Ch. 34 - THE OVERLOOKED

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Chapter Thirty-Four
โŠš The Overlooked โŠš


The steel door of the loft slides back with a clang and Jennifer rushes in. Voice tremulous with panic as she calls out to the darkened loft, "Derek? Derek, where are you?"ย 

"Right here." She spins around and sees Derek step out of the shadows as if he'd been waiting in the darkness for her. "Thank God." She sighed in relief before rushing over, arms wrapping around him. "Something happened at the recital, at the school, okay? I need to tell you before you hear it, before you hear it for any of them."ย 

"From who?"ย 

"Scott, Stiles, Sawyer. They're gonna tell you things- things you can't believe. You have to trust me, okay? You trust me." Jennifer pleaded and Derek nodded, "What is it?" He asked. "Promise you'll listen to me." She said almost desperately, "I promise."ย 

She kisses him, pressing her lips desperately to his but there's a hesitancy in him making her pull back to look him in the eyes, noticing a lack of reaction, a visible unease. "They're already here, aren't they?" She said, stepping away from him Scott, Stiles and Sawyer out from behind the wall.ย 

Jennifer backs away, obviously a bit nervous but tries to play it off, "So, they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?" She asked. "We told him you're the one killing people." Scott corrected making her scoff, "Oh, that's right. Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour- that way, I can get back to teaching high school English the rest of the day. Makes perfect sense." Jennifer said.ย 

"Where's our dad?" Stiles and Sawyer asked, eyes full of tears and Jennifer looked at them crazy, "How should I know? Derek, tell me you don't believe this?" Jennifer asked looking back at Derek. "Do you know what happened to their father?" Derek asked and Jennifer scoffed, "No!" She said. Her innocent act was slowly crumbling more and more every second. "How about you ask her why she tried to kill Lydia and I." Sawyer said, making Jennifer look at her.ย 

"Lydia Martin and you? I don't know anything about that!" Jennifer asked and Derek looked at her with a slight glare, "What do you know?" He asked making her look back at him. "I know that these kids, for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story- And one they can't prove, by the way."ย 

"What if we can?" Scott asked, stepping forward and Jennifer noticed him pulling out a jar with ground and crushed remains of green and brown leaves. "What is that?" She asked and he looked down at it as he opened it. "My boss told me it's a poison and a cure. Which means you can use it. And it can be used against you." He said.ย 

With a flick of his arm, the powder flies out of the vial, plumbing into a cloud of dust. Jennifer raises her hands, but in the cloud, her face changes to the Darach, slashed and shrieking in anger. It was the same person Sawyer and Lydia had seen in the fire at the motel.ย 

Dust settling around her, Jennifer looks up with a mixture of rage and fear. She starts to back away, moving for an escape. But Derek comes at her, wrapping his hand around her throat, "Derek, wait! Wait! You need me!" She yelled as best as she could.ย 

"What are you?"ย 

"The only person who can save Cora!" She said, making them all look at her slightly shocked and confused, "Call Peter... Call him!" Jennifer said and Derek instantly pulled his phone out, keeping a hold in Jennifer.ย 

"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness, she's vomiting up black blood, along with one other alarming substance..."ย 

"Mistletoe." Derek said, glaring at Jennifer, "How did you know that?" Peter asked but Derek didn't answer as he just hung up and his grip tightened around Jennifer's throat making her let out a few gasps of pain. "Derek... Derek, what are you doing?"ย 

"Her life... it's in my hands!" Jennifer gasped and Sawyer stepped forward, "Derek, stop!" She yelled but he ignored her. "Stilinski... you'll never find him..." Jennifer struggled to say, "Derek!" Scott yelled and almost instantly Derek dropped Jennifer to the ground. She draws in a breath, hands to her throat and glares up at them in defiance.ย 

"That's right. You need me- all of you." Jennifer said and Sawyer stared at her for a moment before taking a deep breath of anger. She suddenly walked over to the table by the window, angrily grabbed the lamp of the table. "Sawyer-" Scott started to say as Sawyer walked back over, but before he could do anything, Sawyer slammed the lamp against Jennifer's head.ย 

The woman fell to the ground and Sawyer let out a deep breath before handing Derek his lamp. "Let's go." Sawyer said before stepping over Jennifer and walking towards the door.ย 

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Siren lights flashing, an ambulance full of evacuees veers away from the hospital's entrance while Derek's car and Stiles' Jeep soar past and screech to a halt. Derek got out and he made no attempt to be gentle when pulling Jennifer out. Shutting the door of the Jeep, Scott and Sawyer paused, looking at Stiles weird when they saw Stiles pull a baseball bat out of the back.ย 

"You got claws, Sawyer can see the future and has a knife. I got a bat." Stiles said and Scott and Sawyer looked at each other before shrugging slightly then walking towards the doors.ย 

Derek, Jennifer, Scott, Sawyer and Stiles enter through the side door and they pass the reception desk the moment Melissa comes rushing back in through the ER entrance. "Scott?" Melissa said, making him turn around, the others pausing ahead of him, "What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating." Melissa askedย 

"We're here for Cora." Scott said and Melissa looked at all of them, "All of you? And why does Stiles have a bat?" Melissa asked, pointing at the bat making Scott sigh. "Mom, trust me on this. You need to get out of here. Right now." Scott said and Melissa noticed the way Derek held Jennifer's arm and the tension on their faces.ย 

"The building is supposed to be clear in thirty minutes. We've got two more ambulances coming back. One's ten minutes out. The other's twenty. Cora needs to be on one of those. They'll be picking up in the basement garage." She said and Scott nodded.ย 

"Got it."ย 

Still gripping Jennifer by the arm, Derek presses the button for the second floor. "You don't need to keep me on a leash, Derek. I'm going to help." Jennifer said but Derek just ignored her. She glances back to Scott who does not seem convinced. Next to him, Stiles has the bat raised, fully ready to bash her across the skull with it.ย ย 

Next to Stiles stood Sawyer who was spinning her pocket knife around in her hand as she stared at Jennifer.ย 

The bell rings and the elevator doors open. Derek pulled Jennifer out with Scott, Stiles and Sawyer close behind. Derek let Jennifer go as he moved past the group to the double doors of the Patient Holding Area. All he saw inside is an empty bed and black blood mixed with mistletoe all over the floor.ย 

"Derek..." Sawyer said, making Derek follow her train of sight at the ground. Drops of black blood on the floor, leading into the corridor and toward two double doors which bust open.ย 

A body soars through, tumbling across the floor and sliding to their feet and with a groan of pain, Peter looked up at the group. "We got a problem." He said and they all looked down the hall where a monstrous werewolf stood, past its feet laid Cora's unconscious body. "Big problem." Peter said before the twin Alpha roared and charged toward them.ย 

A brilliant red fills Derek's eyes, his face transformed into a werewolf as he rushed to meet the Alpha Twin in the middle of the corridor, their bodies colliding brutally. Derek punched the Alpha Twin in the stomach before going to punch them in the face but they blocked his arm before punching him.ย 

Scott ran forward as the Alpha Twin pushed Derek to the ground, before jumping off the wall, slashing at the Alpha Twin. Stiles and Sawyer looked at Cora's body at the end of the hall before grabbing Peter. "Help us." They said, pulling him up and running down the hall over to Cora as the Alpha Twin grabbed Scott by the throat, slamming him against the wall.ย 

"Ethan, Aiden- stop. You don't know what you're doing." Scott said and the Twin Alpha spoke with a voice combining both Ethan and Aiden's, "All we want is her." They said. Pushing himself up from the floor, Derek looked up to see Jennifer slipping inside the elevator again, a guilty look on her face.ย 

The twins let Scott go and started running towards Jennifer as the doors closed. "Come on." Sawyer said, grabbing Scott and Derek's shirts before they all quickly took off running.ย 

Racing through double doors and into the morgue, Stiles looked past Peter carrying an unconscious Cora over his shoulder to find Sawyer, Scott and Derek catching up. "Don't stop!" Derek yelled as the Alpha Twin barrels through the doors after them. Brandishing the baseball bat, Stiles turns back, ignoring his sister's warning, "Stiles-"ย 

He swung the bat, smashing the Alpha Twin across the back of the head, but instead of hurting the twins, the bat bursted into tiny pieces. Hands trembling, Stiles dropped the handle and ran over to the other. As Stiles begins to retreat, Scott looked at Derek and nodded to a light fixture above them.ย 

Derek grabbed him by the jacket and tossed him right into the air. Latching onto the lighting fixture, Scott yanked it free and the fixture smashed down on the head of the Alpha Twin. Sparks fly as the monster crumbles underneath the steel fixture amid bursts of electricity while the group took off running again.ย 

The low hum of electricity raised to a crackle as the backup generators kick in, dim emergency lights click on in the operating room. The door swings open and the Stilinski Twin runs through with Peter, who was carrying Cora. He sets her down on the operating table as Derek and Scott rush inside right behind them.ย 

"Where's the big guy?" Sawyer asked, glancing over at the werewolves, "He's close." Derek said. "What about Ms. Blake?" Stiles asked and Scott shook his head, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows, "What do you mean? Like gone? Are you kidding me?" Sawyer asked, not really caring if she was loud. "Quiet." Derek said, making them look over at him before Stiles walked over to him.ย 

"Her be quiet? You're telling her what to do? When your psychotic mass murdering girlfriend- the second one you've dated by the way- has our dad tied up somewhere waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles said and Scott sighed softly. "Stiles, they're still out there." He said, making Sawyer look at him, "And they want her, right? Which means now that we don't have her either, our Dad and Cora are dead."ย 

"Not yet." Scott said, giving Sawyer and Stiles a look making the twins look at each other for a moment before Scott walked over Cora and Peter. "Is she really dying?" Scott asked and Peter shook his head slightly, "She's definitely not getting any better." He said and Scott looked at Cora.ย 

"There has to be something we can do. We have to help her." Scott said before the door opened, "You can't." Someone said, making them look over to see Jennifer.ย 

"Only I can. I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is. But, there's a pack of Alphas in this hospital who want me dead. So, I'll help you- but only when I'm out of here and safe. Only then."ย 

A look of rage in his eyes, Derek started to run towards Jennifer with a murderous intent but Scott quickly stepped in between them. "Derek, wait-" He said as he grabbed him, "She ran away." Derek said. "I was trying to keep from getting killed. You can't blame me for that." Jennifer said and Stiles glared at her, "If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her." He said and Jennifer shook her head.ย 

"Not until I'm safe."ย 

"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion... Let's torture her." Peter said and Sawyer nodded, "Yes please." She said and Derek shrugged. "Works for me." He said but the PA system crackled to life before anyone could do anything.ย 

"Um, can I have your attention...? Mr. Deucalion... Excuse me, just Deucalion... requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the ER reception. Do this, and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes."ย 

The PA clicks off, leaving Scott breathless and terrified. "He's not gonna hurt her." Jennifer said and Sawyer glared at her, "Shut up." She said. "He won't! Scott, you know why. Tell them it's true." Jennifer said, making everyone look at Scott confused, "What does she mean?" Derek asked and Scott didn't answer.ย 

"You're not the only one Deucalion wants in his pack. Deucalion doesn't just want an Alpha Pack- he wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of Alphas to his ranks." Jennifer said and realization crossed over Peter's face, "A True Alpha." Peter said and Stiles and Sawyer looked around at all of them confused.ย 

"What's that?" They both asked at the same time, "The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another. One that can rise by the force of his own will. Our little Scott." Peter said and Scott sighed and shook his head. "It doesn't matter. We still need to get her out of here." Scott said and Sawyer looked at him with raised eyebrows.ย 

"Scott, your mom-" She started to say but he cut her off, "My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in twenty minutes. And I don't think we've been here that long, so, if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here."ย 

"The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out." Stiles said and Scott sighed for a moment, "I'll distract them." He said, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows. "You mean fight them." She said and he shrugged, "Whatever I have to do." He said and Derek nodded.ย 

"I'll help you." Derek said and Jennifer scoffed slightly,ย  "Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek." She said, making Derek sigh and roll his eyes. "I'll do it. But, I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage." Peter said, making them look at him, "An advantage? Like what? You mean, like, a weapon?" Sawyer asked.ย 

"Something better than a baseball bat."ย 

Seconds later, they yank drawers open across the room and spill their contents onto counters. "Hey, wait, what about these?" Stiles asked as he raised a set of defibrillator paddles, making Derek look over at him.ย 

"Do you know how to use those?" Derek asked, raising his eyebrows making Stiles purse his lips, "Well, no." He said. "Put 'em down." Derek said making Stiles pouted before setting them down. Scott holds up a huge syringe filled with a clear liquid, "Epinephrine?" Scott asked.ย 

"That's only gonna make him stronger." Derek said making Peter look up, "How strong?" He asked and Sawyer realized what he was thinking. "Strong enough." She said, grabbing the syringe, turning to Peter with her eyebrows raised. "Take this as minor payback for biting me and Lydia without our consent. I'll get the main payback later when I put your ass in a mental asylum." She said and he chuckled and raised his eyebrows.ย 

"Are you still mad about that? I'd say you should thank me because otherwise you wouldn't have these new found abil-" He started to say but groaned when she roughly stabbed the syringe into his chest before pushing down the plunger.ย 

The doors of the operating room slam open into the corridor. Syringe jammed into his chest, Peter steps through with a look of wild-eyed, adrenaline-induced ferocity with Scott behind him. Peter looked down at the syringe before pulling it out, looking over at the end of the hall where Ethan and Aiden stood.ย 

"All right, boys. Let's rumble." Peter said, his eyes glowing blue while Scott's glowed yellow. The twins roared slightly as they started walking towards them, making Peter roar before he and Scott ran forward.ย 

While Scott and Peter grapple with the Alpha Twin, Derek carries Cora through the OR's doors with Jennifer and Stiles and Sawyer behind him. The group raced down the opposite corridor to the garage before running over to the ambulance that sat in the middle.ย 

"It's still here." The twins said, holding the doors open for Derek before running over to the ambulance. They yank the back doors open before climbing in and helping Derek gently lay Cora on a gurney. "Derek... over here." Jennifer said, making Derek look at the Stilinski twins before he walked over to Jennifer.ย 

Derek followed Jennifer's line of sight to find the ambulance driver's body on the ground, laying in a puddle of his own blood. They slowly walked forward until they heard Kali's voice saying a name in a singing tone.ย 

"Julia." She said, making them look up to see Kali walk around the ambulance, her bare feet covered in blood as she twirled the keys to the ambulance around her finger. "It is you." Kali said as Sawyer quietly grabbed the doors of the ambulance and shut them.ย 

"You can't beat her on your own." Jennifer said and Derek nodded, "That's why we're gonna run." He said before stepping back, making Jennifer quickly run back the way they came. Kali growled slightly before Derek followed behind Jennifer, making Kali run after them.ย 

"Okay, okay, okay... We're fine. We are totally okay." Sawyer said as she made sure the doors were closed before sitting back, looking at her brother and Cora. "How you guys doing?" She asked nervously before looking down at Cora and pausing slightly.ย 

"Why does it look like she's not breathing?" Stiles asked and Sawyer leaned forward, her ear by Cora's mouth before she looked up at her brother. "Because she's not." She said, making Stiles look at her wide eyes,, "Okay- So, what do we do?" He panicked and she shook her head in a slight panic as she tried to think.ย 

"CPR? You do it." She said and he nodded,ย  "Okay, okay, okay. You can do this. Here we go... Tilt the head... Fingers on the chin... Clear the throat..." He mumbled as he gently but nervously pushed Cora's chin up, tilting her head back looking in her mouth, searching her throat.ย 

"Great, nothing- I see nothing. Okay. All right, so, uh.... just pinch the nose and blow." He said as he pinched her nose between his fingers and leaned down to blow into her mouth. Then pulls back and does it again, each time with more and more urgency.ย 

"Come on... Oh, come on, Cora. Come on, breathe. Come on, Cora, breathe!" Stiles mumbled before he leaned down for another try. But Cora finally pulls inย a gasp her body seizing as she coughs. With a sigh of relief, Stiles slumps back on the ambulance bench watching her relax, still unconscious but breathing.ย 

"You know... next time I put my lips to your mouth, you better be awake." He said before looking at his sister with wide eyes as she raised her eyebrows. "Do you like Cora?" She asked and Stiles shook his head slightly, "No, I just meant in a general sense." He said and she hummed slightly.ย 

"But you want there to be a next time you put your lips to her mouth." She said and Stiles shook his head, "No. Can we stop talking about this?" He asked and Sawyer just raised her hands up in defense before they glanced down at Cora.ย 

"Just hold on a little longer, okay? Trust me, if anyone's gonna get us out of this, it's Scott. I can't believe I just said that. You know, I actually used to be the one with the plan... Well, or, at least a plan B. Now? I don't know... Now, I'm thinking, maybe Cora was right. You know, maybe we are pretty much useless. Maybe all we really do is show up and find the bodies." Stiles rambled after a moment of silence.ย 

"You're rambling." Sawyer said, making Stiles sigh and nod, "I know..." He said and they were quiet for a moment before Sawyer sighed softly. "I don't want to find dad's body... And I really don't want to have a vision of his sacrifice..." She said in a slight whisper as her eyes went glossy.ย 

"We're gonna find him." Stiles said as he grabbed his sister's hand, both of them squeezing each other's hands tightly. "You don't sound very convincing." Sawyer said in a slight whisper, making Stiles sigh softly, "I know." He said as Sawyer laid her head on his shoulder.ย 

They sat in silence, mainly watching Cora to make sure she stays alive, until they heard a sound from outside the ambulance. Sawyer slowly stood up andย  cautiously peers out as the Alpha Twin passes right by making Stiles and Sawyer suck in a deep breath. Both of them just sat there in silence, breaths held as they both watched and waited until the Twins walked through a door, not paying any mind to the ambulance.ย 

They both sighed in relief before they heard feet moving quickly across the cement floor, coming right for them. Someone suddenly yanks on the doors of the ambulance making Stiles and Sawyer jump. "Stiles! Sawyer! Open the door!" Scott says in a harsh whisper making Sawyer quickly open the door.ย 

"Help me get him in." He said and she grabbed Peter's arms and helped him into the bench on the other side of Cora. "Where's Derek and Jennifer?" Stiles asked and Scott sighed, "I have to go back for them, and my mom." Scott said and they nodded.ย 

"Okay, two problems- Kali's got the keys to this thing, and we just saw the twins, like, thirty seconds ago." Stiles said and Scott looked around, eyeing the shadows, "Stay here." He said before shutting the door.ย 

A little while later, Argent's car quickly drove into the garage as Isaac got out while Peter carried Cora out of the ambulance with Stiles and Sawyer behind him. "All right, come on, come on, come on!" Isaac said but Stiles paused when he noticed something hanging on the door of the ambulance, a clipboard with forms on it.ย 

"What is it?" Sawyer asked as she walked up to him, "Guardian isn't law enforcement." He says and she looks at the paper. Down at the bottom of the sheet, Sawyer looked at the line for a signature. Underneath the line it reads: Parent or Guardian making her eyes widen in realization. "Melissa." Sawyer whispered before running off, Stiles running off behind her as they both ignored Issac's calls.ย 

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Running into the corridor, Stiles and Sawyer instantly noticed Scott going for the stairs, "Scott!" They both yelled as they chased after him. They ran up the stairs all the way to the roof where they found Scott standing in front of Deucalion. "Scott, don't do this. Don't go with him." Stiles pleaded as Scott turned around to face them with teary eyes.ย 

"I don't know what else to do..." Scott says in a slight whisper making Sawyer shake her head, "Scott, there's gotta be something else, okay? We- we always have a plan B." She said in a slight whisper and he stared at her for a moment before shaking his head.ย 

"Not this time..." He said before taking a couple steps back, "Scott." Stiles said and he looked at them apologetically. "I'm gonna find your dad. I promise." He said and slowly, he turned away with Stiles and Sawyer watching as Scott walked into the darkness with Deucalion.

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