Beacon Hills | Morning

[robinonadderall]

Scott	It was a good thing Stiles and Isaac had no problems with trespassing on school property because it seemed to be the best place to hold pack (Stiles said he had another pack but Scott insisted he was at least an honorary member like Dawn from BSC) meetings. "Okay so what happens to a person who has a near death experience and comes out of it seeing things?" Because he legit had no clue.
Stiles	"And is unable to know what's real and what's not." That was an important thing to figure out, seriously.
Allison	"And is being haunted by demonic visions of dead relatives." Also an important thing to solve.
Isaac	When nobody offered an immediate answer Isaac finally said, "They're all locked up because they're insane." What? It was true.
Stiles	Stiles rolled his eyes. "Can you at least try to be helpful? Please?"
Isaac	"For half my childhood I was locked in a freezer so being helpful is kind of a new thing for me." Yep. He was playing that card, Stilinski.
Stiles	"Are we still milking that?" He could be a bitch too, Isaac.
Isaac	"Yeah, we're still milking that." Seriously, he was not about to take this shit from the guy who was dating Derek 'woe is me' Hale.
Kira	"Um. Hi. Sorry, I couldn't help overhearing what you guys were talking about." Both the weird hallucination stuff and the bitchfight brewing. But Kira was going to stick to talking about the hallucinations. "And I think I might actually know what you're talking about. There's a Tibetan word for it, it's called bardo. It literally means 'in between states'. The state between life and death."
Lydia	Wow, rudeness. How dare you overhear the conversation they were loudly having in public, Kira. "And what do they call you?"
Scott	"Kira," Scott answered immediately. He looked a little sheepish when he got stares all around. "She's in my history class."
Lydia	"So are you talking bardo in Tibetan Buddhism or Indian?"
Kira	"Either, I guess," Kira said, taking the empty seat next to Stiles. "But all the stuff you guys were saying, all that happens in bardo. There's different progressive states where you can have hallucinations. Some you see, some you just hear. You can be visited by peaceful and powerful wraiths and deities."
Isaac	"Wraiths and deities," Isaac repeated. "Like...?"
Kira	"Like demons!" Wow, she did not mean to sound that excited. But it was so cool.
Stiles	"Demons." Wow, that was great. Just great. "Sure, why not?" What was their lives, seriously.
Allison	"Hold on, if they're different progressive states then what's the last one?" Allison asked.
Kira	"Death!" Kira answered cheerfully. "You die." Was that the wrong answer? Why was everybody staring?

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Deaton	"Sounds like your subconscious is trying to communicate with you." Deaton had to admit that Stiles and Scott never made their visits boring.
Stiles	Vague answer as always, thanks. "Well how do I tell my subconscious to use a language that I actually know?" He had told Deaton about his stupid sign language dream from a few months back since it seemed the clearest out of all the stuff the nemeton threw at him.
Deaton	"Do you remember what the sign language looked like? The placement and the movement of the hands?" Deaton asked.
Stiles	"You know sign language?" Emissaries knew everything!
Deaton	"A little," he said. "Let me give it a shot."
Stiles	Sigh. Fine. It was lucky that the imagery of that nightmare was imprinted in his brain. "The first movement was like this," he said, demonstrating.
Deaton	Deaton nodded. "That's when."
Stiles	Then Stiles made a moment was was more flappy than anything. "Then there was this."
Deaton	"Door."
Stiles	Stiles scraped his thumb under his chin for the last sign. "There was this in between the first two."
Deaton	"That's it?" he asked. "That's everything?"
Stiles	Stiles nodded. "Yeah."
Deaton	Deaton was silent for a few moments. Either thinking or giving time for drama. "When is a door not a door?"
Stiles	Stiles narrowed his eyes. "When is a door not a door?" Stop being vague, old man!
Scott	"When it's ajar." Boom, riddle master Scott McCall.
Stiles	"You're kidding me, a riddle?" Stiles asked. "My subconscious wants to tell me a riddle?"
Deaton	Deaton shook his head. "Not necessarily. When the three of you went under the water, when you crossed into unconsciousness into a kind of super-consciousness. You essentially opened a door in your minds."
Scott	"Okay so what does that mean?" Scott asked. "The door's still open?"
Deaton	He nodded. "Ajar."
Stiles	"The door into our minds." This was the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard.
Deaton	"Didn't I tell you it was risky?" Somewhere...Kitty probably wanted to punch Deaton.
Scott	"What do we do about it?" Scott asked.
Deaton	That question was followed by more dramatic silence. "It's difficult to answer."
Stiles	"No, wait a second, I know that look," Stiles said, pointing an accusing finger at Deaton. "That's 'we know exactly what's wrong with you and we have no idea how to fix it' look."
Deaton	"One thing I do know, is that having an opening like that into your mind? Not good." Like that needed to be said. "You each need to close that door, and you need to do it as soon as possible."
Stiles	"That was the opposite of useful," Stiles said as he was leaving the vet's office with Scott. He was stopped in his tracks when he saw his father's car beside his own and the man himself waiting for them. "Dad? What are you doing here?"
Sheriff Stilinski	"I'm here because I could use some help." He pointed at Scott. "Your help, actually."
Scott	"Why me?" Scott asked.
Sheriff Stilinski	"'Cause eight years ago almost an entire family died in a car accident. One of the bodies, a young girl named Malia, was never found. There's enough evidence to have me thinking that a werewolf could have caused the accident and dragged her body away," Sheriff Stilinski said. "If you can somehow even get a lock on her scent, if you could somehow help me find her body, it might provide the missing clue."
Stiles	"And what if it was a werewolf?" Because he was going to throw a hissy if his dad tried to go after one himself.
Sheriff Stilinski	"Well then there's somebody out there who murdered an entire family," the Sheriff answered. "Someone who still needs to be caught."

[Taken from TW 3x13 "Anchors". NFI, NFB but OOC is OK]