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

It Hurts

Emilie's POV
Isaac was driving. "You see the twins?" Sage asked. "No. But I see the Argents." Peter said. "Not to bring up uncomfortable memories, but wasn't the last time you saw them the time you killed Kate and then they burned you alive, hmm?" Isaac asked. "I don't think it matters." I said. "Where are the others?" Allison asked seeing us. "I don't know. Scott and Stiles went back for Derek and Jennifer. I had to get Molly and Mama out." Isaac said. I picked the lock. "Em?" Sage asked. "I'll be fine, but I can still feel pain with Scott." I said and got out. I was running to find either Stiles or Scott. There were lights and I turned and saw Agent Raphael McCall. "Hi Mr. McCall." I said waving. "Hello Emilie how are you?" He asked. "Well considering the last time I saw you, you called my ex boyfriend a bastard pretty good." I said. "Ex? You dated him?" He asked. "None of your beeswax." I said. "Still mouthy, what a shocker. Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?" He said. "If you ask the questions without the usual level of stupid." I said. "Where's your dad, and why's no one been able to contact him?" Mr. McCall said. "I don't know. I haven't seen him in hours." I said. "Is he drinking again?" Mr. McCall asked. "What do you mean, again? He never had to stop." I said. "But he did have to slow down. Is he drinking like he used to?" Mr. McCall said. "All right, how about this? Next time I see him, I'll give him a field sobriety test, okay? We'll do the alphabet, start with F, end with U." I said. "How about you just tell me what the hell happened at the hospital since your brother was in the elevator apparently." He said. "I was outside waiting for them." I said gestering to my still wet clothes. "Got it why don't I give you a ride to your house and talk to your Dad or sister." He said. "Izzy moved out with her fiancée can you take me to their apartment?" I asked. "Sure." He said and I gave him directions and he got there. I got out and walked to the apartment and knocked. Isabelle answered and she was looking at me. "Chris told us get in." She said and Conner was there with dry clothes and I went into the bathroom and changed into them.

"This is comfy where did you get it?" I asked. "Oh it's Alli's, she left it here and I forgot to give it back." Conner said. "Interesting." I said rolling my eyes. "We're going to Lydia and Grace's but we need you to do it, since if it's either of us it's a bad thing." Isabelle said. "But Lydia and Grace were around you during the summer." I said. "Since I'm your older sister yes, but normally it's not so come on and get in the Subaru." Isabelle said. We got to the Martin residence and saw Mrs. Martin. "Hi Mrs. Martin is either Grace or Lydia home?" I asked. "Considering your sister and her fiancée dropped Lydia off and she had strangle marks on her neck, no." Mrs. Martin said. "Shit and you still have school." Isabelle said as I got back in the car, I fell asleep in the backseat and Isabelle got my backpack from home as I got a couple minutes of sleep.
Conner's POV
I saw Emilie's phone blowing up as I waited for Isabelle to get Emilie's backpack. I grabbed it and unlocked it, her passcode was her birthday very predicable. I saw it was a text from Scott.
Scotty🐺❤️:Sorry for ditching you on the roof and breaking up with you, hope you can forgive me.
I saw Isabelle get back in with Emilie's backpack. "I'm gonna murder McCall." I said. "Which one and why?" My fiancée asked. "Scott and he broke up with Emilie on top of a roof." I said. "Yep he's a dead man." Isabelle said. "Please don't hurt him." Emilie mumbled waking up. "Emmy he broke up with you." Isabelle said. "Yes and it hurts but I'll get over it." Emilie said, we got to the school and she got out and found Stiles, Grace, and Lydia as I walked inside and so did Isabelle for work.
Emilie's POV
"What happened Sage said you jumped out of the car." Stiles said. "I was gonna help you but Agent McCall stopped me and drove me to Conner and Izzy's place." I said. "We heard what happened with Scott after this is all over girls night." Grace said, I nodded. "I don't believe it. Scott can't really be with them. He can't be." Lydia said. "You didn't see the look on his face, though. It was..." I trailed off. "Then what can I do? I mean, I get that I'm some kind of, like, human geiger counter for death, but... I don't know how to turn it on and off yet. All I know is that she tried to kill me because of..." Lydia trailed off. "Because of what? Hey, Lydia, what?" Stiles asked his girlfriend. "When she called me a banshee, she was surprised by it. What if that's not why she tried to kill me?" Lydia said. "Then why did she?" Grace asked. "That's what we need to find out." I said to them. "Aiden's not texting me back." Grace said. "Okay, well, maybe we could just... we could go over there and..." Lydia said and a phone buzzed. "What?" I asked. "Oh, God." Stiles said seeing it. "What is it now?" Lydia asked. "It's from Sage and Isaac. Jennifer, she t... she has Allison's father. She took him. She's got all three now." Stiles said. "There's still time." Lydia said and I saw Stiles on the verge of a panic attack. "We still have time, right?" Grace asked. "He's having a panic attack which might involve an asthma attack." I said. "Stiles? Are you okay? What is it? What's wrong? Stiles." Lydia said. "I think I'm having a panic attack." Stiles said and I got the inhaler and we ran into the locker room away from people. "Okay Come on. Come on. Just try and think about something else, anything else." Lydia said. "Like what?" Stiles asked. "Uh, happy things. Good things. Uh, friends, family." Grace said and I smacked her upside the head while Stiles got worse. "Oh, I mean... not family." Lydia said. "Oh, God." Stiles said. "Okay, uh, just... Try and slow your breathing." Lydia said. "I can't. I can't." Stiles said and I started getting worried which causes me to start having a panic attack, I tried to calm down but the last time I had a panic attack was right before Mom died and she screamed I was a murderer. "Shh, shh. Stiles, look at me. Shh, look at me. Shh, Stiles." Lydia said and kissed Stiles calming him down. I got in a locker to calm myself down. "Ooh. How'd you do that?" Stiles asked. "I, uh... I read once that... Holding your breath could stop a panic attack. So when I kissed you... You held your breath." Lydia said. "I did?" Stiles asked. "Yeah. You did." Lydia said. "Thanks. Really smart, Lyds." Stiles said. "Um I think EJ had a panic attack she's in a locker." Grace said. "Emmy." Stiles said opening it and hugging me calming me down, physical touch makes me always calm down. "You think you'll be okay EJ?" Lydia asked. "Yeah." I said. Grace and I walked out and found Eileen place interrogating a guy. "I don't know where Ethan and Aiden are." The guy said. "Why don't I believe you." Eileen said. "Eli quite harassing a freshman." I said. "Thank you." The freshman said scurrying away. "Sorry but I need answers to help
you guys." Eileen said. "Well no need to threaten poor kids." Grace said kissing Eileen's cheek. "Come on." Lydia said grabbing us. "Stilinski's." Mr. McCall said. "Agent McCall this is considered illegal and harassment." Isabelle said running after him. "Agh. All right, look, go to Derek, okay? He and Peter, they've been there before, so they'll know where it is. Tell them it's the root cellar, all right? They'll know." Stiles said to Lydia, Grace, and Eileen. We turned to Mr. McCall. "Did you know your dad's car is in the school parking lot and has been since last night?" He asked. "No. What does that mean?" I asked. "It means he's officially missing. Stiles and Emilie, why am I getting the feeling you know something that could help us find your dad? Along with Isabelle trying to restrain me." Mr. McCall said. "If we did, why would we not tell you?" I asked. "If it meant helping your dad, why wouldn't you?" Mr. McCall said. "So you're asking me to tell you what I wouldn't not tell you?" I asked. "First, I have no idea what you just said. Second, how about you just help me help you?" Mr. McCall said. "Well, I don't know how to help you help me tell you something that would help you if I don't know it." Stiles said. "Are you two doing this on purpose?" Mr. McCall asked. "We don't know anything, okay? Can we just go?" I asked him not wanting to deal with this. "Where are your other friends?" Mr. McCall asked. "You mean Sage and Scott?" Stiles asked. "I mean Sage and Scott. I mean Isaac Lahey, Allison Argent, these twins Ethan and Aiden. I've been told your whole little clique didn't show up at school today." Mr. McCall said. "Okay Agent McCall you need to leave." Isabelle said sternly to him. "We don't have a clique." I said glaring at him. "Emilie and Stiles, come on. There's been a pretty disturbing amount of violent activity in this county in the last few months, several murders tied to this school. I don't know what's going on here, but it's serious. And... hey. Your dad is missing. Fine. But I don't want you going home alone. You have someone you can stay with tonight?" Mr. McCall said, rich coming from an old abuser. "They're with me." Deaton said walking in. "Okay let's just have serial killers come in." Isabelle said.
Eileen's POV
I was with Lydia and Grace and we knocked on a loft door and a man opened it. "You." The two girls said. "Me." The man said. "You." The two said. "Me. Derek, we have a visitor." The man said and we walked in. "Hi." I said. "I don't remember you." He said. "I'm Eileen Raymond new student and werewolf." I said. "Werewolf, you also smell familiar." He said. "Well I'm Grace's girlfriend so I probably smell like her." I said. "No it's something else and you look oddly familiar." He said. "What's your name?" I asked. "That's Peter Hale, he's the reason I can see the future and Lydia is a GPS for dead bodies." Grace said. "Okay." I said inching away from the maniac who now that I looked at, I had some similarities to.
Emilie's POV
We were all in Deaton's office and Allison said I looked better in her outfit then she did. "It has to be on a telluric current, or maybe even at the axis of two or where they all intersect. I just know it's where Derek took Paige to die." Isabelle said. "My dad, Gerard, and I were there once, but I couldn't tell you directions." Conner said. "And Gerard said it was years ago, and he couldn't remember where it was. And my dad obviously isn't here to tell us now." Allison said. "Yeah, ours either." I said. "Then how do we find this place?" Isaac asked. "There might be a way. But it's dangerous. We're gonna need Scott." Deaton said. "How'd you guys find out?" Scott asked at the doorway. "Lydia. You?" Sage said. "Morrell. None of the other alphas know where it is either." Scott said. "Okay before anything else I need to do one thing." Stiles said. "What?" Scott asked and Stiles punched him. "That." Stiles said. "What was that for?" Scott asked. "For breaking up with Emmy, be glad she's too nice to punch you." Stiles said. "Okay. So if this works, are you gonna tell them?" I asked. "I can't stop Jennifer without them." Scott said. "How about we concentrate on finding your parents first?" Deaton asked. "What's the plan?" Scott asked. "Essentially, you, Allison, and Stiles need to be surrogate sacrifices for your parents." Deaton said. "Why not one of us?" Sage asked. "Emilie I think had been through enough and the others don't have that strong of bond with their parents." Deaton said. "It's true I was more close to Mom." Isabelle said. "Neither of mine after I found out about them just murdering innocent werewolves I distanced myself." Conner said. "And Sage you hate being underwater." I pointed out. "We die for them?" Scott asked. "But he can bring us back. You can... you can bring us back, right?" Stiled said. "You remember the part where I said it was dangerous? If it goes right, the three of you will be dead for a few seconds, but there's something else you need to think about. This is a dangerous thing for more reasons than one. You'll be giving power back to the Nemeton, a place that hasn't had power for a long time. This kind of power is like a magnet. It attracts the supernatural, the kind of things that a family like the Argents can fill the pages of a bestiary with. It will draw them here, like a beacon." Deaton said. "Doesn't sound any worse than anything we've already seen." I said. "You'd be surprised at what you have yet to see." Deaton said. "Is that it?" Scott asked. "No. It'll also have an effect on the three of you. You won't be able to see it, but you'll feel it every day for the rest of your lives. It'll be a kind of a darkness around your heart, and permanent, like a scar." Deaton said. "Like a tattoo." Scott said. I took out Dad's bent up badge. "What's that Emmy?" Isabelle asked. "Dad's badge." I said. "You all need something close to your parents." Deaton said. "Let's hammer it out." Stiles said. After a bit the others got their things. "All right. What did you bring?" Deaton asked. "Um, I got my dad's badge. Jennifer kind of crushed it in her hand, so I tried hammering it out a bit. Still doesn't look great." Stiles said. "Well, it doesn't need to look good if it has meaning." Deaton said. "Is that an actual silver bullet?" Isaac asked. "My dad made it. It's kind of a ceremonial thing. When one of us finishes learning all the skills to be a hunter, we forge a silver bullet as a testament to the code." Allison said. "Yeah I wasn't allowed to shoot mine at who I wanted to." Conner said. "Who?" Sage asked. "Bitch Kate and or Gerard." Conner said, I don't blame him. "Scott?" Deaton asked. "My dad got my mom this watch when she first got hired at the hospital. She used to say it was the only thing in their marriage that ever worked." Scott said. "It was." Sage said. "Okay, the three of you will get in. Each of us will hold you down until you're essentially... Well, dead. But it's not just someone to hold you under. It needs to be someone who can pull you back, someone that has a strong connection to you, a kind of emotional tether. Lydia... You go with Stiles, Emilie with Scott." Deaton said. "I'm sorry." Scott said. "If you don't make it back, you should probably know something. Your dad's in town." I said. "Thanks for telling me that now." Scott said. "Thanks for telling me that earlier." Sage said sarcastically. We put them under.

A\N:New chapter, I will hopefully get another one out soon.