It was the next morning and Stiles, Scott, and I were all at Scott's house. Cami's condition didn't improve at all through the night which had everyone worried sick. I sighed as I stood at the top of the stairs while Stiles sat at the bottom. He glanced back at me. I had a hand to my mouth as I was chewing on one fingernail thinking about having Theo come here, worried about Cami, and how much life was sucking right about now.
"Sit down." He muttered. I growled at him and just leaned against the wall. Scott was upstairs and out of sight leaning against the wall after you turned the corner but Stiles had the clever idea to grab a shirt of Scott's to blame that for his scent being in the house still. I checked my watch. It was already to long of a wait for Theo if you asked me but Stiles promised that Theo would come to him. I sighed and bit the inside of my lip as Stiles shifted slightly in front of me on the stairs.
"Sky…" Stiles muttered. I glanced up to see Theo standing at the doorway. I glanced down to see the mountain ash barrier and Theo stepped right over it. Oh, well that was adorable. I couldn't believe that I hadn't figured it out sooner and I couldn't believe that I honestly couldn't have smelled that there was something wrong with this kid from the beginning. I growled slightly baring my teeth and Stiles hit my foot and I stopped.
"Cute." I muttered as I stood rooted to my spot like I promised Stiles I would do. Theo glanced up at me as I down right gave him the look of all looks. So Theo was the first chimera that the dread doctors made so he couldn't be stopped by a mountain ash barrier.
"I guess we're all telling the truth now." Theo said. I saw his eyes look up at me and I knew what he was doing. He was picking up Scott's scent and he thought he was behind me. That's when Stiles picked up his shirt and threw it at Theo.
"You killed our best-friend?" Stiles asked as I glance down at the floor angrily as tears built up in my eyes. You know I had to play the part of an angry friend whose other best-friend was just horribly murdered during the super-moon because of the idiot in front of me pinning friends upon each other.
"Let's be honest Stiles, Skylar. Was he still really your best friend?" Theo asked. I came down a few steps ready to claw him to bits when I remembered myself and stopped myself short. That was another reason I had Stiles sitting at the bottom of the steps. He told me he would get between me and my…murderous thoughts. Well, it was a good thing he was there because I was close to clawing Theo's eyes out of his head.
"Are you going to let my father die?" Stiles asked.
"And my little sister?" I demanded crossing my arms over my chest.
"If I wanted him to die I wouldn't have told you where to find him. Your sister decided to fight, it's not fault if she's dying." Theo said and I clenched my hands together. Theo threw Scott's shirt down on the floor beside the door.
"Then why are they saying their bodies are shutting down?" Stiles asked confused as he stood up. I stood a few steps behind him and crossed my arms over my chest tighter.
"That some toxin's poisoning them both and they don't know how to stop it." I muttered.
"I'm not the bad guy here. I'm just a realist. I'm a survivor. If you knew the things I know." He said. I just snorted and stared at him in a 'are you joking' type of look. Did he honestly think he could pull something like that on Stiles and me? We were sometimes stupid but not right now we weren't playing stupid. Come on Theo, think a little bit.
"What do you know?" Stiles asked.
"I know what's coming. I know what the dread doctors created. And I know what Parrish is." He said. I clapped in mock happiness giving him a smug look.
"Oh goodie you know what he is. So do we dip-shit." I muttered.
"Lydia figured it out. I saw it in her memories." Theo said and I growled at him. It was all his fault that one of my best-friends was in a catatonic state right now mumbling. I so needed to take my anger out on something.
"Right after you drove her out of her mind." Stiles said.
"Collateral damage." He shrugged. I bared my teeth and let out a loud feral growl from between my teeth. Theo stared at me surprised and pleasantly shocked. I was about to make him collateral damage of an animal attack in a minute.
"I'm going to collateral damage you!" I hissed moving forward but Stiles caught me around the waist as I glared at Theo.
"If she's right about Parrish then things around here are gonna get a lot worse." Theo said. I rolled my eyes.
"I don't care." Stiles said.
"Being dramatic aren't we?" I muttered to Theo.
"You both should care and no I'm not. Because if your dad and your sister do survive. One will not have anything to go back to and Stiles your dad won't be sheriff of anything." Theo said.
"What's happening to them?" Stiles asked. Theo just looked at him before turning away and heading out the door.
"Hey, tell me!" Stiles yelled going after him. Theo turned around and pushed him backwards quicker then I could've processed. Stiles elbowed me hard in both of my thighs as he slammed his head against the stairs. When he had managed to hit me with his elbows it caused me to fall backwards onto the stairs sideways and had me successfully falling backwards and knocking my head into the railing and the side of my head onto the stairs. Stars burst behind my eyes before I gained a sense of reality and stood back up. I jumped over Stiles and went to go out the door but I slammed into the barrier of mountain ash pushing me back into the stairs almost onto Stiles. I groaned.
"I'm going to kill you Theo!" I screamed. He just stopped at the end of the driveway and looked back at me with a smart ass smirk before disappearing. I shook my head and went over to Stiles and started to tap him on the cheek as Scott came down the stairs.
"Stiles, you need to get up." I said.
"Stilinski get up!" I said quickly as Scott moved so he was in front of us.
"Stiles. Stiles!" Scott said before he finally managed to wake him up. Stiles sat up for a moment confused.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Scott asked.
"I'm fine." Stiles said as he stood up. I sat down on the stairs and sighed putting my face into my hands as I cracked my neck.
"You blacked out." Scott said.
"I'm fine. Did you get anything from him? Either of you?" He asked. I shook my head feeling slightly defeated from the whole conversation. We hadn't managed to get anything useful from Theo and I couldn't even chase after him and claw him to bits. I was starting to think I seriously needed some help.
"Nothing. He was calm the entire time." Scott said.
"What about his heart?" He asked.
"I heard it jump, but only once, and only for a second." Scott said. I thought back for a moment and realized Scott was right. There was only a second in our conversation where his heart had jumped. I looked down at the ground with my eyebrows scrunched together in confusion.
"That doesn't mean he was lying." Stiles said.
"No but it does me he was shocked about something more likely. What were we talking about when it jumped?" I asked. Scott looked down at me and nodded.
"It was when you both said that Cami and your dad were poisoned." Scott said.
"That could be something." Stiles said. I nodded.
"Why would he be surprised that my dad is still dying? Let alone be surprised Cami is dying." Stiles said. I shrugged and started to bite my fingernails.
"Oh wait, he didn't say that he was the one who attacked your dad, did he?" Scott asked. I shook my head.
"A chimera attacked Cami. That's what Max and Luna told me." I said. They both jerked their heads at me.
"So whoever attacked Cami must've been the same person to go after your dad! We have to find the other chimera." Scott said. That's when we rushed out of the house after Stiles messed the barrier up. Stiles jumped into his stupid car and locked the doors effectively locking both Scott and I out. I yanked on the door, which was still locked, and he just stared at me. Stiles, really? We all know if I really wanted to I could just break the window and unlock the car door and get in myself.
"Stiles?" Scott asked confused.
"I can do the rest myself." Stiles said. I growled at him and threw my fist up motioning to the glass.
"Want to explain how the window was broken? Better open the doors if you don't want a broken window in a car that isn't yours." I said. Stiles started the car up and I was about to when Scott kept talking.
"You don't even know where to start. All we know that it's another Chimera. Do you even know where you're headed? Come on let us help. We can find the clues you can't." Scott said. Stiles stepped onto the gas and Scott ran in front of the car. He jerked the car to a stop and stared at Scott.
"Just open the fucking door Stilinski and stop being so hard headed." I muttered. Stiles glanced over at me in disbelief because it was coming from me. I just rolled my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest.
"You can't do this alone, okay? You need me." Scott said.
"Us." I corrected. Scott nodded.
"Us." He said.
"I can get more help too. I can text Liam." Scott said. My frown worsened on my face and Stiles glanced over at me as I started to grind my teeth together.
"Liam just tried to kill you." Stiles said. Thank you god for that smart ass comment.
"Okay, then at least let us help!" Scott said.
"You believed him." Stiles asked.
"You believed him too. You both did." Scott said as his eyes flickered over to mine.
"Theo got to all of us." Scott said.
"But you don't even know the real story." Stiles said. I glanced down at the ground.
"I don't need to. All that matters right now are your dad and Cami. Come on Stiles. We survived an Alpha pack, a dark druid, with Sky we survived professional assassins. We can survive Dread Doctors and Chimeras too." He said. That's when Stiles put his head down in thought.
"We're not looking for a missing Chimera. We're looking for a missing teenager." Stiles realized. I just rolled my eyes and flicked my claws out. I put it into the back seat key lock and flicked it open. I loved Luna for this trick. I hopped into the back and smiled at Scott as Stiles looked back at me.
"Hey, don't hate appreciate. Now get your ass in this car and let's go!" I nodded and flicked the locks on the door of the car and Scott got into the passenger side. Stiles drove towards his house and when we pulled into the driveway we jumped out and headed up to his room. I was staring at the clear board which had things all taped up to it and shit. I saw a list with all the names on it that were potential chimeras.
"There was a call recently about a sophomore from Beacon High who never came home last night." Stiles said as he looked at his phone.
"Name?" I asked.
"Noah Patrick." Stiles said. Our eyes looked at the list and Scott pointed his name out on the typed piece of paper.
"Bingo." I muttered. Scott nodded and then glanced at Stiles.
"Let's go to the school to see if I can get a scent from his locker." He said. Stiles nodded and together we all filed back into the car and headed to school.
Once we were at school Scott to the kids' locker and just sort of ripped the lock off. He threw it to the ground and I nodded at the tactics. We were rushing against time.
"Now we can catch his scent." Scott said as he pulled out a hoodie that belonged to the kid we were trying to find. I then watched as he tossed it to Malia who appeared from around the corner she caught it and nodded. Okay, well this was about to get really, really awkward. I glanced over at Stiles who seemed to be a little irritated about Malia being around.
"You called her." Stiles said. Well, I guess that means there was trouble in paradise.
"We need all the help we can get. I should be calling everyone." Scott muttered as she walked over to us.
"And I know what this kid looks like." Malia said. I shrugged.
"Well, have at it then." I said as I leaned against the locker watching her as she raised the hoodie to her nose and sniffed it. She nodded and then looked at us.
"Let's go." She said.