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"You finally decided to join us." Aiden says to Rayne as she scoffs
"Shut the fuck up. I want the same thing you want." She says
"You want me as much as I want you?" He asks.

"No! I want the bitch dead." Rayne says and he nods
"Right, your dad was taken and Scott's mom."
"Yes, so it may be the fact that it's near the full moon but I really am wanting her through to be slashed open." She says.

"Is it wrong that I find you very hot at the moment?" He asks and she pushes him
"Yes! It is!" She shouts
"Aiden you need to learn that I don't like you. I never will." She says.

"My priority is my dad and Melissa. I need him back, I don't care if he isn't biological my dad or that I am not related to Melissa. He raised me and I might never see him again and I can't live without my dad. I already lost my father to Gerard. I am not loosing him to Jennifer." Rayne says as tears gather up in her eyes as he hears her heartbeat quicken and her breathing as she starts to gasp for air.

"Rayne, what is it?" He asks
"I can't breathe." She says and starts to panic and he holds her face
"Rayne, breathe." He says and she looks at him as if he were insane.

"Great advice, Einstein." She says as he thinks and then he smashes his lips into hers and she puts her hands on his shoulders as his hands travel from her face to the back of her neck as his thumbs caress her face and they pull away and she looks up at him.

"Why did you do that? Didn't you hear what I said before I had the panic attack?" She asks and he looks at her as his thumb grazes her bottom lip
"I heard when you hold your breath it can stop a panic attack so when I kissed you..."
"I held my breath." She says and he nods and she hugs him.

"Thank you."

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Ethan, Aiden and Rayne all run together trying to find Morrell and they stop
"You never taught me those back flips or anything like that." Rayne whispers and they roll their eyes
"This way." Ethan says and run.

"It's a firefly." Scott says
"Unusual for this region." Deucalion says.
"It's because of Jennifer, isn't it?" Scott says.

"Just before all this started, a deer crashed into Lydia's car, the cats went crazy at the animal clinic, birds flew into the high school... That was all her?" Scott asks
"They say animals can sense natural disasters when they're about to happen. Maybe they can sense supernatural ones as well." Deucalion says.

"Does she scare you?" Scott asks
"She concerns me, if she's willing to kill that many innocent people for her cause-- people like your mother and Rayne and Stiles' father." He says
"Are you willing to kill innocent people?" Scott asks.

"I'll kill any living thing that gets in my way." Decaulion says
"Why do you still call him Rayne's father is she remembers you?" Scott asks
"Because I still respect him for taking my daughter in and supporting her. She is his daughter as much as mine." He says.

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Morrell runs as they nearly catch up to her and stops and takes mountain ash and throws it and it forms a circle and Rayne stops once she sees it but Ethan and Aiden don't and they get thrown back onto the ground as Kali jumps from where she was hiding and they all circle around her.

"How did you know, Marin, that we'd come for you?" Deucalion asks
"Because Jennifer and I are the same... And I know you've always been suspicious of us, of what we can do." She says
"With good reason! We know you sent that girl-- the one who helped Isaac." Kali says.

"What was her name?" Deucalion says
"Braeden. And I sent her to do what I've always done-- maintain the balance." Morrell says
"What do you know about Jennifer?" Kali asks.

"Nothing more than you know. This isn't you, Scott, Rayne. Go back to your friends." She says to them
"They can decide what's right for themselves." Deucalion says
"Not without all the information! Have you told them everything you've done? How you've piled up bodies in a narcissistic and psychotic effort to form your perfect pack?" She says.

"Bodies that include Ennis, by the way. My brother saved him-- he was alive when Deucalion went in to see him with Rayne. He wants you to go after Derek, Kali, to force his decision. If Derek joins the pack, it paves the way for Scott. You already have your daughter."

"The lies people will tell when they're begging for their life..." Deucalion says
"Ask him." She says and then he throws his walking stick into her shoulder and Scott rushes to her as she falls out the circle
"Hey, back off!" He says as they growl and he pulls out the stick.

"Scott, that can cause her to bleed to death." Rayne says
"I'm not going to let them kill you. But, if you know something, if you know where they are..."
"The Nemeton... You find that, you'll find Jennifer... Find the Nemeton..." She says.

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"How'd you guys find out?" Scott asks as him and Rayne walk to Deaton and Stiles
"Lydia. You?" Stiles asks
"Morrell. None of the other Alphas know where it is, either." Rayne says.

"So, if this works, are you gonna tell them?" Stiles asks
"I can't stop Jennifer without them." He says
"How about we concentrate on finding your parents first?" Deaton suggests.

"What's the plan?" He says
"Essentially, you, Allison, and Stiles need to be surrogate sacrifices for your parents."
"We die for them?" Scott asks
"But he can bring us back! You can bring us back, right?" Stiles asks.

"You remember the part where I said it was dangerous? If it goes right, the three of you will be dead for a few seconds... But, there's something else you need to think about. This is a dangerous ritual for more reasons than one. You'll be giving power back to the Nemeton, a place that hasn't had power for a long time. This kind of power is like a magnet-- it attracts the supernatural, the kind of things that a family like the Argents can fill a bestiary with. It will draw them here, like a beacon."

"Doesn't sound worse than anything we've already seen..." Stiles says
"You'd be surprised at what you have yet to see." Deaton says
"Is that it?" Rayne says.

"No. It'll also have an effect on the three of you. You won't be able to see it, but you'll feel it... every day, for the rest of your lives. It'll be a kind of... darkness around your heart, and permanent, like a scar." Deaton says.

"Like a tattoo."

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"All right. What did you bring?" Deaton asks as they fill baths with ice
"Um, I got my dad's badge. Jennifer kind of crushed it in her hand, so I tried hammering it out a little bit. Still doesn't look right." Stiles says
"Well, it doesn't have to look good if it has meaning." He says.

"Is that an actual silver bullet?" Isaac asks Allison
"My dad made it. It's kind of a ceremonial thing. When one of us finishes learning all the skills to be a Hunter, we forge a silver bullet as a testament to the Code." She says
"Scott?"

"My dad got my mom this watch when she first got hired at the hospital. She used to say it was the only thing in their marriage that ever worked." Scott says
"Okay. The three of you will get in. Each of us will hold you under until you're essentially... well, dead. But, it's not just someone to hold you under-- it needs to be someone who can pull you back, someone with a strong connection to you. A kind of emotional tether." Deaton says.

"Lydia... You go with Stiles." He says
"Are you sure? I mean, Scott and I both have to go under." Allison says
"It's okay." Scott says and the three of them step in the baths of ice, Lydia goes with Stiles, Isaac goes with Scott and Rayne goes with Allison.

"By the way, if I don't make it back and you do, you should probably know something... Your dad's in town." Stiles says and Rayne holds Allison's shoulders
"Ready?" She asks Allison and she nods and Rayne looks at the other and they nod and they each push them down into the water.