Chapter 17

Star

Stiles, Lydia, and I where talking to Mr. Stilinski about Lydia's grandma might be alive. “It's not just that she could still be alive” Stiles said “it's that she would've had to fake her death” I said making Mr. Stilinski look at Lydia “your grandmother, Lorraine Martin, faked her death”? “Definitely” Stiles said “maybe” Lydia said “but more than likely, yes” I said.

“Oh, I'm guessing you got a story to back this up” he asked “she might be helping The Benefactor” Lydia said. “Or is The Benefactor” Stiles said “but we don't know for sure witch or even if any of this is true” I stated. “That sounds like a story worth hearing” Mr. Stilinski said, shutting his door. He stuck his head back out “anybody seen Parrish” he called out and looked at one of the deputy’s “Haigh”? “Haven't seen him” he said before typing back on his computer.

We started to talk to Mr. Stilinski until we heard gun shots and quickly opened the door, holding his gun out. “Hey, hey” Stilinski yelled as Haigh's gun went off, hitting him in the shoulder as we say deputy Parrish naked, looking like he just walked out of a fire punching Haigh. “But you're dead” Haigh said as Parrish continued to punch Haigh. I quickly jogged over, pulling Parrish off of him as he breathed deeply.

“Get him to Derek's” I said to Lydia as Stiles held onto his dad. Lydia looked at us in shock “Lydia” I called out, making her jump a little before nodding. I helped Stiles get his dad in the jeep and drove with him to the hospital. We pulled up and Stiles looked back at me, seeing that I wasn't fallowing him “aren’t you coming”? “I have to go” I said to Stiles making him nod before walking into the hospital.

I sighed before changing into a wolf and running off.

Scott

Lydia, Parrish, and I stood as Derek looked at Parrish “he covered you in gasoline” Derek asked? “It's the hair and nails, isn't it, the parts of the body that are essentially dead” Lydia said. “Well, they should be gone” Derek said “I was set on fire, all of me should be gone” Parrish said. “Not if you're like us” I said “like you” he asked confused? “I don't think he's like us” Derek said “then what is he” Lydia asked “sorry, but I have no idea” Derek said.

“But you knew about Jackson and Kira” I said confused a little “this is a little out of my experience. There might be something in the bestiary, did you try Argent” Derek asked me? “I don't know where he is” “okay, hold on, what's a bestiary, actually, that's not even my first question. Just, just tell me one thing, are all of you like Lydia, are you all psychic” Parrish asked confused.

“Psychic” Derek asked trying not to laugh a little “yeah” “not exactly” I said “okay. Then what are you” Parrish asked us as I looked at Derek before blinking, showing my red eyes. Just like that the door swung open revealing Star standing in it, she looked mad. She walked up to Derek a little fast before slapping him across the face, hard “that's for kissing Braeden”. She grabbed him and threw him, making him fly past us and land on the ground hard. “And that's for sleeping with her” Star said making everyone look surprised.

I pushed Lydia back as Parrish took a step back as well. The next thing I knew Star pulled out a gun, pointing it at Derek “wow, wow” I said stepping in between Derek and her “Star calm down” I said trying to calm her down. Star looked at Derek before slowly putting the gun down. “I trusted you, you told me that I could trust you and I did” Star said before setting the gun on the table and leaned on a post.

Derek sighed before standing up. Everyone was silent until Star broke it “so, do we know what Parrish is yet”. “No, not yet” I said as Parrish looked at all of us confused “so what are you guys” Parish asked us. “Well I'm a werewolf” I said “use to be werewolf” Derek said. “Banshee” Lydia said “wolf, also known as Alpha of Alpha's, long story” Star said as Parrish looked at us confused.

Star

“Just know that everyone like us, everyone with some kind of supernatural ability is on the dead pool” Scott said. “But I don't even know what I am” Parrish said “I'm pretty sure they don't care” Derek said, trying to stay as fare away as possible. “How many professional assassins are we talking about” Parrish asked? “We're starting to lose count” Lydia said. “Yeah, well another one might be added to the list” I said mostly to myself as I made eye contact with Derek.

“But is it still just professionals” Scott asked “I don't think Haigh's ever tried anything like this. I think he was taking a chance” Parrish said “that means anyone with the dead pool could take a chance” Derek said with his arms crossed. “But if Haigh had it, then who else does, how easy is it to get this thing now” Parrish asked us.

“Meredith was only at my grandmother's lake house once, but I think once was enough” Lydia said to us. “How did your grandmother know her” Derek asked “she didn't, she found her because of another woman named Maddy. The woman she loved, I never met her, but I saw her name everywhere. She used to be part of a yacht racing team, there were plaques and trophies in the lake house from all the regattas she'd won” Lydia said walking around.

“How did she die” Parrish asked “how's not the story it's what happened right before. My grandmother, Lorraine, used to work in San Francisco for IBM. She was there on a weekend, catching up on work, she started hearing this sound, like rain. But when she looked out the windows, all she saw was blue sky” Lydia said. “But she kept hearing the rain” I said. “And it just kept getting louder, rain and thunder cracking like gunshots in her head. So loud, she finally just screamed” Lydia said.

“Like a Banshee” Derek said “she called Maddy who was planning on taking one of the boats out on the lake. But Maddy said that the sun was shining there too, so Lorraine didn't say anything” Lydia said “there was an accident” Parrish said.

“It took them four days to find Maddy's body, and then it took decades to figure out how Lorraine knew. She started with parapsychologists, like the PhD in their name made it more scientific. They built the study in the lake house according to every pseudoscientific theory they could find. None of it worked, so then she started going to more extreme occult. Things like mediums and psychics, all of them were failures. Until she found Meredith, they found her in Eichen House” Lydia said sitting down.

“This fragile girl who didn't understand the things she heard. They brought her to the study, and they almost killed her. She was hospitalized for over a year, she, never really recovered. My grandmother drove her insane and I drove her to suicide, and all she ever wanted to do was help” Lydia pulled out a paper with different symbols on it. “My grandmother created the code for the dead pool, they think she's the Banshee who put the names out in the first place. She left me this message in the same code”.

“But she didn't leave a cipher key, did she” Scott said and Lydia looked at us before nodding. Lydia and Parrish left, leaving Derek, Scott, and I alone. Scott walked over to Derek's bed while I started packing my things, but listening to them. Scott picked up a gun “careful with that” “I thought you didn't like guns” Scott asked? Derek took the gun “does this have something to do with your eyes? My eyes, my strength, the healing, all of it” Derek said. “Gone” Scott asked “whatever Kate did to me, it's still happening” Derek said with a sigh.

“If the dead pool really was made by a Banshee then there's something else that you should know about. Your name broke the third list, it was a cipher key” Scott said. “And the two other keys were Allison and Aiden” “and I, I don't want to make you nervous, but it kind of feels like there might be a pattern there, doesn't it? Allison, Aiden, you” Scott said. “Names picked by a Banshee” Derek said “it, it could mean that you're in danger” Scot said.

“Scott, Banshees don't predict danger, they predict death” Derek said “looks like their right” I said making Scott and Derek look at me while I held a gun to Derek. “Scott get out of here” “Star” Scott started “Scott, get out of here right now before I shoot you” I said mad. Scott sighed and looked at Derek “good luck” Scott said before leaving. I waited till he was gone before starting to talk.

“I want to know why, why did you do it” I asked Derek. Derek looked like he was going to talk but couldn't find the words. I shook my head “you know I don't trust people, but I trusted you. I trusted you with my life and most importantly I trusted you with my heart, and you broke that. I don't know why you did it, I don't know if you were made at me for kissing Scott. Or if you were just made at me because I wasn't who you fell in love with at the beginning” I said trying to hold back tears but was hard too.

I let my arm holding the gun, fall to my side. “I loved you, more then I've ever loved anyone before in my entire life, but if you love someone else, then just tell me, don't cheat on me” I said. Derek looked at me, upset. “I really do hope you and Braeden are happy together” I said before looking down at my gun and throwing it on the ground by Derek.

I walked over, grabbing my bag, realizing that I've been in this position before. I walked out of Derek's place, not looking behind me.

Important

Oh no, Derek and Star broke up, kind of. Do you think they'll get back togeather? How did you feel about how Star's reaction. Did she over do it or not? Let me know who you like better. Star and Derek, Scott and Star, or Star single. Comment and let me know, thanks.