It's Always Been You || Stiles Stilinski

Chapter 19 - Restraint

"You guys wait in here" Mr. S announces before closing the door of his office a little more forcefully than necessary he's pissed, I get it

Stiles sets his hands on the back of his head and turns around to lean on the desk with a huff.

In all the commotion of getting back to the preserve and seeing the van open, I completely forgot to fill Scott and Allison in on what Stiles and I uncovered with the Kanima pages.

I clear my throat and interrupt the quiet of the room as I walk over to them "Scott– there's something else..."

Stiles drops his hands when Scott turns his head looking expectantly at me, though I don't elaborate right away.

Instead I pull out my phone to call Allison– putting it on speaker once she answers and connecting my eyes with Scott's "Hey, so I translated that page properly. The Kanima doesn't seek a friend, it seeks a master."

Scott drops his mouth open in shock and looks to Stiles who nods at him while I continue "Which means if Jackson doesn't know what he's doing, then he probably doesn't know that someone is controlling him."

Scott stands closer to me "Or he doesn't remember."

Stiles nods adding thoughtfully "What if it's the same kind of thing that happened with Lydia when she took off from the hospital?"

Allison's voice fills the room "A fugue state?"

I lift one shoulder with a nod before leaning my hip on the desk "He'd have to forget everything... the murder–"

"–Getting rid of the blood," Allison finishes my train of thought and Stiles sets his hands on the desk next to me "Yeah, he had help with one thing though– the video– and someone else helped him forget that."

"Whoever's controlling him," Scott nods towards us before Allison chimes in "Are you sure Jackson has no clue about any of this?"

Remembering what Jackson told us earlier in the van, Stiles and I shake our heads as he crosses his arms and looks to Scott "He thinks he's still becoming a werewolf and that being with Lydia somehow delayed the whole thing." Dumbass that he is

We all ponder that for a moment before Allison questions "So do we try and convince him he's not?"

"If it helps us find out who's controlling him, then yeah," I answer her earning her to elaborate "Do you think he'll talk to us after what we did?"

Stiles looks to each of us with a hopeful look as he states "Yeah, it's us. He'll talk to us. Right?" debatable

Mr. S abruptly opens the door, effectively interrupting our conversation and I quickly hang up with Allison.

He jerks his head to the side, silently ordering us to move and once we step into the hallway I see mom standing with her arms crossed, a hard look on her face as she regards us.

Mr. S turns on his heel next to the doorway and faces us as he directs Scott and Stiles towards an interrogation room with Mr. Whittemore already waiting inside, though I'm stopped when I take a step behind Stiles "Addy you can wait out here while we talk to the boys, Jackson didn't say you were with them– was that a mistake?" a tiny one

I make a noise to answer however Stiles reaches back and grabs my arm out of our parents view– halting my next words with his own "Not a mistake– Addy wasn't apart of this."

I flick my eyes up at him, though he gives nothing away on his face and I look over at Scott who is on his other side and see him shake his head ever so slightly– agreeing with Stiles.