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The teens had been sitting in the vault for what felt like forever. Stiles sat up against a wall with Malia lying in his lap. Scott sat up against a shelf with Kira pacing beside him. Luisa and Adrian sat next to each other across from Scott while Anna sat on a random crate in a corner.

"You know, this is where it all started. That's where the money was." Stiles points behind Kira. The girl turns now noticing the smaller vault in the corner, "117 million in bearer bonds." Stiles says as Scott looks up

"How do you even change bearer bonds into cash?" Adrian asks

"Bank, I guess. They just let it sit here the whole time collecting dust. You know bearer bonds are basically extinct?"

"Why does it matter?" Kira asks as she sits beside Scott

"You know how many problems that money could solve?"

"For you?" Luisa says

"Me. My dad..." Stiles lists, "The Eichen House and MRI bills are crushing him."

"Mom does this thing, she writes down all the items in our budget, and how much they cost, then she adds them all up and figures out how long we have until... We lose the house."

Luisa's face falls as she looks down at the ground. The room going silent again.

•••

As Scott and Stiles stood at the door to listen for anyone, Luisa stood and made her way over to Anna. The girl had her eyes shut as she laid back against the wall. Her face was covered in sweat and her breathing was slow.

"Hey." Luisa says softly. Anna's eyes open slowly as she glances over at the girl. They shut again making Luisa sigh, "Are you feeling okay?"

"I feel great." Anna mutters

Luisa blinks a few times as she looks down, "Listen, I'm not sure what I did for you to be upset with me, but I would rather you tell me so we can talk about it."

Anna stays quiet as Luisa searches her face. Luisa shakes her head as she tucks her hair behind her ear, "Fine. Whatever I did, I'm sorry."

Luisa turns away as Stiles stands up from beside Malia. He turns to her and steps closer, "I'm gonna go out to check things out. Hopefully find a way to help."

"I'll come with you."

"Luisa-"

"I'm coming." She says a little harsher than she intended

Stiles looks past her at Anna. The girl's eyes had finally opened and were lingering on Luisa. He looks back down at Luisa and nods, "Alright."

Luisa nods before walking off toward the door. Stiles looks to Scott who nods as he follows behind her. The door opens and the two step out. Stiles back toward their friends. His eyes land on Malia and they soften greatly. He looks over to Luisa as the door shuts. He lets out a deep sigh before they turn and head up the stairs.

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Ariane sat in one of the chairs beside the door. Derek was right next to her as Braeden slept on the bed. While Melissa had been gone for a little while, it had been relatively quiet which began to weigh on Ariane. Derek noticed.

"You okay?"

Ariane sighs, "I'm worried about my sister."

"You don't have to be here." Derek says, "I know Luisa is your number one priority. We can call you with updates."

"If I go to the school, I can't see her anyway." Ariane says, "I'm no more help over there than I am here."

"You did help. You knew more than I did."

"That wasn't very much was it?" She says making him chuckle as she looks towards him. She smiles softly as she looks back down at her hands.

The door opens beside them. Melissa looks down to them, "Derek. I think there's someone here you've been trying to find."

The two stand as Satomi, the alpha of the pack Braeden found, enters the room.

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Ariane and Derek stood with Deaton, Satomi, and Melissa as they looked down at one of Satomi's betas that had been infected with and died from the virus.

"It's a variant of canine distemper. A few years ago, an outbreak in Yellowstone killed 40% of the wolf population." Deaton explains

"What's it going to do to our wolf population?" Melissa asks

"Well, it's been altered to infect quite a bit faster."

"You mean it's been weaponized?" Ariane clarifies

"It infected my whole pack." Satomi says

"Everyone except for you." Deaton says, "That's the real question. Did you not get infected? Or are you immune?"

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Luisa and Stiles rush over to Ms. Martin as the woman looks up. Her eyes widen, "Stiles, you're not looking so good, maybe you ought to lie down."

"It's okay, have you seen Mr. Yukimura?"

"Yeah, he's fine, he's helping the other students."

"Okay. Is Coach the only adult who got sick today?" Luisa asks as her eyes land on Coach in one of the tents

"As far as I know."

Stiles looks to Luisa, "Why is he..."

"Stiles?" Ms. Martin says placing her hand on his shoulder, "I think you should lie down."

"Yeah, no, it's okay. I'll be back, I'll be right back." He says leading Luisa out, "Come on."

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"If your pack was infected, then who was doing all the shooting at the entrance to the woods?" Derek asks

"Apparently another assassin. Personally, I'd rather face a gun than a variant of smallpox." Satomi says

"Sounds like you're going to get plenty of chances." Melissa says

Derek looks over noticing Satomi staring at him. The woman looks down, "Sorry. I just noticed how much you remind me of Talia. I used to visit her a lot, you know. Do you remember me?"

"I remember the tea. You always brought that tea that smelled terrible." Derek says

"I brought that tea as a gift. Your mother loved it."

"What kind of tea?" Deaton asks

"What?"

"The tea with the smell, what kind was it?"

"Reishi. Wild purple reishi. It's very rare."

"It's also a very powerful emedy for sickness. Satomi, you didn't get infected because you've been inoculated."

"Okay, okay. How rare is it? Can we find it?" Ariane asks

"We don't have to." Derek says, "My mother kept some of it. It's in our vault."

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The jacket Anna had on was long gone. She could herself becoming worse as time went on.

"Malia..." Scott calls out as he stands. Anna looks over. Malia had a piece of paper in front of her. The Deadpool. "Malia?"

"I can't see." Malia pants, "I can't see anything."

Anna sits up as Scott looks down at his hands. He turns them back and forth. Adrian frowns, "Scott?"

"I can't-" He starts, "I can't see either."

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Luisa and Stiles looked through everything they could in Coach's office. Things had been turned upside down and drawers had been opened over and over again. Luisa huffs as she steps back from a shelf, "Stiles, there's nothing in here."

Stiles slams the desk drawer shut as he sits back in the chair. His thumb goes up to his mouth and as Luisa looked at him she could see the gears turning. He then sits up slowly and picks up a pile of papers. Luisa walks around the desk to stand beside him. As he looked through the papers, the "approved" stamp turned from red to black. He then picked up Coach's mug and the same black ink that stained the glass from the stamp pad was used during testing.

"I was wondering how that idiot got sick." They heat. Stiles jumps up and stands in front of Luisa as the teacher from their testing room stands by the door, "I'm also wondering where your friends are. Since in order to get paid by the benefactor, I need to have proof they're dead."

"Visual confirmation." Luisa says

The teacher points his gun up toward them, "Exactly."

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