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Silence met his statement and he saw varying state of shock and concern as well as incredulous stares. However for a long moment the silence stayed weighing heavily in the room before it suddenly popped like a balloon by Jackson standing up and exclaiming.
"Are you crazy?" Stiles shook his head.
"No I don't mean kill everyone here just destroy the actual city so no one lives here where all the monsters come to." Jackson and the rest of the people in the room seemed to be considering Stiles proposals.
"How would you get everyone out?" Alison asked after a long moment.
"We could establish a sink hole, a slowly expanding sink hole that would take awhile to actually sink but that would require a lot of calculations and if we're off by even a little bit-." not surprisingly this answer came from Lydia. She was still smart and no longer pretended not to be for boys besides she had already got the she wanted Jackson, the light in the room glinted off their wedding rings.
"Or we could just spread the rumor and at six months set off a bomb or do a spell that mimics what we want to have happen." Stiles suggested. Lydia blinked then looked at him.
"Well if you wanted to cheat you could."
"How can you cheat at destroying something?" Scott asked, that was a question that Stiles would have asked back before but he was still different.
6 months later
"Today's the day." Lydia said she and Jackson had stayed until the day they were going to destroy the town. She had said something about not wanting to miss the end of the destruction of the town that so much good and bad had happened to her in it.
Stiles was less sentimental he wanted the town to crumble and forever leave his mind. So many bad things had happened here and not nearly enough good had taken it's place. They had spent so much time convincing people that the town was really crumbling. Then they had to deal with all the people who hadn't wanted to leave their houses even though they had had 6 months to buy a new house.
They had even worked it so that the government thought there were actual sink holes underneath the city and the government was providing aid to relocating families. Those that stayed got a crash course in what kind of monster were drawn to Beacon Hills and then suddenly decided they no longer wanted to stay in Beacon Hills. Go figure. They had checked all the houses twice which was easier since Scott and Alison had come back for the destruction of the town and this time brought their daughter with them. His mind flashed back to that morning.
Stiles and Derek had moved out of their crappy apartment and into a mansion. Since everything was abandoned they felt like should live it up since the entire town was going to go the way of Sunnydale and becoming a huge sink hole. There was nothing really left in the house since they had a long time to move only a few couches were left at the house.
They were sitting in the massive living room with a smaller TV they had found abandoned in one of the other abandoned house. They were watching it using a generator they had bought just before the electric company had stopped sending electricity to the houses of Beacon hills. Stiles and Derek were both watching TV when they heard a loud knock on the door. Derek had hopped up and went to go to answer the door while Stiles had keep his eyes on the TV. He heard footsteps from behind him and then he looked up to see Scott, Alison and Meghan. They had flown in for this. Stiles wasn't sure what to say or to do so he just watched Scott, Alison and Meghan as they filed in.
"Are you ready for this?" Scott asked and Stiles nodded he was more than ready for this. Stiles got up from the couch and made his way over to his old friend? His new friend?
"You know the place and the time?" Stiles asked and Scott nodded along with Alison and Meghan.
"Good." Stiles said a little awkwardly. It never used to be awkward with him and Scott but things had changed but hopefully now they would change again for the better.
"Good." Scott said with a smile.
"Well I have to get going soon check the lines again." Stiles said even though he checked them several times he had to make sure once more. It was extremely important since a single accidentally interruption could make the spell go terribly wrong. The other four nodded.
He got up and made his way to go stopping to look at Derek. Derek had been his closest friend for a long time now. Derek had even been the one who had peeked in his mother's medical file and told him that she had gone for her first cancer screening just a week after Stiles had told her about the cancer. Derek had let him know that Stiles had given her as long as she had and that there was nothing more that he could have done to save her. It also meant that he hadn't messed up the time line which he supposed was good unless his memories had been rewritten as he was traveling, but he liked to think that they weren't.
"I can come with you if you want?" Scott said but Stiles shook his head. Scott would be a distraction even if he tried not to be one. Since this was the last check before the spell he couldn't afford any distractions.
"Just make yourself comfortable until you have to go check houses, then just come when it's time." Stiles said but paused just about when he was about to exit the door.
"I couldn't do this without you." he said earnestly and he couldn't not without someone dying ,as it was it was going to be harsh. He was still unused to showing appreciation and affection but he was getting better at it then he used to be more like his old self "Thanks for coming." he said and then left before he could look at any of their faces.
He saw them all coming from a distance since this hill was the best place they had decided to see the destruction of the city and the beginning of his new life. He saw Scott and Alison walk up the hill hand in hand with their daughter right behind them, Derek brought up the rear and then they were all up there.
There were six of them. Well technically seven but Meghan Scott's daughter was not going to be part of the spell. Meghan was too young and the spell was going to drain them all considerably, but they all agreed it was for the best. Meghan stepped away from the other and rest of the them joined hands.
Stiles found his hands were linked to both Derek and Scott the two people he was most closest to. He would be leading this since he wanted to outcome so badly and he studied this spell backwards and forwards. He took a deep breath and focused on the boundary. The entire city was circled by spray painted lines and symbols so that more didn't crumble then was planned. There were also holes dug and symbols painted in them as well so that it didn't sink down too far.
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"Causam vocamus tellus elementum sed incidunt fluunt intra fines terrae." he repeated that again twice more because saying a spell three times tended to make it more effective especially a powerful spell like this one.
"Get ready." he told the others he got himself ready. A spell this powerful was going to leave him drained and probably was going to hurt terribly. He felt the spell sap energy from him and the pain that it caused but he didn't let go. Stiles didn't let Scott or Derek let go either not that he had any presence of mind to even know if they were trying to escape or not. The pain ended and he just felt boneless he dropped to the ground and felt the two hands on either side of him do the same. He released their hand too weak to still hold onto them and focused just on his breathing for a long time. He was breathing, that was good he had been a little worried that they wouldn't have enough joint power to do the spell and live.
He breathed slowly for several minutes before he had gathered enough energy to try to sit up and did so. Everyone else was on the ground still, Stiles had more experience with magic then everyone else in the group did. He saw Meghan between her mother and her father talking to them softly. Stiles took another couple minutes during which time Derek and Scott and Jackson all managed to pull themselves in sitting positions, it must be a werewolf thing recharging their batteries easier. Stiles considered for a minute standing up but in the end derided not to instead he called.
"Meghan." the girl looked over at him a little nervously she twirled her finger nervously through her long black hair.
"In the car just up there there are Gatorade's and protein snacks which should help us all feel a bit better a bit sooner." he said. The girl looked between her parents seeming to ask for permission which they apparently granted because she got up and made her way to his car. She came back a few minutes later her hands full of Gatorade and nuts. She of course handed the first Gatorades to her parents as well as the nuts but Stiles didn't hold it against her. He heard Scott's voice tell her.
"Would you go get some for the rest of them too?" she smiled a little embarrassed before she made her way to the car again the next time she gave Derek a Gatorade and Lydia and him a bag of nuts and Jackson the other set of nuts. Stiles anxiously tore into the nuts. Spells depleted them of both protein and electrolytes. Having the nuts made him feel much less boneless, he was just about finished with his peanuts when Meghan gave him a Gatorade. Stiles smiled at her one of his more increasingly real smiles and she smiled a little nervously back. He focused his eyes on the ground to see how the spell worked and saw a few feet away the ground had given way. Stiles nodded, good that was good.
"It's over now you can leave." Scott asked.
"Where are you going to go?" Lydia asked.
"I'm going to live, the first time in years I'm going to live." he didn't even think about it but he turned to Derek "Derek do you want to come with?" Derek looked at him for a long moment before his lip curled up into one of his rare non sarcastic smiles.
"Sure."
This is the end my only friend the end. Thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed. Please review one last time to tell me what you thought of my story :)