I am a daughter of shame. I live in the shadows and I try not to bleed on my mother's carpet. My skin is jagged and worn as if I have lived thousands of lives, in one body. I am flat. I am empty. This is all the world wanted from me. I pretend not to notice how quiet the sky is on a Sunday morning as if god has deserted me.

Hannah Green / "Sylvia Plath Taught Me How To Disappear."

Forget stardust - you are iron.
Your blood is nothing but ferrous liquid. When
you bleed, you reek of rust. It is iron
that fills your heart not sits in your veins. And what
is iron unless it's forged?
You are iron.
And you are strong.

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Will you hold my dirty finger and kiss my alcohol-drenched lips? Will you love my scars and scratches and my disgusting skin?
Will you love my mind filled with anxiety and woe?
Will you love a monster?

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You are four.

You are a child filled with childish wonders.

There are daisies in your hair and mud under your nails. Laceration scrapes and different colors of bruises filled the patchwork on your knees and arms, trying to run from your cousin or perhaps running to chase a butterfly in your backyard. Yet, each time you fell, you never cried out or screamed at the terror of falling and not catching the butterflies that were flying away from the dangers of the animal kingdom.

Each time you fell, an invisible force was always there to catch you. Your uncle would always race after the girls, sitting down on the wooden surface of the chairs, your cousin, Sarah Duarte, always holding your hand as you grip onto her hand as your uncle, Javier Duarte, cleaned your wounds, with your Ma always hiding in the shadows and using her special medicine to cope with the voices she hears. Still, all you seem to hear is her mumbles of craziness. Your attention would meet your uncle's kind eyes as he wraps your wounds.

Sharing an identical smile with your cousin, as your uncle spoke, 'What am I going to do with you girls? Hmm...always finding yourself in places that you shouldn't be." He always spoke with gentleness and fondness for his daughter and niece with a smile that would always make anyone smile back. Each time he spoke, you would always reply with a smile with your hand in your cousins, and run off to chase the force of the butterfly.

You are nine.

Once you discover the harsh truth that monsters exist in the world.

You are still a child filled with over-growing curiosity but less naïve with the knowledge the medicine Ma uses is drugs. The flowers she used to pin up in your hair seemed less common because you run too much. With your cousin, Sarah, always chasing you, along with the force of nature. The mud is still there, though, it always is. Perhaps, you grew a lot quicker than most, always taking care of your Ma even when her emotions became too elevated, almost manic at times and you would simply stand there with face neutral, simply pretending her words didn't hurt you. But it did. Each word was a sword aiming towards your heart.

Perhaps, the naïve parts of you seem to fade away with the knowledge that there are monsters in the world, both human and supernatural. It just took a moment, a single moment, from being a naïve child to a girl who knew too much. The night started with two girls chasing after fireflies to girls running from a monster. The girls kept on running and running until they were forced to stop when the monster was dead, and Javier Duarte stood there with men behind him – all with different weapons, following the same code. We haunt those who haunt us.

You don't exactly remember when everything started to change after that, maybe soon after you saw that monster turned to human was when the world's colors started to fade as soon as started training to be part of the family business of being a hunter. You replaced your Barbie Dolls with daggers.

As soon as the colors begin to fade the dreams start to invade your mind. The dreams started as simple nightmares to full night terrors, it kept on going for every moment you closed your eyes. Perhaps every time your eyes closed an event happens.

Blink...wakes up in a hospital with stitches on your forehead.

Blink...You see your first ghost and it doesn't leave.

Blink...Ma dies in a car accident not long after that incident.

Blink...The ghosts are still there one step closer.

Blink...Sarah dies, and Aunt Nina leaves.

Blink...The ghosts simply don't disappear, they just continue to be there, watching and listening.

Blink...You leave Beacon Hills and train to be a huntress.

Blink...The ghosts are still there....forever present in a world full of pain and anger.

You blink and everything changes, the innocence that was masked in the dirt in your nails and the flowers in your hair, shifted to a girl with hair in a tight braid, and tattoos that leave simple imprints on the skin, and sees simple ghosts that forever haunt the halls of everywhere she goes. Some would leave bruises that you would cover with ink to hide the existence of the spirits that haunt your skin.

You are sixteen.

You left Beacon Hills, but you came back, with the same mission as the Argents to find the alpha and kill the alpha. You complete the task with the alpha's beta, Argent hunters, Alpha's nephew, a Witch, and a couple of kids from school. In the end, it was all revealed the reason everything happened is all because of Kate Argent. All because of a woman who slithered her way into Derek Hale's life with her doe eyes and devil smile, and destroyed the families of the Hales and Castellans all for reasons that could never really be explained. Kate killed their families from the inside and out, watching the flames and hearing their haunting screams all to get the approval from her father. But regardless, at the end of everything Peter Hale got his revenge.

Now, a month after the events of the death of the alpha and the rise of another, the peace doesn't last long, and more threats arise. Whether it's Derek Hale and his quick need to assemble a pack of teenagers, Gerard Argent dismissing the Hunter's Code and declaring war amongst the supernatural (won't be the first time), or a snake-like creature that starts stirring trouble with everything and everyone in its path with reasons that soon will be revealed.

Everything that has happened in Beacon Hills makes you wonder if coming back was worth it.

Lizeth Selene, Wren Duarte

"Grieving, grieving, constantly grieving. I mourn what could have been, what will not be, what I can't save."

🫀

Daniel Sherman, Isaac Lahey

"I'm not too gone to be healed, am I? I'm not too gone am I?"

Pedro Pascal, Javier Duarte

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nina Duarte née Moore

Bailey Bass, Sarah Duarte ♰

Whitney Peak, Juliet Argent

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Marisol Duarte ♰

Jake Johnson, Travis Jackson
Megan Tandy, Braeden Lance
Ben Barnes, Johnny Cohen
Garrett Hedlund, Max Cohen
Salem Mitchell, Sage Castellan
Havana Rose Liu, Lydia Martin
Jacob Elordi, Jackson Whittemore
Madelyn Cline, Odessa Barnes
Rudy Pankow, Vincent Barnes
Emma Myers, Irene Barnes
Lola Tung, Serena Bane
Lee Pace, Peter Hale
Jon Bernthal, Samual Moreda
Teen Wolf Cast, Themselves

BOOK ONE OF THE PANDORA'S BOX SERIES...

Afterlife (Book One):
Isaac Lahey x Wren Duarte

Lady Lazarus (Book Two):
Derek Hale x Sage Castellan

Doom of Exiles (Book Two):
Scott McCall x Odessa Barnes

Hunters of Hearts (Book Three):
Liam Dunbar x Juliet Argent

DEDICATIONS ✨

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&& Anyone who shares the same love I have for Teen Wolf and Isaac Lahey (an underrated king).

I. WARNINGS:

This story contains mature themes such as canon typical violence, death, mention of arson, mention of family members' death, mention of a child's death, underage smoking and alcohol use, talks of depression, talks about mental health disorders, somewhat reference and/or writing of torture/experimentation (season 5 events), blood, negative stigma towards mental health & grief, PTSD, negative stigma towards religion and their practices, discussions over trauma (everyone in the show needs therapy 👀), and swearing. If you feel uncomfortable about reading this then I suggest not reading the fic.

COPYRIGHT / ALL RIGHTS RESERVE:

This is a work of fiction and all rights go to Jeff
Davis's series, "Teen Wolf". All characters, settings, and plots belong to Jeff Davis. Sadly, I do not own the series but if I did the movie would have a different plot instead of the mockery that is currently present in the film, and there would have been different changes in the show. However, any unrecognized canon divergence, unrecognized characters, unrecognized settings, and original plots belong to me.

AUTHORS NOTE

👻 HI HI I'm back once again with the same revised plot for my Isaac Lahey fic with hopes I would write more for this fic. However, I still have mixed feelings for the book's summary but I'm too lazy to completely change it so we are keeping it the same.

👻 Not going to lie I got inspired by a Netflix original film called Malevolent with Florence Pugh to create this fic because I was just thinking "What if I write about a huntress that could see dead people," and just rolled it from here. I also got inspired by The Umbrella Academy, and weirdly Wren is just a sober female version of Klaus Hargreeves with less trauma but she still got the trauma because of her mom and cousin being dead, seeing ghosts, and her aunt leaving. She's got trauma just not Klaus's level of trauma. You know???

However, I say this a lot but I've ALWAYS wanted to create an oc that sees dead people but with a twist, and that twist is basically when a spirit comes in contact with Wren, her veins would glow yellow. It sounds cooler in context but I have a vision and a whole lore with this idea and I literally CANNOT wait to explore it with you guys.

👻 Also can we talk about the lack of Isaac Lahey fics that are out there in this app? There are fics about him but they are barely out there.

👻Anyway, Wren and Isaac's relationship is going to be slow-burn and it's going to be painful because of all that tension ✨ between them. *Spoiler* they don't get together until season 4 (yes, he's going to be in season 4 because I say so and we all know he would have been that big brother that Liam needed - it's canon and he would wreck Theo's whole identity in season 5)

👻 I hope you guys enjoy this and leave either a comment or a vote, PLEASE DON'T BE A GHOST READER!!