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Chapter Twenty-Five
⊚ Tattoo ⊚

"Boy, it's a good thing you drew me a picture..." A tattoo artist said as he looked at a poorly drawn picture of two lines, one thicker than the other. "Hey, Scott! You sure you don't want something like this?" Stiles asked as he held up a drawing of a large lizard monster making Scott give him a look. "Too soon?" Stiles asked before nodding slightly, "Yeah..." He said. 

"You think dad would get mad if I got a tattoo?" Sawyer asked as she flipped through a tattoo book, "Probably." Stiles said before looking over at Scott. "I don't know, man. Are you sure about this? I mean, these things are pretty permanent, you know?" Stiles asked and Scott shook his head slightly, "I'm not changing my mind." He said. "Awesome, but why two bands?" Sawyer asked and Scott shrugged slightly, "I just like it." He said. 

"But don't you think your first tattoo should have some sort of meaning? You know, or something?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded slightly, "Getting a tattoo means something." He said and Stiles raised his eyebrows. "I don't think that's-" He started to say but the tattoo artist cut him off, "He's right. Tattooing goes back thousands of years. The Tahitian word tatua means 'to leave a mark,' like a rite of passage." He said. 

"Yeah, see? He gets it!" He said and Stiles scoffed, "He's covered in tattoos, Scott-literally." Stiles said and Sawyer shrugged slightly. "He looks cooler than you." Sawyer said, making her brother give her a look as the tattoo artist turned to Scott. "Okay, you ready?" He asked and Scott took a deep breath and nodded, "You ain't got any problems with needles, do you?" He asked and Scott shook his head. 

"Nope." He said and the guy nodded before turning on the tattoo machine, "I tend to get a little squeamish, though, so..." Stiles said as the guy started the tattoo. Scott cringed in pain before all of the sudden Stiles fell to the ground. Sawyer looked at her brother for a moment before pulling out some eyeliner and walking over to him. 

A little while later, the three climbed into the jeep and Scott looked down at his bandaged arm. "You okay?" Stiles asked and Scott furrowed his brow, "Kinda burns..." He said and Stiles nodded as he held an ice pack to his head, smudged eyeliner on his cheek from when he tried to wash off whatever Sawyer drew on him. 

"Yes, you just had your skin stabbed about one hundred thousand times with a needle..." Stiles said and Scott shook his head slightly, "Yeah, but I don't think it's supposed to feel like this." He said and Scott jumped and groaned in pain. 

"Oh, God... No, it's definitely not supposed to feel like this! Oh, I gotta take this thing off!" He said and Stiles shook his head, "No, no, no, no, Scott! Oh, Scott, please stop!" Stiles said, cringing as Scott took off the bandage. There were two black bands around Scott's arm, surrounded by red soreness. 

Slowly, both the tattoo and the redness slowly disappear, "Oh, no! What? No, no, come on!" Scott mumbled as they watched as his arm looked like there was never a tattoo there to begin with. "It healed." Scott said and Stiles sighed, "Aw, thank God. I hated it." He said, making Scott give him a look. 

"Sorry..." Stiles said and Sawyer shrugged slightly, "I liked the tattoo." 

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Reflected in the visor mirror, Allison Argent delicately brushes away an eyelash on her cheek while Lydia drives, "It's not a double-date! It's a group thing." Lydia said, making Allison look at her amused. "Do they know it's a group thing? 'Cause I told you that I'm not ready to get back out there." Allison asked, making Lydia look at her incredulously. 

"You were in France and didn't do any dating for four months?" She asked incredulously and Allison rolled her eyes slightly, "Did you? I mean, after-" Allison asked, quickly trying to get the subject off of her and Lydia cut her off, "Do not say his name." She said. 

"Is he okay? I mean, did everything work out?" Allison asked and Lydia sighed slightly, "Well, the doctors looked like total idiots when he turned up alive, but everyone got over it. And yes, Derek taught him Werewolf 101, like, "How Not to Randomly Kill People During a Full Moon."' Lydia said and Allison nodded slightly. 

"So, then, you've talked to him?" 

"Uh, not since he left for London." Lydia said and Allison chuckled, "You mean since his dad moved him to London." She said and Lydia rolled her eyes and shrugged. "Whatever. He left." She said then scoffed slightly, "And seriously? An American Werewolf in London? Like, that's not gonna be a disaster." 

"So, you're totally over him?" Allison asked and Lydia nodded, "Would I be going on a double date if I wasn't?" Lydia asked, making Allison raise her eyebrows and Lydia sighed. "Yes, it is a double date. It's not an orgy! You'll live." Lydia said and Allison chuckled and shook her head. 

"Nah, we agreed to give each other the summer- no texts, no calls." Scott said as they pulled to a red light, "So, then how do you know she won't be back at school, then?" Sawyer asked, looking over at Scott before her eyes widened when she saw something outside of Scott's window. 

"After everything that happened, I'm not sure she's coming back at all..." Scott said and Sawyer nodded slightly, "I think she is." She said as Stiles noticed as well. "Yeah, I say it's pretty definite you know... Like, one hundred percent..." Stiles said as he and Sawyer kept looking from Scott to the window making Scott look at them confused before following their line of sight.

Allison glanced over at the jeep before both her and Scott's eyes widened as they quickly looked away from each other. "Oh my god- Oh-" Scott panicked as he sank down in his seat. "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I can't see him, not now!" Allison said as she sank down into her seat making Lydia look out the window at a blue jeep. 

"Can we just drive, please? Stiles?" Scott asked, making Stiles glance out at the road, "Scott, it's a red light!" Stiles said. "Lydia, go! Just go!" Allison said, making Lydia look at her then at the red light, "But the light-" She said. "I think we should talk to her. I just think we should say something." Sawyer said before leaning over the front seats to roll down Scott's window. 

"No! No, no, Sawyer! Come on! Oh, my God, dude, no!" Scott panicked as Sawyer rolled down the window, "Hi!" She called out and Lydia quickly drove off, running the red light. "You know, they probably didn't see us." Stiles said as he pursed his lips while Sawyer pouted slightly. 

Stiles waited until the light turned green before starting to drive, making Scott look at him crazy. "What are you doing?" Scott asked and Stiles furrowed his brows, "I'm driving...?" He said. "We're right behind them." Scott said and Sawyer raised her eyebrows, "Where else would we go?" She asked.

"I don't want it to look like we're following them." Scott said, making Stiles glance at him, "Well, what do you want me to do?" Stiles said and Scott shrugged. "I don't know- anything." Scott said and Stiles sighed before pressing down on the brakes before all of the sudden Lydia stopped as well making them furrow their brows. 

All of the sudden they heard screaming coming from the car making them quickly get out and run over as Lydia and Allison climbed out of the car. "Are you okay?" Scott asked as he ran up to Allison while Sawyer ran up to Lydia. "It came out of nowhere!" Lydia said in panic, "Are you hurt?" Sawyer asked worriedly, gently grabbing Lydia's arm. "It ran right into us!" Lydia said completely freaked out. 

"Are you okay?" Scott asked as he gently grabbed Allison's arm and she looked at him for a moment and nodded, "I'm okay." She said and Lydia looked at them all with wide eyes. "Well, I'm not okay! I am totally freaking out! How the hell does it just run into us? I saw its eyes right before it hit us, and it was like it... It was like it was crazy." 

Letting Allison go, Scott cautiously approaches the deer now lying still over the crumpled hood of Lydia's car, "No, it was scared." He said before slowly placing his hand in the deer. 

"Actually, terrified." 

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"You know how many vehicle collisions last year involved deer? Two hundred and forty-seven thousand." Sawyer said, as she read a deer related accidents report while her father stood in her doorway. "Oh, God, please go to school..." Stilinski groaned slightly before looking at Anakin and sighing, "You don't even have Anakin's vest on yet." He said as Sawyer furrowed her brows. 

"But that's crossing the road- this one last night came right down the middle." Sawyer said, as she typed something into the computer, "I'm not gonna beg you." Stilinski said as he walked into the room, making Sawyer nod slightly. "Okay, good. I'm impervious to your influence, anyway." Sawyer said and her father raised his eyebrows, "Would you consider a bribe?" He asked. 

"The only thing I want is a girl dog that I can name Padme so Anakin can have a girlfriend but I already know we don't have the money for that." Sawyer said, "Extortion?" Stilinski asked and Sawyer thought for a moment before shaking her head. "You got nothing on me." She said and he sighed and nodded, "Yeah..." He said before grabbing her chair. 

"Dad, what are you doing?" She asked, as she tried to continue typing but he pulled her chair away from her desk. "Dad!" She said before sighing and sitting back, looking up at her father, "You know I don't have to sit to be able to look at my computer, right?" She asked and Stilinski raised his eyebrows. 

"Would reminding you that today is the first day of school, which means you can finally drive yourself to school in the car you finished fixing last week, get you to go?" He asked and Sawyer stared at him for a moment before quickly getting up. 

She grabbed her bag and ran out of her room, making her father sigh. "Anakin!" He called out, making Sawyer run back in, "Right. Come on!" She said, lightly patting her leg, making Anakin get up before she quickly ran off again. "Vest!" Stilinski called out, making Sawyer run back in again, grabbing Anakin's new Marvel themed service dog vest off her bed then running off again. 

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Sawyer pulled into a parking stop in her 1970 Dodge Challenger, she had finally finished fixing, before getting out. "Nice car." Some said, making Sawyer look over to see Scott sitting on his dirt bike, making her smile, "Nice bike." She said as she got Anakin out of her car before walking over to Scott. 

"Not as nice as those ones though." She said, pointing at something, making Scott look over to see two nice looking black motorcycles. 

A little while later, Scott, Stiles, Sawyer and Anakin walked down the hallway, "You wanna ask Derek for help? Why? Why?" Stiles asked. "He's got the triskele tattooed on his back, so, there has to be a way to do it without healing, right?" Scott asked and Sawyer nodded slightly, "Okay, yeah, but still- doesn't he have his hands a little full right now?" Sawyer said, gesturing to a couple missing fliers for Boyd and Erica. 

She glanced at Erica's picture for a moment and sighed softly until they heard someone talking. "Look, these are the applications for the career adviser. I need them sorted." They said, making the three glanced at each other before walking over to the office, peeking in to see the old principal was back. 

"And, whatever happened to the library while I was gone? I want it cleared up. And what the hell is this?" The principal asked, holding up a large sword. The teens' eyes widened slightly as they glanced at each other. "Go, go, go..." Stiles said before they quickly walked away. 

Waiting for Allison at her locker, Lydia surveys the faces in the hall, trying to pick out the new ones, "Freshmen. Tons and tons of fresh men." Lydia said as Sawyer and Anakin walked over to them, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows. 

"You mean fresh boys. Lydia, they're fourteen." She said and Lydia just shrugged, "Eh, some are more mature than others." Lydia said, making her cringe slightly.  

"You know, it's okay to be single. Focus on yourself for a little while. Work on becoming a better person." Allison said, making Lydia give Allison a look full of pity. "Allison, I love you. So, if you need to do that thing where we talk about me and pretend like we're not actually talking about you, it's totally fine." Lydia said then looked around again. 

"But I don't want a boyfriend... I want a distraction." She said before suddenly something grabs Lydia's attention, making Allison and Sawyer follow her gaze to see two remarkably handsome young men stride down the corridor with ominous purpose. "Brothers?" Allison asked and Lydia hummed in satisfaction, "Twins." She said and Sawyer pursed her lips slightly. 

"I don't see the appeal." 

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The start of second period, Lydia, Allison, Sawyer and Anakin file in with other students all quickly laying claim to desks for the semester. Sawyer instantly sat down in front of her brother and Lydia sat down next to her. Looking around, Allison finds the only open seat being in front of Scott making her sigh softly. "Is someone...?" She trailed off, making Scott look up at her and shake his head. 

"No, no one. It's all you. All yours. Totally... vacant." Scott said awkwardly and she gave him a small smile as she sat down. Scott glanced over to Stiles and Sawyer who both gave Scott a thumbs up. 

After a few minutes everyone's phones went off but before most could even look at their phones, someone spoke up. "The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds and the tranquil waterway, leading to the uttermost ends of the earth, flowed somber under an overcast sky, seeming to lead into the heart of an immense darkness." Someone said making everyone look up to see the teacher, Ms. Blake, walk into class. 

"This is the last line to the first book we are going to read. It is also the last text you will receive in this class. Phones off, everyone." She said and Sawyer furrowed her brows slightly as she felt a dark feeling coming off of the teacher. 

It didn't take long for everyone to start working before Ms. Blake called Scott out of class. Sawyer glanced over at Lydia before noticing a bandage on her ankle making her frown slightly, "Hey, Lydia- what is that? Is that from the accident?" Sawyer asked, making Lydia glance at her, "No... Prada bit me." She said, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows. 

"Your dog?" She asked and she rolled her eyes, "No, my designer handbag. Yes, my dog." She said sarcastically. "Has it ever bitten you before?" Stiles asked and Lydia pursed her lips for a moment before shaking her head.

"Okay, what if it's, like, the same thing as the deer? You know, like, how animals start acting weird right before an earthquake or something?" Stiles said and she looked at with raised eyebrows. "Meaning what? There's gonna be an earthquake?" She asked and Sawyer shrugged, "Or something. I just... maybe it means something's coming. Something bad." She said and Lydia rolled her eyes slightly. 

"It was a deer and a dog. What's that thing you say about threes? Once... twice..." Lydia started to say but all of the sudden something smacked into the window next to her making everyone jump and look over.

Ms. Blake turned to the window and walked over to it when suddenly a bird flew into it making her jump back. Another bird flies into the window, then a third. Dozens of birds appear out of the sky and almost instantaneously they violently slam into the glass, one after another. 

A crack ripples through the panes, causing students to rise from their desks. Glass shatters as birds smash through the windows, filling the room in a spectacular frenzy. Students tumble out of chairs, desks clatter amid screams and shrieks of panic. Sawyer grabbed Lydia and Anakin, tempting to shield them from the birds until slowly, the sound of winds flapping stopped. 

Lydia, Sawher, Stiles, Allison and the other cowering students slowly gaze about at an utterly bizarre sight. Dozens upon dozens of birds lying dead on the classroom floor. 

Sawyer sat on one of the desks next to Stiles and Anakin as Lydia lightly wiped away some blood from Sawyer's forehead with an alcohol wipe that the school nurse had brought over. 

"I don't think it's an earthquake that's coming, it's something more." Sawyer said and Stiles sighed and nodded as Lydia finished cleaning the cut and went to put a bandage over it. "Of course it is." Lydia said as she stepped away from Sawyer, who stared at her for a moment before hearing Stilinski say something to Argent. 

"I'm sorry. I-I could've sworn I overheard my kids talking about how you were an experienced hunter..." He said, making Stiles and Sawyer glance at each other with wide eyes. 

After calling Scott, Stiles went to his jeep, while Sawyer and Anakin went over to her car. She walked over to thr passenger side before opening the door and letting Anakin jump in. "Nice car." Someone said, making Sawyer look up from taking Anakin's vest off to see one of the new twins sitting on one of the black motorcycles.

Sawyer closed the door and walked around her car to the driver side, looking at the twin before looking down at his bike and humming. "Wannabe bad boy." She said, pointing at him before opening the driver side door while he raised his eyebrows in amusement.

"What?" He asked and she glanced at him, "Nine out of ten times, any guy who drives a motorcycle like that to school, of all places, are trying to be like one of those bad boys in romance novels." Sawyer said and he chuckled. "What about people with cars like that?" He asked and she patted the top of her car, "People with cars like this are hard workers and just overall cool people." She said before getting in and rolling down the window.

"I'm Aiden by the way." The guy said holding his hand out, making her reach out her window to shake it. "Alpha..." She heard someone whisper the moment she grabbed his hand, making her furrow her brows, squinting her eyes at him slightly before pulling away.

"Sawyer." She said before starting the car up and driving off.

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Derek's eyes glowed red as he looked at Scott's arm to see the two bands he got tattooed. "Yeah, I see it. It's two bands, right? What does it mean?" Derek asked and Scott shrugged, "I don't know... It's just something I trace with my fingers." Scott said. He presses his finger to a dust covered side table next to him and traces a circle then with two fingers, he draws a larger circle around the first. 

"Why's this so important to you?" Derek asked and Scott glanced down slightly, "Do you know what the word "tattoo" means?" Scott asked and Stiles leaned in a bit with a smile. "To mark something." He said, making Sawyer chuckle and shake her head while Anakin laid down. 

"Well, that's in Tahitian. In Samoan, it means 'open wound'. I knew I wanted to get a tattoo when I turned eighteen. I always wanted one. I just decided to get it now, it makes it kind of a reward." Scott explained making Sawyer tilt her head to the side slightly, "For what?" She asked. 

"For not calling or texting Allison all summer. Even when I really wanted to, even when it was so hard not to sometimes... I was trying to give her the space she wants. Going on four months later... It still hurts. It still feels like a, uh..." Scott trailed off. "Like an open wound." The twins said and Scott nodded, "Yeah." 

Derek picked up an acetylene torch before looking at Scott. "The pain's gonna be worse than anything you've ever felt." Derek said and Scott took a deep breath and nodded, "Do it." He said. 

With a spark lighter, Derek ignites the torch making Stiles eyes widen. "Oh, wow. That's a-That's a lot for me. So, I'm gonna take that as my cue, I'm just gonna wait outside-" Stiles said and started to walk away but Sawyer grabbed his arm. "Pretty sure we need to hold him down." She said as she pulled him over to Scott, "Oh, my God..." Stiles muttered. 

Getting on Scott's other side, Stiles and Sawyer put a hand on Scott's shoulders and arm, bracing to keep him seated. Derek slowly lowers the blue flame to Scott's shoulder. He flinches immediately, teeth clenched as Stiles tries to keep him still. But Scott's eyes glow yellow, surging in response to the pain. 

Stiles and Sawyer tightened their grip on him but it's too much for Scott. Fangs snapping out, he opens his mouth to scream. Sawyer and Stiles struggle to hold him down for a moment before Scott slowly passes out. 

⊚ 

Slipping his shirt on, Scott prepares to leave with Stiles, Sawyer and Anakin while Derek returns to the still unconscious Isaac. "Well, it looks pretty damn permanent now." Stiles said and Scott nodded, "Yeah... I kind of needed something permanent. Everything that's happening to us... everything just changes so fast. Everything's so, uh... ephemeral." Scott said, making Stiles and Sawyer look at him shocked. 

"Studying for the PSATs?" Sawyer asked and Scott nodded, "Yep." He said making the twins him slightly. "Nice." They both said and Scott opened the front door to leave, but then paused and looked at it confused. "You painted the door. Why'd you paint the front door?" He asked out, making Derek start to walk over to them, "Go home guys." Derek said. 

"And why only one side?" Scott asked as Derek walked toward them, but stops when he hears claws unsheathing. Stiles and Sawyer watched Scott raise his hand to the door, a clawed index finger pressed to the new paint. "Scott-" Derek started to say but Scott scratched at the paint to see there's something underneath. 

A black mark beneath the muted red. Derek gives a last look, urging him to not go any further, but Scott slashes at the door then slashes again. First with one clawed hand, then both, red paint falling to the floor in thin ribbons. Until finally, breathless, he gazes on the pattern revealed. 

Scott looks over the more aggressive Triskele as he pieces it together, "The birds at the school, and the deer last night... Just like the night I got trampled by the deer when I got bit by the Alpha. How many are there?" He asked and Derek sighed. "A pack of them. An Alpha pack." Derek said, making their eyes widen. "All of them? How does that even work?" Stiles asked, "I hear there's some kind of a leader... He's called Deucalion. We know they have Boyd and Erica. Peter, Isaac and I have been looking for them for the last four months." Derek said.

"Let's say you find them- how do you deal with an Alpha Pack?" Sawyer asked and he shrugged slightly, "With all the help I can get." He said. 

"Where is she?" A voice spoke up behind them. All eyes turn to Isaac, wide awake and sitting up on the table, "Where's the girl?" He asked. The four of them glanced at each other confused before looking back at Isaac, "What girl?" Sawyer asked.