Ch. 39 - GALVANIZED

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Chapter Thirty-Nine
🦊 Galvanized 🦊


"We'd add strength. We'd make you more powerful. There's no reason to say no." Aiden said as Isaac and Wren walked up to them, Scott and Stiles. "I can think of one. Like the two of you holding Derek's claws while Kali impaled Boyd. In fact, I don't know why we're not impaling them right now." Isaac said while Wren crossed her arms over her chest.

"You want to try." Aiden said in a low growl, flashing his blue eyes and canines. Isaac smirked and stepped forward but Scott grabbed his arm making him step back. "Sorry, but they don't trust you. And neither do I." Scott said and they all walked away from the twins.

As soon as they walked into the school a roll of toilet paper came flying at them making them all flinch back, "All right, that's my face! Hey, dude, good decision, buddy. Good Alpha decision." Stiles said patting Scott on the chest.

"I hope so."

"No, you know so." Stiles said opening up his locker. Wren looked at Scott noticing him looking somewhere else. Following his line of sight she saw Kira picking up some of her stuff making Wren look back at Scott with a knowing smirk. "What are you looking at?" She asked in a teasing tone, "Me?" Scott asked and she nodded.

"You. You looking at her?" She asked and he raised his eyebrows, "Her? Who her?" He asked. "Her her. Kira. You like her?" Wren asked making Scott's eyes widen slightly, "No. I mean Yeah, yeah, she's okay. She's new." He said and they nodded. "So, ask her out." Stiles said and Scott looked at him crazy.

"Now?"

"Yes now."

"Right now?"

"Right now. Scott, I don't think you get it yet. You're an Alpha. You're the apex predator. Everyone wants you. You're like the hot girl that every guy wants." Stiles says making Wren look at him confused with her eyebrows raised.

"The hot girl?" Scott asked raising his eyebrows as Isaac walked up to them. "You are the hottest girl." Stiles said smiling, walking away. "What?" Isaac asked looking confused. "I'm the hot girl." Scott said and Isaac slowly nodded.

"Yes, you are." He said and Scott looked at him with a smile and laughed before walking away. "What just happened?" Isaac asked as he and Wren watched Scott, "Honestly, I never really know what they talk about at times." She said shaking her head before she quickly kissed them jogged up to Scott.

Walking into Econ, Wren sat behind Stiles while Scott sat next to him. "Son of a bitch!" Coach suddenly yelled making a few students flinch and most laugh. Scott, Stiles and Wren looked at each other with smiles, knowing exactly what happened.

"Mischief Night, Devil's Night. I don't care what you call it. You little punks are evil." Coach said walking back and forth in front of the class. The three best friends couldn't hold their smiles as they watched him.

"You think it's funny every Halloween my house gets egged? A man's house is supposed to be his castle." Coach said and then hit Scott's desk making him jump while Stiles pumped his fist and Wren chuckled. "Mine's a frickin' omelet!"

"Oh, this? We're gonna do this again?" Coach said picking up a gift box off his desk. Scott glanced at Wren confused and she just shrugged, equally confused. "I don't think so." He said, dropping it on the ground and smashing his foot down on. People flinched as the sound of glass breaking came from the box.

Coach bent down and picked up a piece of glass that was obviously from a mug that had a picture of his face and under it said "#1 COACH" He picked a card, ripping it open before reading it, "Happy Birthday. Love, Greenberg." He read.

As Coach ranted some more about mischief night for a couple more minutes. As he was ranting, Wren winced slightly as a slight buzzing noise started. At first it sounded like it was right by her ear but then started sounding like it was inside her head causing a sharp pain. She groaned quietly, putting her head in her hands, which Scott noticed and looked at her concerned.

"Wren?" He asked, catching Stiles's attention making him turn around to notice Wren's pained expression. "Woah, hey? Are you okay?" Stiles asked worriedly and Wren nodded slightly as she looked up, "Headache." She said but they still looked worried.

"Are you sure?" Scott asked and she nodded, "Yeah, didn't get much sleep last night. I'll be fine."

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"Barrow went after kids with glowing eyes? He said those exact words?" Wren asked as they rushed down the stairs. "Yeah. And no one knows how he woke up from anesthesia. Just that when they opened him up, they found a tumor full of live flies, which in any other circumstance would be all kinds of awesome." Stiles explained.

"Did you say flies?" Lydia and Wren asked at the same time making them all turn to them, "Lydia? Wren?" Allison asked worriedly. "All day I have been hearing this sound. It's like this buzzing." Lydia said and Wren nodded, "I've been hearing it too, it's why my heads been hurting all day."

"Like the sound of flies?" Allison asked walking up to Lydia and Wren, "Exactly like the sound of flies." Lydia said and Wren nodded in agreement.

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"Sorry...Hey, dude, where the hell have you been?" Stiles asked as he ran up to Scott. "The police are leaving. Why are they leaving?" Lydia asked when she and Wren ran up to them making their eyes widen. "They must have cleared the building and grounds, which means he's not here."

"Who? What are you guys.."

"He has to be here." Wren said and Lydia nodded, "That sound. The buzzing we've been hearing? It's getting louder." Lydia said and Stiles sighed slightly. "How loud?" He asked and Wren shook her head a bit with a sigh, "Like my head is going to self destruct."

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"Dad. Dad!" Stiles said as he chanced after his dad down the stairs, "You can't leave yet." Stiles said and he dad turned to him. "We got an eyewitness that puts Barrow by the train station." Stilinski said and Agent McCall turned around to look at him, "Let's go, Stilinski!" He yelled.

Stilinski went to walk away with them but Stiles stopped him, "Whoa, whoa, Dad! Please, just- Lydia and Wren said that he's still here." Stiles said making his dad walk over to him. "Did they see him?" He asked and Stiles sighed, "Not exactly, no... Well, not at all, actually. But they have a feeling- a supernatural feeling." Stiles said and looked over to where Lydia and Wren were waiting.

Wren had her back to her sister as Lydia braied her hair and Stilinski furrowed his brows. "Lydia and Wren werent on the chessboard." He said and Stiles shrugged, "They are now." He said. "Kanima?" Stilinski asked and Stiles shook his head, "Um, banshee and we dont know what Wren is yet." Stiles said making his dad groan slightly,

"I know, I know how it sounds. But basically, it means that Lydia can sense when someone's close to death. And Wren can sometimes dream of future events or have visions of past or present events when she touches something." Stiles explained quickly.

"Can they sense that I'm about to kill you?" Stilinski said and Stiles pursed his lips, "I don't know." He said before they both turned to look at the girls. The girls both looked over at them with a smile and slight wave making Stilinski smile and wave back.

"All right, look- I'm not saying I don't believe, but right now, I'm going with eyewitness over Banshee and Unknown. We're leaving a few deputies here. The school's on lockdown until three o'clock. Nobody comes in, nobody comes out." Stilinski said as he started to walk away while Stiles made a face, "Buddy, that's the best I've got right now. That's the best I can give you, Stiles-"

"You're leaving me here??? That's not- that is the worst."

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"The bestiary is literally a thousand pages long. If I'm going to find anything about flies coming out of people's bodies, it could take me all night." Allison said as Wren opened one of the windows in a classroom. "And remember- the word in archaic Latin for "fly" is musca." Lydia said as Allison climbed through the window.

"Got it." Allison said and Wren closed the window. "Where do we start?" She asked, turning to look at Stiles, "Upstairs." Stiles said before glancing at the clock, "We gotta go." He said and they nodded and ran off.

"Scott and Isaac are in the basement, right?" Lydia asked as they looked around the art room, "Yeah, with Ethan and Aiden. The plan is they meet us in the middle, in the boiler room." Stiles said. Wren looked around when a picture of a mushroom cloud making her realise something. "All of the wolves All of the ones with glowing eyes, are in the basement at the boiler room?" She asked and realization crossed Stiles' face. "Oh, my God! An engineer could use a boiler room to blow up the whole school."

"We have to get them out of there." Lydia said wide eyes and Wren nodded, "We have to get everyone out." Stiles said. "How do we do that?" Lydia said and Wren pursed her lips, "I have an idea."

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Wren and Lydia stood in front of Stiles who was pulling the fire alarm, watching everyone walk out the school. Wren smirked, before turning to look at Stiles who smiled happily at her. But his smile started to fall with her eyes widened as she looked at something behind him.

Slowly he turned around to see Coach staring at him, right behind him, making him jump. Coach grabbed Stiles by the ear and started dragging him out side, the Martin sisters following behind them. "Wow. Pulling a fire alarm on Mischief Night is one thing- doing it when there's a mass murderer spotted nearby is insane! If I was four years younger, I'd punch you!"

"What? Coach, that doesn't make any sense..."

"Oh, well it does to me!"

Coach walked away and the girls walked up to him, "There!" He said pointing at where they saw Scott and Isaac and the three of them ran over right as the twins ran over as well. "We didn't find anything." Aiden said and Scott shook his head, "Not even a scent." He said and Stiles sighed. "It's 3:00, so school's over. If there was a bomb, wouldn't he have set it off by now?" Stiles said looking at everyone.

"Does that mean everybody's safe?" Ethan asked and they looked at Lydia and Wren who shook their head, "I don't know. I just don't know." Lydia said and Wren sighed, glancing around at all the students before looking back at her friends.

"I still have a bad feeling."

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Wren stood behind Allison in Argent's office, looking at the computer screen when all of the sudden they heard thumping. Allison and Wren glanced at each other until they heard a zapping sound and then someone yelping making Wren sigh.

"And that would be my adorable boyfriend who forgot that doors exists." Wren said and Allison chuckled before looking back at the computer as Isaac walked up to the door way. "Electrified the windows?" He asked and Allison nodded, "Yep." She said and Isaac looked at Wren. "Did you know?" He asked and she nodded, "Didn't wanna say anything about it...?" He asked and she smiled at him.

"I assumed you would use the front door." She said and he sighed and nodded, "Okay." He mumbled. "What are you doing here?" Allison asked as he walked over to them, "I figured you could use an extra pair of eyes." He said and Wren looked at him in amusement. "Can you read Latin?" She asked and he shook his head, "No, but I can look at pictures." He said and she chuckled and shook her head.

A little while later Wren sat in Allison's room looking through books and printed articles while talking on a video call with Stiles who was working on his crime board. "Did you get detention for pulling the whole alarm?" She asked while reading a papers, "Yep- every day this week. It's okay, though. We were onto something." He said and she sighed.

"Even though we couldn't find any proof of Barrow being there?" She asked making him look at his phone. "Hey, Wren, you and your sister have been right every time something like this has happened, okay? So, don't start doubting yourself now." He said and she sighed and shook her head slightly.

"No scent? No bomb? And I got you in trouble." She said as she looked at him, "Okay, look- Barrow was there, all right? You knew it. You felt it. Okay? And look, if you wanted to, I'd go back to that school right now and search all night just to prove it." He said and she chuckled and shook her head slightly while looking at a paper.

"As fun as that sounds, I have two books and about twenty papers to read." She said as she held up one of the papers and he nodded. "Call me if you figure something out?" He asked and she nodded, "Same goes for you." She said, smiling at him before hanging up.

Isaac walked into the room making her glance up at him for a moment. "You find anything?" He asked as he walked over to sit slightly behind her while setting down a coupe papers and she sighed, "There's a reference about flies being able to carry messages to the dead." She said as she held up a paper. "What about you?" She asked and he reached around her to point at at someone on one of the papers he brought.

"Oh, just Beelzebub- the Lord of the Flies." He said and she skimmed over the paper before smiling in amusement. "While Beelzebub does mean 'lord of the flies'... This is talking about the novel 'Lord Of The Flies'. And Beelzebub is an imaginary monster that they believe is in the island that they're on." She said making him frown slightly.

"Oh." He mumbled and she chuckled in amusement before glancing back at him. He stared at her with a small smile before leaning forward slightly making her raise her eyebrows. "We're supposed to be looking things up. Not getting distracted." She said and he shrugged slightly, "We've been at this for a while. We can have a little break." He said and she rolled her eyes but still smiled.

He leaned forward, connecting their lips bit only for a second before the door opened making them jump slightly. They looked over to see Allison give them a look, "Please don't have sex in my room." She said and Wren's jaw fell slightly. "I- that- we were not- Don't put me on the spot like that!" Wren said making Allison laugh.

Wren's phone started ringing making her look at it to see a call from Stiles.

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"So, what are we looking for?" Lydia asked as she, Wren and Stiles walked into the chemistry class. Without answering her, Stiles turned and opened the storage closet making Wren and Lydia glance at each other, "That was supposed to be locked." Wren said slowly.

"Yeah, I know. Notice anything else?" Stiles asked, glancing over at them. "It smells like chemicals." Lydia said and realization crossed over Wren's features, "They wouldn't have been able to catch his scent." Wren said and Stiles nodded as he looked around until he found blood and staples on the ground.

"He was here, performing very minor surgery on himself. You guys were right." Stiles said looking up at them, "Then why don't I feel good about this?" Wren asked and Stiles sighed. "Probably because he was here to kill somebody."

"But who?"

"That's what we gotta figure out." Stiles said and stood up, walking back into the class, "We could spread out, start looking for... anything.." Stiles said Nd started looking around while Lydia walked over to the board making Stiles and Wren look over. "What are those?" Stiles asked as they came up to stand next to her.

"Atomic numbers." Wren asked and Stiles furrowed his brows, "Is it a formula?" Stiles asked and Lydia shook her head. "Not really... Nineteen's potassium. Fifty-three's iodine. Eighty-eight's radium. The first two make potassium iodide." Lydia explained and then wrote a "K" next to potassium, "Potassium is K?" Stiles asked and Wren glanced at him.

"From kalium, the scientific neo-Latin name." Wren said as Lydia wrote an I next to iodine, "What's radium?" Stiles asked and Lydia slowly wrote an "Ra" making Wren's eyes widen. "Kira... Barrow's after Kira. Scott's with Kira!" She said before quickly running out the class making Stiles and Lydia follow her.

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Stiles, Wren and Lydia pulled up to Kira's house and ran out of the jeep and over to Scott who was passed out on the ground. "Scott? Scott!" Stiles yelled as Scott started to wake up. Once he awoke he remembered what happened making him instantly shoot up and look around, "Barrow, he took Kira!" He said and Stiles nodded. "We know. He was after her the whole time."

"Alright thanks." Scott said before hanging up the phone and walking back over to his friends. "We have to think of something. He's going to kill her." Scott stressed, "We knew he was there. How did we know that?" Lydia asked looking at Wren making them look at her. "Because we heard the flies." Wren said, "What do you hear now?" Scott asked and Lydia looked down at the ground and sighed.

"Nothing." She sighed and Wren nodded in agreement, "I feel like I can do this. But I don't know what to do. It's like it's on the tip of my tongue, and I don't know how to trigger it. I just I swear to God, it literally makes me want to scream." Lydia stressed, taking a few steps away from them as realization crossed over Wren's features. "Then scream. Don't hold it back. Lydia scream." Wren said.

Next thing they know Lydia lets out a long high pitch scream making Scott and Stiles cringe and cover their ears while Wren didn't seem effected by it. When she stopped screaming the sisters both slowly looked up at the street lamp, hearing the same buzzing noise again.

"It's not flies." Lydia said then quickly spun around making the boys jump back a bit, "It's electricity."

"Wait a second." Wren said, turning to Stiles, "You said Barrow was an electrical engineer, right? He worked at a power substation?" She asked making them realize what she was hinting at.

"What substation?"

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Stiles jeep and Scott's bike pulled up to the substation at the same time. Scott hopped off his bike and ran off as Stiles hopped out of the jeep. "Maybe you guys should just wait here. Wait for the cops to come." Stiles said making Wren and Lydia look at him confused. "Why?" Wren asked and he held up the bat, "I only got one bat." He said before running off.

"Did he really just-?" Lydia asked and Wren sighed and nodded, "Yep."

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