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[freezerburns]

[Spam]

[Vampires and werewolves don't mix. Apparently they really don't mix, down to the molecular level. Isaac's bleeding black, like Scott had when the alpha pack had wounded him, when he hadn't been healing. His body's fighting back against the infection but he's missing a lot of blood and it's healing slow or maybe it's not even healing at all.

He couldn't kill her. He couldn't even fight back against her really, because dead or not, vampire or not, it was Allison. He'd seen her hurting and then he'd watched her die and it had broken something in him; he couldn't hurt her, even when the smell of death had been all over her. When she'd pulled him in - with that unnatural strength, so much stronger than she had any right to be - he couldn't make himself stop her as she sank fangs deep into his neck.

He drags himself up towards the deck without planning on going that way, not thinking he should get to the infirmary, not thinking anything, hand pressed hard against his neck like it's going to keep his blood in his body. It's like he can't breathe and he wants to see the open stars up on deck because it feels like the walls of the corridors are closing in around him. There's bloody black ooze bubbling out between his fingers and out of his nose and he's dizzy and sick. He leaves streaks of the stuff on the the railings of the stairs and where he brushed against the wall. He keeps thinking that he wasn't even there when Jerry got her. He wasn't there at all, he just trusted she'd be okay.

He failed her, again.

He gets out onto the deck and with the open sky above him he sinks to his knees, fumbles out his communicator and sends out a message.]


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[When he talks, it's through a mouthful of black blood which runs down his chin with the words and it feels like he's numb all over except for the burning infected heat of the wound in the side of his neck, the feel of his werewolf healing fighting against the change. His eyes are gold and his face is pale. He doesn't know what to do but he has to tell them.

He's leaking black down his neck and it's running between his fingers and staining his shirt and it hurts, but his voice doesn't break or hitch. His own injury isn't important. He couldn't do anything but maybe that's just because he's not good enough. He's never been good enough. All he keeps thinking is it all happened so fast. His hands are numb and he doesn't even bother trying to filter the message.]

Scott, Allison's a vampire. He got her.

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[freezerburns]

Thanks, dude. I'm okay.

[Except, you know, he's really, really not. There's a beat or two and then:]

I shouldn't've left her alone.

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[voluntaryapnea]

[He knows it's a lie, but he doesn't call him on it. Calling him on it doesn't feel right in this situation, so he lets it go, though his expression is still worried.]

This isn't your fault. It's Jerry's.

[He rakes his hand through his hair. He wants the vampire dead. Really dead. Permanently dead. But he doesn't think there's a way to make it happen and it's frustrating as hell.]

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[freezerburns]

[Isaac wants him dead too. So, so badly. Even if it's not a wardenly thought. He'd do it himself as soon as he got out of the infirmary, if not for the possibility that he'd be demoted and lose his chance at a deal. That's literally the only thing holding him back from trying. He shakes his head, wincing at the pain in his neck.]

I knew he was going after her. He left this-- this message, spelling it out and I should've... I just should've done something.

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[voluntaryapnea]

[It's not a wardenly thought. But they're far from perfect. He'd go after Jerry if he could figure out some kind of weapon to actually kill him with that wouldn't result in his own death. It isn't even that he cares that much about dying or not, but he knows what it would do to Lydia. To Scott. And he won't put them through that if he can avoid it. He goes back to biting his thumb.]

He's stronger than you. No offense.

[And he really doesn't mean offense with his words. The blood sucker had gone after Scott and granted, Scott hadn't been at full alpha power at the time, but still. Something has to be done about Jerry. Something big. Something he can't come back from, even if it's not death.]

They were talking about asking the Admiral to strip all of Jerry's power from him. The other wardens, I mean.

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[freezerburns]

Not offended.

[Because he knows that. It wouldn't stop him throwing himself at Jerry if he was protecting Allison or Scott or even the rest of the pack, and it's not the thing keeping him from going after him right now, but he knows. It's just that he still feels totally responsible and painfully guilty. He curls his hands up in the sheet, feeling weak and pathetic.]

You think he'd do it? You think it'd work?

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[voluntaryapnea]

[It wouldn't stop Stiles either. He watches the way Isaac's hands curl up in the sheet and he glances around, spotting a neatly folded blanket on an empty bed and rising, moving over to it and picking it up, laying it over him wordlessly before sitting back down.]

I hope so, man. I don't know what else to do. Even if we found a way to kill him, he'd just come back. And he'd probably take at least one of us out in the process. If the Admiral doesn't strip him of his powers, I don't know what else to do.

[And Stiles hates feeling helpless.]