The pain was immense as the grip tightened. The teeth bore into our flesh. I headbutted back to rid my assailant as Stiles grabbed a wrench and dug a hard swing into his head!
" Donovan!" I screamed as I grabbed Stiles quickly.
" He's one of them!" I screamed as I had my keycard in hand. I dragged Stiles into the library.
" How bad is it?" I asked as he was trying to catch his breath.
" I don't know." Stiles whispered as we got behind a bookshelf. I felt my wound healing quickly as I saw on his back blood seeping through his jacket. I heard footsteps coming through. I felt my eyes glow as I looked at him.
" Don't move." I say before dashing off to another area. I see Donovan in a clear view. I climbed up a shelf.
" You dropped your phone." Donovan's sickening voice rang out. I felt my pocket as I shifted.
" It's Malia. Should I text her back?" His voice kept popping out.
" You don't really know who I am, do you, Stiles? Maybe you heard about my father... Did your dad tell you about him? Did Sheriff Stilinski ever tell you about the time he was still a deputy, and how his partner got caught in a shoot-out? Did he tell you a bullet shattered my dad's T-9 vertebra? Went through his spinal cord. Know what that means? It means everything below his waist is useless. And not just his legs." Donovan's voice was like a parasite. Who egged him on like this! Who made him this!
" I bet he told you some of it. But I bet he probably left out the part where he was sitting in a car calling for backup while my dad was going in alone. Did he tell you he was too scared- too much of a frightened littlebitch- to go in after him? Or do scared little bitches not tell their little bitch sons about their failures? About how they put their partner in a wheelchair for the rest of his life?" He kept rambling. I roared out as I tackled Donovan.
" You should learn to shut up!" I growled enraged. He smirked as if not caring.
" Maybe your little bitch of a boyfriend shouldn't have gotten in my way!" He snarled at me. I felt my eyes blaze in rage as I went to claw his face. He moved and kicked me to the side. I got up as I saw he was going after Stiles.
" Leave him alone!" I roared out. I got up and dashed over only to get slapped across the room. I shook my head only to see Donovan had Stiles scrambling up the rafters.
" Don't worry, Stiles. I'm not gonna kill you... I'm just gonna eat your legs!" He snarled and roared out. I scrambled to get up and help, but I watched as if in slow motion that Stiles pulled a support rod that was holding up the beams let loose. One beam then proceeded to impale Donovan in the chest.
" Oh my god." I said in a breathless gasp. I helped my still healing ribs as I walked over. We didn't speak as Stiles tried to pull the beam out of Donovan. He growled maliciously before that metallic substance began to pool once again. My necklace felt hot as if my body was hot.
" What do we do?" I asked as he was always the one to figure this out.
" I..I don't know." He said scared.
" Stiles, it was self defense. He came after us. You could have been killed." I told him as I placed a hand on his shoulder. The one that wasn't hurt.
" We have to call this in." He stumbled on his words. I could tell he was freaking out.
" It's ok. It's ok." I say to calm him down. I've never seen him shaken up before. In all this time, never once.
" I'm not going anywhere." I tell him as he nods. We go over to the phone on the library desk and Stiles begins to call. I hold his hand as the line picks up. Stiles stayed silent as the call went on. He hung up the phone shaking.
" You are innocent Stiles." I told him to ease what I could. We were about to run out of the library when I heard Stiles' phone go off.
" I got to get your phone." I told him as he nodded quickly. I dashed to grab it and looked into Donovan's eyes. I growled before rushing back to Stiles. We ran out of the school to his Jeep. I meddled with the starter and got it up and going. Stiles slammed the hood quickly before we jumped into the car. We watched as a patrol car came to the school and headed inside.
" This is nerve wracking." He said as I took his hand. I felt my pain sap ability go off.
" It hurts?" I asked as he nodded. He looked so shaken up. I took his hand and leech as much of his pain as I could.
" Look." Stiles said as he pointed with his blood soaked hand. I see the officer go back in his car. My heart raced as the radio in the Jeep came alive. It was just a prank call. No one there. What?
" No one? Nobody?" Stiles asked as he got out of the car.
" Stay here." He tells me. I nodded as he shut the door and ran inside. I waited what seemed forever before he ran back into the car.
" Nothing! There is nothing!" He screamed before slamming the wheel. It made me jump slightly.
" It's ok, let's just go!" I barked back, he peeled out of there and sped back to his house. We got inside seeing his dad wasn't there. We dashed up to his room to see his board. I watched as he wrote Donovan's name before wiping it off and wrote Someone is taking the bodies. He looked frazzled as I got up.
" I felt so guilty but I didn't, I don't know what to do." He said as tears almost streamed down his face.
" I understand Sti, if he hadn't slapped me with that amount of strength." I say as I hold my arms. He brought me in for a shaking hug. His phone going off made us jump.
" Fucking Christ." I murmured. Stiles answered the phone as I stood with him.
" Scott?" Stiles' voice was upbeat and shaken.
" Stiles, someone's taking the bodies." Scott's voice boomed in the room. The atmosphere fell silent and void of anything.
" Stiles? Are you there?" Scott asked as I nodded to Stiles. He wiped his forehead.
" Yeah, um... Where? What are you talking about?" Stiles asked in a shaken tone. The nerves in his mind must be going off like a bomb.
" I'm at the animal clinic with Kira. Tracy's body is gone. The lock on the door was broken from the outside. And my mom just told me Lucas' body went missing from the morgue. They've been searching the whole hospital for it. Someone's stealing the bodies." Scott's voice boomed in our ears. I sat on the bed as Stiles hung up the phone.
" I don't think I can go to school. Not today." Stiles said as I saw his hands shaking.
" I understand. Take a day. I'm going to stay with you." I tell him as I pull up my phone and send an email.
" No you can't do that." He says trying to stop me. I smirked.
" My grades are fine, Stiles. Straight A's. Plus I don't think one day is going to hurt." I say as I lean on his shoulder. He was still shaking.
" Stiles look at me. Breath." I tell him as I take his hands in mine. He nods.
" I'm here with you." I explain as he leans into my body, wrapping his arms around me like a security blanket.
" You've been with me through everything Raven. Why?" He asked as I could smelt the tears wafting in my nose.
" Because the same day I came here, the first day back after the tragedy that lingered in my heart for so long. I found hope. I found someone that brought me out of the darkness. It's because I love you Stiles." I told him as he looked at me with an awed look in his eyes that made my heart bloom with love. He toyed with the necklace he gave me for my birthday. He smiled before looking up into my green eyes.
" I love you Raven. So much." He whispers as I got up and took all my clothes off. Putting on sleeping clothes I had in his drawer. I grabbed him a Mets Shirt and white sleeping pants. He strips down and puts them on. I get back in bed and pull him down into my arms, feeling him relax after what felt like hours. I just held him as sleep found its way into my body. No dreams, nothing. I woke up to my phone ringing. I see it's about 5 in the afternoon. Lydia.
" Hey, you're out?" I asked as I got up. Stiles waking up slowly next to me.
" I'm outside. Open the door." She said before hanging up. I smirked as I looked in the mirror and everything hit me at once. All that happened last night. I got up and went downstairs. I opened the door to see a very much walking and talking Lydia.
" Thank the gods you are ok." I say as I bring her into a hug. She held tight as I smiled.
" Is Stiles awake. We all have to talk." She said as I nodded.
" Sti! You up!" I called out.
" Yeah!" He called back.
" Lydia's here." I called back as I led her to his room. I see that he had put our bloodied clothes in the trash.
" What's going on Lyds?" I asked as she pulled up a book.
" We have to go to Eichen House." She said with a pointed tone. I was surprised.
" Why do we have to go to that place? After everything that has happened?" I asked as she sighed.
" Those doctors that you and Malia saw. I think they are these Dread Doctors. It's only one volume, but the note at the end is for Dr. Gabriel Valack." She said as I groaned.
" You have got to be fucking with us." I say as she shakes her head.
" It's everything that is going on. Teenagers disappearing, buried alive, come back transformed, these Doctors. All of it matches." She said as I sat down defeated.
" Lydia, we're going with you." Stiles said as he grabbed his favorite red hoodie.
" I still have to get dressed." I say as I grabbed a black and red stained tank top and torn up jeans.
" I thought you said you were sick." Lydia said as if trying to prove a point.
" I'm slightly under the weather..." Stiles explained as I could hear the uptick in his heart.
" You don't have to come. Malia's not going, either." Lydia said as I went to the bathroom to quickly change. Almost falling on my ass as I ripped my pants and shirt off, I quickly got my shirt on and wrestled my jeans for a moment. I looked at my necklace and smiled but let it fall as I placed it on the sink.
" Malia's not going because she knows that place is a nightmare asylum of insanity and death, okay? Let's go." Stiles says as I finish buckling my jeans. I came out as I saw Stiles wince. His injury!
" What was that?" Lydia asked him.
" What was what?" Stiles asked her, trying to play stupid.
" You winced." She replied. She can't know! What if she takes it the wrong way?
" He fell last night. Almost ruined our studies in the library." I say it as sort of the truth.
" Pain radiates. It does that." He says to cover me.
" You are not going without us. You remember what happened to Deaton when he talked to Valack?" Stiles says as I get beside him.
" Scott and Kira are going to be there." She replied as if telling me to get him out of this.
" Okay, bestie input. I'm not letting you go to a place where one of the orderlies almost killed you." I say as I lean on my hip.
" He almost killed both of you, too!" Lydia blatantly pointed out.
" We aren't dead though, I'd say that's a win for the books. Let's hustle." I say as I pat her shoulder taking Stiles hand with me. We all head to her car and pile in. Stiles in the back and I'm in the front.
" Where's your necklace?" Stiles asked as I let a sad face fall on my face.
" You know how they are at Eichen." I tell him as Lyida starts the car. He nods and takes my hand. We drive to Eichen and I can feel my blood pressure rising. Scott and Kira came up and parked beside us. I watched as Kira and Lydia were trying the intercom. Scott, Stiles and I standing next to the car.
" Are you going to be okay there? Both of you?" He asked as I nodded.
" Yeah... Why?" Stiles asked him.
" You both just seem a little off... Like something is bothering you." He says as I nod.
" Memories of this place. It still feels like a scar of hate and sadness. I think we are all a little off." I say as Stiles pulls me close.
" Maybe some of us more than others." Scott says as I see his gaze land on Kira. Wait, what's going on with her?
" When the other Chimera, Lucas... When he came after us, I heard Kira say something in Japanese." Scott says, making my eyes widen. Does she know Japanese?
" That doesn't sound too bad." Stiles says as he looks still on edge.
" She doesn't know any Japanese!" Scott pointed it out. I saw Stiles' eyes fall a bit.
" Still not terrible..." Stiles says as I saw Scott look shaken.
" I also think I might have stopped her from killing Lucas." Scott said, slightly defeated. So Lucas was killed by the doctors as well. All these Chimeras were killed. What's the endgame?
" Okay... Wasn't he trying to kill you, though? I mean, that just sounds like self-defense." Stiles asked as I tried to keep my heartbeat steady.
" It was more than that. I mean, she nearly took off his head." Scott said as if it bothered him. We all can't keep an edge like him. So calm and trying to save everyone. Balance is everything, but sometimes death is the only option when death tries to come for you.
" Maybe she had no other choice? There's gotta be a point where self-defense is justified. Tracy killed her own father, and Lucas would have killed you." Stiles tried to justify it to Scott without saying anything.
" They're not the bad guys- they're the victims. We shouldn't be killing the people we're supposed to save." Scott says in an eased tone. We headed inside after the door was unlocked. The building felt the same as it did the last time I was here.
" Raven? You ok?" Stiles asked as I calmed my nerves.
" Yeah, just fucking nerves firing away." I say as he takes my hand in his.
" It's ok. I promise it's ok." He tells me as Scott opens the door. We headed inside as I felt my body urging me to shift, but I pressed it down.
" Please empty your pockets into the container." The head nurse says as I pull my pockets to show I had nothing.
" We're here to see.." Scott says as the head nurse interrupts him. I watched as everyone put everything they had into the container. I saw the rod that Stiles had pulled out. Oh fuck me!
" Please remove your belt and place it into the container." The head nurse said to Kira.
"...I kind of need the belt. I mean, it's crucial to the outfit." She replied to him.
" Please remove your belt, which patients will attempt to take from you and use to strangle either themselves or others." He said to her in a blank tone.
" Right. Got it." She said quite annoyed. I see Dr. Fenris come out. He leads us down the stairs.
" I'll remind you that I'm only doing this as a favor to Deaton, and I'm doing it against my better judgment." He explains as Stiles perks up.
" Hey, what's the etiquette for talking to this guy? I mean, do you ever look at the other eye?" Stiles asked him. Dr. Fenris looks at him and smirks.
" I wouldn't. In fact, while you're down here, try not to make eye contact with anyone or anything." Fenris explains. I am stopped by the feeling of Mountain ash before the closed section.
" You didn't think you were all going, did you?" Fenris said as I huffed.
" It's mountain ash, isn't it?" Scott asked him as I sat down on the floor crossed legged.
" Everywhere, but heavily concentrated down here. Valack's cell is the last one at the end of the hall." Fenris explained as he opened the closed section.
" We'll be right here." Scott said as Stiles looked at me.
" Are you going to be ok?" He asked as I nodded.
" I think so. Please don't get hurt." I tell him as he nods.
" I love you.' He told me as I smiled. He smiles back before taking Lydia into the closed unit. I watched the door close behind them and I just pressed my legs against my chest.
" You look shaken up. Are you ok?" Kira asked as I looked up at her.
" With everything happening? No, I'm not ok. I don't think we will be ok. But I can hope." I told her. She nods before her and Scott leans on the wall.
" I can't hear anything. Must be the mountain ash." Scott said as I felt my entire body urging the shift again, but pushed it down harder.
" I feel it, too. To be honest, I feel a little weak." Kira explained as I chuckled.
" Like enjoying a high that locks you deep. So I've heard." I say with a chuckle. I feel my mind shut down.
" I hate this. All of it. I feel trapped." I say as I bite back the tears.
" This was a bad idea, wasn't it?" Kira asked as I stood up. My body feels fight or flight, but why?
" They'll be okay without us." Scott clarified to her before looking at me.
" Yeah, they are." Kira says with a smile.
" No super strength or samurai swords, but they stay alive." Scott replied with a chuckle himself.
" They do the best they can." She says with a calmed expression.
" He's really smart and strong. Lydia has always been the backbone of our group. They have come out thick and thin. To watch them grow on their own is amazing." I say as the instinct to shift grows but is almost locked away by the mountain ash.
" They do what they can." Scott replied as I smirked, I saw the lights flicker and I stood up.
" Did you see that?" Scott asked as I heard electricity closer than the lights. I turned to Kira.
" No... But I am seeing this..." She said as I saw her fingers beginning to flicker the electrical impulses.
" Fuck." I muttered under my breath. The power kept flickering. It grew more and more!
" Kira... Whatever you're doing, please, stop." Scott tries to deescalate the situation, but the look on Kira's face was so confused on why this was happening.
" I'm not doing anything. It's just happening." Kira said, scared by what was transpiring.
" This is bad!" I say as I felt my back razing with worry and fear. I see Kira fall to the ground.
" Kira!" I called out and tried to touch her only for the electrical impulses to hit me like a truck. I fall back a few feet and feel my skin scorched.
" Motherfucker! That bites." I groaned as I tried to get up but failed.
" Are you ok?" Scott asked as I shook my head with a groan.
" No, I'm not healing quickly. Check on her." I told him as I tried to force my body to heal. He nods and tries to touch Kira only to get zapped.
" Are you all right?" Fenris said as he came into the hallway.
" Something's happening, and I think she's causing it." Scott replied as I struggled to get up.
" We need to get her out of here right now." Fenris tells us as I was finally able to stand up.
" How the fuck do you expect us to do that! We tried to move her and got zapped!" I said with anger in my voice, not at Kira, but at this situation.
" We have to try." Scott said as I nodded. I heard the electrical presence and saw the Dread Doctors.
" Fuck off!" I yelled at them as I was trying to fucking heal slowly but surely.
" I think you better run." Fenris told us as Scott looked shocked.
" I can't leave her." Scott said as I knew why, Kira was his girlfriend and didn't want to escalate anything that wasn't her fault.
" I'm still trying to heal." I said, trying to catch my breath.
" Scott, go!" I yelled at him as my eyes began to flare up. I see Fenris run out a side door. I watched as Scott picked up Kira and walked past the Doctors. I watched them pass me as if I wasn't there. I fell to the ground as my body tried to heal. It felt like hours passed before I saw Stiles and Lydia run to me.
" Raven!" Stiles exclaimed as he came to me. I see Lydia looking over my wounds. Stiles went to pick me up. I moaned in pain.
" Stiles please be careful." I said as he was able to pick me up bridal style. I leaned on his shoulder with my head.
" I shouldn't have left you alone." He tells me as he and Lydia get us out of there. As we got out. I see Kira and Scott on the ground trying to catch their breath.
" Is she ok?" Kira asked as she looked at me. I nodded and jolted a bit, after shock and all.
" I'll be ok. I'll heal." I tell her to ease her mind from any fault or guilt she may have.
" Things are just getting worse. We have to read the book." Lydia said as if she had a new responsibility on her shoulder.
" Fuck me." I groaned in Stiles' arms.