I know I know it's been overdue, but I've been dealing with stuff and it cuts into writing for this story. I promise I will update this story more so that it's caught up before the rest of season 5 starts.

Chris drops off Scott at his home only to find himself in his room in a flash as Stiles has been waiting for him. Scott sits on the floor as Stiles heals him as the duffel bag is revealed from under Scott's bed.

" SoI take it from the claw marks and scent of jaguar, you tracked Kate down?"

" Yeah I got most of my demon power back from her, but it means i wont be able to track her now. What are you doing here anyway?"

" Derek had me stay here to watch the pups since him and Malia found most of Satomi's pack were dead, but they did find Braeden. Derek raced her to the hospital even though I could have healed her. Besides we need to search Brett's bag to find any clue of the Benefactor. I overheard my dad's radio call, so Brett and Violet are dead. Good thing since they've killed so many shifters just to line their pockets."

Scott nods as he and Stiles sort through the stacks of cash as a cassette falls out as it says 'play me' on it's label. Both watch as the cassette tape is inserted into a cassette player is conjured by Stiles as they listen to it play as they search through the money. Meanwhile we see a small plastic quarantine tent sits within in a larger tented laboratory. The small tent is surrounded by a circle of powdered Mountain Ash. There is growling coming from within as the owner of the growl is trying to move.

A lab coated man enters, sits at a work table, and begins making notations. He drinks tea while inside the smaller tent a werewolf, oozing black goo from his eyes and mouth, reaches out feebly with a clawed hand. The man presses play on a cassette player. The voice on the tape says:

"After entering the IP address you will be connected through a dark net portal to an untraceable bank. Once logged in enter your account number to receive wire transfers. The IP address will deactivate…"

The voice continues on a boom box in Scott McCall's bedroom:

"…with each transfer. You will be assigned a new transfer if you choose to continue down the list. Remember, visual confirmation is always required for payment. "

Stiles presses stop on the boom box tape player as he carefully scans the money for anything to help them out.

" Did you understand anything that tape said?"

"Barely,but until recently I haven't had enough money to make a wire transfer. I just don't understand The Benefactor's motivation for using all the Hale's money to kill me and the other Beacon Hills supernaturals."

" Someone wants you dead Scott."

" Still we need to stop this Benefactor before it's too late and we need to return this money to Derek."

" Actually this money belongs to Peter, my magic revealed that it's Peter due to his DNA on it. It originally came from his vault Scott."

" I hope you're not suggesting what I think you're suggesting."

" Scott, Peter's name hasn't shown up on the deadpool. Don't you find it very strange and the fact is that no one has seen him recently."

" You know alot of people don't know that Peter Is alive though. Besides how do you know his name hasn't shown up on the list?"

" Because I just decoded it when you were with Chris earlier. It turns out the key was Issac..."

Stiles brings up the next piece of the deadpool and Scott examines the names.

Kate Argent 12

Noshiko Yukimura 5

Joanne McLaughlin 1

Steve Grace 1

Tom Hill 1

Brett Talbot 1

Richard Benefield 250

Jack Marsland 250

Joy Waldrop 250

Cheryl Calix 250

Jordan Parrish 5

Scott breathes in a sigh of relief as his pups weren't on the list as he rub his neck.

" How weird the names of people we use to hang out with are used for this list."

" I don't like how the name of my ex is here though Scott. Although that Brett Talbot guy gave me his numbers after I helped removed the yellow wolfsbane from his system."

"Maybe you should give him a call Stiles, I mean when was the last time you went out?"

" Scott you know I wouldn't go out dating, not after what I've been through."

" Well it's not healthy for you to hold onto him. Besides Malia likes you."

" Yeah well I'm flattered, but she'll kill me once she realizes this."

Scott raises an eyebrow as Stiles reveals the first part of the deadpool.
Scott sees Malia's name, but it says Malia Hale instead of Trager.

" Wait a minute so this whole time, Malia ais Peters' daughter and Derek's Cousin?!"

" Well Scott she'll kill me for not telling her about the connection and she'll definitely kill you since you were sleeping with her father who is missing as we speak."

Scott bites his lip as the necklace Peter gave him is under his shirt as Stile starts to hide the deadpool and duffel bag as Malia taps on his bedroom window to explain what her and Derek found out.

Outside the Beacon Hills Animal Clinic Dr. Deaton is locking up when he senses someone behind him. He whips out a telescopic baton weapon. He turns and swings at a hooded foe. They duck and attack with what appears to be a foot-long metal spike. After a few parries and thrusts, Deaton stops, bows and says "You could have called, Satomi-san." Under the hood we see Satomi as her eyes glow red.

Saturday finds Scott, Kira, Malia and Stiles at school for the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test).

" How come Lydia isn't here with us?"

Malia asks as Scott is examining his fingers.

" Lydia took the test during freshman year so she doesn't have to take it now.

Stiles points out as he cracks his neck, scanning the area ith his magic.

"I don't know about this."

Malia mutters as they wait in line.

" You've studied harder than any of us and while we're trying not to die, we still need to live. Besides if I survive high school I would like to go to college, a good college."

Stiles nods as he senses something off in the school and chants a spell softly, covering him, Scott, Malia and Kira in a protective spell.

" The test only takes three hours to complete and we can survive three hours."

Each student is required to place their fingerprint on their answer sheet. The security measure is an effort to keep students from paying others to take the test for them. Scott presses his thumb into the provided ink pad and applies it to the paper. He is then handed a booklet by teacher who we can see is the same man we saw in the lab at the beginning of the show.

Students are also required to give up their cell phones for the duration of the test. Natalie Martin (Lydia's mom) takes each phone and places it in an individual, numbered, envelope.
Once all phones are taken away, the man starts to explain the test.

" The test is supposed to run 2 hours and 10 minutes. It consists of two 25 minute critical reading sections, two 25 minute Math sections and an essay writing portion that will last 30 minutes. There should be two teachers monitoring the exam."

" Well Coach Finstock is not exactly punctual,let me go get him."

She steps into the hall to try to call him again. She notices his office door at the end of the hall and decides to check there. She finds him passed out on his desk and believes he is drunk.

"15 years of sobriety Bobby and you fall off the wagon at school."

She tries to revive him but has no luck. Natalie Martin reports to "The Chemist" that she can't find Coach but offers instead to get Mr. Yukimura who is upstairs grading papers. He says they need to start the test, but will seek out the other teacher during the first break. He starts the test.

Scott seems to know the answers and is quickly filling in the bubbles on his answer sheet. Stiles seems surprised by one of the questions while Malia seems stumped by the whole process. A girl sitting over one row and behind Stiles collapses to the floor as Mrs. Martin says Sydney as she catches the girl before she hits the floor.. Mrs. Martin notices a pattern of red and white welts on Sydney's arm.

Natalie assures the girl that everything is fine and the girl sits back down to resume the test, but then Mrs. Martin takes her phone and orders that no one should leave the room. She immediately goes to Coach's office and checks his wrists. There is no rash on his arms. She then lifts his shirt and finds his back is covered with large red and white welts.

She steps back into the hall and seeing several students entering the school from the opposite end of the hall she screams at them to get back outside, running down the hall to lock the door behind them. Hearing the commotion in the hall, the students taking the PSAT, including Scott, rush outside. She shouts at them to return to their seats. Once they're gone, she dials operator assistance on her phone seeking the number for the Centers for Disease Control.

Agents with the CDC, dressed head to toe in yellow bio-hazard suits, enter the school. They proceed to set up a quarantine area in one of the larger classrooms. They have two rows of beds. Each is covered by a clear plastic tent. The outside of the school is also covered in clear plastic.

Sheriff Stilinski arrives outside the school. Bio-suited men and women are rushing back and forth. He asks one CDC worker for an update. She says the incident is a "hopefully a false alarm" but that the details provided have concerned the CDC and local health authorities enough to order a quarantine. He tells her that his son is in the school which he says won't be a conflict but is stressful.

While tending to Sydney, Natalie explains to Scott that they are planning to isolate the sick and wait for instructions. She says if she's wrong the CDC will be out pretty quickly and she'll be "the crazy biology teacher who panicked for nothing."

Sydney is very upset, Scott assures her that she will be okay but she is not worried about her health. Sydney is worried about the PSAT because it is the qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship and without it her parents can't afford to send her to college. Scott says he's sure they'll let her take it again. Scott smells something foul as he realizes it's from the rash Sydney has, but it makes his senses act up as he looks away to feel his body twitch.

" It seems the CDC thinks it is Smallpox. "

Stiles explains to Malia and Kira as "The Chemist " is eavesdropping on their conversation.

" That is not likely because Smallpox is one of two viruses that have been completely eradicated from the planet. He says the other extinct disease is Rinderpest."

The Chemist says as Malia tunes her enhanced hearing on the workers outside the school.

The Chemist goes back to focusing his view outside through the classroom window.

" Well they seem to be taking it very seriously and your dad is there."

Malia whispers to Stiles as he looks for the bin where their cellphones are even though he could send him a telepathic message.

" The phones won't work because CDC shut down all communications around the school to avoid a public panic."

The man explains as Stiles send his dad a mental message, telling him to calm down and his dad replying that he shouldn't be using his power if someone could see him using it.

Satomi and Deaton bring one of her sick male Betas into the animal clinic.

" I don't how the disease progressed in my pack. It starts with a fever followed by uncontrolled shifts including full unwarranted transformations, trouble standing, and sudden blindness. After they lost their eyesight, they had only a few minutes left before they passed away. I thought by moving them into the woods when moreof them got ill would be for the best."

Satomi explains as Deaton helps her carry one of her betas.

" We need to get him to the hospital."

" That's ever really been an option for our kind."

" I know someone who can help.

Melissa McCall exits the elevator at the hospital. She walks past a blond girl sitting in a chair in the hall crying softly. She heads into Braeden's room and begins to inject something into her IV.

" What are you doing Melissa?"

Derek asks as he just woke up from watching Braeden all night in her room, just m king sure she's okay.

" Relax it's Naloxone, a drug that counteracts other drugs like Morphine and Heroin. I need to wake Braeden up because the CDC has the school in quarantine. Besides I figured you would have been trying to get into the school since Scott is locked up with Stiles, Malia and Kira."

Braeden jerks awake as she remembers she was in the woods and she sees her self in the hospital.

" Relax Braeden you were shot, but you're now fine and in the hospital. I woke you up to ask you about what you found from the poisoned wolves in the woods."

" They weren't poisoned; they were infected with a virus designed to kill werewolves."

Lydia has returned to the white room in her Grandmother's lake house with a box of Meredith Walker's possessions from Eichen House. Lydia found out from Parrish Meredith took her own life about two weeks ago. She remembered racing to Eichen house to see Brunski removed a knotted bedsheet from Meredith's neck as Stiles was with Lydia as Lydia broke down crying as Meredith's body was taken away to the mortuary. She lays them out on the white carpet. First a nearly empty bottle of perfume with an old style atomizer bulb attached. Then comes a dried bouquet of flowers tied with a pink ribbon followed by a stuffed dog stuck to a photograph. She starts the red record player and while the static flows from the speakers she addresses Meredith. She explains that she's not a psychic and not much of a banshee, but that she wants desperately to help her friends. She also says she's sorry that she couldn't help Meredith.

Frustrated, she snatches the needle from the record and begins stuffing Meredith's belongings back in the box. As she picks up the stuffed dog, she notices the photograph stuck to it. Looking at the image she realizes that the picture of Meredith was taken in the same room where she is now. The black and white image shows the edge of the record player, the wall outlet and one of the sconces inside the white room in her grandmother's lake house.

The CDC is taking blood from each student. As Malia and Kira wait in line since Scott and Stiles' blood were already taken and Stiles made sure that Scott's blood appears human.

" Kira do you ever get the feeling that Scott and Stiles aren't telling us everything?"

"if you're wondering about the duffel bag of money, all I know is that the money belongs to Peter."

" No I meant the deadpool. I think I'm on the list, but for some reason they won't tell me about it."

" Well you've been stressed with studying, why stress you out even more."

Mali just shrugs as they are next in line to have their blood drawn, Stiles made sure their blood appears human as well. Sheriff Stilinski and Agent McCall question the CDC worker about the situation. But she smarts off at them that since both their sons are inside, they can debrief each other. McCall also heard that it was smallpox. The Sheriff says he thinks another assassin is a work.

The four find Kira's father as he wonders if they were okay as he explains to them that there may be an assassin in the school. Stiles explains that he sensed something in the air which is why he placed a safety spell on them and Stiles waves his hand to reveal that there's a virus in the air, but it seems it's been modified to kill werewolves. Stiles suggests they use the vault to escape. They decide that the Hales would have an escape route somewhere inside the school.

Using a set of blueprints of the school, they figure out where the vault must be in relation to the rest of the school. Mr. Yukimura suggests it would probably be accessible from the basement. They head down to the basement and quickly find the triple spiral of a triskelion carved into the way with a familiar metal grate in the center. Stiles mutters something as he sends something to the hospital.

" From what I can see, it looks like it opens with claws."

Stiles says as Scott glares at him as he looks at Malia.

" I'll do it, but you two have to tell me what you've been hiding about me? If I'm on the deadpool, I have a right to know and how much I am worth."

Malia says as Stiles and Scott look relieved as they watch her stand in front of the vault.

" Well you're worth $4 million. You don't seemed shocked by this"

Stiles says as she cracks hers fingers as her claws come out with ease.

" Well Scott is worth $25 million and Kira is worth $6 million so they'll take them out way before me."

Malia inserts her claws in the wall grate and twists. Light comes from the door lock as the mechanism recedes into the wall and the door opens. The four enter the vault and door closes behind them. Meanwhile Melissa is helping Deaton with Satomi's sick beta. He is now vomiting black goo as a small bird apppears before them and a vial is injected into the neck of the sick beta by the bird. The sick beta starts to cough before all the black goo is removed from his system as he starts to ask what happened and why he can't remeber anything as Satomi hugs him for being alive. Deaton and Melissa smile as the bird hands them a note before it vanishes.
The note reveals that they are doing fine and are in the Hale vault for now, trying to escape the school.

In the vault, Stiles is examining the vault as Scott listens outside to see if anyone has noticed they are missing. Lydia arrives at the school as night falls. The sheriff allows her past the police line. The sheriff asks Lydia if she senses anything, Lydia whispers that someone will die if they don't hurry into the school. In the vault, Scott is listening at the door as he notices Stiles is reading a folded up paper.
Scott pulls Stiles towards the door as Malia and Kira as examining the different jars inside the vault.

" We need to tell Malia the truth about Peter being her father."

Scott whisper to Stiles, low enough so that Kira and Malia don't hear them.

" You do realize that Peter's name is not on the list. This makes him either incredibly lucky or The Benefactor. If Malia finds out about him she will go after him and Peter will then "twist his way in" like he does with everyone! You let him walk around like he Peter walk around like he's one of the good guys!"

" Why would Peter betray us?! I mean he's protected the pups from Kate he gave me this necklace!"

" Peter is NOT one of the good guys. If Malia finds out about him she is gone and that is probably what Peter is counting on."

Stiles volunteers to go outside since his magic will keep them uninfected and he can make sure they get out without anyone seeing them. Stiles gives Malia hia jacket as he leaves the three in the vault, back at the hospital, Deaton is in Braeden's room with Satomi, Derek, Melissa and the unsick beta.

" The virus is a variant of canine distemper. 40% of the wolf population in Yellowstone National Park was killed a few years ago during an outbreak of the disease."

Deaton explains as Melissa tries not to worry even though Scott is safe.

"Will it so something to our wolf population?"

" The virus has been altered to infect quite a bit faster or weaponized Derek calls it."

" Well they have Stiles there and with his mage powers, he can protect them. The question is who's the assassin?"

Derek asks as Deaton looks to Satomi who hasn't shown any signs of the virus.

Back at the school, Stiles is looking for Mr. Yukimura in the CDC's triage area. He spots coach and realizes that he is the only adult to become infected. Stiles races to the coach's office tears through everything, looking for something that might have caused him to become ill. He finds nothing but does notice a stack of Permission Slip/Liability Release Forms. The top few are stamped with "APPROVED" in red, but midway through, the color becomes fainter and fainter until coach changed to black ink. Stiles notices black ink fingerprints on a coffee mug and remembers how each student had to ink their thumbs before taking the PSAT. He realizes that the ink pad was the source of the outbreak just as "The Chemist" steps into the room with a hand gun. He fires off a round and Stiles smirks as he blocks the bullet, but the bullet drops as a red mist covers Stiles' face as he feel his magic drop, thus weakening the protection spell he had on them. Back in the vault, Malia is digging her hands into pockets of the jacket where she finds the folded paper. Scott goes to stop her only to see her eyes are cloudy as she says she can't see and Scott sees his vision blurs along with Kira's.

At the hospital, Satomi says her pack was attacked by another assassin with a gun. She then tells Derek how much he looks like Talia Hale and says she used to visit the Hale House often before the fire. Derek says he remembers because she used to bring stinky tea. Satomi explains that it was Wild Purple Reishi. Deaton realizes the tea inoculates her against the virus. Derek realizes that they still have some of the mushrooms in the vault. Derek goes to get the elevator to go to Scott only to see it already opening. At this moment the girl we saw crying in the hospital hallway earlier exits the elevator, gun in hand. She fires on both werewolves. Derek dives in front of Satomi. The old alpha simply dodges the bullets "matrix style" while walking right up to the assassin. She stabs the girl in the neck, killing her as Derek runs off to get to Scott.

Coach Finstock wakes up in the isolation area and seems fine. All the students begin to recover as well. All signs of the virus are gone as "The Chemist" walks in front of Stiles into the locker room.

" You really thought no one would know about you arch mage. It took me awhile to come up with that compound. I knew you had to something to do with your friends not getting infected right away. Since your powers are weakened, I say they are feeling the effects about now. The virus doesn't kill humans. Where is the alpha female, the kitsune and the werecoyote?!. I'll kill you if you don't tell me and judging by the way you're trying not to fall, you can't even protect yourself . Start talking or when I get to 2, there is a gunshot and blood sprays all over your face."

Stiles closes his eyes as the assassin places the barrel of the gun to his forehead. A small hole has appeared in the middle of "The Chemist's" forehead. He falls to the floor as a hazmat suited figure walks through the door. It is Scott's dad. Rafe McCall as he makes sure Stiles is okay.

" I got a call from Melissa. I don't know what it means, but she said there is an antidote, reishi mushrooms, in a jar on one of the shelves inside the vault."

Stiles races to the outside of the vault once he remembered a vial of antidote he had in his pocket. Scott starts to roar in the vault as his transformations are getting out of control, his roar breaking the glass where the mushrooms are held and the mushroom spores fill the air. Stiles uses his magic to purge the virus and fix the jar of mushrooms as Scott hugs him. The sheriff and Lydia enter the school. She rushes to her mother who says she was just trying to get a little overtime. Derek arrives to see the chemist carried off in a body bag as he rushes to Scott and hugs him hard as Stiles goes to help Kira and Malia. Kira thanks Stiles for helping, but Malia pushes him away as she leaves without saying anything. Stiles rubs his chest as he feels paper on his chest. Stiles realizes that she saw her name listed as "Malia Hale" on the Dead Pool list.

Meanwhile we go to the sewers where we see Kate is washing blood off her body in a storm drain under the street as her berserkers are watching her. The berserkers growl warningly as Peter arrives as she holds one hand up to silence her berserkers as he grabs her shotgun.

"I can follow anyone, anywhere even into a sewer. It's getting worse isn't it, your surges of anger? I too struggled with anger and would break my toys in little fits of rage. i then realized I could break someone else's toys instead."

" Just stop with the sales pitch and tell me what you want!"

" Obviously we are in a mutually assured destruction situation."

" I don't think the scales are that well balanced."

" I know what you want Kate. You want to return the Argents to power, but you can't until you learn control. I can teach you control in exchange for my money, all of it!"

" I don't believe that,there must be something more than just your life savings."

He leans in close, her eyes glowing green as he whispers in her ear.

" There is something else I want, it's what I've always wanted. It's power I crave."