Chapter Twenty-Two

Not Now

*Stiles

"What the hell is going on over there Stiles" Scott demanded.

"Uh…. nothing?" Stiles lied, because he stilled didn't want his friend involved in all of this. It wasn't that he thought he couldn't handle himself, he knew for a fact that he could. He just wanted to give his friend what he wanted and that was a way out of the crazy supernatural life.

"Don't lie Stiles. Deaton called me and told me everything" Scott said, sounding very irritated. "Why didn't you tell me what was happening there?" he asked.

Stiles sighed, "Because I had it handled, Derek was…. is helping" he said.

"Yeah, cause you and Derek totally get along" Scott said, "You should have called me Stiles. " he said with a sigh.

"Well I didn't, so get over it" Stiles said and looked over at Derek for a moment and smiled small.

Scott sighed, "Stiles I coming out there. Not letting you deal with this alone" he said, kind of assuming that Derek was off doing his own thing.

Stiles sighed, "You don't have to Scott, Derek's here" he said. "He's doing a fine job at taking care of me" he said.

"Yeah, I'm sure" Scott said, not really sure if he believed that.

Stiles rolled his eyes, "He is Scott" he said and sighed softly "If you want to come all the way out here then go ahead but you don't have to. We have it covered" he said.

"I'll be there in an hour" Scott said before hanging up the phone.

Stiles chuckled softly and tossed his phone onto the side table, and sighed softly, "We'll this should fun" he said and scuffed. "Don't really think he's going to like what he sees" he said and looked down at his hands, he barely recognized them as his own. They were completely grey and looked longer and thinner, his nails were starting to look kind of snarly too.

Derek sighed, "Yeah but if Deaton really did tell him everything then he shouldn't be too surprised." he said and shrugged slightly. "I think he'll be okay, he's good at this kind of stuff" he said.

Stiles nodded slightly "Yeah I guess" he said and scooted over a bit, "Now come on handsome lay next to me" he said and wiggled his eyebrows a bit.

"You sure that's a good idea?" Derek asked a bit tentatively as he moved in to lay next to him.

"Very" Stiles said and waited for the werewolf to get comfortable before moving close and leaning into him.


*Stiles

"Open up Derek" Scott yelled and knocked on the door. He would have just walked in but it was locked, and he wasn't about to break it. Derek would probably kill him, if Scott didn't kill him first.

Stiles chuckled softly and slowly sat up, he'd just got over the third fit of pain since Scott called. "Better go let him in" he said his voice kind of hoarse from screaming, and willing himself not to scream.

Derek nodded slightly and carefully sat up before walking over to the door. He unlocked it before quickly sliding it open, "Hey Scott" he said and stepped aside so he could get in. "Don't over react" he said.

Scott nodded slightly before hurrying inside, he stared at Stiles for a long time trying to find his best friend in the thing sitting on the bed. Sure it was his face, but that was about all he recognized. "What the hell is going" he asked and turned to face Derek. "How could you let this happen?" he demanded. "You should never have let him help when it was just the two of you" he said.

"Yeah and you should have ditched him the second you became a werewolf" Derek snapped angrily. "None of this would have happened if you never let him into all of this in the first place" he said.

Scott scoffed, "At least I never let anything I like this happen before" he snapped.

"Would you two stop" Stiles said and moved to get out of the bed. "It's no one's fault" he said.

Scott just ignored him to focused on Derek at the moment, "You should have been more careful, especially since this isn't the first time he's been hurt on your watch" he said.

"Yeah because no one has ever gotten hurt on your watch before" Derek said. and glared at Scott.

"Not like this" Scott yelled, "I protect my friends" he said.

Stiles groaned before stumbled over to the two werewolves. He pushed himself in-between them and punched Scott as hard as he could, mostly just to get him to shut up. "Oh god" he said and clutched his hand as his knees buckled and he fell to the ground "Think I broke my hand" he grumbled and shook it out though that just made it worse, and then it quickly spread through his body. Fuck not now he growled before looking up at Scott, "Shut up" he snapped and clutched his head as he started hearing Josie's voice in his head. "It's not his fault" he said, his voice strained as he tried not to scream. "It was my choice" he said forcefully. "All of it was my choice" he said.

Derek frowned and knelt down next to him, "Stiles we just went through this okay, it's going to be okay" he said and gently placed his hand on the human's back. "Just focus on something else anything else" he said and continued talking, since it was usually his voice that Stiles decided to focus on.

Scott was unbelievably shocked when he felt Stiles' fist connect with his face, though if he was being honest he got why. He'd overreacted, "You're right. I'm sorry Derek" he said and knelt down next to his friend. "What's going on?" he asked Derek, since Stiles wasn't in the position to answer.

Derek sighed and looked up at Scott, "He's going through the change, it's painful" he said and turned his focus back onto Stiles. "Hey, did I ever tell you about the time Peter and I got high and broke into a zoo" he asked.

Stiles shook his head slightly, "No, not yet" he grunted.

Derek smiled, "Well if you pull through this then I'll make sure to tell you" he said.

"That's not nice" Stiles said forcefully, though that was just because he was having trouble talking.

Derek chuckled, "Yeah well my other incentives didn't exactly work' he said jokingly.

Stiles chuckled painfully "Oh come on, didn't give it a chance" He grunted and squeezed his eyes closed tightly.

Scott looked between Stiles and Derek, guess they were getting along a lot better. He knew they got along better then when they first meet but he didn't think it was quite like this.. He rubbed his cheek absentmindedly, "So uh….. what's the plan?" he asked.

Derek looked up at Scott, "We wait for Deaton to come with the remedy and then we go after Josie and kill her" he said.

"You can't kill her Derek" Scott said, "Let the police do their job. Take her down and hand her over to em" he said.

"You're kidding right" Derek said and studied Scott for a moment. "She's killed dozens of people, and look at what she did to Stiles" he said.

"Doesn't matter, you still can't just kill her Derek" Scott said adamantly.

"Would you two stop fighting" Stiles grunted in pain. Though luckily a few moments later he was able to let out a relieved breath. "Scott we didn't ask for your help so don't come in acting like you're in charge" he said and slowly rolled onto his back with a grunt. "Derek we don't have to kill her unless it's absolutely necessary" he said and closed his eyes. "Now could one of you ass-wholes help me up" he said and held up his hand.

Scott looked at Stiles' morphed hand and just couldn't get himself to actually touch him.

Derek smiled and nodded slightly before standing up. He carefully took Stiles' hand in his and slowly helped him up onto his feet before leading him towards the bed.

Scott sighed softly and stood up, "How are you going to find her" he asked and watched the two of them for a moment.

"Won't have to" Stiles said, "She'll find us" he said with a small smile. "She always does" he mumbled.

Scott nodded slightly, "Okay then, how do you plan to stop her?" he asked.

Derek shrugged slightly "Don't know yet. The Ahzi is pretty much impossible to kill, so it'll be easier to just go after her" he said "Only probably is she doesn't go anywhere without it" he said and looked back at Stiles. "So I guess it's a good thing you came, you can take care of it while I go after her" he said.

Scott nodded slightly, "Uh yeah, okay" he said.

"No No!" Stiles yelled and closed his eyes tightly before slapping his hands over his ears. "It's getting louder" he said and started shaking his head, trying to get her out of his head.

"What's wrong?" Scott asked.

"She's in his head" Derek informed him before putting his focus on Stiles, and started talking to him. Saying anything just so he had something else to focus on.

Josie slide the door open, "Yeah and he's about to be mine" she said with a wicked smile. "Your twenty-four hours are up Stiles, time to join the dark side" she said