It's Always Been You || Stiles Stilinski

Chapter 89 - Relics

Setting my hand on the railing, I increase my grip to swing my momentum off the last step and towards the living room.

Taking a few steps past the side of the stairs, the hairs on my arms raise instantly– causing my steps to stop as I lift my arm up from my side expectantly looking at my arm to give me an answer as to why

Hearing faint, almost barely there whispers coming from above me, I lift my eyes slowly towards the ceiling.

Seeing a black jagged line like a drawing of a tree branch, I narrow my eyes slightly as I fully tilt my head back.

My mouth opens on a small gasp as I take in the massive black spot with dozens of jagged, squiggly lines coming off the main center spot in sharp angles and points "Holy– Scott!"

Scott comes barreling down the stairs a few seconds later, his question for what's wrong stopping on his tongue as he stops on the steps, and follows my line of sight when I lift my hand up beside my face and I point towards the ceiling.

"What the hell is that? Did someone draw on the ceiling? I'm going to kill them–"

"I don't think the party animals did this Scotty, I'm getting a different more terrifying Ghost Rider vibe" I interrupt, Scott nodding with my words as he pulls his phone out of his pocket and calls Liam to meet us over here.

Liam, Mason and Corey arrive about fifteen minutes later, the three of them coming to a stop next to Scott and I while they look at the charred spot on the ceiling.

"That's how he got in?" Corey asks curiously before Liam mumbles "What is it?"

"It's a point of impact from a lightning strike– Usually you'd find charred black spots like that on the ground after a violent thunderstorm" Mason fills in as he looks over to us.

I widen my eyes as I look over to Scott and Liam with my conclusion "That's how the Ghost Rider got in past the mountain ash– he rode the lightning."

Liam shakes his head, moving his terrified eyes between us and the ceiling "If they can use the lightning to get past the mountain ash..."

"No place is safe" Scott and I mutter, finishing his terrified thought process.

Corey quickly brings light to the other scary topic at hand "What about the others? It's my fault they're marked."

Scott turns towards him immediately as he gets a determined look on his face "We'll find a way to protect them– all of them."

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Liam hands me a school ID, Jake Sullivan's, that him and Corey found the other night in the library.

Jake Sullivan was the person the Ghost Riders took when Mason and Corey had been in the library and witnessed the Ghost Riders there when the pair was invisible.

Since the Ghost Riders took Jake, naturally Corey and Mason's memories of him were lost– which was why they couldn't remember anyone else being there that night.

Liam and Corey went back into the library since obviously not remembering anything didn't sit right with them

Corey turned on his invisibility and Liam found a card jammed into the second floor railing. Corey was able to grab the card and bring it with him when he became visible again, however the card was blank.