I woke up as my alarm went off. Last night was hell. I got up and showered. Afterward, I got out and took a decent time to dry my hair. I decided to put it in a long braid. I got dressed in a black tube top and red leather pants. I grabbed my black platform wedges and began to put them on. I heard a knock at my door.
" Come in." I say as I see my sister.
" Hey." I said as she came in and sat down.
" It's been a long time Char." Cora said as her nickname for me came up. I nodded.
" It has been." I replied. Her eyes flashed as I felt my mind flashback.
" How did you become an Alpha?" She asked as I stopped.
" After the fire, Laura, Derek, and I moved to New York, we made friends with an elder werewolf. Her name was Selene. She was the last in her line. She was teaching me some of her family secrets when we got cornered. She was posioned with wolfsbane. She took my hand and forced my claws out. She said I would do great things and be the Hale I was meant to be." I said as I felt my eyes glow.
" She used my claws to slice her throat open and I bolted." I said as the ruby glow faded away.
" It's been two years since then and it is still painful." I told her as she looked at the makeup mirror that had a picture of Stiles and me at a creek. I was on his back with a smile on my face.
" Boyfriend?" He asked as I nodded.
" His name is Stiles." I replied to her.
" Never thought you would get one." She says as I smiled.
" He swept me off my feet. He still does, it's all love and support. I've never felt this way about someone before." I said as I started my makeup. She sat as I finished.
" I have school, but we do need to catch up." I say as she nods. I leave and get down to the Camaro. I get to school and meet up with Stiles.
"How's your sister?" He asked after giving me a good morning kiss.
" Kind of weird but it's ok. Haven't seen her since the fire." I said as he rubbed my shoulder.
" It'll be ok, I have a track I have to do which kind of blows." He said as we walked to my locker.
" You will be ok." I said as I grabbed my art folder. I put it in my bag.
" Also watch out for the twins." He said as I smirked.
" Let me guess, Alphas?" I asked as he nodded.
" Keep on your toes." He says with his hands on my cheeks.
" Of course. Being an Alpha and a Hale. I have a certain skill set." I said as he smiled and kissed my forehead.
" That's my girl." He said with a smile as he twirled my braid. He kissed my cheek before heading out. I see one of the twins, Ethan, looking at me. I rolled my eyes and went to Art. I let my mind flow as I did my homework. My phone buzzed. I looked at the message.
Dead body found. Same MO as the last three. Not sure he was a virgin. SS.
You have got to be fucking kidding me. I quickly texted back.
Where are you? RH.
I sent it a little before going to the next homework assignment.
" Dead bodies." I said quietly to myself. I felt my phone buzz.
Track trails for the team. We are being put on the bus back to the school. Recoinvine with me. SS.
I sighed as I sent a thumbs-up. Bout a half hour goes by before the bell rings. I got up and gathered my things. My phone goes off.
Bus got back, meet me after class. SS
I smiled as I got to my next class, it had Aiden in it. I sat in the corner of the room. He watched me as if I didn't care. The longer he stared. The more annoyed I got.
" Stop looking at me before I tear out your fucking eyes and stuff your ass with wolfsbane." I whispered low and clear to the enemy.
" I'm just sizing you up. Petite little thing like you as an Alpha. How the fuck did you manage that?" Aiden asked low enough for only me to hear.
" Mind your business assclown." I growled low. He let a small chuckle out. The class went by fast. When that bell rang. I quickly got my things together and got out of there. I found Stiles.
" Thank god. I feel like those idiots have been tailing me." I said as he held me. I part from him as he kisses my forehead.
" I'm glad you are ok." He says as we see a blonde girl come out of the office. Stiles and I walked up to her, I felt like this was going to end weirdly.
" Um, hi, Ashley. Hi. Can I talk to you for just one sec?" Stiles asked her, she wiped away a tear.
" Sorry, I just need to ask you something really quick, and it's gonna sound unbelievably insensitive, so I apologize in advance... Um…" He asked her as she looked confused as fuck.
" Was Kyle a virgin?" Stiles asked her, she looked bewildered before slapping him. Oh, man. I see Noah come out and Tar taking Ashley away.
" No. He wasn't a virgin." She tells us before leaving, Noah comes up to us.
" Have you completely lost your mind? I've got four murders, Stiles. Do you see those men in there? That's the FBI- they're pulling together a task force to help because it looks like we've got a full-blown serial killer on our hands. Do you get that?" Noah slightly screams at Stiles.
" Yes, Dad. I get that." Stiles replied to his dad.
" Then what are you doing?" Noah asked with bewilderment.
" Trying to find a pattern." I say as I feel him take my hand in his.
" This is going to drive me fucking nuts." Stiles says as I walk with him.
" You are telling me, besides having my sister come back out of nowhere, we have a mass serial killer on our fucking hands." I said feeling his hand on my back.
" You know I'm always here for you." He said pulling me into a hug. I smiled and inhaled deeply. We pulled apart after a small kiss. We soon found ourselves at Kyle's locker, it was displaying a lot of letters telling him that they missed him. I see a familiar face come up to place a note on the locker, Boyd.
" Whoa! Hey, Boyd! I didn't know you were back at school!" Stiles said with surprise, Boyd didn't look impressed but gave me a small smile. I return it.
" Yeah, I would have told you, but we're not friends." Boyd said flatly.
" Oh, yeah…" He said low.
" Did you happen to be close with Kyle?" I asked as he nodded.
" Yeah, we were in junior ROTC together." He replied as he stood strong, something was bothering him.
" So, you two were friends, then?" Stiles asked as he was trying to get something.
" I only had one friend... She's dead, too." He said coldly before leaving. I rubbed Stiles' shoulder.
" I know you are doing your best to help." I said as he looked lost. I took his hand in mine.
" It was virgins last time, what is it this fucking time?" He asked me.
" We need a bigger perspective on this Sti." I said as I saw Lydia.
" You two look to be playing detective again." She said as she came up to us. I shrugged.
" Trying and fucking failing." Stiles said as we all walked outside together.
" You know that there's a temple in Calcutta where they used to sacrifice a child every day? That's every day a dead baby, Lydia- every day! Hey, you want to know what today is? It's Dead Baby Day. Oh, no, wait, that's every day, because every day is Dead Baby Day, yay!" Stiles said rambling. Oh no!
" And now we have four murders on our plate, what's next? Malevolent spirit wanting blood to spill! At this point, I wouldn't be fucking surprised!" I said crossing my arms.
" Why are you two telling me this?" She asked us.
" Because Scott's dealing with the Alpha twins. And knowing them, they are relaying valuable details back to their little gang!" Stiles emphasized gang. Lydia looked confused at this! Did she not know?
"...You don't know about the twins? Two overbearing-looking guys show up? We don't question it. Plus I can tell by scent." I said pointing at my nose.
" Ethan and Aiden...?" Stilesz asked her, and she nodded.
" Oh, yeah. Yeah, I knew about them." She said quietly. Oh, man. I'm going to have my work cut out for this.
" Okay. Okay, good. So, look, here's what I'm thinking- I'm thinking that the murders maybe come in threes. Ancient people love things in threes, right? So, maybe first it's three virgins, and then, I don't know... Maybe it's three people who own little dogs?" Stiles exclaimed to her, it's an example.
" I own a little dog. I am not getting rid of my dog!" Lydia said to us.
" Would you just think about getting rid of your little dog?" Stiles said as I chuckled.
" No! And, by the way, you cannot discern a pattern by a single data point, so stop trying." Lydia says as I speak up.
" We don't know the pattern and it's killing us! We don't know who can die or when they can die." I said as Stiles held me close.
" Maybe take some advice from someone who knows more than they let on." She said before leaving.
" Deaton." Stiles and I say at the same time. It was our free period, so we left. We made it to the Animal clinic in about 20 mins. We walked into it and there stood Deaton.
" You're both out of school early." He said as Stiles nodded.
" Yeah, free period." I replied as Stiles held my hand. I was nervous about this.
" Um, I was just headed home to see my dad. He's, uh... You know, I guess you probably heard people are kind of getting murdered again. It's his job to figure it out." Stiles said with a caught smile.
" I gathered as much from the "Sheriff" title." Deaton says as Stiles speaks up again.
" Yeah, um... You know, but it gets kind of hard for him to do his job when he doesn't have all the information. And we all know he's missing almost half the story here, right? So then, I started thinking, and I remembered someone else with a lot of information. Someone who always seems to know more than anyone else around here." Stiles says as Deaton crosses his arms.
" You. We always notice it's you." I said as he nodded, he opened his door and let us in. I see Deaton fiddle with some herbs.
" All these symbols and things- the triskeles, the bank logo, the mountain ash- all of it is from the Celtic Druids. And anyone who has ever looked up "human sacrifice" before knows that the Druids had a pretty big hard-on when it came to giving one up to the gods." Stiles says as I sit down.
" You ever hear of the Lindow man? Two-thousand-year-old body found in England? He was found strangled, head bashed in, throat cut- three-fold death. They also found pollen grains in his stomach... Guess what favorite Druid plant that was? Poisonous to werewolves!" I said as I was familiar with legends and myths. I see Deaton pull Mistletoe out.
" Mistletoe." He says as Stiles rubs my back.
" I'm just telling you everything you already know, aren't I? Then why aren't you telling us?" Stiles demanded of the Druid.
" Maybe because when you've spent every moment of the last ten years trying to push something away- denying it, lying about it- becomes a pretty powerful habit." Deaton said low but calm.
" Understandable." I told him as I stood up.
" All right, so this guy... is he a Druid?" Stiles asked as Deaton placed his hands on the table.
" No. It's someone copying a centuries-old practice of a people who should have known better. Do you know what the word "Druid" means in Gaelic?" Deaton asked my boyfriend in return.
" "Wise oak." The Celtic Druids were close to nature. They believed they kept it in balance. They were philosophers and scholars- they weren't serial killers."
" Yeah, well, this one is." Stiles said as his phone rang. He picked it up and answered it.
" Hey, I can't talk right now. Wait, what? Yeah, are you sure he's missing?" Stiles asked as I heard Lydia's voice loud. He hung up.
" We have to go to the school." He said quickly as my heart began to race. Deaton got in his car as Stiles and I got into our vehicles. We got to the school. We found Lydia quickly after not too long. Lydia showed him the audio that made my spine chill.
" Can we get a copy of this?" Deaton asked her. I felt a shiver come up my spine.
" Hey, Doc...? Any help would be, you know... helpful…" Stiles says as I look around the room. I felt fear and terror fill the space.
" Each grouping of three would have its purpose, its type of power. Virgins, healers, philosophers, warriors…" Deaton says as Stiles has a photo in his hands.
" Wait, wait, wait, wait- warrior, could that also be, like, a soldier?" I asked as I had Stiles show the picture.
" Absolutely." Deaton explained to us.
" Kyle was in ROTC with Boyd." Stiles said as I perked up.
" That's got to be it. That's the pattern." I exclaimed as Deaton perked.
" Where's Boyd?" He asked us. I shrugged. I didn't know much about Boyd.
" He's probably home by now. I'm gonna try and get him on the phone." Stiles said as he pulled his phone out.
" Lydia...? Something wrong?" Deaton asked my best friend.
" No, it was… I mean... I just thought of someone else with a military connection." Lydia said as we all looked at each other.
" Who?" Deaton asked her, it hit me.
" Harris." I said with a heavy chill hitting me. We ran to his room. No one. The same feeling from the band room hit me.
" It's sitting right on his desk... the West Point honor code." Lydia said as she was over at his desk.
" This is just one of many possibilities. He could have left for the day…" Deaton said as I saw Stiles grab Harris' bag.
" Yeah, well, not without this…" Stiles informed him. I looked at the test. I see an H. The fuck? I lift it.
" This test is graded "R."" Stiles said as I showed them the H-graded paper. Deaton took them and arranged them with the other weirdly graded papers.
" Stiles, Raven, you remember I told you "Druid" is the Gaelic word for "wise oak?" " He asked us.
" Why do I feel like we are going down a dark area." I said coldly.
" If a Druid went down the wrong path, the "wise oak" was sometimes said to have become a "dark oak." There's a Gaelic word for that, as well…" Deaton said as the room felt cold.
" Darach." Deaton said as my phone buzzed, my eyes went wide at this. I see my sister has left me a message.
Derek's been hurt by the Alpha Pack. Cora
" Derek's gotten hurt!" I said as I saw the text from Cora.
" Go! We will be ok." Lydia said as Stiles nodded. I ran outside to my Camaro. I put the keys in the ignition and started it up.
" I'm gonna kill them." I growled as I drive to my home. I park outside the loft and run up the stairs. I see Derek on the floor as I open the door. I ran over and let myself shift.
" I swear to god! I'll kill them." I said as I placed my brother's head in my lap. I let out a roar that shook the area. Derek shot up and I see his wounds healing.
" Are you fucking crazy! " I screamed at him. I shifted back.
" They invaded our home. They threatened you and Isaac." Derek said as I helped him up.
" This has to end." I growled as my anger boiled.
" Time to make a plan." Derek said as I nodded.
" I don't know about you, but I'm going to let Stiles know what's going on." I said as I hear the rain coming down. I go to my Camaro and drive to his house. I get out and quickly run inside before I get soaked. I found Stiles sitting on his bed.
" Is he ok?" Stiles asked as I nodded.
" Being Hales and Alphas to boot makes the healing process easier. But they came into my home and hurt my family." I said as anger fueled the spark in my wolf.
" Why do I have a bad feeling for you?" Stiles asked as I lay down.
" I'm not sure, but know that I'll come out of this alive. We have a plan." I say as he pulls me to him.
" Think you can stay tonight?" He asked as I sat up. I smiled and laid down on his lap. He rubbed my back and I saw his smile.
" I'm glad you are here Stiles." I said as he pulled me up and laid back so I could be on his chest.
" I love you so much." Stiles said as he moved the red lock of my hair. I smiled and gave him a deep kiss. I got up and removed my clothing. He followed suit. We just ended up lying together and not moving.
" As I love you Stiles." I whispered in his ear. We soon fell asleep not knowing about the chaos that would ensue.