Through the Dark // S.S. [Book One]

Chapter 33

Lydia purses her lips and clenches a fist. "What now?"

"We kinda, sorta need you to distract Aiden while we talk to Ethan. Can you do that for us, Lyds?"

She frowns at each of us. "Only because you're my best friend, Meg, and I want to know what's going on as much as you do."

Stiles, Scott, and I hunt down Ethan, halfway up the stairs, who asks, "Why are you even talking to me? I helped kill your friend. How do you know I'm not gonna kill another one?"

My boyfriend narrows his eyes from his spot against the wall. "Is he looking at me? Are you threatening me? You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna break off an extra large branch of Mountain Ash, wrap it in wolfsbane, roll it in mistletoe, and shove it up your freaking..."

"Stiles..." I warn, placing a hand on his upper arm.

Scott gives a more in-depth warning. "Whoa, Stiles, okay. We get it." He turns back to Ethan. "We get it. We're talking to you because I know that you didn't want to kill Boyd. And I think that if something like that happened now, you wouldn't do it again."

Ethan shakes his head. "You don't know what we owe them, especially Deucalion. We weren't like Kali and Ennis when we met him. We weren't alphas."

"What were you?" I ask.

Ethan's gaze bores into mine. "Omegas."

"The lone wolf." I whisper.

Ethan nods. "In actual wolf packs, omegas are the scapegoat, the last one to eat, the one who has to take the abuse from the rest of the pack."

Stiles frowns. "So you and your brother were, like, the bitches of the pack?"

"Something like that."

"What happened?" Scott asks.

"They were killers. I mean, people talk about us as monsters. Well, they were the ones who gave that reputation. And our Alpha was the worst of them."

Stiles narrows his eyes. "Why didn't you guys just fight back? Form voltron wolf, you know? Kick everyone's asses?"

"We couldn't, we didn't know how to control it back then." Ethan admits.

"Deucalion taught you." Scott realizes.

Ethan continues, "And then, we fought. We took down the whole pack, one-by-one. And by the time we got to our Alpha, he was begging for his life. And we tore him apart. Literally."

"What about your emissary? They're all dead? Kali and Ennis' too?"

"All of them except for Deucalion's."

"Morrell, right?" I inquire.

Unfortunately, I don't get an answer due to Ethan crying out in pain and gripping his chest. "Ah!"

"What?" Scott asks. "What's wrong? Are you hurt?"

Ethan shakes his head. "Not me. My brother."

We rush after Ethan and end up in the locker room. We see Aiden coming at Cora with a weight. She's on the ground, Lydia is kneeling behind her. Stiles and I rush to help her. Scott and Ethan stop Aiden. "You can't do this!"

Aiden turns to his brother. "She came at me!"

"It doesn't matter! Kali gave Derek until the next full moon. You can't touch him or her."

Cora turns so she's lying on her back and groans in pain. "Hey, guys, I think she's pretty hurt." Stiles says.

Cora cleans up her wound and Stiles asks, "You okay?"