OF DEATH AND LIFE

Monstrous

While Scott, Malia and Liam drove home, and stayed home for now, to get themselves cleaned up, Mike drove Conrad home, so that he could freshen up, and Elaine to the hospital. On their way to the hospital Elaine tried to fill Mike in about the supernatural, also telling him about the Dead Pool.

Mike made sure Elaine got safely in the building before driving home himself, needing time to get his head wrapped around what happened. Conrad had texted Elaine he would be at the station with Lydia if she needed anything, knowing Belly was currently working at the hospital. Before meeting up with Stiles Elaine had texted her uncle Adrian, asking if he was free to talk to her over the phone.

"Elaine, hey. I heard what happened. Are you okay?", Belly asked her, greeting her at the entrance. "Yeah, I'm okay. So is Conrad and the others. I can't believe they almost got set on fire.", Elaine told her.

"I always seem to miss out on the crazy things happening to you guys.", Belly pointed out with a chuckle.

"You're lucky. Conrad and I almost thought we saw Lucille Novak at the bonfire too.", Elaine told Belly, while they were making their way to Stiles' room. "Has Adrian ever shown you a picture of the woman?", Elaine asked curious.

"No, he hasn't. But that's because there aren't any pictures of her anywhere. Have you told Adrian?"

"I asked him if he was free to call, I think I just have to wait on an answer from him.", Elaine shrugged.

"Are you sure it could've been her?", Belly asked, worry starting to grow inside her. "I think it was. There was a familiar feeling when I saw her. Like I have seen her before."

"Adrian will know. I'm sure of it.", Belly assured Elaine, giving her hand a reassuring squeeze, before letting it go. They had arrived at Stiles' hospital room.

"I'm here if something should happen, okay? I just need to work on the side.", Belly told her and made her way back to take care of the patients.

Elaine softly knocked at the door and only opened the door after hearing Stiles say "Come in."

"Oh, hey. I thought you were Melissa.", Stiles told her, surprised to see Elaine visiting him. "Well, it's just me... Elaine.", Elaine said awkwardly. "Yeah. I see that.", Stiles chuckled, sitting at the edge of the hospital bed. "What are you doing here?"

"Well... I heard what happened and I wanted to check up on you.", Elaine told him, still standing at the door, having it closed behind her.

"That's ... nice. But you didn't have to. I'm completely fine.", Stiles told her. "A concussion isn't fine Stiles.", Elaine pointed out, while sitting down on one of the chairs next to the Bed. "Anyways, what did you and Lydia find out anyways?", Elaine quickly changed the topic, not letting Stiles protest any further.

"I know Lydia is at the station with Meredith right now. Conrad said, they're still trying to get her to talk, but she won't budge. But there was something about a tape?"

"Uh, yeah. I asked Melissa to maybe get me a tape player. I took the tape Brunski played us with me.", Stiles explained, grabbing the tape out of his bag and showing it to Elaine. "It's a cassette, but whatever.", Elaine mumbled, taking it out of Stiles' hand, having stood up, now standing beside him. On the Cassette was written Lorraine Martin.

"Well, we can't do anything until we have that cassette player I guess.", Elaine gave the cassette back to Stiles. "A tape player.", Stiles disagreed. "It's called a cassette, Stiles. It's a Cassette player."

"How was the bonfire?", Stiles asked after a short moment of silence. Elaine had checked her phone multiple times already to see if Adrian had read her messages. "Shouldn't you be with Mike now anyways? Why not be with him instead of just texting him?"