Chapter 25: Back to the Vault
Meanwhile, Lydia believes she could get more answers at the lake house but she wanted to be alone. Leaving Josie worried to death about Scott and the others. She stood outside behind the lines, watching people go back and forth, working to figure out what they were dealing with. Going in and out of the school using their safety protocols. Breathing uneasily, she sighs, "Where are you, Scott?" She mutters to herself.
Lydia sent her a text, informing her that Meredith was at the Lake House. She found a picture of Meredith standing in the soundproof room. Lydia adds she was going to stay there a little while longer to find some answers.
Inside, Mr. Yukimura goes into the boys locker room to find Scott. He finds him leaning against the lockers, breathing heavily with his sharp canines from his mouth.
"Get Stiles." Scott says roughly.
Malia and Kira were waiting in line to have their blood test taken, Malia couldn't shake the feeling she's been having lately,
"Kira, do you ever get the feeling that Scott and Stiles aren't telling you everything?" She asks Kira.
"What do you mean?"
"Like they hide stuff."
"I think if they did, they probably have a pretty good reason." Kira says.
"Do you know what they're hiding in the bag under Scott's bed?"
"Why would I look under Scott's bed?" Kira asks, confused.
"Kira Yukimura." The CDC lady calls out.
Kira moves up to stand before her, "You feeling all right, Kira?"
Kira nods, but looks uncomfortable at the needle, "I don't like needles either. I promise, it'll be fast." She assures Kira.
As soon as she tries to stick the needle into Kira's skin, Kira's powers erupts from her skin and zaps the Doctor's suit.
The doctor jumps back in surprise and drops the needle, looking at the burned scorch mark on her suit. She looks back at Kira, looking at her scared and confused with what just happened.
"Kira. Kira!" Malia pulls her back.
"Excuse me." The doctor takes off running with a few other doctors as they escort her outside as fast as they could and got her out of the suit, examining her.
"Careful, Doctor. Slowly."
"What happened in there?"
"I don't know, must have been static electricity." The doctor assures them all.
"Any breach of the interior layer, Doctor?"
"It's okay, it just broke the top layer." She tells them.
"Any verdict on what we're dealing with yet? My son's in there." Rafe comes running up to them.
"Your son and his son. Great. You can debrief each other." She scoffs and walks off.
"I heard smallpox. Any truth to that?" Rafe asks Sheriff Stilinski.
"You want my opinion? I don't think the Orphans were the only professional killers in Beacon Hills." Sheriff says.
Rafe had a look of dread at that idea.
A loud whistle suddenly makes their heads snap up and they see Josie waving them. Rafe and Sheriff runs towards her. "It's ok, let her in." Rafe says.
Josie goes under the caution tape and paces towards them, "What's going on? Is Scott ok?" She babbles.
"Calm down. We don't know yet. No one is allowed to go in unless they are suited up." Sheriff says.
"We'll figure it out. Scott will be ok." Rafe says and places a comforting arm around her before walking off to talk to a CDC doctor.
"It's gotta be cause of the deadpool." She says to Sheriff.
Sheriff nods, "I agree. You're already in the loop, right? I mean I know you can...do things. But, does Melissa know? Your mom?" He asks.
"Melissa, yes. My mom," She scoffs and laughs dryly. "I don't wanna put more stress on my mom after what happened to us in Tennessee. Why?"
"Melissa sent me a text. Braedon who was with the pack in the woods, who were killed. They weren't poisoned. They were infected. By some sort of virus that was created to kill werewolves." Sheriff says.
Josie's eyes widen in shock, "I gotta get in there."
"What are you going to do? Can you magically heal them?" Sheriff asks
Josie stutters, "Well, no, but...I can't just stand here and wait for Scott and the others to die." Her voice cracks.
Sheriff pulls her in for a small hug, "He's not going to die. We won't let it happen. We'll find the assassin and demand for a cure."
Josie scoffs, "Easier said than done. I still need to get in there. I feel I need to get in there. I can't explain it." Josie says.
Sheriff sighs, "But if you get in there, there's a chance you might get infected. From what I heard, it's not just students, a teacher is infected, too."
Josie sighs and runs her fingers through her hair, "It's a risk I'm willing to take." She says.
"For Scott?" He asks cautiously.
With no hesitation, "For Scott."
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Scott sat on the bench in the boys locker room, squinting, sweat covering him from head to toe, his eyes flashes from red to brown.
"It's still happening." Mr. Yukimura says.
"I can't make them go back." Malia says as she holds up her hands. Her claws sprouting from her fingers.
"Obviously the virus is affecting the two of you in a way it won't hit any human being." Mr. Yukimura says.
"You guys have to stay out of sight. We have to quarantine you from the quarantine." Stiles says.
"Yeah, but where? I mean, what if they get violent? Like on a full moon." Kira says.
"We shouldn't stay in here. Not in the locker room." Scott says, shaking his head.
"A classroom is not going to hold us." Malia adds.
"What about the basement?" Kira asks.
"Too many ways out. We need something secure. Somewhere nobody can find us." Scott says.
Stiles thought of an idea, "The vault. The Hale vault."
"The Hales always have an escape route. Like their house. There has to be another way in." Scott says.
So, they searched for the blueprints of the school and laid them out to exam them, "This is where the school sign is, so the vault's got to be right about here." Stiles points out.
"I suppose if there's a second entrance, it would probably be accessible from the basement." Mr. Yukimura says.
"It's probably somewhere in this hallway. Or West corridor." Stiles starts to feel light-headed and nearly falls to the floor. "Whoa."
Mr. Yukimura lifts up Stiles's sleeve and finds the infection spreading all over his writs, "It's happening to you too. You're getting sick. You all are." He looks at all of them and turns to his daughter.
"I don't feel sick." Kira shakes her head.
"I think it's affecting you differently, neurologically." Mr. Yukimura pulls a piece of paper from his pocket and lays it down on the table. "I found your test answers here in a pile with the others."
Everyone looks over and sees that Kira's answers missed the bubbles completely.
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Josie managed to steal a suit and got into the building with no problem. She passes by a few familiar faces from her classes. Watching them with sympathy as she looks at their skin, the infection that was spreading. Everyone, almost everyone in the school was infected. They couldn't all be supernatural creatures, so maybe it affects humans too, but it does kill werewolves. Josie sighs, where could they be? She goes down a few hallways and skids to a halt when she sees Malia goes through a door. She makes sure no one could see her and starts running towards the door.
"Oof!" She slips and slams into the wall. "Ow!" She quickly opens the door and goes down a few steps. "Hey! Wait!" She yells and bumps into Malia. Malia turns fast and grabs her, growling at her furiously, her eyes shining blue.
"Wait! Wait! It's me!" Josie yelps.
Malia pulls back, "Oh, my god! I'm so sorry, Josie!" She gasps in shock.
Scott runs towards her and hugs her tight in, "You ok?" He asks.
"Barely, this suit chaps." She groans. "Are you ok? I've been worried sick about you guys."
"We're hanging in there. We're all sick." Kira says.
Josie takes a better look at all of them, they were pale, feverish, and she could see Malia's claws out and Scott's eyes kept flashing from red to brown. Kira looked normal though. But, Kira says she's sick too.
"Guys, Braedon is awake. She told your mom that the werewolves from Satomi's pack weren't poisoned. They were infected. By a virus that was created to kill werewolves." She says.
"Do you think this could be it?" Scott asks.
Malia looks at her hands, shaking in fear.
"It's possible. But, seeing how humans are infected, I can't explain that." Josie says.
"Come on, we're going to the vault, just to be on the safe side. We're having trouble controlling." Scott explains.
"I can see that. God..." She lifts up a gloved hand to brush against his face. "Just wait till I get my hands on that ass, that killer. I wanna burn him from the inside." Josie growls out, mentioning the assassin.
"We'll figure it out, first, let's get to safety." Scott says and takes her hand.
They run down the stairs to look through the ares for the entrance of the vault.
They look around the area they stopped at to see if they could find the entrance, behind the shelves, a door, something.
"I can't breath in this thing." Josie starts taking off the suit.
"Wait! Wait!" Scott stops her. "What if you get infected?" He asks.
"We don't know if it's airborne, but from what I've seen, only a few people were ok. Something is infecting people, but if it was airborne then everyone would be sick and they wouldn't have easy access in and out of the building." She says.
Josie begins to take off her suit and throws it off, breathing deeply in relief, "Thank god." She goes to hug him but Scott moves away. "I don't want to infect you. I love you, Josie. But, stay away from me for now." Scott says, pain laced in his voice. Her heart cracked at those words but she understood. She nods sadly and moves away.
"Hey, guys...Over here." Stiles calls out.
Everyone stops what they were doing and moves to see what he was talking about. Stiles and Scott moves the shelf out of the way and reveals a symbol on the wall that was similar to what Josie saw on the High School sign had. As she steps back, cracks in the wall formed a giant triskelion around it.
"Look at the cracks in the wall." Josie says.
"It's like the entrance outside, it only opens with claws." Scott says.
"Anyone's claws, right?" Stiles gives Scott a look and a small nod at Malia.
Scott nods, understanding, "Um Malia, can you try?" He asks.
"Why me?"
"I don't have control." Scott holds up his human hand.
"But, now that Josie's here, you can get your control back in order." She points out.
Scott shakes his head, "I can't risk of getting her infected as well. We don't know how this thing spreads."
Malia sighs, "Okay. I'll do it. But first tell me what you've been hiding from me."
Stiles starts to stammer.
"I know you think you're trying to protect me, but I can handle it."
Scott and Stiles begin to look guilty, lowering their heads. Kira looks like she was going to be sick. Like guilty sick.
"I know I'm on the list." She says.
They both lift their heads in shock but quickly cover it by nodding, "Yes." Stiles says. Kira sighs in relief.
"So how much?" She asks.
"How much what?" Stiles stutters.
"How much am I worth?" She asks.
"Four million." Scott answers.
Malia is taken back and looks down in shock.
"Are you okay?" Stiles asks.
She quickly shakes out of the shock and nods, "Yeah. Scott's worth 25, Josie, 20, Kira, six. They'll take you guys out way before me." She says causally.
Josie gives them a disbelief look.
"That's progress." Stiles whispers.
Malia stands before the entrance and jams her claws into the symbolic lock and twists it around and pushes it inside. The door begins to rumble and slide sideways to open. They all slowly walk into the vault together. Josie keeps her eyes on Scott, worry seeps in her pores for him and the others. But, more for him. Scott looks over at Josie, seeing her worried face made his heart crack and his arms ache for her. But, he couldn't risk it. As much as he loves her, he cares for her life more than his own.
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