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season three —
episode sixteen

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ISAAC LAYS ON Allison's bedroom floor, shaking and jolting as Allison and her father barge into the room to check on the teenage werewolf.

"Isaac! He's freezing, Dad, he's like ice" Allison says scared for her friend.

"Isaac? Look at me, Isaac?" Chris says, "What's happening to him?" Allison asks.

"Isaac, come on, Isaac, listen, you have to turn" Chris says trying to get the beta to turn into his wolf.

"Look at me, you need to trigger it, come on, turn, turn, turn!" Chris says punching the teenage boy repeatedly trying to get the boy to turn into a werewolf to trigger the healing.

After a few hits Isaac growls at them both showing his beta yellow-orange eyes and jumps away from them, scared out of his mind, "Did you see them?" Isaac asks shakily.

"Who?" Allison asks scared for her friend, "There were five of them, they wore black, I couldn—I couldn't see their faces, they were covered" Isaac says.

"What do you mean? Like, masks?" Allison asks, "One of them, I could see his eyes, they were greenish-yellow, like a-like a firefly" Isaac states tearfully.

Chris gets up and checks the windows as Allison comforts her friend.

"Security system wasn't triggered" Chris says shaking the windows.

"Then how did they get in?" Allison asks, "They didn't. It was like they came out of the shadows" Isaac states.

Chris looks up when Isaac says that not noticing Allison looking at him, "Do you know what that means? Dad?" Allison asks.

"Um, I'm not sure, listen, the two of you, I need you to keep this quiet for a few hours" Chris demands.

"From everyone?" Isaac says sniffling, "Just twenty-four hours" Chris says.

Isaac looks at the floor with his head in his hands, only wanting one person, that person being Marlo.

"They could have killed him, Dad" Allison says.

"But they didn't and I think there's a reason why, I think they might have been after me" Chris states getting shocked looks off both teenagers.

Isaac mumbles something as Allison looks at him, "What?" Allison asks softly.

"Mr Argent, I wanna tell one person, she's like my guardian please" Isaac says sadly.

Chris nods knowing if they have Marlo's help, it'll be sorted quicker, "Only Marlo" Chris states.

Isaac nods and looks at Allison who grabs her phone, calling the hybrid now; who picks up on the second ring.

"Hey Marlo, sorry to bother you this late, something about to Isaac and he wants you, we're at my place" Allison rushes out, Marlo quickly says her goodbyes to Derek and Peter.

Derek won't be in Beacon Hills for a few days, she kisses him deeply before leaving and going over to the argents, "She's coming here Isaac" Allison says softly, Isaac just nods and sobs.

Fifteen minutes later Marlo arrives at the argent apartment, Allison letting her inside and the hybrid rushes towards Isaac now and he wraps his arms around the older woman, "Mar" Isaac softly says.

"Hey I" Marlo says softly, Isaac explains what happened and Marlo looks him over like a nurse.

Marlo sighs and lets Isaac hug her non stop, "All I wanted was you Mar" Isaac states sadly.

Marlo just nods, "You know I'm here in a heartbeat" Marlo states, "Come on, let's go back to my apartment, Alli you can come too" Marlo says softly, Isaac nods not wanting to separate from Marlo.

The next morning, Isaac gets woken up for school by both Allison and Marlo.

Marlo brings breakfast into Isaac now hoping she'll get him to eat, he grabs the bowl happily, excited for Marlo's cooking.

She passes Allison a bowl as well and receives a thank you, Marlo smiles.

"Okay, I'm gonna go shower and get ready for today, don't forget you have school, okay?" Marlo says to the teens aware of Chris's twenty four hour rule and she accepted it.

Not wanting to worry others or distract her boyfriend who's currently going through a lot after seeing his mother Talia, "Thanks Mar" Isaac calls out, smiling.

"She treats you like her own" Allison states happy he has someone, "Yeah, she always has, she treated Erica like family too" Isaac says sadly.

Finishing the breakfast and leaving a note thanking Marlo and leaving with the argent girl to go to high school.

Marlo gets out of the long shower she just had.

She recognises a scent entering her loft, undoing the towel that kept her hair up, she gets wrapped in a huge hug, from broad arms.

"I'm off, thought I'd come say a proper goodbye" Derek says into her neck, aware she's naked.

"Stay safe okay? I love you" Marlo says turning her body around hugging him back around the neck.

"Always, I love you too" Derek says kissing her.

She moans in delight, he pulls away first and pecks her forehead and leaves her loft now to go deal with some family stuff.

Marlo sighs already missing his muscular arms around her frame; she puts her jeans on and a sweater that was Erica's and walks into the kitchen grabbing some water.

She doesn't feel sick today which to her surprise is a relief, she happily skips over towards the couch where her new tv is set up on the generator and puts on her music playlist to clean a little bit while feeling well enough.

Unaware of the plans of party going on downstairs in Derek's loft by Aiden, Ethan and Danny.

Marlo cleans for a while before realising it's getting dark outside and decides to put on a movie to waste some time, she misses her boyfriend a lot.

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DOWNSTAIRS IN THE PARKING lot of the loft's, Derek's vehicle pulls up.

He decided against going away for a few days and staying for his girlfriend wanting to surprise her about coming home after six hours.

He gets out of his cars and leans against the door, hearing footsteps behind him, he turns around to some kids.

"Trick or treat!" the young boys yell at Derek.

Who chuckles, as he reaches into his car window pulling out the bag of candy he bought earlier today, he puts them in the kids bags as they watch him fearfully.

Derek looks at them all with a stern look on his face before flashing his blue eyes and growls at them.

Showing them what's it's really like around Halloween the kids run off scared and screaming.

Derek shrugs and puts the candy back in the passenger seat of his vehicle before a snarling like sound is heard behind him.

He turns around confused before the creatures attack him just like they did with Isaac the previous night.

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DANNY, ETHAN AND AIDEN enter the dark loft of Derek's, "Where did you say the guy was who lives here?" Danny asks.

"He's out of town" Ethan replies partying to the gods that Marlo doesn't hear this party going on either.

They'll be in deep trouble if she finds her boyfriend's loft being used for a black light party.

Aiden pulls up the generators and shows them a thumbs up, meaning all is successful so far.

Ethan walks over towards the light turning them on lighting the loft up with black lights.

Danny smiles happily, "Oh, yeah" he nods smiling at Ethan who's nodding as well.

As the party kicks off in Derek's loft, Isaac and Allison arrive before Scott, Stiles and Kira.

Lydia arriving before any of them, Isaac looks at the party now and looks towards the roof.

"Derek and Marlo can never know about this" Isaac states as Allison looks around before looking back at Isaac, she nods.

"Wait but Marlo's just upstairs?" Allison states worried as Isaac makes a face as well.

"Um shit" Isaac murmurs hoping Marlo is having an off day with her hearing, little did they know she knows about it all and is furious.

She walks downstairs towards the parking lot noticing Derek's scent and looks around before noticing his vehicle and his body laying on the ground beside it, she gasps and runs towards her boyfriend now.

"Der, Der, babe, baby wake up" Marlo says smacking his face, Derek gasps awake and feels behind his ear with a grunt, "Lo?" Derek says confused.

"Yeah, I'm here" Marlo says softly, Derek looks at her now and realises the flashing lights upstairs.

"They're having a fucking party in my loft!" Derek snarls growing angry.

"Yeah, I know, I couldn't do anything about it and to be fair I only just found out before" Marlo says quickly.

Derek just places his hands on her shoulders and kisses her calming the woman down, "I believe you baby" Derek says.

At the party upstairs none of them are aware that Ethan's been attacked by the creatures and so has Lydia now leaving their bodies paralysed with fear and coldness.

Aiden and Danny find Lydia outside of the loft's patio shaking due to being freezing cold, they rush her inside worried about the others.

Allison finds an upside down five marked below Isaac's ear where the creatures marked him; leaving the teens confused.

Isaac and Allison find Ethan in the storage closet and Isaac helps trigger his healing by breaking his arm.

Lydia who's shivering in Aiden's arm, the male trying to keep the teenage girl warm as possible, "They came out of the dark" Lydia mumbles.

As all of them have the upside down five behind their ears, Derek looks at Marlo now before releasing a growl into the sky pissed off.

Scott hears the roar and is confused at the tone of the howl off the wolf from the roof over looking the loft.

"Okay grumpy ass, let's shut this party down" Marlo mumbles out as she goes to walk, she becomes weak, and nearly falls as Derek catches her confused.

Marlo taps his arm significantly she's okay to get up, "I'm fine, Der" Marlo mumbles still recovering from the massive dizzy spell she experienced.

Derek and Marlo begin walking up to the stairs entering Derek's loft seeing the drunk teenagers running around his loft.

Derek growls under his breath, before grabbing his girlfriend hand gently and leading her through the crowd of teenagers.

The security of the DJ puts his hand on Derek's chest stopping him from walking.

"Bro, sorry, the Bloody Beetroots doesn't take requests" the guard says politely.

Derek shrugs and goes to walk forward only to stopped again, "Bro, seriously, I said, the DJ doesn't take" the guard goes to day before hearing, "It's your funeral" Marlo mumbles towards the guard.

Derek grabs the man's throat, "He'll take mine" Derek says pushing the man the side; the guard looks at Marlo who shrugs.

Derek then pushes the DJ table off the platform.

"GET OUT!" Derek yells in a distorted voice as the crowd scatters out of the party, the others notice the creatures lurking behind everyone looking directly at Aiden.

"Guys, they're all looking at me, why are they all looking at me?" Aiden asks, the creatures take slow strides towards the former alpha twin.

Both Derek and Scott run to fight the creatures, only for them to dodge every hit and scratch Derek along the back, pissing Marlo off.

She steps forward as the creature looks of her now and tilts its head, Marlo just smirks.

Derek growls and goes toward the creature again, protecting his girlfriend, snapping its neck only for it to reincarnate into its body again.

Derek looks at it with confusion clear in his eyes, the creature annoyed with Derek throws him into the floor, leaving the wolf grunting in pain.

Scott looks at them in fear now because Derek was down; but begins fighting only to be forced thrown into one of the tins along Derek's wall.

Isaac let's go off the weakened Ethan and flicks his claws out signifying his ready to fight only for the creature to turn around and pull a sword out of its chest and doing some kind of ninja move, leaving the wolf to back up away from the weapon.

Marlo rushes to protect the teenagers holding Ethan, "Stay behind me, they won't hurt me" Marlo says, the others look at her confused at what she meant by that.

The creatures manage to get close to Aiden now marking him with the upside down five, "Somebody do something" Allison says.

As the creatures look at Scott and Kira now ready to attack but notice the sunrise is beginning.

Ethan runs over to Aiden and trigger his healing, like Isaac did earlier to him.

Marlo runs towards Derek and helps him up, he looks at her and softly smiles, as does she.

"What the hell were those things?" Scott asks, Isaac and Marlo both look at Allison now, "Your dad's twenty-four hours are up" Isaac states.

Allison calls her father but doesn't realise his passed out and bleeding at the entrance of their apartment, clearly injured.

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STILES SOON REALISES that he might have something more to do with this as he left the message on the blackboard for Barrow to kill Kira and left the chemistry door unlocked for him only he asks himself.

what does the future hold for beacon hills?