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Stiles Stilinski (runswithwolves) wrote in wariscoming,
@ 2014-07-17 19:13:00

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melissa mccall, stiles stilinski

Who: Stiles Stilinski and Melissa McCall
What: Stiles might be in trouble?
Where: The house in Lawrence.
When: Thursday evening when they kids get home from New York.
Rating: Will update.
Status: Incomplete/Closed.

There was a reason that Stiles had taken a bus and not a plane when he traveled from Lawrence to Van Nuys to Memphis to Rochester, New York. It was because he actually hated flying. He was still feeling a little bit nauseous from the three and a half hour plane ride from New York to Kansas. Then again, it could have just been his nerves. He was still kind of stunned that they'd ambushed him at the bus station. Okay, so ambush might have been too strong of a word. He should never have told Scott and Lydia that he was meeting up with druids. He should have known that would freak them out, considering everything back home. And if he hadn't been running on about two hours of sleep in several days, he definitely would have known that it was a terrible idea.

He'd still met with the druid group -- and much to his disappointment but not to his surprise, they were basically nature loving hippies. Which was fine. There was nothing wrong with that. Under other circumstances he probably would have enjoyed the dinner at their public meeting, but new friends wasn't what he was looking for. He was looking for a way to save an old friend. To save his best friend and the girl he loved the heartbreak of losing said old friend. But it was pretty apparent it wasn't going to be because of that group.

And now they were back in Kansas. Where they all lived together, and Lydia had no idea what they'd been to each other here before, and Chris Argent and Scott and Lydia had all lived through Allison dying because of the Nogitsune. Because of him. He was already thinking in the back of his very sleep-deprived mind that it might be for the best if he moved into the Complex for the displaced. But he was going to sleep on it and see how he felt about all of it in the morning. He doubted he'd feel any less uncomfortable or out of place.

It also meant that for the time being at least, his efforts to find some way to save Allison back home were on hold. He'd tapped out all the resources in Lawrence that he felt comfortable using. He couldn't -- and wouldn't ask anyone in Lawrence. It was way too risky.

He followed his friends into the house, watching them disperse to their own rooms and Stiles paused in the dining room where Melissa was sitting at the table. He let out a breath, wondering what exactly they'd told Melissa and Chris before hopping on a plane to fly to Rochester to retrieve him. He rubbed the back of his neck.

He had a feeling he was about to find out.

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mamamccallme
2014-07-18 04:20 am UTC (link)

Melissa was out of her element. Actually, she was so far out of her element that it felt a little bit like her son was the parent here. He had been giving her instructions since she'd arrived and Melissa had complied. It felt weird. There were so many kids here from their world that she felt as if they were her responsibility. Scott and Stiles, they were always her boys, even if it was unspoken. But Lydia and Allison felt like they were kids she needed to look after too.

And she hadn't been doing that great of a job so far. Stiles had run off to this and that place. And there hadn't really been anything she could have done to stop him. Melissa was worried about the Sheriff's son, though. He was obviously taking a lot of guilt onto his shoulders and it was a weight that he didn't need to bear, especially not alone.

He was so mixed up and Melissa worried about him regardless, but even more when he wasn't actually around for her to look after. Plus there was the whole agreeing to meet strange internet druids thing. Hid dad would have been worried sick, she was sure. Melissa wasn't sure how she hadn't had a heart attack yet. And she was still considering the option of smacking the living hell out of him. It seemed to be low on her reaction list, though.

Elbow on the table, Melissa looked up, eyes searching for the familiar Stilinski face that--and she never thought she'd think or say these words--she had missed a whole hell of a lot. Lifting her chin, Melissa nodded toward the chair next to her. "Have a seat, kiddo. I want to have a talk about taking off and internet druids...god, I can't believe I just said internet druids..." She muttered the last part of the sentence to herself, still finding this beyond insane.

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runswithwolves
2014-07-18 02:10 pm UTC (link)

They were literally in a whole new world. Scott and Allison had been here for a long time, and so had Lydia before she'd been sent home. Hell, Stiles himself had been in this place for nearly a year now, which was weird to think about. He hadn't seen his dad in almost a year. It hurt to think about, so he did his best not to, because what else could he really do? He was glad that Melissa had shown up. Especially for Scott's sake. He needed her.

Stiles did, too, but that was another thing he really didn't want to think about. Especially not when she was probably pretty upset with him, and he couldn't really blame her for that. Then again, Melissa had known him most of his life, had known that he had a propensity for finding and getting into trouble. At least this time he'd tried not to drag Scott into it. He hoped that earned him some kind of bonus points.

He drew in a breath when she directed him to the chair beside her and he slid into it, wincing at her last statement. "In my defense, it really wasn't as bad as it sounds." He rested his hands on the table.

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mamamccallme
2014-07-18 05:32 pm UTC (link)

Melissa wasn't completely sure what she was going to say. She never really knew what she was going to say, actually. She just always sort of winged it when she had to talk to Scott. So, the same strategy was going to be used for Stiles now. It had worked, for the most part, for so long with Scott, so she figured it should with him too.

She just kept thinking about what could have happened to him, even if it hadn't. And she kept thinking about how freaked out his dad would have been. She definitely had been feeling everything that he would have if he'd been here she was pretty sure. Hard as Melissa could be on Stiles at times, and as much as she complained about him having a key or various other things, it was because she cared about the kid. Sometimes it was just teasing. He was like part of the family, considering how good of a friend he'd always been to Scott.

"Because you got really lucky, which isn't exactly usual for you." Melissa tacked onto the words in his defense. Melissa could get why Scott had freaked out. "It could have gone a lot differently and been bad, Stiles. What the hell were you thinking? Agreeing to go meet people off of the internet....alone...."

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runswithwolves
2014-07-18 05:54 pm UTC (link)

He could tell by the look on Melissa's face that his in my defense line wasn't going to fly. He'd lost track over the years of how many times she'd scolded him about something -- and it was always deserved because he was always pushing people's boundaries and limits, always testing people's patience with him and his antics. She'd probably gotten as much of that while he was growing up as his dad had, really. The McCall's house had always been like a second home to him.

"I know it sounds really dumb," he admitted, looking at her and wishing he could make her understand that he was doing what he had to do. That he was trying to fix things. And ultimately, he didn't care that much if it was dangerous, because if it worked, it would be worth it.

"I researched the group before I ever hopped on the bus to Rochester, though. I researched the stuff in the city to make sure there hadn't been any ritual sacrifice kind of things that had happened, I looked into backgrounds of the members whose names I had a list of," he told her. "I know it sounds unsafe, but I took precautions." He knew it still wouldn't seem like enough to her, and it wouldn't have been for his dad, either. Mostly he just didn't want her to be too freaked out or upset with him. "And the meeting was in a public place."

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mamamccallme
2014-07-18 06:23 pm UTC (link)

Stiles was smart. Melissa knew that, and it was a good thing. He had a tendency to use his brain a little bit better than Scott did at times. He thought things through, but the other problem with that was that he was stubborn. When he made his mind up about something that was that. And he'd made his mind up about this without talking it through with anyone. His dad wasn't here, but Scott was and she was. And they were the only family that he had here, or at least as close as he had.

And even if he'd done research, and checked things out before going...it wasn't good enough for Melissa.

"You could have been the first sacrifice, kid. And the names could have been completely fake!" Melissa pointed out, and he could have, but that wasn't the main point that she needed to make. "You didn't take all the precautions you should have. You never should have gone alone. Let alone at all." His dad would have been upset, and she was channeling a good amount of that right now. She'd been worried, Scott had been worried, and even Allison and Lydia.

Reaching out Melissa put her hand over Stiles', taking a moment before she looked at him. His dad would have wanted to kill him, she was pretty sure, but obviously would have resisted. She was resisting the urge too, for making everyone worry so much. "I am glad you're back, but seriously...what the hell was so important that you needed to meet up with them?"

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runswithwolves
2014-07-18 07:35 pm UTC (link)

He thought things through except when he didn't. Like when he dragged Scott out into the middle of the woods at Midnight to find a dead body. Granted, he liked to think he'd started considering the consequences to his actions a little more since that night. At least when it came to other people's lives. He still tended to throw himself headfirst into situations, whether they were safe or not. Case in point on this one.

Okay, she had a point there. They could have been fake names, and he could have been the first sacrifice. He bit his lower lip. At the very least, he did feel bad for worrying everyone. It wasn't like they hadn't all been through enough. If not in this world, back home.

His chest tightened when she put her hand over his, though. It reminded him of when he'd been watching the show a few months before, and how he'd called her mom as he was falling asleep. It was almost too much. Because she was and always had been like a second mother to him in a lot of ways. He wanted to tell her. But he couldn't. His throat suddenly felt dry and he looked down.

"Did Scott fill you in on the whole -- the wishes thing? I mean, he did right, because it's how Lydia got the house? I wished to be Scott's emissary so I could help him with stuff and...I'm just trying to figure all of that out."

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mamamccallme
2014-07-18 09:51 pm UTC (link)

Melissa wasn't quite sure what she needed to do here. She knew she had to look after her boys, and the rest of the kids from home, though. The goal was to get Stiles to not go for a repeat of any of this. Melissa couldn't help but think that if he kept this up, and if Scott kept his depression up, she was going to wind up gray before she knew it.

Parenting should come with a manual. Melissa knew that much. Though, werewolves, druids, and everything else probably wouldn't be covered in the welcome manual, she was sure.

"This is Scott we're talking about. He mentioned it, and didn't quite explain fully. I know the house was Lydia's wish, and he sort of touched on your emissary thing before he took off." Melissa said, nodding a bit. Studying Stiles for a moment, Melissa had way too many questions, thoughts, and even concerns about this wish. She just had to pick a place to start.

"So, you wished to be an emissary but not to know about how to go forward with it? What exactly about it are you trying to figure out?"

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runswithwolves
2014-07-18 10:08 pm UTC (link)

Stiles couldn't help but smile faintly at her comment about Scott. "To be honest, I don't think anyone around here knows where the whole wishes thing came from. But apparently it's happened before. I actually almost waited too long to use mine because I didn't trust it." He shrugged a little, trying not to fidget in his chair. "The best guess it that it's something the Seal does on occasion to like, make up for dragging people away from their homes."

He wasn't sure that a Biblical Seal actually cared about that kind of thing. Or was capable of caring about that kind of thing.

Sometimes Stiles wished that being a teenager involved in the supernatural came with a handbook. "Well, sort of. I wished to be an emissary from our world, which...sorta flooded my head with all this information on supernatural stuff back home, but everything here is pretty different. I mean, the werewolves native to this world are apparently bad and eat people's hearts." He grimaced. "Which the ones from our world obviously don't do, thank god. So mostly I'm just -- trying to figure out how to be useful in this world since that's where Scott is and it's where I am and...I don't know. It seemed like a good idea a the time?"

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mamamccallme
2014-07-19 01:29 am UTC (link)

"Well, that sounds completely safe and not at all suspicious." Melissa couldn't help the sarcastic response about the wishes. Not knowing where they came from or why they existed wasn't exactly helpful. It was actually kind of scary.Well, less scary with them having happened before, but more scary the initial time. They could have backfired.

She was glad they hadn't, but it sort of brought a reminder of the old saying be careful what you wish for.

Melissa listened, though, wanting to hear what Stiles had to say. And she couldn't help but sigh a little bit. He always meant well. Stiles had always been a good kid underneath it all...just like Scott. It was just that...like any kid he didn't always think things though.

Melissa wrinkled her nose. "Count me in the glad Scott isn't eating anybody's heart group, but Stiles....you do help Scott even without the whole emissary thing. And you manage to help him a whole hell of a lot more when you aren't disappearing on him. You are his best friend last I checked, and he wants you around....not off trying to figure out how to be useful when you already are."

Maybe he didn't get that, she didn't know, but he was a lot more helpful when Scott had him around. As far as she was concerned anyway.

"You know if you ever take off like that again I'm going to have to kill you, right?" Melissa added after a moment to break some of the seriousness in the air.

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runswithwolves
2014-07-19 01:49 am UTC (link)

He couldn't help but smile at her sarcasm. Sarcasm? Was something he tended to appreciate regardless of who was using it, and even if it was aimed at him. "That was sorta my reaction. I asked a lot of people who'd been here for awhile if it was really safe, and they were all pretty quick to reassure me about it." He shrugged a little. He'd still been wary, but he was always kind of wary when it came to things involving the supernatural.

Stiles looked down as guilt tugged at him. It wasn't that he wanted to leave Scott behind, especially not when he knew his best friend was struggling to deal with everything that had happened back home. It was that he wanted to fix things back home, somehow, so that Scott didn't have to live without Allison if and when they got sent back. So that Lydia didn't have to either. It was that Lydia had been sent home, back to that hell, and he was at a loss for what else to do.

It was that he couldn't stand the thought of having blood on his hands and not try to stop it from happening in the first place by any means necessary.

He nodded slightly and glanced up at her again, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly, wincing at the threat that he was pretty sure wasn't exactly idle. No, he didn't think she'd actually kill him of course, but he knew she really wasn't very happy with him. "Yeah. I know."

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mamamccallme
2014-07-19 07:00 pm UTC (link)

"I guess when you get used to something you feel confident about it." Melissa shrugged slightly. Magic wishes. There were magic wishes here and Stiles had used his for something that he probably shouldn't have, considering he still wasn't exactly happy with it. He was prepared for whatever could hit them back home in Beacon Hills, but not so much here. Seemed a bit to Melissa like he should have worded his wish differently. Maybe that was just it....the phrasing had to be just right to make it what you wanted....for certain things, at least.

She was getting a little more used to the whole supernatural/magical world. Magical wishes, werewolves, kanima, etc. well, she wasn't freaking out about all of it, at least. She was taking newer things in stride, or at least much better than she had when she'd first been told about werewolves and Scott's condition.

Melissa felt like all of her points were pretty valid. And she wasn't trying to make him feel guilty. She was just trying to point out that his intentions weren't quite working out the way that he had in mind. He'd just made everyone worry with this stubborn independent streak that he was going off on. And that didn't really help anyone.

Melissa gave a light, smile at Stiles. At least he knew that she would want to kill him if he did that again. Moving to stand, Melissa reached out to squeeze his shoulder, pausing there. "It's good to have you back. You know you and Scott are grounded now, right?" The smile hadn't fallen from her face at all as she spoke.

She felt like that was fair, considering the fact that they had both worried her. Both boys needed some normalcy back, from what she could tell. She knew that if Stiles' dad were here he'd be grounded, for sure. But since he wasn't, he was her responsibility. she knew that he'd do the same for Scott if he were here and she weren't around. And she did love Stiles, so this....in a way was doing him a favor.

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runswithwolves
2014-07-19 09:19 pm UTC (link)

He nodded slightly, knowing that was true. The things he was used to, he was pretty confident about anyway. Other things, though...not so much. He probably should have worded his wish differently, but he doubted there was much of a way to remedy it anyway.

Stiles could tell she was getting more used to the weirdness that was their lives, and he was glad. He knew from watching the show a few months ago that his dad was starting to get used to it, too, even if it was still a struggle. He wondered how he was doing with all of it now.

He wasn't the least bit surprised by her next words. He'd pretty much been expecting to be grounded. And in his mind, grounding from Melissa was every bit as valid as grounding from his dad. The normalcy of it was actually kind of nice, in a way. "Yep. Pretty much figured that," he admitted. "What's my sentence?" He rubbed the back of his neck, arching his eyebrows.

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mamamccallme
2014-07-20 04:51 pm UTC (link)

Melissa was glad that he accepted the grounding pretty easily. Really, she had no power when it came to Stiles. She wasn't his actual mom, no matter how much it felt like she was in certain moments. But apparently he respected her. And he had to know that just like his dad she had his best interest at heart. She was definitely thinking about his dad would do and what he'd want at the moment.

Stiles would definitely be grounded, she was certain on that.

Letting go of Stiles' shoulder, Melissa doled out his grounding, figuring she was being pretty fair. Too long and he'd ignore it. And she was pretty sure that he hadn't been grounded in a while. "No TV, movies, no games if you have any of those, and no leaving the house unless you're supervised. You can have the internet because the communication board thing. For a week." She could have made it longer, but knowing that he meant well and knowing that this place was different, she took it somewhat easy on him. "Got it?"

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runswithwolves
2014-07-20 07:41 pm UTC (link)

Stiles did respect her. He respected her a lot, even if it didn't always show. And he knew he wasn't great at showing people what they meant to him. He never had been. But he hoped that his easy acceptance of the grounding -- which he knew he deserved -- at least helped illustrate that a little.

And his dad? Definitely would have grounded him. That didn't mean he wouldn't ignore the grounding if there was some kind of supernatural crisis, but as long as nothing earth-shattering was going on, he could handle a week's worth of no TV, video games, movies, and leaving the house unsupervised.

At least he had the internet. And not being grounded from Scott was definitely good. He nodded and met her eyes. "Got it," he assured her with a very faint smile. "Sorry that I worried you." That, he was definitely sincere about.

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mamamccallme
2014-07-30 07:53 pm UTC (link)

Melissa knew that she probably had the fuel behind a much more serious grounding, but the thing was...these kids had already been through so much. Even before the supernatural stuff started to invade their lives, Scott and Stiles in particular had been forced to deal with more than Melissa had ever felt was fair to them. There were times when she had to be hard on them, but this didn't feel like one of those times to her.

They needed a bit of a break along with their stability. That was what it boiled down to. Stability for these two boys was important. Weird as being here was, she was glad that she was here with them because she felt like they needed her.

And even if Stiles wasn't technically her's she cared about him just as much as she did about Scott.

"I appreciate the apology. And I get it some. I'll work on the forgiving part, though." Melissa joked, winking at him as a visual cue that she was only joking. She had already forgiven him, the grounding wasn't personal. Giving a light gesture Melissa figured that was good enough. "You're free to go enjoy your grounding now, kiddo."

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