"Well you don't have to throw yourself at me"
She heard a familiar voice and Chloe's good mood immediately soured. She looked up to see none other than Aiden smirking down at her menacingly. Chloe rolled her eyes and began to walk away when Aiden grabbed her arm "Chloe wait-". Chloe whipped around to face him
"Don't you have other girls to inflict sexual harassment on? Like my good friend Lydia?! Like what the hell dude? You want to get into my and Scott's good graces and that is how you go about it?" she said ripping her arm out of his grasp. Aiden sighed and his shoulders drooped, but before he could defend himself with a lame excuse they were both grabbed on the arms by another party.
"Hey guys, have you seen Ethan? I haven't seen him in like half an hour?" Danny asked them. Chloe drew her brows together, those two are like attached at the hip last I saw from their PDA in the hallways.
"I know, I've been looking for him too" Aiden said looking pointedly at Chloe, Oh… he wanted to know if I'd seen his twin, my bad.
"I haven't seen him since I got here about half an hour ago either…" Chloe confirmed now getting worried. Aiden looked as though he was thinking before he took off into the crowd with Danny calling after him. Chloe offered Danny a reassuring pat on the back before she started looking for her friends again. It was weird that Ethan was missing from Danny's side but it's not like anyone else was missing. She scanned the crowd just to soothe her curiosity and saw Scott and Kira talking and walking outside of the crowd, Allison and Isaac were off to the side dancing and being freaking cute over to the side still, and Stiles had only just left to go to his car like thirty seconds ago so…. Chloe took a deep breath and continued to fight her way through the crowd to get to some open area where she could breathe and rest for a minute. She finally broke through the last barrier of people and made it to a small corner where no one was currently occupying. Chloe took a deep breath and tried to take a head count again making sure her people were ok. She looked over to where Allison and Isaac had just been and they were nowhere to be found, Chloe's heart began to race as she looked over towards the direction Scott and Kira had been walking and they too were missing. Ethan had been gone for over a half an hour and Aiden disappeared to find him. Stiles had been gone ten minutes now trying to find water, and where the hell was Lydia? Chloe hadn't seen her in forever now that she had thought about it. She was alone when they were all supposed to be protecting one another she was the last one… OH MY GOD THEY WERE ALL TAKEN BY THE SHADOW PEOPLE! Chloe started freaking out and ran back into the crowd to find someone when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled back into the dark corner. Chloe let out a quick gasp of shock as she was pulled away to turn around only to find a worried Danny looking down at her.
"Jesus Christ Danny you scared me!" Chloe exclaimed putting a hand over her heart. Danny apologized before asking her to help him search for Ethan or Aiden. "Sure I'll help you… there's Aiden right there" Chloe added looking behind Danny to see Aiden walking towards them looking upset. "Aiden what-" Chloe started but was cut off but Aiden
"Something's not right, I can't find Ethan and he's not answering his cell, I need to find Lydia" Aiden said looking directly at her. I knew it, something is wrong and she has to find her friends now! Chloe along with Danny nodded speechless at the urgency in his voice… Maybe he really cared for Lydia? NO! shut up he's a dick and will forever remain one! Just find Lydia first.
"Well where do you think she might have gone?" Danny asked sounding like he was on a mission.
"I don't know!? She said raves weren't really her thing so she might have left?" said Aiden doubting himself. Chloe shook her head, idiot.
"No, Lydia made sure we all came here tonight, she wouldn't just leave a social event like this…" Chloe thought aloud. Lydia obviously was not feeling the party until after she got here because beforehand she was 'all go' for this black light party… what if she saw Aiden dancing with those sluts?! She would definitely want some fresh air to get away from this ass hole! Chloe glanced up at Aiden as an idea struck her. "Remind me to skin your for your pelt after breaking my friends heart after this mutt" she whispered under the loud music but she knew Aiden heard her as she then grabbed Danny's hand and walked away from the crowd more to tell him.
"She probably wanted some fresh air so look at all the windows or the roof or where ever" she told Danny while Aiden scowled at her but nodded at her plan. They split up to check windows and such when Chloe walked to the big window first to look outside. There she saw a balcony and smiled at her sleuthing skills, Stiles would be so proud. She then looked over to Danny and waved him over and He opened the heavy metal door to the balcony for her to find a body on the ground.
"Aiden over here!" Danny called urgently as Chloe held open the door in shock staring at the shivering body on the ground. After rebooting for a minute reality smacked her in the face and Chloe's knees' buckled
"Lydia!?" she cried out and ran over to find a shivering Lydia in Aiden's arms.
"What happened to her?" asked Aiden in confusion.
"I don't know but she's freezing, nearly hypothermic. We gotta get to a hospital or something" Danny instructed them. Chloe nodded holding back the panic that was causing her throat to clench shut. Aiden then picked her up and carried her bridal style while Danny led the way back into the party. Chloe followed behind them watching Lydia shiver and feeling guilty as all hell. Where the hell is everyone else? Oh God I can only imagine the kind of shape their in if they were also attacked!? Danny led them to the large heating vent and Aiden set her down in front of it to start warming her. Chloe sat in front of her and grabbed her hands to warm them with her own.
"Go get her a blanket!" Aiden ordered and Danny all but ran from them trying to find one. Chloe directed her attention back to her hypothermic friend
"Lydia. Lydia? Lydia what happened?" Chloe tried coaxing it out of her as a way to keep her eyes open. After a few moments both she and Aiden froze as they heard Lydia whisper with terror still in her eyes
"They came from the dark." Chloe looked up at Aiden with a scared look on her face and the two exchanged worried glances.
"What does that mean?" Chloe asked him. Aiden shook his head
"Your guess is as good as mine, but it doesn't sound good" Aiden told her truthfully. Chloe took a calming breath to absorb all this information when all of a sudden the music stopped and there was a loud crash. "Than can't be good" Aiden said looking at the space behind them.
"GET OUT!" was the boomer roar that came next and then all the party goes decided that was their cue to split. Chloe looked at Aiden confused and saw his literally swallow nervously
"Derek's back" he mumbled before picking up the still shivering Lydia and standing up. Danny came back over
"We gotta get her out of here". Aiden nodded and handed her off to Danny
"I gotta find my brother" Danny nodded at him "Tell him to call me when you guys are out" He asked and Aiden nodded after him and he carried Lydia out of the now busted party. Chloe stayed where she was and Aiden looked at her "Why are you still here?" Chloe looked up at him with a scared but resilient expression
"I need to find my friends". Aiden nodded and then looked up at the room to see a lone shadowy figure standing in the middle of the room. "What the hell is that?" Chloe asked as she then saw Scott and Kira, and some older angry guy barge into the room. Chloe let out a sigh of relief but it was short lived when four more dark, humanoid creatures stepped out of the nearly impossible shadows like ghosts. "Why are they looking at us?" Chloe asked him looking around to see all the dark figures facing them and basically ignoring the other ware wolf in the room.
"They aren't looking at us… they're looking at me" Aiden told her pushing her behind him and to the side. "Guys?! Why ARE they looking at me?!" Aiden called out to Scott and who Chloe now guessed was 'Derek'. No one answered but Chloe did not have a good feeling about her current situation of standing near the intended target of the shadow monsters that had already attacked her friend and god knows who else. Oh God, Stiles! Panic over took Chloe as she backed up away from Aiden only to be met with a wall. FUCK!
Suddenly, Scott and this Derek guy leaped into the middle of the shadow people and started attacking them. Chloe had never seen Scott fight before and she had to admit while impressive it looked extremely terrifying. There was a lot of fists thrown and kicks through the air but every time Scott or Derek landed a hit it seemed that they're arms would go through smoke or the monsters would heal itself… they were un-killable. Chloe was inching along the walls trying to escape going unnoticed while watching her friend get thrown by these unstoppable monsters. Her heart was pounding in panic and breaking over seeing Scott get hurt, she knew he would heal but she still didn't enjoy watching him get hurt.
As she was edging along she noticed Kira doing the same thing and moving towards the same direction she was. She made eye contact with the terrified girl and nodded to make sure she was ok, Kira nodded back and the two girls picked up their paces to meet each other sooner while remaining in stealth mode and going unseen. The close she got to the corner that was the exit she saw Allison and Isaac burst through holding up a weak and shivering Ethan… so he had been attacked too? That's probably why he had been missing for so long. So where the hell was Stiles?! Chloe finally made it over to Allison and grabbed her hand. Allison squeezed back in reassurance while they watched on as Scott was thrown through the air and landed hard on the ground. Chloe winced then watched as Isaac stepped forward to help his 'Alpha'. Isaac whipped out his claws and Chloe couldn't help but stare at them until the shadow person he was facing off against pulled out a sword from his chest of all the most random places.
"Well, shit" Chloe exclaimed, vocalizing everyone's thoughts at that moment. Allison squeezed her hand harder as she could feel her friends' fear flowing off of her in waves. Isaac slowly back up, retreating his claws like a smart person and not getting involved in something he knew he couldn't handle. Then they all watched on in terror as they encompassed Aiden and grabbed his neck, only to make him fall to the ground shivering moments later. What the fuck was that?! Chloe wanted to check to see if he was okay but Allison stayed her motion as Chloe realized that the shadow people now turned to face Scott. "Oh boy" Chloe vocalized again as Scott then bared his teeth at them ready to fight when Chloe then noticed that the sun rise shined in through the window making the shadows melt away. There was a collective sigh throughout the room before Chloe wordlessly started to walk out of the room.
"Chloe, where are you going?" Allison asked before going over to talk with everyone else.
"I need to find Stiles and make sure he's ok" Chloe told her and Allison nodded in understanding letting Chloe walk out of the tall building into the parking lot only to find Stiles' jeep missing.
"Oh no he did not" Chloe angrily spat as she dug her phone out of her pocket to call her boyfriend to ask where the hell he was when she saw she had twenty missed calls and thirty-six texts asking where the hell she was. "Well fuck" Chloe said remembering her dad's curfew. She texted her dad back first
Hi Daddy! Yes, I am alive. I fell asleep at Allison's house which is where we all just had a small party instead of going to a big rave where there is drugs and fornication because you can trust your loving daughter! I will be home asap! Love you!
She hit send and then scrolled though her contacts to find her boyfriend's name before pressing send and waiting for him to answer her phone call. After about two rings he answers
"Hello?"
"Get back here right now Stilinski and take me home" Chloe said in a deadly low voice filled with anger. She was very upset and still high on adrenaline due to how she was in enormous trouble, watched a bunch of her friends get attacked, and almost got killed herself and he just left her there.
"Chloe I'm so sorry! I'm on my way right now" Stiles tried apologizing.
"Good" Chloe responded before hanging up on him. She stood outside and waited for her negligent boyfriend to come and get her shivering in the early morning mist. She also kept her eye on every single shadow to make sure those creepy shadow people didn't come back. She assumed the sunlight was their weakness so she stayed in the direct rays of the sun not taking any chances while blinding herself. After about seven minutes Stiles' jeep rolled up in front of her and he rolled down his passenger window and smiled impishly at her.
"Hey babe, I love you?" Stiles said trying to calm her down. Chloe bristled at him and climbed into the jeep and couldn't look at him as she grabbed the sweatshirt he had lent her and put it on to cover her exposed skin without saying a word. "Okay then" she heard Stiles mutter nervously as he then started driving them back towards their street.
Chloe was boiling with rage at this point that he had left her there to basically get killed by those things that came from the dark like Lydia said after she was attacked. She tried taking deep calming breaths to slow her heart rate from the adrenaline she was still amazed was going as well as cool down her anger so she could inform the idiot driving next to her why she was pissed at him. She glared out the window and watched the passing buildings and trees go by. Once they were surrounded by trees instead of witness's buildings, Chloe sat up straight and looked forward
"Do you want to know why I am so pissed off?" Chloe asked in a creepily calm voice.
"Um…Yes?" Stiles told her with a shaky nervous voce. Chloe rolled her eyes at him
"Do you? I am angry at the fact that immediately after you left, Ethan got attacked by the things that got to Isaac according to Allison, Next Lydia got attacked by these mystical shadow creatures and I found her nearly hypothermic and catatonic, Next I had realized that every one of my friends had disappeared and I was alone, Then Derek came in and crashed the party literally, When the people cleared out the scary black shadow people actually crawled out of shadows and attacked Scott, Derek, and Aiden while I was left there wondering where you were and if you were ok or if you had been attacked by these ghost like creatures that are un-killable! Then I come to find out that you had just FUCKING LEFT ME THERE!" Chloe ranted at him.
"What?! b-babe I'm sorry-" Stiles tried to stutter out but Chloe cut him off with more ranting
"NO! I don't think you understand! I was almost killed in a very supernatural-killer fight between ware-wolves and shadow-ninja things that can pull swords out of their freaking chests, while you just left… YOU LEFT STILES! With no warning or reason! And now I am in major trouble with my dad for seriously breaking curfew after he graciously gifted me with this one incentive and you fucking left me behind" Chloe said throwing her arms up in the air in disgust. The jeep was silent for a few moments until Stiles cleared his throat
"Would you like to know what I was doing? Or do you want to be angry some more? Because I can do both as long as you don't leave" Stiles told her in a defeated tone, did he sound scared? The ending caught Chloe off guard but he wasn't off the hook.
"You mean like why YOU left?" she spat at him crossing her arms and glaring out of her passenger door window.
Stiles huffed and tightened his hands around the wheel causing his knuckles to turn white with anxiety. How can I tell her what I just found out at the school? Will she even listen to me now? God I really fucked this up… everything was perfect and then I always have to fuck it up. How could I have let those things happen to her? I promised that nothing would ever happen to her again and here I was almost letting her get killed by some sort of new creature that was slowly picking them off one by one. God, he fucked up with her and whatever the hell went down at the school.
"Chloe, you will never understand how sorry I am about everything… but I need to tell you what I found out" Stiles tried saying but it wouldn't come out and the jeep was silent again. Chloe huffed and shook her head glaring out the window
"I have told you that I would never leave you behind… and you just…" Chloe couldn't find the right way to say it "…broke my heart." That hurt Stiles deep
"Are you ok?" Stiles asked in mournful voice. Chloe at first was shocked it took him this long to ask her that but then it hit her. Stiles always knew what to say to get a reaction out of her. She was not ok with everything she saw and went through and how she felt alone.
"No… I'm not ok" Chloe choked out as her adrenaline finally left her and she was left with just her raw emotions of fear and worry. Her anger had dissipated for now. Stiles quickly pulled over to the side of the road and parked the car. When the vehicle was stopped he took his hands off the wheel and looked over at Chloe who for the first time since he had picked her up looked at him and he saw the tears brimming in her eyes and the fear held inside of them.
"Babe…" he said to her and they both leaned across and wrapped their arms around each other in comfort. "I am so sorry Chloe, I feel so terrible and selfish and stupid that I put you in a situation like that. I am a horrible boyfriend and you have every right to hate me" Stiles spewed out trying to comfort her and holding her tightly to comfort himself. "Is everyone else ok? How is Lydia?" he asked concerned. Of course he would ask about Lydia! No Chloe… don't go there. They're just friends… stop that train of thought in its tracks.
"Danny took Lydia to the hospital last I heard and Scott appeared to be ok last I saw" Chloe choked out trying to answer him while also holding back her sobs. Stiles held her to him and kissed the top of her head comfortingly and whispered
"I'm so sorry I left you there".
"I was so worried about you… after finding Ethan and Lydia, then watching these shadow ninjas fight Scott and Aiden I thought-" Stiles cut her off by pulling her closer and petting her messy hair that was once a braid but was now half fallen out.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry Chloe… I am so-so-so sorry" he kept repeating into her hair while stroking it.
"Where were you?" Chloe asked sitting up to look at him. Stiles bit the inside of his lip as he tried once more to find the courage to tell her what happened. There was a vulnerability and fear in Stiles' eyes that made Chloe's heart skip a beat… something happened, something else not good. She reached up and placed a hand on each side of his face "Hey…" she asked in a soothing voice now becoming worried. "Hey… what happened?" she asked him now giving his story her full attention.
"Do you remember that key we discovered on my key ring?" he asked her. Chloe cocked an eyebrow but nodded for him to continue. "Well, right after we separated so I could go get us some water I pulled my keys out to find that the new weird key is glowing with the same stuff as in the paint. So I asked the paint girl how to get it off stuff and she told me that it was just a bunch of phosphor chemicals and it was an easy clean up… you or I hadn't touched the phosphor paint since before I had last touched my keys… the key had gotten chemicals on it from somewhere else…" Stiles told her and Chloe leaned back in shock, hoping that he wasn't taking this where she feared he was.
"The chemistry lab closet?" she asked, hoping she was wrong. Stiles faced forward in his seat but looked down at his hands playing with his steering wheel.
"I had to go test out my theory, so that's why I left…" Stiles told her creating a new feeling of dread to form in the pit of her stomach.
"Did the key work?" She asked nervously. Stiles nodded and Chloe's heart dropped into her feet. "Why would Barrow or the person controlling a serial killer put the key to the storage closet on YOUR keychain?" Chloe asked trying to sort out everything in her head. Stiles looked up at her pitifully
"I then thought of another theory and tested it out as well…" Chloe's breathing became staggered as she waited for him to drop the impeding bomb on her. "I tested my handwriting next to the atomic numbers you and Lydia had found… the handwriting was a match". Chloe felt as if all the breath was knocked out of her and she blinked a few times while staring at him as silence overtook the jeep again. Unable to deal with the sense of doom that came with the silence; after his confession he then pulled the jeep out of park and continued driving back towards their houses in silence.
Stiles pulled into her driveway and turned his car off, both of them sat there and thought about everything that had happened that night. When it all sunk in and Chloe could sort of grasp the situation she turned to face Stiles. Stiles saw her movement and turned to look at her as well. She could see the stress settling in as he looked tense and the dark circles were once again taking form under his eyes. Chloe leaned over and kissed him trying to comfort both of them placing a hand on the side of his face after they broke apart. Stiles still looked like someone had died as he met her gaze
"I love you Stiles… and we are gonna figure out what the hell is going on with that key, and with those shadow ninjas ok?" she told/asked him. Stiles nodded his head in agreement trying to look like he was confident when he was feeling anything but. "I think it's better if you don't walk me to my door seeing as how my dad is ready to kill me on the other side and I'd rather not have him kill you too… cause we need to practice more with the sex stuff" she joked trying to lighten the mood. It proved successful as she got a chuckle out of him. "So… I'll most likely only see you at school from now on since I am definitely grounded." Stiles nodded and half smiled after her as she went to open the door
"I love you Chloe" Stiles said as she hopped out. She smiled back at him brightly and nodded before letting the car door shut behind her then jog up to her door and slowly enter in. Stiles let out a deep breath in worry for his girlfriends' current situation, his friends' safety, and his own mind and if he was losing it again or if he had ever gotten it back to begin with.
*Dun Dun Dun!*
