Our Future

Chapter 9

The next day, Scott explains to Chris that Brett and Lori were murdered and they now know that they're not dealing with an amateur hunter and that Gerard is helping. With war on the horizon, Chris and Scott want a peace summit with Gerard and Lydia reminds them that the last summit Gerard attended ended with the old hunter killing his own men and a bunch of werewolves and blinding Deucalion. Chris offers to approach Gerard believing his father won't kill him. Chris says the terms of the negotiations might be steep and Scott needs to figure out how much he's willing to give up and how far he's willing to go to stop a war.

In the tunnels, Scott arrives to find Monroe flanked by two armed hunters and a third hunter with a shock stick taser in the tunnel behind him. With Corey camouflaging Liam with invisibility, Mason attempts to find an exit that is not blocked by angry looking lacrosse players, but Nolan confronts Mason and blows a handful of powder at him. As the powder lands on the invisible boys, it reveals their shapes and they are exposed.

Gerard joins the party in the tunnel as Scott tries to reason with Monroe and he indicates that Monroe is the person that is in charge of the operations. Scott tries everything so that this confrontation doesn't end up in a confrontation between his pack and the group that is led by Gerard, because Scott knows, that even if Gerard claims that Monroe is in the lead, in reality who gives the orders and takes all decisions is Gerard. Then, Monroe relates the story of her first brush with the supernatural.

She was one of the victims of La Bête du Gévaudan who ended up piled up in the school bus with several other victims as a trap the Beast set for Parrish's hellhound. Monroe was injured and hid under a corpse of a fellow teacher as the two supernatural creatures fought outside. She was found by Sheriff Stilinski who called for an ambulance. However, what Scott feared, ended up happening and one of Gerard's men started shooting. Monroe even tried to gain control of the situation and order her men to stop shooting, but they just ignored her.

A flare drops from a grate above to the tunnel floor. Parrish jumps down after his eyes glow orange and he growls. One of the hunters opens fire but the deputy tosses him into the tunnel wall. He makes a beeline for the lump and shoves the still-lit flare into it. Both forms are consumed in flames.The fireball passes and tunnel darkens and Scott rushes to help Parrish to his feet dele. The hunters are gone and the lump lies on the tunnel floor severely scorched. Scott arrives home to find Quinn waiting in his kitchen and she is badly injured. Malia wants to know if a hunter hurt her, but Quinn says it was a deputy.

Scott knew that the next step would be to talk to Stilinski so that he could free the two werewolves that attacked, defensively, some of the hunters who were behind them, but the sheriff just told him that he couldn't do it, as there were procedures that had to be done. Although Sheriff Stilinski didn't want to believe that any of his men were capable of hurting or even killing innocent people, yet he also knew he could trust Scott Mccall.

- Even if I wanted to release them, I can't. Scott there are procedures that must be followed. Remember the last time I skipped procedures? It was almost costing me my career... I can't go through that again.

"We understand," Scott said.

Suddenly a bright lights flash on outside the station. Monroe and a dozen well-armed hunters are waiting there. Sheriff Stilinski orders all his officers to put their weapons away and get away from the windows. He disarms himself and prepares to go outside to seek a peaceful resolution. Parrish wants to go with him but Noah orders him to check the exits to see if they're completely surrounded and tells him to watch his fellow officers to make sure they're all on the same side and to protect the pack.

Inside the police station, Scott and the rest of the pack "discuss" what next step they need to take. While Lydia says that there are only a dozen hunters and that they can "take them." Liam points out that they need to save Jiang and Tierney because they're the last of Satomi's pack and Scott agrees that they'll escape and take the two young werewolves with them.