pull me closer {teen wolf}

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"What's happening?" asked Stiles, worried.

"I - I don't know," I said, my eyeballs looking around in every direction. "Scott's mom is worried, your dad's stressed. Olivia's... she's thinking."

I heard footsteps and I could see a bit of Scott. "The evidence is gone. Why don't you just go?"

"You think the evidence mattered that much, huh?" he responded. "No, no, I want the book."

"What - what book?" Scott asked.

"The bestiary," Matt exclaimed. "Not just a few pages, I want the entire thing."

"I don't have it," Scott told him. "It's Gerard's. What do you want if for anyway?"

"I need answers," he said in a low voice.

"Answers to what?"

"To this!" he exclaimed. I could barely see it, but it didn't seem good. Part of his skin was scaly and black.

"Hey," Stiles whispered. "You know what's happening to Matt?"

"You know the book's not gonna help him," Derek replied. "You can't just break the rules. Not like this."

"What do you mean?" Alex asked.

"Universe balances things out," Derek explained. "Always does."

"Is it because he's using Jackson to kill people who don't deserve it?" Stiles questioned.

"Killing people himself," Derek said.

"So if Matt breaks the rules of the kanima, he becomes the kanima?" I inquired.

"Balance."

"Will he believe us if we tell him that?" Stiles wondered.

"Not likely," I said.

"Okay, he's gonna kill all of us once he gets that book, isn't he?" Alex figured.

"Yep."

Stiles sighed. "All right, so what do we do? Do we just sit here and wait to die?"

"Unless we can figure out a way to push the toxin out of my body faster," Derek said. "By triggering the healing process."

"Healing process?" Stiles questioned. "Lucy! Don't you have said healing process?"

"Yeah... "

"Can you move?" he asked.

"Now isn't the time," I responded. "There's a time for everything. But Jackson is right there and I won't have anything to defend myself with... What are you doing?" Derek was digging his claws into his thigh.

"Aw, gross."

"So... " Stiles began after a moment. "Is that hypothetical situation we talked about getting any less hypothetical?"

"I think so," he replied. "I can move my toes."

"Dude, I can move my toes," Stiles replied.

"I can move," Alex stated. "We have to do something. Let me see your leg. I'll try to pull it out."

"Okay... " I groaned as I felt the bullet move in my leg.

"Almost there... " I inhaled sharply as the bullet clattered to the ground. "Got it."

The lights went out. Alex looked around and then there was gunfire. The kanima had gone from my sight. I looked around for something to use as a weapon, but there wasn't anything useful. There was only a stack of files.