First Bite (Beacon Hills Chronicles Book 1)

12: Code Breaker

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Awake and Alive ~ Skillet

My Heart is Broken ~ Evanescence

TRISH

The ER door opened and paramedics rushed in. I ran towards the gurney.

"What do we have?" I asked before I saw the patient.

"Teen girl. Animal bite. She was found on the lacrosse field at the school."

"What?" Then I saw who was being rushed in. Lydia was covered in blood and unconscious. Stilinski wasn't very far behind. "We need to get her stable. Get the attending in here now!" We transferred her to a bed and myself and another nurse cut her dress off. I saw most of the blood had come from the large bite on her side. I knew exactly what bit her. The Alpha. Which meant by this time tomorrow Lydia would either be dead or a werewolf.

I rubbed the back of my neck as the doctor spoke to the Martins. I pulled my phone out to call Anna when she and Jackson darted out of the elevator.

"Where's Lydia? Huh?" Jackson asked as Anna ran towards me, wrapping me in a hug. Stilinski turned and headed towards Jackson.

"Is she going to be okay?" Anna asked. "Please tell me she'll be okay."

"We don't know yet. She's stable for the moment."

"Where is she? Where's —" Jackson stopped when he saw Lydia lying in the hospital bed through the window that opened into the ICU room she was in.

"Hey." Stilinski spun Jackson around. "Hey! What the hell happened to that girl?"

"I... I don't know. I went out looking for her..."

"What? You just happened to wander into the middle of that field and you just found her there like that? Don't lie to me, son."

"No, I...."

"Hey!" Stilinski grabbed Jackson by his jacket and shoved him against the window. "What happened to her?"

I grabbed the sheriff's shoulder. "Noah!" I rarely used the sheriff's given name.

"This isn't my fault!"

"She's your girlfriend! That's your responsibility!"

"Let him go!"

"No, she's not, okay? She didn't go to the formal with me."

"Then who'd she go with?"

"Do you really want to know? She went with Stiles."

"What?"

"Stiles took her."

Stilinski finally let go of Jackson and backed up. Jackson turned back towards the window as Stilinski turned to his deputies. "Somebody better find my son."

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I walked out of Lydia's room after doing my hourly check on her. Stiles stumbled out of the elevator and was intercepted by his dad.

"You know what? It's good that we're in a hospital because I'm gonna kill you."

"I'm sorry, I lost the keys to my Jeep. I had to run all the way here."

"Stiles! I don't care!"

"Is she gonna be okay?"

Stilinski turned and looked at Lydia. Jackson and Anna were still at the window looking in and I wrapped my arm around Anna. "They don't know. Partially because they don't know what happened."