𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 ★ 𝐁. 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐎𝐓

𝟒.𝟏𝟒 𝐈𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐎𝐟

He was now currently in the hospital with Deaton, Melissa, Derek and Satomi. One of his pack members lying dead in front of him. Brett directed his vision away from his friends body, not wanting to look at it any longer. Melissa examined his body, the other adults only watching. "This isn't happening at the school, is it?" Melissa asks Satomi and Deaton.

"School? It's Saturday." Deaton says, confused as to why they would be at school on a Saturday. "They're taking their PSAT's, even Jules." Melissa tells him making Bretts head snap up, Satomi noticing and smiling slightly at the young beta.
"Why Jules? She's only a freshman." Deaton asks her, even though he knew how smart the young girl was. "Said she wanted extra practice for when she took the real thing." Melissa says proudly.

"I think I know what this is." Deaton tells the group. "Unfortunately, if I'm right, and Scott and the rest are infected, it's not good." Deaton tells them as Melissa gets an unknown feeling in her chest. She puts her hand over her heart, Derek noticing and asking her what's wrong.

"What is it Melissa? What's wrong."

Melissa getting this feeling in her throat responde. "I don't know, I just have this feeling in my chest. Somethings wrong with Jules. Somethings wrong. . . I can feel it." The group had now becomes concerned especially Brett as he wanted to know what was happening to her. "It's a variant of canine distemper. A few years ago, an outbreak in Yellowstone killed 40% of the wolf population. " Deaton tells them, Satomi beginning to look even more concerned than she already was.

"What will it do to our wolf population." Melissa asks him, worried for her children. "Well, it's been altered to infect quite a bit faster." Deaton answers her. "You mean it's been weaponized? It infected my whole pack." Satomi says to them.

"Everyone except for you. That's the real question. Did you not get infected? Or are you immune?"

***

"Where are we going?" Jules asks Allison as they continue to walk through the forest. Allison not saying anything to the girl still, disappointed in her. They soon reach the Hale house. Or at least what was left of the Hale house.

"What are we doing here." Jules asks allison walking to the porch and sitting in it, Allison doing the same. "Do you remember what happened here?" Allison asks her, Jules looking away as she did not want to remember that nights traumatic events. "This is where we confronted Scott after finding out he was a werewolf. This is where you got bit. This is where Kate "Died"." Allison tells her, grabbing her hand and holding it.

"This was the night it all changed. This was the night you became like a sister to me,because the truth was hidden from both of us, and even through everything that happened we still kept fighting. We kept going. So I'm gonna ask you again Jules...why did you stop fighting?"

Jules looked out into the clearing. Her voice getting caught in her throat. "...I didn't want to be a problem anymore." Jules tells Allison, her voice breaking. "Scott would have one less person to worry about, Mom wouldn't have to worry about us having a roof over our heads if there was one less child. Mom does this thing, she writes down all the items in our budget, and how much they cost, then she adds them all up and figures out how long we have until...We'd lose the house. And it's not like my Dad has anything to worry about. He left once what's stopping him from doing it again."

Allison just looks at the girl who has tears dripping down her face. Jules not even bothering to wipe them away. Allison grabs a small compact mirror from her pocket, opening it and holding it in front of the younger girl. "Jules I want you to look in the mirror and tell me what you see."