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His mother looked at him expectantly and then her eyebrows furrowed.
"Are you okay?" Stiles was not okay, he was dying, and he was with her his mom, he hadn't seen her since he was a kid. He managed to pull himself to his feet, if he was going to die he wanted to be with his mother like his mother was with him when she died, it would be better that way. Also maybe he'd survive. He made his way into the pasenger's side of his mother's car. They had sold her car not long after she died since Stiles had refused to ride in it. He closed his door and was immediately taken in by the smell. It smelt so strongly of his mother. His mother was not so subtlety sneaking peaks at him. He supposed it probably had something to do with the fact he was sopping wet but at the same time his clothes had burns.
"What were you doing out in the middle of nowhere?" Stiles had become a much better liar in the last few years and usually could pull off a lie seamlessly; however he had never been able to lie to his mother. It had always seemed like she knew exactly when he was lying. He cleared his throat and said slowly.
"I was camping alone and I didn't put my campfire out correctly and during the night it caught my camping area on fire. I barely escaped with what I was wearing which didn't happen to include the keys to my car." She looked at him very sympathetically, so Stiles guessed his lie worked, for some reason that made him sad that his mom couldn't see through his lie that she couldn't just see him and know who he was. He knew though the idea of time travel to his mom was probably preposterous, not to mention he had scars all over him which made him look much different then the Stiles she knew at the moment, not to mention the burns.
"Where would you like to go?" Stiles shook his head.
"Anywhere in town is good, I can call my friend and he can bring me back to my car. "
Stiles lied again.
"You sure?" his mom asked and he had a feeling that she knew that he was lying, he hide a small smile. Maybe she knew he was lying after all because she subconsciously could tell, motherly instinct and all that jazz. Part of him wanted to ask what she was offering, he imagined for minute going home and being able to spend the night with her. However, he was pretty sure that his mom wouldn't offer that, wouldn't put his five year old counterpart at risk.
Which was why he couldn't go, he didn't know anything about time travel other then things he had seen in television and movies. All those things had told him he was supposed to stay clear of his other self, of course they also said not effect the past in any way. He was pretty sure that saving Derek was a no-no then again maybe it wasn't. Derek had told him that someone with his scar had saved his life, so maybe his whole life Derek had had nightmares about the night that Stiles had saved his life. So maybe whatever he did he had already done. He looked at his mom who looking at him again worried.
"I'll be fine." he realized they were getting closer to town and that he only a few more minutes with his mom before she would be dropping him off. Part of him wanted to tell her that she was going to get cancer, but he was pretty sure that she wouldn't believe him, he had to come up with a subtler way to bring it up. However his train of thought got derailed as he spent a few minutes taking in his mother, and trying to memorize her as she was as well as her voice. He only realized that they were at his destination when the car stopped. So what he intended to say subtly came out much less subtle.
"You should get a cancer screening." he blurted out.
"What?" she asked confused, she was young she wasn't' supposed to have cancer this young but she had. Stiles blinked surprised that he had just blurted that out, he wasn't really a blurter anymore hadn't been for awhile but he had just blurted again.
"My mom she had cancer, she was just a little bit older then you when she died, I don't want something like that to happen to you." maybe she would get checked sooner this time around, maybe she would survive. His mom blinked several times in confusion then it settled on a sympathetic look.
"I'm sorry about your mother." He made his way slowly out of the car since he knew that he was making his mom uncomfortable. He stood on the curb and was about to close the door when he said.
"Thanks for the ride,-please get screened." he pleaded and ti his mom's clearly uncomfortable look he decided to close the door. The car didn't peel away at top speed like he was expecting but she also didn't waste much time before she pulled out and drove into the rain. He found himself just a few feet from a hotel and let out a huge breath of relief. He was going to survive the night and he had seen his mother again. Maybe just maybe she would catch the cancer early this time around and maybe she would still be alive when he went back. Of course in order to go back to his correct time period he had to figure out how in the world he was going to do that. However, first thing was first he had to check into the motel and go to sleep for at least a few hours or he was going to die.
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