"𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩, 𝙇𝙞𝙖𝙢! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨."

Meilani wanted one night where she could just relax and be a normal teenager. One night where she could be home and do her homework in peace with her best friend sat on the floor of her room. One night where she could laugh with her best friend while he tries to balance a pencil over his nose, claiming "he had mad skills". One night where she could watch her best friend slowly lose his sanity over their trigonometry homework and try to beg her to just do it for him so he wouldn't have to suffer the brain numbness any longer.

However, when you're the true alpha of Beacon Hills and you have Dread Doctors running around trying to create supernatural creatures, you don't get to have normal teenage nights. You don't get to just enjoy your best friend's presence. No, you had to run around a hospital and get nearly mutilated by a Dread Doctor and then get a phone call after said near mutilation that there was another dead body and your boyfriend and the new werewolf trying to get into your pack had it at the animal clinic.

So, now, Meilani stood in the back examination room of the clinic, with a dead teens body laid out on the table with blood smeared over his pale face and sharp teeth protruding from his gums.

"Do you know him?" Theo questioned, stood next to Stiles on the other side of the metal examination table as he noticed Meilani's look of recognition at the revealed boy.

"His name is Josh. He was a junior," Meilani mumbled, his eyes flickering over the boy's face. She turned away from the body to tug a stressed hand through her unruly curls with a heavy exhale before she turned back to the boys. "Which one did it? The one with the cane?"

Stiles and Theo exchanged a silent look, which only answered Meilani's question then and there. "What are we going to do with him? We can't just set the alarm and leave. That's how Tracy disappeared. Someone's got to stay here with him."

Theo exhaled heavily and placed his hands on his hips. "Okay, I'll stay with him. It's not like I had a big Saturday night planned."

Meilani nodded silently and plucked her phone from her back pocket when it vibrated erratically with messages from Liam. All of them in a panic and all of them rambling about how Hayden was one of the chimeras made by the Dread Doctors and that he'd taken her to Meilani's house for help. She tensed slightly at the new information and her eyes flickered up to Stiles and Theo when they called her name.

"It's Liam. He's got another chimera . . . and she's at my house."

Meilani had arrived at her house with Stiles in tow and rushed into her room to see Isaac and Liam stood in her room with her bathroom door closed over, light pooling beneath the crack in it. She walked over to the door and knocked gently on it as she called out Hayden's name. "Hayden, it's Meilani. I know that you're scared, but we just . . . we want to help." The sound of Hayden's heart could be heard loudly in her ears and she glanced between Liam and Isaac who also appeared to pick up on her rapidly beating heart. "You hear heart, yeah? She's really freaked out. What happened, Li?"

"She was okay when we got here. Then she saw Isaac enter the room and ran into the bathroom when I went to text you. I don't know what happened," Liam explained, gesturing faintly to the door.

"She's definitely a chimera?" Meilani checked, stepping away from the door to give Hayden a moment to herself and settle her racing thoughts. "You sure?"

Liam sighed and nodded, placing his hands on his hips. "Yeah, she said she heard a voice saying, Your condition improves."

"Okay, that's unsettling," Stiles mumbled, brushing past Liam, Isaac and Meilani to get to the bathroom door again and knock lightly. "Hayden? It's Stiles. Your sister works with my dad down at the station. Look, just open the door okay? You can trust us."

Meilani frowned when Stiles got no response, causing for the spastic teen to take a few steps back from the door. She could hear Hayden's heart rate only raise by the second and it made her feel awful that the innocent girl had been targeted. No one should have to go through what Hayden was. Meilani wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy and she knew that Hayden was having a rough time with everything that came up. "Look, Hayden, we just need to tell you the truth because everything becomes easier once you know. It's usually better done face-to-face, okay? Either you're gonna unlock the door or I'm gonna have to break it open. It's okay if you don't want to talk, or if you aren't ready to believe us. I just . . . I gotta know that you're at least okay in there."

When Meilani received no response, her eyes flickered to Isaac and Liam's forms as if silently asking if they still heard her also. Her hand tentatively reached out to the door handle, cracking the lock on it and slowly pushing the door open inwards to reveal Hayden in the darkened bathroom, the only light coming from the moon outside. Hayden was stood in the middle of the bathroom with her fingers curved and claws protruding from the nails while her eyes glowed yellow. 

"I believe you."

Realizing that they needed to protect Hayden from the Dread Doctors now that they were sure she was a chimera, the pack had kicked into the best idea they had - telluric currents. Meilani figured if the Dread Doctors didn't like them around Eichen House, then they wouldn't bother Hayden if she were in the middle of them. So the pack had kicked into action and formulated a plan where they'd hide Hayden in the high school  while they waited for the doctors to pick up Josh's body. 

Meilani stood in the darkened boys' locker room later that next night as her friends all rushed around and what they needed to for the plan. She exhaled heavily to release the nerves from her body, but she knew it was futile even before she did it. Nothing would calm her nerves, not even Isaac who stood nearby and sent her an encouraging smile as he helped Parrish with one of the devices he'd made to to lengthen the telluric currents' range. 

"Is it me or is Liam not aware of the second part of the plan?" Lydia asked Meilani, walking up to the true alpha and leaning her side against the locker next to the one that Meilani was stood near. 

Meilani chewed the inside of her lip and glanced to the duffle bag for their Plan B if Hayden's experiment failed. "I'm hoping there won't be a second plan, Lyd."

"Or if it will work," Lydia whispered, eyeing Meilani as she could read the McCall female now like a book. 

Meilani groaned and threw her head back, hating that Lydia had voiced her concerns. She huffed when Lydia scrunched up her nose and rubbed her shoulder in an apology before she turned in a swing of her strawberry blonde hair to go help where she was needed. 

It wasn't really known how much time had passed before the chittering sound of the Dread Doctors could be heard near the school. The pack weren't allowed to use their phones during the plan and it left Meilani sitting on the bench in the locker room with her hands stuffed into her hair as her elbows rested on her knees. She tried to keep her hearing out for both Hayden and the Dread Doctors as they got nearer and nearer. 

Meilani's concentration had broke when she heard the sound of chains on the other side of the row of lockers. She furrowed her eyebrows as her head slowly rose up from her hands to peer over the side of the lockers to see a chain being dragged along the floor near the showers. Her hands slowly pushed off the bench beneath her as she got to her feet. Her steps were quiet as she rounded the lockers and started towards the chain that got shorter and shorter as it was pulled away. 

"Lan," Lydia's voice called and Meilani quickly whipped around to face her strawberry blonde best friend. "I was thinking since we can't use our phones, we can't check in on Stiles and Theo."

Meilani squeezed her eyes shut and dragged her hands down her face. She barely trusted Theo further than she could throw him and he was left alone with her boyfriend, who she couldn't even keep in touch with at the moment because of the currents. Not to mention the fact that they could also be targeted by anything while Meilani was stuck inside with half of the pack and couldn't even save him in time if needed. "Fuck. I didn't even think about that."

Lydia shook her head, chewing the inside of her lip as her own guilt showed on her face. "Neither did I. So we're standing here waiting for the guys in masks and breathing tubes to show up, but who or what are Stiles and Theo waiting for?"

At least another hour had passed along as Meilani, Lydia, Liam and Hayden stayed trapped in the boys' locker room while Isaac, Malia and Parrish were off doing their own things for the plan and keeping an eye out for the doctors. Meilani paced back and forth as she chewed on her thumb nail, the act of waiting for the bomb to drop just driving her anxiety further and further, silently apologizing to Isaac for it as it continued to run rampant inside her. The anxiety only got worse when Liam had walked over to the duffle bag that held the chains that were supposed to hold down the Dread Doctor if they were able to catch one. 

"What is this for?" Liam asked in confusion, holding it up for Meilani and Lydia to see. "What are you gonna do with these?"

"In case we had a chance to catch one of them," Lydia replied, sitting forward on the bench she perched on, hands gripping the end of it. 

"If we can't make the school a fortress, then maybe we can make it a trap," Meilani piped in, rocking back on her heels as she scratched her cheek. "It's the only other shot we got, Li."

"They're coming for her, doesn't that mean she's the bait?" Liam retorted, jerking the chains in Hayden's direction as she relaxed back against the caged locker behind her.

Lydia licked her lips and pushed herself to her feet as Liam shoved the chains back into the duffle bag, Meilani joining her at her side along with Hayden. "Liam, we brought Hayden here to protect her."

Meilani rolled her eyes in exasperation when Liam merely glared harshly at the two older teen girls. "No one is bait! We can't be bodyguards to everyone every night, Li, okay? I am one person. There's only so much the pack can do alone with no help from anyone, but Parrish, my mom and Noah. This is our best plan."

Liam crossed his arms defiantly and locks his jaw. "So then why aren't we talking to Noah? Why aren't we doing something better than hiding in a school?"

"Because we still don't anything about them or what they want, Liam! They are winning here and we don't even know what the game is," Meilani argued back.

"This plan sucks, Lan!" Liam cried, throwing his hands in the air in exasperation.

"You got a better one? 'Cause I am all for listening to it at the moment!" Meilani snapped, jerking a finger in Hayden's direction. "Kids are dying and Hayden's next, Liam! So, somebody has to do something. Somebody has to save everyone. So somebody's got to be the bait!"

The locker room had fallen with a tense silence for a long moment as Meilani squeezed her eyes shut and tried to reign in her sudden spike of anger. Anger she didn't even know she had until that moment. Anger that hadn't even been then before and she had to cool down the wolf inside of her that sparked suddenly. 

Liam frowned softly and stepped closer to Meilani, clinging onto the front of her sleek leather jacket which caused her to open her hazel eyes and rest on Liam's blue ones. His eyes were suddenly filled with regret over snapping at her and they were pleading as he stared up at her. "Lan, promise me you'll do everything you can to save Hayden. Promise me."

Meilani was silent for a long moment as her eyes bounced between his and she deflated slightly, nodding. "Yeah, I'll do everything I can to protect her. I promise."

"Guys . . ." Hayden's timid voice alerted Meilani, Liam and Lydia as they all snapped their attention to her. She stood near her bag, digging through it for something frantically. "I forgot my pills. I have a bottle in my locker. I can get them, but . . . "

"No, I'll get them. What's your combination?"

After a rambled combination to Meilani and Liam promising he'll keep watch over Hayden and Lydia for the short time Meilani would be gone, the true alpha effortlessly pushed the caged locker that had been placed in front of the locker room door as a barricade to the side so she could slip out with Lydia following.

"Please hurry back," Lydia whispered, her green eyes flickering around the dark and eery hall outside the locker room door. "I'll keep watch until you're back."

Meilani squeezed Lydia's hand reassuringly before she walked off to find Hayden's locker where it rested around the corner from the boys' locker room. She kept her eyes trained for anything out of the ordinary, but she didn't see or hear anything that she hadn't been already all night. Her fingers curl around the nob on the lock of Hayden's locker and she begins to twirl it around to put in the number that Hayden gave to her, the clicking of the lock echoing in the empty hall.

Or the hall was empty until another dragging sound was heard behind her.Her eyes snapped over to the side to see the same chain being pulled along into the classroom across from her and she eyed it warily. She slowly followed where the chain had gone into the biology lab, checking around the tables for where it could have gone. Before Meilani could get far enough along the rows, a blade was shoved through her chest and she coughed weakly as she glanced down to it, recognizing it instantly.

"Kira . . . " Meilani choked, dropping to her knees as Kira slid the blade out and wrapped a leather strap around her throat and tugged.

"You know who I am," Kira growled in an echoy voice, her eyes a fiery color as she gripped tightly to the strap.

"Kira. Kira, stop," Meilani pleaded, hand wrapping around the strap to try and keep it from fully cutting across her throat. "It's me! It's Meilani!"

"I am the Messenger of Death!" Kira yelled, still in the ehcoy deep voice as she tugged harder on the strap. She continued to growl in Meilani's ear as the strap began to strain against Meilani's throat and create block dots in Meilani's vision, veins popping up in her forehead as she tried to fight against the pressure around her throat.

However, that all snapped away when a searing pain landed in her hand and she screamed, stumbling back and up to her feet. Masson was suddenly in front of her with a small silver scalpel and she cradled her hand to her chest with Kira no longer behind her and trying to choke her out. She panted heavily as her eyes blew wide at the sight of Mason who held his hand up in defense. "Mase?!"

"Sorry, sorry! Lana, I was just trying to help," Mason stammered, holding up the bloodied scalpel. "Liam said pain. He said it makes you human."

Meilani slowly lowered her now healed hand as it drops back to her side. Her eyes scan the room for anything else that stood out, but it was just her and Mason in the darkened biology lab. "What - what happened? What are you even doing here?"

Mason licked his lips as he smiled at Meilani. "I found another Chimera. His name's Corey."

Meilani stood up straight at the thought of another chimera and her brain registered that Liam and Hayden were still back in the locker room with Lydia. "Shit. Liam and Hayden." She turned on her heel and burst from the biology lab with Mason hot on her tail as they both rushed around the corner and into the boys' locker room. They stopped short when they saw Malia and Lydia stood near the sinks with fallen expressions.

"Hayden and Liam are gone."

AUTHORS NOTE

Hi hey hello

So . . . not ready for the next chapter. Enjoy this mess because the mess is only gonna get bigger. Sorry bout it, lads. Think we'll all need a minute.