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CHAPTER THIRTEEN ━━ the last chimera

OPHELIA woke with a gasp, her heart beat erratically beating against her chest. She panted and looked around her surroundings seeing she was in her bedroom still. Looking down at her clothes she had been changed from her bloodied garments from earlier; she assumed Freya and Rebekah helped her. She looked to her alarm clock seeing she had only slept for two hours. Surprising her that she even slept at all.

She stood up from her bed carefully, her toes touching the cold hardwood floor beneath her. She tiptoed down the staircase, towards the kitchen. Grabbing a glass of water with shaky hands. She walked past the basement only to stop dead in her tracks. She glanced at the door, she bit her lip and made her way down the staircase towards the freezer.

Turning the corner she eyed the giant white box. With a deep breath, and shaky hands she walked over and opened it revealing loads of blood bags beneath her finger tips. Carefully she grabbed one eyeing the bag, tilting her head to the side. Ripping open the tube she slowly drank from it. One turned to two, two turned to three, three to four and so on.

She sat in the corner on the basement floor sipping on the numerous bags. She looked up with wide eyes hearing Rebekah call her name. She hurriedly threw the multiple bags into the near by trashcan. Wiping the blood from her chin, and her palms. She rushed up the stairs seeing her sister standing with her cell phone in her hands which was consistently buzzing.

"Bloody hell, Lia, your phone won't stop ringing. Answer the damn thing, it's someone named Parrish." Rebekah walked over to her sister carefully observing her, "Are you alright?"

Ophelia nodded, "Yes, yeah I'm fine." She smiled to her sister, grabbing her phone rushing up to her bedroom. Rebekah looked at her sister in confusion. "The hell, is wrong with her?" She mumbled to herself.

Jordan Parrish called Ophelia explaining to her about Lydia's condition and how he needs her to meet them. She threw on a oversized sweater over her bare legs, with some thigh high boots. She sped out of the house towards Scott and Parrish at the hospital.

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"HEY!" The Original ran up to Scott McCall engulfing him in a hug. Breathing in his familiar scent, "I'm so happy you're okay, I'm so sorry for being a bitch, I was just-" She rambled, the Alpha cut her off by embracing her once more and kissing her forehead.

"I know, it's okay." He assured the red head. Part of him still guilty from their small spat they had earlier that week.

Parrish grabbed Lydia's body and they made their way into the Beacon Hills Memorial hospital. "Help! Get someone to help me. Quick." Parrish yelled to the staff members.

Scott and Ophelia ran into the elevator. She looked down at his shirt with narrowed eyes. "You're bleeding? What happened?" She questioned worry evident in her voice.

"I'm okay and long story I'll explain it all after, okay?" I looked at him unsure. "I'm okay, O. Promise" he gritted his teeth in pain. She nodded her head as the dup walked towards the operating room hearing Stiles.

"Somebody needs to tell me what's happening to him!" Stiles yelled.

"We don't know." Melissa answered.

Stiles looked over at the two, he rushed through the doors and pinned Scott to the ground. "Stiles!" Ophelia yelled at him grabbing him by the arms.

"Where were you?!" Stiles shouted at Scott. "You trusted him. You believed him. Right, huh? So, where were you?" Ophelia held Stiles in her arms as he fought against the hybrid to attack Scott. "Where the hell were you?!" Ophelia pushed the hazel eyed boy into the wall holding his arms down.

"Stiles." She calmly spoke her eyes not leaving his.

"Your dad's not the only one who got hurt." Scott, tried to get his attention.

"Oh, you'll heal." Stiles glared to the Alpha.

"It's Lydia." She whispered.

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"IT could be a side effect of shock." Parrish guessed.

"She's catatonic. It was Theo Digging his way through her mind." Ophelia balled her fists, letting her claws dig into her palms.

She forced Scott and Stiles to tell her what exactly happened earlier in the night, and to say she was furious would be an understatement. Stiles had explained how Theo wanted Scott's pack, specifically; The Beta With Anger Issues, the Kitsune, the Were-Coyote, The Banshee, Void Stiles, the Original ripper.

"Why would he do that? What is he looking for?" Melissa questioned the group.

"He's a rat, vermin, begging to be disposed of and he will get his wish when I'm through with him." Ophelia snarled, Stiles nodded in agreement.

"No. He wants an advantage." Scott answered, the Original narrowed her eyes at the True Alpha. He almost died by his hand hours ago, Ophelia wanted nothing more then to rip into his throat as he begged for his pathetic life. Maybe it was her hunger talking, but she wanted nothing more then to release her anger out, and Theo was her way.

"So what did he gain by trying to kill Stilinski?" Jordan questioned.

"It left me alone with Liam. Theo wanted to make sure nobody would stop him from killing me." Scott answered.

"So gutting my dad was a distraction." Stiles gritted his teeth.

"We need to find this kid." Jordan spoke up.

"And kill him." Ophelia said nonchalantly.

"Why is your result to always kill the problem?" Parrish asked the shorter girl, slightly amused.

"I'm a thousand years old, call it boredom." Ophelia smirked with a shrug.

"Uh, I'm all for that." Melissa pointed to the Original. "But isn't that a little dangerous? Especially since he almost killed my kid." Melissa retorted to the two.

"Yeah, but he said he didn't want my dad to die.He told me where to find him. So, maybe he also knows how to save him." Stiles explained.

"What do you want to do? Talk to him?" Melissa asked in disbelief.

"If it saves my dad, then yeah." Stiles remarked.

"I'll come with you. He doesn't know that I'm alive. Maybe that gives us an advantage." Scott offered.

"He'll know you're there. I just need to talk to him. Not fight him." Stiles denied.

"Stiles, you can't go alone." Ophelia shook her head.

"Does anyone even know how to find him?" Parrish asked the group.

"We don't have to find him. He'll come to me." Stiles walked out. Ophelia looked to Scott who nodded. She walked out after Stiles, walking down the hall. She looked to her right, her breathing rigid; as she stared into the blood donation room. Scott walked up to the Original causing her to snap out of her trance, nodding to the Alpha. As they both made their way out of the hospital.

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"YOU killed my best friend?" Stiles asked Theo. Ophelia stood by Scott listening in on the two.

"Lets be honest, Stiles. Was he still really your best friend?" Theo taunted.

Scott looked down ashamed, Ophelia reached for his hand and held it gently in her small one. It was taking everything in hybrid to not walk down the staircase and not to decapitate him. "Are you going to let my father die?" Stiles asked, bringing her out of her thoughts.

"If I wanted him to die, I wouldn't have told you where you can find him." Theo retorted.

"Then why are they saying his body is shutting down? That some toxin's poisoning him and they don't know how to stop it." Stiles questioned the Chimera.

"I'm not the bad guy, Stiles." Ophelia held her breath from scoffing. "I'm just a realist. I'm a survivor. If you knew the things that I know . . ." He trailed off.

"Yeah, but what do you know?" Stiles retorted.

"I know what's coming. I know what the Dread Doctors created. And I know what Parrish is. Lydia figured it out, I saw it in her memories." Theo spoke smugly.

"Right after you drove her out of her mind." Stiles retorted to the blue eyed boy.

"Collateral damage." Theo shrugged nonchalantly. Ophelia moved her body ready to lunge at the Chimera, only for Scott to hold her up against the wall shaking his head.

"But if she's right about Parrish, then things around here are gonna get a lot worse." Theo explained.

"I don't care." Stiles sighed out.

"You should. Because if your dad does survive he's not gonna be the sheriff of anything much longer." Theo shrugged.

"What's happening to him?" Stiles asked, receiving silence. "Hey, tell me!" Stiles rushed after him, as we heard a thud. Ophelia sped down the stairs seeing Theo had already left.

"Stiles!" Ophelia called out to him holding his face in her hands.

"Are you hurt?" He shoved Scott off of him.

"I'm fine. Did either of you get anything from him?" He nodded to the Original.

The two shook their heads, "Bastard was calm the whole time." Ophelia cursed.

"What about his heart?" Stiles asked.

"Heard it jump, but only once, and only for a second." Scott said.

"That doesn't mean he was lying." Stiles spoke.

"Not exactly. The rest of the time it was steady." Ophelia added on.

"When did it jump? What was I talking about?" Stiles questioned.

"When you said your dad was poisoned." Scott answered.

"That could be something. A jump could mean surprise, right?" Stiles asked the two.

"Yeah, I think so." Scott nodded.

"All right, so why would he be surprised my dad's still dying?" Stiles asked.

"Because he wasn't the one who attacked him." Ophelia spoke up as realization hit the red head. "It was another chimera."

AN 🦋✨🧚🏼‍♀️

My ginger snaps are losing their minds together. How poetic. But seriously sassy Ophelia is giving me life right now. Hope you guys feel the same way.

𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭, 𝟏𝟕𝟓𝟏