" Are you sure this is a good idea?" Noah asked as the three of us pulled up to the building. Stiles in the passenger seat as I got out.
" It's best in our opinion." Stiles said as he took my hand in his.
" We aren't safe around people." I said as my heart pounded. I smelt Scott's presence come up
" Why didn't you tell me?" He asked as he got off his bike.
" Because we wanted to avoid something like this." Noah told him. I held my shoulder as I was nervous.
" It's only seventy-two hours. Nothing Raven and I can't handle." Stiles said, slightly sheepish.
" This is the same place where Barrow came from- the guy who had a tumor inside him filled with flies. You don't know everything yet." Scott told Noah, who shook his head.
" I know enough. Nogitsunes, Kitsunes, Oni, or whatever they're called." Noah says as his arms are crossed.
" Wow, that was all surprisingly correct." Stiles said as I chuckled lightly.
" I guess Papa Stilinski has been doing his reading." I say under my breath.
" Scott, I saw an MRI that looked exactly like my wife's... and it terrifies me. I'm headed down to LA tomorrow to talk to a specialist. Raven's were inconclusive and her brother looked afraid for her." Noah said as I swore my heart skipped a beat. Inconclusive? Was Amaterasu doing something to me?
" Then why are you putting them in here? What is there to gain?" Scott asked out loud.
" He's not- it's our decision." Stiles said as he pulled me to him.
" Stiles, I can't help you if you're in here...Raven please make him see sense!" Scott begged of me. I felt tears leaving my eyes as I shook my head.
" And I can't hurt you." Stiles said before I looked at the True Alpha before me.
" And I don't know what I do when she takes over." I said as the fear bottled inside seeped out.
" Deaton's got some ideas... Argent's calling people... We're going to find something. And, if we can't." Scott says worried for our well-being.
" If you can't." I corrected him.
" If you can't, then you have to do something for us, okay? Make sure we never get out." Stiles said before the door to Eichan House opened. The door shut as Noah took both Stiles and me inside.
" Mr. Stilinski? Miss. Hale." A nurse says as she looks at us.
" This way, please." She said in a sweet tone. We followed her to the office.
" First seventy-two hours, there's no phone calls, no emails, no visitors. We will be taking you from here to a brief physical. In the morning, you'll be assessed by a staff psychologist. Speak to a social worker, and attend group therapy." She said as I wrote down what the paper needed of me. I can smell the worry on Noah.
" You will be wearing these. No laces allowed. You don't have a belt, do you? And please, empty your pockets in here." She said as I saw her eyeing my necklace. I sighed and took it off along with my earrings. I undid my belt and put it in a separate container.
" Your pillow. Your pillow! We forgot your pillow." Noah said slightly panicked. You're never going to be able to fall asleep. We-we gotta go back." Noah said as Stiles got up.
" It's fine, Dad. I don't need it." Stiles replied as the scent of worry filled him.
" I can't believe I forgot it! I mean, every time that we've ever stayed in a hotel, the first thing you pack is your pillow." Noah continued. Was this a plea for him not to go?
" You can bring it tomorrow. It's all right." Stiles told him.
" We will be alright Noah, I promise." I said as he looked worried for him and then he looked at me with a worse look.
" Okay, you know what? Stop. Stop. Enough! Stiles, Raven, get your stuff. I'm not checking you in here if you're not gonna get one good night's sleep...or having everyone worry about you two, there has to be a better way to handle whatever this is." Noah said as Stiles took his hand.
" Dad... I haven't had a good night's sleep in weeks." Stiles replied to his dad.
" And I can't help the sleepwalking or the blackouts of time. We need to be here." I said calming the man before us. He gave in and soon left us behind. Stiles and I were changed out of our current clothes. I was put in a simple light grey tank top and dark grey yoga pants. I was given plain slip-on shoes.
" Stiles, Raven This way, please." She said as we nodded. We followed her and I swore I saw someone on a ledge.
" Hey, do you see that?" Stiles asked the nurse. The man was babbling.
" That's not ok. Someone save him!" I yelled as I began to run. Stiles is right behind me.
" Stiles, Raven! wait for me." The nurse called for us. The man continued to babble as he had a makeshift noose around his neck.
" Don't jump!" I screamed as I continued to race up the steps.
" Stop! Somebody stop him!" Stiles screamed. It was too late, the man dropped off the ledge and I heard the sound of his neck snapping before the body held tight. Stiles gripped me as I caught my breath in my hand.
" That is not ok." I said before turning into Stiles' chest.
" It's ok. It's going to be ok." He told me as I tried to calm down.
" Brunski, take Miss. Hale down the hall." The nurse said as this older man came into view. I turned back to Stiles with worry before he nodded.
" Sounds like easy work." He said with a creepy smile. I looked at Stiles with a bit of disgust and worry as I was taken down the hall. He put me in this room with two empty beds.
" Your last roommate went out nearly the same way yesterday. Let's keep you breathing young lady. I don't like those who cause trouble." He told me before shutting the door behind me. I heard the click of a lock before I shivered. I scrambled onto the bed and just curled up.
" Why is it never easy?" I asked myself as I just stayed awake.
" I Apologies For The Lack Of Rest." Amaterasu says in my ears.
" It's fine. I'm used to it." I replied low. I sat as the night continued. Letting my mind rush.
" Will it be easy to rip the fox out of him?" I asked as the sun began to rise.
" Under The Right Circumstance." She replied before I heard a clicking noise. I got up from the bed and opened the door. I walked to the common area and saw Stiles. I pulled him into a hug.
" Easy on the PDA. They might lock her up." A new voice said to me. I saw this boy behind Stiles.
" Raven, this is Oliver, my roommate." He said as I gave a small hello.
" Watch that one." Amaterasu's voice echoed in my mind. The three of us began to walk the grounds.
" Now, most of the people here are okay... The violent ones are in the closed unit." Oliver said as he began pointing people out. People with OCD, believe they are Jesus and much more. I prayed deeply that those with mental disorders and issues were getting the right help and not abuse like the stories I've heard.
" Hey, how come you want to use the phone already?" Oliver asked as Stiles had my hand in his.
" 'Cause, after one night, I've changed my mind about this place being safe for me. Or anyone. Ever." Stiles said as I felt my body heating up.
" I agree with you. The echos of death are loud." I said as anxious feelings reeved their ugly heads in my heart. I saw a girl on the phone. I tried to listen in.
" No. No, I think you're wrong. I think I should tell them. They're going to want to know the story- the whole story. I think they should know. Yes, I do. Two of them are standing right behind me." She said in a mouse-like tone. Quiet and worried.
" Who was that?" Stiles asked as I was intrigued by this myself.
" That's Meredith. She's a little weird." Oliver told us.
" PTSD is a fucked up drug that we all face." I said as I went to the phone and picked it up. No ring. Damn it.
" It's dead. Why would they be dead?" I asked as I put it back on the ringer.
" Yeah. They turn off all the phones for twenty-four hours after a suicide." Oliver said slightly shaken.
" Why didn't you tell me that before?" Stiles asked him. He just humbly shrugged.
" What are you going to do now? What's the plan?" He asked us as I felt a bit angry.
" I'm getting out of this nuthouse. I'm taking my girlfriend and me far away from the psycho lockup." Stiles said as Oliver shook his head as if in a harsh disagreement.
" That's not the appropriate way to describe a facility like this." Oliver said as I saw a familiar face.
" Malia?" Stiles called out. She turned to us.
" Hey, it's Stiles and Raven... Do you remember us? We're friends with Scott." Stiles says before she swiftly punches him. I let a low growl out as I was going to hit her myself. Orderlies came running quickly.
" Hey, Malia!" Brunski yelled out harshly as orderlies began to hold her down and Stiles down.
" He didn't do anything!" I yelled out.
" A few more like this, Malia, and you're headed to the closed unit." Brunski yelled at her. I saw Stiles still as his gaze was on the grate below him.
" Enough! Enough." The voice called out. I saw Morrell calling them off as Malia was dragged away.
" Stiles...You saw something, didn't you?" Morrell asked as Stiles looked at her.
" That basement. I've been down there before." Stiles said as he held my arm tight to steady himself. We were dragged away to a group therapy session. I sat next to Stiles as I felt on edge.
" I want to go back to the topic of guilt today. It might surprise you to hear me say that guilt is a good thing- it's a rather mature emotion. Malia, you said something about guilt the other day. You said it came with a visceral reaction." Morrell says calmly as I see Malia look in distaste at the question.
" I said it made me feel sick to my stomach." She answered quickly and to the point.
" Guilt often becomes physical. You feel it in your gut. It's not just psychological. How does guilt make you feel, Stiles?" Morrell asked him. I see Stiles looked slightly disheveled.
" I'm sorry, what?" He asked a bit lost in thought.
" Guilt- what does it make you feel?" She asked him again.
" Nervous." Stiles replied singularly.
" Like a sense of urgency? You feel an urgent need to make up for something you've done. To apologize. These are healthy responses. Does anyone know what we call someone who doesn't experience guilt?" Morrell asked out loud.
" Sociopath?" Oliver replied in a slightly happy way. Oh fuck no.
" That's right, Oliver." She said as I saw Stiles lean forward, mark-like veins appearing on his neck. I smelt the fear on Morrell.
"...I'm sorry, everyone, but we need to take a break. Come with me, Stiles. I'd like to talk to you for a minute." She said quickly. Stiles looked over to me.
" I'll meet up with you in a bit. I love you." He said before walking away with her.
" I love you too." I replied before just sitting back in the chair. I just let my thoughts run through my head. I waited patiently as time went on about itself. Stiles came back to me not too long after.
" Well, that talk sucked." He said as I saw him with a bottle of pills.
" It'll help me stay awake." He said as I nodded. We walked the ground as he explained the plan.
" I'm in full agreement with you. We need in that basement." I told him as he nodded.
" Come with me babe." I said as I was leading him to one of the boy's bathrooms.
" Okay. Okay, just got to stay awake, Stiles. You just gotta stay." Stiles said before I looked behind me to see a naked Malia showering.
" Malia! A bit of warning next time!" I shouted at her as Stiles looked down at the sink.
" Don't worry, you two- you didn't just walk into the girls' room." She said out loud.
"Thank God...Umm... okay... so what are you doing in the boys' room?" Stiles asked as he remained as he was.
" Showering. I like it warm." She replied.
" We can see that! I mean, I saw that. Well, I didn't see anything. Prefer that I don't as my girlfriend is right next to me." Stiles said as I chuckled.
" Stiles, I don't care. In the woods, there was no boys' and girls' room. And, if you need to know, they keep the water temperature in the girls' room too low- it's much hotter in here. Ever since I turned back to human, I just can't seem to get warm." She said as I rolled my eyes.
" Maybe it's the lack of you not being trapped as a coyote for so many plus years." I said as she turned the water off.
" Isn't it obvious." Malia said as Stiles shook his head. Keeping his eyes closed.
" Very." Stiles replied.
" Why didn't you go for me knowing that he's human and doesn't heal like us?" I asked her bluntly.
" Did you think I was going to thank you?" Malia asked me as I stood where I was.
" No." I replied as I shook my head.
" Maybe. We did kind of save your life." Stiles said as he was trying to defend himself.
" Stiles, don't push her over the edge." I replied to him.
" You're right, Stiles. Thank you! Thanks for invading my home...for putting me on the run... for turning me back to human, so that I could look at my father every day and try to figure out how to explain to him that the reason my sister and mother are dead is because I almost ate them on a full moon. Thank you so very much." Malia said with anger and sarcasm leaking off her tongue.
" I'm sorry that happened to you. Take this." I said as I gave her a towel to wrap herself.
" Thanks, I guess." She said before wrapping herself up. I patted Stiles' shoulder.
" She's covered." I told him. Stiles opened his eyes and looked at Malia.
" Thank you. We were just trying to help." Stiles said as I took a step towards her.
" I don't think you would have liked to have been shot by your dad for getting your sister's doll back, right?" I asked as she looked to fight with an action.
" You want to help me? Find a way to change me back! Being human blows." She demanded an out of her situation.
" You want to go back? To being a coyote?" Stiles asked as Malia looked at me and then pointed.
" What do you know? I can tell she's like me. Not human." She said as I nodded.
" Werewolf sweetie. You are a werecoyote." I told her as she got quiet.
" She can teach you how to change." Stiles said as I smirked.
" I've been known for teaching a good bit of advise." I told her. I saw the interested gleam in her eyes.
" Okay. What do you want?" She asked as I saw that in her mind it was an easy choice if it got her what she wanted.
" It's rather easy if you cooperate." I told her with my wolf resonating with my voice.
" We need to get into the basement...Which means that I need to get the keys off of that orderly- the big one." Stiles said as Malia looked to know who had them.
" Brunski?" Malia asked as I smirked at her.
" You help us, and we'll help you." Stiles told her as I nodded.
" You can do that?" She asked as I smirked.
" I'm an Alpha. Won't be too hard." I told her as she looked eager to learn. We went out to the common area to egg on Oliver. It didn't take too much effort for him to get riled up. He slammed Malia to the ground and began to scream at her.
" You're lying! You're a liar!" He screamed as Stiles and I saw Brunski and Orderlies coming around the corner to pull the fight away. Oliver was crying and pleading to not have a hole in his head. I saw Malia grabbing the keys off of the idiot as she got away. Oliver was dragged away.
" You okay?" Stiles asked as Malia put the keys in my hands.
" I bet you have taken on more savage animals than that idiot." I said as she took a hasted breath.
" Yeah...And you are not wrong." She replied to us. Stiles and I waited for nightfall before we attempted to find what the basement held to save our asses.
" Come on...Come on…" Stiles said as he began to try the keys.
" I thought this guy had a key to everything. There has to be a way in there." I said before I smelt the asshole. I turned as I heard footsteps. I gripped on Stiles' sleeve.
" I do-But nobody has the key to that room." He said before I was snagged away from him. I watched in horror as they dragged Stiles away.
" Let me fucking go!" I snarled as the Oderlies opened a door to a new room. I felt a prick in my back.
" Now, Miss. Hale. You need to be put down for a while because of all the trouble that you and Mr. Stilinski have caused." Brunski said with a sinister glare. I tried to get up, but I fell.
" Go fuck yourself." I growled tiredly.
" Sleep tight." He said as the door shut. I felt the darkness pull me in.
I was back in the loft.
" Why now!" I yelled before punching the wall.
" It Will Be Clear To You Soon. We Have To Wake Up." Amaterasu said as I chuckled.
" We just got drugged. How are we waking up?" I asked her as I turned to see fire and smoke blasting out of her.
" I'm Burning It Out Of You. Help Has Arrived." She said as I felt something touching me.
" Jesus Christ!" I said as anger filled me. I saw it was Malia.
" You ok?" She asked as I chuckled. I got up with some assistance.
" Yeah, I'm ok. How the fuck did you get in here?" I asked as she showed me a broken lock.
" I broke it. Enough concentration, I can be pretty tough." She replied as I smirked.
" Maybe if you get Stiles and me out, I can teach you." I said with a smile appearing on her face.
" I think that would be great." She replied as I placed a hand on her shoulder.
" Now let's get Stiles." I told her. We walked away, I smelt Stiles' scent.
" There." I said as she grabbed the door.
" Lesson one: Focus on your grip. Let that anger push you. Let it fuel your strength." I told her. She looked at the door and with no issue, she broke it.
" Good, very good." I told her before getting the door open and seeing a curled-up Stiles.
" Stiles, wake up." I said as I got to him. I shook him awake. He was shaking and looking disoriented.
" Hey. Hey." I said as I put my hands on his face to calm him down.
" How did you get in here?" He asked as I smiled and pointed to Malia.
" You taught her?" He asked as I got him up.
" She is a good teacher." Malia said as the two of us walked out of there.
" There's another way to the basement- through the closed unit. Where they keep the real psychos." She told us. Great!
" Gotta love the crazy ones." I said under my breath annoyed. We quickly moved through the closed unit and got to the other door. We walked down the stairs and made it to the basement.
" Do you know what you're looking for?" Malia asked as I chuckled.
" Something to do with that." Stiles said pointing to the kanji.
" What does it mean?" She asked. I walked over to it and felt the carved sigil.
" "Self." " I replied monotone.
" Maybe you should tell me more?" Malia asked as I shrugged.
" You might not like us if you know anymore." Stiles replied. Malia looked at us as I took Stiles' hand in mine.
" Try to remember that I'm a Werecoyote who murdered her own family. I won't judge. I promise." She said as I nodded to Stiles. I was tired of all of this bullshit. All the death and fuckery going on. We then proceeded to look through note after note and fucking nothing.
" This place used to be a lot more fun- electroshock... ice baths... trephination?" Malia says as I saw Stiles perk up.
" That's what Oliver was talking about. Trephination is when they drill into your head." Stiles said as Malia nodded and went back to looking at notes.
" No wonder they don't want anyone down here." Malia replied putting the papers down.
" There's nothing here." I said as I slammed a pile of photos down and groaned.
" This is fucking stupid." I said as I itched for something to come up. Something that will help us.
" I'm gonna go see if there is anything else in the other room." Malia said getting up and leaving. The door shut as I rubbed my eyes. I sat right back down next to Stiles.
" Could you do me a favor? Could you just check the lines on my back?" He asked. I pulled the shirt up to see the flare veins were less prominent.
" Stiles, they are less." I said as he pulled it down. He leaned forward and just looked to be in thought.
" I hate feeling like it'll take over." He said as I placed a hand on his shoulder.
" The spirit inside me wants to take the thing in you out." I told him honestly.
" I'd appreciate that." He said as I leaned on him.
" I'm always here for you. Whatever that thing did. It wasn't you." I told him. He smiled and then kissed me.
" I've missed you." He said as I felt my cheeks getting hot. I got in his lap and my lips found his.
" I missed everything in our normal." I replied as he just held me. I've missed his touch, I've missed so much about him that it drove me nuts as he removed my shirt. I gasped as the cold made my nipples perk up. His lips kiss down my neck and playing with my nubs. It drew me nuts as he laid me down on the dusty couch. He pulled his shirt off before coming back down to help me remove my bottoms. I smirked as we got his off. I spread my legs as he licked his lips.
"Perfect." He said before coming back down. I felt him align his cock before entering me. I moaned low as the sensation was overwhelming but oh so satisfying as I was filled.
" Jesus." I groaned as he began to thrust at a brutal pace that was sensuous. It was a drive I could feel off of him. The coil just kept growing and it was more than I expected.
" Stiles!" I moaned as the coil snapped harshly. He groaned against my neck as that familiar heat blew through me. He laid down on me and I felt him slip out. I held him tight as he hummed in my arms.
" I've missed this." I said as Stiles held me close. We lay like that for a few minutes before getting dressed. We heard this noise coming around us.
" Stiles...Raven. Do you hear that?" She asked loudly. We went over to the sigil and broke the wall down. Inside was an almost mummified body. I pulled this sheathed sword out as Stiles pulled through the pockets.
" Recognize them?" Malia asked as she had something in her hands.
" One of them…We have to get this to Scott." He said as I saw the photo. I knew the girl in the photo.
" You took Brunski's keys...I took his stun gun." Oliver said as I felt the electricity shot through me.
" I also got his Haldol." He said before I felt the familiar prick in my leg. I got up and tried to run only to fall to the darkness again.
I woke up in the loft projection again as the window became my outside view. Amaterasu got us up and walked towards the body and picked up the sword and picture.
" Raven?" Malia asked I felt my head slowly shake to no.
"Take This Sword And Picture To The One Known As Scott McCall. He Will Know What To Do?" Amaterasu said as she took a few steps past the werecoyote.
" Where are you going?" She asked making us stop and turn to her.
" To Find A Fox That's Gone Rabid." Amaterasu said before I watched her lead us out of Eichen House.
" What's next?" I asked as she stopped outside of the gate.
" Out To Extract The Fox." She replied before we headed off.