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During the bus ride, I sleep in Scott's arms:


I'm in the loft. It's empty and Derek isn't there. I turn and look back to see Derek sleeping in his bed. His wounds are healed but he isn't alone. There is a brunnete next to him. I feel my hair and know it I not me. I look closer and gasp. 'Ms. Blake.'


I start to back up and shake my head. 'This isn't happening.'


I snap awake and I'm still on the bus. It's dark outside and everyone on the bus is asleep, including Scott, Stiles, Allison and Lydia. I sigh and try to go back to sleep. As soon as we get back, I immediately drive to the loft. I get to the door, and as I'm going in, Ms. Blake is coming out. She smiles at me and keeps walking. Derek is coming out. "Hey, Scarlett."


He puts a hand on my shoulder. I grab it and push it off. As soon as I touch his hand, something flashes through my head:


'I've been hurt before.'


'Not like this.'


She kissed him. My English teacher kissed Derek.


I snap back and Derek is starting at me with concern. "Are you okay?"


I shake my head and start to back up. "You led me to believe you were dead and you go and sleep my English teacher. How could you Derek?"


I turn to leave but he grabs my wrist. "Don't go. Just l-"


"Why? Why Derek? Give me one good reason why shouldn't walk away right now." He doesn't answer. I snatch away my wrist. I'm already in tears. "All the bad things people said about you. I ignored when I should have listened. I thought I could see the good in you but, when I look into your eyes, I see no emotion."


"Scarlett, I-"


"Just give me a reason of why I should stay."


He just looks down. I walk out and get home. Scott is knocked out in bed. I climb up into mine. I get under my cover and find it hard to sleep. What if I did stay? The next night, Scott and I go to the hospital to bring takeout for our mother. When we walk in, there is thousands of patients that need immediate medical attention. "Half the accident victims from a 10 car pileup have been rerouted from downtown to BHMH and the ER Attending Physician seems to be missing and isn't answering any of his pages," my mom explains.


While they are talking, a woman with blood on her face asks for pain meds. My mom explains that giving her something without first examining her could do more harm than good. Scott sits down next to the hurting woman and I sit on the other side of her. He explains that he read online that human contact can help alleviate pain. He touches her hand and I can see the veins of his arm fill with a black liquid as he draws the pain out of her. The woman's face eases and she smiles. I jump as I hear Ethan, who's screaming for help, as he supports an obviously unwell Danny. Ethan explains that Danny began having trouble breathing and chest pains that just kept getting worse.


"I think he's suffering from Tension Pneumothorax," she says.


"What?" Ethan ask.


"When the lung is punctured and air escapes into the chest cavity causing a pressure build up against the heart and difficulty breathing," I explain.


Danny then vomits on the floor. I cough and look away. I look back and I seems a bunch of Mistletoe berries and leafy greens in the mess. Fearing he might die due to the lack of a doctor, my mom takes out a large syringe. Danny stops breathing and she jabs the syringe into his left pectoral in what appears to be a procedure called a 'needle thoracostomy'. Once inserted, the needle has a valve that is opened to allow the air to escape and relieve the pressure in his chest. Danny begins to breathe normally. Danny gasps out, "Thank you."


"That was.....awesome!" me and my brother exclaim, high fiving each other.


My mom smiles. "It was no big deal."


Me, Scott and Ethan exit the hospital. "I didn't do anything to Danny," he defends.


"The minute you two got here, you went right for Danny," Scott points out.


"While your brother went for Lydia," I add.


"I won't hurt him. We knew one of them, Danny or Lydia, would be important to you two. Now we figured out that that person is Lydia."


"Woah, Danny means just as much to me as Lydia does," I say.


My vision flashes again:


There are thousands of moths surrounding me, some crawling on my skin. I swat the away as much as I can but it seems like they're multiplying. One glow off my eyes and they scatter. I'm back in the parking lot but it's empty and abandoned. I walk a little out ad see a figure in the distant. The back of its head is white and bald. Before I can investigate more, I feel the sharpest pain ever shoot through my body.


I'm back in actual reality. I look up to see a car coming right toward me. This is the first time an accident is about to happen and nothing is slowing down. "Scarlett!"


Ethan tackles me to the ground and out the way. The car slams into the back of another one. There is no one inside but Scott finds a single moth on the driver's seat. I look at the moth and feel sick. I stumble back a bit and fall on my hands and knees. "Hey, Scar, you okay?" Ethan asks.


Before I can respond, my stomach contracts so violently that I have no time to reach for a bag, bucket or run to the bathroom. Chunks of food covers in the creamy chyme from my stomach splatters on the floor. I heave and, once more, the ground was sprayed. I retched until only clear liquid is coming up. My throat feels sore from the stomach acid that is layering it and her mouth taste like vomit. Scott waits before he tries to pick me up. But, I don't let him. I do let him get me a mint and ginger ale. While Sheriff Stilinski takes my mom's statement about the two missing doctors, Stiles and Scott work out that these latest disappearances are definitely part of the Darach sacrifices. Stiles remembers something. "Deaton mentioned healers as one of the groups of three that might be targets."


We are confused as to why Danny was fed mistletoe since it doesn't fit the pattern. Scott listens in on the sheriff's phone conversation and learns they've found another body. Isaac and Scott decide to watch over me and my mom to make sure she isn't the next sacrifice. I sleep next to her in her bed. When I wake up, the two are sleep. I look over at my mom who was shaking her head at them. "What are you boys doing?" she says.


They jump up at attention. "We were making sure you weren't the next healer sacrifice," Scott replies.


"But you two were sleep, " I say.


Scott makes a thinking face then looks at Isaac. "You were on watch last."


"What are you talking about? You were on watch last."


"No, you were on watch last."


Isaac pauses for a second then looks at my mom. "I might have been on watch last."


I'm getting dressed when I look over to see Isaac and Scott standing in the doorway. "Um...is there something I can do for you two?"


They exchange some looks then holds out a small piece of paper. I slowly take it and straighten it. In big black bold letters, it read, 'WARRIOR'. "Where did you find this?"


"On your motorcycle," Isaac replies.


"So what?"


Scott sighs. "Scar, I think you should stick close to me or Derek for a while. That could mean you're apart of these sacrifices."


"Scott, I'm not a warrior."


"Well, you kind of are," Isaac replies. "You stepped in when I was fighting with the twins."


"And you kept fighting with the Alpha pack, even when you were injured beyond repair, just so that you could save us."


"You also went out of your way to find Stiles when he went missing and when Derek got shot by Kate with wolfsbane."


"You always put everyone's needs before yours."


"You threw yourself in front of a moving car to save the sheriff."


I throw the paper on my bed. "I get it! All those things make me a friend but not a warrior. Whoever is doing these sacrifices are just trying to scare us and get us off tracks. I'll be fine."


I grab my book bag and throw it over my shoulder. I tuck my phone in my pocket and push past them. At school, Boyd and Isaac explain that the Alphas are going come for Derek tonight. I'm reading a book at a lunch table. "I don't care," I say without looking from the pages. "Derek has crossed the line with my English teacher. So, if he wants help, he can call her."


"Please," Boyd pleads. "Come on, Scott told us about you being potentially being apart of the sacrifices. While you're with us, you'll be safe."


I look up and they are looking at me with all anticipation. I sigh and slam my book close. "Fine but you both owe me."


We fake a sickness to get out of school. We go over to the loft and see Derek sitting on his spiral stairs. "Why aren't you three in school?"


"Boyd and I are incredibly and unbelievably sick," Isaac explains.


"With what, brain damage?"


"Well, I have a migraine. And, uh, Boyd here has explosive diarrhea."


Derek looks at me, waiting for answer. "Your pack wanted my help. They dragged me out of school."


"Why?"


"If there's anything Scar knows, it's electricity. We're here to protect you," Boyd says.


"You're here to protect me? Well, I'm in trouble than."


I roll my eyes and turn to leave. "I'm out."


Isaac stands in my way. "Please? Just ignore him."


"Okay, in a pool of electrified water, it would take up to 50 milliamps to kill a normal human. That is less than the power it takes to turn on a light bulb," I explain. "So, we disable the circuit interrupter in the building's electrical room so that the current will keep flowing through the flooded loft."


"Sounds good," Boyd says.


"I have no idea what you just said," Isaac says.


I laugh. I grab him by the shirt and kiss his cheek. "Don't worry about it. Just get the hose."


We use a hose to fill the entire floor with water. Boyd throws the switch and electrifies the flooded floor of Derek's loft. "Will this trap kill the Alphas?" Isaac wonders aloud.


"I hope it will," Boyd replies.


We wait in our trap when Isaac notices the intruder alert light is not on. Derek realizes that the auxiliary power has been cut. Boyd mentions the main power, which powers the trap, just as the lights go out. Figuring the power is now off and the flooded floor is harmless, Derek steps out into the water and prepares to fight the Alphas he knows are on their way. Kali forces the door open and offers a short speech about her thought process. "When Ennis died, I initially thought to simply find Derek and kill him where he stood but then I remembered how you surround yourself with teenagers, hiding behind them."


She wondered what she would have to do to get him alone and decided that kidnapping and threatening Ms. Blake might work. Kali says that the fight will be between she and Derek with no interference or the twins will tear Jennifer apart. Derek sends me, Isaac and Boyd away and faces Kali one on one. Derek promises her that he will rip her throat out with his teeth. I get a text from Scott that he found out Deaton was being held at a bank. I rush out to meet him there. Ethan grabs me and holds me by my arm. I start to fight but his grip only tightens. Isaac rushes to protect Ms. Blake, while Boyd is thrown into the fray by the surging current. Kali and Derek both go down from the shock. Kali is the first to recover and orders the twins to grab Derek and hold him with his hands cupped while she lifts Boyd up and drops him onto Derek's claws.


Boyd is impaled on Derek's claws, Derek's eyes glow a bit brighter red and Boyd gasps in pain. "No!" I scream, tears quickly flowing down my face. "Boyd!"


I go to step in the water but Isaac holds me. As she exits, Kali gives Derek an ultimatum. "Join the Alpha Pack by the next full moon or I will kill all of your pack next time."


Kali glances at me with a smirk and struts out. As the twins follow her out, Ethan seems slightly remorseful. Derek applies pressure to Boyd's wounds trying in vain to stop the bleeding. I kneel down and press my hand on his wound. I'm crying and trying to focus on healing him. Nothing is happening. I press harder, tears coming faster. "Boyd, I can't heal you. Why!?"


He tries to smile. "It's okay, Scar. It's okay." Derek apologizes but Boyd, again, says it's okay. "The full moon. That feeling... that was worth it. There's a lunar eclipse. I always wondered what... what that felt like for one of us. For one of us..."


Just before his death, Boyd remembers Erica talking about what might happen to werewolves during a lunar eclipse. Boyd dies. Stiles and Cora rush in. Derek seems stunned. His hands are shaking. Cora runs to Boyd weeping while Stiles places his hand on Derek's shoulder to comfort him. Lydia, Isaac and Jennifer can only watch in shock.

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