Keep Your Head Up (3rd book in Fatal Attraction)

Motel Of Horror

Emilie's POV
We stopped at a motel since the meet was canceled and too late to turn back. "I've seen worse." Scott and Sage said as I avoided broken beer bottles walking. "Where have you seen worse?" Stiles said. "This feels shady." I said. "Listen up. The meet's been pushed till tomorrow. This is the closest motel with the most vacancies and least amount of good judgment when it comes to accepting a bunch of degenerates like yourselves. You'll be pairing up. Choose wisely. And I'll have no sexual perversions perpetrated by you little deviants. Got that? Keep your dirty little hands to your dirty little selves!" Coach said. "Also don't go in rooms that are the roach room or murder room." Conner said and handed out keys making sure Scott and I both shared a room. "Lydia?" Grace asked. "I don't like this place." Lydia said. "I don't think the people who own this place like this place. It's just for a night." I said. "A lot can happen in one night." Lydia said. I was now in mine and Scott's room and I sat on the bed. "All right, so I have four." I said. "Four? You have four suspects?" Scott asked me. "Yeah, it was originally ten. Well, nine technically, I guess. I had Derek on there twice." I said. "So who's number one? Harris?" Scott asked. "Just because he's missing doesn't mean he's dead." I pointed out. "So if he's not dead, our chemistry teacher is out secretly committing human sacrifices." Scott said. "Yeah, I guess that just sounded way better in my head." I said. "Well, what if it's somebody else from school? Like, you remember Matt? We didn't know that he was killing people." Scott said and I shivered remember that perv. "Excuse me? I'm sorry, what? I... yes, we did. I called that from day one, actually." I said. "Yeah, but we never really seriously thought that it was Matt." Scott said. "I was serious. I was quite serious, actually. Deadly serious. No one listened to me." I said and Scott gave me a peck. "Who were the other three?" He asked. "Derek's one sister, Cora. No one knows anything about her, and she's Derek's sister. Next, your boss." I said. "My boss?" Scott asked. "Yeah, your boss. I don't really like the whole Obi-Wan thing he's got going on, you know. It freaks me out. Oh, my God. Have you still not seen Star Wars?" I said seeing Scott's confused face. "I swear, if we make it back alive, I will watch the movie." Scott said. "Just makes me crazy." I said. "Who was the last one?" Scott asked. "Lydia. She was totally controlled by Peter, and she had no idea, so..." I trailed off. "I think you've been watching way to many animes where the villian is who you least expect." Scott said. "Not true that was only all three Fullmetal Alchemist's." I said. "Three?" Scott asked. "Well if you count Conqueror of Shamballa." I said. "You hate that movie." Scott said. "Well they kill Alfons Heiderich, make Maes a Nazi, and left Winry all alone." I said. "That's why I'll never watch that movie with you." Scott said. I rolled my eyes and walked to get a snack to eat. I was at the vending machine with Stiles and saw Boyd standing there. "Yo. Hey. That was the same thing I was gonna get. Oh, hang on. You know what? I got a patented method for this. Don't worry." Stiles said since the food got stuck. "Don't make it fall over." I said remembering the hospital. Boyd punched the glass and got his stuff and so did Stiles and extra. I grabbed two crunch bars. I was walking but Allison yanked me into her, Lydia, and Grace's room. "Okay baby reason for the yank?" I asked. "This hotel has a high number of murders." Lydia said. "Yeah Conner said there was a room called the murder room." I said. "Well yeah but what if they weren't murder's but suicides." Allison said. "Maybe we should find out." I said. We went to the receptionist office where Lydia saw the sign. "Well, there goes that." Lydia said. "Didn't you say the sign said 198?" Allison asked. "It was 198. I swear to God it was 198." Lydia said. "Okay, what does that mean, that there's been four more suicides?" I asked. "Or four more are about to happen." Grace said. Stiles, Conner, and Isabelle joined us after Stiles said Scott and Sage were acting weird. "Last time I saw Sage act like that was during the full moon." Allison said and they looked at me. "Scott never acts like that during the full moon he wants sex and cuddles." I said. "Okays so Scott is all around being weird." Isabelle said. "Yeah, I know. He was definitely a little off with me too, but actually, it was Boyd who was really off. I watched him put his fist through the vending machine." Stiles said. "I just assumed he was very hungry." I said. "See, it is the motel. Either we need to get out of here right now, or... someone needs to learn how to do an exorcism asap, before the werewolves go crazy and kill us." Grace said and we looked at Isabelle. "I don't know how to do an exorcism my college degree is in education." Isabelle said. "Yeah but didn't you take weird stuff like that in high school?" I asked. "I dated Derek not a demon." Isabelle said. "Okay, just hold on, all right? What if it's not just the motel? The number in the office went up by four, right?" Conner said. "You mean like  four sacrifices?" Allison asked. "What the usual three is going up one?" I asked. "Well there are four werewolves Scott, Sage, Isaac, and Boyd." Grace said. "Maybe we were meant to come here." Stiles said. "Exactly! So can we get the hell out of here now? Please?" Lydia said scared. "Wait, hang on. Let me see this." Stiles said taking news paper article out of a Bible. "What is that?" Isabelle asked. "28year-old man hangs himself at the infamous Glen Capri." Stiles read. "Oh, no. Look at these two. They both mention the room 217. These are probably all the suicides that happened in this room." Lydia said. "So if every room has a Bible..." Conner trailed off looking. "There could be articles in all the rooms." Grace said. "That's a beautiful thing. Most places leave a mint under the pillow. This one leaves a record of all the horrible deaths that occurred." Stiles said. "This is the motel of horror." I said shaking my head. "What if the room next door has the one about the couple? No, that was not locked before." Lydia said. "Forget it. We need to get Scott, Isaac, Sage, and Boyd out of here." Allison said as we heard a handsaw. "I'm not the only one who heard that, am I?" Lydia asked. "It sounds like someone turned the handsaw on." Grace said we ran towards the sound and saw Ethan about to kill himself with the handsaw. "Hey, no, Ethan, don't!" I yelled and he hit a heater. "Aah! What just happened?" He said seeing us. "Ethan!" Stiles yelled. "What?" He asked. "You just almost killed yourself with a handsaw." I said. "Didn't you hear what I just said? I don't know how I got there or what I was doing." Ethan said after we were back in the receptionist place. "Okay, you could be a little bit more helpful, you know? We did just save your life." Isabelle said. "And you probably shouldn't have." Ethan said. "What now?" Grace and Lydia said "I'll find Sage. You guys grab Scott, Isaac, and Boyd. The best thing we can do is get them out of this place." Allison said, we split up and I got to the room Isaac was in and saw him under the bed and we saw Stiles run in with flares into the bathroom where Boyd was. "Isaac can you come out for me?" I asked. "EJ I don't think that will work." Grace said. "Well any brilliant ideas?" I asked. "Well Ethan snapped out of it due to heat so maybe heat will work." Grace said. "Hey guys use this." Stiles said tossing me flare for the bus. I took the cap off the threw it under the bed making Isaac's scream. He crawled out confused and hurt. "Sorry little beta you weren't coming out." I said. "Still hurt mama." He said. I ruffled his curls and walked out and Boyd had a towel on. "We can't find Scott or Sage anywhere." Conner, Isabelle, and Allison said looking at us. "It's happening to them too, isn't it?" I asked. "It has to be. Didn't you say there were two more flares on the bus?" Lydia asked. "Yeah. I'll get it." Stiles said and we went towards the bus and saw Scott and Sage with flares. "Scott... Scott." I said seeing him. "There's no hope." The twins said in unison. "What do you mean, guys? There's always hope." Allison said. "Not for us. Not for Derek." Scott said. "Derek wasn't your fault. You know Derek wasn't your fault." I said. "Every time I try to fight back, it just gets worse. People keep getting hurt. People keep getting killed." Sage said. "Sage, listen to me, okay? This isn't you, all right? This is someone inside your head telling you to do this. Okay? Now..." Stiles said. "Scott this also isn't you." I said. "What if it isn't? What if it is just me? What if doing this is actually the best thing that I could do for everyone else? It all started that night, the night we got bitten and I forced you into a relationship." Scott said. "You remember the way it was before that? Us, we were... we were... we were nothing. We weren't popular. We weren't good at lacrosse. We weren't important. We were no one. Maybe we should just be no one again. No one at all." Sage said. "Scott, just listen to me, okay? You're not no one. Okay? You're someone, you're my mate." I said almost in tears. "Sage and Scott, you're my best friends. Okay? And I need you. Sage and Scott, you're my brothers. All right, so... so if you're gonna do this, then... I think you're just gonna have to take me with you. All right?" Stiles said and we got them out and threw the flare down I rubbed Scott's shoulder to calm him down and he looked at me with gold eyes. "No!" Lydia yelled and shoved us away before the flare could damage us due to being close. We got on the bus to sleep not wanting to go into that motel of horror. I was asleep sitting on Scott's lap, Conner and Isabelle on one seat. Sage and Allison on a seat, Isaac was next to Scott and I practically cuddling. Stiles and Lydia were cuddling. We looked and saw Coach get on and see the whole pack of us on the bus. "I don't want to know. I really don't want to know, but in case you missed the announcement, the meet's cancelled, so we're heading home. Pack it in. Pack it in!" Coach said and we all groaned. Isaac moved so I could sit next to Scott and he sat with Boyd. "I don't know what happened last night, but I'm pretty sure you saved my life." Ethan said. "Actually, I saved your life, but not that it matters that much. It's just... it's minor detail." I said trying to wipe the sleep from my eyes and eating tic tacs. "So I'm gonna give you something. We're pretty sure Derek's still alive. But he killed one of ours. That means one of two things can happen. Either he joins our pack..." Ethan said trailing off. "And kills his own." Scott said. "Or Kali goes after him, and we kill him. That's the way it works." Ethan said. "You know, your little code of ethics there is sort of barbaric, just F.Y.I." Stiles said. "Hey, Ethan, I wanted to..." Coach trailed off. "Coach, can I see your whistle for a second? What's that?" Lydia asked looking at it with us. "Wolfsbane." Conner said. "So every time the coach blew the whistle on the bus, Scott, Sage, Isaac, Boyd..." Stiles trailed off. "And Ethan." Lydia added. "We all inhaled it." Scott said. "We were all poisoned by it." Sage said. "So that's how the Darach got in their heads. That's how he did it." Stiles said I took the whistle and since we were driving I threw it out the window. "Hey, hey, hey, hey! Princess!" Coach yelled pissed at me and the others tried not to laugh at my idea of fixing it.

A\N:Two chapters in one day.