Panic Room • Stiles Stilinski [1]

[24] Restraint

"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"

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"If Jackson doesn't know what he's doing, then he probably doesn't know someone's controlling him," Allison explains over the phone. She places the phone down on her desk, in between herself and Isabel.

"Or he doesn't remember..." Scott trails off.

"What if it's the same kind of thing that happened with Izzy when she took off from the hospital those times?" Stiles speaks, the sound of his voice sends jolts down her spine.

"A fugue state." Isabel corrects, she can hear Stiles panic on the other end as she talks.

"He'd have to forget everything. The murder," Scott continues

"Getting rid of the blood," Allison adds.

"This is literally what happened with me and Peter." Isabel sighs.

"Yeah," Stiles agrees, "He had help with one thing, though - the video. And someone else helped him forget that."

"Whoever's controlling him." Scott finalizes.

"Are you sure Jackson has no clue about any of this?" Allison asks, sceptically.

"It's like Izzy said. It's exactly like what happened to her last year. Isabel had no clue what had happened while Peter was controlling her. Jackson thinks he's still becoming a Werewolf and that being with Lydia somehow delayed the whole thing." Stiles explains.

"So, do we try and convince him he's not?" Allison questions, pacing back and forth.

"If it helps us find out who's controlling him, then yeah." Stiles breathes out.

"Do you think he'll talk to us after what we did?" Allison asks, biting her nails anxiously.

"What you guys did." Isabel corrects, rolling her eyes and pulling Allison's hand away from her mouth to stop her biting.

"It's us! He'll talk to us, right?" Scott says enthusiastically, only for himself and Stiles receive a restraining order, served by Jackson's father.

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Allison and Isabel enter the school's library, moving over to where Scott and Stiles were and standing on the other side of the bookcase. Now that Gerard had installed cameras everywhere, it was harder for Allison and Scott to communicate.

Isabel sneakily passes along Allison's tablet containing the translated pages of the beastiary through the gap in the bookcase. Stiles watches the girl longingly, desperate to try and fix his mistake.

"This is everything I can translate. I got Lydia to help me but she was very confused." Isabel explains quietly, pretending to look through a book with Allison.