Following the Stars

A Dream within a Dream

"Has it occurred to you that the teachers in this school don't seem to care that most of us never turn up any more?" Danny asked
"What do you mean?" Lydia replied, her eyes still firmly on her book, they had holed up in the library, Lydia had hauled every folklore book she owned with them
"Well, Erica, Boyd and Isaac haven't been here for like a month, they're god knows where doing god knows what. There's always at least two of us away at any given time. Do teachers just not care?"
"Probably not, I think they'll just be pleased if we have a decent number of classmates who live to graduate" Lydia sighed
"Do you want to go back?" Danny asked, Lydia shook her head
"Derek said we have to stay here, besides, I feel so useless there"
"I know, I feel like that all the time"
"What? Why?" Lydia's head snapped up
"Because! Scott, Derek and the others are werewolves. You and Stiles are like the awesome researchers and Allison's a hunter and a witch, and I'm.. just me" Danny sighed. Lydia slammed the book down on the table, attracting the attention of some students sat a distance away

"Don't ever say that again Danny. You are important, next to Allison you're the best with a sword, you're only one out of all of us who can hack into police records among many other questionably legal sources. You are pack. Never forget that, we'll all bonded together whether you like it or not. Now" She slid a book over to Danny "Look for anything to do with the dreamscape"

"Derek!" Stiles yelled as they ran into the house, he ran up the stairs and practically kicked the door open. Derek looked up from the book he was reading, Allison was still motionless on the bed
"The fault in our stars? Really?" Stiles nodded to the book before shaking his head "Not important! We found something-"
"Thanks for the help Stiles" Scott growled as he walked into the room, a box in his arms "Clothes and books as requested"
"What did you find?" Derek asked
"Dude your house was wrecked...like more than usual"
"What?" Derek asked, placing the book on the desk
"There was a hole in one of your walls, the table was smashed and your front door was like cracked" Stiles flailed his hands
"He had coffee on the way" Scott glanced at his friend "There's more" He pulled something out of his pocket and dangled it from his hand
"Is that..."
"The necklace Kate gave Allison" Derek grabbed it from Scott's hand
"We found it-"
"South of the house at the base of a tree" Derek finished, his eyes snapping up to lock onto Stiles
"How did you know?" Stiles asked
Derek stood up and walked over to Allison and pushed the hair from her neck to reveal some already fading bruises
"Because I was with her when she threw it"

Lydia drove to her house first, filling up a bag with some clothes before grabbing the box under her bed, now known as the 'box of wonder" it contained all of the herbs, flowers and ingredients she had forced Scott to buy for her, inside there were candles and a small mortar and pestle. She stuffed the box into her bag and slipped back out of the house before her mom could notice.

"Where's Lydia?" Scott asked as he raided the contents of Allison's kitchen, pulling out a box of cookies
"She had to go home and get some things, did you get the books from Derek's place?" Danny asked, frowning as Scott choked on one of the cookies, spraying crumbs al over the counter
"Shit we forgot to text you guys, yeah we got the books but the place was like destroyed" Danny raised an eyebrow "More destroyed" Scott shrugged, offering a cookie to Danny
"What did it?"
"Honestly, we think it was Allison"
"How is that possible?" Danny asked as he bit down on his cookie
"Dude at this point I'm just nodding along with what everybody says. So long as she wakes up I don't really care about the implications"
"So where's Stiles and Derek?"
"Stiles is upstairs with Allison looking through the books and Derek and went out for a run, I don't think he likes being cooped up for too long"
"Are we all like, living here now? Because I don't think my mom is down with that idea" Danny shook his head as he grabbed another cookie
"It's cool, if you have to go home don't worry about it. So long as either me or Der is here you guys can do whatever"
Lydia let herself into the house and waved to the teens before walking past them to head upstairs
"I think she's even scarier when she's crazy focused like that" Scott whispered, reaching into the box to grab another cookie, letting out a whine when his hand came up empty "Derek better get back soon. We need to go on a grocery run"