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A hissing and snarling sound filled the room. Alex looked up, her eyes wide when she seen three people cloaked in in lab coats, metal accessories hanging from them as if to he jewelry. They looked like the definition of a nightmare.
Alex watched as Tracy set up, she spat a sliver ooze from her mouth; the sight made Alex feel physically nauseous. Tracy looked deep into Alex's eyes "Why did you kill me?" Tracy asked"You could have saved me" she whimpers
The silver mess now oozed from each crevasse of Tracy's face, it dripped from her eyes and nose and poured from her mouth; her eyes now coated over with a silver film.
"I'm sorry, I really tried" Alex shuddered an apology
"You killed me!" Tracy yelled, mercury from the girls mouth splattered onto Alex's face, she flinched at the feel of it
Alex felt her body jolt awake, pulling her from the ruins of her nightmares. That was the worst one yet, others had only lasted for seconds and consisted of her being alone and only hearing Tracy's voice. This one made her stomach flip, her mouth filling with salvia
Alex felt the contents of her stomach rise up her throat, she clasped her hand over her mouth and jumped from stiles bed; she made it into the bathroom, just in time as her the result of her nightmares emptied into the toilet.
It had been almost half a day and she felt like the guilt was going to eat her alive. She wasn't sure how she'd ever feel anything but guilt
Noah stopped at the door of the bathroom, he handed the girl some tissue as she landed against the bathtub.
"Don't tell me I'm about to become a grandfather" he joked a little.
Alex stifled a breathy laugh, "just a nightmare"
Noah took sat on the toilet, looking down at the girl.
He felt bad for her, he knew what that guilt felt like and how at times it could eat through a person. "You know the first time I had to use my gun I had the same reaction. I woke up in cold sweats for about a week" he told her
She exhaled "Yeah but that's thing...it was your job. I killed someone yesterday, an innocent girl who unwillingly unknowingly got dragged into this world died yesterday... because of me"
She shrugged her shoulders "You know if it was me maybe I could have healed" she assumed
Noah nodded "Yeah you are gonna feel like this for a while" he was honest with her
"Why didn't you do anything?" She asked "I mean why didn't you like arrest me"
He smiled a little "One. It would have passed as self defense and two , telling a jury that she had venom lined claws that could paralyze instantly, well it wouldn't have went down well" he explained
"You are gonna feel like this for a while, but it get a lot easier especially when you have people who love you and understand" he assure her
"like stiles"she mentioned
He gave a nod
"So you don't think I'm some insane killer?" She asked
He raised his brows, shaking his head "Not for a second, Alex you are like a daughter to me. no matter what you do in this world, my door will always be open" he promised her
Alex didn't respond, she smiled softly at him and took a minute to appreciate the man that sat across from her.
"Oh, I saved this for you" he pulled the arrow on a chain out of his pocket
Usually Alex would have hugged him tightly if he had found it but this time she didn't lose it.. she used it. It was a murder weapon, it was her murder weapon.
"Thanks" she put on a smile
"Hey" stiles walked in, his voice groggy "are you okay"
"Just a bad dream"
Noah stood up, he squeezed stiles shoulder and walked out.
"We were back in the basement" Alex spoke "she was sitting up and mercury was spilling out of her eyes and nose and mouth, she was whimpering and asking why I didn't save her" she explained her nightmare, feeling less queasy
"You know this isn't your fault right?" Stiles asked,
Alex breathed "but what if It is, I mean she came round for a few seconds and then... then she was gone" her voice got caught, tears prickling her eyes.
"what If.. what if I tried harder. What if I kept talking and she came around fully, maybe she'd be alive right now and-.."
"Maybe you'd be dead" stiles finished "Alex you did everything, you coaxed her out of the class, you spent the whole day searching her room for answers and then you almost got yourself killed trying to save her. What happened was you rightfully saving yourself, saving Lydia's mom, saving Malia and saving anyone else who would have crossed her path"
"I think I'm gonna shower" she sighed, rubbing her face
"Okay" stiles stood up, he helped Alex off the ground.
Ales stretched over and turned on the shower. She stripped and stepped into the shower and let the hot beads of water bounce against her skin
She looked down at her ankle and it was bruised from where Tracy had grabbed it.
A bruise that's the price She pay for killing a girl. Couldn't karma work a little harder.
Once She finished in the shower She got dressed into fresh clothes, feeling somewhat better. She quickly dried her hair and put on some concealer to cover the exhaustion.
Alex walked back into stiles room and he was dressed.
"How'd it go with Scott last night?" He asked
"You never told me"
"He was calm but mad, I could tell he wasn't really sure what to think and when he was honest it hurt... a lot
"He'll come around" stiles reassured
It was then he remembered the conversation they had after stiles and Alex got home. Deaton had visited Scott and explained that Tracy was neither born or bitten, the supernatural creatures were colliding.
It only grabbed his attention because Alex wasn't born or bitten.. she was just discovered
Stiles sighed "I eh.. I eh talked to Scott last night"
"About?" Alex asked
"Tracy" he said almost quietly.
Alex's heart ached at the sound of Tracy's name. Her mind going back to last night as Tracy took her last dying breath. "What.. what about her?"
"Deaton went to see Scott-.."
"Yeah I left just as he arrived" Alex nodded
"Well, Tracy had the talons of an eagle, the claws of a wolf but they were laced with venom and she had the scales of a kanima"
Alex brows furrowed "how is that possible?"
"it's not" Stiles shook his head "deaton said she wasn't born or bitten which meant she was.. made"
Alex's eyes widened as she realized "stiles I wasn't born or bitten"
He nodded "yeah...Deatons left town for a few days so right now all we can do is research. But for right now, we have school"
Alex nodded "yeah.. school"
*
Alex walked into ap bio dreading today's class.
She took her seat Beside Theo and he looked at her with a small smile "how are you today?"
Alex sighed "I've been worse.. but I've also been better"
"Scott still not talking to you"
"Nope" Alex shook her head. She looked forward and seen his head turned a little "but he is listening"
Scott put his head forward when he realized Alex knew he was listening. Kira looked at him slightly unimpressed.
"I'm going to see Allison later, you are more then welcome to join me" Alex offered
"I can see what plan I have but I'm pretty much available"
Ms finch walked in and class began. She had rambled on about a lot, Alex only half listening the rest of her attention was taken by what stiles had said this morning and the events of last night not wanting to leave her head. Every time she closed her eyes Tracy was laying in front of her.
Theo looked at Alex almost asleep in class, her head rest on her hand as her eyes struggled to stay open.
He watched as her eyes slowly closed again only this time they didn't open almost immediately. He nudged her slightly and she opened her eyes and looked at him confused.
"You were falling asleep" he told her
She sighed and rubbed her eyes "thanks"
"If 99.9% of our DNA sequence is the same as other humans, what could account for the missing 0.1% difference?" Ms finch asked
"Theo?" She pointed
"Um, nucleotides." Theo answered unsure
"That's right." She nodded
Kira raised her hand, hoping to get an answer on more then biology.
"Yes, Kira?" She asked
"Can there be more than one species in the same DNA?" Kira asked
She shook her head "No, but there can be multiple sets of DNA in the same individual. We call that a chimera. Anyone know where that term comes from?" She asked and Sydney raised her hand seaming eager to answer
"Sydney"
"Greek mythology. It's a lion with a goat coming out of its back and a tail that ends in the head of a snake." She answered with the confidence of Wikipedia
"That's right, Sydney. Do you want to read us the full Wikipedia entry off your phone?" Ms finch asked.
Sydney dropped her head with embarrassment and slowly put her phone on her desk.
Alex had taken interest in this conversation, it linked into the one she had with stiles this morning about what Tracy was.
"So would this person have be a twin or have the opportunity to be one.?" Alex asked
"It's comes more from having their dna, for example if I were a twin I wouldn't share all the same dna, I could have my fathers traits and they could have my mothers. an example would be, a skin graph. If I were to need a skin graph from my father or my mother and they donated some skin then some of their dna would potentially be in me" she explained
Alex nodded "thanks, I understand now"
"But that does get us into the next topic of mutation." She told the class "As you know from the reading, DNA is a fragile molecule." She explained
"Isn't it, Scott?, Or did you miss last night's assigned reading?" She asked
Right now would be when Alex would start to sympathize for the true alpha, after all he has A lot going on and taking time to read biology is not one of them.. but given the circumstances and the fact that even after last night Alex had made time for the reading .. well she wasn't feeling very sympathetic for him today.
He hesitated "Kind of."
" Kind of or yes?" Mr finch asked
"Mostly yes.
"Well, then thank you for another helpful transition in topic." She thanked him.
She picked up papers from her desk "Drop forms." She told the class.
She began to walked around and give one out to an odd student not caring about how they felt "All those now acutely aware that they do not belong in this class, you should fill one out. The rest will be on my desk"
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School had finished and hours had passed, Alex was now sitting at her sisters grave filling her in on what happened like she did every week.
"I killed her" she muttered "I actually killed a girl"
She drew in the dirt with a stone she had picked up "and I used the last thing I had of you to do it"
The arrow; the arrow Alex has spent a year guarding with her life, the arrow she wore around her neck every day. The one she used to take a life
"You're probably sitting up there yelling at me to have some sense, if stiles wasn't so scared I'd breakdown he'd probably yell too. He keeps saying it wasn't my fault but no matter how many times I go over it.. it always with me kill Tracy"
Theo walked up the graveyard and spotted Alex sitting at her sisters grave.
He walked Over and greeted her with a warm smile "sorry I'm late, a bit of car trouble"
Alex shook her head "it's no worries, not like their going anywhere she joked, quickly remember not everyone is used it her coping mechanism "sorry I make jokes do help..."
"To help with dealing with things" Theo finished "so you still do it?" He questioned
Alex smirked "yeah.. I guess so. You must think I'm crazy" Alex assumed
"And why would that be?" Theo asked
"Coming here taking her as if she would answer"
He took a seat beside her, "I think it's sweet, I think if it helps then you should do it" he understood
"I just like her to know what's going on, it helps to make me feel like she's around"
"When was the last time this town took a break?" Theo asked
Alex sighed "Let's see, it started with mountain lions who were actually werewolves then giant lizard men aka a kanima and then we had a pack of alphas and human sacrifices from the English teacher who was actually a dark Druid which led into stiles becoming void and then there was more sacrifices but these ones were strictly supernatural and my dead aunt came back to life, then Scott got taken by bursurkers, we saved him and then we had a nice relaxing summer and now we are straight back into saving this town from god knows what" she listed everything that had happened in the last two years.
"Wow" Theo sighed "that's... that's a lot"
She scoffed "This town never rests"
"So what was with the questions In bio today?" He asked, changing the subject
"Well, stiles told about.. about Tracy. She had talons like an eagle, werewolf claws laced with kanima venin and scaly skin. She wasn't bitten or born Meaning she was made" Alex explained
"I wasn't bitten or born either.. which worries me to what I might actually be. And when I was younger I got a skin graph replacement"
"How does stiles know?" He asked
"Scott called him and explained it all. Tracy somehow passed mountain ash and that's a supernatural barrier meaning no supernatural should be able to pass it butI'm able to pass it too" she added
She looked at her sisters grave "you know I always said I didn't start to heal till I was 16, but I was taken when I was 14 and I don't remember a thing but somehow no matter what happened, I always ended up unscathed"
"When we were friends did you know?" Theo asked
"No" she shook her head. She stopped and thought about it for a second "actually, the party when we.. I knew Then. I had just discovered it a couple days before."
"So you think whatever made tracy made you?" Theo asked
"Maybe" she shrugged
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Theo stormed into the dread doctors underground room "Alex argent" he called out
"Success" one of them spoke "She is a success"
"When?" He asked
"When she was 15" it's voice gurgled
"Why?" He asked "was she was the first?"
They shook their head silently.
Theo was working with them at the time she was taken but out of the 4 teenagers that were taken that year, she was the only one he didn't know about.
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This chapter SUCKS, the next one will be better though.
Sooo I'm really loving the Theo and alex storyline, I enjoy writing them together so much.