Chapter 7:
Healing Hands!
"I'm sorry Stiles, I hoped I wouldn't be right." The Demon spoke.
"Looks like were stuck with each other." Stiles said wiping his eyes.
"Your giving up?" The Demon asked surprised.
"I can live without sex." Stiles answered.
"Your giving up!" The Cryix said again.
"I am. I can't leave my family. They need me-" Stiles said before the Cryix interrupting him.
"You're not giving up! You can't! You promised to find a way to turn me human! Don't you dare go back on that." The Cryix said angrily.
"What else is there to do?" Stiles asked watching the winds move the new leaves.
"I don't know but your cant stop trying Stiles. I can't do this forever. I need to be able to move on my own without being controlled by you. I need to be free."
"I know. but, I'm tired, Demon. I just want to be with the ones I love, finish school, go to college, get a good paying job, and live my life." Stiles said turning back to the house that looked magnificent.
"Stiles, I'm begging you. Don't give up on this." The Cryix pleaded.
"I'm sorry, Demon I have to go back on my word." Stiles said walking back to the house.
"You're going to regret that choice!" The Cryix said with anger in his voice.
"Probably but right now I don't care.
Stiles entered the house and walked back into the kitchen, Derek was sitting at the dining room table with Caleb, Brien, Madison, and Lilith. Looking like someone just died.
"Who died?" Stiles asked, walking into the room.
Caleb looked up at the young witch. "That's not funny."
The crystal rose lay on the table in front of everyone, Stiles walked up to it and picked it up with his hands it suddenly began to burn and sizzle against his flesh. Stiles tossed it to his other hand and still it burned him.
"What the hell?" Stiles asked confused as he dropped it back onto the table, the rose rolled to the middle of the table and stopped, Stiles showed his now burned hands to his friends.
"Stiles you burned your hands?" Brien asked confused.
"The r-rose it burned me." Stiles said as Derek forced him towards the sink.
The cold water hurt as it hit his burned hands, the pain soon faded, but the burn marks didn't.
"Ah it hurts, why did it burn me?" Stiles asked as Derek softly padded his hands with a paper towel.
"I-I don't know." Caleb said picking the rose up from the table, Brien walked up beside Stiles.
"Can I see Stiles?" Brien asked.
Stiles turned to the young dark haired boy, holding his hands for Brien to see.
"It's second degree burns." Brien said holding the underside of Stiles' hands in his.
"Could it be because of the Cryix being inside you?" Caleb asked, inspecting the Crystal rose.
"It might be, I haven't touched it since before the Cryix possessed me." Stiles said as Brien inspected his burns.
"Can you heal him?"Caleb asked.
"What?" Stiles asked confused yet surprised by Caleb's words.
"Since you left, Brien has been training to heal." Madison said with a smile.
"Really." Stiles said raising his brow with interest.
"Just small things, I can't heal someone moments from death, or severe injuries, yet. I just started after all, just minor cuts, scrapes, bruises, burns, and some illness's like the cold or flu." Brien said.
"He gets it from our mother she's a very powerful healer." Lilith said, with a impressed smile. "Although Brien is still years from being able to heal someone with a worse wound." She said putting her hand through her long black hair.
"I can try and heal your burns, but I can't promise anything." Brien said ignoring his big sister's words.
The Cryix sat in Stiles' mind listening to the conversation, waiting, watching and listing.
Brien bit his lip as he placed his hands over Stiles' now burned hands, the dark haired green eyed boy closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. In the matter of seconds a green light began to form around their hands. Stiles felt this strange warms touch his hands, the pain began to fade. Brien breathed out and then back in with each breath that exited him, the green light began to disappear along with the pain slowly healing Stiles' hands.
Brien opened his eyes and lifted his hands from Stiles, his hands had minor scared tissue, but the worst part was healed.
"The rest should heal properly on it's own, but the worst part of the burn is healed, you might have an uncomfortable ache." Brien said with a smile. "I can always try again in 24 hours and heal them completely." Brien said as he staggered back, weakened by the use of magic.
"It still takes a lot out of me." Brien said as Lilith and Madison helped him to sit down.
"Same thing happens with a paper cut." Lilith said annoyed.
"Thanks Brien, I see what you mean by the uncomfortable ache." Stiles said putting his hands together.
"Tylenol and aloe might help with that. I'll be useless for 12 hours at least." Brien said melting into his seat resting his head on the table.
Stiles walked over to the medicine cabinet, taking some Tylenol for his hands. "You get healing powers from your mother?" The Cryix asked and Stiles spoke it aloud.
"He does, just like I get the fear speak from our father." Lilith said rubbing her little brother's back.
Stiles nodded before looking into the refection of a metal lid, 'I asked that, right?' Stiles asked himself as the Cryix nodded. "O-of course, you still have me bound remember." The Demon lied.
Stiles turned back to his friends missing the Cryix's smile in the reflection, he shook of the thought and grabbed a glass of water.
Caleb put the crystal back in the box. "I think this should be put away."
Derek took it from Caleb took it to a safe place.
Stiles sat with Brien at the table as Lilith made him a tea.
2 day's later.
Stiles was sitting in his living room as Elijah and Carina played with their toys on the floor Derek sat on the chair across from him reading a book on parenting, as Erica worked on her laptop on the floor in front of the fire place.
"Well, I need a break!" Erica said, "how about a walk?" She asked stretching.
Derek closed his book, "I wouldn't mind going for a walk." He said looking to Stiles.
"You guys go, I'm going to lay down." Stiles said before yawning.
"Okay, we will be back in an hour or so." Derek said picking up Carina as Erica picked up Elijah.
Stiles stretched as he stood to his feet, making his way to his bed.
Stiles flopped down on his bed eyes closed and he drifted.
"Get up!" The Cryix yelled.
"Regain control, move your legs!" his voice echoed through Stiles' head." Stiles' finger's began moving where he laid them, like a paralyzed human learning to move again retraining his body. The Cryix, expanded his arms and legs into Stiles' limbs regaining control of the boy's body.
"Sit up!" He yelled again causing Stiles' eyes to search in his sleep.
"Yes, now walk." The demon spoke.
Stiles opened his eyes he was standing in front of his closet, his hands reached without his permission and they opened the sliding doors.
"What?" Stiles asked. "What's going on?"
"I'm sorry to do this to you my friend, but you no longer have control. I do!" The Demon laughed.
"No way. You have to stop this Demon. This isn't right!" Stiles said inside his mind to the Cryix who was now using his body again.
"I know and I don't care, but you and I both know we can't live this way forever. You don't have the guts to do the right thing." The demon said, pulling the box with the crystal rose in it down from it's hiding place behind a shoe box. "But I do!" The Cryix said putting it on the bed.
Stiles glanced to the clock, it has almost been an hour. "Derek will be back soon!"
"Do you want me to hurry?" The Demon asked.
Stiles swallowed. "N-no!" Stiles stuttered, "I-I'm scared, I don't want to die?"
"Well I do. I need it like you need Derek. You promised to help me, you can't go back on it now." The Demon spoke aloud.
The Cryix opened the box and uncovered the rose, it's beauty glistened as the Cryix smiled at his freedom.
"Please. Don't do this, we will find another way! I have idea's to help you I'm sure there's another w-" Stiles rambled before being interrupted.
"No! There is no other way, fuck Stiles, don't you feel what I do to you? I make you weaker, you can't use some of your abilities as well as you used to. I'm draining your life anyway. This is the only way out!" The Demon said picking up the rose as it burned in Stiles' hand. "We have to do this now." As they both felt the burn.
His hand's sizzled as the Cryix made him impale his heart. Stiles felt his flesh rip and tare as the crystal entered his chest. The Demon screamed for him as The Cryix and Stiles were brought to their knee's. Red blood began to stain Stiles' blue shirt.
"I can feel it!" The demon spoke sounding pained.
"Yeah it hurts." Stiles said cringing at the pain in his chest.
"That too, but look!" The Cryix said as Stiles looked at a screen appearing before him in his head.
The rose was turning black, the Demon was being pulled out of him and into the rose.
"It's working?" Stiles asked unable to believe what he was seeing. The demon slowly laid Stiles' body onto the floor, being unable to control the body he was in.
"I knew it would, Stiles." The demon spoke. "I have to leave you now." He said, laying Stiles' head onto the floor.
"If I had to do it all again, with the knowledge I have now." The demon said weakly, "I wouldn't change a thing." The Cryix said as Stiles began to get control of his body again, able to move his fingers.
"But now, because of you and your good heart, I get to start over, as my own person." The demon said as Stiles was now able to look out of his own eyes again.
"But what about me?" Stiles asked as he saw his shirt soaked with blood.
"Everything and everyone has a purpose, Stiles. You're going to be fine, this isn't the end." The demon said as the last of him was sucked out of Stiles and into the now black crystal rose.
Stiles wrapped his hand around the rose again this time it didn't burn, he tried to pull it out but it seemed to be stuck.
"Help." Stiles said weakly.
His vision began to blur as the blood escaped his body, beginning to make a puddle under him on the beige carpet under him.
"Derek!" Stiles whispered as his head began to spin and he had no choice but to close his eyes.
"Stiles? We're back." Erica said walking into the house with a stroller with Elijah in it.
Eli went quiet looking around the room like it was a strange place he'd never been before. Derek followed her in with Carina in another stroller. Carina's laugh stopped as soon as she came in through the door both children stared at the upstairs.
Derek raised his brow at the suddenly silent children.
"Guys what's wrong?" Derek asked, kneeling down in front of his kids.
Both children ignored Derek completely and stared up stairs.
"Stiles!" Derek yelled standing to his feet.
Erica walked up the the stairs. "It's a little to quiet isn't it?" She said listening.
Derek began rushing up the stairs hearing his lover's heart beating rather slowly. "Stiles!" Derek yelled rushing to wards their bedroom.
Derek nearly broke down the door. "Stiles?" Derek said seeing nothing.
Derek walked cautiously, the crystal rose box was on the bed and empty, "Stiles where are you?" He said before walking around the bed seeing Stiles foot and then his leg and then him laying on the carpet in a pool of blood, the crystal sticking out of Stiles' chest it was black.
Derek rushed to Stiles picking up his head and lowering it on his leg. "Stiles speak to me!" He said caressing his cheek.
Stiles slowly opened his eyes to see a blurred image of Derek, his words were muffled by his heart slowly beating in his ears.
"D-Derek, you came." Stiles whispered as he tried to reach up to Derek's cheek, his bloody finger's shaking as he struggled to touch his lover one last time.
"Stiles, hold on!" Derek cooed.
"I-I'm so gla-ad your here." Stiles whispered, stroking Derek's cheek before allowing his hand to fall to his side. His eyes blurring as he allowed them to flutter closed.
"No! Stiles, please don't leave me." Derek said as Erica rushed into the room. Tears coming to Derek's green eyes as Erica covered her mouth in shock.