Dear Juliet | S. Stilinski (editing)

Smoke and Mirrors

Stiles drove me and Liam to my home and to sniff out Scotts things. Stiles ran to his room and looked through his dirty laundry.

"Here, try that." He passed me a random clothing item at me and i sniffed it.

"Fabric softener." I threw the clothing item at his bed as I realized what it was. His underwear! I gagged. He grabbed another underwear and held to me.

"Remember, Scott's life is on the line." I shook my head.

"Stiles, remember I live with Scott, I know his scent by heart."

"Yeah. That works, too." We ran downstairs, ready to go to Mexico. Stiles bumps into Liam. "Oh! Liam, go home. You're not coming with us."

"Why not?" Liam pouted.

"Because it's a full moon. And I don't feel like driving all the way down to Mexico just to have you rip my throat out."

"You can lock me up, right? Chain me down to the back seat or something?"

"You tore through the last chains, remember?" I reminded him. That was a pain. I had to catch him. And he ruined my favorite outfit that night.

"Yeah, we would have to freeze you in carbonite to get you down there."

"Okay, then where do we get carbonite?" He's so adorable I swear.

"Seriously, you haven't seen it either?" Stiles turns around and Liam runs up to him.

"Wait! What if we put me in the trunk?"

"You'd get out of that, too." He told him.

"Liam, you've been a werewolf all of five minutes. You don't have to do this." I assured him. Liam is now my responsibility, no matter what.

"I know I don't, but I want to. There's gotta be bigger chains, a bigger trunk or something."

"There has to be. Maybe there is." Stiles drove us to an abandoned building, where we met up with Derek and his new girlfriend. "How did you get a prison transport van?

"I'm a U.S. Marshal." She said to Stiles.

"Yeah, I just thought that was just a cover."

"Are we really bringing him?" I said as I pointed at Peter, who jumped out of his car. Malia, Demetri, and Isaiah came out of Demetri's car.

"Are we really bringing him?" Derek pointed at Liam.

"We're bringing everyone that we can. And considering Scott and Kira were taken the night before a full moon, we should probably get going." Peter told us all.

"What's that mean?" Malia asked him.

"If Kate took Scott back to the same temple that she took Derek, how do we know she's not planning to do the same thing to him?" Peter explains to Malia.

"What, she wants to make him younger?" I said as I crossed my arms.

"Or take him back to when he wasn't a werewolf." Derek said as he looked at me. Man I wanted to jump him.

"A werewolf can't steal a true Alpha's power. But maybe a Nagual jaguar, with the power of Tezcatlipoca behind her... Maybe she can. So, if everyone is sufficiently freaked out, I say we get going."

"We can't. Not without Lydia." Demetri tells Peter.

"What's she doing at the school anyway?" Derek asked then he looked at me.

"We got Kira's sword, but we need something with a stronger scent. Lydia went to get a jacket out of her locker." I told him, not facing him.

"Nothing." Demetri says as he tried to call her.