It was two days later when Scott called me; I stared at the picture lighting up on the screen. I waited for a second before answering the call. I was upstairs working on homework with my glasses on at the time looking like a full blown nerd. Yes, I had glasses because I usually wore contacts and Stiles also called me his little nerd. I had hit him in the arm all the time for it but when he called me that my heart would race making me go crazy inside. It was weird because even though I had gone through the change I hadn't had all my problems fixed like people usually do when they go through the change. Maybe it was a result of me only being a half-blooded werewolf. I didn't know and neither did my dad since all the others that had had medical problems were fine.
"I'm outside your house. We gotta go." Scott said. I walked down the stairs grabbing my new sweatshirt that came in the mail. It said 'All this girl cares about is tae kwon do…and maybe like a few other people'. I had taken tae kwon do till we moved so I thought it was appropriate enough. I walked outside and saw Scott.
"Stiles…" He said. That's all I needed to hear. I pulled my glasses off and tucked them safely under my shirt in my bra before climbing on behind him. He took off on his bike and my hair whipped back behind us. I wrapped my arms around his waist tightly tucking my face behind his shoulder so I wouldn't get wind burn on my cheeks. I didn't need to feel like my cheeks were on fire all night. When Scott turned down a street I saw Mr. Stilinski's car. He jerked to a stop outside Eichen House which was an insane asylum. I got off almost falling flat on my face in the process and ran over to Stiles and his dad.
"Why didn't you tell us?!" I demanded.
"Because we wanted to avoid something like this." Mr. Stilinski said. I sighed and Stiles looked at me.
"This is the same place where Barrow came from. The guy who had a tumor inside him filled with flies. You don't know everything yet." Scott said trying to reason with them both. I nodded.
"I know enough. Nogitsunes, Kitsunes, Oni, or whatever they're called." His dad said but I was frowning.
"Wow that was actually all surprisingly correct." Stiles said. I gave him this look and I saw that smile in his eyes.
"Scott, Sky, I saw an MRI that looked exactly like my wife's and it terrifies me. I'm headed down to L.A. tomorrow to talk to a specialist." Mr. Stilinski said.
"Then why are you putting him in here?" Scott asked.
"He's not. I'm putting myself in here." Stiles said. I looked at him shocked and shook my head.
"How can we help you in you're in here?" I asked quickly.
"Yeah, we can't help you in there." Scott said agreeing with me as he rounded on Stiles.
"And I can't hurt you both." He said. I frowned and tears gathered in the corners of my eyes.
"Deaton's got some ideas. Argent's calling people. We're gonna find something…and if we can't…" He said.
"If you can't…if you can't then you have to do something for me, okay? Make sure I never get out…and make sure she's safe and doesn't do anything stupid." Stiles said as he got into Scott's face. I saw his eyes flash down to me when he said keep her safe and I felt something travel down my cheek and I wiped it away. I wrapped my arms around my waist and Stiles glanced over at me as I pulled my glasses back onto my face so I could see well. I saw Stiles smile at me wearing my glasses.
"Come on." Mr. Stilinski said. They started to walk to the door and I grabbed Stiles's hand and jerked him to me.
"Sky-" He said but I slammed my lips onto his. He was shocked to say the least but I felt him cup my cheek and kiss back. When I pulled back I stared at him.
"You didn't give up on me when I moved away because of the change. I'm not giving up on you Stiles…ever…I love you." I whispered as I hugged him tightly. I felt his fists clench in my sweatshirt as he held me tightly to him.
"Stiles…" Mr. Stilinski said to him. Stiles sighed.
"I love you too Sky." He whispered in my ear. I nodded and he pulled away. He went over to gate, which his dad held open and they went inside letting it close behind him. I sighed and looked at Scott.
"Let's get to work Scotty. We have a best friend to save." I murmured. He nodded and I held out my fist. He bumped it with his own and we climbed onto the back of his bike and he took me home. When I got home I threw all my homework into my book-bag and grabbed my laptop and started to research. It was going to be a long night for me. There was a quiet knock and I glanced up and saw Luna staring at me.
"You okay?" She asked. I nodded.
"Stiles is in Echo house. He has a fucking nogitsune inside of him! I'm not okay….not okay." I said. She sighed and then looked over at me and held out something. I stared at her and saw the pill in her hands. I looked at her confused.
"The Wolfsbane pill…since you're freaking out so much might as well, at least you'll get a trip to the hospital and have something else to worry about besides your boyfriend." She said. I growled at her but took the pill. She had a glass of water with her too and I eyed it before putting the pill in her mouth. She sighed and took a sip of it and smiled. I gave her a smile before stuffing the pill into my mouth with a grimace and then sucked it down with some water.
"Mom said if you start feeling anything because it's burned Wolfsbane then start screaming your little head off." She said. I nodded and she headed towards the door and then looked back at me.
"And I'll look up some stuff in my old textbook to help you out. Oh, tell your friends to start having normal lives instead of crazy ones. I want some easy down time since Deucalion." She said walking out the door of my room.
"I wish I could do that…" I muttered going back to my laptop.
I woke up the next morning with my book in my lap. I groaned sitting up and cracked my neck both left and right. I had fallen asleep reading about something and half doing my homework. Max stood at my door looking at me with raised eyebrows. I raised my eyebrows to him and he shook his head.
"Raise and shine sleeping beauty; just because your boyfriend is in the nut house doesn't mean you don't need to go to school." Max said. I looked at him and shook my head. I got up and looked at the clock. It was about an hour right before school started. I guess it was a semi-bum day. I shrugged and then shook my head. I carefully straightened my hair and then dusted on my make up before going to my closet getting my jeans before pulling on a tube-top. I pulled my hair back off my shoulders and headed downstairs after putting a cute little beanie when I got a txt from Scott as I grabbed my book-bag. Aiden and Ethan were standing in my driveway as I read the text and I glanced up.
"Let's go to Allison's." Ethan said. I glanced over at them and nodded.
"It's gonna be crowded but get in." I said hitting the key to my car. Aiden got in the back and then Ethan crawled in and I got into the driver's seat after tossing my book-bag into the trunk. It wasn't as uncomfortable with them both as I thought it was going to be, and I didn't exactly know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
"I guess no school for me today." I murmured as I went out of the driveway. Aiden gave me the directions to her apartment because apparently they had moved out of their house when her mother died. I stared up at it and then glanced over at the two of them.
"Let's go." He said. I nodded and we got out of the car and they led me inside. Scott was waiting outside and when he saw me he knocked on the door. Allison opened it up about five seconds later and then started to walk away as we walked inside. I glanced around the apartment and it looked just like normal but I knew that Allison's dad must have some precautions set up around here somewhere. My eyes flicked over every surface as I saw Scott watching me.
"My father said all of the Katashi evidence is being moved to a Federal Lockup by armored car tonight; probably within the next few hours." Allison said as she walked over to Lydia who was standing in the doorway. My eyes met Lydia's eyes in wide disbelief. I couldn't believe what I was hearing them both say right now.
"We're robbing an armored car?" I asked my mouth hanging open slightly.
"Well, we're going to try." Lydia smiled. I looked at Scott and the twins and raised my eyebrows.
"I'm scared now." I muttered shaking my head. We headed into Allison's dad study as they explained the plan and I shook my head. That plan completely bad, and that it would fail as soon as they even thought it up. I shook my head, rolling my eyes staring at the floor.
"That's a bad plan." Scott said speaking my thoughts. My eyes flicked over to Scott for a moment as I saw Aiden shift uncomfortable.
"It's not that bad." Lydia said. Aiden walked around the desk to where Scott stood shaking his head.
"It's not that good." He said crossing his arms over his chest.
"None of us knows the route they're going to take. If Allison can get one of her dad's GPS trackers on the armored car then we can follow it." Lydia said. I started to chew on the inside of my lip thinking of all the things that could easily go wrong with that plan. The chances were too high and luck was usually running against us.
"So when it gets here." Allison said pointing to a point on the map we had spread out on the desk in front of us.
"We attack?" Ethan asked.
"No, your bikes will be in the middle of the road looking like you guys got into an accident, with dear old Sky here, the driver will get out to help-" Lydia said.
"Then we attack him?" I asked leaning back on my heels crossing my arms over my chest.
"No!" Allison and Lydia said together. I gave them both a sheepish smile as Lydia just shook her head at me. Lydia by now should know what to expect to come out of my mouth like that.
"Sky will distract him and Scott will open the back door…" Lydia said as she went back to look at Scott.
"I hope." Scott said. I groaned quietly into my hands as I cupped them over my mouth.
"And you'll get Katashi's finger." Lydia said looking over at Aiden.
"It's not his actual finger, is it?" He asked. I stared at him shaking my head.
"You are thick, aren't you?" I asked.
"Why aren't we just going to Stilinski for help?" Aiden asked. Everyone in the room glanced over at me as the name was mention and my gaze hardened as I stared at the ground.
"He went to L.A. to talk to some doctors…and if he's caught then he could lose his job because it's tempering with federal evidence which would have him serving some good old jail time that even my father couldn't get him out of." I said as they looked back at everyone else.
"Guys, this is going to work. We can do this. We're losing Stiles. My dad's in jail for murder." Allison said. I nodded.
"We need to do this." I muttered. They glanced at me and I looked at them.
"If we don't we might as well kiss our asses goodbye." I said. Scott looked at me concerned because he probably never had seen me this morbid before.
Stiles was trying to unlock the door to the basement of Eichen house. He had been there before; he was sure he had been.
"There's gotta be a key on here. He's got a key to everything." Stiles muttered to himself as a hand clamped down on his shoulders. He let out a subtle groan and the head orderly chuckled. Stiles glanced back and sighed.
"I don't keep the key to the basement on there." He said as he jerked Stiles down the hallway. He had two more join him and grab Stiles around the arms. Stiles didn't know where he was being taken but they searched him to and found the pills that Ms. Morrell had given him. He cursed to himself for having them in his pocket but he had to stay awake and he had to keep popping those to do that. He couldn't fall asleep and let the nogitsune take him. He wouldn't let that happen because if he did everyone he cared about was going to be in danger.
"Where did you get these?" The orderly asked as they pulled him into a completely white tiled room.
"From the vending machine." He said.
"Oh I like the sarcastic ones." The orderly said pulling out a syringe.
"Wait what is that?" Stiles asked panicked as he struggled against the two holding him.
"Give him 10 cc's of Haldol." The orderly said.
"Wait is that a sedative!? No I can't go to sleep. I can't go to sleep!" Stiles protested as they got handed the syringe. He struggled against their grip not wanting to be put under. He felt the sharp pinch in his butt and he knew that they had stuck him.
"I can't go to sleep! You don't understand." Stiles panted as he fell to the floor as the sedative kicked him. After a few seconds his eyes were closed and out like a light.
"Hey!" Stiles yelled as he saw that he was in a locker. He didn't know how he had gotten there or anything but the door to the locker wouldn't open.
"Hey! Let me out! Let me out!" Stiles yelled again into the empty room as he slammed his fists on the metal door in front of him looking out through the slits in the door. He saw a shadow cross in front of his locker to go around the corner.
"Let me in." It said. Stiles shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Stiles asked as he leaned back against the back of the locker.
"You know…" The nogitsune said.
"Screw you, and your stupid riddles." Stiles muttered. The nogitsune slammed his hands against the lockers making Stiles jump slightly.
"No riddle this time, Stiles. You know what it means." He said as he started to walk again. Stiles pushed his hands against the door sighing.
"Let me out." Stiles murmured.
"Just let me out! Let me out!" Stiles yelled and then the nogitsune appeared in front of him.
"Let me in!" It yelled.
Stiles jerked up stuttering and breathing rapidly.
"Hey, hey, hey. Shh!" Malia said holding him. It had been a dream, all a dream. Stiles glanced up at her.
"Shut up!" Malia whispered as she put a hand on his cheek.
"How did you get in here?" Stiles asked as he looked over to the door which was pulled wide open.
"I broke the lock. If I concentrate I can be pretty strong, get up!" Malia said pulling Stiles up.
"There's another way to the basement, through the closed unit. It's where they keep the real psychos." Malia said heading out the door with Stiles a few steps behind her. When they got to the basement Stiles looked around and then saw what he needed it. It was a 5 scratched into the wall but it was backwards.
"Do you know what you're looking for?" Malia asked.
"Something like that." Stiles said pointing at the wall. She glanced over at it confused and they both walked over to it. She bent down and ran her finger down along the bottom part of the 5.
"What's it mean?" She asked.
"Self." He said.
"Want to tell me more?" She asked. Stiles shook his head ever so slightly.
"You might not like me if you know any more." He said before glancing down at her. She stood up from where she had been crouched on the floor.
"Remember I'm a werecoyote who murdered her own family. I won't judge I promise." Malia said. Stiles chuckled and then glanced up at her. He guessed it was time to let another one in on the story of how sucky his life had become within the last few weeks.
It was later that night when we were going to intercept the armored truck. Aiden, Ethan, and I were waiting for the signal to go ahead and start with the plan but it seemed to me that it was taking forever and a day. I glanced over at my watch and then over at Aiden. He had his head bent down and Ethan was saying something to him. He glanced over to me and I tapped my finger to my wrist watch that I had on and he nodded in agreement.
"Something's not right…" Aiden said voicing what I had been telling him. I glanced over at him and then sighed as I crossed my arms over my chest. I glanced up and down from where we were ready to intercept the truck and start to run. We had already stashed the bikes where they were supposed to be when Ethan grabbed my arm. I glanced over at him.
"What?" I muttered.
"I hear fighting. Let's go." He said. I nodded and we ran. We jumped up onto the top of the building and ran across the room and I passed them both. I glanced down when I reached the edge of the room to see some huge ass guy standing over Scott.
"You have the eyes of an alpha, but where's the strength?" He asked.
"Right here." I said jumping down onto the stairs. He glanced up to see Aiden, Ethan, and I. Aiden and Ethan launched themselves at him over the railing and I did the same. Between all three of us we were beating the crap out of the guy. I backed away for a moment remembering who I was. Sometimes when I got to fighting I didn't know control.
"This place definitely used to be a lot more fun. Electroshock, ice baths. Trepanation?" Malia asked as she glanced at papers they were looking at from the boxes in the basement. Stiles glanced at the papers in her hands.
"That's what Oliver was talking about. Trepanation is when they drill into your head." Stiles said.
"No wonder they don't want anyone down here." Malia muttered. She glanced over at Stiles as he threw down the papers to the floor.
"There's nothing here." He muttered putting a hand to his mouth. He then glanced over at Malia.
"Could you do me a favor? Could you just check the lines on my back? Just tell me if they're fading." Stiles said as he pulled his shirt up off his back.
"Yeah they are. They're almost gone." Malia said as Stiles's stiffened.
"I'm guessing that's bad?" She asked. Stiles just nodded at her and then flinched slightly as her hands made contact with his warm back. He made a sound and she let go of his shirt quickly.
"Oh, sorry. I told you I'm always cold." Malia said as she looked the other way.
"Well, here…." Stiles said taking her hands in his. He felt bad for doing this with everything that had happened with Sky.
"Boy you really are." Stiles chuckled as she chuckled. He glanced over at her and smiled. She smiled and then before he knew it she was kissing him. His eyes went wide and when she pulled back he blinked slightly.
"Was that your first kiss?" He asked. She just nodded smiling.
"Was it okay?" He asked and she nodded.
"You want to try it again?" He asked. He didn't exactly know what he was saying because he had Sky…but they weren't official. Or at least that's what he had said, and she knew that. Malia moved in for a kiss and they were kissing again. They were kissing for a good minute or so before she pulled back.
"I want to try something else." She murmured.
"Something else?" He asked confused.
"Yeah," She said and then before he knew it she pulled her shirt over her head. He kissed her again as they laid back onto the couch they had been sitting on and right now all thoughts of Skylar fell out of his head.