𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 || Isaac Lahey || Book 2

3.8 Visionary

A/N: Visionary is mostly flashbacks to young Derek, so I'm putting some of the other episode in here.

"You ever feel like the universe is trying to tell you something?" Stiles asks Cora. Dad, Cora, Stiles, and I were sitting in the loft.

Derek and Isaac couldn't bear to be there after what happened to Boyd. His death kept replaying in my head. I couldn't have done anything to save him. Isaac had cried in my arms, I could feel his sorrow. He reeked of sadness.

"What's it saying to you now?" Cora asks.

"To give up." Stiles says worriedly. Cora and I nodded, knowing how he felt. We were watching the water slowly drain from the floor. "Why do you think that is?"

"I don't know." Cora replies, "Maybe it's a warning. That we won't make it out alive unless we do. Feels that way, anyway."

"Maybe we don't make it out alive," I say, "Maybe everything we're doing now is prolonging the inevitable. It's like we're moving pieces around the board, but Deucalion's already putting us in checkmate." Cora sent me a confused look.

"You don't play chess, do you?" Stiles guesses.

"No." Cora states bluntly.

"I just mean that Deucalion seems to know the final play and how to get there. We're just playing along, making the game longer, but ultimately one side will end up in the final position with no escape." I say.

"Checkmate." Stiles says. "Deucalion's played this game before; he knows how to win. The rest of us are holding on tightly, when the universe is telling us to let go."

"I don't like letting go." Cora mutters, "All my life I've been told to accept loss and move on. I didn't have a choice when I left Beacon Hills. There was nothing to go back to. But I didn't want to leave it behind, so I came back. And, well... we know how that went. Captured upon arrival and sent right back to this circle of loss."

I didn't know what to say. No matter what I could say or do, it wouldn't change that Cora lost someone she cared about.

"I'm sorry about Boyd and Erica." I say softly, "I know they were close to you."

"Yeah.... But that's what being friends with a Hale gets you, I guess." Cora says.

"Cora it wasn't your fault." I say. "Don't you ever think that."

"They were my friends Kaelin, and they died." Cora says sadly, "What else am I supposed to think?"

"We're supposed to think of a way to stop the asshole." I mutter.

"Do you think this is how it ends?" Stiles says worriedly, "The Alphas hunting us down one by one until there's no one left to fight back?"

"Maybe." Cora mumbles, "It was for Boyd. For Erica. For the girl who saved Isaac. Almost for my brother too." Stiles and I looked around the loft at the mention of Derek.

"When do you think he'll be back?" Stiles asks. Derek disappeared with Boyd's body not too long ago. He didn't say that much to us, just that'd he'd take care of his body. He went over to bury Boyd's body somewhere and the police was going to add Boyd's death to the list of animal attacks. Derek refused to let any of us go with him, including Cora.

"Don't know. There's something different about him now. He wasn't like this when I knew him before." Cora says. I didn't really remember how Derek was back then.

"What was he like then?" I ask her.

"A lot like Scott actually." Dad declares as he comes down the spiral staircase.