TW - Just Nightmares - H/C: Joker (für mich)

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Titel: Just Nightmares - Teil 3
Team: Erato
Challenge: Hurt/Comfort - Joker: Ungesagt (vom 24.05.2013)
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Charaktere/Pairings: Stiles + Scott + Allison + Pack
Wörter: 976
Warnungen: Schimpfwörter? Kann mich grad nicht so erinnern, aber um sicher zu gehen.
A/N: Dritter Teil der Story.
Teil 1
Teil 2
Es wollte nicht so ganz wie ich wollte, also... H/C... if you squint.


"We are probably dealing with vampires or witches," Derek said. He was standing in front and slightly to the side of his big flat-screen in his loft, looking at his pack mates with a serious expression on his face (and was it just Stiles or did his gaze linger on him?). Stiles knew already, of course, since he had been the one spending way too much time on the phone with Allison the other day. She had searched the bestiary for some info on all the supernatural things Stiles had found, and after discussing all the very unnerving information decided that the most likely culprit was either a witch or a vampire. Stiles voted for vampire, only because witches sounded much scarier and more powerful.

Glancing at her now, curled into Scott's side, and seeing how Scott was still inconspicuously brushing his thumb over the spot where the sword had hit her, Stiles felt the same old pang of guilt in his stomach, the one he'd had on the phone as well. He wasn't sure he'd ever stop feeling guilty for what had happened, even though he knew it hadn't been him who had stabbed her. She noticed his glance and Stiles quickly dropped his gaze to the floor.

"Vampires? They're real?" Isaac, currently sitting on the couch right beside Scott, arched his brow. It was pretty much the same reaction Stiles had, but Derek only threw an annoyed glance at him, not answering the question. It was probably rhetorical anyway.

"How do we find them?" Malia asked from next to Stiles on the floor. He was glad for her direct, blunt attitude in this moment, because he wished for the meeting to end as soon as possible. It wasn't that he was feeling the guilt of the nogitsune's actions a bit more today than usually, it was only... that he felt the guilt of the nogitsune's actions a bit more today. Especially after he'd had another nightmare. It didn't help that Lydia's legs were gently pushing into his back from where she was sitting on the chair behind Stiles and Malia. It felt like he didn't deserve the comfort she was still giving him. That everyone was, in some kind of way, still giving him.

"It won't be easy. Neither vampires nor witches look much different from normal humans. Vampires are a bit easier to spot, since they do avoid sunlight as much as possible, though it isn't lethal for them, and their skin is usually very pale compared to others. Witches are almost impossible to find if they don't want to be found," Allison threw in. She had been the one to research them, because Derek had been almost as clueless as everyone else.

"So we'll have to try and catch their scent?" Isaac asked again, hunching over a little and leaning his elbows on his knees. "Or is that not going to work on witches either?"

"As far as we know," Derek said, looking grim, "witches can hide their scent. Vampires, for the most part, smell undead, which it had smelt like when I was there."

Stiles hoped he was right. He really didn't want to deal with witches, who could curse the shit out of people. Vampires also had the advantage of not being able to enter without an invitation. Somehow, that made Stiles feel a tiny bit safer.

"Let's hope it's a vampire, then," Stiles said just to say something, because he was sure his silence didn't go by unnoticed. He had seen Scott and Derek throwing him furtive glances, Lydia had pushed her legs into his back so he could lean on them, even Isaac and Kira had once looked at him contemplatively. He didn't know whether or not Allison had spared him any weird looks, but that was because he hadn't dared—aside from that one glance—to look at her.

"I mean, the bestiary has confirmed that vampires can cause sleep paralysis, right? That could have been the cause for the suffocation. Maybe the vampire is exaggerating it," he tried to reason, because no matter how they looked at it, there just was no motive for either vampire or witch to start randomly killing people. Especially since vampires didn't need to kill their prey and could therefore easily avoid being convicted for murder.

"Yeah, that would make sense," Allison replied, trying to lock their gazes, but Stiles studiously avoided her. "But what's the motive?"

The rest of the discussion was as fruitless as it was before. They had mostly agreed that a vampire was the most likely target this time, but they hadn't really moved forward, and soon they started leaving one by one when there was nothing left to discuss. Lydia and Malia were the first to leave, and Isaac soon followed. Kira smiled awkwardly at Stiles when she walked past him towards the door, and Stiles wanted to go too, but just when he was almost at the door, a hand wound around his arm and stopped him.

"Scott?"

"Hey," Scott said, as if he hadn't seen him before. "You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied, knowing full well Scott could hear right through the lie, even if he hadn't been a werewolf. From the corner of his eye he saw Allison approaching them and his gaze automatically went down.

"Stiles?" Allison asked, sounding worried. Then there was a brief silence, before Scott shifted his weight from one foot to the other.

"Hey, we haven't had a bro night in ages, how about coming over today? Play some games, watch a movie..." Scott trailed off, sounding light but also a little hopeful, like he thought Stiles would decline the offer. And he wanted to. He wanted to go home and lie awake in his bed the whole night.

"Sure," he heard himself say, despite everything.

Comments

[peterhforalpha.livejournal.com]

Oh, gefällt mir soooo gut :)
Wie sich alle Sorgen um unseren armen kleinen Stiles machen, aber so, dass es nicht zu aufdringlich wird, sondern einfach so, "Hey, ich bin für dich da."
Die Schuldgefühle für Allison waren sehr gut und nachvollziehbar dargestellt. Mir tut Stiles so richtig leid und ich hoffe wirklich, dass er den Abend mit Scott verbringt, am besten eng ineinander gekuschelt, weil Skittles einfach das Beste ist, um alles wieder gut zu machen :D

[rolly-chan.livejournal.com]

Yay, danke! <3
Ich sagte ja, Pack-feels! Und ja, als nächstes kommt mein brotp (und manchmal auch otp) Skittles. Es besteht wohl doch noch Hoffnung für mich, dass ich nicht rein Sterek schreibe XD
Die Story hat sogar nen Plot. Der braucht nur ein wenig, um aufzutauchen. Bin trotzdem stolz auf mich, lol.

[peterhforalpha.livejournal.com]

Hast du auch super gemacht.
Kannst stolz auf dich sein ;)