THIRD PERSON P.O.V.

Stiles Stilinski was currently struggling to keep a very injured Liam upright as he and Hayden pushed through a set of double doors into the school. When the loud shrieking sound echoed around the lacrosse field moments prior, the Beast showed up almost instantly. Liam, being the hot headed and extremely bold beta, decided to take it upon himself to take the Beast on. Stiles could see it all happening and he knew that it wasn't going to end well. Not only that, but Scott, Kasey and Kira were all still inside the building when this was going down, so they wouldn't be able to help.

The Beast mangled Liam up and Stiles and Hayden bolted across the field, maneuvering through the crowds of screaming people and scooped Liam off the ground, each taking a side as they decided to pull him into the school. The Beast was roaring loudly and as they slid across the tiled floor, it sounded as if it had entered the school building.

Waves of people poured down the hallways and Stiles took it upon himself to be the alpha in this situation, he adjusted his grip on Liam and motioned for Hayden to follow him as they zipped down the hallway to the nearest classroom door. Stiles fumbled with the handle before shoving the door open with his shoulder and pulling Liam and Hayden behind him.

"On the desk, on the desk." Stiles panted as he struggled to get Liam upright against the desk.

Liam was screaming in pain as Stiles swept his arms over the top of the desk, knocking all of whichever teacher's belongings onto the floor. His ears were ringing as Liam continued to scream and when Hayden was finally able to push him onto the desk top, Stiles' stomach churned at the sight.

The jersey that was on Liam's torso was shredded and his skin was ripped underneath. Blood was dripping off of him onto the floor, and needless to say if he wasn't a supernatural creature there's no way in hell he'd be alive right now.

"I'm okay, I'm fine." Liam groaned as Hayden and Stiles began to assess the damage.

Hayden grabbed a piece of fabric that had a large chunk of skin on it and she gasped and dropped it back onto Liam, Stiles' held back the bile rising up the back of his throat and looked to the floor. He had to focus.

"What? Is it bad?" Liam asked in a panic.

Hayden quickly responded with, "No."

While, at the same time, Stiles supplied a very disgusted, "Very."

Hayden shot him a look of annoyance and Stiles just gaped at her and gestured to the extremely gruesome sight before them. Hayden nervously moved the fabric of Liam's jersey around and said, "Okay, what do you guys usually do when this happens?"

"I usually pass out, and I think I might do that." Stiles mumbled.

Hayden lifted another piece of skin and Stiles' eyes began to roll to the back of his head and the room began to spin. Hayden noticed that he was about to black out and she quickly snapped, "Stiles!"

"Okay, okay. Scott did this with pain. He could trigger it, pain makes you human." Stiles stuttered, averting his gaze from Liam's very mangled torso.

Hayden gawked at him in confusion, "He's already in pain?"

"Right, okay, but maybe adding a little more could help take away the pain?" Stiles attempted to explain his thought process, although he knew how crazy he sounded.

Hayden glanced at Liam and said, "Take away his pain."

Stiles watched as she leaned in and pressed her lips to Liam's gently. He saw the black veins appear on Hayden's cheeks and Liam stopped screaming and his breathing became less erratic. Stiles didn't even think to suggest Hayden trying to suck the pain out of Liam, but he's glad that Hayden had decided to test her theory. A few moments passed and she pulled out of the kiss and smiled at Liam as he laid his head back on the table and began to breathe normally again.

Stiles nodded, "Okay next time I'll kiss him."

"I can't believe that worked," Hayden said quietly.

Suddenly, Stiles had the urge to find Kasey, mainly because the main crisis of Liam was adverted so now he could give his full attention back to finding the love of his life. He patted Hayden on the shoulder proudly, "You're fantastic, can you watch him? I'm gonna go and try to find Kasey and Scott. Stay here."

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Stiles dipped out of the classroom and noticed that students were still running and screaming through the hallways. He didn't exactly know where Kasey could be, but he thought it best to try and call her, even though the odds of her answering her phone in this moment were slim. Strategically moving through the crowds he held his phone to his hear, listening to it ring as he scanned every square inch of his surroundings for Kasey. He would be able to spot her from a mile away.

Her phone went to voicemail and he groaned as he ended the call and shoved the device into his pocket. He could hear the Beast roaring through the hallways and he swallowed nervously, praying that he didn't run into it on his hunt for Kasey. He hates not knowing where she is when they're literally having a normal day, so the fact that their lives are on the line and he has no idea where she is... that's enough stress to send him into cardiac arrest.

He turned yet another corner, heading towards the entrance where Kasey would have went through by the locker rooms. He didn't really have much of an idea of what was going on with Kira, but when he noticed that Kasey was one of the people going after her, he had a feeling that something bad would certainly come of it. Then again, very few are the days when there isn't something bad in Beacon Hills when a certain Stiles Stilinski is concerned.

He noticed that the students had mostly disappeared from this section of the school, so his trek down the hallway was a lot easier since he wasn't dodging people sprinting and pummeling through the clearly not wide enough hallways. His cleats clacked against the tile floor, that being the only sound he could hear because for some reason the screaming of the students had vanished. Stiles glanced over his shoulder and noticed that the hallway was eerily silent and empty.

"Weird," he mumbled as he made his way to the classroom without a door, which had somehow been ripped off... He noticed there were streaks of blood on the floor and glass littered the entrance to the room. He peaked his head inside the room and his heart nearly leapt out of his chest when he saw the love of his life standing by the window, looking outside.

Stiles clumsily tripped over his two feet as he approached her quickly, "Kasey? Baby, we have to go--"

At the sound of his voice, her head whipped around to face him and his sentence fell short when he looked into her eyes-- because certainly he could tell when they weren't those of the girl he was head over heels in love with. This was not Kasey McCall standing in front of him. To anyone else, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference because she looked just like her usual self, but this wasn't her. This was not his Kasey.

"Kasey? That is such a darling name, isn't it?" she spoke and the tone in her voice made Stiles' skin crawl and heart sink.

His first thought was, oh God not again.

Stiles swallowed down his nerves and put on the bravest face he could muster up in this panic inducing moment, "Yeah, it's a beautiful name, which is extremely fitting to the girl it belongs to... speaking of which, where is she?"

Her lips twisted upwards into a smug smirk and she began to slowly approach Stiles, "Right here. Over there. Oh, maybe above us? Below us?"

"Funny," Stiles responded evenly, "who are you, exactly?"

She ran the tips of her dainty fingers along the top of a desk, giving everything in the room except Stiles, her undivided attention, "I've had many different names, my dear."

"Yeah, well, you're obviously not the Beast, because we figured out that it's not Kasey." Stiles stated matter-of-factly, praying to not be proven wrong in this very moment.

A laugh that sounded like a second cousin to Kasey's melodious laugh bubbled from behind the lips that Stiles knows all too well, "You are correct... I'm not the Beast of Gevaudan, nor am I the Maid of Gevaudan."

Stiles stared at Kasey's body in confusion, because he had no idea what the hell this lady was spilling. The Maid of Gevaudan? What the hell is that? He's certainly never heard of it before.

She batted her eyelashes adoringly, "Certainly you've heard the tale of the Maid of Gevaudan?"

"I can't say that I have." Stiles stated.

"Well," she breathed out in excitement, "the story is of a girl who has to save Gevaudan from this nightmarish Beast."

Stiles had known that the Dread Doctors had brought the Beast back to life, meaning it had existed previously. So, if this tale is true than this "Maid of Gevaudan" must have been the person to defeat it the first time. If the person inside of Kasey isn't the Beast nor the Maid, then who the hell is she?

"How do you play into the story?" Stiles' voice shook from the nervousness bubbling inside of his trembling body.

Yet another smirk adorned Kasey's face, "Well, we all crave a good hearted love story, no?"

"Love story?" he repeated back her word, not quite sure where she was going with this information, but he knew to pay close attention because it would be of importance at some point.

Kasey's movements seemed so effortless, almost as if she was floating around the empty classroom, her fingertips grazing over table tops and chair backs. Whomever was inside of Kasey was certainly very confident, because these were clearly not Kasey's mannerisms. Stiles' eyes followed her body as she slowly turned to face him with yet another dazzling smile, "Monster is such a relative term, darling. To you, the Beast of Gevaudan is a nightmare running around your town... to me, he is the love of my life."

The love of her life? His mind was reeling with so many questions, but he knew he had to word them carefully because he didn't want to set whomever this lady was off, plus he's sure that she's dangerous and won't hesitate to end his life-- meaning he's got to be extremely careful with his sarcastic remarks.

"Okay, so you're the love of his life, got it... what does that have to do with Kasey?" he wanted to take a step away from her because she was getting awfully close, but he didn't want to set her off.

A voice that was similar but also different to Kasey's bounced off the white walls of the classroom, "I want him to recognize me when he sees me again, and she looked the part."

"When he sees you? Wait, you haven't seen him?" Stiles couldn't help but ask the question.

She shook her head from side to side, "Sadly, no, I've only been able to catch him in the form that he does not know me in... I've been trying to help him the best I can, so he knows I am here... but alas, he has never woken up with me. So, you see... what's your name again?"

Stiles blinked rapidly, "Uh, Stiles."

"Stiles, such an interesting name... but you see, Stiles, I have to go to him and he is here and you are keeping me from him. It's been so nice chatting with you, really it has, but you're gonna have to excuse me."

She went to walk around him but Stiles, without thinking this fully through, stepped in front of her. Kasey's eyebrow quirked upwards and the corner of her lip tugged into a smirk, "Oh darling, you can't stop me."

"Let Kasey go." his voice did not shake this time.

Her eyes drifted to a broken lacrosse stick that was a few feet away from her and before Stiles could follow her gaze, she zipped over to it and then cracked him upside the head with the metal. Stiles fell to the ground, his ears ringing as his hands grabbed at his now throbbing skull. The act of violence triggered something inside of this woman who was possessing Kasey, and without hesitation she swung on Stiles' once more. All he could hear was ringing in his ears as he tried to fight her off, but she continued to have the upper hand.

After several swings to his face, chest and his lower stomach-- she dropped the stick to the floor and the metal clanked against the tile. Small droplets of his blood flew onto the floor and Stiles coughed up some blood as he watched her step over him and walk out of the classroom.

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super short and i apologize... lol, the next chapter is gonna be better i promise!!!!