"Little Levi Hale, so angry for such a small person. Shame about her really, but the money will be good. She'll probably be nothing more than flesh by the time you get to her." Garett laughed manically down the phone, knowing that Levi was Scott's ultimate breaking point.
"What do you want?" Scott spat down the line.
"I want the money - and Violet. Or you never see Liam or Levi again."
//.//
Levi was immediately slammed back into action - literally slammed - as something, rather, someone came hurdling down from the opening of the well and straight on top of her body. She thrashed underneath them as the water covered her mouth and eyes before the person recovered from the shock and pulled her up, pushing at her chest to get the excess water out of her lungs.
Her eyesight was almost gone from the effect of the wolfsbane and she could barely make out the person that was condemned to her prison with her. But call it an alpha's instinct or whatever, because she was lucky enough to instantly recognise her own beta.
"LEVI!" Liam shouted, wrapping his arms tightly around her body but recoiling once she let out a hiss as his arms pressed against her shoulder wound. He also hissed, pressing a hand to his chest allowing both of them to realise that Liam too had a gaping wound on his body.
"Wolfsbane," Levi muttered, putting her hand on top of Liam's wound and allowing her veins to turn black as she absorbed his pain. The beta obviously was not skilled enough to tell that Levi was also suffering from wolfsbane poisoning and thanked her for taking his pain away.
Liam looked up frantically as he surveyed the well the same way Levi had done when she had came around originally.
"There's no way out."
//.//
Scott stalked around the yellow school buses, allowing the scent of Garrett to guide him to the assassin. He glared the boy down as he approached him.
"Okay, what do you want? You want me to go to Stilinski? I can do that. Or I can talk to my father. He's an FBI agent." Scott bargained, getting pissed off when a smile appeared on Garrett's face. These were his pack, more importantly his friends - and their lives was not a joke to the young alpha.
"You think I want you talking to anyone with a badge? I'm not getting help from a werewolf because I want him to talk to someone."
"Then what am I supposed to do?" Scott sassed back, with a heavy roll of his eyes at the vague way that Garrett was speaking to him.
"They are transferring Violet to a federal facility. You are not gonna let that happen." In that exact moment, Scott knew that this was going to be tough. Garrett threatened held up his weaponised lacrosse stick in the direction of Scott, almost as if his friend's lives were enough of a motivator for the latino.
"How?"
"They're going to put her in a car. We're going to follow it. We get ahead of it. You stop it." Garrett spoke carefully, mocking Scott as if he was a little kid who needed everything explained slowly and carefully so not to get confused with basic instruction.
"You want me to attack a car? That's your plan?" Scott snarled out, getting even more irritated at how little Garrett was seemingly to care about his friends - although he couldn't say he was surprised. The boy was an orphaned assassin after all so compassion wasn't exactly the top thing on his list of priorities.
"You're an Alpha. If you can't stop one little car, then one little Beta is going to die." Garrett spoke back in the asme frustrated tone that Scott had spoke to him in. He flicked up the blade on the end of his lacrosse stick to emphasise the point that he was trying to make as he threatened the life of Liam. "I stabbed your boy with a blade dipped in wolfsbane. Same thing that Levi was stabbed in the back by Violet with. Once it gets to the heart... Bad things happen - more so for Levi at the moment than for Liam."
//.//
"Help. Scott. Is anybody there?"
Liam's voice rang out through the well, watching as Levi struggled to stay standing up at the bottom of the well. He wasn't too sure why her strength had faded, but he was getting the inkling that she wasn't just cut up slightly. Something was wrong, and it was getting increasingly worse. Not only was he poisoned with wolfsbane, but he had a feeling coming off from Levi. Almost like she was already dead.
"Somebody help us, please. Answer me!"
He shouted out once more, knowing that while it was for his sake, it was more aimed towards getting help for his friend. Casting another glance back at Levi, he moved closer to her and wrapped her arms around his neck, supporting her from sliding into the water even more than she already was. Her teeth were now chattering - a sign that she had been in this water for much longer than he had - maybe even by a good 12 hours more or so considering that she had been missing since the night prior.
"Help us! Help... Scott! Scott, help us, please. Help!"
Levi coughed, and as she pulled her hand back from her mouth, Liam knew it was getting to extreme's now. There was blood coating her hand, but it wasn't red anymore.
Her blood had turned as black as death itself.
//.//
As Lydia, Stiles and Parrish headed towards Eichen House she paused in her step. The two males turned to face her, Stiles moving closer and placing a hand on her arm.
"Lydia, what's wrong?" Stiles asked, while Parrish walked ahead up to the sign in office.
She looked around before meeting Stiles' eyes and allowing herself to stop zoning out from the feeling that had suddenly swept over her.
"Someone's dying."
//.//
Liam released his hold on Levi as she managed to balance against the wall of the well.
"I'm going to climb out and get help, do not move," Liam instructed her, noting that she couldnt even bring herself to utter a reply.
The beta began climbing, sticking his claws deeply into the rocks to push himself up further. HIs finger's slipped on moss, and suddenly the distance he had climbed was no longer impressive as he plummeted back down into the water. Levi tried to pull him up but she was too weak to even grasp on to him.
"No, no, no, no, no! Come on!" Liam yelled in frustration, slamming his fist into the brick wall that surrounded him. As he pulled it back to look at the damage he had caused, a flashback came to him.
"You did that. You went right through it." Scott said, watching as Levi and Liam studied the smashed up window.
"I jumped through the window?" Liam asked confused but also slightly impressed with what he could do.
"The cuts healed while you were changing." Levi softly muttered to the younger boy, watching as he was silent for a moment.
"I guess that's one good thing." He finally said, trying to find some light in the situation.
"For you. For someone else it could be really bad. We need to figure out how you can get a grip on this." Scott gently told his beta, but also firmly to show that he was going to be there to support him the whole way through the process.
"I've been trying to do that for years." Liam admitted, running a hand through his hair.
"What does your dad say?" Levi asked, watching and judging his body actions.
Liam paused for a second before replying just as gentle. "He says when kids get angry they deal with it in one of two ways: they either hurt themselves or they hurt someone else."
As he finished remembering the recent moment that he had shared with his alpha's he turned back to look at Levi who was struggling to keep her eyes open. He was going to get out of this well - not for him. But for her.
//.//
After another failed attempt, Levi opened her mouth ever so slightly as she turned to look at Liam.
"How does a wolf signal its pack?" She asked his with all her energy. Liam was silent and confused as he held onto her face to keep her eyes focused on him.
"They howl Liam."
Liam understood what Levi wanted. He turned away from her and took a deep breath before letting out a loud roar from his body, causing his eyes to turn bright yellow and give him a newfound burst of energy.
He turned back to Levi, only to find her eyes were now closed.
"Oh god no, Levi! LEVI!" He yelled, feeling for a pulse. He found a weak one and knew he couldn't waste anymore time. Grabbing onto her body, he pulled her onto his back and wrapped her arms around him in a way that both his hands were free but she was fixed onto him.
Taking a deep breath he began climbing. Having the responsibility of Levi on him was helpful, and he reached the top very quickly. Just as he was about to get to the very top he felts hands begin to slide on a patch of moss.
Liam yelled out just as his hands slipped away, but a strong grasp latched onto his and Levi's arms, pulling them both up out of the well.
Scott grabbed onto Liam's face as the beta hyperventilated. "You're okay, Liam. You're okay." He soothed, hugging the boy tightly.
Liam nodded, before he turned to look at the motionless Levi.
"But she's not."