Chapter 29 of 54

Chapter 29

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"Oh my god!" I groan before rolling over and covering my ears with a pillow. "It's hurting my ears more than it's hurting yours." Derek says as a phone continues to ring.

"It's probably yours." I whine and trying to go back to sleep. Derek sighs and checks his phone. "It's yours." He says and I just groan.

"Ignore it then." I say and squeeze my eyes shut. "Tried that. It's rang about a billion times." Derek complains and I sigh and climb out of bed. I pick my phone up off of the counter to see my dad had rang me.

"Hey dad what's up?" I ask yawning whilst putting the phone on speaker. I then grab Derek's t-shirt that was left on the floor, to quickly put on.

"Where are you? I've been trying to get a hold of you for ages." Dad says and I furrow my eyebrows. "I was asleep, do you know how late it is?" I ask.

"Well Stiles is missing." He says and my eyes widen. "What?" I ask confused. "I don't know what's going on and im worried." He says and I sigh. "I'll get Derek up and we'll come and meet you." I say and end the call.

Derek instantly gets out of bed and starts getting dressed. I put on some gym leggings and grab one of Derek's dark green sweatshirts. I put it on and put my shoes on. I grab my phone as Dad texts me.

Dad- Meet hospital!

Derek grabs his keys and we rush out to his car and head to the hospital.

Stiles is missing. He's actually missing. I had a feeling I shouldn't of stayed at Derek's tonight. Stiles basically asked me to stay home. He was acting so weird.

"Where you going?" Stiles asks as I put my bag over my shoulder. "Derek's, where else would I go?" I ask jokingly.

"Can't you and Derek stay here tonight?" Stiles asks and I look at him confused. "Why?" I ask curiously.

"I don't know. I guess since you moved back home I guess I'm so used to you being here, that I don't like it when your not." Stiles says and I nod.

"Right, well that's exactly why I should stay at Derek's. So you don't get so reliant on me being around." I say walking up to him.

I kiss his cheek because I'd never be able to kiss his forehead, he just keeps growing. "If you miss me that much, you can call me." I say teasingly as I head to my car.

"He's gonna be fine." Derek says and I groan. "Yeah probably but that doesn't matter. I know he's struggling with sleeping and he's having a mix between night terrors and insomnia, I should've stayed home." I say sinking into my chair.

"We're all out looking for him, if we don't find him I'll be surprised." Derek says to reassure me. "I should've stayed home. It doesn't matter if we find him. I literally spent all day the other day in the hospital just holding his hand whilst he slept. I should've stayed home." I say and Derek sighs.

When I get to the hospital, there was police everywhere.

I jump out of Derek's car and he comes to my side. "I'm gonna go talk to my dad. See if you can get anything." I say to Derek and he just nods whilst looking around.

"Anything?" I ask dad when I walk over to him by Stiles Jeep. "Nothing here. We're gonna check inside in a minute." Dad says and I nod. "I'm gonna go check some things over with Derek." I say and dad nods.

I walk over to Derek who was looking up at the hospital. "You got a scent or something?" I ask him and he nods. "Sort of." He says before taking my hand and dragging me with him up to the roof of the hospital.

"Wait is it?" I ask looking around. "He's not here. He's gone. He was here, but he left." Derek says and I get out my phone to text my dad when Scott and Issac rush onto the roof.

"He's not here. Not anymore." Derek says looking at the electrical bits. I sigh and turn to the two boys and give them a thankful smile.

"You mean the whole building?" Scott asks. "Gone." Derek says not bothering to turn around.

"Have you told your dad?" Issac asks coming over to me. "No. I was just about to text him." I say before wrapping my arms around him.

"I'll go tell him." Issac says pulling back and I nod. "See if you can find Allison. She's not answering her phone." Scott says to Issac who just nods.

Issac gives me a side hug as he kisses my forehead. "We're gonna find him." He reassures and I nod. "I know, and thank you." I say and he smiles at me before running off.

I make my way back to Derek's side and he holds my hand. Scott stands on the otherside of me, just looking with us.

"Notice how strong the scent is up here?" Derek asks Scott. "Ever hear of chemo signals?" Derek says turning to Scott as I sigh and put my head on Derek's shoulder.

"Chemical signals that communicate emotion. Just our sweat can give off anger, fear or disgust. Take a deep breath and tell me what you feel?" Derek says to Scott.

"Stress." Scott says. "And anxiety." Derek adds and I take my head off of his shoulder to look up at him.

"What was he doing up here?" Scott asks. "I don't know." Derek asks looking down at me.

I do. My mom used to come up here when she had dementia. She was paranoid. Always thought Stiles was out to kill her.

"There was definitely some kind of struggle." Derek says and me and Scott look up at him. "With who?" Scott asks. "Himself." Derek says before giving my hand a reassuring squeeze.

I sit down as my phone starts buzzing.

"Hey dad, anything yet?" I ask worried. "I just had a call off of Lydia. We need go head to Eichen house, that's where she recons he'll be." Dad says and I sigh.

"I'm sorry but im not going there. No way in hell. That place creeps me out. Derek has some sort of scent here, we're gonna check it out." I say and dad sighs. "Let me know how it goes." He says and I nod. "You let me know how it goes too." I say before ending the call.

"I'm gonna go." Scott says and I nod.

"What is it?" Derek asks sitting beside me. "Something deeper is going on with Stiles." I say to Derek. "Yeah no shit." He says and I glare at him.

"Before my mom died. She acted the exact same way. Paranoid, insomnia, sleep walking, hallucinations, night terrors, the lot. And well she died. I know she had dementia, but yesterday... Yesterday when I was at work. I... I googled it. Turns out the type of dementia my mom had, can occur in teenagers. I'm just thinking... Is... Do you... I need to talk to my dad." I say and Derek sighs before standing up.

I take Derek's hand and we head downstairs to Stiles car. "I'll fix it." Derek says and I nod whilst sitting on thr bonnet of his car.

A buzz on my phone has me jumping to it.

Melissa- found Stiles. On way to Hospital.

I release a shaky breath and jump off of Derek's car. "They found him." I say handing Derek my phone. "That's good." Derek says and suddenly I couldn't hold it in anymore.

My body shakes as the tears come streaming out.

Derek awkwardly takes a step towards me before wrapping his arms around me.

"It's okay. He's fine." Derek says and I pull back from the hug and punch him in the chest. "What was that for?" He asks and I chuckle whilst wiping my tears. "Felt like it." I say shrugging.

I see Melissa, Mr McCall and walk across the parking lot and I didn't know what to do other than watch. Stiles looks awful.

Once they were inside I turn my attention to Derek who was looking at me. "You should go in there." Derek says and I nod. "I know." I say before leaning against the Jeep.

Minutes later dad pulled into thr parking lot with Lydia, Scott and one of the twins. "Are you coming inside?" I ask Derek.

"I'll fix this and I'll be in. Give you guys some time to see bim." Derek says and I nod before rushing into the hospital with dad.

When we get in there, we see Mr McCall straight away. He leads us to Stiles room where Melissa was with him. When she sees dad and I she smiles at us sympathetically before leaving us with him.

Dad immediately hugs Stiles and I just stand there awkwardly. "Are you okay? There's nothing wrong with your leg is there? You said on the phone to Scott it was bleeding." Dad rambles and Stiles sighs. "Dad it's fine. I'm fine." Stiles tells him sternly.

Dad moves out of the way and I move closer to the bed where I wrap my arms around him.

When I pull back, I look around the room. "We spend too much time in the hospital." I say trying to ease the tension. Dad doesn't react, but Stiles lets out a shaky laugh. "We should probably start paying rent." He adds and I laugh this time.

"What happened?" Dad asks Stiles. "Honestly. I don't remember. It's all fuzzy. It was like a dream. I barely remember calling Scott. I was just so scared. That coyote stuff really done me over though. It fucking burnt my eyes." He says and I laugh.

"They injected me with some stuff to go to sleep. I'll fall asleep any minute." Stiles says and I nod. "Go to sleep. We'll be right here." I say and kiss his forehead. I then pick up his hand and sit on the chair beside his bed.

"I'm gonna go talk to these lot." Dad says as Stiles eyes flicker shut. "Okay, I'll be here." I say to dad and he nods.

When dad came back in the room, he returned with Derek. "I'm gonna head home and grab some stuff." Dad says and I nod. "I'll stay here with him." I say and dad nods thankfully at me.

"Is he gonna be okay?" Derek asks and I nod. "Duh. He's a Stilinski." I say and Derek just rolls his eyes.

I stand up, not letting go of Stiles' hand and let Derek sit down. I then sit on Derek's lap as we watch Stiles.

"Did you talk to your dad?" Derek asks and I sigh. "Nope. I need him to calm down. I'll probably talk to him tomorrow." I say whilst hoping and praying that there is no way in hell Stiles will die on me.

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