Teen Beasts 🐾 S.S.

Damnatio Memoriae part 2

Hayden was heatedly sitting on the bench across the Sheriff's office while her sister Valerie was at her desk, filling out an official report of what had happened to them last night. Unfortunately, Hayden's disappearance had been noticed by her sister, who had come out of the tech station to find that she was missing from the van. Hayden had said that she had heard noises and then saw something which made her run away but come back when she thought it was safe. Now it seemed her sister wanted her in eyes view at all times.

"Hayden," she suddenly heard echo in her ears. "Hayden." But Hayden just stayed sitting on the bench.

As for Valerie, she hadn't had a moment's rest since her encounter back at the station. That...animal, she had seen it before. It was the night that she and the Sheriff had seen the sign at the high school vandalized. She and the other deputies had been chasing after an animal, one she heard leapt up over a fellow deputy's car before she tried tailing it and it wrecked her police cruiser. She could swear, as she saw it in the dark, it looked the same, and now someone was dead.

One of her fellow deputies came over and looked down at the screen to read Valerie's official report. "Are you really going to turn this in?"

"I know what I saw."

"Deputy was attacked by an enormous animal of undetermined species," he read aloud. "Yeah, that makes things clear."

Valerie rolled her eyes as the deputy left with a skeptical chuckle. That was as professional as she could make it sound without the risk of anyone dismissing it. Valerie remembered hearing about the scrutiny that Agent McCall faced when he reported that dark clad figures with samurai swords had attacked him at his ex-wife's home. She moved to stand and her sister shot up from the bench as she did.

"Are we leaving?" Hayden asked, desperate to move as she heard her name called out again.

"Not yet. And don't move," she ordered.

Valerie then left to go and check on the progress of Sheriff Stilinski. She knew that he would actually take her report seriously. After all, he seemed to listen to her every word when she told him of chasing that...thing when he met her at the high school. For some reason, she couldn't help but feel that this would make more sense to him than it did to her.

Hayden's eyes followed her sister as she left the office. As soon as she was gone, she then got up and went off to see the owner of the voice calling out for her. She went off to the holding cells where Theo was leaning against some of the bars, waiting on her.

"You can't be here," she hissed at him.

"Why not? My record's spotless," he said, smugly trying to sound funny. But he dropped the humor and then became serious. "Are you going to tell me what you saw last night?"

Hayden deflated and she quickly moved to answer him. "It was exactly like the painting. Exactly what you said."

Theo lost a bit of his calm composure as Hayden's words hit him in a way that she couldn't read.

"Have you told anyone else?" he asked.

"I didn't think you'd want me to," she answered, ducking her head a bit.

"You're right."

"But I don't know why."

"And you don't have to," he said sternly to her. "Look, that thing out there is going to kill a lot of people. But, it's not going to kill us. Not if we're together."

He was cut off when Hayden got a text from her sister. Valerie had come back and found that she had left and from her use of capital letters, she wasn't happy. "I have to go."