Innocence & Instinct

fury 3 Part 27

STlLES wispers to Derek "Hey.you know what's happening to Matt? You know, the book's not gonna help him."

" You can't just break the rules, not like this."

  "" What do you mean?"

" Universe balances things out. always does."

  "" Is it because he's using Jackson to kill people who don't deserve it? "

" Killing people himself."

 "" So if Matt breaks the rules of the Kanima, he becomes the Kanima?""

 " Balance."

   "" Will he believe us if we tell him that?"

 " Not likely."

  "" Okay, he's gonna kill all of us when he gets that book, isn't he?"

 " Yep."

"" SlGHS) All right, so what do we do? Do we just sit here and wait to die?"

 " Unless I can figure out a way to push the toxin out of my body faster."

Like triggering the healing process.

  "" What? Oh, what are you doing?( sees that he has his claws in his leg " Oh, gross."

Matt " You know, I feel sorry for you, McCall, 'cause right now, you're thinkin', "How am I gonna explain this when it heals?" And the sad part is, you don't even realize how incredible it is that you actually are healing.Cause you know what happens to everyone else when they get shot? They die."

  " Is that what happened to you? You drowned, didn't you?"

 " He shouldn't have let them drink."

  " What? Who? Matt, what do you mean? "

 " Lahey! He shouldn't have let them drink."

   " What? Who was drinking?"

  " The swim team, you idiot! I didn't know what was happening.I didn't know they had just won state, and Lahey, he's letting his favorites come over to have a couple drinks to celebrate. Who cares if they're 17, right?"

  " Were you at lsaac's? "He had this first edition Spider-Man, or was it Batman? And we were gonna make a trade.But then I'm over there and I hear music.And everyone's having a good time, and I see Sean.He throws Jessica in the pool.And then Bennett goes in and Bennett? "

 " What, the hunter?"

 " And then Camden.Isaac's jarhead brother, he grabs me.He thinks it's funny.They threw you in.I yelled that I can't swim, but nobody listens.I go under and I swallow water, and no one cares.And I see these bodies underwater.I see Jessica's got her hands down Sean's board shorts.Tucker's grabbing Kara.And I'm drowning.I'm dying, and they're laughing.All ofa sudden, I was just I'm lying by the pool.And Lahey is right there, right above me, and he says You tell no one! He says, "You tell no one! " This, this is your fault! "This, this is your fault! " You don't know how to swim? "What little bastard doesn't know how to swim?" You say nothing! You tell no one! No one! And I didn't.I didn't tell anyone.And I would see them at school, and they wouldn't even look at me.I'd wake up in the middle of the night.I'd gasp for breath.And my parents, they thought I was asthmatic.They even gave me an inhaler.They didn't know that every time I closed my eyes, I was drowning.You know about that little white light that they talk about, you see when you die? Well, I didn 't see anything.Just darkness.Everything was dark.But then Then came the Argent's funeral, and everything changed I was taking some photos.And then, purely by accident, Lahey gets in one ofthe photos.I look down at the screen on my camera, and I just have this unbelievable rage that fills up inside of me, and I just I look at him, and l I wanna see him dead.And the next day, he actually was.You know, Einstein was right.Imagination is more important than knowledge.It was like something out of Greek mythology.Like Like the furies coming down to punish Orestes.You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you? "

Scott " Was he the guy who stabbed out his eyes? "

 " God, that's Oedipus, you dumbass! The furies are deities of vengeance.Their tears ran of blood, and they had snakes for hair.If there was a crime that had gone unpunished, the furies would do the punishing.Jackson is my fury.When I saw him the next night, it was like this bond had been cemented between the two of us. I knew he had killed Lahey for me, and I knew he would do it again.So I went to Tucker's garage.I even paid for an oil change.And guess what? He didn't even recognize me.So when he wasn't looking, I took a shot of him with my camera.And in a few hours, he was dead.So I took more pictures.All I had to do was take their picture.And Jackson would take their life."

Stiles " So is that hypothetical situation we talked about getting any less hypothetical?"

" I think so.I can move my toes."

  (SlGHS)" Dude, I can move my toes."