𝐓𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐌 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 ➢ ᴅᴇʀᴇᴋ ʜᴀʟᴇ / ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ᴘᴀʀʀɪꜱʜ

Ch. 8 - RAVING

Deaton thought for a moment before pulling out a new item from the drawer. An old, scratched steel pendant, "Essentially, you're trying to catch two people- a puppet, and a puppeteer." He said. He places the odd piece on the table. It's the symbol of Cernunnos, a horned god seated in a meditative position. He's encircled by a snake which he grasps at the throat in his right hand.

"One killed the husband, but the other had to take care of the wife. Do we know why?" Deaton asked and Scott shook his head slightly. "I don't think Jackson could do it. His mother died pregnant, too, and she was maybe murdered. I think he couldn't let the same thing happen to someone else." He explained.

"How do you know it's not part of the rules? The Kanima kills murderers. If Jackson kills the wife, then the baby dies, too." Isaac asked and Aurora raised her eyebrows at him, "So dad was a murderer?" She asked and he shrugged slightly. "Wouldn't surprise me if he was." He mumbled and she nodded in agreement for a moment before furrowing her brows.

"Hold on-" She said making them look at her, "The book says they're bonded, right?" She asked and they nodded making Deaton get what Aurora was hinting at. "What if the fear of water isn't coming from Jackson, but from the person controlling him?" Deaton asked as he grabbed a jar of mountain ash.

"What if something that affects the Kanima also affects its master?" He asked as he pour a circle of mountain ask around the pendant and Isaac raised his eyebrows. "Meaning what?" He asked and realization crossed over Scott's features as he looked up at everyone.

"Meaning we can catch them- both of them."

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Aurora, Derek and Boyd walked up as Argent and his men turned the corner making Argent sigh. "Derek. Back off." Argent said making Derek raise his eyebrows, "Back off? That - that's really all you've got? I got to be honest, Chris. I was really expecting more from the, uh, big, bad veteran werewolf hunter." Derek said making Argent nod and smile.

"Okay, then. How about... Didn't anyone ever tell you not to bring claws to a gunfight?" Argent said before chorus of metal ka-chunks and clangs fill the air as shotguns and handguns come up. "That one sounded pretty good." Boyd said making take a deep breath and roll his eyes while Aurora chuckled slightly.

A little while later Aurora, Derek and Body where crouched behind a dumpster as every hunter shot at them. "We can't stay behind here the whole time like cowards." Aurora said before running out, she instantly grabbed one of the Hunters' gun before hitting him in the face with it.

Boyd ran out and knocked down one if the hunters as Derek flipped over the dumpster, knocking a hunter to the ground. A hunter pointed his gun at Boyd but Boyd grabbed arm before slamming him to the ground. Derek turned around before two hunter shot tasers at him making him groan before grabbing the wires of the tasers, using them to slam the two hunters into each other.

A hunter pointed his gun at Aurora but she held her hand up as her necklace started to glow slightly. She flicked her her hand up slightly and his gun suddenly shot up, hitting him in the face making him fall to the ground.

A little while later Aurora crouched down next to Boyd and Derek behind the dumpster again. "Think I stopped healing." Boyd said as he breathed heavily and Aurora nodded, "The bullets are laced with wolfsbane." She said as she looked at his gun shot wound. "This will hurt." She said before she held her hand over his wound and her necklace glowed. Boyd groaned in pain the the bullet shot out of him and Aurora quickly caught it.

"You have to go. Take the car."  Derek said making Boyd look at him, "What about you guys?" He asked. "Aurora and I need to find Scott. Go." Derek said and Boyd glanced at Aurora who nodded before he quickly got up and ran off. "Are you okay? Are you shot?" Aurora asked and Derek shook his head, "It's fine for right now. We need to find Scott." Derek said before grabbing her hand and running to towards the entrance to the rave.

Party over, people begin streaming out the door, heading for their cars. Stiles races from the crowd, his eyes immediately land on Derek and Aurora approaching, "Hey, um, so, we kind of lost Jackson inside, but it's-" He says but then notices, Isaac and Erica paused on the warehouse side of the ash, not being able to pass. Isaac and Erica looked confused and slightly alarmed.

"Oh, my God! It's working! Oh, this is- I did something!" Stiles says with a proud smile as he turns to look at the teenage werewolves before noticing Aurora's necklace glow again. Aurora wrapped her hand around her necklace before all the sounds around her faded away. All she could hear was a distant sound of someone coughing before seeing flashes of Scott laying on the ground with Victoria Argent standing above him.

After a moment everything went back to normal making her look at everyone wide eyed. She was about to say something but a distant howl made her and Derek look at each other. "Scott." Aurora said in a slight whisper making Derek's eyes widen, "Break it." He said making Stiles look at him crazy.

"What? No way." He said and Aurora sighed, "Stiles, you need to break it, Scott's dying. I'm gonna need Derek." She said making Stiles sighed before dropping down to the ground and blows the ash away with his hands. Derek looked at Aurora with nodded and almost immediately they both ran off in the direction the howl came from.

As Scott stops breathing- the door bursts open and Aurora and Derek crashes in, eyes darting across the room. Scott was on the floor, the vaporizer, but there was. Victoria no where in sight, because she's behind them. Raising up a tactical knife, she plunges it right into Derek's back. Derek's eyes flare red as he roars in pain while Aurora ran over and turns off the vaporizer before running over to Scott.

With an animal ferocity of her own, Victoria rips the knife out, preparing to stab again, but Derek spins to defend himself, teeth and claws slashing out. Victoria staggers off him, knife clattering to the floor. Their bodies move fast, impossible to tell what's happening.

Aurora got down next to Scott and gently turned his face, "Scott?" She asked and he made no movement making her sigh. Her necklace glowed as she hovered her hands above his face. Slowly, a thin cloud of the wolfsbane smoke he had inhaled started to come out of his mouth.

A few seconds later his eyes snapped open as he took a deep breath, looking over at Scott who smiled comfortingly at him. "You gonna be okay, Scott." She said and he nodded weakly, "Thank you..." He said in a low whisper before he slowly passed out again.

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Deaton pulls a syringe out of Scott's arm and eases him back onto the table as Scott's weary eyes close and he passes out. Slumped on the floor against the brick wall, Derek wheezes with difficulty, "Thank you." He said in a slight whisper. Aurora smiled at Deaton while grabbing a pair of forceps and walking over to Derek whole Deaton walked out of the room.

"This will be painful but not as painful as using magic." She said and he gave her an amused look, "Surprised you're not using the more painful option." He said and she chuckled. "I thought about it." She said, smiling at him and he chuckle before she grabbed his shoulder. He groaned as she used the forceps to pull a bullet out of his shoulder. She dropped the bullet onto a tray before hovering ber hand over his wound.

Derek stared at her as her necklace glowed and she quietly mumbled something under her breath. His shoulder slowly healed up making her pull her hand back before noticing Derek looking at her making raise her eyebrows in amusement. "You have a staring problem." She said and he shook his head with a small smile, "Thank you." He said and she smiled at him.

"Don't think me, thank the fact that I want to use you to try to get Ronan to talk more. You're useless to me beyond that." She said with a playful smile making him chuckle before she moved to sit down next to him. "Shouldnt you get back to your kids?" He asked and she let out a deep breath while closing her eyes and leaning her head back against the wall.

"I give their nanny fifty dollars every extra hour. Trust me, she's more than happy right now. It would surprise me if she's rich by the end of the year." Aurora said making Derek chuckle quietly.