Stiles’s face crumbled, "I told you that guy isn’t trustworthy, he just happens to come right when Lucas isn’t in town, and wants to join his pack? Yeah right, even Peter is more trustworthy."
"Thanks." Peter gave a charming smile.
Both of them ignored him, and Scott was not sure either about how trustworthy Theo was. "We don’t have to automatically trust him, maybe he knows something that would help us."
Hearing this, Stiles held on, trying not to strangle his best friend. He was really hopeless with his naivety.
"Think about it, why Lucas’s pack? There’s another Alpha in town." Stiles then pointed at Derek.
Scott glanced at Derek and didn’t know what to say for a while, then responded in a lower tone. "But he’s Lucas."
Peter grinned when he heard this, and lowered his head and whispered in Derek’s ear. "You see, nephew, he just called you trash politely."
His words were heard loud and clear throughout the room, but it seemed that was his purpose to begin with.
Derek glanced at Peter with an unbothered expression, then looked back at Stiles and Scott. "It doesn’t matter what his choice is, what matters is that he’s highly suspicious."
"I say we torture him for information." Peter put forward his own suggestion.
"Agree." Surprisingly, Stiles was the one that immediately supported him.
"We aren’t torturing anybody." Scott shook his head firmly. "Let’s just find the girl and protect her."
"Fine." Stiles reluctantly nodded, then turned around, walking away. He now had to find her first.
••••
Another two days passed, Stiles and Scott found Hayden, but nothing happened, and so the days went on with them stalking her like two creeps.
This day was supposed to be just like the other two, the two of them were now stalking her from afar while she was heading home.
"I feel like we shouldn’t do this." Scott hid his body next to some bushes and turned towards Stiles, who was in full goggles mode.
"Huh?" Stiles glanced back at him, and responded, "Buddy, we are protecting her."
Just as the two were talking, on the street that Hayden was walking on, the lights suddenly went off, and the neighborhood was covered in darkness.
The two immediately noticed this, but what made them even more nervous was the three masked figures that appeared not far from Hayden.
"Who are you?!" Hayden was more shocked than them, and she stepped back in fear as she didn’t even see how they appeared in front of her.
The doctors didn’t respond, but weird noises kept coming from them.
"Stay behind us!" Scott immediately ran in front of her, followed by Stiles.
"Who are you, people? And what the hell are those guys?!" Hayden shouted and turned around to run, unfortunately, a Dread Doctor appeared in her way, and now they were all surrounded.
"You have to trust us." Scott’s eyes turned yellow and glanced at her for a second before looking back at the Dread Doctors.
Her face paled when she saw Scott’s face, and she wanted to run, but luckily Stiles grabbed her in time. "Easy! We are the good guys."
Just as Hayden was about to retort, the Dread Doctors took a step forward and reached for her.
Scott clasped that hand and tried to twist it, only to find out that it was impossible. "Why do you do this?" He gritted his teeth as he used all the strength he could muster.
The doctor gazed at him, then used his cane to hit Scott in the stomach.
"Puff!" Scott spit up a mouthful of saliva, then slid all the way to Stiles and Hayden’s feet.
"Scott!" Stiles grabbed him worriedly and helped him get up.
"I’m fine." As he got up, Scott wiped his mouth and looked at the doctors with some fear in his eyes.
That amount of strength was something he only felt when he was fighting the Alpha Pack. Now he began worrying if even Lucas could stand against them.
Suddenly, the doctor on the other side tried to reach for Hayden as well, but Stiles quickly noticed this and punched his arm by instinct.
The doctor took a step back and looked at his hand carefully, then turned towards Stiles and spoke in a robotic voice, "Fi-ne spe-cimen."
Stiles felt a chill running through his spine, that kind of gaze made him feel like a lamb ready to be slaughtered.
After his actions, the Dread Doctors seemed to shift their focus to Stiles, as if he was now more interesting to them than Hayden.
"Stiles...I think that they are interested in you now." Scott said in a panicked tone.
Stiles was sweating bullets by now, and he wasn’t sure if getting their attention was such a good thing.