trouble - teen wolf

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BEACON HILLS PRESERVE

[Its night time, a cricket chirps, and an owl hoots. In the middle of the woods, Chris Argent is next to a tree. He hears a sound and prepares to shoot who did it with his rifle but then he puts it down when he realizes who is coming is Melissa with a lantern. Chris sighs in relief and exasperation]

ARGENT: You might wanna think twice before you sneak up on a man holding a loaded M24.

[Melissa looks just as exasperated as Argent and looks at him tiredly]

MELISSA: [panting] I wasn't sneaking up on you. I was catching up with you.

[Argent doesn't look at all surprised by this news as though he already knew she was close to him]

ARGENT: I know. I heard you a mile back.

MELISSA: I found a low branch with my face. How can you see anything around here?

ARGENT: Practice. What are you doing, Melissa?

[Melissa hesitates a little before she starts speaking]

MELISSA: I thought maybe you could need some backup. Which way?

[Chris has a look on his face that he doesn't want to put Melissa's life at

risk]

MELISSA: You can leave out here alone with a stun gun and a box of band-aids or we can just keep going. It's up to you.

[Chris makes his decision and lets Melissa come with him by nodding her as if to say, "Okay, you can come" and Melissa holds a stun gun to defend herself before she and Chris smile at each other. They walk through the woods and Melissa looks a bit scared]

MELISSA: You're probably wondering why I'm here when I could be nestled in-home reading a book. That's because I'm sick of seeing people that I care about wheeled past the nurse's station on a hammock. All of you are here risking your lives... and is about time for me to do something too.

[Chris turns to Melissa with a serious look]

ARGENT: Who might experience, tracking homicidal supernaturals... is best to be quiet.

[Melissa nods, thinking that Chris is right]

ARGENT: Okay?

MELISSA: Okay.

[Once Melissa promises to be quiet, Chris turns to his front and has his rifle to defend himself as Melissa keeps behind but bumps into Chris when he stops for a moment]

MELISSA: What is it?

[Melissa realizes she has to talk quietly]

MELISSA: [quietly] What is it?

[Chris and Melissa walk toward what the former saw and Melissa uses her lantern to see through the dark and they find a bike next to a tree and another one a few feet away from the first one. Chris and Melissa notice a bicycler on the floor and Melissa places her hand on him to check his pulse and verify if he's alive or dead]

MELISSA: He's dead.

[Melissa and Chris look at the bicycler, lamenting they couldn't do anything to save him until blood falls into the boy's face. Melissa points her lantern to the tree where the blood fell and she and Chris see another bicycler, badly wounded. They gasp in shock and suddenly, the boy opens his eyes, revealing to be alive]

MELISSA: It's okay. You're gonna be okay.

[The bicycler agitates and bleeds blood before he falls from the tree and lands on the ground, dead. Melissa points her lantern to bicycler's head and he has wounds on his neck and nods that he is dead now too]