22. A monster, a monster, I've turned into a monster

[voluntaryapnea]

Who: Stiles Stilinski, bad dreams and YOU.
Where: Stiles' mind and then...Scott's room, the kitchen, and Scott's room again.
When: Throughout the "Less Than Thou Showest" flood, January 25th - 29th.
What: Stiles' mind is a scary place. It gets scarier when the nightmares aren't even his.
Warnings: Blood, death, violence, attempted suicide, drowning.
Note: Open to anyone, planned or not!

He hasn't had nightmares like this in awhile. But now he can't seem to shut them off. It's not like it was once, where everytime he woke up he's screaming. But it's not pleasant, and it's not his idea of a good time, and by the time he convinces himself to leave Scott's comatized body and go to the kitchen for caffeine, he feels like a zombie.

He makes it back to Scott's cabin in record time, drinking down the hot beverage so fast that it burns his mouth and then his throat.

He mumbles some curses and waits impatiently for the beverage to cool down before taking another long drink. Frankly he wishes it was something stronger.

A lot stronger.

Comments

[whatthefoxsay]

Kira is grateful for the hug. "It's the Flood, isn't it." she guesses. Stiles may find there's a small damp patch where her face pressed briefly against his shirt, but when she steps away, there aren't any tear tracks. Instead, she holds the star out in offering. "This is yours." she says firmly.

[voluntaryapnea]

"Yeah," he confirms. "Been hearing about it over the network." He lets go of her when she pulls back and holds something up in her hand. His eyebrows furrow and he stares for a moment at the object.

His dad's sheriff's badge. He blinks a couple of times, surprised and hesitantly picks it up, turns it over in his own hands, eyes wider than before as he looks back at her. "...okay that's -- not something I've heard about." Maybe he hasn't been paying as much attention to the network since Scott coma'd and Dean landed himself in Zero.

[whatthefoxsay]

"It's definitely not normal, but it felt really important. I guess so much so that it sort of came with me." Kira says, her hands dropping to her sides. "Did you try to fix it? It looks like someone tried to work the dents out."

[voluntaryapnea]

Unexpectedly, tears fill his eyes and he blinks rapidly, staring down at it. He gives Kira a jerky nod, swallows hard. "Yeah. Yeah, I tried to. The uh -- the darach. Jennifer Blake. Or Julia or whoever she really was -- the one who woke up the Nemeton. She crushed it." He looks up at her and tries to smile. "Before she kidnapped him."

[whatthefoxsay]

With certainty, "You got him back, though. You and Scott and Allison got him back. Isaac, too. You all told me."

Her brow furrows as she sees the shine in Stiles' eyes, and she reaches out to touch his arm.

[voluntaryapnea]

"Yeah. Yeah, I did. We did." He lets out a breath, swiping at his eyes with his shirt sleeve. He manages a faint smile when she lays her hand on his arm, though.

"I just -- I miss him. And awhile back, before you got here, this thing happened and we could talk to people who weren't on the Barge." He swallows hard. "He'd been shot. He and Parrish both told me. I mean, I'm pretty sure he was okay, but..."