021 — the overlooked

season three —
episode ten

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BEACON HILLS HOSPITAL is under severe threats to thunderstorms and flooding.

Tree branches fly through the glass in the waiting room as Melissa McCall calls out to the doctors, nurses and their patients.

"Okay, all medications should be sealed inside the plastic ziplock bags, and the patients carry it in their hands, when you've completely evacuated the room, you mark the door with a red "X," okay?" Melissa says holding the tape to the nurses who run off and help clear out the hospital.

As a doctor comes running towards the lead nurse, "What the hell is going on?" Dr Vanderberg asks.

"The weather called for mild thunderstorms this morning, and now they're saying power is already out in several towns, Hill Valley's under a flood watch" Melissa says before being interrupted by the doctor.

"I live in Hill Valley" he responds, "Are all your patients clear?" Melissa asks.

"Uh—all except for Cora Hale and Marlo Stilinski" Dr Vanderberg says scanning his lift of patients.

Melissa then looks at the doctor, in the room as Peter and Cora are trying to cool down Marlo who's running a high fever and Cora who's trying to rest as much as possible.

"Hey! Anyone want to tell me when they're getting my niece and nephew's partner out of here?" Peter asks the nurses running past the room.

Cora just sighs and adjusts the cold washcloth on the woman's head.

"Sorry, but she wasn't, uh, you're supposed to be dead" Melissa says to the man in front of her before looking at Cora and then Marlo, "I get that a lot, actually" Peter says guiltily.

The monitor to Marlo starts beeping rapidly signalling somethings wrong.

Marlo gasps awake due to the pain and nausea nagging at her upper throat.

She clutches the side of the hospital bed before her stomach launches throwing up a black substance now alerting Peter, Cora and Melissa who share a concerned glance.

Stiles eventually comes around to doing something and making a plan.

He tells Scott they should go to Derek's understanding his there getting some clothes before he returns to the hospital to be with Marlo.

Scott just nods and suggests they go to Deaton's as well to get something.

Following his stressed best friend out of the school but not before making sure their friend was okay.

They run to Stiles jeep and start driving to Derek's loft, "How is Marlo? Is she okay?" Scott asks.

Stiles just sighs, "Nah man, she's not—I could lose her too" Stiles says sadly before his best friend pays his hand in a bro like comfort way.

Scott just nods, "She'll fight it Stiles" Scott says as they arrive at Derek's loft and enter the through the sliding door seeing a very confused, tired and annoyed Derek on the other side.

They then explain to Derek what happened at the school, taking note that Jennifer will come here afterwards knowing she likes Derek a lot.

Both werewolves hear heels rushing towards the loft Derek motions for the teens to hide and come out when it's their queue too.

They nod and hide, as his sliding door opens again and panting can be heard.

"Derek?" Jennifer calls out rushing down the lofts stairs, "Derek, where are you?" she pants out.

"Right here" Derek says from the couch and walking towards the woman now.

"Thank god" she rushes over to the alpha and wraps her arms around him now.

"Something happened at the recital, at the school, okay? I need to tell you before you hear it, before you hear it for any of them" Jennifer says, "From who?" Derek asks.

"Scott, Stiles—they're gonna tell you things; things you can't believe, you have to trust me, okay? You trust me" Jennifer rushes out, "What is it?" Derek asks acting concerned.

"Promise you'll listen to me" Jennifer says, "I promise." Derek says as Jennifer kisses him again.

He pushes her away due to well this being the fourth time she's kissed him.

Jennifer then looks at him, "They're already here, aren't they?" Jennifer asks.

Derek then looks in the direction the two boys are stepping out from hiding.

"So, they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?" Jennifer asks.

"We told him you're the one killing people" Scott states, Jennifer then scoffs.

"Oh, that's right. Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour that way, I can get back to teaching high school english the rest of the day, makes perfect sense" Jennifer says, "Where's my dad?" Stiles asks tearfully.

"How should I know?" She asks before turning and looking at the older male again.

"Derek, tell me you don't believe this?" Jennifer says.

Derek then looks at where Stiles and Scott currently are seeing how much of a mess Stiles actually is, "Do you know what happened to Stiles and Marlo's father?" Derek asks.

"No!" Jennifer says shaking her head, "Ask her why she almost killed Lydia" Scott says growing annoyed now, "Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that!" Jennifer says.

"What do you know?" Derek asks, "I know that these boys, for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story" Jennifer says to Derek before turning to the boys, "And one they can't prove, by the way" She then says.

Scott then holds up the jar of substance he and Stiles went and got earlier.

"What if we can?" Scott asks, "What is that?" Jennifer asks slightly scared now.

"My boss told me it's a poison and a cure, which means you can use it; and it can be used against you" Scott says undoing the lid to the jar.

"Mistletoe?" Jennifer asks before Scott throws the mistletoe powder towards Jennifer now revealing her true face.

The Darach screams and gasps and Derek now looks at the woman in a pissed off and confused glance.

She goes to run but Derek catches her first holding on by the throat resulting in grunts from the woman.

"Derek, wait! WAIT! You need me!" Jennifer says as she hears Derek flick out his claws.

"What are you?" Derek snarls, "The only person who can save Marlo" Derek then squeezes her throat tighter hearing her say his girlfriend's name.

"Call Peter or Cora, call them!" Jennifer wheezes again, Derek then pulls out his phone from his pocket before dialling Peter's number having him answer almost straight away.

Peter knowing what the phone calls about gets straight to the point, "It's not good, she's in and out of consciousness, she's vomiting up black blood, along with one other alarming substance" Peter says.

"Mistletoe" Derek answers now, "How did you know that?" Peter asks confused.

Derek now hangs up the phone pissed off at the woman in front of him now tightening his hold on her more and more.

"Derek—what are you doing?" Scott asks concerned about his friend's sister now.

Jennifer gasps in pain, "Her life—it's in my hands!" Jennifer says still gasping as Derek is squeezing more and more lifting her up into the air.

"Stop! Derek, stop!" Stiles says now scared for both Marlo and their father's sake.

"Little Stilinski, you'll never find him" Jennifer says now to Stiles.

"Derek! DEREK!" Scott yells as Derek now drops the woman on the ground roughly.

Jennifer just chuckles, "That's right, you need me—all of you" Jennifer says now looking at them all.

"I have to get back to Marlo and you're coming with me!" Derek says pulling the woman now downstairs into his Silver FJ Cruiser to start driving towards the hospital where his dying girlfriend is and his sister and uncle are.

They begin driving on the wet and raining road, Jennifer looks at the male driving now.

"You should know, I'm not doing this because I have to, I want to, I could still run, and you wouldn't have an easy time stopping me, but I don't want Marlo to die, I'm only doing what I had to do" Jennifer says.

Derek not having any more of her lies tries his best ignoring her, before muttering "Shut up" still focusing on the road ahead of them.

"You need to hear the whole story, Derek, you need to know just how connected we are" Jennifer says.

"Stop talking" Derek angrily demands, still looking at the road and quickly in his mirrors to see Stiles and Scott still following him and Jennifer.

Stiles's jeep drives behind Derek's vehicle carefully, "I don't know, something feels wrong about this, you know? We proved it to Derek, but she still had this look like it didn't matter, you know, like it was all going to plan—you saw it, didn't you?" Stiles asks looking at Scott in his passenger seat.

As they pull up at the hospital in screeches, Derek rushes under the cover so he doesn't have to worry about getting drenched from the rain and Jennifer running away from them as well.

Scott however notices Stiles carrying something, "What's that?" he asks.

"Well, you got claws, I got a bat" Stiles says showing the bat in his hands.

Scott just shakes his head before running in with Derek and Jennifer.

Derek dragging Jennifer through the hospital walls, although Melissa sees them and rushes after them.

"Scott! Scott! What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating" Melissa says looking at her son and the others, "We're here for Marlo" Scott says.

Melissa just frowns, "What, all of you? Why does Stiles have my bat?" She asks.

"Mom, just trust me on this, you need to get out of here, right now" Scott says sharing a look with his mother now who gets what they're doing here.

"The building is supposed to be clear in thirty minutes, we've got two ambulances that are coming back, one's ten minutes out, the other's twenty, Marlo needs to be on one of those, they'll be picking up in the basement garage" Melissa explains.

Scott nods, "Got it, okay" before rushing towards the elevator, as they get situated in the elevator and Derek still having a firm grip on the woman he thought he could trust.

"You don't have to keep me on a leash, Derek, I'm going to help" Jennifer says looking at the attractive male.

Then to the side where Scott is currently glaring her down and to the other where Stiles is holding the bat in a 'I'll attack you if i have to way'.

Jennifer just looks back at the doors and shakes her head in disbelief, the elevator soon dings and the doors slide open and they all step out.

Derek still dragging her, the lights then flicker and Derek looks at the room where Marlo was previously to see the black substance on the ground.

Scott then follows the blood drops, "Derek" Scott says motioning to the drops now following them to where there's two other doors hearing muffled groaning coming from that area.

Suddenly Peter is thrown through the doors groaning and looking at a confused Derek above him.

"We got a problem." Peter says before looking down to where he was thrown from.

"Big problem" he finishes as the Voltron Wolf of both Ethan and Aiden combined roars at them.

Derek then growls at them in alpha form and runs towards them showing them he's ready to fight them.

He lunges towards them as does Scott, Stiles now noticing an unconscious Marlo with Cora beside her trying to stay out of the fights way.

She looks at Stiles now urging for his help, "Help me" Stiles then says to the werewolf on the floor beside them not noticing they left Jennifer alone and she's now trying to run away.

Stiles only cares about trying to save his sister now, Peter helps him get to her unconscious body.

Derek then rushes up towards Marlo and picks her up with the help out Peter as well due to him fighting the twins.

He then looks to see Jennifer in the elevator running away, he doesn't care about that at the moment.

His number one priority is getting his girlfriend and sister somewhere safe.

He looks at Cora and hugs her too, "You're safe" Derek says, Cora just nods and helps them run with an unconscious Marlo.

Derek carrying his girlfriend runs through the rooms ordering them not to stop only for Stiles to stop and think about what his gonna do next.

He then smashed the bat over the twins head and shatters it into pieces looking at it flabbergasted before being roared at by the twins, he steps back rushing over towards Scott and Peter now.

Scott jumps up knocking the light and shattering that on the twins giving them an enough time to escape or hide.

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AT THE HIGH SCHOOL making sure Lydia is okay is Allison, Isaac and Allison's father.

"I can't get a hold of Derek or Scott, how's Lydia?" Isaac asks looking at her phone.

"She's got bruising on her neck, they're taking her to a hospital downtown because Beacon Memorial is being evacuated" Allison answers.

"The storm's that bad?" Isaac asks, "It will be and I overheard an EMT saying the back-up generators might be too old to last if the power goes out" Allison says worried.

Isaac begins mumbling under his breath, "Beacon Memorial—that's where Marlo is" Isaac states.

Chris walks up to both of the teens, Isaac looks at Allison now again, "No, I have to get to the hospital, I can't leave Marlo there with just Peter" Isaac says now walking off in the direction of the schools exit.

Allison looks at her father with a pleading look, Chris just sighs, "Isaac, I'll drive" Chris states now comforting his daughter and Isaac as well walking towards the exit.

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BACK AT THE HOSPITAL, Melissa walks up to the elevator only noticing the white cane sticking into the wall.

She then pulls it out looking at it before a hand grabs onto it, she looks at the hand and then the figure now figuring out who he was.

"Thank you, Mrs McCall" Deucalion says, "You're him, aren't you?" Melissa asks shakily.

""Him?"" Deucalion asks amused, "The bad guy, and Marlo's birth father, you know she's hurt?" Melissa says.

"You have no idea" Deucalion smirks while answering, "Yes Marlo is my daughter and Kali here gave her a little boost for her werewolf abilities although looks like someone else had plans with her too" Deucalion then says as the lights shut off and their red eyes glow in the darkness.

"Although Kali, going after Marlo and making her completely powerless was the biggest mistake you've ever done.

Derek is now even more protective and won't let anyone hurt her and you and Aiden have both managed to do both of those things alongside Jennifer as well" Deucalion shrugs.

Kali just scoffs and chuckles, "I was just doing what you told me to do, I didn't know 'Jennifer' was going to target her and do things to her" Kali says.

Both alphas shrug now and continue on with their plan knowing there's nothing they can do for Marlo now, unless she heals herself which is impossible.

"I do however need a favour, Melissa" Deucalion says to the mother, Melissa shakily nods knowing she doesn't have a choice and follows the two alphas now.

As Peter now carries Marlo into a room and puts her safely down onto the bed.

Stiles and Cora rush in after them, Derek and Scott hurriedly close the rooms doors, "Where's the big guy?" Stiles asks.

"He's close" Derek mutters, "What about Miss Blake?" Stiles asks, Scott just shakes his head no.

"What do you mean? What does that mean? Like she's gone? Scott, are you kidding me?" Stiles says panicked.

"Shh! Quiet!" Derek demands from where Marlo's body is currently lying.

Stiles now over the treatment and watching Jennifer kiss him without Marlo knowing.

"Me, be quiet? Me? Huh? Are you telling me what to do now? When a psychotic, mass-murdering woman; someone who wants you all to herself keeps making out with you, marlo, your actual girlfriend is dying and she doesn't know about jennifer or our dad who is somewhere, tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?" Stiles says getting more and more pissed off.

"Stiles, they're still out there" Scott says worried, "And they want her, right? Which means now, we don't have her either, so my dad and Marlo are both dead" Stiles says panicked.

"Not yet" Scott says as the lights flicker again before going over to where Peter is currently looking at Marlo alongside Derek, "Is she really dying?" Scott asks worried now.

"She's definitely not getting any better" Peter mumbles looking at Scott and then Derek now who looks at the love of his life unconscious on the table.

"There has to be something that we can do, we have to help her" Scott goes to say before being interrupted by Jennifer entering the hospital room now.

"You can't—only I can, I can save her, and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is but, there's a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead, so, I'll help you, but only when I'm out of here and safe, only then" Jennifer says looking at them all.

Derek then throws the nearby table his near and lunges towards the woman who just entered.

"Derek, wait!" Scott says, "She was trying to get out!" Derek says angrily pointing his finger at the woman now.

"I was trying to keep from getting killed! You can't blame me for that" Jennifer says.

"If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her" Stiles says pointing towards his sister.

"Not until I'm safe" Jennifer then says, "I'd like to volunteer a different method of persuasion, let's torture her" Peter suggests.

Derek just shrugs over the woman's fakeness and flirtation towards him, "Works for me" Derek says.

Scott however holds Derek back before the P.A system over the hospital squeaks meaning someone is going to make an announcement.

"Um, can I have your attention? Mr. Deucalion, excuse me, just Deucalion, requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the ER reception, do this, and everyone else can leave, you have ten minutes" Melissa states fearfully.

Scott now worried for his mother's safety looks at the woman, "He's not gonna hurt her" Jennifer sighs.

"Shut up!" Derek demands, Marlo begins to groan in her unconscious state alerting them all now.

She gasps awake again and Peter already knowing what's coming grabs the nearby pan and helps her throw up black blood.

Derek looks at her in concern now and scared she might actually die as well.

"He won't! Scott, you know why, tell them it's true" Jennifer says ignoring what just happened with Marlo.

"What does she mean?" Derek asks as he runs his hands through his girlfriend's hair and rubbing circles into her back, "You're not the only one he wants in his pack" Jennifer then says.

"Deucalion doesn't just want an alpha pack, he wants perfection, that means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks and the rarest of wolves and other species as well into it" Jennifer states.

Peter who is stunned looks at Scott and then Marlo as well, "A true alpha and the hybrid" Peter says, "What's that?" Stiles asks.

"The kind that doesn't have to steal his power from another, one that can rise by the force of his own will, the hybrid who can have both vampirism and werewolf, or other supernatural abilities" Peter states before looking at the two again.

The unconscious woman on the table and Scott, "Our little Scott and Marlo" Peter then says impressed.

"It doesn't matter, we still need to get her out of here" Scott says in a defeated way, "Scott, your mom" Stiles goes to say.

"My mom said there's one more ambulance coming in twenty minutes and I don't think we've been here that long, so, if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here" Scott states.

"The twins aren't gonna let us just walk out" Derek states looking at her sweaty and pale girlfriend again.

"I'll distract them" Scott says, "You mean fight them" Derek says.

"Whatever I have to do" Scott says looking at Derek, "I'll help you" Derek nods.

However Jennifer doesn't agree with that and inputs her say on the matter.

"Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek" she says earning a scoff from Cora on the other side Marlo now.

"What's your obsession on trying to steal someone else's boyfriend? I mean, come on" Cora states darkly.

Jennifer just smirks, Derek and the others chuckle hearing Cora stick up for Marlo and Derek's relationship.

"I'll do it, but, I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage" Peter says.

"An advantage? Like what? You mean, like, a weapon?" Stiles asks, "Something better than a baseball bat" Peter says.

They all look through things to use so Peter can have an advantage fighting the Voltron Wolf of Aiden and Ethan.

"Hey, wait, what about these?" Stiles asks holding up the defibrillators.

Derek looks at him slightly concerned, "Do you know how to use those?" Derek asks.

"Well, no, but Marlo does which sucks she's unconscious during this" Stiles says putting the object down and continuing to search.

Scott then finds a huge needle in the surgical draws and holds it up reading it out loud.

"Epinephrine?" Scott asks, "That's only gonna make him stronger" Derek and Cora say at the same time sharing an amused smile together.

Peter liking the idea of being strong stops what he's doing and turns towards them.

"How strong?" He wonders, now agreeing they're going to eject Peter with the needle.

Stiles makes a joke at how Marlo would've wished she witnessed this even more if she plunged the needle into Peter's chest.

That however earns and smack on the back of the head by Cora and an offended look off Peter.

Derek not being in the mood or patient grabs the needle and jams him with it.

Now laced with the epinephrine substance Peter walks out noticing the twins just there, Scott stands beside him now.

"All right, boys! Let's rumble!" Peter says roaring and running towards the twins now.

As the others take Marlo downstairs to the ambulance waiting for her.

Derek carrying her softly making sure not to her in the process even though she's unconscious, Cora, Stiles and Jennifer follow shortly behind them.

Stiles and Cora run through the emergency doors noticing the ambulance waiting, "It's still here!" Stiles says.

Derek now carrying his girlfriend bridal style, Stiles opens the ambulance doors.

Stiles and Cora get into the ambulance and help Derek put the woman onto the bed inside of it, not noticing Jennifer walking around and noticing something.

"Derek? Over here" Jennifer says, Derek kisses Marlo's forehead quickly and walks to where the woman's waiting.

"Juliaaa.." Kali's haunting like voice calls out jiggling the keys in her hands.

Derek looks at the back of the ambulance in fear because his family is inside including Stiles, "It is you" Kali says.

Stiles and Cora who are aware of what's going on slowly and quietly close the ambulance doors.

"You can't beat her on your own" Jennifer says to Derek, "That's why we're gonna run" Derek says looking at the ambulance again.

Taking step backs knowing the further Kali is away from Marlo, Cora and Stiles then they can't get hurt.

Kali roars at them as they get chased, "Wait! Wait! The elevator!" Jennifer exclaims running towards the elevator now, they run inside just before Kali can get inside.

She scratches the doors and snarls before walking off as the power gets cut off meaning Derek is stuck in the elevator with Jennifer, the woman that doesn't take no for an answer.

Stiles makes the doors to the ambulance are stable and not going to give away their current place even though if the werewolves listen they'll be able to hear the heartbeats inside.

"Okay, okay, okay; we're okay, we're all right, you okay? How you doing?" Stiles mumbles looking at his sister's body.

"Why do you look like you're not breathing?" Stiles asks in fear now, "Because she's not breathing, is she?" Cora asks now alert too.

"Oh, no, oh, god, oh, no, no, no, why are you not breathing? Come on!" Stiles says panicking now, Cora then takes over as Stiles grows too anxious.

"Okay, okay, okay, you can do this, here we go, tilt the head, fingers on the chin, clear the throat, great, nothing—I see nothing, okay, all right, so, uh just pinch the nose and blow, oh, come on, Marlo" Cora says knowing if Marlo dies Derek is gonna be broken.

Cora then breathes into Marlo's mouth over and over again, "Come on, Marlo" Stiles mumbles crying.

In the elevator Derek is currently looking for an escape route out of the tiny space.

"If you're thinking the service hatch, they bolt from the outside, so you'd have to break it, all you'd end up doing is creating a lot of noise, telling them exactly where we are" Jennifer says.

"Kali already knows" Derek states, "Not necessarily, she saw that we got in, but she might not know that we didn't get out" Jennifer says.

"Yeah, well, if I get through, then we can go to another floor" Derek says irritated being in the same room as her instead of in the ambulance saving his girlfriend.

"Or you'd end up fighting them alone in an elevator shaft! They'll rip my head off before you'd even have the chance to land a punch." Jennifer states.

Derek just smacks his jeans and grabs his phone from his pocket messaging Scott.

"Then someone needs to get the backup generator working again" Derek states.

Stiles and Cora begin panicking, "Come on, oh, come on, Mar, come on, breathe, come on, Marlo, breathe!" Cora says continuing doing CPR on the older woman.

Marlo suddenly gasps and coughs breathing again, "Oh!" Stiles mumbles happily, Cora smiles happily as well.

"Thank you Cora" Stiles mumbles, Cora just smiles and nods hugging the teenage boy, leaving him wide eyed and surprised.

Peter and Scott run around the hospital away from Ethan and Aiden now as Peter's shot didn't last very long and his now tired and weak.

"That shot didn't last very long, those twins are really starting to piss me off" Peter says weakly in the arms of Scott now, "How the hell are we supposed to get past them?" Scott asks.

"Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up" Peter states tiredly, Scott pushes his body into the laundry shoot.

"You couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds?" Peter says as Scott lands on top of Peter in the laundry pile, however Scott receives a text message.

"They didn't get out, did they?" Peter asks now, Scott texts Derek back now; who is still in the elevator with Jennifer.

"'Don't move, on our way'" Derek reads out loud off his phone looking around now annoyed.

Stiles who is overwhelmed with seeing how sick and pale his sister is completely forgets about Cora's presence beside him.

"You just hold on a little longer, okay? Trust me, if anyone's gonna get us out of this, it's Scott, I can't believe I just said that, you know, I actually used to be the one with the plan, well, or, at least a plan B, now? I don't know—now, I'm thinking, maybe you were right, you know, maybe we are pretty much useless, maybe all we really do is show up and find the bodies, I don't want to find our father's body, you know, you're a lot easier to talk to when you're completely unconscious" Stiles mutters now softly.

Cora just looks at him with sympathy, "I didn't mean that about the whole you only find the bodies, I think I was a bit annoyed I lost the fight and got a concussion" Cora says softly.

Stiles just shares a glance with her now softly nodding, a loud banging is heard coming from outside of the ambulance.

Both teens look at each other and Cora sits closer to the door now protecting Stiles.

"Someone's coming" she whispers hearing the growling coming from outside now.

Ethan and Aiden walk completely past the ambulance ignoring the people inside of it.

Thirty seconds go by and they hear more banging and clanging only for it to be Scott and a weak Peter.

"Stiles! Stiles, open the door!" Scott says holding Peter still, "Sorry" Stiles says opening the door from his minor heart attack previously.

"Help me get him in" Scott says putting Peter into the ambulance alongside the others as well.

"Where's Derek and Jennifer?" Stiles asks, "I have to go back for them, and my mom" Scott answers.

"Okay, two problems, Kali's got the keys to this thing, and I just saw the twins, like, thirty seconds ago" Stiles says looking at Cora wiping Marlo's forehead managing to her temperature down.

"Stay here" Scott orders running back into the hospital, Stiles sits beside Peter now and Cora sits on the bed with Marlo.

Cora looks at Peter now, "If she dies, what are we going to do?" Cora asks Peter, "I don't know" Peter shrugs tiredly.

Stiles glances between them both, "They're soulmates, two souls tied together, if one dies then the soul inside of them is dead insane forever" Cora says softly.

Stiles just nods, "She's not dying" Stiles says again, "Stiles, she's not getting any better either though" Peter says sadly.

Stiles just looks at his sister in fear and Cora as well now sniffling.

Derek just stares at his phone screen avoiding looking at Jennifer in any way, "Anything?" Jennifer asks.

"Derek, I know what you're thinking, that I'm using you, that everything that has happened between us is a lie, or, that I'm evil, a bitch, but, I hope you're not thinking the most superficial thought 'Is that her real face? The slashed, mutilated face revealed by the mistletoe; is that what she really looks like?'" Jennifer says softly.

"Nothing happened between us, you kissed me, I pushed you off, I have a girlfriend, simple as that, a girlfriend you're killing" Derek snarls.

As Deucalion and Kali wait around in the morgue now, Kali grows impatient.

"You should have kept his mother" Kali says, "Is that so?" Deucalion asks, "You have a soft spot for him and her of course" Kali says.

"I have an investment I'm trying to mature, if you want to talk about soft spots, let's talk about Jennifer Blake, or, what was her name again?" Deucalion asks, "Julia" Kali answers, "Ah" Deucalion hums.

As Jennifer grows a lot more confident in herself, she begins telling Derek her story.

"Julia Baccari, that was my name" Jennifer starts, "I don't care" Derek mumbles.

"I guess I should have changed it to something with different first letters, I think I read somewhere that people always pick aliases that are subconsciously derivative of their original name, it's a way of not completely letting go of your identity, since your name is so tied to your sense of self" Jennifer says before continuing.

"Do you know what else is? Your face, the one that's supposed to be staring back at you in the mirror, not some hacked-up atrocity you can't even recognise" Jennifer asks.

"I still don't care" Derek bluntly states, "But, I bet you're curious, I bet you wonder exactly what happened" Jennifer says.

"You were an Emissary, they tried killing you along with the rest of the pack, mystery solved" Derek says sighing.

"I was Kali's Emissary and I was the one she couldn't kill" Jennifer then states as Kali tells the same story to Deucalion in the morgue.

"I didn't understand why I had to kill her, too, she was harmless, but I did it because you wanted me to, I did everything you asked to be part of this pack" Kali states.

"You did it to be with Ennis, so don't point that accusing toe at me, and, as for harmless, how harmless does she look now?" Deucalion asks.

"I thought she was dead!" Kali says, "Did you?" Deucalion asks skeptically.

"Are you asking if maybe, there was a moment of uncertainty? That when I walked away, thinking she was dead, that maybe I turned back? And maybe I saw her there, lying perfectly still, but I focused my hearing anyway, listened to the sound of her heart still beating, still fighting for life, and I thought, 'I could go back and finish it; or, I could let someone I love die peacefully' and maybe, I just kept walking" Kali says amused.

"My heart bleeds for you, Kali, apparently, hers could have bled a little more" Deucalion says, Jennifer explains to Derek in the elevator shaft.

"For years, the Nemeton's power was virtually gone, like the dying ember of a burned-out fire—but, a few months earlier, something happened that caused that ember to glow a little brighter, something that gave it a spark of power again, the sacrifice of a virgin, you and Marlo didn't know what you were doing back then, but killing Paige in the root cellar, sacrificing her there; gave power to the Nemeton, you gave it power again, you both gave me power, just enough to hold onto life a little longer, long enough to be found" Jennifer says.

Derek looks sadly at the elevators floor at the mention of Paige, "You know mistletoe is important to Druids—but, do you know the myth of why people kill under mistletoe?" Jennifer asks.

"No" Derek bluntly replies hoping he can get out of the elevator soon before he kills Jennifer himself.

"It's a Norse myth, Baldr—the son of Odin, was the most beloved of the other gods, so much so that they wanted to protect him from all of the dangers in the world, his mother, Frigg, took an oath from fire and water, metal, stone, and every living thing, that they would never hurt Baldr, at a gathering, they tested him—stones, arrows, and flame were all hurled at him, nothing worked, but, there was one god who wasn't so enamored of Baldr, the god of mischief, Loki-Loki discovered that Frigg had forgotten to ask mistletoe, a tiny, seemingly harmless plant, and completely overlooked, Loki fashioned a dart out of mistletoe, and it killed Baldr, Frigg was heartbroken, she decreed that mistletoe would never again be used as a weapon and that she would place a kiss on anyone who passed under it, so, now we hang mistletoe underneath our door during the holidays, so that we will never overlook it again, we were the overlooked, he Emissaries, it was a mistake Deucalion and the alpha's should never have made, because I made an oath of my own" Jennifer explains looking at Derek who's avoiding eye contact.

"From virgins and warriors, from healers, philosophers, and guardians, to loan me their power so that I could teach these monsters that their monstrous actions would never be overlooked." Jennifer says.

"You killed innocent people" Derek says to the woman, "So have you, I know the real color of your eyes, Derek, and I know what it means, I'm not asking you to save just my life, I'm asking you to save everyone they'll ever hurt again" Jennifer says.

"You can't beat them" Derek says defeatedly.

"Are you sure about that? Boyd asked you right before he died, 'what happens to a Werewolf during a lunar eclipse' you didn't get a chance to tell him, but you know, don't you? What happens, Derek? During the total lunar eclipse?" Jennifer asks.

"We lose all our power" Derek states.

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CHRIS, ALLISON, ISAAC, SCOTT and Melissa discuss things together, "So, they're essentially trapped?" Argent asks.

"Yeah, right, there's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on" Isaac says.

"But wait, wait, wait, if the power's back on, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right?" Melissa says nervously.

"And they'll be on Jennifer and Derek as soon as it stops, we can't get in a fight with them" Scott says.

"You've got us now" Argent says, "It's too much to risk! They want her dead, and if she dies, there's nothing we can do for Stiles' dad or Marlo" Scott says.

"I don't even think I know which teacher this is" Chris says frowning.

"She's the one with the brown hair? She's kind of hot?" Isaac shrugs seeing the looks of disbelief everyone's giving him.

"No, it's just an observation" Isaac says as everyone looks him with a certain look, Allison looks in the mirror noticing she looks a little bit like Jennifer herself.

"I've got an idea" Allison states, Scott texts Derek the plan and gets ready himself, Allison calls Isaac.

"You ready?" Allison asks, "Yeah" Isaac states, "You're not nervous, are you?" Allison asks, "Do I look nervous?" Isaac wonders.

"No, not at all" Allison says adjusting the phone and aiming it at the hallway for the plan.

Chris and Allison start talking in the background, "Does he look nervous?" Chris asks.

"Terrified" Allison answers her father, "Yeah, I can still hear you, very, very clearly" Isaac says over the phone still.

"Just go as soon as you see them, okay?" Allison responds with, "Yeah, yeah, I got it" Isaac says getting ready for the plan.

Allison then runs around the hospital leading the alphas outside and Isaac goes to get the rest of them out of the ambulance, as the power comes back on significantly the plans working.

Derek and Jennifer are still in the elevator as he presses the button to make them move.

"Derek, please look at me" Jennifer in her Darach form demands and attacks and leaves Derek unconscious on the elevator floor.

Isaac drives up beside the ambulance and gets out to help them get Marlo out safely and not hurt her either.

"All right, come on, come on, come on!" Isaac says, "I got her" Peter says adjusting Marlo in his arms.

"Okay, get the door" Peter then motions Cora to get the door open so he can put Marlo inside.

Stiles then reads the note on the ambulance 'Parent or Guardian' and realises something.

"Stiles! Let's go! Stiles!" Isaac yells out now seeing Stiles run into the hospital again.

Scott goes to the elevator to see Derek unconscious and realises as well his mom's going to be taken.

Stiles runs in calling for Scott now noticing Derek as well, Isaac then puts the car in drive ready to leave.

"Come on! We gotta go! Drive, you idiot" Peter says, "I can't, not without Scott" Isaac says stubbornly, as gunfire is heard outside of the hospital.

"Come on! You want the Argents dead, too? Make a choice!" Peter says urgently.

The twins run out of the emergency behind the car, Peter notices, "Oh, for the love of God! Go, now!" Peter demands.

"All right!" Isaac says putting his foot to the gas and getting out of the garage now.

"Mom! Mom!" Scott yells running through the roofs doors, "They're gone, guardians, Scott, if you were with me, I could've told you what it meant, I could've warned you" Deucalion says then continues.

"Let me help you, Scott, let's help each other, you help me catch her, and I'll help get your mother and Stiles' father back" Deucalion says.

Stiles now runs through the roof doors following Scott and noticing what's going on.

"Scott! Scott, don't do this! Don't go with him!" Stiles says desperately, "I don't know what else to do" Scott says wearily.

"No, Scott, there's gotta be something else, okay? We always, we always have a plan B" Stiles says, "Not this time" Scott says defeatedly.

"Scott" Stiles says, "I'm gonna find your dad for both you and Marlo, I promise" Scott says walking off with Deucalion into the shadows, "SCOTT!" Stiles yells out.

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MELISSA GROGGILY COMES to frowning as she hears, "Hey! Hey, you all right?" Noah asks.

"Oh, god, where are we?" Melissa asks horrified, "I don't know; looks like a root cellar to me, but, uh she called it something different, she called it a Nemeton" Noah answers.

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