A Hale and The Argent- Allison Argent (3)

5.11.3

Stiles climbs into the car as Scott follows hot on his heels. Before Scott can get in the car, Stiles locks the doors. "Stiles?" Scott says confused. "Yeah, I can do the rest myself." Stiles tells him, refusing to even glance in Scott's direction. "You don't even know where to start. All we know is that it's another Chimera. Do you even know where you're headed? Come on, let me help. I can find the clues that you can't."

Stiles ignores him, pressing his foot on the gas but Scott runs in front of the car to stop him. Stiles sighs as Scott sends him a pleading look through the windshield. "You can't do this alone, okay. You need me. You need all of us. I can get more help. I can text Liam" Scott suggests. "Liam just tried to kill you" Stiles points us.

"What about Madi and Allison?" Scott suggests. "Allison's put Madi on house arrest. Madi keeps disappearing and then reappearing. She doesn't want anything happening to her" Stiles brings up. "Okay, then at least let me help." Scott pleads. "You believed him?" Stiles asks. Scott sighs, shaking his head.

"You trusted him, too. Theo got to all of us" Stiles shakes his head. "You know, you don't even know the real story." Stiles sighs. "I don't need to. All that matters right now is your Dad. Come on, Stiles. We survived an Alpha pack, a Dark Druid, professional assassins. We could survive Dread Doctors and Chimeras, too." Scott tries to convince him. "We're not looking for a missing Chimera. We're looking for a missing teenager." Stiles realizes.

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Liam and Mason make their way to the school, pausing in front of the entrance where caution tape was set up an 'X' formation so no one would go through. They ignore it entirely though, ducking under the tape and walking into the library. Liam pauses at the entrance, looking around as guilt fills his system. Mason moves ahead, stepping over debris as he looks around.

Liam looks up at the floor above as memories of him and Scott fighting start to appear. He looks over one of the smashed tables as Mason finds the book he was looking for, quickly grabbing it. Mason walks towards Liam but pauses, noticing his expression.

Liam hears his screams of anger, the memory of him scratching Scott apart while Mason yells for him to stop, fresh in his mind. "Liam" Mason gets his attention. Liam follows Mason as Mason sets the book down at one of the tables, flipping through it. "All right. This is the one" Mason stops on a page. "You see these? These are Ley Lines." He points at the map on the page.

"They're mapped according to the telluric currents." Mason explains. "Stiles said that he and Lydia were looking at the intersections." Liam adds. "Probably..." Mason follows one of the lines with his fingers on two different parts, tracing it until his fingers meet up. "This one." "But they never found it. They kept going out there to look, but...they said the Nemeton has to want to be found." Liam explains.

"It's a supernatural tree that has to want to be found in order for you to see it?" Mason repeats. "Yeah" Liam nods. "That's awesome. We should just make a copy..." But Liam was too busy ripping it out of the book before Mason could even finish." Mason looks down at the book in shock and disbelief as Liam walks away. He finally closes the book, putting it back onto the shelf before rushing after Liam.

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They wheel Lydia onto an ambulance and Natalie climbs in after her. Lydia just stares blankly up at the ceiling. Parrish watches while one of the Eichen guards stands behind him. "I'm going to find a way to get her out of there. Even if I have to break through the walls" Parrish promises. The guard shuts the ambulance doors, turning to look at him. "Good luck with that, Deputy."

The guard climbs into the vehicle and shuts the door and a view of Valack appears in the side mirror, sitting in the passenger seat. One of the Eichen nurses, the same one that pissed Madi off sits in the driver's seat. "She's a pretty little thing, isn't she?" The nurse smiles. "That pretty little thing could shatter your skull with her voice if someone decided to teach her how." Valack warns her.