homesick // stilinski (1)

three - party watch

|the next day|

AT PRACTICE THE NEXT DAY, Anna sees Stiles trying to talk to Scott. Scott walks away leaving Stiles pacing on the sideline. Anna decides to walk over and check to make sure he is okay.

"Hey, you good?" Anna asks as she taps Stiles on the shoulder to get his attention.

Stiles jumps at the touch and then turns to face Anna.

"Ya, it's just I had to tell Scott something."

"Tell him what?" Anna questions.

"The fiber analysis came back from the lab in LA and they found animal hairs on the body we found."

"What animal?"

"A wolf," Stiles responds, not saying anymore to let Anna process the information.

"Shoot, I guess Scott was right when he told you he heard a wolf howling," Anna says, not saying out loud her real thought, was her's and Stiles' teasing from yesterday, not a joke?

"Ya, I guess," Stiles says, similar questions running through Stiles' mind as he tried to piece together if that would explain why he had been acting so different.

Before Anna can voice her opinion, Coach Sullivan shouts, "Griffin!" as she walks over to where Anna and Stiles are chatting.

"I thought I explained this to you yesterday. We are on that side of the field," Sullivan says, pointing towards where the girls are setting their gear by the bench. "You can continue your flirting after practice."

Turning red at the last comment, Anna says, "Yes, Coach."

As she walks away, Anna turns back to Stiles, saying, "Talk more after school?"

Stiles responds with a "Yep!" as Anna walks away. Stiles smiles to himself having noticed how red Anna turned at the accusation of them flirting.

~~~~~

Later that evening, Anna is in Stiles' room helping him with some research. Scott had another great, but wayy out of the ordinary, performance during practice earlier that day. His performance led Stiles and Anna to voice their worries to each other after practice.

Now, the pair was doing as much research as they could to figure out what was up. Stiles was typing words like 'lycaon' 'silver' and 'wolfsbane' into the search engine in his computer sitting at his desk. Anna was laying on Stiles' bed, searching through a book she had checked out on lycanthropy.

The two would share their findings with each other, each nugget of information convincing them more and more of the reason behind Scott's new abilities. Both were so entranced with their research that they were up all night, trying to learn as much as possible. The pair was only still awake and functioning thanks to many monsters and red bulls.

"We have to tell Scott," Anna finally says as she checks her watch, realizing how sleep-deprived she would be after having a sleepover with Allison tonight as well.

"I actually just texted him a few minutes ago, he said he would come over soon."

"Okay," Anna yawns as she finishes, "good."

Anna goes back to thumbing through a book on silver as Stiles gets up, walking towards her.

"Hey we still have some time before the party and you seem tired."

Before he can finish his thought, Anna responds, "No, I'm-" she stifles another yawn, "-I'm fine."

Stiles crouches down in front of Anna, putting a hand over hers to stop her from flipping the page again. "You can go get some rest, I can tell Scott everything."