2.6 Nightmare Novel

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'I'll be the actress staring in your bad dreams'
- Look What You Made Me Do, Taylor Swift
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A fleet of Sheriff's cruisers with their lights flashing have arrived at the school, including Deputy Clark and Sheriff Stilinski. The deputies, all carrying flashlights to help them see through the night's darkness, walk toward the lacrosse field, where one of the male deputies flips on the field lights.

Stilinski walks into the middle of the field, where eight holes have been dug in a tight formation.

Me, Malia and Stiles are all in Sheriff Stilinski's office, Stilinski puts a red cross using a marker over a picture of Tracy that is on his crime board. "Chimeras."

"Two dead Chimeras" Stiles states as the group of us all stare at the crime board.

"And eight new ones" I add with a sigh.

"So, that's ten in all" Stiles says as he turns to me for a quick second.

"I'm thinking maybe eleven" Stilinski shrugs as he pulls out a picture of Donovan and pins it to his board. Stiles looks at me again but as I turn to look at him he looks away and stares at the floor.

"Our station tech guys confirmed something for me" Stilinski explains. "They said both the holding cell lock and cameras could have malfunctioned because of something electromagnetic. You said that, uh, these guys-" Stilinski raises the copy of the book.

"Dread Doctors" Malia interrupts.

"Are we really calling them that?" Stilinski asks, exasperated.

"So, they broke Donovan out?" I question, moving away from the topic.

"It's how they got into Eichen, isn't it?" Stilinski shrugs.

"Donovan's a Chimera" Malia states with a nod.

"Yeah, but is he a failure like Lucas and Tracy?" Stilinski shrugs.

"If he is, he's probably dead" Malia replies as she steps forward to look closer at the crime board. Malia raises the red marker but Stilinski stops her before she can draw a cross on Donovan.

"Not until I've seen a body" Stilinski says. I turn to Stiles with wide eyes. Stilinski turns around to us, "you're both uncharacteristically quiet."

"Yeah. Sorry, I'm just trying to think about it" Stiles shrugs as he looks away from me. "These are all teenagers, right? So, now shouldn't we be trying to figure out why these teenagers? If the Dread Doctors, if they went through all that, burying them, killing them, breaking one of them out of jail."

"They couldn't have been chosen at random" Stilinski realises.

"They had to have something in common" I state.

"Something that made them right for this experiment" Stilinski adds.

"Something that made them special."

Scott has dragged me along to recruit Theo into helping us find the right unknown chimeras. The three of us are stood along stairwell, overlooking the crowds of teenagers.

"So, basically, we're looking for abnormal behavior?" Theo questions.

"Anyone acting a little off or a little weird" Scott responds.

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