Old Scars, Future Hearts

57

The teens had gathered at the sheriff's station as Lydia had found out information about her grandmother.

Stiles turned to his father. "It's not just that she could still be alive."

Lydia nodded. "It's that she would've had to fake her death."

The sheriff shot her a look. "Your grandmother, Lorraine Martin, faked her death?"

"Definitely," Stiles said in a certain tone.

"Maybe," Lydia replied.

"More than likely, yes."

"Oh, I'm guessing you got a story to back this up?" Sheriff Stilinski questioned, turning to the demigod and demigoddess. "Marika, Dmitri, what do you think about this? Do you believe it?"

Marika glanced at her brother and shrugged before she said, "Well, it's possible, but I don't think it's likely. Lorraine could be helping the Benefactor."

"Which we still know nothing about!" Dmitri added pointedly.

Stiles frowned. "Or is the Benefactor."

The sheriff shot each of them a look. "That sounds like a story worth hearing."

As soon as Parrish returned, Lydia and Marika took him to Derek's loft. Parrish explained what happened to him and Derek frowned. "He covered you in gasoline?"

"It's the hair and nails, isn't it," Lydia noted. "The parts of the body that are essentially dead."

"Well, they should be gone."

Parrish looked at the two of them. "I was set on fire. All of me should be gone."

Scott shook his head. "Not if you're like us."

Dmitri, who joined, shrugged and said nonchalantly, "Leo can set himself on fire."

Marika shot him a look. "Go ahead and spill all of camp's secrets, why don't you."

"A, wasn't a secret, and B, sorry."

Parrish frowned at his words before turning back to Scott. "Like you?"

Derek shook his head. "I don't think he's like us."

"Then what is he?" Lydia questioned.

"Sorry, but I have no idea."

Marika looked at Derek and said, "You knew about Jackson and Kira."

He shot her a look. "This is a little out of my experience. There might be something in the bestiary. Did you try Argent?"

Scott glanced down. "I don't know where he is."

Parrish said, "Okay, hold on. What's a bestiary? Actually, that's not even my first question. Just... Just tell me one thing. Are all of you like Lydia? Are you all psychic?"

"Psychic?" Derek asked in disbelief.

"Yeah. Not exactly," Scott replied.

Parrish frowned. "Okay. Then what are you?"

They began explaining what supernatural creatures they were and explained the deadpool. Parrish asked, "What's a kanima?"

"We'll get back to that," Scott said, brushing it off. "Just know that everyone like us, everyone with some kind of supernatural ability is on the deadpool."

"Take a shot every time someone says deadpool," Dmitri joked, earning looks from the others and a swat on the arm from his sister. "What? That was funny."

"But I don't even know what I am," Parrish protested.

Derek shrugged slightly. "I'm pretty sure they don't care."