𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐖𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐘-𝐎𝐍𝐄

𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨

"𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙨, 𝙝𝙪𝙝?"

The night only seemed to drag on as Meilani and Liam both hauled the final remaining Dread Doctor towards the animal clinic. A small grunt passed Meilani's lips as the Dread Doctor only leant more of its weight onto Meilani and Liam, its clicking sound only intensifying by the second. He had been the last man — er, Dread Doctor — standing when Meilani and Liam had rushed back into the cabin after separating from Gerard and Chris. Meilani's only rational thought was to drag the final one to Deaton and see if he couldn't figure out what to do with the Dread Doctor. Maybe they could even get some sort of answers out of the thing if they could.

When Meilani and Liam showed up to the animal clinic, Stiles, Scott and Isaac had all been stood inside with Deaton. The four all hovered over a file that rested in Deaton's hands, but all their attention snapped to Meilani and Liam when they had arrived with the weakening Dread Doctor in their grips. Naturally, none of them looked surprised that the visual was even happening and helped Meilani and Liam get the Dread Doctor onto the metal examination table while Deaton grabbed his tools to try and check the being out.

"Can you keep him alive?" Meilani inquired, eyes bouncing between the Dread Doctor and Deaton who stood across the table from her and Liam.

"I'm not sure he's even technically alive."

"Screw getting him to talk," Liam scoffed, leaning his hands on the table as his eyes narrowed down at the Dread Doctor. His jaw worked and Meilani could still smell the anger and resentment circulating around Liam after what they both had just witnessed happen to Mason. "How do we get him to talk?"

Stiles scrunched up his nose and crossed his arms across his chest, pointing a finger in Liam's direction. "Personally, I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough," he commented, shrugging lazily when Meilani shot him a warning look. "What? Babe, the fucking thing has tortured enough innocent lives. Might as well give him a taste of his own damn medicine."

A voice suddenly cut across the room, a light hint of a French accent coated on the words. Meilani and Liams' heads both snapped up when the voice beckoned for the Dread Doctor to go to whoever's voice it was that penetrated through the air. Within seconds, the Dread Doctor sat up straight on the table as the room around them began to shake and a high-pitched screech erupted in the room. It caused the occupants to all clutch their hands to their heads with loud groans as the sound reverberated around in their skulls. 

Liam's eyes flashed golden when the Dread Doctor stood up and began to make its way towards the exit of the examination room. A loud roar burst from Liam's lips before he took steps forward to try and stop the Dread Doctor from going anywhere, much to Meilani's protests for her beta to stop what he was doing before he got hurt. Which, as suspected, the Dread Doctor turned in the archway of the room and lifted its hand, a bolt of blue electricity shooting out of its gloved hand and slamming into Liam's chest. The force sent Liam soaring back across the room and crashing into the cabinets above the sink before he crashed unceremoniously to the ground with a grunt of pain.

Meilani felt the floor shake before she grabbed Isaac and Stiles back by the back of their hoods while Deaton grabbed the back of Scott's, hauling them away just before all the metal in the room flew and blocked the archway that lead out of the examination room. Her grip slowly loosened once she was sure that nothing else was going to fly and smoothed out both of her boys' sweaters before them before her gaze drifted back to the mess that now blocked their only exit.

"Wait," Deaton called out just as Meilani and Liam both went to step forward and try to unblock their path. His finger pointed along the blockade as spurts of electricity sparked every now and then. "It's electrified."

Meilani tentatively took a step back, tapping Liam's shoulder to do the same just as she heard the same voice sound from outside. It appeared that Liam and Isaac picked up on it as well as all three wolves listened intently to the conversation outside. Apparently, the Dread Doctor's name had been Marcel, which had been the name of Sebastien's friend from the story that Lydia had told the pack about and Meilani wanted to assume the French accented voice was Sebastien — the Beast. Sebastien had demanded for Marcel to tell him where the pike was — the same pike that was supposed to have killed Sebastien hundreds of years ago — and Marcel had mentioned that it was in the Argent's possession.

"The cane," Meilani whispered, glancing between Isaac and Liam since they were the only two that had heard the conversation with her. "But they . . . they took the cane."

It was hours before they could move the furniture back around the clinic and the sun had slowly begun to come up outside as the group had finished up placing everything back where it had originally belonged. They now stood around the metal examination table with Mason's table placed on it as Meilani leafed through all the documents that laid neatly inside with pursed lips.

"Maybe there's something in here. Something about how Mason was a genetic chimera," Meilani muttered, eyes trailing along every bit of information she could.

"Mason had a vanishing twin," Deaton explained to Liam and Meilani, the other three boys nodding along as if they had already known this information. It would explain why the three boys had been there at the clinic when Meilani and Liam showed up in the first place the night prior.

"Now we got a vanishing Mason," Isaac sighed, rubbing a hand over his face.

"What does that have to do with him turning into a two hundred and fifty year old French guy?" Liam asked, furrowing his eyebrows as his brain tried to process how any of this was occurring in the first place. "How does that even happen?"

Deaton held up his finger for everyone to quiet down before he pointed it in Meilani's direction. "Hold on, Meilani might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone. That's what made him a genetic chimera. Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well. Life is energy. Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural world but there are some rules that simply won't break."

Liam licked his lips, processing Deaton's words for a silent beat of a moment. "So Mason can't just be gone?"

Deaton nodded his head to signify that Liam was correct. "Somewhere in Sebastien he has to still exist in some form. A spark of energy, a flicker of memory."

Stiles gently lifted the Dread Doctor mask that the group had found outside in the parking lot and figured that Marcel had left it behind after confronting Sebastien outside. He twisted it this way and that as he inspected it. "Hang on . . . Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned."

"He said . . . that's not my name."

"He finally remembered his name," Scott noted, earning the gazes of everyone in the room. "Damnatio Memoriae. That's what they wanted, right? They wanted Sebastien to remember his name."

Deaton braced his hands on the metal examination table and focused his gaze on Meilani who raised her eyebrows at the sudden focus on her. "Meilani, you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?"

Meilani blinked as her brain slowly began to piece together where Deaton had been going with his train of thought. "It — it turns back to human. So we need someone to walk up to Sebastien and shout Mason's name."

"Who can do that? Just anyone?" Isaac questioned, not sounding totally convinced this plan could even remotely work.

"Not just anyone . . . " Stiles trailed off, exchanging a look with his girlfriend as they both nodded. "But . . . Lydia."

Sebastien, it seemed, was ready and willing to take down just about anyone that stood in his path. His latest victim had been Lydia when she showed up to the sheriff's station and saved both Noah and Hayden's sister from Sebastien's wrath. He had pierced her neck with his claws just before she let out a banshee scream, sending him flying across the room. 

Thankfully, Lydia was okay and she'd woken up to Stiles and Meilani hovering over her bed while Isaac and Scott sat outside with Liam so he wasn't by himself. She had trouble talking, which was to be expected with the wound that pierced her throat, a thick bandage placed over the wound that still bled a bit, but was overall okay for the moment. Much thanks to Melissa McCall and Meilani was honestly starting to think her mother was some sort of superhero at this point.

Deciding to let Lydia rest a bit, Meilani exited her room and rounded the corner to the waiting area where three sets of eyes snapped up to her. She offered the three boys a small smile, stuffing her hands into her denim jacket pockets as she rocked back on her black converse covered feet. "So . . . Lyds is okay. She just can't really talk given the circumstances, of course."

"Then it's over, isn't it?" Liam asked, his voice cracking with raw emotion as his blue eyes shined with unshed tears. It was no secret that Liam struggled with the fact that Mason was trapped somewhere inside of Sebastien and it vaguely reminded Meilani of when Stiles was trapped with Void. She inwardly flinched at the memories of a year ago and forced herself back to their current nightmare. "There's nothing we can do to save Mason."

Meilani's phone buzzing in the back pocket of her tight army pants alerted her and she whipped it out to see two voicemails from Kira to which she furrowed her eyebrows at them. She excused herself for a moment and stepped away to listen to the two voicemails that flashed across her screen, both of them timestamped a mere half hour apart. She pressed the phone to her ear as the two voicemails played back to the back. In the first one, Kira did her usual rambling of nonsense before it was cut off and then it lead into the next one where she told Meilani she had to leave, but she'd be back to help. She'd told Meilani to tell Scott she was sorry that she hadn't called him instead, but Kira figured Meilani was the one that needed to know what was going on with their current nightmare and she tried to be positive, saying that if anyone could save Mason that it would be them.

Feeling a sudden sense of determination course through her after Kira's words, she locked her phone and stuffed it back into her back pocket and walked back over to the boys. "The lot of you, get up. I've got an idea because this thing isn't over. Not yet." 

Turning on her heel, Meilani made her way to Lydia's room again while yelling to her mother that she needed her with a shot when the woman went to pass her by, quickly rambling off her plan to her mother. She waltzed into Lydia's room with the three boys trailing behind her and motioned for Stiles to help her sit Lydia up while Melissa scurried in behind all of the wolves and her son.

"Okay, Lydia, this has to stay between us or I can get fired. It's a cortisone shot and it'll bring the inflammation down," Melissa explained to the strawberry blonde, removing the cap from the needle and walking over to Lydia's bedside.

Lydia nodded silently and slowly flipped her right wrist over while Meilani took Lydia's left hand into hers with a small smile, giving it a squeeze to let the strawberry blonde know she's there for her. However, her wrist wasn't what Melissa needed and Melissa gently peeled back the bandage over Lydia's wound, still earning a small whimper of pain from the Martin girl when she did so. 

"I — okay . . . yeah. I'm gonna need to leave," Stiles breathed out when he took notice of the needle in Melissa's hand, turning to exit but was stopped by Liam and Isaac who spun him back around before he could go anywhere.

"You're not going anywhere," Melissa scolded Stiles, shooting him a pointed look. However, it wasn't even Stiles they needed to worry about going anywhere when Liam fainted after seeing Melissa place the needle into Lydia's wound. 

Isaac threw his head back with an annoyed huff and crouched down to snap Liam back into consciousness while Melissa finished placing the contents of the syringe into Lydia's wound. Thankfully Meilani was a werewolf or she was sure her hand would have been broken from the sheer amount of force Lydia put into her grip while the needle rested inside. 

Once Lydia was ready and dressed back into her street clothes again, the pack moved her from the room while Meilani kept a grip around her waist to help her walk as she stumbled a bit. Stiles and Scott broke off from the pack to go and find Malia so she could help them out with the next part of the plan with the small package that Meilani made to help Malia get rid of her mother. It was her first plan in the first place, but she didn't think to execute until now. 

She just hoped it worked just like she hoped her current plan for the Beast worked. They couldn't handle anymore casualties, especially not when the casualty would be Mason. Meilani would never forgive herself.

"Meilani! You hear that?"

Meilani froze in her running through the tunnels that she had become so accustomed to by this point and turned to face Isaac, Theo and Lydia. All three of their heads drifted up to look around the tunnels as all of them heard the same thing. Meilani took a second to focus on what they were listening to and noticed a low hum had taken over the tunnels, furrowing her eyebrows at the sound.

Liam's foot splashed into a small puddle of water and his eyes widened when he realized that the water took up more than just the small space beneath his feet. He was quick to move Lydia out of the way of danger just before an electric shock went through the water and shocked the three wolves that still stood in the water. They choked out groans as they all dropped to the wet ground while Lydia was grabbed by none other than Theo before she was shoved in the direction of the hole in the ground.

However, before Lydia could fall, Meilani shot her hand out and gripped tight to the strawberry's blonde wrist to stop her from plummeting to her death. She felt a weight press to her back before claws plunged into her side and she cried out in agony as Theo twisted his claws, trying to get Meilani to let go of Lydia's wrist and let her fall. This time, however, it felt different as she could feel her body start to grow numb.

Theo's lips brushed along her ear and she shuddered, feeling her hand slowly start to lose feeling. "You feel that, Meilani? Kanima venom. Just let it happen, sweetheart. Let her go. Let everything go."

"No, no, no," Meilani cried as her hand began to loosen around Lydia's wrist. Just before her hand finally lost its feeling her and Lydia shared the same terror, watery eyed look. A choked sob escaped Meilani's lips when Lydia was finally released and her cheek fell to the pavement now that her body was fully paralyzed.

Theo slowly pulled his claws from her side and pushed up to his feet, purposely kicking Isaac in the side as he stepped over him with a twisted smirk. He tilted his head as a deafening roar echoed off the walls of the tunnel and he glanced over his shoulder to Meilani who glared up at him from her paralyzed state on the floor. "You hear that, Meilani? That's the sound of real power?"

In a flash, Theo was gone and was soon followed by the sound of a tapping sound that sounded a lot like Deucalion's walking stick. Not like he needed it anymore now that he could see, not that Theo knew that. His eyes flicked from their fake, blinded side to his usual blue and he clutched to the back of Meilani's jacket, hauling her to her feet as the feeling finally came back to her. Isaac and Liam slowly followed in her steps and they all turned to face the man they never thought they'd ally with, but here they were doing just that.

"Meilani McCall, it is quite enjoyable to see a plan of yours work. Usually it is your little boyfriend that has the working plans," Deucalion quipped in amusement, listening to the sounds of Theo fight off the Beast from a few tunnels away.

Meilani shrugged nonchalantly, a small smirk gracing her face as she realized that he was right. Theo had been successfully tricked into thinking that the Kanima venom would stick around this time on her much like she'd suspected. The claws that Theo used clearly were not his and Meilani knew that they wouldn't last. She could hear Lydia's perfectly fine heartbeat from down below and knew that she was also safe with Kira — or at least she hoped it was Kira, who Meilani had called back instantly to see if she was around still to help them out with her plan. "What can I say? Stiles seems to rub off on me more than I'd like to admit. It's quite enjoyable to see that you're on my side for once. Last time we were face to face, you tried to kill me."

"Funny how things turn out, huh?" Deucalion agreed before flicking his eyes back to his "blind" ones and walked his way towards where the sounds of Theo's struggle had been heard. 

Theo had been laid out on his side, panting in pain when the group advanced towards him and Meilani shot him a triumphant smirk when she realized that Theo had clearly lost against the Beast. She crossed her arms along her chest while Deucalion squatted before the chimera, flicking his eyes back to his normal ones and mirrored Meilani's smirk to him. It sent such triumph through Meilani when Theo realized he had been played and beat at his own game.

"You lied to me," Theo growled in anger, hand pressing to his side as he tried to push himself to sit up. "They wouldn't have worked.

"Mmm, no. It could have worked," Deucalion corrected, leaning on his walking stick as he tilted his head at Theo. "With Belasko's talons." 

Without giving Theo a chance to reply, he snapped Theo's neck and effectively broke it. The boy whimpered and laid paralyzed on the floor as his body shook with the newly added amount of pain. "You — you broke my neck!"

"Why, yes. Good luck with that," Deucalion remarked and pushed himself back up to his feet, turning to Meilani, Isaac and Liam. "There is an access grate that leads to the sublevel. I think we can find Lydia there."

"What about Mason?" Liam asked, hope shining in his tone for a brief moment.

Deucalion gave a curt nod to his words. "We can still save your friend."

Meilani turned to lead the way towards the grate that Deucalion spoke about when a gun shot suddenly went off. She whipped around to see Deucalion stumble back into the wall behind him with a newly added gun shot wound to his body and her eyes snapped to the left when she heard two sets of feet enter the corridor of tunnels she stood in.

"This is a surprising alliance you got going on here, Meilani," Gerard taunted, still gripping tight to the gun that he just used to shoot Deucalion as he stalked forward with Chris right behind him. "You and Deucalion? How long have you been planning this clever little double cross?"

"About as long as she and I have been planning this one," Chris stepped in and tossed Meilani the cane that held the pike that could kill Sebastien.

"What are you doing?" Gerard demanded of his son, eyes wide as they bounced between Meilani and Chris.

"I knew when I brought you back, it would never be about saving lives. Only about immortalizing your own," Chris explained, pulling up his own gun at his father at the same time Gerard pointed his gun at Chris. He barely even blinked at the motion and jerked his head. "Meilani, go. Now."

Meilani gripped tight to the cane in her hand and tugged Isaac and Liam after her so they could finish this thing off once and for all. 

"Meilani," Liam called, halting Meilani in her steps yet again and causing her to turn around and face him. "I'll do it. It should be me. If you get me close enough, I'll do it."

Meilani tossed the cane into her other hand when Liam went out to grab it from her hands, shaking her head sternly at him. "Liam, we are not killing your best friend here."

Before Liam could open his mouth to argue with his alpha, another voice echoed through the tunnels as the speaker approached them. All three wolves snapped their heads ahead to see Sebastien slowly stroll towards them, eyes fixated on the cane in Meilani's hand that he claimed belonged to him. 

"It's a family heirloom," Sebastien continued when no one made a move to respond to him in any way other than dark glares. "I would like it back please."

"It's all yours. Just give us Mason," Meilani bartered, her grip tightening more on the cane in her hand as she kept it behind her back and away from the Beast stood before her.

Sebastien scrunched his nose up as if he were apologetic, but the three wolves knew he was anything but that. "Unfortunately, I would not know where to begin. While I've benefited from his memories, I don't have much use for an alter ego."

Meilani exchanged a look with her beta and best friend, all three having the same thought as they knew this was where the plan was gonna head. They all shifted at the same time and let out a chorus of growls at the Beast. "You want it, hot shot? Come pry it from cold and dead hands."

Naturally, Sebastien shifted in an instant and the three wolves all leapt at him to attack. Even with their three bodies, they struggled against his size and strength. Especially when the Beast slammed its massive fists down on the concrete and sent the three wolves soaring back. The Beast advanced on Meilani who was closest to him and hauled her up by her throat, his massive claw quickly being replaced by Sebastien's human hand. He continued to hold the struggling true alpha in the air as he examined her.

"Hm, you're strong, darling. There's not a doubt in that, but not a single one of you fight with a killer instinct. Let me show you how to go for the throat," Sebastien taunted, suddenly clenching his hand tighter around Meilani's throat and causing it to crack a bit from the force he used. 

Meilani gripped to his hand as she continued to try and fight out of it, until she heard the pike being unsheathed from the cane and saw Liam stood up with the pike raised as if to stab through Sebastien. Her eyes widened and she shook her head the best she could while Isaac held back the growling beta. "Liam, wait, no! We can still save Mason."

"Then who is going to save you?" Liam panted, not bothering to struggle against Isaac as his wide eyes focused on Meilani.

"What kind of werewolves are you?" Sebastien laughed in disbelief, eyes bouncing between the three wolves. 

Before Meilani or Isaac could stop Liam, he burst from Isaac's grip suddenly and charged at Sebastien with the pike raised high. As he brought his hand down to stab it through the French man, he was blocked by Sebastien who still held tightly to Meilani. He sent Liam soaring backwards, pushing Meilani to her knees before him and only tightened his grip more around her throat as she choked on her air while Isaac did the same even though there was no hand wrapped around his throat. Though, one might as well have thanks to the connection between him and Meilani. 

Sebastien moved his claws to plunge deep into her neck, the flash of her memories showing behind her own eyes as they did behind Sebastien's. However, they all revolved around Allison it seemed once Sebastien had focused in on her face. He blinked his eyes rapidly as more and more of Meilani's memories with Allison showcased themselves and he quickly ripped his claws from her neck to stare down at Meilani in bewilderment.

"Marie-Jeanne?"

Meilani collapsed to the side now that his claws were gone from her and Isaac quickly rushed to her, catching her before she could fully hit the ground. He pressed the sleeve of his jacket to the wound in her neck that already started to heal on its own just as the two sets of footsteps could be heard approaching. The four occupants of the small space glanced over to see Lydia and Kira skid to a stop in the mouth of the tunnel and Meilani sighed in relief that Kira was able to get to Lydia.

"Mason!" Lydia yelled, earning herself a growl from Sebastien who started to stalk towards her and Kira.

"Lydia, I think you're gonna need to try it a little louder."

Sebastien slowly shifted to the Beast as his steps only hurried and Lydia sucked in a deep air of breath, shouting Mason's name in her banshee scream. It took a moment but Sebastien stumbled, collapsing to his knees just seconds before Mason burst through the shadowy depths of the Beast, right into Corey's arms who materialized from the walls of the tunnel. The shadow of the Beast let out a high-pitched scream before it zipped around the corner, only to be caught by Parrish who shouted for Meilani.

Meilani quickly picked up the pike and rushed around the corner, chucking the thing at the Beast where it stuck right into its chest. The Beast began to glow a bright blue where it had been impaled and let out a final screech before it evaporated in Parrish's fiery arms. She let out a breath when everything around them settled and she focused her attention to her pack around her, seeing everyone appeared okay. "You guys okay, right?"

"Not everyone."

Meilani blinked and whirred around to see Theo stood at the other end of the tunnel, electricity flickering along his body and he stood tall as if Deucalion never snapped his neck in the first place. He thrusted his hand forward to shoot an electric beam at Meilani with a dark gaze on his face, but it was effectively blocked by Kira and her katana. 

Kira's eyes flashed golden as she stood protectively in front of her best friend, not showing any signs of backing down. "The skinwalkers have a message for you, Theo. Your sister wants to see you." She flipped the katana around when Theo suddenly stopped and dropped his hand, a paleness taking over his skin. Raising her hands above her head, Kira then swiftly slammed the katana into the concrete below, a crack forming in the floor where blue energy seemed to shine out of it. 

A hole opened up right next to Theo's feet and a hand slapped out of it. Almost like a scene out of The Ring, Meilani and the pack watched with wide eyes as a girl with dripping dark hair popped out of the hole and glared up at Theo, some of her wet hair clinging to her face and blocking off parts of her eyes. A gray cardigan cling to her wet body and it dripped water as her hand shot out, gripping Theo's leg and tugging him down.

"Meilani, help me!" Theo cried out, clawing at the ground as he tried to escape from his sister's tight clutches. Though, this did nothing as he only slid more and more into the hole that the Raeken female popped out of. "Meilani, help me! Meilani! Help!"

Meilani didn't so much as move as she watched Theo continue to struggle. Just before he disappeared from sight, she raised her hand and wiggled her fingers mockingly at the boy. A wicked smirk took over own face as the Raeken female effectively tugged her brother into the hole and out of sight for what the pack hoped was forever.

Finally . . . it was over.

If Meilani could count on anything, it was her friends — her pack — that helped make everything better. In the days following defeating both the Beast and Theo Raeken, a sense of peace seemed to take over the pack. Everyone had somehow shifted back to how things were as if nothing that had happened in the past few weeks had ever happened in the first place. Or at least, mostly everyone as Kira had gone to the skinwalkers after making a deal with them to train with them if they had helped her and the pack defeat the Beast and Theo Raeken. Then Malia had disappeared to have time to herself after, finally, defeating her mother who had nearly killed Stiles. Something that Stiles had reluctantly told his girlfriend about, but did anyways to go along with their new rule of never lying to each other again and making sure to tell everyone everything.

They all still met up for lunch every day. They all went back to revising together for their tests and doing homework. Well, Meilani and Lydia did homework while Stiles and Isaac bickered with each other over random shit while Scott groaned and threw his head back. It was bickering that Meilani effectively ignored as she and Lydia buried their heads into their books to try and get whatever homework they had done so they could have nothing to do later on in the day when school ended.

Even her and Stiles flowed right back into each other as if nothing had ever happened between them. She found herself mostly staying at his house again to make up for lost time, enjoying the morning kisses she'd get from him each morning and the never ending cuddles he offered to her whenever they were alone in his bed together. He kissed her just about every chance he got, especially if it was in front of Isaac to piss him off. To say Isaac said many annoyed things through the mind link between him and Meilani would be an understatement. However, it made Meilani laugh and, honestly, that was all Isaac could strive for at this point.

"Has some retreated into their head again?"

Meilani snapped out of her daze and glanced over to Stiles who laid next to her on the hood of Roscoe. The two had parked up on the cliff in the reserve as they laid out underneath the stars, enjoying some peace and quiet between themselves. It was something that Meilani loved, pointing out each and every constellation for her boyfriend who listened intently as she did so. Meilani had always been a sucker for both astrology and greek mythology, always flowing between both topics whenever they glanced up at the beauty that was the sky lights. 

"I — sorry," Meilani sheepishly replied, giggling softly when Stiles brought her closer into his side and kissed her forehead. "Just thinking 'bout how everything finally settled back into place. Everyone's together . . . or, at least, everyone's friends again. The pack is back to how it should be."

"You did it, baby," Stiles praised, hand rubbing up and down her arm soothingly with a proud grin. "You got everyone to come back together after we fell apart. You're the glue that holds this pack together and no one could have a better alpha than you. Though, I'm sure that Derek would still like to fight for the top spot if he were here."

Meilani snorted and placed her chin on Stiles' chest so she could look up into his dazzling hazel eyes, that looked absolutely beautiful underneath the twinkling stars above. She could almost see the constellations in his eyes and her heart swelled with so much love and adoration that it nearly knocked her over. "Would work out if he was still alpha. He'd be no match for me, though."

"Oh, of course not, baby. You'd kick his ass right back to wherever it is he's  been hiding himself out in the past few months," Stiles mused, tucking her curled hair behind her ear. "I love you."

"I love you, too," Meilani whispered adoringly, leaning forward to capture Stiles' lips softly with her own and relaxed against him as her body filled with warmth and relaxation. As if nothing could ever harm her or bother her again. Perks of being in love with your soulmate, she guessed. Something she'd never trade for the world. "Can you believe we'll be graduating in a few months?"

"No, and I'd rather not think about how we're gonna be miles apart. So let's not talk about it," Stiles replied with a small huff, hold only tightening on her as if he didn't want to let her go. Like she'd suddenly disappear if he let her go for even a second. "Who knew we'd even make it to this point? I'm proud of us. Part of me was scared that the Theo thing would separate the pack like my insecurities thought. Now we're all together and, for the moment, it's like we're normal teenagers again."

Meilani flashed her boyfriend a pearly white smile, brushing her lips softly against his and humming in content when he kissed her back. If she could live in this moment forever with him, she truly would. She had no idea where she'd be without Stiles Stilinski and she couldn't be more grateful to have him in her life. 

"It's funny how fast the night changes, huh?"

𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄

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— i'm honestly not over the fact that NIGHT CHANGES is over, ya'll. i just . . . cannot fathom that yet another book is done. season 5 is officially done and we can move onto the sixth and final book for this series which is named REMEMBERING US and it's already posted on my profile !!! so go give it some love because we'll be starting her up soon.

— i just wanted to say thank you all for giving meilani marie mccall all the love she deserves. i love reading your comments on each chapter and reacting to everything and seeing your theories on what will happen next. it's crazy to think i started this in 2017/2018 and now we're about to come up to the final chapter of meilani's story. it's gonna be a wild ride and i'm both ready and not !!!