Through better and worse, I'll still love you. (3rd book to HIABY?)

Chapter 20- Echo House

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Stiles and his dad ride in silence neither not knowing what to say. They pull up to Eichen House and climb out of the car, where they are met by Scott. "Why didn't you tell me?"Scott asked Stiles upset. "Because we wanted to avoid something like this. It's only 72 hours."Mr.Stilinski said. "This is the same place where Barrow came from. The guy who had a tumor inside him filled with flies. You don't know everything yet."Scott said to Mr.Stilinski. "I know enough. Nogitsune's, Kitsune, Oni, or whatever they're called."Mr.Stilinski said. Stiles looked at his father surprised, "Wow, that was actually all surprisingly correct."He said. Mr.Stilinski turned to Scott. "Scott, I saw an MRI that looked exactly like my wife's. And it terrifies me. I'm headed down to L. A. tomorrow to talk to a specialist."Mr.Stilinski informed. "Then why are you putting him in here?"Scott asked him. "He's not. It was my decision."Stiles said and Scott looked at his best friend. "Stiles, I can't help you if you're in here."He said. "And I can't hurt you or Sadie."Stiles replied. "Deaton's got some ideas. Argent's calling people. We're gonna find something. And if we can't-"Scott started only to be cut off by Stiles. "If you can't- if you can't, then you have to do something for me, okay?"Stiles asked and Scott nodded, "Make sure I never get out."Stiles said. "Have you told Sadie?"Scott asked him and he shook his head. "I was going to have my dad tell her after he dropped me off."Stiles said. "Come on."Mr.Stilinski said and they walked inside.

*Inside Eichen House.

The Eichen House attendant explains the rules. There are no phone calls, emails or visitors allowed in the first 72 hours. As she lays out the process, a physical, meeting with a psychologist, and group therapy, Sheriff Stilinski becomes more and more agitated. The sounds of door buzzers and cell doors slamming fill his ears. The attendant takes Stiles shoes and gives him brown slippers because "no laces allowed" and then makes him empty his pockets of keys and other items. Suddenly the Sheriff declares that they forgot Stiles' pillow and that they both must leave to go and get it. He manically explains that every time they've stayed in a hotel, the first thing they pack is Stiles' pillow. It is irrational, but he clings to this as an excuse to get his son away and home because "I'm not checking you in here if you're not going to get one decent night's sleep." Stiles explains that he hasn't slept well in weeks and hugs his father tightly. Then Stiles is gone, off down the hall with the attendant, leaving his father standing alone and helpless.

As they ascend the stairs, Stiles sees someone he thinks he recognizes down one of the hallways. The attendant urges him on and when he looks back she is gone. On one of the landings above, a man is knotting a sheet and talking to himself, quoting a riddle. "I'm part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean yet still remain dry." He then loops the knotted sheet around his neck in a noose and leaps from the landing hanging himself. In the crowd of onlookers gathered in the stairwell below, Stiles sees the Nogitsune.

~Sheriff's station.

Chris Argent is talking to Dr. Deaton on the payphone at the Sheriff's Station. It was apparently Chris who helped Deaton infiltrate the Yakuza Ikeda's house to get the lichen to poison the Nogitsune.

~Animal Clinic.

Allison and Scott are listening as Deaton explains to Chris that they have two problems.

The first problem being the lichen is not a cure and will wear off in a matter of days. Chris says while the poison is working the Oni will not go after Stiles. And Deaton adds that Eichen House has an interesting history and that the Oni might not be safe there. The second problem is that, having checked with Chris' contacts in Japan, Deaton's learned that the possessed Yakuza boss never found "the Shugendō scroll". He explains that the Shugendō were the ascetic mystics of Japan and the scroll had information on how to exorcise a Nogitsune. The man who last purchased it was Silverfinger's henchman Kincaid. They suspect that Silverfinger a.k.a. Katashi wanted the scroll for himself and was paranoid enough to keep it on him at all times. The sheriff hasn't found the scroll in any of Katashi's belongings but Allison has an idea that it might be very small and just where it might be hidden.