TR -Epilogue

The Chimeras

Tara Raeken woke up feeling lighter since ever.

It was the first since fifteen years ago where her path crossed the Dread Doctors, she didn't have to care about them or worry their modified mercury would kill her. Because not only they died two years ago but they found the cure. Well, the McCall Pack did.

Now, she could say they did save the Raekens.

But things weren't actually end.

She experimented on twelve people like them and turned them to something else. No quite Chimeras, but neither simple enhanced human like she thought. Some of them developed powers and others just forget she was the one who allowed them to have it.

Besides, one of the subjects went on flight.

First thing first, she had to know where were their location.

She got up and checked on her brother sleeping soundly against his werecoyote mate then headed for the lab.

There was a man.

She froze because she didn't expect him and even less when she recognized him as the same man that attacked her in Washington. But she didn't have anything to worry, her condition was optimal, he didn't have a reason to get rid of her.

He barely glanced at her.

"This place should never have exist."

"I agree. Let me just take something before I let you do whatever you had to do."

He considered it before stilling allowing her to take what she need. She pulled out a stack of paper in a drawer, check the infos inside then let the papers lie on the engine. She nodded at him and he just set the place en fire. Everything got burnt. The seat, the engine, the thread with the incomplete green serum and the papers.

Tara just looked at it with relieve. She turned her heels and get out of the place without regret.

One of the sujbect, Belasko the older, lived outside of Beacon Hills but was a Beacon County resident. Except, in her file, there was also an adress at Los Angeles, so she went to retrieve the rogue experiment who thought he could rip off. Especially with his interesting power.

She just regretted she could not call and gather all the experiments anymmore, as the man in fire annihilated the lab and the engine. Now, she had to look for them one by one.

The girls were the easy one as they followed her without a question even if it could be considered an ungoldly hour during summer holidays. The younger men were also quite docile and the one who complained about the time shut their mouth at her reptilian gaze, and skin, and fangs. She didn't have any time to waste and want to end this case quickly, if you don't mind.

(The only one who really wasn't tractable got a piece of her strong paw and the sound of his breaking bones was so loud that no one ever thought about saying anything.)

She rallied them at the animal clinic who wasn't opened yet, being on week end. And there were some breakage due to the man in fire and one of the beta's fight, so it could take some time before it open.

"So, now, we're all here, let's start. Who don't want their power anymore?"

She thought it would be the best thing to start with as some did show some complain about their condition, or even the fact they had to extract some blood. Good news, as she was going to end this. However nobody said anything, probably when she said removing this part would end badly to them was convincing to make them experiment but deterrent to even think about taking it off.

"OK, let's start again. Who like their power?"

There were still hesitation, but Hayden Romero (bless this girl) was honest to raise her hand. So, her young peers raised it too (she counted three of them : Corey Bryant, Mason Hewitt and Josh Diaz). After another dead silence, Tracy Stewart raised her hand, and probably affronted to be raced by a woman, Lucas (the subject with poison power) raised his hand too. That made Corey smirk. The others remained unmoved and Tara arched her brow to Donovan Donati. The guy didn't want to extract blood for her but didn't even appreciate his enhencement, how ungratful.

"Well, it's not like I got some peculiar power."

"Well, you're about to lose your enhancement if you don't choose your next words perfectly."

That affected them.

"I introduce you a fellow esperiment, Belasko, who got a really interesting power. He could steal your ability."

As her statement gave another row of (dead) silence, she let go of her smirk.

"Interesting for me, at least. So, I give you two options : one, you want to get rid of you enhancement, so breaking free of our arrangement and Belasko will steal it from you, no repercussion."

She let a blank so they could register this information.

"What about the other?" Tracy Stewart chanced when the silence lengthen.

"Two, you want to keep your enhancement but you had to train it."

"With who?"

"I think I heard about a Buddhist pack great at keeping uncontrollable creature on toe. And since alpha Satomi Ito is great enough to help some people, she will gladly hep some of you with your ability. No other way."

Donovan Donati tsked as her eyes glowered at him.

"Oh yeah? And how do we contact them? I don't know about a Satomi pack," Lucas chimed up with an annoying smug face.

"I have one of the member's number."

The attention was divided as two people spoke up. A girl, Bella, and one of the young lad, Josh Diaz. Mason and Corey (a couple, if she didn't mistake) smirked at the latter.

"Brett's one?" Mason required.

"It's not what it's look like," Josh (with electricity affinity) mumbled, blushing a little.

"I'm good friend with his sister Lori," Bella answered Hayden's question.

"So, that solved, who want to get rid?"

Slowly, Bella stepped out and the rest followed the lead. Tara made Belasko use his stealing power on Bella, Beth, Zach (who chirped happily as his wings vanished with) and Noah Patrick. The guy was looking at Hayden like he owned her an explanation.

"Nothing against you but the werewolf's anger was threatening."

Hayden Romero sighed, knowing what he's referencing.

"Yeah, Liam's possessiveness is problematic," Mason confirmed.

"So I get you eight want to keep your ability?"

Hayden, Tracy, Josh, Mason and Corey nodded.

"I mean, I can turn invisible, look at all the possibility it gives me. Like, pubic display but no one would see it since I'm invisible!"

That... was unexpected as Tara was first thinking about some crime related possibility.

"Ew, TMI," Hayden fake-gagged, taunting Mason who was blushing and stuttering.

That made Tara chuckle. Kids these day tended to be oversexualized and it greatly amazed her as Theo never show any sign to be horny. But maybe being a loner played a little in that. Tara herself knew about one-night-stand as being forensic could be quite unfuriating and frustrating.

(Yet, even with the difficulty of pre-med, Theo didn't show sign of frustration, maybe he's asexual, after all.)

"OK, and you two?"

"I'm gonna train and keep my power," Lucas said.

"Yeah, same," Donovan mumbled begrudgingly.

"And what about him? I mean, he got to steal our ability if he wanted to, who is gonna stop him?" Lucas pointed at Belasko.

"Do not worry about that, this my work, that I already prepped it. Since his power is to steal, he will be under someone who know tons about that."

"I'm honored to know you think about me," a new voice spoke up.

Alpha Deucalion stepped out of the shadow and smiled darkly at them.

"Like you didn't know we were gathered here to end this case." Tara huffed at the man's show. "I think you all already know Deucalion, he's an alpha werewolf and is known to steal people's power, and their life. So, if Belasko here want to rule with his power, he had to go through the expert here."

The said man gulped while watching warily the old werewolf and his cheeky grin.

Once done, the group dissolved (with the arrival of Cara Hale to ask the Tracy girl on brunch date). But before that, Tara asked those who still got their enhancement to help fix a little the clinic with their strentgh, because she had some business with Deucalion. Like removing her Chimera's power.

 

The new generation

Liam Dunbar kept his promise and spend the promised day with his friends, rainchecked yeasterday.

They were all here, and even more.

Like, of course, his girlfriend Hayden would be here and his best friend Mason Hewitt, thus his boyfriend Corey Bryant. What he didn't expect was to see Nolan and Gabe to incrust themselves.

"Come on ! Now, we're also in the loop, we want to know more about it!"

"He wants to know more and draggs me with him," Gabe corrected because he may be under drug he won't let his excited friend determine his charactere.

Nolan just smacked lightly his friend's shoulder to call him out like that.

"Yeah, whatever, not like you could be a threat," Brett shrugged.

And that Brett would here too. With Josh Diaz, a sorta Chimera.

"Yeah, but your presence here is about..." Mason asked his ex.

Bless Mason.

"Well, I heard from my alpha that some of you need training with your ability, and since I know most of you and Josh, I could just make it one stone, two birds and gather with you."

"Sure," Hayden answered him with a grin.

Bless Hayden too.

Liam just felt left out about something. Especially when he heard Mason whispering to Corey about the supposedly relationship between the werewolf and the sorta chimera, then the conversation trailed to the werewolf's eight pack, hence leading the couple drooling about it. Liam huffed affectionaly to his best friend antics but also internally groaned because if he could hear them, Brett could too. Whatever, his smug smirk confirmed him.

"Anyway, what's you guys plan?"

Since they all finished college.

"I'm gonna be full time youtuber," Josh said.

"Oh really?"

"Yeah, after repeating senior year, I just realized education isn't for me. And since I have affinity with electricity, I coud easily make it in the platform."

"Isn't that cheating?" Nolan inquired.

"Please, all youtube use montage. Josh just won't have much to mount before posting."

"Interesting. I could open a channel too, about how to be freelance soldier, since I've been kick out from the army. Because, fuck government."

Nolan gaped at his friend, but seriously the idea is tempting.

"Yeah, I mean, everyone do make it on Youtube. I could open a channel about tutorial dance," Hayden agreed.

Like she really like dance and soccer but she just didn't have the fee to pay the school, and she's just by herself and her deputy sister Valerie.

"We could even colab. Viewers like it when various personality crash together," Josh encouraged her.

The group now put up three youtubers.

Corey and Mason would keep studying, management and science respectively to have some doctorat degree in San Francisco area. Liam already got his teaching lisence in history, his favorite class and could be teacher at Beacon Hills High School in fall. And Nolan...

"You want to be personal trainer? I don't know if I rather pity you or your students," Gabe told his friend not that kindly.

"Eh." Which of course wounded him.

"Well, you could always be youtuber personal coach if you don't make it IRL," Brett mocked.

Everything came to Youtube.

New Generation.

 

The Satomi Pack

"You didn't tell them waht you want to do," Lori said.

The siblings were wathing the sort of chimeras training with their alpha. Including meditation, yoga and the like to control their emotion, then, they could use their ability. Because 'The sun, the moon, the thruth' were the three things that couldn't be hidden.

"Yeah, they won't believe it anyway."

"So, you're just gonna surpise them."

Yeah, well, they would certainly be surprised to see the new pastry shop that would open shortly was under his name and his and his sister's work.

Who would know the gorgeous eight pack Brett was a secret pastry chef?

Well, Josh Diaz maybe, Lori would snorted. Since him and her brother were so regulars of Sinema they ended their night together.

"Besides it would be great to feed the little Shauna with all those sweet," Lori babbled about Derek and Braeden's adopted little wolf.

Brett laughed because his sister always managed to make him this way. Yeah, he could live with that.