Ch. 73 - CODOMINANCE

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Chapter Seventy-Three
๐ŸŒ’ Codominance ๐ŸŒ˜


Sawyer and Stiles stood around the jeep while Sawyer worked on it and Stiles kept a light steady. After a little while, Scott walked out, making Stiles and Sawyer look at him.

"So, what did Liam want?" Stiles asked and Scott sighed, "To help." He said and Sawyer glanced at him with raised eyebrows. "You gonna let him?" She asked and he thought about it for a moment before answering, "Eventually, I guess..."

"Okay, but shouldn't he be a little higher on your priority list right now? I mean, since he's the only other actual werewolf? Your only actual Beta?" Stiles asked and Scott sighed and slightly shook his head, "You didn't see the way he came at me. You didn't see the look in his eyes..." Scott said as they watched Sawyer work on the jeep.

"Well, we've been with you on a full moon, so we've seen that look. You want to get the band back together, Scott? You don't leave out the drummer." Sawyer said and Scott sighs, frustratingly but knows she's right.

"Go try it." Sawyer said, glancing at Stiles who nodded and climbed into the driver seat before turning the key in the ignition, causing the Jeeps engine to roar as it successfully turned on. "Success, yes!" Stiles said, high fiving his sister making her laugh.

"Now let's get this show on the road ladies." Sawyer said and climbed into the heep, about to climb into the back seat as Scott climbed into the passenger seat. He went to put a bag in the back seat but paused for a moment. A few large bottles of oil sat in the backseat making Scott and Stones look at Sawyer, who pursed her lip slightly.

"There's a minor leak that I haven't gotten to check out yet." Sawyer says as she held up her hand and pinched her index finger and thumb together in emphasis, "Very minor." She said.

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Scott's in the middle of reading a book about damnatio memoriae while Stiles drives the Jeep and Sawyer has her back against the side of the jeep with her feet up on the seat whilst she watched the horizon pass by with an ear bud on her ear, trying to distract herself from the heat. Stiles lets out a deep breath and wipes a bead of sweat off of his brow, and Scott sighs deeply, making it clear that the heat is starting to get to them both.

"Man, I think the Jeep's overheating again." Scott said and Stiles sighed, "Probably." He said. "Should we pull over and put more antifreeze in it?" Scott asked and Stiles sighed, slightly shaking his head. "No, we can just turn the heat on." He said before doing so, making Scott roll down his window while Sawyer looked annoyed.

"We should've taken my car, I don't care how small it is." Sawyer said, making Stiles shoot her a look through the rearview mirror. "You find anything yet?" Stiles asked, glancing over at Scott who shook his head, "It's mostly the same stuff you guys already knew." Scott said before reading out loud while Sawyer moved to sit closer in the middle.

"Damnatio Memoriae was a Roman practice, a government decree to destroy the images of the damned. And they would scratch off their names from inscriptions, chisel their face off of statues. The Romans believed it was a punishment worse than death." Scott read and Stiles nodded slightly, "Being forgotten." He said.

"Listen to this- Damnatio memoriae was later used on a serial killer in 1598 known as the Demon Tailor. He lured children into his shop in Paris, where he would kill them and boil the flesh off their bones to eat." Scott read and Sawyer nodded, "I heard about that before. The courts believed the crimes so horrible, they ordered all documents destroyed. No one knows his real name." She said and Scott nodded while Stiles made a face.

"So, the Dread Doctors resurrected a killer who was so bad that he had to literally be erased from history?" Stiles asked and Scott looked over at him, "A killer that became a werewolf." Scott said and Sawyer sighed and nodded slightly.

"And becoming a werewolf probably made him a better killer." She said and they glanced at each other for a moment before Stiles revs his engine and hits the gas, clearly in a hurry to get Kira back and return to Beacon Hills.

A little while later Sawyer was now the one driving while Stiles sat in the passenger seat and Scott in the back. "Have you talked to Malia?" Sawyer asked, glancing over at Stiles and he sighed, "Uh- She's not talking to me... or anyone, I guess." He said and Scott sighed.

"I think I know why. I think she found her mother." Scott said, making Stiles's eyes widen, "Her mother? As in the Desert Wolf?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded. "I knew she was still looking. She erased her name off my board, but I just... I knew she hadn't stopped." Stiles said and Scott sighed softly.

"When I was at her house, I'm also... pretty sure Braeden was there, too." Scott said, making Sawyer glance back at him, "Braeden? What, did you catch her scent?" She asked and Scott shook his head. "Actually, it was her motorcycle. I smelled her exhaust." Scott says and Stiles sighed, "What the hell do you think they're gonna do?" He asked and Scott shakes his head slightly.

"Something that Malia doesn't want to tell us about, so... probably something bad." Scott said and then Stiles notices the look on Scott's face and immediately realizes what is going on. "Oh, my God! You already know, don't you? It's like... It's the chemosignals, right?" He asked and Scott hesitates for a moment before he finally nods in agreement, "Aggression." He said, making Stiles and Sawyer glance at each other.

"How much?" Sawyer asked, glancing at Scott through the rearview mirror, "I think she's gonna kill her. She's gonna kill her mother." Scott said and before anyone could answer the engine started to sputter, making Sawyer look down and furrowed her brows when she noticed nothing wrong.

"What the hell is happening?" She asked and Stiles frowned slightly, leaning over to look at the dashboard. "Um... Yeah, we're out of gas. It's out of gas." Stiles said and Sawyer looked at him confused, "It says we have half a tank." She said and Stiles shrugged slightly.

"Yeah, not necessarily." He said and she shot him a look, "You forgot to mention that the gas gauge is still broken, didn't you?" She asked and he looked at her slightly embarrassed as he awkwardly scratched the back of his neck.

"Maybe..."

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A little while later they walked up to a gas station and Stiles went up to the door and pulled on it. "Locked." He called back while Scott broke off a chain around a gas pump. "You got a twenty?" Scott asked and Stiles nodded and pulled some money before shoving it through the gap in the door before walking over to Scott and Sawyer.

It was quiet between the three of them as they filled up the gas jug until Sawyer took a deep breath and sighed softly. "There was a pin. There was one little metal pin attached to the scaffolding. He was trying to pull Stiles down and I heard a voice that told me to pull the pin so I did." Sawyer said and Scott nodded, "He was trying to kill you guys." Scott said and the twins nodded.

"Sawyer pulled the pin... and all these metal braces came down. One of them just... just went right through him." Stiles said and Scott look pained by the realization of just how badly Theo manipulated them.

"Why didn't you think you could tell me?" Scott asked, and Sawyer shook her head slightly, "The way you were looking at us that night... You were standing there with a wrench in your hand, and you were looking at us like we had just bashed your head in with it. You know, like we'd broken your sacred rule, and that's it- there's no going back." She said.

"I know the difference." Scott said making them look at him confused, "What?" They both asked. "I know what self-defense is." Scott said and it was quiet for a moment as the teims glanced at each other.

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"Hey, Guys? Guys, take a look at this." Stiles said, waking Scott and Sawyer up as he points out toward a large, tall plateau in the distance, where thunder is rumbling overhead. They're eyes widen in shock when they see lightning striking the top of the cliff, and Stiles gave Sawyer and Scott an incredulous look.

"What the hell do you think's happening to her out there?" Stiles asked and Sawyer raised her eyebrows, "Something that looks like that? Most likely something that's not good." She said. Stiles nodded slightly and shifted gears on the Jeep and hit the gas to speed up even faster.

A little while later, just outside of Shiprock, the three of them stood outside the jeep watching the thunder. "I don't know why I believed him." Scott spoke up, making Stiles and Sawyer look over at him, "I don't know why we didn't just keep talking that night. Five more minutes, and we would've figured out that there were two different stories. We would've filled a lot of blanks."

"We should've just kept talking." Scott says and Stiles sighed softly, "He knew we wouldn't." He said and Scott sighed. "I didn't want it to happen like this." He said, making the twins look at him confused, "Like what?" They both asked.

"I knew, sooner or later, one of us was going to get a little too much blood on our hands. I half-thought it would be Malia... " Scott said and Sawyer nodded, "Well, Malia seems like she's working on it." Sawyer said. "I just always thought that if it were to happen, then it should be me. I'm the one who's constantly putting you guys in danger, risking your lives... for people you don't even know. It should've been me." Scott says looking down at the ground while the twins seem both relieved and comforted by Scott's confession, while also sympathizing with his position.

"We should probably get going." Stiles said after a moment and they nodded and started walking back to the jeep but then Scott stopped and looked out at the distance. "Hey, guys... Do you see that?" He asked and they walked back over to him, "It's Kira." He said as there was a flash of light closer to the ground. "Alright, come on. Let's get going." Sawyer said and they ran over to the car.

Minutes later they pull up right behind Kira and Noshiko, who was holding up a sword. Scott instantly jumps out the jeep, roaring at the Skinwalkers with his fangs and Alpha eyes out. "Kira! Get in!" Sawyer called out from the back seat.

Kira rushes toward the car, with Scott following after her to make sure she makes it safely, though Noshiko stays behind to keep an eye on the Skinwalkers. The second Skinwalker throws her spear at the Jeep in hopes of disabling it as well, but Noshiko uses her katana to slice the spear in half lengthwise.

"Come on, come on! Let's go!" Stiles yelled and Noshiko rushes into the passenger seat of the Jeep, and as soon as she's inside, Stiles wastes no time before hitting the gas and speeding away.

"Everyone okay?" Stiles asked and Noshiko nodded while Sawyer cringed. "No, can I drive?" She asked, making them glance back to see Scott and Kira kissing passionately while Sawyer cringed. "You came back for me." Kira said happily when they pulled apart and Scott smiles and nods. "I love you. I love you so much." Kira says before kissing Scott passionately again and Sawyer made a face.

"The asexual in me uncomfortable... so is the lesbian."

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