Won't Fall (Book Five: Teen Wolf Fanfic)

Ch. 5: A Novel Approach

Scott and I were lying in his bed in his room at his house later that night.

I was gazing off, thinking about what he had said, and how I hadn't said anything, slightly guilty.

But it seemed like Scott didn't even remember saying it.

Scott's phone vibrating broke me out of my thoughts and woke Scott.

Scott picked up his phone.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"It's the alarm at the Animal Clinic," Scott told me. "I think it's a break in."

*****

Scott and I had gone to the clinic to see someone had broken in to steal Tracy's body.

Scott called Stiles.

"Scott?"

"Stiles, someone's taking the bodies. Stiles? You there?"

"Yeah. Um... where? What are you talking about?"

"I'm at the Animal Clinic with Tara. Tracy's body is gone. The lock on the door was broken from the outside. And my mom just tole me Lucas' body went missing from the morgue. They've been searching the whole hospital for it. Someone's stealing the bodies."

*****

Scott had come to the loft during the next day, showing me the book that Malia had found in Tracy's bedroom at her house about the Dread Doctors, the people in the masks being on the cover.

I read from the cover of the book. "The Dread Doctors by TR McCammon. Has anyone actually read it yet?"

"Just Malia," Scott answered. "I was thinking that we should all probably read it. Kira made copies. Stiles says he can't find anything on the author. He thinks it's a pen name."

I read from the back of the book. "'In a small New England town, teenagers are taken in the night and buried alive. Days later, they emerge transformed, wreaking havoc and spreading terror, commanded by an ancient order of parascientists known only as the Dread Doctors'. Sounds vaguely familiar. How does it end?"

"It doesn't," Scott answered. "This is supposed to be volume one."

"Oh, let me guess," I told him. "There is no volume two?"

"I think we're living volume two," Scott told me.

"Then maybe the real question is, 'Is this a novel, or someone's prediction'," I told him. Scott sighed, nodding in agreement. I turned around, pacing away, paging through the book. "You want me to read this?"

"Well, not yet," Scott answered. "I'm still only on chapter one."

I sighed, continuing to page through the book. "I've been thinking about who's taking the bodies. I don't think the Dread Doctors are taking them."

"What?" Scott asked. "Why?"

"Think about it," I told him. "They killed Tracy and walked away. They killed Lucas and walked away. Why would they leave and come back to take the bodies?"

Scott nodded in understanding. "Someone else has to be taking them."

"But the bodies aren't just bodies," I told him. "They're--They're failures."

"So if the Chimeras are all failures, what's the success going to be?" Scott asked.

"Bad," I answered. "Probably really bad."