Remember » Stiles Stilinski [book 6a]

[7] Sundowning

It's now dark outside and we were still here. Partially because I didn't want to give up until we got what we needed, all we needed...and also because we spent who knows how long trying to explain to Elias Stilinski, the sheriff's father, who we were and what what happening. 

"Scott McCall?" Elias questioned. 

Scott stayed quiet, offering Elias a small smile but it didn't make a difference. 

"No, no, no, no. You're my son." Elias said, refusing to listen to us. 

Malia started to step forward, growling lowly at Elias, making Scott, Lydia, and me very worried that she wouldn't be able to hold it together for much longer if she kept this up.

 "Keep it down old guy. You'll wake all the other old people." Malia warned Elias, starting to eat the peas off of his food tray. 

We all looked at Malia confused and quite frankly, kind of grossed out as she was eating food that she didn't even know how long it's been there. It's like that time we had to warn her she needed to actually cook her meat. 

I sighed, shaking my head slightly as Elias leaned closer to me. "I don't like her." Elias whispered to me, making me laugh slightly before telling him she warms up eventually. 

"You get used to her, she's actually quite sweet eventually." I laughed before taking a seat next to Elias. I exchanged a look with Scott and Lydia before taking a deep breath. "Elias...your son-..your son is the sheriff of Beacon Hills." I reminded him, slowly so I wouldn't upset him. 

Elias looked puzzled. "Sheriff? No, no, no, no..I-I was in the army.." Elias argued, shaking his head in disbelief at our words. 

Elias looked back up at Scott, still believing Scott was his son but Scott offered him a sympathetic look. 

Suddenly, Malia offered a rather violent suggestion. 

"Use your claws, Scott." Malia said.

Both Scott and I looked at her with wide eyes, not believing her suggestion at first. Using your claws was dangerous on another werewolf enough but a human? A rather old one at that was downright dangerous. Elias wouldn't survive if we forced our way into his mind through our claws. 

Elias looked confused, asking what she meant before looking at Scott. 

"It could kill him." Scott reminded her. 

"I get that. But we're running out of time." Malia said, not backing down from her suggestion. 

"I can't." Scott stayed his ground. 

Malia sighed before turning her attention to me. "You do it then Savannah." Malia said, making me look at her puzzled. "You can use your claws too. You were an Alpha, you know more than any of us. You can do it. Probably a lot better than Scott can." Malia said. 

I quickly shook my head, looking at her shocked. "Malia, no. It could kill him and how would that help us find Stiles?" I asked her. 

"Then use your weird siren mind reading abilities. You're a chimera, you were the Beast..You can get into his head one way or another." Malia argued. 

"Malia, I said no!" I snapped, looking at her with a slightly ashamed look. "You're better than this. We've talked about this before, we can't just go around abusing our gifts. And besides, I don't know what forcing my way into his mind would do to him. If it doesn't kill him, it could destroy his mind forever, a lot more than the dementia already has." I sighed, turning away from her. 

It was silent for a while but then suddenly Malia started growling. We all turned to look at her to see her growling and bringing out her claws. She tried going after Elias but Scott and I quickly stood up, blocking her.