Selene POV: Stiles Selene and Malia were in the Sheriff's office early the next morning. The Sheriff found eight new holes the night before.
"Chimeras" Stilinski said trying out the word.
"Two dead chimeras" Stiles told his dad.
"And eight new ones" Malia said.
"So that's ten in all" Stiles added.
"I'm thinking eleven. Our station tech guys confirmed something for me. They said both the holding cell lock and cameras could have malfunctioned because of something electromagnetic. You said that uh these guys…" Stilinski said pinning up a picture of Donovan and showing the others the camera feed to his cell.
"Dread Doctors" Malia offered when Stilinski held up the book.
"Are we really calling them that?" Stilinski asked.
"So they broke Donovan out?" Malia asked.
"It's how they go into Eichen isn't it?"
"Donovan's a Chimera" Malia said walking over to the Sheriff's board.
Selene leaned slightly into Stiles and rubbed his back as he said nothing.
"Yeah but…is he a failure like Lucas and Tracy?" Stilinski asked.
"If he is he's probably dead" Malia went to put an X over his picture but the Sheriff stopped her.
Stiles tensed and turned away from them and rubbed his hand slowly. Seeing this Selene took his hand and intertwined their fingers smiling at him softly.
"Not until I've seen a body. You're uncharacteristically quiet" Stilinski said turning toward Selene and Stiles.
"Sorry I'm uh… I'm just trying to think about it. Uh… these are all teenagers right? So now shouldn't we be trying to figure out why these teenagers? If the Dread Doctors… if they went through all that. Burying them killing them breaking one of them out of jail…" Stiles said turning to his dad.
"They couldn't have been chosen at random" his dad finished.
"They have to have something in common Selene added.
"Something thing that made them right for this experiment" the Sheriff said.
"Wait… that's it. It's not just they're teens or personality. They're experimenting on these kids it's gotta be… inside them that matters. Check blood type or abnormalities on the inside" Selene said excitedly.
After giving the Sheriff somewhere to start looking Stiles Selene and Malia met up with Scott Kira Lydia and Theo at Scott's house to read the book about the Dread Doctors.
"My mom's book club usually has more wine" Lydia said as they all stared down at the copies of the book on the table.
"Well they probably didn't read books that caused violent hallucinations" Stiles said.
"That's why Malia's here" Scott explained.
"So none of us go running into traffic?" Kira asked sarcastically.
"Or worse" Scott commented.
"Like what happened to Judy. Chapter 14" Malia explained when they all just gave her blank stares.
Selene hoped once she read it she'd know exactly what the Dread Doctors did to her and how to fix it.
"Maybe I should have my mother read it she might remember a girl with a tail leaping off the ceiling and attacking everyone" Lydia said.
"She probably knows and is in denial explaining it away so she doesn't have to admit the supernatural is real" Selene explained softly.
"Hopefully this works" Stiles said grabbing a copy off the table.
"It has to" Lydia said also grabbing a copy.
"What's that mean?" Scott asked.
"I think I saw them during my surgery. When I look at the cover of the book it's almost like a…" Lydia said trying to explain.
"A memory trying to surface" Theo offered.
"Yeah" Lydia nodded.
"Isn't that what Valack wanted when he wrote it?" Kira asked.
"If they did something to me I want to know what it is" Lydia said as she went to sit down.
Everyone grabbed a copy and went to read. Selene curled up with Stiles in one chair. After a little while later Stiles Selene and Malia went into the kitchen to make everyone some coffee. Stiles rubbed at his shoulder so Selene leaned into his side nuzzling against his neck causing him to smile.
"What did you do to your shoulder?" Malia asked pouring seven cups of coffee.
"What are you talking about?" Stiles asked tensing up.
"I can smell the blood what happened?"
"Jeep died on me again I went to check the engine the hood fell on it" Stiles said.
"I bet Selene helped take care of it" Malia said.
"You know it" Selene smiled at Stiles and rubbing his leg.
"So how much… how much do you remember anyway? With the accident did it play like a movie in your head or was it like being completely in it again?" Stiles asked about Malia's resurfaced memory of the night she was in the wreck with her mom and sister.
"In it" Malia replied.
"Was it just the crash? Nothing else?"
"Nothing" Malia replied.
Selene gave Malia a look saying she'd heard her heart beat and knew she was lying but she wouldn't push her on it. Malia nodded her thanks slightly. As it got later everyone started to fall asleep.
Stiles leaned against the couch with his arm around Selene who was tucked against his side. When morning came they all went to school.
"What if we need some kind of trigger? Wasn't Malia driving when she remembered the crash?" Scott asked.
"Yeah but how are we supposed to trigger a memory that we don't remember?" Stiles asked.
"Maybe it's a delayed thing maybe you have to wait a couple hours to see what happens" Scott offered.
Suddenly the lights flickered and Scott Stiles and Selene turned to look at Kira behind them.
"That wasn't me I swear" she said. "We keep an eye on each other today okay?" Scott said.
"Yes and keep an eye out for eight other potentially homicidal Chimeras" Stiles said.
"And keep an eye out for the Dread Doctors" Kira added.
"Starting to see the appeal of a third eye" Stiles said as Scott and Kira walked away.
"I don't think you'd look as hot with a third eye love" Selene teased him taking his hand and going to class.
"Oh yeah right in the middle of my forehead" Stiles teased back smiling.
School pasted without incident and was almost normal except the feeling of dread and of something not good coming closer. There were no signs of any other Chimeras or the Dread Doctors who mostly tend to come out during the night.
Yet Selene couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong with her and she knew just how to trigger her memory if she had to.