𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒔- 𝑺.𝑺

𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏

"They're coming back, so we don't have much time to talk,"

He put some things on Scott's wound,

"What is that?"

"Rubbing alcohol, you don't want it to get infected, do you?"

He shook his head,

"You'll heal the same, just not as quickly because of Derek,"

"Okay, how do you know all this?"

"Actually, how do you know anything?"

"It's a long story, what I can tell you is that I know about your kind, your kind I can help, this, this is something different,"

"Well, do you know what did it?"

"No, but the Argents will, and this is the crucial part, they'll have some kind of record or book, it'll have descriptions, histories, notations of all the things that they've discovered,"

"Uh, all the things? How many different things are there?" asked Scott,

They heard cars outside,

"Let's go,"

They hid behind the door,

"I'm starting to think I need to buy a more prominent 'closed' sign," he said,

"Hello, Alan, it's been a while, the last I heard you had retired," said Gerard,

"The last I heard, you followed a code of conduct,"

"If you hadn't noticed, this body is one of ours," said Chris,

"I did, I also noticed the gunpowder residue on his fingertips, so don't assume I'll be swayed by your philosophy just because I'll answer a few questions,"

"He was only 24," said Chris,

"Killers come in all ages," he said,

"All ages, sizes, shapes, it's the last one that concerns us,"

"How about you tell us what you found," said Chris,

"See this cut? Precise, almost surgical, but this isn't the wound that killed him, this had a more interesting purpose,"

"Relating to the spine?" asked Gerard,

"That's right, whatever made this cut was laced with a paralytic toxin potent enough to disable all motor functions, these are the cause of death, notice the pattern on each side?"

"Five for each finger," said Chris,

"Each claw,"

"As you can see, it dug in, slashed upward, eviscerating the lungs and slicing through the bone of the rib cage with ease," he said,

"Have you ever seen anything like this before?" asked Chris,

"No,"

"Any idea at all what killed him?" he asked,

"No, but I can tell you it's fast, remarkably strong and has the capacity to render its victims essentially helpless within seconds," said Deaton,

"If you're saying we should be cautious, we get it," said Chris,

"I'm saying you should be afraid, be very afraid, because in the natural world predators with paralytic toxins use them to catch and eat their prey, this prey wasn't eaten, that means whatever killed him only wanted to kill him, in fact, killing maybe it's only purpose," he said.

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Reyna waited at the house for Stiles, sitting on the steps and saw him. She ran to hug him,