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Chapter Seventy-Four
🌒 The Sword and The Spirit 🌘

The elevator dings, and Stilinski turned to see Scott, Kira, Sawyer and Stiles slowly walking out of the elevator as they stare at the line of dead bodies being wheeled to the morgue. "Damn..." Sawyer muttered before turning to her father, "Who found them?" She asked.

"Argent. And he said the Doctors were down there. He also said you guys might know what this thing is." Stilinski said and Scott nodded slightly, "We've got a theory..." Scott said, making Stiles nod in agreement. "It's a slightly terrifying theory..." He said and Stilinski sighed softly, "Well, the M.E. said that the victims were killed somewhere else and then dumped in those tunnels."

Sawyer furrowed her brows and thought for a moment before realization crossed over her features, "Hey, what if the Dread Doctors are hiding the bodies?" She asked and Kira looked at her confused. "Why would they do that?" She asked and Sawyer shrugged slightly, "This thing's gotta be super important to them. So maybe they're covering for it. Protecting it, like a parent would their child." Sawyer said.

"Protecting what?" Stilinski asked and they all glanced at each other, "A werewolf." Scott said. "It's called the Beast." Kira said and Stilinski made a face at this and Stiles shrugs in understanding, "We know. Horrifying." He said and Stilinski sighed.

"We better figure out what we're gonna call Parrish... Because it looks like your guy's dreams are coming true." Stilinski said, looking at his daughter, making her glance at the bodies and sigh.

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Walking down the hallway of the school, Scott glances around as Sheriff's deputies walk around with huge, sophisticated shotguns while they listen to an announcement over the P.A. system. "By order of the Sheriff, a county-wide curfew goes into effect tonight at sundown. All after-school activities are canceled until further notice. Students should go directly home at the end of the school day."

"You don't think this is a bit much in terms of firepower for a high school?" Stiles asked as Scott walked up to where Stiles, Sawyer, Anakin and Deputy Strauss stood. "Your dad's the one that issued us these things and he wouldn't officially say why." Deputy Strauss asked making Sawyer pursed her lips and raise her eyebrows, "Did he say anything unofficially?" She asked making him look over at her.

"No... But everyone's got a theory." He said making them more curious, "What's yours?" Stiles and Sawyer both asked and Strauss looked at him. "I shouldn't be talking to you guys. Don't you have class?" He asked and Sawyer smiled, "Who cares? Come on, Strauss, you can tell us. What's your theory?" She asked and he sighed and looked around making sure that no one was looking at them talking before leaning forward and lowering his voice.

"Do you guys believe in the supernatural?" He asked, making their eyes widen as they all looked at each other.

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Sawyer and Anakin walked into Lydia's room in Eichen, but Sawyer paused for a moment at the door looking at the catatonic state of her girlfriend. She took a deep breath before glancing down at Anakin then walking over to sit down in the chair next to the bed and gently grabbed Lydia's hand.

"Hey uh- Your teachers gave me some of the stuff you guys have been working on. They wanted me to hold onto it for you. I saw something about the, um... Riemann hypothesis... Things like non-trivial zeros, zeta functions, and a lot of other stuff that I probably wouldn't be able to pronounce if I tried." Sawyer said, looking down at her hands before looking up at Lydia.

"You know there's a lot of stuff going on right now where we could really use your help... I also just really miss you." Sawyer said, pausing for a moment, hoping that somehow, Lydia will wake up, but when she didn't, Sawyer sighed in frustration.

"Oh, come on, Lydia." She said in a slight whisper as she squeezed Lydia's hand, "You gotta come back to us. We can't get through this without you. Lydia, you have to wake up. I need you to wake up." Sawyer said as her eyes went glossy. She looked down at their hands for a moment until Anakin leaned his head on her knee, making her pet him.

"Anakin misses you too." Sawyer said, just then, a very unhappy-looking Natalie Martin appears in the doorway, giving Sawyer a displeased look. "I think that's enough." She said making Sawyer sigh deeply, not looking away from Lydia or moving. "I just got here." Sawyer said and that's when she notices a small bald patch on Lydia's head where her hair has been shaved while Natalie just rolls her eyes in annoyance.

"Sawyer-"

"Hold on." Sawyer said as she moved a lock of Lydia's hair aside so she could get a better look at the small shaved patch of scalp on the side of Lydia's head above her ear. All of the sudden Sawyer saw flashes of what looked like a bloody hole in Lydia's head, right where the patch was. Sawyer suddenly stood up, nearly knocking the chair over, and making Anakin jump slightly as she looked at Natalie, "What the hell is this?" She asked. "All right, you need to go." Natalie said but Sawyer just stood up and looked at her incredulously, "Look at it!"

When Natalie doesn't look surprised by this revelation, Sawyer glares at her, clearly appalled by this revelation. Knowing her best friend's previous experience with Eichen House makes her immediately think of worst case scenarios about what this means for Lydia. "Did you know about this? What the hell are they gonna do? Drill a goddamn hole in her head?" She asked and Natalie looks at Sawyer, horrified by this assumption

"Are you crazy? It's for ECT. Electroconvulsive therapy. They shave small portions of the scalp. It's done under general anesthesia and it's perfectly safe." Natalie said Sawyer doesn't look convinced, and Natalie gives her a look before pointing at Lydia, who is still lying completely still on the bed with her eyes pointed at the ceiling.

"Look at her, Sawyer. She's my daughter. You don't think I'm trying everything I can to bring her back?" Natalie said and Sawyer looked at her with tears slightly forming from frustration and slight fear for her best friend and shook her head. "And yet you're the one who put her in here. She needs a hospital, not a fucking mental asylum. My brother read this place's files, they used to do trephination!" She said.

Just then, Nurse Cross walked into the room with her eyebrows raised, "Is everything all right in here?" She asked and Natalie nodded. "It's fine. Our guest is just leaving." Natalie said but Sawyer just stared at her, not moving, "Sawyer, go. Or you're not coming back."

Sawyer took a deep and hesitates for a moment, looking at Lydia, before glancing down at Anakin. "Come in." She said before she and Anakin walked out. As they were walking out of the closed unit, Sawyer bumped into a couple grumpy-looking male orderlies walking past they. "Sorry about that." Sawyer said but the orderlies barely pay her any attention and continue on their way.

She glanced back at them for a moment before looking down at the keycard in her hand. She smirked slightly, glancing at Anakin before pocketing the card and walking out of the closed unit. They got outside and Sawyer opened the passenger door, letting Anakin jump in before she walked over to the driver side.

She got in and pulled the key card out, staring at it for a moment before pulling her phone out and calling her brother.

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Sawyer, Stiles, Scott, Kira, Malia and Liam all stood around the table that was covered in pictures and blueprints of Eichen House. Scott turns to Liam and nods slightly, making Liam set down a book that said "EICHEN SECURITY LOG" on the cover. Sawyer follows up by holding up the stolen key card from earlier and laying it down as well.

Scott smiled at the members of his pack before getting a determined look in his eyes, "Now we get Lydia."