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Dereck's Old Loft

Scott and I walk together side by side for the first time in awhile as we walk up the stairs into the loft. The pack follows us from behind and we stay quiet as we're defeated and exhausted by all of Lykos' unexpected attacks. It's hard to say if we even have a shot anymore.

"Anything new on Daniel?" Scott asks me as we continue walking up the stairs.

"He hasn't replied to anything I sent. I'm getting worried." I respond back to him as it's suspicious for Daniel to just go MIA. I would've checked up on him and seen him this morning to make sure everything was alright, but a lot is happening. There's a lot on the table as of now.

"You should check up on him after this." We finally get to the door and Scott opens it.

"I will." I reply back to him and as the door opens I spot two figures standing by the window of the loft. I spot the tall icy haired Chris turning towards me as he's alive! "Chris." I gasp out and the pack stops as this is unexpected and suspicious. Daniel comes out of the bathroom but as he does, we all notice something completely different with his appearance. "Daniel?"

"In the flesh." Daniel responds as he stands next to Chris and this is strange. This is a very unlikely partnership. "Well... New flesh." Daniel corrects himself as I stare at a hunky and more masculine version of my boyfriend with facial features more enhanced.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Liam growls as he takes out his claws and Mason aims a gun at Chris as I know Mason has no idea how to use a gun.

"Don't!" I shout at Liam and Mason as Chris raises his hands warning them.

"You fire, I fire." Chris threatens Mason and Liam, and Daniel blocks Liam and Mason by using his body to protect Chris.

"What're you doing here? Actually, what the hell is going on!?" I shout confused as I'm done with the secrets. Liam and Mason calm themselves down, and Daniel hesitates as Chris puts his hands down chilling out.

"He wants to help." Daniel says and I look at Chris seeing bits of him there.

"Help? With what?" Scott gets dominant trying to hurry the conversation, and get to the point as we're nervous that this might be a plan for Lykos.

"To reverse the effects of my antidote." Daniel says and he looks directly at me. "I'm the other horsemen, and pretty soon, Lykos is going to use me..." Daniel pauses and then looks at Lydia and back at Killer Frost. "... against you all."

"What do you mean effects?" I ask and one of the plants in the room begin to move by itself. The plant grows a vine, as it slithers on the ground making its way to Daniel's leg.

"So we're supposed to trust a super villain to help us?" Mason speaks up and Chris tilts his head getting annoyed with Mason's commentary about him.

"If you help me figure out how to get rid of Daniel's powers, everything can go back to normal." Chris says explaining the situation clearer to us but he's leaving things out.

"But we still fight in the woods." Lydia says to Chris.

"And Lykos still hunts us down." Scott speaks up getting nervous to take this opportunity and I do too. Chris isn't sided with us, and he isn't sided with Lykos. He's in the middle... He's conflicted, left with no other choice to be the bad guy we've painted him to be.

"Life is full of difficult choices." Chris says and Daniel looks at us wanting to be reverted back to normal as he's scared of what will be of him.

"Or it isn't." I respond back to Chris. "If you get rid of Daniel's powers then what's in it for you?" I ask knowing the Killer Frost personality of Chris.

"That's my business." Killer Frost responds back to me, quickly shutting me out of his thoughts. "You think Daniel isn't going to turn evil like I did?" Killer Frost says doubting Daniel's morals and he's right.

"We won't make the same mistakes we did with you." Scott says and he's wrong, no matter what happens, Daniel will be turning to the way Lykos needs him to. Lykos will manipulate Daniel in any way he can to get Daniel to be his horseman.

"Okay... Maybe that is how you defeat Lykos." Chris says walking away, turning his back on us pretending to be uninterested with helping us. "But there's still a lot of other Supernatural threats in this town that could use Daniel against you, and no one to cure him. Is that really a chance you're willing to take?" Chris says as we stare at a frightened and nervous Daniel.

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Deaton's Vet Clinic

I stand by a table mixing chemicals together as I remake the same exact antidote that Daniel made for himself. I add some other chemical compounds into the antidote making sure that these key ingredients alter his DNA strain back to his normal self. The goal is to rid of his powers, but suppressing them will have to do if I can't rid of his powers.

Lydia and Stiles work behind me as Lydia takes care of Daniel, reassuring that his vitals are still good and that nothing is changing while we're doing this. Stiles emotionally comforts Daniel making sure he's okay and calm.

"Nothing bad is going to happen to you. I'm here." Stiles says reassuring Daniel and the more I hear him talk to Daniel, the more I want to freeze his mouth shut.

"I can't help to think the worst." Daniel says as he's fearful of what is to become of him. I don't give them any attention as I'm focused on getting rid of this situation as fast as I can. Chris is the one pulling these strings for them, it's his last act of good before I get to take over for good.

"I promise." Stiles says and as he does, I pause what I do and have a flashback of a memory of Chris' when Stiles said the same. He lied. "You alright there Chris?" Stiles notices me and I get back to work.

"You know not to call me by his name." I tell him and mix two chemicals together creating one.

"Well it's your name, and don't do the whole third person thing... it's weird." Stiles begins to sound arrogant and he hasn't completely understood that me and Chris are two different people. "It's you, you're the same perso-"

"-Hand me the syringe." I say out loud cutting him off from his sentence. Chris might've had the patience to deal with Stiles' snarky and blunt comments but I don't. "I think I have it ready, but we'll have to see if everything is good under the microscope." Stiles gets up, grabbing the syringe and he walks up to me giving it out for me to reach from his hand.

I reach for the syringe and he pulls his hand away from me, making a fool out of me. I give Stiles a cold gaze as I could just freeze Daniel and call it a day, but I'm not. Killing Daniel would've been an easier thought, but Chris denies it.

"What?" I ask him with an angry tone and Stiles chuckles and hands me the syringe.

"Nothing." Stiles walks away and Lydia looks at us making sure everything is okay. "Look at us." Stiles says with a joyful tone as he stands around doing nothing but bothering us. "The old trio working away." Stiles refers to Lydia, Chris and himself but things are different, very different. "Just like old times." I ignore Stiles as I transfer my antidote for Daniel and his current DNA into the microscope slide so that I can analyze what I've created and see whether the chemicals are working together to battle Daniel's current Aloe blood cells.

"Hey Lydia and Daniel." Stiles distracts them both, bringing them into the conversation. "Did Chris ever tell you all about our time at the motel with Ethan?" Stiles brings up a memory that warms Chris' heart and I know exactly what Stiles is doing.

"No, what happened?" Lydia plays along and I continue to ignore them and I feel her and Daniel stare at me.

"Well, there was this one time when Ethan was on the opposing side for awhile, and Chris knew that Ethan was bad news but something about Ethan drew Chris in. Chris made Ethan a better person that night at the motel." Stiles continues on with the story and I feel their eyes stare at me as I look at the microscope seeing the cells doing good for this antidote, meaning that it's ready. "So that night, a lot of strange shit happened to all of us at the motel, it caused all the werewolves, even Scott to lose control. Chris and I found Ethan who was under some sort of mind control and almost hurt himself with a chainsaw. So Chris and I fought Ethan off and no matter how much scratches and claw wounds Ethan gave Chris, Chris was determined to snap him out of it until he did. Ethan got scared of himself and he ran off into the school bus for our meet, and hid there when Chris found him. Ethan was scared of hurting Chris again and Chris got so red and heated up and yelled out 'Snap out of it you werefool-'

"I know what I signed up for!" I finish the story for him as I remember it so clearly. It was the same night that I told him that I'd loved him no matter what he did to me. I make a small smile remembering how embarrassed Ethan was of himself for clawing at me and how frustrated I got with him for denying that I couldn't love him because of this minor inconvenience.

"Yeah!" Stiles shouts joyfully and then laughs happily. "I think about all the memories I cherish the most, and you're in every single one of them Chris." Stiles tells me and I feel a part of Chris get stronger.

"Let's figure this out." I tell them as the antidote is ready for Daniel. "I don't want to be here any longer than I have to." I ruin their moment of hope and begin to get back to work as I make the antidote a bit more stronger.

"Suit yourself." Stiles says and we go back to an awkward silence. I finally get the antidote perfect and walk towards Daniel. I clean his arm with a wipe, disinfecting his vein and inject the antidote into his bloodstream. Daniel relaxes as the antidote is working and it puts him to a deep slumber as I expected it for him.

"He'll be out for a couple of hours. It's part of the process." I reassure them and Stiles looks at me as he holds Daniel's hands.

"Thank you." Stiles tells me and I ignore his thanks and begin to make my exit out of the hellish place of non stop barking from dogs. "We could use you to fight Lykos." Stiles says and I scoff.

"Have fun with that." I leave the clinic walking out and as I leave the place, the pack follows me from behind. I stop at the parking lot and turn around to see them all gathered together as they look at me getting ready to confront me.

"Now you wanna fight?" I shout getting my hands ready to freeze them all.

"We don't want to fight you. We never did want to." Scott says making himself clear.

"Can't really avoid that now can we?" I tell them seriously as this is the only way. I chose this life and I'm going to stick by it.

"Yeah we can. You can stay here with us." Scott responds back to me. "We're your friends. We're your family." I ignore him, turning around walking towards the woods.

"Chris, I can fix you!" Stiles shouts and I turn around quickly towards him.

"You already tried!" I correct him as he's failed. I was betrayed by them all and treated like a disease! They couldn't handle my true potential, and I have no place with them and anyone either.

"Then I'll try harder!" Stiles begs me and it's pathetic. "I don't care what it takes. I don't care what I have to do. I swear to you, I will find you a cure." I stare at Stiles, not because I want to, but because Chris wants to. "" Stiles opens himself up completely to me and I stare at him coldly.

"." I respond back to him, destroying him. "." I stare deep into his eyes making sure he receives the message. "." I stare at all of them as some of them have already given up on reaching out to Chris as they should. Chris is dead, gone forever! They all made sure of it with their actions.

I walk away from them, heading back into the woods and as I do, I feel apart of myself melt away for a second. I lose control of myself and battle to gain control over Chris' weak emotions.

I'm back. I let out a gasp of air through my body for the first time in what seems to be MONTHS as I'm in control but the control doesn't last long enough. Killer Frost quickly freezes me up, engulfing himself in all the rage and anger I've had throughout these years.