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Waking up to the sound of my phone blaring was never good. Waking up to a phone call about Stiles missing? Even worse. Which explains why I am in the middle of nowhere trying to find my brothers friend freezing my ass off.
"Come on Stiles, where are you sweetie?"
Taking careful steps in the dark forest I was going off instinct, my right hand tightening around the blade it held while the left held my cellphone in front of me acting like a flashlight. I was listening for anything unusual as I was walking when a scream pierced through the silent night. Pausing my steps I listened again before taking off at a full run towards the sound, eventually finding the body of one Stiles Stilinski, who was clawing at the ground like he was trying to get away from something. Cursing I dropped my knife and held the shaking boy to my chest, shivering as his icy cold skin hit mine I held onto him tighter as he tried to fight against me.
"Stiles? Stiles!"
Finally he opened his eyes and looked around in a panic before focusing on me.
"There he is. Hey sweetie, can you walk?"
He panted and looked around as I pulled out my cell phone and dialed Mellissa's number.
"Hello?"
"Mellissa? It's Crystal, I found Stiles, I'm bringing him to the hospital, I'll be there in five minutes, be ready."
"Got it."
Hanging up I turned back to the shaken teenager.
"Come on, let's get you to the hospital."
Standing up I was able to get Stiles to his feet, holding his right arm around my shoulders I wrapped my left arm around his waist to support his weight, shaking my head I was surprised by how light he was.
"I got you Stiles, I got you."
Reaching my car I carefully helped him into the backseat, watching as he curled into a ball before running to the drivers side and speeding off towards the hospital.
"Hang on sweetie."
Pulling in front of the hospital, I smiled when I saw Mellissa waiting with a couple of other nurses with a stretcher ready. Pulling to a stop I jumped out of the car and opened the backdoor before moving out of the way so the nurses could do their job and help Stiles. When they had him in the hospital I moved to park my car and returned to the hospital to wait in the waiting room. Smiling when Mellissa joined me, followed closely by Scott, Lydia, and Stiles' dad.
"How did you know where to look?"
I looked at Scott.
"I just did, I don't know how to explain it."
The group nodded when a doctor walked over, wanting to talk to Mr. Stilinski, who nodded and walked away with him causing us to fall into silence again for a few minutes until the Sheriff walked back to us, sighing heavily as he looked at us.
"He's sleeping now. And he's just fine. He doesn't remember much. It's a bit like a dream to him."
He looked at me.
"Thank you."
I smiled.
"Your welcome."
He nodded at me as Mellissa turned to Scott and Lydia.
"Alright you two go home. Got to sleep. Okay. You have school in six hours."
They nodded and left as the three of us sighed, taking a seat I wouldn't let myself leave the Stiles alone until he was ok again.
Several long hours, and more test than I wanted to keep track of, we were almost done for the night when Scott showed up for support for Stiles' before his MRI. Standing next to the teen I smiled at him.
"It'll be ok Stiles."
The teen nodded, his brown eyes showing his exhaustion.
"Thanks."
I looked down at him again, a small smile forming.
"Hey, we humans have to stick together around the wolves."
He laughed lightly when the doctor turned to us with Sheriff Stilinski and Mellissa.
"Stiles, just to warn you, you're going to hear a lot of noise during the MRI. It's due to pulses of electricity going through the metal coils inside the machine. Uh, if you want we can get you earplugs or headphones."
Stiles shook his head, Scott and I hovering close by incase he fell over with exhaustion.
"Oh, no, no, I don't need anything."
Looking at his dad I could see the worry in his face.
"Hey, we're just on the other side of that window. Okay?"
"Okay."
They smiled and walked off as I gave Stiles a hug.
"It'll be okay sweetie."
He hugged me back before I stepped away and disappeared behind the glass with the parents, knowing Stiles and Scott needed a moment. Watching the pair hug I knew what Scott had told him, if Stiles had what we thought he did, then Scott was going to turn Stiles. Feeling my phone go off I glanced at it to see a text from Derek, turning I smiled at Mellissa.
"I'll be right back."
She nodded as I patted Sheriff Stilinski's shoulder before walking out and finding Derek in the waiting room, walking over I hugged my boyfriend as I felt tears forming.
"I can't do anything to help him."
Derek nodded and hugged me back.
"He'll be ok."
Taking a seat we waited a few minutes for Scott to appear, who took a seat across from Derek.
"You know the stuff you were telling me about chemo signals earlier? It reminded me of the time you were teaching me to use anger to control the shift."
"I think you ended up teaching me more about that."
Scott smiled.
"Are you teaching me again?"
"Think of it more like sharing a few trade secrets. You know, I took Cora back to South America, right? It's where she spent most her time after the fire. But that's not the only reason I left. I needed to talk to my mother."
Scott raised an eyebrow.
"Your dead mother?"
"She told me something that changed my perspective on a lot of things. She said that my family didn't just live in Beacon Hills. They protected it. This town needs someone to protect it. Someone like you."
Scott nodded.
"And someone like you to teach me a few trade secrets."
The pair nodded in understanding before Scott stood up.
"What?"
Scott had this look like he figured something out.
"He was trying to protect us. Stiles was protecting us."
Derek moved to stand up.
"From himself."
The two took off at a run, shaking my head I continued to wait in the waiting room, feeling something was going wrong in the next room and it was putting me on edge. Shaking my head I didn't understand how I knew where to find Stiles, how I knew something was going wrong before there was a power surge. Shivering I stood up and looked in the mirror to see how the MRI was going only to see that Stiles was missing…again.
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