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"War Games"

(2x12)

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Melody was standing in the locker room with Issac and Scott talking to Stiles's dad. Issac had only let the girl go when he had to change and honestly she didn't mind, she was a wreak. She'd never seen someone die before let alone like that so she was a bit jumpy and anxious.

"I got to meet with the medical examiner and try to figure out what happened with Jackson. I've got an APB out on Stiles. His jeep is still in the parking lot, so that means" he stopped looking around before stuttering " - the hell, I don't know what that means." the man looked down to his note pad trying to keep himself together before looking to Scott "Um - look, if he answers his phone, if he answers his emails, if either one of you see him -

"We'll call you." Issac said softly nodding to the sheriff in assurance.

"Look, he's probably just freaked out from all the attention or something. We'll find him." Scott tried to console his best friends father.

Sheriff nodded swallowing before saying "Yeah. I'll see you, okay?" The man walked off seemingly in a daze before the coach rushed over to them, "McCall. We need you on the team, okay? You know I can't put you on the field next season if you don't get your grades up."

Melody frowned, in the mist of all the what happening at the moment lacrosse team and high school seemed meaningless when hunters were out there threatening them, one friend missing and another dead. She had to remind her that of course coach didn't know that so to him lacrosse was important at this moment. Still he did know Jackson was dead so was it really the time for this speech, in her opinion it wasn't.

"Yeah, I know, coach." Scott nodded sadly.

"All right. I mean, I - I know I yell a lot, but it's not like I hate you guys. Well, I kind of hate Greenberg, but, you know, that's different. It's Greenberg. I'm just saying we - I need you on the team. Get your grades back up." Coach chuckled sadly.

"I will." Scott nodded

" I know." Coach walked away leaving them to look around quickly

"Is that everyone?" Scott asked Issac and melody who got off the lockers they were leaning on

"I think so." Issac exhaled.

Melody jumped a bit earring a loud screeching noise as Scott ripped open Stiles's locker and chucked the door on the ground.

"You're gonna find him by scent?" Melody furrowed her brows at the pair.

"Yeah, we both are." Scott nodded to the girl before looking to Issac.

Scott handed Issac a shoe who scrunched his nose up in response not really noticing Scott freezing suddenly.

"But how come you get his shirt and I get a shoe?' Issac groaned making Melody chuckle patting him on the back.

"Just think, maybe you'll find him first" she laughed as Issac looked at her, "You know more pungent smell and all." Melody just smiled at Issac when he glared at her fighting back the smirk wanting to make its way out.

Melody hearing someone behind them yelped in surprise as they turned to see Derek standing there with his hands behind his back. Mel got angry at seeing the man, he hadn't answered any of her calls.

"Derek? What the hell! I'm going to drown you! Why haven't you answered your phone."

"We need to talk." Derek said before someone stepped out of the shadows making Scott visibly tense.

"All of us."  A tall dark blonde ish haired man stepped out of the shadows.

"Holy sh -What the hell is this?" Scott exclaimed pointing to the man who was staring at Melody creeping her out more and making Issac step forward.

"You know, I thought the same thing when I saw you talking to Gerard at the sheriff's station." Derek said making Melody turn to her friend confused.

"Okay, hold on. He - he threatened to kill my mom. And I had to get close to him. What was I supposed to do?" Scott exploded

"I'm gonna go with Scott on this one. Have you seen his mom? She's gorgeous." The man commented making Derek and Scott yell at him to shut up.

"Who is he?" Issac nodded to the mystery man.

"That's Peter, Derek's Uncle." The words vibrated through Melody's body each letter a tiny blow to her heart, Derek was here, standing next to and working with the man that almost killed him, had almost killed her. "Little while back, he tried to kill us all, and then we set him on fire, and Derek slashed his throat." Scott explained looking to them as Issac and Melody shared a look of anger before turning to Peter.

"What the hell Derek! You saw what he did! You carried my unconscious body out of your house!" Melody snapped trying to step forward but Issac held her back worried about the obviously violent man staring her down.

"You almost killed her!" Issac growled flashing his yellow eyes at the pair.

"Nice to finally meet you in person Little Mermaid." Peter smiled making a chill go down her spine.

"Don't call me that." Melody spit out narrowing her eyes at him.

Peter grinned at her making another chill go down her spine."You know I always found mermaids interesting, did you know that if you take a mermaid's blood you can control them, your own little magic slave. Sailors used to use them as weapons to take down other ships."

Scott and Issac step in front of Mel who has gone stiff holding her arms to keep her from shaking.

"Peter, shut up, if you touch her you're dead. For real this time." Derek growled flashing his alpha eyes at the man who raised his hands in surrender.

"Just letting you know, you should be careful who you trust." Peter shrugged looking to her.

"I'm seeing that." Melody glared at Derek making his shoulders slump as Issac pulled her to his side protectively wrapping his arm around her shoulders which she didn't argue with.

"How is he alive?" Scott bit out looking at Derek.

"Look, the short version is he knows how to stop Jackson. And maybe how to save him." Derek sighed looking to the group hoping they'd understand his motives behind working with Peter.

"The long version is how he almost killed me and Derek." Melody snapped back.

"What?" Scott looked to his friend in shock.

"Well, that's very helpful except Jackson's dead." Issac scoffed from beside her.

Derek stilled looking to Peter with a concerned look and back to the group. "What?"

"Yeah, Jackson's dead. It just happened on the field." Scott replied confused to why they looked so upset.

"Okay, why is no one taking this as good news?" Issac frowned also confused to why they looked so upset.

"Because if Jackson is dead, it didn't just happen. Gerard wanted it to happen." Peter explained tightly clenching his jaw.

"But why?" Derek turned to Peter, "Well, that's exactly what we need to figure out. And something tells me the window of opportunity is closing. Quickly."

"What do we do?" Melody questioned looking around until Peter spoke up getting an idea.

"We need to go back the house."

Derek looks to him and Peter nods before waving his hand for the group to follow. Reluctantly Melody does after Issac turns to check with her.

The group walks to the parking lot and Derek nods to them to get in making Melody scoff, "Like hell I'm getting in with that maniac, I'll follow you. Scott?" She asks the boy if he wants to ride with her and he nods also feeling uncomfortable around the newly alive Hale man making Derek's shoulders slump, he didn't know how to fix this.

Melody pulled onto the street as Scott's phone started to ring interrupting her thoughts as he picked up, "Hey, mom, I can't talk right now."

"Oh, yeah? Well, I'm so freaked out that I can barely talk either." Melissa's voice shook over the phone as she panicked making Melody quickly glanced back to Scott while she drove.

"What's wrong?" Scott asked.

"Something - Definitely something. I don't know what, but I think you're gonna want to see this for yourself." Melissa stuttered making Scott tell her they were on their way as Melody did a U-turn to drive towards the hospital.

Melissa met the group at the front quickly leading them down to the where they were keeping his body, luckily for Melody that hadn't been the morgue but a closed off room. Melody wouldn't have been able to walk into another morgue, not after the last time she was in one was her identifying her parents body since Rain was too young.

Even standing in the same room Melody was forcing down the memories of that night as she stuck beside Isaac feeling a little bit safer next to the wolf.

Melissa slowly opened the body bag revealing Jackson's naked, still bloodied body covered in a thick layer of goo with his mouth slightly open showing off the razor sharp teeth.

Her mouth fell agape at the sight, and a huge part of her grew nauseous over the amount of slime covering him.

His entire body was covered in what appeared to be a cocoon of see through slime. It stunk too.

"I'm gonna be sick." Melody whispered turning away covering her mouth. "You don't have to see this, we can meet you in the hall." Scott told Melody feeling her anxiety and sadness as it radiated off her.

"No." Melody looked over still covering her mouth. "Even if Jackson was mean, he still was a 16 year old kid who Gerard killed. I wanna help and that means I need to know what's going on"

Scott nodded at her before looking to his mom, "What's happening to him?"

Melissa looked to her son with wide eyes. I thought that you were gonna tell me. Is it bad?"

"It doesn't look good." Scott replied shaking his head when Jackson started to move making them jump.

"Whoa." Issac exclaimed softly.

"Whoa. Um, mom, could you zip it up, please?" Scott asked looking to his mom.

"Okay. Okay, okay. Okay, here we go." Melissa spiked herself up before stepping forward but Melody snapped at the werewolf before she had a chance to touch the bag. "Seriously Scott, you're a freaking werewolf don't make your mom sip up the freaky dead-alive lizard boy!"

Scott looked to her in fear before taking a deep breath and moved to sip him up. "Okay, okay, okay, okay."

"Zip! Zip, Scott, zip! Zip!" Issac exclaimed seeing the body begin to move more urging his friend to hurry up as the kanima tried to bite him.

Melody looked away as Scott pulled out his phone explaining the situation. Melody hated this, how did her life go from worrying about hiding her secret and mourning her parents to werewolves, kainmas and hunters.

"You okay hun?" Melissa asked looking to the girl who was staring into space.

"Huh- oh yeah, just wondering how my life got this insane." Melody muttering back seeing the mothers worried face.

"Scott, bring him to us." Derek said over the phone.

"I'm not sure if we have time for that." Scott said jumping back with the rest as Jackson moved and they heard a weird screeching noise as rang within the phone.

"Scott, get him out of there now - go now." Derek exclaimed telling him that we will meet half way meaning the group was going to have to sneak a semi dead body out of a hospital.

How the hell they were gonna do that she had no idea, but at least Melissa was a nurse.

Melissa pushed the gurney out of the room the group following behind  Scott looked around the next corner telling his mom to hold on as Issac and melody stood behind the mother, "Okay, go. Go, go, go, go, go." Scott waved his mom on saying it was clear. Melody was about to follow when someone caught her and Issacs attention calling her name.

"Melody!" Galen yells again stopping them as he raced towards her.

"Galen?" Melody frowns at him walking to meet him as Issac stayed waiting for her at the corner still.

"I heard what happened at the game, i'm sorry I should've been there, Are you okay?" Galen crushes the girl in a hug before pulling back to look at her for injuries.

"Uh-Yeah i'm fine, just trying to help look for Stiles." Melody replied a bit shocked at his worrying.

"Good, let me know if you guys find him, but can I talk to you quick?" Galen asked pulling the girl to the side of the hall.

"Uh sure." She furrowed her brows at her uncle glancing to Issac still waiting for her and back to her uncle.

Galen sighs looking to his niece. "Look I was going to surprise you tomorrow but it looks like I gotta work a double but I talked to Naias parents-"

"You're letting me go back for the week?!" Melody exclaimed in excitement.

"Actually they offered to let you stay for the summer, your sister wants to go visit her aunt and I'm going to be working lots so I figured it would be the best." Galen revealed making her face errupt into a huge smile

"What? All summer? In Crescent Cove!?" She exclaimed.

Galen smiled at his nieces excitement assuring him he made the right decision. "Yes, but Naia made me tell you that if you come you have to join the band for the summer, apparently they have a bunch of gigs lined up and no lead singer."

"Holy crap!" Melody yelled shocking Galen as she hugged him making him chuckle, "So I can tell them yes?"

"You're kidding me! Of course!! Thank you!" She jumped up and down in excitement. she couldn't believe it, a whole two months back in her hometown, with her friends and back to swimming in the ocean. she was overcome with excitement almost forgetting the issue at hand as she walked back to Issac who- looked upset. she frowned at him as they walked following the rest out to the parking lot.

The group walked into the empty parking lots as Melissa past them the gurney having to get back to work. Melody hugged the lady feeling the need to comfort her as she said good bye. Melody followed behind Issac and Scott who were pushing the gurney and almost ran into Issac as they upruptly stopped.

Melody looked up immediate recognizing Allisons dad standing in the lot in front of his car, and unfortunately beside hers.

Scott frowned at the man stepping a little closer making Melody's nerves rise, they had no idea why the hunter was here so why would Scott think it was a good idea to go closer. "You're alone."

" More than you know." Chris replied almost sadly making melody scrunched her brows up.

Scott shook his head at themas lightly. "What do you want?"

Chris took a deep breath looking away from the group before looking back. "We don't have much in common, Scott. But at the moment, we have a common enemy."

"That's why I'm trying to get him out of here." Scott explained and the man shook his head.

"I didn't mean Jackson."

"Gerard." Melody gaped making Issac glance to her and the man nodded.

"Gerard has twisted his way into Allison's head, the same way he did with Kate. And I'm losing her. And I know you're losing her too."

" You're right. So can you trust me to fix this? Then can you let us go?" Scott asked.

" No. My car is faster." Chris replied and Scott nodded moving the boy to his making Issac look to her. Mel shrugged lightly following them.

Chris looked to Melody frowning as she got in beside Issac, he really had no idea what the girl was but since she was involved in all this she guessed she was some sort of supernatural. Melody however sat there riddled with anxiety riding in a hunters car. Not only were they working with Dereks psychotic uncle that almost killed her but now they also joined forces with Allisons hunter father.

The ride was dead silent except was Chris's driving so fast in made the tires squeal everyone and a while. Luckily Chris had placed Jackson in the large truck like area of the 4-runner he drove so the pair didn't have to sit beside the body. She was at least thankful for that since it kept moving shaking the shit out of her making her anxiety worse.

Melody held onto the emergency handle bracing herself as Chris sped around a corner quickly throwing the car in park in front of an abandoned warehouse.

"Great, this isn't like a horror movie at all." Melody anxiously snipped under her breath as she got out and Issac announced that he thought Jackson stopped moving.

The group got out looking around the very empty lot Derek was supposed to met them.

"Where's Derek?" Allisons dad, she now knows as Chris, asked.

Suddenly a figure comes running to them on all fours making her cringe at the weirdness of it all. Derek flipped landing in front of them making Melody shake her head at the man.

"Please don't ever do that again, you looked like a dog Derek." Mel sighed at her friend. Even though she was pissed at him she couldn't help the quip.

"I'm here for Jackson. Not you." Chris announced at Dereks stare.

"Somehow, I don't find that very comforting. Get him inside." Derek nodded to the two betas. The pair ended up driving the vehicle inside and placing the boy on the ground.

"Where are they?" Scott asked Derek who started walking towards the body bag.

"Who?" Derek frowned at Scott.

"Peter and Lydia." Scott said like it was obvious.

"Whoa, hold on a second. You said you knew how to save him." Scott stopping him as he started to open the bag.

"We're past that." Derek replied

"What about - " Scott asked and Derek snapped his head to him cutting him off.

"Think about it, Scott. Gerard controls him now. He's turned Jackson into his own personal guard dog. And he set all of this in motion so that Jackson could get even bigger and more powerful." Derek yelled.

"Derek! He is still just a kid! We can at least try to save him." Melody exclaimed trying to reason with the man, she really didn't want to see her friend kill her classmate.

"No. No, he wouldn't do that. If Jackson's a dog, he's turning rabid, and my father wouldn't let a rabid dog live." Chris said anger contorting his face.

"Of course not. Anything that dangerous, that out of control - Is better off dead." Gerard announced his presence making the groups head snap to him.

Derek thinking they all agreed stepped down to put his claws through Jacksons chest when suddenly his arm snapped up piercing Dereks chest instead.

"Derek!" Melody shrieked as the kanima started to lift his body off the ground still impailed on his claws. Chris quickly pulled out his gun as Melody tried to run forward to help Derek in shock but Issac held her back as the kanima threw Dereks body across the building.

"Well done to the last, Scott." Gerard started with a bone chilling smile.  "Like the concerned friend you are, you brought Jackson to Derek to save him. You just didn't realize that you were also bringing Derek to me." Gerard said stepping closer to Scott.

Suddenly, an arrow whipped through the air heading towards Scott who quickly ducked, resulting in the arrow lodging itself into Isaac's shoulder.

The boy fell on his ass making Melody yelp in shock crouching down to him.

"Allison!" Scott realized.

Scott sprung into action, aiding Melody pulling the boy to the side of the warehouse. Meanwhile, Chris fired several shots into Jackson. Instead of falling over or even acknowledging the pain, he completely transformed into the kanima, his tail whipping the gun from the mans outstretched hand. The Hunter quickly following after the teens to help but got thrown aside by the kannima.

Fighting broke out as Melody stayed beside the boy, her hand firmly placed in Isaac's as he winced in pain.

"Oh Gods- What do I do?- Your bleeding so much- are you okay? -Thats a Stupid question." Melody rambled shaking her head, her hands hovering over the arrow pointing out of the boys stomach.

Melody found herself increasingly pissed off at Allison. How come she suddenly just switched sides, just like that? Why the hell would she just shoot Issac who has been helping them! She remembered Stiles telling her she'd done this before but he had insisted she was past it.

"I'm okay, I'll heal." He assured the girl with a grunt not making her feel any better about the situation.

"Just rip it out so I can help them." Isaac groaned making Melody wince, she hated blood and seeing her friend so hurt made her pissed even if he was gonna heal. Plus the idea of ripping an arrow out of his abdomen wasn't exactly a good idea in her head.

"Really? Uh-Okay, this one's going to hurt." With every sliver of power Melody had in her, she wrapped her hands around the arrow. In one swift, but very painful motion, she yanked the arrow out, throwing it carelessly to the side making Isaac yelp in pain.

Isaac quickly got up to join in the fight leaving Melody on the side lines trying to find a way to help. She seriously was wishing she had super strength or at least knew how to fight, she felt useless while her friends fought.

The girl yelped running to Issacs side when Allison ripped into him with a knife. He dropped to the floor as the hunter turned her focus on Derek who was thrown on the ground. She approached, knife propped and ready above her head making Melody abandon Issac momentarily. Like hell Allison was going to hurt Derek too, she might have not been able to protect Issac but she can protect Derek even if she was pissed at him.

Melody ran blocking Derek from Allisons view, hand extended in front of her as she glared at the girl who she thought was her friend.

"Stay the hell away from my friends." she snapped. Allison moved to go around her, bad idea. Mel shot her hand out, making the girl go flying back, crashing against a pile of planks. She quickly got back up, rage burning in her eyes as she glared at Melody.

Before she could retaliate, a scaly hand wrapped around her neck, clenching. "Not yet, sweetheart." Gerard said as Melody looked to him in confusion. Why would he stop her from killing them, what the hell did he have up his sleeve.

"What are you doing?" Allison frowned at her grandfather. Melody used the moment to race to Issacs side as blood poured out of his stomach worrying her.

"He's doing what he came here to do." Scott said making Melody look to him as she crouched beside the boy.

"Then you know."

"What's he talking about?" Allison asked looking between the pair in front of her.

"It was the night outside the hospital, wasn't it, when I threatened your mother. I knew I saw something in your eyes. You could just smell it, couldn't you?"

"He's dying." Issac realized thinking back to when Deaton showed him the dog dying of cancer, the day he almost left Beacon Hills behind.

"I am. I have been for a while now. Unfortunately, science doesn't have a cure for cancer yet. But the supernatural does." Gerard looked to Derek.

"You monster." Chris spat his face contorting with rage at his father. The man who just a week ago forced his wife to kill herself because she got bitten.

"Not yet." the older man smirked.

" What are you doing?" Allison crooked out as Jackson tightened his hand around her throat.

"You'll kill her too?" Chris exclaimed to his father.

"When it comes to survival, I'd kill my own son! Scott." He yelled before nodding to Scott who moved towards Derek.

Everyone understood what he meant. He was going to make Scott force Derek to give him the bite. Then, Gerard would kill off Derek to become the alpha.

And Scott was going to do it, all to get Allison back, the girl who had just tired to kill all his friends, Melody was in shock.

Derek couldn't die, even if she was mad at him he was her friend, she felt safe around him. Almost like Derek was her missing older brother.

" Scott, don't. You know that he's gonna kill him right after. He'll be an Alpha." Melody yelled watching as Scott dragged her friend to the deranged man. Issac grabbed her arm holding her since he knew she was thinking of doing something stupid that would get her hurt or worse.

"That's true. But I think he already knows that, don't you, Scott? He knows that the ultimate prize is Allison. Do this small task for me, and they can be together. You are the only piece that doesn't fit, Derek. And in case you haven't learned yet, there is just no competing with young love." The man gloated as Scott held Derek up.

"Scott, don't! Don't!" Melody yelled at the boy.

"I'm sorry. But I have to." Scott apologized to them as he forced Derek to bite the man.

Gerard grinned in victory as he raised his newly bitten arm but suddenly the man started violently coughing up black blood.

"What? What is this? What did you do?" Gerard yelled in fury as he spat out blood.

"Everyone said Gerard always had a plan. I had a plan too." Scott said like he hadn't just saved the day.

"No. No." Gerard exclaimed anxiously rummaging through his pocket for his pill container.

Taking a handful of the pills he crunched them in his hand making black ash float around it.

"Mountain ash!" He yelled in fury as he collapsed.

" Why didn't you tell me?" Derek asked looking to Scott.

"Because you might be an Alpha, but you're not mine." Scott replied looking at him.

"Kill them! kill them all!" Gerard screamed at the kanima that started to hizz letting Allison go who quickly threw her elbow into his face. It remained unfazed by her move, instead throwing her carelessly aside like it was nothing.

Mel put her hand out , ready to either freeze or boil the thing, but before anyone could do anything, a vehicle burst through one of the walls of the building.

Everyone's attention snapped over to the speeding blue jeep in shock as broke metal flew around. It didn't stop before hitting the kanima, sending it flying across the room. "Did I hit him?" The sound of his voice caused a smile to break out on Melody's face.

The creature was quick to recover jumping on top of Stiles's hood making the boy let out a fear induced scream trying to move out the passenger door behind a panicked Lydia.

"Jackson! Jackson."The red headed girl yelled, eyes locked on the creature.

"Lydia!"Stiles yelled but Scott stopped him telling him to wait.

The kanima stretched out before her, raising its claws ready to finish her off. Just as he was about to kill her, she held up something that caught his attention. A key. He cocked his head to the side, his reptilian eyes showing a puzzled expression.

His hand slowly fell down to his side. Lydia took a few deep breath, desperately trying to calm herself down. Tears trickled down her face as she stared at the kanima before her. Slowly, he transformed from the nasty creature and back into himself. His reptilian eyes slipped back into his blue ones as he stared at the key. He took accepted it from Lydia, his eyes connecting to hers.

Melody felt the air get thicker in the warehouse as Jackson started to transform back into a human. The scales disappearing as if they were never there in the first place.

She watched the scene unravel before her closely, as stunned as everyone else that Lydia was the ingredient to heal Jackson. Then she noticed him. Peter Hale was hiding behind a pile of junk, a smirk creeping onto his face. With his claws out and ready, he dove forwards, piercing them deeply into Jackson's back. Derek copied his actions, stabbing his claws into Jackson's stomach. Mel yelped as she watched the Hale's kill Jackson, helpless to stop it once again.

Jackson began choking as they laid him to on the ground. Lydia sprinted forward, holding him as he tried to ask her. " Do you - do you still -"

Melody felt her eyes started to water watching the scene unfold, Lydias first love, a son and a friend dying in her arms when they finally had saved him. It was heartbreaking.

" I do. I do still love you. I do, I do still love you. I do. I do. I do still love you, I do." Lydia blubbered back as tears fell down her cheeks as Jackson took his last breath in her shaking hands.

A tear slipped from Mel's eye, a second one following. She pressed the back of her hand to her mouth as she watched the tragedy unfold in front of her silently thankful for Issacs presence behind her while he held her.

Lydia got up, turning to face them all as she bailed. Stiles went to approach her, but the sound of clawing caused him to step back. They all gasped in shock staring as his wounds healed. Soon enough Jackson got to his feet, slowly rising. Bright blue werewolf eyes shone as he roared, completely wolfed out.

Mel mouth fell open at the sight coaching back a relieved sob. Lydia sprinted forward, throwing the boy into a hug.

" Where's Gerard?" Allison asked making everyone look to her and around the warehouse for the dying man.

"He can't be far." Chris told them as Stiles wiped his face of tears making them look at him.

"Scratched my jeep." Stiles said in defence moving to his Jeep to try and wipe away the mark.

Melody and Issac got off the floor walking over to the group, Mel glaring at the young hunter girl as she did.

Allison had officially made her hate list, which wasn't a large list but after trying to kill her friends, she took the lead.

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