Burn Amongst Humanity [D. Hale ]

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"Sundowning"
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Casey was running into the school after Beatrice, as they could all hear Malia's growling. Beatrice held out a hand to Casey, who stopped rather quickly at the sight of it.

Beatrice took off running once again right when she heard the barking of a coyote, as Casey followed.

They were in the boiler room and Malia was crouching in the corner as she was snarling at them all. "We are the problem, not her." Casey explained and Scott looked at her.

"What the hell, are you talking about?" Scott asked and Casey was shaking her head.

"She is not the problem here. We are. This is her territory, we need to leave. Now like, right now." Lydia said and Casey nodded a little, quickly now pointing at Lydia in agreement.

Beatrice was the first one now to get out of the room, remembering rather distinctly that coyotes, despite having siblings, they really don't like werewolves at all.

"Malia came here to get through the full moons. Until we started to use the lake house. Then Casey, she was able to bring them all together into the Hale Loft, so that we didn't have to use the Lake House." Lydia explained.

"I thought you said that a wild animal had gotten into the lake house." Natalie Martin said.

"Just be happy about all of the things that I don't tell you." Lydia declared to her mother and Casey was nodding a little, as she heard the very familiar sound of transformation, out of full animal form, right back again to human form.

"Here Malia." Beatrice held out her jacket to Malia, while Casey offered up an extra pair of pants for Malia to wear.

"It's all right. I'm okay. Thanks for these." Malia noted and Beatrice was completely unbothered, by the clear fact that her sister was butt-naked and Beatrice looked at Casey, who shrugged.

"Derek evolved, you've evolved, Malia can full-shift. You guys all show up and are completely in the nude, am I really meant to be bothered by it now?" Casey asked and Beatrice shrugged.

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Casey was rather reluctantly now policing the party, while Beatrice was trying to keep the whole damn house from falling apart. Beatrice grabbed Nathan off of Liam and flung him into the crowded party.

Beatrice was shaking her head and she was leaning against the wall and Casey was looking at her and she was recognizing the look on her face.

"Hey, are you all right?" Casey questioned and Beatrice silently nodded at the words. "No, you are not." Casey realized.

"I guess that I just forgot how hard it is, when you feel... Just, kind of like you have got nobody in your corner."

"You've got me, kid, always." Casey reminded her and Beatrice shook her head and Casey sighed, nodding in understanding. "You pretended to hate him for awhile, but, you did care about Theo didn't you?" She asked as Beatrice didn't answer, but her silence was Casey's answer. "I won't tell if you help me out with something."

"Help you out with what?" Beatrice asked softly and Casey smiled at her eagerness, as Beatrice's ears perked up.

"Help me to crack a murder case." She said and then out of nowhere, Gwen's scream echoed through the house.

"Liam, it's a Ghost Rider." Corey called out as he had flattened himself against the wall and, he had turned to his invisible state. "Headed for the kitchen. Right there!" Corey, he had made the Ghost Rider visible and at the sight, Casey drew her gun at once.

"Everybody out. Now!" Corey shouted and everyone was screaming and running for the exits, and then, as soon as everyone was clear, Casey was firing at the Ghost Rider.

Beatrice had jumped swiftly in front of Gwen without thinking and Mason threw down the mountain ash and in a moment, Casey jumped cleanly over the ash barrier without breaking it, as she reloaded her guns and fired again swiftly.

Beatrice jumped swiftly right into the air onto the back of the Ghost Rider at the sight of Gwen, swiftly being yanked around by her ankle.

Beatrice roared and the Ghost Rider flung her onto the ground floor hard and she coughed, spitting blood to the side.

After a very timely intervention and the arrival of Jordan Parrish at McCall house, the Ghost Rider, he had swiftly disappeared out of the house. "Good timing, Jordan." Casey signed and he was nodding, lowering his gun at the sight of them.

"Everyone all right?" He asked and they were all nodding as Casey looked at Beatrice, who was looking down at her hands, her claws which were now trembling and shaking. "Beatrice, are you all right?" Jordan asked and Beatrice focused hard onto her claws, as they turned back into fingernails at the words.

"Uh yeah, sorry." Beatrice murmured as Casey looked over at her. "We need to go, now." She said quietly as Casey was nodding a little bit. Casey walked out of the house and Beatrice walked after her and Casey got into the car.

Beatrice got into the passenger seat and Casey looked at her, as Beatrice was still shaking with adrenaline back from the fight.

"Am I right about what we were talking about before, earlier?" She asked as Beatrice nodded slightly at the words.

"I hate it when you're right." Casey smiled at the words and Beatrice was looking at her. "How in the actual hell, could you even tell?" She asked.

"Because I used to get told by Laura and Peter, that I looked just like that whenever Derek, whenever he hadn't talked to me for a few weeks." Casey noted and Beatrice nodded. "Look, if you need to talk, I'm here. I'm not exactly planning to now go anywhere in the near future, anyhow." She said and Beatrice smiled at the words and Casey drove off, headed back toward the loft where Trent Argent, was now waiting and watching both of the twins and Talia.