Scream (Nogitsune)

Chapter 5

Scott left the group and went to see Stiles' father. He got to the police station fast, but was told that the sheriff wasn't available. He asked where he was and the officers didn't want to tell him at first, but deputy Parrish knew who Scott was and told him that he was somewhere near the school taking care of work bussiness. He called his number and after a while sheriff picked up.

"Hi, Mr. Stilinski, I'm sorry to bother you at work, but I heard you were somewhere near the school, do you think we could meet?" Scott politely asked.

"Ok, I'm almost done anyway, I'll wait at school's parking lot, is something going on?" Sheriff was a little worried.

"Nothing much, just want to give you a heads up." Scott answered.

"Okay, I'll wait here. See you." Mr. Stilinski finished and hang up.

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Scott could have been there faster than anyone else, but he took his time as he didn't want to tell Stiles' dad that there might be no way to save his son. Scott wasn't the one to give up hope, but they had no solid leads on what to do about Stiles.

He still got to the parking lot pretty fast, but the sheriff was impatient. As soon as he got a glimpse of Scott he got out of the car and went to meet him.

"What took you so long? What is happening?" The sheriff asked, eager and also scared to hear the answer.

"There is nothing going on right now, I just wanted to tell you that we haven't found anything yet." Scott said.

"That's it? You could've told me that over the phone." Sheriff got confused.

"The thing is," Scott continued, "we haven't found anything, but we looked everywhere."

He was hoping that the sheriff would understand what he meant, because he didn't want to say it out loud.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean?" Mr. Stilinski asked, even though he was quite sure he knew, but didn't want to think about it or say it either.

"I promise you, I will do everything I can, but as of right now, we have nothing." Scott was filling his sentences with empty words, but he knew it was time to get to the point. "I just need you to prepare yourself that there might be a possibility there is no way to save him."

It almost didn't sound real, they always found a way out of everything.

"There has to be something." Mr. Stilinski sounded broken-hearted, not wanting to believe Scott wouldn't think they'd make it, but he knew it was a long time since he saw his son and that there might be a possibility he wouldn't again.

They stood there quiet for a while, just trying to process everything that was said. It wasn't a long conversation, but it was an uneasy one, to admit they are losing hope even without saying it exactly like this.

"I'm sorry, we are doing everything we can, we are looking everywhere." Scott tried to soothe them both by saying this.

Sheriff couldn't bring himself to answer, he just sighed heavily and turned around to go to his car, Scott following him.

As they walked slowly towards the car, they heard something beeping. Scott checked his phone, thinking it might be running out of battery, but sheriff Stilinski stopped.

"What?" Scott asked uncertainly.

He looked at his phone, which didn't show anything, when he realized the beeping wasn't loud enough to be coming from his pocket. It wasn't too quiet either, so it had to be somewhere pretty close and it started to get on his nerves.