Burn Amongst Humanity [D. Hale ]

|CIII|

"Beatrice is right, I'm holding all the cards." Theo noted as Beatrice looked at Mason, as she continued to pace.

"You're locked in a jail cell. You have no cards." Mason shot back as Theo shook his head.

"You want me to tell you about Douglas. Break the sword. Break the sword and I'll talk." Theo said and the three people outside of the cell, they were looking at Liam.

"I'll break the sword. I'll break it right in..." Hayden snarled and Liam sighed.

"Hayden." Liam countered and Hayden looked over at him, while Beatrice had finally stopped pacing and she was watching Liam carefully as he was moving toward the cage.

"You break, I talk." Theo explained and Beatrice nodded at Liam, whose eyes flashed. "Come on, guys. Look, I don't want in anyone's pack. I don't want anyone's power. I just wanna stay alive."

"He isn't lying." Beatrice said and she looked up, as she heard a terrible roar and they all looked up except for Mason, who couldn't hear it. "Was that..." Beatrice was suddenly holding her head and memories were flooding over her.

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Tye was laughing as the two of them crashed into each other for massive big hugs, after realizing that they could be the only survivors of the fire.

Tye's sixteenth birthday, Beatrice was laughing as she snapped pictures of his cake-covered face without the flash on, so that his eyes wouldn't trigger it.

Tye's eyes glowing red as he walked back into the loft when they all thought him to be dead.

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"Beatrice?" Liam asked and Beatrice's eyes glowed, as she felt a familiar surge of strength, flooding back through her system at the familiar feeling of her alpha's return and her eyes were brighter. "What's going on?" He asked and she growled a bit.

"Tye's back." Beatrice murmured as Liam looked confused. "I was never a part of Scott's pack, Liam, I was a part of my family's pack. First it was Peter, then it was Derek, then it was Tye. It never occurred to me, until now, but when I forgot Tye, I lost the speed and the strength, the ability to heal... I lost all of the augmented effects of being a Beta in a pack." She said as she looked at her claws. "But that won't happen again."

"You're damn right, it won't." They all turned toward the doorway and a pair of red eyes shone brightly against the doorway and the sun, as Beatrice was nodding. Tye walked into the station and he looked at them all. "So, how long has it been, since I have been gone?" He asked.

"Long enough." Beatrice said and shrugged as she hugged her older cousin. "Don't do that again." She said quietly.

"No promises. So, we have Theo Raeken in a cell, Hayden Romero calling for murder, Liam holding a sword and Mason looking at me like I'm a monster?" Tye guessed.

"Good guessing." Theo said as Liam before Tye could eveb question him on why he had it, he broke the sword and Theo nodded. "He's a Lowenmensch." Theo explained.

"Part-wolf, part-lion."
"Part-wolf, part-lion."

Tye and Mason spoke at the same time and Beatrice was nodding a bit at the words.

"He was a part of the Ahnenerbe, Himmler's personal project to use the Occult to win the war." Theo explained to them and Beatrice looked over at Tye, who shook his head.

"Don't look at me, Beat, I barely passed History." Tye admitted and Beatrice nodded a little.

"Barely passed history and had to retake Science... twice." Beatrice said.

"Shut up." Tye muttered.

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"But Douglas didn't beat a Ghost Rider. He ran." Liam said and Theo nodded.

"We broke the sword for nothing."

"No, you didn't. Keep talking Theo, you still haven't told us about how he came to be the life-extending serum of the Dread Doctors." Beatrice pointed out and everyone looked at her. "What?" She asked at their looks of confusion pointed at her.

"Douglas kept looking. He found a scientist that he thought could help him. Three of them." Theo explained as Beatrice was looking at Tye, whose head was moving from side to side, as he looked around and listened. "The Ghost Rider's whip, it didn't go deep enough to take him, but left a gash on his back. He was thrown into the tank and the wound infected the water. It mixed with the fluid from the vat and actually made him stronger. Soaking it in, absorbing the power for 70 years." Theo explained.

"So, he came out with the power of an Alpha, a Lowenmensch, and, the Ghost Rider." Liam realized.

"A side effect that no one could expect." Theo noted and Tye was staying with Beatrice and Theo, while Liam, Hayden and Mason, they were all going to find Scott to warn him.

"Stay here!" Tye ordered and he heard Liam and Hayden's panicked breathing.

Tye roared and he grabbed one of them from behind and without even thinking, he snapped the Rider's neck as the Ghost Rider dropped down like a dead weight.

Tye looked at the body and his eyes widened and both Liam and Hayden were looking at him. "Run." He growled as he turned around to face the doorway, his claws extended and he was snarling.