Chapter Five : I Swear to God

Ethan Aiden and I stood in the loft. There was on sign of Derek or Peter anywhere. "Okay start talking. Why did you say my name before you freaked?" Aiden asked, crossing his arms.

"What do you remember before breaking me out of my cell?"

"You told me how I die." I stay silent, "You told me it seemed like five months away. Caitlin five months became two months."

"I know that Aiden! I don't think you guys get it. Right now the oni are peaceful because the person controlling them is peaceful. That little five behind your ear. That's a good thing. It means you are yourself. No one is controlling your body. It's when that mark isn't left that we should be scared."

"And Allison?" Ethan asked, seeming to take what I said to heart.

"I will find a way to save both Allison and you, Aiden."

Aiden sighed, "That's not a promise you can make."

"I can try." With that I grabbed my bag from the table and stormed out of the room.

~

"Scott what is that?" I heard Allison's voice as I rounded a corner. I saw Scott and her sitting at a picnic table. Scott had a red jornal in his hands. My jornal, "I mean you seem to have it a lot, so what is it?" She pestered on sticking a spoon of ice cream in her mouth.

Scott looked up from my jornal, "Just something my Dad gave me." Just then the twins came and sat down at the table. "The two of you gonna be doing this all day?"

"All day." Aiden starts.

"All night." Ethan finished

"This about being in my pack?"

"This is about you being a target of demonic ninjas." Ethan said causing Scott to stand.

He walked over to me with a straight face, "Oh god."

"Please don't run away again Cait."

"It's just that look on your face."

"Come on we got to meet Stiles."

I nod the two of us turning back to the school. Stiles was inside waiting in front of the chem lab. The halls seemed normal, but I was still self conscious. "Good the two of you made it." Stiles said as we approached turning around to open the door behind him. "Last night at the rave, when I was with Caitlin. Caitlin whose girlfriend was a virgin sacrifice to our english teacher Caitlin. I was holding my key and it started to glow under the blacklight. So then she started talking about phosphors and the key having chemicals on it, right?" I just nod closing the door to the lab behind Scott. "And so that made me think of the chemistry closet and the fact that someone had to let Barrow in..." Stiles paused when he looked at the board. "It's gone."

"What's gone?" I asked walking up next to him.

"The atomic letters that spelled Kira's name. It doesn't matter though. It doesn't matter, I still have the key." Stiles turns back to Scott and jogs over to the closet.

He started flipping through all his keys. "What the hell." He pulls back from the door, moving his hand over each key. "I had it..." Stiles was just whispering to himself now. "I had it here. This morning I swear to God, I had it this morning."

"The same key you were talking about last night?" Scott asked, walking closer to his friend.

"Yeah I showed it to you right? Didn't I show it to you guys?"

"You just told us about it." I paused, "Even when you were twirling your keys, you didn't point out any single one."

Stiles walks back to the board, "I was here a couple hours ago. And the message left to Barrow spelling Kira's name was right there on the board in my handwriting and I had the key to the chemistry closet.

Scott turned eight different expressions on his face, "So you? Unlocked the chemistry closet so Barrow could hide in it from the cops, and then you wrote him a message to kill Kira? What?"

"I'm with Scott, Stiles this is insane." No it wasn't, fear started to move up my body at the thought of all of this being real.

"Look I know who it sounds... but look at this." Stiles dug a piece of paper out from his pocket. He was unfolding it so fast I swear he would break the page, "This is the new report that came out about Barrow when they caught him, okay? About the shrapnel bomb that he used, see this? See what he did? He put nuts, bolts and screws. And then he hid the bomb and the detonator in a box that he wrapped as a birthday present. What does that sound like to you?"

"Like he played a..." I paused all confused anger left my body, replaced by a shaking truth, "Like he played a trick."

"The same trick me and you played on Coach." Scott said.

"Yeah. And Scott that was my idea. You remember that was my idea. That's not a coincidence. It can't be."

"I don't want to sound like I'm trying to tell you that you're wrong. But I don't think you're trying to kill people either." Scott said, his eyes moving around the room.

Stiles turned back to the board, balling the newspaper in his hand, "It was here. It was all here."

"Stiles, are you feeling okay?" I asked, wrapping my hand around his wrist. "I mean you look really tired. Have you slept at all?"

"No really. But I'm fine."

"Stiles go home. Take a sick day or something." Scott said walking to the other side of him.

"Yeah, yeah that sounds like a good idea." The two of us watch as Stiles leaves the room.

"What's happening to him?" Scott asked, voice nearing tears. "You said he gets possessed. is it by the oni?"

"By the thing controlling them."

"So what? He is trying to kill people?"

"No, just the thing inside of him is."

"How do we stop it?"

"I don't- I don't remember. When I was younger this scared me so much that I tried to block it out completely. I don't remember Scott." I breathe out his name, just on the verge of tears. "I can't remember."

~

Aiden and Ethan were following Scott all day, just like they said they would. It was a normal day for the most part. Till I got a text from Scott's mom. New Message : Stiles (Adderall) Stilinski : Hey Caitlin this is Melissa McCall. I just wanted to let you know Stiles is in the hospital with me. I have him under a sedative. As of now I think he's just suffering from lack of sleep, but I can't be sure. Okay that's all, Scott got the same message.

I read over the text four or five times. My hands started to shake as I walked down the hall headed to Mr. Yukimura's class. My breaths started to shorten as silent tears spilled over my cheeks. I pushed open the door. Thankfully he didn't have a class right now. "Caitlin?"

"What's happening." My tears turned into sobs. "Why can't I remember. WHAT"S GOING ON!"

"Caitlin take a breath."

"Why can't- can I save them?" My hands started to tangle around my hair, pulling it from my head.

"Caitlin I don't know what you're talking about."

"YES YOU DO!" I choke out a sob, "This is because of your wife! I know she never meant it but, this ism- why can't I remember?"

"Caitlin take a breath." I tried to steady my breathing and salty tears fall over my lips. "Go home Caitlin. Worry about being a teen, not a doppelganger. We will figure this out."

"But that's my job. I- I have to protect the innocent. I have to remember." My tears keep coming, "What's gonna happen?"

"I wish I knew Caitlin. I wish I did. Now go home." I nod, wiping my eyes with my sleeve.

I walk out the door and down the hall. When I got outside, the twins were on their bikes next to Scott. I shifted my gaze to Lottie Evlynn and Chloe, who were walking around campus. I wipe a few remaining tears from my face and walk over to Scott. He was was backing away from the twins and there broken bikes.

My mind went to our conversation from earlier. "You know when they say they're gonna follow you all day they mean it."

"That's why the two fo us are gonna follow Stiles."

"At least let me break the bikes this time."

He smirked, "I thought you'd never ask."

He pulls up in front of me. "You ready?"

I climb on the bick behind him holding the bolts of the twins bikes in my hands, "What do I do with these?" He smirks as I drop the four bolts on the ground and the two of us pull away. I think I could hear the twins cursing us from behind, but I couldn't tell.

~

Scott parked his bike in the front of his house. "Make sure you lock the door." I do as he says moving through the house to the kitchen. When I got there Scott had a blueprint of the hospital laid out on the table.

"This isn't an armed robbery." I joke standing by his side to look over the prints.

"I know, I just don't want anyone to get hurt. Especially Stiles and my Mom."

"Scott the sun is still a problem, the oni are still gonna check you..."

"I know. But It's Stiles I'm worried about."

"Whatever you say."

"Okay you see this?" Scott points to the left most part of the hospital. "That's the west-wing. If what my mom said was true and Stiles is under her care, they would both be in the west-wing."

"Okay, so what? We break in and you get jumped. Scott I love Stiles but right now, I'm more worried about you. You Mom has him under a sedative."

"Do you have a way to kill an oni?"

"Not off the top of my head, but I'm sure I wrote it down." Scott's phone started to ring. "Who's that?"

"Kira?" Scott shook his head putting his phone on speaker. "Hey Kira, Cait's with me."

"Okay good she should hear this too. I think I figured out what I am."

"Okay, lay it on us." I lean over the table to get closer to the phone.

"I'll send Cait a picture." This time my phone buzzed with an image from a book. A white fox with seven tails surrounded by electricity. "Have either of you heard of a Kitsuna?"

"Once or twice."

"Yeah Cait's talked about it before. That picture. It looks just like what happened to you at the power station."

"Yeah. Um, when a Kitsune rubs it's tails together it can create fire of lighting. It's called foxfire. And I will add that I don't have any tails."

"We knew someone with a tail." I joke.

"Yeah I recall him trying to kill all of us."

"Not the time Scott."

"I don't think I want to know. Anyways.."

"Scott the sun's setting."

"Yeah I know."

"I should go." Kira hung up the phone.

"Are you scared Cait?"

"No. I know it won't work on me. The oni check to see if you're you. No one is controlling you. Part of being the doppelganger is the fact that I connect all words. So they could see a million versions of one person. Are you?"

"Not when you're here." The two of us got closer. "Not when I have someone to protect me."

I look to the ground and smile. Butterflies could be felt in my stomach but it didn't much matter. I heard the door unlock from the front of the house. "What was that?"

"I don't know?"

The two of us made our way to the front of the house. Mr. McCall was standing at a counter, his hands over his laptop. "What are you doing here?" Sometimes I forget just how much Scott hates his father. "And why do you still have a key?"

"Funny you mention keys. Because while I have a key to this house, I'm not exactly sure how you got a key to my office." Mr. McCall turned the laptop around, opening it to a picture of Scott and Kira. "Let me help you out here. This kind of thing usually begins with something along the line of, 'it's not what you think.' or 'I can explain."

"Dad let me help you." Scott looked back out the window where the sun was setting, "You need to leave."

"I will. With a satisfactory explanation."

"Go get a warrant."

"I don't need a warrant. I'm your father."

"No, you're a gene donor. I got my hair color from you. And that's all I got. So you're not allowed to play tough dad with me." I looked back at the picture, both to our benefit and our demise the flash must not have been on. If it was Scott's eyes would have made a lens flair and Kira's iner fox would show. I could have just said it was a photo I edited as a joke and sent to the wrong account, but no it was normal.

"What's going on?" Melissa McCall came in through the now unlocked door.

"I think you should let Scott explain." The sun was gone now.

"Scott. We really don't have time for family drama."

A gust of wind could be felt on my back. "Who the hell is this?" Mr. McCall asked grabbing his gun.

Scott and I both turn to be faced with an oni, "Dad, no! Dada wait...." A second oni comes from behind Mr McCall stabbing him in the shoulder blade. "DAD!"

I was done waiting. Scott and Melissa were close behind me as I ran to the two figures of pure blackness. I could hear Scott roar from behind me as I took a stance. But everything pushed for a second when Derek came in the door. Eyes a bright shade of blue. A real fight breaks out as the twins break a window, snarling. "GET DOWN!" I hear myself scream. Quickly I create an x with my arms, as I break the symbole a wave of flames cuts into the darkness. Three of the four onus wither away, and Scott throws the fourth through a window.

"MOM NOW!" Melissa runs to the door, breaking the mountain ash bottle. No one was getting out. But more importantly no one was getting in. "Cait how did you do that?"

"Flames wont stop them. It's like respaning. If memory serves me right, they are created at a place of high power, when you light a flame like that it sends them back to where they started, but nowhere near dead."

"Now that we know that. How does that work? Are all the baseboards ash wood?" Derek asked, now human.

"Yeah it was Deaton's idea." Scott paused, turning back to human, "Where the hell did you come from?"

"I've been following you."

"For how long?"

"All day." That's not creepy.

"SCOTT THIS ISN'T GOOD!" Melissa McCall's voice screamed through the house. Scott ran over to where his mother and father were. I went to go after him but Ethan stopped me, grabbing my wrist.

I step back to where a mountain ash barrier now stands. Placing my right hand over the oni how stood outside the house I pushed forward. "Cait what the hell are you doing?" I heard one of the twins asked but I couldn't tell who said it. I watch my veins turn an off yellow color, the room around me.

The room stopped spinning and was replaced by a stone wall and fence. Oni were fighting all around me, but I was still a ghost. Allison fired one shot from her bow killing the oni in front of Isaac. She stood still for a millisecond too long, looking at an arrow in her hands. "ALLISON!" A pecicing scream rattled around us as a sword made its way into Allison's gut. All the oni disappeared, as Scott ran to his former love.

I floated over to where Allison and Scott lay on the ground. I blocked out the conversation as blood covered Allison's dress. The arrow was still in her hand. Slowly I removed it from her grip. "Tell my father... Tell my Dad." Allison's arm and body went limp after that. I studded the metal on the arrow. It seemed normal, completely normal. The walls around me started to fad. "No.no, what is it?" I was questioning myself as a light covered me and the scene around me.

I woke to the whole house shaking as the oni tried to get around the barrier. Scott was standing over me. "I swear to god I'll save you Allison Argent." I promised myself as Scott helps me from the floor. "What are they doing?"

"Looking for weaknesses." Aiden answers.

Two of the oni press forward, cutting a small blue and black hole into the mountain ash. "Guys? I think they found one." I say, as the black becomes more than the blue. "Scott, Call Allison." Scott was already on it. (Allison Isaac Elynn and Chloe were with mr. Argent talking to the only man who survived an attack from the oni 24 years ago.) Scott gets off the phone as a sound like glass shattering break our concentration. We all look back to the oni who managed to break the mountain ash. Walking back into the house.

"Cait?"

"Yeah?"

"Allison said the oni were looking for a nogitsune. If I let them check me they won't hurt me right?"

"Right. This will sound like an awful idea, but"

"Let them come, yeah that was the plan."

One of the oni steps in the room. "Scott we have to do something." Derek said.

"Don't do anything." Scott says pushing me behind him.

"Is he kidding?" Aiden said, taking a step back.

"You heard me. Don't do anything." Scott reaches his hand out to me, "Do you trust me?"

"More than you know." I take his hand as the two of us push past everyone else in the room.

Scott took a breath closing his eyes. One of the oni's eyes turned a bright green. Like "Fireflies." I whisper as Scott goes stiff from the oni's touch.

"Giving yourself up Caitin?" A voice said from the other room.

"Make sure no one hurts him." I tell Aiden following the voice around a corner.

Mrs. Yukimura stood before me. "Are you giving yourself up?"

"I'm doing the smart thing." I stick my arm out to her, wrist up. "Do what you need to." She takes a metal stamp from her pocket.

"If you would allow me a flame." I open my palm, a fire lit bright. She brings the stamp over the flame heating it. Then she moves it to my inner wrist. I felt a white hot pain climb my arms till everything was black.