Chapter XIII: Paid In Full Pt.1

"Hurry, Stiles!"

"I don't have super speed, dick!"

Scott pushes through the locker room doors and runs into the gymnasium as Stiles follows close behind.

"Why are we stopping?!" Stiles asked.

Scott's eyes narrowed and he looks around the gymnasium while sniffing the air.

"What is it, Scott?"

"It's here. The first body is here." Scott replied.

"What? Where?" Scott took a big sniff and followed the sent to the equipment lockup. Outside of the school, Allison gets out of a black Porsche and makes her way to the school.

"Wait." a voice calls out and grabs her arm. "None of this feels right."

"Of course it isn't right. My shifty boyfriend ditches me and then tells me to come to school. Of which he has obviously broken in to. I'll be fine, Jackson. Stay with Lydia." said Allison.

Allison looked at her phone then sighed before walking into the school. When she entered the hallways. The first thing she noticed was a door smashed in the hallway wall.

'What the fuck?' she mouthed. An uneasy feeling made her body tingle, she then moved deeper into the school to find Scott.

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"Did you see that?" Jackson asked.

"See what?"

"That guy... He was just standing right there." Jackson point to a classroom window.

Lydia leaned forward to try and see what Jackson had thought he saw. "I don't see anyone, Jackson."

Lydia stared at him with a worried face. She had begun to notice that Jackson seemed extremely sickly lately. Jackson then jumped back in his seat, partially frightened.

"It's in the school." he gasped. " Stay here."

Jackson got out of the car and rushed towards the school. Lydia followed him. She tried to catch up to no avail. Suddenly Jackson stopped when he noticed the destroyed wall in the hallway. Lydia's eyes widen when she saw the wall as well.

"Umm. Jackson. What did you see in the school?" she asked.

Jackson refused to answer as he remembered the massive beast and its red eyes from the video store. The same eyes that he had seen in a classroom window.

"Jackson!" Lydia shouted.

Jackson turned around with a long stare. Lydia became worried and guilt-ridden. "We should find go find Allison and leave. We shouldn't be here," she said.

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"Yo, why isn't Derek answering his phone?" Tenko asked Mareth.

"I don't know. He's probably busy with Scott. He sent Jennifer to me and ran off." She replied.

Tenko sighed. " Do me a favor and ask Jennifer if she remembers another beta."

"I didn't see one in memories. What's wrong?"

"Peter's scent. At first it was evasive. When he finally left Beacon Hills, he was on the move but he wasn't running."

"You never chase him outside of Beacon Hills. Why would he be running?"

"Same thing I thought. So when he started to move towards the preserve, I figured he was coming back to stir shit up..."

"But?"

"I was right and I was wrong. I was led to a pool of blood, his clothing, and hair from his wolf form."

"He must have really wanted you out of the way."

"Yupp, a jacket or underwear wouldn't have thrown me off. But that blood and the feral scent... Hook, line, and sinker."

"And you think a Beta did the dirty work?"

"Has to be. And my instincts are telling me something is wrong tonight."

"What do you need me to do?" Mareth asked.

"I need you to stay with Jennifer, just in case Peter wants her back or wants her dead," he replied.

"And you?" she asked.

"I'm going to Scott's. His phone is broke and Derek isn't answering, So I'm going to drop by and see what's up."

"Alright, call me if you need me." She said.

Tenko ended the call and made his way to Scott's. But a block from Scott's house, Tenko picked up on a couple of scents and their arrangement is what made Tenko worry.

The first was Derek's, he was worried. The next scent was Peter's and Melissa's, together. That made Tenko worry. As Tenko approached the house, he picked up on Scott's scent and all of the emotions that he left behind.

Tenko tried to find the problem but came up with nothing. He then left the house to follow the scents when all four scents suddenly merged, leading him straight to the high school.

When he arrived. He saw Jackson's car and immediately thought of Lydia and Allison as their scents danced across his nose. But they forced aside when Tenko smelled Derek's blood.

Racing into the school, Tenko found a destroyed classroom with Derek's blood on the floor. He then smelled Scott and Stiles.

"Fear, anger, sadness," Tenko muttered.

He then followed Derek's blood scent out of the classroom and down the hall to the basement. He walked down a long tunnel and found Derek's bloody handprint on the wall. Tenko took a deep sniff, and although faint, Tenko knew Derek was on the other side of the wall.

Bang! Bang!

"Derek!" Tenko called in a heated whispered. he banged and called out again and again until a stone slab moved to reveal a badly injured Derek.

"You look like shit." Said Tenko

"I feel worse. But you need to get up there. Peter has Scott's mom. He's planning something big tonight. " said Derek.

"I know and he has helped. I think he made another beta."

Derek frowned. "I would have sniffed him out if he was here."

"Not if he covered his scent well," said Tenko.

"Not even then. Remember when we talked about wolf traits in my family?"

Tenko nodded.

"Well besides a full shift, Hales are trackers. Every wolf is, but Hale wolves have an extra boost. Packs are strong when they are bigger. Not just because of the numbers, but the abilities. Trackers, Heavies, Agility, evaders, caretaker, breeders, and so on" Derek explained.

"That makes sense," Tenko replied.

"I think the Beta is an evader. Which means his scent was hard to sniff out as a human. So when he became wolf..."

"It became his specialty." Tenko finished.

"Yeah. That fucker is hiding somewhere in the school. You need to be careful."

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Scott and Stiles were close to finding the seconding body. Scott was following the scent of gasoline when a voice caught his attention. Following the voice, they found Allison, Lydia, and Jackson on the second floor.

"What are you doing here?" Scott asked.

"You told her to come here.." Lydia replied with an attitude.

"What? No I didn't." Scott replied confused about what was happening.Allison then held up her phone to show Scott the text that she received from him, telling her to meet him at the school.

Allison watched as Scott's face screamed danger.

"You didn't send this, did you?" Allison asked.

"Who drove here?" Stiles cut in.

"I did," Jackson replied.

"Good, you can take them home. You guys need to leave, now. " Stiles replied.

"You need to tell us what the hell is going on, now." Jackson retorted.

"There's no time --" Stiles was cut of when Peter crashed through the roof in his wolf form and began to chase the group.

Everyone began to run for their lives and the fear level had reached heir peak, pushing them into survival mode. The group of five ran down the hall and locked themselves in a french classroom.

Scott calls for help as he began to block the door. As everyone began to help Scott. Stiles shook his head. Why lock themselves in a classroom, when Mellisa needed to be found and worse, the classroom was lined with windows and provided no solid protection. The only answer Stiles could think of was, Allison.

When the group finished barricading the door. Stiles sighed and asked, "Now what about the walls of windows?"

Everyone looked at the windows behind Stiles and had an immediate 'oh shit' moment. ____________________________________________________________________

Walking through the high school hallways his eyes blindfolded, Tenko used his hearing and smell to find the obscure Beta. With the blindfold on, his other sense was magnified.

Tenko listened as Scott and his group barricaded the door and Peter fled as he picked on Tenko's scent. Instead of following Peter, Tenko followed the subtle scent of pomade. A scent he knew all too well because it was a styling grease that he used in his hair.

Tenko followed the sent to the roof access and the on to the roof.

"Well, fuck me... How's it hanging Ms. McCall?" Tenko asked as he saw Ms. McCall tied to a chair looking helpless.

Tenko moved to untie but stoped when noticed the change in Melissa's scent. He looked thought she was bleeding from her shoulder. Tenko sighed then released her from her bonds, he then removed the large ball gag in her mouth and helped her clean saliva drenched chin.

"So where did he go?" Tenko asked.

Mellisa looked at Tenko with a frightened face. "He...He jumped off of the roof." She replied.

Tenko sighed. "What did he say to you?"

"As long as I didn't make a sound, he'll let me go home, untouched," she said.

Tenko thought for a moment. "So this isn't about Scott. It's about the fire...or two birds with one stone... Ms. McCall. I want you to stay up here, and be very very quiet. Can you do that?"

"Tell me what's happening? What does Scott have to do with all of this?" She asked in distress.

"If the idiot would have listened, then nothing. But he thinks with his dick, now his dick is being used to settle a score. But someone has miscalculated."

"What do you mean?" Melissa asked.

"Well, nothing ever goes well when you assume. It's like assuming Scott is who he is, solely because you are his mother. I know don't understand, but I need you to call Mr. Argent and ask him if Allison is at home. Say that she and Scott were going for a swim at the school pool and they aren't answering their phone. If you do this, I promise to tell you everything and make sure that Scott is safe. Maybe even get you a raise at the hospital."

Melissa nodded her head, then said. "I trust you and there has been a lot of odd things happening tonight. And I want to help, I do. But, they took my phone when they tied me up."

Tenko chuckled. "Of course they did. well just sit here and wait for Scott to come. And if you see anyone besides me or Scott, you scream as loud as you can, Ms.McCall."

Melissa nodded and Tenko walked off. Before going back into the school, Tenko called Mareth and told her to give their hunter friends a call with a tip. If Peter lured Scott to the school and then used Scott to lure Allison. Then Allison is bait for Kate. But, Tenko had a feeling that she wouldn't call her family. So, he helped the process along.

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"It was Derek Hale" Scott cried out.

The group had been scared, frustrated, and at a loss of what to do. With emotions running high. They began to press for answers about what was going on. Naturally the pressure was too much for Scott and he began to talk out of his ass.

"Derek?! No, it can't be Derek." Allison said much to Scott's surprise. Stiles was just as surprised and looked at Lydia and she gave a slight shoulder shrug in response.

Jackson caught the exchange and frowned. He had felt that Lydia was hiding something ever since that night at the video store.

Stiles looked back at Scott with narrowed eyes. Stiles was beyond conflicted, Scott had just backstabbed Derek, again. And this time he was scared that Tenko would do more to Scott than just breaking a few bones.

Allison frowned at Scott. Something inside of her told her to trust the things that Tenko didn't say more than the things that Scott was telling her now. Tenko never said anything about Derek being a murder or a suspect. Tenko was Derek's friend. Tenko said that the Alpha was the murder and if Derek was the Alpha, Tenko would know it. But she knew for a fact, Tenko was hunting the Alpha tonight.

'He hasn't lied to me. He told me the secrets everyone tried to keep from me' Allison thought. She then looked at Stiles with a deathly glare.

"You gave him a ride, didn't you?" She asked.

Stiles felt put on the spot and replied, "So what?"

Being the smartest in the room, Lydia picked up on what Allison was doing.

"You want me to believe that the Sheriff's son gave a serial killer a ride?" asked Allison

"I don't care what you believe," Stiles muttered.

Allison smirk and looked at Scott. "You expect me to believe, that a man tore those people apart, like some... animal?"

Scott stared at Allison.

"Yes, because he is an animal," Lydia spoke. She could feel that Allison knew the truth and she didn't want to create a bigger rift between her and Allison. Scott glared at her.

Allison kept her eyes on Scott and caught his brief glare at Lydia. Allison scuffed at his reaction. 'He always was slow on the draw, in a cute way.' Allison thought. She kept her eyes on Scoot while she asked Lydia, "What kind of animal is he, Lydia?"

Lydia didn't hesitate. "A werewolf..." she blurted out.

Lydia waited for a moment and looked at Stiles and Scott. Stiles feared for his best friend's safety, but Scott feared being rejected. Getting cut in half was the least of Scott's concerns. But getting cut in half was his most immediate problem.

"But he isn't the Werewolf that killed those people. It was an Alpha, someone more feral and out of control. Derek seems pretty in control to me." said Allison

Scott's entire being was frozen as Allison mugged him. "You lied to me, Scott. To my face, without remorse. And if Derek is truly innocent, which I think he is. You just tried to pin 'serial murder' on an innocent man. A man I thought was your friend, regardless of all the times you lied and said you didn't know him. Do you understand how fucked up that is, Scott?" Allison waited for an explanation that took too long to come.

"We don't have time for this, Scott. He has your mom." Stiles interrupted.

That interruption got everyone's shocked attention. "Yes, his mom," Stiles repeated himself.

"Then call your dad! What is wrong with you people. We're trapped in school with a murderer and you're all arguing 'who done it!'." said Jackson.

"The cops can't do a damn thing! And they all know it. That's why the cops aren't here, Jackson." Allison turned away and pulled out her phone.

"Who are you calling?" Scott asked her.

"We all have our secrets, Scott." She replied and a moment later a phone rang behind them.

The group looked towards a door next to the teacher's desk. The door connected their classroom with the one next to them. When the door opened, Tenko walked in ith the phone to his ear. "Mademoiselle Argent?" he asked

Allison replied, "Oui, j'ai besoin de votre aide."

Tenko put the phone down with a smile. "That's why I'm here." he sent Allison a wink.

" Scott, I freed your mom. She'll be safe. But we're not getting out of here without a fight. Whether you want to or not. I need you here. Did you talk to him?" Tenko addressed Scott.

"Who?" Scott asked.

"Peter, he's the Alpha. Did you talk to him?" sTenko asked again?

"Yes," Stiles replied. "He... He said some disturbing shit. But the point is. He said there were three bodies. We had to find each to find Melissa. If he catches a friend, Melissa dies. He killed Derek and said it was a strike. That was fine and we were hopeful until three more possible strikes walked through the door." Stiles dramatically gestured to Allison, Lydia, and Jackson.

"But Melissa is free." Said Tenko. "The penalty of death is off of the table."

"Yeah, but we're still here and he still wants Scott and his pack. He also said something about vengeance." Stiles replied

"I figured. I'll take care of this. You lot should get out of here. Melissa's on the roof waiting for you, Scott."

The group looked at Tenko confused.

Tenko rolled his eyes. " let me break this down. Jackson. You take Lydia and Stiles and you leave. Scott, you go get your mother on the roof, she is waiting for you. That means, split up. I'll help you guys get out, but Scott you're on your own."

"And what about me?" Allison asked.

"You stay with me. We have something we need to do. Alright, let's move. And Scott, stay vigilant." Said Tenko

Tenko then ushered them out of the classroom. Allison and Scott shared a longing look and Allison turned away, forcing Scott to go after his mom.

Tenko glanced at Allison. "You two can fix that shit later, I need you focused, Argent."

Allison nodded and everyone moved to the first floor. And out of the school.

"Hurry up and get going," Tenko said. "And Stiles, go by Mareth's. The key is in the flower pot."

Stiles nodded as he got into the Porsche. Lydia looked over at Tenko. She was fixing her lips to speak when Tenko said, "Pack business...Nothing new, I'll be fine. "

Lydia nodded and got into the car. Not waiting to watch them drive off, Tenko walked Allison back into the school.

"So, why me?" Allison asked.

Tenko opened up the school doors and said, "Because of your family, they are murders. And the broke the code they swore to live by. You're here so they can bargain for your life."

Allison stiffened. "I'm leverage?"

"Depends on who's negotiating," he replied and the two walked into the school to see Peter and his Beta standing in the hallway.

"You came and fucked my plans up," said Peter. "I hope whatever you're doing, works."

"Haha you already bit Mellisa. I could smell the bite. The Argents are on their way, I know you heard my phone call. How about you go get Derek, and we wait for the Argents to get here, together. They get here, we kill them. You take your pack and leave Beacon Hills, Happy ending."

"And if I want to stay?" Peter asked with a smug smile.

"Then I finish what the Argents started. And I won't leave you in a wheelchair. I'll kill you dead, and everyone else related to you."

Peter listened closely to Tenko's steady heart. he then smiled when couldn't sense any deception. " Beacon Hills is getting a bit crowded anyways. But the McCalls stay. I like that Melissa, she's a pretty one. And her son, well, he just might not be cut out for my pack."

"That's fine by me. I just want you gone and no one touches Allison, but me. Her family's debt isn't hers. "

Peter nodded in agreement. As he and his Betas left. Tenko heard the Argents arrive in there SUVs.

Allison stood next to him shaking with fear and anxiety, Tenko pulled her close and put his lips to her ear. Allison relaxed and Tenko whispered, "You may hate me when this is over. But I'm doing what has to be done. What's right. And I'm saving your life in the process." he then pulled her towards the Gymnasium and waited for his guest to arrive.