Cold, cold and pain, that's all I felt as I let the tears flow as I tried to find the source of what was causing my pain but all I could tell was that I was in a dark room, like a basement and didn't understand why I was in pain, the tears flowed freely as I laid my head on the ground and closed my eyes
I woke up with a gasp and sat straight up feeling a cold sweat drip down my face and almost screamed when I felt a vibration next to me, I looked over seeing my phone glowing beside me so I reached over and picked it up, Stiles was calling
"Hey, sweetie what are you doing up, it's late" there was no answer "Stiles?" that's when heavy breathing came through the phone "Stiles, you there?"
"Skyez" Stiles finally whispered "Hey, I'm here"
"Are you okay?" I asked, concern filling my voice "Can you hear me?" I sat up
"Skye, I don't…I don't know where I am, I don't know how I got here I think was sleepwalking"
"Okay, um can you see anything?" I asked, instinctively beginning to put on my clothes "Just tell me what you see"
"Ah, it's dark it's hard to see, I think there's something wrong with my-" the phone disconnected, I looked at the phone and tried to call him again
"Hey Stiles" '-this is Stiles and you missed me. Leave a message' the voicemail said, I groaned and got up going to Scott's room as I tried to call again 'Hey, this is St-'
"God, come on, come on" I groaned and walked into Scott's room and hit him, he immediately sat up
"What the hell-" he exclaimed
"Shut up!" I shushed and dialled the number again, this time the receiver clicked "Stiles?" I asked, concern filling my voice
"Skye, I don't think I can get out of here, I can't move"
"Where are you?" Scott asked, as I put it on speaker
"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"
"How bad?" I asked quickly "Stiles, how bad is it?" there was no answer "Stiles, are you there can you hear us"
"Ah, there's some kind of smell down here" Stiles answered with a sniff "Something smells terrible, it's brutal my eyes are watering"
"Okay, listen we're calling your dad" Scott said
"No, no, no, no, don't"
"But your dad…"
"Don't just please don't call him, promise you won't he already worries about me too much Scott, Skye please"
"But what if we can't find you?" I said with double the panic because I couldn't control my empathy right now so I was picking up Scott's panic as well "Stiles, we can't make a promise like that"
"No, no, no, just please" Stiles sniffled, he must have been crying "Please, don't call him come find me you can do it he doesn't have to know, you two can find me"
"I don't know if we can do this"
"Oh, I gotta call you back, I have to turn the phone off"
"What NO, hey, wait…" Scott and I both exclaimed
"I'm gonna call you back"
"Hold on, Stiles wait hold on, man" but Stiles hung up, Scott ran over to his dresser and began getting dressed as I took off towards Isaac's room, I ran up to his bed and started shaking him
"What?!" he exclaimed as he woke up suddenly "What's wrong?"
"It's Stiles get dressed now" I told him, going towards the door
"What's wrong with Stiles?" I stopped and turned back to him
"I don't know"
We rushed down the stairs, all now dressed we didn't know where we were going but we needed to find Stiles, just as we were about to head out the door, my phone rang causing me to jump
"Hey, Stiles" I said
"Did you call him?" Stiles asked "Did you call my dad?"
"No, just Isaac we're coming to find you" I paused "Can you figure out where you are, try to find something and tell us where to look"
"It's a basement, I think….I think I'm in some kind of basement"
"In a house?" I asked
"No it looks bigger, like industrial I think there's a furnace but it's cold it's freezing down here I gotta turn the….I gotta turn the phone off it's going to die"
"Wait, wait, wait what else is there, what do you see?"
"The phone's dying I can't talk, I have to go" he said the last part with a whisper
"Stiles, why are you whispering?" there was a long pause
"Because I think there's someone in here with me" and the phone went silent
"Oh my god" I whispered "Scott, we have to call his dad"
"Skye, we can't we promised"
"I know, we may be werewolves but I don't think we can find him" Scott pulled me into a hug
"We're going to find him, we will we have too" I nodded and grabbed the keys to the Camaro
"You take Isaac on the bike, I'll meet you at Stiles' place" he nodded and they ran out while I ran to the garage and quickly pulled the tarp off and opened the garage door then sped out as fast as I dared, I knew we needed more help so I called Derek
"Skye?" he answered sleepily
"Derek-" I was on the verge of tears
"Skye are you okay, what is it?" I could hear the panic in his voice obviously hearing my voice breaking "Skyler talk to me!"
"It's Stiles he called me, he slept walked and now he needs us, I need your help"
"Where are you?"
"Scott, Isaac and I are heading to Stiles' place to get a fresher scent"
"I'll meet you-"
"No meet me at the high school, he said he was in some sort of industrial basement so that's the best place to look"
"Skyez.."
"Please just meet me there, I'll be there as soon as I get Stiles' scent" he sighed and I could see him practically rolling his head at me
"Okay…" he paused "Skye it'll be okay, we'll find him" I nodded then remembered he couldn't see me
"I hope, I got to go, I'm pulling up at his place now" I hung up then quickly put the Camaro in park then followed Scott and Isaac up to Stiles' room and were surprised to find Lydia and Aiden already here
"How did you know?" I asked "Did he call you too?"
"I heard it" Lydia said, we all raised an eyebrow
"Don't ask" Aiden said "It gets more confusing when you ask"
"Not as confusing as this" Lydia said, turning around that's when we 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 "He uses red for unsolved cases"
"Maybe he thinks he's part of an unsolved case?" Aiden offered
"Or is an unsolved case" Isaac added
"Hold on, is he still out there?" Lydia asked "You don't know where he is?"
"He said he was in an industrial basement somewhere" I told her "We came here to get a better scent"
"What else did he say?"
"Something's wrong with his leg" Scott told her "It's bleeding"
"And he's freezing" Isaac said
"Tonight's the coldest night of the year" Aiden told us "It's going to drop into the 20s"
"What did his dad say?" Lydia asked
"We kind of…we didn't tell him yet" Scott said
"Stiles is bleeding and freezing and you didn't call his dad?"
"He made us promise not to" I said, letting out a sigh
"We can find him by scent" Scott said "If he was sleepwalking he couldn't have gotten far, right?"
"You didn't notice his Jeep is gone, did you?" Aiden asked
"You promised you wouldn't call his dad, I didn't" Lydia said, pulling out her phone
"Wait, Lydia, hold on" Scott said, stopping her "I can get more help I can call Derek, Allison…"
"Everyone except for the cops" she said "Great idea"
"You guys remember she gets these feelings when someone's about to die, right?" Aiden asked, Scott looked at me so I sent him a pleading look, he turned back to Lydia
"You don't have to call his dad, it's five minutes to the station" Scott, Isaac, Aiden and I went to leave the room but Lydia stopped Aiden
"We'll catch up"
"What?" I asked "Why?"
"There's something here"
"Yeah" Isaac mumbled "Evidence of total insanity"
"Look, we can figure out what's wrong with him after we find a way to keep him from freezing to death" I said glaring at him
"Go" Lydia told us "We'll be right behind you"
I watched as the Sheriff stared down at the desk, everyone in the room remained silent as he contemplated what we had just told him and after what seemed like forever, he 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, 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 three of you come with me" he spat out the instructions like it was nothing and took the three of us into his office "Okay is there anything you need to tell me that I can't tell anyone out there?"
"Lydia knew he was missing" Scott told him, adding a blow onto the whole thing
"Can she help find him?"
"Well, she's working on it" Isaac said
"Anything else?"
"We called Derek and Allison for help, Derek is meeting me at the high school so we can check the basement there" I said looking up
"Can you find him by scent?" there was knock on the office window and a Deputy, who I came to know as Deputy Parrish came in
"We got it, sir we found the Jeep"
The flashing lights of the police cars filled the hospital parking lot, Stiles' car was in the lot but he was not, he left it there when he went to where ever he was now, I called Derek and told him to meet me at the hospital instead and he told me to meet him on the roof so Scott, Isaac and I ran up to the roof and as soon as I saw Derek, I ran over to him and hugged him letting his scent calm me, just being with him calmed me down that I could block out Scott's and Isaac's emotions
"Thankyou" I said even though he probably didn't know why I was thanking him, he gave me a soft kiss and then looked at the boys
"He's not here, not anymore" he said holding my head against his chest and I nuzzled him
"You mean the whole building?" Scott asked
"Gone"
"I'll go tell Stilinski" Isaac said
"Hey and see if you can find Allison" Scott said before he could leave "She's not answering her phone" Isaac nodded and left the roof as Scott walked up to us
"Notice how strong the scent is up here?" Derek asked us "Ever hear of chemo signals, chemical signals that communicate emotion and just our sweat can give off anger, fear or disgust, take a deep breath and tell me what you feel" I closed my eyes and took a deep breath
"Stress" Scott replied
"And anxiety" I added "What was he doing up here?" Derek looked down at me
"I don't know but there was definitely some kind of struggle"
"With who?" Scott asked
"Himself" Derek and I replied and I grabbed his hand squeezing tight because I felt so hopeless, I could feel everything up here fear, anxiety, confusion, terror and most of all confliction but couldn't understand why, they only got the more dominant emotions but I got them all
I felt a shiver run through my spine as Derek and I walked into the school, we hadn't ever had a pleasant time in the school after hours and I didn't expect this time to be any better, he must have noticed because he wrapped his arm around me pulling me close
"You cold?" he asked
"Just don't really like the fact that we're in the school after hours, our track record here is not that great" I replied with a small chuckle
"I'm pretty sure if something was going on, we would know by now" Derek flashed the light at the classroom doors
"Do you feel anything?" I asked Derek
"No" he turned to me "Do you?" I knew exactly what he was implying, so I moved away from him and stood in the middle of the hallway closing my eyes and concentrated, I stayed like this for what seemed like forever but all I could feel was Derek getting worried and me feeling useless, I can't even find my best friend, I suddenly burst into tears and went to collapse against the floor but Derek caught me before I hit the floor and held onto me tight as I sobbed into his chest
"I can't feel him, I…I…I can't feel anything" I said in between sobs "All I feel is cold and desperation but I don't know where he is"
"Hey….hey" Derek said, comforting me or at least trying to "No one expects you to find him, no one expects you to be able to do that by yourself"
"But I promised Stiles we would find him"
"And we will" Derek kissed my forehead and we stood in silence for a while, that was until my phone broke the silence, I looked at it and my eyes went wide "What is it?"
"They found him" Derek dropped me off outside and quickly ran into the hospital finding Scott, Lydia, my mom and my dad all waiting in the waiting room, I ran up and hugged my mom "How did they find him?" I asked
"Your father actually did" mom told me, I looked over at my father then wrapped my arm around his waist and hugged him, dad hugged me back making me smile softly as it felt good to be in his arms again, I would never admit it especially now but when I was younger I was definitely a daddy's girl, I looked back up at my dad as the Sheriff came into the waiting room
"He's sleeping now" the Sheriff told us "And he's just fine" I felt the anxiety and tension in the room disappear "He doesn't remember much, it's a bit like a dream to him" the Sheriff looked at my dad "Thank you"
"It was that repellent we sprayed in the coyote den to keep other animals out" he told the Sheriff "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, can you shut up please and accept my sincerest gratitude" dad sighed
"Accepted"
"All right, you three" mom said "You've got school in less than six hours, go home, go to sleep"
"Okay" Scott said as we both hugged our mother and then led Lydia down the hall
"I don't know what happened" Lydia said when we were out of hearing range with the adults "I was so sure"
"Yeah, I wasn't much help either" I said
"None of us were" Scott said "It doesn't matter, if he's okay" suddenly, Lydia stopped turning to look back
"Lydia, do you hear something?" I asked her but Lydia turned and looked at us
"No, I didn't hear anything"
I went home and walked up to my bedroom in a trance but snapped out of it when I opened the door and smelt Derek so I offered him a small smile when I closed it and turned to see him sitting in my leather chair by the window
"Have you been waiting here this whole time" I asked him sitting in his lap and laid my head on his shoulder
"Yeah, I didn't think you should be alone tonight, how's Stiles" I sighed
"He's…I don't know" he brushed his hand through my hair then lifted my gaze to meet his
"He'll be okay, it's Stiles" I managed a small laugh but it fell quickly
"I hope, I couldn't bare it if something bad happened to him, he's practically my brother"
"I know how much he means to you Skye" he cupped my cheek "He'll be fine, he always is, for a human" I smiled and kissed him
"How do you do that?" he quirked his head to the side
"Do what?"
"Make me forget, even for a few seconds" he smiled
"It's just one of my many talents" I rolled my eyes at his smirk
"Then make me forget" I replied and watched his playful smirk fade
"Skye I don't-"
"Please" I begged wrapping my arms around his shoulders "I just want to forget even for a couple of hours" he sighed and brushed his thumb over my cheek
"Skyez I don't think now is the time or place.." I sighed and went to get off his lap but he grabbed my waist keeping me in place "Hey, it's not that I don't want to because believe me I do, I just don't want you to regret it in the morning"
"I won't" he sighed then stood up with me still attached to his waist making me smile
"How about a shower instead" he walked into my ensuite bathroom and put me on the countertop before reaching for my tank top, I helped him take it off then pushed his leather jacket from his shoulders which landed on the ground with my top
"You're not just doing this because I want to, are you?" I asked as he began to kiss up my neck towards my ear
"Do you seriously have to ask that?" he asked me and smirked into my neck as I reached my hands into his hair "You know I love any chance to be with you" his hands traced up my thighs pushing the skirt I was wearing up to bunch around my waist
"Well get on with it" he peeled my skirt down leaving me in my bra and panties as my hands went for his belt buckle but he stilled my hands then walked over to my shower and turned it on "You know this isn't exactly fair that I'm practically naked and you're fully dressed"
"This showers for you not me, I was only helping you undress" I pouted and crossed my arms
"Tease" I jumped off the counter then picked up my clothes and put them in my hamper then picked up his leather jacket and stared at it, it looked like a fairly old jacket and even had a rip on one of the sleeves "You know I've always wondered why you've kept this jacket" he looked over at me and I sensed right away this was a sensitive topic "You don't have to talk about it"
"It was my dads"
"Oh" I felt stupid for asking
"Now are you going to shower or are you wasting one of the earth's key resource" I rolled my eyes but knew he changed the subject for a reason "Not that I'm complaining about you standing there almost naked"
"Only if you join me" I replied stripping off the rest of my clothes and climbed into the shower turning my back to him
"Ah what the hell" I heard him say then smirked when I saw him strip out of his clothes and climb in behind me, after our shower I got changed into his shirt then handed him some shorts
"Whose are these, there not mine" he asked holding them up
"Scott's" I replied shrugging watching his nose wrinkle in disgust "There clean, they got mixed up with my washing"
"I think I'll be fine" I rolled my eyes but turned out my light as he pulled on his previous boxers then climbed in beside me and wrapped his arms around my waist, I turned to face him
"You know maybe we should move forward with our relationship" his eyes scrunched in confusion
"What next step?" I rolled my eyes and smiled
"Well I'm still too young to move in with you and my mom would never allow it but maybe I could clear out some closet space since we never spend a night apart and you refuse to borrow clothes, so you can leave clothes here for when you stay if you want"
"I don't want to go around smelling like Scott, that would give off the wrong impression" I rolled my eyes again and heard his scoff "Stop rolling your eyes at me" I smiled and shook my head
"I wear your clothes all the time, what kind of impression do you think that leaves me"
"It's different" I fought the urge to roll my eyes again
"How is that any different" I asked accusingly
"Because I like it when you have my scent on you because every werewolf that smells you then knows your mine" he pulled me closer to him by my waist
"Possessive much babe" I replied smirking
"I have every reason to be when my mate is beautiful" I rolled my eyes then looked at him as he quirked an eyebrow and chuckled, I smiled then laid my head on his bare shoulder and closed my eyes sighing in contentment "But the answer to your question would be yes, it'll definitely make it easier on us to have clothes at each other's places and you know I love any reason to be able to have you stay at the loft more often" I smiled and nuzzled into his chest as I slowly fell asleep in the arms of my mate
The next day went by like a blur, sleeping in Derek's arms last night comforted me and made me feel better for a little while but I still couldn't shake the cold anxious feeling at school that settled back over me when he left, Derek had dropped me off then I went through the rest of the day in a kind of trance, Scott was the same way but towards the end of the day we met up with Lydia at Scott's locker and she seemed to wince every time there was a loud sound
"Are you okay?" I asked her
"Yeah, I'm just a little hyper-sensitive to loud sounds today" Lydia said, another locker closed and she winced, Scott decided to change the subject
"They're doing tests on Stiles all afternoon, we were going to go over at around six to visit, you want to come with us?"
"I should probably just go home" Lydia replied an another locker slammed and another wince came across her face
"You sure you're okay?" I asked
"Yeah, I'll text you later" Lydia walked away from us and Scott turned to me
"Is she really okay?" Scott asked but all I could do was shake my head, after school we went to the hospital to be with Stiles
"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, Scott, mom, the Sheriff and I all stood in the room as Stiles sat on the MRI bed
"Just call him Stiles" the Sheriff told him
"Okay" the doctor sighed "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"
"Hey, we're just on the other side of that window" The Sheriff told his son "Okay?"
"Okay" Stiles said, all the adults left the room, leaving us alone "You know what they're looking for, right?" Stiles asked us "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, I knew exactly what Stiles was talking about and how it had killed his mom, Stiles was one of the most important people in my life and I didn't want to lose him, he was a second brother to me
"Stiles, if you have it, we'll do something" Scott said, turning to him "I'll do something" Scott said again and I knew what the something was.
"We'll figure it out Stiles because we're not losing the Han Solo to our Luke and Leia" Stiles laughed at my Starwars joke and Scott who looked confused by my starwars joke since he still hasn't watched any of the movies, Stiles nodded then the three of us hugged and 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 but was barely able to read it since I was shaking in both fear and nerves
"Derek's here" I told my brother quietly so only he'd hear it "He needs to talk to us" Scott nodded and we walked out to the waiting room seeing Derek sitting in one of the chairs, he got up hugged me and placed a small kiss to my lips and wiped away a stray tear from my cheek then put his leather jacket around me which made me smile and slip my arms into the sleeves willingly accepting the warmth of his jacket
We sat down and Scott sat across from us, Scott looked up at Derek as he told us about Barrow using Kira's Fox Fire to wake a nogitsune in Stiles, we sat in silence after he finished until Scott finally broke it
"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"
"I think you two ended up teaching me more about that" Derek said as I laid my head on his shoulder and he wrapped his arm around my shoulders
"Are you teaching me again?"
"Think of it more like sharing a few trade secrets, you know I took Cora back to South America right, it's where she spent most of her time after the fire" Derek looked at me "But that's not the only reason I left, I needed to talk to my mother"
"Your dead mother?" I asked
"She told me something that changed my perspective on a lot of things, she said that my family didn't just live in Beacon Hills, they protected it, this town needs someone to protect it" he looked up at Scott "Someone like you two"
"And someone like you to teach us a few trade secrets" Scott said, we all smiled at each other but that's when something clicked in my head, the reason why I couldn't find Stiles through his emotions last night, I lifted my head from Derek's shoulder quickly which startled him
"What?" Derek asked me
"He was trying to protect us" I said standing up "Stiles was protecting us"
"From himself" Scott and Derek both said, realizing the same thing, we quickly got up and made our up to the roof
"What are we looking for?" Derek asked as we got to the roof
"I'm not sure" I said, looking around "But with all the emotion I was picking up on up here last night, I think Stiles wasn't just up here struggling with himself, I think he was struggling not to do something" I jumped onto a bench and looked at the cage in front of me, it held the hospitals electrical power system, I reached on top and pulled down a bag full of tools then we all looked up, seeing a cut wire
That's when panic and fear filled my body making me fall towards the ground because it was so strong, Derek caught me before I hit the ground and shielded me as the power box suddenly burst, sending electrical sparks flying and a single wire separated from the others and flew from the roof, falling towards the parking lot below
A/N: I'm back and I'll try and update as soon as I can but for now I hope you all enjoy this chapter