Hope Aflame (Stiles Stilinski)

Chapter 22

"Soooo. That kiss?" Lydia questions the blonde as they sit on the bench waiting for Stiles, Allison, and Scott to wake up.

 "What about it?" Alannah questions, rolling her eyes at her friend. 

"How was it?" Lydia giggles.

 "It was nice." Alannah hums. 

"Just nice?" Lydia presses for more detail. 

"Fine it was amazing, okay. I think I can finally admit it out loud that I Alannah Knight like Stiles. Never thought I would say that." The blonde sighs. 

"Ahhh! I'm so excited for you. He's such an improvement from Noah." Lydia cheers. 

"Hey!" Alannah gasps. 

"What? It's true babe." Lydia chuckles. 

The girls and Isaac turn their attention to the body of water as Scott comes too. 

Water splashes across the floor as he grasps tightly onto the edges of the steel tub. 

"I saw it...I know where it is." Scott coughs loudly. 

One by one they each scramble out of the tubs, soaking wet. 

"We passed it—there's a stump—this huge tree—not huge now—it was cut down—but big. Very big." Stiles shivers as Alannah runs up to him handing him a towel.

 "It was the night we were looking for the body-" Scott starts. 

"The night you were bit by Peter." Stiles cuts in looking at the blonde. 

"I was there too. In the car with my mother. We almost hit someone." Allison comments. 

"It was me---you almost hit me." Scott reveals as they look at each other. 

"We can find it." Scott states. 

"You guys were out a long time though." Isaac says carefully. 

"How long is a long time?" Stiles asks as he looks out the window seeing it is nighttime. 

"Sixteen hours." Deaton reveals.

 "We were in the water for sixteen hours?!" Scott exclaims.

 "And the full moon rises in less than four." Alannah reminds them all.

With his towel pulled tightly around his shoulders, Stiles shakes his head at Scott. 

"No, dude. You're not going back to them." 

"I made a deal with Deucalion." Scott says.

 "Anybody else think that sounded a lot like 'deal with the Devil?' I don't know about you guys, but I've heard that situation doesn't usually come with a happy ending." 

 "Why does it matter anyway?" Isaac shrugs his shoulders.

 "Because I still don't think we can beat Jennifer without their help." Allison faces Deaton.

 "He trusts you more than any of us. Tell him he's wrong." Deaton sighs before answering, "I'm not so sure he is. Circumstances like this sometimes require you to align yourself with people you'd normally consider enemies."

 "We're supposed to trust him? The guy who calls himself Death, destroyer of worlds." Stiles announces. 

"I wouldn't trust him, no. But you could certainly use his to your advantage." Deaton revealed. 

"If we find our parents and Jennifer's there waiting for us, no one's getting out alive. We need help." Scott tells them. 

"What if we could distract her?" Lydia suggests.