019 — visionary

season three —
episode eight

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AS TWO TEENS RUN through the cold and dark woods being chased by hunters, the teenage boy jumps over tree stumps before making sure his best friend is safely behind him as well, being she's a human and his a werewolf.

The teenage boy eventually falls down a rough hill and lands to where an emitter is being turned on signalling that's where the irritating sound the teenage boy is hearing is coming from.

The girl runs down the hill and ends up sitting beside the panting and grunting boy and looks at the object in front of them as well in fear.

The younger teen then gets up and grabs onto his best friend's hand to continue running as the hunters are getting closer to them.

The emitters continue going off in the direction the two friends are running leaving the boy covering his ears and grunting due to the uncomfortable pain the sound is giving off.

The teenage boy ends up running into another boy in the woods as they stare at each other in confusion; the girl eventually ends up beside her friend and looks at the stranger in confusion before sharing a raised brow with her best friend beside her.

"You're a hale, aren't you?" the stranger asks, the teenager girl beside his best friend looks up at a hissing sound to see a arrow go through the strangers throat in front of them.

She gasps in horror and fear, as the teenage boy looks at the stranger in fear now; the boy looks up now noticing that there is a hunter in front of him with crossbow aiming it at both of them.

As the arrow is released; the teenage girl accepts her fate and closes her eyes but after a few seconds opens them to see an older teenager boy standing in front of them both holding the arrow now.

He snarls before looking at his nephew and his best friend and grabs both of them and begins running again away from the hunters; they finally find a safe place to hide until the hunters pass them and it's safe for their departure.

In an underground root cellar, two teens plus one's uncle sit breathing heavily and trying to control their breathing while hearing the hunters pass them.

The teenage girl who goes by marlo stilinski looks at her best friend derek hale in absolute terror and then looks over at peter hale now; peter looking up at the roof protecting both his nephew and human friend.

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STILES, CORA SIT AROUND discussing when Derek and Marlo had to hide from hunters alongside Peter as well.

"They were there for two days, waiting, hiding, that's what we're taught to do when the hunters find us, hide and heal" Cora says looking outside the large window in Derek's loft.

"Okay, so is two days standard then, or are we thinking Derek's on like some extended getaway?" Stiles asks, "Why do you care?" Cora asks bluntly as she turns around looking at Stiles now.

"Why do I care? Let's see, because over the last few weeks, my best friends tried to kill himself, his boss nearly got ritually sacrificed, a girl that I've known since I was three was ritually sacrificed, Boyd was killed by alphas, Marlo—who is my sister was targeted and is now weak and doesn't have her vampire abilities, do you want me to keep going, cause I can all right? For like an hour" Stiles says with force.

"You think Derek can do anything about that?" Cora asks walking towards Stiles now.

"Well, since he's like the one everyone seems to be after, it's more like he should do something about it, yeah" Stiles states.

"I don't know, there's something different about him now, he wasn't like this when we knew him" Cora says worried for her older brother, "What was he like?" Stiles asks.

As Peter comes down the loft staircase from upstairs, Cora looks over hearing the footsteps.

"A lot like Scott, actually, a lot like most teenagers, unbearably romantic, profoundly narcissistic, tolerable really only to other teenagers" Peter says coming towards them now.

"So what happened? What changed him?" Stiles asks, "Well, the same thing that changes a lot of young men, a girl, well two girls actually" Peter says.

"You're telling me some girl broke his little heart? That's why Derek is the way he is?" Stiles asks.

"Do you remember Derek before he was an alpha, had blue eyes? Do you know why some wolves have blue eyes?" Peter asks.

Stiles shakes his head and shrugs; "I always thought it was, like, a genetic thing" Stiles says.

"If you want to know what changed Derek, you need to know what changed the colour of his eyes" Peter says.

As Allison opens the hospital like apartment door to see her grandfathers backside in his wheelchair.

"Did you bring them?" Gerard asks his granddaughter now sensing two more presence entering the room slowly, he turns around looking straight at Scott then Marlo.

"Oh, come in Scott, Marlo, and give an old man a little something for his pain and Marlo give me some of your blood" Gerard says folding his shirt up his arm a little bit.

"You guys don't have to do this" Allison says softly to both Scott and Marlo, "If you want me to talk, this is how it's going to happen" Gerard then says.

Marlo steps forward first with the needle of her blood; "I'm only doing this for them and then I'm leaving so Scott can do his own thing" Marlo states showing the male disinterest.

Gerard nods at her before she shoves the needle into his upper arm letting the blood flow throughout his system, even though she's currently powerless.

She's saved some needles for people's health and unfortunately Allison asked her to do this but of course she didn't deny the argent girl when she needs help.

She then looks at Scott and he nods signalling she can leave and go back to her apartment.

She softly exhales and taps Scott's shoulder and quickly hugs Allison before departing the nursing home.

"If I do this, you have to tell us everything you know. Everything" Scott demands to the old man now pulling up his denim jackets sleeve, he then takes Gerard's pain.

Marlo eventually ends up back at the apartment building grabbing her phones charger quickly before putting her tv on not knowing what's going on downstairs and how Peter is telling the story of Paige since Derek's off doing his own thing.

As Paige played her cello in the music room alongside Marlo sitting beside her smiling watching her best friend play and practice her music.

Marlo hears the basketball balls bouncing before Paige does rolling her eyes at the sound knowing it's Derek and his friend group making the noise, after a minute Paige stops the cello suddenly showing an annoyed look with Marlo.

"Oh for Christ sake, I'll be back" Marlo grits out before walking out into the hallways looking for her other best friend; "Derek Hale! Stop this instinct" Marlo grits out to the teenager bouncing his ball.

Derek just smirks and turns around looking at his light brunette friend; "Oh what?" He taunts resulting in laughs off his friends behind him.

"Or else you'll deal with me and Peter" Marlo seethes smirking seeing the fear on his face, as they stare into one another eyes; the others see Paige enter the hallway now pissed off.

"Hey, do you guys mind? I'm trying to practice and Marlo here is trying to enjoy it" Paige says.

Marlo just smirks now; "How do you know we're not trying to practice here too?" Derek asks smugly.

"Yeah well, see I was practicing in the music room alongside Mar here and I'm pretty sure basketball practise takes place in the gym" Paige states more annoyed now at the teenagers smugness.

"Well, I'm pretty sure basketball practice takes place anywhere you have a basketball" Derek says as his teammates laugh.

Marlo looks at them all darkly and they shut up afterwards before she hits the Hale boy in the head softly; before walking and standing beside her female best friend.

Derek then sharing a smirk with his mates bounces the ball towards the two teenage girls; "See?" He says smugly as both Marlo and Paige share glances of annoyance now.

Paige now turning around giving up talking to the smartass of a teenager; "Wait, hold on, hold on, you too Lo" Derek says now noticing Marlo turning around.

"If either of you can get the ball away from me; maybe I'll stop" Derek states; Marlo whispers now to Paige.

"You go first because I have a secret weapon up my sleeve" she says as Paige turns around now failing to get the ball out of the Hale boys hands.

Marlo then swipes the ball and the laughter dies down behind him now noticing Marlo got the ball from the team captain smirking now.

"Well looks like you've gotta stop now" Marlo demands gently tapping her male best friend's chest; Derek just smiles at her and shrugs.

"Come on" Marlo says grabbing Paige's hand now dragging her back to the music room.

"Is he always that much of a douche?" Paige asks knowing Marlo is close with the teenage boy due to her cheerleading.

"Yeah he is, but he likes showing off to his teammates as well, don't let him get to you at all" Marlo says smiling at the girl now.

Paige just smiles back grabbing the cello again and going to play again before the music room doors open and Derek stands there, "Sorry about that" He says softly to Paige; "Whatever" Paige says.

Derek then walks through the doors "Hey, what's your name? Marlo here never tells me" Derek says now looking at his best friend sitting beside the girl.

"I'm trying to practice if you didn't notice" Paige says annoyed; Marlo softly chuckles, "Okay, I'll just leave you alone then. After you tell me your name" Derek says smirking.

Marlo now looks at him in question at why his so interested; "All right, I'll tell you my name if you can play one instrument in this room" Paige says; "One?" Derek then asks.

"Just one" Paige corrects; "Any of them?" Derek asks; Marlo now understanding what he's going to do sighs and sits down beside her best friend.

Derek goes over to the instrument holder and picks up the triangle and shows it to Paige now playing the triangle, allowing it to chime in the room.

"I mean he played an instrument girl" Marlo says smiling; Paige just looks down in amusement; "My name's Paige, now please go, so I can practice" Paige answers.

"My names" Derek goes to say; "I know who you are" Paige then says to the smirking teenager in front of her.

Marlo then sighs again before picking up her school stuff and walks out to the music room leaving her two 'friends' alone sharing confused glances.

Derek then walks out of the music room in search of his best friend seeing her walking into one of the bathrooms in a hurry; he sighs to himself.

Allison and Scott continue talking to Gerard; "They found a third body?" Gerard asks; "Another doctor, right after Scott found Deaton" Allison answers.

"Right after? Almost like it was expected he'd survive" Gerard says to Scott now; "What's that suppose to mean?" Scott wonders.

"How do you know your dark druid isn't your wise veterinarian himself? Maybe he knew you'd find him, maybe he planned it that way" Gerard says as both Scott and Allison look at one another.

"He would never let anyone innocent die" Scott states, "Don't be so sure, you'd be surprised how far some people would go to get rid of someone like Deucalion or even his daughter, yes she was here before but she's evil" Gerard states.

"Or someone like you?" Allison asks as Gerard chuckles now; "I don't go easily though, do I?" Gerard asks spitting out more of his black blood.

"You know, Scott, you've made me something of a celebrity here, I'm a medical mystery, the cancer is now virtually undetectable, but the doctors have no clue why my body keeps producing and ejecting this bizarre black fluid" Gerard says wiping his nose and mouth with the tissue before throwing it on the ground beside Scott.

"I did what you wanted me to do, so did Marlo, tell us how to beat him" Scott says; "You can't, I've tried" Gerard says.

"Then this is a complete waste of time. He doesn't know anything. Sorry you did this, let's go" Allison says walking over to the McCall boy.

Scott looks shocked now; "Wait, I can tell you one thing, Deucalion may have lost his eyes, but he's not always blind" Gerard says now.

Cora, Stiles and Peter sit around Derek's loft, Stiles who's beyond
confused.

"Okay, so if Derek was a sophomore back then, how old was he? How old were you? How old are you now?" Stiles asks still confused.

"Not as young as we could have been, but not as old as you might think" Peter says, "Okay, that was frustratingly vague, how old are you?" Stiles asks Cora.

"I'm seventeen" Cora states, "See, that's an answer, that's how we answer people" Stiles says.

"Well, seventeen how you'd measure in years" Cora says; "All right, I'm just gonna drop it" Stiles says over this conversation now and even more confused; he'll ask Marlo.

"What happened to Derek, Marlo and the cello girl?" Stiles asks.

"What do you think happened? They were teenagers; one minute it's 'I hate you, don't talk to me' the next it's frantic groping in any dark corner they could manage to find themselves alone for five minutes, although I don't know about Marlo; she left town by then" Peter shrugs.

"Their favourite dark corner was an abandoned distillery outside of beacon hills" Peter says.

'Derek and Paige run together giggling towards the place they've previously found each other going to for alone time away from hunters, people, the hale family.

Derek then opens to distillery's doors looking at paige now smiling before kissing her as they went around in a cute circle together.'

"Hold up, how do you know all of this? You just said that they were alone and what happened to Marlo?" Stiles asks confused and worried for his sister even though this way in the past.

"Back then I wasn't just Derek's uncle; I was his best friend as well as Marlo, his closest confidante, that's how I know" Peter says leaning forward towards Stiles now.

As Peter watches Derek and Paige kissing—not for creepy reasons or anything, just worried about his little nephews best friend alongside Derek as well.

Since Paige and Derek have been sneaking around with each other they haven't noticed Marlo hasn't been around and that she fled town to get away from the heartbreak and jealously she's going through.

Derek pulls back feeling like somethings wrong; "What?" he asks to the girl in front of him; "Why do you like me? Why not Marlo?" Paige asks.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Derek asks, "Why do you like me?" she then repeats without mentioning her best friends name; "Why do you think i like you?" Derek asks.

"Honestly, I think at first, you liked me because I didn't like you and because I was friends with Marlo and around all the time" Paige says; Derek nods.

"So now you're worried that now that i know you like me that i'm gonna stop liking you?" Derek asks, "Not worried, just wondering when" Paige then asks as her gaze softens.

"What if I never stop liking you?" Derek then asks smiling at the teenage girl leaning in closer now; before a banging like sound is heard in the distance.

"What? did you hear something?" Paige asks now seeing Derek in high alert looking around the distillery; "What's wrong?" she then asks.

"Something happened here" Derek states; "What do you mean?" Paige asks, "I caught a scent, it's blood" Derek says as a creaking like noise is heard from outside the abandoned building.

"All right now I definitely heard something" Derek says fearfully as he grabs onto her hand making sure she's safe.

"Derek, I don't hear anything" Paige then says, "We have to go, come on, let's go" Derek then says walking towards the exit, as the packs of Ennis's, Kali's and deucalion's walk towards the distillery in a pissed off and angry stance.

Peter then moves more around the side so he isn't caught in the cross fire of whatever is happening.

As they enter ennis looks towards the broken rope on the roof signalling somethings previously happened here; "There, you see it? They dragged him here, an arrow in his throat, and they hung him and cut him in half. they killed one of ours" Ennis says.

"One of yours. why should i care about one of your pack?" Kali asks; "Cause the hunters don't discern packs, especially the argents" a pack member says.

"But they do discern motive. ennis, why did they kill him?" Deucalion asks.

"because your young, naive beta killed one of them" another pack member says snarling towards Ennis; "Marco" Ennis grunts out deeply.

"He killed a hunter, didn't he?" Marco asks, "Accidentally" Ennis says snarling at the young pack member now.

"They were all there; Ennis, Kali, Deucalion each with their own packs, before they'd killed them all and decided to form their little all-star team" Gerard says.

"But they didn't all live here, did they?" Allison asks.

"No, but there was an exceptionally powerful alpha who did live here, she had a capacity to shape-shift that was rare among her kind, that made her something of a leader, the kind of person that they would go to for advice and guidance" Gerard says.

Ennis and Marco stare off at each others, there's a howling coming from the distance—they all turn around to see a black wolf coming towards the distillery now.

As a certain man watches in amazement and love; he makes eye contact with the wolf with red eyes.

As she shape-shifts back into her human form now one of the pack members walk and cover her with a soft like sweater covering her naked body.

"Talia Hale" Gerard states.

Peter continues watching the pack meeting without being seen hearing what his older sister is saying to them, "It's his right, we're not the only people to adhere to rituals thousands of years old" Talia says.

"Which is no excuse for not evolving" Deucalion says to the woman, "They ripped his claws right out of his fingers, how is that evolving? useless debate, I'm done with it" Ennis says walking over to the nearby steel wall.

"Ennis, don't" Deucalion says to the alpha alongside him.

"Don't make us part of a historical cliche, with two such powers, it never ends at an eye for an eye. a skirmish becomes a war. a murder becomes a massacre. and we end up no better than our enemies" Deucalion says.

Ennis being pissed off and beyond angry flicks out his claws and begins screeching into the wall his pack symbol declaring war.'

Peter begins tracing the pack symbol of Ennis's into the window that's currently foggy due to the rain outside; "Our mark for vendetta" Peter says.

"Man, you guys really take that revenge thing to like a whole new level, don't you?" Stiles says leaning on the table.

"It's not just revenge, losing a member of your pack isn't like losing family, it's like you lose a limb" Cora says, "They wouldn't even let him see the body" Peter says.

'As deputy Stilinski rushes into the hospital after being called; he calls out; "Somebody called for" Stilinski goes to say before noticing ennis holding one of the male nurses up by his clothes neck.

"Woah" he mumbles, "I want his body, it belongs to me, both halves" Ennis demands to the deputy in front of him.

Stilinski then looks at the man in a slight fear but continuing to do his job and protect people.

"First off, you need to step back, I'm just a deputy, I do what I'm told and right now they're telling me there's a young man who was shot in the throat with an arrow and literally cut in half. this is a homicide investigation; second, no matter how close you were, you're not related" Stilinski says; "He was family to me" Ennis says'

"I don't get it, what does this have to do with Derek?" Cora says confused.

As Peter turns around to answer he notices someone in the doorway and lets them say it; "Everything" Marlo states now having all of their attention on her; Peter then continues.

"It's never just a single moment. It's a confluence of events, personally I looked at Ennis's circumstances, I saw a profound loss; Derek saw something different" Peter says before Marlo finishes now.

"He saw opportunity" Marlo says; "Opportunity? To do what?" Stiles asks his sister now.

"To always be with her" Marlo states showing her jealously and betrayal now.

At school Derek sits in a classroom listening to Paige play her cello, before sighing and getting up to go the music room.

If anyone would ask they would think he didn't care marlo was currently missing and no one to be found but he was worried but he was also in love for the second time.

Paige smiles knowing who's standing at the doorway now; "What are you staring at?" she asks; "I'm not staring, I'm listening, am I distracting you?" Derek asks.

"No, I've got laser-like focus" Paige says hearing a scoff come from behind them seeing the one person they've both been missing smirking at them both.

"You two are really cute you know? Sucks that I'm not gonna stick around and watch all this lovey dovey baby stuff happening; tootles" Marlo says smirking and waving.

Derek looks at his best friend in confusion because her scents changed and her confidence has gone out of the roof.

He clenches his jaw before turning his attention back to his girlfriend beside him.

"You sure about that?" he asks walking behind her now moving her hair to the side and leaning his lips against her ear distracting her now.

"I hate you" Paige says; "No, you don't, you love me" Derek says sitting beside her now; "Hate you" Paige says playfully.

"You love me" Derek says with puppy dog eyes as paige nods; Derek kisses her almost immediately.

Meanwhile with Marlo, she really thought Derek would've followed her outside and he wouldn't felt like something was off with her, well that's exactly what's happening.

She's a freshly turned frightened vampire who has no one now; she scoffs to herself before handing herself back over to james; even though she knows she'll get tortured.

Marlo looks at Peter now telling him to finish the rest of the story because she doesn't know and wasn't aware until things were to late.

"The thing was, he has this constant fear, he was obsessing over it, thinking about it all night, all day, always on his mind" Peter says.

"Yeah unlike his best friend who was being brutally beaten and wishing she was dead all the time; he didn't even care because he was so in love" Marlo says pissed.

"You're wrong Marlo, he cared, he searched high and low even when he was with Paige, he searched because he knew something was off about you that day, you just didn't know" Peter says to the woman sitting on the couch behind him.

"Peter, he didn't care enough to come save me until it was too late" Marlo says sadly.

Peter then looks down sadly as well knowing why she's so upset about this.

Sitting at the lunch tablets at the high school, admiring Paige from afar worrying about her as well, while Paige was doing her school work.

Derek didn't notice Peter was sitting on the table; "Why does she eat alone?" Peter asks looking at Paige now.

"She doesn't usually, Marlo use to sit with her, what are you doing here?" Derek asks, "I'm looking out for my favourite nephew, making sure no one has a crossbow aimed at your throat" Peter says.

"I could get you banned from school grounds, you know that right?" Derek asks, "No one would ban me from anywhere, I'm too good looking" Peter says smugly.

Peter looks back over to Paige again; "Doesn't she have any friends?" he asks.

"Yeah Marlo and a few more; Marlo isn't anywhere to be found though since the other day and she likes to study during lunch and I kind of don't think she likes my friends" Derek says.

"No one should like your friends, they're a bunch of hormonal half-wits, but that one over there, she's perfect for you; Marlo was but now she hates you anyways; and perfect combinations are rare in a imperfect world" Peter says taking a bite of of his reece's chocolate he stole from Derek.

Derek just sighs and gets up pulling his back over his shoulder to continue on with his classes for the day until he can go home and spend time with Paige but also continue his search for Marlo.

"It would worry me too, though, I'd probably be thinking about it all the time" Peter says; "Thinking about what?" Derek asks looking at his girlfriend again.

"Her finding out, you've thought that through right? you know it always happens; one minute you're in this blissful teen romance, and next she sees fangs, glowing eyes and claws" Peter says.

Derek now annoyed and angry; "She doesn't have to find out" Derek says.

"But they always do, especially when they're perfect for you, remember Marlo? Look at her now, oh wait, you can't she's no where to be found, there's really only one way to make sure you'll always be together, turn her" Peter states as she now looks over at them softly smiling.

"I kept telling him not to do it, everyday the more he thought about it, the more convinced he became, you know teenagers, I bet he even blames me; he's probably convinced himself the whole thing was my idea" Peter says looking at Marlo and Cora.

Marlo just shakes her head; even though now she's dating Derek and in love with him.

She won't let Peter suffer like that even with how much of a dick he is towards people.

Cora then looks at Marlo and agrees with her as well softly.

Marlo smiles and grabs the teens hand in support for the next part, Cora looks confused but lets her do it.

In the boys locker room; "I have the perfect idea" Peter says to his nephew sitting beside him thinking; "Go away" Derek says worried for his best friend and girlfriend as well.

"Laura told you about the packs being here, right? there's more alphas then I've ever seen in one place, your mother would never do it and these packs won't be here much longer, the time to do it is now. one little bite, and she never gets sick again, she stays younger, more beautiful; think how she'll be able to protect herself, Derek; the bite is a gift" Peter says as Derek looks up now.

"We need to find marlo as well" he states, Peter nods as his been trying to find her himself, actually worried about the girl himself.

"We'll find Marlo, don't worry" Peter states and leaves the locker room leaving his nephew alone with his thoughts.

He breathes out suddenly and scared for his best friend and first crush and love; "Where are hell are you Lo" he whispers.

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AS THE ARGENTS WALK into the underground root cellar and find an unknown symbol; "what is that?" Gerard asks pointing to the symbol now.

"A celtic five-fold knot, it's a druid symbol, the air's different in here; do you feel it? I think I know what this place is" Chris says.

"Is that blood?" Gerard asks now looking at the stain on the tree.

"Sacrificial blood, we're in a Nemeton, it's a sacred meeting place; ancient celtic druids would usually choose a large, older tree in a grove, it would represent the center of the world. there was a belief that cutting or harming the tree in any way would cause serious problems for the surrounding villages" Chris explains.

"What sort of problems?" Gerard curiously asks his son; "Fires, plagues, strife, death and destruction of all kinds" Chris states.

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AT BEACON HILLS NURSING home, Gerard continues telling the story "How does he know all about Celtic symbols and Druids?" Allison asks.

"Know thy enemy; Allison; the older wolves had a relationship with the Druids, they called them 'Emissaries'" Gerard explains to the teens in the room with him.

"Like my boss, Deaton" Scott says, as Gerard now stands up leading Scott and Allison to a book with historical stories inside of it.

"Do you know the myth of Lycaon?" Gerard asks; "I know it's where we get the word 'lycanthropy'" Scott answers.

"According to myth, some Greek citizens believed they owed their lives more to Prometheus than to the gods of Olympus, and some followers even took names to honor the Titans instead of the gods." Gerard explains looking at the book; showing them.

"Like Deucalion" Scott says, Gerard nods; "The son of Prometheus" he then says; showing them the page in the book of history.

"Lycaon didn't just refuse to honour the gods; he challenged them, he invited Zeus to a banquet and then tried to serve him the flesh of a human being, angered, Zeus blew the place apart with lightning bolts and then punished Lycaon and his sons by turning them into wolves." Gerard says before continuing.

"The part that's lesser known is how Lycaon sought out the Druids to help turn him back to human" he then says; "Why Druids?" Scott asks curious.

"The belief was that the ancient Druids knew how to shape-shift, they couldn't make Lycaon and his sons human again, but they did teach them how to shift back and forth and so, the Druids became important advisors to the packs" Gerard explains looking at Scott now.

Back at Derek's loft with Marlo, Stiles, Cora and Peter, the same thing was explained but in small details.

"They keep us connected to humanity, but, they're a secret, even in the pack, sometimes only the alpha knows who the Emissary is, Derek and I had no idea about Deaton" Cora says.

"I did, but I respected his wishes on not telling anyone sorry guys" Marlo says sighing.

"Or his sister, Morrell" Peter says now looking at Marlo and she shakes her head no meaning she didn't know about her being one, he sighs.

"She's an Emissary, too?" Stiles asks shocked; Peter nods, "For the Alpha Pack" Peter explains.

Stiles who is now appalled; "Our guidance counselor? Why the hell don't you people tell me any of this stuff, huh; I shared some really intimate details with her!" Stiles says.

"And did she give you good advice?" Cora asks the teenage boy beside her; "Actually, yeah" Stiles says.

"That's what they do. That's what Deaton used to do for Talia" Marlo then explains as Peter looks at her in shock because he had no idea she knew all of this; she shrugs.

'As they discuss things in deaton's vet; "While i admire your willingness to extend an olive branch, I have to tell you; it might not be welcome" Deaton says, Talia who standing beside both males says.

"And i'm not sure that gerard is the one to accept it" looking at Deucalion as she speaks; "It's true; the argents have a matriarchal leadership" Deaton then says.

"Actually, I was speaking about the fact that he's a complete psychopath. the man cuts people in half with a broadsword!" Talia says.

"Do the two of you really have so little faith in people? You think Gerard isn't worried about the deaths on his own side?" Deucalion asks.

"Do you know the story of the scorpion and the frog?" Deaton asks; "I have a feeling I'm about to hear it" Deucalion says sighing.

"When the scorpion asked the frog to carry him across the river, the frog said, "how do i know you won't sting me?" the scorpion replied, "why would i do that? then, we'd both drown" so, the frog agreed, halfway across the river, the scorpion stung the frog. when the frog asked him why he did it, since now they would both die, the Scorpion replied; "it's my nature."; your faith in humanity may not matter if you underestimate gerard's nature" Deaton says.

"Make sure you meet him on neutral ground and do not walk in there alone" Talia says worried for her friend.

"I'm an alpha, I never walk alone" Deucalion says'

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'AS THE SCHOOL HALLWAYS are laced with darkness, Paige walks down the staircase after practising her cello; with note from her boyfriend telling her to meet him in the hallways.

"Derek?" Paige asks as a door opens and closes in the distance; "Derek, is that you?" Paige then asks walking towards where the door that opened and closed.

Looking into classrooms to make sure she hasn't missed Derek anywhere; she turns around looking at the direction she just came in confused and slightly scared.

She turns around near the doors and is met face to face with a tall, muscular, scary man growling and snarling at her; she drops the note in the hallway.

Looking at the man in front of her in horror, taking steps backwards beginning to run and get away from the predator chasing her.

Derek waits bouncing his ball in the boys locker room for the bite to occur.'

Cora now asking the question because she's confused; "Ennis? Why would you choose him?" She says.

"Why not? Ennis needed a new member for his pack, Paige was young and strong, doing a favour for Derek meant Ennis would be in good with Talia; back then everybody wanted to be in good with her" Peter explains.

Now getting a dirty look off Marlo sitting beside him; her best friends dead because of this decision of theirs.

'Derek continues sitting in the locker room waiting for the bite to happen.

While listening to paige heavily whimper and cry out for help from someone'

"He doesn't remember it was Ennis, does he?" Stiles asks now; "If he does, he keeps it to himself" Peter says, "He remembers" Marlo mumbles.

"So, then what happened? Did he turn her?" Stiles asks; "Almost" Peter says.

"So then what happened?" Stiles asks.

'Derek can't handle any more of Paige's crying he gets up suddenly but not before he bumps into someone, "What the hell Derek!" Marlo says now angry as well.

"I know, I know okay? She needs help" Derek mumbles in a rush.

He rushes out towards the girl crying and in pain; he attacks the werewolf'

"He came at Ennis; a fifteen-year-old boy against a giant, there was no reason for him to fight" Peter says telling the story as Marlo is nearly crying.

Now remembering the pain she felt for her best friend as well; "She'd already been bitten" Peter then says.

'Marlo runs over to her best friend and holds her hand; "Hey, I'm here, I know it hurts okay, breathe for me" she says softly.

"Where have you been Mar?" Paige weakly asks before grunting and panting again from the pain holding the bloody wound on her hip.

"Someone kidnapped me, I'm okay, let's focus on you" Marlo rushes out as she see's Ennis holding Derek by his head on the ground as derek looks at his girlfriend and best friend in worry.

Marlo now helping her best friend put her hands over her wound; she gasps in pain as marlo looks at the blood and tries not to turn and attack her best friend.

Even though she ditched her for Derek; another one of her best friends.

Derek looks at Marlo's bloody hands now and cries out seeing how much paige is bleeding now'

"So did she turn?" Cora asks; "She should have" Peter says sadly; "Most of the bite takes, most of the time" Peter says.

"When you offered it to me, you said, 'If it doesn't kill you'" Stiles says confused; "If" Peter says.

'Now seeing that both Marlo and Derek took Paige to the root cellar together.

Peter rushes into them both holding Paige who's clearly dying; "What's happening to her?" Derek asks seeing Peter now'

"He knew the answer though; it didn't matter that she was young and strong, some people just aren't meant for this" Peter says looking at Marlo now knowing this memory must be hard for her to relive.

"But, she fought, she struggled desperately, trying to survive" Peter says still looking at Marlo seeing she's trying not to cry at the mention of the memory now.

Stiles and Cora look around as well with tears in their eyes.

'Paige tried fighting so hard in her best friends arm and boyfriends as well; Marlo sobbing; Derek holding on hands now trying to take the pain away.

"I'm sorry" Derek mumbles and looks at Marlo as well; seeing black veins go up her arms signalling she's also taking the pain away, he tilts his head in confusion as marlo looks at him now in fear.

"I knew" Paige says; "What do you mean?" Derek asks; "Right after I told you my name, I think I knew" Paige says weakly.

"I've seen things in this town before, things no one really could explain and then there's the way you talk; how you say things, like, how you'd "catch a scent" and I know you can hear things, things that no one else can hear, I knew" Paige says softly.

"And you still liked me?" Derek asks sadly; "I loved you" Paige says in deep breaths from the pain.

"Stay" Derek says hugging her now as Paige continues holding Marlo's hand, "I'm gonna die, aren't I?" Paige sobs.

"Ow" Paige sobs out as Marlo cries beside her now; "I can't, I can't take it anymore; Derek, Marlo, I can't, please; please!" Paige says sobbing and crying out in pain now; marlo then shares a look with derek and nods showing him she's here too.

"I'm sorry; I'm sorry" Derek cries out; as Marlo flashes her eyes at him now showing what she is; she helps the teenage boy kill his second love.

They both scream out when they know she's gone; Marlo sobs looking at her female best friends body in the arms of Derek now; she sobs and screams from the body shattering her heart alongside Derek as well; still holding her body'

"I remember taking her body from their arms, to the woods to a place where I knew that it would be found" Peter says sadly as he hears Marlo calm herself down.

"Excuse me" she says getting up and walking out of the loft crying now; she runs towards her apartment.

Stiles watches as her figures departs the loft and goes to go comfort her before Peter says again; "Another in a long line of Beacon Hills animal attacks" Peter says finishing the story; "And what about Derek and Marlo?" Cora asks crying.

"Taking an innocent life takes something from you as well; a bit of your soul, darkening it, dimming the once brilliant golden yellow to a cold, steel blue; like mine" Peter says flashing his blue eyes.

"For Marlo, she left Beacon Hills and didn't return until she needed too; being the first vampire of Beacon Hills; she had a lot of targets on her back as well; people were worried she would kill and kill and enjoy it, when she wasn't like that" Peter then explains.

"She came back for Derek? After he ditched her for Paige and love?" Cora asks softly; "The heart wants, what it wants" Stiles says sniffing the tears away.

Scott and Allison continue with talking to Gerard about the 'trap and ambush' Deucalion lead him into.

Leaving the alpha blinded and in grieving; kill one of his own; and becoming one of the most feared supernatural beings out there alongside his daughter Marlo Stilinski-Laureni.

Who is only now adapting to her new powers; "He see's as a wolf?" Scott asks; "He's not always blind" Gerard answers quoting what he said earlier.

"Maybe we could use it against him" Allison says looking at Scott now; both nodding sharing approved glances; getting up to leave.

"Scott" Gerard says holding his arm out for the McCall boy to help him out again; Scott nods and leans forward to take more of his pain away; after he does so holding his hand and grunting from taking the man's pain.

"Oh, I think about you sometimes Scott. I do. I wonder, what if I'd done things differently? Getting the bite to cure my cancer, and I wonder when it became my nature to believe most things couldn't be asked for but had to be taken" Gerard says.

Scott raises his eyebrows; "I don't believe you, the whole time that you were telling your story, I was listening to your heartbeat. it never went up, it never went down; it was steady the whole time" Scott says.

"Because I was telling the truth!" Gerard says; "Or because you're a really good liar" Scott says leaning down now grabbing the older man's hand.

"If you lied, and it gets people hurt, I'll be back to take away more than just your pain and don't ever threaten Marlo again; she's nothing like her birth father" Scott says letting go, Gerard looks at him in fear.

At Derek's loft Stiles and Cora sit on the table they were at before; "What? What's this look on your face?" Cora asks, "What look?" Stiles asks confused.

"The kind of look that makes me want to punch you." Cora states; "Oh, my God; you are so Derek's sister, I forgot." Stiles says; "Well, what's with the look?" Cora asks again hoping for an answer this time.

"I just don't believe him" Stiles says before he continues moving his body to the side so he can now make eye contact with Cora while talking.

"All right, in Miss Blake's class, we're reading Heart of Darkness, and it's in first-person, right? Narrated by Marlow, the thing is that he's an unreliable narrator; you know the details of it have changed, you know, just because of his perspective" Stiles says.

"Well, then we heard the story from Peter's perspective" Cora says; "Right, and I don't think we got the whole story" Stiles says.

"So, what? Are you just gonna ask Derek about the girl he fell in love with and then killed with Marlo?" Cora asks bluntly; "If I have to? Yeah" Stiles says.

'In the root cellar; Derek and Marlo sit beside one another still adjusting to the fact they had to kill their best friend and girlfriend together.

"Derek, Marlo" Talia says sitting in front of them now: "We did something, something terrible" Derek says, "i know" Talia states "My eyes, they're different" Derek says flashing his blue eyes.

"Different, but still beautiful; just like the rest of you" Talia states holding onto her son and looking at the girl sitting beside him; "How long have you been a vampire Marlo?" Talia asks politely.

Marlo looks up scared; "Two months" the teenager says; "Did James hurt you?" Talia asks; Marlo just nods; "And Riley" Marlo sighs.

Talia hugs both of them; one being her birth son and one being like her adoptive daughter.

She knows she's deucalion's daughter; so she treats her like her own.'

As Marlo stops crying finally, her phone rings; "Meet me at the old distillery outside beacon hills" Derek says into the phone; "Okay, I'm on my way" Marlo says hanging up the phone to go meet Derek now.

She grabs her car keys and locks her apartment door; she gets into her car and drives toward the abandoned distillery where she sees her boyfriend watching her car pull up.

"Hey, what's up?" Marlo asks softly; "Just wanna show you something" Derek says; "I know this is where you use to bring Paige; babe" Marlo says.

"I promise that's not what this is; it's something different" Derek states holding his hand out for her to grab; she does so softly smiling and then dropping it to be serious again.

Entering the building seeing the symbol Peter was talking about earlier; she notices Derek's look and realises why they're here.

"I want revenge too baby" Marlo says cuddling into the male; "Everyone seems to get taken away from me" Derek mumbles, "I want war" he states ready for the fight with the alphas now.

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