A Grimm Visit | By : AkumaKawa Category: S through Z > Teen Wolf Views: 4549 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 3 |
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A/N I got me a BETA! Yay! So the updates might be a bit slower because both of us are going back to school. Me for my fourth degree, Masters in Business. It's all online and I work from home anyways for my little press. So the writing won't slow down per se, but the updates might.
Instead of posting them as soon as I'm done editing them I will wait to see what my beta thinks.
I have a plan on this story. Because of the convoluted epic-ness of the story I have planned I'm turning it into a series. It is called, thus far, Werewolves and Hunters and Wesen and Grimms, Oh My! As a play on Wizard of Oz's Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!
Thus far it is planned to be 3 parts. I might make it more than that. This is the first part, A Grimm Visit, since it introduces Stiles to Grimms. Second part takes place back in Beacon Hills. Third Part will be back in Portland.
The first part, will be the shortest because it is taking place in the week between the end of Teen Wolf season 2 ep 2 and ep 4. I have it at more or less 15 chapters. I'm writing this as I go along so that might change.
The reason why this chapter has taken so long has been due to the editing myself and my beta did to chapter 4. Because of the close ties of the chapters I held off on posting chapter 5 until chapter 4 was fixed.
As always, reviews are greatly appreciated.
A Grimm Visit
Chapter 5
Day two of The Kidnapping started off much different than day one. For instance, Stiles was allowed to sleep in.
Yesterday afternoon Stilinski father and son dragged their asses to the hotel – not a rich one but no Motel 6 either, there's no room service, however, there is a continental breakfast – unloaded their stuff in the room and then went out to find some place to eat. Like always Stiles and his dad argued over what kind of food to eat.
Like always Stiles turned on the puppydog eyes and his father caved and ate healthy food. Stiles thinks that he should count his puppydog eyes along with his sarcasm as one of his weapons. No one can resist them.
His dad may bitch and grumble but he knows that Stiles does this for him and because he loves him. Stiles thinks it makes his dad all giddy inside...many hours later when he can safely reflect on how much his son loves him to force him to eat food he hates but is good for him. Stiles likes to think that his dad knows all the other dads in the world are jealous of the way that Stiles loves his dad and watches out for his dad. He just hopes it makes up for all the embarrassment that Stiles gives him when he acts up.
The meal was tasty and healthy and even his dad had to concede that it didn't taste that bad. So Stiles took it as a win for him and another loss to his dad in their everlasting battle over healthy food.
After their early dinner they came back to the hotel and watched some TV. Well watched would imply that that is all they did. What really happened is that his dad started to work on the case files again and Stiles was on his laptop working on his homework assignments and checking his phone to see if anyone text'd him back.
It was like Stiles had thought; Scott had Allison troubles. Probably still trying to work around the 'werewolf hunter parent death threat' – Stiles wonders if that should be trademarked – if they are ever caught dating again. Stiles has a feeling that if he was in Beacon Hills he would be forwarding messages between the two of them to help in their quest of finding happiness in their epic star-crossed romance. In fact, that was one of the messages. For Stiles to forward messages to Allison from Scott when he gets back to town. Scott even had the nerve to ask for Stiles to forward his text messages to Allison.
Stiles, fed up with things, went to bed.
Stiles was currently still unhappy about that proposition plus the fact that he was ignored by everyone all freaking day, yesterday. At the moment he was ignoring his phone and any and all text messages that Scott wanted to send him. Let's see how he likes that.
Jackson and Lydia ignored his messages. Didn't even have excuses for not replying. Nothing. Not that Stiles thought that anything would change but it still sucked.
Stiles wonder if he had Isaac's number if Isaac would have text'd back.
And then Stiles just stopped.
The silence of the room was engulfing and Stiles knew he couldn't just distract himself any longer from what his mind wanted to think/freak out over. The thing that happened yesterday in the police station building.
When they first left the station Stiles was still in shock and just wanted to distract himself from even thinking about what exactly happened.
His mind was half-rambling half-stuck on processing the new information that it gathered. The moment he stepped foot into that room full of detectives he wanted to grab his father and run as far and as fast as he could out of that place. He never wanted to be there. His flight response was in overdrive. Everything that enabled him to survive the past few months was screaming at him to get out of that room.
But he couldn't. He had to follow proper decorum and had to stay. His dad was going to stay no matter what. So Stiles had to stay as well. He half-thought he had a mental breakdown from all the stress that has been accumulating. The idea that it wasn't all in his head...he didn't know which was the worst outcome; him losing his mind, or actually being able to feel a supernatural psychic attack telling him to get the hell out of the room.
His mind kept trying to process what was going on and the rambling in his head as his A.D.H.D. picked up was insane. He couldn't sit still because he wanted to run. He couldn't stop thinking about the warning and the feeling and his father and the threat because it was constantly pressing upon him. He couldn't accept it was happening because he couldn't understand what was happening. It was like he was thrown into the deep end of the pool and sinking to the bottom and he was unable to move because he didn't understand what swimming was.
It wasn't until the moment he touched Nick's hand that he had his answer and it was terrifying. Even now, nearly a full day from then he still couldn't shake it. He still felt off, felt like he should run from all the crazy. He half-wanted to call up Renard and ask him what the fuck was going on. How he caused that feeling, why Nick caused it to retreat, why Stiles felt it? But he couldn't, he was scared and he didn't know if Renard would be a friend or a foe. I guess this is how Scott feels about being a werewolf and Derek when they first met.
When the supernatural is real and you can see it and feel it what do you do when it turns against you and you have no idea what to do to protect yourself or where to go?
For Stiles, when he saw everything happening to Scott the first thing he did was go into research overload mode. It would be different here. He didn't know where the public library was and he wasn't sure if they would have the books he would need and it's not like he can order them and have them shipped to the hotel room since they would only be here for a few more days.
Stiles wondered if Doc Deaton might know but he was still an unknown as well. Not to mention, he might know about werewolves and alphas, but did he know about psychic attacks caused by some supernatural being? What if they weren't supernatural? What if it was just a psychic projection? If werewolves exist who is to say that witches or psychics or something else doesn't exist as well?
Stiles noticed that he was working himself into a panic attack over all of the what ifs. His hands were shaking and his breaths were coming in raggedly and shorter and Stiles decided enough was enough. Stiles took a deep breath, in through his nose and out through his mouth. He did it repeatedly until he calmed himself down.
He was Stiles Stilinski best friend to Scott McCall and he faced down Peter Hale in his most psychopathic state. He was not going to freak out over a little supernatural attack. He was going to do what he does best; research the problem, find the answer, and implement it.
If he was under a psychic attack he is going to find out why, how, who, and stop it. Stiles is not some weak little kid. He does not get scared of the dark. The night Scott got bit was because they were adventurous enough to go into the woods in the middle of the night over the report of a dead body. He is not going to let what has happened to him change him for the worse. He learned there are monsters in the dead of the night and he also learned how to fight back and win.
First things things first, make a list of what needs answered and find the answers.
What was that psychic attack?
Is it something specific to ward off supernatural creatures?
Am I a supernatural creature?
Or is it just because he's more sensitive to the supernatural because of all the werewolf mess going on in Beacon Hills?
If Renard was exuding a 'no trespassers/keep out' sign against the supernatural in the detectives room then why was Nick negating it?
Is Renard protecting Nick or vice versa?
Maybe Nick is Renard's focal point? But Renard didn't look Supernatural...yet he was the one who caused the attack and he knew it and he knew that I knew it as well.
Am I in danger? Is my dad?
Is it just Renard and Nick or are there others?
What can I do to protect myself?
With the list in hand Stiles starts his search for answers to his questions online. He will start where he got his answers for Scott's bite and move on from there. Nothing happens without a cause and an answer will be somewhere. Either online or in ancient books.
By the time it was noon Stiles has poured over site after site after site. The answers in his spreadsheet and notebooks were confusing, conflicting, and contradicting. It was impossible to tell which was the right answer or even if they would work.
Stiles needed a break. He was hungry and he needed fuel. Since the hotel didn't have room service he would have to go search for food himself. He text'd his dad that he would be going out for substance and went down to the hotel lobby to ask for directions to a nice sandwich shop nearby.
It was a nice quiet walk the couple of blocks it would take to get to the cafe. Stiles thought about texting Scott to see what he was doing but he was still too mad at him to really want to talk to him. Stiles did not like getting blown off for Allison and their melodramatic great romance. Especially, not when he needed to talk to Scott or needed his help.
So, no distracting himself with talking to Scott to see what is going on in Beacon Hills.
The cafe, Dingo Baby, was typical of hippie-ish Portland, it fit with Stiles' eating style of healthy food and was decorated like it was done by 'pop-art meets impressionists' college art students. It was interesting and funky and calming at the same time. Stiles thought he could love this place. It didn't hurt that the food was good and there was wi-fi service. Which would be awesome for Stiles to make this place his new hang out but he left his laptop back in the room.
He sat there long after he had ate his food and drank his drink and wondered what he was going to do next. Back in the hotel room he tried searching for information at the usual sites he went to for information on Werewolves, but this psychic stuff was something else.
There was so much information out there from esp to witchcraft to ghosts to electric magnetic waves, there was no real way to say which applied to Stiles' situation. He knew it was caused by someone or some creature – but again Renard looked very human to Stiles and didn't seem to be any creature he could recognize – and they had control of it. Renard knew he felt it when he shook hands with him. He also knew that it also had something to do with Nick.
Stiles just wasn't able to put his finger on where exactly the two points meet. Why did it have something to do with Nick? Was Renard being territorial and protective of Nick? Why?
Renard is a cop, he is a Captain of a police precinct and while there are such things as bad and corrupt cops, Renard seems to be one of the good guys. He didn't give Stiles any iffy feelings from the short time that he was in his presence, unless you count the big back off psychic attack he was sending. Stiles, however, thought it wasn't directed towards any one person but to anyone who could pick it up.
The look Renard gave him was strange. It wasn't one of the don't say anything and you won't get hurt looks either. It was more amused and predatorial. Not as in I'm going to kill you and eat you up ones either. It was more I found something interesting and I wonder how I can use it to my advantage. Stiles wasn't sure if it was a good thing or not to be found useful.
He knew practically nothing about Renard. He couldn't really find anything online just typical information. Of course, Stiles isn't a hacker so he's judging everything by what he's finding online through the local newspapers and public records so it might not be everything that can be found, but still it's usually a good indicator of what a person is like.
Renard, however, has less than what you would typically find for someone who lives in the Twenty-First Century. There was no Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, etcetera social networks attached to him. Not from the information he could find. There was nothing about his past either. It's like he just showed up one day as a cop and worked his way through the system without leaving any dirt, shady arrests, or anything but a squeaky clean record. No lawsuits either.
It was weird.
Every cop has at least one bad thing on their record. Mostly from their rookie years and learning how to do their job or if they arrest someone big and powerful and they make a stink to cause payback. Even Stiles' dad has a few.
But Captain Sean Renard is as clean as they come that Stiles can see without getting a hold of internal affairs' records.
Nick and Hank's records are typical of what Stiles would find of good cops. Instances of pissing off the wrong people but nothing about excessive violence or abuse of power.
Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary on any of them. The only odd thing is that Nick's parents seemed to be have been killed in a car accident and he was raised by his aunt. Whom it seems was recently attacked? Several times? Yet, died of complications attributed to cancer.
Maybe there is something weird there about the aunt, but Stiles isn't sure it has anything to do with what is going on with him.
Seems to be another dead end.
Going over his notes again Stiles just can't see what to do next. There is an overflow of information on psychics but nothing that really pertains to his specific situation. There is nothing he can find in the pasts of the people who were involved in the situation either. Without putting himself through it again, Stiles isn't sure there is anything to do. There is a lack of data to extrapolate anything that can narrow down what exactly happened and why.
Stiles doesn't exactly feel like he was threatened by Renard but he doesn't feel safe either with the knowledge that he knows exactly what happened, why, how, and that Stiles could sense it. The look he gave him, what did it mean? Does he plan on contacting Stiles with information about what happened? Is planning on watching or having Stiles watched to see if Stiles knows what happened and what he will do next?
It's getting late in the afternoon and staring into space thinking about the situation he found himself in is only making Stiles more melancholic and uncertain. So, bored, Stiles decides to text Scott to see if he can take his mind off things. He's still upset, but at this moment Scott's melodramatic epic romance is what he needs to distract himself.
Unfortunately, it seems Scott is busy with said epic romance and so cannot be bothered to respond to Stiles' messages. For half a second Stiles wonders if he should text the others, but since they still haven't responded to his texts from yesterday Stiles decides to continue to ignore them.
With nothing else to do Stiles decides to pack it in and go back to the hotel to finish his research. Maybe he will find more information if he digs further into the aunt. She might not be directly connected to things, but it just seems so odd for some little librarian to have assassins come after her when she is already dying. On top of that is the fact that she is Nick's aunt and Nick has that tranquility psychic emission thing going on. So maybe it's related to what's happening.
It's a big maybe, but it's the only lead that Stiles has at the moment.
Decided, Stiles orders some dinner for him and his dad to go and begins his trek back to the hotel. The wind is chilly, but not too bad for Portland in mid-winter.
Everything is going fine until Stiles trips over his own feet and plows into someone and then things go pear-shaped. At first Stiles starts to apologize and then reaches to help the person up but then he notices something. The guys' face shifts. It's like nothing Stiles has seen in real life before but only in movies and TV shows.
One minute he's looking at a normal middle-age man with dark hair and a pale face and gray eyes and the next his neck moves in this odd shaking motion and this like clear film is removed from the face and he's suddenly facing something not human. There is fur where there was skin. The eyes stay the same but they become more sunken in the face. Two beaver-like top teeth pop down as well. Stiles doesn't know why but he is sure that this person suddenly looks more mouse-like than a beaver or anything.
Stiles' hand is frozen in its position where he held it out for the man to grab onto. He's in a state of shock. His eyes blink and the sight stays the same. He wants to pinch himself, back away, scream, ask if anyone else can see what he is seeing, but all he can do is stand there with this bemused and stupefied look upon his face. He is for once in his life completely shocked into stillness.
Suddenly a verse of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody pops into his head, 'Is this real life, or is this just fantasy', and Stiles can't find the answer in him.
The man sees his reaction, looks up slowly, and a look of pure terror overcomes him. He starts to stutter out something. Stiles can't tell what it is but he thinks it starts with a 'g'. He takes big gulps of air like he can't breathe, starts to scoot himself backwards, and hurriedly picks himself up and runs off in the other direction he was headed.
Stiles is unsure what just happened. He looks around him to see if anyone noticed anything, but it seems as if nothing really unusual took place. Sure a middle-age man just ran off screaming in terror after getting a look at a teenage boy and that is unusual, but nothing that gives away that they saw a man turn into a were-thing. Nothing that would give away the idea that they just watched a human shift into a half-animal with fur and teeth. Nothing that anything supernatural took place.
Which is just mind-boggling. Stiles knows what he just saw. He saw some were-animal shift. With werewolves when they shift it's a completely physical shift and everyone around the area can see it. It freaks people out. Some people run away screaming. Others get weapons to attack the werewolf.
But this? Pretending that it's an everyday thing? That nothing actually happened? Stiles has never seen that. Not even around his friends. Not even him, he always reacts, tiny and a little heart-racing, but he reacts to the change.
No one did here. No one.
How can a were shift and no one else notice?
Why the hell did the were run off screaming in terror when he noticed Stiles? Is it because of Stiles' reaction to his shift? Or is there something else going on? Is this connected to the situation?
Running his hand through his hair and looking around the street, Stiles has a feeling that something more is going on here and he's going to find the answer to it. Whether he wants to or not.
Freaking out can take place later what matters now is research. So Stiles stiffly walks back to the hotel, every once in a while take a glance around him to see if he sees any more weres.
He doesn't.
Stiles doesn't know if this is a good or a bad thing.
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