Chapter 30: Wake up!
Kate slowly walks towards Stiles as Chris gets up and limps near him. Kate takes her eyes off them for one second to smirk down at a limp Josie, her labored breaths echoes in the room. Then, she turns back to Chris and Stiles.
"Get out of the way, Stiles. I'm taking the bodies." She says.
"Why? Visual confirmation?" He eyes her suspiciously.
Her mouth twitches into a small smile, "Don't worry, handsome. I'm not The Benefactor."
"Then what do you want with the bodies?" Chris asks her, bitterly.
"I wish I could tell you." She says.
Chris wouldn't have it, he fought her till he pulls out another gun and presses it against her throat.
"I always forget you carry two." She smirks.
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"You murdered people." Malia snarls at Peter. "Not killed. Murdered."
"There were extenuating circumstances." Peter says.
"Like what? The fire?" Malia asks.
"A fire that nearly burned me alive. Six years in a coma. Do you know what that's like for one of us? It's not a pleasant sleep. Imagine it. Being trapped in your body, but still being fully cognizant. Unable to do anything other than listen to your own thoughts slowly driving you absolutely and totally insane, minute-by-minute, day-by-day. Yes, I've done horrible, terrible things. And so have a lot of people. And horrible, terrible things are going to keep happening." So much emotions goes through Peter's eyes as he replays the memories in his head of those horrible years being trapped in his own body, not being able to do anything. "Especially when there's a dead pool with your name on it."
"But not yours."
"True. But I am not The Benefactor. I'm just a guy who's out millions of dollars. A few thousand of which I used trying to help you." Peter says.
"Me?" Malia's brows shot up in surprise.
"How does the bad guy prove that he's not so bad? By doing an act of kindness." He says.
"What could you ever do for me?"
"Help you find your mother." That drew Malia's attention. "I'm pretty interested myself as the memory was stolen from me by my sister, Talia."
Malia sighs, "Okay. What did you find?"
"A woman, might be her. I don't have a name yet, just a particularly interesting alias. She's called The Desert Wolf. Do you know what that means?" Peter says.
In fact, Malia does know what that means. "Coyote."
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Melissa and Noshiko paces through the hallways to find everyone, but as they turn into a corner they start to hear people screaming.
"What the..." An orderly shouts. Doctors and nurses come running around the corner, screaming and whimpering.
Melissa watch in confusion why they were running. Till they hear the growling. Melissa's eyes bug out as her breath leaves her body when she sees a berserker walking slowly towards them. Noshiko's jaw drops in shock at the sight in front of them.
"Are you still a Kitsune?" Melissa asks.
"Technically." Noshiko says.
The two of them slowly back away...
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"Back off!" Chris shouts as he presses the barrel harder into Kate's skin.
"You sure you can pull the trigger fast enough?" Kate smirks
"I don't want to." He growls.
"You're not going to kill me." She says.
He jams the gun harder, "I'm not going to let you take them."
"Okay, well, obviously, you guys have a lot to talk about, so, maybe I saw some coffee, a vending machine outside." Stiles says sarcastically.
Ignoring Stiles, Kate stares down Chris in anger, "Listen to me, Kate." Chris says. "We have a plan."
She scoffs, "If killing Scott and Josie was part of it, you're worse than me."
"He's telling the truth. We're trying to get to The Benefactor." Stiles says.
Josie's breathing starts to slow down more.
Chris carried worry in his eyes and Kate could see that, "If you didn't notice, you're on that list too. And you're worth more than most." He says.
"That's why I'm here." She says, bitterly.
"Then back off and let us do what we planned."
Kate feels beeping against Chris' wrist and pulls his sleeve down to see a timer. 3 minutes left. Stiles kneels down to Josie, holding her in his arms. "Come on! Josie! Stay with us." Stiles slaps her face.
Kate looks at Chris and then to Stiles and Josie. Seeing the truth.
"Take the Berserkers, and go." Chris begs. Kate looks back at him, "Kate, please. We have a plan."
"Come on, Josie. Wake up." Stiles shakes her. His bottom lip trembles. Her hand falls limply on to the floor.
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Liam lays on the roof floor, groaning in pain as the berserker stands over him.
"Liam, run. Get out of here." Kira says as she gets ready to fight the berserk again. But Liam wouldn't have it. He slowly gets up and faces the berserker again.
"Liam!" Kira shouts.
Liam lets out a ferocious roar and jumps into the air on top of another power box. He jumps and takes a huge swipe at the berserker.
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Scott opens his eyes again and finds himself in the icebox again. He begins to crawl again down the dark tunnel and falls out of the locker again.
He gets up and walks down the hallways again.
He hears Liam again.
"Catch!"
But instead of the ball, it was a bloody tomahawk. Scott looks down when he hears Liam whimpering. He was clutching a bloody wound over his chest.
"Why did you do that?"
"Let me help you." He hears the Mute behind him, taking his hand that carried the tomahawk. "Let me show you how." He shows Scott how to swing it. Scott couldn't control himself. He felt power rising inside him. The Mute lets go of him and walks away. Liam whimpers and holds his hands up. Scott growls and swings the tomahawk down at Liam. The warm spray of blood coats his face. He could feel the alpha rising inside him. His eyes glowed red, his fangs burst out at every swing. He screams over and over as he keeps swings the tomahawk down on Liam's body. Loving the power he felt.
"Scott." He snaps his head up and sees Josie again. Smiling at him. He drops his sinister smile and realized what he had done. He looks down but Liam's body was gone. So was the Mute and the tomahawk from his hand. He reaches up and felt his dry face. The blood disappeared.
"Josie." He whimpers and falls to his knees. Josie makes her way towards him and when she was close enough, he wraps his arms around her waist and holds her close to him. "I feel like I'm losing myself."
She runs her fingers through his hair, "Everything is alright, Scott. Remember, it's all a dream. You need to wake up. Come back to me." She whispers.
He suddenly falls to the floor, Josie was gone. "Josie? JOSIE!!!!" He shouts.
'Come back to me...'
Everything started to fade away in front of Scott, soon he felt the familiar jolts through his body and with a loud yell and gasp, he wakes up, back on the cold table with a sheet over him.
He sees Kira smiling down at him and Chris looking relieved. He gasps and looks around, "What happened? Did it work?" He asks quickly as he sits up.
Stiles held Josie's cold body, his eyes carried unshed tears as his bottom lip trembles, "Scott." His voice cracks.
Scott looks over and his felt as if his world stopped, he couldn't hear Josie's heart anymore, nor hear her breath. He grips the sheet around him and gets off the table to grab Josie and hold her in his arms. "Josie, Josie, come on. Wake up. Please wake up." He whispers. He strokes her soft cheek, all he wanted was to see her eyes sparkle again when she looks at him. Her loving smile. "Please, baby, please." His voice quivers.
Chris looks down sadly and Kira shed tears.
"Baby, please....I love you so much. Please." He whispers. He places a warm kiss over her cold lips and hugs her close to his body.
Stiles looks down sadly and sits on the floor, covering his head. 'Why did this happen?'
Josie's fingers start to jerk a little, Chris gasps as he catches that.
With a loud gasp, Josie's eyes snap open as her color returns to normal. Stiles yelps and jumps away. Gasping and panting, she looks around her surroundings and find that she was in Scott's arms. Scott! He holds her tightly in his arms, smiling goofy, praising that she was alive.
"I love you, I love you, I love you." He kisses her over and over. He couldn't get enough.
He helps her stand, but holds the sheet tight around him.
SMACK! Josie hits his arm.
"What was that for?" He exclaims.
"DON'T YOU EVER, EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN!" She yells. She huffs and jumps in his arms. Causing the sheets to fall. Scott blushes and holds her close.
"Can someone get me my clothes?" He asks, uncomfortably, looking over Josie's shoulder and holding her tightly. So she won't move to show off what belongs to her. Josie snorts in laughter at how ironic this was.
Liam bursts through the room, staring at Kira.
"What?" She asks.
"It's your mother...She's hurt." He says.
Kira gasps as her eyes widen.
Melissa holds on to Noshiko, pressing down on the stab wound that the berserker left her. She groans in pain and wiggles on the bloody floor. She struggles to keep her eyes open, but the blood loss made her feel so weak.
"No, no, no, no, no. Stay with me." Melissa says, as she shakes her to keep her awake.
"What the hell happened here?" Dr. Geyer runs towards them.
"Just help me get her off the floor." She says.
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Kate runs down the sewers and sees Peter waiting for her.
"You were right." She says that makes him turn around.
"They're still alive." She adds.
Peter sighs in relief, "Thank God."
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Stiles goes up to his room, relieved that his friends were alive again. He stops to a halt as he finds Malia in his room. He didn't know how to approach her. As badly as he wanted to hold her again, he could see that she was still angry a little.
"Hey." He says carefully. No response. "Where have you been?"
"Talking to Peter." She says, not taking her eyes off the papers she goes through.
"Okay." He plays with his fingers. "You think that's a good idea?"
"If he can help me find my mother, I don't think I care." She says.
"You might be related to him, but you're not like him." Stiles moves closer to her.
"Maybe I am." She finally looks at him, but then turns to Stile's board to tape a few papers up. "That night I caused the car crash..."
"You mean when you were out-of-control on the full moon." He says.
She turns to face him, "There's a part I didn't tell you about. Right before we got in the car, my mother...My adoptive mother, I guess...We got into a huge fight. I don't even remember what it was about, but I remember what I said."
"Malia."
"I said, 'I wish you were all dead'." She sniffles.
"Killing doesn't run in a family." He moves to stand in front of her, shaking his head.
"Maybe it does in mine." Malia says to him, sadness laced in her voice. She turns to tape the last deadpool list on to the board and leaves.
Stiles looks down sadly and looks at Malia's name on the list. He wishes he could remove the Hale from her name.
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Scott had to be taken to a private room at the hospital so they could perform tests on him, since he was technically dead. Josie never left his side.
Sarah comes in and Scott could see the puffiness around her eyes, "Dr. Geyer will start the tests tomorrow morning." She says as she checks his pulse and vital signs. She shakes her head in disbelief. "How is this possible?" She asks.
Scott shrugs, "I don't know. I don't really remember much." He lies.
Sarah sighs, "Well, I'm just glad you're here." She taps Josie's shoulder and signs to her, "Josie, visiting hours are over. Let him get some sleep." She says.
"Mom, please, can I stay? I almost lost him. I don't want to leave. Please." Josie signs back, tears forming in her eyes.
Sarah smiles sadly and strokes her daughter's cheek, "Ok." She signs. "I'll bring a spare bed soon." She says and leaves.
Scott sighs and takes her hand into his.
"I guess Liam's dad has a lot of questions." She turns to him and squeezes his hand.
"Yeah." Scott sighs. He suddenly pulls her up and into the hospital bed with him. She giggles, "We're gonna get into trouble." She says.
"I don't care. I'll say it's my fault." He smirks.
He wraps his arm around her and holds her close.
She sighs, "I just wish it had all worked. It was a good plan." She says. "Minus the nearly dying part." She mutters.
"Yeah, I've been thinking about that too." He says. "And actually, I think maybe it did work."
Josie frowns in curiosity.
"Not that I know exactly who The Benefactor is but we might know a lot more about him now." He says.
"But no one came. And no one got visual confirmation, right?" She says.
"That's why it might have worked. Think about it. Who has the power to know when someone's dead, but doesn't need to see the body to know it happened?" He states.
Josie thinks about it, then sits up real fast...
"A Banshee."
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