Light in the dark ◈ Scott McCall L.S {ON HOLD}

04

"So the Walcotts were the first that we know about." Stiles explained to his dad. "Sean, his brother, and parents were all killed by a professional assassin called The Mute. Weapon of choice, a military tomahawk." "But then the mute was killed by Peter Hale. And next was Demarco, he deliverd a keg of beer to the party at Lydia's lake house and got his head cut off his body outside his car." Stiles was explaining to his father about the list of supernatural creatures, that Lydia had found.

"And the latest. Last night, twenty three year old Carrie Hudson was killed." Stiles said. "It's a dead pool," Scott said. "A hit list of supernatural creatures. This is one part of it, the rest has to be decoded." "Who found this?" Mr. Stilinski asked. "Lydia." "How?" "She wrote it. Actually she transcribed it without realizing it." Stiles told his father. "Banshee?" Asked Mr. Stilinksi. "Banshee." Mr. Stilinski replied, "Beautiful. All right what are these numbers next to the names?" "We're actually getting to that. But first you need to kknow that the code was broken with a cipher key." Stiles explained. "Like a key word?" His father asked him. "It was actually a name." "Allison." Scott said. Scott was sadden to find out that the keyword was Allison. He missed her. Yes he still loved her. Yes he was afraid to love again. He didn't want the same thing to happen.

"Her name broke a third of the list." "And now we think ther's two other cipher keys." Scott said. "Which will give us the rest of the names." Stiles added on. "Okay so how do we get to the other cipher keys?" "Same way we got the code..." Stiles answered. "Lydia. She's been at the lake house all weekend trying to find the other two keywords." "Youd didn't know about Demarco or Carrie." Mr. Stilinski stated. "What about these three other names on the list? Kayleen Bettcher, Elias Town, and Artemis Nightshade? Are they werewolves too?" Mr. Stilinski was confused, How many other werewolves llived in this town? "I don't know. But Deaton said that the Nemeton would draw supernatural creatures here, but Artemis isn't supernatural. I mean, she deals with the supernatural but I don't think her kind would count as it."

"Here being Beacon Hills? Or Beacon County?" Mr. Stilinksi said. "The population of Beacon Hills is just under 30,000." He explained. "And dropping." Stiles received a look from his father. "But if we're talking about Beacon County, they're looking at about 500,000." He said. Mr. Stilinski continued on wondering, "Look, how many werewolves, banshees, kitsunes or whatever else is out there? What happens if the next cipher keys uncovers not thirteen, but a hundred?!"

"We don't think there would be that many, there's a limit." Stiles replies. "Because of the numbers." Scott pointed out to Sheriff Stilinski. "We think that once we decode the rest of the names, the numbers will all add up to 117." "117 what?" Asked Sheriff Stilinski. "Million." Stiles grabbed a pen and wrote m's and k's beside the names on the list. "117 million dollars dad. Stolen from the Hale vault, and is being used by someone to finance all the murders." Stiles explains. "Someone who wants every supernatural in Beacon Hills, dead." Scott said. "So a coded list goes out, and is sent to a professional killer?" The sheriff asks. "And then they go after the names on the list. They being killers with tomahawks, no mouth, and thermo-cut wires that can take off their heads?"

"Carrie was also stabbed, what do you think this mark is?" Stiles asked looking at the pictures of a stabbed girl on his fathers desk. "We're not sure yet. We're still waiting the EMT's report." His father answers. "There's one other thing I still don't get. How did the assassin know that Demarco was going to be at the lake house?" "Everyone knows he delivers kegs for teenagers for a little extra cash." Scott replied. "So.. Who ever ordered the keg killed Demarco." The sheriff pointed out. "Yeah it was someone from the party." Stiles mentioned. "A student."

The next day at school Liam was trying to find Artemis to tell her he was sorry about last night. When Scott took him back to the lake house for the rest of the night, Liam was mad at himself for what happened. He felt horrible for what he-well his wolf-did. He didn't want to and he wanted to apologize to Artemis for attacking her. He searched the school far and wide only to find her at her locker. "Hey, Artemis!" He yells. Artemis turns to look and waves to Liam with a small smile on her face. "Hey, Liam!" The newly bitten werewolf was confused. Why wasn't Artemis running away? Or screaming bloody murder?