We were all on our way to the hospital. I was in the backseat of Derek's jeep keeping an eye on Mrs. Blake. Stiles and Scott were following us in Stiles' jeep. It was creepily silent. Mrs. Blake kept sneaking glances at Derek, he was ignoring her as best he could before she finally got the courage to speak "You should know I'm not doing this because I have to. I want to. I could still run, and you wouldn't have an easy time stopping me. But I don't want your sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do,"

"Shut up,"

"You need to hear the whole story, Derek. You need to know just how connected we really are," She told him all big-eyed. I snorted, Derek looked at me in amused disapproval.

"Stop talking," He told her. We pulled up to the hospital quickly, not caring if we took up emergency space since it looked like everyone was being evacuated anyway. I got out watching Mrs. Blake as Stiles parked next to us quickly jumping out of his jeep.

"What's that?" Scott yelled over the storm.

"Well, you got claws. I got a bat," Stiles yelled at him. I had to turn around and confirm he did indeed have a bat with him.

Mellissa's voice called to us almost as soon as we entered the hospital "Scott! Scott! What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating," She told us obviously running on adrenaline.

"We're here for Cora,"

"What, all of you? Why does Stiles have my bat?" I laughed.

"Mom, just trust me on this. You need to get out of here. Right now," She nodded but was staring at me.

"Arielle honey what happened to your neck?" She asked gently touching the bruising and indent on my throat.

"Ah well Melissa meet Mrs. Blake, she's a psycho killer," Mrs. Blake did not look pleased by this introduction or by the hostility Melissa started emitting. I smiled at her reassuringly "Just like always I am fine and I will recover, I'll let you check me out when you've slept for 12 hours," She nodded grimly.

"The building is supposed to be clear in 30 minutes. We've got two ambulances that are coming back. One's 10 minutes out, the other's 20. Cora needs to be on one of those. They'll be picking up in the basement garage," We all called out confirmation as we booked it to the elevator and all crammed in. Derek held Mrs. Blake's arm in a death grip.

"Anyone think that maybe we shouldn't be in this thing because the power might go out?" I was met with silence "Okay whatever not like we're on a time-sensitive mission or anything,"

A moment later Mrs. Blake spoke "You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help,"

I leaned against the elevator wall watching everything. Mrs. Blake got a weird look on her face and looked to her right to see Scott nearly wolfed out staring at her then looked to her left where Stiles was glaring at her looking like he could hit her with his bat at any moment. I smirked at the "kids" look on her face and full-on grinned at the death glare she threw me. I was definitely getting to her.

We walked onto Cora's floor and saw black blood trailing down a hall, through the next set of doors we heard a roar. The doors were swung open by Peters body who slid next to us on his back like he was thrown. He looked up, not surprised to see us "We got a problem. Big problem," Voltron wolf was waiting for us.

Derek being the Alpha male he is, of course, wolfed out instantly and ran at our ginormous enemy. It didn't take long for Derek to get his ass handed to him, I consoled myself by remembering Voltron wolf was technically two people in one. Scott attacked next and had a better handle on things while Stiles bent down and told Peter to help him grab Cora. "Bye Jenifer," I called without looking behind me since I knew Mrs. Blake was trying to escape.

"Why are you letting me go?" She asked as I heard the doors start to close.

I turned around and smiled "Because you're not worth it," Voltron wolf rushed passed me to try to get to her, so I ushered everyone through the next set of doors quickly.

"Why'd you let her go?" Growled Derek who was genuinely angry at me.

I shrugged "She's desperate, she'll be back. Plus if I had stopped her Ethan and Aiden would have probably torn her apart" No one seemed to like that answer "Need I remind you they are going to come after us since they didn't catch her?" I made a hurry-up motion.

"Don't stop, don't stop!" Derek called to us so of course, Stiles turned around before I could grab him and set himself up to hit Voltron wolf with the bat. I groaned at the stupidity. They came through the door and Stiles hit them hard shattering the bat. He looked shocked and then skittered to the wall and ran to us. I grabbed him and practically threw him through the next door as Scott threw a light fixture at the twins slowing them down.

We finally stopped in a hallway to set Cora down to check on her. Stiles ran his hands through his hair "What about Mrs. Blake? She's gone!" Now I had two people mad at me, make that three because Scott didn't look too pleased either. Even though he was mad Derek told him to be quiet "Me be quiet? Me, huh? Are you telling me what to do now? When your psychotic, mass-murdering girlfriend... the second one you've dated, by the way... has got my dad somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?"

Scott tried to soothe him and quieten him "Stiles, they're still out there,"

"And... and they want her, right? Which means now we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!" I reached over and smacked him on the back of the head and he gaped at me "What was that for,"

"For being an idiot, she'll be back in a second looking for protection. Did you really think I'd let her go if it meant risking your dad?" He looked slightly relieved until Scott spoke.

"Is she really dying?"

Peter was looking at her so tenderly and handled her so gently, it was weird seeing him be so caring "She's definitely not getting any better,"

"There has to be something that we can do. We have to help her," Scott said.

"I'm telling you she is going to be coming back any second," I told them. There is no way that obsessed freak was going to leave Derek alone.

"You can't. Only I can. I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is. But there is a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead. So I'll help you... but only when I'm out of here and safe. Only then," At the end of her speech, she looked annoyed that her dramatic entrance didn't get much of a reaction and the boys were all sending me bewildered looks.

"Told you, she may be a psycho but she is still predictable,"

Mrs. Blake glared at me "I'm going to finish the job one way or-" Scott leaped forward to stop Derek from attacking Jenifer. "I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that," She told Derek looking at him pleadingly.

Stiles stepped forward "If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her,"

"Not until I'm safe,"

"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion. Let's torture her," Peter said sadistically, ah there he was.

"Works for me," I just rolled my eyes, the intercom buzzed and Melissa's voice floated through it nervously "Um, can I have your attention? Mr. Deucalion... excuse me, just Deucalion... Requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R. reception. Do this, and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes," Scott looked panicked again.

"He's not gonna hurt her," Jenifer told us.

"Shut up," Derek growled.

"He won't! Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true," Everyone looked at Scott.

"What does she mean?"

Mrs. Blake was obviously annoyed by the lack of response from Scott "You're not the only one he wants in his pack," Derek looked surprised sizing Scott up "Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks,"

Peter caught on first "A true Alpha,"

"What's that?" Stiles asked clearly annoyed about not being in the loop when it came to his best friend.

"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another. One that can rise by the force of his own will. Our little Scott,"

Scott ignored all the stares "It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here,"

"Scott, your mom..."

"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in 20 minutes. And I don't think we've been here that long, so if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here,"

The boys talked about distracting the twins, and each said they'd stay till Jenifer insisted on being with Derek at all times which made us all roll our eyes. Peter chose to stay if we could find him something to help fight the Alphas. We all began searching the room for a weapon while Jenifer stared at us in disbelief.

"Hey, wait. What about these?" Stiles asked holding a defibrillator.

"Do you know how to use those?" Derek asked him. Stiles replied with a negative "Put 'em down,"

Scott called out "Epinephrine?" while holding a huge needle.

"That's only gonna make him stronger,"

Peter stopped and looked at Derek "How strong?" He proceeded to use it all to fight them with Scott while the rest of us ran for the garage where the ambulance should be.

"It's still here!" Stiles called while he and Derek got Cora in the ambulance, Jenifer found a dead body and then we all heard clicking which could only come from Kali's feet. Sure enough, she started to call for someone named Julia.

"It is you,"

Jennifer stepped behind Derek "You can't beat her on your own," she told him as I shoved Stiles into the ambulance and closed the doors quietly knowing they were better off on their own.

"That's why we're gonna run," Derek told her and they both booked it out of there with Kali chasing them.

"Okay, okay, okay. We're okay. We're all right," Stiles was talking to himself, he looked at Cora and started to talk to her as if she could hear "You okay? How you doing? Wh... why do you look like you're not breathing? Because you aren't breathing, are you? Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, no, no, no. Why are you not breathing? Come on. Okay, okay, okay. You can do this. Here we go, tilt the head. Fingers on the chin. Clear the throat. Great, nothing. I see nothing. Okay, all right, so, uh... just pinch the nose and blow. Oh, come on, Cora. Come on, Cora," He breathed into her mouth frantically and I started to do compressions on her chest since that's the part he seemed to forget "Come on. Oh, come on, Cora. Come on, breathe. Come on, Cora, breathe. Oh! You know, next time I put my lips to a girl's mouth, they better be awake," He said looking at me and smiling faintly.

I got a text from Derek 'Generator needs to be turned on. Stuck in the elevator' it was a mass text to everyone but I didn't know who had had time to read it. 'I'll try, wouldn't mind back up' I wrote back quickly. I turned to Stiles "You going to be okay?" I asked him and he nodded "I need to go turn the power back on, I'll be back as soon as possible," He looked panicked "You'll be okay, I swear," He leaned forward to kiss me real quickly. I sent him a reassuring smile before I started to run. I had to double back when I heard Kali come down a hallway and was able to get up another set of stairs only to see Scott being held in the air by his neck.

The twins told him they were trying not to hurt him "Try harder," Scott roared. I ran and did a flying leap kick into them causing them to drop Scott, suddenly Melissa was rushing past me.

"Hey! I'd like to try something," She shocked them apart with the defibrillator, wow Stiles was literally always right "Sweetheart, get up! Come on," She called to Scott as she helped him up and ushered me along with them. As we walked she told us "He just let me go, said it was a gesture of goodwill. No other reason,

"He had to have a reason. I don't think he does anything without a reason," Scott told her and I agreed.

"Well, if that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified, then don't worry about it. I got that covered," I gave a weak chuckle at that, I loved Melissa's spunk. We ran into the Argents almost literally. Isaac and I looked at each other relieved and hugged each other tightly.

"I'm so sorry I wasn't there," He whispered to me touching my bruised neck. I rubbed his back comfortingly as we went into another room to strategies.

"So then they're essentially trapped?" Chris Argent asked us.

"Yeah, right. There's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on," I told them.

"But wait, wait, wait, if the power's back on, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right? And they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops. We can't get in a fight with them," Isaac told us slightly panicked at the thought, the most accomplished werewolf he was not. Especially when he described our psycho teacher as hot.

They argued back and forth until Allison came up with a brilliant plan. She would take Jenifer's shoes and act like she was her, and the werewolves would follow her. Melissa and I would turn the power back on. Isaac would drive to get Cora, Peter, and Stiles. Scott would first meet Derek and help get Mrs. Blake out of the elevator and meet them by the ambulance. Melissa and I took off for the roof. We got there easily with most of the werewolves distracted and Melissa pulled the switch letting out a little "Oh, God," In relief which made me slightly cringe.

Something hit me in the back so hard it pushed me over the ledge and I barely caught the edge. I gasped for breath my back hurting when a face looked over at me, Jenifer. I snarled but she pulled Melissa into view with a knife against her throat "So Arielle, you ready to be my last sacrifice? I can let Melissa go right now,"

I started to pull myself up but she hit one of my hands with the back of her knife causing me to let go and give a shout of panic and a groan as I caught the side again "As long as you let the Sheriff go we have a deal,"

"Arielle, honey no!" Melissa calls out to me and had her hair pulled for her input.

She pretended to think about it "No, he shot me and Stilinski Jr. annoys me, so no deal then. This'll be more fun anyway," and she just vanished just as Deucalion stepped onto the roof.

He chuckled hearing me pull myself up from the ledge "Quite the precarious situation you have gotten yourself into Mrs. Celeste," I crouched on the ledge of the building not willing to get any closer to him. Scott came bursting through the door.

"Mom! Mom!"

"They're gone. Guardians, Scott. If you were with me, I could've told you what it meant. I could've warned you. Let me help you, Scott. Let's help each other. You help me catch her, and I'll help you get your mother and Stiles' father back,"

Scott looked at me helplessly as Stiles was the next to burst through the door "How could you not protect her," Scott practically whispered. I felt my face drain of all blood, ashamed I started to open my mouth to explain.

"Scott. Scott, don't do this. Don't go with him," Stiles pleaded with him.

"I don't know what else to do,"

"Did I mention Arielle could have saved your dear mother?" Deucalion told Scott trying to sway him, both boys looked at me shocked.

"Not like…" I started to say and he interrupted me.

"Julia offered to take her instead but she wouldn't go unless her beloved Stiles' father was let go too. She didn't care for that plan," I was confused when he called her Julia but no one seemed to notice, Scott just seemed hurt but understanding. He nodded and started to walk to Deucalion.

"No, there's g... Scott, there's got to be something else, okay? We always... we always have a plan B," Stiles begged.

"Not this time,"

"Scott…"

"I'm gonna find your dad. I promise,"

"Scott don't!" I cried

"Scott!" Yelled Stiles as they disappeared together.