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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐈𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍

𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥

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"Ketamine?"

Deaton glanced up from the tiny bottle he just stuck the syringe into to get out some of the medication. "It's the same thing we use on the dogs, just a higher dosage. If you can get close enough to Jackson, it should slow him down enough to buy you time." He grabbed a glass jar from behind him with a dark gray ash inside of it. "This is some of what you'll use to create the barrier. This part is for you, Stiles and Scott. Only you."

Stiles eyed the glass jar warily and shuffled awkwardly on his feet. "Uh, that sounds like a lot of pressure. Can we maybe find a slightly less pressure-filled task for me?"

Scott gave his best friend a look to which the spastic boy shot him one back. "Don't be a chicken."

"It's from the mountain ash tree, which is believed by many cultures to protect against the supernatural," Deaton explained, gesturing to the glass jar that now sat in Stiles' hand. "This office is lined with ashwood, making it difficult for someone like Meilani to cause me any trouble."

"Okay, so then what? We just spread this around the whole building and then either Jackson or whoever's controlling him can't cross it?" Scott questioned.

"They'll be trapped," Deaton confirmed. 

Stiles cleared his throat and placed his hands on his hips. "Doesn't sound too hard."

"Not all there is. Think of it like gunpowder. It's just powder until a spark ignites it. You need to be that spark, boys," Deaton clarified for the trio in front of him.

"If you mean light myself on fire, I don't think I'm up for that," Stiles replied with a grimace on his face.

Meilani rolled her eyes at her boyfriend and crossed her arms. "Don't mind him, Deaton. He was dropped on his head as a baby."

Deaton chuckled softly and placed his hands on the metal lab table between him and the trio. "Let me try a different analogy. I used to golf. I learned that the best golfers never swing before first imagining where they want the ball to go. They see it in their mind and their mind takes over. It can be pretty extraordinary with the force of your own will can accomplish."

"Force of will," Stiles sighed.

"If this is going to work, Stiles, you have to believe it. You can't let your partner down," Deaton said, motioning to Scott next to Stiles.

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The whole car ride later that night to the club was silent. Usually Stiles talked both of the twin's ears off until they were begging him to shut up or Meilani pressing her lips to his to make him shut up. Now, there was this odd tenseness emitting from Stiles like a tidal wave and it made Meilani worry that something happened when they separated earlier to go to their own houses and prepare. She hated that he wouldn't talk to her about what happened. They were not only boyfriend and girlfriend, but they were best friends. The two and Scott never kept anything from each other - except the fact Meilani was a wolf... but... you know.

"Stiles, what's wrong?" Meilani asked as the trio stood around the open trunk of the Jeep. "You haven't said a word the whole way here."

"Babe, I'm fine," Stiles said, removing the black garbage filled with the ash from the trunk. "Grab the other bag?"

Scott grabbed the bag since Meilani couldn't be the one to grab it. The boys had to do this one on  their own while she took care of Jackson inside.

"This plan is really starting to suck," Stiles whined when Meilani turned to make her towards the club, but froze mid-way. "Babe?"

Meilani cursed to herself when she heard what sounded like Allison and Matt in the near distance. Without a word to the confused boys behind her, she ran off to follow their voices into the club. She peeked around a pillar that was near to where they stood in the middle of the dance floor and sighed. Scott may have agreed to Allison pretending to be into Matt, but if he saw the two of them here together, he wouldn't be too happy about it. Allison was his girlfriend after all and she knew that if Stiles had to pretend to date someone who wasn't her, she wouldn't be too thrilled about it either.

Allison glanced over in Meilani's direction and quickly excused herself to Matt when she noticed the McCall sibling in the shadow. She grabbed Meilani by the wrist and tugged her towards the wall near by.

"Al, what are you doing?"

"You and Scott told me to go out with him," Allison said in a questioning tone.

"No, not here!" Meilani huffed, scanning the area to make sure Jackson wasn't anywhere in sight. There was no sight of him so far and Meilani didn't know how she felt about that. "You don't get it. We have a plan."

Allison blinked and stared at Meilani for a long moment. "You ... have a plan? Okay, okay. My father and Gerard, they're coming here."

"Allison!" Meilani exclaimed, eyes nearly bulging out of her skull at the mentioning of Chris and Gerard coming to the club. That would just make everything a whole lot worse because neither one of the men would go about this the right way. "What did you tell them?"

"I - I told them - "

"Allison!"

"I - I had to tell them," Allison stammered, shaking her head as she visibly got more upset.

Realization dawned on Meilani and she threw her head back with a long groan. "That means they know about Jackson."

"People are dying, Meilani. What am I supposed to do?" Allison snapped, annoyed that she was getting the third degree from Meilani. 

"How about trusting your best friend and boyfriend?" Meilani remarked with a bit more hostility than she meant to, but at the moment she didn't care. Allison just ruined everything because she couldn't keep her big, stupid mouth shut. "You ever think of that one before you went off blabbing to your dad and Gerard?!"

"I trust you guys more than anyone!"

"We had a plan."

"So do they."

Meilani shook her head as she raked her fingers through her hair in stress. "This isn't going to work."

Allison seemed to deflate a bit at Meilani's tense stature and grabbed Meilani's wrist in her hand. "Tell me what I can do, okay? I can - I can fix it. Please, please, Meilani. Just tell me."

Meilani scoffed ripped her wrist out of Allison's wrist, beginning to back away from Allison. "How about you just stay out of the way?" She hissed before she turned and went off to find Erica and Isaac to hand off the syringe that Deaton filled with the ketamine. She eventually found Isaac in a corner of the club and presented the syringe to him, explaining he had to be the one to shoot up Jackson.

"Why me?" Isaac questioned, staring down at the large syringe in Meilani's hand.

"Because I got to make sure that Argent doesn't completely ruin the plan," Meilani explained, holding up the syringe for Isaac to take. "Okay, look, you better do it intravenously, which means in the vein. When you find him, pull back this plunger right here." She tugged lightly on the plunger so it wouldn't move from where it was and placed the syringe in Isaac's hand. "The neck will probably the be easiest. So you find a vein, you jam it in there, and pull back on the trigger. Just... be careful."

Isaac chuckled, twisting the syringe this way and that in his hand. "Oh, I doubt I'll even slightly hurt him."

"No, I mean you, Isaac. I don't want you to get hurt," Meilani clarified and offered Isaac a smile before she ran off to get outside. She grabbed her phone to call one of the boys, but headlights suddenly appeared which blinded her and the next thing she knew, Meilani was hit from the side and her world went dark.

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Meilani groaned as she finally came to, feeling the coldness of the wooden table beneath her. Her eyes adjusted to see Mrs. Argent knelt above her and she huffed, letting her head fall back down to the wooden floor beneath her.

"You probably recognize this device. Pot used to be smoked in a rolled up piece of paper. These days, it seems like all you kids are given a free vaporizer with your medicinal marijuana card," Mrs. Argent said, gesturing to the vaporizer type device on the small circular table next to her. "Hmm. This type of wolfsbane is one of my favorites. Lovely smell. You probably won't think so."

"What?" Meilani mumbled, watching as Mrs. Argent placed the small plastic tube of wolfsbane in the vaporizer. "What are you doing?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Mrs. Argent smirked at Meilani, sitting back in her chair. "I'm killing you. It's going to look like an accident, like you had an asthma attack and couldn't get to your inhaler in time."

Meilani gasped as her lungs felt like they were being squeezed in an iron grasp. "I don't... have... asthma. Sco... Scott does."

Mrs. Argent lifted a shoulder and wafted more of the wolfsbane smoke towards Meilani. "Many cases of asthma appear out of nowhere, your medical records now show signs of asthma that are just as bad as Scott's. Pretty severe, poor thing."

Meilani's eyes glowed yell and her claws took place of her fingernails. "Stop."

"Too late. Loos like it's working."

Meilani tried to push herself up, only for Mrs. Argent to tut at her and push her side which sent her tumbling to the ground below. 

"Alpha, beta, but what are you, Meilani? Omega. Don't you know the lone wolf never survives without a pack? I've heard the cry of an omega. It's a miserable sound. The howl of a lone wolf."

Meilani slowly flopped over onto her stomach and tried to focus on her breathing. She needed to fight this. She knew she could fight this. Even though she could see black spots form in her eyes, Meilani still put up a fight. "I'm not."

"What? What is it?"

"I'm not... alone," Meilani shakily pushed herself to her hands and let out a loud, guttural growl that she was sure even China heard. She lost the growl after a few seconds and collapsed back to the ground, coughing and gasping for air. "Allison and Scott... tell them I'm sorry."

The sound of Derek's growl was heard next along with a bunch of fighting and banging around. Mrs. Argent's heels fading sounded in Meilani's ears as Derek hooked his arms underneath her armpits and dragged her out of the torture room Mrs. Argent hid her in just as her world went black for the second time that night.

AUTHORS NOTE

Hi hey hello

Welp, Mrs. Argent tried to kill Meilani and that didn't work out too well because YAY DEREK! Also, that little moment between Isaac and Meilani is just the beginning of their slowly forming BROTP! I cannot wait to write of those two later on. I love them wow