Party Hallucination
My time before the party was spent looking through the year book of 2006. I was almost done the students and into the teams when my dad came in. "Hey. Watcha doin'?" He asked, standing half in the door.
"Homework." I said, not looking up. My dad left before coming back.
"It's spring break." He pointed out. Anubis raised his head of my bed to give me a smug look. I couldn't see it but I felt it. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Satisfying my own curiosity." My dad closed the yearbook.
"They brought Harris in this morning for questioning."
"And?"
"And their working on a warrant to arrest him for the murders."
"For all of them?" I was shocked.
"For enough of them."
"With what proof?"
"You remember the couple with the trailer? Tire tracks near by match Harris's car ."
"That's not enough." I said, opening the yearbook again.
'Same car was seen outside the hospital where the wife was killed. It's got some kind of quote from Einstein."
"Wait. What quote?"
"Something about Imagination and Knowledge."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Yeah. I saw the same car parked outside the rave." I admitted.
"That means you're a witness. You'll have to give a statement." Dad said.
"But what about Car? She wasn't in Harris's class. And what does Mister Lahey have to do with Mr. Harris?"
"It doesn't matter. Tire tracks put Harris at the site of three murders. That's damning evidence."
I grabbed the yearbook yet again. "No. It's not enough." I said with certainty.
"I thought you hated this guy."
"I don't hate him. He hates me." I corrected. Dad looked at Anubis, who nodded to confirm my statement. I grinned at my wolf before going back to the yearbook. "And yeah, if he killed them all, lock the psycho up, but there's something missing. There's got to be something missing. I have to do something."
"Look at the swim team."
I glanced down and took all the faces in. "Dad, the coach." I said, pointing out the man who had run the team. "It's Issac's dad."
I arrived at Lydia's party with a present wrapped in yellow and pink paper. "Happy Birthday. I said, slipping the present under my arm as I gave her a hug.
When Scott arrived I let him in. "Have you seen Jackson anywhere?"
"No, have you seen Allison?"
"No. But we should probably tell her what we found." I suggested.
"Still not sure what we found."
"We figured out that it has something to do with water. You know, the fact that all the victims were on the swim team. The was the kanima reacted around the pool."
"So whoevers controlling the kanima hates the swim team." Scott summarized.
"A swim team. The 2006 swim team. So it could be another teacher of a student back then. Who are we missing? What haven't we thought of?" Allison walked up and shared an awkward glance with Scott.
"Uh, Jackson's not here. " She informed.
"Yeah. No one's here." I said, looking around.
"Maybe it's just early." Scott hoped.
"Or maybe nobody's coming because Lydia turned into the town wack job." I said.
"Well we have to do something because we've completely ignored her for the past two weeks." Allison said, looking over at Lydia.
"She's been ignoring Stiles' tries at friendship for the past ten years." Scott pointed out.
"I prefer to think of it as I wasn't on her radar." I said.
"Where's Anubis?" Allison asked.
"He... doesn't like parties. Too many people. So I left him at home." I answered.
"We don't owe her a party." Scott brought us back to the point.
"What about a chance to get back to normal?"
"Normal?"
"She wouldn't be the town wack job if it wasn't for us." Allison argued. I huffed .
"I know a couple of people who could turn this party up." I said, caving.
"I guess I could use my co-captain status to get the lacrosse team here." Scott sighed.
That's when Anubis decided to mention that he was at Derek's hell hole of a hang out.
"What if we break out?" Boyd asked as Derek shackled him to the subway car.
"You'll try to get out of here. Probably kill me, then each other, then anything with a heart beat." Derek said. "I need you to hold her. He put a metal circle with screws in it on her head and began screwing the bolts into her head. Anubis looked away to save me from seeing what came next.
I disconnected from the shared vision to see that there were more people coming and the place was filing up. Lydia gave me a glass of punch and I started a conversatin with Scott.
"Have you apologized to Allison yet?"
"Why do I need to apologize? I didn't do anything wrong."
"See that's when you usually need to apologize. When the guy doesn't think he's done something wrong, that means he's definitely done something wrong. Take it from a girl." I said. Scott looked at Allison and I took a sip of my drink.
"I'm not apologizing." Scott said firmly.
"Is that the full moon talking buddy?" I asked.
"Probably." He admitted. "Why do you care anyway?"
"Because , Scott. Something's gotta go right here. I mean, we're getting our asses royally kicked if you hadn't noticed." I stood up, no longer leaning on the pillar. "People are dying, my dad got fired, you're gonna be held back in school, I'm starting to care for a nut job and if on top of that, I have to watch you lose Allison to a stalker like Matt. I'm going to stab myself in the face."
"Don't stab yourself in the face." Scott said, in all seriousness as he stood up suddenly.
"Why not?"
"Because Jackson's here." I whipped around to see Jackson standing there in the crowd. Lydia gave him a glass of punch and took a drink of mine.
I sat as Anubis connected with me again.
Erica and Boyd were both chained now and Derek was finishing with Issac. "Who are you not feeling this?" He demanded.
"I'm feeling every second of it," Derek explained.
"Then how do you control it?"
Find an anchor. Something meaningful to you. Lock on to it and keep your human side in control." Derek tightened Issac's chains.
"What is it for you?"
"Anger." Derek said shortly.
"What about Stiles?" Anubis felt confusion at the question.
"Her too, sometimes nowadays. She's pack without trying. Spirit masters are guides to werewolf packs and she's been helping quite a lot." Derek admitted.
"There's more." Issac said before he started snarling like the others.
I snapped back to the party. Lots of people were making out and I was in the garden. Scott walked up and pulled me with him. "You feeling okay?" I asked.
"It's not the moon. It's different." Scott walked off.
I looked to my right to see my dad in the tux he wore to the funeral. "Why am I wearing black? I just came from a funeral. People wear black at funerals." He was yelling at some random party goer. He pushed the kid and took a drink. He saw me and pointed. "It's you. It's all you. You know every day I saw her in that hospital bed slowly dying. I thought how the hell am I supposed to raise this kid on my own? This hyperactive little bitch who keeps ruining my life." It had gotten really quiet and everyone was watching us. I glanced to each side and looked back at my dad. "It's all you. It's you Sssstiles. You killed your mother. You hear me? You killed her." He took a breath, still pointing at me around his bottle. "And now you're killing me." He then threw the bottle at me. I dodged out of the way only to look at a bench where a couple was making out. Looking back, my dad was gone. I looked forward only to see that the couple was Derek with a young woman in her late twenties with brown hair and a thin frame. Her hair was curly and fell to her mid back. Derek paused to look at me before smirking and going back to kissing the woman. I collapsed against a pillar, stabbing myself with one of the lights. I closed my eyes in pain, only to see that Derek was gone as well. I went to sit by the pool and stared at the wall.
Anubis tried to mind link me but I pushed him away. My phone buzzed and I pulled it out to see it was Derek. I just let it go to voicemail.
Anubis' Pov
Derek called Scott after leaving a message for Stiles as I growled at the three betas. Erica broke loose and went after Derek as I held down Issac, making sure not to be injured. Issacc escaped and I chased him out of the subway car , tackling him . I bit his leg and pulled him back. He looked at me with brown eyes and we help Derek get Erica and Boyd back in their chains.
Stiles' Pov
"Stiles. Look at me." Someone was shaking me and trying to get my attention.
Next thing I know, I'm being shoved under water. I came up sputtering and I glared at the girl who had dunked me. "I am seriously considering punching you right now." I growled, gritting my teeth.
"She's sober." The girl said, leaving. Scott explained what he had found out. I sobered the rest of the way up. Anubis told me that Issac had found his anchor. Then sent me a really loud message that had me wincing. "LYDIA TOOK DEREK!"
"Dude, she has Derek for some reason. And anyone who drank that crap, they're freaking out." I said hurriedly.
"She has Derek?"
"She said something at the sleep over about having hallucinations. This might have to do with that but Anubis is on it. He went to get Deaton, who will save him." I explained..
"Help. I can't swim! I..." Someone yelled from the pool. I ran over and dived in to pull Matt out. Jackson grabbed him and hauled him up, leaving me to climb out on my own.
"Matt's the kanima's master." I muttered, soaking wet. As the cops showed up, everyone split.
I went home and I connected with Anubis to watch Peter get resurrected from the dead. "Lydia, what did you do?"
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