The Lost Hunter ⚜ Sophomore Year [Crossover Fanfiction]

Chapter 19 ⚜ Chaos Rising

The tip of an eyeliner pencil presses down on the pale skin of My forearm where the mark left by the mysterious Girl has begun to fade.

With Allison driving, I finish going over the bruise. I raise my arm to Allison's, connecting the strangely patterned contusions into an odd symbol "I don't know. Doesn't look like much to me" 

"It's a pattern. It means something"

"You really think Scott's going to know what it is?"

"No. But he might know someone who does"

"How are you so sure it means anything at all?" 

"Because that girl wasn't just looking for Scott. It's like she needed to find him. Like she had to. And that means something"  Speedometer needle rising, Allison sends the car racing down the dark roads of Mystic Falls.

⚜ The Lost Hunter ⚜

The next day, In the underpass leading to the athletics field, I and Allison hold our arms together, forming the complete symbol on their skin.

Derek stands before them while Scott and Stiles look on at his sides. Derek raises his eyes to meet Allison's. Neither of them blinks glaring at each other "I don't see anything." 

Scott says "Look again." 

Derek says "How is a bruise going to tell me where Erica and Boyd are?"

Scott says "It's the same on both arms. Exactly the same."

Derek says "It's nothing." 

I say "Pareidolia. Seeing patterns that aren't there. It's a subset of apophenia."

Derek says "What she said"

Scott says "Take another look."

Derek says "I don't need to."

Scott says "They're trying to help." 

Derek points at us "These two? This one who used me to resurrect my psychotic uncle. And this one who shot about thirty arrows into me and my pack?" Derek looks at me again "Dean Winchester came to find me about old business"