Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Wolf, references made directly from Season 5 episodes [05] A Novel Approach and [09] Lies of Omission

Narrative "Dialogue" Thoughts

Claws On the Nape of His Neck

Chapter 1:

Stiles has just arrived at the animal clinic to find Scott waiting for him in the pouring rain. He's holding the wrench Stiles used to fight Donovan. Stiles' eyes widen when he sees it.

Stiles: "Where'd you get that?"

Scott: "This is yours?" Scott's expression is incredulous "Why didn't you tell me?"

Stiles: "I was going to." Stiles murmurs with his eyes on the ground, unable to make direct eye contact while saying such a blatant lie.

Scott: "Why didn't you tell me when it happened?" Scott's is hurt. Stiles and Scott were supposed to be best friends, brothers. Surviving through thick, thin and lycanthropy until the end of time. But this person in front of Scott was a stranger to him and he needed to find out the truth.

Stiles: [panicking]" I… I couldn't." Stiles's eyebrows furrow.

Scott: "You killed him?" Scott emphasizes the word "You killed Donovan?" As if repeating it would clarify the word's meaning.

Stiles: "He … He was going to kill my dad." Stiles starts to explain, using the justification Theo had given him. "What? was I supposed to just let him?"

Scott: "You weren't supposed to do this…" Disappointment seeping out of his voice. "None of us are!" Anger begins to boil to the surface of Scott's demeanor.

Stiles: "You think I had a choice?" Stiles stares into his best friend's eyes searching for any indication of understanding, of trust.

Scott: "There's always a choice." Scott bites back.

Stiles: "Yeah? well, I can't do what you can, Scott. I know you wouldn't have done it. You probably would've just figured something out, right?"

Scott: "I'd try..." and Stiles finally snaps.

Stiles: [angrily] "Yeah, because you're Scott McCall! You're the True Alpha! Guess what? All of us can't be True Alphas. Some of us make mistakes! Some of us have to get our hands a little bloody sometimes. Some of us are human!"

The word echos, unleashing an invisible line between the two that was never there before, defining their difference. It had never mattered before, they were still best friends through thick and thin even if one had become a super natural being.

Scott: "So you had to kill him?"

Stiles: "Scott, he was going to kill my dad!" Stiles repeats Theos words, brainwashed into himself.

Scott: "But the way that it happened... There's a point when it's... it's not self-defense anymore."

Stiles: "What are you even talking about? I didn't have a choice, Scott!" Stiles' brain frantically replays the events, his chest clenching remembering the panic, fear, and powerless he felt as the Windego tried to take his life. Stile's focus is brought back to Scott, suddenly aware he hasn't responded.

"You...You don't even believe me, do you?" A rhetorical question at best, more close to an accusation.

Scott: "I want to." Scott has been listening for a skip in is best friend's heart beat to indicate he was lying, Stile's heart beat is all over the place. Scott's confusion builds into frustration.

Stiles: "Okay. Alright, So... So, believe me then, Scott. Say you believe me." Stiles pauses waiting for Scott prove him wrong, prove that he still trusted him, that he was still his best friend, still his brother. "Say it. Say you believe me." Stiles is shamelessly begging at this point, because he knew the conversation wasn't about the truth anymore, that wasn't what was as stake here.

Scott: "Stiles, we can't kill people that we're trying to save..." stiles almost winces, from the sting of rejection. And rejection turns into anger as Stiles subconsciously grabs the wrench.

Stiles: "Say you believe me." The words come out demanding this time, he takes an aggressive step toward Scott, fighting tooth and nail for their friendship. Scott backs away viewing Stiles in a way he had never seen before: a killer. Stiles immediately sees the look and knows he's too late, it's done. They're done.

The two figures stood still, at an unnatural distance apart. Their position entertaining the façade that the lack of eye contact was merely circumstantial, anything but intentional.

Ignoring the unforgiving rain that would make any conversation impossible.

Ignoring the two separate realities.

Ignoring far too much.

Formerly spoken words echoed through Stiles' mind.

Stiles: I know what my punishment is. I'm going to lose my best friend. I'm gonna lose scott.'

He feels that god forsakenly familiar tightness in his chest, ravenously stealing his ability to breath in or out.

Meanwhile, the True alpha was enraged. Frustrated his werewolf powers were failing to tell him what he needs to know, is his best friend lying? Did his brother become a murderer? How could something so terrible happened without him even noticing? His head snaps up, with crimson irises and claws unleashed. In a split second, he closes the distance between the two boys.

Scott: "Stiles, I want to believe you." It's only warning Stiles has before the wereclaws pierce the back of his neck, a feral growl and the glow of red eyes crowds his vision. Stiles' eyes grow wide with realization of what was happening.

Stiles: "Scott? No…don't do this." Disbelief flashes across his face before he loses consciousness.

The true alpha was using a dangerous technique that conjured up the memories of the individual whose spinal cord is pierced by and alpha's wereclaw. The risks for this technique were high and had left many paralyzed or catatonic, risks than Stiles was very aware his best friend had chosen to ignore. But, that was the least of Stiles's worries because at the moment his best friend was going to witness first hand the act that he himself can't even say out loud. And Stiles was just the kind of lucky to get the opportunity to relive that nightmare, All. Over. Again.

All the while he couldn't shake his words repeating over and over again. I know what my punishment is. I'm going to lose my best friend. I'm gonna lose scott.'

Author's Note:

LOVE the rain scene S5E9, and the Bromance between stiles and Scott is amazing. Rated Mature due to explicit language. Get ready, lots ahead: next chapter Scott gets closer to the truth.

Thanks for reading!