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|Chapter 12|
*Edited 05.03.2024* 🙂
All three of us run to the School doors. I could feel my heart almost beating out of my chest, only thing calming me was the warm reassuring hand that was still holding mine.
“Lock it! Lock it!” Scott shouts as we are all out of breath.
“Does it look like any of us have a key?” Stiles says letting go of my hand, my eyes remained on the little bit of outside that I could see to make sure that I couldn’t see what that was coming after us.
I look through the door’s small window and see the bolt cutters that Stiles dropped outside. Puzzle pieces coming together in my mind.
“I have an idea.” I say and both guys look at the same place as me and both shaking their head.
“No way you are going out there.” Stiles says shaking his head. “No, no, no.” He continues and I roll my eyes.
I turn around and I’m about to open the door when Stiles pulls me to the side and goes outside himself.
What is he doing??
“Stiles!” I whisper slash yell while my face is against the cold glass.
“Stiles what are you doing!” Scott does the same.
Stiles slowly makes his way towards the bolt cutters looking around for any sign of the alpha. As he finally picks them up. I see the alpha coming out from around the jeep in all fours.
“Stiles!” I start hitting against the glass as Scott quickly notices and starts doing the same shouting for the buzzcut’s name.
The alpha starts running towards my crush and Stiles quickly runs back as we quickly open the door for him and shut it after he is inside. He is quick to put the bolt cutters on the door making it slightly more difficult to open the doors.
“Don’t do that. Ever again.” I say out of breath leaning against the wall as Stiles looks back at me a throws me a smile.
Dickhead.
I turn around and cross my arms. Stiles seemed to notice as quickly walks towards me, his arms open dramatically.
“Dayton I-” he starts but I am quick to cut him off.
“It’s okay.” I said faking a smile. I’m not okay but in case I just so happen to die today. I don’t wanna die having bad blood between me and my best friends.
We hear the alpha howl and we all quickly start running towards some better place. And the best thing we find is a classroom. We go inside and I see lots of tables and I think about blocking the doorway. Watching horror movies is coming handy.
“The desk.” I say.
We start to push one of the tables to block the doorway.
“Stop! Stop! Stop!” Stiles whispers putting his hand up making us stop and look at him. “The door’s not gonna keep it out.” Stiles says and I agree.
That thing is pretty strong.
“We know.” Scott says.
“It’s your boss.” Huh.
“What?” Scott asks with a shocked expression.
“Deaton, the alpha. Your boss.” Stiles says.
“No.” Scott says quickly defending his boss as he shakes his head.
“Yes, murdering psycho werewolf.” Stiles says.
“Can you at least hear him out?” I ask while Scott sighs and looks at the floor before looking back to us.
“That can’t be.” He continues.
“Oh come on. He disappears and that thing shows up ten seconds later to toss Derek 20 feet through the air? That’s not convenient timing.” Stiles says and I have to agree with him on this one.
I pass my hand through my light brown hair, looking around.
“It’s not him.” Scott continues.
“He killed Derek.” Stiles says.
“No, Derek’s not dead. He can’t be dead.” Scott says oblivious.
“Well, blood spurted out of his mouth. That doesn’t exactly qualify as minor injury.” I turn back to them while Stiles mumbles a ‘thank you’.
“He’s dead and we’re next.” Stiles says pointing to us.
“Okay – stop being so negative.” I ask looking between the buzzcut and the werewolf.
“We get to my jeep. We get out of here, you seriously think about quitting your job, good?” Stiles says looking at Scott. Scott looking defeated walks to the windows as we follow him.
“No, they don’t open. The school’s climate – controlled.” Stiles says, ignoring my comment, stopping Scott from attempting to open one of the huge windows.
“Then we break it.” Scott says.
“Don’t. It would make a lot of sound which would attract the alpha. Even though the alpha should be able to hear our heartbeats and know exactly where we were. Why is it not doing that?
“Then, uh, then we run really fast.” Scott says looking at where the jeep is. “Really fast.” He says looking with a panic expression on his face. “Stiles what is wrong with your jeep?” Scott asks.
I go beside Scott to look at the jeep and so does Stiles.
“What do you mean? Nothing’s wrong.” Stiles says.
“It seems bent.” I say noticing the little bump on the jeep. I have seen that damn jeep way too many times to notice even the slightest differences. This one wasn’t a slight one.
“What like dented?” Stiles asks.
“No, like bent.” Scott says.
“What the –” stiles starts but is cut off by the sound of glass breaking. I quickly fall to the floor shielding my head.
I look up and see some battery on the floor and we are surrounded by glass, Stiles is standing on top of me with his arms open in a protective manner. I see that there is a cut on Stiles cheek.
“That’s my battery.” He says.
I touch his cheek.
“Stiles, your cheek!” I say and he somewhat chuckles.
“Uh – its nothing – I’m fine.” He says, shrugging me off. I stand up and keep my eyes on the boy.
Stiles starts getting up but Scott grabs his arm to stop him.
“Don’t.” Scott says.
“We have to move.” Stiles says.
“He could be right outside.” Scott says.
“He is right outside.” I exclaim.
“Just let me take a look.” Scott says and I nod.
All I could also think about was Derek, poor Derek. He was a sour wolf but no one deserves to be killed that way. Bonus for him being hot.
Scott slowly takes a peek through the window.
“Nothing?” I ask.
“Nope.” Scott says.
“Move now?” Stiles asks.
“Move now.” Scott nods.
We slowly move and make our way out of the destroyed classroom. What are they going to think in the morning…
We were back in the hallway.
“This way.” Scott says starting to walk forward into the school.
“No,no no no.” Stiles whispers.
“What?” Scott asks.
“We need to go somewhere without windows.” Stiles whispers.
“I think every room has windows in the building.” I state the obvious.
“Fine. Somewhere with less windows.” Stiles says and I nod.
“How about the locker room?” Werewolf says.
“Yeah.” I agree nodding. “I think that will do – let’s go then.”
//
We are safe and sound and in full piece now inside the locker room. It still somehow smelt like sweaty teenagers which the three was quite used to already.
“Okay.” Stiles says turning to us.
‘There is really less windows.’ I say, my arms crossed as I looked at the tiny window next to me. ‘I mean there are some but they are really small, doubt that thing will be able to get in through there.’
“Call your dads.” Scott says and I turn to him like he was mad. “One of you.” He finishes.
“And tell them what?” Stiles asks.
“I don’t know, anything. Gas leak, a fire, whatever. If that thing sees the parking lot filled with cops, it’ll take off.” He says.
“This is bonkers. Do you think it is scared of anything? He can kill the whole town and he is acting on anger.” I say, I get that they are American but this is just outrageous at this point.
“Yeah and what if he turns terminator and kills every cop in sight. Including our dads.” Stiles says and I nod.
“They have guns.” Scott says.
“Yeah, and Derek had to be show with a wolfsbane laced bullet to even slow him down. Remember?” Stiles says.
“Then we – we have to – We have to find a way out and just run for it.” Scott says.
“There’s nothing near the school for at least a mile.” I say and take my phone out. There is no connection.
“Absolute wankers.” I say and they both turn to me. “I don’t have connection down here.” I finish and Stiles passes his hand through his buzzcut obviously frustrated.
“What about Derek’s car?” Scott asks.
“Yeah, I guess that could work.” I state and they agree.
“Yeah, we go outside, we get the keys off his body, and then we take his car.” Stiles says. Sounds a bit morbid but our only option.
“And him.” Scott says. I ship it. Focus Dayton.
“Fine.” Stiles chuckles. “Whatever.”
Scott stops and looks to the floor looking like he just heard or saw something.
“What is it?” I whisper.
“I think I heard something.” Scott says still focusing on whatever it was.
“Like what?” Stiles asks.
“Quiet.” Scott says trying to focus on whatever was coming closer, his expression quickly changes. “Hide!” He says before running inside a locker.
I feel a body grab and pull me inside a locker.
I am in a locker with my body touching Stiles’ body. I can say I would love this if I wasn’t in a life or death situation.
“Shh.” Stiles whispers.
I’m 5’2 so Stiles is pretty tall compared to me which sucks, especially in moments like this.
I feel something like a gun hitting against my leg. It took a minute to finally realise what it was. Life and death situation and this guy decides to think of Lydia?
I didn’t say anything and I became tense when also feeling him become tense. Why did that happen now though? I have a lot of questions right now.
“Son of a bitch!” I hear someone exclaim. Stiles opens the door behind him and we both come out to see the janitor.
“Quiet!” Stiles says. “Listen-“
“Quiet my ass, what the hell are you trying to do? Kill me? All of you get out!” The janitor says with his hand on where his heart is. Poor guy.
“Will you just listen for half a second, okay?” Stiles says.
“Not okay. Get the hell out of here right now.” Janitor says as he starts to push us out the door.
“Just one second.” I plead. “There is a reason why we are here!” The man just keeps pushing us until we are right outside.
“God.” Stiles mumbles.
“Just shut up and go.” The janitor shuts the door and right after that his back is hit against the door as he is screaming. Suddenly he was gone, leaving nothing but red tears at the window.
“Oh my god!” I exclaim.
“Come on!” Stiles pushes us.
My mind wanders to the janitor’s possible family and how they would be fatherless for something that no one would be able to explain.
We walk to the back door. Scott tries to open it but there is something on the other side blocking us. That alpha is smarter then I thought.
“It’s a dumpster.” Scott says.
“He pushed it in front of the door to block us in.” Stiles says and he gets closer to the door. “Come on help me.” He says as he starts to push which is really not gonna help anyone.
“Stop!” Scott says as we both push him with us.
//
We are walking down a corridor which has glass windows right next to us but what are we supposed to do.
“I’m not dying here. I’m not dying at school.” Stiles says freaking out.
True the school is not a good place to have our last breath at.
“We’re not going to die.” Scott says.
I look outside and see a huge figure standing on the other side watching us on the roof.
“Uh guys.” I say tapping Scott’s arm. I get their attention. “Look.” I whisper.
The giant alpha starts running.
“Run!” Scott says and we turn to run as we hear glass breaking a thud like something falling. He must be really heavy. I’m so stupid sometimes of course he is.
My mind is blank as I try to keep pace with both of my best friends. No, no, no.
I feel a pain on my ankle as I feel the alpha’s hand around it. He quickly pushes me back.
Before I am able to react, I am thrown to the wall and everything goes black.
//
STILES POV
We run trough a basement full of old lockers. I am out of breath and we see a lockable room. We get inside it and lock the room. Feeling safe for once. I look around and don’t see Dayton. I start feeling like I am about to have a panic attack at any second.
The alpha is finally stuck.
“Where’s Dayton?” I ask and Scott looks around us.
“I don’t know. I heard someone scream.” He says and I am about to go back but Scott stops me.
“Let go.” I say.
“Don’t. Your gonna get yourself killed.” He says and I look at him.
“I don’t care as long as he is okay.” Scott somewhat smiles and looks down.
“What?” I ask.
“You like him.” He says and I blush.
I don’t know if I do. I feel different with him like I can be myself. He’s just so pure and fragile. I just know that whatever I feel for him is way bigger then what I ever felt for Lydia.
“I don’t know.” I just respond, Scott finally lets go as I walk around in a circle. Scott already knows my secret that I’m bisexual. He is the only one actually, I never really had to come out or anything as he was the one that made me realise my feelings for guys in the first place and I was always honest. Nothing weird though, just realisation.
I regret not telling Dayton sooner especially how he can be dead in this moment. That thought makes my heart sting. I can’t imagine life without Dayton.
I feel different towards him.
“What does it want?” I ask.
“It wants me. Derek says it’s stronger with a pack.” Scott says and I nod.
I can’t stop thinking about Dayton.
I don’t know what to do.
I scratch the back of my neck and wait.
//
“All right we have to do something.” I say getting up. “We have to save Dayton.”
I say.
“I know! But what?” Scott says.
“I don’t know! Kill it, hurt it, inflict mental anguish on it. Something!” I say in a verge of tears.
“Hey! Where’s Dayton?” I say looking through the door as the door is not fully closed. “I’m not scared of you!” I say.
“I don’t think that’s a good –” Scott starts but is interrupted by the alpha. The alpha rips through the ceiling and escape.
“Shit.” I mumble.
We both start running again.
We get to the lobby and Scott tells me to stop.
“Do you hear that?” Scott asks.
“I’m not a werewolf to have intensive hearing.” I say irritated.
“It sounds like a phone ringing.” He says.
“What?” I ask confused. It could be a trap.
“I know that ring. It’s Allison’s.” Scott says and I nod. What is she doing here.
Scott grabs my phone from my hand. He calls Allison.
“No, it’s me, where are you?” He asks.
“Where are you right now?” He asks before waiting for a response. “Where? Where exactly?”
“Get to the lobby now.” He says. I yank the phone out of his hands and put it close to my left ear.
“Allison? Allison hey.” I say out of breath.
“Hi Stiles.” She speaks.
“Is Dayton there with you? Have you seen Dayton?” I ask worried.
“No stiles I haven’t. Why? Where is Dayton?” She asks.
“Nothing. Don’t worry. If you see him call us.” I say.
“I will.” She says before hanging up.
Just hope you are okay Dayton.
//
Allison comes through the door.
“Why did you come? What are you doing here?” Scott asks walking to her.
“Because you asked me to.” She says pointing to her phone in her hand.
“I asked you to?” Scott asks confused.
“Why do I get the feeling you didn’t send the message?” She asks worried.
“Because he didn’t.” I say. “Did you drive here?” I ask.
“Jackson did.” She answers and I chuckle. Of course.
“Jackson’s here too?” Scott asks.
“And Lydia. whats going on?” The brunette asks obviously confused “Who sent this text?” She asks.
Her phone rings and she answers.
“Where are you?” She asks and seconds after Jackson and Lydia burst through the door holding a passed out Dayton.
My eyes widen. Thank god.
“Dayton! Oh god!” I quickly go to him and carry him next to Scott who is also checking out how he is.
“Who did this to him?” Allison asks.
“Can we go? Please, this is getting scarier by the minute.” The strawberry blonde pleads.
I look at a passed out Dayton who is bleeding from the head and the nose. I’m gonna kill that alpha. If I can.
We then hear the door start to shake.
It’s coming.
I pick Dayton up ready for anything.
We all get together in a line. Lydia hiding behind Jackson and Allison standing next to Scott holding hands.
“Run!” Scott says as we all start running up the stairs as something falls from the ceiling.
We come to another corridor and we are looking to see any opened classroom as I am still holding a passed out Dayton. He needs to go to the hospital asap.
We get inside a classroom who is full of windows. I lay Dayton down on one of the tables as I check if he is still breathing.
He is still breathing. I sigh in relief.
People are talking behind me but my attention remainds on the British boy passed out in front of me. Without noticing, my eyes keep going to the boy’s chest to make sure that he is still breathing.
“Dayton – you’re okay. You’re fine. I’m here. You’re safe.” I whisper to him.
“Can somebody please explain what is going on here?” I hear Allison ask.
I am getting tired and frustrated of all the questions.
“Someone killed the janitor and hurt Dayton.” I simply let out.
“What?” Lydia asks.
“Yeah, the janitors dead.” I say.
“What’s he talking about? Is this some terrible joke?” Allison asks.
//
“Call the cops.” Jackass says getting closer, I quickly turn to him.
“No.” I say.
“What – what do you mean no?” Jackson asks. Stupid guy.
“I mean no. Want to hear it in spanish? ‘Noh'” I say. “Derek killed three people and injured one of us. Alright? We don’t know what he’s armed with.”
I feel bad for blaming Derek but if his dead it won’t matter.
“Your dad is armed with an entire sheriff’s department. Call him.” Jackson says. Such a wanker. I chuckle at my though. I’m spending too much time with Dayton already. Never enough.
“I’m calling.” Lydia says.
“Lydia –” I go to protest but Jackson holds me back.
“Hey.” Scott comes to my defence to stop Jackson.
“Yes, we’re at Beacon hills high school. We’re trapped, and we need you to – but –” Lydia said and quickly takes her phone away from her ear. “She hang up on me.” The red head said looking a bit taken back.
“The police hung up on you?” Allison asks her best friend confused.
“She said they got a tip warning them that there were gonna be prank calls about a break in at school. She said if we called again that they’re gonna trace it and get me arrested.” She said.
“Okay, then call again.” Allison says.
“No, they won’t trace a cell and they’ll send a car to your house before they send anyone here.” I say as I know due to my dad’s job, he’s dealt with quite a few prank calls unfortunately. Sometimes I would tag along with him.
“What the – what – what is this? Why does Derek wanna kill us? Why is he killing anyone?” Allison asks confused and irritated.
Out of nowhere everyone is looking at Scott.
“Why is everyone looking at me?” He notices.
“Is he the one that sent her the text?” Lydia asks.
“No, I mean, I don’t know.” He says. Its probably too much pressure.
“Is he the one that called the police?” Scott’s crush asks.
“I don’t know!” Scott snaps as Allison looks to be in a verge or tears.
“All right why don’t we ease back on the throttle here, yeah?” I say pulling a Scott full or regret. Yeah he fucked up.
“Okay first off, throwing Derek under the bus. Nicely done.” I whisper, forgetting I done the same in my head, but thinking it is different then saying it.
“I didn’t know what to say. I had to say something. And if he’s dead then it doesn’t matter right?” Scott asks and I shake my head. “Except if he’s not. Oh god. I just bit her head off.” He says full of regret.
“And she totally will get over it. Bigger issues at hand here. Like how do we get out alive!” I say giving Scott a reality check, looking back at Dayton to check he is in fact still alive.
“But we are alive. It could’ve killed us already. Dayton could’ve easily been dead. It was just a warning. He is trying to play us.” He says and I nod.
He has a point.
“So what? He wants to eat us at the same time?” I ask. “Hoarding us together?”
“No. Derek said it wants revenge.” He says.
“What? Against who?” I ask looking around. Scott obviously didn’t do anything against the alpha.
“Allison’s family?” Scott asks with a worried expression filled in his face.
“Maybe that’s what the text was about.” I say finally getting it.
“Okay, assheads –” Jackson said getting both of our attention. “New plan. Stiles calls his useless dad and tells him to send someone with a decent aim and a gun. Are we good with that?” He says being cocky. I hate him.
“He’s right. Tell him the truth if you have to, just – just call him.” Scott says and I look at him shocked.
“I’m not watching my dad get eaten alive.” I say and he slightly nods.
I turn to Jackson.
“Fine. I’ll use Dayton’s then.” He says getting closer to Day’s unconscious body. Like as if It was a reflex. My fist came in contact with Jackson’s jaw making him groan and fall to the floor as I look at him with anger.
Allison quickly goes to his aid and glares at me.
I get my phone out and dial my dad.
“Dad. Hey it’s me.” I say.
“Hey, Sheriff Stilinski here. Apparently I am doing somethi-”
“And it is your voicemail.” I say.
“Leave the message after the tone.”
“Look, I need you to call me back now. Like right now.” I say before we hear a sound against the door.
“Oh god.” Lydia says as we all get closer to each other.
“We’re at the school dad. At the school.” I say before finishing the call.
Scott picks up Dayton bridal style.
“The kitchen, the door out of the kitchen leads to the stairwell.” I say.
“Which only goes up.” Scott says.
“Up is better then here.” I say.
We start running in the way that I told them. We go ip the stairwell as I keep a look at an unconscious Dayton on Scott’s arms.
We look for an open classroom.
“Here.” Lydia says opening a classroom as we all get in. Great. Harris’ classroom. What a great place to die at.
We all stop moving as Scott places Dayton down on one of the tables. We hear the alpha pass us and doesn’t notice that we are here. Which I’m glad.
“Jackson, how many people fit in your car?” Scott asks.
“Five if someone squeezes on someones lap.” He says.
“Five? I barely fit in the back.” Allison says and Jackson rolls his eyes.
“Plus there is six of us if you hadn’t notice.” I say.
“What about this?” Scott says pointing at a door. “This leads to the roof. We can go down the fire escape to the parking lot in like seconds.” He finishes.
“That’s a deadbolt.” I say.
“The janitor has a key.” Scott says.
“Uh you mean his body.” I say and he nods.
“I can get it. I can find him by scent, by blood.” He says. I guess.
I look back at Dayton. I hope we get to safety in time.
“Im getting the key.” Scott says.
“Are you serious.” Allison asks.
“Well, it’s the best plan. Someone has to get the key if we want to get to safety.” Scott says and I agree. He has got the best shot.
“You can’t go there unarmed.” Allison says worriedly.
Scott then picks up a tiny thick piece of wood. I roll my eyes. Idiot.
“There’s gotta be something else.” I say.
“There is.” The Strawberry blonde says.
I look at her and shes looking at a glassed cabinet.
“What are we gonna do? Throw acid on him?” I ask as Lydia rolls her eyes.
“No. Like a fire bomb. In there is everything you need to make a self – igniting Molotov cocktail.
“Self – igniting –” I start.
“Molotov cocktail.” Lydia glares in my direction as she finishes for me. Everyone was probably looking at her surprised but I already knew how smart she actually is. “What?” She asks but quickly realises. “I read it somewhere.” She says.
“Well, we don’t have key for that either.” I say.
Jackson rolls his eyes before breaking the glass of the cabinet with his elbow. He’s finally useful for something.
//
After a few minutes with Lydia making the self igniting molotov cocktail. I decided to go check up on Dayton.
Lydia hands Scott a brand new made molotov cocktail. Aka bomb.
“No, no, no.” Allison says. “This is insane. You cannot go out there.” She says looking at her boyfriend.
“We can’t just sit here waiting for Stiles’ dad to check his messages.” Scott says. He has a valid point.
“You could die. Don’t you get it? He’s killed three people and hurt Dayton.” She said making me look at Dayton.
I look at him and make my way back to him and sit down on the floor next to him as Allison and Scott are arguing in the background.
The kid with the funny British accent. The friendly guy. Peaceful. The light of this town. Sometimes I look at him and I still can’t believe he is real.
I just wish I could say it to his face. I don’t care if he is going to move away from us. I don’t want to lose him forever.
When I look at the others. Scott had already left and Allison was sobbing and Jackson next to her while Lydia was glaring at both of them. Drama in paradise.
“Jackson, you handed me the sulfuric acid, right? It has to be sulfuric acid. It won’t ignite if it’s not.” She says.
“I gave you exactly what you ask for didn’t I?” Jackson snaps.
She deserves so much better.
“Yeah, yeah I’m sure you did.” She says looking uncertain.
Out of nowhere we hear a loud howl and Jackson falls to his knees with his hands pressed against his ears, his face showing extreme distress. He looked to be in pain.
After it stopped I got up to see what happened to him.
Both girls went to help him up.
“Im fine, I’m fine.” He says.
“That didn’t sound okay at all.” Allison says.
I look at his neck and see something. I can’t tell what it is but it is a mark. It doesn’t look good.
“What’s on the back of your neck?” I ask curious.
“I said I’m fine.” He said touching the back of his neck. Very suspicious.
“It’s been there for days. He won’t tell me what happened.” Lydia tells me.
“As if you actually cared.” The blond says.
“All right. Can we not argue for half a second here?” I ask letting out a sigh. When is this nightmare ending?
“Where is Scott?” Allison asks. ” he should be back by now.” She says.
I hope he is okay.
I hear something lock the door. “Is that him?”
“Scott!” Allison runs to the door. “Scott!” What is he doing?
“Where is he going?” Lydia asks.
I start to hear the sound of the police cars.
“Stop stop! Do you hear that?” I ask. They all stop and listen. We all sigh in relief.
I go to a still unconscious Dayton.
“You’re gonna be okay.” I smile as I hold his hand.
//
Longest chapter I have ever written. I am so excited for this chapter. It is one of my favourites. I remember watching it for the first time and being so scared for stydia. Haha
Stiles is bisexual!!’ How will Dayton react when he finds out? We get a lot of Sayton in this chapter!
Vote, comment and share! Ttyl thank you so much you guys ❤️❤️❤️😘
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