5 x 15 ~ Amplification
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Leo's POV
The hunt for the Beast had begun, and everyone was out to get it. The entire sheriff's station had been deployed, all in pursuit of the creature, which Scott and Stiles trailing behind them, well behind Stiles' father who had just been giving the all clear to resume full-time sheriff duties, which includes leading a man-hunt.
While they were on that side of town following the cops, I was on the other coming at this from a more, supernatural point of view.
"I don't like this," I muttered as I looked out the window,
"Why?" Dean asked, I could see him glancing at me from the corner of his eye,
"Well, A, because your driving my car, and B, because Jordan is standing in back of his truck," I said as I gestured over to him,
Jordan was standing in back of his truck, while Chris was driving with his evil-spawn of a father in the front seat.
"Okay, firstly, this was my car before it was yours, and secondly, Jordan's fine," Dean told me, I looked over just in time to see Jordan wobble and grabble onto the back metal bar of the pick up, I slowly turned my gaze back to Dean, who just grimaced as he looked back to the road, "Mostly fine,"
"This is dumb," I muttered as I rolled down the window, so I could shout across the road, "Jordan please get down!"
"Don't worry Leo, I'm good!" Jordan called back, I saw him reach into his pant and pulled out a small orange container, I leaned into the car as I wasn't sure what he was doing,
"What is that?" I questioned, Sam shuffled forward over the divide in the seat to get a better view,
"That would a flare, he needs it draw out his infernal flame," Sam answered, I turned from Jordan to look at him, he looked at me and just raised his eyebrows with an oblivious look, "What?"
"How do you that?" I asked him, Dean chuckled from beside me, I glanced at him then back to Sam,
"Long time ago, I had a girlfriend name Jenny, we were at her house, and there was a gas leak, which lead to a fire... we both walked in, and I walked out," Sam with a sad smile, my face softened as I looked at him, but then I felt the temperature in the car rise, then Sam's eyes changed to a color that I recognized, Jordan's eyes were the same the night he escaped from the jail,
"Your a hellhound?" I asked him, and he just laughed as he sat back in the seat, Dean just shook his head and grinned at me,
"Took you long enough," Dean laughed, I was about to turn my annoyed gaze on him when a loud roar cut through the noise of the drive, we all turned to see Jordan engulfed in flames, I reached up and gripped the car seat in fear that he was in pain, but he looked fine, more than fine honestly,
He moved over in the cab and jumped out and landed onto the road. I looked back in confusion, which turned to awe as Jordan began to jog along side the vehicles.
"Holy crap," I muttered as he came up beside up and ran pass the cars, then I turned back to Sam, "You can do that too?"
"Yeah, but I prefer not too," he told me, I was going to ask but spoke up first, "It burns through too many of clothes,"
"And ends up walking around with a double full moon afterwards," Dean said with snort, followed by a laugh,
Sam groaned and I chuckled as I turned back in my seat as we sped after Jordan.
We got to the hospital and after a slight argument over who should follow Jordan, I got the adults to and assist Melissa with the evacuation while I followed Jordan's burnt footsteps into the building.
The hallways were empty, papers and other items littered the floor, and the atmosphere was laced with fear and anxiety, obviously from the people who ran out in fear. I made it to the fourth floor and lost sight of Jordan. I shifted, and slowly stalked my way through the hall.
Then I heard a growl. It was deep and primal. The scent of blood filled the air as I came up to a cross section in the floor. I looked down each pathway until I saw movement directly ahead of me, I was about to move when a creature stepped out, and it was like nothing I've ever seen.
"You are one ugly son of a..." I whispered as the creature turned it gaze on and bared its fangs,
It was at least 8 feet tall, and too big to even be inside this building. Its eyes were a ghostly shade of blue, and its body looked rugged and monstrous, like both of Peter and my own wolf form, but worse... way worse. The creature snarled as it begun to stalk towards me and I backed up.
It moved faster and I stumbled back, it roared and was about to attack, when something slammed into its side sending it crashing down the hall. I ran forward to look down the hall and saw Jordan's fiery form punching the monster, but it pushed him back in the wall and raised it claws.
"Oh no you don't," I shouted as I ran forward, I leapt onto the creature's back and placed him in a headlock, it roared as it stumbled back, slamming my back into the wall, but I kept my hold on it, "You can't be ugly and rude, big fella, you got to choose,"
It reached down and I felt its claw dig into my back and the world inverted as it pulled me off. I crashed into the ground and looked up to see the creature's clawed hand swinging down at me. I raised my hand to defend myself, when something jumped in front of me. It was Jordan, he took the hit for me and went flying down the hall.
"Jordan!" I yelled, but I could move, something dug into my leg and dragged me away, I turned to see the creature pulling me, like Hulk dragging Loki, and I used my claws to slow it down, but it was too strong, so I raised my free leg and kicked the clawed hand that was pulling me, "I refuse to be the Jamie Lee Curtis, to your Michael Myers, so let! Me! Go!"
With a pain roar, the creature let me go and disappeared into the darkened hall.
"Deputy!" Someone yelled, I turned back to look down the hall and heard some familiar voices,
"Where is he? Where's Leo?" I heard Jordan ask, and I let out a sigh of relief,
"I'm okay," I called out, I saw Scott and Stiles come around the corner with shared looks of horror, I looked down at my leg and saw the claw marks are already healing, but it was slower and still bloody, plus my shirt was slashed as well, I looked back at them, "Trust me, it's as bad as it looks,"
They came over and helped me up, but I winced as I placed on pressure on the leg.
"Where'd it go?" Scott asked and I nodded down the hall,
They walked, and I hobbled down the hall, to see bloody paw prints, and got smaller and smaller, until they turned to shoe prints. They were smaller than mine, which meant that whoever the Chimera is, its someone younger and shorter than us, I'm not sure how helpful that is, but every clue counts I guess
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The next morning we all met at Scott's house to discuss their plan. Stiles helped me onto the counter as he showed me one of the pictures he managed to get from Deaton. It was a picture of a girl screaming, with her face bent and twisted in pain and anguish.
"This is what that Dr. Valack guy, planning to do to her?" I asked Stiles and he nodded,
"Yeah, and Deaton said due to Lydia being so strong, her dying scream could is basically a nuke," Stiles explained to me and I nodded, he turned back to head over to Scott and the others, while I kept looking at the picture and imagining it as Lydia, "So, we need to do this tonight,"
"So what the plan?" Malia asked them,
"There's four steps. We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Lydia, get out," Stiles told us,
"And we have to do it all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier," Scott added on,
"You have a plan for all of that?" Malia questioned them,
"I stole this last night off an orderly," Stiles told them as he produced the keycard, "But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night,"
"So why did you take it?" Kira asked,
"I'm getting to that," Stiles muttered,
"The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make that key card work again," Scott told them,
"How are you going to do that?" Liam asked,
"We're getting to that, okay, just listen," Stiles said with an annoyed huff, "I pulled all the history off the key card. Two weeks ago, there was a brownout and the security system rebooted. During a reboot, all of the key cards revert back to a default code. So, if we trigger a reboot..."
"The card goes back to the default code. It works again," Liam said as he pieced together the purpose of the card,
"How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira asked them,
"That's your part. You're going to draw power from the main line. But only enough to cause the brownout," Scott told her,
"Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad. Very, very bad,' Stiles said to her, and Kira shuffled in place as she looked between the two boys,
"There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen," Scott told us,
"Okay, slight problem. I don't know how to do that," Kira told us,
"That's okay," Scott reassured her, "You have time to practice,"
"Let's say all this goes perfectly. How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?" Malia asked,
"The system takes five minutes to reboot. In that five minutes all the alarms will be turned off the key card should work," Stiles answered her,
"Liam, you and I get Stiles to the gate of the Closed Unit," Scott said to his Beta, "But after that, he has to go on his own. We can't get past the Mountain Ash barrier. Leo will watch the door until we get back and cover our escape. And when we're gone, all anyone's going to think is that there was a reboot of the security system caused by a brownout," Scott told us,
"Uh, any questions?" Stiles asked,
"How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?" Liam asked them,
"What's our worst-case scenario?" Malia asked,
"What if I can't do it?" Kira questioned,
"What about Theo and his lab rats?" I asked them,
They looked between all of us before they spoke again.
"Okay, admittedly, a lot could go wrong," Stiles said with a shrug,
"Everything could go wrong," Liam corrected him,
"Guys, if we don't do this, we lose Lydia. She's going to die in there tonight. And she might take a lot of innocent people with her," Scott told us, we all shared a look before we turned back to them,
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Despite still being in pain, Stiles dragged me along to station, due to part of their plan, which is totally illegal, and I'm 100 percent on board with, required Jordan to drive the van. He was working the armory today.
"That's the worst plan I've ever heard," Jordan said to us after sliding keys of the van back towards us,
"Okay, the plan is perfect and it'll work perfectly, especially if you agree to drive the van," Stiles said, sliding the keys back towards him,
"Is the Sheriff on board with this?" Jordan asked, Stiles glanced over at me,
"How do you think I got the keys?" Stiles answered him,
"I thought you stole them," Jordan answered with a skeptical tone, and I snickered,
"While that's a perfectly reasonable assumption, I did not steal them. And we need you because all of the Eichen guards know all of the Sheriff's Deputies, okay. We need a real deputy. And one who won't ask questions," Stiles explained to him,
"It's not safe to bring me along. I'm dangerous," Jordan said to us,
"So is the giant murdering werewolf that's killed over 30 people, but somehow didn't kill you," Stiles said gesturing to him, "So please don't make me use my secret weapon,"
Jordan frowned at him, before he asked, "What weapon?"
Stiles turned and looked at me. I blinked back at him, and he nodded towards Jordan, I sighed and rolled my eyes before I turned to face Jordan.
"Please," I pleaded to with the smallest smile I could muster, Jordan's heart begun to spike as looked at me, he bit the inside of his cheek before he took up the keys, and I smiled at him, "Thank you,"
He walked off and I turned to glare at Stiles.
"I hate you," I said to him and he shrugged,
"Not my fault all the guys who fall for you are so whipped," Stiles muttered as he turned to walk out of the station,
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I waited until there was no one else besides him in the hall, I grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him into Coach's office.
"Nice to see you, mate," Theo said he pulled himself upright, "And here, I thought you were avoiding me,"
"I am, only because I'm resisting the urge to kill you," I snapped at him,
"I think you mean f*ck me," Theo said with a smirk,
"No, I mean kill you," I said taking a step towards him, "I'm sure if broke your neck right now, I'd be in excruciating pain too,"
"Then you understand the extent of the mark, now unless you're planning to get freaky in the Coach's office," Theo said as he glanced around the small room, then back to me, "I need to get to Calculus,"
He tried to walk but I used my hand to block his path.
"No, you need to tell me the truth," I said to him, and he tilted his head, "Why are you doing? Any of this?"
"Because I don't want to die, ask Scott, the Beast is going to kill everyone and everything unless we stop it, now we can do that together or apart, doesn't matter, as long as I'm still around afterwards, I don't care," He said to me,
"That's not what I meant," I said as I looked down at his stomach, then up to him, "Back at the hospital, all that stuff about babies, and wanting a boy, you tricking me into giving that mark... why?"
Theo's hand came to touch my waist and I flinched at the contact.
"Because if things go badly, and I suspect they will, I don't want to be alone in the aftermath of all this chaos," He said softly "And neither should you,"
"I am not alone," I told him,
"You say that now, but didn't all your friends drift apart awhile ago," Theo begun to say,
"Because you turned us against each other!" I snapped at him,
"And I showed you how much I can care for someone," Theo said and his words cut through me, he stepped closer, so I turned my head away and he whispered lowly, "I know how to beat the Beast, and if your smart, which clearly you are, you'll join me..."
Theo took my free hand and pressed it into his lower stomach, which felt softer than last time I touched it.
"...join us, and win," He continued, "I know you're tired of playing second fiddle to Scott's True Alpha status, but if you join me, we can lead together, we can have a pack of our own, you just need to make the smart choice, not the right one,"
My fingers inched along his skin and I listened closely, I could hear his heartbeat, but there was a fainter, softer, rhythm underneath his... there was another a third heart in the room. I turned to look at him and he smirked.
"Its your move, Alpha," He whispered as he stepped around me and made his way out of the room,
I sighed as I walked out of the room and caught sight of Theo heading towards the stairs, I looked the other way and saw Scott watching me. But, Theo was right it was my move to make, I looked down the hall and saw Mason and Corey talking to each other, then Jack crossed path and head into a classroom, and I got an idea, and now I just needed a plan.
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After School we met back up at Scott's House.
"She took out the whole school?" Scott asked,
"She took out the whole grid," Malia told her, and we all looked at Kira,
"Look, I failed every single practice try. This isn't going to work," Kira told us,
"How far can we get without the brownout?" Liam asked them,
"The front door," Stiles answered,
"Okay, plan B, I create a category 4 hurricane and rip the roof off the building," I started to say,
"No," Stiles and Scott said to me, and I scoffed,
"You guys are no fun," I muttered,
"You can do that?" Liam asked and I nodded,
"We're going," Scott said cutting through the noise,
"Scott, we went through boxes of light bulbs," Kira told him,
"It doesn't matter. You can do this," Scott said to her,
"The key card won't work unless there's a reboot. And there's no reboot without a brownout," Kira said to him and Stiles stepped forward,
"I know you can do this. Anyone here think she can't?" Scott asked as he turned to look at us,
"Not me," Liam spoke up,
"I was the one who put you in the plan," Stiles told her,
"If you can knock out the entire grid, you can cause a Brownout, so yeah, I believe in you," I told her and she smiled, then we all turned to Malia,
"What?" she asked,
"I believe in you too, Kira." Stiles said to her in stage whisper,
"I'm the one who's going to be locked in an electrical room with her," Malia told us, and we all gave her annoyed looks before she turned to Kira, "You can do it,"
"You guys are all crazy. We're gonna die," Kira said to us, and we just let out small laughs,
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Jordan's POV
Drive the van, that was simple enough.
"Delivery to the morgue," I said to the guard as I came to guard, he checked his clip board, before he looked back up at me,
"I don't see you on the list," He said to me,
"You heard about the animal attacks, right?" I asked him and he nodded, "The hospital ran out of refrigerated drawers and Eichen's got the only other up-to-code morgue in the county,"
"Let's have a look," He said and begun to move off,
"I don't think you want to do that. The stench back there almost made me pass out while driving," I said as I tried to get stop him,
"Open the back of the van, please," He said with a stern nod, he turned to place his clipboard down and I sighed before I hopped out and followed him,
I opened the doors and he pulled out his flashlight.
"I'll need to log the names off the toe tags," He said to me,
"There's significant decomp. They were found in the county tunnels way past rigor," I told him,
"Open them up, please," he told me,
So I walked up and opened the right bag, revealing the dead body inside, there was some truth to what I had told him before, he stepped back and begun to gag. I reached over to the second one, hoping that I don't need to open it.
"No, no. Go, just go," he told me, I smirked as I zipped up the first bag and shut the back of the van,
I got the van inside and allowed the orderlies to take the bodies inside, I looked down at my watch and saw we still had a few more minutes. I watched as the orderlies, wheeled the bodies inside and allowing the gate door to slide shut behind. I turned to make sure no one was looking as I reached to tie my laces, but instead grabbed the makeshift door jam, but inside my secondary holster, and slid under the door, stopping it from locking completely.
I made my way back to the van and saw a pair of red eyes glowing at me from the dark corner of the building, Leo's eyes. He winked at me and I chuckled before I put the van in reverse and made my way out.
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Leo's POV
I saw Jordan's van in the distance but I could also see some of the guards eyeing the vehicle as he waited, for the others. I looked down at my phone, then back to the door, then to Jordan.
"Five minutes," I muttered to myself, I listened to the guards muttering,
"Four minutes," I counted, I kept waiting until it was the strike of 8:00 but nothing happened, I could still hear the hum of electricity coursing through the building,
It was pass 8:00 when the lights around the building begun to dim.
The sound of approaching footsteps made me turn around. A guard was coming. I looked down but couldn't find a place to hide, so I looked up and saw a window ledge. I jumped up and pulled myself up I looked inside and saw the room was empty, most likely a Doctor's office. I pushed the window open and slipped inside.
There was crackle from a radio outside, so I stood up beside and sill and listened as the guard got closer.
"Perimeter security, check in please. Perimeter, do you copy?" A voice spoke through the radio, and the other guard moved away quickly, I was about to jump out when something cold and sharp touched my neck,
"Didn't anyone ever tell you observe with more than us your eyes?" A voice asked, it was a woman, and vaguely familiar,
"Shouldn't you be thanking me, for saving you from Deucalion?" I asked as I stepped away from the window, "Morrell?"
"That depends," She spoke and I turned to face her, but she kept the pen-knife to my neck, "Why are you here?"
"Dr. Psycho wants to perform a trepanation on Lydia, you know my best friend, who's also a banshee," I told her, she blinked as she lowered her hand and stepped back,
"That's..." She begun to say,
"Insane, and morally unethical," I told her,
"And dangerous, if Lydia screams at anytime during the procedure, she'll level the entire building," Morrell muttered to herself,
"And if you want to live, I'd advice you leave or stay out of our way, because we're not leaving here without her," I told her, she paused as she looked up at me, giving me a once over with her eyes,
"You're different to when we last crossed paths," She begun to say, "Older, wiser,"
"And you don't work for mass murderer, who BTWs is back in town," I told her and she froze, she sighed before walking over to the desk which I guessed was hers,
"How long?" She asked,
"About a week, Theo Raeken wants something from him," I told her and she nodded as she pulled open her desk and pulled out a jar of black dust, most likely mountain ash,
"Most likely information," she muttered as she looked at the wall across from her, I sighed before I turned back to the window,
"Look, just keep you're head down, avoid anyone who know, know, what you really are, and I doubt him or anyone else will find you're here, and I won't tell anyone else," I told her and she looked over at me,
"And why would you do that?" She asked and I shrugged,
"That way, you'll own me favor," I said with a smirk,
"What kind of favor?" She asked as she turned to face me with a curious look,
"What do you know about pregnancies in werewolves?" I asked and her face changed as she took in the question,
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Jordan's POV
My grip on the steering wheel tightened and my head begun to tingle. I closed my eyes and breathed through the feeling, and when I opened them, I felt, different.
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Leo's POV
I slid door back open and looked down the hall, but I couldn't see the others. It was way pass the five minutes, so something had to had gone wrong. I was about to head inside when I heard approaching footsteps, so I turned back and saw a Jordan, his body covered in ash and burns, with embers crackling off him.
"Jordan?" I called out but he walked straight pass me, so I followed him, "Okay big fella, lead the way,"
"Hey!" A voice shouted, I turned back to see the guards from outside running towards us, I looked back but Jordan was stuck on his path, and I couldn't let them stop, I looked back as the guards got closer and sighed harshly,
"Fine, no nukes, no hurricanes, just pure wolf-mode," I said to him as I put my primal instincts to the surface,
I took my shirt and jacket, kicked off my shoes, crack my neck and forced my eyes to glow.
"I might not be a beast, but I'll show you want a real werewolf looks like," I snarled at them as I forced myself to shift,
I hadn't done this since that night in the desert, mostly because I did have a reason too, but now I do. I kept here to save Lydia, and I wasn't going to let anyone, stop me.
I shifted and stood to full height, the guards came to stop as they looked at me. One came forward and drove their electrical baton into my chest but I didn't flinch. I looked down at the weapon then up to him, and he looked scared.
"I quit," I squeaked out, and I huff,
I grunted and bated the guard away before I looked at the others, and snarled at them.
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Theo's POV
"I can't believe this is actually a medical establishment," I said back to sad excuse of a Doctor, as I looked down at the state Lydia was in,
"Now what would a pack of Chimeras want with a Banshee?" he asked me,
"I don't want a Banshee. I'm looking for a Hellhound," I called out, then a deep growl filled the room, I stepped out and saw the deputy, but it wasn't him,
Clawed hands landed pressed on the gate and it melted away.
"You wanted a Hellhound..." the doctor said as Jordan stepped forward and came into the hallway with us, and he roared at us, "I think you found one,"
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Leo's POV
Scott roared. I could feel my entire body react to his call. I turned back to the exit and listened to his call echo through the hall way. I turned back to last of the guards, who was cowering on the ground before me, with a wet spot in his pants.
I shifted back and stood above him in just the remains of the pants. I scoffed as I looked down at him.
"Wuss," I muttered as I turned and made my way back into the building following Jordan's burnt footsteps, to find him, and hopefully find Lydia,