Argent and Gold

Fourteen

Aria's POV

I drag Stiles into the woods as he struggles with my hand covering his mouth. Kate suddenly stops in front of me. "What are we doing Kate?" I ask her almost on the verge of tears.

"Sweetie it's fine this is all part of the plan," she says looking at Stiles. "There is a reason this one is different and I'm going to find out what," she says having me let go of Stiles. Stiles hits the ground and groans.

"What do you mean different?" I ask. Kate stands Stiles up.

"I don't know, but I have a feeling. He isn't as good as we think," Kate says. Stiles swallows. Does he have a big secret that he isn't telling anyone? I mean Kate said he was a demon for awhile maybe it has something to do with that. Stiles looks down then starts laughing. Kate looks at him confused.

"Nothing gets past you Kate," he says looking up at her a cold darkness in his eyes. "You knew they actually killed the real Stiles right?" He asks. He sounds like a maniac. Like he just stepped out of a horror movie. Kate smirks.

"Listen handsome, I know you think you got me fooled, but really your not as good of an actor as you think," she says. Stiles loses his crazy smile.

"That sounded pretty good to me," I say. He shrugs.

"Kate!" I hear a male voice yell. I look up and see a Beserker carrying Peter.

"Ah, what happened?" Kate asked sounding very frustrated and confused. Stiles tries to hold back a laugh.

"Will you please tell it to put me down," Peter asks annoyed. Kate nods to the Beserker and it drops Peter. "Your stupid Beserker mistook me for one of those stupid teenagers and it gave them all the opportunity to get out of there. They dragged Derek with them. Honestly Kate did you think he was going to stay 15 forever?" He asks her. I feel something wrap around my arm and start running me the other way. I snap my head forward and see Stiles hand around my wrist and dragging me through the woods. Clever, I think to myself. He managed to get away without anyone noticing, but he doesn't know that I'm on Kate's side not his. I open my mouth ready to scream but as I'm ready I smack into a tree. Stiles turns back.

"Oooo I'm sorry," he says kneeling to the ground where I have fallen. "Are you okay? I'm sorry," he says helping me up.

"I'm fine Stiles," I say looking back. He looks behind me and we see a huge ugly looking monster coming toward us. I look back at Stiles. "That's not a Beserker," I state.

"No, but I know what it is," he says in a serious voice. It's almost funny how Stiles can go from super funny and sarcastic to extremely serious and smart. He steps forward as the thing growls. "Aria run," he says. I look at him.

"Not without you," I say frantically.

"Aria this thing isn't after me. It's after you," just as he says that the thing starts running towards me. I nod and start running away. I hate this feeling. This feeling of helplessness. This feeling of I need someone like Stiles or Scott or Derek to protect me. The damsel in distress feeling. I hate it. As I run I try to out smart this thing and run through the woods in a zig zag fashion. I'm afraid to look back, but when I do I see the thing gaining on me and I happen to get a better look at it. It seems to look like a werewolf. Only it looks to be split in half and bigger than most. Like two werewolves combined. I turn forward again and take a sharp left. I see a house and turn back. The double werewolf is far enough that I can go in the house and they would go right past it. A classic movie move if you ask me. I go into the decrepit old house and hide behind the newly painted red door. I stand there for a few seconds trying to be as quiet as possible. I look out the window and see Ethan and Adien outside. Then go behind a tree and pull out two backpacks and pull out shirts from them. They seem to be talking to each other, but I can't hear what they are saying. Once they each have there shirts on they run off the other way. Leaving me alone. I wonder why the crazy monster didn't want them, or Stiles for that matter. Then it dawns on me. They were the crazy monster. They were trying to run me off. They knew I would come here, but why? I turn around and look around the house. It looks to have seen better days. I take a step forward and see that it looks like it had been burned. Maybe not to the ground because the fire department got here in time, but for sure burned enough to make it unstable. I sigh and decide it isn't my business to be here so I go back outside. I have no idea where I am. I feel my pockets for my cell phone, but it is no where to be found. I start to panic. I'm lost with no one to help. This all because of Stiles. He told me to run. This is where Kate would of ran with me. She would know how to get back. I sit down next to a tree and start to cry. It's really the only thing I can do. Cry and wait for someone to come by. But who is going to drive by in the middle of the woods by and old burned up house? That's right. No one.