chapter seventy-five
❝ i can't tell what's real and
what's hallucinations  ❞
amplification

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"I like mommy-daughter time,"

Kennedy looked at her mom, who sat in the passenger seat of her car as they followed the Jeep and multiple police cars. "Usually I categorize getting my nails done and a salon trip as mommy-daughter time. Not chasing the Beast of Gevaudan who you helped bring back,"

Sloane sighed. "In my defense, I didn't know it was that Beast," She said as she looked back at the road.

"How many beasts are there!?"

"All units stay back. Do not engage. I repeat, do not engage."

Both Sloane and Kennedy look at the radio, "Was that your boyfriend?" Sloane asked.

"Stiles, get off the radio!" Noah Stilinski's voice followed. There was a moment of silence, "All unit alert. Wait for backup. Repeat, no one goes near this thing."

Kennedy looked at her mom. "Yeah," She mumbled. Sloane hummed, impressed.

"Unit Five reporting a sighting on Hill Road southbound,"

"Unit Nine, I've got it turning off Oakridge, southbound on Beachwood,"

Sloane looked at the radio again, "Beachwood? Isn't that the direction of the hospital?" She asked herself.

"All units, this is Dispatch. We've got a 911 call with additional sighting on Mitchell."

Kennedy and Sloane looked at each other with wide eyes. Kennedy sighed, "I wish you became a good guy sooner," Kennedy sighed as she reached for her speaker.

"Dad," Stiles's voice on the radio caused Kennedy to stop.

"Stiles, get off this channel."

"Dad, just listen to me, okay? It's headed for the hospital, all right." Kennedy looked at the Jeep, stepping on the gas to see Scott and Stiles in the Jeep. Scott looked down, waving at the red car. Sloane leaned over so Scott could see her, waving back. "He's headed for Beacon Memorial. You hear me? It's headed for the hospital."

Sloane looked at her daughter, "To the hospital, Bunny?" Kennedy exhaled sharply, pressing hard on the gas.

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Sloane climbed out of Kennedy's car. Stiles looked over. "We brought her here because..."

"Because she's another alpha and she knows about the Beast," Scott reminded the human boy as they walked towards the hospital.

"She's an alpha because she stole Kennedy's alpha powers. Which I thought only their bitten beta could do," Stiles pointed out as he looked at Kennedy and her mom.

The Seer-Werewolves looked at each other then Stiles. Sloane shook her head. "With the Dread Doctors, rules don't apply." She reasoned before walking into the building. Kennedy shrugged, knowing her mom was right. The ladies lead the way into Beacon Hills Memorial. The sound of a gun cocking caused them to spin around. Noah froze, seeing Sloane. The Valet gave a finger wave, and Noah held his finger to his mouth. He knew Sloane was alive, but seeing her for the first time since before the fire caused the man to pale in confusion and shock.

They all stumbled at something above them made a loud banging noise. It was quickly followed by a loud snarl. Sloane eyeballed Scott. "Fourth floor," He told them.

Kennedy didn't know what to expect to see on the fourth floor. But it was't fire on the walls, flickering lights, and a wheelchair also on fire. She felt like she had just stepped into a horror movie, and somehow she wasn't sure if she'd be the final girl.

As the group of five neared the end of the hall, Sloane pushed them back. Kennedy's eyes widened as a ball of flame seemed to fly past them. It was Parrish, she realized as he landed in front of them. Kennedy watched the flames die down and his eyes shift from their orange to their natural color. A scratch was along his chest. Scott and Kennedy looked down the hall while Sloane kneeled down towards Jordan.

"Parrish, you okay?" Asked Noah.

"Should I slap him?" Asked Sloane. Noah and Stiles looked at her questioningly. "It was just a suggestion." Noah looked back, yelling at Jordan to snap him out of the trance like state he was under.

Stiles turned back to watch Scott and Kennedy. They were following a trail. Sloane stood up as she looked at the bloodied footprints on the floor. Stiles, Kennedy, and Scott followed them, watching as they turned from animal-like prints to shoe prints.

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Sloane and Deaton walked into the back room of the animal clinic where the three teenagers stood. Deaton stood on the other side of the metal table. "What I'm about to show you isn't supposed to exist." He said as he pulled put a stack of photos from an envelope. Kennedy's heart dropped. "This is the only surviving evidence of Dr. Valack's time as Chief Medical Officer of Eichen House. To call it human experimentation would be charitable." All of the photos were of different supernatural creatures, all of them with holes in their head.

Scott picked up a photo, a woman holding her ears as she screamed. "A Banshee." Scott looked up at Deaton. "She died screaming." Kennedy watched Deaton place down more and more photos.

"So, he drilled holes into their heads? All of them?" Stiles asked.

Sloane shrugged, "That was the experimentation part." She hummed.

Deaton looked down, "He did it to Werewolves, Banshees, Wendigos, any creature he could get his hands on. And Valack found that trepanation would initially heighten their powers, but to levels that couldn't be contained." He explained.

"So he wants to make Lydia more powerful." Scott realized as he looked at all the photos.

"Yeah. Except she's going to end up like them." Stiles gestured.

Deaton rose a brow. "Worse, actually." Kennedy looked at the veterinarian. "Lydia's abilities were already pretty exceptional to begin with. Putting a hole in her head will be like causing a leak in a nuclear reactor. She'll hear everything. Every death, every dying scream, all at once.

"That's going to kill her," Kennedy breathed out, looking at her mom.

Sloane clenched her jaw. "Not only that," Deaton added, causing the teenagers to look at her again. "Her own dying scream could be so powerful that it might kill everyone around her as well."

"But," Sloane pointed her finger at Deaton. "Especially the seers."

Stiles frowned, "Why the seers?"

"Seers and Banshees are similar if you think about it. Clairvoyance, telepathy. Seers and Banshees are naturally connected through their own supernatural powers. People like Kennedy and I? Lydia could kill us from across the state." Stiles looked at his girlfriend as she tensed up.

"That was her screams," Kennedy said. "The screams I've been hearing in my visions."

"And when I was at Fort Hewett," Sloane added as she looked at her daughter. "Kennedy, we are naturally connected to Lydia, and if we're too close, the damage in indeterminate." The Hale girl pressed her hands onto the cold metal as she thought about everything Sloane just said.

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The pack gathered at the McCall house once again. Kennedy stood in between Liam and Malia, looking over at Stiles who stood at one end of the table with his laptop, Scott just to his left. "There's four steps. We get into Eichen, we get into the Closed Unit, we get Lydia, get out."

"And we have to do it all of this while getting past orderlies, guards, electric door locks, and a Mountain Ash barrier." Scott followed.

Malia nods, "You have a plan for all of that?"

Stiles pulls the same keycard from Eichen House out of his pocket. "I stole this last night off an orderly." He told the werecoyote. "But it's useless 'cause they reset the codes each night."

"So why did you take it?" Asked Kira, who stood on the other side of Liam.

"I'm getting to that."

Scott speaks up, "The only way to get Lydia out of Eichen is to make that key card work again."

"How are you going to do that?" This time, Liam was asking the question.

"We're getting to that, okay, just listen." Stiles waved them all off. Kennedy was the only one silent, listening closely to everything everyone said. Stiles turned his computer towards the other. "I pulled all the history off the key card. Two weeks ago, there was a brownout and the security system rebooted. During a reboot, all of the key cards revert back to a default code." He explained to the others. "So, if we trigger a reboot,"

Liam nods as he pieces it together. "The card goes back to the default code. It works again." Kennedy smiles, patting Liam's shoulder.

"How are we going to cause a brownout?" Kira questioned, looking between Scott and Stiles.

The McCall looks at his girlfriend. "That's your part. You're going to draw power from the main line. But only enough to cause the brownout." He told her.

Stiles clapped his hands together, "Not a blackout. Do that and you send Eichen into lockdown which would be bad. Very, very bad." Kennedy nodded, listening closely.

Scott leaned towards the table, pointing at the blueprints of the building. "There's an electrical room behind the reception counter. The main power line goes into two breakers that run power to all of Eichen."

Kira exhaled sharply. "Okay, slight problem. I don't know how to do that."

"That's okay. You have time to practice." Scott reassured.

Malia, still standing close to Kennedy, speaks up, "Let's say all this goes perfectly. How does a brownout get us into the Closed Unit of Eichen?" Both Liam and Kira look towards Stiles. However, Kennedy leans in.

"The system takes about five minutes to reboot." She explained, "So in those five minutes, all the alarms will be turned off the key card should work." She gestures to the keycard on the table.

"Liam, you and I get Stiles and Kennedy to the gate of the Closed Unit." Scott told the Beta. "Kennedy's the only one here who can get over the barrier as long as she sustains the werewolf side of her long enough for the seer side to take control."

Malia frowns, "How does that work?" She questioned.

Kennedy shrugged, "It's what Laura did to me when I was ten. My mom said she suppressed my werewolf side to the point if I hadn't regained my memories I would have instead triggered my seer side." She explained to the pack, "So, I just have to do it to myself."

"And when we're gone, all anyone's going to think is that there was a reboot of the security system caused by a brownout." Scott finished, looking at the other pack members.

Stiles clasped his hands together, "Uh, any questions?"

"How do we get into Eichen House in the first place?" Asked Liam.

Malia quickly followed, "What's our worst-case scenario?"

"What if I can't do it?" Kira finished.

"Okay, admittedly, a lot could go wrong," Stiles said as he held his hand up.

Liam shrugged, "Everything could go wrong." He pointed out.

"Guys," Scott looked at Malia, Liam, and Kira. "If we don't do this, we lose Lydia. She's going to die in there tonight." He said, looking between them. "And she might take a lot of innocent people with her."

Malia raises a hand again, "And how is Kennedy going to strengthen her seer side?" She asked as she looked at her sister.

"With this,"

The entire pack turned towards the back door, watching Sloane Valet walking in with a familiar device. Stiles, Malia, and Kennedy recognized it from Eichen House. Liam and Kira shared confused looks. "What is that?"

"It's used for trepanation," Sloane hummed, moving the object in her hands. "It's what Valack uses to strengthen supernatural like Lydia. Except it usually kills them."

Liam's blue eyes were wide with concern. "And we're going to use it on Kennedy?"

Stiles shook his head, "Wait, this wasn't part of the plan," He said alarmingly, looking at Kennedy.

"Actually, it was," Kennedy mumbled, looking over. "I can get through the barrier way easier if I do this,"

"But you've been through it before," Malia deadpanned.

Kennedy nodded, "Yes, and there's a lot of me fighting an invisible forcefield to do it," She recalled, shrugging her shoulders. "Pushing the werewolf side down long enough for us to get Lydia in and out without my werewolf side interfering with the barriers, the faster we can get her out."

Stiles still didn't agree. "Did we forget the part that seers are more vulnerable to banshee screams? Youre werewolf side may be the only thing that keeps you alive when she's screaming?" He asked with a harsh tone. He suddenly hated this idea.

The Hale shrugged her shoulders. "It's a risk I'm willing to take, Stiles. I'm not losing Lydia. I won't." Everyone in the room could hear her voice. She had already made up her mind, regardless of what Stiles thought.

Stiles breathed through his mouth, "Okay, fine. But I still don't like it." He said lowly as he looked at Sloane. "And where did you get a device to drill into peoples heads?" He questioned with a frown.

Sloane puckered her lips as she shrugged. "I called a friend," She said plainly. The McCall pack members shared uncertain looks as she rolled her eyes. "Chop chop! It's time to save that pretty redhead,"

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The trio made their way down the steps of the library. Stiles looked between them. "My dads got the lab working on the shoe prints. But, uh, we're both kind of mystified about how giant clawed werewolf feet turn back into a pair of sneakers."

"Argent said it wouldn't be like anything we've ever seen before."

"It's not. It's definitely not." Kennedy followed Scott's statement, shaking her head.

"Did he say it was going to defy the laws of physics?" Stiles exasperated.

As they passed an aisle, Scott stopped. Kennedy and Stiles looked over, seeing Theo leaning against a shelf, reading a book. "What are you doing here?"

Theo leaned off the shelf, shrugging. "I still need to graduate."

"No. No. What you need is to be beaten severely with a lead pipe wrapped in barbed wire-"

"Okay, I admit that mistakes were made."

Stiles shook his head, "Murders. Some murders were made." He cut in.

Theo flipped through his book. "You know how the Soviets helped us win World War II?" Kennedy crossed her arms. raising a brow. "They knew how to make it through a Russian winter."

"That it? Okay. Thank you, Theo. Very informative."

"If you're planning to break Lydia out of Eichen House, you still need to get past the Mountain Ash." Theo pointed out, "We can make it through. You can't, Scott."

Kennedy shrugged, "But I can. So what do you really want?" She asked bitterly, Stiles had a hand on her back while Scott had his hand slightly in front of her, in case he needed to stop her from jumping at the chimera.

"I know you saw the fresco. Two seriously pissed-off creatures, the Hellhound, and the Beast, fighting over a pile of dead bodies. I don't want to be one of the bodies, it's that simple. I can get you to Lydia." Kennedy watched Theo shut the book, "Or we can see who gets to her first."

Kennedy growled lowly as Theo walked past her. Stiles kept his hand on her back as he looked over at Scott. "There's no way he knows what Valack's doing. Why's he so interested in her?"

"He probably thinks what we're all thinking. That Lydia's got something bigger to do with this." Scott turned his head, peering in the direction Theo had walked off in. "That maybe she's the only one who can actually save us."

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"I still hate this idea."

Stiles stood at the end of a dining table in the Hale Penthouse. Scott stood next to him, both of them looking down at Kennedy, who was laying down. Liam stood towards the side, across from Sloane Valet, who held the drill in her hand.

Liam scrunched his face as he looked up. "How do we know this will work? How does this even work?" He rambled as he looked at the drill again. To be honest, he was glad he wasn't Kennedy in this situation, because this looked torturous.

"Valack told me pieces of it, but I think this plus what I'll to to Kennedy after should be enough to push back her werewolf side and let the seer side take over for a while."

"What does it mean once she becomes full seer?" Stiles asked, eyeballing Kennedy who just laid there, listening to them all.

Sloane sighed, shaking her head. "How about I tell you after?" She said with a small smile. Stiles's face paled as he nervously looked at Scott. Sloane leaned towards her daughter, moving Kennedy's hair to reveal the bald spot Kennedy shaved prior. "Thank goodness Lydia's will be in the same spot. I really didn't want to put a hole in the middle of your head, that is far more noticeable."

Kennedy rolled her eyes, "Thanks, Mom," She mumbled. Sloane looked at the three boys.

"Hold her down," She ordered. Stiles and Liam moved around the table. Scott held on to her legs whilst Liam held onto her right side, and Stiles held on to her left. He nervously looked at Kennedy, who gave him a reassuring smile. His hand encapsulated hers, and he tried to slow his breathing. Kennedy slowly closed her eyes, trying to relax. Sloane's hand laid on Kennedy's forehead. Quickly, she turned on the drill. The whirring sound echoed in Kennedy's ears, and it got louder and louder. Stiles winced, looking away. The metal sliced into Kennedy's skin, and instantly a scream escaped her lips. Scott pushed down on her thrashing legs whilst Stiles and Liam stopped her flailing arms. Sloane pushed Kennedy's head down onto the table, pushing the drill further into Kennedy's skull.

The pain was incomparable to anything Kennedy had felt before. She couldn't imagine how Lydia felt during it. She screamed and roared out in pain, her claws instinctively coming out. Stiles hissed in pain as claws dug into his skin. Liam winced, holding Kennedy down. Scott's eyes turned red as he pressed her legs into the table. She was barely able to move.

Kennedy's eyes sprung open. Everyone could see the steel-blue they had turned to recently. She roared out, the penthouse shaking as she did. Sloane pushed the drill further, and suddenly Kennedy stopped. She stopped fighting back. Stiles and Liam watched as her claws retracted back into normal human fingernails. Her fangs soon turned into normal teeth. Her eyes turned white. The eyes of a seer.

Sloane finally stopped the drill, pulling it away from Kennedy's skull. Silence filled the air between each of them as they looked down at the girl. Stiles watched as his girlfriend just stared at the ceiling with white eyes. Unsure, he looked at Sloane. "Did it work?"

"Yes," Sloane said, "But I have one more thing to do," Scott and Stiles watched as she pulled out a familiar concoction. They had seen it before, when Derek used it on Kennedy the night Jennifer Blake poisoned her with mountain ash. "This, plus this," They watched Sloane hold up a small vial of liquid, "And my claws, it's what Laura did to Kennedy to suppress her werewolf side completely. This will let the seer side take full control."

Scott furrowed his brows. "But won't it hurt?"

"Not nearly as much as that did," All of them looked towards the new hole in Kennedy's head. Sloane moved over. The three teenage boys silently watched as Sloane took a needle, withdrawing a dosage of the first liquid into the tube. She looked at them all again, and they all held on to Kennedy again. Sticking the needle into her neck, Sloane watched as Kennedy's veins all quickly turned black. There was no reaction from the girl, other than her grip on Stiles's hand tightening. Sloane grabbed the second liquid, and another needle. Following the same process, Sloane injected the needle into her daughter. This time, Kennedy's body seemed to relax, no sign of her about to roar at them all and then claw them to death. She seemed fine, other than her white eyes still staring at the ceiling.

The Valet moved her daughter up to a sitting position. Scott shifted uncomfortably, not really liking the white eyes staring at him. Liam seemed unsure, watching Sloane flick out her claws. "How soon will she recover from this?" He asked.

Sloane aimed her claws right behind Kennedy's neck. She looked at the young boy for a moment. "If her seer side has taken over? She'll be fine as soon as I'm done," Stiles felt his skin crawl as Sloane's claws struck Kennedy's neck. Kennedy's back straightened and she let out a gasp. Sloane's eyes turned red.

Scott and Stiles looked at each other and back at Kennedy. She seemed like she wasn't there with them. And in a way, she wasn't. She was going through every moment of her life, from the second she was born to the second she laid on that table. It was all happening so fast, it felt like she was spinning. Paige, the fire, meeting Scott and Stiles, all of her moments with Lydia, dating Jackson, their breakup, her and Lydia's friendship breakup. Allison, Isaac, Erica, Boyd, Aiden, Ethan, and Danny. Liam, Mason, Hayden, Kira, Theo, and Malia. It all spun around her like a tape going 100 miles an hour.

And then it all stopped.

Sloane stumbled away from her daughter, her eyes turning brown. Kennedy's white eyes faded hazel and she gasped out for air as she looked around. Stiles and the others were right by her side, making sure she was fine. Sloane clenched her jaw as she pushed her hair back.

Stiles's hand was on Kennedy's cheek as he turned her to look at him. "Are you okay?" He asked her quietly. Kennedy said nothing for a moment, moving her hand towards the side of her head. She could feel the hole. It wasn't healing.

"It won't heal, not until after tonight." Sloane said, "But you'll be alright."

Kennedy looked at everyone, seeing their attempted looks of reassurance. Liam looked around anxiously. "I'll walk you to the car," He offered, quickly moving to assist the Hale. Scott and Stiles watched Liam help the groggy and quiet Kennedy towards the exit, the two of them moving to follow.

"Boys," Both Scott and Stiles looked back at Sloane. "I should warn you of the side effects of what we just did."

Scott and Stiles shared a look. A look of uncertainty, fear, and worry. "Like what?"

"While Kennedy is still a werewolf, we have done the exact procedure Laura did to Kennedy years ago. She will have to retrigger her werewolf side herself, it won't come back naturally."

"So she's basically human, like before she got her memories back," Stiles reasoned, looking at Sloane.

The Valet nodded, "And you asked what happens when Kennedy is full seer, but I didn't want her to hear it," Sloane walked towards the shelves on the wall. Scott and Stiles followed, watching as she pulled a red leather book off the shelf. "With what we have just done, her and Lydia will be in a very similar fragile state. Kennedy will be seeing things. Things of the past, present, and future at unsolicited times and all at once. She will struggle to identify fact versus fiction." Sloane explain with a straight face. "If she does not find a way to control it, she could go insane, and you'd be surprise by the damage a seer is once they've lost their mind."

Stiles felt sick. Sloane hadn't told them that part of the deal. If she had, he and Scott would have never agreed to letting her do that to Kennedy. Stiles shook his head. "Why did we do this?"

"I have seen the ending to all of this. Multiple versions, multiple endings, multiple deaths." Sloane said as she looked between the True Alpha and the human boy, "I don't know the steps to your success, but this is a risk you need to take in order to save your red-headed friend, and eventually find the right steps."

Scott looked over at Stiles. The two boys weren't sure what Sloane meant, but she had to have a point. If she knew the ways this was going to end, maybe she was just trying to push them in the right direction.

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"She took out the whole school?"

Kennedy stood in between Liam and Stiles, looking over at Malia and Kira. "She took out the whole grid." Malia deadpanned. Apparently, the only hiccup in their plan was Kira having troubles with her powers and electricity. Hence her taking out the power in a section of the town.

Kira defeatedly looked over at her boyfriend. "Look, I failed every single practice try. This isn't going to work." She said with slouched shoulders. Kennedy hadn't said much since waking up from the trepanation procedure. Scott updated the girls on everything when they got to the McCall house, and all of them were slightly wary of Kennedy's movements.

"How far can we get without the brownout?" Asked Liam, looking from Stiles and Scott to the girls.

"The front door." Stiles mumbled with crossed arms.

"We're going."

Kira looked at the latino,"Scott, we went through boxes of light bulbs." She told him, still not confident in her abilities.

"It doesn't matter." Scott said. A sound caused Kennedy to look away from the couple. She couldn't pin point what it was, but it was familiar. "You can do this."

"The key card won't work unless there's a reboot. And there's no reboot without a brownout."

Kennedy looked around the room as the noise was only louder. Nobody else was reacting. "I know you can do this." Scott looked back at the others, "Anyone here think she can't?"

Everyone looked at each other. Kennedy came back to the conversation, "Not me." Chirped Liam.

"I was the one who put you in the plan." Added Stiles.

Kennedy smiled softly. "She can do it," She said kindly. Everyone's eyes averted to Malia.

The Tate shrugged her shoulders. "What?"

Malia looked at Kennedy, who leaned over, "I believe in you too, Kira." She whispered.

"I'm the one who's going to be locked in an electrical room with her." Malia argued. Kennedy tilted her head expectantly. "You can do it."

Kira looked down at the ground as she thought about it. Could she do it? She wasn't sure. Everyone shared shrugs and attempted to give Kira reassuring smiles. "You guys are all crazy. We're gonna die."

Kennedy's head whipped around, causing everyone to stop. Her eyes were wide as she stared at a window. Stiles frowned. "Kennedy? What is it?"

"You don't see it?" Kennedy asked as she looked at all of the pack members. Everyone shook their heads, and Kennedy looked at the window.

Stiles stepped closer, "Ken, what do you see?" The Hale girl looked at her boyfriend, her face contorted in confusion and fear.

"The oni,"

Everyone's shoulders slouched as they realized Kennedy's memories were replaying in the McCall house. Kennedy watched as slowly, moments within the house began to play in front of her. Stiles grabbed his girlfriends hand, but she yanked it away as she watched everything from the moment the house was built to the moment Scott's family moved in to the moment they started this meeting. She tried to organize her thoughts but there was so much so fast.

"What do we do?" Malia asked as she watched Kennedy stumble backwards.

Stiles moved closer, grabbing Kennedy's arm. "Ken, I need you to look at me, okay?" Kennedy's hazel eyes met Stiles's chocolate ones. "You need to tune everything out. Don't focus on the past, focus on the present." Kennedy gasped as she heard screaming.

"Are you out of your freaking mind!?" Kennedy's own voice caused her to look towards the stairs. She remembered this night. "Are you that delusional that you think I'd want to kiss you!? Especially after I just told you that you and Allison could fix things?" It was a full moon. Scott's second full moon, technically. "And then you go and kiss Lydia? My friend?" Kennedy's eyes switched between the stairs and her friends, listening to the conversation. "I don't care if its the full moon, you're an asshole, Scott."

"Kennedy!" The Hale jumped at Stiles's volume, looking at him. "Focus on us. Not whatever you're seeing." Kennedy tried, but there was so much happening at once. The fight with the Oni's, the fight with Derek's pack, her and Stiles's fight upstairs, her living with Scott, and everything else was all happening at once. She looked at Stiles, and looked at his clothes. Her eyes jumped to Scott, then Malia, then Kira, then Liam. She looked at them, what they wore, what they looked like. That was them now, the people she was with. As she held onto Stiles, trying to slow her breathing, she watched as the McCall houses memories faded. Like she was finally coming back to the real world.

Everyone seemed to relax as Kennedy did. "What the hell is happening to me?" She asked quietly. Stiles looked back at Scott, now worried how Kennedy was going to do in a place like Eichen.

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Hiding in a body bag was not necessarily on Kennedy's bucket list. She was still adapting to her new sense of seer-ness, but listening to voices of anyone who had ever been in the van was almost a more interesting car ride.

Luckily enough, Parrish got them through security (not after having to show an actual dead body) and Kennedy, Scott, Stiles, and Liam made it into Eichen Houses morgue. When they knew the coast was clear, Kennedy had quickly unzipped her body bag and sat up. Scott, Liam, and Stiles were all quick to do the same.

Stiles looked at Scott with wide eyes. "Never again!" He snapped.

Scott breathed heavily as he looked at his phone. He looked back at the others. "Fifteen minutes, starting now." Kennedy easily climbed out of her bag, jumping to the floor just in time to watch Stiles fall to her feet. Stiles groaned as he looked up.

"A little help? Please?"

Getting through Eichen was overall the easiest part. Scott listened for anyone coming in time for them to hide. However, when they got to the door of the closed unit, two nurses were standing right in front of the door.

The four teens slid to hide around the corner. "What are they doing there?" Asked Scott.

"I don't know. Their rounds should've ended five minutes ago." Stiles hissed.

Liam slowly poked his head around the corner, "I can take them." He offered. Kennedy turned to him, smiling.

"No one's taking anyone." Scott replied.

"How much time do we even have?" Asked Kennedy.

Scott looked at his phone, sighing. "Three minutes."

"I'll just knock them out and hide the bodies." Liam explained simply.

Stiles shook his head, "You've been around Kennedy way too much," He mumbled. Kennedy looked at her boyfriend, slightly offended.

"Did you take the doctor?"

The four of them turned to see a boy in his cell. "What?" Asked Kennedy.

"Did you take the doctor?" Kennedy tilted her head as she listen to him. "I haven't had my medication. I need ten milligrams at 8am, 15 milligrams at 1pm, and no more than 20 at dinner."

Kennedy looked at the boys, then the patient. "We'll get the doctor,"

"Dr. Fenris." Chills ran down Kennedy's spine as she watched the boys face contort into sobs. "Dr. Fenris. They took Dr. Fenris."

Kennedy began to look around as memories began to flood the halls. She tried to stop them, but the boy was somehow triggering them as he banged on the glass. Stiles held onto Kennedy's hand to keep her steady, but she watched as everything seemed to happen at once.

"Hey, somebody shut him up," Stiles said as the boy continued to bang on the glass and yell about doctors. He looked back at Scott. "Shut him up," Scott finally obliged, his eyes turning red as he lowly growled. The boy fell silent, stumbling back in fear. Stiles peered around the corner, watching the two nurses walk into a door. Kennedy watched as the memories continued, but nothing that she could really make sense of. She just tried to focus on Scott, Stiles, and Liam.

They made their way to the door. Kennedy looked behind her as more memories played out. "Remember, Ken, they're not real," The Hale girl looked at Scott, who tried to help her as much as he could. But it was hard, nobody had experienced this before. The screams and the shouts echoed in Kennedy's ears. Everything was so loud.

Suddenly, the lights above them change and a low hum surrounds them. "She did it. Kira did it."

"Five minutes to get to Lydia." Scott said.

Stiles approached the door, stopping as he looked at the metal. "Where's the card reader?" Kennedy looked at the door, watching memories play all at once. "It should be here. It has to be here."

Kennedy winced as her head began to ache. "They took it out when the Dread Doctors got through." She whispered, watching it happen as she pulled away so she wasn't in the way of a worker. It was a memory, of course, but on instinct she avoided touching anyone that she saw, real or not.

"Are you telling me we came all the way down here just to be stopped by an ordinary key?" Sitles asked the group, "Are you kidding me?"

Liam looked at the door, shaking his head. "We don't need a key." He said. Kennedy looked at him curiously. "Not if we can break it down." Scott looked at Stiles, who nodded in agreement. Kennedy and Stiles stepped back, watching Liam and Scott grab onto the door.

Kennedy jumped at the sounds of screaming. She looked back at the rooms they had passed, memories of past patients playing over and over. She tried to slow her breathing, but it was hard.

"Guys, we're running out of time," Stiles said to the other two werewolves.

After more pulling, they pulled away with pants. "We can't. The Mountain Ash. It's too much." Scott confessed as he backed away, now unsure what to do.

Liam looked down, thinking of a new idea. "Hit me."

"What?"

"Hit me. I'll get angry then I'll get stronger." Liam pointed out. Stiles began to quickly agree. Scott still seemed unsure. "I tried to take your powers. I tried to kill you. Hit me."

Kennedy shrugged, "He also left you for dead." Kennedy added, looking over at Scott.

"I wanted you dead!" Liam said before Scott hit him in the face. Liam fell to the floor, groaning in pain as he looked up. "Do it again!"

Kennedy jumped as Scott punched Liam once again. She frowned, wondering how she was able to get beat up so much as a werewolf. "It's gotta be harder than that," Stiles commented.

"Do it!" Liam shouted. Scott grimaced, not really wanting to. "DO IT!" Scott hit Liam again. Liam fell back, yelling.

Kennedy backed into the wall with wide eyes as Scott hit Liam one more time. "You angry?" This time, when Liam looked up, his eyes were yellow and he had fangs. He growled as he and Scott grabbed onto the door. With more strength than before, the two were finally able to push down the door. "Guys, go!" Scott shouted as the couple ran past. Scott breathed heavily as he looked at his phone, "Two minutes."

Stiles and Kennedy rounded the halls, looking for Lydia. Stiles used his keycard to go down to Lydia's room. Kennedy could see things, but pretended she couldn't as they ran into Lydia's room.

They stopped dead in their tracks, seeing their friend. The same trepanation device Sloane used on Kennedy was on a small metal table. Lydia slowly glanced over, seeing both of them. "Kennedy?" The Hale girl sunk to her knees, looking at Lydia's bloodied pillow. Lydia was pale and drenched in sweat. "You can't be here," Kennedy pursed her lips as she looked at the hole in Lydia's head. Stiles saw it too, looking behind them at the door. Kennedy looked at the restraints on Lydia. "You're going to die if you stay." The Hale looked up. "All of you."

Kennedy shook her head, "Stiles, help me," The teenage boy sunk to his knees to help with the restraints. Kennedy winced, grabbing her head.

Lydia's heart sank as she could see the same wound she had on Kennedy. "Kennedy, he's coming."

"Lydia, we are not leaving you here. I am not leaving you here." Kennedy said confidently as she looked back at her friend.

"You have to." The sound of the door caused Stiles to look back. "Kennedy, go," The couple looked back at Lydia, the fear in the Martin's eyes. "Please,"

Kennedy shook her head. Stiles stood up quickly, grabbing Kennedy's wrist and tugging her out of the room. The two of them scurried into another room. Kennedy's eyes filled with tears as she closed her eyes. She tried to think of want to do, trying to think over the sounds of every scream ever in Eichen House. Kennedy winced at the pain in her head.

"Stay focused, Lydia."

Kennedy's head snapped at the door. She could hear Valack talking to her friend. "What did you do to me?"

"I've amplified your abilities. Something that might just save the lives of your friends." Valack said to the red headed girl. Stiles and Kennedy listened to them talk. "Now focus on the bridge, on Theo. Why did he let his sister die?"

"I don't know."

"You don't see it yet. Search for it, Lydia." Kennedy closed her eyes, trying not to hear the screams around her. "Keep looking. Why did he let her die? What did he want?"

"Her heart. He wanted her heart."

Stiles's eyes were wide. Dr. Valack flipped through pages. "There's no record of a heart condition. But a transplant would make Theo a Genetic Chimera like the others. The hypothermic conditions would keep the organ viable." Lydia shuddered as she laid there. "But why him? Why choose a 10-year-old willing to kill his own sister?"

"Why do you care?" Lydia croaked.

"Because Theo was a first step in the right direction for the Dread Doctors." Valack explained. Kennedy could hear the voices quieting. "Think of who they are. Para scientists who have prolonged their lives and twisted the laws of nature in pursuit of one goal. The creation of the perfect killer. And now they've done it."

"But Theo doesn't know who the success is. The last Chimera."

"It doesn't matter. There's a reason they chose him, a reason he failed, a reason they changed their methods and a reason they finally succeeded. It all starts with Theo." Valack explained to the banshee. Stiles looked to Kennedy as he listened to everything Lydia said. "When did you know for sure? That the Dread Doctors had succeeded?"

Lydia could see it all. "Scott and Stiles found out that night."

"The night of the Super moon."

"But they really didn't know it yet. There was too much going on." She breathed heavily as she spoke. "Liam had almost killed Scott. Kennedy had died. Kira was still gone. Malia was trying to find The Desert Wolf."

"You were missing." He recalled.

"And Sheriff Stilinski was dying..."

Lydia proceeded to tell Valack everything that happened the day after the super moon. Everything leading up to a symbol. Lydia's voice was tired and hoarse. "Theo and Hayden. They found it. They were looking for Noah, but they found a symbol. A circle inside of another circle, carved into a wall. The symbol of Scott and Kennedy's pack." She explained to him. Kennedy's eyes opened, she could still hear it all. All of the pain, the suffering that happened in these very halls. She grabbed at her head in pain, seeing blood on her palms.

"It was more than a symbol, wasn't it? It was a promise to reunite them."

"Yes."

"But has Scott done it yet? Will he be coming for you?" Valack asked. Stiles couldn't identify it. If it was fear or excitement in Valack's voice. For a moment, he didn't want to know.

Lydia was spent for a moment. "Someone's coming." Lydia hummed as a buzzer blared. Stiles paused in confusion, wondering who was opening the door. Lydia's voice seemed to drown out all of the others in Kennedy's ears. It was like Lydia herself had caused all of the visions around Kennedy to suddenly stop. Everything happening at once suddenly became nothingness. The Hale girls blood running cold. "But it's not Scott."

Kennedy and Stiles looked at each other in realization. The Chimeras. Kennedy and Stiles looked just out the door to see Theo leading Josh, Corey, and Tracy. Of course they all made it in without worrying about Mountain Ash, like Theo said. She wondered if they considered the idea of Kennedy making it through. Kennedy looked at Valack as he opened Lydia's door, stepping out. She couldn't believe she was related to him, even if he was her moms cousin.

"You don't wanna do this, Theo. She's safe in here." He told the teenage boy. "The Dread Doctors don't know how important she is yet." Theo nodded towards the kanima chimera. Tracy growled as she grabbed Valack by the throat, shoving him into the wall. The three boys stepped into Lydia's room, and Kennedy glared.

"She doesn't look good." Said Josh.

Corey looked over Lydia, "She has a hole in her head. It's not a good look for anyone." He commented as he glanced at Josh.

Theo took a step closer to the girl, moving her head to see the wound himself. He scoffed in distaste. "I can't believe this is actually a medical establishment." He mumbled. Theo looked at Josh and Corey. "Pick her up. We're getting her out of here."

Valack looked at Theo, unbothered by the claws at his throat. "Now what would a pack of Chimeras want with a Banshee?"

"I don't want a Banshee." Theo said with honesty. Kennedy looked over her shoulder, peering out to see Theo standing just inside Lydia's cell with a mischievous smile.. "I'm looking for a Hellhound."

A deep growl caused Kennedy and Stiles's eyes to widen as they looked down the hall. There was Jordan Parrish, ignited in flanked with yellow eyes as he grabbed onto the door. Valack looked down the hall. Theo stepped out of Lydia's room, watching as the metal door crumpled under the heat.

"You wanted a Hellhound," Valack hummed, "I think you found one."

Kennedy watched the door fall. Theo tilted his head as he and his lack watched Parrish walk in. Corey and Josh stepped into the hall. Kennedy could tell, even without supernatural senses, that the pack of Chimeras were terrified.

Suddenly, the sound of a loud roar caused Kennedy to snap her head. Stiles watched Kennedy's eyes didn't turn like they usually would. They stayed hazel. He could tell she was slightly upset. Usually, they would have turned blue or red. But now, they didn't change at all. Her werewolf side was still dormant.

Something told Kennedy the night wasn't over yet. And it wasn't just her Seer powers.