human // teen wolf

49. I can't swim

By the time Riley arrived at the party, everyone seemed to be on drugs. Most of them were stroking each other's faces, making out with each other and caressing leaves. Riley was beyond confused and way out of her element. All of the people there were acting very strange and she did not know what do to. She walked around for a while and Lydia spotted her.

"Here." She said, and handed her a pink drink. Riley took it and thanked her, as she held it in her hands. Lydia just stood there and watched, as if she was waiting for something. Riley looked back in confusion, and Lydia chuckled. "Drink it!"

"Oh, sorry." Riley replied, and she took a reluctant sip. It was a good drink, which did not surprise her very much because of its colour. "It's good. What is it?"

"Nothing you need to worry about. Enjoy the party!" She replied enthusiastically, which left Riley frowning and confused. That didn't sound creepy at all. She walked around the courtyard and entered the house, as she tried to find someone that she knew. She walked up the stairs and found Scott leaning on the wall, with his eyes glowing and his fangs out.

"Scott!" Riley shouted, and Scott snapped his head up the stairs towards the window. He looked back at Riley and sighed in relief. She walked up to him and supported his weight as they started to walk down the stairs.

"We need to find Lydia. Something is in the drink, don't drink it." He warned, and spotted the glass in her hand. He snatched it away from her and placed it on a bookshelf in the living room as they walked passed.

"I already did." She admitted, and waved off his concerned expression. A thought popped up in her mind and she tied the taste of the punch to the same as the wolfsbane that Deaton tried to poison her with. "It has wolfsbane in it, that's why everyone is going crazy. I'll be fine, I'm immune to that kind of stuff." She explained thoroughly, and Scott looked shocked and confused.

"What? How can you be immune?" He asked, and they made it outside.

"I'm a shield." She said, but Scott was still confused. "We'll talk about it later."

They started to ask around about Lydia, but everyone was too drunk to even think about what they were saying. Scott and Riley found Stiles sitting by the pool. He looked like he was sleeping.

"Stiles, Stiles you need to sober up. I need water, can you get some?" Scott asked Riley, and she nodded. She ran back into the house and searched the kitchen, eventually finding a couple in the fridge. She took one and went back out to them, where Scott was still trying to get Stiles to snap out of his funk. Riley crouched down next to Scott and handed him the water, where he tried to get him to drink it. "Come on Stiles, drink it."

Stiles refused to drink the water, and Riley thought of another way to try to get him to react.

"What about this?" She asked, and moved closer to Stiles. She grabbed his head and pushed it into the water next to him for a few seconds before she pulled him back out, and he seemed to be alive and well. "How do you feel?"

"Like I may have to revisit my policy on hitting a girl." He muttered, and Riley frowned at him. She muttered something about him being rude and ungrateful. The three of them split up and searched around the party for Lydia, but she was nowhere to be found. Where could she be? Riley thought that Scott should just pick up her scent to find her; it couldn't be that hard to do.

After looking around and failing to get answers from other people, they had all grouped back together and reported on what they didn't find.

"Everyone who drank the punch is freaking out, dude." Stiles informed as Riley got back, and they both looked at her expectantly.

"I didn't find her. I'm assuming you two didn't either?" She asked, and they shook their heads. People started to cheer as a girl jumped into the pool, followed by a boy. A group of people started to drag another boy towards it as well. The boy was Matt, who looked very reluctant to get in.

"No, guys, stop! Stop, I can't swim, I can't swim!" He yelled, and they all pushed him in anyways. Scott and Stiles looked at each other, then back at Matt who was struggling to swim. Wait, The Kanima has a fear of water... The master and the Kanima are connected, so the fear of water must come from the master since Jackson is the captain of the swim team.

Holy crap; Matt is the one controlling Jackson.