Slightly Consequential (Slightly Awkward Series / Book Five / Teen Wolf)

CHAPTER FOUR---Condition Terminal

Scott, Stiles, Deaton, Theo and I made it to the Sheriff's Station, where Scott and Theo had followed the scent of Malia and Tracy's trails to.

We saw blood staining the floor to the main room, walking in.

A Deputy was helping Dad stand. 

I ran to help Dad stand.

Stiles followed the blood trail to Dad's office, seeing Lydia lying on the floor, bleeding profusely from the side.

Kira was kneeling next to Lydia, keeping pressure on her wound, trying to keep her from dying.

Theo instantly went to Lydia's other side, kneeling next to her, taking off his belt, wrapping it around Lydia's waist.

Stiles stood in the doorway, unable to move.

Theo fastened the belt around Lydia's waist as a tourniquet.

Deaton sat Tracy's Kanima tail on the floor, taking off his jacket, kneeling next to the tail, looking up. "Scott."

Scott walked closer, kneeling on the other side of the tail.

Deaton wrapped his jacket around it to hide it.

Lydia's mom walked into the room, looking at Lydia worriedly, gabbing Stiles' shoulder in denial. "Oh, God."

Ms. Martin knelt next to Kira, Theo and Lydia.

Dad and I followed the trail of blood to a doorway.

"Stiles," I told him. Stiles was still frozen in the doorway to Dad's office, looking at Lydia. "Stiles." Stiles looked at me. "Stiles, come on."

Stiles looked at Lydia.

Lydia forced herself to smile, nodding.

"It's okay," Theo told him. "She's all right."

Lydia whimpered. "Tracy. Stiles, I'm fine. Help Tracy. Find Tracy. Go."

"Stiles," Scott told him.

"Come on, Stiles," Dad told him.

We ran into the basement to find Malia standing next to Tracy's dead body.

"It wasn't me," Malia told us.

"What the hell happened to her?" Dad asked.

Deaton knelt next to Tracy's body.

"There were these people," Malia told us. "They had masks. Um, there--there were three of them. I think there were three."

"What--what are you talking about?" Stiles asked.

Malia stammered. "They were strong, Stiles. They had a weapon. Stiles, I didn't do this."

Stiles pulled Malia aside, trying to get her to calm down. "Okay."

Scott knelt next to Deaton and Tracy.

"She's not changing back," Deaton told us. He looked at Scott. "We're gonna need to get her out of here."

"Hey," Dad told him. "Absolutely not. This is a crime scene. We call the coroner."

"I think the coroner might be very confused by this girl's severed reptilian tail," Deaton told him.

"I don't care," Dad told him.

"You should," Deaton told him. "Unless you're prepared to hold a press conference announcing the presence of supernatural creatures in Beacon Hills."

"Dad, he's right," I told him.

"Maybe at the clinic, we can figure out how to change her back," Scott told us. "Then call the coroner."