024 — anchors

season three —
episode thirteen

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MARLO POURS herself a glass of wine, since her and her friend haven't been able to find Derek since he took her a few weeks ago after they both dropped Cora in South America.

Marlo sighs to herself and sips the champagne before looking up at her old apartment she use to live in.

As the bags are packed around the apartment ready to pack into her rental car.

She sighs grabbing some of the boxes walking downstairs to pack the rest of things in the car, she looks around feeling like she's being watched.

She looks to her side noticing one of her girlfriends from the time she lived here in New Orleans.

"Ashlyn!" Marlo happily screams as the woman jumps into her friend's arm happily.

"Hey Marlo, how you going?" Ashlyn asks before putting her hand on the growing bump.

Marlo looks down wide eyed and opens her mouth in shock, "Oh" Marlo says still stunned, "Surprise" she shakes with jazz fingers, Marlo laughs.

"Congratulations!" Marlo says happily, grabbing another one of the boxes; "So you're really leaving huh?" Ashlyn asks sadly.

"Yeah, Beacon Hills is home now" Marlo shrugs smiling at her friend
shutting the boot door closed.

"I'm really happy for you Mar" Ashlyn smiles, Marlo nods as the woman walks off in the direction her partner is standing waiting patiently for her.

Marlo politely waves to them both now, her partner Jack waving in return.

Marlo sighs sadly knowing she'll never be able to give Derek a family, she gets in the drivers side of the car now preparing for her long drive home.

She'll arrive tomorrow morning sometime; and now aware of Stiles's nightmares, hoping she can take his mind off a few things the next few days while keeping herself updated by her friend who's looking for Derek.

Marlo gets on the road eventually stopping to get some coffee, she adjusts the cars radio now and happily moves along to the beats.

That night Stiles experiences another nightmare startling their father awake and having to hold his son back from screaming and crying the house down.

Noah calls his daughter knowing she's coming home, "He had another one Marlo" Noah sighs sadly.

"Another one? Oh my god, dad, I'm two hours away from home, I'll be there soon, I love you" Marlo replies glumly from driving all night.

"Kiddo, don't strain yourself please, take a break if you need too" Noah states walking up to Stiles room while Marlo's on the phone, he notices Stiles staring at a book in confusion.

"Hey, you all right? You ready for school?" Noah asks his teenage son, "Yeah, yeah, I'm good" Stiles says in a way obviously Noah doesn't believe him.

"Dad, seriously, I'm fine, it was just a nightmare" Stiles states looking at his father.

Noah nods before saying a goodbye to Marlo and picking up the files he got from work, "What's that?" Stiles asks curiously now noticing the box.

"That's just, uh, files from the office" Noah replies, Stiles looks at the label on the side of the box.

"It says 'Sheriff's station, do not remove'" Stiles says pointing at the label now.

Noah chuckles looking at Stiles, "Well, yeah, unless you're the Sheriff" Noah says, "Oh" Stiles mumbles.

Noah begins walking away to go towards his home office, "Now, get your butt to school, all right?" Noah says leaving the hallway now.

Stiles turns around before looking at the book again receiving a text from Marlo now.

'Hey, little man, I'll see you after school okay? — Marlo'

Stiles chuckles knowing Marlo's only coming back for him because they're worried.

'See you then; big sis — Stiles'

Stiles smiles before leaving the house to go to school to see his friends, now having something to look forward to after school.

Marlo continues driving through towns to get back to Beacon Hills as quick and safe as possible, as the teens attend school and Marlo gets more texts.

'I'm not the only crazy one now yay — Lydia'

Marlo just softly laughs reading the text message.

'Lyds, you're not crazy, you're a banshee, you have talents no others have — Marlo'

She types out while getting another text message from her brother.

'Scott just had a episode alongside Allison as well, we're all experiencing things from dying and being brought back to life, I'm scared mar — Stiles'

Marlo sighs reading that text message before pulling into the sheriff's station to see her father.

She walks through the doors smiling at the other deputies and the politely smile back, she looks at Riley sitting at his deputy desk.

"Yo, Riles, seen my dad?" Marlo asks as Riley looks at her, "Yeah, his in his office, have fun" Riley states before getting back to work, Marlo nods and walks into her dad's office.

"Hey daddio—" Marlo starts before noticing the mess he's made on his board and desk, "Oh my god, what is happening?" Marlo says.

Noah looks at his eldest daughter and smiles and hugs her tightly, "Oh, Mar, glad you're home" Noah says before looking at his board again going over one of the files.

Marlo chuckles, "Serious at work huh dad?" Marlo asks noticing him biting down on his pen now.

"Yeah, this case just confuses me now, oh and thanks for letting me know about Riley as well" Noah states.

Marlo shrugs, "Better you know who he was then to find out unexpectedly, but don't treat him any different okay?" Marlo says looking at her father smirking, "So, where's Derek?" Noah asks.

Marlo deeply inhales, "Um, I don't actually know, he said he needed to do some things alone while I cleaned out my apartment in New Orleans" Marlo shrugs.

Noah looks at his daughter now seeing her looking at the ground upset, "He'll turn up, don't you worry" he says as Marlo nods.

Marlo receives a text from Lydia telling her to meet both her and Allison out at the preserve so Allison can pull some arrows and shoot them into the target.

Marlo soon arrives looking at the two teenagers now, "Hello" Marlo says smiling, "Marlo!" Lydia says happily skipping towards the hybrid now.

Allison hugs her next before looking back at the target board in worry, "Allie, you've got this" Marlo says.

Allison nods as does Lydia now—shooting an arrow and completely missing the target now.

"Oh" Lydia mumbles as Allison shoots another arrow missing again, "Maybe hold the string differently? Try the Mongolian draw" Lydia stated earning a confused look off both Marlo and Allison.

"What? I read. Try it" Lydia says as Allison holds the burrow arrow a different way still missing the target, earning a squint from the hybrid beside them.

"Okay, um, take a second to close your eyes and imagine the arrow going into the target" Lydia says running her hands softly down Allison's arms.

Allison gets lured into another one of her dream like states seeing a figure run through the woods.

"Did you see that?" Allison asks as she opens her eyes again fear laced in them, "See what?" Marlo asks.

"Wait here" Allison says to both Marlo and Lydia walking forward now, "Are you serious?" Lydia asks as her best friend puts the arrow away and walking still ahead of them.

"I'll be right back" Allison says, Marlo looks at her in confusion now, not hearing or even smelling a scent out in the woods, "You did not just say that" Lydia mumbles scared.

Allison gets stuck in her dream again; turning around to both Marlo and Lydia gone, Marlo notices Allison turn around and aim the bow at them now.

She stands in front of Lydia protecting her from the arrow as well also smelling Isaac's scent now.

Allison releases the arrow at the two now, as both Isaac and Marlo catch the arrow sharing scared looks.

Lydia gasps now, "Oh, my god! Oh, my god! Lydia, Marlo" Allison says scared now realising what she did.

Allison takes Lydia home and repeating apology after apology, Lydia says to her best friend not to worry about it as she knows she didn't mean it.

Marlo and Isaac arrive at the McCall's house shortly after, Isaac wanting to tell Scott what happened but also Marlo to drop him off, "Right at her head?" Scott asks.

Marlo nods as Isaac replies, "Almost right through it and she keeps saying the same thing, that she keeps seeing her aunt, whatever's happening to you guys is getting worse, if I hadn't been there, then Lydia would be dead" Isaac states.

Scott now aware that Isaac followed the girls and adult through the woods looks at the teenager ahead of him, "What were you doing there?" Scott asks.

"Ah" Isaac says nervously now as Marlo chuckles knowing exactly why the boy was there.

Scott doesn't take that as an answer and throws Isaac against the same wall he did this morning.

Marlo looks at the teenage alpha now with widen eyes, "Oh, you guys, come on! This house does not have a supernatural ability to heal! So, stop it" Melissa yells out groaning.

Marlo laughs now leaving the teenagers room and walking downstairs to go see her brother at the sheriff's department.

Driving there and walking into the office straight away knowing her family is already in there.

Stiles puts some flowers on the desk now, "You know, the last time we brought one of these to her grave, it was stolen the same day, a hundred bucks, down the drain" Stiles says not hearing an answer from the man on the floor.

Stiles looks over the desk now, "Hey, Dad?" Stiles says as Noah looks up at his two kids now, "Hi, what are you doing down there?" Stiles asks curiously.

"Working and, hey, if somebody wants the flowers that badly, they can have them, it's the gesture" Noah shrugs.

Stiles notices the boxes full of case files on the ground surrounding his dad now, "Hey, Dad? What's all this?" Stiles asks.

"I've been looking over some old cases from a more, illuminated, perspective, if you know what I mean" Noah says.

Stiles read aloud a statement from a piece of paper, "'Strange sighting of bipedal lizard man sprinting across freeway'".

"Kanima pile" Noah states putting the paper on the pile for the kanima.

"Dad, you're not going back through all your old cases, seeing if any of them had something to do with the supernatural, are you?" Stiles asks curiously again.

"I admit, the recent opening of my eyes to the greater mysteries of the universe has got me reassessing, there's at least a hundred cases here, where I look at the details and I can ask myself 'if I knew then what I know now'?" Noah replies.

"Right, but are you sure you wanna go down that path?" Stiles asks worriedly, "Do I have a choice?" Noah asks looking at his kids now.

"There's one case in particular that I can't get out of my head, eight years ago, I was elected Sheriff of Beacon County, my first official duty was to tell a man that not only had his wife and two kids died in a car accident, but, as best as we could tell, the body of his oldest had been dragged from the wreck by coyotes" Noah says sharing the news.

"You mean dragged and eaten?" Stiles asks.

"We didn't find the car until three days after the crash, they had driven off the road into a pretty deep ravine, two bodies that were still in the car were covered in bites and slashes" Noah says answering his son.

"So, you're thinking, "bites and claw marks," probably a werewolf attack?" Stiles asks; "Maybe" Noah nods.

"But coyotes, they scavenge, right? So, couldn't they have just left the bites and the slashes?" Stiles asks.

"Absolutely—but, guess what night the accident occurred on?" Noah asks, "The night of a full moon" Stiles sighs, "Yeah" Noah replies nodding.

Stiles looks at the boxes now, "Hey, Dad? Where are all these going?" Stiles asks.

Noah awkwardly looks at Marlo and Stiles now, "Yeah, we, uh; we probably need to talk about that" Noah states looking at the boxes now labeled transfer to Agent McCall.

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THE NEXT DAY MARLO relaxes for half of the day until it's nighttime and Stiles texts her to meet him and Scott and the animal clinic, because he wants to fill her in of what happened today too.

Marlo enters the animal clinic seeing both teens and Deaton there waiting.

"It sounds like your subconscious is trying to communicate with you" Deaton says starting now.

"Well, how do I tell my subconscious to use a language that I actually know?" Stiles asks.

"Do you remember what the sign language looked like? The placement and movement of the hands?" Deaton asks.

"You know sign language?" Scott asks shocked, "I know a little, let me give it a shot" Deaton shrugs as Marlo nods.

"Okay, the first one was like this" showing Deaton and Marlo as well as Scott the sign language he saw earlier during the day, "Then" Stiles says doing another sign.

"That's 'when'" Deaton states, "Then, there was this, twice" Stiles says doing another sign, "That's "door"" Deaton answers.

"And this in between it" Stiles does the last sign he was showed during his lesson today.

"That's it?" Deaton asks confused, "Yeah" Stiles states.

""When is a door not a door?"" Deaton asks, "When is a door not a door?" Stiles asks confused, "When it's ajar" Scott and Marlo answers as Deaton nods.

"You're kidding me, a riddle? My subconscious wants to tell me a riddle?" Stiles scoffs.

"Not necessarily—when the three of you went under the water, when you crossed from consciousness to a kind of superconsciousness? You essentially opened a door in your minds" Deaton explains.

"So, what does that mean? The door's still open?" Scott asks, "Ajar" Marlo corrects.

"A door into our minds?" Stiles asks, "I did tell you it was risky" Deaton states.

"What do we do about it?" Scott asks, "Well, that's difficult to answer" Deaton says but Stiles interjects.

"Oh, no, wait a second, I know that look, that's the "we know exactly what's wrong with you, but we have no idea how to fix it" look" Stiles whines.

"One thing I do know is that having an opening like that into your mind? It's not good, you each need to close that door, and you need to do it as soon as possible" Deaton says.

Stiles and Scott look fearfully at one another before Marlo looks at them both now.

As they leave the animal clinic, Stiles, Marlo and Scott notice Sheriff Stilinski pulling into the car park.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" Stiles asks confused, "I'm here because I could use some help" Stilinski says before looking at the two supernaturals.

"Actually, your help" Stilinski says again, Marlo sighs, "Why us?" Scott asks confused now.

"Because eight years ago, almost an entire family died in a car accident, one of the bodies, a young girl named Malia, was never found, there's enough evidence to have me thinking that a werewolf could have caused the accident and dragged her body away, if you could somehow get a lock on her scent, if you could somehow help me find her body, it might provide the missing clue" Stilinski explains.

"But what if it was a werewolf?" Stiles asks, "Well, there's somebody out there that murdered an entire family—someone who still needs to be caught" Stilinski states.

The next morning the boys and Noah set out to the Tate ranch, leaving Marlo to relax again worried about Derek and where he currently is, Scott is unable to catch Malia's scent.

Noah leaves sadly leaving Scott asking Stiles why his so hell bent on solving this case.

Which Stiles then reveals, "He wants to be able to solve one more, while he's still Sheriff" Stiles says sadly.

"What do you mean, 'still Sheriff?'" Scott asks shocked, Stiles looks at his best friend now telling him about his father trying to get Stilinski fired.

Scott rushes home in a pissed off mood now ready to yell at his so called father.

Melissa gets home from work entering the house hearing Scott going off at Rafael now.

"That doesn't make any sense, Dad, who are you helping?" Scott asks angrily, "Just get out!" Scott says, "Scott" Rafael calls his son.

"What? I can't believe that you'd do this to my best friend and his family" Scott says yelling.

"I'm not doing anything to your friend or their family, I'm doing my job" Rafael states, "Your job sucks" Scott seethes.

"Some days, I can't argue that" Rafael shrugs, Melissa looks at both males now confused, "Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on?" Melissa asks.

"He's trying to get Stiles and Marlo's dad fired" Scott answers his mother.

"No, that's not true" Rafael says quickly, "What are you doing?" Melissa asks annoyed now.

"Conducting a case for impeachment" Rafael states, "That sounds a lot like getting him fired" Melissa states pissed now.

"The lack of resolution and ability to close cases is what's going to get him fired, my job is just to collect the information, and it's the job my superiors have given me" Rafael says.

"Your job sucks" Melissa states saying the same thing her son did not to long ago.

Scott breathes heavily due to being pissed off, Melissa notices his claws coming out.

"Scott, sweetheart, calm down" Melissa says as Scott's eyes flash and Scott inhales and gasps due to his shift.

"Come with me right now" Melissa says leading his son into the hallway away from his asshole of a father.

"Let it go, just breathe, and let it go" Melissa says to the hyperventilating boy.

"I'm trying" Scott groans, "You told me you and Stiles learned a way to control this, you find an anchor, right? Find your anchor" Melissa says.

"My anchor was Allison" Scott says groaning as his wolf is trying to come out.

"I don't have Allison anymore" Scott states groaning in pain still.

"Then be your own anchor, you can do this" Melissa says to her son as he opens his mouth and his fangs go back in, as do his claws.

Scott pants out from the pain and near shift, he nods at his mother signifying his okay.

Melissa sighs; looking back at where Rafael currently is.

"Sweetheart, let me tell you something no teenager ever believes, but I swear to you is the absolute truth, you fall in love more than once, it'll happen again and it'll be just as amazing and as extraordinary as the first time and maybe, just as painful, but, it will happen again, I promise and, until then—be your own anchor" Melissa says firmly to her son.

Scott nods sadly before sharing a look with his mother, he rushes over towards Stiles to make sure he helps Stilinski not get fired, Scott rushes into his best friend's room.

"Hey, what's going on?" Stiles asks confused, "You and me; we're going to go out and find a body, a dead body" Scott states pushing his flashlight on and nodding towards Stiles now who nods as well getting up from his bed and putting his shoes and jumper on, going into the woods at the preserve entrance.

"You know, if my dad's right, that means there's another werewolf in town that we haven't met yet" Stiles says, "I know" Scott sighs.

"If it turns out to be something, like, triplets that form into, like, a three-headed hound of hell, I'm seriously not up for that" Stiles states.

"Yeah, me, either, especially if I can't even control my own transformation anymore" Scott says.

A coyote howls in the distance startling Stiles who then knocks Scott's phone out of his hand into a puddle of water.

Scott looks at Stiles annoyed now, "Sorry, buddy, I hate coyotes so much, they always sound like they're mauling some tiny, helpless little animal" Stiles says.

Scott jumps down the cliff like thing to get his phone, "It still works" Scott says as Stiles looks ahead of them.

"Let me see the flashlight" Stiles asks as Scott passes him the light tool.

"I think we found it" Stiles says motioning to the car wreck they're walking towards.

"Uh, why wouldn't they move it? Isn't it evidence?" Scott asks, "Probably too much of a pain in the ass to tow out" Stiles says noticing the claw marks on the car now.

"Look at this—see those? Animal claws would be closer together, right? A lot closer" Stiles asks, "Then it was a werewolf" Scott states.

"So, my dad was right" Stiles says as he gets down and looks inside the car flashing the flashlights in different directions.

"What is that?" Scott asks pointing to the tiny hand hiding away in the wreck.

Stiles grabs the object seeing it as a baby doll, Scott and Stiles stare at it confused.

Suddenly it's voices that 'it's hungry' immediately making Stiles scream out and fall back due to the devil like doll.

Stiles recovers as Scott holds his chest in fright as well, "I think I just had a minor heart attack" Stiles states.

Scott notices and hears growling in the distance, "Hey, Stiles?" Scott says putting his hand on his friend shoulder now, "Please tell me you see that" Scott says.

Stiles looks up noticing the blue eyes in the darkness, "I see it" Stiles states only for Scott to run in the direction the coyote is now running.

"Wait, hey, Scott! Scott, wait" Stiles rushes out, Scott runs after the coyote and drops down in front of it flashing his red bright eyes.

Only for it to reveal its blue one's as well growling at Scott now, "Malia?" Scott asks softly.

As the coyote runs off, Scott figures out he needs help transforming and texts the one person he could think of straight away, Derek.

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HOWEVER DEREK IS currently not available as he's being tortured in Mexico by Mexican hunters.

Alongside Peter, as the electricity buzzes through their bodies; he gives Peter a dirty look.

"Why are you looking at me like this is my fault?" Peter asks appalled.

"Because it is your fault" Derek says irritated his currently not with his girlfriend helping her unpack her things in the loft.

Instead his being tortured by hunters and electrocuted every ten seconds.

"Yeah, you're probably right" Peter groans, the electricity goes off again; both wolves grunt in pain and groan.