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𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧: 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬
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"that was fucking insane."
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𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐠 of food in her hand. max had called out to tell her to bring him food since he's not gonna be able to come home tonight. she smiled when she scott enter as well, bring his mother food as well.
"hey, rori." he greeted.
"hey." she said back as the two of them walked deeper into the hospital. "your mom is over there." she told him, pointing over to melissa.
he looked over to her, the both of them making eye contact as scott held up the bag. aurora saw melissa smile as she began to walk towards them.
"i'm starving." she told her son, taking the bag. "oh, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. thank you for bringing me dinner." she said, hugging him
"is everything okay?" scott asked his mother, picking up on how stressed she was.
"except for half the accident victims in a ten car pile up being rerouted here from downtown, and the e.r. attending not answering any of his pages, yeah, i'm okay." melissa answered, making aurora raise her eyebrows.
she then looked around, a smile appearing on her face as max began to walk towards them. the older hastings let out a laugh before he began to jog towards them. he engulfed his niece into a hug, the girl letting out a laugh.
"you are a life saver." he told her, pulling away and taking the bag from aurora. "i am starving!"
"yeah, yeah." aurora smiled.
"excuse me, can i kinda have something for the pain?" a lady asked.
this made both max and melissa turn towards her, seeing that she was holding her stomach. scott and aurora looked at one another with knowing eyes.
"okay, i'm sorry, i know." melissa said before she started to guide the lady towards one of the seats. "but, actually, giving you something could complicate things, so we really just need to wait for the doctors."
"how much longer on dr.hilyard?" max asked one of the ladies at the desk.
"ten minutes." she answered, making him nod.
aurora gently slapped scott's arm, gesturing to the lady that had asked for something. "take some of her pain away. i would heal her, but that would cause suspicion."
scott nodded, sitting down next to the lady. "uh, you know, i think i read online that sometimes human contact can help with the pain."
the lady nodded, trying her best to contain her whimpers as she held her stomach. scott looked around to make sure that no one was look before he put his hand on her's. aurora smiled once she had seen scott's veins turn black as he began to take the lady's pain away. the lady gasped as she started to feel the pain vanish, looking at scott with a thankful look on her face.
"someone. . . someone help me!" the voice of ethan said, making aurora and scott turn towards him. aurora felt her heart drop as she saw ethan struggling to hold danny up, who looked like he was in a lot of pain and was struggling to breathe. "i need help!" ethan yelled before his eyes
melissa and scott quickly went to go take danny away from ethan, walking him over to one of the chairs in the waiting room.
"okay, gentle, gentle, gentle!" melissa told her son as they slowly sat him down, danny screaming in pain.
aurora pulled ethan away from melissa and danny, anger filling her body. "what did you do to him?" she questioned, glaring at him.
scott pulled her off of him, not wanting to cause a scene in the hospital.
"nothing. he said he was having chest pains and trouble breathing, but it - it just kept getting worse." ethan informed, looking at his boyfriend with worried eyes.
the trio watched as melissa did a thorough observation over danny, her hands on his throat. "this is not good. how much longer on dr.hilyard?" she then yelled out to the lady at the desk, who shrugged.
max came running over, seeing the three worried teens. "what's going on?" he asked before turning to melissa and danny.
"his larynx has shifted to the side. i think it's a tension pneumothorax." melissa answered.
before anyone could react, danny shot forward as he threw up. this made everyone step back, watching the mahealani boy fall to the floor. max ran off to get a hospital bed for the teen. aurora furrowed her eyebrows, looking down at the vomit to see that there were these little clear balls in it.
"mistletoe." she heard ethan mumble, her and scott looking at the alpha with furrowed eyebrows.
max quickly arrive with the bed, scott and ethan helping danny onto the bed. max and melissa then started to roll danny into one of the rooms that had multiple patients in them, scott, ethan, and aurora following them.
"will you three please go back to the waiting room?" melissa begged.
"where are the nurses and the doctors? where is everyone?" ethan quizzed, looking at the two adults.
"it's a full house tonight. they're tending to other patients." max answered.
"okay, well, max, how can we help?" aurora asked, looking down at danny.
"rori, you can't. his lung is collapsed. his heart is being pushed against his chest cavity, so. . ." the older mccall answered.
"he's gonna die, isn't he?" scott then asked, making ethan and aurora look at him with furrowed eyebrows.
max and melissa looked at the three teens, seeing the worry on their faces. the two adults then looked at each other with knowing looks before they looked around.
"no. no, he's not." melissa told her son.
"not on our watch." max then added.
"scott, you grab the tape. ethan, grab those scissors and cut his shirt open." melissa told the two boys as she went into a metal drawer and grabbed a syringe with a long ass needle attached to it.
"what should i do?" aurora questioned as she watched ethan rip danny's shirt open.
neither max or melissa answered, the woman of the two trying to find the correct spot to stick the syringe in. the three teens then noticed how danny was trying to take in big gulps of air.
"mom, he's not breathing." scott pointed out, panicking.
"i know, i know." melissa said.
she continued to fill around on danny's chest, finding the spot. she then stuck the thick needle into dandy chest. she turned something before pulling back on the syringe, danny inhaling before he exhaled. everyone waited, hoping that what melissa had did worked.
danny opened his eyes, looking at the older woman with a small smile. "thank you."
"no problem." melissa said, a smile appearing on her face.
the three teens release sighs, being relieved that it had worked. they then looked at the woman with admirable eyes. this made her look at them with furrowed eyebrows, confused.
"what?"
"that was awesome." scott simply said.
his mother released a chuckle, shaking her head slightly. "it was no problem, you know? i mean, it wasn't a big deal."
after making sure that danny would be stabilized, scott and aurora had left the hospital. the mccall boy had walked over to his dirt bike, aurora following him.
"that was fucking insane." she mumbled, glad that danny would be okay.
"yeah, it was." scott agreed, picking his helmet up from his bike.
aurora looked over to the entrance of the hospital, seeing ethan walking out. "oh, here comes one of the wonder twins." she joked, making him look up.
he walked over to the two with his hands raised, the both of them looking at him cautiously. "i know you're not gonna believe me, but i didn't do anything."
"all we know," scott started, gesturing to himself and aurora. "is that the minute you got here, you went right for danny, and your brother went for lydia."
"we're not gonna hurt him." ethan told them.
"why should we believe you?" aurora questioned, folding her arms over her chest.
"because we knew one of them was gonna be important to the both of you, and now we know it's lydia." the alpha answered.
"actually, danny is pretty important to me too, boy wonder. so if you do end up hurting him. . . i will hurt you." aurora told him.
she then felt scott nudge her in her side, making the hastings girl look at him. he nodded towards something past ethan, making her follow his gaze to see a minivan driving slowly in the parking lot, making squiggly lines as it did so.
"what the hell?" she mumbled as she took a small step forward.
ethan turned around, seeing the same thing that the other two werewolves were seeing. they watched the minivan crash into a parked car, making the three of them flinch. scott and aurora immediately started to run towards the van, ethan following behind them. the mccall boy open the driver's side, seeing that there was no one inside.
aurora peaked inside, seeing the same thing that scott was seeing. she then looked down to the driver's seat, seeing something that was out of place.
"what is it?" ethan asked her, seeing the look on her face.
instead of answering, the gamma wolf picked up what she had seen, holding it up for scott and ethan to see. the boys furrowed their eyebrows, seeing that she was holding a moth.
"what the fuck?" she whispered.
scott had called the police, the sheriff arriving quickly. so did stiles, who was standing in between the mccall boy and aurora, listening closely to the story that his best friends were telling his father. max and melissa were also there, adding some details.
"so what are you saying?" stiles asked.
"hang on, hang on." noah told the two werewolves, having a notepad and a pen in his hands so he could write down their statements. "they were both in the car?"
"no, dad, they're trying to tell you that it was two separate kidnappings, okay?" stiles answered. "two doctors, both gone."
"so whose car is this?" noah asked.
"dr.hilyard, the on call doctor." melissa answered.
"the e.r. attending is the one that never made it in." max added.
"let me just focus on getting your story first, all right?" noah told the two, making them nod. "boys, rori, give us a second." he told the infamous trio.
the three teens did as told, walking away from the three adults. they stopped once they were a few feet away, not wanting their guardians to hear their conversation.
"these are definitely sacrifices, right?" scott asked stiles, his arms cross over his chest.
"yeah, it's one deaton mentions: healers." the stilinski boy answered.
"what about danny?" aurora quizzed, her eyebrows furrowed. "he threw up mistletoe. that's not a coincidence."
"and if he hadn't been with ethan, he probably would've died." scott continued.
"and danny's not a healer."
"i. . ." stiles started, his voice trailing off once he had seen his father talking on the phone. "can either of you hear that?" he asked, pointing towards the older stilinski.
the two werewolves turned towards the sheriff, seeing that he was taking a call. they quickly listened in on the conversation, the both of them turning back towards the boy who was like a brother to them.
"they found a body." scott informed.
"things just keep on getting better and better." aurora mumbled sarcastically, running her fingers through her hair.
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max had woken up to the sunlight beaming on his face. he groaned, sitting up from the bed as he rubbed his eyes. once he was done, he had looked over to one of the corners in his room, jumping once he had seen aurora sitting in his arm chair and isaac sitting o the floor, leaning against his dresser, the both of them being knocked out.
"really, guys?" he mumbled, running his fingers through his beard. he sucked in a breath. "guys!"
this made the two werewolves shoot up from their spots, looking around the room. they then looked over to the older hastings, who was looking back with a bored look.
"what do you think you're doing?" max asked.
"uh, we were watching over you." isaac answered.
"we wanted to make sure you weren't the third sacrificed." aurora added.
"but both of you were sleeping." max pointed out with furrowed eyebrows, tilting his head slightly.
aurora furrowed her eyebrows, slowly turning to isaac. "you were on watch last."
"what are you talking about? you were on watch last." the lahey boy shot back, rubbing the back of his neck.
"no. . . you were on watch last night."
"i might've been on watch last." isaac admitted, dropping his hand.
max let out a small chuckle, shaking his head. "my heroes. wait, didn't you say that they were all doctors?" he asked his niece. "i mean, the last time i checked, an m.d. wasn't attached to the end of my name, so i think i'm in the clear."
"yeah, but it could just come under any kind of healer, max." aurora told him, stepping closer to the bed. "and there have been a bunch of occasions where you was a healer."
"yeah, well, i'm not gonna be anyone's human sacrifice today, so both of you get your asses to school." max told the two teens.
aurora released a sigh, but nodded. "just. . . please be careful, max."
"i will, rori." max assured, plastering a smile on his lips.
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aurora was in her science class. she had the class with her two best friend, the both of them being placed at the table behind her.
"good morning." ms.blake greeted, gathering the class' attention. "as you all know, mr.harris is still missing - i mean, sick. anyway, uh, i'm filling in while we all hope and pray for a more qualified substitute to take my place. okay, so let's get started, shall we?"
"hey." aurora heard stiles whisper, making her turn around slightly to hear him. "my dad said that the e.r. attending wasn't strangled but did die from asphyxiation. they just don't know how." stiles continued, knowing that the hastings girl was listening.
"do you think the on call doctor could still be alive?" scott asked.
"i don't know. . . but, guys, there's gotta be at least 20 other doctors in that hospital. at least, you know? any one of them could be next."
scott's phone then vibrated, the mccall boy answering it quickly, bending down behind the table so ms.blake wouldn't see. she furrowed her eyebrows once she had heard deacons voice on the other end, the veterinarian knowing that he was in school. she continued to listen, turning all the way to face scott.
"is aurora listening?" she head deaton ask, making scott look at her.
"yeah, she's listening." he whispered.
"i'm going to be taken." deaton started, making both werewolves furrow their eyebrows. "i need you two to find me." and with that, the line disconnects with a beep.
"doc, doc, doc, doc? what's happening?" scott whispered in a panic tone.
when he didn't receive an answer, he slowly sat up, looking at aurora with worried eyes. aurora had the same look on her face, feeling stupid that she didn't think about deaton being a healer. he was literally a fucking veterinarian.
"guys, what's wrong?" stiles asked his two best friends, seeing the looks on their faces.
but he didn't receive no answer. instead, both scott and aurora grabbed their bags and left the classroom, ignoring the calls from both stiles and ms.blake. they quickly made their way to the animal clinic. scott had gotten there first, since he was on his dirt bike, but aurora was close behind. the both of them entered the clinic, seeing sheriff stilinski and one of his deputies standing there.
"how'd you know?" scott asked the both of them.
"stiles called me as soon as you left school." noah answered. "i'm sorry. your boss's car is still here, and the back door was wide open."
scott had sat down in one of the chairs that was in the waiting area, trying to process the new found information. aurora on the other hand, had started to pace back and forth, her fingers gripping her hair tightly.
"rori, scott, i need you to tell me everything." noah told the two.
the teen wolves look at one another, aurora nodding her head. scott started to tell noah everything that they had found out. while they were explaining, stiles had showed up for moral support, knowing that his best friends were going through some stuff.
"we're gonna do everything that we can." noah assured scott and aurora. "right now, the best thing you two can do is go back to school."
with that, he went to go talk to the deputy, leaving the three teens. scott looked at both aurora and stiles, nodding towards the room where they kept the animals in before he got up. this made stiles and aurora look at one another before following the beta wolf.
"we have to tell him." scott told them, more so stiles.
"you mean, like, tell him, tell him? or tell him something else that isn't telling him what i think you want to tell him?" stiles quizzed with furrowed eyebrows.
"you know what i mean." scott answered.
"you remember how your mom reached?" stiles asked him. "she didn't look you in the eye, for like, a good week."
" and she got over it. and - and it actually made us closer." scott admitted. "and look at rori and max. he didn't freak out when he found out about her. and they're closer than ever." he then added.
"he's not wrong." aurora commented, shrugging her shoulders.
"i don't know, guys. i mean, look at him." stiles started, looking through the window of the door and towards his father. "come on, he's completely overwhelmed as it is."
"he's overwhelmed because he has no clue what the hell is going on." aurora told him. "he's got people dying in the town that he's supposed to protect, and it's not his fault that he doesn't know what's happening."
"he's gonna find out sooner or later." scott added.
"yeah, but is now really the time?" stiles questioned.
"what if not telling him now gets someone else killed?" scott challenged.
"what if telling him gets him killed, huh?" the stilinski boy shot back. "i mean, look, okay, i get that deacons been like a father to the both of you. i get that, okay? but this is m - guys, this is my actual father. i can't. . . i can't lose both of my parents, all right? not both of them."
"you're right." scott said, seeing how conflicted his best friend was.
stiles sighed, looking over at aurora to see the look on her face. "no, i'm not. i'm not right. i'll tell him."
"we'll help you." aurora told him, a small smile on her lips.
the trio walked out of the room to see that noah and his deputy was talking to ms.morell. they furrowed their eyebrows as they listened to the conversation.
"please. however you can help find my brother." she begged.
this made the three teens look at one another with furrowed eyebrows. "brother?" stiles mouthed to scott and aurora, making the hastings girl shrug her shoulders.
"will you excuse us for a moment?" noah asked, ms.morell nodding.
him and the deputy left the clinic, probably going to talk about the case. this made ms.morell turn to the three teens, her demeanor completely changing as she walked towards them.
"listen closely, the three of you. no sheriff, deputy, or detective is going to be able to find him." she informed the three.
"you don't have to ask us for help." scott told her.
"actually, i'm trying to help you, because if you're going to find my brother, then you need to use the one person who might actually have an ability to seek out the supernatural."
aurora released a sigh, already knowing who the woman was talking about. stiles knew who she was talking about too, the freckled boy crossing his arms over his chest. this made scott look at them with raised eyebrows, slightly confused.
"lydia." the both them said in unison, making his face drop.
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wow. . . look who's updating other books besides "she's a rainbow." i'm really proud of myself :). but if you love the show outer banks, then you should read it. it's a kie fanfic. anyways, i hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. i'm a little sad that there wasn't alora scenes (i think that was the ship name we gave them) but hopefully there will be some next chapter.