"So, the Walcott's were the first." Stiles explained to his father "At least the first that we know about. Four murders. Sean, his brother, and their parents. They were killed by a professional assassin called The Mute. Weapon of choice, a military tomahawk. But then The Mute was killed by Peter Hale after he tried to blow up Derek with a Claymore mine. Next was Demarco. He delivered a keg to the party at Lydia's lake house. And got decapitated outside his car"
"And then last night, 23-year-old Carrie Hudson." Y/n conluded with a sigh
"It's a dead pool." Scott explained "A hit list of supernatural creatures."
"This is only part of it."y/n took it out of her pocket and showed him "The rest still has to be decoded."
"Who found this list?" Stilinski asked them
"Lydia and I" y/n answered
"How?"
"Lydia apparently transcribed it." Y/n told him "Without realizing it."
"Banshee?"
"Banshee."
"Beautiful. All right, what are these numbers next to the names?" Sheriff asked
"We're getting to that." Stiles told his father "First, you need to know that the code was broken with a cipher key."
"Wait. You mean, like a... Like a key word?"
'It's actually a name." Y/n pursed her lips "uh Allison Her name broke a third of the list."
"And now we think there's two other cipher keys." Scott said visibly upset
"Which will give us the rest of the names."
"Okay. So how do we get the cipher keys?"
'Same way we got the code."
"We've been out at the lake house all weekend trying to find the other two key words." Y/n said "but we decided I would come to help explain" y/n looked at her phone "actually I need to get going soon"
"You didn't know about Demarco or Carrie. Hmm?" Stilinski asked looking st the photos "a nd what about these other two names on the list? Uh, Kayleen Bettcher and Elias Town. They werewolves too? "
"I don't know." Scott shook his head "But Deaton said that the Nemeton would draw supernatural creatures here.'
"Here being Beacon Hills? Or Beacon County?" He asked "The population of Beacon Hills is just under 30,000."
"And dropping..." Stiles added before his dad continued
"But if we're talking Beacon County, then you're looking at close to 500,000. Look, how many werewolves, banshees, kitsunes and whatever the hell else is out there are we talking about? And what if the next cipher key uncovers not 12 names but 100?"
"We don't think there would be that many." Y/n shook her head "There's a limit."
"Because of the numbers. We think that once we decode the names, the numbers will add up to 117" stiles explained
"117 what?"
"Million." Y/n added as stiles: wrote either m or k next to a name
"117 million dollars, Dad. Stolen from the Hale vault and is being used by someone to finance all these murders."
"Someone who wants every supernatural in Beacon Hills dead." Scott sighed
"So the coded list goes out. And somehow these professional assassins get that list." Noah tried to get it all right
"And a cipher key."
"And then they go after the names on the list. They being killers with no mouths, tomahawks, thermo-cut wires that can take your head off."
"Let me see. Carrie was also stabbed." Stiles grabbed the photo "What's this mark?"
"We're not sure yet." The sheriff told them "We're still waiting on the ME's report. There's one other thing I don't get. How did this new assassin know that Demarco was going to be at the lake house?"
"Everyone knows he delivers kegs to teenagers for a little extra cash." Scott shrugged
"Ah. So whoever ordered that keg killed Demarco." Owen connected the dots
"Yeah, it was someone at the party." Y/n nodded
"A student."
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"Please stop hovering" y/n told Malia who was peaking over Lydia and y/n's shoulders
"I'm not hovering. I'm waiting." She then went to Lydia poking her heat over her shoulder 'Draw something. Write something. We need to know who else is on that list"
"You mean, you need to know if you're on the list." Lydia questioned
"If someone's coming to take my head off, then, yeah, I'd like to know" Malia shrugged
"Can you please just sit down? You're making me nervous." Y/n asked
"Sorry." Malia whispered as she sat back down and flipped throigh a book as the girls shut their eyes again "guys"
"What? Oh, my God, what?" Lydia asked as she opened her eyes
"Maybe we need help." She set the book in front of them "From another banshee."
"Meredith."
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"Economic disparity exists in all forms." Coach said waking down the toes of desks "Well, take sports, for example. Some teams have better training facilities. Some have better equipment. Unlike Beacon Hills that can barely afford the duct tape to keep our equipment together." He made it to Stiles' desk, who was looking at the photos from the murders "You know, Stilinski-"Stiles looked you we he jumped "-if I could grade you on how profoundly you disturb me, you'd be an A plus student."
"Thanks, Coach." He smiled at him
"Put those pictures away." He slammed the lactose stick onto his table making Stiles grab onto it "Stilinski!" Stiles took the cap off and looked at it "The hell is wrong with you?" He pulled the stick out of his hand "Don't answer that."
"It's a lacrosse player." Stiles looked st Scott and y/n
"The killer's on the team."
They then both faced y/n who's face fell "what do you want"
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Y/n stood in front of her fathers office the door cracked so she could hear the three inside, they grabbed lacrosse sticks looking for a stick with a dagger in it
"This... This is pointless.".Scott said once the last stick was set down "Most of the team plays with their own gear."
"Maybe instead of trying to find a lacrosse stick with a hidden dagger in it, we should be trying to get the game canceled?" Kira offered
"The game's the best way to catch him red-handed."
"But what if he's red-handed 'cause his hands are covered in the blood of the person that he just stabbed to death?" Y/n said from outside "Which, by the way, could be basically any of us"
"Or Liam." Scott added "Well, we don't have the whole list and he could be on it."
"We don't know anything about that list." Stiles told him "How it's made, how it's updated. I mean, who's been out taking a supernatural census anyway?"
'How do they even know about me?" Kira questioned
"They know about everyone."
"I think Kira's right. I think we should stop the game." Stiles agreed
"I'm not afraid." Scott shrugged
"Neither am I." Kira agreed
"Well, I'm terrified." Stiles admitted "Snd I'm not even on the list. Guys, these are professional killers. It's their profession. One of them's got a thermo-cut wire that cuts heads off. Who knows what else they have?"
"You guys might wanna hurry my dad is on his way back" y/n told them hurriedly as she looked at her phone "and he's mad I'm not playing tonight so you better be quick "
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"Eichen House says Meredith can't have visitors without permission from a family member"
"That's not gonna be easy since her whole family is dead." Y/n sighed
"Perfect." Lydia: rolled her eyes as they went down the steps of the school
"Okay, maybe we go back to the art room?" Malia offered making them stop walking "Or music room?"
"I'm not plucking piano strings for two hours waiting for some supernatural inspiration." Lydia rolled her eyes
"Fine. What else do banshees do?" Malia shrigged
"You think we know?" Y/n said with a sigh "I can't just turn this on. We're not like you guys. We don't have claws, or glowing eyes or super senses."
"We just have voices in our heads" lydia added as y/n's phone rang, she picked it up and answered it
"Stilinski?"
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"I'm aware this is probably about the dead pool, but I can't let her leave the station." The sheriff told them "And, in a minute, I'm gonna have to call Eichen House and let them know that she's here."
"Give us an hour."
"You got 15 minutes." He said with a nod as they walked to his office Noah and Parrish following behind "Ask what you need to ask."
Y/n handed Meredith her phone as she took it happily "Meredith, aren't you going to answer it?"
Meredith stood up before she leaned in to y/n and Lydias ears "It's not ringing."
She then sat down back where she was
"Meredith, you came here to help us, remember?" Lydia asked
"You called me."
"What do you mean I called you?"
"I heard you guys"
"Meredith, can I ask you a question?" Parrish asked walking to her and leaning down to her level "When you need help, when you need to find something, is there someone you reach out to? Maybe someone you call?"
"It depends." She told him "Different people for different things. "
"So maybe there's a number that can help us?" He continued 'Someone we can call."
"Yes."
"Would you be okay telling us?" Y/n asked as Meredith handed her phone back
"Yes. It's 2, 4, 3, 6." She said y/n typing the numbers in
"Mer, we need a few more numbers." Malia got her attentin
"No. That's the number." Meredith told the girl
"Phone numbers are 10 digits." Y/n corrected
"That's the number."
"Meredith, phone numbers always have 10 digits." Lydia told ber
"That's the number."
"Meredith-" Lydia tried again but raising her voice
"Lydia." Stilinski grabbed her arms helping her up "Hey. Come here." He waved the three over and they walked to him "I think that's the best we're gonna get."
"No" y/n shook her head "There has to be more."
"What's the rest of it, Meredith?" Lydia faced her again as she yelled "Hmm? Just concentrate!"
"But that's... that's... that's the number." Meredith shook her head
"Concentrate!"
"That's... That's the number. That's the number."
"It's okay, sweetheart." Noah told her reaching for her arm "We're-"
"That's the number!" Meredith shot up in her seat
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Y/n looked at the numbers in front of her and sighed as she went to pick up her phone she looked over at the phone on the desk seeing the numbers that had letters above it
"what if it's like Algebra?" Y/n offered
"What do you mean?"
"What if the numbers are actually letters?" She wrote down all the letters as her hearts dropped before she circled
Ⓐⓘⓓⓔⓝ
Lydia: grabbed her computer out before typing
Keyword: Aiden
The rest of the list then loaded
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