Chapter 257: Still Sisters
While Enzo was rallying the hockey team and Luke was evacuating the students into the tunnels where
it was safe, I wasing up with another n.
I couldn’t tell anyone about it — not even Enzo, Jessica, or Lori. It was too dangerous of a n, and I
knew that they would all disapprove of it. But it had to be done; I knew that the rogue leader was sent
here for me, and therefore I could lure him away from the others.
I hid several vials of the antidote in the inner pockets of my jacket, where no one would see them. My
n was maybe a little too rushed and simple, but it was all I coulde up with in the time that I had.
When everyone else was fighting, my n was to distract the rogue leader and lure him away from the
others. Then, once we were far enough away, I hoped to ambush him with the vials of antidote and turn
him human.
I just hoped that it would work. The rogue leader seemed to be gically engineered, so there was no
knowing exactly how much of the antidote it would take to turn him human. For all I knew, the antidote
wouldn’t even work at all. But I had to try something. If I could just take out the leader, then that would
make the rogues under hismand lose their momentum. If there was one thing I learned from the
first attack on the campus, it was that rogues needed a leader of some kind in order to get anything
done. Without that, they would break apart and would be less of a threat. Therefore, I was confident
that taking out their leader would make the rogues easily defeated. Maybe it would even make them
retreat.
I just managed to finish stuffing thest vial of the antidote into my jacket when Enzo and Matt
suddenly burst into the infirmary.
“Have you seen Selena?” Enzo asked, sounding somewhat agitated but still cool and level-headed at
the same time. “No one can find her. I hope she didn’t make a run for it. She could be up to something.”
I let out an exasperated sigh. “I’ll find her.”
We needed Selena somewhere safe. She was weaker now without any of her powers, which made her
an easier target. And if she was killed, then I would die too. She needed to be kept in the tunnels with
the others, where no one would be able to hurt her and where Luke could keep a close eye on her.
Enzo looked at his watch. “Judging from what Luke said, we should have a couple of hours before the
rogues get here,” he said. “I’m going to be busy getting the team ready to fight. Are you sure you’ll be
okay looking for her?”
I nodded. “I’ll be fine,” I replied. “I think I might know where she’s hiding, and she can’t hurt me now that
I have a wolf and she doesn’t.”
Enzo paused for a few moments. His brown eyes warily searched my face; I knew that he was
incredibly worried about me. With a weak smile, I walked up to him and nted a gentle kiss on his
cheek.
“I’ll be fine,” I whispered. “I’ll be back soon.”
Enzo nodded. His hand lingered on my face for a few moments before he dropped his arm back down
to his side and nodded for a second time. With a final squeeze of his hand, I pushed the infirmary door
open and ran out into the chaos.
Hundreds of students and frightened townspeople were running around the campus. Luke and a few
others were wrangling people and gathering them so they could be calmly informed of the situation and
taken into the tunnels. I tried to help a bit as I ran past, but I had an equally important mission of my
own to find Selena.
“If I were Selena, where would I be…” I whispered to myself as I jogged across campus. I knew that
she couldn’t be in her dorm, as Luke would have looked there first. I decided to try the lecture halls first,
since they had no windows and had desks to hide under. Plus, she knew those rooms wellpared to
the rest of campus.
I jogged into the ssroom building, then down the stairs into the basement where the threerge
lecture halls were held.
“Selena?” I called, pushing open the first door. I ran up and down the rows of seats, checking beneath
the desks, but she wasn’t there. She wasn’t in the maintenance closet, either. In fact, as I ran through
all three lecture halls, I realized that she wasn’t there. I cursed under my breath as I finished searching
thest one, then ran back out into the hall and looked around wildly for another option.
She was my twin; even though she didn’t have her wolf, we still had our twin bond. I knew that if I just
closed my eyes and focused really hard, I could get a sense of where she might have gone…
Suddenly, I got a feeling.
The bathrooms. She had to be in there.
I ran over to the girls’ bathroom and flung the door open.
“Selena?”
I was answered with silence, but I knew she was in here. I could sense it. I slowly began to walk down
the row of stalls and pushed each door open, looking for her.
“Selena, it’s safe toe out,” I said. “We have a ce where we’re taking all of the refugees. You’ll be
safe there. I promise I won’t let anything happen to you.”
Suddenly, I heard someone clear their throat from the stall at the end.
“Fuck off,” Selena growled.
I sighed and walked down to thest stall. When I tried to push the door open, it was locked; but I could
see Selena crouching on the toilet through the crack in the door.
“Selena,e on,” I begged. “We don’t have a lot of time. I’m just trying to keep you safe. The Luna
sent those rogues for us. You can’t hide on your own.”
“I’ll be fine,” she croaked. “Go away.”
A groan rumbled in my throat. “If you don’te out, I’ll break down the door and drag you to safety
myself. I don’t want either of us to die, Selena. Please.”
There was a long silence. I could see my sister’s wide, blue eyes staring at me through the crack in the
door for a long time before she finally jumped down off of the toilet and slowly opened the door. When
she opened it, I could see now that she had a knife in her trembling hand.
I held my hands up in surrender and took a step back.
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“There’s no need for that,” I said.
Selena’s face darkened. “How do I know you’re not trying to y a trick on me or something?”
I sighed. “There’s no way I can convince you for certain, and I know that,” I replied calmly. “I just need
you to trust me. Regardless of everything, you’re my twin sister. If the Luna gets her way, we won’t
have any family left except for each other. I promise I’ll protect you, but you need to trust me.”
Selena stared at me for a few long moments. For a long time, I wasn’t sure if she would make a stab at
me, run, or listen to me.
But finally, she lowered the knife and stared down at the floor.
“Fine,” she whispered. “I’ll go with you.”