I was nothing but annoyed, angry, and felt like an idiot. With dealing with the Alpha Pack now we have to deal with a dark druid that was hidden in plain sight! That's how I felt after Derek, Scott, and Stiles came to the loft and explained everything. Derek was beside me as I saw Jennifer come into my home.
" Marina? Marina, where are you?" She called out, what I wouldn't give to rip her throat out after forcing her to give up the sheriff's location.
" Right here." I said as I felt Derek place a calming hand on my back. Jennifer walked over and stood in front of me.
" Thank God. Something happened at the recital. At the school. Okay, I need to tell you before you hear it, before you hear any of it from them." The frantic woman said as I acted puzzled.
" From who?" I asked in such a fake tone that she didn't notice the not caring way of my speaking.
" Scott, Stiles. They're gonna tell you things. Things you can't believe. You have to trust me, okay? You trust me." She said almost as if on the verge of tears.
" What is it?" I asked as I can almost hear her heart trying to be steady.
" Promise you'll listen to me." She demanded but in a sweet tone.
" Promise." I said before my control slightly slipped and my eyes flashed. Her begging demeanor fell.
" They're already here, aren't they?" She asked as my cousin and my friend came out of hiding.
" So... they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?" She asked.
" We told her you're the one kill people." Scott said as Jennifer scoffed.
" Oh, that's right. Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour. That way, I can get back to teaching high school English the rest of the day. That makes perfect sense." She spat defiance.
" Where's my dad?" Stiles asked as a tear dropped. Fuck no! This bitch better fess up.
" How should I know? Marina, tell me you don't believe this." Jennifer demanded.
" Do you know what happened to my friend's father?" I asked through my slightly gritted teeth.
" No." She said stoically. Liar!
" Ask her why you almost killed Lydia." Scott said as Jennifer put on a face. Give me a break lady!
" Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that." She said afraid. I can't keep this facade up.
" What do you know?" I asked slightly annoyed and qngry.
" I know that these boys, for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story. And one they can't prove, by the way." Jennifer said in an anger-filled voice.
" What if we can?" Scott asked as I saw he had a jar in hand.
" What is that?" She said as I can smell the fear.
" My boss told me it's a poison and a cure... which means you can use it... and it can be used against you." Scott said as he unscrewed the lid.
" Mistletoe?" She said in a gritted voice. Scott threw the mistletoe and it surrounded Jennifer. She struggled and I saw her for who she was; scarred to high fuck and bold. She changed back as the mistletoe drifted off. She tried to run, but Derek grabbed her by the throat.
" Serves you right." I growled.
" Marina, wait, wait! You need me." Jennifer said struggling against my mate's grip.
" What are you? An illusion?" I asked her as she looked at me with pleading eyes.
" The only person who can save your mate's sister. Call Peter. Call him!" She demanded. I called Peter and asked him Cora's status.
" It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness. She's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance." He said as I felt my heart drop.
" Mistletoe." I said as I heard him stop.
" How did you know that?" He asked before I hung up.
" Marina. Marina what are you doing?" Scott said as I took Jennifer from Derek's grip and choked her harder. How fucking dare she!
" Her life... it's in my hands!" She said as she struggled. I can feel my eyes glowing.
" Stop. Marina, stop!" Stiles begged, but I was too fucking angry.
" Stilinski, you'll never find him." Jennifer said as I continued to make my grip stronger.
" Marina!" Derek's voice snapped me out of it. This wasn't smart, but I let her go.
" That's right. You need me. All of you." Jennifer said as Derek dragged her with us to the hummer. I got in the passenger seat qnd Derek threw her in the back. He locked her in and we all begin to go to the hospital to save Cora.
" 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 his sister to die. I'm only doing what I had to do." She spoke softly.
" Shut up." Derek said as she smirked.
" You need to hear the whole story, Derek. You need to know just how connected we really are." She said as she tried playing my mate.
" Stop fucking talking." I told her. We soon got to the hospital. Scott and Stiles followed Derek and I.
" Scott! Scott! What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating. Marina?" Auntie asked us.
" We're here for Cora." Scott said as we nodded.
" What, all of you? Why does Stiles have my bat?" My aunt asked.
" Auntie! just trust me on this. You need to get out of here. Right now." I said as she looked at me concerned.
" 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 picked up in the basement garage." She said as I smiled. I gave her a quick hug and we began our quest. We got on the elevator and I held Jennifer tightly.
" Any move I see you do, I won't hesitate." I told her.
" You don't have to keep me on a leash, Marina. I'm going to help." She told me, I gripped tighter and made my eyes glow. We proceeded to get off the elevator when the lights flickered. I looked into what was supposed to be Cora's room and saw the black blood drips.
" Derek." Scott said as I saw Peter get thrown through some double door, oh fuck! I let Jennifer go as I had my trident come into form.
" We got a problem. Big problem." Peter said as the twins in merged form roared at us.
" For fuck sakes!" I growled. I attacked them with my trident and swiped them only to be thrown at a wall with my back making an indent. I came out of the wall to see Jennifer leaving via the elevator.
" Fuck No!" I screamed out. I saw Peter had Cora and I grabbed my trident and quickly followed him.
" Don't stop, don't stop!" Derek yelled at us. I didn't stop, I was too panicked. I made it to a room as Peter laid her down. God, I want to take her pain, but I don't have that ability!
" God, I wish I could do something." I said as I gripped my head feeling lightheaded.
" You ok?" Peter asked as Scott and Derek came into the room. I nodded.
" Where's the big guy?" Peter asked.
" He's close." Derek told him in a worried tone.
" What about Ms. Blake? What do you mean? What does that mean? Like, she's gone? Scott, are you kidding me?" Stiles asked as he panicked.
" Shh, quiet." Derek told him, but I can tell Stiles wasn't having any of it.
" Me be quiet? Me, huh? Are you telling me what to do now? When a psychotic, mass murderer...has got my dad somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles asked annoyed.
" Stiles, they're still out there." I begged him.
" And... and they want her, right? This means now we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!" Stiles screamed out, my head began to hurt even more.
" Not yet. Is she really dying?" Scott asked Peter.
" She's definitely not getting any better." He replied as I steadied myself.
" There has to be something that we can do. We have to help her." Stiles begged us. Then the bitch herself popped in.
" 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." Jennifer said with a smug bitch look. Derek goes to attack, but Scott stops him.
" She was trying to get out." Derek screamed out! I drowned everyone out, was she biding her time for another catch? Was this a part of her plan? All of this could be her plan to trap us all. A voice pulled me out of my thoughts.
" 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." My aunt's voice came up over the loudspeakers.
" He's not gonna hurt her." Jennifer said as I made my eyes glow and my claws come out.
" Shut up, you are lucky we need your pathetic ass." I growled at her.
"He won't! Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true." Jennifer said as she blatantly ignored me. I made my trident go back to its necklace state.
" What does she mean?" Derek asked my cousin.
" You're not the only one he wants in his pack." Jennifer said as I was annoyed.
" Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks." She continued, oh brother!
" A true Alpha." Peter said with bewilderment.
" What's that?" Stiles asked him.
" 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." Peter said with a voice I couldn't recognize.
" It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here." Scott said as he pointed to Cora.
" Scott, your mom...my aunt." I said as he looked at me.
" She 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." Scott reinforced the plan. I nodded.
" The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out." Derek said as I drowned everyone out again. Why is this happening now? Of all times why now? I came back as Derek touched my shoulder. I nodded and Jennifer, Derek, and I ran with Stiles as Cora was on her brother's shoulder. We got to the elevator.
" It's still here!" He told us. We opened the back and quickly got Cora inside.
" Derek, Marina, over here." Jennifer said as I got out of the back. I saw the slashed-up body of an officer.
" Julia. It is you." Kali said as I felt my heart racing.
" You can't beat her on your own." Jennifer said as I growled.
" That's why we're gonna run." Derek said as Kali growled and slashed my leg. I growled and punched her.
" Bitch!" I growled as I saw Derek trying to reach for me. Jennifer smirked and pulled him and ran. I got up and snarled at Kali before running limpingly inside and finding a room to slowly heal.
" Fuck! Why now of all thing!" I growled as I saw my leg begin to heal. It felt like forever before I saw the wound stitching together and scarred over. Great another mark! I finally got up when the lights came back on. I ran through the building looking for Derek or someone! I ran into Stiles!
" Oh thank god!" I said enthusiastically! He looked panicked!
" Are you ok?" I asked him, he shook his head at me.
" What?" I asked him, he looked to try and speak.
" Melissa, your aunt. She's been taken! And worse Scott is with Deucalion." He said as I feel, I let out a cry. What the actual fuck is happening!