It wasn’t long until she made her way through the door to the Deputy’s office, she could feel the lines of dried tears down her face and he breath had been shaky for a while. The instant she got through the door she heard a ‘Lydia!’ and it was just seconds until she felt Jordan’s arms wrapped around her, embracing her. She could feel the tears build up again as she buried her face into his chest and she let out several sobs as she felt his hand around the back of her head. He pulled back from her and placed his hands on her shoulders so they could look at each other, face to face, Lydia was struggling to stay calm but something settled over her as she looked into the deputy’s eyes. “What was it?” he was worried, it was obvious by the way he spoke and the look in his eyes, “did something bad happen?” He wasn’t prying, he was just worried and Lydia understood that, so she sighed and responded weakly, “I just… had a really bad dream.” “Do you want to talk about it? I mean you don’t have to but-” “Not here,” she shook her head, and plodded miserably over to Jordan’s desk, the deputy followed her and wrapped his jacket around her for comfort before excusing himself as she sat in his chair. As Lydia scratched the desk, patiently waiting, Jordan made his way into the sheriff’s office in hopes of getting out of work early for the sake of Lydia. “You want me to let you go home,” Sheriff crossed his arms and raised his eyebrows. “There hasn’t been much happen tonight and I just thought if I could take Lydia back to her house and keep her company for a little while, her mom is away at the moment and I think she just needs some company.” Stilinski sighed, as much as he needed Parrish at work he knew that Lydia’s well-being was important to both himself and his deputy, he leaned back on his desk as he spoke, “okay, take her home, keep her safe - if anything, I mean anything, happens to her then you’ll be having words with me and Ms. Martin.” “Yes sir,” Jordan nodded eagerly and rushed out of the office, the first thing he caught sight of was Lydia with her head on his desk, she looked relaxed but he could see her eyes were open so she was still awake, “hey Lyds,” he walked up to the desk and crouched down so their heads were at the same level, “I’m going to take you home, is that okay?” “Not home,” she whispered, “I don’t think I’ll feel safe there,” she rubbed her eyes slightly, “can I come to yours?” “Are you sure?” Jordan wanted to be careful, he liked Lydia and he didn’t want her to stay at his if it wasn’t what she definitely wanted to do. “Yeah, I don’t want to be home because you’ll just leave me alone in the middle of the night and I don’t want that,” she mumbled as she stood up, “I want you to stay with you.”

The ride home had been quiet, in fact, Jordan actually thought Lydia had fallen asleep at one point until she turned to look at him. They hadn’t spoken until they got up to Jordan’s apartment, he could tell Lydia was probably still thinking about the bad dream so he was okay with not talking to her. When Lydia walked through the door she paused and since Jordan wasn’t paying much attention, he bumped into her and instantly apologized. “Are you okay?” he asked as he closed the door behind him, “what’s wrong?” “Nothing… Nothing’s wrong,” she let out a tired chuckle and turned to him, “it just looks… cleaner in here.” It was true, it was cleaner, because Lydia was used to seeing things scatter over the various surfaces of the apartment, the middle table usually had wires and other odd material spread around on it, but there actually seemed to be some organization on the desk, it was the same for other places in the apartment and it pleased Lydia easily. She walked over to his sofa and sat down, her smile dropped and Jordan could only watch as she stared into space. He figured that she may have been remembering her dream so instead of interfering he quickly made her a cup of coffee and placed it on the small table by the side of the sofa. Lydia started breathing rapidly and making sharp movements, Jordan quickly took the seat next to her and held onto her hand hoping to calm her down. She began crying, loudly and painfully, it broke Jordan’s heart to see her like this. He wrapped his arms around her again and held her against his chest. “It’s okay Lydia, it’s all going to be okay.” “I wish she didn’t die, it’s all my fault I know it is, it’s my fault Allison’s dead, if I wasn’t taken by the nogitsune then she would still be alive, I’m so stupid why did I let that happen, why?” She let out another sob and dropped against him. He rubbed her back with his hand as she cried against his chest, “I miss her so much.” When the sobbing slowed down, he leaned back, with Lydia still pressed against his chest. Slowly the sobbing changed into light, quiet snores, he kissed the top of her head and smiled to himself because he knew she had calmed down from her crying state. She seemed content on sleeping there in Jordan’s arms and he was perfectly fine with her staying there. As the girl shivered slightly he grabbed a blanket that had been resting over the top of the sofa and set it over the both of them so they could be warm.