Illuminated:

Bex shifted awkwardly in her seat as she waited for either the Sheriff or Agent McCall to speak. They had been there nearly an hour after the Sheriff and Agent McCall found them at the substation. Kira was still kind of shocked at the outcome of what happened and hadn't said a word to neither Scott nor Bex about what had happened.

"So when did you guys get there?" Agent McCall sighed, tiredly. The Sheriff sat behind the desk, just as tired as all of them, but he knew they had a good reason for being at the substation. They wouldn't be able to share that with Scott's dad there though.

Stiles answered. "At the same time."

"Same time as who?"

"At the same time as me," Scott added.

Agent McCall glanced between the two boys, unbelieving. "By coincidence?" He questioned the,

"What you mean coincidence?" Stiles asked him curiously.

"That's what I'm asking the both of you. Did the two of your arrive at the same time by coincidence?" Agent McCall asked, frustrated with Stiles.

Scott looked up confused at his father. "Are you asking me?"

"I think he's asking him." Bex told him nodding over to Stiles.

"I think she's right."

"I'm pretty sure he's asking the both of them." Lydia interjected.

"Okay, let me answer the questions." Agent McCall said, but he backpedaled realizing his mistake as they all looked at him and the Sheriff couldn't help, but smirking.

"Let me ask the questions." He corrected himself. Stiles pointed a finger at him, winking. "Just so I have this absolutely clear Barrow was hiding in the chemistry closet at the school. Someone left him a coded message on the blackboard telling him to kill Kira. Then Barrow took Kira to a power substation with the intent on electrocuting her, which blacked out the entire town."

Stiles nodded. "Sounds about right." He agreed.

"How'd you know he'd take her to a power station?"

"Well cause he was an electrical engineer, where else would he take her?" He scratched his head.

He glanced at him, slightly unconvinced. "That's one hell of a deduction there, Stiles." He looked tired of dealing with him, but no one there really cared for him, least of all Stiles.

Bex glanced over at her friend. He knew that he couldn't tell him about Lydia, because he wouldn't believe him. Stiles being Stiles had to same something smartass. "Yeah, what can I say? I take after my pops. He's an law enforcement." He winked at his father, who snickered behind Agent McCalls' back and tried to cover it up as a cough.

Stiles, just uh, just answer the man." The Sheriff replied after recovering.

"We made a good guess." He looked over at Bex with a smile.

Agent McCall looked over at Scott and Kira. "What were the two of your doing?"

"Eating pizza." Scott said at the same time that Kira said. "Eating sushi."

They shared a look before they both switched their food choices, but realized that it wouldn't make sense to anyone else but them. "Eating sushi and pizza." They said in unison.

"You believe this?" Agent McCall said to the Sheriff who just waved it off.

"To be honest, I haven't' believe a word Stiles had said since he could speak, but I think these kids found themselves at the right place at the right time and that girl sitting there is very lucky for it." The Sheriff covered up for the teenagers.

"Kira is that how you remember it?"

She looked at Scott, as the others leaned in waiting for her response that could either ruin everything or help them. She nodded. "Yes, can I get my phone back now?"

"Sorry, but no." The Agent said as he got up and opened the door. The others followed him out of the office and he handed off the evidence to another person. "Kira, a deputy is going to take you home. But we'll need you to fill out some paperwork first."

She nodded and walked away with the deputy as Stiles pulled Lydia and Bex out of there. "Scott texted me said to leave without him."

"Yeah, Agent D-bag is probably reprimanding him for breathing now." Bex climbed into the car after Lydia and Stiles did the same thing. "Do you think he'll keep looking?"

Stiles looked at her. "Probably for whoever left the note, but maybe not about what happened at the power station. It'll be okay. Dad will make sure he doesn't find out about anything." He squeezed her hand before letting it go start the car. Bex smiled looking out the window. Neither one's smiles went unnoticed by Lydia.

xxxxx

Bex shoved her books into her locker just as Lydia came around the corner to talk to her. It almost felt good to have somewhat of a normal high school life with everything else that was happening. "Hey, I heard that you're mom is subbing Biology." She said as Lydia leaned against the locker besides her.

"Ugh, don't remind me. I have to be one of those students. You know the ones who pretend they're not getting special treatment for good grades, because I totally get those on my own." She said matter of factly.

Bex laughed dragging her along. "Of course, you'll be fine. Your mom is actually cool."

She hesitated. "It's not my mom I'm worried about. Aiden is going to be in class."

Bex considered this statement. "I could always accidentally spill some acid on him? I doubt anyone would start noticing until he yells as it seeps through his pants." Lydia laughed.

"No, don't do that. I'll just ignore him." She decided as they walked into the classroom. Right on cue, Aiden slipped in taking a seat, but Lydia ignored him sitting down next to Bex. Ms. Martin started passing out worksheets to do and stopped at their table.

"Sweetheart, since this is my first class and I haven't taught in 5 years, I just want to remind you of one thing. Try not to embarrass me." She teased her with a smile.

Lydia glanced down. "You should've thought of that before you wore those shoes." She looked down before relaxing giving her smiling daughter a look. "Love you."

"Love you too." She said as she moved onto another table. Bex smiled at that.

It sometimes hurt to remember that no matter how close her and her stepmother were, her birth mother never wanted her, never wanted to take care of her. It ate her to think there was nothing she could do to figure out why that was. She glanced back down at her paper, as she vaguely heard Aiden and Lydia talking, waiting for class to start pushing back old memories.

After class, Lydia bolted out of the room and Bex caught up with her. "Hey, ignore Aiden, alright? He's just trying to get into your pants." She told her. Bex wasn't listening to a lot of it but she caught the gist of it.

"I know that, I just, I don't know. I'm done with the bad guy, bad boy, everything. I want someone who'll put me first, who won't try and kill someone I know." Lydia admitted softly. Their lives were already very complicated and she didn't need to be involved with someone she didn't trust.

"I know and you deserve that, Lyd." The redhead smiled before straightening up.

"But first we have to find you a boyfriend, someone who preferably looks good shirtless." She winked at her as she opened her locker door.

At that moment, Stiles walked up to them grinning. "So a banshee and a wolf girl walk into school."

"Stop right there," Lydia ordered with a roll of her eyes. Stiles shrugged, himself. "So, not in the mood for that."

Bex laughed seeing Stiles' crestfallen face. "What's up, Stiles?"

"Scott needs our assistance with the new girl. Apparently, she needs our expertise into breaking into places." Stiles' eyes lit up with excitement. Bex laughed. This was most certainly going to be an interesting night.

xxxxx

Scott and Kira pulled up to the police station at the same time as Bex and Stiles did in his jeep. They both jumped off the bike and walked over to where Stiles had rolled down his window. Stiles pulled out the key cards and handed them to Scott. "Okay, this one will get you into the all of the perimeter doors, this one into the evidence room, and this one's for my father's office."

"Stiles, did you steal those?" Bex asked him what everyone was thinking.

He glanced over at her. "I cloned them using the RFID emulator." He nodded, knowingly.

"I'm not sure that's not stealing, Stiles." Bex looked at him.

He shrugged. "It's smarter."

"Scott, can I ask you something?" Kira looked nervous as she pulled Scott over to the side. A few minutes later they walked back over to the Jeep.

"Okay, so now almost everyone is out dealing with the blackout, but there's always somebody at the front desk. There's Dispatch and usually a night shifter or two. You guys are going to use the service door entrance by the dumpster. Alright? Nobody uses it. Now, I'll text you if anyone comes out, but Scott, if you get caught, I can't help you." Stiles said seriously.

"My dad's under investigation for impeachment because of your dad, so if anything happens I will run and leave you both for dead." Stiles said dead serious.

Bex rolled her eyes. "No pressure or anything."

Scott nodded. "Got it. Thanks, seriously, dude."

Stiles hesitated playing with his thumbs. "I'd ask my dad, but you know."

"No I know. I get it." Scott told him honestly. He knew after what his own dad was putting the Sheriff through that Stiles doing this for them was a big thing, especially since he felt guilty for everything he couldn't do to help his father.

"Alright, just uh, hurry up." He told him. They hurried up and he laid back into his seat waiting for the m to come out. "They're so going to get caught in there." He turned to Bex.

"And you'll be there to save his ass, as usual." Bex smiled over at him.

Stiles shook his head, determined. "Nope, not this time. I wouldn't be able to do anything to help." Bex rolled her eyes. She knew Stiles. He wouldn't be able to just take off and leave them, especially now.

Stiles looked over at Bex. "I'm still not entirely sure that we should trust her. I mean she practically created the blackout in the town." Stiles said as he glanced over at his friend and the strange girl.

"Yeah, we're helping her get back some pictures, it's not like we're asking her to perform surgery. Scott is smart. He won't do this if he didn't think that we couldn't trust her for at least this." Bex eased his worries.

He smiled at her. "Thanks for coming with me."

"And let you and Scott take the reins on this? You wouldn't last till the blackout ended, of course you needed me." She nudged him as she sat back in her chair looking around, making sure no officers were coming.

Stiles glanced at her. It was now or never. He cleared his throat. "Hey, um, so I hear that Danny is having a blacklight party. Scott and I were thinking of heading over there, probably after this. Are you going?" He asked her casually, though he was twiddling his thumbs nervously.

She glanced over at him. "Oh, yeah I know. The stupid twin decided that he wanted to impress him and got him to do it over at Derek's place because he's out of town." Bex responded, distracted.

"Um, are you going to you know go?"

She nodded over at him, smiling. "Yeah, I am. You think you guys could give me a lift?"

"Y-yeah, yeah,. Awesome, definitely. Totally. Uh-oh.." Stiles had looked outside of her window and she followed his gaze. "That's not so awesome." Scott's father had pulled up at the Sheriff's station.

Stiles texted Scott and watched his father get out of his car. "Stiles," Bex said warningly.

"No, I can't go in there." He refused but he was bouncing in his seat as he watched him. go into the building. Stiles hesitated before opening the door. "I'm so going to regret this."

Bex got out smiling. "I told you so."They made it into the office just as Scott's father tried to open the door to get to the back.

"Oh wow! Thank God, you're here! Oh boy." Stiles yelled getting his attention so Agent McCall looked back at them. Stiles planted himself between the agent and the door so that he couldn't get through. "Thank the lord that you're here!" He exclaimed. He smiled nervously

Bex rolled her eyes at her friend. Way to raise the guy's alarm. "I think what Stiles meant is that we were wondering if you were coming in because he had something very important to tell you."

"What do you two want?" He asked them both.

Stiles shot her a look. "I-I was um just thinking about the case, you know? I figured that I should clue you in on my thinking. What I was thinking. I was thinking, I-I was thinking this. That Barrow, right, Barrow received the information about who to kill a the school, right, you know that?"

Bex looked around seeing Scott looking through the blinds and shot him a look. He hurried and disappeared from her sight. "Right, so I was thinking that whoever gave him that information, check this out, might actually be someone at the school." Stiles finished pressing his finger on his chest for emphasis.

Bex hid a smile. "And that's uh my thinking, our thinking actually. Couldn't have thought it out without Bex here." He wrapped an arm around her, smiling nervously.

"You two are right." He actually looked impressed for once.

"We are?" Bex nudged Stiles in the ribs, signaling him to be quiet.

"Yeah we started looking for links between Barrow, faculty and students last night."

Stiles nodded. "So you already then know that stuff. You already thought of that."

Agent McCall hesitated. "Your dad did." He admitted, unwillingly. Bex glanced between him and Stiles, who also seemed surprised. There seemed to be some bad blood between the two law enforcement officers and she didn't know why. The Sheriff was like a second father to Scott and Bex. "His one useful suggestion." He added as he swiped his card next to the door.

Bex grit her teeth, but she could also feel Stiles tense. Bex touched his hand, trying to calm him down. "I guess that's it. Let's go, Stiles." She told him as she walked towards the door. She heard Kira and Scott leaving as Stiles whispered something to the agent before walking off.

Bex steered him outside. "Let's not piss anyone else off tonight, especially someone who doesn't really like us." She walked towards the Jeep. "He shouldn't have said that about your dad."

"No, he shouldn't have." Stiles agreed as he leaned against the front of the Jeep, running a hand through his hair.

Bex leaned next to him. "Hey, it's okay. Just ignore him. He's an asshole, you know that, Scott knows that. Don't get angry at him. We have more important things to worry about than him."

He nodded, understanding. She was right, it wasn't worth it. He wasn't worth it. They both looked up as they saw Scott and Kira running towards them. "We did it. All the pics deleted." Scott grinned, happy with himself.

Kira, meanwhile, was full of adrenaline. She still couldn't believe that she just did that. 'That was awesome!" She smiled, excited. "I mean terrifying, completely terrifying, but kind of awesome." She admitted smiling and Scott couldn't help but smile at her. "I've never done anything like that have you?"

Scott and Stiles exchanged a look. "Yeah once or twice."

"Or a thousand times." Bex added, looking towards them, They both smiled, pleased with themselves.

Scott put his hands into his pockets, awkwardly. "So, I guess I should take you home." He started to walk her towards her bike as Stiles and Bex got back in the Jeep.

"So, are you ready?" Stiles asked Bex, hoping that she didn't change her mind.

"Yeah, but I just want to stop at home and change real quick, besides, I'm sensing that Scott will want Kira to tag along." Bex noticed as she saw Scott and Kira smiling.

Stiles grinned. "That's my boy."