Another Hale

Chapter 30

I woke up when I heard Stiles heart beating out of control. He was freaking out ,must be having a nightmare. 

I went to reach over to wake him up when he sat up screaming. It scared me so I screamed and jumped back ,hitting the wall behind me.

"Stiles! Babe!" I tried to get his attention. Finally, I just wrapped my arms around him. I was so scared. 

Sheriff Stilinski ran in. He took in his son's appearance ,and how he was screaming and struggling with my arms around him. He ran over to us and wrapped us both in a hug. I felt tears sliding down my face because of how freaked out I was. Sheriff Stilinski was saying reassuring words to Stiles ,trying to get him to calm down. Eventually he did.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Sheriff Stilinski asked Stiles. 

"I'm fine ,dad, just a nightmare." Stiles said looking at me. 

Sheriff Stilinski looked between the two of us and nodded. "Okay, goodnight." He left the room while Stiles and I called a 'goodnight' back to him. I had figured he knew that I slept in Stiles room most of the time but this was his first reassurance of that. He handled that totally cool ,better than Derek or Peter would have. 

"Are you really okay?" I asked him. He reached over and wiped the tears off my face.

"I really am." He said but his heart skipped a beat. I didn't want to push him on it so I just nodded. He visibly relaxed. 

He laid down and I followed suit. He wrapped his arms around me pulling me to him ,but I knew he wouldn't be able to sleep like this ,so I tried to get him to move so he will be able to sleep.

"Just go to sleep ,Jess." He told me. I looked up at his face. He gave me a stern look that I listened to. I closed my eyes and eventually fell asleep. 

When I woke up in the morning, Stiles was already putting books in his bag. I got up and went to get dressed ,in my room of course. When I came back Stiles was staring at a book funny.

"Hey, you alright?" I asked him. He looked at me and nodded.

"You ready for school?" His dad asked softly from behind me. 

"Yeah. Yeah. I'm good." Stiles told him. "Dad, seriously, I'm fine. It was just a nightmare. What's that?" He changed the subject.

"It's just ,uh, files from the office." Sheriff Stilinski answered.

"It says 'Sheriff Station do not remove.'" Stiles pointed out.

"Yeah, unless you're the Sheriff. Now get your butts to school." Sheriff Stilinski set me a look to go school too. Well, duh. 

The ride to school was silent. Neither of us saying a word. I feel like it's not over yet. I feel like something's coming and we can't go to Stiles and Scott's normal. It sounds like a nice normal ,a normal that I never got. 

When we got to the school, we saw Scott and it looked like he was running from something. Stiles went over ,with me behind him, and put a hand on his shoulder. 

"Hey. Hey, you alright?" Stiles asked Scott.

"You don't look alright ,Scott." I told him.

"I'm okay." Scott tried to tell us.

"No, you're not." Stiles basically called BS on him. "It's happening to you too. You're seeing things ,aren't you?"

"How'd you know?" Scott asked.

"Because it's happening to all three of you."Lydia said walking up with Allison behind her.

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