042 — orphaned

season four —
episode six

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DRIVING TOWARDS the animal clinic where the others are heading with an injured Brett Talbot, she sighs dialling a number in her phone.

"Hey, we might need you at the animal clinic" Marlo states receiving an immediate response from the person on the other line that they're on their way.

Sighing she hangs up the mobile phone, pulling into the animal clinics parking lot and rushing inside hearing the panicked voice of her younger brother and the others.

Walking into the examination room seeing the teenager begin seizing a yellow substance out of his mouth.

"What the hell is happening to this kid?" Stiles asks trying to hold him down alongside the others.

Marlo pushes her sleeves of her long sleeve up and standing beside Derek who's frowning trying to use strength to hold the boy down on the table.

"He's been poisoned by a rare wolfsbane, I need to make an incision, and you need to hold him as still as possible" Deaton explains grabbing a scalpel from his equipment table beside them.

"Hey Derek? How about a little werewolf strength?" Stiles states just as Marlo and Isaac both begin to keep ahold of him.

Looking at Derek confused seeing him barely unable to hold the teenage boy down on the table.

"Yeah, I'm not the only one here with werewolf strength" Derek mutters towards his girlfriend's brother.

"If you can't hold him still, the incision might kill him" Deaton explains looking at the sour-wolf and the others.

"Derek, Marlo, Isaac—he's slipping, I don't think I can hold him" Stiles says.

Brett wakes from his unconscious state pushing the people out of his way.

Derek grabs onto Marlo seeing her nearly hit her head on the nearby table.

"Ah" Stiles shouts from the impact of the table and the push off Brett.

Marlo sighs seeing Peter come into the clinic punching the panicked teenager unconscious on to the floor.

"I guess I still have a little werewolf strength myself" Peter says.

Derek, Marlo and Isaac look at him confused at the sudden strength Peter has.

"Yeah, maybe more than a little" Derek states looking at his uncle and then looking down at the wound on his arm struggling to heal, seeing both Isaac and Peter looking at him confused.

Derek discreetly shakes his head at both of them in a shut up motion looking at Marlo who's beside Stiles making sure Brett's okay.

"Hey, Doc? I don't think he's breathing" Stiles states as Deaton bends down beside the two Stilinski siblings making an incision down Brett's chest.

The yellow smoke comes out relieving the boy from the poison, Brett begins breathing in deep breathes on the floor, "Is he okay?" Stiles asks.

"I think he'll be fine, but probably out for a little while" Deaton explains just as Marlo tilts her head hearing the words Brett is whispering.

"Guys, can you hear that? I think he's saying something" Stiles states just as they all lean down to listen to the words.

"The sun, the moon, the truth, the sun, the moon, the truth" Brett whispers calming himself down.

"'Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth' it's Buddhist" Deaton explains knowing about the saying.

Peter looks at the others knowing where the saying comes from, "Satomi" Peter states.

Derek looks at his girlfriend motioning for her to come outside with him, "What's up?" Marlo says looking at him.

"I'm going to get Malia from school, are you okay to get home?" Derek asks fixing the brunettes hair tucking it behind her ear.

"Yeah, I'm going to go meet Lydia at the station, Jordan's on the deadpool list and we agreed last night that we should tell him" Marlo explains.

Derek nods just as Stiles, Isaac and Zara come out from the clinic standing beside Marlo's car ready to go with her, "Be safe, okay?" Derek says looking at his girlfriend.

"You too, I love you" Marlo says kissing him, and turning towards her brother who looks at the two in disgust.

"Definitely didn't need to say that, gross" Stiles mumbles in disbelief.

"Oh believe me I saw enough of that while I use to live with Derek, all the flirting and sexual tension between the two of them" Isaac states gagging receiving a giggle from his girlfriend and a scoff from Stiles.

Marlo chuckles unlocking her car, "Oh, sucks to be you two doesn't it?" Marlo smirks turning the engine on and driving towards Stiles's house for the boy to get changed out of his lacrosse gear.

Earning a confused look from the boy himself, "Stiles, I know you, you'll whinge to me that you didn't get changed, go do it, I'll be back in ten minutes" Marlo states looking at her childhood home.

Stiles sighs getting out of the car and going inside the Stilinski household.

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MARLO LOOKS AT THE two teenagers in the backseats of her car.

"Alright lovebirds, I'm taking you to Argent's apartment" Marlo says pulling out from Stiles's driveway.

Driving towards the Argent apartment soon dropping both Isaac and Zara off so they can do their business before meeting up with everyone later in the day.

"I love you, Mar, be safe okay?" Isaac says in a serious tone as he taps the passenger side window.

"I love you also, Isaac, see you soon Zar" Marlo says looking at the brunette hugging herself behind her boyfriend.

Receiving a soft smile from the witch and a wave, the two teens walk inside the apartment building holding each other's hands.

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MARLO LEAVES ONCE AGAIN pulling up outside her childhood home—honking the horn of her vehicle so Stiles can come out, which he does almost straight after the honks

Stiles gets into the passenger seat clapping his hands together in clean clothes.

Marlo chuckles under her breath as the siblings drive towards the sheriff station to tell Jordan Parrish the news.

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DEREK WALKS IN THE shadows at the high school hearing a certain teacher going on about their lesson.

He leans against the wall tiredly but also worried about the way Marlo's going to react to the plans he has for their future and if they will even happen anymore.

"Malia" Derek whispers knowing the teenager who is also his cousin will hear him due to her supernatural hearing.

After waiting for two minutes the werecoyote walks out of her classroom towards the whisper, looking at the man confused, "What are you doing here?" Malia asks.

"Brett's still out of it, I need to find his pack and warn them about the deadpool" Derek explains.

"So, what do you need me for? Can't your girlfriend help you?" Malia shrugs knowing Marlo's quite powerful herself.

"I know a little something about this pack, they have a kind-of secret meeting place in the woods, no one's spent more time in the woods of Beacon Hills than you and Marlo's busy" Derek explains walking down the staircase towards the light haired girl.

"This is Brett's" Derek states throwing the teenagers lacrosse jersey at her, Malia catches the clothing and looks at Derek confused.

"Breathe it in" Derek says, "I'm not good at that yet" Malia states, "Try it, I'll teach you" Derek says looking at her.

She holds the piece of clothing up against her face, "Focus on the different scents, some are tied to identity, others give off an emotion" Derek explains.

Malia inhales the scent of the jersey looking up at the male nodding that she has somewhat of an idea where the pack is hiding.

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MARLO, STILES AND LYDIA all arrive at the station entering together.

"He likes you, go flirt with him" Stiles suggests to his sister who looks at him with her eyebrows raised.

"Stiles, I'm not going to flirt with another man, I'm in a relationship with someone I love" Marlo snarls walking towards Jordan anyways.

"Hey, do you happen to know when my dad will be back?" Stiles asks making himself known to Jordan and Riley who are talking at their desks.

Jordan looks at Marlo and gets up from his desk, "Your dad should be back within the hour, you want to wait in his office?" Jordan asks.

Marlo smiles at Riley getting a phone call on his desks phone, before she looks back at Jordan and the others, "Actually, we wanted to talk to you" Stiles states.

"Privately" Lydia then states getting a confused glance from the deputy who looks at Marlo.

"Come on, we'll use our dad's office, he won't mind" Marlo suggests as Jordan nods following the three into the office.

Lydia hands the male the piece of paper, leaning against the desk belonging to the sheriff.

"This is a hit-list?" Jordan asks looking at the brunette woman.

Who looks at Stiles and nods for him to carry on with explaining, "We call it a Deadpool, recognize any of the names?" Stiles asks.

"Yeah, the Sheriff had Riley and I run a bunch of these through the system last night, but we couldn't find any of them" Jordan states nodding at Riley at his desk.

"Hold on, wait a second" Marlo says walking towards the door and motioning for the other deputy to come into the office.

Riley looks at Marlo confused before he sees the piece of paper in Parrish's hands, "Show him the other thing" Stiles says looking at Marlo.

Who leans forward and gently grabs the piece of paper flipping it over and pointing at what they're talking to him about.

Jordan leans forward frowning seeing his own name of the list, "Okay, that's kind of terrifying" Jordan states, "What's the number?" Jordan sighs asking.

"That's how much you're worth" Lydia states, "I'm worth five dollars?" Jordan turns towards the four people in the room offended.

"Five million" Stiles states holding his fingers up with the number five.

"I only make forty thousand a year, maybe I should kill myself" Jordan states.

Marlo chuckles alongside Riley as well, "I don't get it, why, why am I on this?" Jordan asks mainly looking at his two friends in the room.

Marlo sighs looking at Riley, who shrugs, "Hold on, why are you so cool with this? You're worth ten million" Jordan exclaims seeing the number beside his friend.

Riley chuckles, "Honestly, that might be a question for another day, right now, there's still another third of the list we gotta crack" Stiles interrupts.

"We need the third cipher key, but, we need help getting it" Lydia says.

Marlo frowns not knowing this part of the plan, "From who?" Jordan asks, "Meredith" Lydia says.

"The girl from Eichen? The last time you saw her, you almost gave her a nervous breakdown" Jordan says.

He opens the office door ready for them to leave but silently looks at
Marlo asking for the adult to stay for a while longer, she nods silently.

"Uh, almost" Lydia states looking at the deputies officers standing at the door beside Marlo.

"Alright, just this once" Jordan states pointing at the strawberry blonde after Marlo basically begged him to take them, having a soft spot for the brunette he was convinced.

"Okay, I've got to go, I'm meeting Derek and Malia in the woods, send me updates if you need me" Marlo says showing the text message off Derek asking for her to meet up with them at the preserve's entrance.

"Bye guys" Marlo says rushing out of the sheriff's station getting back in her car to meet her boyfriend and help them both find Satomi's pack.

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DEREK PARKS HIS VEHICLE to the side as Malia and himself get out of it.

"Their alpha is a woman called Satomi, she's one of the oldest werewolves alive, and she's learned a lot" Derek explains.

Malia walks beside him, "What does that mean?" Malia asks, as a vehicle pulls in behind Derek's Silver FJ Cruiser.

Malia looks behind confused but soon comes to realisation that it's Marlo.

"She's a bitten werewolf, earning control wasn't easy for her, she did something a long time ago that changed her" Derek explains as Marlo comes to stand beside him.

"The quote is a mantra, it helps them with control" Derek says as both Marlo and Malia come to a sudden stop smelling something, "What is it?" Derek asks.

Marlo looks at her boyfriend confused at why he can't smell what they're smelling but shrugs it off with an excuse in her head, "Gunpowder" Malia states looking at Derek.

Before the girl looks at what Marlo's currently frowning at, "Der, look" Marlo says tapping his side capturing his attention as he looks at the area Marlo's pointing at.

Derek bends down squatting and picking the fired bullet shells off the ground inspecting them.

Before looking at Marlo biting her lip with nerves, "If Brett's pack is out here, I don't think they're meeting, they're hiding" Derek states looking around making sure their surroundings are safe.

Marlo looks down at her phone feeling the vibration coming through her jean pockets.

Seeing the text message from Stiles explaining that they're going to Eichen House to speak to Meredith.

Marlo sighs and Derek notices, "Everything okay, Lo?" Derek asks feeling his girlfriend's stressed state.

"Yeah, just Stiles is going to Eichen House and the last time he was there, he was the nogitsune" Marlo explains mumbling.

Malia tries her best comforting her, "I was in Eichen with him, he was okay, until that one night, the mastermind behind it all woke something up inside of him" Malia explains.

Marlo gulps remembering everything, "Yeah I was the possessed mastermind behind it all" Marlo sighs holding her head panicked.

"Listen baby, Stiles is with Lydia and they're fine, his texting you, his okay" Derek says letting the brunette rest her head on his chest, "Sorry" Marlo mumbles.

Derek shakes his head as Malia continues walking around the preserve looking for clues.

Derek softly grabs the brunette chin and leans his head down capturing his lips with hers, immediately calming her down.

"You always make me feel better, what would I do without you?" Marlo softly smiles patting his chest and walking up to Malia who's still looking around for any clues.

Both not seeing the pain and guilt in Derek's face over his girlfriend's previous words.

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NIGHT SLOWLY FALLS OVER the town of Beacon Hills, Marlo, Derek and Malia all walk back to their cars.

Marlo softly places another kiss on Derek's lips before she leaves the preserve area for the night and heads towards Derek and her shared loft to get some sleep.

Malia looks at the couple with soft eyes until Marlo leaves, "I'm sorry" Malia says, once the two of them get into Derek's vehicle.

"There's nothing to be sorry about, if they don't want to be found, then we're not going to find them, some werewolves have an ability—a kind of mastery over their bodies, where they can actually inhibit their scent" Derek explains.

"They can hide from other werewolves?" Malia asks shocked, "From anyone who's trying to find them" Derek confirms staring out the windshield.

"So that's why nobody knew about Brett" Malia states, "Same with Demarco" Derek says.

"Maybe we need to try something different, maybe we need to think like Stiles" Malia states looking over at Derek.

"Like a hyperactive spaz?" Derek asks confused smiling to himself knowing if Marlo was still here, she'd smack him up the side of his head.

"Like a detective, if they're really buddhists, then maybe, instead of asking where werewolves hide, we should be asking" Malia states.

"Where would buddhists hide" Derek softly says, "When buddha sat under the bodhi tree, he looked to the east for enlightenment" Derek explains while looking at the compass in the front of his car.

"Is there some kind of eastern point in Beacon Hills?" Malia asks.

"Yeah, at Lookout Point" Derek states starting his cars engine and driving towards Lookout Point hoping to find Satomi and the rest of her pack.

Malia and Derek walk through the woods coming to a stop at the cliff named Lookout Point as Malia catches a scent and softly grabs Derek's hand.

"Malia?" Derek asks sensing something wrong, "You don't smell that?" Malia asks grimacing at the scent.

"Wait for me, right here" Derek states walking towards the area Malia says the scent is coming from.

Malia looks around the area as Derek walks off coming to a stop at the disturbing discovery of multiple bodies of Satomi's pack lying around on the rocks and surrounding areas.

Derek looks around sadly at the pack members noticing Malia walking up beside him.

"What happened?" Malia asks, "I think they might have been poisoned" Derek states.

"That's great, if assassins with guns don't get you, then the ones with wolfsbane poison will or maybe one with no mouth" Malia states looking around at the decaying bodies before turning around to leave the bodies.

"Maybe we should all be running from Beacon Hills, running for our lives, as fast as we can" Malia states.

Derek flinches noticeably before turning around to leave the decayed werewolf bodies.

As an audible branch snap is heard coming from not so far away, Derek stops looking around seeing a bloody hand raising up from the ground of bodies.

Derek immediately rushes towards the injured woman, soon realising that it's Braeden.

Derek looks around confused at why Marlo's best friend is out in the middle of woods injured before quickly and gently picking the dark haired woman up and rushing towards his car with Malia not far behind him.

"Call Marlo, now" Derek orders handing Malia his phone before laying the injured woman in the back of his vehicle.

Malia nods dialing Marlo's number and telling her to meet Derek and her at the hospital as somethings happened.

She can immediately hear Marlo get up from her seated position grabbing a hold of her car keys and rushing out of the loft.

"I'll be right there" Marlo says hanging the phone up from the other line.

"She's on her way" Malia rushes out as Derek nods starting his vehicle engine and driving towards the hospital.

Braeden's groans and muffled breathing is heard coming from the back.

"Hey, hey, stay awake for me, okay Braeden, don't leave Marlo like this" Derek says from the driver seats.

Malia looks at him confused but realisation soon hits her remembering the pack members talking about Allison and other people along the way.

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UNAWARE TO MARLO, DEREK and Malia, Lydia and Stiles sit in his bedroom discussing the next cipher car and what it could be.

"Okay, well, we know one thing, both of the first two keys, Allison and Aiden, they're both names of the dead, right?" Stiles asks pacing his room.

"But we've already tried every other dead person's name we could think of and, if you haven't noticed, there were a lot of tries" Lydia states looking at her laptop screen.

"Yeah, I noticed" Stiles states, before looking at the strawberry blonde seeing the look upon her face, "You okay?" Stiles asks.

"The only other banshee I've ever met and I think I might have just drove her over the edge" Lydia mumbles sadly.

"Lydia, it wasn't your fault, I was there, too, and you're probably not the only" Stiles says before stopping himself as an idea pops up into his head.

"Hold on, banshees predict death, right? So, what if the third key is someone who isn't dead" Stiles starts to say.

Lydia realises what the boys saying, "But will be" Lydia states.

Stiles nods as Lydia exhales looking back at her laptop's screen going to type but pulls back and then closes her eyes letting the flow of her abilities to guide her through the process.

Stiles watches as Lydia puts the name down in the code word area, looking her over once she opens her eyes typing the last letters.

Stiles then looks back at the laptop screen exhaling seeing the name Derek written.

Stiles swears he feels his heart drop once Lydia presses enter and more names from the deadpool appear on the screen.

"Call Parrish or Marshall, we need to call Parrish or Marshall" Lydia states gulping ready the name underneath Liam's.

Meredith Walker, one million.

Lydia calls Parrish and Marshall, receiving the news she never wanted to hear from the two deputies.

"Lydia, Meredith's gone, they found her an hour ago in her room, she hung herself, I'm sorry" Marshall apologies over the phone being the one to pick up the phone call.

Lydia turns around slowly as Stiles notices the look on Lydia's face, "Thanks, Parrish and Marshall" Lydia weakly says as Stiles hugs the strawberry blonde.

Lydia stares out of the window in shock, before wrapping her arms around Stiles's torso silently telling him she's thankful for his comforting.

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STILES AND SCOTT BEGIN counting the money Scott previously found in Garrett's locker, considering his now dead and doesn't need it anymore.

Scott hasn't given it back to the owner just yet either, unaware that Derek just dropped Malia off at Scott's house so she can update them on the pack being deceased and Braeden being seriously injured.

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𝖊𝖑𝖘 𝖘𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖐𝖘 ⛧
i feel meh about this chapter tbh,
but it's been revealed about derek,
just not to marlo yet :(
kinda forgot that malia doesn't know
she's a hale yet, so she was just
helping derek out
next chapter will
be worth it, i promise...

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