Give your heart a break ~ Scott McCall

Riddled pt.2

ARIADNE'S POV

We all speeded up to the hospital. Sheriff opened up his Jeep and turned to us, " it's dead. He must've left the lights on" he figured.

" Why would he come here?" Scott asked as he looked at the building. " Let's find out" he replied and we rushed inside the building. "Security is doing sweeps of every floor, nothing yet" Melissa replied as she jogged up to us. " What about the basement?" I asked.

" Follow me" she turned and a few deputies and the sheriff followed her. Isaac, Scott, and I went up to the roof. " He's not here, not anymore" Derek and Cora stood side by side. "You mean the whole building?" Scott asked in shock. " Gone" Cora confirmed.

" I'll go tell Stilinski" Isaac went to leave but I grabbed his arm. " See if you can find Allison, she's not answering her phone" Scott said, Isaac ran off. " Cora, can you go get Aries and Ocean? They should be at the house" Cora nodded and left after Isaac.

" Notice how strong the scent is up here?" Derek asked Scott, while I was looking around. " You ever hear of chemo signals? Chemical signals that communicate emotions. Just our sweat can give off anger, fear, disgust" Derek listed.

" Take a deep breath. Tell me what you feel" Derek instructed. " Stress" Scott said, "anxiety" Derek added. " What was he doing up here?" Scott asked. " I don't know. There was definitely some struggle though" Derek replied, which left Scott even more confused.

" He was struggling with himself" I answered, they both looked at me. " He's the only scent up here, he's struggling with himself" I repeated.

3rd PERSON POV

McCall walked into the station. " Where is everyone? We get a lead on our sword welding maniac?" He asked Parrish and gestured to his arm. " Nope. But we've got posters up all over town for your guy" he reassured but he was joking. No deputy liked what Rafael was doing.

" Not exactly how I described him to the sketch artist" McCall said to him. " Well you're not exactly the highest priority of the night, agent McCall" Parrish sassed. " What does that mean? What's the high priority?" He asked curiously.

Meanwhile, Lydia and Aiden were back in Stiles room. Lydia was staring at the strings, while Aiden was staring at a picture of Scott, Stiles, and the twins. " Didn't you draw this?" Aiden asked Lydia, holding up a framed picture of a tree.

" Put that back" she demanded jokingly. " It's yours right?" He asked again. " It's one of them. I guess" Lydia stared at it.

" He likes you a lot" Aiden turned it over. "Maybe he likes the drawing a lot" Lydia suggested. " For Lydia" he whispered and showed her Stiles handwriting with her name on it. She took it from his hands and set it down as her phone buzzed. Lydia read from the message.

" We're standing in a bed room staring at walls" Aiden countered. Aiden ran his fingertips across the red string and plucked it. Lydia turned once she heard it. " What did you just do?" She asked. " Nothing" Aiden stepped back. " Did you just pluck one of the strings?" She walked over to him. " Maybe?" He replied.

Lydia plucked a string and heard the voices. "What did that sound like to you?" She asked nervously. " Like a string being pulled" he answered, looking at her cautiously. Aiden didn't exactly understand how her powers worked so he couldn't help her.

" You didn't hear voices?" She double checked. " Definitely didn't hear voices" he confirmed. Lydia went down lower and plucked another string. " You didn't hear that" She asked in disbelief. " Lydia, I don't think anybody hears what you hear" he answered honestly. "They're whispering, something about a house" she explained the whispers. " What house?" Aiden asked confused. " Eichen house" she plucked another string and turned to the picture of the building.

" What's Eichen house?" He asked confused as he walked closer to the picture. " A mental health center. It's where William Barrow, the shrapnel bomber was committed" Lydia explained. " Is that it?" He asked hopeful. "That's where he is. That's where Stiles is" she confirmed.

ARIADNE'S POV

We were now all at the front of Eichen house. This place gives me the biggest creeps. " Lydia, I don't want to ask if you're sure but-'' the sheriff got cut off by her. " He's here, I swear to god he's here" she promised. We rushed into the building. " I need access to all basement rooms in this facility" Sheriff demanded from the orderly.

3rd PERSON POV

" Hey, is this the exact transcript of Scott and Stiles phone call?" McCall rushed in to talk to Parrish. " That's what he gave us" he responded. " Yea, but these words. Stiles says, something smells terrible, my eyes are watering?" He read from the transcript. He turned once he saw Melissa.

" What are you doing here?" He asked, " my shift was over and I just wanted to see if I could help" she responded.

ARIADNE'S POV

We rushed down to the basement and called out his name. We searched but he wasn't here. " Where is he? Where is he?" Sheriff yelled at Lydia and I separated them. " Ok, let's just take a breather. There's still time" I tried to calm them down. " I don't get it" Lydia whispered and Aiden led her back upstairs, the sheriff following.

I sighed and looked over at Scott. " We'll find him. I'll search every inch of this town if I have to" I promised him and took his hand, leading him back up the stairs.

3rd PERSON POV

" So what are you saying?" Melissa asked confused as she and Rafael were in the car together. " I'm saying that the real question might be, how do we know he's not still asleep?" He suggested. " You mean he's been asleep the whole time?" She asked again to confirm what he was implying.

" People who sleepwalk can do crazy things. One guy goes down to the kitchen and cooks an entire meal. Another guy is found mowing his lawn, naked" he gave a few examples. " Why does any of that matter?" Melissa still wasn't getting the point.

" Remember that townhouse apartment that we lived in? There was that one night a came home drunk" he started off, " one night?" She sassed and scoffed. " Let me finish. So I'm drunk, passed out on the bed. I get up to the bathroom, suddenly I hear you yelling what the hell are you doing?" Rafael described the story.

" Because you were peeing in the closet!" Melissa explained but laughed a little. " Yea, but I thought it was the bathroom!" He defended himself. " Oh, no, you were drunk off your ass" she disagreed. " But I was convinced it was the bathroom. So how do we know Stiles isn't convinced he's in some kind of a basement?" Rafael asked and now she understood.

" I think when he called Scott he was still asleep, especially now" he theorized. " Then where is he?" Melissa asked tiredly. " I've got an idea about that too" he looked at her and then back at the road.

Stiles was dealing with the nogitsune. He tried answering riddles but started screaming when it pulled the chain on his leg. " Wait!" Stiles yelled and pleaded as he spazzed out. Turns out it was Melissa pulling him the whole time and he was in Malia's old den.

Stiles was crying hysterically as Melissa tried to calm him down. Once he was awake he was being held in Melissa's arms as he looked around trying to catch his breath.

Cora was banging on the shadow hunters door. Oceanus and Aries finally came down stairs. "Hey, what're you doing?" Cora barged into the house. " Sleeping. What are you doing?" Aries replied. " Have you guys not been getting calls and texts?" She asked curiously. They all ran upstairs into Oceanus room since his door was the closest. " My phones off. I never turn my phone off" he looked back at them. When he turned it on he seen plenty of messages from his sister and everybody else.

" Sleepwalking. Is he ok?" Aries asked with concern and she nodded. " They found his a few minutes ago. Bringing him to the hospital now" Cora caught them up to speed. " I don't know what happened, I never turn it off" Oceanus said as he looked and scrolled through the messages. " If yours was off, mine probably was to" Aries suggested.

Oceanus noticed an unknown number leaving a bunch of voicemails and clicked on one. They all listened closely. " What is that?" Cora asked weirdly. And they stepped closer to hear better.