Too Long

Chapter 13: Snapback

When Stiles and Ramie made it back to the woods to take their shift watching Jackson that night, they only found a sleeping Scott and Allison, and an empty prison van. Stiles was pissed, but Ramie couldn't help but giggle at the fact that they found Scott and Allison naked together. However, with Jackson gone, Stiles decided he needed to tell his Dad the truth about everything, so they could make sure Jackson didn't kill anymore people. However, when Scott and Stiles went to tell Noah the truth, they were only met with Jackson being at the police station, with his parents.

This led to Jackson filing a restraining order against Scott and Stiles. Ramie wasn't sure why he left her out of the kidnapping story, but she was thankful she wasn't in trouble with the police like her brother and best friend. Melissa was extremely mad at Scott, but Scott played if off like he was upset about their Dad never being around, so he got out of her angry wrath pretty easily. The next day at school Allison and Ramie met Scott and Stiles in the library to let them know what Lydia had translated for them from the beastiary. Ramie and Allison hid on one side of a library stack while Scott and Stiles stood on the other side, Allison handing the tablet through and empty space with no books.

Stiles and Ramie hadn't talked about their fight the night before. However, things definitely weren't normal between the two of them. Ramie was still upset about what Stiles had said and Stiles seemed like he wanted to say something to her, but kept quiet instead.

"What'd you tell her?" Scott asked Allison when she mentioned Lydia being confused about what she was translating.

"I told her we were part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures," Allison said, not looking towards Scott and Stiles and pretending to be talking to just Ramie, who let out a snicker.

"I am part of an online gaming community that battles mythical creatures," Stiles' voice came from the other side of the shelf.

"Oh... great," Allison said, sending Ramie a smirk. Stiles smiled at first then it faded when he realized everyone was holding back a laugh. Ramie rolled her eyes. Of course Allison knew about her previous crush on Stiles, but she was with Isaac now, so she wasn't sure why Allison was still giving her looks like that.

"So does this say how to find out who's controlling him?" Scott changed the subject.

"No, not really. But Stiles was right about the murders," Ramie said, giving Stiles a quick glance. He exclaimed a small "yes" and clenched his fist. "It calls the kanima a weapon of vengeance. There's a story about a South American priest who uses the kanima to execute murders in his village."

"See? Maybe it's not that bad," Stiles said.

"Until the bond grew strong enough that it killed whoever he wanted it to," Allison finished Ramie's story from before.

"All bad, all very very bad," Stiles shook his head. Ramie let out a small breath of air, almost a laugh and Stiles' eyes shot to hers. He looked like he might smile for a second, but she looked away before he got the chance.

"The thing is, the kanima is actually supposed to be," Allison paused, a teacher returning a book at the end of the stack they were in. Ramie nodded slightly when she was gone, letting Allison know it was okay to continue. "A werewolf. But it can't be-"

"Until it resolves that in its past that manifest it," Scott finished, reading from the tablet.

"Okay if that means Jackson could use a few thousand hours of therapy I could've told you that myself," Stiles deadpanned.

"You got that right," Ramie agreed. "Maybe it has something to do with his parents, his real parents."

"Yeah, does anyone know what actually happened to them?" Scott asked.