Foresight

Chapter 57: 4-5

A young girl runs through the Beacon Hills High School Campus at night. She is bleeding and one of her hands is missing. All that remains is a cauterized and smoking stump. Violet pursues casually spinning her "thermo-cut wire" bolo necklace.

"I'm liking this girl less and less every time I'm seeing her" Hayden growled.

The girl takes refuge inside one of the buses repeating the mantra we heard Demarco chanting "the sun the moon, the truth". She stops when Violet enters the bus and begins slowly coming down the aisle. With a burst of speed, the girl leaps up, swipes at Violet with her remaining claws, and escapes.

"Another one of Satomi's. Is her pack really that big?" Peter mumbled to himself. "You slice her good!" Laura growled.

She races across the parking lot but stops short when a truck pulls up in front of her. Garrett urges her to get in claiming "she's coming!"

"Oh no" Allison groaned.

The girl gets in, Garrett smiles, says he's surprised she fell for it, and stabs her.

"What about him?" Liam looked to Hayden who was balling her hands into fists. "I would kill him" she whispered, eyes burning with rage.

Stiles Stilinski places pictures and red lines of tape on his new, improved, see-through Lucite murder board. He goes through all the recent killings starting with the Walcott's.

"Love the new board" Scott complimented. "Same man" Stiles grinned.

He explains how The Mute was killed by Peter Hale after the incident with the claymore mine at the school. Deputy Parrish was called in to defuse the mine, using his military training from the Hazardous Device Team. He then recounts Demarco's death outside Lydia's lake house which Scott McCall and Chris Argent investigated. Scott picked up the scent of werewolf from the body and said it smelled to him that Demarco was part of a pack. Chris suggests that pack may be looking for him. Then Stiles shows some evidence from the most recent murder, 23 year old Carrie Hudson. Scott and Stiles take everything they have along with the partial list of potential victims, to Sheriff Stilinski. They explain that Allison's name was the keyword that unlocked a third of the list and that there are two more keywords that will unlock the rest of the names.

"Why my name though?" Allison wondered out loud. "Maybe it's only using name of dead people cause it's a deadpool" Mason joked.

Lydia has been out at the lake house all weekend, using the record player in the soundproof room, trying to get further messages but has so far received nothing via her banshee power. Looking at the list, the sheriff realizes just how many supernaturals may be living in the area. He says Beacon Hills is a town of just under 30,000 people but that the population of Beacon County is closer to 500,000.

"That's a lot of people. Our ancestors were busy people" Corey said making Stiles snort.

He is worried that there could be hundreds of names on the rest of the list but the boys don't think so. They believe the numbers are dollar amounts that add up the $117 million stolen from the Hale Vault. The triple digit numbers are thousands while the single and double digits are millions.

"That's a lot of money" Scott mumbled.

They surmise that the Benefactor stole the money to finance the murders and wants every supernatural in Beacon Hills dead. The sheriff lays out how it works – The coded list goes out and somehow these professional assassins get that list and the keyword. Then they go after the names on the list. The crime scene photos of the latest murder show an odd shaped mark around each of the knife wounds. The sheriff has no idea yet what it might be. They also figure out that Demarco was lured to the lake house by the assassin. Scott says everyone knows he delivers kegs to teenagers for a little extra cash. The sheriff says whoever ordered the keg killed Demarco. Somebody at the party which means it was a student.