Black Eyed Child || A Demon Au || Stiles and Derek
He wasn’t bad. Had never really been ‘bad’ per say. He was what he was because of good intentions.
It started back when times were still ancient. He couldn’t remember the name that he had then; only that he didn’t agree with the slaughtering of innocent people at the hands of a Viking War Lord; whose own men were too afraid to take him down.
He found a crossroads, made a deal. The deal, deliver his people from the War Lord’s wrath so that they could live happy lives away from such evil. In the end, the War Lord fell to illness, and he spent ten happy years working with his people to rebuild their lands, free from the fear that they would be slaughtered for a madman’s fun.
Then the hound came. He spoke with it, asked that he could leave town so that his body wouldn’t be found by his children. The hound seemed to comply, and he rested one hand upon its head as it guided him deep into the forest and beyond before devouring him and dragging his soul to hell.
He can barely remember the torture now. He can barely remember doing the torture himself and becoming a demon. In the end, he took up a position at the crossroads, but let it go around 1900 to pursue other interests. He had done his time; should be allowed to roam and see what the world had become.
But he wasn’t bad. Not really. He was the most human of demons. He didn’t want the apocalypse or for hell to rule on earth. He just wanted to…be.
He came upon the woman crying for her unborn child by accident. The heart had stopped beating, the child had died. But the spark of life was still fresh enough, could be brought back.
He entered the infant’s form, sustained it and made it continue to grow and develop. It wrapped around him tighter than any meat suit could so that there would be no chance of him getting out without the body being killed.
In the end, he became Stiles, the best friend of werewolf Scott McCall who was now an alpha, the spark who played the part of the best friend just learning everything as if he had never known.
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Things were temporarily peaceful in Beacon Hills, but Stiles was forever changed. He had risked himself for his father, and now a darkness sat in his heart.
He was a demon again with all of his demon powers back. His eyes could turn black and he felt anger more often now than he had before.
He had tried avoiding certain…more skilled wolves…afraid they would catch the change in his scent. He must smell of sulfur again; though Scott and Isaac hadn’t said anything like that.
He still couldn’t leave the body he was in. Stiles Stilinski was wrapped too tightly around him.
It was nearly suffocating.
Darkness filled the night, and Stiles was standing just before the old Hale House.
He touched the wood, watching the house come alive, looking as it had before it had been destroyed before decomposing back to its current state when he removed his touch.
He sighed softly and stepped inside, nearly seeing the ghosts of this place.
He vaguely wondered in the back of his mind if Derek was back in town.
It didn’t matter. He was already thinking of rebuilding this place. Leave the outside looking like a scar but make the inside a place that felt like home. He just needed a bit more power…