Complete // Stiles Stilinski [3]

6

Wanna hear something weird? Like weirder than our usual weirdness that happens around here?

So when I woke up this morning I wasn't in my bed. No. I woke up outside of my apartment, in my car. How I could have possibly slept walked out of my room, down the elevator and outside to my locked car, amazes me. I don't think I've ever been the one to sleep walk.

Lena was even more shocked when I walked back inside and greeted her while walking in the front door, instead of from my bedroom.

She was more terrified than I was. She thought that something could be controlling me again, enough to make me sleep walk. She only thinks that because Stiles sleep-walked when he was being possessed by the Nogitsune. But no one has been sacrificed recently so I really don't think that's the case.

"So something weird happened last night," I said to Lydia and Malia as I followed them through the front doors of the school.

"Weirder than Malia finding this in Tracy's room?" Lydia handed me a small paper back book.

"I dropped you off at home. How'd you get to Tracy's?" I asked while holding the book up to my face. "The Dread Doctors by T.R. McCammon." I gasped and looked at the cover picture. "These are the masked people!"

Lydia took the book from my hands and studied the front of it, then stopped in the middle of the hallway, making me run into her back.

"What is it?" Malia asked.

"I don't know." She began walking again. "There's something about it. Has anyone actually read it yet?"

"Just me. And I didn't understand any of it," Malia replied.

"We should probably all read it," I said.

"Kira's working on that."

We stopped at Malia's locker as she dug through it and got her books and binder out.

"Stiles says he can't find anything on the author. He thinks it's a pen name," Malia explained.

I wondered why Stiles didn't tell me he already knew about the book. But then again, since I wasn't even in my room last night, I didn't hear my phone go off. When I check it this morning I had a miscall from Scott and Kira, then a text from Scott saying that someone was taking the bodies. Also, Lydia and Malia are the first of my friends I've seen or talked to all morning.

Lydia flipped the book over and read aloud," In a small New England town, teenagers are taken in the night and buried alive. Days later they emerge transformed, wreaking havoc and spreading terror, commanded by an ancient order of parascientists known only as the Dread Doctors. Sounds vaguely familiar. How does it end?"

  "It doesn't. This is supposed to be volume one," Malia replied.

"Oh, let me guess... There is no volume two?" I asked sarcastically.

"I think we're living volume two."

"Then maybe the real question is, is this a novel or someone's prediction?" Lydia asked rhetorically.

I grabbed the book from her hand and began flipped through the pages. I got to the very last page and my heart sped up and my eyes widened.

"Why is your heart beating so fast?" Malia asked.

"Look at this," I flipped the book around to show them. "Look at the 'Acknowledgments' page."

Malia held the book closer to her face and read aloud, "For providing scientific perspective and invaluable insight... this book is dedicated to Dr. Gabriel Valack."

"You've got to be kidding me..." Lydia sighed.

"So what's your weird thing?" Malia asked.

"Well, not weird than that," I pointed to the book. "But, it's weird for me. So I woke up in my car this morning." I clapped my hands together and nodded.