Covet // Sterek

10 // Sciles

Elara dropped her phone to the floor, clutching Stiles in her arms, sobbing into his chest.

"He's not okay." She whispered, Stiles nodded, trying not to feel happy about the fact that Derek just said he loved him, friend way or not, it made him happy.

"I know honey, we're gonna find him. I promise. I'll trace that phone, it's probably a fake one but it might have clues there." Elara nodded, Stiles pulled her back rubbing her tears away and kissing her forehead. Stiles knew if Elara was going to help find Derek, she needed to know. Everything. He decided when Derek next called, that he would tell him that Elara was going to be told everything supernatural.

Stiles decided it was best she knew how to shoot and vowed that tomorrow, he would start teaching her.

"Come on, let's run a bath." Elara nodded, following Stiles to the bathroom, where he ran the hot water. Elara sat on the floor leaning her back against the bath, Stiles slid down beside her, tapping her leg.

"He'll be back before you know it. If he doesn't tell me where he is the next time we speak, I will dedicate all my time to chasing after the leads. Me, Scott, Kira, and all of our other friends will find him." Stiles told her, she nodded and link her hand with his.

"You'd be a great dad." Elara whispered, Stiles felt his heart warm at the simple sentence. After he turned the water off, he left Elara in peace, phoning Scott and explaining what had happened. Stiles took Elara's phone in for evidence, telling Scott to come over and try to help him track the phone.

When Elara finished in the bathroom, she heard Scott and Adam downstairs.

"Is El upstairs?" She heard Adam asked Stiles. "Yeah, she'll probably be in the bath, so leave it a minute. But I think she needs someone to talk to."

Elara quickly went into her room, trying to dry as fast as possible but she heard Adam coming up the stairs. So she just chucked off her towel and put on her dressing gown, she sat on the bed facing the window when Adam knocked the door. She told him to come on in, he walked in and gave a small smile.

"Hey, Stiles told me about the call, how are you?" Adam asked, sitting beside her. Elara looked at her legs trying to hide them and cursing herself for not shaving in the bath.

"Okay, I think. I just miss him, I mean I haven't gone a full 24 hours without him and it's been 72." Elara admitted, she looked at her hands nervously.

"Really?" Adam questioned. Elara looked away from him and he pulled her back, by touching her chin lightly.

"Yeah. I've always been with him and I never had many friends in my old school." Elara explained, Adam nodded listening to her sincerely.

"Why are you here? I heard Beth was having a party." Elara muttered, she'd seen people talking about it but decided it was best not to ask.

"A singles party. We broke up and she's trying to get back at me." Adam laughed, Elara suddenly felt like the back up for Adam. Now that he finished with Beth, was he just being here because he had nowhere else to go?

Adam scrunched up his nose as the anxiety began to grow on Elara.

"What you thinking about El?" Adam asked quietly, he looked at the bare skin of her neck as her hair fell down the other side.

"You're not here just because you have nowhere else to go, right?" Elara said, she felt rather insecure but prepared herself for the worst.

"God no, I know it looks that way but trust me, I only came with my dad because he told me Derek called, I wanted to make sure you're okay. I do care, you know." El smiled, leaning over to hug him. She'd never realised how warm he actually was until now.