I got woken up by Stiles telling me I needed to get cause Lydia was coming over and we had to get to the station. I asked him why and he said Lydia found something and wanted our dad to hear it. I nodded as he smirked "what don't want to see your new boyfriend?" I threw my pillow at him "I hate you. Does Scott know?" He nodded "yeah, you love me. And he's already downstairs." I nodded "alright give me about ten minutes and I'll be ready." He nodded as I set up and got out of bed and grabbed some clothes from the closet. I walked into my bathroom and took a really quick shower. Once I got dressed I walked back into my room and grabbed my phone and headed downstairs. I saw Stiles, Scott and Lydia talking in the living room as I looked at them "you guys ready?" They nodded as we left the house and went our cars and headed to the station.

Once we got to the station we walked in and went straight to my dad's office. Lydia started to tell my dad how she thought her grandmother faked her death and that she might be helping the Benefactor. Stiles has to be a smartass and say she might be the Benefactor. Just then Scott asked "anybody seen Parrish?" and that's when I finally noticed he wasn't at his desk. My dad stepped out of his office and asked Deputy Haigh if he had seen Jordan as he said he hadn't seen him. Just then we heard the doors open as Jordan walking with his uniform looking half burnt. I got a really bad felling as Haigh looked shocked as Jordan attacked him. I heard Haigh say "you're dead" as the deputies tried to stop the fight. We heard a few gun shots as I saw my dad get hit in the at by a bullet. I went over to him as he told me to get Jordan out of there as I nodded. I saw the deputies holding Jordan back a I walked over to him. I touched his chest he felt like he was burning up as he calmed down. Scott and Lydia walked over to me as I looked at Jordan "we need to get you out of here." He nodded as Stiles said he was going to stay with our dad. I nodded as the four of us walked out of the station. When we got outside I looked at Scott "where are we gonna take him?" He looked at me "they only place, I can think of Derek's." I nodded as Scott and Lydia for in their cars and me and Jordan got in my as we started heading towards the loft.

As we drove towards Derek's loft I looked over at Jordan "how you doing?" He looked at me "honestly, I should be dead. I was set on fire Nic. Why aren't I dead?" I looked over at him and then back at the road "I don't know Jordan. Right now all I can tell you is that your life is going to change. And that you might think we all crazy with what you're about to find out. Which is why I'm holding off on asking you something, cause you might hate me from keeping this from you." He looked at me "now I'm worried what where you going to ask me? And can I ask you something? Why are we going to your ex's place?" I sighed "cause Derek has been around this his whole life and he will hopefully have an explanation. And I was going to ask if you wanted to go on a date with me like a real one. But don't answer now wait until after we talk to Derek." He nodded as we pulled up to the loft.

We got out as Scott and Lydia waited for us by the front door once we reached them Scott looked at Jordan "you ready for your life to be changed forever?" Jordan nodded as we walked into the lobby and got on the elevator. I looked at Scott "what if Derek doesn't know?" He shrugged "then we call Argent or as Peter for help." I laughed "like Peter is going to help us". Scott shook his head sighing as I looked at Jordan and noticed he looked at nervous "it's going to be ok Jordan." He nodded as the elevator stopped at Derek's loft and we got off. We walked to the front door as Scott just slid it open as Jordan looked at me "you guys don't knock?" I shook my head "trust me he's used to it. He nodded as we walked towards the living room.

We saw Derek standing by the windows with his back towards us as he greeted us "Scott, Lydia, Nic and Deputy Parrish, what can I do for you?" Scott looked at him "we need your help figuring out what Parrish is." Derek looked at me as I shrugged and then looked at Jordan "just tell him what happened, its alright." He nodded as he told Derek about what Haigh did to him. Once he was finished telling Derek, Derek looked shocked about the whole gasoline getting poured on Jordan and him getting lit on fire and surviving. Lydia asked something but I wasn't paying attention because Stiles texted me telling me our dad was going to have to get surgery and something about the insurance. I texted him back telling him not worry about that right now just to keep my updated about when the surgery was going to be and I would try to stop by later. He told me alright and to let him know if we found out anything as I said I would.

My attention got back to the conversation when I heard Scott say "not if you're like us." Derek looked at Jordan and then back at Scott "I don't think he's like us." Lydia asked him what Jordan was as Derek said he was sorry he had no idea. He asked Scott if he asked Argent as Scott looked at him and said he didn't know where Argen was. Jordan looked at me and Lydia and then Scott and Derek "okay, hold on. What's a bestiary. Actually that's not my first question. Just...just tell me on thing. Are you all like Lydia? Are you all psychic?" Derek looked at him "psychic?" Scott looked at him "not exactually." I sighed "here we go." Jordan looked at me questionly as I looked at him "you wanted the truth well here it comes." I looked at Scott and nodded as I went and sat on the stairs as Scott and Derek told him everything.

As they were telling Jordan I texted Stiles asking how our dad was doing. He told me he was knocked out thanks to the drugs and asked how it was going with Jordan. I told him that Scott and Derek were telling him about everything. He told me he would check in later as I told him I would talk to him later. I looked up hearing Jordan asking what a Kanima was as I laughed a little. Everyone looked at me as I shrugged as Scott said they would get back to that he looked at Jordan "just know that everyone like us, everyone with some kind of supernatural ability is on the dead pool." Derek nodded "and they don't care if you know you are supernatural or not they just want the money." Jodan looked at them and nodded.

Jordan looked at me "are you supernatural too, Nic?" I shook my head "no, I'm human." I looked over at Derek "who happened to fall in love with a werewolf. And who is helping her friends survive." He nodded as Lydia started to tell Derek about her grandmother as Jordan listened along with Derek. Once she was done Scott mentioned something about a cipher key as he picked up one of the guns Derek had as Derek told him to be careful. Scott looked at him "I thought you didn't like guns. Does this have something to do with your eyes?" Derek nodded "my eyes, my strength, the healing...All of it." I looked at Derek and then Scott "the bond" as Scott looked at Derek "gone?" Derek nodded "what ever Kate did to me, it's still happening." Jordan looked at me "what's the bond?" I looked at Derek, Scott and Lydia as they nodded and I sighed looking at Jordan. "You know how me and Derek dated?" He nodded as I started to play with my hands "there's something I left out cause it had to do with this. Me and Derek are linked together. Basically we're soul mates. I can feel his pain and vice-versa. It started the very first time we met but didn't know till we saw each other again. Now that he's losing his abilities its fading." Jordan looked at me "so no matter what. Even if you two do date other people there are like the side people cause of this link." I shook my head "Jordan, I do have feelings for you. I haven't had these feelings since Ryan. And me and Derek agreed to see other people. Please, believe me." Jordan looked at Derek "is this true?" Derek nodded "yes, I might have feelings for Nic. But I know she has them for you too. We both agreed to see other people and with the bond dying she deserves to by happy." Jordan nodded "I need time, I'm sorry." I nodded and watched him leave as I punched the wall "fuck." Lydia hugged me as I looked at Scott and Derek "now what?"

They shrugged as Scott looked at Derek "there's something I should tell you. If the dead pool really was made by a Banshee then there's something you should know about. Your name broke the third list. It was a cipher key." I looked at him "Scott!" Scott looked at me "he needed to know." Derek said something about the other keys being Allison and Aiden. Scott nodded saying it felt like a pattern as Derek said "names picked by a Banshee." Scott looked at him "it could mean you're in danger." Derek shook his head "Scott, Banshees don't predict danger, they predict death." I reached out for him as he shook his head and looked at Scott, Lydia and me "you guys should go." They nodded as I looked at him "Derek.." He looked at me "Nic, go look for Parrish." I sighed and nodded as the three of us left the loft.

Once we reached our cars I saw Jordan waiting by my car as Scott and Lydia looked at me. Lydia said she was gonna meet up with Stiles and figure out her grandma and Scott said he had to go see Liam. I nodded as we said by to each other and walked to our cars. I looked at Jordan "before we go back to the station, I want to take you some places." He nodded as we got into the car as I started to drive towards the cemetery. The ride to the cemetery was painfully quiet but I knew he was still processing everything. Once we got to the cemetery I followed the road I took so many times. I stopped by a row of gravestones as Jordan looked at me questionly as I looked at him "you want to know more about me and Derek. It's time for you to meet the first person who held my heart and why I turned down Derek's proposal." He nodded as we got out of the car and walked towards the familiar gravestone.

Once we reached it I rested my hand on top of it "hey Ry, I'm back again. And in a mess." I looked at Jordan "I know this is wired but meet my first boyfriend the one I thought I was going to marry. I know I told you about how me and him were together since middle school. What I didn't tell anyone I was kinda engaged to him. The day of the accident he brought a ring. He was going to officially propose to me on Christmas and we were gonna wait until sophomore year of college to get married. The day after the accident were the hardest. I lost the one person I could talk to and escape when I needed a break from everything. The day of the accident my life changed, I was going into my senior year of high school without the love of my life. What I didn't know was just how much it was going to change." He nodded as I continued "I come here to talk to him. I know he can't help me but its comforting." He nodded as I looked at him "not time to show you were everything changed." He looked at me "alright." I tapped Ryan's gravestone "I'll see you later, Ry." I looked at Jordan as we walked back to my car.

Once we got back into my car I drove to the preserve and parked as we got out. I led him to where Scott got bitten and looked at him "here's where Peter bit Scott and out lives changed. If I was standing where he was Peter would have bitten me instead. This is also the first place I saw Derek for the first time again." He nodded as I took his hand down the familiar path to the Hale House. He looked at me "what are we doing here?" I sighed "here's when we first heard about being linked together. It's kinda a two parter." He nodded as we walked in and sat on the steps as I looked around and then back at him "here it goes bare with me alright?" He nodded as I sighed as the memories came flooding back to me. "The first time we heard the word linked was when Kate Argent decided to visit Derek. I was hanging out here during homework when Derek told me to run hunters were coming. I ran upstairs with him as they came in. Kate was making fun of his sister's death and of course that pissed him off so he went on the attack. He got hit with an electric stick and I felt it in my stomach. At that time I was making my way down the stairs and rolled down them because of the pain. They saw me holding my stomach where Derek got shocked and Kate decided to test a theory and shocked me too. When she saw Derek hold the place were I got shocked she said that we were linked together. After that day I started researching what it meant and came up with being meant to be together and soul mates but of course I thought it was just urban legends. The night of the winter formal was a shit night. Everything went wrong Peter bit Lydia, Allison found out about Scott, Peter killed Kate, Derek became Alpha after killing Peter, oh me and Derek were held hostage by the psycho bitch. That was the night I realized what being linked really meant. Kate had just told me she had dated Derek while getting into Derek's head about his family and how he fell for a human. I was telling her to stop as she kept saying stupid shit. She shocked Derek again with a high voltage as I passed out. When I woke I remembered what Kate said about me and Derek being drawn together because we were damaged. That's when I said me and him where mates. Alot happened after that with one being that I said no to his proposal. So that's the long story short." He shook his head "it's a lot to process honestly." I nodded as I got up from the stairs "come on I'll take you back to the station." As we headed out I looked around the house one more time and closed the door."

I drove Jordan back to the station and looked at him "Jordan, I know this is a lot to take in and process everything. But o meant what I said I want to give us a try. And I'll wait how ever long it will take." He nodded and opened the door "I'll remember that Nic. Just give me sometime. Good night." I nodded "good night, Jordan." I watched him walk into the station and texted Stiles to see what he was up too. He texted me back saying that him and Lydia were following a lead. I told him to be careful and drove home.

Once I got home I went to my room and got my books and went back down to the living room. I sat on the couch and decided to do some school work. About an hour later I got a text from Derek saying that I needed to get to the high school. I told him I was on my way as I grabbed my keys and headed out to my car. I drove to the high school and saw the annual bonfire happening. I texted Derek saying I was there as he told me he was in the school. I walked into the school and saw Derek and Scott talking noticing Scott covered in something as I made my way over to them. I looked at them "what happened and Scott what are you covered in?" He looked at me "we got attacked and gasoline no big deal. But you and Derek really need to talk." He handed Derek a piece of paper and left. I looked at Derek "what's going on." He sighed and handed me the paper as I looked at it noticing it was the hit-list and looked at him "Derek I already saw this." He shook his head "read it again Nic." I sighed and looked at it once more and felt my heart stop for a second "you're not on the list anymore. Is that good or bad?" He looked at me "I'm thinking bad. If my name cracked the last half and Lydia sensed it. Nic I'm going to die." I slapped him "no you're not Derek. STOP IT!" I couldn't believe he said that as I turned and started to walk away from him crying.

I heard him run after me and grab me pulling me against him as I hit his chest crying "I can't lose you Derek." He held me close "I know Nic, but what ever Kate did to me is making me weak. I'm going to fight but if something happens to me, watch after Scott and everyone for me. And just know I love you." I nodded as I held onto him as he looked me "I'll drive you home in your car and Braeden can pick me up." I nodded as we walked out of the school as I looked at the sign "here is where I thought I lost you the first time. It's like a full circle cause now I'm hearing I might lose you.." He nodded as we got to my car and got in with him behind the wheel.

The drive home was quiet and seemed to take forever. Once we got there he walked me in and up to my room. Once we got there I looked at him "Derek, please just be careful. Don't do anything stupid." He nodded "I promise. I'll try not too. I should go." I nodded and was about to say something when my phone went off and saw a text from Melissa. "Fuck I need to get to the hospital. Stiles got attacked." He nodded "I'll come with you." I nodded as I grabbed my keys from him and we ran downstairs. We got into my car as I drove towards the hospital praying that he was alright.