the self made cynic; created with bared teeth and bloodied knuckles, crawled their way out of hell and didn't come out quite human.

Speak No Evil Stiles Stilinksi

"You saved my life, he says. I owe you everything. You don't, I say, you don't owe me squat. Let's just get going. Let's just get gone but he's relentless, keeps saying I owe you, says Your shoes are filled with your own damn blood, you must want something. Just tell me and it's yours."        Wishbone, Richard Siken

[KOVR-TV NEWS PLAYING]:

"WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH NEWS THAT THE BEACON HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT IS STILL ON THE SEARCH FOR THE FOUR MISSING GIRLS WHO DISAPPEARED IN NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR."

[KTLA NEWS PLAYING]:

"IT'S BEEN ALMOST TWO MONTHS SINCE BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS KAYLA JOY, HANNAH KROSS, LUCY AUSTIN, AND DAPHNE TORRES DISAPPEARED ON THE NIGHT OF NOVEMBER 7, 2010 AFTER A VOLLEYBALL GAME."

[KMAX-TV NEWS PLAYING]:

". . .THE POLICE HAVE DISMISSED ANY ACCUSATIONS OR POSSIBILITIES OF THE FOUR GIRLS BEING RUNAWAYS AND HAVE COME OUT WITH STATEMENTS THAT THEY BELIEVE THE GIRLS WERE INDEED KIDNAPPED."

[KOVR-TV NEWS PLAYING]:

"DEPUTY SHERIFF SAMUEL AUSTIN, THE FATHER OF ONE OF THE MISSING GIRLS LACY AUSTIN, GIVES THE FIEST STATEMENT": "We've had many, many sleepless nights over this grueling investigation but I can finally say with a certain confidence that we have enough evidence to determine that the four girls were kidnapped after the volleyball game on November 7, 2010." Sam Austin delivers with blood shot eyes and a pale face as he tries not to throw up at the thought of his missing daughter.

"BEACON HILL'S SHERIFF NOAH STILINSKI GIVES THE SECOND STATEMENT": "This has been hard on all of us," Noah delivers in a calmer tone, placing a comforting hand on his friend and coworker's back. "But I can also say that we're certain what happened to these young girls and we'll stop at absolutely nothing to bring them home safe and sound."

[KTLA NEWS PLAYING]:

"WITNESSES SAY THAT THREE OF THE MISSING GIRLS WERE SEEN LEAVING THE HIGH SCHOOL GYM TOGETHER AND ON MONDAY, NONE OF THEM SHOWED UP FOR SCHOOL, NOT EVEN HANNAH KROSS, WHO MOST WITNESSES SAY DID NOT SEE WITH THE GIRLS AFTER THE VOLLEYBALL GAME."

"There was a party after the game at Lydia Martin's. I just assumed they were going together," ONE OF THE WITNESSES, SCOTT MCCALL, A FELLOW BEACON HILLS STUDENT WHO SAW THREE OF THE GIRLS LEAVE THE GYM TOGETHER TELLS THE NEWS.

"I know Lacy because of her father. She's such a good girl. I-I-I don't know who would want to hurt her," ANOTHER WITNESSES, MELISSA MCCALL, GIVES A STATEMENT.

"DAYS AFTER THE GIRLS WERE REPORTED MISSING, THE POLICE WENT AROUND THE HIGH TO QUESTION THE STUDENTS."

BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
November 10, 2010
2:30 PM

"What do you know about the missing girls?" Noah Stilinski asks Lydia Martin in an empty classroom, other officers and a teacher standing in to witness. A tape recorder sat between them on the desk.

Lydia sat straight in the desk with her leg crossed over the other, her body language trying to hide how uncomfortable she was. "I only know Lacy and Kayla. Hannah's a loner from what I observe and Daphne has too many friends to just focus on one." She tells the sheriff, her green eyes dotting between him and the rolling tape recorder. "She's mostly always with her boyfriend, the Lahey kid."

Sheriff Stilinksi lets out a hum. He knows the girl, Lydia Martin, a name his son utters ten times a day and a girl with a high reputation for being popular. From what Sam tells him, Lacy is (was?) popular. "There was a party at your house after the volleyball game?" He recalls the information.

She nods. "They won. They were going to the championship so I threw a party."

"Any drinking involved? Drugs?"

Lydia's hands tighten into fists. "Of course not." She clearly lies. "What does that have to do with the girls?"

"Because we have a witness that told the news that they were going to your house after the game. Did any of the girls show up?"

Her green eyes stare into his and she doesn't speak, and the sheriff can't determine whether or not she's trying to come up with a lie or she's thinking about how to answer. "No," Lydia answers shortly and blinks, "I tried calling Lacy but she didn't answer. I tried texting but nothing. Then I tried Kayla and she didn't answer either." She explains and tries to hide her frown. "I just assumed they went home to sleep."

"My deputy sheriff says that Lacy never came that night." He tells her and he's grateful that Samuel's not in the room. "In fact, none of them went home."

At that, Lydia became shocked. "They didn't?" She speaks in another a whisper. When Sheriff Stilinski shook his head, she blinked again. "What do you think happened to them?"

"It doesn't matter what I think," Noah answers even though he already has a strong feeling inside of him, "what matters is the evidence I can gather to determine where these girls are. So you don't know anything about where Lacy and them could have gone or if they said anything to you before or after the game?" He continues to question her.

Lydia remembers seeing Lacy before the volleyball game and wishing her good luck before going to sit with Jackson, her boyfriend, but she didn't talk to Kayla or any of the other girls. Lacy and Kayla were the closest, Daphne only becoming close to them a few months before they disappeared. Hannah wasn't close to them. They were more of acquaintances only because they were all on the team together. Daphne was captain.

When she heard that all four of them disappeared, Lydia was confused because why would Hannah be with them? Why wouldn't they come to her party? Lacy always went home no matter what time it was because it was only her and her dad. Why didn't she go home?

"No." Lydia answers the sheriff, her answer quiet and her eyes trailed to the tape recorder again.

BEACON HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
November 10, 2010
2:45 PM

Samuel's never seen somebody so shaken up before, not even in the amount of years he'd been a deputy sheriff, but Isaac Lahey looked to be on the verge of a seizure from how badly he was shaking. "What can you tell me about the missing girls, Isaac?" He asks the teenage boy.

Isaac looks equally afraid, sickly, and confused and he lifts his head. "Daphne told me she was going to go to Lydia's party after the volleyball game," he begins to explain, his voice trembling, "I couldn't go so I just went home. I tried calling her after a few hours because we always call to say goodnight but she never picked up the phone, so I tried again the next morning. She never answered." Isaac places his hand on the desk, revealing a bracelet on his wrist with Daphne's name on it.

"Did you go by her house or anything to check on her?" Sam continues to ask, seeing his daughter's face in his mind and he remembers that she didn't come home. She always comes home.

Isaac shakes his head. "N-No, sir. I didn't have time. I figured I'd just find her later. S-She always came to watch my p-p-practices when she didn't have hers." He stutters uncontrollably and Samuel thinks he might start crying.

"Okay, take a breath," the deputy sheriff tells him, keeping his voice calm and collected, "is there any possibility that Daphne might have run away? That maybe all of them went with her and they got lost?"

Immediately, the teenage boy shakes his head. "No, no sir. Daphne has a good family," he explains, feeling a pit form in his stomach, "she'd never leave them. She'd never leave me. She has so many friends. I don't think she'd want to put any of them in danger."

Sam nods. "Did you know my daughter?" He suddenly asks, a bad taste in his mouth at the past tense.

Isaac blinks a few times before shaking his head. "No sir, not really. She was a lot more popular than I am." Knowing his mistake, his eyes go wide. "She is a lot more popular! Daphne always talks good about her though. She's nice."

The corner of Samuel's lips turn up and he sucks in a deep breath. Isaac thinks he might start crying.

"Please find them, sir."

"We're trying real hard, son."

[KTLA NEWS PLAYING]:

"AFTER ALMOST TWO MONTHS, THE POLICE HAVE STILL NOT GIVEN UP ON FINDING THE FOUR MISSING GIRLS. MORE STATEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE AND EVIDENCE HAVE BEEN COLLECTED BUT ONE HAS TO ASK THE QUESTION: IS THERE A CHANCE THAT THESE GIRLS COULD BE DEAD?"

The story played on every news channel for months. More people came and talked to the news, giving stories about the girls and wishing that they'd come home on TV, some of them Samuel or Lacy had never spoken to before. The Beacon Hills volleyball team was one of the best teams in the state. Daphne Torres was captain and setter. Lacy was outside hitter because she was one of the tallest. Kayla was right side hitter. Hannah was the libero. Missing persons flyers were posted all over Beacon County. Their faces were in every news paper: LOCAL TEEN GIRLS MISSING: POSSIBLY DEAD? Samuel remembers reading one of them. He never read another paper after that. He would never watch the news again if he wasn't so filled with anxiety 24/7.

Most cases after a long period of time go cold but Sam refused to give up on his daughter, on the innocent girls who were taken from their families. He fought long and hard to keep the investigation going, crying himself to sleep at night and pouring his blood, sweat, and tears into the case. She couldn't be dead. She just couldn't.

This is what they determined: On November 7, 2010 after the volleyball game at Beacon Hills High School, Lydia Martin was throwing a party at her house, one that everybody was invited to, even the people she didn't know. Lacy, Kayla, and Daphne left the school together in a group because they were going to get ready at Daphne's house, a statement that Daphne's mother, Regina Torres who wasn't home that night, gave to the police at her questioning. Lydia Martin states that none of the girls showed up to the party and Isaac Lahey states that Daphne never answered his phone calls from the whole night. Samuel couldn't attend the game because he had to work, something Lacy was always okay with because it was just them in the house and she understood that he needed to work, but this one he really wanted to attend. Lacy couldn't drive yet so he dropped her off at the school. Kayla had her permit. Daphne had her permit and a car. The car was still parked at the school the next day and the day when none of the girls showed up for school.

None of the girls went home, none of their parents knew where they were, or any of their friends. It was dark that night, most of the people that attended to meet already gone. Nobody saw any of the girls hurt or in danger. Nobody heard them scream for help. Nobody saw anything or anyone out of the ordinary. Everybody knew everybody in Beacon Hills.

None of the girls were answering their phones so Samuel determined that they were either broken or taken from them. The security cameras around the school's parking lots were broken so somebody smashed them before or during the game so that nobody would notice because they were all inside the gym.

Hannah wasn't with the girls after the game but she never went home, so Samuel determined that whoever kidnapped them got to her first and kept her as hostage until he could get the remaining three girls. Kayla's bag was left on the ground in the parking lot but neither of the others, which led Samuel to believe that someone had forced them to raise their hands and she put hers down to do so, and then they took the girls and left her bag. Her phone was still in the bag when detectives searched it.

There was no video to determine a person or vehicle. No witnesses to see the girls being taken. No finger prints, foot prints, or anything. It was a cold trail, one that led a lot of people to believe that the girls were runaways but Sam knew his daughter. She loved her life. Lacy would never run away and none of the other girls would either.

Lacy was also always good at detecting danger, it was almost a sixth sense, so he couldn't figure out if she didn't know what was going to happen or if she did and tried to stop it from happening.

Runaways. Kidnapped. Murdered. Runaways. Kidnapped. Murdered. Runaways. Kidnapped. Murdered. Three possibilities that drove the man nearly insane. The stakes of finding the four missing girls grew higher and higher as the hours, days, weeks, and months passed by and there was the smallest bit of doubt in Sam's mind that his daughter was a love, but it was big enough to break his heart.

That is until the girls were find a month later.

Courtney Eaton   Lacy Austin

Maia Reficco   Kayla Joy ✞

Sophie Thatcher   Hannah Kross

Dylan O'Brien Stiles Stilinski

Drew Starkey Jackson Whittemore

Boyd Holbrook Peter Hale

Cliff Curtis   Samuel Austin

Simone Kessell Sophia Austin ✞

Asha Banks Daphne Torres ✞

Abigail Cowen Lydia Martin

Tyler Posey   Scott McCall

Daniel Sherman   Isaac Lahey

This plot had been nested in the back of my head for so long now. This fic is slightly based on the North Mammon episode from Criminal Minds with a twist on the saying 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'. My sweet angel girl Lacy gives off very much Lottie Matthew vibes if she were still medicated while out in the wilderness.

I also want to clarify that this is slightly a slowburn considering my girl was literally kidnapped and held captive for months, and she also has extreme mental health problems so she's not looking for a relationship at the moment but Stiles also has mental problems so he'll be able to help her 🫶🏼 I don't plan on having them get together till like maybe season 4 if we're lucky. Post Void Stiles will need some love eventually

Warnings for this fic include of course kidnapping, mentions of death, highly intense mentions of gore and blood, suicidal thoughts and tendencies, mentions of mental illness and institutionalization, anxiety and depression. Please read at your own risk!!