Chapter Twelve - Careful by Paramore
"Shifting off your weight to throw off the pain. Well you can ignore it, but only for so long."
The next morning, Allison and Katherine had arrived to school together after she had to translate all words from the page. Katherine had no clue why, but she had to meet Scott and Stiles in the library.
Katherine followed Allison in the library, noticing how cautious she was when entering. Looking around, especially at the security camera. The two turned into one of the sections, only to meet with Stiles and Scott on the other side. Allison then took out a tablet from her bag.
"It's everything Katherine could translate." Allison spoke, after handing the tablet to Scott.
"Until Lydia came and started saying I got most of the words wrong." Katherine commented, "And trust me, she was very confused."
"Yeah, what'd you tell her?" Scott asked.
"That we were part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures." Allison answered, thinking how completely weird of an explanation it was.
Stiles looked up, "I am part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures." The three looked up at him, Katherine really not surprised.
"O-oh." Allison stuttered, "Great."
Scott was still scanning what Katherine had translated, "Okay, does it say how to find out who's controlling him?"
"Not really." Katherine answered, whispering when noticing her friends were doing it as well.
Allison spoke right after her, "But Stiles was right about the murderers."
"Yes!"
"It calls the kanima a weapon of vengeance. There's a story in there about this South American priest who uses the kanima to execute murderers in his village." Allison explained, turning to face them occasionally then turning their back to them.
"All right, see? So maybe it's not all that bad." Stiles said, Katherine shaking her head.
"Until the bond grew strong enough that it killed whoever he wanted it to." Katherine continued for Allison.
"All bad, all very, very bad." Stiles confirmed.
"Here's the thing, though. The kanima's actually supposed to be a werewolf. But it can't be-" Allison stopped, noticing someone putting one of the library booked back.
" "Until it resolves that in its past which manifested it." " Scott read, Stiles looking down and reading the text as well.
"Okay, if that means that Jackson could use a few thousand hours of therapy, I could've told you that myself." Stiles commented.
Allison looked over at Katherine, thinking, and probably trying to piece something together in her head, "What if It has something to do with his parents? His real parents."
Scott looked up at Allison when hearing her mention that, then back to Stiles. :Yeah, does anybody actually know what happened to them?"
"Lydia might." Stiles answered.
"What if she doesn't know anything?"
"Well, he doesn't have a restraining order against me, so I'll talk to him myself." Allison said.
Katherine chuckled to herself, "Katherine ain't going nowhere near him, because Katherine really does not want to die." she confirmed, and her friends rolled her eyes at her.
"Okay, what do I do?" Scott asked, not sure what he could do in order to help.
"You have a make-up exam, remember?" Allison told him, and Stiles nodded.
"Promise me." Allison said, putting her hand on Scott's, and Katherine smiled slightly at the two.
"If he does anything, you run the other way."
Katherine scoffed, "Trust me, if he does anything to her Katherine is going to come in with her secret little weapon."
"I can take care of myself." Allison told the two.
"Allison, if you get hurt while I'm busy with some stupid test, someone's going to need to take care of me. If he does anything." Scott explained, and Katherine suddenly remembers the whole talk about love in the car from the other day.
"Like?"
"Anything Weird or bizarre anything."
Just then, Stiles's head popped through the opening they were talking through, making Katherine step back. "Anything evil!" he answered, and Katherine slightly laughed, shoving him back with her "secret weapon".
"Ah. Ow!"
***
For the rest of the school day, let's just say Katherine didn't get the whole weird feeling she gets whenever something was wrong. And when something is wrong, and she doesn't get that feeling, that means she's not able to save the day. That's exactly what Katherine did. Not save the day. And now she's blaming herself for what was happening. People were getting hurt. Especially the girl in front of her, or more specifically Erica.
"Pull her up!" Derek commanded, holding Erica, and Stiles did as told.
Katherine knelled next to Erica, watching her in pain. "Is she dying?" Stiles asked.
"She might, I which is why this is gonna hurt." Derek said, and Katherine was confused, right up until she heard that crack which made her wince, then Erica quickly screamed out from the pain loudly, her breathing heavy.
"You broke her arm!" Stiles yelled.
"It'll trigger the healing process." Derek explained, "I still gotta get the venom out. This is where it's really gonna hurt." Then Derek started squeezing Erica's arm hardly, the venom pouring out onto the newspaper, her screams and cries making Katherine confused on what to do.
"Stiles you make a good Batman." Erica said, looking up at him, before fainting.
After all the venom was out of Erica, Derek, Katherine, and Scott stepped outside. "You know who it is." Scott spoke.
Derek turned around, sighing, then sitting down, "Jackson."
"You just wanted Erica to confirm it, didn't you?" Scott asked, and Derek nodded slightly. "I'm gonna help you stop him. As part of your pack." Derek turned towards Scott when hearing those words. "If you want me in, fine. But we'll do it on one condition. We're gonna catch him, not kill him."
"And?"
"And we do it my way."
Katherine sighed in relief, "Oh finally, no more stupid arguments from you two."
Author's Note
Anyone just notice what I did with my username? Shout out to @gamergirlnerd because she's basically the one who suggested for me to change it.