Odette's outfit
Chapter Forty-Eight
🌒 Codominance 🌘
Odette and Stiles stand around in the garage of the McCall House late at night, where Stiles is in the middle of repairing his Jeep while Odette holds a flashlight for him. Stiles leans over the open hood of the jeep and pulls out a tangle of wires making him look over at Odette with pursed lips as she raised her eyebrows at him.
After a moment, he shrugs and reaches back in to pull out a large, rusty cylinder of some kind, which he also sets aside with the wires. Odette furrowed her brows looking at him in disbelief as he then grabs a wrench before reaching in to tighten a bolt. "Are you sure you know what your doing?" Odette asked and Stiles nodded, not looking up at her, "Of course I do." He said making her raise her eyebrows and look at him crazy.
"Really? Cause I might not know much about cars but whatever your doing doesn't sit right with me." She said and he glanced up at her, "Odie, I've had this jeep for years. I know how to fix it." He said and she held her hands up in defense and shrugged.
She watch him work on the jeep for a few minutes before speaking up again, "Are you sure I can't just call Charles? He knows a lot about cars." She said. Stiles looked up and gave her an exasperated look making her smile sheepishly when Scott walked into the garage.
"So, what did Liam want?" Stiles asked and Scott sighed, "To help." He said and Odette raised her eyebrows. "You gonna let him?" She asked and he thought about it for a moment before answering, "Eventually, I guess..."
"Okay, but shouldn't he be a little higher on your priority list right now? I mean, since he's the only other actual werewolf? Your only actual Beta?" Stiles asked and Scott sighed and slightly shook his head, "You didn't see the way he came at me. You didn't see the look in his eyes..."
"Well, I've been with you on a full moon, so I've seen that look. You want to get the band back together, Scott? You don't leave out the drummer." Stiles said and Scott sighs, frustratingly but knows Stiles is right.
"Can you go try it?" Stiles asked, glancing at Odette who nodded and climbed into the driver seat before turning the key in the ignition, causing the Jeeps engine to roar as it successfully turns on.
Both Scott and Odette look at Stiles impressed by the fact that he got it to work, and Stiles pumps his fist in satisfaction. "Success! Yes!"
"Now let's get this show on the road ladies." Odette said as she turned to climb into the back seat but paused slightly as Scott climbed into the passenger seat. He went to put in the back seat but then noticed what made Odette pause. A few large bottles of oil sat in the backseat making Odette and Scott look at Stiles who stood outside the passenger side looked at the bottles with pursed lips.
"There's a minor leak." Stiles says as he holds up his hand and pinches his index finger and thumb together in emphasis, "Very minor." He said. Scott and Odette glanced at each other warily before she sighed and climbed into the back seat, sitting next to the bottles.
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Scott's in the middle of reading a book about damnatio memoriae while Stiles drives the Jeep and Odette has her back against the side of the jeep with her feet up on the seat whilst she also reads. Stiles let's out a deep breath and wipes a bead of sweat off of his brow, and Scott sighs deeply, making it clear that the heat is starting to get to them both. Odette on the other hand seems to either not care or instantly visibly bothered by it.
"Man, I think the Jeep's overheating again." Scott said and Stiles sighed, "Probably." He said. "Should we pull over and put more antifreeze in it?" Scott asked and Stiles sighed, slightly shaking his head. "No we can just turn the heat on." He said before doing so making Scott roll down his window while Odette made a face not looking up.
A few seconds later the air coming into the jeep turned cold as if they were in the city mid fall. They guys instantly noticed this and Scott glanced back at Odette and Stiles looked at her through the rearview mirror as she glanced up at them with a smile. "Keep the window down and as long as theres air blowing into the jeep it should be cool." She said and Stiles rolled his window half way down.
"You find anything yet?" Stiles asked glancing over at Scott who shook his head, "It's mostly the same stuff you guys already knew." Scott said before reading out loud. "Damnatio Memoriae was a Roman practice, a government decree to destroy the images of the damned. And they would scratch off their names from inscriptions, chisel their face off of statues. The Romans believed it was a punishment worse than death."
"Being forgotten." Stiles and Odette both said at the same time making them glance at each other.
"Listen to this "Damnatio memoriae was later used on a serial killer in 1598 known as the Demon Tailor. He lured children into his shop in Paris, where he would kill them and boil the flesh off their bones to eat." Scott read making Odette perk up, "I've heard about that. The courts believed the crimes so horrible, they ordered all documents destroyed. No one knows his real name." She said and Scott nodded while Stiles made a face.
"So, the Dread Doctors resurrected a killer who was so bad that he had to literally be erased from history?" Stiles asked and Scott looked over at him, "A killer that became a werewolf." Scott said and Odette sighed before sitting in the middle of the back seat, leaning forward slightly.
"And becoming a werewolf probably made him a better killer." She said and they glance at each other for a moment before Stiles revs his engine and hits the gas, clearly in a hurry to get Kira back and return to Beacon Hills.
A little while later Odette was now the one driving while Stiles sat in the passenger seat and Scott in the back. "Has either if you talked to Malia?" Scott asked making Stiles and Odette glance at each other before she sighed softly, "She's not talking to anyone." Odette said and Scott sighs.
"I think I know why. I think she found her mother." Scott said making Stiles's eyes widen. "Her mother? As in the Desert Wolf?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded, "I knew she was still looking. She erased her name off my board, but I just... I knew she hadn't stopped." Stiles said and Scott sighed softly.
"When I was at her house, I'm also... pretty sure Braeden was there, too." Scott said making Stiles look back at him shocked, "Braeden? What, did you catch her scent?" Stiles asked and Scott shook his head. "Actually, it was her motorcycle. I smelled her exhaust." Scott says and Stiles sighed, "What the hell do you think they're gonna do?" He asked and Scott shakes his head slightly.
"Something that Malia doesn't want to tell us about, so... probably something bad." Scott said and then Stiles notices the look on Scott's face and immediately realizes what is going on. "Oh, my God! You already know, don't you? It's like... It's the chemosignals, right?" He asked and Scott hesitates for a moment before he finally nods in agreement, "Aggression." He said making Stiles and Odette glance at each other.
"How much?" Odette asked, glancing at Scott through the rearview mirror, "I think she's gonna kill her. She's gonna kill her mother." Scott said and before anyone could answer the engine starts to sputter, and Odette glanced around slightly panicked.
"What's happening?" She asked and Stiles frowns slightly, leaning over to look at the dashboard. "Um... Yeah, we're out of gas. It's out of gas." Stiles said and Odette furrow her brows as she gestures toward the dashboard, "It says we have half a tank." She said and Stiles shrugged slightly.
"Yeah, not necessarily." He said and she sighed and shot him a look, "You didn't fix the gas gauge, did you?" She asked and he looked at her slightly embarrassed as he awkwardly scratched the back of his neck.
"Not necessarily..."
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A little while later they walked up to a gas station and Stiles went up to the door and pulled on it. "Locked." He called back while Odette takes off a chain around a gas pump. "You got a twenty?" Scott asked and Stiles nodded and pulled some money before shoving it through the gap in the door before walking over to Scott and Odette.
Odette leaned against one of the pillars watching as the boys filled up a red gas can. Her eyes went back and forth between the two while they stood in awkward silence for a moment before Stiles finally sighs and speaks up. "There was a pin. There was one little metal pin attached to the scaffolding. He was trying to pull me down." Stiles said and Scott nodded while Odette sighed softly and walked over and grabbed Stiles's hand, putting her chin on his shoulder.
"He was trying to kill you." Scott said and Stiles nodded, "Yes... and then I pulled the pin... and all these metal braces came down. And one of them just... just went right through him." Stiles said and Scott look pained by the realization of just how badly Theo manipulated them.
"Why didn't you think you could tell me?" Scott asked, ignored the look Odette gave him when he asked that. "It was just the way you were looking at me that night... you know? You were standing there with a wrench in your hand, and you were looking at me like I just bashed your head in with it. You know, like I'd broken your sacred rule, and that's it- there's no going back."
"I know the difference." Scott said making Stiles look at him confused, "What?" He asked. "I know what self-defense is." Scott said and it was quiet for a moment until Odette spoke up.
"Can I say that I told you so and that you should probably start listening to me?" She asked, smiling when Scott gave her an exasperated look. Stiles chuckled slightly, wrapping his arm around her shoulder before they started walking back to the jeep.
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"Hey, Guys? Guys, take a look at this." Stiles said, waking Scott up and making Odette look up from her book. He points out toward a large, tall plateau in the distance, where thunder is rumbling overhead. They're eyes widen in shock when they see lightning striking the top of the cliff, and Stiles turns to give Scott an incredulous look.
"What the hell do you think's happening to her out there?" Stiles asked and Odette sighed and raised her eyebrows, "Something that looks like that? Probably something that's no good." She said. Stiles nodded slightly and shifts gears on the Jeep and hits the gas to speed up even faster.
A little while later, just outside of Shiprock, the three of them stood outside the jeep watching the thunder. "I don't know why I believed him." Scott spoke up making Stiles look over at him, "I don't know why we didn't just keep talking that night. Five more minutes, and we would've figured out that there were two different stories. We would've filled a lot of blanks."
"We should've just kept talking." Scott says and Stiles sighed softly, "He knew we wouldn't." He said and Scott sighed. "I didn't want it to happen like this." He said making Stiles look at him confused, "Like what?" Stiles asked.
"I knew, sooner or later, one of us was going to get a little too much blood on our hands. I half-thought it would be Malia... now I'm kind of thinking it'll be Odette. " Scott said making Stiles nod in agreement as they looked at Odette who stood a little far away from them glancing around. "Well, Malia definitely seems like she's working on it. And Odette definitely plans to get Theo's blood on her hands." Stiles said.
"I just always thought that if it were to happen, then it should be me. I'm the one who's constantly putting you guys in danger, risking your lives... for people you don't even know. It should've been me." Scott says looking down at the ground while Stiles seems both relieved and comforted by Scott's confession, while also sympathizing with his position.
They were quiet for a moment until Scott looked over at Odette and spoke up. "You should have heard her that night." Scott said making Stiles glance at him before looking over at Odette, "I don't think she's ever been that pissed at me. Actually, I don't think I've ever seen her that pissed ever." Scott said then sighed.
"She called him out the second her finished talking and definitely put me in my place after I walked back into the clinic. I don't think I've ever scared of her until that night." Scott said and Stiles sighed and nodded, "Yeah, I kind of made the mistake of trying to break up with her the morning after." Stiles said making Scott look at him shocked while Stiles looked at him. "She wasnt having any of it." Stiles said and Scott chuckled and nodded.
"Guys." Odette called out before starting to walk back over to them, "I think I know what's out here. I caught a scent." She said when she got up to them. "What?" Stiles asked and she glanced around and sighed softly, "Skinwalkers." She said and Scott and Stiles glanced at each other. "Are those good or bad?" Stiles asked and she shrugged.
"Both, I guess. In Navajo culture they're a kind shapeshifter that can shapeshift into any animal they want, sometimes even people. They don't really appreciate strangers on their land. Skinwalkers will sometimes try to help a shapeshifter deal with the animal inside, but there's always a huge cost." She explained and Scott's eyes widened slightly, "What's the cost?" He asked and she took a deep breath.
"Charles told me once that if you go to a skinwalker for help, they test you. And if Kira's mom brought her here because of her fox and she fails the test..." She trails off as she looks out at the thunder clouds, "She'll become a skinwalker and there's little to no way out of it." She said making Scott and Stiles look at each other wide-eyed.
"We should probably get going then." Stiles and and they nodded and started walking back to the jeep but then Scott stops and looks out at the distance. "Hey, guys... Do you see that?" He asked and they walked back over to him, "It's Kira." He said as there was a flash of light closer to the ground. "Alright, come on. Let's get going." Odette said and they ran over to the car.
Minutes later they pull up right behind Kira and Noshiko, who was holding up a sword. Scott instantly jumps out the jeep, roaring at the Skinwalkers with his fangs and Alpha eyes out. "Get in!" Odette called out from the back seat.
Kira rushes toward the car, with Scott following after her to make sure she makes it safely, though Noshiko stays behind to keep an eye on the the Skinwalkers. The second Skinwalker throws her spear at the Jeep in hopes of disabling it as well, but Noshiko uses her katana to slice the spear in half lengthwise.
"Come on, come on! Let's go!" Stiles yelled and Noshiko rushes into the passenger seat of the Jeep, and as soon as she's inside, Stiles wastes no time before hitting the gas and speeding away.
"Everyone okay?" Stiles asked and Noshiko nodded while Odette cringed slightly. "Not really." She said making them glance back to see Scott and Kira kissing passionately while Odette cringed. "You came back for me." Kira said happily when they pulled apart and Scott smiles and nods. "I love you. I love you so much." Kira says before kissing Scott passionately again and Odette made a face.
"I'm uncomfortable."