Foresight

Chapter 35: 3-9

Deputy Tara Graeme answers a 911 call to Beacon Hills High School at night. She is surprised by Danny and a number of other students leaving orchestra rehearsal and tells to leave the school immediately.

"This doesn't sound good" Noah muttered.

Deputy Grahame attempts to radio back to dispatch but all she hears is static which then resolves into the chant we've heard a number of times preceding Darach sacrifices. She sees a body being dragged into the locker room and goes to investigate. She hears the shower is on and when she looks inside, she sees herself dead under the flow of water. The Darach slips a garrote around her neck and chokes her, then leaves her bloody body in the shower in the same position we saw just a moment before.

"Oh God no" Stiles and Noah said at the same time.

Scott and Stiles arrive at the school where they find Lydia and Allison waiting. Lydia says she called them after she went into a fugue state and ended up somewhere she never intended to go. Her fugues, so far, have always led to the discovery of a dead body. This time is no exception as the body of Deputy Grahame has been left on top of the Beacon Hills High School sign in the middle of campus. The next day, Stiles keeps an eye on his father as he investigates Deputy Tara's death at the school. The Sheriff tells Stiles to step off, he says he has the FBI and "half the state" coming in to assist in the investigation because "they're not going to get away with killing one of our own". Stiles points out that he too has a connection to the victim saying Tara often helped him with his math homework when he was waiting for his father at the Sheriff's Station.

The group looked at father and son present with them and could clearly see how much that death had affected them. "Remind me tp thank her when we get back" Stiles mumbled to Scot who nodded.

Allison is covered up in bed. Her father asks if she is going to the recital at school "to honor the losses". She corrects him that they were not "losses" they were murders. Allison says she's not feeling up for the recital but the minute Chris Argent exits the room, she is up. She was fully dressed under the covers.

"If you had just told me" Chris sighed. "You would have stopped me" Allison finished for him, making him sigh again.

She equips herself with her ringed daggers and prepares to leave but a noise at the window stops her. In one fluid moment she reaches out of the window and hauls Isaac into the room and pins him on the floor with a dagger at his throat.

"Nice moves" Laura complimented. "Thanks" Allison smiled, she herself surprised from what she just saw herself do.

She assumes Scott sent Issac to check up on her since she didn't come to school. Allison says she can take care of herself. Isaac says he's noticed that fact more than once. In Ms. Blake's class she is lecturing on Idioms, Analogies, Metaphors and Similes as tools a writer uses to tell a story. Lydia is drawing a tree. Ms. Blake comments that she wasn't aware Lydia had so many hidden talents. Lydia retorts "You and every guy I've ever dated" which Ms. Blake says is an example of an idiom.

"You know, she is my favorite teacher" Laura laughed.

Ms. Blake seems disconcerted. There could be a number of reasons for this - Lydia's response, the subject matter of her drawing or the fact that she is faced with Scott and Stiles for the first time since the Alpha twins kidnapped her and helped kill Boyd.

"Well it shouldn't be that awkward. They just saved her life. Nothing more" Isaac said in a matter of fact tone.

Ms. Blake continues her lecture. She explains that idioms require both the author and the reader to have a common knowledge base of language or culture. She gives "Jump the gun" as an example explaining that both author and reader must know about the use of starting guns in racing to understand the meaning of the idiom. She also mentions "seeing the whole board" as another example. Stiles recognizes the idiom from chess because his father plays the game. Scott hatches a plan for Lydia to distract Aiden so that they can talk to Ethan. Scott has an idea the Darach might have been an emissary to the Alpha Pack. Stiles says Aiden and Ethan have been inseparable since helping to kill Boyd.