GAINING CONTROL |T.RAEKEN

VII. i still have a pulse

CHAPTER SEVEN
I STILL HAVE A PULSE

after searching the entire school for scott mccall, the girls phone buzzed and valencia rolled her eyes. he was only texting about fifteen minutes late.

scotty 🐺
hey sorry for texting
back so late,
i'm in the locker room
with theo.

valencia sighed, the one place she hadn't looked, of course he was in the boys locker room. after valencia had left the gym, she knew scott was still in the school but didn't know where. theo must've went to the locker room after the gym and found scott there.

valencia made her way to the locker room, taking long steps until she got there. she pushed the door open, breathing in the smell of sweat and loads and loads of aftershave.

"i swear, boys wear way too much aftershave." valencia muttered and plopped done opposite scott on the benches. valencia noticed the inhaler in scott's hand and she looked up confused, "your asthma's back? i thought you couldn't get it anymore."

scott shrugged and valencia noticed that he was upset. "yeah um, i think it's just the memory hitting me." he shook his head, "psychosomatic thing."

scott turned to theo, watching bc him reach into his locker. "you want to talk about something?" he asked the raeken boy with a raised eyebrow.

theo looked over to scott and valencia and shook his head slightly. "no, it can wait."

"no, no, it's okay." scott stuck his hand out a shrugged yet again. theo closed his locker and fully turned around to the two. "what's up?"

theo started to approach valencia and scott, holding out his phone. "last night, you guys all fell asleep. i went upstairs to check on kira. she was sleeping, but..."

"you heard her speaking japanese?" scott asked with wide eyes and valencia's eyes flickered between the two, not really paying attention to what the conversation was about. 

"i didn't just hear it." theo added, holding out his phone and playing a an audio or video or something valencia couldn't tell.

valencia and scott listened closely, not understand japanese.

"that's what she said at the club." scott nodded his head, pointing at theo's phone.

"i found a website that can translate it." theo informed them, "it means, roughly,
'i am the messenger of death.'

scott's eyes widened and he sat forward on the bench, trying to process what he was being told. valencia crossed her arms over her chest, not bothering to join in on the conversation.

"does it get worse?" theo asked with concern, holding his phone down.

scott sat up straight and let out a shaky sigh before leaning over on the bench again and clearing his throat. "yeah, something... somethings happening to her. she's got this aura around her. it's hard to explain. um... it's supposed to be part of her. but now it looks different. almost like it's taking over. i don't know. something's happening."

valencia thought back to the night that tracy was in the station and attacked them. when kira chopped off tracy's tail, she jumped off the table and orange surrounded her in the shape of a fox.

"and to be honest..." scott stuttered and valencia looked down to her shoes.
"i don't know if i can trust her anymore."

the light about the three started to flicked for a second, the electricity crackling. all three werewolves stood and looked up confused until suddenly the crackling was below them.