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ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪɴғᴏ: Main OC is Scott McCall's half-sister, there are six (6) original characters, friends to lovers with Stiles Stilinski, book one covers Seasons 1 & 2 of Teen Wolf
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𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇 School had an extremely calm aura about it in the days following the death of the mountain lion that was wreaking havoc on the town. Although no one had admitted it, everyone was scared while the mountain lion was alive, but now that it wasn’t, everything seemed to return to normal. Kat, Lydia, and Allison were sitting around a table in the cafeteria during lunch, quietly conversing about their homework and snacking on the blueberries on Lydia’s lunch tray.
Allison was hunched over an old book, quietly muttering in French. Kat shared a look with Lydia before asking, “What’s la Bête du Gévaudan?”
“Huh?” Allison asked, jumping slightly by being taken out of her trance so suddenly. She quickly recovered, “Oh, uh, The Beast of Gevaudan.”
Before Kat could question her further, Lydia asked, “The what of who?”
“The Beast of Gevaudan,” Allison repeated, excitedly looking at her friends, “Listen. "A quadruped wolf-like monster prowling the Auvergne and South Dordogne areas of France during the years 1764 to 1767. La Bête killed over a hundred people, becoming so infamous that King Louie the Fifteenth sent one of his best hunters to try and kill it.”
“Boring,” Lydia commented, earning an eye roll from Kat as Allison continued.
“Even the church eventually declared the monster a messenger of Satan.” Allison read, taking in the reactions of the girls around her. Kat was pleased that Allison was happy reading it and intently listened, but Lydia wasn’t as invested.
“Hmm, still boring.”
Allison was intent on changing Lydia’s mind and continued reading the book, “Cryptozoologists believe it may have been a subspecies of a hoofed predator, possibly a mesonychid.”
“Slipping into a coma bored,” Lydia sighed, biting a single blueberry off her fork.
“While others believe it was a powerful sorcerer who could shape-shift into a man-eating monster.” Allison wasn’t giving up, and although she loved her, Kat was also losing interest.
“Alli, how does any of this have anything to do with your family?” Kat asked, brushing off Lydia’s glance that told her to keep quiet.
Allison quickly nodded, “This. "It is believed that la bête was finally trapped and killed by a renown hunter who claimed his wife and four children were the first to fall prey to the creature.” His name was Argent.”
“Your ancestors killed a big wolf. So what?” Lydia quipped.
“Not just a big wolf,” Allison said, disregarding Lydia’s snide comments and sharing an exciting look with Kat. She flipped the book around and showed the girls in front of her the picture on the page. “Take a look at this picture. What does it look like to you?”
Kat decided to play along and took a look at the picture. The faint grin on her face fell. In the background was a creature that looked like a wolf standing on its hind legs. It was tall and brooding and instilled a deep fear in Kat. What really shook her, however, was the deep red eyes. They seemed to glow with hatred and evilness, genuinely scaring Kat. She felt her heart drop. Only one word came to mind. Werewolf.
Lydia’s voice drew Kat out of the trance she was in with her sarcastic words, “It looks like a big wolf. See you beauties in history.”
The redheaded girl smirked and stood up, leaving the table and taking the blueberries with her. Kat looked at the brunette with her with a chuckle before they returned to their work. The McCall girl was having a hard time focusing on her homework, and her eyes were drawn to her brother and his friends, who were having a heated discussion as Scott hid behind a history textbook. Scott peeked his face out from the book and caught Kat’s eye. He spazzed and blocked her view by ducking behind his book again.
Kat chuckled and shook her head, “Allison, do you know why my brother looks like he’s hiding from us?”
Allison’s head shot up at the mention of Scott, and as soon as she looked up, Scott, Stiles, and Spencer were leaving the cafeteria. Allison let out a long breath as she started gathering her belongings, “I don’t know, I think he’s avoiding me, and I don’t know why. Scott! Scott, wait!”
Allison ran after the three boys, leaving Kat alone at their table. Kat chuckled and shook her head, turning the page in her textbook as she murmured, “And then there was one.”
Economics was surprisingly one of Kat’s favorite subjects. She liked learning the different inner workings of the economy and the ease of the class. Coach Finstock always somehow derailed the lessons to lacrosse, so it gave Kat the freedom of teaching herself. As a slight control freak, she enjoyed that more than most students. Kat was one of the first students to arrive, but more and more students started to trickle in. Finally, Stiles walked in with Spencer and Scott trailing behind him. He was headed to his usual seat behind Kat, but Scott was adamant about having Stiles sitting behind him.
“Hey, Stiles, sit behind me, dude.”
Kat watched as Stiles sent him a confused glance before he snatched his backpack from the desk he usually sat in and jumped across the aisle to steal the desk from Allison, who had quickly made her way to the desk. Allison sent him a pleading look to let her have the seat and, Stiles being the nice guy he is, spared Scott an apologetic glance before retreating to the desk behind Kat.
Kat’s brows furrowed as she turned around to address Stiles, “What was that about?”
Stiles tried to blow it off as nothing, “Ah, nothing, really.”
“Didn’t look like nothing.” Kat said, lowering her voice as she leaned across his desk, “Why is Scott avoiding Allison? Did something happen with them?”
“No!” Stiles loudly said, shaking his head. “No, uh, you know Scott. He’s just weird about stuff, especially relationship stuff. You know that.”
Kat was completely unconvinced but didn’t get a chance to respond before all conversations in the classroom were cut off by Coach Finstock dropping a heavy book on his desk.
“Let’s settle down.” Coach Finstock began, “Let’s start with a quick summary of last night’s reading. Greenberg put your hand down. Everybody knows you did the reading. How about, uh . . . McCall.”
Normally, Kat would have chuckled along at the daily dig at Greenberg, but something about that day just made her frown as she began to summarize the reading. Finally, Coach Finstock cut her off, “Sorry, McCall, not you. You always do the reading. I wanna hear from the other one.”
“What?” Scott asked, caught off guard as he shared a look with Kat. Kat shrugged and settled into her chair, giving her brother an encouraging look.
“The reading.” Coach Finstock said, moseying around his desk to lean on its front as he looked at Scott.
“Last night’s reading?” Scott asked, his heartbeat rising as he started to panic.
Coach Finstock shrugged, “How about, uh, the reading of The Gettysburg Address?”
“What?” Scott asked again as the class started to chuckle around him. Kat scowled at the girl beside her, effectively quieting her as Coach Finstock continued to embarrass Scott in front of the class.
“That was sarcasm. You familiar with the term “sarcasm,” McCall?”
“Very,” Scott answered, looking over his shoulder towards Stiles and Spencer, seated behind his sister. Kat glanced behind her to see her brother’s friends smirk and wink at Scott.
“Did you do the reading or not?” Coach Finstock asked.
Scott hesitated, “Um . . . I think I forgot.”
Coach Finstock was not having his excuses, “Nice work, McCall. It’s not like you’re not averaging a “D” in this class. Come on, buddy. You know I can’t keep you on the team if you have a “D.” How about you summarize, uh, the previous night’s reading? No? How about the, uh, the night before that? How about you summarize anything you’ve ever read. In your entire life.” Scott started to stammer an excuse, but Coach Finstock was getting too angry to let him speak, “No? A blog? How about, uh, how about the back of a cereal box? No? How about the “Adults Only” warning from your favorite website you visit every night? Anything?”
Kat wouldn’t stand for someone, especially a teacher, talking down to her brother like that. “Leave him alone, Coach!”
“Was I speaking to you, Kat?” Coach Finstock rounded on Kat before refocusing on her brother. “Thank you, McCall. Thank you. Thank you, McCall! Thank you for extinguishing any last flicker of hope I have for your generation. You just blew it for everybody! Thanks. Next practice, you can start with suicide runs. Unless that’s too much reading.”
Kat cursed under her breath and gathered her books as she stood up and started to leave the classroom.
“Now, where do you think you’re going, McCall?” Coach Finstock spit.
Kat whipped around with anger glowing in her eyes, “I’m going to report you for verbally abusing a student. I’d be happy to make it two students if you want to degrade and humiliate me in front of the class as well.”
Coach Finstock glowered at Kat before waving her off, dismissing her completely. Kat curtly nodded and spun on her heel to leave the classroom. The class watched her leave in shock, having never seen her react that way before. She usually was quiet as Coach Finstock spoke however he wanted to his students, but today she couldn’t stand it. Kat had been irritable all day, because of what she didn't know, but that was the last straw.
Kat must have fallen asleep when she got home because the next thing she knew, the moon was casting a milky light into her room, and her phone was ringing. Kota whined and jumped off the bed to get away from the loud tones coming from Kat’s phone. Kat sighed and rubbed her eyes as she answered the phone.
“Hello?” Kat asked, clearing the grogginess from her voice.
“Kat!” Lydia’s voice sharply said, “What are you doing right now?”
Kat sighed, knowing that she wouldn’t get out of whatever Lydia wanted to do, “Nothing, just woke up from a nap. What’s up?”
“Your brother bailed on Allison, so we’re going to pick her up and go bowling as a group. Lexi’s already there with Spencer. We’ll even go get Stiles if you want.” Lydia informed her, continuing so Kat wouldn’t have any room to argue, “So, come downstairs. We’re parked outside.”
Kat jumped up from her bed and looked out the window, seeing Jackson’s dark gray Porsche parked behind her SUV out on the street. Kat hummed, “Alright, fine. Give me ten minutes.”
Kat hung up and flipped on the light in her room. She glanced at herself in the mirror above her dresser and sighed, seeing the smudged makeup and tangled hair resulting from her nap. She fixed herself up and grabbed a jacket before heading downstairs to put a scoop of food in Kota’s bowl and refill her water. She made sure Kota would be okay for the night before kissing her on the nose and leaving the house, her phone and keys in hand as she made her way to Jackson’s car.
Lydia jumped out and gave Kat a quick hug before they settled into the car and drove through Beacon Hills to the Argent household. Kat was squished in the back, having no leg room left in the tiny backseat of the vehicle.
“You know, this car is not meant for more than two passengers, Jackson,” Kat said, killing the silence in the car as she leaned up between the front seats.
“Normally, there’s just Lydia and me, makes it much more intimate,” Jackson smirked, looking over at Lydia with a wink.
Disgust covered Kat’s features as she groaned, “I don’t want to know what you guys have done on this backseat; I’d rather keep my dinner in my stomach.”
Jackson chuckled and looked in the rearview mirror to give Kat an amused glance as Lydia called Allison. They had turned onto her street. As soon as Allison answered, Lydia put the phone on speaker and held it up. Jackson spoke first.
“Lydia says we’re coming to get you.”
Allison let out an exasperated sigh, “Please don’t. I’m sure he’s on his way. He’s only . . . ” she trailed off, and Kat guessed she was checking the time, “ . . . twenty-six minutes late.”
“You hear that?” Lydia snapped, “First, it’s “he’s only twenty six-minutes late,” a month later, it’s “he only hits me when he’s drunk.” Slippery slope, Allison. Slippery slope.”
“Don’t talk down on my brother like that, Lyds.” Kat sharply said, earning a groan from her redheaded friend.
“It was just an example. Your brother’s too lame to drink.” Lydia said.
Jackson decided to cut them off, “We’re picking you up, Allison.”
“No,” Allison insisted, but even Kat could hear the sadness in her voice.
“Too late,” Jackson said as he pulled up to her driveway. Allison glared at the car before letting out a huff and heading to the car. Jackson rolled down his window as Allison came up beside his door, “Lydia gets what Lydia wants. Come on, get in.”
Allison’s phone beeped, and as she checked her phone, Kat’s vibrated in her pocket. Lydia leaned across the center console with another sarcastic comment of her own, “Hmm, is that him with the best explanation ever as to why he’s half a freaking hour late?”
“Not exactly,” Allison shook her head, “He just texted me to meet him at the school.”
“Stiles texted me the same thing,” Kat said, showing her phone to everyone else in the car. Jackson grumbled something about how Scott and Stiles were annoying as he got out of the vehicle and allowed Allison to squeeze into the backseat with Kat.
The ride to the school was uncomfortable, to say the least. The two girls in the backseat of the Porsche were shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip, while Jackson and Lydia rode comfortably up front. The conversation in the car wasn’t any more entertaining. Allison and Kat quietly conversed in the backseat about what Scott and Stiles would possibly want with them at the school while the couple up front debated over going bowling or seeing a new movie.
Jackson parked at the school, and as Allison and Kat climbed out of the backseat, Jackson asked what they were doing there. Kat let Allison answer and show Jackson the text she had gotten as she looked over the vehicles in the lot. Unsurprisingly, Stiles' blue jeep was parked in the lot, but an unfamiliar sleek black Camaro was parked behind it.
“They lock the doors at night, you know.” Lydia smartly said.
“That one’s open.” Allison pointed out, seeing that the main door to the school was propped wide open. Lydia rolled her eyes and slumped in her seat, earning a giggle from Kat as she, Allison, and Jackson started walking towards the school.
“You don’t need me to state the obvious, right?” Jackson said, looking at the girls with a grin.
“That it looks like they broke into the school? No, pretty obvious. And typical of them.” Kat answered, shaking her head and looking into the dark school with hesitation. Why would they ask them to meet them at the school?
Jackson looked between the girls in front of him, “Do you want me to come with you guys?”
Kat and Allison looked at each other and shrugged. Allison hummed, “Mmm, it’s okay. We’re pretty tough; we can handle ourselves.”
The girls nodded and started heading towards the door before Jackson spoke up, “Hey, guys . . . ” Once the girls turned back to him, he paused, now self-conscious of what he was about to say.
Allison smirked, “You have this look like you were about to say, “be careful.””
Jackson recovered, slipping into his natural cool as he handed a flashlight to Kat, “I am.” Kat took the flashlight and glanced at Allison, knowing precisely what she was thinking. It was nice to see Jackson concerned for someone other than himself.
“What?” Jackson asked, earning a laugh from the girls in front of him.
“That concerned look on you, I’ve never seen it before.” Allison smartly said, smiling at Jackson.
“Well, I am concerned,” Jackson said.
“Well, it’s a good look on you, Whittemore,” Kat smiled.
Allison shone the flashlight on her face and lowered her voice, “Don’t worry. We’ll be right back.”
Kat and Allison laughed and jogged up the stairs to the door, now forgetting their fears of entering the high school at night. They shared an amused glance as they quietly conversed and decided where to go to look for Scott and Stiles. They wandered down the halls, peeking into classroom after classroom and coming up empty.
Allison decided to fill the silence that had stretched between them, “So, that thing you pulled in class with Coach was pretty major.”
Kat shook her head and groaned, “I don’t even know why I did that, to be honest.”
“No, I’m glad you did. I’ve only been here for a few weeks, but I’ve wished someone would stand up to him since my first day.” Allison chuckled, nudging Kat’s shoulder with her own.
Kat sighed, “I sometimes question my sanity, you know.”
Allison laughed, “Is that because of your snippy outburst in class or because we’re wandering around the school at night?”
“I hang out with Scott and Stiles almost as much as with you, Lexi, and Lydia. Scott’s my brother, and Stiles is my, well, Stiles, and this is their idea of a fun time. Leading two girls around a dark and creepy school for apparently no reason.” Kat explained, shaking her head as she chuckled, “Are we crazy for coming here?”
Allison hummed, bobbing her head from side to side before shaking her head, “No, I don’t think so. I think we’d be crazy if we split up.”
“Ah, shoot.” Kat grinned, “I was just about to suggest splitting up.”
Allison giggled, but her smile slowly dropped, “We might find them faster if we did.”
Kat agreed, “Probably. You’ve got your phone, right?” Allison nodded and held it up. Kat handed her the flashlight and grabbed her phone from her pocket, “I’ll take the upstairs, you’ll finish down here, and then we’ll call each other if we find them or come up empty-handed?”
“Sounds good,” Allison said, and with a quick nod to each other, the girls started walking down opposite ends of the hallway. Kat had wound up in the science wing upstairs, suddenly bored and slightly disappointed that she hadn’t found Stiles or Scott yet. It was like a bad game of Hide and Seek, and she wasn’t even sure she was seeking anyone. Maybe the boys weren’t there at all.
Kat had reached the end of the hallway and still hadn’t found any sign that the Stilinski boy or her brother were at the school. She sighed and started to dial Stiles' number to scold him for sending her and Allison to the school for no reason but decided against it. She felt that argument was better suited to happen face to face. So she instead dialed Allison’s number, grumbling as it rang.
“Did you find them?” Allison asked as soon as she answered the phone.
“No, they’re not upstairs. I honestly don’t think they’re here, Alli.” Kat sighed, starting back down the stairs to the main doors. “I’m gonna go back to the car.”
“Yeah, I might, too,” Allison said, disappointment evident in her tone.
Kat frowned, “I’m sorry that Scott did this. I don’t know what he’s thinking.”
“It’s not your fault, Kat.” Allison quickly said. “C’mon, maybe by the time we get to the bowling alley, they’ll still be selling nachos.”
Kat halfheartedly chuckled, “Yeah, maybe.”
“I’ll meet you in the lobby,” Allison said, ending the call promptly after.
Kat sighed and had just exited the stairwell when her phone rang again, Lydia’s contact picture appearing on the screen. Kat swiped the answer button and immediately spoke, “Hey, we can’t seem to find them.”
“Well, then, let’s go. I am thoroughly creeped out right now and would rather be bowling.” Lydia snapped. Kat rolled her eyes and sighed. She could hear Lydia argue with Jackson on the other end before she said, “We’ll be in the lobby.”
“Yeah, give us a second, and we’ll be right there,” Kat said, hanging up the phone and pocketing it. She rounded the corner that led toward the lobby as a set of doors slammed shut ahead of her. She saw Scott and Stiles skid to a stop as Allison joined them from a different hallway. Kat started jogging and caught Stiles' eyes.
The Stilinski boy spazzed and met Kat in the lobby, grabbing her arms and holding her close as he sharply asked, “What are you doing? Why are you here?”
“What do you mean? You asked me to come.” Kat said, yanking her arms out of his grasp as she narrowed her eyes at him. “Thanks for the incredibly creepy wild goose chase, by the way. This is exactly what I wanted to do with my night.”
“I didn’t ask you to come,” Stiles insisted. Kat went to argue, unconvinced by his word alone, but Stiles cut her off with wide eyes, “Trust me, I didn’t.”
Kat’s heart dropped as she pulled out her phone, “You didn’t send me this text?”
Stiles read the text, and his face paled. He shook his head, “No, I didn’t. Did you drive here?”
Kat looked back at Scott and Allison, fear settling into her heart, “No, Jackson did.”
“Jackson’s here, too?” Scott loudly asked.
“Yeah, and Lydia.” Allison quickly said, “What’s going on? Who sent us these texts?”
Allison’s phone started ringing before the boys could conjure up an excuse. She answered it and asked, “Where are you?”
As soon as she asked the question, the door behind the group opened, revealing Jackson and Lydia.
“Finally,” Lydia sighed, looking annoyed at each person around her. “Can we go now?”
The group collectively nodded and started to head towards the exit when a loud thud was heard overhead. Kat jumped, and if it were even possible, her heart dropped even lower. The pipes creaked, and another thud was heard, somehow louder than the first. She grabbed Stiles' hand out of fear, needing some form of comfort as the night took a drastic turn from slightly frightening to downright terrifying.
“Run!” Scott suddenly shouted, and Stiles took off in the direction of the stairs, pulling Kat behind him as the group trailed after them. A loud crash followed by one last thunderous thud sounded behind the group, and Kat glanced behind her to see a mass of black on the linoleum flooring surrounded by pieces of the ceiling. She shrieked and allowed Stiles to lead her through the hallways leading towards the cafeteria. Unlike any dog Kat had ever heard, monstrous barking echoed off the lockers. The group ran faster than they ever had in their life and burst through the doors to the cafeteria, panting and shaking with fear and adrenaline.
Scott shut the doors and slid the bolts in place just as Jackson started to assist him in barricading the doors by moving a freezer in front of it and stacking chairs up on top of it. Kat seemed to be shutting down, watching helplessly as the group worked to stop whatever had chased them into the room from reaching them. Stiles stood beside her, still gripping her hand as he examined the room.
“Scott, wait, not here,” Stiles suddenly said, but the only person listening to him was Kat.
Allison was slowly starting to freak out as she asked Scott the question on everyone’s minds, “What was that? Scott, what was that?”
“What came out of the ceiling?” Lydia shrilly asked, tears pooling in her eyes as she watched Scott and Jackson work.
“Will you just help me?” Scott directed, ignoring their questions as he piled chairs onto the freezer.
“Guys . . . ” Stiles drawled, losing patience as Kat’s head whipped around from the group to Stiles. Stiles started speaking louder, “Can we just wait a second? You guys, listen to me. Can we wait a second? Guys? Stiles, talking? Can we hang on one second, please?”
Kat was slowly regaining feeling, almost like a computer restarting, and suddenly she was shouting to get the group’s attention, “Hey!”
The group jumped and stopped moving, focusing on Stiles and Kat. Stiles gave Kat’s hand a gentle squeeze as he thanked her before returning to his sarcastic self, even in times of complete terror, “Okay, nice work. Really beautiful job, everyone. Now, what should we do about the twenty-foot wall of windows?”
Stiles dramatically motioned to the wall-to-wall windows behind himself and Kat, watching as everyone around him let their faces drop as they realized their next problem. Kat felt like her throat was swelling with the anxiety coursing through her veins and stepped closer to Stiles, her free hand reaching up to wrap around his bicep as she tried to calm herself down.
Allison was the first to speak, looking at Scott with wild and questioning eyes, “Can somebody please explain to me what’s going on because I’m freaking out here. And I would like to know why.” Scott looked at her, jaw slacked, before disbanding from the group to lean on a table as he figured out what to say. Allison’s eyebrows knitted together in confusion, “Scott?”
Stiles carefully watched the people around him and glanced down at Kat as he spoke up, “Somebody killed the janitor.”
“What?” Kat gasped, looking up at Stiles with horror covering her features. She knew that everyone around her shared the same expression.
“Yeah, the janitor’s dead.” Stiles restated.
Kat started shaking her head and dropped Stiles' hand as she took a few steps back, “What are you talking about? Stiles, this is a seriously messed up joke.”
“Who killed him?” Jackson asked, believing Stiles' words and moving to stand in front of the girls as if to protect them from Stiles.
“No, no, no,” Lydia started to murmur, “This was supposed to be over; the mountain lion killed -- ”
“Don’t you get it?” Jackson snapped, “There wasn’t a mountain lion.”
“Who was it?” Kat asked, the revelation of information waking something inside her. She was slowly separating herself from the emotions of the situation, becoming independent, and starting to rationally think. If there was a way to survive this, she would think of it. But she needed the information necessary to do it. “What does he want?”
Allison was starting to derail, becoming the opposite of Kat. “What’s happening? Scott!”
It was almost as if Allison’s voice broke his trance, and he stood up straight as he stammered an excuse, “I -- I don’t know. I just . . . If we go out there, he’s going to kill us.”
“Us?” Lydia asked, disbelief and fear laced through her words, “He’s going to kill us?”
“Who?” Kat repeated. “Who is it, Scott?”
The group stared at Scott as he struggled to develop any form of an answer. Finally, he sighed and shook his head, still facing away from the group as he finally decided on what to say. “It’s Derek. It’s Derek Hale.”
Kat’s brows knitted together in confusion. Derek Hale? She hadn’t heard that name in years. She remembered hearing the stories about how his entire family died in a fire ten years ago, but she never knew that he stuck around. And now he was killing people? Why?
Stiles' mouth dropped in shock as the news settled over everyone. Jackson was in disbelief, much like the girls around him, as he asked, “Derek killed the janitor?”
“Are you sure?” asked Allison.
“I saw him,” Scott insisted.
Lydia still wanted to believe that it was an animal, “The mountain lion -- ”
“No!” Scott cut her off, “Derek killed them.”
“All of them?” Kat asked.
“Yes, starting with his own sister.” Scott continued.
“The bus driver?” Allison asked.
“And the guy in the video store. It’s been Derek the whole time. He’s in here with us.” Scott quickly said, finally turning to the group, “And if we don’t get out now, he’s going to kill us, too.”
The group once again fell into silence. They stared at Scott with varying expressions, disbelief, distrust, fear. It was beginning to become too much for Scott, and Kat could see it, so she decided to speak up with the most logical solution to their problem.
“Call the cops.” Kat simply said.
“No,” Stiles immediately answered, oddly calm for their situation.
“What do you mean, “no?”” Jackson spat, stepping closer to Stiles as if to intimidate him.
Stiles shrugged, “I mean no. Do you wanna hear it in Spanish? No.”
Although she was bewildered by his opposition to calling the police given their situation, Kat couldn’t help but crack a grin at how he added a slight Spanish accent onto the last “no” he said to Jackson.
“Look, Derek killed three people, okay?” Stiles continued, trying to get everyone on his side. “We don’t know what he’s armed with.”
“Your dad is armed with an entire sheriff’s department. Call him.” Jackson demanded, clenching his jaw angrily as Lydia started searching for her phone in her purse.
“I’m calling.”
“No, Lydia, would you just hold on a second?” Stiles quickly said, moving forward to take the phone out of her hand, but Jackson stopped him by forcefully pushing his shoulder back.
Kat jumped between them, holding a hand out to stop them from pouncing on each other as Lydia called the police, “Leave each other alone; we don’t need two murderers in the school right now.”
The boys glared at one another before they turned to Lydia, who had finally gotten a hold of the police.
“Yes, we’re at Beacon Hills High School. We’re trapped, and we need you to -- ” Lydia started but was quickly cut off by the dispatcher. Her brows furrowed as she pulled the phone away from her ear, “She hung up on me.”
“The police hung up on you?” Allison asked, just as confused as the rest of the group. But, at least they could agree that it was strange for the police to hang up on a caller.
“She said they got a tip warning them that there are gonna be prank calls about a break-in at the high school,” Lydia explained. “She said that if I called again that they’re gonna trace it and have me arrested.”
“Call again, Lyds.” Kat urgently said, but Stiles shot down her idea yet again.
“No, they won’t trace a cell.” Stiles said, “They’ll send a car to your house before they send anyone here.”
Allison started stuttering, wholly baffled, as she ran her hands through her hair, “What the -- what -- what is this? Why does Derek wanna kill us? Why is he killing anyone?”
Five pairs of eyes turned to Scott, silently asking him to fill in the blanks. All they wanted was answers, and all Scott wanted to do was give them to them, but he didn’t know what he could tell them.
“Why’s everyone looking at me?” Scott suddenly asked.
“Is he the one that sent the texts to Kat and Allison?” Lydia asked, eyes widening at the realization.
“No!” Scott quickly said, covering his fear with confusion, “I mean, I don’t know.”
“Is he the one that called the police?” Allison asked.
“I don’t know!” Scott loudly snapped. Allison’s jaw dropped in shock, and she stepped behind Kat to distance herself from Scott.
Stiles decided to settle the group down a little, so they could rationally think, “Alright, why don’t we just back off the throttle here, yeah?” Stiles nodded at the people around him before pulling Scott away to speak in hushed tones, away from the carefully listening ears of the group. Jackson and the girls stood idly by and watched as Scott and Stiles conversed, and they could tell that it was starting to become an argument. Jackson hated not doing anything to benefit them in their current predicament and interrupted them with an insult.
“Okay, assheads,” Jackson began, “New plan. Stiles calls his useless dad and tells him to send someone with a gun and decent aim. Are we good with that?”
Kat watched as Stiles' face paled, realizing that they were out of options. His jaw hung open as he shook his head, silently saying that was the last thing he wanted to do. Kat could tell that her brother wanted to side with his best friend, but he had to do what was best for everyone.
“He’s right,” Scott finally said, catching Stiles' eye apologetically, “Tell him the truth if you have to; just call him.”
Stiles lowered his voice, but Kat still caught his words to Scott, “I’m not watching my dad get eaten alive.” Kat’s eyes widened at his words, but before she could question him on what he meant, Jackson decided to play hero and reached out to Stiles.
“Alright, give me the phone.”
Stiles rounded on Jackson and punched him square in the jaw, sending the Whittemore boy down to the floor with a hand covering his face and shock spreading over his features. Allison called out for the boy as Kat gasped and rushed over to Stiles to separate him from Jackson if the Whittemore boy decided that he wanted to settle the score. Allison knelt beside Jackson and whipped around with a slightly horrified look as she met Stiles' eyes. The Stilinski boy was breathing heavily as he recovered from what he had just done and pushed Kat and Scott off of him before reluctantly pulling out his phone and dialing his father’s phone number.
“Dad, hey, it’s me.” Stiles began, dropping his arm to his side as he sighed, “And it’s your voicemail. Look, I need you to call me back now. Like, right now.”
Loud banging noises suddenly echoed through the cafeteria as everyone jumped and turned to the source. The barricaded door started to rattle as something repeatedly and forcefully pounded on the other side. Kat instinctively snatched Stiles' hand in her own as the group retreated to the back of the room.
“We’re at the school, okay?” Stiles continued his voicemail to his father, somehow sounding calm through it all. Kat knew it was so his father could hear the other noises in the room so he’d believe the danger they were in. “Dad, we’re at the school.”
The door continued to shake and rattle as whatever was on the other side continued their animalistic rampage to get to the teens, screws falling out of the hinges and the bolts bending out of place. Kat jumped with each bang and tightened her grip on Stiles' hand. Somehow, in its frantic state, her brain still managed to think of a way for them to escape.
“The kitchen,” she suddenly said, “The door out of the kitchen leads to the stairwell.”
“Which only goes up,” Scott reminded her.
“Up is better than here.” Stiles agreed with Kat and turned to direct the group to the kitchen door. The group started running again, hurriedly following one after the other to make it to the temporary safety of the second floor. They came out to the top of the stairwell and immediately checked the classroom doors to see if any were open. Kat looked around and realized they were in the science wing and took off down the hall, quietly telling everyone to follow her. She remembered that while she was searching for Scott and Stiles, she found that one of her teachers had left his classroom unlocked. The group filed in after her, and as soon as the door was shut and locked, Scott placed a stool under the doorknob for an extra layer of protection.
With wide eyes, they all tried to quiet their breathing and listen for any movement in the silence that was suddenly suffocating them. Kat had an iron grip on Stiles and Scott’s arms as she stood between them. Scott went to check the window in the door, but Kat and Stiles stopped him as they suddenly heard a faint growl-like sound in the hallway. Kat’s eyes filled with fearful tears as she watched a shadow cross over the window in the door, but they soon became relieved tears as it passed by, not detecting the group in the classroom.
“Jackson, how many people can fit in your car?” Scott quietly asked, formulating a plan to escape now that he thought they had a better chance of getting out alive.
“Five, if someone squeezes on someone’s lap,” Jackson answered.
“Five?” Allison scoffed, “Kat and I barely fit in the back.”
“I think we could all fit, given the circumstances,” Kat quickly said, but she was cut off by Stiles.
“It doesn’t matter,” Stiles whispered, shaking his head as he looked at everyone around him. “There’s no getting out without drawing attention.”
“What about this?” Kat suddenly asked, moving across the room to the emergency exit door behind the teacher’s desk. The group followed her as she said, “This leads to the roof. We can go down the fire escape to the parking lot in, like, seconds.”
Stiles shot down the idea, “That’s a deadbolt.”
“The janitor has a key,” Scott said, realizing that Kat had a good plan.
“You mean his body has it,” Stiles said, shaking his head at the McCall siblings. Kat scowled and crossed her arms over her chest.
“I can get it,” Scott said, immediately earning a hushed yet stern and sarcastic protest from Kat.
“Well, gee, that sounds like an incredibly terrible plan; what else you got?” Kat spat, shaking her head at him as she joined Jackson, Lydia, and Allison by the door again. She heard a quiet quarrel between her brother and Stiles before Scott came up by her side in front of Allison, indicating that he was serious about getting the key from the janitor’s body.
“Are you serious?” Allison asked, taking the same stance as Kat and crossing her arms over her chest as she disagreed with his choice.
“Well, it’s the best plan.” Scott tried to defend himself, shrugging slightly. “Someone has to get the key if we wanna get out of here.”
“You can’t go out there unarmed,” Allison said, fear reflecting in her eyes in the dark room. Scott defeatedly looked around the room and picked up the thing closest to him, which happened to be a cartoon hand pointer that the teacher would occasionally use in a lame attempt to earn the class' attention. The group gave him disapproving glares.
“Well, it’s better than nothing.” Scott sighed.
Kat shook her head, “There’s gotta be something else.”
“There is,” Lydia spoke up, her eyes locked on a cabinet behind Allison. It was the cabinet that held all of the chemicals they used in class.
Stiles, ever the downer, smartly said, “What are we gonna do? Throw acid on him?”
“No,” Lydia shortly said, “Like a firebomb. In there is everything you need to make a self-igniting molotov cocktail.”
“Self-igniting -- ” Stiles began.
“Molotov cocktail. Lydia, you’re brilliant!” Kat finished, celebrating her friend’s brain with a bright smile.
Lydia, usually one to soak up any attention doted on her, shuffled uncomfortably under the watchful eyes she was receiving for being more intelligent than Jackson could be. Finally, she shrugged, “No, I think I read it somewhere.”
Although impressed by her smarts, Stiles had to remind them that they couldn’t utilize them. “We don’t have a key for that either.”
Jackson sighed and rolled his eyes before breaking the glass with his elbow. Kat and Lydia rushed forward and grabbed all the necessary ingredients for a self-igniting molotov cocktail, carefully setting them on the closest desk so Lydia could cook up the firebomb. Kat and Jackson handed her any chemical she asked for without hesitation, but when she asked for the sulfuric acid from Jackson, the Whittemore boy paused. His hand hovered over one chemical before he grabbed a different one, and Lydia nor Kat checked the label before Lydia poured it into the beaker with the concoction and put the cork stopper in the top of the beaker. She held it out to Scott, but Allison still wasn’t okay with the plan.
“No,” the Argent girl suddenly stepped forward, looking at Scott pleadingly. “No, this is insane; you can’t do this. You cannot go out there.”
“We can’t just sit here waiting for Stiles' dad to check his messages.” Scott contradicted her, ready to play hero and save them all.
“You could die,” Allison sharply said, “Don’t you get that? He’s killed three people.”
Kat hadn’t wholly thought of that. Her brother could die. She was suddenly back on Allison’s side, but Scott bulldozed over anything she was about to say.
“And we’re next. Somebody has to do something.”
Scott started to move towards the classroom door, but Allison stood in his way, sobbing as she tried again to change his mind, “Scott, just stop. Do you remember -- do you remember when you told me you knew whether or not I was lying? That I had a tell?” Scott nodded. “So do you. You’re a horrible liar, and you’ve been lying all night. Just -- just, please. Please don’t go. Please don’t leave us. Please.”
Scott hesitated, looking around at the group in the room. Kat moved around the table to assist Allison in getting Scott to stay, but Stiles had gently wrapped an arm around her and kept her close to him. He was quietly whispering reassurances in her ear as she cried. The reality of the situation was finally settling in, and she didn’t know what to do. Scott met her eyes, and he felt his heart break, but he had already made up his mind. He had to save everyone.
“Lock it behind me,” Scott told Stiles, turning to make a quick escape, but Allison was just as fast. Kat stepped forward, but Stiles tightened his grip on her waist and pulled her back as Allison fell back on her last resort. She grabbed Scott’s face and kissed him. Scott wanted nothing more than to relax into her and stay precisely where he was, but he also knew that he needed to save his sister and friends. Scott pulled away and tried to give everyone a bold look before finally slipping out of the classroom and into the hallway.
Stiles moved forward with Kat to lock the door after Scott, and he was prepared to ask Jackson to hold her back, but she instead reached out and wrapped her arms around Allison. The girls quietly cried in each other’s arms, not wanting to think that that would be the last time they saw Scott.
The tension in the room was not ignored as Kat and Allison calmed down, somehow finding it in themselves to put some faith in Scott that he could evade Derek to get the keys and get them all to safety. The group settled on and around the desk near the door. Allison sat atop it, Kat stood beside her with Stiles stuck like glue to her side, and Jackson and Lydia towards the end of the table. Kat had an arm linked through Stiles' and the other resting on Allison’s leg, calming herself down with the physical contact. She knew that she’d be a mess of anxiety and fright without them.
Allison sighed, growing tired of the silence around them. She was the type of person to voice her thoughts, and when she didn’t do that for long periods of time, especially in times of high stress, she became incredibly antsy. She leaned forward and started chewing on her nails before voicing everyone’s current thoughts.
“I don’t get this.” She began, “I don’t get why he’s out there and why he left us. And I can’t . . . I can’t stop my hands from shaking.”
Jackson had a soft, almost sympathetic look on his face as he reached out and took her hands in his own. “It’s okay. Okay, it’s gonna be okay.”
Lydia’s eyes snapped to the pair before flashing up to Kat’s, a betrayed glint shining in them. Kat shook her head, trying to silently tell her that it meant nothing and that he was just trying to comfort a friend, but the red color flushing Lydia’s cheeks told Kat that she wasn’t buying it. Kat wasn’t so sure that she was, either. She hadn’t missed the look he gave Allison when he told them to be careful before they entered the high school earlier that night.
Lydia busied herself with anything she could in her jealous state, and her eyes settled on the chemicals still sitting on the teacher’s desk. Her eyes narrowed as she looked over the bottles and her head tipped to the side. She was suddenly questioning the chemicals she had put in the molotov cocktail.
“Jackson, you handed me the sulfuric acid, right?” Lydia asked, eyes still trained on the chemicals. “It has to be sulfuric acid. It won’t ignite if it’s not.”
“I gave you exactly what you asked for, didn’t I?” Jackson snapped. “Maybe Kat mixed up a chemical, don’t accuse me.”
Lydia flinched and took the most minor step away from her boyfriend, shaking her head. “No, I’m sure you did. I was just making sure.”
Kat’s heart dropped as she looked at the chemicals. Anger suddenly filled her body as she stood up straight, and her eyes glared daggers in Jackson’s direction. “I swear to god, Whittemore. If you let your stupid ego get in the way because you couldn’t stand for someone else to be the center of attention and my brother ends up dead, Derek won’t be the only one you have to worry about. I’ll kill you before he even has the chance to -- ”
Stiles reached out to pull Kat back into his side before she could start to physically attack Jackson when a deafening roar started to thunder through the school, causing the locks hanging from lockers to rattle and clank against the metal. Kat cried out and covered her ears, and Jackson suddenly fell to the floor, a hand flying to the back of his neck as he screamed in pain. Lydia and Allison collapsed beside him as Stiles tried to steady Kat, who was wincing and wobbling on her feet as she groaned in anguish. A sharp pain pierced her ears, almost as if a needle was being pushed into her eardrum. She had quieted down as the roar faded into nothingness, as did the pain in her ears, and Jackson had been the one to earn everyone’s attention as Lydia and Allison stood him up.
“No, I’m fine.” Jackson sharply said, stumbling away from his girlfriend with a hand still clamped onto the back of his neck. “Seriously, I’m okay.”
“That didn’t sound okay at all,” Allison probed, trying to get him to open up and let them in so they could help him.
“What’s that on the back of your neck?” Stiles mumbled, reaching a hand out to pull the collar of Jackson’s jacket down, but his hand was slapped away before it could get too close.
Jackson shook his head, “I said I’m fine.”
“It’s been there for days,” Lydia said, trying to egg him on and start yet another fight. “He won’t tell me what happened.”
“As if you actually care.” Jackson quipped, effectively shutting Lydia up. The people around him scowled. They all knew Lydia truly cared for Jackson, no matter how horribly he treated her. Kat grumbled and stepped forward to give him a piece of her mind, but Stiles quickly reacted and held her back, locking his arms around her and quietly telling her that he wasn’t worth it.
Lydia, however, didn’t have someone to hold her back, and the couple engaged in a full-blown argument. Petty insults were being thrown back and forth, but Kat was focused on the sounds outside of the classroom. A faint sound that reminded her of nails scratching on metal quietly echoed through the hallway, and soon following was the sound of the lock sliding into place on the classroom door. Kat, who had slouched against Stiles' chest, suddenly stood up straight as she listened to the lock break in the door. She gasped and forced her way out of Stiles' hold, rushing towards the door and calling out her brother’s name.
This earned the group's attention, and suddenly everyone was flush against the door, calling out Scott’s name and letting questions tumble out of their mouths in their confused state. Allison grabbed the handle and was furiously twisting it to get it open, but she knew it was no use. They were safely locked in, and Scott was locked out with the murderer.
Allison was getting more and more intense, banging on the door and shouting her boyfriend’s name until Lydia yelled at her to stop. Kat pulled Allison away from the door as they all turned to look at Lydia with expectant faces.
“Do you hear that?” Lydia asked, looking towards the windows with a hopeful expression. The group immediately quieted down, listening hard for what Lydia had heard. Kat let out a relieved gasp when she heard it, collapsing into Allison as grateful tears pricked her eyes. Sirens.
“Listen,” Lydia breathed, a smile forming on her face for the first time all night. The group ran towards the windows, watching with thankfulness in their hearts as flashing red and blue lights filled the parking lot. Noah had gotten Stiles' voicemail. They were saved.
Kat sat in the back of an ambulance as they checked her over, and a deputy took her statement. Besides a few bruises from hitting her limbs on walls in their haste to survive and an ever-growing headache, she was fine. The EMT, which happened to be the one that she had shadowed just a week prior, just wanted to make sure that she didn’t have any substantial injuries (“Your mom will kill me if I don’t do a thorough check, we both know she would,” said the EMT). She waited for her friends to be released from the other ambulances, but she took the time to think over everything she had been through that night.
She was beyond happy to be alive and unharmed, but if it hadn’t been for Stiles, she wouldn’t have been in that mess in the first place. So what were they doing there, anyway? Was it really Derek that lured everyone there? If so, why? The two people she knew who had a connection with him weren’t there with them. Was it a ploy, a distraction? As much as she tried to make sense of everything, she couldn’t. She was only sure of two things: she was utterly exhausted, both mentally and physically, and she was pissed at Stiles and Scott for bringing her into their problem, even if they didn’t send the texts to Allison and herself.
Finally, the EMT let her walk away from the ambulance. She made a direct beeline to Stiles and wasted no time wrapping her arms around his waist and burying her face in his chest, taking a deep breath to let out even the slightest bit of stress. As soon as she had physical contact with him, she immediately felt better.
Stiles chuckled and let his arms secure themselves around her. He glanced at Scott, who was standing a few yards away, staring at them with a look that seemed to be a mixture of smugness and discomfort. Stiles let his hands run up and down Kat’s back, knowing she needed to be comforted. After another minute, Kat took a breath and stepped away from the Stilinski boy, feeling much better than before.
“What was that for?” Stiles asked, a light tint of a blush dusting over his entire face.
Kat sweetly smiled, feeling her face heat up because she could make him blush. She shrugged, feeling her smile drop into a grin. “Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m pissed that you dragged me into this, whether it was unintentional or not, but I’m glad you’re okay. We all had a bad night, and I just needed a hug.”
Stiles chuckled and shoved his hands into his jacket pockets before Scott made a noise and waved him over. Lydia was doing the same thing with Kat, and the McCall girl held up a finger before looking at Stiles again.
“Thanks for keeping me from killing Jackson earlier.” Kat said, a grin toying on her lips before it fell into a genuine smile, “And thank you for holding my hand and keeping me relatively calm all night. I didn’t think you’d remember how much that helps.”
Stiles made a ‘pfft’ sound and smiled at her, “Please, we’ve been married since kindergarten. I know everything about my girl.”
Kat rolled her eyes and felt a blush start to creep up her neck. “I’ll see you later, Stilinski.”
The McCall girl shook her head and met with Lydia and Jackson at Jackson’s car before sliding into the backseat. She took a long breath and watched the school fade away as Jackson drove back into town. Now that the adrenaline had left her system, she was left with her true feelings about the situation. She could have died. Scott could have died. Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Jackson. All of them could have died. And Scott left them to fulfill his dream of impressing Allison by being the hero when it could have cost him his life. With a heavy heart, she shut her eyes and willed herself to not replay the events of the night. At least, not yet. She didn’t think she could handle it.
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