Skye's POV

I moaned as I held the headboard of Derek's bed as he moved kissing his way down my neck and continued to thrust into me but then I heard my phone start ringing, I groaned loudly and seriously debated throwing it against a wall.

"Ignore it" Derek mumbled against my neck and I nodded trying to focus back on what he and I we're currently doing but it rang again.

"Oh for the love of…" I reached up blindly and grabbed my phone off the bedside table and saw it was Stiles.

"Skye seriously…" I held my hand over Derek's mouth.

"Keep going" he smirked rolling his eyes but continued thrusting into me since neither of us was ready to stop our happy time. "Stiles you better be dying" I said as I answered the phone and fought back the moan in my throat but there was no reply. "Stiles?" that's when heavy breathing came through the phone. "Stiles, you there?"

"Skye?" Stiles finally answered whispering and the way his voice sounded finally made me put my hand against Derek's chest stopping him.

"Hey I'm here" I replied sitting up forcing Derek off me. "Are you okay can you hear me?" I asked nervously grabbing a shirt off the ground which was Derek's and pulled it on.

"Skye, I don't…I don't know where I am, I don't know how I got here" he replied still whispering and I was starting to panic. "I think I was sleepwalking"

"Ok um, can you see anything?" I asked turning to face Derek and mouthed 'call Scott' at him, he nodded and quickly grabbed his own phone "Just tell me what you see"

"Ah, it's dark, it's hard to see, I think there's something wrong with my…" the call disconnected so I quickly called back just as Derek got Scott on the line

'Hey this is Stiles and you missed me, leave a message' I growled into the phone when I got Stiles voicemail.

"Yeah somethings wrong with Stiles" I heard Derek say to Scott as I tried again.

"God, come on, come on" I rushed breathing out harshly running my fingers through my hair.

'Hey this is Sti-' I hung up again then waited and Stiles rang me so I quickly picked it up.

"Stiles!" I exclaimed pulling on pants and looking back at Derek then put the phone on loudspeaker

"Skye, I don't think I can get out of here, I can't move"

"Where are you?" Scott asked over Derek's phone as we held them together.

"Scott?" Stiles asked him.

"Yeah man where are you?" Scott asked again.

"I don't know, I don't know, it's too dark I can't see much and something's wrong with my leg, it's stuck on something and it's...I think it's bleeding" Stiles replied breathing heavily.

"How bad?" I asked quickly feeling tears pool in my eyes. "Stiles, how bad is it?" there was no answer. "Stiles, are you there can you hear us?"

"Ah there's some kind of weird smell down here, something smells terrible, it's brutal my eyes are watering"

"Okay, listen we're calling your dad" Scott cut in.

"No, no, no, no, don't" Stiles replied

"But your dad…" Scott argued with him.

"Don't just please don't call him, promise you won't he already worries about me too much Scott please"

"But what if we can't find you?" I asked desperately staring down at my phone. "Stiles we can't make a promise like that" I begged with him and looked up at Derek who was looking back at me just as concerned as I was.

"No, no, no, just please, please don't call him, come find me you can do it, hey doesn't have to know, guys you can find me" I shook my head

"Stiles I don't know if I can do this" I whispered back urgently.

"Come on man you, we can't…" Scott began arguing over the phone to Stiles.

"Oh, I gotta call you back, I have to turn the phone off" Stiles said cutting him off

"What NO, hey, wait…" Scott and I both exclaimed.

"I'm gonna call you back" he insisted.

"Hold on, Stiles wait hold on-" I replied but Stiles hung up. "Oh god" I muttered "Scott we got to find him, meet me at his place in ten minutes" I hung up on Scott then stood up and grabbed my shoes

"Skye wait" Derek said pulling on his own clothes.

"For what Stiles is out there bleeding to death!" I exclaimed frantically. "I have to find him Derek, he's my best friend" I sighed looking down closing my eyes. "He's my brother Derek and I can't lose him"

"You're not going to, we'll find him together" I nodded my head then we left the loft heading over to Stiles place to get a fresh scent, I was just about to climb into Derek's Toyota when my phone buzzed and I immediately picked it up

"Hey Stiles?" I said at the exact time Scott did and realised Stiles connected us into a linked call this time.

"Did you call him?" he asked us quietly. "Did you call my dad?"

"No just Isaac" Scott replied.

"And Derek's with me, we're coming to find you" I added climbing into Derek's car with him then held the phone out so he could hear. "Can you figure out where you are, try to find something and tell us where to look?" I asked trying to keep the panic out of my voice.

"It's a basement, I don't know some kind of basement" Stiles replied sounding like he was shaking and it made sense since tonight was in the low twenties.

"In a house?" Scott asked him.

"No it looks bigger like industrial, I think there's a furnace but it's cold, it's freezing down here" I frowned sharing another worried look with Derek. "I gotta turn the…I gotta turn the phone off, it's gonna die"

"Wait, wait, wait" Scott begged him. "What else is there?" he asked Stiles.

"Can you see anything else?" I added trying to stop my own hand shaking in fear.

"The phones dying I can't talk" Stiles argued and I growled out "I have to go" he added barely above a whisper.

"Stiles why are you whispering?" I asked him confused.

"Because I think there's someone else in here with me" Stiles replied then the line went dead again.

"Oh god…I have to, I'm calling…" I thought about who to call but I'd promised not to call his dad and I haven't spoken to my own father in days since he told me he was planning on moving us out of Beacon Hills.

I looked up seeing Derek had started driving and we we're almost at Stiles' place but I held my hands up in front of me and noticed I hadn't stopped shaking in fear and panic so I tried to get them to stop but it was getting worse.

"If something happens to him I swear to god" I mumbled then felt Derek take one of my hands and held it tightly.

"We're gonna find him okay" I frowned because we couldn't know that since we had absolutely nothing to go on.

We pulled up at the same time Scott did on his bike with Isaac on the back and we immediately let ourselves in then ran upstairs to Stiles room but we're surprised when we found Lydia and Aiden already there.

"How did you know?" I asked frantically. "Did he call you too?"

"I heard it" Lydia replied and we all raised an eyebrow at her.

"Don't ask" Aiden cut in. "It gets more confusing when you ask" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Not as confusing as this" Lydia said turning around and that's when I noticed that all strings Stiles had put up for the investigation were tied to a pair of scissors and stabbed in the middle of his bed linking them to different pages on the boards above his bed. "He uses red for unsolved cases"

"Maybe he thinks he's part of an unsolved case?" Aiden offered his opinion.

"Or is an unsolved case" Isaac added.

"Hold on, is he still out there?" Lydia asked turning back to us. "You don't know where he is?"

"He said he was in an industrial basement somewhere" Derek cut in still holding my hand and I appreciated it since it was about the only thing keeping me grounded and calm right now.

"We came here to get a better scent" I added frowning.

"What else did he say?" Lydia asked us.

"Something's wrong with his leg, it's bleeding" Scott replied.

"And he's freezing" Isaac added looking at Scott.

"Tonight's the coldest night of the year" Aiden cut in and I looked up at Scott as I contemplated our next best move. "It's going to drop into the 20s" I nodded agreeing with Aiden.

"What did his dad say?" Lydia asked whispering.

"We kind of…we didn't tell him yet" Scott stuttered nervously.

"Stiles is bleeding and freezing and you didn't call his dad?" Lydia replied glaring at Scott.

"He made us promise not to" I said letting out a sigh knowing how stupid that was. "We can find him by scent" I added but didn't fully believe it myself.

"If he was sleepwalking he couldn't have gotten far, right?" Scott added looking around at all of us.

"You didn't notice his Jeep is gone, did you?" Aiden asked and I sighed shaking my head.

"You promised you wouldn't call his dad, I didn't" Lydia cut in pulling out her phone.

"Wait, Lydia, hold on" Scott said, stopping her "I can get more help I can call Allison…"

"Everyone except for the cops, great idea!" I looked up at Scott.

"You guys remember she gets these feelings when someone's about to die, right?" Aiden cut in again and I watched as Scott looked at me, so I sent him a pleading look before he turned back to Lydia.

"You don't have to call his dad, it's five minutes to the station" Scott replied and I sighed in relief as Scott, Derek, Isaac, Aiden and I went to leave the room but Lydia stopped Aiden.

"We'll catch up" she said so I turned back to her confused.

"What, why?" I asked her.

"There's something here" she replied shaking her head.

"Yeah" Isaac mumbled looking around Stiles' room. "Evidence of total insanity"

"We'll figure out what's wrong with him after we find a way to keep him from freezing to death" I said glaring at him because he wasn't being helpful to my already near panic.

"Go" Lydia told us "We'll be right behind you" I nodded then we left and headed over to the station and I really hopped my dad wasn't working the late shift because I wasn't ready to see him and he was already pretty mad at me and Derek since I haven't been home at all and practically living with Derek at the loft since I ran out on him.

I watched as the Sheriff stared down at the desk and everyone in the room remained silent as he contemplated what we had just told him, I felt Derek rub my back as I looked around relieved my dad wasn't here then after what seemed like forever the Sheriff finally looked up.

"If his Jeep is gone that's where we start, Parrish let's get an APB out on a blue 1980 CJ-5 Jeep" I looked down at one of the newer deputy's start writing down that information. "Cordova I want a list of any kind of industrial basement or sub-level of any building that he could've gotten into while sleepwalking, it's the coldest night of the year so far so if he's out their barefoot in just a T-shirt he could already be hypothermic, let's move fast, let's think fast, the four of you come with me" we followed the Sheriff into his office. "Okay is there anything you need to tell me that I can't tell everybody out there" I sighed.

"Lydia knew he was missing" I replied sharing a look with Derek as he pulled me against him knowing I needed his support right now.

"Can she help find him?" he asked us.

"She's working on it" Isaac replied nodding at the Sheriff.

"Anything else?"

"I called Allison for help" Scott replied and the Sheriff sighed.

"Can you find him by scent?" he asked looking around at all four of us just as there was knock on the office window and Deputy Parrish poked his head in.

"We got it, sir we found the Jeep" I sighed in a little bit of relief as we set out heading to the hospital which is where they found his jeep.

Once Derek and I saw he wasn't in his jeep we headed inside going over each floor for scents but when I came to the stairwell to the roof I stopped finally catching Stiles' scent so I pulled on Derek's arm then headed up going out onto the roof then stopped in the middle since he wasn't up here either but his scent was so strong up here leaving me confused as we stared around.

"He's not here, not anymore" Derek spoke up after we saw Scott and Isaac come out of the stairwell onto the roof.

"You mean the whole building?" Scott asked him.

"Gone" Derek replied pulling me against him as I felt myself start shaking again.

"I'll go tell Stilinski" Isaac spoke up then made the move to leave.

"And see if you can find Allison, she's not answering her phone" Scott asked stopping him and I looked over a little surprised that Scott had told Isaac to seek out Allison since I thought he was still ticked off about their growing relationship, Isaac nodded and left the roof before Scott walked up to us.

"Notice how strong the scent is up here?" Derek asked turning his head slightly to Scott. "Ever hear of chemo signals?" he added looking down at me as well as Scott, I nodded my head.

"Chemical signals" he smiled nodding his head at me.

"They communicate emotion and just our sweat can give off anger, fear or disgust" Derek replied glancing back at Scott.

"Lust?" I added smirking up at him and I saw him shake his head at me with a small smile then turned me away from his body but kept my back pressed against his front as I watched Scott roll his eyes at us and I knew it wasn't the time for this but I couldn't help it.

"Take a deep breath, both of you and tell me what you feel" I closed my eyes and focused on my sense of smell, on the emotion side of Stiles' scent.

"Stress" Scott replied.

"Anxiety" I added frowning since that wasn't exactly something knew for Stiles with his ADHD but this time it felt wrong somehow.

"What was he doing up here?" Scott asked looking at Derek.

"I don't know but there was definitely some kind of struggle" Derek replied tightening his arms around my waist.

"With who?" Scott asked him but this time I answered since there was only once scent.

"Himself" I replied then sighed before we left the hospital splitting up to cover more ground.

Derek and I headed to the school and I couldn't help the shiver that ran through my bones as we walked in since the last time I was here this late at night, I watched Derek get thrown across the parking lot by Peter.

"Are you cold?" I looked up shaking my head.

"Just recalling bad memories" I muttered and rubbed my arms as we looked through classrooms just in case then headed down to the basement and again I recalled Boyd and Cora nearly killing Derek and suddenly felt the walls closing in on me.

"Skye?" I looked up at him but couldn't get my breathing back down. "Skyler calm down" my shoulders heaved for breath that I couldn't find. "Hey look at me" he lifted my face. "Focus just on me, on my voice okay" I nodded and held onto his arms as I attempted to calm my breathing down. "Shh that's it" I sighed when I felt secure again but then broke down in sobs.

"God I'm so useless, Stiles is out there dying and I'm sitting here breaking down like a child, I can't even help my best friend, maybe I should just leave, it'll be better for everyone"

"Hey!" Derek snapped stopping my childish rant. "You are not useless Skye, nobody expects you to be the one to find Stiles all by yourself"

"I promised Stiles that I would find him and I can't…I can't do anything but play damsel in destress, no wonder Isaac hates me because all I do is get in the way"

"Skye stop okay, we're going to find him because-" he was cut off by his phone buzzing so he pulled it out of his jacket pocket and I watched as he looked up after reading the text. "They found him" my eyes widened then grabbed his hand and pulled him upstairs out into the carpark and we got into his car taking off, when we pulled up I ran into the hospital and ran into Scott's parents, Scott and Lydia.

"Where is he?" I asked looking around but before anyone could answer me the Sheriff came out.

"He's sleeping now" the Sheriff told us. "And he's just fine" I sighed in relief and finally calmed down. "He doesn't remember much, it's a bit like a dream to him" the Sheriff looked at Scott's Dad. "Thank you"

"It was that repellent we sprayed in the coyote den to keep other animals out" he told the Sheriff shrugging his good shoulder. "I couldn't go near it without my eyes watering, it's just a good thing he mentioned it over the phone"

"No, it was more than that thank you"

"It was a lucky connection" McCall tried to pass it off again.

"McCall, can you shut up please and accept my sincerest gratitude" the Sheriff said and I laughed just a little bit and I watched Agent McCall think it over before holding out his hand.

"Accepted" they shook hands and I rolled my eyes.

"All right, you three" Scott's mom said turning to us teenagers. "You've got school in less than six hours, go home, go to sleep"

"Okay" Scott replied giving her a hug before Lydia, Scott and I started to walk out.

"I don't know what happened, I was so sure" Lydia spoke up.

"Yeah we weren't much help either" I replied knowing how she felt.

"It doesn't matter if he's okay" Scott added but Lydia stopped turning to look back so I looked at her in confusion.

"Lydia, do you hear something?" I asked but Lydia turned again and then looked at us.

"No, I didn't hear anything" she replied then walked out, I sighed walking towards the exit and saw Derek waiting for me by his car which was parked next to Stiles' jeep which looked like he'd gotten running again so I offered him a small smile then walked over and wrapped my arms around his waist.

"Take me home" he looked down with slight confusion.

"You mean home or back to the loft?" I looked up with a small smile.

"They both mean the same thing, I'm done with my dad, he can run away for all I care but I'm not leaving, not now, not ever" he smiled then leaned down and pressed his lips to mine before we climbed into his car and he drove back to the loft.

I knew my dad was furious with me since I was frequently getting texts and calls which I didn't answer so he left voicemails telling me that if I didn't come home soon he would arrest Derek for kidnapping but I didn't care and he had to prove it which he couldn't so I was going to continue staying with Derek until I was ready to forgive him for trying to rip me away from everything I cared about.

I walked into school the next morning with Derek since I decided to take a mental health day today and follow Derek who wanted to find Kira because he'd had an idea last night after talking with Aiden when they we're jump starting Stiles' jeep and some reason he thought it involved Kira.

"Scott hey!" I finally heard Kira so I grabbed Derek's hand and led him towards the locker rooms where we found Kira standing near the stairs.

"He's a little preoccupied" Derek spoke up and she turned to us. "But I can help you" I smiled looking at Kira as she took in Derek in front of her since this is the first time he's directly talked to her.

"Why would you want to help me?" she asked him looking at me for a second.

"Because I want you to tell me everything that happened at the power station with William Barrow" I frowned since I could have just as well done that, I watched Kira nervously look down the hall where Scott disappeared. "Actually I want you to show me" she looked at me fearfully.

"Don't worry Kira, you can trust us" I grabbed hold of Derek's hand again. "You can trust him" she nodded then followed us out, I let go of Derek's hand to fall into step with her for a little bit of support since she still seemed hesitant to be following Derek. "He's not as scary as he looks" I smiled and heard Derek chuckle in front of us.

"Is he the older guy that Scott said you we're obsessed with" she asked me.

"Uh kind of although I'm not obsessed with him like Scott believes, he was just joking around when he said that" she frowned so I smiled. "Derek's my boyfriend" her eyes widened a little.

"But he's so old" I bit back a laugh as I heard Derek growl at that as he reached the Toyota.

"Again not as old as you may think and it works well for me" I replied winking at Derek as Kira climbed into the back seat.

I climbed into the passenger seat as Derek got in then drove to the power station and when he pulled up at the substation we got out then went inside looking around the place but so far nothing was standing out to me as I followed behind Kira and Derek.

"It was around here I think" Kira spoke up and Derek looked behind at me for confirmation but I barely remembered since that night happened so fast and getting it with the cable made most of it a blur.

"Everything kind of looks the same now" I replied looking around but then noticed Derek's eyes locked to the ground so I followed his gaze and saw what looked like scuff marks then looked up at a control panel and my breath hitched.

"What is that?" Kira asked as we walked closer. "Is that a baseball bat?" I sighed.

"It's Stiles' bat" I replied as Derek walked over to it and I shifted uneasy since this place could be still unstable, he sent me a reassuring look before he tried to pull the bat off the panel and it came away with a little bit of force on Derek's part.

"It's magnetized" he pointed out before coming back towards us and put the tip of the bat to where the scuffmarks began then the bat started to move back towards the control panel before reattaching to where it originally was with Derek holding it before he stepped back and shared a confused look with me before we both turned to Kira. "Kira, I'm gonna need you to tell us everything you know about foxfire" she looked at him confused until he gestured with eyes to a high voltage sign.

We walked out and I got a text from Scott saying that Stiles was getting tests at the hospital so I told Derek to drop me off there and while I headed inside he stayed back with Kira as I worked up the courage to tell Scott we'd found something.

"I'm not sure I know how to pronounce this or if it's not actually a misspelling" the doctor said going through Stiles' file and I smiled a bit as I looked around the room at Scott's mom and the Sheriff before going over to stand next to Stiles and Scott.

"Just call him Stiles" the Sheriff told him.

"Okay" the doctor sighed turning to Stiles. "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 metal coils inside the machine, uh if you want we can get you earplugs or headphones"

"Oh, no, no, I don't need anything" Stiles protested as I rubbed his arm in support.

"Hey, we're just on the other side of that window" Mr Stilinski said trying to be brave for Stiles and tried to offer him a reassuring smile. "Okay?"

"Okay" Stiles replied then all the adults left the room, leaving us alone. "You know what they're looking for, right?" Stiles asked us and I nodded already knowing. "It's called front temporal dementia, areas of your brain start to shrink, it's what my mother had, it's the only form of dementia that can hit teenagers and there's no cure" I felt tears start to come down my face as I rubbed his arm, Stiles was one of the most important people in my life and I didn't want to lose him now.

It was silent for a little bit and when I looked up at Scott I saw he was fighting back his own tears so I reached out to him as well and sighed rubbing up and down his arm as he attempted to wipe a tear that threatened escape.

"Stiles if you have it, we'll do something" Scott finally said sniffling as he turned to Stiles. "I'll do something" I nodded my agreement.

"We'll figure something out just like we always do because we're not losing you" Stiles looked up at us with teary eyes then pulled Scott and I into a hug.

I didn't want to let him go but the doctor soon told us it was time to start the MRI so Scott and I left and as we did, I got a text message from Derek saying he was outside and that we had to tell Scott about what we found out.

"Derek's here, he needs to talk with you" Scott frowned confused but nodded so we walked out into the hall seeing Derek waiting for us so I immediately went up to him and pulled him into a hug before we sat down and Derek pulled me to sit in his lap as he explained to Scott how Barrow used Kira's foxfire to jumpstart the Nogitsune in Stiles.

I sighed nuzzling my head against Derek's chest as I tried to block out the sounds coming from inside the MRI room as Derek rubbed his hands up and down my arm and leg soothingly knowing I just needed the connection.

"You know the stuff you we're telling me about chemo signals earlier, it reminded me of the time you we're teaching me to use anger to control the shift" Scott spoke up after a few minutes of silence as he took in what Derek just told him.

"I think you two ended up teaching me more about that" Derek replied sighing into my hair as he nuzzled the top of my head and I saw Scott smiling a genuine happy smile when he saw how comfortable and affectionate we we're being right now with each other.

"Are you teaching me again?" Scott asked and Derek smiled a little.

"Think of it as sharing a few trade secrets" I smiled up at Derek. "You know I took Cora back to South America, right?" I looked up at Derek as he went back to rubbing my arm. "It's where she spent most of her time after the fire but that's not the only reason I left" Scott looked surprised and looked to me silently asking me if I knew this, I shrugged returning my face back to Derek's neck breathing in his intoxicating scent. "I needed to talk to my mother"

"You're dead mother?" Scott asked and I rolled my eyes at that was blunt Scott.

"She told me something that changed my perspective…on a lot of things" I looked up a little intrigued now since I knew he'd gotten back his mother's claws and that with them he communicated with his mom but he never told me what she'd said. "She said my family didn't just live in Beacon Hills, they protected it" he smiled down at me. "This town needs someone to protect it" he added looking back up at Scott. "Someone like you" Scott smiled with a small silent chuckle.

"And someone like you to teach me a few trade secrets" Derek nodded with a small smile towards Scott but then I suddenly realised something that made me sit up and curse making Derek jump by my sudden movement.

"He was trying to protect us" I said then looked up at Scott as he stood up seemingly coming to the same conclusion I was, I swung my legs back to the ground and stood up letting Derek stand up behind me.

"Stiles was protecting us" Scott added, I nodded my agreement then turned back to Derek watching it dawn on him as well by what Scott and I were saying.

"From himself" Derek added then we ran up onto the roof. "What are we looking for?" Derek asked as Scott and I headed over to the cages which held the buildings power.

"I'm not sure" I replied as I looked around. "But I think Stiles wasn't just up here struggling with himself" I looked at the cages. "I think he was struggling with himself not to do something" I finished then looked up at the cage in front of me then jumped up.

"Skye" Derek warned as this probably made him nervous but when I reached up I felt something so I grabbed hold of it and pulled it, it fell to the ground and we looked down seeing a bag filled with all types of tools as they fell out of it then looked back up and saw one of the electrical wires had been cut with sparks emitting out of it "Skyler get down now!" I nodded and quickly jumped down with Derek helping me by holding my waist.

We backed up just in time because the power box suddenly exploded with light and Derek shielded me as sparks started flying everywhere before a single wire separated from the others and flew from the roof, falling towards the parking lot below.

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