Try (Book Four, Teen Wolf)

Ch. 7: Weaponized

Derek called to tell me that he found Braedan. She had been shot, dying. He had taken her to the hospital.

I stood by the door to her hospital room. She was sleeping. Derek was in the chair next to her.

"She tell you anything?" I asked.

"No," Derek answered. "She's been out."

"Do you think it was Kate?" I asked.

"Most likely another assassin," Derek told me.

The door opened behind me. I turned to face Melissa as she walked past me. Derek stood up.

Melissa walked to the IV, injecting a needle inside.

"What is that?" I asked.

"Naxolone," Melissa answered. "We need her to wake up."

"I thought you said she needed to rest," Derek said.

"That was before I found out the CDC just put the high school under undergarantine with Scott and Stiles still in there," Melissa replied, looking at us.

Oh . . .

Braedan suddenly woke, sitting up abruptly with a gasp. She looked around, dazed and confused, groaning.

"Braedan," Melissa said. "Braedan, look at me." Braedan looked at her. "You were shot, but you're in the hospital now and you're fine. Do you understand?" Braedan looked at me and Derek. Derek nodded. Braedan looked at Melissa, nodding. "Good. Okay, last night, you were in the woods. And you came across another pack. Do you know what happened to them?"

"But I told you they were poisoned," Derek told her.

"No," Braedan said. "No, they were infected. It was a virus designed to kill werewolves. And it did. It killed them all."

It started with uncontrollable shifting. Then weaknesses, inability to walk or stand. Blindness. Then they died.

If that was what happening at the school . . .

*

I was out in the hall, seeing Melissa and Satomi, the Alpha herself.

I could hear Braedan inside as she woke up, clearing her throat. "What are you still doing here?"

"I'm protecting my investment," Derek answered unconvincingly. "Got a lot of money riding on you."

I knocked on the door, walking inside. "Derek. There's someone here we've been trying to find."

Satomi stepped into view.

Derek was in shock for a second.

*

Standing in a surgery room with Melissa, Deaton, Derek, Satomi and me, Deaton explained the virus. "It's a variation of canine distemper. A few years ago, an out break in Yellowstone killed 40% of the wolf population."

"What's it gonna do to our wolf population?" Melissa asked.

"Well, it's been altered to affect quite a bit faster," Deaton told us.

"You mean it's been weaponized," Derek stated.

"The infection took my whole pack," Satomi said.

"Everyone except for you," Deaton said. "That's the real question. Did you not get infected, or are you immune?"

Satomi looked down, unsure.

*

Deaton was covering the wolf's head.