Baby|| Stiles Stilinski

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"Hey Babe", Stiles voice echoed through the phone. "Sorry to cancel our stars wars marathon but dad wants Scott's and my help to track down the girl, Malia's body. It's that case he told us about the other day. Yeah, well I sort of owe it to him to figure this one out. I promise to make it up to you later. Got to go, bye". The voice message cut off.

Baby sighed and sprawled out over his bed. The sun was blaring through the windows, lighting up the white walls and black furniture. He was still in his pyjamas, which was probably good because he now had no plans. He called Danny but all he got was an answering message. "Hey. This is Danny. I can't come to the phone right now because I'm either doing school stuff or with my boyfriend. Leave a message". Baby sighed again and cut the call off. He bounced a little on the bed wondering what to do.

He had no homework. He couldn't go back to sleep in case of falling back into his natural nocturnal state. He wasn't hungry enough to go hunting and he was too restless to watch a movie. Suddenly, an idea sprang to mind. He snatched up his phone again and pressed call. "Hey Lydia", he greeted with a smile. "What are you doing? Scott and stiles are doing bro stuff and Isaac and Allison are having a study 'date'. Want to come and hang at mine? Have that hang out we cancelled to go and stop a murder".

"Oh I don't know", Lydia hummed back. "Will you let me give your closet a makeover?" Baby turned his head to look at his wardrobe. He didn't own much. All his clothes barely covered half the space.

"Sure", he replied. There was an excited squeal.

"Be there in twenty. Get ready to go shopping!" Then she hung up. Baby groaned fondly and got up. He so hoped that he wasn't going to regret this later.

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"Hi Babe", Stiles greeted. It was history, their first class of the day. He ran a hand over the light blue denim of Baby's jacket. Underneath he wore a white tshirt and his usual black skinny jeans. His customary converse were no where to be seen, instead they were replaced by pair of plain white trainers. His hair had also been cut. The slightly too long locks had been styled so that the length looked fashionable instead of just messy. "This is new", Stiles commented, eyes taking him in.

Baby sighed but smiled. "Well since you ditched me. Lydia ended up coming over and criticising my style. So thank her". Then he paused. "Is it bad."

"No! No. You look good. Not that you didn't look good before, but you look better now". Baby laughed at Stiles' stammering. He leaned over to peck him on the cheek.

"Thanks".

"Guys you're cute and all but I'm trying to talk here", Scott huffed. Him and Alison were waiting pointedly.

"Right, well to catch Baby up. Scott and I went into the woods and found the car. We were attacked by a coyote and when Scott growled at it, it's eyes flashed blue. So it proves your theory that Malia is a werewolf, or werecoyote I guess". Baby nodded to Stiles' explanation.

"So you two were doing bro things. Just wandering around in the woods looking for bodies, bro things".

"Yeah", Scott pulled out a kindle and held it up so they could all see. There was a map of the woods surround the town. "Here's where we found the den. It's right off the hiking trails".

"Well that could narrow it down", Alison said. She followed one of the trails with her finger. "Coyotes travel in fixed trails. But I think you're right about her not going back to the den. Coyotes don't like Wolves and they're really smart. If they don't want to be heard, they actually walk on their toes".

"They tip toe?" Stiles raised and eyebrow.

Alison rolled her eyes. "They tip toe". Anything else she was going to say was cut off by the bell. "I gotta go but send me the pin location", she waved as she left the room. Baby and stiles trudged to their seats.

"We were just talking about the internment camps and the prisoners of war", Mr Yukimura spoke loudly to begin the lesson. "There's a passage in our reading that I would like to go over in more detail. Who would like to come up and read aloud for us?"

"Mr Stilinski, how about you?"

Stiles looked up with wide eyes. "Oh um, maybe someone else could".

Baby raised his hand. "I don't mind doing it".

"Thank you for volunteering Mr Spencer but I would like Mr Stilinski to participate for once". Mr Yukimura returned his gaze to Stiles.

Stiles shot baby a nervous look before signing and reluctantly standing up. He slouched over to the desk and stared down at the textbook. Baby listened as his heartbeat began to quicken. Stiles gripped the desk edge hard enough to turn his knuckles white as his breathing began to become laboured. He looked up with an unfocused gaze and baby was getting to his feet. "Stiles, you okay?" Stiles slouched over the desk and Baby jumped over to catch him by the shoulders. Scott had gotten up too and they balanced Stiles between them.

"We should take him to the nurses office", Scott stated.

Mr Yukimura nodded. "Alright. Mr McCall can take him. Mr Spencer can take over reading". Baby and Scott exchanged looks.

"He'll be fine", Scott reassured as he helped stiles out of the room. Baby hesitated but walked over to the desk and began reading.

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The bell rang for the end of class. Immediately the students grabbed their stuff and began leaving the room. "Do nothing forget the chapters on president carter!" Mr Yukimura called after them.

Baby packed his notebook into his bag with a sigh. Stiles' bag was still hanging on his chair. He sling his bag over his shoulder before reaching for Stiles'. Scott's bag was still in the room too. Baby trudged over to his desk. "Oh hi", Kira smiled at him. "Your friends with Scott. Do you want help with their bags?" She picked up Scott's bag with a questioning face.

"Sure", Baby replied politely. "If you want. I think they maybe in the lacrosse locker rooms". Together they began walking through the school.

"I'm sorry that my dad didn't let you go with Stiles", Kira murmured. "Are the two of you dating?"

"Scott will hopefully be able to calm him down. And yeah. Stiles is my boyfriend".

"Aww", Kira cooed. "You guys are cute together".

Baby grinned. "Thanks".

"Is um, is Scott seeing anyone?" She asked hesitantly as she pushed open the doors to the corridor leading to the lacrosse locker rooms. Baby sniffed and frowned. It didn't seem like Scott and Stiles had come down here. But in a school with so many different scents, it was hard to tell.

"Not at the moment", he answered. "He was dating Allison but they broke up before I moved here. They're still friends"- he cut off as a shape moved in the dark. He stopped and held out a hand. "Kira", he said slowly. "We need to back away slowly".

"What?" Then she saw it. Down the hall, the coyote turned and spotted them. It snarled. "Oh my god". Then it began running at them.

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