Skye's POV

I heard from my dad that the Sheriff was letting Mr Argent and Derek go so I quickly dressed and headed to the Sheriff's station eager to be able to be in the arms of my mate again, I pulled up and took off my helmet rushing inside.

"Sorry but I can't let you walk out with this" I heard Deputy Parrish so I followed the sound of his voice and saw him giving Derek and Mr Argent their property back. "It's way above the legal voltage limit" I smiled seeing Derek turn to me as he stuffed his wallet into his pocket.

"I only use it for hunting" Argent tried explaining and Derek gave him a small glare that I laughed quietly at as I stepped up beside him and grabbed his hand squeezing it even though I wanted to pull him into a hug but I'd told Parrish he was just a friend when he let me in to see them.

"Yeah well I'm pretty sure you could use it to jump start a 747" Parrish argued with him.

"This property belongs to me and the charges were dropped, although I'm not exactly sure who's responsible for that" Derek looked down at me but I shook my head since I hadn't been able to find anything that was going to get them out.

"I am" the Sheriff cut in walking up to the desk and I smiled at him. "I'll take care of this Parrish"

"Sheriff I'm not kidding, this things a few watts from being a lightsaber" I frowned because I knew Stiles would have loved that Starwars joke and it made me miss the real him so much more.

"I said I'll take care of it" the Sheriff insisted grabbing the taser prod of Parrish and pushed it closed then motioned him to follow him into his office. "The specialist I saw in LA told me the thing that every doctor says when trying to avoid a lawsuit 'we can't say for sure' and then I spoke to Melissa, these are brain scans my wife's and Stiles'" he handed them to Argent. "I knew they were similar but those are the same" Argent lined them up and they were an exact copy of one another. "Exactly the same" I frowned staring down at them.

"I'm guessing this isn't possible?" Derek asked looking back up at the Sheriff.

"Not even remotely" he replied shaking his head.

"So the trickster is still playing tricks" Argent said handing the Sheriff the scans.

"But why this trick?" I asked them looking around the room and felt Derek's arms tighten around me.

"When I was in the army an officer told me, 'If you want to defeat your enemy, you don't take away their courage you take away their hope'" I frowned thinking about that.

"You don't look like a man who gives up hope easily" Argent replied.

"But Stiles might" I cut in looking down at the desk forcing myself not to cry.

"If this thing inside him, if it's using his mother's disease as some sort of phycological trick then this isn't just a fight for his body, it's also a fight for his mind right?"

"You know he's left people severely injured right?" Argent asked him.

"And others severely dead" Derek added as I frowned shaking my head because that wasn't Stiles, I couldn't believe that Stiles was responsible for any of that.

"That's why I need the two of you" Mr Stilinski replied pointing at Mr Argent and Derek. "I need people who are experienced in this kind of thing" Mr Argent and Derek shared a look. "I need you to help stop him" I frowned hoping he wasn't actually talking about what I think he's taking about.

"And by stop him, you mean trap him" Argent asked the Sheriff who nodded and I sighed quietly in relief as the Sheriff grabbed Argent's taser and handed it to him as they shared a look.

We left getting Derek's car out of the impound and followed Argent back to his apartment and I was silent the whole way despite finally having Derek back because my mind was on Stiles especially as I watched the sun slowly setting knowing that as soon as it was dark the oni were going to kill him.

"Skye look at me" I turned to Derek and saw him frowning at me. "We're going to save him okay"

"We don't know that, we have just a few hours to come up with a plan before the oni kill him and if I lose Stiles I don't know how to go on, he's been my best friend since I was five and there's no me if there's no Stiles" he frowned taking my hand.

"Skye I don't want to hear you talk like that" I just frowned and returned looking out the window as he pulled up outside the Argent's apartment complex, I got out without a word and went up meeting Argent and the Sheriff just as Allison opened the door letting us in.

"This is everything non-lethal I could find" she said as we walked into Argent's office.

"Take all of it" Mr Argent replied sighing at our arsenal which consisted of ropes, handcuffs, chains, cable ties, a torch, smoke grenades and tranq darts, Allison grabbed a bag and started throwing everything into it.

"What's the plan here?" the Sheriff asked us.

"Our best shot right now is for Skye and Derek to try and pick up Stiles' scent at Eichen house, especially if he went through something stressful there" Argent replied.

"Should we all five of us be going to the same place?" Sheriff cut in looking around.

"Where else has Stiles been showing up?" Argent asked.

"School, the hospital" Allison replied.

"Okay hold on, we did this already he disappeared we started looking for him then walked right into a trap at the hospital" Derek spoke up and I frowned recalling that especially thinking about what happened because of it, Isaac who was still in a coma at the hospital.

"He's getting us to repeat the same moves" Argent replied nodding.

"So what do we do, wait for him to come to us?" Allison asked looking up at her father.

"We can't, not if the oni find him when the sun goes down" Derek replied.

"Scott's working on that right now with Kira" I cut in looking up.

"That's the problem, were all trying to outfox the fox" Argent replied and we all looked down trying to come up with an idea.

"Listen, I'll understand if anyone wants to back out" the sheriff spoke up looking around at all of us and we all shared a look.

"I'm not gonna be the first wolf to run from a fox" Derek replied after a few seconds of silence then continued to grab stuff off the desk.

"Apparently I'm carrying a lightsaber" I rolled my eyes but smiled at the irony that when everyone is making Starwars jokes Stiles isn't around to appreciate them with me.

"Dad, you and Derek hit Eichen House, Sheriff it's you, me and Skye in the hospital, we all meet in the school" I frowned not liking Allison taking the lead and ordering us around and for splitting Derek and I up but it made sense since Derek and were the only ones who could pick up scents.

We zipped up the bags and I squeezed Derek's arm as he grabbed a bag, I was telling him to be careful which he got as he nodded and gave me a look as if to say 'you to' then we stopped to see Argent grab a gun.

"Making sure you have a few lethal options just in case" I said spitefully.

"I like to prepare for the worst" he replied clipping the mag into the gun.

We parted ways and Allison, the Sheriff and I went to the hospital while Derek and Argent went to Eichen House, we got in the elevator and watched the doors close beginning to ride it up in silence for a few seconds but then I saw the Sheriff look down and shake his head.

"You know what I don't know how you guys do it, you're all so strong, you're fearless, hell you even manage to keep you're grades up" he finally spoke up.

"I am failing econ" Allison replied and I snickered.

"Don't worry so am I" I added leaning against the back wall.

"Is that Coach's class?" we nodded. "Well, I'll have a talk with him" I smiled a little but it fell because not much was happy right now, I looked up hearing Allison take a deep breath and saw the Sheriff frown then reached over and stopped the elevator making me grab a hold of the wall in a slight panic since the last time I was trapped in a stopped elevator it was with a homicidal bitch who wanted my mate for herself. "Hey, you okay?" the Sheriff asked her oblivious to my panic.

"I'm not…fearless" Allison admitted without looking up. "I'm terrified" she shook her hands out in front of her. "I'm always terrified, I…I act like I know what I'm doing but I don't" she was on the verge of tears. "I don't know if Isaac is dying right now…I don't know if I made a mistake with Scott" I frowned because she and Scott broke up months ago and he was moving on now so she should to. "I don't know what my dad's thinking, I don't know if we should trust Derek, I don't know…" I rolled my eyes at her saying she doesn't know if she could trust Derek and it really peeved me to no ends considering all the things he's done to help us. "I don't know anything" she broke down and the Sheriff pulled her into a hug rubbing her back.

"You know what's funny?" the Sheriff asked her. "You sound just like a cop" Allison laughed a little as she sniffled back tears before the Sheriff let her go and she stepped back. "Hey, your gonna be okay, okay" he started the elevator back up and I sighed loudly in relief making them finally turn back to me with questioning eyes.

"Sorry I hate elevators" I muttered but was interrupted by the Sheriff's phone going off. "What is that?" I asked him stepping closer.

"Someone's breaking into my house, after Stiles started sleep walking I had some security precautions put in, motion sensors, cameras" we watched as he opened an app and opened up a screen to one of the cameras which was Stiles' bedroom.

"Is that his room?" Allison asked as we saw him sitting on his bed looking up at the camera then he waved straight at the camera making me frown.

I quickly grabbed my phone and texted Derek telling him to get to Stiles' place before we left the hospital and headed there ourselves and it was not fun being the third person when travelling in a police car and having to sit in the back with the cage in front of you especially for someone who gets claustrophobic, when we got there Stile's was gone and I growled out frustrated with playing cat and mouse with this thing.

"What is all this?" Mr Argent spoke up looking down at a chess board with all our names written on post-it notes stuck to the chess pieces. "What are these sticky notes for?"

"This is what Stiles used to try and explain to me about all of you" I looked down trying to find the pattern.

"Well maybe it's a message from Stiles, the real Stiles" Allison replied as Mr Argent picked up a fallen piece with the name Isaac on it making me frown as that wasn't reassuring.

"You think there's any reason my names on the king?" Derek asked making me look back to the chess board and saw his name on a pink post-it note stuck to the king and it was then I realised mine was on the queen.

"Well your heavily guarded" I replied picking up my piece. "At least you have a queen" I added trying to lighten the mood like Stiles would have but when I looked around it was wasn't being appreciated.

"Though I guess the alarming detail is you're one move away from being in checkmate" Mr Stilinski added looking up at Derek.

"Its not a message from Stiles, it's a threat from the nogitsune" Argent added making me worry and grab Derek's hand but I understood what this meant and where this thing wanted us to be.

"He's at the loft, that's what he's trying to tell us" I replied looking up.

"And he wants us to come there" Argent added again looking up at the Sheriff.

"Nights falling" Derek pointed out and squeezed my hand.

"This couldn't sound like any more of a trap" Argent spoke up.

"I don't think it is" the Sheriff cut in shaking his head.

"I think your opinion might be slightly biased, Sheriff" I glared at Argent as he said this.

"Hear me out, what were dealing with here is basically someone who lacks motive, no rhyme, no reason, right?"

"Meaning what?" Argent asked the Sheriff.

"Our enemy is not a killer" the Sheriff replied. "It's a trickster, the killing is just a by-product"

"If your saying it won't kill us, I'm not feeling too confident about that" Derek replied putting his arm around me and I know it was a comfort since I could tell he was worried because he knew I was going to do anything to protect Stiles no matter what was inside him killing people.

"It won't, it wants irony, it wants to play a trick, it wants a joke" the Sheriff replied. "All we need to do is come up with a new punch line"

"The sun is setting Sheriff, what do you have in mind?" Argent asked him.

When we got there we let the Sheriff go first so that he could talk to Stiles and see if it really was him in there while we waited just outside the door waiting for any sign that this was actually Stiles and not the nogitsune.

"Hi dad" I heard Stiles say and smiled up at Derek but he shook his head telling me to wait still because we'd been fooled by the nogitsune pretending to be Stiles before.

A/N: Sorry I know this wasn't a long chapter but promise to update again soon as a compensation.