"Emily, you need to calm down." Eli stared at the other pureblood with concern. She was still pacing back and forth.
She turned to him, giving him a look of disbelief. "Calm down!? You want me to calm down when Stiles has been missing for two days now." She hissed. "What if he's hurt or worse?!"
"Okay, you and I both know that he's more than likely okay especially if what you told me was true. He could be possessed by the nogitsune and out causing trouble." He said bluntly. He didn't want to remind her of the last message that Stiles sent her that he was okay and to not look for him. "He already almost killed that Isaac kid at the hospital."
"Maybe." She paused, seeing look he sent her. She sighed. "Probably. Okay, he was more than likely the one who cut the wire but it wasn't him. It was that thing inside him."
He shook his head and took notice of the bags underneath her eyes and how exhausted she looked. "When was the last time you ate?"
She tensed, glancing at him. "About four or five days." She answered hesitantly. "But, it doesn't matter. No one has seen Stiles since the hospital. I have to find him."
"No, you need to rest. Go upstairs shower and I'll bring you some blood bags. Then you're going to get some sleep because you definitely need it and then we'll keep looking for loverboy." He told her and she was ready to retort and he raised a finger. "No, Emily. You need to rest and eat. Now, go."
Emily huffed and reluctantly headed upstairs, cursing him under her breath as she checked any messages on her phone. She opened the door, reading the message from Lydia who told her she was going to Derek's loft to talk to Peter in hopes that it might help with finding Stiles. The pureblood was only relieved that Allison was going as backup and hoped that the former alpha could help with Lydia's banshee abilities.
"Emily?"
She stiffened, immediately looking up to see Stiles standing in front of her bed. "Stiles?" She breathed out in surprise and relief.
He smiled at her, a bit teary eyed. "Hey." She immediately wrapped her around him and he held her tightly.
Emily felt something off about the way he held her. It was almost like she was hugging a stranger. She pulled back, looking at his eyes that stared back at her curiously. Leaning up, she pressed her lips to his and he roughly kissed her back after a moment.
Ripping herself away from him, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, glaring at him. "You're not Stiles."
A sinister smirk tugged at his lips, a dark look on his face that Stiles never wore. "Not quite. I guess you can call me Void Stiles if you want." He tilted his head, as if studying her. "So what gave it away? I thought my acting was perfect."
"I saw your memories. I know what you're planning to do with Scott." She revealed, stepping back from him as he stepped closer. "Get back or else."
"You wouldn't hurt me." He said in a soft, mocking tone that caused her to glare at him. He knew he was right. If there was one thing he knew, it was that this vampire loved Stiles more than anything. "No, you wouldn't because you know that this body belongs to the boy you love. You hurt me, you hurt him."
"Why, Stiles?" She asked, knowing he was right. She couldn't call Eli because he would hurt him and she knew that the nogitsune was right, she wouldn't let any harm come to him. But, she also knew that Stiles wouldn't want her letting the nogitsune run free and kill people. She knew that with nogitsune's plan, a lot of people were going to die today. The choice was hard but she couldn't let him leave. "Why a human?"
"As opposed to Scott? Or Allison?" He exhaled, stepping closer to her as she back into the door and he smirked. "Well I guess it's because Stiles has more people in his life that he can hurt and no has suspected him until recently. Plus, he's really mentally vulnerable. It wasn't that hard getting into his head. He's weak but he's also got an interesting mind. I also just like the fact the everyone around here has been so miserable because he's been missing." He placed his hands beside her head and placed a hand on her cheek, staring at her. "You know, you could help me. I've been around a long time and I know just how much trouble a pureblood without humanity can cause." He leaned in closer. "So, what do you say, Emilya?"
"Screw you!" She spat out, roughly throwing him to the ground and grabbed both his hands, slamming to the floor to keep him restrained. "I'm gonna tie you up and not in the good way. Then I'm gonna lock you up in the cellar downstairs until we can figure out how to get you out of my boyfriend!" Her grip on his wrists tightening ever so slightly.
The expression on his face changed. His eyes watering and his bottom lip quivering. "Please, you have to get him out."
Her expression faltered and her grip loosened. "Stiles?" Did he manage to break through the nogitsune's hold? "Is it really you?"
He blinked away the tears and smirked up at her. "Now don't me that actually fooled you." He sneered, quickly changing their positions without much effort and gripped her throat tightly, pulling out a needle.
"What is that?" She choked out, trying to push him off but he was surprisingly a lot stronger than her.
But then again she hadn't had a drop of blood in her system in days now. She couldn't believe he caught her off guard with that little trick. And where the hell was Eli? How couldn't he hear what was happening up here?
"Just a little something to knock you out for a while. I can't have you ruining my plans." He mused before stabbing her with the needle and watched as she tried to fight it but soon her eyes fluttered shut. He ran a finger down her cheek. "If only you just gave into my offer, we could have caused so much chaos." He sighed, standing up and glanced at the door before heading out the window.
oOo
Eli sighed, seeing no blood bags in the fridge down in the cellar and shut the door closed before making his way upstairs. Luckily, Cece had gone to get more.
He heard arguing upstairs and figured Emily ignored his suggestion to shower. She was probably yelling at someone on the phone again. He didn't think that Stiles missing would affect her that much but clearly he was wrong.
Exhaling, he walked upstairs and paused, hearing a loud thump. He focused his hearing, it was a familiar voice. Was that Stiles? He rushed up the stairs when the voice was gone and opened the door. His eyes fell on the open window before he finally took notice of Emily on the ground unconscious.
His breath hitched, "Emily?" He dropped to her side in an instant, checking for any wounds and saw the needle. He smelled the contents, growling under his breath. "Vervain."
oOo
"Scott!" Void Stiles yelled, playing the part of a worried Stiles. He was currently with Scott and the twins. He managed to convince them that he didn't remember what he had been doing in the last two days except that the nogitsune might have set up traps on the trail the track team uses. "Stop, stop, stop! Everyone, stop!" He picked up a chain that ended up not being connected to anything.
Finstock scoffed, clapping his hands. "Congratulations, Stilinski. You found a length of chain. Can somebody now please tell me what the hell's going on?"
Scott noticed the trap and tried to warn him, "Hey, Coach!"
It was too late as his leg hit wire, setting off the trap and felt a sharp pain in his abdomen. He looked down at the arrow sticking out of his chest.
"Oh, crap." He fell back onto the floor, the students immediately crowding him. A beat later, the shock of what just happened to him, hit him hard. He began thrashing on the floor, screaming, "Get it out of me! Get it out of me. Get it out of me. Oh, my God, I'm gonna die. Get it out of me! I'm gonna die!"
"Coach, you're not gonna die." Aiden told him in exasperation.
"I'm gonna die!" He cried out.
Scott tried to calm him down, "It will hurt less if you stop moving, Coach."
"Get that thing out of me!" He ignored them as he continued to yell in pain.
"Stay still, Coach." Aiden said. "An ambulance is coming."
"Get it out! I'm gonna die!"
"Get back! Get back!" The former alpha twin yelled at the other students that were still crowding. "Give him some room! Get back!"
Scott began taking away his pain and the coach's eyes fluttered shut. "I think he just passed out." Aiden exhaled, while Scott was starting to feel some of the effects of taking the pain from Isaac earlier and now Finstock's pain as well.
Void Stiles trembled, putting on guilty expression. "I could have killed him. I could have killed him, right? What if it was his head or his throat?"
"But it wasn't. And he's going to be alright." Scott told him gently. Although, he wondered why Stiles didn't want him to call Emily yet. He thought she would want him to know he was okay.
Aiden glanced away. "I think I just heard an ambulance coming."
"And my dad." Stiles muttered.
oOo
"So, you just found her like this on the floor?" Cece gave Eli a look of disbelief as she sat beside her niece on the bed.
Eli sighed. "I'm pretty sure it was the nogitsune that's possessing Stiles. I was sure that I heard his voice up here." He told her, glancing at his unconscious friend in concern. "It's possible that she figured out it wasn't Stiles and he decided to inject her with vervain."
"How much vervain did he inject her with? She should've been up by now." Cece asked in frustration. Her answer came with Emily sitting up with a gasp. The two older purebloods crowded her in an instant. "Emily, it's okay. You're okay."
"That wasn't Stiles." Emily choked out, catching her breath and grabbed her aunt's hand, giving her panicked look. "You have to call Scott and tell him before he finishes his plan." The last thing she wanted was the nogitsune or Void Stiles to get what he wanted.
The two shared a brief look.
oOo
"All right, come on. Get him inside! Get him inside!" Void Stiles helped carry Scott with the Kitsune girl while the true alpha had a sword stabbed through his chest. He watched as the True alpha leaned against the examination table and the girl tried to pull out the sword. This wouldn't work for him. He grabbed her hand before slamming her head against the table, knocking her out. Scott looked at him in horror. "You okay?"
Scott realized that the feeling he had all day was right. This wasn't his best friend. There had been so many moments today that he should have picked up on. Stiles always called Emily, Em. He would have wanted her by his side. He watched as the nogitsune wearing his best friends face, tapped against the handle of the sword.
"Please don't. Stop." He pleaded, already feeling weak from taking all the pain today and the sword that was currently stick out of his body.
"It's okay." Void Stiles said softly before grabbing the handle and twisting it. Scott cried out in pain. He smirked. "Does it hurt? Hey, look at me. You should have done your reading, Scott. See, a nogitsune feeds off chaos, strife and pain. This morning, you took it from Isaac, then you took it from Coach. And then from a dying deputy. All that pain. You took it all. Now, give it to me" Void Stiles grabbed his face and began to take all of that pain the alpha had within him, feeling himself getting stronger. "You really have to learn, Scott. You really have to learn not to trust a fox. Know why? 'Cause they're tricksters. They'll fool you. They'll fool everyone."
"Not everyone."
Void Stiles caught sight of the vet guy who then injected him with something and he couldn't but chuckle as he passed out. This wouldn't deter his plans in the slightest.
Scott groaned in pain when his mentor pulled the sword and felt his body start to heal. He looked at him. "What was that? Was that a cure? Is he okay?"
Deaton had a grim expression. "The fox is poisoned. But it's not dead. Not yet."