𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐍𝐆 ★ 𝐁. 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐎𝐓

𝟓.𝟐 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬

"It wasn't an accident. He wanted to turn you. " Scott tells him. "Right. So why aren't you part of his pack then?" Stiles asks him, Jules noticing the suspicious tone in his voice.  "Why didn't he come back for you?" Jules asks continuing for Stiles. "Because by the time of my first full moon, he was dead." Theo answers them, his eyes lingering on Jules a little to long. "How did you know that?" Stiles asks him. "I met another one of his pack a couple weeks later. He told me the Alpha that bit me was killed by two of his own Betas. They were twins." He tells them, Jules' head immediately turning up as Scott and Stiles turn to look at her.

"Scott, listen to my pulse. I'm telling the truth." Theo pleads with him. "Right. Or you just know how to steady your heart rate while you're lying your ass off." Stiles tells him. "Why would I lie?" Theo asks him. "Because maybe you're not who you say you are." Stiles tells him, crossing his arms. "Okay. In the fourth grade you had an inhaler, I had one too. I remember this day where I ended up in the nurse's office with an asthma attack. A bad one. I was waiting to be taken to the ER.  You were waiting for the Principal. You told me what would happen when you go to the ER for asthma. How they give you oxygen, an IV of prednisone." Theo tells him as Jules remembers the many times Scott would have to go to the hospital for his asthma attacks. "You made it sound easy. Like everything would be okay. I've been by myself this whole time. Everybody knows that lone wolves, they don't make it on their own. I swear I'm that same kid from fourth grade. I was hoping you are too." Theo finishes as the bell begins to ring.

"I better not be late for class. You're not the only ones I need to make a good impression on." Theo tells them walking out and heading to his class.
"No. Don't give me that look." Stiles tells Scott, placing his backpack on his shoulder. "We have to give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes." Scott says to him. "Not this time. All right. I'm right. There's something off about him. I can feel it." Stiles explains to him. "Lydia's the psychic. Not you." Scott rebuttals. "I think Stiles is right Scott, I have a bad feeling." Jules says walking with them. "See this is why Jules is my favorite and Lydia's not psychic. She's a Banshee. Okay? There's a difference." He says to Scott.

"Yeah."

***

After a few more classes Jules made et way to the library to meet her friends, sitting down with them and taking out her phone to see a text from Brett asking her how her day was going.

She quickly responded and then placed her phone down to see Stiles walking in the library holding sheets of paper. "So you found something?" Scott asks him. "Another signature. This is Theo's dad's signature on a speeding ticket from eight years ago. And this is his dad's signature on a transfer form to Beacon Hills High School from just a few days ago." Stiles explains to the group. "How did you get his transfer form?" Kira asks him.

"You didn't break into the Administration Office?" Scott asks him as Jules begins to laugh at the thought of Stiles breaking in there. "No, I did not break into the Administration Office, Okay, I might have broken into the Administration Office. Can we just focus on the signatures, please? They're different. " He says pointing to the papers on the table.

"They're sort of different." Malia says trying to convince herself.  "They're completely different. Come on. Look. The garlands don't match, the undulations of the sinuous stroke are totally off. And look, look at this. Perfect example of the Criminal Tremor." Stiles explains to her. "So now, Theo is Theo, but his parents aren't his parents?" Kira asks him. "Someone's not someone. And when I figure out who that someone really is, someone's in big trouble." Stiles says to them. "But no one's done anything wrong." Scott says trying to stop Stiles' "nonsense".  "Yet. If Theo's parents are both psychotic killers then obviously, we should not trust him, right?" Stiles says trying to convince the group.  "My parents are Peter and the Desert Wolf." Malia says making the group go quiet as Stiles' eye begins to twitch.