When Riley woke up she found herself in Stile's bed, the boy in question was asleep in the chair opposite and Riley smiled. He was too nice for his own good, after last night she knew that he would take care of her. She placed a blanket over him and went downstairs to make him something to eat. When she got downstairs however she was stopped in her tracks when she found sheriff Stilinski sat in a chair.
"Morning" he said, she just stared. She had completely forgot Stiles lived with his father.
"You know you can sit down right?" she nodded and slowly made her way over to the chair and sat down.
"I was expecting to come home and find only Stiles so imagine my surprise when I found you" he said, raising an eyebrow. Riley tried to come up with an excuse as to why she was there, but the sheriff stopped her.
"So I rang my sister in law and I know Riley, Maya explained what her mother couldn't" he said sympathetically. She felt herself relax slightly, she was glad she wouldn't have to relive the event again.
"I also know what happened after" he said suddenly. Riley tensed up again
"I'm assuming my son doesn't know?" he asked. Riley shook her head
"Not about what happened afterwards sir" she admitted.
"So he knows about the original incident" Riley nodded. The sheriff nodded
"I won't tell him, but you will not be doing anything like that whilst staying here do you understand?" he asked. She nodded as Stiles walked downstairs.
"Hey Riles, maybe we should make eggs…. Oh, hey dad" he trailed off awkwardly. His father looked at him
"Morning Stiles, good to see you too" Stiles stared between the two
"So I'm going to just tell you that Riley's been staying here" his father looked at him. The room was tense before the older man turned to the stove
"Okay, Riley you can stay in the guest room if you wish. I guess we'll make eggs for breakfast" and that was what broke the silence as Stiles launched into conversation with his father about what he had missed.

Since the Sherriff was back Riley was beginning to feel like she had a parent in her life. He had enrolled her in school and made sure she was okay, even going as far as to postpone Maya coming. Riley was grateful and was beginning to feel like she had some kind of normality, a normality that she had been desperately craving. She had been introduced to Stile's friends and they had all welcomed her with open arms, well apart from Jackson who made every attempt to flirt with her. Stiles had firmly told him to back off and when that didn't work Scott's fist did. Scott had become an older brother of sorts to Riley, he looked after her when Stiles wasn't around and made sure that she was never alone. Alison had become Riley's best friend; the girl was amazing at calming Riley down when she just felt like the entire world was overwhelming. They had become a sort of enigma in town both were the new girls in a town where everyone had lived their heir while lives. Alison understood the fear of leaving everything behind and could relate to Riley on a level the others can't. Lydia was stand offish but looked out for Riley. Stiles was a different enigma altogether, he had stuck by her side and would continually invite her out with his friends and would stay with her when the nightmares would make her scream herself awake. He was there for every panicked phone call and every time she saw danger. She didn't really know how she felt about him.

Riley was sat outside waiting for Stiles with Allison
"You know you could go home, practice doesn't end for another half an hour" the older girl shrugged.
"I like keeping you company" Riley laughed and smiled at her
"So what's happening with you? Any boys you like?" Alison asked. Riley laughed, there was no way she could focus on a relationship and Alison knew that.
"No"
"Oh really?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. Riley shook her head, she thought of Stiles and how any time she talked to boys he was always close by, when she told Alison that Stiles would never let her date the girl laughed.
"You're a person separate to Stiles, he can't control you" Riley paled. She thought of her ex and how he controlled her, she knew that Stiles was different to her ex, he was caring and wanted her to be okay. Yet sometimes it felt like Riley couldn't trust men. The girl stared at the floor
"Maybe I'll date one day" she was interrupted when Stiles entered the car park
"Hey Alison, riles" he said. The both said hi back and as Stiles loaded his car Riley said goodbye to Alison.

The two teens spent the ride home laughing and joking but the atmosphere became tense when they found who was sat outside Stile's house. Maya Hart. Riley froze, Stiles grabbed her hand
"It's okay Riley" Riley gulped
"I guess my month is up" she told him as she got out the car.

When Maya saw her she all but launched herself at the girl
"You're okay!" she yelped. Riley just hugged her back, Stiles watched them
"I guess we should go inside?" Riley suggested, the blonde nodded and followed her inside. When they got inside Stiles spoke up
"Well as great as it is to see my favourite cousin here I have to get changed… erm why don't you and Riley go into the living room?" the two girls nodded and left Stiles to get changed.

Riley wrung her hands as she waited for Maya to speak
"You know I had all these things I wanted to say to you" she admitted. Riley looked up
"But now you're here I don't know what to say" Riley gulped
"I... know I should probably apologise" Maya laughed lightly
"That would help" Riley began picking at her skin.
"I'm sorry for what I did Maya but it's hard when… when you see everything just kind of… go" Maya nodded.
"I can't ask you to forgive me… I did some horrible things when they… weren't here but you have to understand…"
"I understand why you left Riley, I really, truly do but not what you did just before you left. We had the police telling us all kinds of things, we all thought you were dead" Riley gasped.
"I… actually that makes sense, but I never died, I did a lot of horrible things, but I never died"
"Does he know?" Maya asked referring to Stiles.
"No… he knows about Auggie and Farkle but not about after." She admitted, shaking her head.
"You should tell him"
"I can't… he'd hate me…. Please you can't tell him" Maya nodded.

They spent the next couple of minuets in peace before Stiles came down and asked what Pizza they wanted, they both shouted cheese and just like that the duo fell into their old routine.