Foresight

Chapter 99: 6-12

Theo Raeken is apparently homeless.

"What a wonderful start" Theo mutters sourly.

Night after night he curls up in the backseat of his SUV, and every morning he is awakened by cops knocking on the window. One night, as he is alone again in his vehicle, a spider is seen outside the window. It appears to be trying to get into the vehicle. On another night, Theo notices a spider crawling on his arm. More interested than scared, he watches as it moves quickly to his hand. Suddenly, it breaks the skin and crawls inside of him. Theo tracks its movements up the inside of his arm and around his shoulder.

"Okay what the actual fuck" Theo panicked. "Don't tell me you're afraid of spiders as well" Stiles muttered with a smirk. "When they crawl into your skin? Hell yeah I am" Theo shivered.

He breaks into the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic, and, with the aid of a mirror, spots the spider under the skin of his mid back. He stabs at and pulls it out. Theo watches as the spider flails on the end of the scalpel for a moment before exploding in a puff of black smoke. He considers calling Scott McCall. He has his contact information up on his phone, but, before he can dial, there is a familiar tap on the window. Thinking it is yet another deputy telling him to move along, Theo looks up to find several guns are pointed at him. He raises his hands in surrender. Several shots fire.

Theo blinked in shock, "Am I?" he asked with a strange pitch in his voice. "Naah you're too hard to kill" Stiles waved it off instantly. Theo gave stiles a squinted look but relaxed slightly.

Scott runs through the woods at night. It reminds him of a night several years ago when he was being chased by hunters shortly after his first transformation. He remembers the story Chris Argent told him about a rabid dog breaking its teeth to get out of a cage. He is roused from his memories by Malia saying they can still catch whoever killed Halwyn. Scott says they need to get the casing they found to Argent even if he is the one who fired the bullet. Scott hears several heartbeats in the woods. His vision blurs for a moment and he can actually see the hunters that were just haunting his memories. He tells Malia and Lydia to run. As he flees, Malia calls for him to wait. When he looks back, he can see a cadre of hunters pursuing. Scott is stopped short by several red laser-sight beams crisscrossing the woods. He bares his fangs and growls as his eyes go red. He runs and tackles the closest figure. It's actually Sheriff Stilinski but it still takes a second for Scott to realize this and stop struggling. Stilinski has his handgun pointed at Scott's heart.

"woah woah he's on your side!" Stiles exclaimed in panic.

Scott's fangs and extra hair are visible to the rest of the dozen or so deputies in the woods. The sheriff attempts to calm them by saying it's just a kid, but Deputy Vargas, with her gun still pointed at Scott, pipes up "What's wrong with his eyes?" Deputy Jordan Parrish steps in front of the woman and tells her to stand down.

"Thanks" Scott threw a thankful look at Parrish who smiled in return.

Lydia and Malia catch up just as Scott's face returns to normal. Scott worries that the other deputies saw him, but Parrish says it's not anything they haven't seen before. They discuss the fact that Halwyn was a hellhound, which is supposed to be unkillable. Noah senses that Scott has more to tell. Scott says he doesn't believe it was a regular bullet that killed the hound, Parrish says he hopes that is the case. Scott doesn't reveal that he has the bullet casing, instead, he puts it in his pocket. Later, Scott, Lydia, and Malia agree that they won't say anything about the bullet casing until they talk to Argent. Lydia says they need to do it soon because of her earlier premonition of people screaming and killing each other.