Stiles POV: Night had fallen so Coach had the bus pull over at a motel.
"I've… seen worse" Scott said when they got off the bus.
"Where have you seen worse?" Stiles asked.
Then Coach blew his whistle.
"Listen up. The meet's been pushed till tomorrow. This is the closest motel with the most vacancies and least amount of good judgement when it comes to accepting a bunch of degenerates like yourselves. You'll be pairing up choose wisely. And I'll have no sexual perversions perpetrated by you little deviants. Got that? Keep your dirty little hands to your dirty little selves!"
Obviously Stiles paired up with Scott. Once in their room they aid on their beds.
"All right so I have four" Stiles said.
"Four? You have four suspects?" Scott asked.
"Yea it was originally ten. Well nine technically I guess I had Derek on there twice."
"So who's number one? Harris?"
"Just because he's missing doesn't mean he's dead" Stiles said.
"So if he's not dead our chemistry teacher is out secretly committing human sacrifices" Scott said doubtfully.
"Yeah I guess that just sounded way better in my head."
"Well what if it's somebody else from school? Like you remember Matt? We didn't know that he was killing people."
Stiles got up and looked at Scott.
"Excuse me? I'm sorry what? I…yes we did. I called that from day one actually."
"Yeah but we never really seriously thought that it was Matt."
"I was serious. I was quite serious actually. Deadly serious. No one listened to me."
"Who were the other three?" Scott asked sitting up a little.
"Derek's sister Cora. No one knows anything about her and she's Derek's sister. Next your boss."
"My boss?" Scott sat up all the way.
"Yeah your boss. I don't really like the whole Obi-Wan thing he's got going on you know. It freaks me out. Oh my god. Have you still not seen Star Wars?" Stiles said when Scott gave him a blank look.
"I swear if we make it back alive I will watch the movie" Scott said laughing.
"Just makes me crazy."
"Who was the last one?"
Sighing Stiles say down on the bed. "Lydia. She was totally controlled by Peter and she had no idea so…"
Both Scott and Stiles sighed and laid back on the bed. Scott went into the bathroom and Stiles went to get a snack. Boyd was there also getting a snack.
"Yo. Hey. That was the same thing I was gonna get" Stiles smiled then the food got stuck.
"Oh hang on. You know what? I got a patented method for this don't worry" Stiles reached up to shake the machine but Boyd punched through the glass.
After Boyd walked off with his snack Stiles took a bunch of snacks and went back up to his room. Scott wasn't there so Stiles ate his snacks and then went into the bathroom to brush his teen. When he came back out Scott was back and on the phone and freaking out.
"Hey Scott you okay?" Stiles asked.
Scott didn't answer so Stiles started to brush his teeth again but got a text from Lydia saying she needed to talk and not to bring Scott. Stiles met up with Lydia and Allison in their room.
"Last time I saw Scott act like that was during the full moon" Allison explained.
"Yeah I know. He was definitely a little off with me too but actually it was Boyd who was really off. I watched him put his fist through the vending machine" Stiles said.
"See it is the motel. Either we need to get out of here right now or… someone needs to learn how to do an exorcism asap before the werewolves go crazy and kill us. I called in a little help with that part" Lydia mumbled the last part as she looked for the bible.
"Okay just hold on all right? What if it's not just the motel? The number in the office went up by three right?" Stiles asked.
"You mean like three sacrifices?" Allison asked.
"What if this time it's three werewolves?" Stiles said.
"Then were in even bigger trouble" Lydia said.
"Why?" Allison asked.
"How much power do you think the Darach would get by killing the Alpha of Alphas?" Lydia asked.
"Well she can't be killed and she's not here so…" Allison said.
"You don't know the Darach can't kill her… Lydia why are you asking?" Stiles looked at her.
"Well the werewolves are crazy so I kind of... called Selene…" Lydia started.
"You called my ex-girlfriend when the Darach is gunning for werewolves!?"
"No…I called the one person who can help the werewolves" Lydia said.
"Call her she could be in danger here or she'll go crazy too" Allison said.
"Too late she'll be here soon" Lydia said softly.
"Damn" Stiles said softly.
"I'm sorry I was just trying to help" Lydia said setting the bible down.
"Wait hang on let me see this" Stiles said as he saw something sticking out of the bible.
"What is it?" Allison asked.
Stiles read the title of the newspaper article clipping.
" '28 year old man hands himself at the infamous Glen Capri'."
"Oh no. Look at these two. They both mention the room 217. There are probably all the suicides that happened in this room" Lydia said.
"So if every room had a bible…" Allison started.
"There could be articles in all the rooms" Lydia said.
"That's a beautiful thing. Most places leave a mint under the pillow. This one leaves a record of all the horrible deaths that occurred" Stiles said sarcastically.
"What if the room next door has the one about the couple?" Lydia said.
Then Stiles ran for the door and over to the next room but the door was locked.
"No that was not locked before" Lydia said.
"Forget it we need to get Scott, Isaac, and Boyd out of here" Allison said.
Then a wiring mechanical sound came from the room.
"I'm not the only one who heard that am I?" Lydia asked.
"It sounds like someone turned the handsaw on" Allison said.
"Handsaw?" Stiles pushed and shoved until the door opened.
They saw Ethan about to slice into his own stomach.
"Hey no Ethan don't!" Stiles said running at him.
They both fought for the saw when it fell and Stiles nearly fell face first on it but he caught himself and Lydia turned it off. Ethan flicked his claws out next to claw at his stomach. Stiles jumped up and against they fought when Ethan fell back his arm hit the heater and burned.
Ethan looked around scared.
"What just happened?" he asked.
Before getting an answer he walked out clearly panicked.
"Ethan" Stiles called out as they all followed him.
"Didn't you hear what I just said? I don't know how I got there or what I was doing" Ethan said walking down the stairs closing his shirt.
"Okay you could be a little bit more helpful you know? We did just save your life" Stiles said.
"And you probably shouldn't have" Ethan said before walking off.
"What now?" Lydia asked.
"I'll find Scott. You guys grab Isaac and Boyd. The best thing we can do is get them out of this place" Allison said then she went back up stairs.
"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" Lydia asked.
"Oh no I w…" Stiles tried.
"Stiles."
"All right Lydia. I didn't want to say anything but this everything we're going through we've kind of been through something like this before a lot like this."
"What do you mean? When?"
"Your birthday party the night you poisoned everyone with wolfsbane."
Lydia said nothing but she did look scared. Lydia then just walked away from him.
"Lydia I'm sorry okay? Look I didn't mean that you're trying to kill people okay? I just… I just meant that maybe… maybe you're somehow involved in getting people to kill themselves you know? Which now that I say that out loud it just sounds really terrible so I'm just going to stop talking" Stiles said but then Lydia stopped walking.
"Stiles… do you hear that?" Lydia asked.
"What?" Stiles asked hearing nothing.
"Lydia what do you hear?"
"A baby crying. I hear… I hear water running. Oh my god. Show's drowning the baby…someone's drowning!" Lydia said.
They ran into Boyd and Isaac's room and Boyd was drowning himself with a safe on his chest in the bath tub. Stiles tried to drain the water.
"He blocked it. He blocked the drain with something I can't get to it" Stiles said.
"What do we do?" Lydia panicked.
"Here help me" Stiles said trying to pull the safe off Boyd Lydia tried to help but it was too heavy.
"Is he dead? How long can a werewolf stay underwater?" Lydia asked.
"You think I know that?" Stiles said stepping back only to catch his arm on the heater.
"Ow! ...Wait a sec the heater. Heater… Ethan came out of it when he touched the heater."
"What?" Lydia asked.
"It's heat, heat, fire. Heat does it all right? We need something… we need fire."
"He's underwater" Lydia said pointing out the obvious.
"Yeah I'm aware of that."
"Wait wait. The bus on the bus they'll have emergency road flares. They have their own oxidizers. They can burn underwater" Lydia explained.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes go!"
Stiles ran out and down to the bus quickly locating and grabbing two road flares.
"I got'em. What do I do? How do I do this?" he asked coming back to the room.
"The cap it's like a match. The cap's a match. Stiles!" Lydia yelled at him as he tried to light it.
"Yea I'm trying" then once lite he shoved it in the bath tub to burn Boyd.
The safe went flying as Boyd say up with a roar looking scared. Lydia said that Isaac was under the bed. Kneeling down Stiles had the other flare lite too.
"Hey Isaac. Got something here for ya" the Stiles stuck the flare under the bed to burn Isaac.
Stiles ran out of their room and went to his own but instead of seeing Scott and Allison Selene was there. She turned when she heard him walk in.
Selene POV: "Stiles you're okay" Selene went to hug him but stopped.
Her claws were out her eyes were Alpha red.
"Selene why are you here?" Stiles asked.
"Lydia said you were in danger."
"I'm not but the wolves are Isaac is" Stiles said his anger over them kissing coming back.
"I can help I'm just glad you're okay."
"Shouldn't you be more worried bout your new boyfriend?" Stiles asked pissed off.
"What are you talking about?"
"Isaac I saw you freaking kissing him."
"First he kissed me after almost dying I felt horrible about it and stopped the kiss. He feels awful cause he knows how I feel about you. And besides what about you and that girl at the party you kissed her and almost more!"
"I didn't do anything more with her and how do you know that?!"
"People are being killed all over town I was watching out for you!"
"Why no one asked you to!" Stiles yelled finally seeing how much she hurt it mirrored his own hurt.
"Because I love you!"
"Well I love you too!" unable to take it any longer Stiles grabbed her and kissed her hard.
She kissed him back just as hard. They finally broke apart to look at the bed then back at each other.
"Not here but soon I… I can't stay away from you anymore I tried you deserve better but I CAN'T do it anymore. I love you Selene" Stiles said still holding her.
"I love you Stiles I tried to stay away to protect you but I couldn't I had to see you."
They walked out only to run into Allison.
"I can't find Scott anywhere" Allison said.
"It's happening to him too isn't it?" Stiles asked.
"It has to be. Didn't you say there was another flare on the bus?" Lydia asked.
"Yea I'll get it" Stiles said holding Selene's hand.
"Guys um Scott…" Selene said pointing.
And there holding the flare standing dosed in gasoline was Scott.
"Scott… Scott" Allison tried.
"There's no hope" Scott said.
"What do you mean Scott? There's always hope" Allison said.
"Not for me not for Derek" Scott replied.
"Derek wasn't your fault. You know Derek wasn't your fault" Allison continued
"Every time I try to fight back it just gets worse. People keep getting hurt people keep getting killed."
Stiles POV: "Scott listen to me okay? This isn't you are right? This is someone inside your head telling you to do this okay? Now…" Stiles spoke as he got closer to Scott.
"What if it isn't just me? What if doing this is actually the best thing that I could do for everyone else? It all started that night the night I got bitten. You remember the way it was before that? You and me we were… we were… we were nothing. We weren't popular. We weren't good at lacrosse. We weren't important. We were no one. Maybe I should just be no one again. No one at all" Scott said.
"Scott just listen to me okay? You're not no one. Okay? You're someone you're… Scott you're my best friend okay? And I need you. Scott you're my brother. All right so… so if you're gonna do this then… I think you're just gonna have to take me with you all right?" Stiles said stepping into the ring of gasoline.
Slowly Stiles took the flare from Scott and threw it out of the gas ring.
"No!" Selene and Lydia yelled and tackled Scott and Stiles to get them away from the gas as the flare rolled back into the gasoline causing an explosion.
Inside the flames the Darach could be seen just for a few seconds.
They all decided to sleep in the bus instead of the motel.
"I don't want to know I really don't want to know but in case you missed the announcement the meets cancelled so we're heading home. Pack it in pack it in!" Coach said waking them up in the morning.
"I don't know what happened last night but I'm pretty sure you saved my life" Ethan said sitting next to Scott.
"Actually I saved your life…but not that it matters much. It's just… it's just minor detail" Stiles said when Ethan glared at him.
"So I'm gonna give you something. We're pretty sure Derek's still alive…" Ethan said.
"He is… he is still alive" Selene spoke up.
"But he killed one of ours. That mean one of two things can happen. Either he joins our pack…" Ethan continued.
"And kills his own" Scott finished for him.
"Or Kali goes after him and we kill him. That's the way it works."
"You know your little code of ethics there is sort of barbaric just FYI" Stiles said.
Lydia grabbed Coach's whistle and sat down a crossed from Scott and Stiles Ethan having just left. Lydia covered the whistle with her hand and blew.
"Wolfsbane" she said showing them the powder.
"So every time the coach blew the whistle on the bus Scott, Isaac, Boyd…" Stiles said.
"And Ethan" Lydia said.
"We all inhaled it" Scott said.
"You were all poisoned by it" Allison said.
"So that's how the Darach got in their heads. That's how he did it" Stiles said.
Stiles grabbed the whistle and threw it out the window.
"Hey hey hey Stilinski!" Coach yelled at him.
Selene POV: Stiles still hadn't really and truly accepted the mate bond she could still feel her feral side inside her but when Stiles took her hand last night her claws retracted. On the ride home she had to make sure not to look anyone in the eye hers were still red and her wolf was still too in control.
Stiles took her hand for the trip home and smiled at her.
"I love you" Stiles said softly.
"I love you too" Selene said back smiling her fangs were also still out.
Just because her claws were not out anymore didn't mean she wasn't still losing herself.
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