maybe and kind of

And it’s Lydia. Of course it’s Lydia disappearing act Martin.

Two and half years– one quarter of a decade– since anyone’s heard from her, and apparently she’s been in the exact same business as Stiles and Allison the whole time.

She dropped off the grid right after graduation. Took a gap year, sent everyone postcards from Ireland in her gorgeous, loopy cursive, and then effectively disappeared.

Not, like, Cora Hale levels of disappeared– she keeps in contact with Scott, enough to still be associated with his pack, and she FaceTimes with Allison at regular intervals, but– it pretty much felt to Stiles like she’d evaporated. Which was a lot less distressing than he would’ve expected, actually; he had shit to do in the meantime. College, dorm life, picking a major; coping with the Nemeton and learning to channel his spark; the weird phase with DJing; reconnecting with Allison when she came back from France, starting their consulting business, their private campaign to root prejudice out of hunter society: idle hands were not Stiles’ issue. But after Peter Hale Round Two during senior year, and everything Lydia went through– there was a part of him that would never not worry. So.