Chapter 10: Magic Bullet
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Chapter Summary: Derek gets shot with wolfspane, while Madison contemplates how to help him without changing too much or getting Hazel involved. Theo is haunted by dreams and Sean is left with the midnight training of new betas. Also, Corey makes a minor appearance (Briefly. Like, very briefly. If you blink, you'll probably miss it, lol).
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[A Few Nights Later]:
[General POV]:
A green car drove down a mostly deserted road, its driver, sensing something off, kept looking around, out the door, out the mirrors, outside.
As she did so, she nearly crashed into a truck at a stop sign.
"Nice driving, Kate," she uttered to herself, gathering herself quickly. "Nice——"
But as she was gathering herself, a THUNK sounded on her car's roof, followed by movement. She quietly reached for her weapon, but as she grasped it, a wolf's hand shattered through the front window for her head.
"No!" She fought it with screams of rage and fear, even as she unbelted herself and shot out the roof of her car before rolling out of it. "Come on!" she shouted boldly, firing a warning shot in the air. "Come on!"
[Madison POV]:
While the whole fiasco of Derek getting shot with a magic bullet was occurring, Madison was watching from afar, her hands in the middle pocket of her black hoodie.
Her right hand was grasped around a sample of wolfsbane—the very same wolfsbane that Derek got shot with—or, rather, the very same species of it.
She had long since prepared for this eventing—what, with breaking into the Dread Doctors' lair—or the one that was located in Beacon Hills, anyway. She was easily able to snag a series of samples of wolfsbane, re-writing the stock reports of their supply and keeping completely discreet while doing it.
'Thankfully, most fanfics got it right in that the Doctors don't stay in one town for long, or that they have many laboratories globally,' Madison mused the moment she saw Derek get shot. 'Either way, I thankfully did not get caught.'
As she watched the wolves get away and Kate Argent continue to investigate the scene, Madison thought of something else.
'Hazel's psychic abilities are already beginning to manifest, particularly through dreams, but she's nowhere near ready to actually stand in as an active player in this game.'
'That said,' Madison twirled the wolfsbane in her palms a bit. 'I need to get this through to Derek without getting involved... Perhaps I need Theo.'
With that, Madison teleported away, just as Chris Argent's car made it into view...
[Theo Raeken]:
GASP!
Theo gasped awake from his nightmare, immediately trying to recall his dream: He saw dragons, dragon people, people sparking with weird, powerful energies, a voice saying, "Come find me!" and—
"And that is all," Theo groaned, rubbing his face and sweat-slick hair.
As he decided to get out of bed, he made his way to the bathroom in nothing but underwear. He knew his parents and Tara would be too asleep to even see him halfway naked and he's found he enjoys the air on his skin, even indoors, particularly at night. It just felt... right.
He put water on his face to wake up properly, its cold shocking him awake.
"Get it together," Theo muttered to himself. "Dragons aren't even real."
Yet he couldn't help but doubt even that. Something told him that wasn't true. He just had no idea what.
As he re-entered his room, he was shocked to immediately sense a feminine presence—and even more shocked to find Hazel—No, Madison, from that mark, Theo realized—standing by his bedroom window, staring at him.
From the way she took in his muscular frame to the way her gaze slightly darkened with something Theo sensed was close to desire, to the scent of arousal wafting from her layer beneath something else—Theo was honestly tempted to flex for her benefit.
It was no secret that he liked her. He wasn't sure if it were love, but he definitely knew attraction when he saw it, and man, did he want her.
So lost was he in his thoughts that he hadn't noticed Madison walk up on him until her hesitant hand reached for his still sweaty chest.
Her gaze seemed distant yet so hyper-focused on him that Theo smirked strictly by instinct.
He grabbed the back of her still hesitating hand and pressed it against his wet chest.
She gasped as if it were his palm pressed against her chest. The reaction went straight down to Theo's navel, a heat that caused something to stir, deep inside him. It only got fiercer when he realized she wasn't fighting him on it, causing a possessive growl to rumble its way out his throat.
He noticed the shiver that caused to go through the girl and he felt the suddenly overwhelming desire to kiss her.
He grasped her cheek gently with his free hand, watching as she passively leaned into his touch, as if she belonged there, to him, in that moment.
That thought sent another thrill of excitement to traverse his spine.
"Let me ruin you, Madi," Theo urged, something deep within him realizing how much control she had over him and still enjoying the sensation. "Let me make you mewl my name as if it's the most divine thing in the whole wide world."
Theo moved his hand to her chin, forcing her to meet his gaze.
'Those eyes...') Theo stared at Madison's almost orange-brown eyes. ('I'd do anything for them.')
Theo slowly leaned in, tilting his head slightly as he connected their lips in a kiss of passion. He felt Madison freeze but, instead of stopping there, he kissed harder, feeling the girl give in to the kiss and kiss back.
Just as Theo was about to lose himself to the taste of her, she pushed firmly against his chest and, getting the hint, he stepped a step.
"I apo—" Theo began, but Madison shook her head.
"No, don't be sorry. The kiss... wasn't bad," Madison admitted, causing Theo's head to lift with a smirk on his face. "S-stop that!"
"Stop what?" Theo's smirk only grew.
"That!" Madison gestured to his face.
"What? This?" His smirk grew. "If my kiss wasn't bad, then it was good, wasn't it?"
Madison pursed, turning a vibrant red somehow, which Theo took as an answer enough. But before he could step forward, Madison raised a hand. "That's not why I'm here, though."
Theo paused at that.
"Why are you here, then?" he asked gently, swallowing gently.
"This," she pulled out a plant sample. "Derek was shot with this. He'll need it to cure himself. I need you to give it to him. I can't."
"Because Hazel would be in control during the day," Theo figured out, and Madison nodded. "Uh-huh. I'll do it."
Madison gave Theo the wolfsbane, and Theo tucked it in a piece of cloth and placed it on his nightstand.
"About what I did..." Theo began, turning to Madison.
"Maybe next time the others would join in," Madison giggled, the sound like music to Theo's ears, even if it startled Theo, who gaped in shock at what he just heard. Then, before he could ask more on what she meant, she spoke again. "As for that dream of yours, with the dragons, you should ask the aunt and uncle downstairs who had adopted you. I'm sure your "parents" will tell you about it, if you ask."
She dropped that bomb one moment and instantaneously vanished the next somehow. Leaving Theo completely stunned, the girl then proceeded to teleport away—like, literally vanish before his eyes.
Five minutes later, Theo would find himself in bed again, dozing off with a new plan in his head for when he'd wake up. He wanted to learn the truth and he would.
He dreamed about Madison and a group of guys again—again, with Liam.
And surprisingly? Theo enjoyed it. Very much.
[Madison POV]:
Madison stood on a thick branch in the Preserve where she spotted Sean below, sparring with both Liam and Isaac—both were recently turned, both around the same age: 15 or 16.
She watched the 3 wolves spar for a few minutes before teleporting to the roof of a house directly across from Corey's.
A thunder cloud was spread about from above, green lightning flashing here and there, a light drizzle of rain down on the entire neighborhood.
"Who would've thought the Bryant bloodline would react this greatly to the Cosmic Chimera Force?" Madison thought, psychically calming a sleeping Corey and altering his nightmare to a dream—A dream of Mason. "And just like that..."
The thundercloud above parted, revealing a starry night sky beyond.
Madison teleported a few more times, checking on a few more people for the night before going home herself.
She didn't know that that night, like so many others, 7 different men dreamed about her—and each other.
[Derek Hale]:
As Derek drove down the road, towards a school of all places, the 22 year old couldn't help but think back to his dreams he's been having, especially the one from the night prior even despite his current wolfsbane poison-induced fever.
It was about that woman again—The very woman who he was certain had saved his family in the fire. Because of her, his mother, while no longer an alpha, still lives, albeit in a deep coma, his little sister still lives and so does his little cousin who he sees as a baby brother of sorts.
He had been dreaming the same thing ever since the fire—of Madison. The psychic woman.
He dreamed of making love to her with the same 7 men he was certain he didn't half of.
Sure, Derek knew of the Talbot boy and he even met the Theo one while intercepting Scott and Stiles in the woods of the Preserve, specifically the Hale property of the Preserve. He was with the pair of them then. He was pretty sure he was one of their friends.
He just wasn't sure of why he kept dreaming about the boys, though, being with himself as they shared Madison between them and 4 other guys Derek was certain he's never met.
Admittedly, he's awoken countless times to a small pond of his own ejaculation, and something told him it wasn't all entirely Dream Madison's fault, and that truth confused him a bit.
Shaking his head, which only proved to be a mistake as his vision shook, Derek parked down the road from the school, attempting to gather himself.
When he did, he exited the car on slightly shaking legs and entered the school, which was nearing the end of passing period.
His breathing was heavy and sweat fell from his brow as he tried to keep his head down among the passing students.
Then he spotted Jackson...
[Theo Raeken]:
Theo saw the whole thing.
He saw Derek walk up to Jackson. He saw Jackson berate Derek on her perceiving that Derek was selling Scott drugs. He saw Derek try to walk off, only to be grabbed by Jackson, who said "Hey, we're not done here."
'What an idiot,' Theo had always thought Jackson to be retarded in some way. At the very least a bit slow. 'The guy's clearly not winning any academic nominations.'
He saw Jackson being shoved up unto the locker with Derek's claw in his neck.
He was by the staircase, hidden by the corridor's shadow and, when Derek pulled away and came by, he whispered the words, "Wolves with poison in their blood probably shouldn't be in a school with hunters after them, Hale."
It was just something to fuck with Derek. Theo is an asshole by nature. That's just who he was. And he had no desire to change. In his view, why be nice when being a jackass costs nothing.
But when Derek turned his way, the glint of amusement in Theo's eyes vanished because he instantly recognised those specific green hazel eyes. They were, after all, the same green hazel he dreamed about last night.
And, based on the way they scanned Theo, Derek, he realised, recognised his own.
"Do you know where Scott is?" Derek asked, after a moment of silence.
"No," Theo said, shaking his head, quickly pulling out a wrapped piece of cloth, "But Madison told me to give this to you... It's to help remove the poison."
Evidently, his words startled Derek who, with shaky hands, took the wrapped cloth, uncurled it and saw the wolfsbane.
"How—?" Derek asked.
"I don't know, man," Theo admitted. "She's technically psychic, though, so, maybe it's that?"
"Wait a minute." Derek fixed Theo with a heavy gaze. "You know Madison?"
Theo went rigid.
For he wasn't sure how to answer that.