Take Two - Stydia

I think she's into me?

Stiles's pov

*Note: This starts before Malia arrives*

I stand at my desk, what just happened? I clutch the string holding every last hope I have. Will I ever see her again? Do I still have feelings for her? Even after all of these months, I know what I have to do. I have to tell her, I have to stop her. I quickly turn around to go and find her, hopefully she hasn't left the house yet. As I turn my head I see her, standing in the doorway, she came back. Lydia came back for me. I take a step forward and she immediately wraps her arms around me, my heart pounds and my breath shudders. Before I know it she let's go, she let's go too soon. I want to tell her, why can't I just man up and say it? Three simple words, but she's gone now. That's when I realize, I still love her.
I wonder if Lydia likes me? Why'd she come back too? She told me that she didn't know how she got here, how strange. All of a sudden something interrupts my thoughts, "Stiles! Hi," Malia walks towards me and gives me a hug, "Lydia said you weren't home," I smirk, Lydia said that? "Well, here I am," I say, "what are you doing here?"
"We haven't talked in a while," she pauses, almost unsure of what she's going to say, "I miss us."

Woah, that hit my heart. But Lydia, wait no. Malia can't do this. "Malia, you cheated on me and it left me in pieces for weeks, if you really missed me, you wouldn't have left it so late. Just leave, I've moved on and you should too." Her tone changes and tears stream down her face, "How could you!?" She screams, "I still love you and I will make you love me!" Suddenly she stops crying and her mouth curves into an evil smile, "Watch your back Stiles," With that she leaves and I feel like I've been hit by a truck. Oh my god.

The next day I walk into the kitchen and I can smell bacon cooking, "Dad?" I say, "are you-- cooking?" I am totally dumbfounded. Dad chuckles, "Sit down kiddo," I cautiously sit down, what is he up to? "Stiles, I heard you talking to Malia yesterday," my mood quickly changes, I hadn't thought about that yet, "Yeah, about that. I don't know Dad, what do I do?" He sighs as he turns off the stove, "son, you have to leave her alone. Don't lead her on but don't avoid her."
"Dad that doesn't make sense,"
"Sorry, I'm not all that great with this stuff, your Mother would've been," He looks down and then back up at me, "I'm so sorry Stiles."
"Dad, please don't," I feel a lump form in my throat.
"No, Stiles, I will try to be a good Dad. Remember I'm always here for you okay?"
"Dad...-"
"Promise me you'll remember,"
"I promise."
"Good, now can you please run down to the store and grab me some milk for our coffees?" He says, breaking the tension.
"Sure," I reply.

I walk into the store and I see him. Scott McCall. I haven't seen him in at least 4 months, ever since school ended and we had our fight, we hadn't even attempted to keep in contact. I think the day of our fight was the worst day of my life, but it means nothing to me anymore. Although, I remember it like it was yesterday.

"Stiles,"
"Yeah, Scott?" He looks worried, "what's wrong?"
"Stiles, I'm really sorry," His eyes seemed droopy, he looked really guilty.
"What's wrong?" I say again, more forcefully,
"Stiles I, I,"
All of sudden Malia appeared from behind him,
"He kissed me," my stomach dropped, "and I kissed him back,"
"What, why, why would you do that," tears threatened to spill over, how could Scott do this? Just because him and Kira had broken up, was he jealous? But Malia kissed him back, this didn't make sense, had they been seeing each other for a while? "How long?" I say,
"What do you mean?" Scott asks
"How long have you two been seeing each other behind my back?" They look at each other, as if they were discussing what they were going to say, "since Kira and I broke up." Scott answers, my jaw drops. A whole month.
"Stiles, I can expla-"
"Save it Malia," And I left.

"You alright mate?" A guy standing next to me taps me on the shoulder, "Yeah, I'm good."
"You were so spaced out man,"
But my thoughts were somewhere else I think I'm going to go talk to him, I'm going to do it. I look up and see he's gone, damn it. I need to find him without letting him know I'm looking for him. I walk around and see him by the milk, perfect. "Hey Scott," I look up at him and his face shows an expression of confusion and somewhat relief. "Stiles?" He asks cautiously, as if someone was watching, "I think we should talk."
"Now isn't really a good time," Scott looks around nervously, "Scott, what's wrong?" I can tell something isn't right, he seems so scared. "Meet me at Eichen House at 9 pm tonight, we can talk there,"
"Scott what are you talking about? Why Eichen House, that's just wrong!"
"Stiles, don't make a scene, just do it." He looks at me, dead serious. Knowing about the supernatural world and it's quirks, this could be life and death for all I know!
"Okay I'll be there, 9pm?"
"9pm, and come alone." I nod and grab some milk for Dad and he walks off and I notice his hands, Scott takes them out of his pocket and his claws are out, I see the blood and marks on his palms. What is going on.

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"I'll be back by midnight!" I call out to Dad, I really shouldn't still be at home, I'm 18, although things are pretty messed up right now. I'm glad to have him by my side. "Hey, wait up!" I see Dad emerge from the stairs, he's wearing a black buttoned up shirt with dark blue jeans, and he's even done his hair all nicely, "Do I look okay?"
"You look good! Where are you going?" He nervously looks down at the ground, "your old man may or may not be going on a date,"
"Oh yes? Who's the lucky lady?" I ask with a smirk,
"A very beautiful woman,"
"Do I know her?" I hear a knock at the door and his face lifts and I see a sparkle in his eye, "you sure do!" He opens the door and I see Mellisa McCall standing at our door, immediately I give her a hug. Not only is she Scott's Mum, but she's like mine too, "Hey buddy," she ruffles my hair, my Dad interrupts "Uh, hey," smooth.
"I'll leave you guys now," I let out a small laugh, "have fun you two!" I call out as I walk down the path to my jeep. I jump in and close the door, what am I going to find out about tonight?

I turn up at Eichen House at 8:57pm, I'm early. I walk towards the front gates and shudder, the memories are all coming back, Oliver, Meredith, Malia. I shudder at the thought. I hear a motorbike and see Scott turn up in a shiny black one, similar to Ethan and Aidens bikes. "Hey Scott,"
"Shh, follow me," He takes off his helmet and puts a finger to his lip. Scott slowly walks towards the front gate, he then makes a turn, he raves down the side of the fence and I struggle to keep up, "Scott!" I call breathlessly, but he ignores me. Scott abruptly stops and we come across a door going into the ground, "what was all that?" I whisper. "I could hear someone coming," He explains, "right, I forgot you were, you know..."
"Werewolf, it's not a touchy subject if you can't remember," He opens the door and jumps down, he stands up, just showing the top of his head, "come on Stiles," I hit the ground with a thud, "argh! Groundshock!" I yell, Scott shuts the door and leads me down concrete steps, when we get onto the floor I realize where we are, the basement.

"Scott! Why would you take me here?"  He knows what happened down here with Oliver... and Malia. "Just sit down and I'll explain," I sit down on an old, worn sofa and dust puffs up from the fabric, the awkwardness of the whole situation is settling in, I should never have said anything. "Scott?"
"Stiles! I told you to come alone!" His face was etched with pure fury, I did, didn't I? "I did come alone, your super hearing or whatever must've just heard someone from upstairs," But sure enough, when I turn around I see her.

"Why'd you bring Lydia here?" Scott's voice still shaking with rage,
"What? I didn't? It wasn't me,"
"Scott?" Lydia's face is full of confusion, suddenly I feel a knot in my stomach, "you don't know how you got here do you?"
"No clue..." Her voice trails off as if something else is on her mind,
"Lydia, what is it?"
"This happened yesterday too, I had know clue how I got to your place, but I felt like I was there for a reason. I feel the same way now," I stare at her, she's so beautiful, I quit staring when Scott notices.
"Well, something's wrong." Lydia exclaims. "I don't know why, but I've been drawn to you, it has to be you." She looks me in the eyes and I realize that we were never meant to split apart, us three. We were the originals and we would always fight for each other until the end.

Scott interrupts the silence, "We are here for reason okay?" He pauses to take a deep breath, "we have some new friends in town,"
"Scott, what do you mean?" Lydia questions, obviously intrigued or frightened by the idea. "I mean we have something on our hands here,"
"Like the Oni?" It's probably just another fight or bad guy we need to sort out. "Not quite, it's, it's like a map, or a scavenger hunt. You know when you're given clues and you have to find the answer?" Lydia nods her head in agreement but I'm not so sure. "Why are we at Eichen House then?"
"Because the last clue was," Scott pauses and grabs a piece of paper from his pocket, he smooths it out and it reads,
'You used to think it was nice and safe, the best option for your mate. We proved you wrong and chose your fate, but you passed the test what a silly mistake. Now you must go with such grace and follow us to the haunted place.'
"Dude that's creepy," I say as he puts the note back into his pocket,
"Stiles is right, that is creepy. But what do they mean? And who is it?" Lydia follows on, Scott looks at us both and says,
"I guess that's what we have to find out."