I'll Be Home for Christmas

Summary: When Lydia and Stiles miss the school bus to Yosemite for their pre-Christmas trip they go on their own. But with the roads quickly deteriorating in the mountain pass they become stranded in the frigid wilderness. Now they must use their wits to survive something that for once, isn't a supernatural catastrophe, just a natural one.

A Teen Wolf Fan fiction

Chapter 1

Stiles couldn't help fidgeting in the passenger seat. They'd been driving for hours, he and Lydia, trying to catch up to the bus they had missed. Beacon Hills School had sent the class on a trip to Yosemite hoping to no doubt put behind them the troublesome deaths and disappearances that had been plaguing their small town as of late. They'd head out and have a weekend stay at the park before heading back for Christmas break. It was a break that Stiles was actually pretty excited for.

Things had been relatively calm since Deucalion had up and left and the Darach had met her end, at least they figured she had as no one had been killed or taken and all of the activity seems to have stopped. Things had been calm, almost eerily so. Stiles couldn't help but constantly look over his shoulder waiting for the next thing to jump at him.

"Stiles would you stop!" Lydia chastised him as he adjusted the radio again.

He bowed his head a little embarrassed by her reprimand. "Sorry, I just… ugh… I cannot believe we haven't caught them yet! School buses are so slow and you are doing over the speed limit. We didn't even miss it by that much!" He adjusted his seatbelt and peered at the traffic ahead of them to see if he could catch a sight of the yellow bus.

"Well it wouldn't have happened if your Jeep had started." She jabbed.

"Well it would have started if Scott hadn't left my lights on." Stiles crossed his arms in a pout. They had all hung out the night before and being that it was so late they all crashed at Stiles's house. They woke up late and scrambled out the door the next morning only to find his Jeep with a dead battery. Scott and Isaac left on foot but Stiles and Lydia didn't have the gift of super human speed. Allison had gone ahead and ran home to get her bags that she hadn't brought with her the night before. They assured her they'd be close behind. But the Jeep wouldn't start not even with a battery charger hooked up so they had to huff it to Lydia's to retrieve her car. They had careened into the parking lot only to find it full of vacant cars and no bus.

They quickly decided that they could catch up and punched the address of the park into GPS and began pursuit. That was hours ago. Lydia cast Stiles a sad look out of the corner of his eye as he tried to fight the fidgeting by sticking his hands in his armpits.

"Why don't we stop and fill up at the rest station and see if we can get a cell signal and call Scott or Allison." Lydia decided as she passed a rest stop sign and turned her signal on to get off the highway. She pulled her new sedan into the gas pump but before she could get out to pump the gas Stiles beat her to it. She smiled quietly to herself. He was a gentleman sometimes and the thought seemed to warm her from the inside.

While Stiles pumped the gas Lydia pulled out her phone and tried to get a signal. Since they had begun entering the mountains they hadn't been able to get a signal and she still wasn't able to get one now. She frowned as she thought about having to drive her car through the mountain pass this time of year. She climbed out of the car just as Stiles had finished filling the tank.

"No signal. I'm going to see if they have a pay phone inside and see if Allison has a signal yet on the bus." Stiles nodded and followed her in the store.

"You want anything to eat or drink?" He asked her as he made his way to the cooler. "My treat!" He gave her a side smirk and try as she might to stop it a smile slid across her face.

"Iced tea?" She asked as she made her way to the payphone. He nodded to her before ambling off to the cooler.

She slid a few quarters into the archaic phone and dialed Allison's number. It went straight to voicemail along with Isaac and Scott, even Danny didn't answer so she assumed they were up in the mountains without any signal too.

She met back up with Stiles at the checkout and eyed his purchases. A few iced teas, a few bottles of water, a coke, several bags of chips, jerky, and some sweets. "Hungry?" She asked him.

He took his change and stuffed it in his pocket before he answered her. "Well if we have to drive the rest of the way there we are looking at another two hours or so depending on the weather. We might need sustenance." He stuffed their packages in the backseat and handed Lydia her Iced Tea as he opened his Coke and took a long chug. "No luck reaching anyone I take it?"

"Nope." She said popping the p loudly. "Looks like we might be driving the whole way after all. At least we can leave whenever we want this way I guess."

"You want me to drive for a while?" He asked. She yawned and stretched her arms and nodded. She settled in and leaned the seat back. Stiles moved his seat back and adjusted the mirrors. After buckling his seatbelt he started the engine and pulled back onto the highway. The first flakes of snow were just beginning to fall on the horizon. "Here we go."

A/N: Decided to get back into the swing of writing by starting another fan fiction. And let's be honest all the new Teen Wolf promos coming out have gotten me excited for the next season. I'm hoping to have this little ditty wrapped up in time for Christmas. This is a side plot from the current happenings at Beacon Hills… so no supernatural in this story… well much =) I hope you enjoy. Please leave a review… I won't be shy… I love them… or hit me up on Tumblr… Chasechick! TTFN!