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Strange Frequencies - PART II

Liam nearly fades to sleep. Hayden has already. He cannot let himself sleep. Scott and Lydia are a few feet away. Elizabeth is sitting on a bench, looking outside through a window. She seems absent-minded.

He looks at one of the bags on the bench. There is something in there. He smells iron. Standing from his place, he goes and opens it only to find some chains. Liam looks perplexed at Scott who can't think of a lie right then.

"What are you doing with these?" the Beta asks.

Scott sighs. He will have to explain truthfully. "Just in case."

"Case of what?"

Lydia turns to him. "Just in case we can catch one of them."

Liam looks from Scott to Lydia and from Lydia to Scott. That is a part of the plan he has not heard of. The Beta turns to Elizabeth who looks equally surprised. "Do not look at me. I have just come back from the worst trip ever; even I do not trust myself."

"If we cannot make the school a fortress, then we can at least make it a trap," Scott tries to explain, but Liam can barely listen now. He is fighting hard to process it.

Then he turns to a now-awake Hayden. "They are coming for her. Does not that make her just a bait?" Liam asks.

Scott lowers his head. Liam is right. Hayden has become just a bait. But that is all he can do, besides running and trying to protect everybody. There is no other plan. Just... take care of everybody and of the enemy. They just cannot keep running away, hoping the Doctors would stop. They will never. The Dread Doctors are here and ready to take all of their heads off.

"Scott, promise me," Liam adds, his eyes a bit teary. "Promise me you will do everything you can to protect her."

The Alpha turns to Elizabeth who nods. Although she was who-knows-where for a week, he still thinks of her as part of the pack, as one of the most important members of it. And, besides that, he knows she is the one who cares the most about Liam. Whatever she says, it is law, in such cases.

* * *

Scott is gone after Hayden's pills. Lydia is after him. Parrish takes care of the High School on the outside. Malia is at the main door. Elizabeth is guarding the door to the locker room. And Liam can only try not to think at how useless he feels.

Elizabeth and him hear a sound and try to open the door. "Scott? Lydia?" they ask at the same time.

But the people that enter are neither Scott, nor Lydia, not even Malia or Parrish. It is them. The Dread Doctors. Parrish, Malia, Scott and Lydia could not stop them. One way or another, they got it.

Liam and Hayden step back, frightened. Elizabeth, on the other hand, steps forward and attacks the three psychos, her eyes now sparkling. She is a werewolf to be feared of. Despite everything that happened, all the pain she has been through, she is in first-line to protect her friends.

She aims for their heads, knowing that the titanium their masks are made of cannot be scratched that easily. Elizabeth is on both sides and to be believable for one of it, she needs to be a damn good actress, worthy of an Oscar.

"Hello, Elizabeth," one of them says. The line makes her freeze. That doctor grabs her, raising her body in the air, and throws her forward. Liam can barely catch her, falling himself too.

Elizabeth tries to stand on her feet, but pathetically stumbles and falls. On her second try, she can stand. "Do you know people can be tortured by making them listen to a certain sound for hours? Me and that line is the same thing. Sorry." She has his shoulder support her standing. "I cannot move anymore."

They all three make another step back and hit their backs against some lockers. The Doctors take one of the frequency devices that Parrish made and break it. "We are on a frequency you cannot possibly imagine" is all the Doctor has to add, as he reads the terror on all three faces in front of him, one more or less.

* * *

When he wakes up, Liam sees some tubes attached to his hand, injecting some kind of red liquid into his veins. Looking up, he sees Hayden tied to a stretcher and Elizabeth down on the floor somewhere in a corner of the room. She does not seem tied to anything, though.

Then the Doctors appear. One of them is putting his mask on. The back of his head is disgusting: pale, rotten skin, with tufts of white hair here and there. He looks hundreds of years old, but that is what Valack was talking about: cheating death.

They go to the stretcher Hayden is on.

"No. Do not hurt her. No," Liam mumbles, but they do not care. They keep on moving.

Elizabeth jumps between them and the stretcher. "Stop it. Please do not hurt her. I know you wanted her for that, but what is the need? What are your real plans with all of the chimeras, all of us? Just science does not mean they can go on killing sprees around the town."

They look at her. Under their masks, they must be annoyed. "Everyone else has failed. Need not to know more." Then, with a short move of his hand, he shoves Elizabeth into the back of the room. She lands very close to Liam.

"I am sorry, Baby-Wolf."

Liam can only look at him perplexed. "How that you talk to them like that? There is so much more to the story than you told." He swallows hard, hoping it is not real. He does not want to think of Elizabeth as a bad person, as one of the bad guys. But, eventually, that is the only conclusion he is led to.

"Liam, please, close your eyes. The only thing worse than seeing such a surgery done is being the pacient of one of them," she adds. The Baby-Wolf looks at her, questioningly. Has she been performed a surgery on? Reading on his lips the question, she nods.

Looking back at Hayden, he sees the Doctors dig into the lower part of her back with some pliers. He keeps on screaming at them: "No. Hayden. No. Do not hurt her!" But who was there to listen besides Elizabeth, saddened and feeling useless and powerless? Elizabeth, who he has just stopped trusting. Elizabeth, who has changed much.

Elizabeth, who was on the Dread Doctors' side, as it seemed.

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hello. This is lavinyaapash. I just wanted to say that I'm going to rip Jeff Davis's throat off with my teeth, Hale-style, if he does anything bad to the Baby-Wolf.

I just loved writing that LizLiam (I kind of need a ship name. HELP ME!) moment. It broke my heart, but had to be written. I do not think that Jeff never broke his own heart... At least when Allison died...

By the way, what do you think of the new cover?

And, THANK YOU FOR NEARLY 700 VIEWS! You are FANTASTIC!

It has been a crazy weird episode, but I enjoyed it much. LiamxHayden is finally developed. And I cannot wait to see how the whole Chimera things evolves. Will they be able to escape on the show? Maybe. In my fanfic? Not all of them.

PLEASE VOTE, COMMENT, SHARE! Tell me if you liked it or not. And prepare because there are only three chapters left this summer and, just like Jeff Davis, I have big, bad and dark plans. MUAHAHA!