Interlude
"Hey, how's going my favorite ballet dancer?" Danny arriving at a girl's room in the hospital.
"The only ballet dancer you know, Danny. What did you bring?"
"I know plenty of ballet dancers. You're the best, even if you're the most grumpy also."
"May I say 'ouch'? I'm the only dancer you talk with. And only because we got into this whole discover-who's-a-werewolf game by accident."
Danny gets secretive: "Adelia! Please, I think this might be dangerous. Lay low." Looking in the room.
Adelia almost laughs: "Please don't make the role of neurotical food bringer. It's too original for you."
The lights get slightly less bright. Both seem anxious.
"Okay." The girl says. "Now I'm into talking about something else. Like what boys fell in your hands while I'm here leg-broken."
They keep talking, but she notices he's too anxious, fingers knocking everywhere.
She stops him: "Danny." He stops talking. She asks: "What's happening?"
He sits: "You'll think I'm being paranoid." She waits. He continues: "I think someone's been stalking me. I saw this guy everywhere around me, and it's creepy. It goes beyond coincidence."
She's mute for a second, then she looks like she's going to say something alike, when the power definitely goes down. They grope in the dark, a sound like feather in tissue is heard, along with glass breaking. Danny's reaching the door but when he hears this noise, which came from inside the room, he starts to go back. The sound is again heard, but along with something else, a buzz, like it's very close to his ears. He calls Adelia, but there's no response. Then the power generator works and in the pale light he sees that she's dead, an arrow spiked in her chest. The window is broken and he sees, from the angle he's in, lanterns in the adjacent building. He does not come close to the window, but instead crawls outside the room, in fear. He touches his ear, sensing some pain, to find blood. One arrow was meant for him.
He runs.
"How arrogant of you to call me." It's Sonia, in her phone. In the other side of this call is Gerard, who's running alongside Scott, that realizes it is his cellphone, taken from his pocket without him noticing. Gerard's response is: "I'm calling to offer you a deal. I can be of service to you."
"We will not accept. You're controlling monsters. How dare you, a hunter, use these forces?!"
Gerard throws Scott unexpectedly through a counter, without stopping the running: "You know that in ancient times, before hunters came to be known as this, they controlled creatures."
Sonia is getting angrier by the time: "You're different. An aberration. What you did to yourself… I had respect for you."
Scott gets up and starts running to catch Gerard. His vision is a little blurred, he probably took some time to get up, since he's still recovering.
In the garage, Gerard meets a lady.
"Thanks for meeting me here." He says. She's a mercenary, and gives him something.
"I did what I was paid for and kept waiting."
He keeps a bag she gives him, gets something that's inside it and injects in himself.
The woman looks surprised.
Stiles is being held hostage by two men. They're taking him somewhere.
"You two realized I'm not a werewolf, right?" Silence from them.
Then they're on the ground and Stiles sees Derek.
"You were allowing them to go torture you?!" It's Derek's usual mood.
"Good evening for you too." Derek unties him. Stiles still talks: "So… you found my antidote?"
Derek's speechless for a tiny moment, then talks: "That's not why I'm here. I'm here for your lack of subtlety."
"Ah, my funny invitation, you mean."
Derek arrived at his house but, when he entered, there was a circle of mountain ashes in the door that only allowed him to go a little inside. And before his allowed entrance area ended, there was a jacket. A Stiles's jacket.
They smile to each other.
"How do you know about your poisoning, by the way?"
"Your uncle Peter. Let's keep walkie-talking, I don't feel like live baiting right now."
Walking…
"I think your uncle wanted you and Cora here. And the explanation might be that Scott would be stronger with a bigger pack, which means"
Derek completes: "He's working with Gerard. I've came to the same conclusion. They only talked to each other through technology, which"
Stiles completes: "It's not your thing. He's smart. Can we stop completing each other's sentences?"
Derek, worried: "Those men that were taking you, they weren't hunters."
"What were they?"
"Humans. Impersonating hunters."
Stiles is confused. But he's sure of something and he stops to talk: "I'm glad you're here." Starts walking: "But be careful. Werewolves are a dying breed around here."
"It's not like humans are safe either."
They smile a little.
Hunters arrive at the garage and see Gerard and the lady. They shoot with fire guns, which they weren't using in the hospital, but down here they can. Gerard uses the mercenary body as a shield. They kill her. Then Gerard jumps in a ladder and climbs her inhumanly quickly.
One of the Argents: "Damned hybrid!" To one of his men: "Contact the van and find out where does that ladder end." Then she turns shooting, almost hitting Scott, that hides behind a car.
"Do you like being controlled by an old male hag, kid? Get out of here, we won't kill you today."
But Scott is above her, hanging in a pipeline, and jumps over her.
At the police station, Stillinski is preparing to leave. Rafe, Scott's father, enters questioning:
"Don't you think it's better to have a plan before going in there?"
"My son is there, visiting your son. How can you be so calm!?"
"It's because being nervous won't help. This is serious business, a hospital suffering a terrorist attack."
"What would be the suggestion of an FBI agent, then, Rafe?"
Rafe puts his hand in his mouth, thinking, then sits: "According to the map, the hospital has few entrances, so they must all be taken by now." They look at the map. "Police officers on the location reported that they're not being able to contact any of the terrorists. And this makes no sense."
Stillinski: "Maybe they are looking at a particular target."
Rafe sees hope in Stillinski's eyes: "We don't know for sure. But hospital personnel is reachable, which is unusual in these kinds of situations. And they say that there are lots of people dying in there." He sees the sheriff's phone in the table.
"Weren't you able to contact Stiles?"
The sheriff gasps: "No. I think he does not want me involved. But this time he won't get what he wants."
One of the Argents finds himself in Adelia, Danny's friend, room. This hunter, a Japanese lady, contacts Sonia through a communicator.
"Sir, we have a problem. I found someone killed with an arrow imitating our methods. Someone's using us as a scapegoat."
Derek defeats a hunter. Then he and Stiles see one of the non-hunter humans and they go after him. Derek will grab him, but he deviates. Then Derek starts trying to hurt him, but everytime this simple human uses the boost of Derek's movements against him. Then this man starts cutting Derek with a silver knife, Stiles is worried. Stiles runs in their direction, hoping he can do something, but the human runs away. Derek sits on the floor. Stiles holds his arms.
Derek, puffy: "They ran from something they know it's coming."
"Optimism is something y'all simply underestimate, isn't it?"
Derek gets something in Stiles pocket. A bloody handkerchief.
Silence.
Stiles kisses him. Derek corresponds.
Stiles: "In case"
Derek interrupts: "You won't die. Neither will I." Getting up.
Scott's holding the lady from behind.
"Can we unite to just imprison Gerard?"
The lady laughs.
"Scott, the true alpha, doesn't want to kill? Oh, yeah, you can't. But you must."
"What are you talking about?"
"Gerard injected something in your body and in the body of all your pack members. Then he got to inject other vial in himself. That's why he could control you."
Scott's thinking: "Then I just need to get another member."
"Scott, you don't get it, do you? We, Sonia, threw a dart at you, that allowed you to be freed from Gerard's influence. For a while. He will regain control over you, and he will make you kill lots of people, just what you're not willing to do."
"I'll find another way."
"No." The lady talks like a succubus, seducing. "Listen to me. He's vulnerable, easy to kill."
Scott stops her reasoning: "What's a hybrid?" He listened to her before.
She answers: "That's what I'm trying to tell. He does not have any of the werewolf weaknesses, and although he does have powers, they're not as strong as yours. And, mainly, he doesn't heal. That's the price he paid to cure himself of what you did to him."
Scott's astonished. She still talks:
"Do you really think he doesn't want to be an alpha? He'll steal it from you, he's just using you as leverage."
Scott's confused, so he just hangs the lady with his arms 'till she loses air and faints, then he runs from there. From the shadows, another hunter emerges and follows Scott, since she believes he'll lead them to Gerard.
Scott arrives in the terrace just to find Gerard jumping in a ladder hanging from a helicopter that then goes away.
Sonia sees this from her van and panics. Through a communicator, she orders:
"It's a trap. Everybody out! Now."
Stillinski and some other police officers are in front of a closed entrance to the hospital. They're sure there are terrorists in the other side, and they're weighting their options.
When Scott realizes that Gerard's escape must mean something, he starts to run, so that he can find Stiles, Derek, his mother… he must save everybody.
Derek and Stiles find Danny hidden beneath a bed. Stiles puts Derek over the bed to treat him.
Stiles: "He used liquid silver. What do I do?"
Derek: "I'll heal. It's just a matter of time."
Then Danny appeared.
Stiles: "Danny?!"
Danny: "So your cousin is also a werewolf?!"
Stiles is surprised.
Danny: "I saw something, then I investigated, started connecting the dots, who led me to Jackson, that explained it all to me." Looks at Stiles's face: "Wow, you do care about him!"
Stiles and Derek look each other in the eyes.
That's when explosions are heard.
Scott's in the camera monitors room, with his mother, and they see all entrances exploding.
Scott: "All the entrances were secured by hunters… Gerard wasn't trying to run at all. He used himself as bait!" Mortified.
Sonia looks all this also mortified. Dozens of them dying.
The sheriff and the cops are sent flying by the explosion, severely injured.
Stiles to Danny: "So they killed her, and she was nothing supernatural. Why would the Argents do this?"
Derek: "That guy who fought me, he fought like a hunter. They're passing by hunters."
Stiles rationalize: "They killed this Adelia, chased Danny and were taking me… they're after who knows about werewolves."
Lydia's house. Two men are lockpicking the front door. Evan arrives and fights them. He kills them. Far, Stiles and Derek see this.
Then a third one appears and kills Evan. And enters the house.
To be continued…