Tagging → Lydia ( mrrtnlydia )
‘Verse → I’m Only Human
Timeline → September, 2015
Location → Beacon Hills High School
Triggers → Angst, Spoilers
Notes → I’m sorry this has taken absurdly long. With everything that’s been going on I’ve found it hard to be consistent with writing, even when the muse is cooperative.
I figured Lydia could be the one on the phone? Otherwise she could find him on the phone with anybody else (but most likely his dad, I’d say).
Stiles:
If the past year had proven one thing to Stiles, it was that the world was no longer worthy of his trust. One thing after another, one person after another, one friend after another had let him down. His relationships scarred, tattered and ravaged from the horrors of the years they’d struggled through together had left him exhausted. He stood by the Jeep, the hood up, patches of duct tape barely holding the engine together any more, and cursed.
They planned. The pack planned things, worked out how things were going to be, who would join them and who wouldn’t, and they did it without Stiles. Hayden, Theo, pieces of a puzzle that he didn’t want to see completed, and Scott trusted everybody.
Except him.
The phone rang, a shrill shriek that pierced through his depressing thoughts, and he reached for it, not even looking at the number before answering with a swift “Yeah?”