The road to recovery

Chapter 14

It's been two weeks since Stiles started to research exactly what has been going on in the town he is living in, and he has found nothing. Well, that's not true he has found that the town has been losing more and more of its residents. Whether that is because they show up dead or because they simply go missing doesn't matter as Stiles is fairly certain that the vampires that are inhabiting the town are either clear of fault or haven't killed anyone in a while as the numbers of missing or dead have slowly decreased to a normal level.

What Stiles has got nothing on however, is the sun and the moon curse. By all accounts the curse should be fake. Werewolves were around and cursed far before vampires came into existence so the curse can't be real. But the curse is the only thing that would explain why vampires, werewolves, witches and doppelgangers would all be in the same place together. Unless...they aren't trying to break the curse, and this is all a massive coincidence.

But coincidences don't happen on this big of a scale!

Anyway...something that Stiles has noticed during those two weeks is that Tyler has been acting weird around him. Brushing off Stiles' concern about not having a plan for the full moon, leaving the room is Stiles enters it and flinching away from Stiles if he accidently catches Tyler unaware.

Tyler has also been refusing to talk to Stiles about his recent friendship with Caroline. Stiles wonders if the vampire has anything to do with why Tyler has been acting so cold around him.

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Tyler is out on the basketball court, throwing the basketball into the hoop. He shoots towards the hoop and misses when Matt grabs the ball and brings it over to Tyler.

"Hey man, how you doing?" Matt asks as he gives the ball back to Tyler.

"Good, you?" Tyler answers.

"I'm pissed at myself for picking a fight with you. And feeling guilty for what happened to Sarah. I mean, I've been dodging you for days because I didn't know what to say to you." Matt admits.

"Don't worry about it, man." Tyler reassures him.

"I'm really sorry. Please know that." Matt says before walking away.

Tyler watches as Caroline Matt have an awkward conversation before Matt continues his walk.

"You two still on the outs?" Tyler asks when Caroline walks over.

"Looks like it. You realise there's almost a full moon?" Caroline questions.

"Vampires don't have enough problems; you want to take on mine?" Tyler counters back.

"Have you even thought about it? The whole...wolf thing? Do you know what you're gonna do?" Caroline asks.

"I have a plan." Tyler states.

"Well...?" Caroline questions.

"Kind of private." Tyler admits.

"I'm student council vice president, head of the prom committee, not to mention I single-handedly organised this towns clean-up campaign. And you're really gonna turn down my help." Caroline says boastfully.

Tyler spots Stiles walking towards them and quickly grabs his stuff and takes Caroline by the arm, "Sure I could always use some help."

Tyler and Caroline are walking through the woods on the old Lockwood property when Caroline finally asks.

"Why are you dodging Stiles?"

"I'm not..." Tyler gets interrupted.

"Yes, you are. Don't think that I didn't see the way you dragged me away from the basketball court the moment you saw him walking towards us." Caroline calls him out.