How hard could it be? • LM / SS

Chapter 46

"We've already tried. This thing is freaking indestructible. Jade burnt it and it just reversed onto her but that just might have been the spell gone wrong," Max said.

"I nearly took it's head off and Argent emptied an entire clip into it. He just gets back up," Derek sighed.

"Has it got any weaknesses?"

"It can't swim."

"Does that go for Jackson as well?"

"No, he's captain of the swim team," Scott stated.

"Essentially, you're trying to catch two people," Deaton said. He turned around, opening and closing some drawers before he found what he was looking for. "A puppet. And a puppeteer," he said, holding up some sort of a coin. "One killed the husband but the other had to kill the wife. Do we know why?"

"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," Scott explained.

"How do you know it's not part of the rules?" Isaac queried. "The kanima kills murderers. If Jackson kills the wife, then the baby dies too."

"Does that mean your father was a murderer?" Scott asked. "Jade!" he grumbled, wincing. The girl had sent a zap of pain at him for his insensitivity.

"Wouldn't surprise me if he was."

"What if the fear of water isn't coming from Jackson? They're bonded, right? The fear could be from the person controlling him," Max exclaimed. He silently thanked the heavens that he had gotten over his fear of water when he was fourteen or he probably would have been a suspect.

"What if something that effects the kanima-"Deaton began. Jade grabbed a bottle of mountain ash, throwing a ring of the substance around the coin. She knew what direction he was going in. "-also effects it's master?"

"Meaning we can catch them. Both of them."

                                       ~

"It's a secret show. Secret being the key word," Max sarcastically remarked. The twins, Scott and Stiles jumped out of the jeep, making their way onto school grounds. It was their first day back since the revelation and to say they were anxious was an understatement.

"Hey!" a voice sounded from behind them. "Any of you know why we're not getting suspended after what happened at school the other day?" Matt asked.

"You have got some nerve-" Jade said, lunging at the boy. Scott grabbed her, holding her back from gouging Matt's eyes out. He was also pissed off at the boy, but they couldn't afford to get in any more trouble. Stiles and Max were beside her, quietly whispering things like 'go on, you can take him!'

"What?" he asked, a feign look of confusion on his face.

"Look, just forget about it. Nobody got hurt," Stiles said, referencing to the incident in the library.

"I had a concussion!"

"Good," Max smiled.

"Nobody got seriously hurt," Stiles continued.

"I was in the ER for 6 hours!"

"Do you wanna know the truth? Your little bump in the head is about this high on our list of problems right now," Stiles said, his hand hovering an inch above the ground in example.

Matt scoffed, walking away, but he didn't get far. "Hey! I'm warning you to stay out of our way or a little concussion will be the least of your worries. Just because you got rejected and your small ego couldn't take it you decide to head to a gossip page? Screw you. Because you know what? I will genuinely kill you if I you don't watch out," Jade hissed.