Monsters | Stiles Stilinski

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎

I OPENED MY EYES AND YAWNED before glancing out of the small window to see the sun still high in the sky, slowly my body woke up and I felt a weight curled into the left of me. I glanced down to see Stiles sound asleep on top of me, his irregular breaths confirming he was out for the count. I curled my fingers into his thick hair, running my digits through the soft locks slowly.

The clock on the wall opposite us read 14:35 and a sigh pooled from my lips when I realised I'd only been asleep for forty minutes. The small bed Stiles and I tried to curl up on was less than ideal — not to mention it was incredibly uncomfortable but we were in no position to leave the hospital.

I did note that we were alone. When I'd drifted off the Sheriff was sitting in the arm chair beside the bed conversing. I hoped I hadn't fallen asleep when he was talking to me.

The silence I was sitting in didn't stay peaceful for long — much to my dismay — as my poisonous thoughts began to run wild once more. I couldn't contain them and they slowly chipped away at my last pillar of sanity. If I hadn't of heard Derek and Aiden last night I'd of been ignorant still .. or as ignorant a person could be when her boyfriend was sleep walking into the woods at night.

I couldn't forget the look in Aiden's eyes when I interrupted their conversation. He seemed to be looking at me like he knew I knew, like he was trying to convince me silently that he was right and to trust what he was saying.

And Derek? Well, he seemed just as panicked as I did which really stirred something inside of me.

I couldn't formulate a sentence for the first few minutes. I just stood there, wide eyed and open mouthed while I panicked.

"Alex—" Derek hurried to say once he recognised I was starting on a downward spiral.

"You think Stiles is the Nogitsune?" I aimed at Aiden.

"It makes sense." He shrugged and what stuck me most was that there was no sympathy behind his tone. He was being malicious and he knew it though why I had no idea. Was this because of what had happened between us the night of Halloween? "I heard what he said in the science classroom."

"That was between Scott, Stiles and I." I snapped, "It had nothing to do with you."

He sighed and I detected the slightest bit of remorse in his tone, "Alex—"

"Shut up." I sighed in exasperation, "Stop trying to make things worse for me and better for you."

His eyes widened, "I'm not—"

"Then get your nose out of my business!"

Aiden's jaw clenched in irritation and he walked over to me, closing the distance while ignoring Derek's presence entirely. The remorse had disappeared, "It becomes my business when he's a dark spirit with the potential to kill us all."

I glared at him, looking up to meet his blue gaze while clenching my jaw, "He isn't."

"How do you know?" He said to me in an almost ridiculing tone, "It makes sense, don't you think?" 

"No. I don't think." I argued, "Because Stiles is fine!"

"This is what you call fine?" He asked of me while raising a brow, "Somethings not right. You're just either too oblivious or too in-denial to recognise it."

"You don't even know him." I responded as my fingers curled into fists, "And you don't know me .. not anymore. So stop trying to force your way into my life by coming for the one person that I love."