"Derek? Derek, where are you?" I heard Jennifer yell out.

I quickly grabbed Stiles and Scott's arms and dragged them behind the wall, out of her sight.

"Right here" My brother answered.

"Thank God" she hugged him. "Something happened at the recital. At the school. Okay, I need to tell you before you hear it, before you hear any of it from them" She rushed out.

"From who?" My brother played along.

"Your sister, Scott and Stiles. They're gonna tell you things. Things you can't believe. You have to trust me, okay? You trust me?"

"What is it?"

"Promise you'll listen to me?" Miss Blake asked.

"I promise"

She kissed him but pulled away with a knowing look on her face. "They're already here, aren't they?" She said as the three of us stepped out from behind our hiding place. "So they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people"

"We told him you're the one killing people" I corrected.

"Oh, that's right. Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour. That way, I can get back to teaching high school English the rest of the day. That makes perfect sense" she denied.

"Where's my dad?" Stiles demanded.

"How should I know?" I could hear her heartbeat. It was extremely erratic. "Derek, tell me you don't believe this" she turned to my brother.

"Do you know what happened to Stiles' father?" Derek asked.

"No" She replied.

"Ask her why she almost killed Lydia!" I yelled.

"Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that"

"You lier! You bitch-" Scott tugged my arm backwards.

"What do you know?" My brother said.

"I know that these three, for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story. And one they can't prove, by the way" she raised her eyebrows at us.

"What if we can?" Scott held up a bottle of mistletoe.

"What is that?"

"My boss told me it's a poison and a cure which means you can use it and it can be used against you" Scott smirked.

"Mistletoe?" She sneered as Scott flung open the bottle and sprayed the powder everywhere.

It engulfed her and I watched in horror as her face twisted into a horrible creature.

Once the mistletoe had disappeared, she regained her human face and then started to run.

My brother grabbed her and pulled her backwards, his claws coming out as he grabbed her by the throat.

"Derek, wait, wait! You need me" she backed up from my brother.

"What are you?" He asked.

"The only person who can save your sister. Call Peter. Call him!"

I whipped my phone out and dialled my uncle's number.

"How is she?" I asked.

"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness. She's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance-"

"Mistletoe" I said.

"How did you know that?"

"Derek. Derek, what are you doing?" I heard Scott say.

"Her life it's in my hands!" Jennifer said desperately trying to get out of Derek's tight grip around her throat.

"Stop. Derek, stop" I said, hanging up the phone.

"Stilinski, you'll never find him" she said.

"Derek!" Scott yelled. "Derek!"

He stopped and let her fall to the floor.

"That's right. You need me" she said with a smirk. She turned to look at all of us. "All of you"

~

"I don't know, something feels wrong about this. You know, we proved it to Derek, but she still had this look like it didn't matter" Stiles said as we drove to the hospital.

I nodded in agreement. "Like it was all still going according to plan"

"You saw it, didn't you?" Stiles turned to Scott as we parked up.

We hopped out of the car into the pouring rain.

"What's that?" Scott asked as Stiles pulled out a bat.

"Well, you both got claws. I got a bat"

I sighed as we entered the building.

"Scott! Scott!" I heard someone shout. "What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating" His mom said frantically.

"We're here for Cora" he replied.

"What, all of you?" She looked between us, her eyes then resting on Stiles. "Why does Stiles have my bat?"

"Mom, just trust me on this. You need to get out of here" Scott said. "Right now"

"The building is supposed to be clear in 30 minutes. We've got two ambulances that are coming back. One's 10 minutes out, the other's 20. Cora needs to be on one of those. They'll be picking up in the basement garage" Melissa explained.

"Got it" he said.

"Okay"

"You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek" Jennifer snapped as we got into the elevator. "I'm going to help"

The four of us said nothing as she glanced at us with disapproving looks.

The elevator dinged and we stepped out. The lights were flashing and the rooms were empty.

It was creepy.

We paused by a room and I noticed black blood on the floor.

"Derek" Scott said.

Suddenly the door flew open and my Uncle slid along the floor towards us.

"We got a problem. Big problem"

I looked over into the corner where the twins roared.

Derek growled and the two of them charged at each other.

I followed just as my brother was thrown to the floor.

I managed to throw a couple of punches before being flung into the wall.

"Ethan, Aiden, stop! You don't know what you're doing" Scott yelled.

"All we want is her"

I turned around and noticed Miss Blake had gone.

The twins let go of Scott and raced towards the elevator.

But the doors had closed.

~

Peter grabbed Cora and we rushed through the room.

"Don't stop, don't stop!" Derek yelled as he pushed us through the door.

"Stiles!" I called out noticing he had in fact stopped.

Ethan and Aiden burst through the door.

Stiles had the bright idea to hit them over the head with a baseball bat.

It broke.

They got angry.

A nervous Stiles edged his way over to Derek, Scott and I.

Scott dived up and grabbed a panel from the ceiling and pulled it down.

I took that as an opportunity and grabbed Stiles' arm as we ran after ️Peter and Cora.

We headed into a room and Derek slammed the doors shut.

"Where's the big guy?" Peter asked.

"He's close" Derek replied.

"What about Ms. Blake?" Stiles asked.

Scott shook his head.

"What do you mean? What does that mean? Like, she's gone? Scott, are you kidding me?" Stiles hissed.

"Shh, quiet" Derek snapped.

"Me be quiet? Me, huh? Are you telling me what to do now? When your psychotic, mass murdering girlfriend the second one you've dated, by the way has got my dad somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles yelled back.

"Stiles, they're still out there" Scott said.

"An-and they want her, right? Which means now we don't have her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!"

I shook my head. "Not yet"

Scott headed over to Peter. "Is she really dying?"

"She's definitely not getting any better" My uncle replied.

"There has to be something that we can do. We have to help her" Scott argued.

The doors opened and Jennifer walked in. "You can't. Only I can. I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is. But there is a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead. So I'll help you but only when I'm out of here and safe. Only then"

Derek flipped a table and dived forwards but Scott and I pulled him back.

"Derek, wait!" Scott shouted.

"She was trying to get out!" He pointed at Jennifer.

"I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that" miss Blake argued.

"If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her" Stiles said.

"Not until I'm safe" she said.

Peter sighed. "I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion. Let's torture her"

I shrugged. "Works for me"

"Um, can I have your attention?" I heard the familiar voice of Scott's mom over the intercom. "Mr. Deucalion excuse me, just Deucalion, requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the ER reception. Do this, and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes"

"He's not gonna hurt her" Jennifer said.

"Shut up!" Derek and I snapped.

"He won't! Scott, you know why-" she turned to Derek. "Tell them it's true"

"What does she mean?" I questioned.

Jennifer looked at Derek. "You're not the only one he wants in his pack"

We all exchanged looks.

"Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks" Jennifer explained.

"A true Alpha" Peter breathed out in realisation.

"What's that?" Stiles asked.

"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another. One that can rise by the force of his own will. Our little Scott" Peter said.

"It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here" Scott said.

I shook my head. "Scott, your mom-"

"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in 20 minutes.
And I don't think we've been here that long, so if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here" He explained.

"The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out" I reminded.

"I'll distract them" Scott replied.

"You mean fight them" Derek pointed out.

He shrugged. "Whatever I have to do"

"I'll help you" Derek said.

"Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek" Jennifer said.

"I'll do it" Peter said. "But I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage"

"An advantage like what? You mean like a weapon?" Stiles asked.

Peter shrugged. "Something better than a baseball bat"

Stiles looked over at the shelves and we all started rummaging through them.

"Hey, wait. What about these?" He asked holding up some medical equipment.

"Do you know how to use those?" I frowned.

"Well, no"

Derek blew out a sigh. "Put 'em down"

"Epinephrine?" Scott questioned, looking at a tube.

I turned around. "That's only gonna make him stronger" I said.

Peter turned to face me. "How strong?"

~

Scott and Peter had gone to distract the twins so Stiles, Derek, Jennifer, Cora and I managed to silently slip away.

"It's still here!" Stiles shouted, referencing to the ambulance, as we ran through the doors.

I helped Derek lift Cora into the back of the ambulance.

"Derek, over here" Miss Blake called out.

I left him to go and helped Stiles strap Cora in.

"Julia" I heard someone say in a haunting voice.

I went to get out of the ambulance but Stiles grabbed my arm.

"It is you"

I grabbed the doors and closed them shut hearing the footsteps of Jennifer and my brother.

It sounded like they were running.

Stiles and I both sat down side by side, heads rested on the ambulance wall.

"You okay?" I heard Stiles ask Cora.
"How you doing?"

Wait.

I can't hear a heartbeat.

"Wh-why do you look like you're not breathing?" Stiles panicked.

I jumped up. "Because she's not breathing!" I exclaimed, rushing over to my sisters side.

"Oh, no. Oh, God. Oh, no, no, no.
Why are you not breathing?" Stiles said frantically.

"Stiles!" I yelled. "Get a grip. Okay!"

He took a deep breath. "Okay, okay, okay" he repeated. "You can do this" he mumbled to himself.

"Tilt the head" I instructed. "Fingers on the chin. Clear the throat"

Stiles sighed. "Great, nothing. I see nothing"

"Okay, all right, so, uh just pinch the nose and blow" I said.

He glanced at me.

"It's mouth to mouth Stiles!" I shouted.

He huffed and started to follow my instructions.

"Oh, come on, Cora" I mumbled when I saw no response.

"Come on, Cora" Stiles muttered. "Come on, breathe. Come on, Cora, breathe!" He yelled out.

My sister suddenly gasped and coughed. I sighed and collapsed back into a my seat.

Stiles sighed in relief. "You know, next time I put my lips to your mouth, you better be awake"

I rolled my eyes.

"You just hold on a little longer, okay? Trust me, if anyone's gonna get us out of this, it's Scott" I promised Cora. I blinked. "Can't believe I just said that"

"You know, I actually used to be the one with the plan. Well, or at least a plan B. Now I don't know. Now I'm thinking maybe she was right" Stiles looked over at Cora. "You know, maybe maybe we are pretty much useless. Maybe all we really do is show up and find the bodies. I don't want to find my father's body" he said, looking down at the floor.

"Stiles, look at me" he lifted his head up to face me. "We're not going to find your father's body. I promise you I will do everything I can to help you find him. Alive"

He gave me a small smile.

I sighed. "Do you ever wish you hadn't been dragged into all the supernatural shit" I asked out loud.

"Sometimes. I mean, I guess things happen for a reason though, right?"

I shrugged. "I wish I knew what the reasons for things happening were"

"Why was I ever friends with Scott? Why did Scott get bitten? Why doesn't Lydia love me?" Stiles asked with a sigh.

I laughed a little at the last one.

"Why did the Argent's burn my house down? Why did I come back to Beacon Hills? Why did I become friends with Allison? Why Isaac?"

"Has something happened?" Stiles asked, sounding concerned.

I looked out of the ambulance window.

"I don't know" I could feel tears welling up in my eyes and I tried to suppress them. "Isaac's been so distant. He's been with Allison for the past few days and you know I miss him. But at the same time I just feel so jealous. I feel like he doesn't love me anymore"

"He loves you. I see the way he looks at you" Stiles said.

I shook my head. "Have you seen the way he looks at Allison?"

I turned around to face Stiles who looked at me sympathetically.

"Sometimes I just want to be normal. I don't want to be involved with everything" I said.

"I want that too sometimes. But I wouldn't want to trade in my friends" Stiles replied, his hand resting on top of mine.

"Stiles I don't know what to do" My voice cracked. "Everything is such a mess"

Stiles wrapped an arm around me and pulled me in closer to him as I rested my head on his shoulder.

"I'm so sick of crying" I muttered, furiously wiping away my tears.

I heard growling outside and Stiles and I both leant forwards to look out of the window.

The twins walked past.

"Shit" I muttered, moving out of sight.

Stiles and I exchanged a look.

Suddenly, a hand was placed on the window, making the two of us jump.

"Stiles! Stiles, open the door!" I heard Scott yell from outside.

I jumped up and ripped open the door.

"Help me get him in" Scott lifted Peter up into the ambulance.

"Where's Derek and Jennifer?" I asked noticing that Scott was alone.

"I have to go back for them and my mom" he replied.

"Okay, two problems. Kali's got the keys to this thing, and I just saw the twins, like, 30 seconds ago" Stiles explained.

I heard a noise in the directions the twins came from.

"Stay here" Scott said before rushing off.

I wanted to follow him but Stiles gave me a look as if he wanted me to stay with him.

I closed the doors and sat down next to him and Peter.

We sat in silence for a while until Stiles looked down at his phone and then back up at Peter and I.

"They've got a plan"

~

I heard a car pull up and I flung open the doors.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Isaac yelled.

"Yeah, I got her, I got her" Peter said, picking up Cora's limp body.

I stood up quickly and helped him out Cora in the car.

"Are you okay?" Isaac asked me.

"No" I snapped getting into the car.

"Stiles, let's go!" I heard Isaac yell out to him.

He paused, reading a sheet attached to the ambulance.

And then he ran.

"Stiles!" I yelled, jumping out of the car.

"Shay!" Isaac called after me.

I sprinted after Stiles and inside the building.

Scott was paused by the elevator and I heard him say "mom" before turning the corner.

"Scott! Scott, wait!" Stiles and I yelled.

I reached the elevator but came to an abrupt stop when I saw my brother lying there motionless.

Stiles crashed into me, staring at Derek in shock.

"Derek?" I said, falling to my knees beside him.

Stiles glanced at me for a moment but then took off in the same direction as Scott.

"Stiles!" I yelled after him.

"Shit" I cursed, turning my attention back to Derek.

"Derek! Derek, come on!" I shook his shoulders. "Please" I choked out.

"Please wake up"

~

A/N

Stiles and Shay are actual brotp omg.

The shisaac ship is slowly sinking *cries*

And oh my god so Crystal, Ryan, Orny and Stephen are literally an hour away from me at the wolfsbane origins convention actually sobbing.

I'm still trying to convince my mum to let me go to wolfsbane 3 ugh the struggles of having no money and no friends that watch teen wolf to go with.

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