Stiles Stilinski's First Entrance (for real this time!)

[whatisastiles]

Stiles Stilinski is trying to solve one of the greatest mysteries of his young life, and he's six now, so he's knows from mysteries. Mom and Dad are taking him to a baseball game (Go Beacon Hills Bluebirds!), but he can't find his baseball glove anywhere.

He runs back into his room—Dad says if he's not ready in five minutes they're leaving without him—double checks under the bed, then pulls open the closet. It looks like he took a wrong turn on the way to Narnia, cause he's just walked into some sort of restaurant, and some of the people there definitely don't look like they belong in Beacon Hills.

He reacts pretty much as you'd expect a boy this curious and enthusiastic about the world would.

"This is so cool!"



[ooc: Stiles doesn't know that his 16 year old self was just here the other day. Be a doll and don't tell him, kay?]

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[whatisastiles]

"He said usually he just shoots at pieces of paper. He says when I'm old enough he'll teach me, but I have to be safe. I'm not allowed to touch his gun."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"That makes sense," Ellen says. "My dad didn't let me use even a BB gun until I was ten years old, just to be sure I was careful with it."

[whatisastiles]

"How old are you now?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Almost twenty-one," Ellen says. "I still have a few months to go."

[whatisastiles]

"A few months to go for what?" She's not as old as Mom and Dad, but she's already a grown up.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Before my next birthday," Ellen says. "When I turn twenty-one, I mean."

[whatisastiles]

"Oh, okay. Are you going to have cake?" he asks. "You should. Birthday cake is the best. Especially chocolate."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"If I'm here, sure," Ellen says. "I'm not very good at baking things myself, so I'll probably just get cake and have a party with my friends here. They make good stuff in the kitchen, not just stuff to drink."

[whatisastiles]

"I can't make cake either, but I still like it. You should have a party and I'll come. I mean, if you want me too. I know lots of good games!"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"If you're here then, sure," Ellen says with a smile. "What kinds of games?"

[whatisastiles]

"Hide and seek, go fish, freeze tag... do you like freeze tag? It's really hard cause I'm not good at staying frozen."

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Oh gosh. I haven't played that in ages," Ellen says. "But that's a good one, if you can keep yourself from moving. We had a game when I was a kid called Hunt the Mutant- it was like hide and seek, only backwards."

[whatisastiles]

"So only one person hides, right?" That makes more sense than actually running backwards.

"What's a mutant?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Yep. One person hides, and when you find them you have to squish into the same space as them," Ellen says. "And you stay there until other people find you and squish in too. last person to find you is the next mutant."

"And a mutant is a- well, they're a kind of person, but they're different from regular people. Here, I'll show you."

She digs into her pockets and comes up with a photograph somewhat bigger than a standard Polaroid.

"This is my friend Fawkes. He's a mutant. I know he looks weird, but he's really a nice person. He's eight feet tall."

[whatisastiles]

"He looks like the Hulk! He's big and green too, but only when he gets angry. Is your friend angry cause he's a mutant?"

Ellen says he's nice, but even nice people like Mom and Dad get angry sometimes.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Sometimes he is," Ellen admits. "He used to be a lot angrier, but he's happier now. He has a job as a guard in a town near me- there's a lot of kids there with no parents, and he's one of the guards who makes sure they stay safe. He likes doing that kind of work."

[whatisastiles]

"Like my Dad! That's okay then."

But...

"Why don't the kids have parents?"

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

"Sometimes people who have children die without having any relatives they can send the children to live with," Ellen says after some thought; she's mostly remembering Bryan Wilks, and the ants that ate Grayditch. "If they don't get adopted when that happens, older kids wind up looking after them instead. Or if they're somebody like my friend Tanya they get adopted by giant ants."

She wishes she were kidding about that. She wishes so much that she were kidding about that.

[whatisastiles]

"That's sad," he says. "Parents shouldn't be allowed to die."

"Giant... ants?" He shudders a little bit. Stiles is not too into to bugs, especially giant ones.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

( "Run. Run!" )

"No," Ellen agrees, "they shouldn't."

"But yes. Giant ants." It's an easier subject to handle. "As big as- well, as long as you are tall, some of them. Tanya learned to communicate with them and made herself a costume and called herself the AntAgonizer for a while, but that was kind of a bad-guy thing to do. She's just Tanya now, but she still talks to the ants."