[003]. Chapter Three.
Flashbacks

Flashback*

"So how long has is been?" Stiles asked Scott as they, Celia and Lydia entered the examination room at the animal clinic.

"Weeks. He hasn't gotten back to any of my texts." Scott said as he opened the cabinet.

"Has Derek ever returned your texts?" Stiles asked.

"Once, definently you once." Scott answered as he walked back to where the other three of them stood by examination table. "But this time it felt different. So I went to the loft. The alarm was on. Everything looked okay. But then I found these" Scott said as he opened the lid off the canister he had taken from the cabinet and pushed it towards his friends.

Stiles picked one of the contents from the bin up. "So I sent a picture of it to Deaton. He said it's he mark or a family of hunters based out of Mexico" Scott said referring to the image of a skull carved into the shell of the silver bullet.

"The Calaveras" Celia said and Scott nodded. She has heard Allison mention the name to her a year back when she was teaching her how to fight.

"What would they want with Derek?" Lydia asked the question they were all wondering.

"They don't think they killed him, do you?" Stiles voiced another question they were all wondering.

"I... don't know. That's why you're here" he said glancing over at Lydia. He then pushed the canister in her direction.

Lydia looked around at all of them before reaching into the metal canister, taking the collection of bullets into her hand. She clutched the jars contents in her hand, wiggling her fingers moving them around before dropping them onto the metal examination table. As every bullet hit the table gunshots and Derek's screams echoed in the banshees ears.

When she didn't say anything Styles asked the girl, "Lydia, what! Is he dead?"

"No." She answred. "But I'm not sure he's alive either."

"What does that mean?" Scott asked the girl.

"I don't know. There's something now right. I just..." She paused before continuing. "I don't know."

"So if the Calaveras have him, how do we find them?" Stiles asked.

The four teens stood in silence for a moment before Scott grabbed one of the bullets off the table, turining it around between his fingertips. "Mexico."

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As Scott's eyes fluttered open, the boy coming back into conciousness Kira who stood over him announced to the pack "he's awake. Guys. He's awake." The other teens quickly made their way over to the kitsune.

"Scott you okay?" Stiles asked his best friend.

"Yeah" he nodded as Celia and him helped him sit up.

"They don't have him. They don't have Derek." Scott frantically said.

"We know." Kira said. "But right now, they've got Lydia."

"Lydia?" Scott gasped as he looked around at each of his friends who shrugged at his next question "what do they want with Lydia?"

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Scott clutched the side of the door trying to pry it open.

"We already looked for a way out" Kira told Scott as he continued to try and pry the door open.

"And by the claw marks on the wall, I'd a lot of people have." Celia said from her spot on the floor. As Scott ran his fingertips over one of the many pairs of evident claw marks that littered the holding cells wall.

"I say when that door opens again, we take out whoever's standing in the way and run for it." Malia spoke up.

"What about Lydia?" Kira asked.

"What about her?" Malia asked confusion lacing her tone.

"We're not leaving without her." Scott answered the werecoyote as he walked towards the group.

"Why not?" Malia asked not getting why Lydia was so important.

"Because we don't leave without people. Remember, we talked about this? Rules of the wild kingdom don't apply to friends." Stiles reminded her as he came to stand beside her.

"Is that what you would do as a coyote, leave her for dead?" Kira asked.

"If she was weak and injured, yeah." Malia nodded. "If hunting had been had that season. I would eat her." Malia continued, "then I'd leave."

"Believe it or not, that's progress" Celia said as she stood up and went to stand amoungst her friends.

"All right guys we're not dead yet. And that means Araya is wants something." Scott said.

"But if the Calaveras don't know where Derek is, that means they didn't take him from the loft. Right?" Kira asked.

"Maybe he left on his own" Stiles suggested.

"Maybe someone else got to him" Scott said.

"Someone like who?" Celia asked, saying the same thing they all were wondering.

Just then the doors to the holding cell they were in slammed open and Severo and two other hunters marched into the room, shocking Scott with one of there electricity wands and took him and Kira out of them room. Leaving the Stilinski twins and the werecoyote newly turned back into her human form in the cell.

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