Baby woke to the sound of Stiles' bedroom door banging open. There were voices. Scott, Lydia with Aidan and Issac. "Baby!" It was Lydia who spoke. "What happened here?" Baby tried to open his eyes and move but there were restraints on his wrists and something was tied round his face. The bonds weren't tough. He ripped through them easily and sat up as he pulled off his blind fold. The sight of the room made him gape.

Strings. Red string spanned across the room. Each end attached to different images across the walls, the other ends were tied to the handle of a pair of silver scissors. The blades of which had been stabbed into the bed next to where Baby was lying. He sat up, careful to avoid the red string around him. When he looked down he blinked at the blue string in his lap. Someone had bound his wrists with blue string and blindfolded him with a piece of blue cloth. Why?

"Where's stiles?" He asked.

"I was hoping you'd know. He's missing", Scott answered. "I got a call from him and it sounds like he's in danger".

"He was here", Baby looked around. He frowned. "I woke up and was hungry. He gave me blood and told me to go back to sleep. What's going on?" He didn't mention the fact that the person who had soothed him hadn't felt like stiles. It clawed at him uneasily. He didn't know what was going on. "The last I remember is those things with masks. Ninja like people attacking me". He reached up and felt the brand behind his ear. It still stung slightly.

"They're called Oni", Issac explained. "Japanese demons. They were looking for a nogitsune. A dark spirit. They were checking to make sure that it hadn't possessed us". Baby paled, mind flashing back to those eyes. Was that what it was?

Lydia came forward and held out her hands. Baby took them and she helped him crawl out from under the red string and off the bed. She pulled him into a hug. "I'm glad your okay", she murmured. Baby nodded into her shoulder.

"Red is for unsolved cases", he voiced as they let go. He gestured to the room before turning to Scott. "The call. Is it bad?"

Scott met his eyes and nodded. Baby exhaled. "Why the fuck didn't he wake me? Was he sleep walking again?" The questions were rhetorical. No one answered them because none of them knew the answer.

"Maybe he thinks he's a part of in unsolved case?" Aidan offered.

"Or is an unsolved case", Issac added. The blonde boy glanced to baby. "What does the blue thread stand for?"

"He said that it made things pretty", Lydia murmured. Baby shrugged. He began rummaging through stiles' drawers for some clothes.

"Or maybe Blue string means him", Issac pointed at Baby. "Like personal connections or something". Baby pulled out a pair of jeans and began pulling them on. Stiles had left him in his tshirt and boxers as he slept and his jeans were nowhere to be seen so Stiles would have deal with Baby borrowing his clothes.

"Or maybe he just tied him up because he didn't want him following him", Aidan shrugged. "Or you guys are really kinky".

Baby scowled at him as he changed his shirt. "Shut up. Where is stiles?"

"He said that he's in an industrial basement somewhere", Scott offered.

"We came here to get a better scent and find Baby".

"What else did he say?" Lydia asked.

"Something is wrong with his leg. It's bleeding and he's freezing".

"Tonight's the coldest night of the year. It's going to drop into the twenties", Aidan stated. Baby didn't want to think about it.

"What did Noah say?" He asked.

"We haven't told him yet. He made me promise".

"Then I'm telling him", Baby snapped. He looked around for his phone and found it on the floor. He snatched it up and began dialling.

"I am going to call the others", Scott stated. "Derek, Allison".

"Everyone apart from cops", Lydia exclaimed. "Great idea".

"You do know that every time she gets these feelings, someone's normally going to die right", Aidan snapped.

Scott bit his lip. "You don't need to call his dad. It's five minutes to the station". Baby stopped dialling and immediately turned to the door.

"You guys go. I'll catch up", Lydia said. "There is something here".

"Yeah. Evidence of total insanity", Issac huffed.  Baby ignored him. He was already out the door.

——

Sheriff Stilinski gripped the desk for a moment as emotions ran across his face. Then he inhaled and straightened. His whole body switching to work mode. He turned to Scott and Baby. "If his jeep is gone that's where we start. Parrish", he glanced at the deputy at the desk. A blonde man Baby recognised as a hell hound. (The fire and dog scent kinda gave it away). "Let's get an APB out on a blue 1980 CJ-5 jeep. Cordova, I want a list of any kind of industrial basement of any building that he could have gotten into while sleepwalking. It's the coldest night of the year so far so if he's out there barefoot in just a tshirt he could already be hypothermic. Let's move and think fast. The three of you come with me".

The sheriff pulled Scott, Baby and Issac into his office. "Right", he said as soon as the door closed. "Is there anything I need to know that I can't tell them out there".

"Lydia knew that he was missing".

"Can she helped find him?"

"She's working on is", Issac offered.

"Good, anything else?"

"Stiles tied me up", baby stated. "I woke up to find him gone and my wrists bound with blue string and my eyes covered in blue cloth. I think he did it to stop me from following him. Does the blue string mean anything?"

Sheriff Stilinski frowned. "Blue was his mother's favourite colour. I know that's why he keeps the thread". He inhaled, visibly stressed. "Can you guys find him by scent?"

They we're interrupted by a knock on the door. Parrish opened it and stuck his head in. "We've found the jeep sir".

——

Scott called his mother as soon as they realised that they were heading to the hospital. Baby spent the ride in the sheriff's police car with his hands over his ears to block the screaming of the sirens. As soon as it stopped, he was jumping out and running over to the familiar blue jeep. The sheriff on his tail. Baby pulled open the doors. "He's not here!"

The sheriff glanced inside. "It's dead. He must have left the lights on".

"But why would he come here?" Scott asked.

"I don't know but let's find out". Sheriff turned to the hospital and began marching for the doors. Everyone following behind him as he pushed them open with a bang. Melissa ran over to meet them.

"Security is doing sweeps of every floor. Nothing yet", she stated.

"What about the basement?"

"Follow me". She set off and the police all followed her. Baby hung back with Scott.

"His scent leads up to the roof", Scott turned towards the direction of the stairs. "Come on". The three teens began running.

——

When they got up to the roof, Derek was already there. The older Wolf was looking around and turned as they jogged over. "He's not here! Not anymore". Baby made a frustrated noise and cursed.

"You mean the whole building?" Scott asked.

"Gone".

"I'll go and tell Stilinski", Issac offered.

Scott nodded. "And go and see if you can find Allison. She's not answering her phone".  Issac began jogging away.

"Did you notice how strong the scent is up here?" Derek asked Scott as the teen joined him in looking out over the view of beacon hills. "You ever here of chemo signals?" Scott shook his head.

"Chemical signals that communicate emotion", Baby answered.

Derek nodded. "Just our sweat can give off anger, fear or disgust. Vampires are especially gifted at it. But if we concentrate, we can smell it too. What do you smell?" The question was to Baby.

Baby inhaled. The emotions jumped at him. "Stress. Anxiety. Anger. Fear. He was struggling".

"With who?" Scott asked.

Baby turned to him with confused eyes. "Himself. He was struggling with himself".

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