daylight || harlan briggs

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Spencer's pov:

I was walking around the block after leaving the club, I wanted to stop by the house one last time. I got there and I saw Blake in front of the house as well. 
"Hey B, what're you doing here?"
"I wanted to come see the house" "Me too. Come on." I grab her hand and go up to the house. We looked at it the house, I felt my heart drop to my stomach. I look over at Blake and it looked like she cares but doesn't at the same time. We were about to go inside as we heard sticks breaking as well as footsteps. I look at blake as she looks back at me and we go see what the noise was. We got closer to the edge of the porch and saw Everett around the corner. Blake grabs his arm and drags him to the porch. He grunts, "whoa!" "What the fuck are you doing here?" Blake yells at him. "Looking for you." "Why?" Me and Blake say in unison. "Because we need to talk and you don't have a phone, we'll except Spencer but I don't know her socials." "I don't have a phone because i don't need to talk to people like you." I roll my eyes. She don't have to be so rude to him, he's just worried and confused, I don't know I can sense his emotions so clearly. Wtf. Everett looks around in total shock at our house, I look at where he's looking and sigh. "Oh, shit. Your house." As he looks at us both. "This is your house, isn't it?" Blake sighs as I speak, "Well, this was our house." As I walk to the door, with them on my trail.

Harlan's pov:
"There are fires every year." "Not like this one." Luna explains. "You heard what they said on the news, this is the worst fire in 18 years... just like the one when Garrett found us." I look down at the ground at the thought of that memory. "What if this time he found someone else?" ".....Our real father." I reply. Luna scoffs, "It's what you wanted right?" "Like you don't?" I shot back. "I don't want someone who abandoned us 18years ago." "But you're the one always saying you don't feel like you've found your pack... like no one gets us and that all you've ever wanted is to find someone like you." I finish, "Well, now's your chance, Luna." If he's come back, if he's really still alive and... and if he did that" both of us looking at the claw marks on the truck. "Then he's coming for the both of us." She finishes. We both just stare at each other. What if it is our real father.?

Spencer's pov:
We walk inside as the door creaks open, all of us looking around. "Sorry you lost everything." Everett speaks after a moment of silence. "I don't care... it doesn't mean anything." Blake replied. "Nothing? Like, not even one thing?" "Nope." "It's our brother who's gonna care." I say. "He's um- he's got Asperger's right?" "No, he's got ASD, Autism Spectrum Disorder. No one's got Asperger's anymore." I explained. "As long as he sticks to his rituals, he's pretty high functioning." I sigh. "Uh, what rituals?" I took a step as the floor boards creak. "Anytime he walks into a room, if there's a TV, he has to turn it on to see if it works. And it has to be on the news." "What if it's not?" Everett asked again. "He gets anxious. Then he has a meltdown, screaming, crying." Blake says. "He sometimes hits himself." I spoke from behind Everett as he looks at me. Silence filled the air as we look around the house together. As we did, I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder. I put my hand on it as if it would help the pain, I close my eyes as it continues. Blake and Everett look at me with concern. "Spence, are you okay?" Blake asks. I nod, "I'm fine." "How come you both didn't go to a hospital?" "How come you didn't stay?" Blake fired back. Damn, that was harsh. "Someone called me and told me to leave." I raise my eyebrow as he said that? "He said it was gonna try and kill me again. And it has to do it before the next full moon." Me and Blake just look at him, "you should definitely go back to the hospital. Probably a psychiatric hospital." Blake finished before walking away. "No. I know what I saw. People died and it wasn't from a fire." I look up from the ground as I knew what he was talking about as I saw it too. "Our bus driver was one of them." "Renata." Blake interrupted. "Who?" "Our bus driver. Her name was Renata." Everett sighs as he takes his jacket off while his face squints with pain. "Look." Me and Blake look at it. "You see that?" "See what?" Blake said. Everett looks at the bandage before removing it to show us the wound. My eyes widen at the eight. That's exactly what I saw when I was changing for the club last night. "Everyone who looks at it says it's healing and probably won't even scar. That's not what you see, is it?" I shake my head no as I agree with Everett while I look at Blake while she looks at it with disbelief with a shocked face. "Look." As Everett looks at the mirror at himself, "I see it" Blake spoke with some attitude. "No, no, no. Not the bite. I watch as he steps closer as i look to see what he's seeing. "Holy shit. I can see my abs!" As he admires himself. "Can you see my abs?" "Damn, congratulations man." I say, excited for him to help his confidence, while Blake over here also congratulations him but with sarcasm. I just roll my eyes and look back at him. "I look like I put on ten pound of muscle in the last 2 hours." "You want me to take a progress pic." Blake says with sarcasm once again. "No-" as he interrupts himself and looks at Blake. "No, your skin. Look at it." As he began to finish his sentence, I interrupted, "yes she used to have acne scars." She looks at me then back at Everett, "whatever's going on with you, I can't help." She pauses. "I have my own shit to deal with, all of us aren't in this together, alright?" "Blake, yes we are! You see it but you don't want to accept the fact that we were all bitten." I finish as they look at me confused. "What do you mean 'all' of us?" I move my shirt off my shoulder and show her what was on Everett's shoulder earlier, "I was bitten when I was trying to get to my car after I told you both to get out of there before anything else happened to you both." Everett looks at me shocked while Blake looks unfazed, still not getting the point. I sigh while Everett is putting his shirt on. I hear a heavy breathing behind all of us. We all turn to see this huge ass monster watching us. If snarls at us while we look with fear. Next thing we know it jumps at us, hitting the boards that we're in its way. We all jump back as we dove over the couch we were near before. We turn off our stomach on our elbows to look at this monster. Before he could make a move, Diesel comes and attacks the big thing to distract him so we could get away. I grab their hands as we run to the door but part of the roof fell in front of the door. "Other way" We turn to do the opposite direction and we still see the dog and the monster fighting. We run through a hole as we got blocked by a support beam. We try to hit it to break it but it was no use. Something came over Everett as I look to see Everett putting his fist through the support beam. We all looked shocked that he just did tha, but no time for this right now. "Guys, c'mon we have to go!" I shout going through running as far as I could with them on my trail.

After a while of running, we stop on some bridge. We're all panting out of breath as I see Blake ahead of us. Wait I thought I was in front of them, wtf? "What the FUCK was that?" As she points behind Everett. "What's happening to us?" I said while shaking and struggling to breath. "Just try to breath." Everett spoke but got interrupt by Blake, "what, like, I'm having a panic attack or something?" "Probably an anxiety attack." "What's the difference?" Blake spoke. "Anxiety is triggered by a stressor and panic attacks come out of no where." I spoke for Everett. I knew the difference because I struggle myself. "No, no, no, no. I don't get anxiety attacks  or panic attacks or whatever the fuck this is, okay? I'm just- I'm just freaking out! You know, sometimes people freak out." Still breathing heavy and pacing back and fourth. "Blake, relax. Breath please because your making my anxiety worse!!" I shouted as I try to control my breathing. "Yeah. They also have anxiety attacks." Everett breathes "just try and breathe in to seven and out to 11." I even try myself and it helped some. "Try shutting the fuck up!" "No, you could try Lion's Breath." "What's Lions Breath?" I say confused. "It's-its yoga. It's Simhasana. It-it can ease anxiety and reduce panic attacks." He explained to us. "Yoga? You want me to do yoga?" "B, just give it a shot. Your starting to annoy me with these questions. please, let him help." "No." "Try it." "Fuck you, Spence!" I put my middle finger up as I breath in to 7 and out to 11, almost done. "Listen, you open your eyes wide, stick you tongue out and keep saying "Hah" with as much energy and force as possible." Blake pants more, "I c-I ca-I can't breathe." "It's okay B, you got this." "No, you can do it. Just this once." "I can't breathe." "You can do it. Just once. Just once. Okay?" As they hold each others hand. I watch the seen unfold and i watch in awe. "I'll do it with you." Everett finishes. "Blake, look at me," As she looks at him, "Eyes wide, tongue out. One, two...," "Hah!" They do it at the same time. At this point, my anxiety is gone as I watch this go on as they repeated the process. Blake starts coughing as me and Everett starts laughing. "Did it work? Even a little? You feel calmer?" Everett exclaims in excitement. Silence filled the air once's again. "I don't know. Maybe? A little. Yeah" I smiled at the both of them, "We should teach Danny that to calm him down when he starts getting anxious, B. Could help." I told Blake as she looked at me with a slight smile and nodded before looking back at Everett. They both just star at each other in a comfortable silence between them. Blake ruined the moment as she spoke, "I have to go. Our father and brother have no idea where we are." " Wait, we need to figure this out." Me and Blake look at him. "You think that thing just showing up at your guys house was a coincidence?" Blake scoffs. "Wherever you go, I guarantee it shows up there too. You want to lead it right to them?" He exclaims. I thought about what he said. "It was an animal." Blake said. "No it wasn't B, you know it too." I said quietly. "It was just a stupid animal."As she looked at me then to Everett, " it doesn't know what motel we're staying at." She finishes. "We were bitten." Me and Everett said together. "I know what it was. You do too, so does Spencer." Blake just looks at him, "I don't." "You do." no, I don't." "Omg, yes you do!!" I cut in. It goes silent. Blake scoffs and walks off. I look at Everett, "I'm sorry." As I follow Blake to the motel.

Me and Blake were running until we both heard this high pitched ringing. I hold my ears in pain as my vision goes black and my mind goes blank. My eyes roll into the back of my head and we both run into the direction we can from, through the woods. My vision come back as I see Everett, Blake by my side, and two other people I saw at the club the other night. "Luna?" "Everett?" Everett looks at me and Blake, "they're the twins from school, Harlan and Luna." Harlan looks at me with confusion as I did same as we knew each other from the other night. "What're you doing here?" Harlan spoke, "what're You doing here?" I said, looking at the twins when all of our eyes start glowing. I look at the four of them as they look at me then each other. "You seeing this?" "Yeah I see it." Luna exclaimed looking at the three of us. "You're eyes are glowing." I exclaimed, "so are yours." Luna said. An awkward silence filled the air as we looked at each other some more. "This never happens to us." "What never happens?" "Anything of this." Harlan said still confused asf. "But it's happening now." Luna said shocked. "What? What's happening?" Me and Blake said in unison. "Luna stop." "Tell us!" Everett pushed. "We don't even know them." Harlan said once more. Luna and Harlan look back at us as me Blake and Everett look at each other. "Why is this happening?" I said repositioning my feet. "Because. We're all here. All together. Under the moon." I look up at the moon to see it full as the others look too. I loo back at Luna as she spoke, "Something bit you." I look down as I know what she's talking about. "Don't say it." Blake says moving back a bit. "You're like us now." I raise my eyebrow. "Don't!" "Just like us." Luna says again. I look at Blake and Everett as they look at me with wide eyes. "Werewolves." Me and Everett say at the same time. No way this is actually happening. Holy shit.

A/N: thank you loves for 100 reads! It truly means the world for me, especially for it being my first book. I love you guys sm 🫶🏼