Avalon's outfit:
Chapter Thirty-Two
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Stiles brought Mason's medical chart to Deaton in hopes that he can share some insight. "Vanishing twin syndrome...?" Deaton asked and Stiles nodded and looked at him hopeful, "This is part of your expertise, right?" He asked and Deaton shook his head slightly.
"Not particularly, no." He said making Stiles frowned in disappointment as Deaton studies the chart. Just then, the back door slammed open making them turn around as Liam, Avalon and Scott appear in the doorway, holding up one of the Dread Doctors, who is gravely injured.
"He's still alive!"
The Surgeon laid on the exam table while they all surround him, looking concerned, "Can you keep him alive?" Scott asked as Deaton looked the Dread Doctor over, "I'm not sure he technically is alive." Deaton said. "Screw keeping him alive! How do we get him to talk?" Liam asked, obviously angry at what had happened the previous night, "Personally, I don't think we utilize torture nearly enough." Stiles muttered and Avalon nodded.
"Yes, please because this is the one that killed me."
"Come." A deep voice with a french accent said catching the Avalon's attention, "Do you hear that?" She asked. "Come to me... To me..." The voice said again and all of the sudden The Surgeon bolts upright and causes an ear-splittingly loud noise to ring loudly throughout the room, which forces all of them to cover their ears with their hands.
While they're distracted, The Surgeon stands and gets ready to leave. Liam growls and lunges toward him before Scott can stop him, "Liam wait!" Scott yelled. The Surgeon turns and causes an electromagnetic concussive blast that shoves Liam backward into the wall behind him before he crashes to the floor. The Surgeon walks out the door and raises his hand before he walks into the parking lot, which causes all of the metal furniture to fly toward the door to the exam room.
Liam gets to his feet, rubbing his sore neck, but when he and Scott start to chase after The Surgeon, Avalon stops them. "Stop, stop! It's electrified." She said making Scott's eyes widen in shock, and he gently holds out his hand to feel the static electricity coming off of the furniture.
The Surgeon walks outside, and falls to his knees as Sebastien approaches him and gives him a hard look. He takes The Surgeon's mask off, revealing a withered old man underneath with sparse white hair and blood pouring out of his mouth. "Marcel... if this is what immortality looks like, I think you might have been misled." Sebastien said, staring at his old friend, "For you... All for you..." Marcel said. "What did you do with it, Marcel? Where's the pike?" Sebastien asked and Marcel looked up at him, "The Argents... The Argents."
Inside, Scott's eyes widen in shock when he realizes what they're talking about, "The cane!" He said and Liam sighed. "But they took it. They took the cane."
A few minutes later Deaton, Scott, Stiles, Avalon, and Liam are gathered around the table in the exam room, where Scott is flipping through the pages of Mason's chart. "Maybe there's something in here? Something about how he was a genetic chimera?" Scott asked as he read the file.
"Mason had a vanishing twin." Deaton said and Stiles sighed, "Now we've got a vanishing Mason." He said. "What does that have to do with him turning into a 250-year-old French guy? How does that even happen?" Liam asked confused and then an idea popped into Deaton's head. "Hold on... Scott might have something. Mason's twin wasn't entirely gone- that's what made him a genetic chimera. The DNA was still there. Metaphorically speaking, the DNA of Mason could still be inside Sebastien as well."
"How?"
"Life is energy. Energy doesn't just disappear. The Dread Doctors may have found a way to break the rules of the supernatural world, but there are some rules that simply won't break." Deaton said and Liam's expression becomes hopeful at this news. "So, Mason just can't be gone?" He asked and Deaton looked at him, "Somewhere in Sebastien, he has to still exist in some form. A spark of energy, a flicker of memory..." Deaton said and realizing crossed over Stiles's features.
"Hang on... Liam, you said Mason said something right before he turned." Stiles said and Liam nodded, "He said... That's not my name." Liam said and Avalon's eyes widened slightly. "He finally remembered his name." She said and Stiles nodded sligntly, "Damnatio memoriae."
"That's what they wanted. They wanted Sebastien to remember his name." Liam said and Deaton looked over at Scott, "Scott, you know the myth of what happens when you call a werewolf by its given name?" Deaton asked and realization crossed over Scott's features. "It turns back to human.."
"What does that mean? Someone can just walk up to the Beast, yell Mason's name, and turn him back?" Liam asked confused and Avalon slightly shook her head, "Not someone..." She said and Stiles nodded, "Lydia."
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Avalon, Scott, Liam, and Stiles gathered around Lydia's bed as Melissa walks in, looking nervous and with a syringe concealed discretely in her hand. "Lydia, this is gonna have to be just between us, since I can get fired for it." Melissa said, "It's a cortisone shot. It's gonna bring the inflammation down." Scott said and Lydia nodded and held her arm out.
"Not there." Melissa said before she reaches up and gently peels half of the bandage over her throat away so she can see the claw wounds. Lydia groans in pain, clearly not excited about the prospect of getting a shot in her open wound, and both Stiles and Liam start to look woozy.
"Uh, yeah, okay, I'm gonna need to leave-" Stiles said but Melissa cuts him off as he starts to walk toward the door, "You're not going anywhere. Hold her hand." She said. Stiles sighs and instantly walks back to Lydia's bedside and takes her hand, "Okay, fine. I'm not leaving... But I still might faint." He said as Avalon gave him a smug look making him roll his eyes.
"Okay, here we go." Melissa mumbled and Lydia tightly grips onto Stiles hand as she braces herself, but before Melissa can do anything, Liam's eyes roll back into his head and he faints, collapsing onto the ground in a heap. Scott rushes over to check on him while Avalon sighed and shook her head slightly. "He'll be fine." She said and Melissa turned back to Lydia.
"Okay, Lydia, this is gonna hurt like a bitch..." Melissa said before she pushes the needle into Lydia's neck, and she gasps in pain and whimpers as she is injected with the cortisone.
A few minutes later Scott, Liam, Stiles, Avalon, and a properly-dressed Lydia walked out of the elevator, Avalon helping Lydia stay on her feet as they walk. "Okay, Avalon and I will get Malia. Text me when you find Parrish." Stiles said and they went to walk away but Scott stops the.. "Hold on-" He said making Stiles and Avalon stop and turn to him as pulls out a cylinder-shaped object wrapped in brown paper out of his jacket pocket and hands it to Stiles.
"What's this?" Stiles asked, "Something I've been working on for a while. Just make sure Malia gets it." Scott said and Stiles looked at him confused. "Is it Plan B?" He asked and Scott sighed softly, "It was Plan A..." He said making Avalon gives him a look. "Plan A never works." She said and Scott nodded.
"This one will."
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Stiles and Avalon ran into Scott's house only to be met with the Desert Wolf pointing a gun at them. "Oh, damn." Stiles mumbled before Malia suddenly shot forward, grabbing Stiles and throwing him into the living room. "Holy shit!" Avalon said as she ran past Malia and the Desert Wolf and into the living room.
Malia knocked the gun out of the Desert Wolf's hand before they grabbed each other's arms. They wrestle with each other until they fall into the living room and land on top of the glass coffee table, which collapses and shatters into a million pieces underneath them. Stiles and Wren hides behind the couch, watching the mother and daughter duo fight.
The Desert Wolf tossed Malia into the wall as Stiles and peek out from behind the couch making the Desert Wolf look at them. Avalon's eyes widened when Stiles suddenly jumped over the couch, "Stiles!" Avalon yelled. He tries to punch The Desert Wolf in the face, but she wastes no time throwing him down on the floor, where he lands in a heap on the pile of broken glass from where the women had fallen through the coffee table.
"Stiles?" Malia called out as she slowly sat up and Stiles turned around to reveal a giant piece of glass in his chest. Avalon quickly jumped over the couch before grabbing the Desert Wolf's shoulder, punching her in the face. The woman chuckled slightly before swinging her arm at Avalon but Avalon grabbed it before her hand started to turn a bright reddish orange.
The Desert Wolf groaned in pain before grabbing Avalon by the jacket, slamming her into wall. Avalon groaned slightly before bring her foot up, roughly kicking the woman in the stomach. The Desert Wolf stumbled back before noticing Malia crawling across the floor to grab the Desert Wolf's gun. The woman quickly jumped over the couch, grabbing the gun before the both stood up.
The Desert Wolf pulled the trigger, shooting Malia in the shoulder making her back away as she doubles over in pain. The Desert Wolf smirks in satisfaction as Malia groans and stumbled backwards away from her mother. But when she turns around to run down the hallway, the Desert Wolf shoots her again in the back, and Malia groans once again as the bullet pierces through her other shoulder.
"It's not the full moon, Malia... but you know what? It's close enough." The Desert Wolf said as Malia breathed heavily, "Stop..." She said but the Desert Wolf shot her again before cornering Malia at the end of the hallway,
She flicked out her claws before a small ball of fire hit her shoulder making her hiss in pain, looking back at Avalon. "Malia!" Avalon yelled before tossing a jar with Belasko's talon past the Desert Wolf and at her girlfriend.
The talons glow as soon as Malia catches the jar, and the Desert Wolf sneers as she stalks toward her daughter. Her blue eyes flashing as she shoves her clawed fingers into Malia's stomach making Malia groan in pain. "I want my power back!" The woman said as Malia dropped the jar making it shatter as she looked at her mother.
Glowing blue talons at her finger tips as Malia stabs The Desert Wolf with them as her eyes glowed blue. "I want my family back." Malia said as The Desert Wolf gasped while getting weaker as Malia absorbs her power. Eventually the Desert Wolf's eyes go back to their normal brown, while Malia's eyes become so blue that her pupils are almost covered by the glow.
Malia ripped her hand out of her mother's stomach, making the woman back away from her. Avalon cleared her throat making the Desert Wolf spin around right before Braeden knocks her out with the butt of her rifle. Avalon grabbed Braeden's arm as Braeden winced in pain before they walked over to Malia.
"You okay?" Avalon asked, looking Malia over and Malia smiled at her and nodded while grabbing her hand. "Can someone please come and take this gigantic shard of glass out of my chest? Please?" Stiles asked making the girls look at him.
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Avalon sat on the back of her car with Malia standing next to her, working on some school work. "Am I doing to this right?" Malia asked making Avalon look at what Malia was doing before nodding, "Yeah, that's actually correct." Avalon said. Malia smiled before leaning in to kiss Avalon making her smile into the kiss.
They pulled away when Lydia pulled up and got out before walking over to the couple. They all smile at each other before Lydia links her arms through Malia's as Malia grabbed Avalon's hand before theh walked into the school.