Saving Him

"Now, I may not be a werewolf, thank the ancestors for that, but I do have other abilities."

[ 3.18 ]

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EARLIER IN THE NIGHT before Scott ever called Derek to go look for his missing best friend or even knew Stiles was missing.

He was asleep and got a phone call. He woke up and saw the caller id saying 'Stiles' and decided to answer it. "Hey man, what's up?" At first Scott got nothing on the other end of the phone call so he asked "Stiles?" and heard heavy breathing so he asked again "Stiles? You there?"

And finally Stiles answered back but it wasn't the happy Stiles everyone knew, "Scott?" Stiles asked as he was strained and scared wherever he was.

Scott sat up in his bed alarmed and said, "Hey, I'm here. Are you okay? Can you hear me?"

Stiles answered back, "Scott, I don't... I don't know where I am. I don't know how I got here. I think I was sleepwalking." Scott could tell Stiles was scared on the other end of the line.

"Okay, um, can you see anything? Just tell me what you see." Scott said as he was trying to get Stiles to answer the questions so he could find him as quickly as possible.

"Ah, it's dark. It's hard to see. I think there's something wrong with my.." and before Stiles could finish the phone disconnected.

Scott, getting worried, got up from his bed and tried to call Stiles back and got nothing but his voicemail. And so he tried to call him again multiple times and continued to get his voicemail.

And when Scott was about to call Stiles again, Stiles called him back and Scott answered immediately, "Stiles?"

"Scott, I don't think I can get out of here, I can't move." Stiles explained on the phone.

"Where are you?" Scott asked as he was worried about his friend's safety.

"I don't know. I don't know, It's too dark. I can't see much and something's wrong with my leg. It's stuck on something, and it's.. I think it's bleeding."

"How bad? Stiles, how bad is it?... "Stiles, are you there? Can you hear me?"

"Ah, there's some kind of smell down here, something smells terrible, it's brutal my eyes are watering."

"Okay, listen I'm calling your dad." Scott said but was met with "No, no, no, no, don't" from Stiles.

"But your dad–" Scott began to say but was cut off by Stiles, "Don't, just please don't call him. Promise you won't, he already worries about me too much Scott please."

'But what if I can't find you? Stiles, I can't make a promise like that." Scott said as he was worried this would be too much for him to handle on his own.

"No, no, no, just please. Please don't call him, come find me, you can do it. He doesn't have to know. Scott, you can find me." Stiles begged.

"I don't know if I can do this." Scott said truthfully.

"Oh, I gotta call you back. I have to turn the phone off."

"What? No, hey, wait...."

"I'm gonna call you back," Stiles said.

"Hold on, Stiles wait.. Hold on, man"

And after Stiles hung up his phone Scott started to get dressed and called for Isaac to wake up, "Isaac! Isaac, get up! I need your help! Isaac!" and as Scott finished shouting for help, Isaac got to his room "Why, what's wrong?" he asked.

Throwing his helmet to Isaac he turned and said, "It's Stiles, get dressed."

"What's wrong with Stiles?" Isaac questioned.

Scott looked up and uttered, "I don't know."

As both Scott and Isaac were leaving their house Scott got a call from Stiles.

"Hey, Stiles," Scott answered.

"Did you call him? Did you call my dad?" Stiles questioned.

"No, just Isaac. We're coming to find you. Can you figure out where you are? Try to find something, try to tell us where to look."

"It's a basement. I think... I think I'm in some kind of basement."

"In a house?" Scott questioned.

"No, It looks bigger. Like industrial, I think there's a furnace. But it's cold. It's freezing down here. I gotta turn the... I gotta turn the phone off. It's going to die."

"Wait, wait, wait. What else is there? What do you see?"

"The phone's dying, I can't talk, I have to go. Please.." Stiles whispered.

And that caught Scott's attention so he asked, "Stiles, why are you whispering?"

"Because I think there's someone in here with me." and with that Scott high tailed it out of his house with Isaac to go look for Stiles.

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As Scott and Isaac arrived at Stiles' house they rushed to his room and were met with Lydia and Aiden already there.

"How did you know? Did he call you too?" Scott questioned.

"I heard it" Lydia said.

"Don't ask, it gets more confusing when you ask." Aiden started already going through this.

"Not as confusing as this," Lydia started looking at the red strings wrapped around a pair of scissors stabbed in  Stiles' bed.

"He uses red for unsolved cases." Lydia stated.

"Maybe he thinks he's part of an unsolved case?" Aiden also stated.

"Or is an unsolved case," Isaac said.

"Hold on, is he still out there? You don't know where he is?" Lydia questioned

"He said he was in an industrial basement somewhere." Scott spoke up and said.

"We came here to get a better scent." Isaac said.

"What else did he say?" Lydia asked as she began to worry.

"Something's wrong with his leg. It's bleeding"

"And he's freezing" Isaac added on to what Scott said.

"Tonight's the coldest night of the year. It's going to drop into the 20's." Aiden stated.

"What did his dad say?" Lydia asked.

"We kind of... we didn't tell him yet." Scott said.

"Stiles is bleeding and freezing and you didn't call his dad?" Lydia repeated.

"He made me promise not to. We can find him by scent." Scott said as he faced Lydia.

"If he was sleepwalking he couldn't have gotten far, right?"

"You guys didn't notice his Jeep is gone, did you?" Aiden stated.

"You promised you wouldn't call his dad, I didn't." Lydia stated as she was dialing Stiles dad's number.

"Wait, Lydia, hold on. I can get more help. I can call Derek, Allison," Scott pleaded.

"Everyone except for the cops, great idea." Lydia started with bladen sarcasm.

"You guys remember she gets these feelings when someone's about to die, right?" Aiden reminded the group.

"You don't have to call his dad. It's five minutes to the station." Scott said as he was about to leave Stiles' house.

"We'll catch up," Lydia said.

"What? Why?" Scott questioned

"There is something here," Lydia explained.

"Yeah, evidence of total insanity" Isaac said as he looked around Stiles' room.

"We can figure out what's wrong with him after we find a way to keep him from freezing to death." Scott said.

"Go, we'll be right behind you." Lydia said to Scott.

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Scott and Isaac made it to the Sheriff Station and broke the news to Stiles' dad, Sheriff Stilinski.

"If his Jeep is gone, that's where we start." Noah said as he had just processed the information his son's best friend just told him.

"Parrish, let's get an APB out on a blue 1980 CJ-5 Jeep. Cordova, I want a list of any kind of industrial basement or sub-level of any building that he could've gotten into while sleepwalking. It's the coldest night of the year so far, so if he's out there barefoot in just a T-shirt, he could already be hypothermic. Let's move fast, let's think fast." Sheriff Stilinski said as he gave everybody in the station their orders.

He then turned to Scott and Isaac, "The two of you, come with me." and they all walked into his office, he then closed the door behind them and turned to face them.

"Okay, is there anything you need to tell me that I can't tell anyone out there?" Noah said to the two boys.

"Lydia knew he was missing." Scott stated, as it was the only supernatural thing that he knew of that was connected to Stiles missing.

"Can she help find him?" Noah asked.

"Well, she's working on it." Isaac said as he chimed into the conversation.

"Anything else?"

"I called Derek and Allison for help." Scott replied as he got everyone he could think of to help look for Stiles.

"Can you find him by scent?" Noah asked with a weird look on his face, as he knew if anyone else were in the room they would find  the spontaneous question weird.

Before the boys could answer there was a knock on the Sheriff's door. Deputy Parrish entered, "We got it, sir. We found the Jeep."

Next thing you know the Sheriff, Scott and a few of his Deputies were at the hospital parking lot.

Noah ran to the Jeep, "It's dead, he must have left the lights on." the older Stilinski male concluded.

"Why would he come here?" Scott questioned as he looked around the outside of the hospital.

"Let's find out," Stilinski said as he closed the door to the Jeep and ran inside the hospital with his deputies looking for his son.

Melissa came running to her friend and told him, "Security's doing sweeps of every floor, nothing yet." Melissa informed him.

"What about the basement?" Noah asked.

All Melissa said was, "Follow me," and led all the policemen down to the basement.

Derek and Zella arrived at the hospital but they were on the top of the roof looking around.

Isaac and Scott not a moment later came running up.

"He's not here, not anymore" Derek said to the boys who just came up.

"You mean the whole building?"

"Gone with the wind," Zella replied as she turned around to look at Scott and Isaac.

"Zella," Isaac said as he gulped looking at her.

"Isaac," Zella said, finding it amusing that he was uneasy around her.

"I'll go tell Stilinski," Isaac told Scott as he was about to leave.

"See if you can find Allison, she's not answering her phone." Scott said to Isaac then watched as he left.

"Do I sense trouble in paradise, wait this is not the time for my banter, there's a missing boy out there who is first priority, then my banter shall reign supreme." Zella said as she was essentially talking to herself out loud.

Then she heard Derek huff and looked at him and saw that he had an unamused look on his face, which led Zella to roll her eyes at the man.

Scott then cleared his throat and got the attention of the two adults that were acting like children.

Scott then jogged closer to the ledger where Derek was, "Notice how strong the scent is up here? Ever hear of chemo signals?" Derek said as he turned to look at Scott.

He saw Scott did not answer so he continued on explaining, "Chemical signals that communicate emotion and just our sweat can give off anger, fear or disgust. Take a deep breath and tell me what you feel."

Scott did what Derek said and closed his eyes to concentrate on the signals in the air, while Zella was looking at the pair intensively.

"Stress," Scott said

"And anxiety," Derek added on.

"What was he doing up here?"

"I don't know, but there was definitely some kind of struggle." Derek stated looking around.

"With who?" Scott questioned, as what Derek said had caught his attention.

"Isn't it obvious, he was struggling with himself. Now, I may not be a werewolf, thank the ancestors for that, but I do have other abilities. And from what I can read from just being here your friend is battling something that he may not win." Zella said as her last sentence was meant to be as vague as possible.

And Derek caught on to that and made a mental note to question her on that later when there wasn't a big situation on hand.

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As Lydia and Aiden were still in Stiles' room looking for clues, Aiden plucked a red string on the wall and that caught Lydia's attention.

"What did you just do? Did you just touch one of those strings?" she questioned.

"Maybe," Aiden replied, feeling caught red handed.

Lydia then turned around and tested a theory, and plucked another red string in the room. And as she did she heard voices coming from the plucked string so she asked Aiden, "What did that sound like to you?"

"Like a sting being pulled." Aiden bordely stated.

"You didn't hear people whispering?" Lydia asked seeing as she was the only one who heard it.

"I definitely did not hear people whispering."

Lydia then bent down to listen better, "You didn't hear that?"

"Lydia I'm not sure anybody hears what you hear."

"They're whispering, something about a house." Lydia explained

"What house?" Aiden questioned

Lydia again plucked the red string to listen to the hushed whispers coming from it.

And the whispers led Lydia to a picture of Eichen House on Stiles' board.

"What's Eichen House?"

"A mental health center. It's where William Barrow the shrapnel bomber, was committed."

"Zella said something about William Barrow, is that it?" Aiden asked, seeing if that was the location where Stiles could be.

"That's where he is," Lydia said as she nodded her head.

And Lydia turned back around to look at the picture on the wall and proceed to say, "That's where Stiles is."

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Stiles, whose foot was stuck in a bear trap, was looking around the basement he was being kept in when he heard a whisper, and when he turned he saw a figure that was speaking japanese phrases. So he decided to question him.

"I don't...I don't understand."

"Not who are you, Stiles." The figure said, then turned to look at the boy "Who are we?"

"It's getting colder, Stiles. Did you notice that we stopped shivering?" The figure continued to say as he walked around the basement.

"Do you know why that's a bad sign?" the figure asked.

"It's the body trying to conserve energy. It was my fifth grade science report. Hypothermia," Stiles answered the unknown figure.

"Our speech is starting to thicken, then comes fatigue, confusion, we're going to die if we don't get out of here." the figure continued to say.

"Stop saying that, stop saying we." Stiles said as he was starting to get angry.

"We're just trying to keep you from freezing to death. You better get up, Stiles." the figure said.

"How? There's a freaking steel-jawed trap on my leg!" Stiles yelled.

The unknown figure was right around the corner from Stiles now, "Is there?" it asked.

"Yes"

"Notice something different? It was on your right leg before, wasn't it?" the figure asked.

"No.." Stiles uttered trying to figure out how the trap switched legs.

"Are you sure?" it asked.

"What is this? What are you doing?" Stiles asked while he was in pain.

"We're trying to save you, Stiles." it said as it was looking straight forward, then jerked it's head to the side to look in Stiles direction, "We're trying to save your life."

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Lydia had called to inform the Sheriff that she had a lead on where Stiles was and then both met up at the front gates of Eichen House.

As Sheriff Stilinski got out of his car and walked up to the strawberry–blonde, "Lydia, I don't want to say "are you sure about this" but..." Noah said but Lydia then interrupted to say, "No, he's here I swear to God he's here." Lydia said as she was so sure that Stiles was in the basements of Eichen House.

The Sheriff, Scott, Lydia, Aiden and the deputies proceeded to enter Eichen house and went up to the front desk, "I need access to all the basement rooms in this facility." Sheriff Stilinski said to the front desk clerk.

When they got the go to go down to the basement level they ran then got to the door, "It's here, It's right here." Lydia said as they were now standing in front of the door that was supposed to be separating them from Stiles.

Noah took the lead first going in with his flashlight on, "Stiles?" Lydia called out into the darkness.

Aiden, Scott, Lydia and the Sheriff all looked around the basement for any signs of Stiles, but ultimately found nothing.

"Lydia?" Scott asked, seeing if she had any answers to give.

"I don't get it, this has to be it." Lydia stated being so sure that Stiles had to be there.

"Then where is he, huh? Where's is he? Where's is he?" Noah yelled in the girl's face as he had begun to give up hope on finding his son.

As Lydia recoiled, Noah realized his actions and apologized, "I'm sorry."

"I don't understand," was the last thing Lydia uttered before they all left the basement of Eichen House. But what they didn't see scratched on to the back wall was a backwards 5.

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"You don't understand, do you?" the unknown figure said to Stiles as it finished writing a backwards 5 on the wall in chalk.

"It's a riddle. Do you know any riddles, Stiles?" it asked the teenage boy.

"A few." Stiles uttered

"What gets bigger the more you take away?" the figure asked.

"A hole," Stiles answered.

"What gets wetter the more it dries?"

"A towel."

"When is the door not a door?"

"When it's ajar." Stiles answered.

"Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it?" the figure asked Stiles.

"I don't..."

"Everyone has it, but no one can lose it. What is it, Stiles?"

"I don't know?"

The figure then asked again, "Everyone has it, but no one can lose it."

Stiles was thinking hard and had his eyes closed, and the figure was moving closer.

"I don't know," Stiles uttered and the figure began to speak Japanese again.

And when Stiles opened his eyes again the figure was in his face. He saw what looked like old bandages wrapped around it.

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Derek was with Zella in his truck when she told him to pull over, and he did.

"What? What is it?" he asked, not seeing why she abruptly asked him to pull over on the side of the road.

Zella said nothing and got out of the truck and walked in the middle of the road, which led to Derek getting out of the truck as well to go see what she was doing.

And when he got in front of her, he saw her eyes were pitch black and she was standing still like she was in a trance.

"Zella..." Derek said as he tried to snap her out of it.

He waved his hand in front of her face and tried clapping his hands to get her attention, but nothing worked so he just waited till she snapped out of it on her own.

And after a few minutes he heard her take a deep gasp of air.

"What was that? What happened to you?" he asked as he bombarded her with questions.

All she said was, "Do you trust me to drive your truck?"

"Not in the slightest, but seeing as it looks like we have somewhere really important to be, I'm going to let you drive it this once." Derek said as they began walking back to his truck.

"Do you even know how to drive?" he asked as he was already in the passenger seat.

"Of course, I know how to do everything humanly and in-humanly possible." Zella replied as she sped off into the night.

As they reached their destination which was the woods, where an old car wreck had happened, Zella told Derek, "We're going to have to walk the rest of this portion." and was about to begin walking.

But before she could, Derek put his forearm in front of her to stop her from walking any further, "Hold on, first you gotta tell me what we're doing out here." Derek said as he refused to go any further until Zella told him what they we're doing out here.

"Isn't it obvious, I brought you out here so I could murder you and nobody would know where to find your corpse." Zella said with a straight face.

And Derek took a few steps back until he heard Zella burst out laughing, then he rolled his eyes and raised his eyebrows at her.

Zella took the hint and stopped laughing, and told him "Stiles is out here."

Derek tilted his head and asked, "How do you know that, you barely even know Stiles as is, how would you know where he is?"

"Astral Plane," Zella stated plainly.

"What?" Derek asked not seeing where she was going with that.

"Whatever is going on inside Stiles mind was strong enough to pull me into the Astral plane, and I could see where he was even though I also saw what was going on inside his head, it was like a location beacon that led me to him."

Derek felt like she was leaving something out– which she was– but went along with it, and they both ran until they came up to what looked like a coyote den.

But before they could go any further, Zella pulled Derek back because she saw someone had got to him first.

It was Melissa McCall and Rafael McCall who had found Stiles.

"Why'd you pull me back?" Derek asked, eyeing the women looking at the scene unfold in front of them.

"Because whatever is going on inside Stiles' head is dangerous, and I can't be seen just yet, not while he's in this mental state." Zella said

Derek didn't say anything, all he did was look at her and she turned around to face him.

"Look, they found him and he's okay, but now we really have to finish that conversation we're having early before all of this happened. But first we have to meet them at the hospital."

Derek nodded his head and they walked back to his truck, and went to the hospital.

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A lot of things have happened this chapter, and there's only more to come!

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