Skye's POV
"You want to handcuff me?" Stiles asked and I heard the Sheriff walking towards him while the rest of us still waited out of sight.
"If my son is still here, if there's still a part of him standing here in front of me then he'll put these on willingly and he'll come with me because he knows I'm here to protect him from himself and others" I heard the sound of the handcuffs locking into place. "You're not my son"
I frowned sharing a look with Derek before we all walked in as Stiles broke the handcuffs and laughed at us, we walked towards him then Allison raised the taser gun at him and pulled the trigger but the nogitsune caught it without it even affecting him one bit before he ripped it out of her hands tossing it aside.
Derek then growled baring his fangs and charged at Stiles before I could stop him but Stiles…the nogitsune grabbed his arm then bent it back and I heard the sickening crack of bone before he smashed Derek's head into a table before throwing him against one of the pillars.
"Derek!" I yelled as I watched him collapse to the ground then ran towards him to make sure he wasn't severely injured, I grabbed his face making him look at me before turning to Stiles with wide eyes surprised that he'd done that, I heard a gun cock and looked at Argent as did Stiles and Derek.
"Argent listen to me, don't do this" the Sheriff said holding up his hand as I helped Derek stand up kept a tight grip on his arm in case he tried anything stupid again.
"Why not, I've done it before" Argent replied making me glare at him and brace myself to step in if he pulled that trigger but Derek seemed to sense this and put his arm out in front of me pushing me back behind him. "Werewolves, Berserkers, I can easily add a nogitsune to the list" the Sheriff pulled out his gun and held it up at Argent cocking it.
"You're not going to shoot my son" the Sheriff argued when Argent moved his eyes to look at him.
"You said it yourself Sheriff, that's not your son"
"Put it down" Stilinski ordered but Argent didn't. "Put it down" he repeated and I watched Stiles face take on a look of fear.
"Dad he's going to shoot me" I frowned looking at him. "He's going to kill me dad"
"Don't listen" Argent cut in.
"Put it down" Stilinski told him again as I could do nothing but watch on. "Now do it, put it down!" he exclaimed as Stiles suddenly turned to Argent.
"Pull the trigger, come on" Argent started faltering.
"Listen to me, you put the gun down now!" Stilinski continued to yell at Argent.
"Shoot me" Stiles said again.
"Put the gun down!"
"Dad" Allison yelled trying to get her fathers attention.
"Shoot me!" the nogitsune yelled then everybody started yelling and I understood what the nogitsune was doing, he was creating strife which I want he drew power from.
"Stop!" I yelled getting their attention but before I could say anything else the sun set and the loft grew dark. "Stop this is what he wants!" I yelled again "This is exactly what he wants"
"Not exactly" the nogitsune replied confusing me. "I was kind of hoping Scott would be here but I'm glad you all have your guns out but your not here to kill me" he turned as four oni turned up in front of the windows. "You're here to protect me" the nogitsune backed up as the Sheriff and Argent turned their guns onto the oni and Derek, Allison and I turned to face them.
The Sheriff and Argent started firing as Allison, Derek and I covered their backs as two of the oni dispersed then reappeared behind them so we covered Stiles' other side, Allison pulled out one of her ring daggers while Derek and I shifted and went after them but these oni we're too strong for us.
"We can't beat them" I yelled out then turned and saw Stiles was gone. "Where is he?" I asked not paying attention.
"Skye!" I heard Derek scream my name so I spun and ducked just in time to avoid an oni's blade but in warning me Derek was distracted and I watched one of the oni cut a gash into his shoulder.
"Derek!" I yelled just as the oni vanished so I quickly ran to Derek as he moved to sit on the ground. "I'm sorry, this is my fault" he shook his head painfully but then we heard footsteps running towards us so the Sheriff and Argent pointed their guns towards the door but Scott and Kira ran in so they lowered them.
"What happened?" Scott asked looking around the room.
"They disappeared" Allison replied out of breath. "They literally just vanished"
"And so did Stiles" I added touching Derek's arm to help him with the pain, I helped him stand as everyone left. "Come on, let me clean you up" I led him towards the bathroom and grabbed his shirt pulling it off carefully to avoid hurting him even more, I grabbed a washcloth and some disinfectant and started cleaning out the wound as much as he'd let me before he refused to cover it up and headed back out despite my protests.
I sat on the bed sighing out loudly because I wished we could have one day without patching the other up or fearing that one day one of us wasn't going to get lucky, he was injured because he was distracted by me and that was my fault for turning my back on an attacker like a complete idiot.
"I know what your thinking and it's not your fault" I looked up frowning.
"How is this not my fault, I got distracted and because of it you got injured trying to warn me" he walked over to me and sat down beside me.
"Skye were each other's weaknesses, we already know this and I'd gladly do it again because that oni would've taken off your head if I hadn't of warned you" I frowned climbing into his lap and traced my hand over the wound on his shoulder. "I'm alive, your alive so that's all that matters" I nodded then pulled him in for a kiss. "Why don't you get some rest, we both know you could use it" I sighed but knew he was right since I was barely sleeping these days and when I did I was restless and would wake up more tired than I had before I tried to sleep.
"Will you lay with me?" he nodded then lowered me to the bed wrapping his arms around me and pulled me close as I closed my eyes and tried to fall asleep eventually doing that by being lulled with his breathing and heartbeat.
Derek's POV
After Skye fell asleep I carefully moved from behind her so that she didn't wake up then walked towards my wardrobe pulling out a long forgotten chess board that had been Isaac's when he used to live here since he and Skye used to play it a lot, I brought it over to the table next to the bed and emptied the pieces out before beginning to set it up but looked up when Peter walked in then towards me.
"What are you doing?" he spoke up as I started putting the pieces where they were supposed to go. "And more importantly why aren't you healing?" I looked down at my shoulder where the gash was still showing through the singlet I'd changed into after Skye played nurse cleaning it up a bit.
"It's from one of their swords, it'll heal" I replied quietly so that we didn't wake up Skye since she needed the sleep.
"By playing chess?" he asked me just as quiet and I saw his eyes briefly shift towards Skye as she moved around then settled holding my pillow against her chest and smiling softly.
"Back in his room, Stiles had a board with our names of two of the pieces, if this is a game to him then I need to figure out the plays"
"Not so easy to do when it's a game without rules" I looked up at him.
"What does that mean?"
"You're dealing with the kind of spirit that's lived too long to play by human rules, it's a fox spirit that chose to become human and supposedly that's something they can only do after about 100 years, if a kitsune is annoying pain in the ass then a nogitsune which is a dark kitsune is a freaking disaster" I frowned looking down at the chess board. "Besides chess is Stiles' game, its not the game of a Japanese fox, do yourself a favour and put something on that before it gets infected" he walked out as quickly as he came.
Skye's POV
I moved and expected to come into contact with Derek's warmth but my hand fell on an empty bed so I looked up and saw Derek standing at the table leaning over a chess board looking very vexed.
"Derek?" he looked up. "Come to bed, you need the sleep to" he nodded then climbed into bed with me again. "What's wrong?" he shook his head then pulled me into a kiss, I was surprised but never said no to a kiss from Derek so I kissed back melting along with his touches which he moved all over my body before eventually grabbing my shirt and pulled it over my head leaving me in my black lace bra.
"You're so beautiful" I smiled grabbing his grey singlet and pulled it up running my hands up his chest before he helped slip it off, I moved up to straddle his waist as his hands travelled up my waist to grab my sides as I grabbed the front of his jeans and started undoing the button and fly pulling it down before I started pulling his jeans down.
He smirked tightening his grip on my waist before spinning us around to hover over top of me and kicked his jeans and boxers off leaving himself completely naked on top of me so I quickly unclipped my bra throwing it to the side as his lips moved to my neck trailing kisses along the skin making me moan before he grabbed my shorts and slid them down my legs along with my panties.
"I love you" he replied moving back up then went to push into me but I stopped putting a hand on his chest.
"Whoa hey, condom" I looked up a little confused since he never forgot to cover himself, he nodded quickly grabbing one and ripped the packet open with his teeth then slid it over himself before pushing himself into me a little rough making me wince as I looked up at him. "Derek are you okay?" he nodded smiling as he brushed his hand over my cheek then lowered his lips pressing them to mine as I again melted underneath his touch.
He started moving rhythmically and I wrapped my legs around his waist feeling him press deeper and moaned loudly as I felt myself building fast since it's been a while, his hands moved down to trace my thighs pulling me even further to him as I met him thrust for thrust.
"Oh…god" I moaned throwing my head back as he kissed up and down my neck increasing the pressure of his thrusts until I felt myself become undone underneath him and he followed suit not long after then collapsed beside me pulling me to his chest.
"I love you" he spoke up after a few minutes of catching our breathes.
"I love you to" I replied laying my head against his chest and laid my leg over his waist as I let myself drift off again falling into a peaceful sleep.
The next time I woke up it was to the sound of my ringtone, I sat up holding the covers over my chest as I looked around but couldn't see Derek anywhere which worried me but I quickly grabbed my phone and saw I'd missed the call from Scott but he left a message so I quickly listened to it.
'Skye we found Stiles, meet us at my place now!' I quickly jumped up pulling on my clothes and ran out of the loft after leaving a note for Derek in case he'd just slipped out for food or something telling him where I was going to be then headed over to Scott's which luckily wasn't that far of a run.
"Is he okay?" I asked barging in and walked into the lounge room where I saw Scott, Aiden, Lydia, Deaton and Ms McCall.
"It doesn't look like he's bleeding, I think he may even be healing" Deaton said probably answering my question and one of theirs.
"You mean healing like we heal?" Aiden asked him.
"That's good right?" I added stepping forward to look at Stiles who was unconscious.
"For him yes" Deaton replied leaning back. "Us, I'm not so sure" I frowned not liking the sound of that.
"Well if we're not going to kill him then why aren't we tying him down with really heavy chains" Aiden asked.
"I might have something more effective" Deaton replied unclipping his bag then held up a small jar of something then nodded at the boys so Aiden and Scott opened Stile's mouth and Deaton squirted some clear liquid in his mouth but then Stile's woke up and grabbed Aiden around the throat, Scott and I both grabbed Stiles and tried pulling him off but then Stile's went still.
"Kanima venom nice touch" Stiles said as Aiden's claws came out and he walked up to Stile's roaring. "You know how they say that twins get a feeling when the other one's in pain, you didn't lose that talent too did you" he was looking at Aiden. "Oh I hope not you're going to need it" Aiden shared a confused look with Scott and me. "Okay I'll give you a little hint Ethan's at the school" I frowned glaring at the nogitsune.
"Go" Scott said and Aiden took off as Stile's chuckled evilly.
"Oh I hope he gets there in time, I like the twins short tempers, homicidal compulsions, they're a lot more fun that you bakemono trying to save the world every day"
"Doc you brought something to paralyse his body, you got anything for his mouth?" Ms McCall said making me smile a little.
"Yes I do" Deaton replied pulling out some electrical tape then put it over his mouth, Stiles screamed into it before laughing.
Deaton, Lydia, Scott and I moved into the kitchen to talk without the nogitsune hearing us but I couldn't help watching Stiles out of the corner of my eye as Melissa cleaned the wound on his stomach.
"How much longer do you think we have?" Scott asked Deaton.
"I wish I knew but if we don't figure out something soon, were going to need to find a better place to keep him, I think were grossly underestimating the danger here, he might be paralysed but it still feels like he's got us right in the palm of his hand" we turned and saw Stiles looking straight at us making me a little uneasy.
"The scroll said to change his body" Lydia spoke up.
"That's if I translated it correctly, we're looking for a cure in something that might actually be nothing more than a proverb or a metaphor"
"And what if he doesn't want it?" I asked not really liking the idea of Stiles becoming a werewolf and it wasn't a power thing or jealously thing. "He's never asked to be a werewolf"
"What if it saves his life?" Lydia asked back.
"What if it kills him?" Deaton added looking at her.
"I've never done this before" Scott cut in whispering. "I mean, what if I bite him and accidently hit and artery or something?" I frowned reaching up to my neck thinking about Derek's bite, it could've killed me but it didn't.
"That venom is not going to last long, something needs to be done sooner than later" I sighed.
"I can try calling Derek again" I replied thinking about the already three missed calls he hadn't picked up and I was seriously beginning to worry.
"Maybe we should call someone else" I looked up at Lydia confused but then the look she sent me made me frown when I figured out who she wanted to call.
"No, no way" I replied glaring at her.
"Skye she's got a point" Scott cut in staring at me, I groaned then scrolled through my contacts finding the one number I'd yet to use until now and only had it on Derek's insistence in case I ever got into trouble and he wasn't able to answer.
"Why hello Skyler, to what do I owe the pleasure of this call" I growled as he answered.
"Cut the chit-chat Peter, we need you for once, get to Scott's house as soon as you can" I hung up leaving no chance for him to argue. "You owe me for this, you know how much I hate Peter" Scott nodded trying to give me a comforting smile but it wasn't going to help since I hated Peter and would never ever trust him or like him no matter his connection to Derek.
When Peter got here he rang the doorbell but then just opened the door letting it swing open as he looked up trying to seem intimidating as he smirked but I just rolled my eyes and crossed my arms as he walked in then started walking around Stiles inspecting his condition.
"He doesn't look like he would survive a slap across the face, much less the bite of a werewolf" Peter finally spoke up before kneeling in front of Stiles who just stared at him.
"You don't think it'd work?" Scott asked him.
"This is more a war of the mind than the body, there are better methods to winning this battle" I growled because this wasn't a game, this was my best friend.
"What kind of methods?" Deaton asked him stepping up to Peter's side, Peter grabbed Scott's hand and flicked it down causing Scott's claws to come out and Stiles raised his eyebrows at them.
"Were gonna get into his head"
"No are you crazy?" I asked stepping forward not liking this plan at all.
"You called me remember" I growled at him but couldn't think of anything else and Derek wasn't getting back to me so I had to reluctantly agree.
Peter pulled Lydia away and talked about something but I was too busy looking at Stile's who just stared back to find out what it was and worrying about Derek as he hadn't gotten back to me and I'd called him thirteen times now and if it wasn't for Stiles I'd be out their combing the streets looking for him.
"So do we have a plan?" Deaton asked him once they came back.
"Scott is going to try and dig through pale and sickly Evil Stiles' mind to unearth pale and sickly Real Stiles' then guide him back from the depths of his own subconscious but he's not going to do it alone" I frowned not liking the sound of that.
"What do you mean?" Scott asked him.
"Somebody needs to go in with you" Peter replied turning to look at Lydia.
"No, no way" I replied stepping forward and growled at Peter. "She could die" I added then sighed looking down. "I'll do it" I looked up waiting for the protests.
"Derek would kill me if I let anything happen to you Skyler" I frowned at Peter's reply.
"Good thing I don't care about you, Lydia's not doing it he's my best friend nobody knows him better than I do" I sat down beside Stiles not leaving room for argument. "Let's just get this over with" I mumbled running my hand over the crescent scars on my left wrist which is something I only do when I'm really nervous and don't have Derek to physically calm me.
"So what do we do if we find him?" Scott asked Peter as he positioned Scott's claws in the right position over Stiles' neck, I'd seen this done and never fancied trying it for myself but this was for Stiles and I was willing to do anything to get him back.
"You're going to have to guide him out somehow" Peter grabbed Scott's other hand and placed it over my neck making my panic rise just a tad but I forced myself to remain still and calm as possible. "Try to give him back control of his mind, his body"
"Could you elaborate on the 'somehow' it's not feeling very specific at the moment?" I spoke up trying to keep my breathing under control.
"Improvise" Peter replied and I rolled my eyes.
"Fantastic" I groaned.
"What if this is just another trick?" Scott suddenly asked.
"When are you people going to start trusting me?" I scoffed.
"How's never work for you?" I replied because I never was and because even Derek doesn't fully trust him.
"I meant him" Scott cut in.
"Oh" Peter said smugly making me roll my eyes.
"Scott were running out of time" Deaton told him and we both looked up at him then sighed knowing it to be true, Scott took a few deep breaths before I felt his claws dig in and I gasped being thrown into Stiles mind waking up tied to a bed.
"What the hell?" I grumbled then tried to fight against the holdings keeping me strapped to the bed but it didn't seem to be working until I realised that anything could go, we we're in Stiles' mind so we could break out we just to think we could. "Scott we're werewolves"
"Were in Stiles' head" he argued so I rolled my eyes then pulled on the restraints as hard as I could and they broke allowing me to sit up and he looked at me in shock.
"You're a supernatural creature with supernatural strength, break free" Scott nodded then pulled on his own restraints finally breaking them.
"What now?" he asked me but I shook my head.
"I don't know about you but this is my first time in someone else's head" I replied, he nodded then headed to the door as I followed close behind, he opened the door then walked out but before I could follow him it slammed shut. "Scott, Scott!" I hit my fist against the door but then I heard voices behind me making me turn and saw my bedroom making me frown but it turned into smile when I saw Derek. "Derek!" I ran towards him into his arms.
"Hey" he smiled down at me then cupped my cheeks and pulled me into a kiss, I smiled wrapping my arms around his shoulders as he turned us around and lowered me down on my bed before settling his weight over me.
"Derek" I moaned when he started kissing my neck.
"Shh we have to be quiet, really quiet" I frowned thinking about that.
"From who, my dad?" I asked pushing him away.
"Yes" he replied in a voice that didn't sound like Derek.
"What are we doing, I'm supposed to…" I frowned trying to think about what I was supposed to be doing. "I'm supposed to do something here"
"Skye just be with me" I frowned thinking back to him not answering my calls and realised this wasn't real so I pushed him off me then stood up.
"No this isn't real" I turned but ran into the nogitsune who hit me in the face and I fell back clutching my nose which was now bleeding. "Why are you doing this, just leave Stiles alone" I growled standing up feeling weak as I turned to the bed and saw Derek staring at me with expressionless eyes with blood seeping through his shirt.
"I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill all of you" the nogitsune said as I sobbed looking down at Derek.
"Derek?" I walked towards him falling to my knees. "No Derek, look at me, hey just look at me please" he was dead I couldn't hear a heartbeat which made me scream out in a flood of grief and agony.
"Skyler, Skye can you hear me?" I frowned at Peter's voice thinking he was coming to drag me away from Derek's lifeless corpse so I threw myself over him holding tightly. "Skyler you are stronger than this, okay you need to concentrate Skyler" I cried shaking my head. "SKYLER!" I flinched as his scream echoed through my head and I jumped back looking as the scene as it shook and the nogitsune disappeared, I frowned turning back to the door as Peter continued to scream my name then ran towards it for an escape.
I ran through the doors into huge write room which looked to have no end, I turned my head to the side and saw Scott about to run past me before he stopped as if seeing me for the first time then came up to me as I turned and saw Stiles sitting on the Nemeton with the nogitsune playing some sort of game, we started running towards him but no matter how fast or how far we ran we couldn't see to get any closer to him.
"Stiles!" we both screamed trying to get his attention but it seemed like he couldn't hear us no matter how loud we screamed.
"Stiles, over here Stiles!" I groaned because this wasn't working but we continued to try and get closer but then it clicked to me what we needed to do. "Stiles is a part of the pack"
"What, what do you mean?" Scott asked panting for breath since it felt like we've been running a marathon.
"He's human but he's still part of the pack" I clarified rolling my eyes.
"Yeah" Scott agreed standing up straighter. "Yeah of course"
"So how do wolves signal their location to the rest of the pack?" I smiled up at him as I stood straighter to, Scott looked at me as he understood what I was saying then we both shifted smirking at towards the Nemeton.
"They howl" he replied then we both let out howls that shook the whole thing around us and finally saw Stiles look up as he heard us before we woke up with a gasp and my hand immediately flew to my neck as I stood and turned back to look at Stiles who was still unconscious.
"Did it work?" I asked them looking up towards Peter.
"Did it work?" Scott asked again kneeling in front of Stiles.
"Why didn't it work?" Lydia asked.
"Because it's not science Lydia, it's supernatural, I did my part now give me the name" Scott and I both looked up with frowns.
"What name?" Scott asked them but Peter pulled her away. "What are you talking about?"
"Lydia a deal is a deal, even with me" I glared at Peter because I should've have known better than to think he'd just helped us out of kindness because he doesn't have one kind bone in his body.
"Malia" I heard Lydia whisper in this ear before our attention was back on Stiles as he jerked forward abruptly and ripped the tape off then started pulling cloth from his mouth before he threw it up falling to the floor and started gasping for breath when it was all out.
We all watched as a hand rose up out of the bundle of cloth on the ground then came a body as we backed up against the wall as it stepped towards us then came right at us but Scott and Peter tackled it and held it down in a chair.
"Hold him" Peter yelled towards Scott.
"I'm trying" Scott replied "Wait, wait, wait" Scott suddenly yelled then started to peel the bandage off and it revealed another Stiles confusing the hell out of me.
"Scott" Stiles said looking at Scott then he turned towards me. "Skye" I took a cautious step forward.
"Scott" Deaton cut in making us turn to look at him but he looked at the door which was open and the other Stiles was gone and so was Lydia.
"Where are they" I asked and Deaton raised his hands signalling he had no idea.
"Where are they" Scott repeated then stood up. "Lydia" we both ran to the front door screaming Lydia's name but she was gone.
A/N: A little treat since the last chapter wasn't very long and I was on a roll with new idea's incorporating Skyler into the Teen Wolf universe, hope you guys liked the change I made to this episode by sending Skye with Scott instead of Lydia and please continue to review your thoughts and/or questions.