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Prologue
Lydia has always been able to hear Stiles, ever since she was young. Her parents, in fact anyone who knew about him, always said he was imaginary and for a while that story was okay for everyone. Lydia knew it wasn't that simple but, to make it easier, that was the story she stuck with. She knows there is no way he is imaginary; he has a family too, his own life. There comes a certain age however, where talking to an 'imaginary friend' isn't cute anymore. Luckily Lydia figured that out and started lying about him before it got too noticeable.
Sometimes she can feel him: a pat on the head or a slight rub on the arm when she's upset but nothing more than that and not for very long, only a couple of seconds at the most. He tells her that it takes a lot of effort and that doing it for longer than that causes him a massive headache. She hasn't figured out how to do that yet even though he keeps trying to teach her, but there is stuff she can do that he can't. Lydia has the ability to create a silence between them. If there is something she doesn't want to hear she can stop hearing it, a thing Stiles can't do. The problem is that he can always reconnect it. It usually takes him a while but he can always do it. It makes it awkward when she's mad at him about something and doesn't want to talk.
It's not like they can always hear everything the other person says and does, it's far more complicated than that. It's exactly like talking to someone in person, like opening your mouth and speaking or keeping it shut and not. Except it's not her mouth that decides whether he hears it, it's something else inside her head. She's thankful for that; she wouldn't want Stiles listening in on some of the things she talks to her friends about. But the worst part is that a lot of the time they have to be talking out loud, they have the ability to talk inside their heads but it also causes a painful ache in their brain. They don't really fully understand why, it just takes a lot more brain power.
Another trait, only realised as they got older, is the ability to hear people around them too. If Stiles is talking to someone, while whatever makes them connected is turned on, and the person is standing within a five foot vicinity, if Lydia really focuses, she can hear them too. But that also gives a massive headache if done for too long.
Stiles and Lydia talk every day, they know every single detail about each other and they know everything about each other's friends, each other's lives. They each get involved in everything to do with their other half. Sometimes they get on each other's nerves but they both know they wouldn't trade it in for anything. They're inseparable, and not just because they have to be.
Lydia never wonders where he is and she doesn't ask. It never enters her head to ask him stuff like that, he has been with her for pretty much her entire life and it just feels natural to interact the way they have been. It's just like he is meant to be there, she never even questions where he came from or even if he is in the same world as her and he never asks her either. Maybe a part of Lydia, deep down inside her, is subconsciously afraid that if she questions where he comes from he'll go away and she'll lose him – that maybe he isn't there after all and she really is crazy. But her brain always keeps telling her that he's real, and she listens to it. Of course he is real.