A/N How are we liking the story so far? I have a lot of twists and turns coming for you all so be ready.
The room fell silent after that. There was nothing to say, Sage had no idea how to describe the feeling without sounding insane, and the boys were dumbfounded. For the next 30 minutes, the three sat in silence, each looking at something different. The silence was broken when Melissa Mccall walked in.
"Sage, Stiles? You two staying for dinner, I bought Chinese, all your guys' favorites." She said smiling at three.
"I should get going my dad is probably wondering where I am." Sage stood up grabbing her backpack from the floor. "It was good seeing you, Melissa! I'll probably be back tomorrow." She hugged Scott's mother before leaving.
As she turned to make her way down the stairs she heard Stiles from in the room, "So am I the only one that's concerned she calls my dad and your mom by their first names?"
"Shut up Stiles," Scott laughed. She smiled leaving her best friends to have their 'boy time.'
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Setting her keys on the table and grabbed two sodas from the fridge. As she was walking into the living room, she kissed her dad on the forehead and sat on the couch next to him. He was watching football. She handed him his soda and cracked hers open having a sip.
"How was your first day back?" Coach said when a commercial came across the screen.
"It was great. I see Scott's got a good chance at first line this year." Sage said trying to scope out her best friend's chances.
"Sage you know I can't tell you if your friends are on first-line until I tell them myself." This resulted in Sage's laughter.
"The Hales are back in town." Her father fell silent.
"What?"
"The Hales, just Derek and his sister Seraphina. Scott, Stiles, and I went on a run and we saw them outside. We only talked for a minute and-"
"Sage I need you to promise me you won't talk to them anymore. " Coach cut her off.
"What? I can't talk to Stiles and Scott anymore?"
"No, the Hales. I need you to promise me you'll stay away from them. They aren't like us. Promise me?" Coach had turned off the tv, full attention on his daughter.
"I- Okay. I won't. We'll go on runs in the other direction from now on." She gave him a reassuring smile. "I should go upstairs and finish my homework before class tomorrow."
She stood up and walked to her room. All she could think of was why her dad was so worried. Did he know something she didn't about the Hales? While it should have made her want to steer clear, she wanted to know more.
As she laid her head against her pillow and drifted off to sleep, she knew something was off with the Hales, completely. It didn't matter what she found, she had to know. They knew something about that body and Sage was going to find out what.
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"You need me to help you do what now?" Lydia Martin, Sage's best friend since 6th grade. She had known Scott and Stiles longer, but having a fellow girl as a best friend was everything she needed and more.
"I need you, my best friend in the entire world, to help me dig up some information about the Hales and the fire at the Hale House 6 years ago," Sage said leaning against her locker, nearly pleading.
"Sage, every time you ask me to help you do something, it always bites me in the ass." Lydia wasn't buying it.
"Look, something is off about the Hales, and they're back in town. Well two of them are. And when I said something to my dad he all but flipped out on me telling me to stay away from them."
"And because you're nearly neurotic, you won't stop until you figure out why, you need me to help you find out what skeletons live in their closets?" Lydia knew her best friend well.
"Exactly! Meet me during lunch?" Before Lydia could argue anymore, Sage was walking away, "I love you, Martin!"
"I hate you, Sage!" Lydia said, rolling her eyes and closing her locker. Her class was on the opposite end of the building and they wouldn't see each other again until lunch.
Sage's knee wouldn't stop jittering in chemistry. All she wanted was to be done with class and be able to find out more about Derek and Seraphina. Lydia was right, she was obsessed with knowing. But this time was different, it was like if she didn't find out everything there was to know, something terrible was going to happen.
"Ms.Finstock, can you read the next passage?" Mr.Harris walked down the aisle, and Sage was snapped back to reality.
"Of course, Mr.Harris." She started reading from the book, and she was really glad she was good at multitasking.
Suddenly lunch felt like it was years away.
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Sage grabbed her bag and nearly ran from her History class to the library. When she got there, Lydia was already sitting with her laptop open. Sage sat down next to her best friend and opened her laptop.
"Alright, we have half an hour to do a deep dive on a family, and a fire that happened 6 years ago," Sage said logging into her computer and opening her browser.
"Well, then there's a reason you called the smartest friend you have. I've already dug up almost every article written about the fire." Lydia turned her screen showing multiple articles pulled up.
"A week ago, 10 people were killed in the Hale House Fire. Survived by 29-year-old Peter Hale, 16-year-old Derek Hale, 23-year-old Laura Hale, and 12-year-old Seraphina Hale. No one has any knowledge of what started the fire, and it has thus been labeled an accident. The surviving parties do not wish to comment on this time. Peter Hale is currently in a coma at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, with no updates on his condition." Sage read from the article.
"The other three of the survivors were at school at the time of the fire and suffered zero injuries. No one has heard from the three of them since the night of the fire. Police fail to comment on their whereabouts or if there is any suspicion of them or a third party." Lydia finished.
"So there's no way to know if they started the fire?" Sage said, still in shock.
"Sage there's no way a 16-year-old and a 12-year-old lit their house on fire with 11 people inside. It's not plausible." Lydia shook her head and opened another article reading from that.
Sage knew there was something more. She did a bit more digging into the family history while Lydia looked into the fire. She hit a wall almost every corner she turned until she found something that was on a local blog regarding a few words she couldn't believe she was reading. She slammed her computer shut and ran out of the library just as the bell rang.
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"Look at this!" Sage sat down on the steps of the school for her free period with Scott and Stiles.
"When walking in the woods a jogger saw a wolf, turn into a woman." Scott read aloud, causing his eyes to nearly explode from his head.
"What is this?" Stiles asked grabbing the laptop out of Sage's hand.
"Lydia and I-" Stiles wouldn't let her get further than that.
"Lydia, as in Lydia Martin your other best friend. You had her help you with this instead of us?" Stiles sounded offended by the idea.
"Harris mentioned that you two had to make up a test or something so I asked Lydia to help me. Now if you'd let me talk Stilinski, we weren't looking for this. We were looking for more information about Derek and his sister." Sage was yet again, cut off by Stiles
"You mean Seraphina."
"Yeah, whatever. Anyways, we were researching the Hale House Fire, and I started researching their family a bit more and this popped up. A wolf turning back into a human, sound like any supernatural creature we just happened to be talking about prior? " Scott and Stiles finally caught on to what she was saying.
"Derek Hale is the wolf who bit me."
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