It's Argent, It's Strife {4}

chapter five

"Something's wrong with his leg. It's bleeding" Scott said as he thought back to his phone call with Stiles,
"And he's freezing"

"Tonight's the coldest night of the year" Aiden commented,
"It's going to drop into the 20s"

"What did his dad say?" Rory questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Isaac and Scott exchanged a look before the former answered,
"We kind of... We didn't tell him yet"

Rory looked between Isaac and Scott in curiosity,
"Stiles is bleeding and freezing and you didn't call his dad?"

"He made me promise not to" Scott justified with a small shrug causing Rory's eyes to widen in shock,
"We can find him by scent. If he was sleepwalking he couldn't have gotten far, right?"

"You didn't notice that his Jeep is gone, did you?" Rory questioned causing a look of panic to shoot across Scott's face. The brunette patted her pockets to check for her phone only to come up short causing her to reach out to Lydia who was practically reading her mind and already extending her phone out to the girl,
"You promised you wouldn't call his dad. I didn't"

"Wait, Rory, hold on" Scott stopped the girl, grabbing her hand gently,
"I can get more help. I can call Derek, Allison-"

"Everyone except for the cops, what a great idea" Rory commented sarcastically, an eye roll accompanying her words as she pulled her arm from Scott's grip and started to type in Noah's number.

"You guys remember these two get these feelings when someone's about to die, right?" Aiden reminded the pair.

"You don't have to call his dad" Scott told the witch seriously causing her to send him a look,
"It's five minutes to the station"

Lydia and Rory exchanged a look as Rory closed Lydia's phone and the strawberry blonde took it back from her,
"We'll catch up"

"What? Why?" Scott recoiled in confusion as he looked between the pair.

"There's something here" Rory told him seriously.

"Yeah, evidence of total insanity" Isaac commented nonchalantly.

"We can figure out what's wrong with him after we find a way to keep him from freezing to death" Scott tells the brunette gently while he touched her shoulder.

"Go" Lydia said sternly,
"We'll be right behind you"

Aiden was shuffling through some of Stiles' belongings while Rory and Lydia both looked thoroughly at the walls, examining the investigation that Stiles had sprawled over his bedroom.

"Didn't you draw this?"

Lydia and Rory both turned to look at him, seeing he was holding a drawing of the Nemeton that Rory had drawn. The brunette huffed gently before stating,
"Put that back"

"It's yours right?" Aiden questioned with a quirked eyebrow before picking up a second drawing that Rory had down, turning it around to show the girls - it was of a coyote standing in a den, something Rory had drawn before they'd found Malia,
"This one too, right?"

"Yes, they're both mine, now put them back" Rory told the boy sternly before turning back to the board in front of her.

Aiden hummed slightly as he placed the drawings down where he'd found them,
"He likes you a lot, doesn't he?"

"Maybe he likes her artistic talent" Lydia chimed in nonchalantly.

Aiden plucked a small wrapped box from the desk, flipping over the small tag that was on it,
"For Rory"