❝𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥❞

❝𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲.❞

⇢𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝟏, 𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝟒⇠

╰┈➤As soon as the girl got out of her car, she was embraced in a tight hug. Her curly red hair was ruined by the gentle hands that let themself touch it. The cold breeze passed them as they were still outside the house.

Pulling away, the woman's hands stayed on the teenager's shoulders. "I can't believe how you changed since I last saw you!" Lola's mother smiled admiring her other daughter as she likes to call her. Hermione chuckled, a smile creeping up on her face.

"Mrs. Katherine, please! You saw me two weeks ago when I came to the hospital." Her other mother kissed her forehead and shook her head. She was not believing it.

"And yet you still got hotter in these two weeks!" Hermione chuckled once again and smoothed out her jumper. One thing the girl loved to do was dress up. Her outfits always matched and looked fabulous.

"Mom! Hermione! Come inside, I'm lonely!" Lola groaned from the front porch. Her Patrick pajamas were on her body as she hugged herself around the waist. The fog was coming out of her mouth as she spoke.

Hermione took this opportunity to run inside the house. The two best friends hugged and squealed, not having sleepovers for a long time.

Getting inside the house smell of cookies filled Hermione's nostrils. she closed her eyes in enjoyment. Opening them again she looked around the house. It was cozy looking and it had a relaxing feeling. Hermione loved visiting Lola's house. It was her second home.

When they were younger Lola and Hermione used to play hide and seek most of the time. the house was the biggest out of all their friends, so it was perfect for that game. Hermione had also some secret hiding spots, which Lola didn't know about.

"I'll go and change in my pj's!" The blonde nodded, being overexcited for the sleepover. Katherine yelled something inaudible from the kitchen. Hermione chuckled and shook her head.

"Yeah, you should go! I'll prepare everything till then!" Hermione jogged up the stairs and turned right towards the bathroom. Before going inside she looked at the picture hanging on the wall.

It was a picture of some creature who was in a werewolf form but had a human's heart in its hand and leaves were around it. It always creeped her out when she used to visit. Hermione never dared to ask what kind of creature that was, in hopes it was fictional. Cringing the girl got inside the small bathroom.

The witch was quick to change into her pajamas. They were Spongebob ones that she had matched with Lola. Hermione was spiderman to Lola's batman. They decided that when they were only 9 years old. After finishing watching Spongebob on the same day. Finding them cute.

After spitting the water out of her mouth, Hermione looked in the big mirror in front of her. There were dark bags under her eyes and she looked more exhausted than ever. Hermione sighed and went over her face with her finger. Sighing she looked away from her face, not wanting to see what place she was in right now.

It was all because of the dreams she was getting. They were looking too real for it just to be an imagination. However, some dreams can feel like they're real when in reality they aren't. The problem is, that Hermione can't separate those two.

Getting inside the living room Hermione saw that Gilmore girls were already set on the TV. Katherine was on her phone, looking through her Facebook feed and her daughter was eating the cookies. The redhead smiled and plopped down in between the two girls.

"I love this show!" The girl exclaimed taking a cookie from the plate. Making Lola side-eye her, but kept quiet. Hermione rolled her eyes and playfully pushed Lola away.

Katherine unpaused the series and Gilmore Girls started playing. It got the girl's attention immediately. They loved how Rory and Lorelei were obsessed with coffee. It reminded them of Hermione and Lola. Katherine was however a tea type of girl. The teenage girls bullied her for that. Because how can you drink tea in summer?

After they watched two episodes Hermione looked to her left. Katherine was sleeping, exhausted from working so much. Lola and Hermione were the only ones who were still watching the show.

Suddenly Hermione's phone rang, signaling she got a message. The girl frowned and looked at the clock. It was 3 in the morning and Allison sent her the message. She glanced at the show and opened the message. Hoping it was nothing serious and that she was not in trouble.

𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐫

*picture of Allison and Kate*
My aunt, Kate just came! She greets you and hope I didn't wake you up right now!

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞

*sends a photo of herself*
You didn't! I'm actually at Lola's for a sleepover! Say your aunt my greeting and hope you have a nice time with her! I'd like to meet her someday. Also, I'm Hermione :)

Lola turned her attention toward her best friend and got curious. "Who are you texting this late?" Hermione looked up from her phone and smiled. Turning her phone towards the blonde so she could see who it was.

"Allison's aunt came now, so she can't me her picture." Lola widened her eyes and nodded. Gilmore girls were still playing in the background. Hermione turned her device off and yawned.

"Wait, I have an idea! We should prank call Jackson!" Lola jumped in excitement and paused the series. Hermione chuckled and looked back to make sure they didn't wake Katherine up.

"Immediately, yes! What is it going to be about? Maybe, Pizza?" Hermione looked through Jackson's profile on Facebook and found his phone number.

"That's classic, no! I have one. Let's joke about how the package of three boxes came, it'll be pads. What do you think?" Lola almost choked on the cookie she was just eating after she heard that.

"How did that come to your mind?! Agree, let's do it. I'll talk, I'll make my voice a little bit deeper!" The redhead nodded and pressed the calling button on her phone. It started ringing and they put him on the speaker.

"Hello? Who's this? It's 2 in the morning!" They could hear the anger in his voice and how his voice was deep from sleeping. Hermione rolled her eyes mentioning to Lola to start talking.

"Hello, is this Jackson Whittmore?" The voice was perfectly set. It sounded just like an older man. Lola held back the laugh and waited for the answer.

"Yes! What do you want?" You could now hear rustling on the other side of the phone. He sat up in his bed. Probably preparing a threat to tell them.

"Your package came now, that you ordered 3 weeks ago! I'm waiting for you in front of your house."

"What package? I didn't order anything!" They could hear the annoyance in his voice. The two girls were both red in faces from holding their laughs in.

"Sir, I'm afraid you did. It says your name and your address on the package." Hermione took a cookie and once again checked if they maybe woke up Katherine.

"Alright! What's the package?" Jackson sighed. He didn't even think that no package would come in 2 in the morning. He was still sleeping.

"Three boxes of pads, sir!" Hermione put a pillow on her mouth to cover her laughs. She couldn't hold it anymore. There was silence on the other side of the phone.

"Listen to me now, you bastard! Whoever you are! There's no one outside and I didn't order any pads! I'm a man!" Jackson yelled in the phone.

"Sir, you are no man! You are a boy. There's no shame in admitting that you have periods! It's normal." Hermione gasped and started uncontrollably laughing.

"You know what, I don't have time for this! Bye, asshole!" With that Jackson hung up on them. Hermione and Lola were now laughing trying not to wake up the mom.

"Anyways, I'll go to bed now. Good night, witchy!" Hermione laid down so her head was resting on Lola's shoulder.

"Good night, Mione!" The blonde looked down at her best friend and smiled. She knew who were the Argents. She just hoped that nothing ever happen to Hermione. Or else they will get hurt. Remembering what her best friend showed her earlier.

And with that, Lola went back to watching Gilmore Girls.

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"I can't believe you got an A in English!" Stiles exclaimed getting out of the school. He adjusted his backpack on his back while his best friend was next to him. Their classes ended and they were hurrying to get home.

"What's so shocking? I know English." Hermione shrugged looking down at her outfit. She had black jeans on with a white T-shirt on top. The redhead didn't go over the top with her outfit today since she had like 10 minutes to get ready. She fell asleep and still needed to get home from Lola's to get dressed for school. Stiles offered to give her a ride to school.

"How do you do it? You barely even studied for it!" Stiles groaned. He also got an A but had to study for it a lot. It never got in his head how some people could study for an hour and remember it all. On the other hand, some had to study for days to remember it. Just to get a bad grade.

"I don't need to study for English. It's in my head." Hermione chuckled getting inside Stiles's infamous blue jeep. They both put their backpacks on the backseats in sync. Inside of the jeep smelled like vanilla. Hermione inhaled it and smiled.

"It's like you're a witch. Oh wait, you are!" Stiles started laughing at his joke and started the car. His best friend just chuckled and shook her head in amazement. She had known him for a long time and this was his typical behavior. He was the kid to laugh at his jokes.

Getting out of the parking lot, Stiles started going forward. Then suddenly someone came in front of his jeep and put his hand up to stop. Hermione frowned when she saw that it was Derek. He looked wrecked and Stiles had to hit breaks to not hit him. Cars were honking for him to start driving.

"You gotta be kidding me. This guy's everywhere." Stiles groaned looking behind to see there was a line of cars behind him. Hermione got out of the jeep just as Scott came running towards them. The buzz-cut boy didn't have any other choice than to get out of the jeep with them. 

"What are you doing here?" Scott crouched down looking concerned. Hermione kneeled and observed Derek. Trying to find the reason why he's acting like this. While Stiles just stood there watching. When Hermione saw the shot wound she gasped and covered her mouth with her hand. Derek just glanced at her.

"I was shot." The older man answered closing his eyes in pain, still lying on the floor. Trying to hold onto one arm.

"He's not looking so good, dude," Stiles added with Hermione shooting him a glare. The buzz-cut boy put both his hands up in surrounder.

"Why aren't you healing?" Scott panicked. Hermione sighed and adjusted so she was now sitting on her legs on the floor.

"I can't. It was a different kind of bullet."

"A silver bullet?" Stiles excitedly asked. Feeling confident in his research on the internet. Hermione sighed in disappointment and tried not to laugh at that.

"No, you idiot." Derek winced after he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. Caused by Hermione Saltzman.

"You have a point but don't be rude to him!" She scoffed at the older man next to her. Stiles smiled proudly that he had someone on his side.

"Wait. That's what she meant when she said you have 48 hours." Scott remembered something that neither Hermione nor Stiles knew about.

"What? Who said 48 hours?"

"The one that shot you." Suddenly Derek's eyes turned blue and he winced in pain. Cars started honking and people started to get more and more impatient.

"What are you doing? Stop that." Scott yelled at Derek. Not wanting anyone to see him in this condition.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you. I can't." Derek was annoyed by the boy already. Hermione told the boys to put him in the passenger seat in Stiles's jeep. They did as she mentioned them.

When she wanted to go inside the jeep she saw Jackson staring at them so she decided to mock him. "Hey Jackass! How's your period doing?" With that Hermione got inside the jeep before the boy could say anything.

Jackson was furious. You could see anger radiating from his face. He started to insult the girl, but she got away from it. He was still staring, just like everyone else who was in the parking lot. Being confused at what was happening. Even if they probably saw the man and that he needed help, they would rather watch than help.

"I need you to find out what kind of bullet they used." Hermione in the meantime shoved their backpacks aside making room for herself to sit.

"How the hell am I supposed to do that?" Scott threw his hands around feeling frustrated.

"She's an Argent. She's with them?" Hermione side-eyed him and frowned. Derek was really against the Argents.

"Allison is a nice girl. She would never." Hermione added and just got glared by Derek and his attention went back over to Scott.

"Why should I help you?" Stiles grabbed Hermione's phone and opened the camera. Hermione went forward and made a silly face with Stiles. He took the picture and they giggled. Another was supposed to be normal but Hermione kissed Stiles's cheek making him blush afterwards.

"I'll send you these now." Hermione exclaimed to Stiles, taking her phone back smiling. The buzz-cut boy nodded not finding words to answer.

"Fine, I'll try." Scott agreed to snoop around the Argent's house. Hermione rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe that he was gonna betray her Pookie just like that.

"Hey, get him out of here," Scott mentioned to Stiles, who informed him that hated Scotf right now. Just before they went off Hermione added one more thing.

"No, we're gonna be here all day. Of course, he'll take him out of here! Also, say hi to Kate!" With that Stiles started driving them away from the school.

While they were driving Hermione was looking out the window. The girl was bored and she didn't want to be on her phone so there was no other option. Derek just took off his leather jacket trying to cope with the pain he was feeling. Stiles looked down at his phone and read Scott's message. 'Need more time.' The buzz-cut boy groaned at that.

"Try not to bleed on my seats, okay? We're almost there." Stiles glanced at Derek who was looking at his wound. Hermione took her attention from the road to watch and listen the two talk. It was entertaining.

"Almost where?"

"Your house." Stiles sighed like it was an obvious thing. Derek immediately looked at him. His skin was pale and he had dark circles around his eyes. Hermione and Derek look alike right now.

"What? No, you can't take me there." Hermione frowned, not getting what he was trying to say.

"I can't take you to your own house?"

"Not when I can't protect myself." With that Stiles pulled to the side and parked somewhere. Hermione stretched and leaned a little bit to the front so they did not start fighting.

"What happens if Scott doesn't find your little magic bullet? Hmm? Are you dying?" Stiles hysterically started asking Derek questions. Hermione put a hand on his shoulders, to calm him down a little.

"Not yet. I gave a last resort." Derek panted, not really knowing how long he can take it anymore.

"What do you mean? What last resort?" Stiles threw his hands around. Suddenly Derek pulled his sleeve up revealing a shot wound and the blood was coming out of it. Stiles gagged while Hermione just stared at it.

"Oh my god! What is that? Ugh, is that contagious? You know what, you should probably just get out." Stiles looked away showing Derek the way out of his jeep. Hermione shook her head knowing this won't end well.

"Start the car. Now."

"I don't think you should be barking orders with the way you look. In fact, I think if I wanted to, I could probably drag your little werewolf ass out in the middle of the road and leave you for dead." Stiles threatened Derek, staring into his eyes. Hermione sighed.

"Start the car, or I'm gonna rip your throat out with my teeth." Stiles started the car not believing what he just heard. Suddenly, Derek grabbed his head in pain and gritted his teeth.

"I warned you not to be rude to Stiles." Hermione smiled and stopped doing her spell. Derek sighed and rested his head on the car seat. Stiles once again smirked proudly.

Hours passed and there was no sign of Scott finding the bullet. Hermione was trying not to fall asleep in the back while Derek was just sitting there, awkwardly. Stiles was on his phone talking with his best friend.

"What am I supposed to do with him?" Stiles groaned glancing at the older man who was sitting beside him.

"And by the way, he's starting to smell. Like death." Stiles sighed handing the phone to Derek. "You're not gonna believe where he's telling me to take you."

Hermione yawned looking at Stiles. "Can you take me home? I don't wanna be here anymore." Stiles quickly turned towards the girl. His eyes were wide.

"No way! I am not being left alone with him." Hermione groaned and threw her head back. She was so sleepy that if she closed her eyes now, she'd fall asleep. Derek was still talking to Scott.

"What's with you and threats, oh my God." Hermione sighed glancing at the older boy.

"You mentioned Kate." Derek mouthed making both teenagers confused.

"What?" Hermione pulled herself forward so she could hear and talk better.

"You told Scott to say hi to Kate when he was leaving. Allison's aunt." Derek exclaimed. The redhead now remembered what he was referring to.

"Yes, and?" Stiles started driving them towards the Animal Clinic while they talked.

"She shot me." Hermione frowned and started blinking trying to process what he just said. Hermione did know that Argents were hunters, but they also had some rules. "Allison is with them, trust me."

"No, on that I will not trust you. I know her now and she never gave a sign that she is a hunter or that she likes archery." Hermione rolled her eyes and got out of the jeep when Stiles parked in front of the animal clinic. The buzz-cut boy opened the garage door making Derek plop down on bags full of animal food.

"Does Nordic blue monkshood mean anything to you?" Stiles read from his phone. Turning his attention to Derek, while Hermione leaned against the gray wall. She was thinking about Allison and her being a hunter. There was no way she was, but also there was a high chance she was. Her house and family were full of it, why wouldn't she be one?

"It's a rare for of wolfsbane. He has to bring me the bullet." Derek closed his eyes.

"Why?"

"Because I'm gonna die without it." Hermione gasped and closed her eyes. They now started going inside the clinic.

Derek took off his shirt, revealing a tattoo he had on his back. It was something weird with three spirals. Around his wound veins were turning black, meaning it was poisoning him or he was dying.

"You know, that really doesn't look like anything some echinacea and a good night's sleep couldn't be taken care of," Stiles stated having hope. Hermione sat at the table and watched what was happening.

"When the infection reaches my heart, it'll kill me." Derek panted going towards the cabinets.

"Positivity just isn't in your vocabulary, is it?" Stiles got ignored by Derek.

"If he doesn't get here with the bullet in time, last resort...You're going to cut off my arm." Derek held a mini saw to which Stiles widened his eyes. Hermione in the meantime sat on the chair and fell asleep.

Someone rushing into the clinic woke Hermione up. It was Scott who just glanced at her and started yelling at Stiles who was about to cut Derek's arm off. Derek took the bullet away from Scott and opened it. Well, after he fainted Scott had to take the bullet from the sewer, but that happened too fast for Hermione to process.

The girl got up from her seat just as Derek put the bullet part in his wound and was on the ground screaming in pain.

"Are you okay?" Hermione asked, but it came in a low voice since she just fell asleep. She was still rubbing her eyes.

"Except for the agonizing pain?" Derek stood up from the ground. Hermione washed her face to 'wake up'.

"I'm guessing the ability to use sarcasm is a good sign of health," Stiles added making Hermione chuckle. They will never stop fighting.

"Okay, we saved your life, which means you're gonna leave us alone. You got that? And if you don't, I'm gonna go back to Allison's dad, and I'm gonna tell him everything." Hermione got beside Scott and shook her head.

"You never betray your own, Scott." Stiles and Scott looked at the girl with raised eyebrows. Derek just shrugged, agreeing with it.

"You're gonna trust them? You think they can help you?"

"Why not? They're a lot freaking nicer than you are!" Scott spat.

"Yeah, I can show you exactly how nice they are," Derek mentioned Scott and Hermione to follow him. They said goodbye to Stiles and went with Derek in his car.

Suddenly Hermione got a text.

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐝 <𝟑
Hii, can you talk?

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞
Hii bae, I'm sorry but I'm not home. Wr can talk tomorrow :)
Good night <3

𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐝 <𝟑
Okay, good night <3

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The three of them started going inside the Hospital. Both Scott and Hermione were confused as to why were they there. Though, they didn't say or ask anything. They just followed Derek to wherever they were going. However, the path seemed familiar to Hermione and she didn't know why.

When they reached a small room Derek opened them. Letting the two get inside. It was dark inside and a man was sitting in the chair. Hermione froze remembering the man. She was once here and they talked. Well, he said one sentence and that's it.

"Who is he?" Scott asked looking from Derek to the man. Hermione was next to Scott and was staring at the man.

"My uncle. Peter Hale." Derek coldly answered. The redhead frowned and kept looking at the man.

"Is he like you? A werewolf?" Hermione was confused as to why they were not talking to him. He was awake right now, so that was weird. Talking about someone when you can ask him.

"He was. Now he's barely even human. Six years ago, my sister and I were at school. Our house caught fire. Eleven people were trapped inside. He and one girl were the only survivors."

"Where's the little girl?" Scott didn't know what to do so he constantly looked around, avoidibg eye contact with anyone.

"I don't know. She was my little niece." Derke answered. Hermione unfroze and frowned, once again. This was so weird for her. She wanted to tell him that they could talk to Peter. But she didn't, for some reason.

"What makes you so sure that they set the fire?"

"Cause they're the only ones that knew about us." Derek looked at both teenagers who were standing next to him. Hermione was still in shock as to what she was just hearing.

"Then they had a reason."

"Like what? You tell me what justifies this. They say they'll only kill an adult and only with absolute proof. But there were people in my family that were perfectly ordinary in that fire." Derek turned Peter's head revealing that it was burnt. Scott and Hermione flinched while Derke continued talking.

"This is what they do. And it's what Allison will do." Hermione widened her eyes. However she was confused still, so she had to ask.

"Why isn't he talking?" The two looked at her like it was obvious. They couldn't blame her. She was in shock and on top of that she was tired.

"He's in a coma, Hermione." After she heard Derek say that, she couldn't speak anymore. She froze and stared at the man she talked with a week or so ago.

Hermione Saltzman was either going crazy or she was dreaming.

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