Great Losses [Spurious Sequel] ✶On Hold✶

[12] And It Was All (NOT) Okay

Claire:

We rush out of the room as soon as the sounds of Scott and Peter distracting the twins begins. The small glimpse that I catch of the fight is enough to make my head fill with the frenzy of my overprotective sister mode.

Unfortunately I can't really do much except keep my feet moving in the direction of the basement where the ambulance should hopefully be at. Hopefully.

Our running comes to a somewhat simultaneous stop as the four, five including Cora, reach the basement. I'm not sure if I should thank running over the summer or the adrenaline of the situation for helping me not pass out in exhaustion by now.

"It's still here." Stiles breaths out in relief. I almost, almost, break out into an unskilled happy dance. Instead of embarrassing myself I help Stiles open up the back of the ambulance.

I quickly climb into the back to check Cora once Derek and Stiles get her on the gurney. What makes my lips purse in stress is that her pulse is extremely low. So low that I have to double check the one on her neck and wrist to make sure I'm not the one who's wrong. To be honest I think it's her werewolf genes that's helping her stay alive.

Although I'm afraid she's using up all the added strength. Derek walks off to the side when Jennifer calls him over with a pretty freaked out tone in her voice. And if anything is going to freak out a Darach it's gonna only be alpha related.

Slowly my suspicion is confirmed by the eerie clacking on the floor. Now I would have thought it's just someones heels but then Kali speaks, and I realize it's her unclipped toe nails. "Julia." She sing-songs in a unsurprisingly scary way. "It is you."

Stiles' face contorts in disbelief of our luck, or rather lack of it, before he hastily gets up and shuts the ambulance doors. It shuts out the conversation outside so we don't know what's going on until we see Derek along with Jennifer run past us in a hurry.

An unwelcoming fear forms in me when I see not only Kali but that other alpha run after them. Wait a fine minute... I squint my eyes but I'm not able to see the face of the guy. Which now that I think of it every time he's with the others I've never seen it.

It freaks me out because the possibilities of it being someone that I see at work or that lives around me just sky rocketed. Great. Now I just added to my list of reasons why I might just have an aneurism from fear.

"Okay, okay. We're okay." Stiles begins to mumble as he checks to make sure the doors are as shut as they can be. I refrain from saying that if someone has the keys then we are done for.

"We're all right. You okay?"He asks, drumming his fingers on his legs. Trying to relive his own stress and worry in the way he usually does now a days. I nod my head with a thumbs up as extra reassurance.

Stiles nods his own head and I proceed to peer outside the small windows. If someone does come then I will do as much damage as I can with whatever is in here. Even if it means using an empty needle to buy Stiles and Cora some time to get away.

Sure at this moment I'm terrified beyond what is healthy. But these two will not get hurt while I'm alive to help in...very minimal ways. Cause lets be honest I can only really do so much physical protecting even when I have a bow and some arrows.

"Wh...why do you look like you're not breathing?" Stiles' words cause me to stop my mental rant on lack of combat skills and turn to look at the two. Way to be the heedful protector.

I place my ear close to Cora's mouth. This is why I definitely should stop having inner monologs. "That's cause she's not." I gently shake her arm to get a response, but I don't so I take my coat off and lift her chin up. Her heart is beating which is great and she doesn't have anything clogging her throat. Even better.