✓ Enough For You ━━ Stiles Stilinski

xiv. into the woods

Scott and Odessa made themselves comfortable on the floor, "we can try," the former spoke, "we can always try."

The blonde stuck out her hand for Stiles to take, "gimme," she muttered, almost playfully, trying to lift his spirits. It seemed to work because a small smile graced his features, knowing what she was referring to. She observed how his breathing was still a bit choppy and heavy. His bigger hand fit in her smaller one as she gave it a tight squeeze, letting her powers work in full effect. In the back of her mind, she wondered why her abilities were slower than usual when calming someone, especially Stiles, someone she had calmed multiple times, but knew to keep it to herself. They had bigger things to worry about.

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Scott had left the boy's bathroom while Odessa was calming Stiles, only to save Kira from being attacked by Malia, who broke into the school. Seeing a danger to the students and faculty, the Sheriff department was called and successfully caught Malia. The Stone felt for Stiles as he tried to convince his Dad not to act on putting Malia down, exaggerating how it was not just an animal, but a teenage girl they would be killing.

When the blonde heard of the incident, she followed Stiles and his Father to the locker room, and met Scott by the fallen lockers.

"Scott," the Stilinski called quietly, walking up to the boy who was sitting on one of the benches, "I think I know what she was looking for," he unzipped his backpack to reveal the doll Odessa recognized from the picture in Malia's room.

Scott sighed disappointedly, "you took the doll from the car?"

"You took the doll from the car," a wide eyed Odessa repeated in disbelief.

"Yeah, I thought you guys could use it, you know, for like her scent."

"Where did you get that," a voice sounded from the doorway asked. The three teens turned to the voice to see Mr. Tate stared down at the doll with nostalgic eyes, "where did you find this," he snatched the doll from Stiles' hands, gazing down at it, "it belonged to my daughter."

Hearing the commotion, Sheriff interjected, somewhat blocking Mr. Tate from the teens, "Mr. Tate, I don't know how you heard about this. If you got your own police scanner or what... But you can't be here," seeing the reluctance on the man's face, Sheriff started to lightly push Mr. Tate back, only to come in contact with something under the man's jacket. Pulling the jacket away, it revealed a gun at Mr. Tate's hip.

"I have a permit," he tried to defend with a clenched jaw.

"California schools are gun free zones, permit or no permit," Sheriff denied, "you need to leave, Mr. Tate. Now."

Mr. Tate tried to come up with an excuse to stay, but was starting to be escorted out of the school by one of the officers nearby. Before he left, he turned to the Sheriff, eyes blazing, "you find that animal. You find that thing."

Stood between her two friends, Odessa couldn't help but feel bad for the man. If only he knew the animal he was referring to was his own daughter.

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The plan to help Malia, essentially from herself, was underway. While Allison was gathering her hunting equipment, Odessa went to the Animal Clinic with Isaac, Stiles and Scott to get something from Deaton to help them transform Malia back to her human form.