The Pheonix ❀Theo Reaken❀

Chapter Eight

After Sera had finished explaining everything to Liam- he had told her she was insane- she dropped him off at his house and was now in her own home. Completely and utterly alone. Liam had asked the girl if she wanted to stay the night, assuring her repeatedly that his mom and stepdad wouldn't mind; but Sera needed to be alone for a few hours. Her biggest support system was gone, and she wasn't sure she wanted Liam to replace that just yet. She wanted nothing more than to just sleep the day's events off, but she couldn't seem to fall asleep. Everything hurt, her eyes kept glowing like fire, and she couldn't stop thinking about how she was in that building when that guy had killed her mother. If she had left Liam sooner... maybe she could have saved her.

What Sera didn't know was that Kenna Hayes knew the man with no mouth had been after her and her daughter. The man had wanted to know how to kill the girl so that she wouldn't be reincarnated but Kenna had refused, and the man had gotten so frustrated he'd killed her before he could get the information he so desperately needed. He had failed. But he wouldn't make the same mistake again, or so he thought.

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The next day at school Scott and Stiles explained to the pack their plan to help Liam during his first full moon.

"I'm not sharing my basement." Malia said.

"Actually, it's my basement, and my mom noticed how you tore it up last time." Lydia said to the werecyote.

"All right, she's still learning..." Stiles says defending the girl.

"But we're going to use the boathouse for Liam. It's got support beams- we can chain him to one of them." Scott said and Sera nods. It was a good plan she just didn't know how they'd get Liam to the lake house.

"But how do we get him out to the lake house if he doesn't trust us?" Kira asks just as Sera was about to ask the same question.

"I say, if it keeps him from murdering someone, we chloroform the little bastard and throw him in the lake." Stiles suggests and Sera gives him a crazed look.

"I'm in!" Malia agrees.

"Over my dead body!" Sera yells, her eyes blazing.

"Jesus!" Stiles says backing away from the girl. "That's gonna take some getting used to." Stiles mumbles.

"We're not killing or kidnapping him!" Scott says getting everyone back on track.

"Then let's be smarter. We tell him there's a party and invite him." Lydia suggests.

"So, you're going to ask out a freshman?" Stiles asks her surprised.

"No- I'm done with teenage boys. But, if we're playing a trick on someone... why not use the trickster?" Lydia says, looking at Kira.

"Who, me? No way. Not me." Kira says.

"Yes, you! You know what they call a female fox? A vixen!"

"Me?" Kira asks surprised. "Why can't Sera ask him?" Sera scoffs.

"Liam knows I won't be going to any parties anytime soon." Sera says, referring to her mother's death. Scott gives her a sad look. He can smell the grief coming off of her in waves and he's sure Malia can too. Ever since Sera's mother was hospitalized she's been different. She used to be this happy go lucky girl. The light of their pack but it's been diminished and the McCall boy desperately wishes to get that light back. They need it now more than ever. They need her, the real Sera.