Vitality

xxiv.

"Scott? Isaac?" Adele stopped as she entered the police station looking for her friends.

"Addie." Lydia spoke from the bench.

"Lydia, oh my God." Adele went to hug the girl who had previously reached out to her after Allison's death.

"I'm so sorry." Adele let out as she hugged Lydia, tears in her eyes.

"The Sheriff took Isaac back for questioning." Lydia pulled away from Adele.

"Thank you." Adele smiled lightly, walking to the back of the station.

"Isaac?" Adele let out lightly as she poked her head into the room.

"We were just finishing." Deputy Parrish sent the girl a small smile, leaving the two alone.

"Hey." Adele smiled lightly as she approached the boy.

"She's dead." Isaac whispered as he looked up at Adele broken.

"I know, babes." Adele pulled the boy into her arms.

"It happened so fast." he let out a sob in his best friend's arms.

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Adele had left Isaac in the hands of Argent and went to meet back up with Lydia and Scott at the Vet.

"Stiles and Kira said it was the Nemeton that kept it trapped." Scott spoke.

"The problem is this isn't even a person you're fighting, it just looks like one." Deaton explained.

"It's a spirit that's taken the shape of a human." Adele realized.

"The shape of our best friend." Scott nodded.

"Someone caught it once, someone can do it again, right?" Lydia questioned.

"I don't know. This thing was trapped a long time ago, before the Nemeton was cut down. It doesn't have the same power anymore." Deaton explained.

"Is there anything that does?" Scott questioned.

"Possibly." Deaton agreed.

"When the tree was whole, its wood was sometimes used to contain powerful objects, but those objects are very rare." Deaton elaborated.

"Wait a second. Powerful objects? Like an alpha's claws?" Lydia questioned, looking between her friends.

"Which alpha?" Deaton questioned.

"Talia Hale." Adele realized when she thought back to the moment Derek had spoken to his mother through her nails.

"Peter had them in this wooden box with a triskele carved on the lid. What if it was made from the Nemeton?" Lydia turned to Deaton.

"It was." Deaton confirmed.

"How do you know?" Scott questioned.

"Because I made it." Deaton answered the boy.

"Derek's go the triskele box, he's going to meet us." Scott later confirmed when he finished his call with the ex-alpha.