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Chapter Five
🐺 The Tell 🐺

Sawyer sat in the back seat of a police car with Anakin laying next to her and a bag of food in her hand. Up front was her father in the driver seat and Stiles in the passenger seat searching through a bag of food. 

"Did they forget my curly fries?" Stilinski asked and Sawyer shook her head as she gave Anakin a piece of a burger. "You're not supposed to eat fries. Especially the curly ones." She said, making his father look at her through the rearview mirror with raised eyebrows. "I am carrying a lethal weapon. If I want the curly fries, I will have the curly fries." He said and Stiles looked at him. 

"If you think getting rid of contractions in your sentences makes your argument any more legitimate, you are wrong." Stiles but before Stilinski can respond, the radio buzzes to life. 

"Unit One, do you copy?" 

Stiles reached out to grab the CB but his father smacked his hand away and gave him a look, making Stiles shy away. "Unit One, copy." Stilinski replied, "Got a report of a possible 187."  The person replied, making Sawyer and Stiles both quickly look at their father with wide eyes, both having food in their mouths. 

"A murder?!?" 

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Stilinski pulled up in front of the video shop and turned to his kids, "Stay here." He said then got out of the car. The twins sat impatiently while taking in the store's shattered window and the knocked over shelves. A moment later Sawyer noticed Lydia sitting in an ambulance while Jackson stood next to her, arguing with a deputy. Sawyer's eyes widened slightly before she quickly got out of the car making Stiles get out as well. 

"Why the hell can't I just go home? I'm fine." Jackson yelled as Stilinski walked over to him and nodded slightly. 

"I hear ya, but the EMT's says you hit your head pretty hard. They just wanna make sure you don't have a concussion." Stilinski said but it seemed like Jackson either wasn't listening or just didn't care, probably both. "What part of "I'm fine" are you having a problem grasping? Okay, I want to go home." Jackson said and Stilinski nodded slightly, "And I understand-" He started to say but Jackson cut him off. 

"No, you don't understand that, which kind of blows my mind, since it should be a pretty basic concept to grasp for a minimum-wage rent-a-cop like you! Okay, now, I want to go home!" Jackson yelled, making Stiles and Sawyer look at each other for a moment before they noticed a stretcher being taken out of the video store. 

"Oh, woah! Is that a dead body?" Stiles and Sawyer both yelled, making the group of onlookers rush forward and Stilinski throws an angry glare at his kids who both shrinks back awkwardly. 

🐺 

"Just a friendly reminder: Parent/Teacher conferences are tonight. Students below a C average are required to attend. I won't name you since the shame and self-disgust should be more than enough punishment. And has anyone seen Scott McCall?" Harris asked, looking at Stiles and Sawyer who sat next to each other. 

Neither of them responds and the he door opens and in comes Jackson, something slightly off about him. Everyone watches as Harris crosses to him. "Jackson, if you need to leave early for any reason... You let me know." Harris says making Sawyer furrow her brows, "He can be caring?" She mumbled. 

Harris ignored her and walked to the front of the class, "Everyone, start reading Chapter Nine. And Mr. Stilinski try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs. It's Chemistry. Not a coloring book" He said, making Stiles look up at him then tilted his head back, spitting the cap out and catching it. 

After a few seconds Stiles leans toward Danny who is sitting in front of him, "Danny? Can I ask you a question?" He asked. "No." Danny said as Sawyer glanced at them, "I'm going to anyway. Did Lydia show up in your homeroom today?" Stiles asked 

"No." 

"Can I ask you another question?" 

"Answer still no." 

"Do people know what happened to them last night?" Stiles askes, "He wouldn't tell me." Danny said slowly. "But he's your best friend." Stiles said and Danny just shrugged, "One more question." Stiles said, making Danny roll his eyes. 

"What?!" 

"Do you find me attractive?" Stiles asked, making Sawyer look at him weird as he kept leaning forward in his seat until Sawyer hooked her foot around the bottom of his stool and pulled on it, making him fall. He quickly and awkwardly caught himself while everyone looked at him. He turned to his sister to see her quietly laughing and he flicked her forehead. 

🐺 

Stiles hurries down the hall with his phone to his ear, Sawyer and Anakin quickly following him. "What?" Scott asked, "Finally! Are you getting any of my or Sawyer's texts?" Stiles said dramatically. "All nine million of them." Scott said. "You have any clue what's going on? Lydia's totally M-I-A, Jackson looks like he had a time bomb inserted into his face, another random guy is dead and you need to do something about it." 

"Like what?" 

"Something."

"I'll deal with it later." Scott hung up making Stiles look down at his phone and sigh, "Can you drive me somewhere?" Sawyer asked and Stiles glanced at her. "Where?" He asked and she shrugged slightly, "I wanna go check on Lydia, maybe she saw something." She said and Stiles nodded. 

"Sure?" 

🐺 

"Sweetheart, there's a Sawyer here to see you." Natalie Martin said as she opened the door to her daughter's room, letting Sawyer and Anakin in, Stiles waiting in the jeep. "What the hell's a Sawyer?" Lydia said, making Natalie turn to Sawyer with an embarrassed smile, "She's had a little something to ease her nerves. Go right in." 

"Thanks." Sawyer said and Natalie smiled at her as she left the room, "What are you doing here?" Lydia asked as Sawyer walked over to the bed. "Wanted to make sure you're okay." Sawyer said, sitting down next to Lydia, "Why?" Lydia asked as she reached her hand out to Anakin. 

"Because you didn't go to school. How are you feeling?" Sawyer asked and Lydia smiled and leaned closer, "I feel ffffffantastic." Lydia said, making Sawyer sucked in a deep breath slightly before noticing a bottle of pills on Lydia's nightstand. She reached over and grabbed them, reading the label before humming slightly.

"I bet you can't say, uh, 'I saw Susie sitin' in a shoe-shine shop" ten times fast'." Sawyer said and Lydia looked at her with a challenging smirk. "I saw Shusie..." Lydia said, already messing up, making Sawyer raise her eyebrows in amusement. 

"I shaw... I saw..." Lydia's gaze drifts and Sawyer looks at her concerned, "Lydia? What did you see?" Sawyer asked softly. "Something..." Lydia mumbled and Sawyer raised her eyebrows, "Something... like a mountain lion?" She asked and Lydia nodded. 

"A mountain lion..." Lydia said and Sawyer raised her eyebrows, "Are you sure you saw a mountain lion, or are you just saying that because that's what the police told you?" She asked and Lydia nodded slightly. "A mountain lion..." Lydia answers again, making Sawyer. 

"Lydia, what is he?" Sawyer asked, pointing at Anakin, making Lydia look at him, "A mountain lion." She said. "Oh, you're so high." Sawyer muttered and Lydia rested her head in Sawyer's lap making her eyes widen as she froze slightly. Anakin got up, walking over to Sawyer before tapping his nose on her thigh making her sigh and close her eyes. 

"I swear if you alerting to my heart rate raising exposes my crush on someone, I will give you away." Sawyer said before looking at Anakin and pursing her lips slightly, "No I won't." She said before taking a deep breath and glancing down at Lydia, whose eyes were closed. 

"I guess I should probably leave and let you get back to the whole post traumatic stress thing." Sawyer said before grabbing Anakin's leash and getting up, walking over to the door, making Lydia sit up slightly. "No, stay." Lydia muttered, making Sawyer stop and look at her with raised eyebrows.

"You want me to stay?" She asked and Lydia nodded looking up at her as she patted the bed next to her, making Sawyer sit back down. "Yes. Please, stay." Lydia said as she leaned forward, gently grabbing Sawyer's face making Sawyer freeze slightly, "Please, Jackson." Lydia said before falling back onto the bed. 

"Did I just get called a slur?" Sawyer mumbled, looking over at Anakin, who just tilted his head slightly. Lydia's phone buzzed on the nightstand making Sawyer look at it. "You want me to get that?" She asked and grabbed Lydia's phone, "It's a text. I don't know how to- Holy shit." She said as she looked down at the phone.

On the phone was a video of a dark shape hurtling through the store front window. Sawyer hits pause before zooming in to a perfectly captured image of a nightmare. Standing there on two feet, a dark and monstrous silhouette with glowing red eyes. 

The Alpha. 

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"It's me. Again. I found something and I don't know what to do and if you don't turn your phone back on I'm going to kill you. I'm too pissed off to come up with a witty description of exactly how I'm going to kill you. I'm just going to kill you." Stiles said into the phone before hanging up and looking over at Sawyer who mindlessly walked back and forth as she rewatched the video of the alpha on Lydia's phone. 

A knock suddenly comes from the door making them both jump slightly and look up as the door clicks open while Sawyer stopped walking. "Please tell me I'm going to hear good news at the parent teacher thing tonight." He said and the twins pursed their lips and squinted slightly. 

"That depends on how you define good news." Stiles said, making Stilinski raise his eyebrows, "I define it as you getting straight A's with no behavioral issues." Stilinski said, crossing his arms and Sawyer looked at him sheepishly. "You might wanna rethink that definition." Sawyer said and their father sighed, "Say no more." He said and went to walk away.

Sawyer looked down at Lydia's phone for a moment before sighing and deleting the video.