A Grimm Visit

A/N Okay, it looks like it will be another chapter before they get to Portland. All I wanted was the first sentence and then Stiles said no that there had to be more to explain why he gave he up the argument and to set up for what is to come. Stiles won, as he usually does.

P.S. Don't expect quick updates like this all the time. I'm just in the writing mood and your comments gave me enough incentive to work on this last night and today.

Is it canon or fanon that Stiles named his Jeep Jess?

A Grimm Visit

Chapter 2

They leave in the morning, bright at dawn, Stiles had put up a fight the night before but finally gave in. He had a feeling what brought this all on and what exactly his dad was hoping would happen.

But he didn't want to leave while things were happening.

Stiles may not be buff or brawn or super-strong but he has skills. He does. Didn't they know that they needed Stiles' awesome research skills? Not to mention his unbelievable way to break the tension in the room with one of his foot in mouth techniques. Okay, sometimes it makes things worse, but usually it causes a non sequitur to take place and bemusement and befuddlement fill his opponents face; often to the point that they forget what they were yelling about or any violence they were about to perform. Unless, they are like Derek and just tell him to shut up and get back on point. Verbal vomit...or inducement of verbal explosion, that's what he should call it. It's a skill not as cool as some skills like being able to pick up a car with one hand and toss it, but still for a normal human, it is an awesome skill, emphasis most definitely included.

Still, Stiles knows what his dad is doing. He knows this is about the Isaac Lahey thing and the fact that he's been catching Stiles and Scott near his crime-scenes and causing mischief. His dad is worried. Stiles can tell. It's not like he can tell his dad to not worry because Scott is now a werewolf and super-strong and Stiles has already been threatened with life and limb a hundred times and been in the presence of real psychopaths, that he knows he can handle whatever life throws at him. He talked down 'crazy as a bag of cannibal cats' Peter Hale from killing him and/or biting him. Now that was pure skills. Stiles wonders if he can use that for college applications to show immense calm in the presence of crazy and life-endangering incidents.

Nope, he just can't tell his dad. It's not just the fact that it is so out of the realm of possibility but also he knows his dad will freak out. Not only about werewolves and hunters and all those bodies that somehow keep dropping in his town, but also because his son is in the middle of it all. His precious only child, the only family that his father has left in the world, is in the middle of a supernatural war-zone. Emphasis most definitely needed to show how damn crazy and very very bad this all is.

Yeah, that won't send his dad over the crazy hill and have him quit his job and move them across the planet to get away from the supernatural stuff to protect his only son, at all. Nope, that's just what any sane rational parent would do when their child is faced with immense danger from something they can't comprehend. Or just what Stiles would do.

Stiles can just imagine it. He will be the 'helicopter protective over the nth degree' parent. His kid or kids, maybe a boy and a girl – he will love to have a little brainy girl, just like Lydia – would already be out of school and off to a private boarding school the moment he caught them in danger. A nice one with armed guards and security checks and more secure than Fort Knox.

Derek, he can imagine, would be the military parent. The one who teaches the kids about danger and how to protect themselves and then sends them off to safety the moment it comes. Sure, he wouldn't be as bad as Stiles in the over protectiveness since he wouldn't send across the planet to some foreign school with ex-military mercenaries being the security guards of the most precious children on earth. But he can imagine him locking them down in a panic room with weapons to protect themselves.

Scott, though, would be a horrible parent. Just plain awful. The way he is oblivious to danger and not able to read between the lines and stuff. He would let his kids get away with murder if they pull the puppy-dog eyes on him. Good thing he has Allison or else they would turn out as spoiled as Jackson.

Stiles really needs to stop this train of thought because then he is going to wonder who will be the mommy to his kids. And as much as he think Lydia will be the most badass parent of them all, genius and HBIC as she is, he doesn't think she will be the mommy to his kids and that makes him a little sad. He wanted little girls with red hair and brainy brainy smarts with a wicked and viperous tongue and little boys with dark hair and green eyes that shine blue when angry and...

Green eyes? Green eyes? Lydia doesn't have green eyes. Neither does Stiles.

…

So, yeah he understands why his dad is packing them up and going for the hills. Fighting him even further on this will just make him suspicious and while his cop intuition will be nowhere close to the truth he doesn't want to bring his dad anywhere near to what it could be. He doesn't even want to imagine what his dad will do when he finds out that Stiles knows who Derek Hale is – not just a name and a face but actually knows him – and has been in close and personal contact with said Derek Hale and has helped him break the law a few times. Yep, that will not go over very well.

Grounded for life and possibly shipped out to military school, not very well.

He had called Scott that night to let him know that his dad was kidnapping him for a few days to a week and that he needed Allison to take notes for him. As much as Stiles loves Scott and would do anything for him he would not trust him to take notes for him. There is a reason why Scott is failing a couple of his classes or near to failing them. Stiles is unsure how bad the grades actually are but Scott won't tell him so he lets it go. Still, Stiles will not let Scott take his notes. He needs his good grades, even if only to prove to his father that nothing bad is going on with Stiles and his somehow coincidental connections to crime-scenes and dead mutilated bodies.

The drive is long and arduous and they took Jess – he named his Jeep so what, everyone and everything deserves to have a name, especially those things that belongs to Stiles – as Stiles' dad's vehicle was the Sheriff's SUV. Not exactly prudent or wise to drive to another state in a cop car. They ask questions about that. So Jess it was.