Blue eyes shot up then, meeting Stiles' brown ones and holding. He couldn't help the way his stomach flip-flopped at the tone of the Omega's voice, and yet it made him nervous at the same time and he had to fight to keep his gaze up.

"It may have been a problem, but it didn't make you any less important. We'd have helped you deal with it. We're tougher than you give us credit for; we could have handled it."

His eyes followed that hand as it moved away, briefly, before finding Stiles again. "I walk into the corridor, or the grocery store or the gas station and the scent of arousal is always there. How was I to know it meant any more? If it even did. You can find someone attractive without being attracted to them." After all, Isaac found Erica and Scott and Lydia, even Jackson and Derek attractive, but he didn't feel anything more than platonic for them.