The Kids From Yesterday // Stiles Stilinksi [2/2]

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Lucy noticed Stiles staring at her and she frowned. "What?"

He smiled. "You're beautiful."

Stiles kissed her cheek and Lucy grabbed the lacrosse hoodie she'd stolen from Stiles.

He frowned, seeing her in the hoodie. "When did you take that?"

"You gave it to me, remember?"

"Oh yeah."

He kissed her and the two of them walked downstairs to join their friends.

Before they got all the way down, Stiles whispered, "I love you."

Lucy stood on her tiptoes and whispered into his ear, "I love you, too."

As soon as they got to the bottom, Stiles said, "My dad's got an APB out..."

"For a 5'8 16-year-old?" Kira interrupted.

Stiles smiled awkwardly. "I recommended nine-foot tall rampaging werewolf."

Lucy sighed. "And I told the sheriff to ignore his son's words."

Liam looked between the couple. "It still might not be him. But Hayden's at the school looking."

"I can keep checking the woods," Malia said.

Scott walked into the room. "My mom can check all the hospitals in the county. We can find him."

"What happens then?" Liam wondered.

Lucy shrugged. "Well, then we do what we're best at. We figure out a way to save him."

Lydia nodded. "Okay. Where else could we look?"

"Let's ask Corey," Scott replied, clutching something with his hand.

Corey became visible and tried defending himself. "Wait. Wait. It's not my fault. They took him and I couldn't do anything. They took him..."

"Who?" Lucy pressed.

"The Dread Doctors."

Lucy made her way to the station with Stiles and Lydia. She had a huge grudge against Theo for what he'd done to Scott, and since holding grudges was her fatal flaw, she decided it'd be best to stay away from him.

"Still nothing from Scott and Liam," Stiles informed.

"Are we really sure this is a good idea?" Lydia asked.

Lucy shrugged. "No, it's a terrible idea, but it's the only one we've got."

The sheriff turned to his son. "But you're trusting Theo anyway?"

Stiles shook his head. "We're not trusting him. We're using him."

Lydia frowned. "What if he's using us?"

Lucy met her friend's eyes. "He's most definitely using us."

Stiles nodded. "Definitely. But, look, we're just trying to cover every place Mason could show up. Malia and Braeden are at Scott's house. Melissa's got the hospital. Hayden and Corey are at the school."

Sheriff Stilinski sighed. "Somebody's got to find him."

Lucy pursed her lips. "And let's hope they find Mason and not the Beast."

Stiles fell asleep on the couch in the sheriff's office and Lucy sat on the desk, playing on her phone. She noticed Lydia coming back and shook Stiles' shoulder.

Stiles jumped up. "Hmm? What? What happened? Who's dead?"

"No one. At least not yet," Lydia replied.

Lucy nodded. "I can confirm."

Stiles sat up and Lucy sat next to him, crossing her legs on the couch.

She noticed his expression and asked, "You okay, Stiles?"

He nodded. "Yeah, just thinking. Still trying to figure out why Mason? I mean, he wasn't even on the genetic Chimera list."

Lucy shrugged and Melissa entered as she said, "He is now."

Lucy grabbed a file and looked through the pictures. "Why now?"

"Mason was born with twin embolization syndrome."

Lydia nodded. "You mean fetal resorption."

"He had a vanishing twin in utero, which accounts for two sets of DNA."

Stiles frowned. "Can someone please say it with words that have less than three syllables?"

Melissa turned to him and said bluntly, "He ate his twin."

"Oh, God," Stiles muttered.

Lucy fiddled with her necklace. "Did it help?"

Melissa shook her head. "I don't know. But it's just bizarre enough to sound like it might be something important, right?"

Lucy sighed. "Maybe. There's gotta be something."

They looked at the ultrasound of Mason eating his twin and Lucy grimaced.