Chapter one.

Morning afters and phone conversations.

Stiles groaned before turning over in the bed flattening himself out across the whole mattress, When the events from last night come flooded back to his conciousness. Stiles abruptly sits up his eyes scanning the room for the missing Lydia.

'Great she was so ashamed she left' Filters through his mind making him frown before he gets up walking towards his bathroom. He gets to the door when he hears a noise, Making him lean his ear against the door only to have it wrenched open, Stiles having to catch himself before he falls head first into a towel clad Lydia. "Stiles" Lydia ask .

"Hey your here, I was um-" He trails off when he see how the towel clings to her snugly, Or how her strawberry blonde hair is positioned on top of her head in a lose bun, No trace of make up on her face. He watches mesmerised as a droplet of water slides down the milky skin on her neck.

Lydia stood there confused as she listens to him trail off, And watches as his eyes change from sleepy morning to affection when he looked at her face before they cast down to her damp neck and lust filled his eyes, Making her shift nervously from foot to foot.

"Sorry" Stiles says taking his eyes off of her neck and back to her face, "um okay well I'm just going to get dressed" she says trying to understand the emotions she was feeling having him look at her like that.

Once they both where showered and dressed they walked downstairs Stiles searching his brain for something to talk about. "Pancakes" he says suddenly.

"What" Lydia asks as she follows him downstairs, "um you hungry, I can make some pancakes if you want" Stiles asks his eyes watching her closely knowing why he's being awkward but not having a clue why she was being slighty frazzled this morning, "Yeah sure and french toast" She says following him into the kitchen.

"Ah how do you make that" He asks searching through the cupboards as she snorts "you don't know how to make french toast?" She asks unbelievably "no, I can make lots of breakfasts and dinners but French toast falls in the stiles can't do pile" Stiles says as he emerges from the cupboard with a bowl,

Lydia laughs before stepping up beside him "bowl" she says holding her hand out for the plastic bowl, "what" he starts but gets cut off by Lydia taking the bowl out of his hands "I'll make the toast you make the pancakes" She says not waiting for a response before starting to move around the kitchen, As he nods more to himself then anything before starting work on pancakes, Falling into an easy synchronisations.


As Allison walks over to her locker she begins to wonder where Lydia is knowing she's normally at school by now and why she hasn't rang her for a lift to school yet, she turns and sees Scott walk outside to the parking lot, Biting her lip she decides to follow.

Scott felt the need for air after seeing Allison standing at her locker looking so beautiful that it made his chest hurt, He gets outside and sees Stiles Jeep start pulling in to the car park when he hears her heart beat pick up nervously behind him.

"Hey, Um do you, Have you seen Lydia" Allison asks trying hard to stop her heart from picking up when he looks at her, "Yeah she's in, With Stiles" He says awkwardly pointing to the now parking car, Allison looks over his shoulder and spots Lydia and Stiles climbing out of the truck Laughing about something,

"What she doing with Stiles, Are they together" She asks Scott quietly leaning in to whisper to him as they turn and both look at the couple walking towards them. "I don't think so but something's definitely up" Scott says trying to wade through the smell of Allison.

"Hey Scott, Um Allison, What you doing out here" Stiles asks when he catches sight of his best friend and Ex- girlfriend watching him and Lydia.

"Hey what you two doing?" Scott asks an eyebrow raised "Yeah what happened to I'll ring you in the morning Allison" Allison asks looking at a slightly blushing Lydia leaning closer to Scott not even thinking about what she was doing, "Um I, Was walking Stiles saw me and wouldn't take no for an answer so he dropped me off" She says half lying half telling the truth she thinks hoping Scott wasn't listening to her heart beat right now for lying.

Stiles frowns down at Lydia for a moment before he nods "Yeah ,yep that's what happened" he says looking at Lydia with confused eyes before dragging Scott away, Guilt hitting her chest for the hurt look she saw in his eyes, "What was that all about" Allison asks pointing to Stiles as he practically drags Scott into school.

"I don't know ,what do I look like the bloody Stiles whisperer" Lydia says turning her guilt to anger on Allison making her feel more guilty "Okay, come on lets get to class" Allison says smiling timidly at her for her reaction, She smiles back at her a guilty smile at her friend still feeling bad, But even though she was her best friend she still felt more guilty over Stiles but pushes that down and follows into the school.


The start of the day turned from good to bad and was just getting worse as he and Scott wait for Derek to turn up to talk, His phone signal's and he's quick to check, "who's that?" Scott asks under the bridge where they're waiting, Stiles reads it before pocketing it with out replying to it.

"Lydia" Stiles says ignoring Scott's raised eyebrow, "Can you believe that, The nerve-" He says scoffing at it wanting to vent everything to his best friend about her, Like he has done since 3rd grade,

"What she want?" Scott asks looking at his friend closely, "Where am I, That's what she wants to know, I mean what ,-Hey Derek" Stiles says as Derek walks up to them both from the shadows. "Stiles what are you going on about now" Derek says looking at him, Stiles playfully slaps his arm earning him a look "Oh come now Derek you know me" Stiles says "Lydia" Scott and Derek both say at the same time "Oh come on fine, You know what I will go a month no a week with out talking about her to either of you" He says getting a chuckle from Scott and Derek.

"So what can we do for you Derek" Scott asks when Derek's face turns serious again, "Isaac is missing, He went to search for Boyd and Erica he hasn't come back yet" Derek says shocking them both, "I need your help".

"Anything" Scott says picking up on the urgency in his voice, "All I need is you to help me work out his last steps, After that you can go back to whatever it is you where doing" Derek says Scott nods and starts forward "What do you need me to do" Stiles ask's from his spot wanting to help.

"You stay here and we text you and see if you can't hack in or what ever to figure out where he was last seen" Derek says "sure I'll text you what I find" Stiles says bidding them both a goodbye and walking back to the school as Scott leaves with Derek.

He manages to get into class just as the late bell rings sitting in his desk quickly earning a look from both Lydia and Allison.


"Your late" Lydia hushed voice says to him from her desk next to his, "So" he says ignoring a curious Allison that's behind her before he goes back to ignoring her, Not seeing the cunfused/hurt look in her eyes.

The lesson is on way when he feels his phone vibrate, He looks at it being careful of the teacher, He rolls his eyes at the message before shutting his screen off,

'what's wrong with you- Lydia'

Lydia watches him ignore her text so decides to send another one,

'where's Scott- Lydia'

knowing its her he ignores the notification continuing to work even though he can't concentrate from the curiosity of what the text might say.

'answer me stiles- Lydia'

'why are you ignoring me- Lydia'

Not being able to take it any more he sighs and pulls his phone to him, Reading the messages. He sighs before replying. Causing her phone to signal in her hand.

'went with Derek-Stiles'

'why did he go?-Lydia'

'Isaac's missing- Stiles'

Lydia looks at Stiles and watches him as he types a reply to her messages comfirming her thoughts of him being short with her.

'why are you being like this-Lydia'

'like what-Stiles'

'what is wrong with you?- Lydia'

'Nothing-Stiles'

"Lair" Lydia whispers to him causing him to look at her furrowed brow and squinted eyes, "how do you know there's something wrong" Stiles whispers back, Trying to sound bored of the conversation, But failing, "Beca-" "Quiet" the teacher at the front of the class says.

'Because I know you, Is this about this morning?- Lydia'

'no why would it be, Nothing happened- Stiles'

'so this is about that-Lydia'

'look what I said to them didn't mean anything- Lydia'

'it's fine that you don't want them to know where you were or anything like I said doesn't matter- Stiles'

'it so does-Lydia'

Lydia looks at him and sees him frowning before going back to ignoring her texts again

She sighs and when the bell rings goes to talk to him only to have him walk away from her making her slump against her desk.


"How's it going" Stiles ask into his phone as he sits at his desk working on possible whereabouts for Isaac to be,

"Not much, Where going to the last place Derek saw him" Scott says as Derek drives down the road. "What about you?, Any luck" he asks knowing that the last 2 place they went where a dead ends.

"Well from the list Derek gave me, Which by the way was not much, I mean would it kill you to look at road signs, The street with the coffee place really Derek, We live in a place that has like 10 coffee shops be a little more specific -" "Get on with it stiles" Derek growls from his seat knowing how long a stiles tangent can last "Right sorry"

Stiles flutters through his papers on his dads desk "Well after I narrowed down the coffee shop to a real street, I managed to pick up on his trail he was heading out off the city but stopped for a few days then went back towards the centre of town, But I lost public feeds on him and I can't get through to the manager of the CCTV company to access their files on the last couple of days" Stiles says

"Well hurry we need to know where to look Stiles" Derek growls out growing frustrated with 3 of his pack being missing, "Look I'm trying I'm waiting for them to call back so that I can speak to the guy until I do there's nothing I can do, Its not like they have an office that I can send you guys to go and steal them so just sit tight I promise I will get them but you have to wait, So retract the claws Derek" Stiles says causing Scott to look at Dereks hands that are on the wheel the fingers that are now turing into claws, Derek didn't even realise until he said it and once again proved how well Stiles knows every one,

"Look Derek I know your freaking out or whatever right now but you gotta trust us and that means now wolfing out and wait for me to get more information, Now repeat after me I Derek Hale"Stiles say lightening the mood making a smile tug on the corners of Derek's mouth as he rolls his eyes "Shut up Stiles"

"Look keep me updated I gotta go" Stiles says catching sight of a mad Lydia storming into the sheriffs station, His dad pointing to his office, "Al right same to you," "And Stiles I do trust you" Derek says Finishing Scott's sentence. "Aw, They hung up" Stiles says looking down at his phone just as Lydia storms in.

"Why the hell are you still ignoring me" Lydia asks as a way of greeting.

"What, I'm -" "Don't try to lie to me Stiles not me" She says fiercely that makes him do a double take, "I'm not, Well I thought about it but I'm busy right now so ." He trails of going towards the door, Only to have her block it with her body.

He looks down his nose into her eyes her last minute move causing them to stand really close, Close enough to feel his breath on her lips "I'm sorry" She says having him take a step back "For what exactly" he asks trying to lower his heart rate, "For this morning, I panicked and it just came out the lie I didn't even know why I did it, I didn't mean to make what you did for me last night seem like nothing because it means more to me you have to know that." She says taking a deep breath after her word vomit. He looks taken aback before he moves back towards her quickly wrapping her into a hug "Okay" he says "Okay" she repeats her voice muffled by the flannel shirt he's wearing.

The hug is interrupted by the phone going off, "Stiles," "hmm" Stiles says into her hair "Phone" she says laughing "Oh right, Right" he says bouncing over to the receiver "Hello" Stiles says watching Lydia move around the desk to see what he's been working on "yes, Were looking for a 17 year old boy who's gone missing while searching for 2 other 17 year old's, We've checked the CCTV that is publicly owned but we need to look at the footage that belongs to your company... I've spoken to the shop owners had have their permission to check I'm just hoping that you'll send over the files for me please..." Lydia raises an eyebrow at the conversation before writing a not and holding it up to him so that he can read.

'I'll talk to you later. X'

Stiles nods at something the person on the phone says and watches Lydia walk away and letting his dad walk into the office "I have officers checking for any strange events that happened where you said" Sheriff Stilinski says walking over to Stiles "that's the Sheriff yeah, Great okay, How long do you think that will be, Okay thank you so much I'll send over the info in an email now, Thank you again." Stiles says putting the phone down and turning the laptop around to send the email.


Lydia couldn't sleep she managed to stay late with the revision and history project she and Allison had to do together that Allison insisted she stay the night, Granted she didn't put up much of a fight to go home, She thought that she'd be able to sleep like she had last night, But after tossing and turning for two hours she was able to realise that it wasn't gonna happen.

Allison let out a tiny snore beside her causing her to smile when she remembered the little noises Stiles made this morning when she had woken up before him, Picking up her phone she sent Stiles a text getting a reply almost instantly,

'how's the tape review going?- Lydia'

'Boring, I thought you would be asleep-Stiles'

'cant sleep, Scott still with Derek?-Lydia'

'yeah, No luck yet, Want me to talk to you till you fall asleep? - Stiles'

Stiles watched his phone anxiously "My god Stiles your an idiot why would you even put that on there" He spoke to himself feeling like an idiot not able to restrain himself.

He picked up his phone before putting it down again doing a few more times whilst biting his thumbnail, On the third time he had it in his hand it rang showing Lydia's name and picture.

"hey" He says a little to quickly having to lower his voice, on the other side of the line Lydia laid in bed looking out of the window rolling her eyes at him, "hey, when did the guy send the footage over" she asks needing to start a conversation.

"About 2 hours ago there's like 100's of hours here that I need to go through" Stiles says, "168" she says around a yawn, sinking further into the bed "what?" Stiles asks "in a week, 168 hours" She says laughing at him "God for a minute there I forgot your a totally genius, Any way so you wanna hear about the leopard print lady" Stiles asks "Or the man with the snot coat"

"Both" she says laughing lightly along with him settling into a comfy conversation, One like they had over the summer but some how this one right now in a bed with Allison asleep next to her seemed more intimate then the ones they had when she was alone and in her room,

"Thank you Stiles" She says as her eyes closes "what for" Stiles ask confused "for not hating me" She says before falling asleep not hearing his reply.

"I could never hate you".


So what do you think of chapter 2, Another one to come today hopefully, I'm gonna try to upload two more but I think that might be pushing it a bit we'll see.

And as always let me know what you think, I look forward to reading your reviews. Grace :)