Poison (Isaac Lahey/ Daniel Sharman Fanfic)

Chapter 9

Song: Prisoner- The Weeknd ft. Lana Del Rey

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My head submerged into the water. Water rushed into my mouth and nose. I clamped shut my mouth and kicked, reaching the surface of the water. I coughed madly and breathed deeply. "Shit, Azalea," Stiles sighed. "You okay?" I nodded and groaned. Derek seemed to get heavier and caused me to occasionally sink into the pool.

"Dude, how much do you weigh?" I complained as Derek simply rolled his eyes and didn't respond. I got to admit, I'm afraid to drown. That's one of things that I'm afraid of. I took deep breaths as I struggled to remain above the surface. I can be quick but I struggle with my stamina. I shut my eyes and inhaled through my nostrils. My body started to get tired pretty quickly and it annoyed the hell out of me.

"I don't think we'll stay up any longer," Stiles spoke up and looked around. His eyes landed in front of us and I followed his eyes. I looked at the handles that were on the diving board. He turned to me and I nodded and quickly started to swim towards the handles, Stiles began as well. We reached the diving board pretty quickly. Stiles reached up and his fingers slipped as he sunk.

"No, no, Stiles!" I reached up towards the handle, my fingers barely touching it as I slowly sunk with the added weight. Water rushed into my mouth and nostrils. I felt a hand wrap around my forearm and quickly pulled me out of water. My body jumped out of water and slammed against the hard floor. I coughed and the water rushed out of my mouth. Then a loud roar erupted and caused me to flinch. I quickly sat up and saw Scott on the diving board. The kanima charged towards Scott and collided with him, tackling him. They both somersaulted and landed on their feet staring directly at each other. The kanima wrapped it's tail around Scott's ankle and tossed him to the back. Scott's body collided with the mirror, causing it to shatter. Scott quickly got back onto his feet and picked up a shard of glass as the kanima approached him. He held it in front of him as the kanima stopped and stared at it's reflection, it tilted his head and looked like it was confused, then quickly jumped off the wall and left. Scott panted and dropped his shard as we all looked at him with equally confused looks.

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I stood in the parking lot, looking over Stiles' shoulder as Scott scrolled through the bestiary that was the USB on Gerard's keys. I licked my lips and leaned my head on Stiles' shoulder. "Is that even a language?"

"How are we supposed to figure out what this thing is?" Scott asks in frustration as I sighed.

"It's called a kanima." I stepped back and turned to see Derek and Erica facing us. My eyebrow rose as my eyes skimmed down Derek's torso, his shirt clung to his body like a second skin and I was admiring the view. I looked up to see Erica glaring at me and I simply smirk.

"You knew the whole time." Stiles accused and scrutinized him.

"No," Derek looked at Stiles then his gaze drifted off to me. "Only when it was confused by its own reflection."

"It doesn't know what it is." Scott realizes.

"Or who." I added on as I started thinking about it. Then the thought of the memory that I had earlier in the pool. "What else do you know?"

"Just stories, rumors." Derek answered me, simply shrugging as his eyes remained on me. His eyes drifted off to Scott who asked a question.

"But it's like us?"

"A shape-shifter, yes, but it's-" He paused dramatically. "It's not right. It's like a..." He paused as his lips tightened to a straight line, he looked like he was finding a word to describe it.