Caught In His Claws

Chapter Twenty-three

Rosalind's POV

I sleep in as much as I can because I'm not getting out until tomorrow. I want to sleep more, but I hear pounding on my door. I don't say anything just hope that it will stop. It doesn't so I get up and open the door. "What do you want? I'm trying to sleep, and I can't do that if your banging on my door."

"I found another dead body, I didn't tell you yesterday because when I came back you were asleep so I didn't want to wake you. I thought that you wouldn't be asleep seeing as it's 11 pm."

"We can talk about this later, I'm going back to sleep." I close the door, and go back to sleep. Two hours later I wake up and open the door. "Aiden!" I yell.

"Finally ready to talk?" He asks sarcastically.

"Just start talking."

"I found another body, meaning we're waiting for the next set. How long do you think we have?"

"Probably not long, either tonight or tomorrow."

"What do you want to do until then?"Aiden asks.

"Nothing with the mountain ash in the way."

"That's a shame. We're alone, but this stupid barrier."

"You're the reason this barrier is up."

"That's fair. We could just talk, I really don't know that much about you." Aiden and I talk for hours, everyone now and again he makes fun of me, but I return the favor. Before I know it it's dark out.

Scott's POV

"Okay, keep pressure on it. The doctor's on her way. And does anyone know where Dr. Hilyard is? Oh, thank God. I'm starving. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you for bringing me dinner." My mom says as I walk up to her.

"Is everything okay?"

"Except for half the accident victim in a ten car pile-up being rerouted here from downtown, and the E.R. attending not answering any of his pages, yeah." I get ignored. "I'm ok." Never mind.

"What does not answering pages mean?"

"It means that nobody can find him, so now we have to wait for the on call to get here."

"Someone. Someone help me! Oh, I need help!" Ethan comes in supporting Danny on one side.

"Okay, gentle, gentle, gentle!" Ethan puts him down on a chair.

"What did you do to him?" I ask.

"Nothing. He said he was having chest pains and trouble breathing, but it... it just kept getting worse." Ethan looks worried.

"This is not good. How much longer on Dr. Hilyard? His larynx has shifted to the side. I think it's a tension pneumothorax." My mom says.

"Mistletoe." Ethan's expression goes blank.

"Can you two please go back to the waiting room?" She says rushing us to the other room.

"Where are the nurses and the doctors? Where is everyone?" Ethan asks

"It's a full house tonight. They're tending to other patients." My mom answers

"Okay, well, mom, how can we help?" I ask.

"Honey, you can't. His lung is collapsed. His heart is being pushed against his chest cavity, so." She pauses.

"He's gonna die, isn't he?" I question.

"No. No, he's not. Scott, you grab the tape. You grab those scissors and cut his shirt open. Okay." She starts moving.

"Mom, he's not breathing."

"I know, I know. Okay. Okay here we go." She breathes. My mom does something and all of sudden Danny is breathing heavily.

"Thank you." He manges to get out.

"No problem." She smiles. "What?" She looks over at me.

"That was awesome."

"It was no problem, you know? I mean, it wasn't a big deal."

"I know you're not gonna believe me, but I didn't do anything." Ethan says after my mom leaves.

"All I know is that the minute that you got here, you went right for Danny, and your brother went for Lydia."

"My brother has other priorities. And besides we're not gonna hurt him."

"Why should I believe you?" I ask

"Because we knew one of them was gonna be important to you, and now we know it's Lydia. What is it?"

"So what are you saying?"

"Hang on, hang on. They were both in the car?"i hear Stiles dad say.

"No, dad, they're trying to tell you that it was two separate kidnappings, okay? Two doctors, both gone." Stiles says after and I go and find them.

"So whose car is this?" The sheriff asks.

"Dr. Hilyard, the on-call doctor. The E.R. attending is the one that never made it in." My mom responds.

"Let me just focus on getting your story first, all right?" My mom nods. "Boys, give us a second." Stiles and I walk away.

Ethan's POV

"And what have you two been doing?" I come in and sit next to Aiden.

"Just talking." Rosalind responds. "What happened to you."

"I was with Danny and then he quite literally starting dying. I took him to the hospital and Melissa saved him. I also found out two people went missing." Aiden and Rosalind look at each other. "Is there something I'm missing here?"

"How were these people, like their job?" Rosalind looks serious.

"They we're both doctors."

"Healers. I told you, tonight."

"Two more down seven to go." Aiden says.

"Seriously you two what am I missing."

"There's been a string of deaths going on that started a little after we got here. They are part of a sacrifice to creat more power. A darach which is an evil druid uses these sacrifices for the ritual. It requires fifteen sacrifices, meaning fifteen dead people. And they only have seven more. Three philosophers and three guardians. Then it's over and whoever uses all this power probably during the lunar eclipse." Rosalind throws over a board which goes more into detail about everything she just said.

"What do you think is going to happen next?" I ask.

"There's a giant band performance going on this week. My guess would be to grab the three philosophers there and grab another healer tomorrow."

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