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The hospital was a madhouse. Everywhere you looked there were orderlies and nurses running around or someone seriously injured sitting about or leaning against a wall groaning. Melissa McCall was helping an orderly wheel in another patient on a gurney.
"Okay, keep pressure on it. The doctor is on her way," she gently told the woman on the gurney as she held the bloody wound above her waist. Melissa then began yelling. "And does anyone know where Dr. Hilyard is?!" She helped move the gurney for the elevator and then turned around to see Scott and Sabrina walking in with. Scott had a bag of food in his hand.
"Oh, thank God," she mumbled before going over to them. "I'm starving," she said taking the bag from him. Scott and Sabrina just stared at her before she realized what she did, or didn't do, and turned around to hug them. "Oh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you two for bringing me dinner."
Scott and Sabrina smiled as they separated from her. "Is everything okay?" the twins said in unison looking around at all the activity.
"Except for half the accident victims in a ten car pile-up being rerouted here from downtown, and the E.R. attending not answering any of his pages? Yeah, I'm okay," she said all in one breath. Scott narrowed his eyes. "What does not answering pages mean?" Sabrina rolled her eyes.
"It means that nobody can find him. So now we have to wait for the on-call to get here." A woman started to walk up to them. "Miss?" she cringed. "Yes?" Melissa asked her. "Excuse me. Can I kind of please have something for the pain?" They looked at her to see that there were parts of her blouse that were dark with blood spots. "Okay, I'm sorry. I know it must hurt but actually giving you something could complicate things. So," she then started to help her into a chair. "We really just need to wait for the doctors, okay?" "Okay," the woman cried.
Scott and Sabrina could smell who much pain the woman was in. Their mother asked the clerk how much longer they had to wait for the doctor and learned it was ten minutes. So Scott decided to sit with the woman and try to help her.
"Uh, you know, I think I read online that sometimes human contact can help with the pain." "Scott," Sabrina hissed.
The woman nodded and Scott went to reach for the woman's arm. Sabrina huffed. He checked to see that she wasn't looking before he began to siphon off pain from her and into himself. He saw the woman's shoulders settle and her face actually softened as she looked over at him gratefully. Scott was happy to actually make someone feel better for a change. The night at the Glen Capri had really gotten to him and seeing this woman look at him like this was starting to show him that what had been running through his mind about himself was starting to be quite wrong. Every one of them had been a little shaken from that night, though it helped when they saw that Derek really was alive and back at his loft, fully healed.
"Someone...someone help me!"
That made Scott snap free from his thoughts as he looked over at the entrance to see Ethan helping Danny into the hospital. Sabrina ran over to help Danny with Scott following after her. Their mother pointed to an empty chair for them to take him. "Okay. Okay, gentle, gentle, gentle!" she said as they tried to gently sit him down.
Scott then moved to grab at Ethan. "What did you do to him?!" he spat.
Ethan pushed his hand away. "Nothing." "Then what happened?" Sabrina asked. "He said he was having chest pains and trouble breathing but it...just kept getting worse."
Melissa tried feeling at Danny's chest and throat but then started shaking her head. "This is not good," she mumbled before moving to yell at the desk clerk. "How much longer on Dr. Hilyard?" But the nurse was shaking her head. She then looked back at Scott, Sabrina and Ethan. "His larynx has shifted to the side. I think it's a tension pneumothorax."
Just then, Danny threw himself forward and then started vomiting all over the floor. Scott and Sabrina's eyes went to it and noticed a certain flower that he was barfing up.
"Mistletoe," Ethan muttered out loud.
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Melissa started to wheel Danny into the operating room with Scott, Sabrina and Ethan following right behind her.
"Can you three please go back to the waiting room?" she asked them but they just kept her following her until she moved Danny to his spot.
"Where are the nurses and doctors? Where is everyone?" Ethan frantically asked her.
"It's a full house tonight. They're tending to other patients," she explained to him. "Okay. Well, mom how can we help?" Scott asked. "Yeah, we can help," Sabrina said. "Honey, you two can't. His lung is collapsed. His heart is being pushed against his chest cavity now-"
Sabrina's face fell. "He's gonna die, isn't he?"
She looked over at her daughter's face and her own's hardened. "No. No, he's not. Okay, Scott, you grab the tape," she said to him before turning to Ethan. "You grab those scissors and cut his shirt open." She then turned to Sabrina. "You hold his hand because this will hurt." As they raced to do what she said, Melissa went over and grabbed a large syringe. "Okay," she muttered.
"Mom, he's not breathing," Sabrina said with a cracked voice.
"I know, I know. Okay."
She then moved to pierce his lung with the syringe and then started to run a small tube into him in order to gently let air out so that he would be able to breathe. Danny was starting to settle and they could hear the sound of him steadily breathing again as his face softened and he no longer looked like he was in pain. That got all of them to breathe lighter as well.
Danny opened his eyes and looked up at her. "Thank you."
"No problem," Melissa smiled down on him. She then noticed Scott, Sabrina and Ethan looking intensely at her. "What?"
"That was awesome," Scott and Sabrina said completely mystified. Ethan nodded.
"It was no problem, you know? I mean, it wasn't a big deal," she said dismissively.
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Scott and Sabrina were leaving the hospital and just made it to his bike when Ethan ran and caught up to them. He was holding his hands up to show that he came in peace.
"I know you two are not going to believe me but I didn't do anything."
The twins actually did believe that. But, that didn't mean they believed that Ethan was in the clear. "All we know is that the minute that you got here, you went right for Danny. And your brother went for Lydia."
Ethan shook his head. "We're not gonna hurt him."
"Why should we believe you?" Scott shot back.
"Because we knew one of them was gonna be important to you two, and now we know it's Lydia."
Sabrina stepped forward to Ethan and pointed her finger at him. "Listen here, if you and your brother hurt Lydia, I will not hesitate to rip your throat out."
Scott was about to move in-between Sabrina and Ethan but couldn't when his eyes were drawn to a car's headlights that were darting left and right as the car wasn't moving straight. He narrowed his eyes at it just before it went and crashed into a parked car. Scott ran over to see if the driver was okay but opened the door to see that the car was empty. There didn't seem to be any sign of anyone but he froze when he noticed something.
"What is it?" Ethan asked when he noticed the look Scott had on.
Scott bent down and picked up a dead moth from the driver's seat.
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The parking lot was now filled with police and lit up with red and blue siren lights. The Sheriff had pulled Melissa, Scott and Stiles, who Scott had quickly called, off to the side.
"Hang on there," the sheriff muttered. "They were both in the car?"
"No, Dad. They're trying to tell you that it was two separate kidnappings, okay? Two doctors, both gone." "So, whose car is this?" he asked Stiles. It was Melissa who answered. "Dr. Hilyard. The on-call doctor. The E.R. attending is the one that never made it in."
Stiles was nodding and Scott and Sabrina were sharing a look with his mother. All of this was noted by the Sheriff. It seemed like the four of them seemed to understand something that he couldn't see.
"Okay," the sheriff breathed. "Let me just focus on getting your story first, all right?" he asked Melissa before turning to their children. "Guys, give us a second?"
Scott, Stiles and Sabrina nodded before moving off to the side to talk in private.
"These are definitely sacrifices, right?" Scott asked him.
Stiles nodded. "Yeah. It's one that Deaton mentioned. Healers." "What about Danny? He threw up mistletoe. That's not a coincidence." said Sabrina. "And if he hadn't been with Ethan, he probably would've died. And Danny's not a healer." Scott finished.
Stiles didn't understand it either. He started to open his mouth when he looked toward his dad. He narrowed his eyes in his direction which Scott and Sabrina noticed so they turned around to look back at the Sheriff who was on the phone.
"Can you two hear that?" he asked as he pointed over to his dad.
"They found a body." Scott and Sabrina breathed out.
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Melissa slowly woke up but gasped when she saw her twins and Isaac sleeping off in a corner of her room. "Really boys? Really Sabrina?" she muttered her herself. She then straightened herself up and then shouted. "Boys! Sabrina!" That made them wake up and stand up.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Uh, we were watching over you," said Isaac.
"We wanted to make sure you weren't the third sacrifice," Scott added.
She narrowed her eyes. "But all three of you were asleep."
Scott looked over at Sabrina. "You were on watch last." Now Sabrina looked at him. "What are you talking about?" She looked over at Isaac. "You were on watch last," she said pointing at him. "No, you were." "No," Sabrina shook her head. "You were on watch last." "I might've been on watch last," Isaac admitted.
Melissa rolled her eyes. "My heroes. Wait, didn't you say that they were all doctors? I mean, I haven't had an M.D. recently attached to the end of my name, so I think I'm in the clear."
"Yeah, but it could just come under any kind of healer, mom. And you were definitely a healer last night," he said with both worry and pride.
"Yeah? Well, I'm not gonna be anyone's human sacrifice today. So, the three of you, get your butts to school."
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Jennifer Blake walked into the Chemistry classroom and bared down on the students with a smile.
"Good morning. As you all know, Mr. Harris is still missing, I mean, sick," she quickly tried to correct herself. "Anyway, I'm filling in while we all hope and pray for a more qualified substitute to take my place. Okay, so let's get started, shall we?" Ms. Blake was looking over at Scott, Stiles and Sabrina who were looking straight back at her.
It was no secret now that she knew about them just as they knew about her helping Derek while they had been away. And they were also able to guess that there was more to it from how Derek tried to not talk too much of the issue but Ms. Blake's honey sweet scent had been all over him when they came back. It was plainly obvious on what else had happened. Something they found weird, to be honest. Derek and their English teacher?
As they sat there in class, Scott was trying not to think about it as he watched Ms. Blake, but Stiles narrowed his eyes at her. He didn't know why, but he was feeling something...off with how Ms. Blake seemed to be handling things especially with how she had been thrown into them. Not wrong, but off. But he shook it out of it. He had too much to think about without worrying about Derek's odd romantic dilemmas.
"Hey," Stiles whispered over to Scott. "My dad said that the E.R. attending wasn't strangled but did die from asphyxiation. They just don't know how."
"Do you think the on-call doctor could still be alive?" Scott asked trying to have some hope. "Dr. Hilyard?" whispered Sabrina as she turned around in her seat, now facing Scott and Stiles. Scott nodded his head. "I don't know," Stiles breathed out. "But Scott, Sabrina, there's got to be at least twenty other doctors in that hospital, at least, you know? Any one of them could be next." Scott and Sabrina nodded to let him know that they understood their problem. They couldn't keep watch and protect them all.
But Scott felt his phone vibrate. He took it out and saw that it was Deaton and ducked down to the side to answer it. "Hey doc. Sorry, but I'm in class right now. Can I call you back later," he whispered into his phone.
"Unfortunately, no. I honestly thought I might never have to burden you like this, but I'm afraid at the moment, you're my only hope." Deaton was now looking down at the moth he had grasped in his hand. "I'm going to be taken and I need you to find me."
At that moment, the call cut off. Deaton then looked over at his windows which were now covered with moths. Gathering to block out the light.
"Doc, doc, doc? What's happening?" Scott tried to call after him but nothing was turning up. He looked over at Sabrina to see that, from the grim look on her face, she had just heard everything.
"Miss. McCall,"
Sabrina turned around and faced the front again. "Get back to work, please." Ms. Blake ordered as Sabrina nodded and got back to her notes. She then felt her phone vibrate. She took it out and saw that she had a text from Isaac.
Boyd and I need your help. Fake a sickness and meet us outside of the school
Sabrina put her phone away before placing her hands over her stomach and bent over her desk as she groaned in pain.
Everyone turned to look over at her. Scott and Stiles suddenly became concerned for Sabrina. Ms. Blake walked over to Sabrina. "Miss. McCall, are you okay?"
She shook her head. "No-my stomach is killing me," she let out a groan. "I think I have a stomach ache," she looked up at Ms. Blake. "May I go to the nurse?"
Ms. Blake excused Sabrina from class. Sabrina dropped the act when she walked out of her English class. She made her way outside and spotted Isaac and Boyd standing in front of the school, waiting for her. She walked down the steps and stood in front of the two.
"What do you my help for?"
"We need your brain to protect Derek." "Why do you need my brain?"
"Boyd here has a great plan but we need a little help with it." "And this is where your brain comes in," Boyd finished for Isaac.
Sabrina nodded. "Okay, show me what you got."
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Isaac, Sabrina and Boyd stepped into the loft and spotted Derek by the stairs.
"Go back to school," he told them.
"Well, actually, we can't," Isaac said as they kept moving on in. "Boyd, Sabrina and I are incredibly and unbelievably sick."
"With what, brain damage?" Derek spat sarcastically at them.
"Well, I have a migraine, Sabrina has a stomach ache and Boyd here has explosive diarrhea."
Boyd rolled his eyes. "We're here to protect you," he said getting to the point.
Derek then started to climb down the steps. "You're here to protect me? Well, I'm in trouble then."
"Well, actually, Boyd here came up with a plan with a little help from Sabrina." Isaac said.
Boyd nodded. "Yeah, I thought about the time Gerard had me and Erica locked up, tied up with those electrical wires pushing current through us." He then started to unzip the bag he brought to reveal wires and cables. "I was wondering how we could do something like that. But on a bigger scale." They quickly got to work on spreading water throughout the floor of the loft. "In a pool of electrified water it can take up to fifty milliamps to kill a normal human, less than the power it takes to turn on a light bulb." Sabrina stated.
"That's comforting," Derek mumbled at them.
"If we disable the circuit interrupter in the building's electrical room, the current will keep coming," Sabrina continued. "And anyone who steps foot in here, they'll get a pretty shocking surprise."
Isaac smirked at that. "Especially someone who's barefoot."
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Derek's loft was now completely flooded with water. Derek, Sabrina, Isaac, and Boyd were on the high ground.
"Look, Derek, you finally have an indoor swimming pool," Sabrina joked. "Shut up," he mumbled as Boyd then took an electric wire and threw it into the water where it started to shoot off sparks.
"Is this gonna kill them?" Isaac asked them.
"I hope so," Boyd mumbled..
"It's time to get rid of the Alpha pack," Sabrina said, making Derek, Isaac and Boyd agree with her as they all gazed hard at the electrified water.
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At the loft, the four werewolves were still patiently waiting for Kali and the rest of the Alpha Pack to come and fall for their trap.
They had been quietly waiting with each other but Isaac was getting restless just sitting there, doing nothing. He moved his eyes all over the loft but found something off at the panel by the door. "Hey, isn't the light on that supposed to be on?"
Derek's face tightened as he looked at it. "Yeah."
"What does it mean if it's not?" Isaac asked. "Someone cut the auxiliary power." Boyd stiffened up. "Wait, what about the main-"
But the lights in the loft all shut off and they were now left completely in the dark. Derek went and took a step into the water and saw that it was no longer electrified.
"Derek?" Sabrina said to him. But Derek just kept walking until he was at the center of the room and faced up at the door. "What do we do now?" asked Isaac.
Derek let his red eyes burn. "We fight," he told them.
Almost as soon as he said that, the door started to creak. Someone was outside it and was removing the latches. Sabrina, Isaac and Boyd quickly moved to stand beside Derek just as the door started to move aside and Kali was now in their sights.
She smiled as she started to step in. "Gonna be honest, Derek. When Ennis died, I thought to myself, I'd just go for these teenagers, hiding behind them, and i thought, what's a girl got to do to get you alone?" She then looked back at the entrance just as Ethan and Aiden came in with Jennifer Blake in their grasp. Derek glared harder at them which only made Kali's smile wider. "You and me Derek, or they tear her apart. What do you say? You think you can beat me one on one?"
Derek looked at Sabrina, Isaac and Boyd and sent them away. They reluctantly moved off to the side leaving the two of them alone in the center of the room.
Derek then faced Kali down. "I'm gonna rip your throat out. With my teeth."
They both then growled at one another before they charged for one another.
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Derek tried to gain a step against Kali but she was both faster and stronger than him. She was starting to toss him with Sabrina, Isaac and Boyd looking on in helplessness and Jennifer looking on in horror. Kali jumped on top of Derek's table and sent a kick that sent Derek hurtling into the water. He roared through the pain and stood up to face at her as she stared down on him from the high ground she gained for herself. She then jumped down and sent another kick at him that threw him into the air which made Jennifer let out a piercing scream.
Isaac tried to move for Jennifer but Derek held out his hand. "No!" he screamed at him.
Aiden and Ethan held her tighter and Isaac stopped in his tracks. "Wait," he shouted back at Boyd before he could go for them.
Derek charged for Kali again and managed to get in two hits before she blocked his third and thrust her palm into his chest to make him stumble back.
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The Jeep skidded to a stop just outside the loft and the three of them hopped out of the car and quickly ran for the power generator for the building.
"Okay," Stiles said as he got to the console. "What do we do?" he asked looking over at Cora.
"Pull them. Pull all of them," she said before she and Lydia started yanking all the levers.
Stiles went and sent a quick message for Isaac.
As everyone kept watching Derek and Kali fight, Isaac felt his phone vibrate and opened Stiles message. He quickly ran for Jennifer with Boyd right behind him, though he broke off and headed for Derek. Aiden and Ethan let her go and moved to fight with Isaac but he kept running and pushed Jennifer back. He made it to her just before the water became electrified. Derek, Kali, Sabrina and Boyd got shocked as the other four looked on as four of them fell to the ground.
Kali shook off the shocks and pointed at Derek as she glared at the twins. "Take him!" she shouted at them.
The twins ran over and grabbed Derek while Isaac stayed back and held Jennifer. Kali grabbed Boyd and lifted him off the floor as the twins held Derek down and forced his arms up and his claws to extend. When they did, Kali raised Boyd just above them and then threw him down for Derek's claws to pierce his heart and lung.
Sabrina watched in horror as she felt the currents go through her body, making her shake uncontrollably every so often.
Boyd let out a pained gasp as Derek grunted as he looked up in horror. His red eyes glowing a brighter red as he felt Boyd's power start to seep out of him and into himself.
As they were running upstairs, Cora stopped in mid-step and gasped. Stiles went and shared a with Cora.
Lydia looked between the two of them. "What? What is it?" she frantically asked them.
Cora didn't answer. She just went and continued running and Stiles and Lydia ran after her.
The twins then lightly let Derek go and he lightly brought Boyd down until he fell to his knees in front of him. Kali spared Derek a look before she started to walk off.
Kali lightly walked through the water. Aiden and Ethan shared a look before they followed after her. "I'm giving you till the next full moon, Derek. Make the smart choice. Join the pack, Or next time, I'm killing all of you."
They then took off from the loft door. They moved for the stairs but stopped short when as Stiles, Cora and Lydia made it to the landing below them. The three of them stopped too when they noticed the Alphas. Cora then ran past them as Stiles ran after her. Lydia moved for the door herself but stopped and looked back over at Aiden who looked away from her as soon as she caught his eye. She then moved off to join the others.
Isaac was still holding onto Jennifer but they were both looking on in horror at Derek who had Boyd in his grasp. Sabrina tried to sit up but couldn't as she was still feeling weak after being electrocuted. A tear slid down her face as she looked over at Derek.
Derek was looking at where his claws were piercing at Boyd's chest. He was scared to pull them out. "Hey, hey" he said to him.
"It's okay," Boyd mumbled at him as blood seeped from his mouth. "No, no. No, it's not," Derek gasped at him. "It's not." "It's all okay Derek." Derek looked up at Boyd's dimming eyes with tears running down his. "I'm sorry," he said to him.
Boyd's eyes started to drop ever slowly. "The full moon," he said weakly. "That feeling...that was worth it." Derek's hold over Boyd's chest was loosening as he felt Boyd's heart slowing down, quickly. "There's a lunar eclipse. I...always wondered what...what that felt like for one of us."
Derek gasped as Boyd's life then faded away. Stiles and Cora got to the loft entrance and their eyes fell on Derek being on his knees with Boyd's body in front of him. Cora broke off and ran for them, with Stiles following up behind her. As they made it to them, Lydia got to the entrance and stood next to Isaac and Ms. Blake on the floor as they stared at them all mourn. Cora was holding onto Boyd and crying while Stiles went to grip onto Derek's shoulder as the Alpha was transfixed on his fallen beta.
Stiles eyes then fell onto Derek's shaking hands that were stained with blood.
Sabrina whimpered as she stood up. She then took a step forward and fell but Stiles immediately looked over at her and ran over to her, catching her before she hit the ground.
"Babe, are you okay?" Stiles asked frantically as she stared up at him. "I-I was electrocuted," she groaned out again as she slowly felt her body heal. Stiles helped her stand up against and draped her arm around his shoulder while his arm was around her waist. Together the two moved slowly toward the door of the loft.
Stiles paused by Lydia. "Can you-" "I'll stay here," she said to him as he nodded.
"Thanks. I'm going to take Sabrina home and then I'll come back here." Lydia nodded as Stiles and Sabrina moved slowly out of the loft.
[Edited 2/21/17]