Running with Wolves

Chapter 86

Daddy said" All right. You heard a voice coming through the radio, and now you're convinced that it's the voice of..."
Scott said" Stiles. Your son."
" Uh-huh. And maybe it's just a random signal cross?" Scott put the keys on the desk,
" Peter gave us the keys to the jeep and it started right up. Claudia's jeep."
" Oh, wait, wait, so, now I'm supposed to trust Peter Hale?"
" I want you to trust me. I heard Stiles on that radio, I'm sure of it. If you had heard it too..."
" Well, I didn't."
" Yeah. But if you had..."
" Enough, Scott! Enough." I looked between them, my eyes glowed, I breathed heavily." It's okay, bub! Nothing to be scared of! Look at me. There we go! All better, superhero big brother to the rescue." My body stopped wanting to shift, Stiles' voice echoing in my head.
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I woke up when Scott's leg moved off my lap,
Scott said" Where are we?"
Malia said" According to the GPS, this is it." He sat up, I looked out the window, then tucked my head down a little.

We got out, and looked in front of us, it was abandoned,
Lydia said" This is it. Canaan's a ghost town." We started walking,
Scott said" I don't hear a single heartbeat."
Malia said" I'm not catching any scents."
" I wonder why Stiles would send us here." We looked at a lamp as it crackled, I hid my face against Scott's tummy.
Lydia said" This is the place I saw in the mirror." We walked away from her, Scott and Malia started looking through a table of old stuff. I heard metal squeak, I held onto Scott's hoodie. We walked towards where the metal squeaked it was carousel, we saw blood on one of the horses. Scott stepped onto it, then it started moving, I jumped back and hid behind Malia.

I was sniffing around, four footed, then I caught daddy's scent? I looked up and saw daddy and mommy. Mommy was different, though, she didn't look human. Then she started hitting daddy, I shifted, I growled, I pounced and attacked her. Then I saw someone with no face watching me, I think? Stiles? My shoulder was grabbed, I turned quickly and saw Lydia, I looked back to daddy but he was gone. I started crying,
I whispered" Daddy!"
She said" Shh, it's okay, it wasn't real, it wasn't real. He's not here." I shifted back to normal, she lifted me up as I started crying more. Then I was put into someone else's arms, Scott's arms, I nuzzled my face against his neck and whimpered.

We went into a house, we were following a boy they saw.
Lydia said" Hello? Anybody here?" The house looked normal, not like the ghost houses.
A woman said" Visitors? I can't believe we have visitors. Oh, Caleb will be so happy to see you. It's been such a long time since he's had anyone to play with. Oh, you must be thirsty. Come on in and have a seat while I get you something to drink." She walked away,
Malia whispered" Seriously? What is with her?"
Lydia whispered" She's the woman I saw in the mirror." I tucked my face more against Scott's neck, looking in front of us.
We were sitting at the table, I was on Scott's lap,
The woman said" This was my mother's lemonade recipe. At least as much as I can remember. We always served this when we had friends to visit." Scott grabbed a glass, it had dirt in it, Malia drank it, ew... ew!
Malia said" We didn't come to visit. We're looking got someone."
Scott said" A friend of ours. Maybe you've seen him. His name is Stiles?"
The woman said" It's been a while since anyone came through Canaan."
Lydia said" How long?"
Malia said" Since April 8th, 1987?"
The woman said" Why would you disturb those things? They don't belong to you."
Scott said" We need to known what happened."
" There was a picnic. A community party."
Malia said" It seems like everyone left in a hurry."
" People have been leaving Canaan for a long time. That's the day the last of them left."
Scott said" All at once? They all just disappeared?"
" I didn't say they disappeared. I said they left."
Malia said" Did they leave in a cloud of green smoke?"
She screamed" They just left!" Everything got dizzy, I gripped Scott's hoodie in my hands,
Lydia said" We didn't mean to upset you. We'll go now." We got up, and walked towards the door, it shut before we could get out.
" No one is leaving. No one is leaving Canaan ever again."
Scott put me down, and tried to force the door to open.
Malia said" Scott, open the door, you're a werewolf."
Scott said" I'm trying." Malia went to the window and tried to break it with her fist, which should work, but it didn't.
" What the hell is wrong with this place?"
Lydia said" Lenore? Could you unlock the door, please?"
Lenore said" Now that you're here, you need to stay. Caleb likes you." Lydia walked to her,
" And we like him. But we need to help our town. People are disappearing, uh, leaving, I mean leaving. You could really help us."
" No one can help you. If they want to leave, they're going to leave. They'll go, and they'll go, and there won't be anything you can do about it." I was staring at the boy, Scott turned his head to him.
The boy, creepily, said" Come with me." I grabbed Scott's hand with my hands, scared, I wanna go home, I wanna go back to Beacon Hills. The boy walked away,
Lydia whispered" Go." We followed the boy, Scott dragging me along because I was too scared to move my feet.

We walked into a room and there was a lot of water on the floor, Scott went to a window and tried to open it but it didn't.
Scott said" Caleb, can you help us find a way out of here?" Caleb walked to a weird box thing... I think it's a tv. He put a little box into it, and it started playing a video.
Caleb said" You have to stay because mommy said so."
" No, we can't stay. We have to go home."
" This is home." The door shut, I scurried to Scott, hiding behind him, holding onto his hoodie.
Malia said" Scott? Come here for a sec." We walked to Malia," Look at the date. Uh, Caleb? Do you know what year you were born?" Caleb stood back up, but this time he was soaking wet.
" 1976."
Scott said" And when did you die?"

Caleb was in front of the door, water started coming in from the walls,
Malia said" Am I having another hallucination?"
Scott said" If you are, I'm having the same one." I heard Lydia's scream, I whimpered," We've got to get out of here."
" I know you're not gonna beat an eight year old's ass, but I will." She went for the attack but started choking,
Caleb said" You don't look so good. Maybe you should sit down." She started coughing up water, I whimpered.
Scott and I ran to Malia,
Scott said" Breathe! Malia, you have to breathe. Lydia!" We went for the door, I didn't feel good, I started coughing up water." What are you doing to us?"
" You're drowning. Just like me." I couldn't breathe," Now we can be friends forever." I got really dizzy, then everything faded away.

I woke up in the car, I was on Scott, his arms wrapped around me, I nuzzled my face against his chest.
He said" You guys think Stiles sent us here to warn us? Maybe Beacon Hills is gonna be the next ghost town."
Malia said" If we don't stop it, yes. We need to get them to leave. Now."
Lydia said" We can't. Not yet."
Scott said" Why can't we get rid of them?"
" Because I saw what happens to the people they've taken when they leave."
Malia said" Do they all die?"
" No, it's something worse than death. I felt it in Lenore's memory. It's like their souls hollowed out. They became something else. I think they became Ghost Riders. And then, they were gone."
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Scott and I walked into his house, I saw Theo... with Liam and Hayden.
Theo said" Somehow I don't think we're gonna hug this out." I hid behind Scott's back, peeking out from his side.
Scott said" I hope you realize it's taking all of my strength to not tear you in half right now." Then Malia came in,
" Hey, Malia. You aren't still upset about the whole shooting thing, are you?" She shifted and growled, I gulped, this isn't gonna be good.