[He feels bad for putting Dean on the spot like he is, but he can't pass up this opportunity if Dean can possibly give him something that will help inmate Dean. And truthfully even if Dean wasn't his assigned inmate, he'd ask anyway. Because even before he knew the whole history of what the guy has been through, he'd known it was a lot. That it's terrible. And the guy needs a break.
He feels something twist within him at Dean's words, though. I don't do well, losing people. That's something he can definitely relate to even if the losses are different, even if everything between his life and Dean's is different, that simple truth is at the heart of nearly every single thing Stiles does anymore. He knows how far he'll go to keep the people he loves safe. He knows it's not healthy. It isn't even noble. It's simply driven by outright terror. So he understands why Dean went to a crossroads and sold his soul in return for his brother's life.
If that had been a possibility back home, and if Scott or his dad or Lydia had died, he'd have done the same thing and the consequences be damned. Instead, he wound up on the Barge. And maybe if he can get through to inmate Dean, then maybe he can help him set things right the same way this version of Dean has.
He nods a little, twisting his fingers together.]
I'm glad you didn't have to. [Because the end result isn't pretty.] I'll figure it out. I'll help him.
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He feels something twist within him at Dean's words, though. I don't do well, losing people. That's something he can definitely relate to even if the losses are different, even if everything between his life and Dean's is different, that simple truth is at the heart of nearly every single thing Stiles does anymore. He knows how far he'll go to keep the people he loves safe. He knows it's not healthy. It isn't even noble. It's simply driven by outright terror. So he understands why Dean went to a crossroads and sold his soul in return for his brother's life.
If that had been a possibility back home, and if Scott or his dad or Lydia had died, he'd have done the same thing and the consequences be damned. Instead, he wound up on the Barge. And maybe if he can get through to inmate Dean, then maybe he can help him set things right the same way this version of Dean has.
He nods a little, twisting his fingers together.]
I'm glad you didn't have to. [Because the end result isn't pretty.] I'll figure it out. I'll help him.