Forever ~ Liam Dunbar [ COMPLETED ]

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Three gunshots. 

Even though there's a silencer on the gun, I can still hear it. "What the hell?" 

I stand up from my spot in the bio lab and look around, spotting Brett's car in the parking lot.

Grabbing my phone, I call Brett. When he doesn't answer, I panic and call Liam. 

He answers immediately. 

'What's up? I thought you said you weren't going to talk to me until after you finished making up the lab, which you started twenty minutes ago. I know you didn't finish.'

"I think Brett's in trouble."

'What? Why?'

"Brett's not picking up his phone, and I just heard gunshots coming from the woods."

'That could mean anything.'

"Then why is Brett's car still here?"

'He left over an hour ago.'

"I recognize his car."

'I'm on my way to the school.'

I hang up and run outside towards his car. When I get there, Lori is staring at something on the ground. 

"Blood" She says when I get closer to her. 

"What?"

"This is his blood on the ground." She holds up half of a lacrosse stick. "Somebody stabbed him with his own lacrosse gear."

"We need Scott."

"Already here."

I look over and see Scott crouching at the other side of the car, looking at another pool of blood. 

"This is someone else's."

"What do you mean?"

"I think he scratched the person that was attacking him. It gives us a better reason to believe he's being hunted."

We hear something in the woods and immediately run to it. 

"Brett's phone!"

Lori picks it up. "He needs to know we're here. He needs to know we want to help him."

I put my hand over her mouth. 

Malia stares at her. "Do you want the hunter to know we're here?" 

"He's new, we can take him, right?" Liam asks with a smile. 

"What if he howls back?" Lori asks. 

I use my werewolf vision to look around, and I see the familiar glow of wolfsbane on an arrow buried in a tree. 

"We can get to Brett before the hunter." Scott says. 

"Guys, stop." I say. "We need to think rationally about this."

"We are!" Lori shouts. "We're trying not to get him killed!"

"You think I don't know that? I'm trying to think of something without getting all of us killed."

"So my brother is going to be the collateral damage."

"No!" I sigh. "We need to make a plan. We can't just go up to them without knowing the full extent of their knowledge!"

"The trail ended." Scott says. 

"So we split up. I'll go with Chelsea and Lori, you go with Malia."

"No, we stick together." Malia and I say at the same time.