Grievances (Book Three Of Hale Wolves For Teen Wolf :))

ch. 10: The Overlooked

Scott and Stiles had called Derek, asking to meet him at the loft because they had to tell him something about Jennifer, his new girlfriend.

Peter and I didn't leave Cora though.

The hospital was supposed to be evacuating, but they were taking their damn sweet time in getting Cora out of here.

I was sitting next to Cora, blotting away sweat, as I turned my head toward the door and called out to the hall, "Hey, anyone wanna tell me when they're getting my sister out of here?"

I heard Ms. McCall, Scott's mother, before I saw her. "Sorry, Tara, but she wasn't, uh--"

I looked behind me as Peter stepped back into the shadows of the room.

"You're supposed to be dead."

"I get that a lot, actually."

I turned to look at Cora as the beeping on her machine increased, and her eyes opened, sitting up as she vomited black blood with little white dots . . .

"Mistletoe," I muttered.

*

Derek called me. Asking about Cora. Doctors tended to her as Peter stood next to them as I answered, "It's not good. She's in and out of consciousness, she's vomiting up black blood along with one other alarming substance."

"Mistletoe?" Derek asked.

I looked up. "How did you know that?"

I didn't get an answer, the line going dead.

I hung up too, turning back to the room.

They were gone. The doctors, the nurses, Cora and Peter. All of them.

"Peter?"

I looked down to the trail of black blood leading to the door and started to follow.

*

I saw why Peter and Cora had disappeared.

The giant Alpha the twins turned into threw Peter into a wall, and he fell as I looked to Cora, who laid on the floor in front of them.

Shifting, my eyes glowing blue as I growled, they looked at me, and I ran forward, slashing their side deeply when they grabbed my neck, pulling my up from the floor, and I went to kick up with both legs when they used the other hand to clamp around both my ankles, holding me horizontally like that when Peter ran up, and they kicked him back through the double doors.

I struggled in their hands, and we heard Peter say, "We got a problem." They looked toward him, Scott, Stiles, Derek and Jennifer as I continued to struggle and Peter looked toward us. "Big problem."

*

With the twins distracted, I kicked one of my legs free, kicking the side of their face with my right leg, then my left, flipping backwards out of their hold and onto the floor when they pushed me back into the wall.

Derek, shifted, ran forward, and he was pissed that they were messing with his two little sisters, he jumped over Cora as he pushed them back, and they elbowed his back, making him fall too.

I looked over at Scott, Stiles, Jennifer and Peter as Scott looked at me, slowly shifting as the twins punched Derek's face one time, two, three.

Scott ran forward, using one leg to push off of the wall above my head and slash toward the twins, but they dodged, taking him by his shoulders and pushing him above my head as Stiles and Peter ran past, toward Cora.

"Ethan and Aiden, stop!" Scott told them. "You don't know what you're doing here."

"All we want is her."