"Don't worry about it. We'll let Lydia be Lydia...it's safer for all involved." He grinned briefly but sobered quickly thinking about his dad again.
"Well to be honest we had our ups and downs. But he took all this stuff a lot better than I thought he would. He always worried about me, but it got worse after mom died." And Stiles had no idea why all this other stuff was falling out of his mouth right now. His mom had been on his mind ever since he thought he'd been diagnosed with the same thing that had killed her but he hadn't expected to just blurt things.