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

Sound Like We're Insane

Emilie's POV
Scott, Sage, Stiles, and I got to a place Allison told us to be. "Where is she?" Stiles asked. "Over here." Allison and Grace said. "Lydia?" Stiles asked his girlfriend. "It's the same thing. Same thing as the pool. I got into the car heading somewhere totally different, and ended up here. And you told me to call you if there's a dead body." Lydia said. "You found a dead body?" I asked her. "Not yet." Lydia said. "Not yet? What do you mean not yet?" Sage asked. "Lydia, you're supposed to call us after you find the dead body." Stiles said. "Oh, no, I'm not doing that again. You find the dead body from now on." Lydia said. "How are we supposed to find the dead body? You're always the one finding the dead body." Stiles said. "Guys. I found the dead body and someone else." Scott said we walked and saw Eileen standing there shocked. "Eli why are you here?" Grace asked. "You left while we were watching a movie and I followed the scent." Eileen said. "Scent?" We all asked. "You're a werewolf?" Sage asked. "Yes, I was born like this." Eileen said. Grace called the police like a normal human being. "Excuse me. Hey! Hey, hey, hey. Back it up. I know what you're thinking. I know you've got all these ideas about patterns and people dying in threes..."Dad trailed off. "Dad, murdered, okay?" Stiles said. "Sacrificed, actually." Eileen said and officer Raymond looked at her. "We've got half the state, including the FBI, coming in on this. They're not getting away with killing one of our own." Officer Raymond said and Dad nodded. "Dad, they killed Tara. How many times did she help us with our math homework when we had to wait at the station for you?" I said. "Just go home guys." Dad said. "Same for you Eli, even though you can protect yourself still." Officer Raymond said we were walking. "Your dad knows?" I asked. "He's my adopted Dad and accidentally shifted when I was really younger." Eileen said. Stiles and I went home and went to bed, I got dressed for school the next day.

We were sitting in English and I was doodling in my notebook and saw I doodled Tamaki and Haruhi kissing. "Idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes, all tools the writer uses to tell their story.Lydia, I wasn't aware you had so many hidden talents." Ms. Blake said. "You and every guy I've ever dated before Stiles." Lydia said, I smiled at my friend. "Oh, um, well, that was an idiom, by the way. Idioms are something of a secret to the people who know the language or the culture. They're phrases that only make sense if you know key words. Saying jump the gun is meaningful only if you know about the starting gun in a race, or a phrase like seeing the whole board." Ms. Blake said. "Like chess." Stiles said. "That's right, Stiles. Do you play?" Ms. Blake said. "Uh, no. My father does." Stiles said. "Now, when does an idiom become a cliche?" Ms. Blake asked. I was at my locker with Stiles, Scott, and Sage. "I think I can get to Ethan. I'm pretty sure I can make him talk." Scott said and I was interested. "What do you want to do that for?" I asked. "The druids are emissaries, right? So what if the Darach was an emissary to the alphas?" Sage said. "Okay, first of all, I cannot believe that we've gotten to the point where a sentence like what if the Darach was an emissary to the alphas? Actually makes sense to me. Second of all, we're gonna have a huge problem getting to Ethan." Stiles said. "What's that?" Scott asked. "Going through Aiden." I said pointing. "Ever since he's been back at school, they're always together. How are we gonna separate them again?" Stiles asked. "We talk to them." Sage said. We were on the stairs the and Ethan was looking at us menacingly. "Are you threatening me? You know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to break off an extra large branch of Mountain ash, wrap it in wolfsbane, roll it in mistletoe, and shove it up your freaking..." Stiles started to say. "Whoa, Stiles, okay. We get it. We're talking to you because I know that you didn't want to kill Boyd. And I think that if something like that happened now, you wouldn't do it again." Scott said. "You don't know what we owe them, especially Deucalion. We weren't like Kali and Ennis when we met him. We weren't alphas." Ethan said. "What were you?" I asked. "Omegas. In actual wolf packs, omegas are the scapegoat, the last to eat, the one who has to take the abuse from the rest of the pack." Ethan said. "So you and your brother were, like, the bitches of the pack?" Stiles said, he really needs to phrase things better. "Something like that." Ethan said. "What happened?" Sage asked. "They were killers. I mean, people talk about us as monsters. Well, they were the ones who gave us the reputation. And our Alpha was the worst of them." Ethan said. "Why didn't you guys just fight back? Form voltron wolf, you know? Kick everyone's asses?" I said. "We couldn't, we didn't know how to control it back then." Ethan said. "Deucalion taught you." Scott said. "And then, we fought. We took down the whole pack, one-by-one. And by the time we got to our Alpha, he was begging for his life. And we tore him apart. Literally." Ethan said. "What about your emissary? They're all dead? Kali and Ennis' too?" Sage asked. "All of them except for Deucalion's." Ethan said. "You mean Morrell?" Stiles asked. "Ah!" Ethan said in pain. "What? What's wrong? Are you hurt?" I said kneeling down. "Not me. My brother."
Ethan said. We found Aiden he cornered Molly and Lydia and Molly was protecting Lydia. "You can't do this!" Ethan yelled and Lydia ran to Stiles who held her. "They came at me!" Aiden yelled. "It doesn't matter! Kali gave Derek until the next full moon. You can't touch him or them." Ethan said. "Hey, guys, I think she's pretty hurt." Stiles said showing Molly who had cuts and bruises. "You okay?" I asked Molly. "She doesn't look okay." Lydia said. "I'll heal."Molly said. "Uh... Oh." Stiles said. "I said I'm fine." Molly growled. "Do you realize how suicidally crazy that was? What were you thinking going after them?" I asked. "I did it for Boyd. None of you were doing anything." Molly said. "We're trying." Scott said. "And you're failing. You're just a bunch of stupid teenagers running around, thinking that you can stop people from getting killed. But all you do is show up late. All you really do is find the bodies." Molly said. "She's definitely a Hale. Mm. I'll make sure she gets home." Stiles said. "Come on." Scott said picking me up. "Why?" I asked. "We need to talk to Ms. Morrell." Scott said. "But I already went this year." I said. "Still." Scott said. Scott opened the door of the office. "Sorry, but I don't remember having any more appointments." Ms. Morrell said. "You sure? 'Cause we could use a little guidance right now." Scott said. "Why are you bothering with me, Scott and Emilie, when you know the clock is ticking? When you know someone else is about to be taken?" Ms. Morrell said. "By you." I said raising an eyebrow. "Come on, Emilie. Shouldn't you leave the interrogations to someone like your brother?" She asked. "Are you the one killing people?" Scott asked putting his hand on my shoulder. "Are you listening to my heartbeat? No. I'm not the one killing people. Truth is, I'm all that stands between Deucalion and the lives of your friends. I've been the one pulling the leash taut when they're salivating for a bite." Ms. Morrell said. "What do you mean?" I asked. "He wants a true Alpha in his pack. He thinks it's you Scott and add in the luna. And a little distraction like a few human sacrifices isn't gonna dissuade him from the prize." Ms. Morrell said, wait what the hell is a luna. "I'm not an Alpha." Scott said. "And I'm not whatever a luna is." I said. "But you're well on your way, aren't you and Emilie aren't you already showing maternal instincts with Isaac Lahey?" Ms. Morrell said. "Then what is he waiting for? What does he want me to do?" Scott asked. "He wants to make a killer out of you. That's what he does." Ms. Morrell said. "But if I kill someone, I can't be a true Alpha, right?" Scott said. "Exactly. You want the psychologist's perspective? He's an obsessive who both desires you and is threatened by you. If the obsessive can't have the object of his desire he'll choose to destroy it instead. You'll either willingly become part of his pack or he'll make a killer out of you, destroying your potential to be a true Alpha." Ms. Morrell said. "Neither of those is ever going to happen." Scott said. "Don't be so sure. You're playing his game. And while you're trying to figure out what to do next, he's thinking ten moves ahead, with checkmate already in sight." Ms. Morrell said. I got home and walked in and saw Dad in Stiles room along with Molly, Isabelle, and Conner. "Hey." I said. "Emmy please tell me your boyfriend isn't a werewolf." Dad said. "Your telling him?" I asked. "Yeah." Stiles said. "It's hilarious." Isabelle said. "Emmy." Dad said. "Fine yes Scottie's a werewolf and I'm his mate." I said. "And Kate Argent was a werewolf?" Dad asked. "I wish, I could've killed her then." Conner said. "Hunter. That's... purple's hunter." Stiles said. "Along with Allison, Conner, and their dad." Molly and Isabelle said. "Yeah, and... and my friend Deaton, the veterinarian, is a Kanima?" Dad asked. "Emissary." I corrected, a Kanima was the Spider-Man villain and Fullmetal alchemist thing. "Well, no, no, no, no, no. He's a druid, okay? Well, we think." Stiles said. "So who's the Kanima?" Dad asked. "Jackson." Conner said. "No, Jackson's a werewolf." Stiles said. "After we hit him with the Jeep and Lydia helped." I said. "Jackson was the Kanima first, and then Peter and Derek killed him and he came back to life as a werewolf. Now, he's in London." Isabelle cleared up. "Who's the Darack?" Dad asked. "It's da-rock." Conner corrected. "We don't know yet." Molly said. "We don't know yet." I said. "But he was killed by werewolves?" Dad asked confused. "Slashed up and left for dead." Isabelle said. "We think." Molly said. "We think." Stiles said agreeing. "Yeah. Why was Jackson the Kanima?" Dad asked. "Cause sometimes, the shape that you take reflects the person that you are." I said. "And what shape would an increasingly confused and angrier-by-the-second father take?" Dad asked. "Uh, that would be more of an expression like the one you're currently wearing." I said. "Yeah." Dad said rolling his eyes. "Dad... Dad, would you... we can prove it, okay? Look, she's one of them. A werewolf." Stiles said. "Stiles, Stiles! That's enough." Dad said. "Dad, can you please just hold on? You ready? All right, dad, just watch this, okay?" Stiles said and Molly collapsed. "Call an ambulance." Conner said kneeling down and the paramedics got her and Dad left. "Why won't he believe us." I said. "Probably because we sound like we're insane." Isabelle said shrugging. My phone rang and I saw it was Sage. "What Sage?" I asked. "The sacrifices are teachers." Sage said. "The sacrifices are teachers." I said. "That makes sense. Tara, she wasn't always a cop. She used to teach middle school." Stiles said. "Then the last one's gonna be another teacher." Conner said. "Yeah, but there's dozens of them, and they're all headed home." Sage said on speaker. "No. No, they're not. They're all going to the recital." Isabelle said.  "What did you see the night at the bank when Scott was trying to save Deaton?" Stiled asked Dad trying to convince him. "Nothing." Dad said. "Dad, you saw him healing himself after he tried crossing the Mountain ash." Stiles said. "I don't know what I saw." Dad said. "You saw something that you can't explain." I said. "Emmy, Stiles, I have seen a lot of things I can't explain in this town. That doesn't make 'em supernatural and it doesn't make 'em real. They just found another body. That's real. And that's the lead I'm following." Dad said. "Yeah, and another teacher's going to die if you don't start listening to us." I said. "I am listening! I have been listening!" Dad yelled. "You just don't believe. Mom would've believed me." Stiles said and Isabelle, Conner, and I looked at Stiles in silence bringing up Mom. "Well Conner, Emilie, and I are going to the recital." Isabelle said dragging me into Conner's Subaru.

"When did you get a Subaru?" I asked remembering Conner's old Chevy. "Decided I needed a different car more reliable." Conner said. "What is Izzy pregnant?" I asked. "No, hell we just told dad we got engaged." Isabelle said. "Just asking." I said shrugging. We got to the school as it was pouring down rain and Stiles got there in his jeep. We found Scott, Sage, Lydia, Grace, and Eileen. "I thought you were going home." Scott told Lydia. "I can't. I don't know why I am the one that keeps finding the bodies, but maybe if I just stopped trying to fight it, I'd find them before it happens, maybe with enough time for someone like you to do something about it." Lydia said. "Keeping an eye on things." Grace and Eileen said. "You get me the time, and I'll do something about it. I swear to God, I will." Stiles said. "Same." We all agreed. I was standing near the art room seeing they put some of my pictures on display for people. "Hey has Lydia passed here?" Grace asked. "No why?" I asked. "Well Conner can't find Isabelle and Lydia is also missing." Grace said. "Come on." I said and we found the others. "Anything? She's not answering texts. What do we do?" Stiles asked. "No clue." Scott and I said. We heard a scream. "I think we just heard it." Grace said. We ran and saw Ms. Blake a tied up Lydia and Isabelle. The three supernatural things growled and attacked. I took out my taser and went over to the two to untie. "Oh I don't think so, Emilie." Ms. Blake said knocking me away and I landed in desks and heard a gunshot go off. "Drop it! There was a girl. Years ago, we found her in the woods, her face and body slashed apart. That was you, wasn't it?" Dad asked and we saw Dad standing there. "Maybe I should've started with philosophers, with knowledge and strategy. Healers... Warriors... Guardians... Virgins." Ms. Blake said and Scott ran over to me to check if I was hurt. "Dad?" Isabelle asked.

A\N:New chapter and was anyone else shocked to hear in the teen wolf movie Derek has a son. All I can think of is maybe a love interest for Alli Argent.