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"My mom's book club usually has more wine."
"Well, they also probably don't read books that cause violent hallucinations."
While Kira, Scott, and Darcy had been fighting for their lives against electricity in the hallway, Stiles and Lydia had learned some interesting information from Dr. Valack. He told them to read the Dread Doctors book, the one Malia had found in Tracy's room. Reading it would apparently bring forth a suppressed memory related to the Dread Doctors. And, because you should always take advice from an asylum patient who had drilled a hole in his forehead to expose his third eye, they were doing what he said.
Almost all of them, besides Liam and Mason, were circled around the coffee table in Scott's living room. The plan was to read the book, and then experience their own memory afterward. Darcy was less than thrilled about this plan.
She was hesitant about receiving a suppressed memory because she had experienced a lot in her life, the worst of it occurring in the past year. She didn't doubt some of the horrors had been stored away, blocked by her own mind for her own sanity. Whether it was the nogitsune, the deadpool, or Kate Argent and her Berserkers, there were loads she could've forgotten. In all of that, she wasn't sure she would have a Dread Doctor memory- she'd never even heard of them before. However, she had to do it. For the pack and to save Beacon Hills... again.
"That's why Malia's here," Scott said in response to Stiles's earlier remark. Darcy looked at the alpha, his calm composure. His stature was reassuring, but she knew one thing: if she ended up having a traumatic reaction to her unlocked memory, she planned on blaming Malia for finding the book in the first place.
"So none of us go running into traffic?" Kira asked.
"Or worse."
"Like what happened to Judy."
They all looked at Malia, confused by her statement.
"What happened to Judy?" Darcy asked.
"Chapter 14."
"That doesn't... clarify anything, thanks."
Lydia picked up the book, and said, "Maybe I could have my mother read it. She might remember a girl with a tail leaping off the ceiling and attacking everyone."
"Yeah, if it works," Stiles countered.
"It has to."
Out of the corner of her eye, Darcy saw Scott's face grow concerned. "What's that mean?"
Lydia answered softly, "I think I saw them during my surgery... When I look at the cover of the book... It's almost like..."
"A memory trying to surface," Theo finished for her. They all turned to him, a mix of surprise across their faces.
