Notes:

I have written 2 chapters for you guys. It's been about 2 months since I last updated and I apologize but it takes a while for me to write when I'm not stressed. If I'm stressed I can spit chapters out like in 10 minutes. But if I'm happy and enjoying the life I just hit a writer's block that I cannot escape from. And for the past 2 months, I've been generally pretty happy. Up until today. I got super stressed yesterday so this is my creative outlet. Anyway, I wrote two chapters and the first one is a little bit short. But the second one is super long so just imagine it as just one chapter. I just had to separate it cuz I wanted different chapter titles and whatever you get two chapters either freaking way so what's the difference.

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Some updates on my life: oh, I tried therapy out. It was working really well until my therapist told me she couldn't be my therapist anymore and I got super depressed. So Therapy was a no-go after that I searched for a different therapist and it just didn't work out for me after that.

Then I had a lot of school work cuz of midterms. Then I started evaluating my friendships because I noticed that one of my friends only ever hung out with me when she wanted something. She would only ever hit me up when she wanted something. Like if she wanted me to type an essay for her cuz I'm good at writing or if she wanted someone to go with her somewhere because she didn't want to it new shopping alone. Not even like offering that I could go shopping to just that I would be there with her to hang out and watch her shop which I was like hell no. I can look through most of my text messages with her and it's basically just her asking me to write for her and I was like ehhh. Also, I'm not really good at talking to people so kind of just haven't texted her back. I kind of want to but I'm like ehhhh.

Other than that my niece came to visit again. It was so cute this time cuz she's no longer like a newborn baby so now I can pick her up and play with her. It's really cute and she can see now. So I got to hold her and walk her around and play peek-a-boo with her. It was really cute. My grandma was really sad though because she couldn't pick her up because she was really old and she cried a lot about that so I was sad too.

I'm currently in the final season now because all my classes are almost over. I also have some problems because I need my passport because I need my ID and I need my fingerprints done because you need your fingerprints in the system to become a teacher. So I have a lot of stress about getting that on time. Also, some of my classes cannot be paired up together. They have to be one after another and it's really giving me a lot of stress.

Also the top it all off I have gifted a bike at Christmas time last year. And I have not gotten the bike yet. Like not at all. And my mom tried to intervene with it and tried to buy me a bike herself but now she doesn't like to talk to me so I'm never going to get that fucking bike, I'm so pissed. The only reason I wanted to buy a bike to get exercise was that I've been doing absolutely nothing. Because at least before covid-19 I was walking and moving and I was doing stuff but since Covid started I have not left my house at all. I definitely got more overweight and I want to lose weight but like I'm not really good at dieting and stuff it just doesn't work out for me so I thought I could ride a bike around and I have been trying to get a bike for like 6 months and fuck it hasn't happened yet.

So with fingerprints and not getting a bicycle and final season I am fucking stressed.

Sorry for the long update on me, but lots happened in 3 months.

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Later that night, Upstairs at Bobby's house...

Stiles POV:

After we caught up, mainly just a bunch of hugging and a few tears nobody wanted to talk about, we were all tired from the long car drives, and we all decided that we would talk about everything tomorrow. And we decided to head to bed.

I'm currently in bed, and there are two air mattresses and a couch. I offered to take the couch, but I was denied and ended up with the bed. Lydia took an air mattress, and so did Allison. Peter got the couch, and Malia chose the floor.

I tried to give her the bed like four times, but she said no. She made a bed on the floor and ignored me. We were just lying in bed, all looking up at the ceiling. We were quiet, but none of us were asleep. I didn't have to be a werewolf to know that. I'm still in the habit of not being able to fall asleep because of purgatory. I'm pretty sure everyone else is just unable to sleep from excitement and adrenaline.

"It's good to be back," I said softly, and I meant it.

Even though I sort of got used to living in purgatory, it didn't mean I liked it.

"We are all glad your back, Stiles," Lydia said from the left of the room.

"Yeah," Allison said from the right side of the room.

Then it quiet again. I thought we were gonna go to sleep at this point.

But a small whisper of,

"Where did you go?" from Malia made me wide awake again.

"Uh, I went to purgatory. It's kind of like a giant forest. Endless trees and all the supernatural monsters you can think of."

I started to describe.

"It's actually hard to fall asleep now because I could never really get a peaceful night's sleep there. I didn't have to eat; I didn't have to drink; I was just endlessly running for my life. And besides Dean, I was the only human there. There were leviathans all over the place. They were the most trouble. They were the ones out for my blood the most. Not to mention the vampires, god, there were so many vampires." I muttered.

The number of vampire heads I had to chop off, I feel like a veteran Hunter now.

"Did you ever see Dean?" Lydia asked.

"No, I was on the run for a long time in the beginning. I don't think I would have ever stopped running until the very end. I heard whispers of Dean Winchester. But wherever Dean was, there was a hell of a lot of monsters. And as confident as I was that I could take down two or three, I couldn't take the swarms that were circling him. I don't know how he got out of there." I said, generally confused.

There were quite a bit of monsters after me because I was human, but the number of monsters after my cousin was insane. Dean made a lot of monster enemies, and it really showed in purgatory.

"How did you get out? I thought it was a monster prison." Allison asked.

"It was a monster prison. Monsters can't get out, at least I don't think so. But I was human, and I wasn't supposed to be there. Apparently, there was a portal that appeared so that I could leave. Apparently, purgatory didn't want me there any more than I didn't want to be there." I told Allison, shifting my head in her general direction.

"There was just a portal in front of you? Why didn't you come sooner?" Peter asks grumpily.

"Ha. I wish it appeared in front of me. I didn't even know it existed. I only got out of there with help. Otherwise, I would have been stuck there for the rest of my life." I said, scoffing; I wish the portal appeared in front of me.

That would have been so easy.

"Oh, who helped you?" Allison asked, curious.

"Ah mm." I struggled to answer.

I wasn't prepared to tell anyone yet. I was going to sit Peter down alone and have this conversation with him.

"Monsters I've recognized. Well, actually, one person I recognized, who thankfully did not kill me." I said, beating around the answer.

"Who?" Peter said.

"Uh well, funnily enough, uh, well, I saw uh, Laura." I finally spit it out.

I might as well get it out of the way.

"Derek's sister?" Lydia said.

"Yup."

"You met her before?" Allison asked.

"Maybe I should have said recognized instead," I said awkwardly because I did meet Laura once before, but the last time I met her, she was already dead, and I don't really want to bring that up.

This conversation is already freaking awkward as is.

"So all supernatural creatures go there when they die, huh?" Lydia said.

"Yeah, I mean, I met a whole pack of wolves. They were running together around the portal. I was trying to sneak past, but that didn't work. I ended up surrounded by six werewolves, and one transformed into Laura, who I recognized and was able to have a conversation with, which is why I didn't end up dead in that situation. I'm lucky I ran into just six of them; there was a pack of like 60 that we're just circling the portal for days. I still don't understand why they were doing that, but it's thanks to them, but I got out. Once they realized I was human, they told me of the portal and told me to leave. I was more than happy to." I said.

"So all supernatural creatures go there, meaning not just Laura was there," Peter said.

"Oh yeah, I met your sister too. She was the alpha of the big 60 werewolf pack. She is very intimidating." I said, sitting up slightly.

"Hmm, let's talk later," Peter said.

"Oh yeah, sure." I agreed.

This time when it went quiet, everyone else seems to have calmed down by now, and the curiosity was quenched enough that they were all tired, and so was I. It's been a while since I was safe; it's been a while since I could peacefully sleep, so I took the opportunity. So I went to bed. It wasn't the most peaceful sleep. I woke up every few hours after I heard someone snore or someone got up to go to the bathroom. But every time I woke up, I realized I didn't have to worry.

It was really nice.

Peaceful.

Felt like home.

I was finally safe again. I was finally with my pack and my family, and everything was good again. It was great.

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Notes:

So this was just a quick chapter to remind myself what's going on in the story and to prelude into the next chapter which is going to be a lot longer than the first one. Thanks for sticking around and waiting and enjoying the story so far. I really enjoyed reading your comments and I'm glad about the engagement I get from you guys. It really pumps my mood up.