"GET IT OUT OF ME! GET IT OUT OF ME. GET IT OUT OF ME." Coach was screaming and Stiles glanced over his shoulder at the scene.

I nodded towards him, "Go ahead."

Stiles made his way towards the scene as Ethan started screaming at people to get away from Coach. I stumbled behind a tree, lifting the hem of the flannel up to see that the wound was starting to heal already...

My wounds heal at this rate whenever a supernatural creature inflicts them upon me. And that only confirmed my theory- the Nogitsune was in fact inside of Stiles.

I dropped my shirt and glanced at my hands, they were dripping blood. Great. This is just great.

Sirens filled the area and I sighed in relief, thank God. We need an ambulance to help Coach, and that also means that Sheriff Stilinski is coming.

My head was pounding and I knew it was because of Stiles. It was the Oni, trying to fight it's way to the surface. It knows that Stiles needs to be stopped. I don't know how to control it.

I had a bad feeling. An extremely bad feeling, an Admonere feeling. They were coming in extremely strong today, and I knew that I needed to listen. I wiped my hands on my jeans to try and get some of the blood off, but it wasn't really working.

My phone started buzzing in my pocket. I gave Coach a quick glance before glancing at the screen, Your dad just arrested Argent and I. Get your pretty little ass down here now. Since when has Derek had my cell phone number?

The ambulance sped through the woods, three cop cars following behind it. I jogged over to Scott and Stiles, "I need to go to the Sheriff Station... Derek and Argent got arrested. I'm going to try and figure out why."

"What? Kasey that's not really-" Scott tried to protest but I held a hand up to silence him. He let out a sigh and reluctantly nodded along.

Stiles blinked rapidly, "I don't think you should go... it could be a trick or something."

He didn't want me to leave. The Nogitsune didn't want me to leave. I have no idea what he would from want me. From what he said to Noshiko in the elevator, he wants me because we'll be unstoppable.

It doesn't sound too comforting.

"I'll be fine, I need to stop by the house and change anyway. I'll be okay," I assured him before offering him a faint smile and turning on my heel and walking away. I pulled my phone back out of my pocket and sent a text to another friend of ours.

Deaton.

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After I stopped by my house and changed into clothes that weren't smeared with blood, my wound had already healed and I was back to one-hundred percent health. I had walked to the Sheriff Station, which wasn't all that far from my house, and on the way there I had decided that I'm going to start saving up money for a damn car because having to walk everywhere was a major inconvenience.

When I got to the station, it was pretty alive with conversation. Apparently there was a bomb at the school. My gut was telling me that wasn't true, but I had to force myself to not call Scott and make sure they were okay.

Due to the hype, I slipped past the front desk back to where the interrogation room was. I remember being in there last year, when Jackson had called his father and had written up a restraining order against us.

I wonder if that is still valid?

Derek and Chris were handcuffed to the bench right outside Sheriff Stilinski' office. My dad was nowhere to be found, so I briskly walked over there.

"Well Derek I always knew you were a bad boy, but getting arrested, for the second time since I've met you by the way, just to uphold your image is a bit conceited don't you think?" I said as I sat down beside him, trying to look as inconspicuous as possible.

He shot me a look of annoyance, "Stiles set us up. He planted an emitter in my loft so I would show up in Argent's apartment, where he had planted money from a Japanese mob exchange that had supposedly ended with a dead Yukoza, named Katashi."

I was stunned into silence. Chris nodded along to Derek's explanation, only furthering my confusion.

Why would the Nogitsune want to have Derek and Chris arrested for something related to the Japanese mob? That doesn't even make sense.

"And I am not going to jail because of a teenager that is possessed by a psychotic fox." Derek stated for good measure.

I sighed, "I'm not going to let you go to jail. Just give me a minute to try and figure this out.."

When I found Stiles earlier at the school, he had an emitter with him. So the story of planting an emitter in Derek's loft makes sense. I don't know what Katashi has to do with anything... maybe he could have been the person that offended the Nogitsune and that's why he killed him?

This is too much for me to try and figure out.

Out of nowhere Officers began to run around the station, yelling things and slamming doors shut. My eyes widened as an officer skidded over to Chris and started to undo his handcuffs.

"What's happening?" I asked in a panic. I was getting a bad feeling.

Derek glanced around in confusion, I was praying he was using his werewolf senses to try and figure out what the hell was going on.

"GET DOWN!" Derek shouted before an explosion sounded in Sheriff Stilinski's office.

Bits of glass and wood flew over my head as Derek snapped the cuff and threw himself over me, shielding me from the explosion. My ears were ringing as the shattered glass scraped the tops of my hands.

Derek winced as he pulled himself off of me. I scrambled out from underneath him, not really knowing how to get up without cutting myself on more glass. Derek was wobbling from side to side and I wrapped my arms around his waist to keep him from falling.

"I'm fine, I'm okay.." he sputtered out. I glanced at his back and gasped when I saw several shards of glass sticking out from his black leather jacket.

I swallowed thickly, "I'm going to assume you saved me because you're in love with me, so thank you."

He attempted to chuckle but ended up wheezing and wincing, "Don't flatter yourself."

"Here, Kasey let me take him." Chris suggested, obviously seeing my struggle with holding Derek upright.

I nodded and carefully helped Chris grab a hold of Derek. I glanced around the station and took in the scene. Bodies were lying all over the floor, blood had splattered the tile and the walls, people were screaming and crying, and phones were ringing. It was absolute chaos and I felt completely and utterly useless.

"I'm gonna go and see if people need some help, can you take care of him?" I asked Chris, my eyes taking in Derek's slumped body.

Chris nodded, "Yeah, yeah, I have him."

Walking around the busted up station was no easy task, desks were broken and fragments of wood from Sheriff Stlinski's office were strewn everywhere. Mix that with a mass of injured officers, and you can understand why I was struggling.

I had half a mind to go back over to Derek and try to help him- he did save my life after all. And Derek Hale doesn't just save your life for the hell of it.

"Kasey! Kasey are you okay?!" Scott panicked as he ran up to me, gathering me in his arms and squeezing my body tightly. I let out a sigh of relief and my shoulders relaxed against him. Why is he here? Oh, it doesn't matter.

I could hear Stiles calling Scott's name somewhere behind him, and I froze. I had no idea how to tell Scott that Stiles wasn't Stiles at the moment. He had been lying to us, and we believed him. We trusted the fox.

The hug didn't last much longer. In fact, the hug turned into Scott grabbing my wrist and pulling me towards a hunched over Stiles. A sputtering Officer was on the floor, blood oozing from his mouth, his eyes were starting to roll to the back of his head. He was going to die.

"Can you take his pain? Make it easier?" Stiles rasped. A desperate look in his eye. Scott nodded and grabbed the Officer's hand. I watched as his veins on his forearm darkened, Scott wailed out in pain as his body convulsed. The Officer stopped sputtering then.

I shoved Scott's hand away, not knowing if something worse could come of his little pain trick if the person he was trying to help was dead or had died in his arms. "Get out of here! Go get help!" Sheriff Stilinski screamed at us.

Stiles stumbled to his feet, helping me pull Scott up. I led the way through the station, knowing where the easiest path of travel wold be. Kira appeared out of nowhere, slamming into my body due to how fast she had been running. Her arms shot out and grabbed my shoulders to steady not only me, but herself as well. "They're coming. They Oni are coming."

Scott glanced at Stiles and myself, "We have to get you two out of here."

And so we ran.

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Stiles' erratic driving down the dark road towards the Animal Clinic was a decent shot. It was lined with Mountain Ash, apparently like the barrier that my mom had set at our house the other night. I don't really remember that happening, mostly because I was under the influence of the Oni at that point. I'm praying to God that it doesn't happen again.

Thunder boomed in the sky as the tires of the Jeep squealed against the pavement, taking me back to this afternoon when Coach was shot with the arrow and I had connected myself to him.

It seemed odd, that out of nowhere I was suddenly able to use my Admonere ability again- when after so long it hasn't done a single thing. It's as if the Nogitsune wanted that to happen, and that's why it did.

Actually... ever since the elevator incident and I threw up that firefly, my Admonere gifts have been in full throttle. I haven't had that wall up inside of my head anymore. It all started when Stiles was possessed. That night when the Nogitsune took over him and the firefly left me.

The firefly that had been the Oni... which means I am no longer holding an Oni inside of me. That's why my ability is working. The Oni isn't inside of me to prevent me from using it, but why would it want to prevent me from trying to warn people?

Stiles' jerked the jeep into a parking spot as the rain began to pour down. Kira and I expertly made it over the backseat and stumbled out into the pouring rain. Our shoes slapped against the puddles in the concrete as we ran towards the door.

Hissing and snarling came through the rain and I froze. I recognize that sound all too well. It was the Oni. They were here. And they wanted Stiles. Either that, or they wanted to get another one inside of me. Both of which, I wasn't all too happy about. Even though the Nogitsine is inside of Stiles, it's still Stiles. He's in there somewhere too, and I'm not going to let anything happen to him.

"Stiles and Kasey, get inside! Get inside!" Scott shouted as his eyes flashed red, fangs jutting out and claws extending.

I grabbed the keys out of my pocket that Scott had given me on the way over and fumbled through them as I tried to find the Animal Clinic key. I recognized it immediately and shoved the gold key into the lock, twisting it and pushing the door open.

"Kira," Stiles yelled over the rain, "Kira get inside!"

I watched in astonishment as Kira began to fight alongside Scott. She managed to take a blade from one of the Oni, using it against them as she expertly cut at them. How does she know what she's doing?

An Oni managed to sneak past Kira, having the perfect opportunity to strike Scott. I let out a shriek as I watched the sword penetrate his stomach. I went to run towards him, but Stiles held me back, refusing to let me anywhere near the Oni.

"NO!" Kira screamed before pulling out a wicked jump and stabbing an Oni. I shoved Stiles' grip off of me and ran towards Scott, alongside Kira. We each grabbed one of his arms as Stiles pulled the door open for us, "Get him inside! Come on,"

Scott was gasping and groaning as he pressed himself against the examination table in the Clinic. Kira went for the sword and braced herself as she tried to pull it out of Scott, before she could, Stiles grabbed her forearm.

She shrieked as Stiles grabbed the back of her neck and slammed her face against the table, knocking her out cold. He then spun around and faced me, the look on his face morphed into something that I had seen in my nightmares- my nightmares that were now becoming my reality.

"You okay?" he asked me as I backed myself into a wall. He stepped towards me as Scott attempted to protest, but his voice fell flat as he started wincing again. I pressed the palms of my hands against the wall beside me, "Please, don't. Please, just stop this. Don't do this."

Stiles shook his head from side to side, "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you, not you anyway."

"Please don't hurt either of them, I know that you want me- I figured it out. I figured it all out, so don't hurt them." I rushed out in a panic. I was afraid for Scott. I was afraid for Stiles. And especially, I was afraid for myself.

He smirked and placed his hand on my cheek, "You figured it out? Please do share, Kasey."

I swallowed nervously, "You want me because of my ability, right? That's why you somehow managed to get the Oni out of me in the hospital, because you wanted me to use my ability as a test run for you, so you could see how it works and if you could trigger it."

"Well," he drawled out, his eyes darting over his shoulder to Scott, "you certainly put that together a lot faster than I gave you credit for."

"Okay. So, take me. Just let Stiles go, and take me, okay?" I suggested quickly. My thoughts were running a mile a minute in my head and I couldn't think of what I wanted to say or do in this moment to ensure Scott's safety. He's not out of the woods just yet. None of us are.

Stiles chuckled, "It's not that simple, if it were- we wouldn't be here right now. Let me in, Kasey. Let me in and this will all be over."

"Wh-what?" I stammered. What does he mean, let him in? Let him in where? Into my mind? I had closed the door days ago, it shouldn't be that hard to get it open again, right? I don't know how to do it though- I didn't even mean to do it the first time.

He sighed, "You've gotta let me in sweetheart, and until you do- your precious little Stiles will be a wonderful helping hand with making sure you do."

Stiles grabbed at my throat and pressed me against the wall, I struggled against him, gasping as the room began to spin. He's not going to risk hurting me, right? Not if he wants me. And boy does he want me.

"Connect yourself to your brother, right now." He hissed, his grip on my throat tightening. I clawed at his hand, the hand that has held mine so many times. The hand that had tucked my hair behind my ear so he could see my face. The hand that has traced the outline of my jaw as his lips smothered my own. The hand that was no longer his.

I squeezed my eyes shut as my switch started to flip. It was wavering, trying to fight against my will because it knew that connecting to Scott was a terrible, terrible idea. I didn't want to feel what was Scott was feeling. I didn't want to have yet another gaping hole in my stomach.

"I don't want to hurt you, Kasey. Neither does Stiles, so connect yourself to him. NOW!" He shouted in my face.

And so I did. I connected myself to Scott and nearly collapsed as the pain surged through my body. The shirt I had changed into so that I wasn't sporting my blood as a look, was now soaking up more- and I felt light headed.

Stiles patted my cheek, "Good girl."

I watched in agony as he strolled over to Scott, tapping his fingers against the handle of the blade inside of him. Scot winced as he watched me helplessly. "You okay?" he asked, using the same tone that he had used when he first started talking to me.

Scott's eyes widened, "Don't... please stop."

My heart collapsed in on itself as Stiles twisted the blade inside of Scott's stomach. I could hear the flesh being torn apart as blood spilled out of him, he wasn't able to heal- not with the blade inside of him. My own stomach was wrenched farther open as the blade twisted.

"Does it hurt? Hey, look at me. You should have done your reading, Scott. See, a Nogitsune feeds off chaos, strife and pain. This morning, you took it from Isaac, then you took it from Coach. And then from a dying deputy. All that pain, you took it all. Now, give it to me!" Stiles demanded as he held the side of Scott's face.

Scott was choking as I watched the veins in Stiles' arm and neck turn black again. Just like they did when he touched me outside this afternoon. I could feel something leaving my body, a heavy weight in my chest slowly slip out into the open. It was the pain- the pain that Scott had taken went to me. I was holding it too.

It finally made sense as to why the Nogitsune wanted me. He wanted me because I can connect myself to anyone at any given time and absorb the chaos, strife or pain that the person is feeling. I can conjure it up at a moments notice for him without breaking a sweat. He doesn't have to go to such extreme lengths to get what he needs to survive, he would have it all in the palm of his hand with me. With my hallucinations and dreams, my pain and chaos would domino on every around me- and he would be at an all you can eat buffet 24/7.

"You really have to learn, Scott. You really have to learn not to trust a fox. Mmm-mmm. Know why? 'Cause they're tricksters. They'll fool you. They'll fool everyone." he said with a twisted laugh that made my insides hurt.

I watched as Deaton appeared in the doorway, strolling over to where Stiles and Scott were standing, a needle in his hand.

"Not everyone," Deaton said before shoving the needle into his neck. Stiles let go of Scott and started convulsing as he hit the floor. Scott and I were both stammering and trying to form a coherent sentence as Deaton pulled the sword out of him.

We harmonized our groans and complaints as the sword left his body, and the wounds began to heal. I let out a sigh as I crawled over to Stiles' body, trying my best to get his body elevated, but my body wasn't cooperating.

"Wh-what was that? Was that a cure? Is he okay?" Scott stammered. He was panting as his fingers curled around the edge of the table for support.

Deaton shook his head from side to side as he glanced down at Stiles, "The fox is poisoned. But it's not dead. Not yet."

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So you're learning more and more about why the Nogitsune wants Kasey and why it was so important for Noshiko to ensure that an Oni was inside of her at all times. That didn't pan out though-- because of the slight hold that the Nogitsune had on Kasey in general, the firefly had been the Oni-- so she is ready to be taken, but she has to let him in.

Next episode is Echo House and I'm so excited for that one. It's going to be awesome so I hope you're all ready for it!

Be sure to fan, vote, and comment! -Sasha xx