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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍

𝘥𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘢 𝘥𝘰

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Meilani stood hidden in the shadows of Derek's loft with Stiles and Scott while they waited for Miss Blake to show up. Once Meilani and Scott had gotten Stiles to stop shaking enough to move from the spot in front of the broken window, Meilani had dragged the boys over to Derek and told him everything that had happened that night. She felt bad because she knew that Derek actually started to like Miss Blake, but Meilani would rather Derek be safe and not dead. He was the only one she knew that could help them, especially with how close he had gotten to Miss Blake.

"I just want to find my dad, Lani," Stiles mumbled, burying his face in her hair and hugging her closer to him. He had pulled her into his arms the second Derek told them to hide while he got in contact with Miss Blake who was already on the way there when he texted her. She didn't complain though and allowed her boyfriend to cling onto her while she laid her head on his chest and Scott rubbed comforting circles into his best friend's back.

"We will, babe. Even if I have to die trying," Meilani promised quietly, cuddling herself closer to Stiles. She knew nothing would really comfort Stiles because she didn't relax when Stiles was kidnapped by Gerard. Not until she got that text from Noah that Stiles had come home and she could come see him. Just like Stiles came home, Meilani was going to do everything she could to get Noah back home.

"Derek!"

Meilani and Stiles quickly broke apart and inched closer against the brick wall next to Scott while Miss Blake ran over to Derek. She rambled to Derek about how he needed to listen to what she had to tell him before he heard a different version of it. She had begged and pleaded with him to just hear her out before they come. Of course when asked who they were, Miss Blake replied with Meilani, Stiles and Scott. One look at Derek's face just showed to Miss Blake she had already been outted.

"They're here already, aren't they?"

Meilani stepped out of the shadows with the boys on either side of her and she faked a smile to her english teacher. It was a good thing Meilani had a really good grasp on her emotions and shifts because she had a half a mind to Miss Blake's throat out. However, then they would never know where Noah was taken so that wouldn't help anyone.

Miss Blake sent a dark look to the trio who were already a step ahead of her. Clearly the woman had never been outsmarted by a bunch of teenagers before. "So... they told you it was me? That I'm the one taking people?"

"Actually, we told him you were the killing people," Meilani corrected, the lightning outside creating a horror film style shadow over Meilani's face. The type that should probably scare just about anyone if they cared for their lives. Even the horrific storm outside that raged over the town of Beacon Hills was one out of a horror film.

"Oh, that's right," Miss Blake chuckled dryly and Meilani already knew she was going to try and lie her way out of this one. Even though she was already caught. "Committing human sacrifices? What, cutting their throats? Yeah, I probably do it on my lunch hour that way I can get back to teaching high school english the rest of the day. That makes perfect sense."

"Where's my dad?" Stiles asked and Meilani's heart shattered when she noticed the tears that fell out of Stiles' right eye, his heart rate racing loudly in Meilani and Derek's ears. 

"How should I know?" Miss Blake cried, feigning an innocent and pleading look when she turned to Derek. "Derek, tell me you don't believe this."

Derek glanced over Miss Blake's shoulder to the three teenagers that either looked like they wanted to kill Miss Blake or fear and anxiety over their missing father. The calculating gaze on Derek's face scared Meilani for a moment because she worried that maybe he didn't believe them like he had made it seem before. She needed Derek to believe her because he was her only hope of getting Noah back. "Do you know what happened to Stiles' father?"

"No."

"Ask her why she almost killed Lydia Martin," Scott suggested, crossing his arms as he narrowed his eyes at Miss Blake. He had untied Lydia for Meilani while she tried to coax Stiles away from the window his dad had gone through so they could go find Derek.

Miss Blake whirled around and she had the audacity to give them the same innocent look she had given to Derek. As if that would work on Meilani who had just fought her just an hour before in the classroom. The ripping out Miss Blake's throat idea was sounding more and more like a good idea as time went on. "Lydia Martin? I don't know anything about that."

"Then what do you know?" Derek snapped.

"I know that those three, for whatever misguided reason, are filling your head with an absurd story. One they can't prove, by the way."

Meilani smirked at Miss Blake and retrieved the small bottle of mistletoe that she had in her back pocket. She had stolen it from the animal clinic before they showed up at Derek's and wiggled it back and forth in her hand. "What if we can? See, my boss told me that it's both a poison and a cure. Meaning that you can use it... and it can be used against you."

Without a warning, Meilani unscrewed the cap and threw the mistletoe in Miss Blake's face, creating a brown cloud around the dark haired woman. The cloud circled her like a tornado and her face flickered between the face of Miss Blake and a grotesque looking one with three slash marks across the white head. The sight kind of reminded Meilani of Voldemort from Harry Potter. Miss Blake roared at Meilani before the cloud dissipated and the english teacher mask reappeared.

Derek grabbed Miss Blake before she could make a run for it, holding her by the throat while his claws extended. 

"Derek, wait, wait! You need me," Miss Blake choked out, gripping onto the hand that wrapped around her throat.

"What are you?" Derek growled, bringing Miss Blake's face closer to his threateningly. 

"The only person who can save your sister. Call Peter," Miss Blake gasped, coughing for air when Derek's grip tightened just the little bit. "Call him!"

Derek stared hard at Miss Blake for a long moment before he took his phone out from his back pocket and dialed his uncle's number, not removing the grip on Miss Blake's throat. It wasn't enough to kill her, but it was enough to make her gasp for air with her airways restricted just enough to keep her conscious still. 

When Peter picked up and Derek asked him how his sister was doing, Peter explained to Derek how she wasn't good at all. She had been in and out of consciousness and she kept vomiting up black blood and another alarming substance that Meilani and Derek both knew to be mistletoe right after Peter said it. 

"Derek!" Meilani yelled, stumbling forward when Derek hung up with Peter and began to choke Miss Blake. "Derek, what are you doing?"

"Her life - it's in my hands!" Miss Blake choked out, gasping weakly when Derek raised her off her feet by the throat.

"Stop. Derek, stop!" Stiles chimed in, rushing up next to Meilani who was now stood a few feet from Miss Blake and Derek.

"Stilinski, you'll never find him."

Meilani shook her head and yelled at Derek to stop until he eventually let Miss Blake go with a deep growl. She let out a breath of relief when Miss Blake hit the ground. As much as Meilani didn't want Miss Blake alive, they still needed the woman to tell them how to save Cora and where Noah was.

"That's right. You need me," Miss Blake boasted, suddenly having her breath back. "All of you."

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"I don't know, guys, something feels wrong about this," Stiles said, speeding after Derek's car as they followed him and Miss Blake to the hospital where Cora was kept with Peter. He drove with one hand on the wheel while the other clutched onto Meilani's. Her touch being the only thing that kept him from officially losing it and breaking down. "You know, we proved it to Derek, but she still had this look like it didn't matter.  You know, like it was all still going according to plan. You saw it, didn't you?"

Meilani squeezed Stiles' hand and pressed a kiss to his knuckle, letting out a heavy exhale. She had seen the look, too, when she lifted her head to tell the group they needed her alive. It was the kind of look that said she wasn't even afraid because she was almost to her checkmate. It was only a matter of time before their king would be checkmated. Meilani just needed to make sure they didn't let that happen.

They eventually arrived at the hospital, the rain pattering down heavily on the car and town. Patients were either rolled out on gurneys or helped to walk with arms wrapped around two nurses or doctors. Some of the lights in the hospital were already knocked out and it was only a matter of time before the whole hospital went into darkness from the raging storm that didn't seem to have an end in sight.

"What is that?" Meilani huffed at Stiles and Scott when they hopped out of the Jeep with bats in their hands.

"You have claws and we got bats," Stiles retorted, gesturing wildly between him and Scott.

Meilani shook out her drenched hair when she entered the hospital behind Derek and followed him past the reception desk where her mom was stood with a few of the nurses, trying to usher patients and visitors out of the emergency doors. She just hoped that Melissa didn't noticed her and the boys because she really didn't want to explain it all to Melissa right now.

"Scott, Meilani!" Melissa called and the twins froze mid-step, slowly turning to face a worried looking Melissa. "What are you doing here? The hospital's evacuating."

"We're here for Cora," Scott replied before Meilani could open her mouth, fiddling with the bat in his hands. "Mom, just trust Meilani on this, okay? You need to get out of here. Right now."

Melissa's frantic eyes bounced between the group huddled in front of her, especially Derek who gripped onto Miss Blake so she wouldn't escape. Meilani could hear her mother's heart racing in her chest, but she couldn't tell if it was from the stress of evacuating the hospital or the worry that her kids were in danger. "The building is supposed to be clear in thirty minutes. We've got two ambulances that are coming back. One is ten minutes out and the other is twenty. Cora needs to be on one of those. They will be picking up in the basement garage."

"Got it," Meilani whispered and stepped forward to kiss her mom's forehead. "I love you and I'll explain later, okay? Promise."

Before Melissa could respond, the group rushed their way towards through the corridors of the hospital, the lights flickering up above them as they tried to stay powered. Luckily for them, the elevator still worked and they took a very awkward and tense elevator ride up to Cora's floor. However, when they made it to where Cora had been kept the room was empty and a pool of black blood was on the white tiled flooring next to the gurney that Cora had been laid on. A trail of it lead out of the room and over to the double doors at the end of corridor where a male's grunts could be heard before Peter came sliding through the double doors on his back and stopped at Derek's feet.

"Derek, we got a problem. Big problem."

The group's attention snapped over to the double doors where Aiden and Ethan stood in their merged wolf form - which Stiles jokingly called Super Alpha - and he roared at the group before him. Derek was quick to kick into action and shifted, rushing at the Super Alpha who knocked Derek onto his back in two hits. Meilani growled and darted at the Super Alpha, kicking off the wall and kicking out her foot to hit the Super Alpha around the head. She was grabbed and held up by her throat tightly against the painting behind her.

Meilani weakly choked and gasped for air, the Super Alpha's grip tight around her airways and making it hard to breathe. "Ethan, Aiden, stop! You don't know what you're doing."

"All we want is her!" Super Alpha barked, not letting up on its hold on Meilani's throat.

The sound of the elevator doors closing alerted both Meilani and the Super Alpha to the elevator that Miss Blake had escaped through. Meilani was suddenly let go and she collapsed to the ground, wheezing weakly as she tried to catch her breath again. Derek was back on his feet already and ducked down next to Meilani to help her get back to her feet while Peter threw Cora over his shoulder.

With a roar, the Super Alpha charged after the group and they barreled down the corridors to try and escape the wrath. Ethan and Aiden clearly needed to take their anger out on something and that something would more than likely be one of their throats. Meilani was starting to think it was a werewolf to go for the throats of people. It's the only body part that seemed to be attacked at this point.

"Stiles!" Derek yelled, stopping Meilani and Scott in their tracks. They had just ran through the morgue room where the doctors would do their procedures on the bodies to find out why they died. The drawers the bodies would be placed in until needed to be checked or for funerals and wakes lined the left wall of the room. When Meilani and Scott stopped in the double doors that led to the other side of the hospital, they noticed Stiles stood near the entrance of the morgue with the bat raised.

The Super Alpha stopped just inside the room and let out another loud roar just as Stiles jumped out from his hiding spot, breaking the bat over the Super Alpha's head. His heart rate spiked when he held the now shattered bat in his hands, the end all broken up and chipped as if it had gone through a wood chipper. The Super Alpha turned to Stiles and roared in his face, causing the spastic boy to threw the bat handle away and scramble his way back towards Meilani, Derek and Scott.

Meilani had glanced up and noticed the Super Alpha stood just beneath one of the lights from above and she leapt up, breaking one end free from the ceiling and let it swing down, hitting the Super Alpha square in the face. It stunned the Super Alpha long enough for Derek, Scott and Stiles to get out of the room and down to a darkened and hidden room that Peter laid Cora down in on the metal examination table. Meilani recognized it as the back up morgue room.

"Where's the big guy?" Stiles asked, glancing behind him to see Derek close the double doors and check out the little glass windows in the doors. "And Miss Blake? You guys let her get away?"

"Stiles, I - "

"Be quiet!" Derek growled, finally pushing away from the doors and rushing over to his sister who Peter fretted over. 

Stiles poked his tongue into his cheek and puffed up his cheek, getting into Derek's face. "Me be quiet? Me, huh? Are you telling me what to do now? When your psychotic, mass murdering girlfriend - the second one you've dated, by the way - has got my dad somewhere tied up, waiting to be ritually sacrificed?"

"Stiles, they're still out there," Meilani assured Stiles softly, placing a hand gently on his shoulder in the hopes it would get him to relax just the tiniest bit. 

"And - and they want her, right? Which means now we don't haver her either, so my dad and Cora are both dead!" Stiles snapped, shrugging off Meilani's touch which sent a pang of hurt through her heart. He never pushed her away, no matter how angry he was. She just wanted to be there for him and try to help and he pushed her away.

Scott shook his head and walked over to where Cora laid on the table, trailing his eyes over her sweaty and pale form. "Not yet, there has to be something we can do for Noah and Cora. We have to help them."

The doors on the other side of the room suddenly burst open and Miss Blake stormed into the room, the lights in the room flickering slowly which only cast eery shadows over her face. "You can't. Only I can. I can save her and I can tell you where Sheriff Stilinski is, but there is a pack of alphas in this hospital who want me dead. So I'll help you... but only when I am out of here and safe. Only then."

Derek threw equipment off the table next to him in anger and went to rush at her, but Meilani placed a hand on the male werewolf's chest to stop him before he could get close to her. "She was trying to get out."

"I was trying to keep from getting killed," Miss Blake argued, keeping her stance where she stood. No ounce of fear on her. Though, Meilani did smell a bit of nerves come off the english teacher as she mentioned nearly being killed. "You can't blame me for that."

"If you want to show you're one of the good guys, then heal her," Stiles ordered, gesturing to Cora who laid still on the examination table now that she was back to being unconscious.

"Not until I'm safe."

"I'd like to volunteer another method of persuasion. Let's torture her," Peter suggested.

"Works for me," Derek agreed, trying to fight Meilani's hold on him off, but she wasn't so easily fought off. 

There was a squeak from the speakers above the group's heads that rested in each corner of the ceiling. It was hooked up to the PA system in the nurse's station in case one of the nurses needed to get in contact with the whole building. "Um, can I have your attention? Mr. Deucalion - excuse me just Deucalion - requests you bring the woman calling herself Jennifer Blake to the E.R. reception. Do this and everyone else can leave. You have ten minutes."

Meilani's hand went slack on Derek's shirt as her mother's words kept ringing her head. Deucalion had her mom and Meilani could practically feel her heart slam against her rib cage out of fear. She knew how sadistic Deucalion could be and she knew he wouldn't think twice about harming Melissa. 

"He's not gonna hurt her," Jennifer said, turning to look at Meilani who looked like she was about thirty seconds from a break down. "He won't. You know why, Meilani. Tell them it's true."

Meilani gulped as her hand finally fell of Derek's shirt and down to her side. She hadn't told Derek about Deucalion wanting her in his pack or the fact he wanted her in his pack. Hell, Meilani was pretty sure it slipped her mind to tell the boys, too. 

Jennifer huffed when Meilani didn't make a move to speak, placing her hands on her hips. "You aren't the only one Deucalion wants in his pack, Derek. He doesn't just want an alpha pack. He wants perfection. That means adding the rarest of alphas to his ranks."

Peter's face flashed with recognition as he stared at Meilani who just grew paler by the second, almost resembling the paleness of Cora's face. "A True Alpha. Our little Meilani."

"It doesn't matter," Meilani said, tugging a hand through her curls. "We still need to get her out of here."

"Meilani, our mother - "

"Said there's one more ambulance coming in twenty minutes. I don't think we've been here that long. So if we can get down to the garage, get to the last ambulance, we can get out of here."

"The twins aren't just going to let us walk out," Peter reminded.

Meilani shrugged and quickly pulled her hair up into a ponytail, securing it with the elastic she always kept around her wrist. She was going to have to fight her way out of this one and she didn't need her hair getting in her face, blocking her sight. "I'll distract them."

"You mean fight them," Derek corrected.

"Whatever I have to do."

"I'll help you, Mei."

"Um, sorry, but I'm not going anywhere without you, Derek," Jennifer spoke up, shooting a glance towards Derek that she didn't trust any of the others besides him. It was stupid for her to do that since they all needed her alive and wouldn't be letting her get killed in the first place. At least, not until they had Cora healed and Noah back home safely where he belonged.

Peter placed a hand on Meilani's shoulder and squeezed it gently. "I'll go with Meilani, but I'd prefer to be out there with an advantage."

Stiles shifted on his feet, his concern for Meilani visibly showing in both his body language and his face. "An advantage? You mean like a weapon?"

"Something better than a baseball bat," Peter quipped, tapping the bat that Scott still clutched in his hand with the tip of his shoe.

The group began to search through every thing in the room for anything that Meilani and Peter could use as a weapon against Ethan, Aiden, Deucalion and Kali. They just needed to distract them long enough to get Jennifer and the boys out of the hospital in time for the ambulance to show up. If Jennifer was right, then Meilani knew that Melissa would be fine for the time being in Deucalion's hands. 

"Hey, what about these?" Stiles asked, holding up two electric pads the nurses used to restart a heart beat if it stopped beating. If used enough on a working heart beat, it'd kill the person. Or in this case for the wolves, it'd stop them long enough until their bodies healed them. It would give them enough time to get away while it kept the enemy down.

"Do you know how to use those?" Derek asked, raising an eyebrow at Stiles' choice of weapon.

"Well, no."

"Then put them down."

Meilani pulled out a syringe with an uncomfortably long needle, turning it over to read what kind of liquid was inside of the glass vile. "Epinephrin?"

"That's only gonna make him stronger."

Meilani and Peter shared a knowing look, both of them getting the same idea and they grinned each other. They may have just found their advantage in a syringe that was filled with their liquid luck. She stalked over to Peter and placed the tip of the needle just above his heart, waiting for him to prepare himself for the injection. Once he gave her the nod of approval, Meilani pushed the needle into Peter's chest and released the epinephrin into his system.

Peter grunted, squeezing his eyes shut for a second before the ripped the syringe out of his chest and stepped out of the double doors with Meilani hot on his tail. When the wolf duo turned to the left, they found Ethan and Aiden stood next to each other at the end of the corridor that flickered every few seconds with light, shirtless and fists clenched at their sides.

"Alright, boys. Let's rumble."

Peter and Meilani advanced on Ethan and Aiden who formed the Super Alpha as they walked next to each other. Peter was the one to strike first and the Super Alpha flung him into the wall to the right. When the Super Alpha swung its claw at Meilani's head, she ducked down and avoided the claws that had come gearing for her face. Peter was once again flung like a rag doll when he jumped up again to attack the Super Alpha.

Meilani stood back to her full height and went to slash at the Super Alpha's chest when it grabbed Meilani by the front of her shirt, flinging her into the painting on the wall on the left. She dropped onto the gurney beneath the painting with a low grunt. They fought back and forth until Meilani was sure that she couldn't hear Derek, Jennifer or the boys any longer in the area. Which, luckily for Peter and Meilani, they did in record time because Peter's "super power" was gone as quick as it had come. 

The two had escaped the Super Alpha as quickly as they could after Meilani trapped it behind something and Meilani half carried and dragged Peter over to the soiled laundry closet that was down an empty hallway. The lights inside of the closet flickered every few seconds, much like the rest of the hospital, but Meilani was able to look through the window and use her wolf abilities to double check they were alone.

They were. For now.

"Those twins are really starting to piss me off," Peter complained, leaning against the table in the middle of the closet.

"How the hell are we supposed to get past them, Peter?" Meilani whispered to the blue eyed wolf behind her, tearing her eyes from the hallway to look at him for answers.

"Personally, I think if we keep letting them beat the living crap out of us, they'll tire and give up."

Meilani puffed out her cheek and tried to ignore the blood that dripped down the side of her face from the gash in her forehead. She honestly hadn't even realized the painting she crashed into had wound up cutting her face until she and Peter had escaped from the Super Alpha. Her eyes scanned the room for something they could use to either escape or use on the Super Alpha, until they landed on the laundry chute. 

Peter furrowed his eyebrows and followed Meilani's gaze over to the chute. He looked like he wanted to argue until they both heard the growl of the Super Alpha from somewhere nearby. Without a second thought, Peter rushed over to the chute and slid down it and Meilani followed suit once she heard him crash onto the clothes below. She squeaked when she dropped down Peter's solid form and laughed amusedly when Peter pushed her away.

"You couldn't have waited, like, ten seconds, Meilani?"

"Oh, don't be such a baby," Meilani mused, pulling her phone from her back pocket when it buzzed.

FROM: SOUR WOLF

SOS! Trapped inside elevator with Jennifer

To: SOUR WOLF

Do NOT move. We're on our way

"Guess they didn't get out," Peter grumbled and hopped out of the laundry cart, helping Meilani out once he was on his own two feet. He still had a problem of standing properly so Meilani had to wrap Peter's arm around her shoulder and get him to the ambulance Stiles, Scott and Derek took Cora to. Peter was in no position to help Meilani rescue Derek and Jennifer so he'd have to sit this rescue mission out. 

Meilani nearly dropped Peter by the time they got to the back of the ambulance and she banged on the door for Scott or Stiles to open up the doors to let Peter in. She panted as she lifted Peter up towards the boys for them to pull him in with them. 

"Where's Derek and Jennifer?" Scott asked while Stiles helped Peter sit down next to him on the bench to the right of Cora's gurney.

"I have to go back for them and Mom."

Stiles took a rag nearby and dabbed gently at the blood that still dripped out of the gash on Meilani's forehead and down her cheek. She hissed quietly when Stiles accidentally pressed a little too hard on the gash wound. "Okay, two problems there, babe. Kali's got the keys to the this thing and Scott and I saw the twins, like, thirty seconds ago."

A bang from somewhere inside the hospital alerted Meilani and she made sure all the boys were safe inside the ambulance before she kissed Stiles and Scott's cheeks and rushed off back inside the hospital. Inside, the lights were officially cut off and and Meilani use her wolf eyes to see in the pitch blackness of the hallway she walked down. Another bang behind her caused Meilani to freeze just in front of a doorway and check behind her for anyone.

A growl to her right snapped her back to focus and she ducked just before the Super Alpha's fist came in contact with the side of her face. She had less than a second to get back to her feet before the Super Alpha grabbed her by the throat again and hit her against the lockers to her right and then into the wall on the left.

"Where is she?" the Super Alpha snarled while Meilani tried to keep oxygen flowing in her system. Something that was kind of hard to do when the Super Alpha was practically crushing her wind pipe. "We're trying not to hurt you, Meilani."

"Try harder," Meilani gasped, gripping onto the hand that held her by the throat.

"Hey!" a voice called and Meilani was suddenly released, dropping to the ground while she choked for air. "I'd like to try something."

Meilani had looked up in time to see Melissa rub together the two electric pads and press it to the Super Alpha's chest, electricity flowing through the Super Alpha and sending it onto its back next to Meilani. She stared up at her mother in awe and wanted to cry at the sight of her perfectly fine, looking just like she had when Meilani first arrived. Just now drenched from the weather outside.

"Baby girl, get up! Come on," Melissa stuck her hand out for Meilani to take, who grabbed it and used it to help pull herself back to her feet. She wrapped her arms tightly around her mom and let out a small cry of relief at the raven haired woman being okay. 

At least something went right tonight.

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"He just let me go, said it was a gesture of goodwill," Melissa explained to Meilani as the two McCall women ran around the hospital to get to where Derek and Jennifer were. She had been the one to cut the power officially in the hospital and stop the elevator from running, which left Derek and Jennifer trapped for the time being. "No other reason."

"Mom, he had to have a reason. I don't think he does anything without a reason," Meilani denied, mind working at warped speed with both trying to figure out Deucalion's motive and on which floor Derek and Jennifer were trapped between.

"Well, if that means I should continue to be profoundly terrified, then don't worry about it. I got that covered."

Meilani opened her mouth to make funny comment about knowing that fully well because of Melissa's still erratic heart beat when the sound of a gun clicking sounded from around the hall. She held out her hand for Melissa to stop walking and she slowly walked over to the end of the hall, jumping back when a gun was in her face. Though, the fear quickly died when she saw the man behind the gun was Chris and Allison and Isaac were stood behind him.

Meilani, who didn't even have the energy to ask the Argents and Isaac why they were at the hospital, lead them down the other hallway and into an empty room while she explained to them about Derek and Jennifer and Cora's current status.

"So, they are essentially trapped?" Chris asked for clarification.

"There's no way of getting them out without turning the power back on," Isaac informed the group, closing the double doors of the room behind him.

"Wait, wait, wait. If the power is back on,, they're gonna hear the elevator moving, right?" Melissa asked, waving her hands around as if an idea came to her. An idea that would ultimately get Derek and Jennifer both killed.

Meilani sighed and shook her head defiantly. "No, no way. They'll just follow the sound to whatever floor Derek and Jennifer stop on then kill them. We can't do that."

"You've got us now," Chris said, motioning between him, Isaac and Allison.

"It's too much to risk. They want her dead and if she dies, there is nothing that we can do for Stiles' dad or Cora," Meilani replied, leaning her hands on the metal examination table and bowing her head to try and think.

"I don't even think I know which teacher this is."

Isaac rubbed Meilani's back in a soothing manner when he noticed her heart rate was faster than usual, the fear and anxiety slowly catching up with her. If they lost Jennifer, it would mean they lost Noah and Cora. Meilani just could not handle the loss of either one of them. "She's - she's the one with the brown hair. She's kind of hot." He blinked when everyone in the room shot him an unamused look. "No, it's just - just an observation. I - I'll just keep rubbing Meilani's back."

"I've got an idea," Allison spoke up.

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Meilani broke off from her mom, the Argents and Isaac. Her mom ran off to the roof to turn the power in the hospital back on while Chris and Allison lured Ethan, Aiden and Kali out of the hospital. Allison had hair that kind of looked like Jennifer's and they used that to their advantage to chase them outside. While Allison and Chris distracted the three alphas outside, Isaac would drive the Argent's car over to the ambulance to pick up Peter, Stiles, Scott and Cora.

Allison's plan had worked out wonderfully and Meilani had a small push of hope when she ran through the now dimly lit halls to get to the elevator where she could hear Derek's heart. However, that hope was extremely short lived. 

Derek laid unconscious on the floor of the elevator while the emergency door on the roof of the elevator hung down with no Jennifer in sight. She felt her blood run cold and barely gave Derek a second glance as she rushed off down the hallway to her left, the only thing on her mind being Melissa. She pushed her way through the door leading to the steps that went up to the roof and pumped her legs harder up the steps, nearly tripping once or twice in her haste to get up the steps.

"Mom!" Meilani called, bursting through the rooftop door and frantically scanning the roof for Melissa, but she couldn't find her anywhere. "Mom!"

"They're gone."

Meilani's eyes snapped over to the other side of the roof where Deucalion walked out from the shadows, tapping his walking stick along as he went. Murder and rage coursed through Meilani's veins as she stared deadly cold at the alpha wolf before her.

"Guardians, Meilani. If you were with me, I could have told you what it meant. I could have warned you. Let me help you, Meilani. Let's help each other. You help me catch her and I'll help you get your mother and Stiles' father back."

Meilani felt the tears well up in her eyes and she wasn't even sure if they were from anger or the pure fear for her mother's life. If they still needed a healer sacrifice, there was no way that Melissa would be let go. She would be slashed up like a horror movie scene and left for dead just like the other two doctors that were sacrificed. She needed to now save both her mom and Noah and Deucalion was now the only beacon of light she had. An evil beacon of light, but still a beacon that she had no choice but to follow at this point.

Before Meilani could take more than a few steps closer to Deucalion, the door to the roof slammed open again and Scott and Stiles ran out behind Meilani.

"Babe," Stiles breathed, freezing when he realized Meilani was about to make her way over to Deucalion with a defeated expression. "Baby, don't do this. Don't go with him."

Meilani sniffled and looked over her shoulder at her two boys, the anger and murder she felt literally seconds ago now swapped out for fear, sadness and resignation. The total switch of emotions was almost dizzying and Meilani wanted to just stop it all. Never feel a single thing again because this was all just too much for her to handle. No one should ever have to drown in their emotions while also trying to save everyone they love at once.

"I don't know what else to do. They took Mom."

"No, there's got - " Scott cut off and Meilani swore her heart broke at the shuddering breath her twin took, his heart rate beating frantically at the news of Melissa being gone along with Noah. "There has to be something else, okay? We always - we always have a plan B."

Meilani scoffed softly and slapped her hands to her sides, hating that her options had officially run out. Jennifer was her last hope of finding Noah and getting him back. Now she was gone along with Melissa and now Meilani had yet another loved one to save with the only option left being the evil alpha that stood just a few feet away from her. Deucalion was the last thing that could get Melissa and Noah home. "Not this time."

"Lani..."

Meilani smiled sadly at Stiles and Scott, hating the looks of disbelief and disappointment that rested on their faces. She knew they wouldn't understand, but she had to do what she needed to do in order to get Melissa and Noah home before they were both sacrificed. Even if that meant having a momentary alliance with Deucalion to get them back. "I'm gonna find your dad, babe, and I'll find mom. I promise you both."

Meilani stepped closer to both of her boys and stroked both of their cheeks softly. She leant up on her tip toes to give Stiles a kiss on the lips, fighting the urge to let herself melt in his arms when his hands went to her waist on instinct. She pried herself away from her boyfriend and hugged her twin tightly, kissing his cheek. 

"I love you both. I promise I'll come back with them," Meilani whispered to her boys before she turned on her heel and walked away from them, ignoring their desperate calls for her to come back.

She just hoped she made the right decision.

AUTHORS NOTE

HI hey hello

We are officially down to two more chapters of part one. There are just two episodes left of Season 3A and, peeps, let me tell you. These two final chapters are going to be a rollercoaster and I don't think any of you are ready for it because I'M not even ready for it. However, I am just excited to get up to the even crazier 3B. 

This chapter also took me way too long to write because of all the descriptions I kept writing for. There were still 25 minutes left of the episode when I hit the 3.6k mark and this wound up being nearly 7k word woopsies. That will probably be a theme for the next two chapters also with the wildness.