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

That Tears It

Emilie's POV
I woke up to screaming, I needed water I got out of bed and saw Stiles having night terror and saw Dad running in. This has been happening since the whole alpha pack incident. I got a bottle of water and lied down in my bed. I woke up to my alarm clock and got dressed for school today.

I walked into Stiles room where he was looking at our World War II history book. "Hey. You all right? You two ready for school?" Dad said walking by. "Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Dad, seriously, I'm fine. It was just a nightmare." Stiles said, one that has been going on for a week. "What's that?" I asked Dad seeing the box. "That's just, uh, files from the office." Dad said. "It says, Sheriff's station, do not remove." I said. "Well, yeah, unless you're the Sheriff." Dad said. "Still reeling about the whole supernatural buisness." I said. "Well now I understand the bite mark on your neck." Dad said. I lightly touched the bite mark smiling at the claim. "Hey at least it's Scott." I said. "Okay get your butts to school, all right?" Dad said. "Okay." Stiles and I said. We got to school and I found Scott and I wrapped my arms around him. "Hey." I said kissing his cheek. "Hey, are you doing okay?" He asked. "Yeah, but you look horrible." I said. "I'm okay." Scott said. "No, you're not. It's happening to you too. You're seeing things, aren't you?" Stiles said. "How'd you know?" Scott asked. "Because it's happening to all three of you. Well, well, look who's no longer the crazy one." Lydia said walking up with Grace, Eileen, and Allison. "We're not crazy." Allison said. "Hallucinating? Sleep paralysis? Yeah, you guys are fine." Grace said. "You did die and come back to life. That's gotta have some side effects, right?" Sage said, and the school bell rang. "We keep an eye on each other. Okay? And Lydia and Grace, stop enjoying this so much." Stiles said. "What?" The two twin girls said. We sat down in history and a new teacher walked in. "Good morning, everyone. My name is Mr. Yukimura. I'll be taking over for your previous history teacher. My family and I moved here three weeks ago. I'm sure, by now, you all know my daughter, Kira. Or you might not since she's never actually mentioned anyone from school. Or brought a friend home for that matter. Either way, there she is. Now, let's begin with American History at the turn of the 20th century." Mr. Yukimura said. I looked and saw a shy girl who had an awesome style. The bell rang and I went up to Kira. "Hi I'm Emilie." I said. "Kira, is that a Spider-Man comic?" Kira asked. "Yeah my brother and I are into marvel." I said. "Same, my favorite is Iron Man." Kira said. "I like the movies but comic him is a dick." I said. "True." Kira laughed. Kira was nice she was into nerdy things that I couldn't talk to the other girls about. Sure Lydia and Grace were awesome at knowing fashion, Allison was getting into anime, Eileen and Molly are good at knowing werewolf buisness, but no other girl in the group liked marvel. "So you hate DC?" Kira asked. "Yeah too many godly entities at least Marvel they make sense." I said. Lunch came and I sat down next to Scott and ruffled Isaac's hair. "Not the steadiest hand for a superb marksman." Lydia said seeing Allison's shaky drawing. "It's been happening for the past few weeks. Since that night." Allison said. "Start over." Grace said. Isabelle and Conner sat down and Isabelle handed me a note. I opened it.
Will you be my maid of honor?
"Of course I will be Izzy." I said hugging her. "What?" Allison asked. "I asked if Emmy wanted to be my maid of honor you want to be my bridesmaid Alli?" Isabelle asked. "Of course." Allison said. "Okay back to your minds being off balance." Sage said to us. "Maybe we need a little more time to get back to normal." Scott said. "Yeah, try not to forget we hit the reset button on a supernatural beacon for supernatural creatures. There's a pretty good chance things are never going back to normal." Stiles said. "Yeah." Eileen said taking a bite of her salad. I looked at Scott and saw he had red eyes. "Scotty, your eyes." I said. "What about them?" He asked. "They're starting to glow." Molly said. "You mean like right now?" Scott asked. "Yes, right now. Scott, stop. Stop it." I said and chased him in the men's locker room. "I can't I can't control it." Scott said. "All right, just look at me." I said hoping he'd calm down. "Get back away from me." Scott growled, odd usually he's calm when I'm around. "Scott, it's okay." I said. "I don't know what's going to happen. Get back." Scott said and he injured himself. "Oh Scotty." I said. "Pain makes you human." Scot said. "Scott, this isn't just in your heads. This is real. And it's starting to get bad for Stiles too. He's not just having nightmares. He's having dreams where he has to literally scream himself awake. And sometimes I think he's not even sure if he's actually ever waking up." I said. "What do you mean?" Scott asked. "Do you know how you can tell if you're dreaming? You can't read in dreams. More and more, the past few days, I've been having trouble reading. It's like I can't see the words. I can't put the letters in order." Stiles said behind me. "Like even now?" Sage asked looking at Stiles. "I can't read a thing." Stiles said. After school was over we bought flowers to leave at Mom's grave Isabelle was with us. We walked in the station. "You know, the last time we bought one of these to her grave were stolen the same day. Hundred bucks down the drain." I said to Dad. "Hey, Dad?" Isabelle asked. "Hi, what are you doing down there?" Stiles asked seeing Dad looking at case files from boxes. "Working. And hey, if somebody wants the flowers that badly, they can have them. It's the gesture." Dad said to me. "Hey, Dad, what is all this?" I asked. "I've been looking over some old cases from a more illuminated perspective, if you know what I mean." Dad said, short answer looking for supernatural reasonings. "Strange sighting of bipedal lizard man sprinting across freeway." Stiles read. "Kanima pile." Dad said. "More Doc Conners." I said remembering Jackson. "Dad, you're not going back through all your old cases seeing if any of them had something to do with the supernatural, are you?" Isabelle asked. "I admit the recent opening of my eyes to the greater mysteries of the universe has got me reassessing. There's at least 100 cases here where I look at the details and I can ask myself, if I knew then what I know now." Dad said. "Right, but are you sure you wanna go down that path?" I asked raising an eyebrow. "Do I have a choice? There's one case in particular that I can't get out of my head. Eight years ago, I was elected Sheriff of County, my first official duty was to tell a man that not only had his wife and two kids died in a car accident, but, as best we could tell, the body of his 9 year old daughter had been dragged from the wreck by coyotes." Dad said showing us a file. "You mean dragged and eaten?" Stiles asked. "We didn't find the car until three days after the crash. They had driven off the road into a pretty deep ravine. Two bodies that were still in the car were covered in bites and slashes." Dad said. "I remember that, you checked on Stiles, Emmy, and I for two months to make sure we were okay." Isabelle mumbled. "So you're thinking bites and claw marks, probably a werewolf attack?" Stiles asked. "Maybe." Dad said. "But coyotes, they scavenge, right? So, couldn't they have just left the bites and the slashes?" I said remembering science class. "Absolutely. But guess what night the accident occurred on?" Dad said to us. "The night of a full moon." Dad said. "Yeah." Dad said. "Hey, Dad, where are all these going?" Stiles asked. "Yeah, we, uh. We probably need to talk about that." Dad said looking around.
Isabelle's POV
"I'm gonna head to Mom's grave." I said and left. I got there and saw Conner with flowers. "Why are you here?" I asked my fiancée. "I came to see your Mom with you." He said. I laughed and showed him Mom's grave. "Hey Mom, Dad, Mischief, and Emmy had to clean up Dad's office, but I brought my fiancée Conner. "Hi Mrs. Stilinski, I really love Isabelle and we are getting married." Conner said setting flowers down. "Mischief looks a lot like you and Emmy looks like dad." I said. "Mischief?" Conner asked. "Stiles first name is actually Mieczyslaw." I said. "No one can really say that." Conner said. "Mom could, but Stiles used to pronounce it Mischief so it stuck with Mom calling him that." I said shrugging. Conner and I got to the apartment and I spun the ring on my finger. "What's wrong?" Conner asked. "With wedding invites it's gonna be so small." I said. "Well I'm not really on good terms with my extended family." Conner said shrugging. "True and the only extended family I met was my grandpa who has dementia." I said.
Emilie's POV
After we went to see mom we went to the diner that she loved. "Hey Stilinski's the usual?" A waitress asked. "Yep." Dad said. We all sat in a booth and our food was there. We ate while talking. "So all the time you kids missed class was due to werewolf buisness?" Dad asked. "Yep." Stiles and I said. We finished eating and went home. I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night to Stiles screaming. That tears it. "Dad until all this gets figured out I'm going to stay with Izzy and Conner." I said. "Okay." Dad said sighing. I packed a small suitcase and grabbed my backpack, I walked downstairs and called Isabelle. "Yeah Emmy?" She asked. "Can you or Conner picke me up. Stiles night terrors are getting to bad." I said. "Sure." She said. I waited on the curb and saw Conner pull up. I got in the passenger side. "Hi, sorry about Stiles." He said. "It's fine." I said yawning and falling asleep.
Conner's POV
I looked and saw Emilie fell asleep, I rolled my eyes I knew Emilie became as much as a sister Allison is. We pulled up to my apartment complex. I woke her up and she got her suitcase and backpack. We walked in the living room.