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

Ch. 7: Strange Frequencies

The Chimera that had been tearing the electricity apart was dead.

Stiles and Theo brought the body to Scott and me at the Animal Clinic, telling us that a Dread Doctor had killed him.

Scott looked at the body in recognition.

"Do you know him?" I asked.

Scott nodded. "His name's Josh. He was a junior."

I looked at Theo and Stiles. "Which one did it? The one with the cane?"

Theo and Stiles exchanged a look.

Theo looked at Scott and me, nodding. "Yeah."

"What are we going to do with him?" Stiles asked. "We can't just set the alarm and leave. That's how Tracy disappeared. All right, someone's got to stay here with him."

Theo sighed. "I'll do it." Stiles, Scott and I looked at him. "It's not like I had a big Saturday night planned."

Scott's phone vibrated. He looked at the text.

"What is it?" I asked.

"Another one," Scott answered. "Another Chimera."

*****

Stiles, Scott and I had gone to Scott's house.

Liam had brought the Chimera named Hayden into Scott's room.

Hayden had locked herself in the bathroom.

Scott knocked on the door. "Hayden? It's Scott. I know that you're scared, but we just--we want to help."

I listened to Hayden on the other side of the door. "I can hear her heart beating. She's really freaked out." I looked at Liam. "What happened?"

"She was okay when we got here," Liam told us. He looked at Scott. "I went to take you for two seconds and she locked herself in."

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't know," Liam told us.

"She's definitely a Chimera?" Scott asked.

Liam nodded. "She said she heard a voice saying, 'Your condition improves'."

"Okay, that's unsettling," Stiles told us, knocking on the door. "Hayden. This is Stiles. Your sister works for my dad down at the station. Look, just open the door, okay? You can trust us."

"We just need to tell you the truth, Hayden," I told her. "And that kind of thing usually is better face-to-face. Listen. Either you're gonna unlock the door, or I'm gonna have to break it open. It's okay if you don't want to talk, or if you're not ready to believe us. But we just... we gotta know that you're okay in there."

There was no answer.

I sighed, bracing myself to broke the door open.

The door unlocked, opening.

Hayden was on the other side, transformed with gold glowing eyes, fangs and claws. "I believe you."

*****

The next day, Stiles, Scott and I were meeting in the loft, standing around the table over a map.

"We're back to tellurric currents?" Stiles asked.

"If the Dread Doctors didn't like coming into Eichen House because of them, maybe we can use them to protect Hayden," I told them.