"My mother had a hypnotist who helped her quit smoking. She had me see the same one when I was ten." Lydia grabs a notebook and pencil as she explains what's about to happen. "You smoked when you were ten?" Scott questions as the group stands around anxiously. "No! I bit my fingernails. Just find a lighter or a candle, please." They look around only for Malia to pull out a blowtorch. "Too much?" Jules nods quickly at this only as Malia chuckles at her reaction. "I got one." Scott says pulling out a dance.
"What's that?" He questions when he sees what Lydia wrote on one of the pages in the notebook.
"An induction script. One of you guys is going to have to talk me through this." Lydia gives the notebook to Malia who looks at it questioningly. "So I just read?"
"Well, you have to soften your voice. Keep it relaxed, but not monotone. Go for clarity, not volume. Try it." Lydia tells her encouragingly. Malia places her finger in the page and breathes in deeply. "Take...a... deep...breath...and...look...at...the...candle-" Lydia immediately rips the notebook away from Malia and gives it to Scott.
He looks at her for confirmation and Lydia only nods. "Take a deep breath and look at the candle. Feel the muscles in your body begin to relax. You hands relaxing. Your eyelids relaxing. As you relax, imagine you're sitting in front of a TV. When you turn the TV on, it's going to play memories from your life.The remote gives you total control. You can play any memory you want.All you have to do is hit the button." He reads off the paper and Lydia is transported to an empty classroom with a TV in the middle of it. She continues to press the button as she sees Stiles visiting her. Then as she pressed the button again she taken to the winter formal where Stiles had asked her to dance.
"Fields Medal." Lydia whispers out from her memory as the group all look at her with curiousness. "Nobel doesn't have a prize for mathematics. Fields Medal is the one I'll be winning. " Lydia continues as Scott looks down at the paper and back up to Lydia. "Find another memory. Keep looking for Stiles. Find another memory." He says loudly as Lydia's hand stops pressing a button.
She stops at the memory where Stiles had a panic attack. She remembers dragging him to the locker room, both had fallen to the floor and Lydia placed her hands on Stiles' face to call him down but it didn't seem to be working. That's when the one thing that would change their dynamic happened. "That's when it happened." Lydia says as tears begin to fill her eyes. "When what happened?" Jules immediately holds her hand to calm her down as Lydia's breathing increases. "When I kissed him...That's when it all changed." Her voice cracks as she remembers when he had been taken.
"I saw him I was there! I was the last person to see him!" She says now full in crying. She pauses for a moment before opening her tear-filled eyes. "I never said it back." Lydia says sadly as they all look at her while her heart fills with sorrow. "I never said it back." This left the group silent as Lydia's sobs fill the room. Suddenly a rumbling from outside makes them all turn their heads. They go outside to see nothing however that didn't seem to be the case for Lydia. To Lydia that corridor wasn't empty. She was seeing a bright green light with a shadow that resembled Stiles. "Stiles! Keep going!" She yells as Jules turns to look at Scott who was just as concerned as she was.
"I can see you, Stiles! Don't stop!" She reaches her arm out as Jules tries to pull her back only to be stopped by Scott how just nods his head no. The bright light Lydia was seeing finally faded to nothingness as he's met with the empty corridor.
"Stiles?" She calls out as the smile from her face fades. "Lydia?" She turns around quickly with an anxious look on her face. "Where is he? It was working. You saw him, right?" They all look at her with concern as she sits for their answers.
"We didn't see anyone." Jules answers softly. "No, he was here. I know it. Stiles was here." She pleads as Liam runs in the tunnels. "Liam!" Scott calls out in relief as Liam hugs him and then turns to Jules and hugs her. His hug lingers in her a bit longer as Hayden and Mason had been taken. "There's something you need to see." He says as he brakes from the hug. "You're still here."
"But everyone else is gone. All of them—they're all gone. Look, you have to come with me." He says grabbing Scott and Jules' hands as he tries to drag them with him. "What is it?" Scott says as he stops. "I can't explain it. I have to show you." Liam continues pleasing which leaves Scott conflicted. "Uh... All right. You guys stay here. Just in case." He tells Malia as he grabs Jules' to drag her along. "In case Stiles comes back?" Malia questions.
"If there's any hope, you need to keep trying."
***
"This is happening everywhere?" Liam had taken them to the hospital and Scott questioned the train tracks that were running all thorough Beacon Hills. "Here, the school lacrosse field." Liam explains to them leaving the two siblings baffled. "What does that mean?" Suddenly Douglas walks out from a corner ready to answer Jules' question.
"It means...It's working." He smiles evilly as his eyes glow bright green. "He can't take the three of us." They all get in a fighting stance. "No way." Liam defends. "Hollenhund!" Douglas calls out as a brainwashed Parrish appears from behind him with his flames glowing green. "Parrish. Parrish, you don't wanna do this. Stop!" Scott pleads with him.
"The train is coming. There's no stopping the Wild Hunt. You'll make a fine Ghost Rider, Scott. And I'll have a True Alpha by my side." Jules places herself in front of Scott and Liam and places her hands in front of them to stop them from fighting. "Parrish! Stop!" She yells loudly as Parrish only growls.
"And then a Banshee, a Werecoyote, A Black Cadejo." Douglas continues.
"A Stiles?"
"A what?" Suddenly Stiles comes out from a door near Douglas and hits him with a bat he had found leaving the three stunned as Stiles stares down at Douglas and back at them. "Bad guy, right? I didn't misread that?" He immediately drops his bat and pulls Scott into a hug. "Oh, God! Oh! Buddy! Oh, man! Oh, it's so good to see you." He lets Scott go and immediately hugs Jules—almost taking her breath away. "You're here, you're really here." She smiles into his shoulder. "Hey, hey, hey! Uh." Liam pulls on Stiles' shirt as Parrish approaches them.
"Liam! It's so good to see you, too!" Stiles hugs Liam only for Liam to pat his shoulder rapidly. "Yeah. No, yah! Good to see you, Stiles...but, uh." He pints to Parrish who was getting even closer and Jules lets her aura envelop her.
"You guys go I can take him." They look concerned for her as Parrish roars. "Go! Go now!" She yells as they turn to run. She looks back at Parrish and run towards him immediately taking her claws out. He tries to attack her but she clases at his chest and uses her leg to kick him back. After getting up Parrish grabs her arm and slams her against the wall pushing his claws into her stomach making her wince.
Because he had her pressed against the wall she places her claws in the middle of his chest and allows the her flames to envelop them both. From behind them Scott, Stiles and Liam appear witnessing the whole ordeal as Jules purple flames take over the room. Once the light from her flames diminish Parrish falls to the ground and Jules grabs her bleeding stomach.
"Stiles? What are you doing here?" Parrish asks out of breathe. "Buddy, love you, but we're way past that, okay? You gotta fill us in. What's going on?" Stiles says as he takes his flannel off and places it around Jules stomach to stop her bleeding while she heals.
"Douglas...he's merging the worlds so the Ghost Riders can cross over." Parrish explains to them.
"Yeah, he wants his supernatural army in our world." Liam adds.
"How do we stop him?" Jules asks him as she winced die to her wound. "The train. It's coming." Parrish answers. "Okay, and how do we stop that?" Scott asks as he helps Parrish up from the ground. "You can't stop it..but you can divert it."
"Okay, how the hell do you "merge worlds?" Okay, nowhere in the manual does it say that Werewolves can do that, and Scott and I pretty much wrote the manual." Stiles begins to brag. "We can't even move between them, all right? Look what it took to break you out." Scott explains to him. "We can't move between worlds, but Corey can. He can exist in both worlds." Liam says coming to a realization. "And he can take people with him." Scott adds on. "Yeah, at our house! He pulled a Ghost Rider into our world." Jules continues for them. "At the lacrosse game, he brought us into theirs. What if that's how Douglas is doing it? What if Corey's the key?" Liam theorizes.
"Interesting theory, okay? Solid logic. It is, but he's in there, and we're out here. So, the only way to save everyone now is to just divert the train." Stiles says impatiently. "We have to find him." Liam says trying to walk out before he's stopped by Stiles. "How?"
"I'm going into the Hunt." Stiles then laughs at Liam's response. "No, no, no. Liam, I think you're confused. We're trying to get people out of the Hunt." Stiles says patronizing him. "It's just... That's not a pleasant option. I'm speaking from experience. Like come on I missed my Star Wars marathon with Jules!" Stiles says making Jules laugh slightly.
"I don't need to get taken to get into the Hunt!" Liam says excitedly which leaves Stoles flabbergasted. "Okay, seems like you've got an idea. Let's discu—Where are you going?" Stiles yells out to Liam who was running the opposite direction. "I'll be back!"
Liam leaves the trio dumbfounded as he runs off and Stiles turns to the siblings smiling slightly. "Were we like that?" He asks Jules as she smiles looking at the both of them. "Worse." She laughs out before going back to the task at hand. "Parrish said we just have to follow the tracks." She pints her finger to follow it. "Yeah, well...those lead into the woods. This way back into the school." Stiles tells them. "You wanna split up?" Scott sighs making both Jules and Stiles turn to each other before turning back to him. "Never again." Scott sighs happily at this as he grabs their hands leading the way.
"Thank God."
***
The trio had followed the train tracks to the middle of the woods where they found the deserted diverter. "Wait! Wait! Get down." Scott says pulling in their shirts making them kneel on the ground. "Why are we stopping?" Stiles asks him as they keep their gazes on the diverter. "It's there." Jules turns her head to Scott and she secretly feels like smacking him over the head. "Yes, we know Scott, we have eyes." She says sarcastically.
"It can't be this easy." He tells her. "Yes, it can, Scott. It can be this easy! For once, let's do easy." Stiles says exasperatedly as he drags Scott off the floor with Jules following behind them. "Okay." Scott says giving in only to be stopped by Douglas who came out of the trees. "Okay seriously how is this dude so good at hiding." Jules says with annoyance. Douglas only chuckles as he points his gun at them.
"Oh, God."
He shot all three of them transpiring them to different areas in the school. Jules ended up in the boys bathroom which needless to say was exactly what she imagined it would be like. "Seriously? Do people just not have good aim." She steps through the wet floors and out the door—running to find Scott and Stiles.
"Scott! Stiles!" She yells loudly only to hear nothing back. She continues running and makes it to one of the stair causes finding Scott and Stiles at the bottom of it. "Are you guys okay?" She asks them making her way down. "I think so. I finally saw the girls' locker room. It's not that different. It's kind of disappointing." Stiles tells her. "Yeah well I landed in the boys bathroom which is just as disgusting as I thought it would be." Stiles smiles sarcastically at her before Scott changes the subject.
"What just happened?" He asks them. "I don't know. I think the worlds...I think they're collapsing in on each other." Stiles answers him before they're interrupted by a voice on the PA system. "Attention all passengers. The train will be arriving in eleven minutes." There was a sort of familiarity to Jules as she heard the voice speak. She could feel the chills running down her spine and knew immediately one of her friends was in trouble. "We gotta get back to the diverter." Scott interrupts her thoughts. "Yeah."
The trio immediately run out of the school following the train tracks back into the woods. Before getting getting closer to the diverter however, Scott stops Jules making her look at him questioningly. "If Douglass tried to shoot us again we need backup. So if nothing happens in the next 10 minutes you gotta try and divert the train okay?" He tells her as he grabs in her shoulders. "Stop telling me this as if you're going to die and I will." She tells him making him smile as he hugs her and continues following the tracks with Stiles.
Jules stayed along for a few moments before hearing leaves crunch behind her making her become defensive. She turns around quickly ready to attack whoever or whatever it was only to see a badly beaten Theo. "Woah! It's just me." He says raising his hands up in defense. "Yeah like that's any better." She rolls her eyes at him making Theo purse his lips.
"Where's Scott?" He asks her. "He's with Stiles trying to find the diverter. He asked me to stay here in case Douglas decides to shoot them again." She answers leaving him silent. It was an awkward few seconds before Theo sighs loudly in annoyance before speaking up.
"Look I get it, you hate me I know. I basically destroyed your life but you have to believe me when I tell you Jules that I am so sorry. And I'm not the best person when it comes to apologies so I don't really know what to say. But when I was 9 years old and the Dread Doctors told me my sister wanted me to have her heart I believed them. But even then I wasn't enough for them. I didn't grow up with loving, adoring parents Jules, and I'm not trying to use that to justify my actions but to make you understand why I did what I did. I wanted to be powerful because I didn't think I could be anything else. So I don't know how many times I can apologize and I don't know if you'll ever forgive me but I swear I am so so sorry for everything that I did to you."
Theo's voiced held a tone of desperation Jules had never heard from him before. She had known what caused Theo to align himself with the Dread Doctors from Stiles. She felt slight pity for the boy but she drowned it out with her dislike for him. But even she couldn't deny that what he had gone through was terrible. He was manipulated into doing what he did and she tried for so long to convince herself that he was evil.
But Theo Raeken wasn't evil, he was broken. Not just physically but mentally. He was broken down for years by the Dread Doctors and when the opportunity came to finally show them he was good enough he took it no questions asked.
"I don't hate you." She mutters making Theo look up from the ground. "I mean I don't particularly like you, but I don't hate you. I spent so long trying to hate you for what you did to me that I never realized that I wasn't the only one that was suffering. I can't forgive you, at least not right now." She tells him leaving him slightly disappointed.
"But that doesn't mean I never will. I just...I just need time." He nods in understanding and that feeling in his chest went away. Deep inside he wanted to change, but he had been deprived of the opportunity for so long and here was Jules, finally giving him the chance when no one else would. And that would be something he would never forget.
Jules smiled slightly at him before realizing the amount of time that had passed. "How long has it been?" She asks him with a worried tone. "Almost ten minutes." He answers making her grab his hand and drag him through the woods, following the train tracks before stopping behind a tree to see Scott and Douglas but no Stiles making Jules assume that Douglas had shot him.
"I'd almost say you enjoy this, Scott. The pursuit of utterly futile endeavors." Douglas says mockingly making the anger inside Scott rise. "Step back from the diverter...or I'll make you step back." Douglas immediately chuckles at his words. "Now that's the German way of doing things. You would have made an excellent Nazi Youth." Douglas says to Scott's annoyance. "Maybe you didn't hear me—" Scott turns showing off his red eyes. "I said step back."
"And maybe you didn't hear me." Douglas says as the Hunt appears from behind him as a way to intimidate Scott but he stays right where he is. "Unbelievable. Even if the face of insurmountable odds. I don't know if it's suicide or stupidity." Douglas says making Scott shrug. "Maybe both. Either way, I'm getting to that diverter." Scott says confidently. "You, of all people, Scott, should know what happens to a lone wolf."
"He's not alone!" Theo says loudly as He and Jules walk out from the tree they were hiding behind. "He's got a pack." Theo continues as Malia appears behind them. "And Theo's not in it." She says stopping beside them and looking at Jules before turning back to Scott and Douglas. "But we are."
"We're not in the pack." Peter says appearing with Brett who only had his eyes on Jules. She let out a breathe she didn't know she was holding and smiled at him before turning back to the fight. "But no one likes a Nazi."
"Your little friends are no match for the Wild Hunt. There are too many of us, and too few of you." The group immediately ran towards the Hunt attacking them. Jules jumped on top of one of them and used her fire to burn it making him screech. Brett had been fighting a few from beside her and once she landed on her feet he grabbed her arms and she immediately knew what he wanted her to do.
She jumped up and with Brett's help her spun her as she kicked the chests of many Ghost Riders pushing them back. They didn't have any time to relish their work as even more came up from behind them. She had been shot a few times but she pulled through the pain and continued fighting. It had seemed like the group was done for until Malia grabbed one of the whips and tossed it to Scott.
It was like everything moved in slow motion from there. Douglas tried stopping Scott but he wasn't fast enough. Scott let the whip loose and aimed it at the diverter. It wrapped around the handle ever so slowly and Scott pulled it with all the strength he could muster. Once he pulled it the tracks began to move, right as the train was about to arrive.
Just in time the tracks realigned themselves and the train missed Beacon Hills by a few seconds leaving all of them relieved. "No...No!" Douglas screams making Malia smirk. "You missed your train."
The Hunt immediately stopped attacking the group leaving them slightly confused. They began walking away in the opposite direction until Douglas's voice stops them. "Where are you going? Stop! Zuruckkommen! Come back and kill them! Tote sie!" He says furiously only for The Hunt to ignore him. "Yeah, call your army back...or don't they listen to you?" Theo says with a smirk on his face.
"I am your leader! Ich bin dein Anfuhrer! Obey me! Gehorcht mir!" His word stop The Hunt making him smirk as he turns back to look at the group. "Kill them—all of them. Tote sie. Tote sie." He says evilly only fro The Hunt to surround him as Peter speaks up. "Riders don't bow. They have no leader."
Douglas for a moment has a look of fear in his eyes before turning into a Ghost Rider himself. He screeches as lighting hits the Hunt making them leave Beacon Hills forever.
Jules immediately runs to Brett pulling him into a hug as she begins to ramble. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything I said I know you were just trying to help me-"
"Jules!"
"But I was just so angry and I know I should've appreciated your help but-"
"Jules!"
"I let it get the best of me and I honestly should probably work on that but fo-"
Brett immediately cut her off with a kiss. It had only been two days but he desperately missed the feeling of her lips on his—the way they fit perfectly against his. "I'm sorry too." He mumbles against her lips as she pulls him back in for another kiss. "Should we leave you two alone or?" Scott says making them pull apart.
"Should I smack you or?" Jules says as Scott grabs his chest dramatically. "Come on." She says grabbing Brett's hand and walking with the group.
"Let's go find out friends."
***
The ends of the school year could not have come sooner. Jules was now with Scott, Stiles, Liam and Mason in the parking lot as Sriles opened the back trunk. "Okay! So, Liam, since you're the new Alpha—"
"I'm not an Alpha."
"Right. But, you know, Alpha-in-training—"
" Well, I'd have to kill an Alpha."
"Liam! Since you're taking over, the most important thing you can remember is that Mason is always gonna be the one who's there to save your ass all the time." Stiles tells him referring to all the times he saved Scott. "Well, not all the time." Scott says defensively. "Most of the time, though. Which is why...I think you're gonna need this." Stiles pulls out a metal baseball bat making Jules hold in a laugh.
"Uh, I don't play baseball." Mason says with a smile.
"Right, neither do I. It's...it's not the point." He says handing the bat to Mason. "Okay...thanks..." They then turn to leave as Stiles shouts. "Love you guys!"
"Right. I leave you with this. You know...hurt her, and I'll kill you." He says handing the keys to the Jeep to Scott. "You sure you won't need it?" Scott asks. "It's okay. Lydia's gonna drive me down to D.C. She wants to help me move into my dorm, so...you know she's starting MIT as a junior? How do you even do that?"
"I... She's a genius."
"Real question is, how did you get into UC-Davis?" Stiles asks Scott making him chuckle. "How did you get into George Washington." He asks back which makes Jules look at him with a"how could he not?" face. Stiles was one of the smartest people she knew if anyone was going to get in, it was him. "I don't know. Uh, your dad. The, uh, big FBI pops made a call to the little pre-FBI program."
"Pre-FBI? Well, I guess we're not the same kids running around the woods, looking for a body." Scott says reminiscing on the memories. "No, we're not. Especially our Jules, she's all grown up now." He says as he runs her hair turning it into a mess but in that moment she couldn't care less. "You know, you can keep the Jeep." Scott asks just to make sure.
"No. I...I want you to have it." Stiles reassured as Scott looks at the keys. ""Oh, Stiles...? These aren't the keys to the Jeep."
"Well, that one is to your house, another to your room. Uh, it's the master key to the school, animal clinic...a key to the Sheriff's station...I just figured you should have all the copies I secretly made, so... yeah." Stiles says awkwardly as they turn to look at Mason and Liam. "They still need us." Scott tells them. "They'll always need us. And, you know, I... need you. Both of you. You know that." Stiles says to them. "We need you, too. We're gonna miss you." Scott tells him making the trio smile sadly.
"No, really, I need you, though. Uh...I lost my license in the Hunt, so you have to drive." Stiles says asking the siblings laugh. "Your dad is the Sheriff. I'm sure he'll let it slide. You drive." The three get into the Jeep one last time as a trio as a voice speaks from the police radio. "Unit Four, repeat-- you're telling me there's a body in the woods?" Stilinski questions. "That's exactly what I'm saying. There's a body in the woods." Stiles immediately turns it off and looks at the two siblings before they all turn to laugh—driving off and not having a care in the world.
If only they knew what's to come.