Chapter 16: Anna's Memory

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Hannah and Anna sit in the former's bedroom, reading about anything to do with the Dread Doctors and their experiments.

Anna keeps glancing over at the blonde, contemplating whether or not to tell her about her lost memory. Hannah notices and it progressively gets more and more annoying. Finally, she snaps. "An, I love you, but this thing you're doing is getting annoying."


"What thing?" Anna feigns confusion.

"You keep looking at me. What do you want to say?" Hannah leans back, looking at Anna.

"I-I got my memory back." Hannah's eyes widen. "And I'm not sure what to do about it."


"What happened?"


Anna hesitates and sighs. "You can't tell anyone, ok? Not Scott, not Stiles, no one."


"Of course." Hannah agrees.

"I was little. Maybe 5 or 6." Anna starts off. "And I was running, terrified of whatever was chasing me. I hid in an alleyway and the Dread Doctors followed." Anna pauses before continuing. "They injected me with something and said, 'Phase one complete. Phase two commencing.'" Anna finally meets Hannah's eyes. "I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do now."

"You need to tell Lydia." Is Hannah's first response. She stands, ready to walk over to Anna's house.

"No!" Anna exclaims, standing as well. "You can't! You said you wouldn't."


"I thought it was something with Liam. Do you even realize what this could mean?" Hannah fires back.

"Of course I know what it could mean and I'm terrified, Hannah!" Anna yells. "I'm terrified that I might be next. I'm terrified that whatever is happening to Hayden and Liam will happen to me. You can't tell anyone, please!" By this point, Anna is crying.

"They need to know." Hannah says softly. "They need to know so they can protect you."

"Hannah, they can't know." Anna says adamantly. "I can't let them know."

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Hannah walks into the McCall household alone to see Liam and Hayden cuddling on the couch, asleep. Scott, Mason, Lydia, Theo and Malia all turn to her as she walks in.

Liam wakes up slowly and first looks down at Hayden. He then looks up to see everyone looking at him, relieved. "Hey guys. What'd I miss?" He asks.

"You scared us." Hannah says from behind him. He looks back to see the disappointed blonde.

It is then that Liam realizes he forgot something, or in this case, someone. "Where's Anna?"


"She's at my house." Hannah answers cooly. The rest of the pack look at her, confused by her reaction.

"I gotta go see her." Liam starts to get up when Hannah pushes him down.

"I'm not letting you see her." Hannah scoffs. "Do you know how worried she was?" She doesn't leave enough time for him to answer. "She practically passed out from exhaustion— and don't worry, she's fine, thanks for asking— and you all," She looks around. "Took your sweet time telling us that they were safe."


"Hannah, I need to talk to her." Liam says softly.

"I came here to talk to Scott." Hannah snaps. "If I find out that you go to see her, I will personally kick your ass into next week. So I suggest you fall back asleep and keep your little girlfriend there next to you."

Liam shuffles uncomfortably under her gaze and pushes Hayden off of him. "That's what I thought." Hannah grabs Scott's arm and drags him out of the house so they won't be heard.

"That didn't look like problems." Scott says.

"That's because they aren't having problems. They broke up." Hannah informs him. "Anna doesn't want anyone to know because apparently, Liam told you it was problems rather than a break. She thinks he doesn't want anyone to know, so she's following his lead."


Scott stares at her, shocked by the information. "And if that's not enough of a kick in the balls, I'm pretty sure Liam's already moved on with Hayden which was the whole reason for the break up. But that's not what I came to tell you."


"What else could there possibly be? Another chimera?" Scott exclaims, groaning.

"If I tell you this," She lowers her voice. "I am breaking my promise to your sister. If you tell anyone what I am about to tell you, I will have you de-balled."


"Anyone ever tell you that you could be Stiles' little sister?" Scott grimaces.

"Do you want to know or not?" Hannah hisses. "Because I feel like I'm the only one who is even a little bit concerned for Anna's health and safety."


"Tell me what happened." Scott demands.

"She told me about the memory she remembered." Hannah starts out, her voice barely about a whisper. "She was young and apparently the Dread Doctors injected her with something. She said that they said, 'Phase one complete. Phase two commencing.' Now, I don't know about you, but Dread Doctors being concerned with a human? That's can't be a coincidence unless..." Hannah trails off, letting Scott work it out on his own.

His eyes light up in realization. "Unless she's a chimera."



SURPRISE?!?!?! Was that a good semi-reveal? Did you like it?

So, I'm going to ask a question and if anyone guesses correctly, I will post a bonus chapter on Wednesday. The chapter will be different than normal because I just want to try it. I've seen many people (like the awesome twerkingforfood1) write bonus chapters with the actresses/actors that play the characters in the story (sorry that's sort of confusing). Basically it'll be like an interview with Danielle Campbell and maybe Tyler Posey or Dylan Sprayberry, maybe even Dianna Agron. I don't know, but I'll post the chapter on Wednesday if someone comments the right answer to this question: What type of chimera is Anna? We know Tracy is part kanima and Josh is some weird electrical creature but what is Anna? (HINT: Look back at when Anna hears someone speak but no one's there)

Hope it isn't to obvious, but I'm really excited to see people's guesses. Guess away guys! 

Hope you liked the chapter!

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