Falling Slowly
Chapter 28: Meant To Be
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Characters: Stiles + Lydia, Prada, Scott McCall, Alan Deaton
Summary: He nuzzles the side of her face and drops a kiss on her cheek. “Go on, tell me everything.”
“I think it all started because we’d had...a disagreement.”
The familiar hum of his laughter vibrates along her ribs.
“What?”
“You were mad at me,” he revises. “Remember?”
She does.
She remembers the day she told Stiles how Prada came into her life...
It was the end of a school day. Yet another miserable day of classes progressing much too slowly and supernatural forces advancing far too quickly.
Lydia had just been in the chemistry lab with Stiles and Deaton. From what they gathered, both Mr. Harris and Mr. Rayne, the music teacher, had been abducted. In the span of fifteen minutes, there were two more names to add to the list of missing persons in Beacon Hills. A list that had been lengthening since the night Lydia found the body of a young lifeguard at the community pool. Even worse, these people weren’t just missing – they were taken, apparently with the malicious intention of being sacrificed in some kind of twisted, dark Druid ritual.
Lydia remembers clutching her notebook to her chest as she stood in front of her open locker, pointlessly staring ahead...as if the solutions to her problems were inside.
Once again, she had inadvertently uncovered evidence of a violent attack. Once again, she was too late to prevent it from happening. She remembers wondering if she would ever be able to help someone, to save a life – like Scott or Allison or Stiles had.
Before long, she felt the distinct tenderness of a hand grazing the small of her back as someone moved to stand beside her. She remembers the spark it generated, spreading warmth that looped all the way around to her stomach.
Stiles.
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