Derek was sitting in the hospital room with the sheriff days later. There was no sign of Stiles anywhere. Derek was growing tired of searching but not finding anything that could lead them to Stiles. They tried to track his phone but it had been abandoned in Stiles house, Stiles cards, airports but nothing. They even had Danny hack into files and search the demons, seeing if there were records of places they lived in before, but they couldn't find anything. It was like they didn't exist.
Derek had grown very impatient that he and his pack had trapped a Kitsune and forced it to talk, resorting to violent actions to get what he wanted, but it was proven fruitless. They didn't have the slightest clue of where Stiles was. It was like he had vanished from the face of the earth.
Scott kept his word, he watched over the sheriff but sometimes it was Derek who had stayed by the sheriff's side. The day they switched him rooms, Derek was there, and he was there when the sheriff woke up, and when the sheriff asked for Stiles.
It wasn't the easiest thing he had to do, but he had to explain to him why his son hadn't been here instead of him and Scott.
The sheriff was sitting up on the bed, with brand new gauze wrapped around his chest, he was supposed to be eating but he wasn't really touching the meal.
"Any luck finding my son?" The sheriff asked not even looking at Derek.
Derek looked up from the book he was reading, and shook his head, "We haven't found any traces of him. I have the pack looking for him but they can't pick up a scent."
The sheriff sighed before rubbing his face, "What about that Kitsune? Does he know anything about my son?" Derek knew Scott had told him about the Kitsune they had trapped a day or two after Stiles disappeared.
"Peter got him to talk, but they don't know anything either." Derek said before sighing as he closed the book, "I don't know if I should be relieved or mad."
The sheriff looked at Derek and frowned. The two hardly ever spoke but it was mostly that they were both dealing with Stiles disappearance on the same way, in silence and by themselves.
"When Stiles came home, he was upset. He didn't want to talk about what happened and I didn't want to push it. I let him tell me about the baby, seeing as it was the only thing that was keeping his spirits high." The sheriff smiled a bit before looking at Derek sit up, showing his interest on the topic. "I was a bit upset he had hid the fact that you where the baby's father, but he was just afraid. He was afraid you would think he had gotten pregnant on purpose to keep himself in the pack. I think he was afraid of what I would say as well."
Derek frowned at what the sheriff said before letting out an unsteady breath, "This is all just one big misunderstanding after another. I should have been more clear with him. I just assumed he was mad I had been following him without making myself known."
"It's alright son, we are talking about Stiles," the sheriff said with a smile as his hand rested on his chest before adding, "Stiles can't stay mad for long, he'll come around."
"I know," Derek said with a halfhearted smile as his eyes drifted to the door when he sensed Melissa and Scott coming towards them. "I just hope we can clear things out before our daughter is born."
"Daughter?" the sheriff repeated surprised, now this was news to him. A big smile spread on his lips, a genuine smile. He just assumed it would be boy, since the two were male but a girl. "Stiles didn't tell you? We found out while he was staying with me." Derek said seeing the sheriff brighten up at the news.
"He didn't say anything about it," the sheriff said before turning towards the door when he heard someone knock, only to see Melissa and Scott walk in.
"Derek, can we talk outside?" Scott said as he motioned for Derek to follow him. Derek looked back at the sheriff before looking towards Melissa who said, "Go on, I have to check the wound and make sure he eats anyways."
Derek gave her a nod before getting up and walking out of the room with Scott.
When they were somewhere private and alone Scott's heart began to race making Derek furrow his brows. "What's going on?" Derek asked. "Ok, well remember how we told you that we tried to force Stiles to listen? The sheriff mentioned a body, we thought it was just an excuse to get Stiles to come, but it turns out there was a body, but now it's gone and so are the Kitsunes." Scott stammered out quickly and panicky.
Derek let out a snarl as he gripped Scott by the collar of his shirt and shook him, "What do you mean their gone?!"
"Peter, Boyd, and Erica went chasing after them. Boyd called this morning to tell me since you weren't answering your phone." Scott said as Derek let go of him before getting his phone out and turned it back on. "Did they say in which way they were headed?" Derek asked as he hurriedly looked for Boyd's number.
"They said they had just passed the state boarder." Scott said as he watched Derek call Boyd but there was no answer. "Dammit, why didn't you tell me as soon as they called?" Derek growled as he tried to call Peter but no answer, and Erica's was the same.
"You said there was a body?" Derek said before grabbing Scott by the arm and dragging him back to the sheriff's room.
Peter was driving the Camaro, chasing after the black SUVs the Kitsunes road in. "Derek is going to kill us when he finds out we took his car," Erica said as she leaned back into the back seat.
"Who cares, the pup will be too busy thanking us for this to even be mad." Peter said as he focused on the road.
"So what's your plan?" Boyd said as he turned to look towards Peter, while Erica chanted 'we're so dead, Derek will never let us live this down.'
"I'm working on it," Peter said as he glanced at Boyd. Boyd narrowed his eyes at Peter accusingly as if silently saying 'You're risking our lives to go on a wild goose chase?'. "What? I wasn't going to sit down and think things thoroughly while they just drove off. Besides we know they're leading us to Stiles, we saw what they had with them." Peter said before looking at the road.
The Kitsunes didn't care that they followed but Peter was still trying to put together the 'why'. He knew that it wasn't just going to be 'Oh Derek's pack is working with us' crap she fed to Stiles, no when they were manipulating a demon. "We know there's more of Stiles pack that we didn't know about. The Kitsunes probably held onto them in case something like this happened. They're smart, I'll give them that." Peter said voicing his thoughts out loud.
"PETER LOOK OUT!" Erica screamed.
That was the last Peter heard before he heard the window shield shatter and the Camaro swerve off the road.
Mr. J and the rest of the pack were outside huddled up together as Amy was the first to speak up, "I don't think he even realizes what he's doing."
Mr. J frowned before saying, "It doesn't matter, even if Stiles hasn't realized it yet, his demon side is already preparing."
Ester glanced up at the cabin they had been staying at. He could hear Stiles pacing about in the cabin like he had the last two days. "I think we should tell him before he starts freaking out," Ester said before looking back at the pack.
"I'm with Ester on this, Stiles is bound to drive himself crazy thinking something's wrong with the baby." Lia said as Hayley nodded besides her.
Zachery looked at Alexander before saying, "Stiles is our leader now don't you think we have power enough to start preparing too?"
Jeo, Ester, and the girls looked towards Zachery with a look that uttered a 'Huh?'.
Mr. J nodded his head before saying "We have to make it as wide as possible, so if falters for whatever reason we'll give ourselves time to escape."
"Oh goody, barriers." Amy said sarcastically before they all scattered from their huddled up circle and ran in 8 different directions from the cabin. Only to stop when they deemed it far from the cabin enough, as each began to shift to their demons as they chanted the same verse. A clear like cloak swayed from the ground and up into the skies meeting the other's.
While they could see from the inside out, the ones who'd try to look in would be met by an illusion of nothing but wild life for miles, safely hiding away the demons within.
"That should hold up until Stiles gives birth." Mr. J said once he met the others back at the cabin.