AN: A bit of out of character Selene in this chapter... I wonder why she would be like that... hmmmmmmm
words: 3474 

First published: June 7th 2018
Last updated: January 2nd 2022

Since that night in the forest Selene found herself having strange dreams. Dreams of Stiles that weren't really him. They were someone else. Someone else entirely but she found herself being drawn to them anyway. Just as she felt a connection to the real Stiles she could feel a connection with the fake one too. When she woke she knew she should tell the others but she couldn't. Every time she opened her mouth to speak she found herself lost for words. Almost like someone was controlling her from the inside.
"Selene it's time." His silky voice said. "It's time for mischief."

"Selene!" Stiles said waking up his girlfriend. "It's time!" She blinked a few times. Her eyes foggy from sleep. She looked around and remembered she was in Stiles' bedroom. She had stayed the night, so she could help him with his pranks. Apparently, it was tradition.
"What?" she asked. Her brain was still asleep, she was sure.

"It's time for mischief. You know! Mischief night." He was already dressed and his bag packed.
"But Stiles. Mischief night is on the night of the 30th. Not the ungodly morning hours of it." She complained.
"You promised you would help me. Come on." A normal person wouldn't grab a werewolf's foot and pull it from bed, but Stiles knew she wouldn't really hurt him. She sleepily got dressed, or more so, presentable and followed Stiles to wherever he took her.

He took her to the school. It was dark. She shivered and remembered all the bad things that had happened at the school in the dark. Very bad things. Stiles led her to the locker room where she sat down and lent her head against the lockers. She was faintly aware of Stiles pulling out his phone and complaining to Scott. By the time Scott got there a minute later she had already fallen asleep with light snores.

"What's up with her?" Scott asked worried. Stiles sighed and looked at his girlfriend.
"Since I found her alone and knocked out in the forest she's been sleeping most of the time. I don't understand. And when I ask her about it, she has no idea why. If I'm honest I'm concerned but she says there is nothing to worry about. Maybe there is truth behind this whole demon thing and Halloween. Maybe she's getting tired from it all."
"I doubt that's true." Scott laughed. "Nothing is wrong with me."
"You're not a white wolf who fricken' feels the emotions of all things supernatural." Stiles said in a loud whisper.
"True." Scott shrugged. They contemplated drawing a mustache on her sleeping face but decided that when she found out their lives would not be worth living. Little do they know that her dreams were something she needed to escape from.

The next morning, they parked in their usual spots and climbed out of the Jeep and saw that Scott had arrived at the school the same time they did. Not only was Scott's bike there, but the twins were there too.
"You're back in school?" Scott asked securing his bike.
"No, just to talk." Ethan explained.
"Oh. That's kind of a change of pace for you guys." Stiles said rushing up to his best friend's aid. Not that he needed any. "Usually, you're just hurting, maiming, and killing." He trailed off hoping they would get the point.

"You need a pack. We need an Alpha." Aiden argued.
"Yeah. Absolutely not. That's hilarious though." Stiles sarcastically remarked.
"You came to us for help. We helped."
"You beat his face into a bloody pulp. That's not helping. In my opinion, that's actually counter-productive."
"When did that happen?" Selene asked confused.

"When you were off having a slumber party in the forest." Isaac said walking up adding numbers to their side of the argument. Selene blushed at the fact all of her friends knew that she had passed out in the forest for seemingly no reason.

"Why would I say yes?" Scott asked ignoring Isaac.
"We'd add strength. We'd make you more powerful. There's no reason to say no." Aiden pitched.
"I can think of one." Isaac added. "Like the two of you holding Derek's claws while Kali impaled Boyd. In fact, I don't know why we're not impaling them right now." Aiden's eyes flashed blue and his teeth bared.
"You want to try?" A flush of anger ran through Selene and she hid her face in Stiles' shoulder.
"Hey knock it off!" Stiles shouted at Aiden. His arms around Selene.
"Sorry, but they don't trust you. And neither do I." Scott said the final word and they all walked away from the twins who were not happy in the slightest that they had just been turned down.

They walked through the halls as Students were misbehaving all around them. A roll of toilet paper even hit Stiles in the face much to Selene's amusement.
"Hey that's my face!" Stiles shouted into the masses, not quite sure who had actually thrown the paper to begin with. Selene was giggling to herself. "I'm glad you find it funny. Although I got to say this is a much better mood than this morning." He commented. Scott looked at the pair.
"What happened this morning?" Scott asked.

"Little miss sunshine here woke up on the wrong side of the bed. She's been grumpy all morning." Stiles commented. Selene rolled her eyes.
"I'm grumpy because I didnt get much sleep thank you. I was off gallivanting with your mischievous ass." Selene remarked.
"Er. I'll think you'll find you slept through all of the prank set up. You had the most sleep out of all of us." Scott rolled his eyes at the bickering couple as they made their way to Stiles' locker where he deposited items he could prank people with. Scott was looking off into the distance.

 "What you looking at?" Stiles asked.
"Me?" Scott replied.
"You." Stiles confirmed. "You looking at her?" Scott looked even more confused.
"Selene?"
"Yes Scott are you looking at my girlfriend. No! You're looking at her over there." He looked in the same direction as Scott and Saw Kira trying to pick things up that had fallen out of her locker. "You like her?"
"No." Scott quickly defended. "I mean... Yeah, yeah, she's okay. She's new."
"So, ask her out."
"Now?"
"Yes, now."
"Right now?"
"Right now. Scott,"
"Stiles. Cut him some slack. It took you months to ask me out. And if I remember correctly you didn't ask me out, I asked you out." Selene defended her friend.

"No, I remember... This isn't the point!" Stiles turned back to Scott. "I don't think you get it yet Scott." He closed his locker and they began walking down the hall to class. "You're an Alpha. You're the apex predator. Everyone wants you. You're like the hot girl that every guy wants." He turned to face him. Isaac stood confused.
"The hot girl?" Scott asked.
"You are the hottest girl." Stiles winked and left everyone behind.
"What?" Isaac asked to make sure he just heard everything right.
"I'm the hot girl." Scott said.
"Yes, you are." Isaac confirmed. Scott's face lit up with a massive grin before he walked off.
"What just happened?" Isaac asked Selene.
"I'm not even sure. Just roll with it." Isaac laughed and put his arm on Selene's shoulder and they followed Scott and Stiles to class.

Selene's phone rang in her pocket. She lifted it out and saw it was Derek.
"My gosh Derek where have you been why haven't you been answering?" She said down the phone.
"I wont say over the phone, I need you home right now." He said. Selene sighed.
"There's a slight problem with that." She said looking at the mixture of the FBI and the deputies. "The school is on lockdown. I can't leave."
"Why? Do you need me to come get you?" He asked worried. He needed his little sister safe.
"The whole point of lockdown is nobody gets in or out Derek. But thank you anyway. There is a mass child murderer roaming the halls. And get this Derek. The children he kills? Have glowing eyes." Derek on the other side, although Selene couldn't see him pinched his nose and exhaled loudly.

"If I can't come get you and you can't come here. There is just one thing that you need to do. Keep your emotions under control." Selene bit her fingers as her eyes watered.
"Derek. I can't. The twins showed up earlier and threw my emotions out of wack. I haven't felt myself all day."
"Calm down Selene. You need to focus on being calm." He said.
"I'm not in the mood for being patronized Derek." She said angrily and before Derek could reply she hung the phone up and shoved it back in her pocket. As she did so she was lost in thought. Why did she snap at him? She was happy to hear his voice. To know he was alive and safe. she considered phoning him back but there would be no point.
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Scott, Isaac, Selene, Aiden and Ethan were all searching in the school's basement for Barrow. They were going off the lead that Lydia had.
"There is no scent down here." Selene grumbled. She wasn't too keen on the idea of being down here and not upstairs protecting Stiles if he needed it.
"Yes but Lydia is certain Barrow is down here." Scott said.
"Well I'm certain he's not." Selene barked back. Scott stopped walking and looked at her disbelieving.

"Why are you acting like this? Is it because of the twins?"
"I don't care about the twins." Selene remarked. "I care that no one cares what I say! Didn't Ms Blake say that Lydia and I were linked? That Lydia spoke for the dead and I spoke for the living. Barrow is alive which means he is my jurisdiction and I can't even get a scent for his right foot never mind his whole body."

"Selene. There is a whole school of people upstairs. Children. We need to protect them. Even if we are following dead end. Especially if a friend thinks so."
"So I'm not a friend?" Selene asked. Scott scoffed.
"What is wrong with you?" He was getting mad.
"I don't know Scott. Maybe with what I just said. I just told you what was wrong! Nobody listens to me. Barrow kills children with glowing eyes which, do I need to point out that everyone down here has. My soul mate is upstairs defenseless, I can't protect him from a psychopath. My brother just got back into town from god knows where. I woke up in the forest after 24 hours of being missing. Nobody noticed. I mean tell me Scott. How would you feel?" She felt a weight being lifted off her chest but she was still angry.
"Not like this." Scott shook his head.
"Look for Barrow on your own. I don't need this." Selene threw her hands in the air and stormed off. She walked straight out of the school's gates. She was stopped by a deputy. She pointed to her watch.
"It's after 3. I can leave."
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"I'm glad you got out of there." Stiles said to her. Or at least the creature with Stiles' face. He ran his fingers down her face. Selene pushed his hand away.
"it's your fault in the first place that I was in any danger to begin with."
"You are the first person I've ever been in love with in my thousand years on this planet. I forgot." He shrugged.

"You forgot about my safety? Are you sure you are in love?" Selene narrowed her eyes at him.
"Ah I see my anger is rubbing off on you. That's good. That will make you more flexible to my will. You should have felt the negative emotions you left behind. They were... ravishing." He closed his eyes and remembered how Selene's friends had reacted to her leaving the school without a word.

"I don't like being ordered around. And I don't like being rude to my friends. My alpha! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!"
"My plan had barely begun. First, I need you to cut ties with the banshee."
"Why? Wait. I don't care. I need you out. Why don't I cut ties with you instead."
"Your link with her is too strong. She will sense that there is something wrong with you before we can do what is needed."
"Lydia is my friend."
"and I'm your soul mate." 

The fake stiles took a step closer to her. He wrapped a piece of her hair around his finger. For a moment Selene lent into his touch. He made her happy. Her eyes opened wide.

"You are not my soul mate. Stiles is. No matter how many times you trick me. I will always remember you are not him."
"Ah. But I will be very soon my love and you will help me take Stiles' as my own and then we can do as we please."

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Selene was woken up by a buzzing in her pocket. It was her phone again.
"What?" She said angrily down the phone. Stiles on the other end jumped slightly out of shock.
"Selene?" He said. "Where have you been? Scott said you were acting funny at the school. Is everything okay?" He asked. He knew something was wrong. He just needed her to tell him.

"Everything is fine." She lied through gritted teeth.
"Could you meet us at the school?" He asked. Selene narrowed her eyes.
"Who is we?"
"Me and Lydia?" Stiles answered. Normally Selene wouldn't question. She would just agree.
"You and Lydia." She laughed to herself. "Do you really need me there Stiles? I bet you can hardly hold your excitement thinking about being alone with her."

"Sel?" Stiles was confused. Selene knew that he had no feelings for Lydia. Not anymore.
"You know what Stiles. No. I'm not fine. I'm not fine in the slightest and I'm offended that you needed Scott to tell you something was up. Why didn't you notice yourself?" She was shouting down the phone.

Stiles had to hold the phone away from his ear slightly. His eyes were watering. Selene was never like this. She would never argue with him. Selene wanted to apologize. She wanted to get on her knees and beg for mercy but the thing in her mind was stopping her. It was like her mouth and her mind were two different people. She was losing control of who she really was and she couldn't do anything about it.

"Stiles." She said in a slightly softer voice. Stiles put the phone back up to his ear.
"Yeah." He answered.
"I think we should break up." And she hung up on him before he could reply. Stiles looked down at his phone and saw the call had ended. He tried to call her back but it went straight to voicemail. He threw his phone across the room and screamed. What had happened? He couldn't pin point the moment things went wrong.

Selene was crying on the floor.
"Why did you make me do that?" She shouted. She was unable to stand. Stiles knelt down and put his finger to her chin lifting her head up to look at him.
"My love, must I say this again? Mischief, strife and pain. I'm in his head and the pain you just caused him. You just broke his heart." Selene slapped his hand away.
"Stop it! That wasn't me. It was you in my head."
"Does he know that?"
"If you are him as you keep saying... then he should."
"Stiles is a lucky man. You are smart. Smarter than you give yourself credit for. Yes. Deep down he knows it wasn't you. Go to him."
"Go to him? You just made me break up with him? Why would he want to see me?"
"He doesn't. but I do."

Selene found herself waking up in her car. She didn't remember getting inside it. Nor did she know where she was going. She looked around trying to figure out what was happening. It was almost like her instincts were telling her where to go. She drove faster the more she trusted them. She felt like a magnet being drawn to Stiles. Selene and Stiles were soul mates. They belonged together. Never in her right mind would she have broken up with him. She would have never said those things to him... or to Scott. 

She pulled up outside the electrical station. Stiles' Jeep was outside and she could feel him inside. She sat outside for a few minutes trying to think of something to say. A way to explain herself. She was pulled from her thoughts when there was an electrical spike inside the building. She jumped out of the car and ran into the building. Lydia who had been sitting in Stiles' Jeep called out to Selene but the girl didn't hear her. 

As she walked through the door Selene saw the new girl Kira absorbing all of the electricity around her. It looked like hundreds of shooting stars dancing around the girl. Selene watched with awe. Groaning to the left of her caught her attention. It was Stiles on the floor in pain.
"Stiles!" she shouted running over to him. Scott turned around at the sound of Selene's voice and saw his best friend on the floor. He ran too. Selene grabbed Stiles' hand ready to take his pain. But there wasn't any. Then why did he groan?

"I'm good. Just got a shock. No pun intended." He laughed at himself. He looked at Scott. "You should check on Kira." Scott nodded and left Selene and Stiles on the floor.
"Stiles." Selene began. "I didn't mean what I said earlier. I need to tell you before I forget. Before he makes me forget. I love you. I love you so, so much and I would never ever break up with you." She kissed the back of his hand and a tear fell onto his wrist. He sat up and pushed some hair behind her ear.

"I love you too Selene. But I'm confused... Why are you talking about breaking up? Are you breaking up with me?" He looked shocked.
"We had an argument on the phone. I broke up with you." Selene answered. "But I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it at all." Stiles laughed.
"I think you had a nightmare Sel... We didn't break up. You don't need to worry. If I'm honest I don't think we have even spoken on the phone today." Selene sat on the balls of her feet. She was confused. The fake Stiles had played her again. Stiles put his hand on hers.

"It's okay love. He doesn't remember." Stiles said in his haunting voice. Selene looked around. She was awake and yet the other Stiles was talking to her. He only ever spoke to her in her dreams.
"Stiles?" She asked.
"No love it's me. We did it. I'm here. In the real world." He lent forward and kissed her passionately. It felt amazing to be kissing her in the real world and not just in the minds of the two people he inhabited. It had been so long since he had felt the physical world. Now he was in total control he could bend Selene in any way he wanted. She was his to torment after all. A cough interrupted them.

"Uh, guys." They looked up at Scott. Their lips slightly swollen from the kissing. "We might have a problem." They looked outside and saw the red and blue flashing lights. The Nogitsune who now lived in Stiles for good, decided it would be for the best to let Stiles take the reins.
"Love," he said to Selene. "I know I just got here. But now that I am. I think Stiles should be in control... for now, don't want to give the game away so soon after arriving." Selene nodded. "and I also think you should forget this. Completely. Forget that I exist. Forget the blackouts and your little outburst earlier. For now, until I say, You are the Selene everyone expects you to be. Nothing is wrong. Got that love?" Selene blinked a few times and looked around.
"Stiles?" She asked. "What are we doing here?"

AN:I hope that wasn't confusing. If it was just ask. Basically. Void Stiles was seeing how far he could go in controlling Selene which is why she is acting out of character.