lydia asked
"Probably because he was here to kill somebody" I replied
"But who?"
"That's what we gotta figure out" Stiles said, we got up and went back into the classroom "We could spread out, start looking for…anything" Stiles paused looking up as Lydia walked towards the blackboard and we noticed the three numbers on the chalkboard "Lydia, what are those?"
"Atomic numbers" she replied
"Is it a formula?" I asked
"Not really, 19's potassium, 53's iodine, 88's radium, the first two make potassium iodide…" she picked up a piece of chalk and began to write the letters next to each atomic number
"Potassium is K?" Stiles asked as she wrote a K next to the number 19
"From kalium, the scientific neo-Latin name" she wrote and I on the next
"What's radium?" Stiles asked
"R-A" Lydia replied, writing
"Oh my god" I mumbled "Kira" I paused "We have to find Scott, he said he was going to dinner at Kira's house if Barrow is going after Kira, he'll find Scott there and hurt him to" I quickly ran out of the room with them following
Stiles pulled his jeep up to Kira's house and I saw someone laying in the street next to Scott's bike, I quickly got out of the car and run over to him, turning him over, it was Scott
"Scott!" I yelled and began to shake my brother "Scott, Scott" his eyes slowly opened but when they did, he sat straight up
"Barrow, he took Kira!" Scott exclaimed
"We know" Stiles said "He was after her the whole time" Scott quickly stood and pulled out his phone, calling Isaac
"Hello?" he answered
"Isaac, have you found anything that could help us with Barrow?"
"No, nothing just stuff about flies and the dead, nothing else"
"All right, thanks" Scott said, hanging up "We have to think of something, he's going to kill her" he told us
"I knew he was there" Lydia said "How did I know that?"
"Because you heard the flies, right?" I said
"What do you hear now?" Scott asked
"Nothing" Lydia responded "I feel like I can do this but I don't know what to do, it's like it's on the tip of my tongue and I don't know how to trigger it I just I swear to God, it literally makes me want to scream"
"Okay, then scream" Stiles said "Lydia, scream" Stiles told her and she screamed, I winced cupping my ears as Lydia's piercing scream filled my ears, it lasted only for a minute but it was loud and scary and once she was done, Lydia's face went blank as she looked up at the street light above us
"It's not flies" she said "It's electricity"
"Wait a second, Barrow was an electrical engineer" Stiles informed us "He worked at a power substation" Scott turned towards him
"What substation?"
Scott and I pulled up on his motorcycle as Lydia and Stiles pulled up in the jeep beside us then Scott and I quickly ran inside the building and I could hear the electric static everywhere as we ran to find Kira
"Scott no, look out!" we turned to see Kira and ran towards her but that's when I felt the electricity hit me and Scott, causing us to fly backwards against the wall, I felt paralysed as I laid there, feeling my brother's pain to and Kira's desperation, I turned my head slightly to see Barrow walking over to Kira, ready to electrocute her
"Don't!" Scott said, causing Barrow to hesitate "She's not….she's not the one you want" Barrow didn't listen, he continued walking towards Kira, lowering the electric wire towards her "No, don't, stop no!" but when he touched her, everything changed
Once the wire hit Kira, there was a flash of light as Barrow was sent flying, he was dead when he hit the ground, I was in shock as the whole building seemed to be bathed in light as circuits started exploding and we looked over at Kira to see the electricity absorbing into her, I watched in awe as the last bit of electricity absorbed into her body and the whole building went dark
A/N: Sorry these few chapters don't have any Skye and Derek scenes but they are nessary