Amara's outfit:
Chapter Thirty-Four
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The steel door of the loft slides back with a clang and Jennifer rushes in. Voice tremulous with panic, she calls out to the darkened loft, "Derek? Derek, where are you?"
"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."
"From who?"
"Scott, Stiles, Amara. 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."
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 Amara step out from behind the wall.
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." Amara 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.
"Where's my dad?" Stiles asked, eyes full of tears and Jennifer looked at him 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 Stiles' father?" Derek asked and Jennifer scoffed, "No!" She said. Her innocent act was slowly crumbling more and more every second. "How about you you ask her why she tried to kill Lydia." Amara said making Jennifer look at her.
"Lydia Martin? 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."
"What if we can?" Scott asked stepping forward and Jennifer noticed Amara hand him a 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 and Amara stepped back.
With a flick of his arm, the powder flies out of the vial, pluming 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 Amara and Lydia had seen in the fire at the motel.
Derek flinches back as if he'd been hit.
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!"
"What are you?"
"The only person who can save Cora!" She said making Amara's eyes widen, "Call Peter... Call him!" Jennifer said and Amara instantly pulled her phone out, while Derek kept a hold in Jennifer. "Firecracker." Peter said when he answered the phone, "How's Cora?" She asked.
"It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness, she's vomiting up black blood, along with one other alarming substance..."
"Mistletoe." Amara said, gearing at Jennifer, "How did you know that?" Peter asked but Amara didn't answer as she just hung up and Derek's grip tightens around Jennifer's throat making her let out a few gasps of pain. "Derek... Derek, what are you doing?"
"Her life... it's in my hands!" Jennifer gasped and Amara stepped forward, "Derek, stop!" She yelled but he ignored her. "Stilinski... you'll never find him..." Jennifer struggled to say, "Derek!" Amara yelled and almost instantly Derek dropped Jennifer to the ground. She draws in a breath, hand to her throat and glares up at them in defiance.
"That's right. You need me- all of you." Jennifer said and Amara glared at her slightly before her eyes flashed red and silver. Jennifer gasped slightly as she couldn't breathe until she passed out making everyone look at Amara. Her eyes went back to normal and she shrugged slightly, "We need her, but not awake." She said before walking away.
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Siren lights flashing, an ambulance full of evacuees veers away from the hospital's entrance. Derek's car and Stiles's Jeep soar in past and screech to a halt. Derek gets out and he makes no attempt to be gentle when pulling Jennifer out. Shutting the door of the Jeep, Scott and Amara pauses and looks at Stiles weird when he sees Stiles pull a baseball bat out of the back.
"You got claws, Amara's an alpha with elemental powers. I got a bat." Stiles said and Scott and Amara looked at each other before shrugging slightly then walking towards the doors.
Derek, Jennifer, Scott, Amara 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 asked
"We're here for Cora." Scott said and Melissa looked at all if 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.
"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.
"Got it."
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 raises the bat, fully ready to bash her across the skull with it. And Amara?
She looked like she was going to rip someone's head off.
The bell rings and the elevator doors open. Derek pulls Jennifer out with Scott and Stiles close behind. Derek let Jennifer go as he moved past the group to the double doors of the Patient Holding Area. All he sees inside is an empty bed and black blood mixed with mistletoe all over the floor.
"Der..." Amara 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.
A body soars through, tumbling across the floor and sliding to their feet and with a groan of pain, Peter looks up. "We got a problem." He said and they all looked down the hall where a monstrous werewolf stood. Past it's feet lies Cora's unconscious body. "Big problem." Peter said before the twin Alpha roared and charges toward them.
A brilliant red fills Derek's eyes, his face transformed into a werewolf. He rushes to meet the Twin Alpha in the middle of the corridor, their bodies colliding brutally. Eyes glowing and transformed as well, Scott races in to help. Stiles, however, has his eyes on Cora lying at the far end of the hall. Still holding the baseball bat, he grabbed Peter, pulling him to his feet.
"Help me." Stiles said before dodging blows and bodies smashing against walls, they slip past the fighting werewolves to reach Cora and made sure she was still alive. Derek slams to the floor just as Scott's feet lift off it. The Twin Alpha grips him by the neck, raising him up, "Ethan, Aiden- stop. You don't know what you're doing." Scott said and the Twin Alpha speaks with a voice combining both Ethan and Aiden's, "All we want is her."
Pushing himself up from the floor, Derek sees Jennifer slipping inside the elevator again, a smirk on her face. Amara's eyes flashed red and blue before the twins suddenly stopped as Amara made their blood flow stop. Her the blue in her eyes changed to silver before she threw her arm out making the twins go flying back down the opposite hallway.
"Go." Amara said as she pulled Scott up before they all ran down the hall. Racing through double doors and into the morgue, Stiles looks past Peter carrying an unconscious Cora over his shoulder to find Scott, Amara and Derek catching up. "Don't stop!" Derek yelled as the Twin Alpha, barrels through the doors after them. Brandishing the baseball bat, Stiles turns back, ignoring Scott's warning, "Stiles-"
He swings, smashing the Twin Alpha across the back of the head. But instead of hurting the twins, the bat bursts into tiny pieces. Hands trembling, Stiles drops the handle and runs over to the other.
As Stiles begins to retreat, Scott looks to Derek and nods to a light fixture above them. Derek grabs him by the jacket and tosses him right into the air. Latching onto the lighting fixture, Scott yanks it free and the fixture smashes down on the head of the already disoriented Twin Alpha. Sparks fly as the monster crumbles underneath the steel fixture amid bursts of electricity.
"Nice!" Amara said before they all started running again.
The low hum of electricity rises to a crackle and the backup generators kick in. Dim emergency lights click on in the operating room. The door swings open and Stiles comes through with Peter, who was carrying Cora. He sets her down on the operating table as Derek, Amara and Scott rush inside right behind them.
"Where's the big guy?"
"Close."
"What about Ms. Blake?" Stiles asks and Scott shakes his head, "What do you mean? Like gone? Are you kidding me?" Stiles says, his voice rising. "Quiet." Derek said making Stiles walk over to him
"Me be quiet? You're telling me what to do? When you psychotic mass murdering girlfriend- the second one you've dated by the way- has my dad tied up somewhere waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles said and Scott sighed softly. "Stiles, they're still out there." He said making Stiles look at him, "And they want her, right? Which means now that we don't have her either, my Dad and Cora are dead."
"Not yet." Amara said, giving Stiles a look making him back off before looking at Cora, Derek and Peter hovering over her. "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. "Can you heal her?" Scott asked, looking at Amara who sighed and shook her head, "I dont think so. I'm not that good with the other elements to heal more than wounds." She said.
"You can't save her. Only I can." Jennifer said as she walked into the room making them all spin around to look at her, "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."
A look of rage in his eyes, Derek started walking toward Jennifer with a murderous intent but Scott quickly steps in between them. "Derek, wait-" He said as he grabbed making him glance at 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.
"Not until I'm safe."
"I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion... Let's torture her." Peter said and Amara nodded, "I agree." She said and Derek shrugged. "Works for me." He said but the PA system crackled to life before anyone could do anything.
"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."
The PA clicks off, leaving Scott breathless and terrified. "He's not gonna hurt her." Jennifer said and Amara glared at her, "No one gave you permission to talk, bitch." 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. "You and Amara are 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 looked around at all of them confused. "What's that?" He asked. "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.
"Scott, your mom-" Amara 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."
"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 Amara raise her eyebrows. "You mean fight them." She said and he shrugged, "Whatever I have to do." He said and Amara nodded.
"I'm in." She said and Derek nodded in agreement, "I'll help you." Derek said and Jennifer scoffed slightly. "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?" Stiles asked.
"Something better than a baseball bat."
Seconds later, they yank drawers open across the room and spill their contents onto counters. Scott picks up scalpels of various sizes. Peter shakes his head. Stiles raises a set of defibrillator paddles, "Hey, wait, what about these?" He asked making everyone look at him.
"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.
"That's only gonna make him stronger." Derek said making Peter look up, "How strong?" He asked and Amara realized what he was thinking. "Strong enough." She said, grabbing the syringe, turning to Peter with a smirk. "I hope this hurts." She said and he chuckled and raised his eyebrows, "I think I can handle a little-" He started to say but groaned when she roughly stabbed the syringe into his chest.
"I see you get your strength from your father." Peter said and she raised her eyebrows, "Clearly not considering I'm the only Hale who hasn't died or almost died." She said before pushing down the plunger.
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 Amara and Scott behind him. At the end of the hall, the Twins watch him yank the needle out of his chest and toss it to the floor. Peter flares his eyes an ice-cold blue, "All right, boys! Let's rumble!"
Ethan and Aiden charge forward. In one fluid motion, their bodies surge together to form the Twin Alpha. With a lunatic war cry, Peter bullets right at them, soaring in behind him, Scott leaps up to help with claws unsheathed.
A while later Peter tumbles to the corridor floor and Scott and Amara ran over to him. "That shot didn't last very long..." Peter said as the teens wrapped his arms around their shoulders, pulling him up and down the hall. Scott kicked opened the door to the laundry room and they pulled Peter in while Amara closed the door, standing by it to look out the small window.
"Those twins are really starting to piss me off." Peter said and Amara raised her eyebrows slightly, "It took this long?" She said. "How the hell are we supposed to get past them?" Scott asked and Peter shrugged slightly, "Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up." Peter said making Amara scoff.
"And give them an ego boost? Hell no." She said and Scott glanced around before noticing the laundry chute. Amara and Peter followed his line of sight and Amara shrugged slightly, "That works." She said.
Second later, Amara fell into a bin of clothes, "I wanna do that again." Amara mumbled as she quickly climbed out. A second later Peter fell into the bin but before he could even move, Scott fall in after him making them both groan. Peter pushed Scott off him before getting up with a bit of a struggle, "You couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds?" He asked, giving Scott a dirty look before climbing out.
Scott's phone buzzed making everyone look at him as he pulled out his phone. "They didn't get out, did they?" Amara asked as Scott shook his head, texting Derek back, who was trapped in the elevator with Jennifer. Amara and Scott walked over to Peter who was on the ground, leaning against the wall before wrapping his arms around their shoulders again.
"Stiles should be in the ambulance with Cora." Scott said and Amara nodded slightly, "Let's go then." She said.
Stiles cautiously peers out as the Alpha twins passes right by making him suck in a deep breath. He sat there in silence, breath held as he watched and waited until the Twins walked through a door, not paying any mind to the ambulance.
Stiles sighed in relief before his eyes widened slightly as he heard a shuffling sound. Feet moving quickly across the cement floor, coming right for them. Someone suddenly yanks on the doors of the ambulance makin Stiles jump. "Stiles! Open the door!" Scott says in a harsh whisper making Stiles quickly open the door.
"Help us get him in." He said and Stiles grabbed Peter's arms and helped him into the bench on the other side of Cora. "Where's Derek and Jennifer?" Stiles asked and Amara sighed, "We have to go back for them, and Scott's mom." She said and Stiles nodded as.
"Okay, two problems- Kali's got the keys to this thing, and I just saw the twins, like, thirty seconds ago." Stiles said and Scott looks around, eyeing the shadows. "Stay here." Scott said before closing the door and him and Amara quickly ran back inside the hospital.
Moving quickly and quietly, Scott and Amara head for the end of the corridor. But just at the turn, they both slow down to a stop as they hear something. They glance at each other for a moment while they listen for a moment before hearing the sound of something metal falling to the ground.
All of the sudden the merged twins rain out, throwing at punch at Scott who quickly ducked making them punch a metal cabinet. The twins knocked Amara to the ground before slamming Scott into the wall before slamming him into metal shelves.
Scott fell to the floor and the twins picked him up by his neck and lifted him up onto the wall. "We're trying not to hurt you! We just want her!" They said as Amara stood up. She whistled slightly making the twins look at her before her eyes flashed red and blue and the twins groaned in pain and step away from Scott.
"Hey!" Melissa yelled, catching Amara off guard making her eyes go back to normal. "I'd like to try something." She said before pressing a couple defibrillator paddles to the Twin Alpha's body and hits the monster with two thousand volts.
Ethan and Aiden both separate and tumble to the floor, bolts of electricity arcing across their bodies. Stunned, Scott and Amara both peers up at Melissa. "That was fucking awesome." Amara said making Melissa smile before looking at Scott, "Sweetheart, get up." She said before she and Amara pulled Scott up. "Come on." Amara said before directing the two McCalls down a hallway.
After getting far enough away Melissa turned to them, "He just let me go. Said it was a "gesture of goodwill." No other reason." She said making Scott and Amara look at each other. "He had to have a reason- Deucalion only does something as a gesture of goodwill because it's going to get him something he wants." Amara said and Melissa sighed.
"Well, if that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified, then don't worry about it! I got that covered." Melissa said and Amara nodded slightly, "That's probably a good thing." She said. All of the sudden Scott stopped and held his arm out in front of them. Amara focus her hearing to hear the sound of a gun cocking making her and Scott glance at each other.
Amara slowly walked around the corner only to stop when she saw Allison, Isaac, Makena and Argent, who quickly pointed his gun at her. Scott and Melissa quickly ran over making Allison, Isaac and Makena sigh in relief while Amara gave Argent a look. "You were the one Argent who hasn't threatened my life." She said and he sighed and nodded while lowering his gun, "Sorry." He said.
"So, they're essentially trapped?" Makena asked as they walked into an operating room, "Yeah. Right." Scott said and Isaac furrowed his brows. "There's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on." He said and Melissa shook her head slightly, "But wait, wait, wait- if the power's back on, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right?" She asked and Amara nodded
"And they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops." She said and Scott nodded in agreement, "We can't get in a fight with them." He said and Argent glanced at Allison. "You've got us now." He said and Amara quickly shook her head, "It's too much of a risk. They want her dead, and if she dies, there's nothing we can do for the Stilinski and Cora." She said and Argent frowned slightly.
"I don't even think I know which teacher this is..." He said and before anyone could say anything Isaac spoke up, "She's-she's the one with the brown hair? She's kind of hot?" He said making everyone look at him weird. "Just an observation..." He said and Amara nodded in agreement slightly before noticing Allison giving her a look making her eyes widen slightly.
"I'm sorry."
"Guys, we have to figure something out." Scott said before Allison noticed Amara tilt her head slightly, staring at Allison's shoes in thought. "What is it?" She asked making Amara look up at her, "Can you run in wedges?"
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A little while later Isaac and Amara sat in the car with Allison on a video call. "You guys ready?" Allison asked and Amara gave her a thumbs up while Isaac nodded, "Yeah." He said and Allison raised her eyebrows. "You're not nervous, are you?" She asked, "Do I look nervous?" He asked making Amara and Allison look at each other for a moment before they both shook their heads
"Not at all." Amara said and Allison nodded in agreement before setting her phone on the ground, stepping out of frame. "Do they look nervous?" They heard Argent asked, "Amara's fine, Isaac looks terrified." Allison said making Amara laugh as she looked over at Isaac who looked offended.
"Yeah, I can still hear you... very, very clearly..." He trailed off making Allison crouch down in front of her phone, "Just go as soon as you see them, okay?" Allison asked and Isaac nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I got it." He said before looking at Amara, "Do I look terrified?" He asked and she nodded.
"Yes."
Not too long later they saw the twins run past the camera making Amara grab her phone before driving over tit the garage. The doors of the ambulance are thrown open as Isaac and Amara got out and Peter carries Cora out with Stiles behind him. "All right, come on, come on, come on!" Isaac says but Stiles pauses to notice something hanging on the door of the ambulance, a clipboard with forms on it.
"What is it?" Amara asked as she walked yo to him, "Guardian isn't law enforcement." He says and she looks at the paper. Down at the bottom of the sheet, Amara looked the line for a signature. Underneath the line it reads: Parent or Guardian making her eyes widen in realization. "Melissa." Amara whispered before running off, Stiles running off behind her as they both ignore Issac's calls.
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Running into the corridor, Stiles and Amara sees Scott going for the stairs. "Scott!" Amara yelled as they both 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.
"I don't know what else to do..." Scott says in a slight whisper making Amara shake her head, "Scott, there's gotta be something else, okay? We always have a plan B." She said and he stared at her for a moment before shaking his head.
"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 Amara watching as Scott walked into the darkness with Deucalion.