The Banshee and the Beta ➼ TEEN WOLF

Chapter 44 - The Truth is out

Lexie

I was crouched at Stiles' side when Matt pressed the gun into Scott's back, pushing him further into the room. He had a blood stain on his stomach and once I heard the gunshot like 10 minutes ago, I knew he had shot him. 

But there were two more after that and I can't help but wonder whether Matt shot the Sheriff, Melissa or perhaps Sabrina. If Derek was here, she must be too, right? "The evidence is gone. Why don't you just go?" Scott asked a very frazzled Matt. He was sweating and his eyes were frantic. 

"You-you think the evidence mattered that much, huh? No, no, I-I want the book." 

"What-what book?" Scott stuttered, I looked up and Matt met my eyes, smirking, he knew that I knew. 

"The bestiary." I muttered quietly and he nodded. Why would he want the Bestiary, he already has the translation of the Kanima, what it's capable of and how to control it. What more could he possibly need it for? 

"And not just a few pages, I want the entire thing." he was swinging his gun around wildly and I was starting to get terrified. He was going slightly crazy and it was making me nervous.

"We don't have it. It's Gerard's." 

"This one has it," he glanced down at me and then stepped toward me,"in here," he placed the gun to my head and I tried to breathe normally, I didn't want to make him angrier than he already was.

"Matt...it's 900 pages long, I-I haven't translated the whole thing." it was true, I hadn't translated all of it, but I sure as hell have read through all of it.

"Don't lie!" he yelled, pressing the gun harder to my head and making me flinch in fear. 

"Even if I did, I haven't got it memorised. I'd have to look through my notes," in fact I did have most of it memorised, but I wasn't going to tell him that. And I do have a copy of the bestiary, I started writing it out and adding pictures that I drew to it. It just means if I can get that copied, my friends will know what's coming for us in the future. 

"Then give them to me," he pleaded and I could sense the urgency in his eyes. I shook my head and sighed, 

"I don't have them anymore. I gave everything I was able to translate to Allison. She has them," I lied, thinking about the stack of notes I had locked in the second drawer of my nightstand. I was focusing on writing about Banshees, because something about them just made my head itch, it's like they were so familiar but I couldn't tell how.

Matt backed away from me, and I sighed in relief as the gun disappeared from my head. He ended up pacing in the doorway as Scott stood there still pretty confused. "What do you want it for, anyway?" 

"I need answers."

"Answers to what?" Scott asked as Matt sighed and dropped the gun to his side. He grabbed his t-shirt and lifted it up to reveal a torso of scales, it was creeping into his normal skin and it looked like Matt was turning into a Kanima. How is that possible?

"To this." we all stared in shock and Stiles beside me gasped as I leaned back slightly so both him and Derek could see. Let's just say that now we understood what Matt really wanted. 

***

I sat beside Stiles and watched Jackson stand in the doorway, we were never going to get out of here with him standing there, and there was no way we were gonna get out with these two paralyzed like this. "Hey. You know what's happening to Matt?"

"I know, the book's not gonna help him. You can't just break the rules, not like this." Derek stated as Stiles glanced over at him, they weren't able to move their bodies, but they could move their heads, they were only paralyzed from the neck down.