I rush inside the McCall house to see Stiles throwing up, what looked like bandages.
"That's disgusting." I say rolling my eyes.
A hand reaches up out of the bandages and pulls itself up. It lunges for us but Scott and Peter lunge forward and force it into a seat.
Scott starts to take the bandages off to reveal another Stiles. "Scott?" He asks confused before looking around the room.
"Scott." Deaton says. "Where are they?" Scott asks and that's when I realise. They're gone. Lydia and the other Stiles.
Scott runs outside in attempt to find Lydia.
"Is it really you?" I ask Stiles and he just looks down at himself and shrugs. "I feel like myself, but am I?" He asks and I shrug.
I don't care if this isn't even him. I just need to hug my brother.
****
I hold Stiles' hand whilst Melissa does some medical checks. "Well medically, you seem okay. You're definitely a real person." Melissa jokes. "Okay, so I'm real, but am I really me?" He asks and I sigh.
It makes sense to me. This has to be our Stiles. The other Stiles, void Stiles, took Lydia and ran. Our Stiles would never do that.
"Is she here?" Stiles asks when Scott comes into his bedroom. "Yeah." Scott says and I wince. "Okay, lets do this." Stiles says and I grip his hand a little harder.
"Guys, we have to do this." Stiles says and I scrunch my face up. Another reason why this has to be Stiles right? He's willing to do this.
Scott helps him downstairs but I never take my hand out of Stiles. We're scared.
"Do you recognise me?" She asks Stiles. Stiles lets go of my hand and I look up at his eyes. "It'll be okay." He says taking a step forward towards the older lady.
"Stop." A girl says coming through the door, a girl that I've seen too often. I think Derek said her name was Kira.
"It's okay. I'm the one who asked her to come." Stiles says and a bring my hand up to my mouth to bite my knuckles.
"You're the one who's going to get stabbed with swords. Mom don't do this to him." Kira says. "It's already done." She says as the Oni appear.
Scott puts his hand on my shoulder. I close my eyes the second they grab Stiles. Even if this is the void Stiles, I'd rather not see him get stabbed the shit out of with swords.
I hear Stiles grunt and I open my eyes. He's on the floor and the Oni disappear.
I rush to his side and grab him to pull him up. "Look behind his ear." Kira's mom says and I do exactly that.
"It worked." I say as they rush over to me."So I'm actually me?" Stiles asks. "More you than the Nogitsune." Kira's mom says.
"Can the Oni find him?" Stiles asks. "Tomorrow night. It's too close to dawn now." Kira's mom says.
"Can they kill him?" Stiles asks. "It depends on how strong he is." Kira's mom answers.
"What about Lydia, why would they take her?" Scott asks. "He would only take her for an advantage." She answers. "You mean her power?" Scott asks. "The power of a Banshee." She says nodding.
****
I drive Stiles and Scott to dad's office. Dad needs some good news right now.
We walk in and head for his office.
"If I could just find my keys." Dad says and I turn to Stiles. "In your coffee cup." Stiles says and dad turns to us. "You always drop them in your empty cup." Stiles says pointing at dad's coffee cup.
He looks at Stiles, warily. I nod and give dad the thumbs up and he rushes over to Stiles and hugs him.
"Is it over?" Dad asks as I grab his keys for him. "Not yet." Scott says.
We tell dad about Lydia, well Scott and Stiles do. Me on the otherhand, I just sit on the sofa texting Derek.
"We got an APB out on Lydia's car. Every unit on the road is looking for her." Dad says.
"Isn't there anything else that we could do?" Scott asks. "At this hour? Not really." Dad says.
"He took her for a reason, Dad. Look, if we can figure out they why, then we'll figure out the where." Stiles says and I look up from my phone.
"What would a Nogitsune need with a Banshee?" Dad asks. "I don't know, Lydia's pretty good at finding dead bodies. Maybe he needs to find a body?" Stiles suggests.
"Scott, you know more about this than all of us. You said you got the whole story from Noshiko?" Dad says. Who the fuck is that? "Yeah but that happened during World War 2. Like 70 years ago." Scott says and I roll my eyes.
"Wait what did you say?" Stiles asks. "Noshiko told me about the--" "no before that." Stiles says cutting Scott off.
"You said the whole story." Stiles says lookimg at our dad. "Yeah. What is it?" Scott asks.
"There's a girl at Eichen House. Her name's Meredith. I think she might be able to help." Stiles says and I roll my eyes. We're actually getting help from a crazy person.
****
I'm sitting with Derek in Scott's living room. I'm not leaving Stiles alone till this whole thing ends.
"So it's actually him?" Derek asks and I nod and put my head on his shoulder. "I've got him back." I say yawning.
"You should get some sleep." Derek says and I scoff. "No way." I say and he raises a stern eyebrow at me.
Stiles eyes suddenly open and he gasps as he jumps up. Derek and I, jump up as well.
He starts stumbling and Derek and I grab him to help him stand properly as Scott comes in. "You're okay." I say reaching for his hand.
"What happened? How long was I out?" He asks. "Just a couple of hours." Scott answes and I smile at him sympathetically. "You should sit down." I say and he shakes his head no.
"Where's dad?" He asks. "He's at Eichen House, questioning everyone. Looking for Meredith. I promised him I wouldn't let you out of my sight." Scott says and I squeeze Stiles hand.
"Okay, what ahout the others?" Stiles asks. "Allison, Issac, the twins, they're all looking for Lydia." Scott answers. "It's starting to feel like we're waiting for a ransom call." Stiles says whilst being out of breath. "We'll find her." Scott reassures.
Stiles lets go of my hand and grabs his jacket to put it on. "You all right?" Scott asks. "Yeah. I don't know why, I just can't seem to get warm." Stiles says.
"Maybe you should sit down. Take is easy." Scott says putting his hand on Stiles to helo him sit down. Except his vains fill up with black.
I look up at Derek who just shrugs. "You're in pain." Scott says and I reach forward and grab Stiles' hand. "It's not that bad. Just more like a dull ache." Stiles says and I squeeze his hands.
"Where?" Scott asks. "Sort of everywhere." He says before sitting down.
"Tell me the truth." Scott says and I roll my eyes. I just wanna talk with Stiles. He's being a pain in the ass.
"How much does it really hurt?" Scott asks and I look at Stiles and wait for his answer.
"It's kira." Scott says pulling his phone out of his pocket and heading elsewhere to answer.
"You're gonna be okay." I say and he raises an eyebrow at me. He glances down at my nose before meeting my eyes.
"I've been dying to ask." He says and I scoff. "About what happened to my nose?" I ask and he nods.
"Listen to this. You're gonna love it. A werewolf broke into our house and attacked me and Derek. He broke my nose and Derek killed him. It was insanely hot." I say winking at Derek whilst Stiles scrunches up his face.
"It's Kira. Meredith is at the school. Let's go." Scott says grabbing Stiles. "I'll wait till you get back." I say and Stiles nods.
Derek sits on the sofa and I just lie on top of him, dramatically. "Go to sleep." He says and I sigh. "I can't. I need to watch Stiles." I say and he sighs.
I head into the kitchen to make some coffee when the door opens. "Stiles?" I question. "Issac." He says and my eyes widen.
"You're out. You've healed." I say running over and hugging him. "I'm doing amazing actually." He says and spins me around. "Im glad." I say pulling away from the hug when he puts me back on my feet.
"How's Stiles?" He asks and I shrug. "He's not telling us how he feels but he looks awful." I say and he smiles at me sympathetically when the door opens again.
"Stiles?" I shout when Derek comes in the kitchen to guard me from whoever was walking through the door.
Agent McCall.
"Not Stiles." He says and I roll my eyes and continue to make coffee.
"Is Scott here?" Agent McCall asks. "No obviously not." I say and hand Derek some coffee.
"Whilst you're here and I wait for Scott, I need to talk to you." He says and I sigh.
"Look, if you're here to arrest us because of what happened the other night just tell us. But here's what's gonna happen." I say and he raises an eyebrow as I put my coffee down.
"You're gonna do your little speech thing. But me and Derek are gonna run. Well, I'm gonna get on his back and he's gonna run so fast you'll be like 'woah that's so cool, how'd he run so fast'." I say mimicking his voice.
"It'll kind of be like that scene in Twilight, you know? Anyway we'll runaway and you'll never catch us because we're gonna get so far away that we'll be able to live our best lives and not be paranoid." I say and go to high five Derek whose glaring at Agent McCall.
"That's not what he was gonna say." Derek says and I groan. "Of course it wasn't. You're a crap detective." I say and Agent McCall looks at me stunned.
"I just wanted to say sorry for stressing you out. I know you're really struggling at the moment and my being here obviously isn't helping." He says and I bring on the fake tears again.
"You just had to bring it up." I say wipe at my face. I put my head in Derek's chest as I 'sob'. Derek then continues to glare at Agent McCall whilst rubbing my back. "Well done." Derek spits to Agent McCall.
"Is she crying?" I hear Scott ask and I turn around to face them. "What did you do?" Stiles asks Agent McCall. "Nothing, I just tried to apologise." Agent McCall says putting his hands up in defence. This is fucking hilarious.
"What are you even doing here?" Scott asks. "I could ask you the same thing." Agent McCall says.
"Free period." Scott says. "We're doing group study." Stiles adds.
"Who's she?" Agent McCall asks gesturing to the girl inbetween Scott and Stiles. "She's my girlfriend." Stiles says putting his arm around Meredith.
"You're not my type." She says and turns from Stiles to Issac. "Well, obviously we have a lot to talk about. We should maybe take this upstairs." Stiles says.
"He's my type." She says looking at Issac. "Okay, Issac, you can come too." He says and they head for the stairs.
"I should take her home. She's very cranky if you can't tell." He says grabbing my wrist. "Hey, I'm not a child." I say as he throws me over his shoulder.
"Call us." Derek says to Stiles as he takes us out to my car. He takes my keys from me.