Little runner § Stiles Stilinski

Chapter 24 § Hostages

"So are you going to tell us what you saw at Lydia's party?" I asked Stiles talking about the visions we got. We are on our way to Stiles' house to tell his father that we've found the real killer, the one controlling Jackson. Matt.

He looked at me through the rearview mirror "It's nothing," he said curtly focusing back on the road.

I scoffed "yeah right. Stiles, you better tell me now, because I'll will figure it out anyway."

He sighed "It was my dad. He was furious, telling me I'm the reason my mother died."

I saw tears welling up in his eyes, a lump formed in my throat. I know exactly how that feels. My vision was almost the same. Except it wasn't my father who blamed me for their deaths but my mother. "Stiles, it was just a vision. You and your dad both know you're not the reason for her death."

He nodded his head from side to side "Maybe. But it is my fault my dad got fired."

Scott, who was also in the car, and I looked at each other. Both not knowing what to say or do. I don't have to ask why he got fired. It's because we kidnapped Jackson and the blame goes to his son. And probably because the sheriff can't solve the murders. But that's going to change. We are gonna help him solve the murders, without telling him anything about the Kanima.

After a few minutes we arrived at Stiles' house. Stiles opened the door and practically dragged his father up to his room. Scott and I both following behind them.

"Stiles what the hell?!" He ignored his father and instead opened a yearbook.

"It's Matt dad, He is the killer," Stiles pointed at a picture of Matt.

His dad seemed to be in thought focusing on the picture "so this kid's the real killer?"

Stiles nodded "yeah." Scott and I nodded in agreement taking a step back from the book. Stiles had drawn red circles around him and an arrow to his name. Matthew Deahler.

His dad shook his head in disagreement taking a step back as well "No."

"Yes!" Stiles snapped.

Mr. Stilinski crossed his arms over his chest "no."

I opened my mouth to say something but Stiles had beaten me to it. "Dad, come on. Everybody knows that the police look for ways to connect victims in a murder, okay? So all he had to do is, like, look through their transcripts and figure out which class they all had in common."

His dad looked at him in disbelief. "Yeah, except for the fact that the rave promoter Kara wasn't in Harris's class," he said weaken his sons argument.

"All right, okay, you're right, sorry. Then I guess they dropped the charges against him?" he asked sarcastically.

His dad gasped taking a deep breath "no, you know what? They're not dropping the charges. But that doesn't prove anything."

Stiles widened his eyes throwing his hands up in the air. He tried to say anything else but his eyes shifted to Scott and I. "Scott, Alicia, do you believe this?" he asked gesturing to the book.

" It's really hard to explain how we know this, but you just gotta trust us. We know it's Matt," Scott replied. I nodded in agreement. He would understand if we told him the truth about what's been going on, but we can't. It will just make it worse and more complicated.

"Yeah, he took Harris's car, okay? Look, he knew that if a cop found tire tracks at one of the murders, and that if enough of the victims were in Harris's class, that they'd arrest him," Stiles continued his eyes full of hope. He really want to help his father get his job back.