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Eighteen. Did you forget?

"Where are Scott and Stiles?" Alison questioned over the wind.

Kaitlin typed on her phone, trying her best to get ahold of either of her best friends.

"Stiles is still at the hospital. He's gonna hold off the cops for us" Kaitlin looked up, sending her message quickly and shoving her phone in her pocket.

"We have to go right now" Derek pulled his sister out of the car, picking her up bridal style.

"What about Melissa and Scott?"

Derek moved towards his car, Isaac opening the fort for him. He gently placed Cora onto the backseat.

"Jennifer took Melissa"

Kaitlin stopped, looking to her brother who wore a similar expression to her. Panic and shock filled her. Derek closed the door, watching everyone's shocked expressions.

"What about Scott?" Alison asked, watching as Derek, moved around his cruiser, walking towards the drivers seat.

"Derek" Kaitlin called the alpha with a stern voice. "Where's Scott?" She stepped forward slightly. Derek stopped in his tracks, sighing.

He turns back, looking at both Alison and Kaitlin. The look he held said everything.

"She's got all three"

***

Kaitlin sat in her home, head in her hands while Kodin paced the house on the phone to Deaton.

The news that Jennifer had three of her guardian sacrifices had terrified her, she was almost certain that finding her mother would be a retrieval mission instead of a rescue.

But when she got the call from Stiles that Chris argents name had been written across elevator doors, things changed.

She felt more confused that ever. Jennifer was targeting Chris. She had another target, but why.

The sacrifices went in threes, three people taken , three body's found. No more, no less.

But when it came down to the Jones, it changed. At the glen capri, with Kaitlin and now with her mother.

Kodins voice died down, now, the boy was stood with his phone in his hand, staring at his sister. Kaitlin felt his eyes on her, lifting her head to look at the boy.

"What?"

"Deaton said he thinks that dad and Jennifer are gonna go after argent next" his quiet voice spoke, trying not to set the girl off, knowing damn well that she was still pissed off with him.

"Yeah, I know. Considering his name was written in red at the hospital, I think that's pretty clear" there it was, irritation, heavily laced in her voice.

Kodin clenched his jaw, slowly nodding his head "you know what that means then..." Kaitlin kept her gaze down at his words, hands locked together, against her mouth as she stared.

"It means there's still time, Katie. There's time to find her, to find all of them" Kodin spoke carefully.

Kaitlin shook her head, her mind ran faster than light, Kodin began to pace, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, he'd stop for a second but start pacing again not a moment later.

Kaitlin tried to focus her mind as her brother mumbled, his voice interrupting her thoughts frequently. The already repetitive thump in her head worsening "Would you quit pacing, you're giving me a headache"

"No, you have a headache from the concussion you have, or did you forget that?" He spoke quickly, irritation started slipping through his voice. Unlike to his sister, he spoke quickly when irritated, while Kaitlin spoke slowly.

"What was it you said, 'your brain literally rattled against your skull' kind of a big deal"

"Yeah so is our mom being kidnapped for a human sacrifice. Or did you forget?" her voice was venomous now, so harsh that Kodin stopped in his tracks, looking at his sister, really looking at her this time.

Kaitlin held her head in her hand, her eyes sunken and bloodshot, her brows were knitted together, a clear sign of the constant throbbing in her head. She looked terrible, like she had been through hell and back.

Kodin sighed at the sight. "I'm sorry" when his twin didn't move nor speak, he continued. "I should have called you the second I found out, I shouldn't have left you at the hospital by yourself, I'm sorry, Katie."

"I'll keep saying sorry, even if you forgive me, I made a mistake and I wish I could take it back but I can't. I understand that you're mad at me, but right now, we need to find mom-" Kodins words were cut off as a pair of arms wrapped themselves around his shoulders, the familiarity of his sisters touch foreign to him.

Kaitlin hated showing weakness, she was a fighter, she stayed strong in dire times and never showed her feelings. Even with her twin brother, so when he heard her choke back a silent cry, he hugged her back.

"I forgive you, I'm not mad, kody." After a minute Kaitlin loosens her grip, Kodin still holding onto her shoulders. Kaitlin wiped her teary eye, swiping under her nose.
"I'm just so tired"

Kodin frowned, squeezing her shoulders "I know, I am too, and that's okay, you've been through a lot, Kate. I can't imagine how the last 24 hours have looked for you."

Kodin was a ludic person, full of fun and high spirits, he liked to be a teenager, but when it came down to it, he would lay his life down for his family. That goes not just for his blood, but his found family too. Grief can do a lot to a person, it did a lot to Kodin. Loosing his older brother, his role model, it nearly killed him.

He became more protective over his sister after that, he'd always been protective of her, it was an instinct. But now, with everything that's happened, he vowed never to let another bad thing happen to Kaitlin Jones.

"I don't wanna find her body Kodin, I can't"

But Kodin wasn't god, he didn't get to choose who lived or who died. Kaitlins life and her future was up to fate and destiny.

and it had already been sealed.

JAZMINE SPEAKS
A bit of a short chapter but I liked the way I ended this one and thought it wouldn't fit if I was to continue on...:( sorry.
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