stay (scalia au)
[Written for @haydensromero , sorry its two weeks late lmao, love u!! Set after s5, stalia & scira not(/haven't been) together] Neither of them have never really realized that their feelings for each other were more than just a friendship. Scott and Malia are just lying on Scott's bed after a long week of fighting the dread doctors and the desert wolf, they were more than glad to have all that behind them, the desert wolf is locked in eichen house, thanks for Braeden who helped the pack. The dread doctors and the beast got handled by the hell hound and the Argents. After a while of lying down quietly, Malia just out of the blue says the three lettered word she's been thinking the whole time they've been lying on the bed "I love you" she didn't think about what she was saying, she was too tired to think, she just said the three words that were constantly rolling around her head ever since she realized that all of the bad is something to not worry about. In that moment when she really starts to think about it, she realizes that she loves him, that she is in love with him. what if she never had the chance to tell him that? What if she'd die? Or even worse, what if he'd die before she got to tell him? "I love you too" Scott says calmly with his eyes closed and as he says it he can hear her heart beat jump a little. "No, I, i think I'm in love with you" Malia says and turns to her side, facing Scott, who's eyes are very open right now. Scott turns to his side also and looks at Malia, just looks at her. "I think I've been in love with you for a while now, but I haven't realized it until now" Malia says looking at Scott deeply in the eyes. "Malia" Scott starts, he looks at her with sadness in his eyes, because he knows he can't say it back. "I love you Malia, you know that, I'm just, not in love with you, I'm sorry" Scott continues. "It's okay if you don't feel the same, I get it" Malia says taking her eyes off of his to look away, the truth is that its okay if he doesn't feel the same, she understands that, she can't force him to feel something, but still, she's not okay. "I should go" Malia says and gets up from the bed. "You don't have to go" Scott says sitting up. "I think I do" Malia says and gives him a smile before she leaves closing the door after her. little did he know that'd be the last time he'd see her in the next five years. -5 years later- It took Malia quite some time to get over all of what happened, she got over Scott, she still loved him very much, but she got over it, at least that's what she's forced herself to think. And on the other hand, Scott hadn't gotten over her. It was an emotional five years for Scott, after that day in his bedroom he got a message from Malia that said she was heading out of town, that she needed some space. At the moment he understood that, he accepted it, but it didn't take long for him to realize that he had feelings for her. He realized that when he was walking in the streets and saw this small boutique of fluffy stuffed animals with cute little dogs, teddy bears and when he saw a medium sized coyote he instantly thought of Malia, at the heat of the moment he was even going to call Malia, but then he realized she was gone and he didn't even have her new phone number, the smile on his face started to fade. He had walked in to the boutique anyways and bought the coyote, now a days the stuffed coyote rests on Scott's bed and some nights Scott would even speak to it like it was Malia. One night he had tried to reach her through Kira, but Kira told him to stop and that Malia needed time, he accepted that also and let it be, for a while at least. A week after Malia had left, Kira had decided to go after her and so she moved in with Malia to make sure she was okay. The next time he tried to directly to reach her, he actually traveled to Miami where she had moved. But when he got to her apartment, he only saw Kira there. "Scott what are you doing" Kira had said. "I came to see Malia" Scott had replied with determination of telling Malia how he really felt. "Scott, now is not a good time, she just got over you, she's finally happy, I know that you're in love with her, but you can't" Kira said to him with the sweetest tone ever to comfort him. "Where is she?" Scott said trying to look around the house from where he was standing. "She's out, on a date, Scott, you need to go back to beacon hills, she just got over you and if she'd see you now, all of those feelings would come back and I won't let that happen, not after what you did to her, you can't come over here to declare your undying love for her when just six months ago you told her you didn't feel the same and broke her, I'm sorry Scott, but you need to go" Kira said with pity and even a little anger in her eyes, she was mad at him, Kira had been there for Malia, Kira had talked Malia through the nights when she'd cry, Kira hold her in her arms until the pain eased, Malia wasn't okay, she pretended that she was during the day, but at nights she wasn't able to lie to herself, and Kira was there for all of it, so she was mad at him for not realizing his love for Malia when Malia realized hers for him. She knows that's unfair, but she can't take the risk of him maybe not really being in love with Malia and just destroying her again, so she was still mad at him, and Scott left, he went back to beacon hills, now he realized how much it had hurt Malia when he said he didn't feel the same, but unlike Malia, Scott couldn't let go. He sees her again at his mother's funeral, Melissa died two years after Malia left, of course Malia attended the funereal and gave Scott her deepest condolences and hugged him, but she still couldn't stay. -Now- Malia takes a deep breath before knocking on Scott's door. She felt her heart jump to her throat when Scott opened the door and their eyes met, looking into those eyes again, after so long, her feelings started to make a comeback, but she decides to bury them deep down, for her own good. "Hi" Malia says as she gives him the biggest smile she can, she didn't even have the time to take another breath when Scott pulled her into a tight hug, Scott took her scent in and smiled, he had missed her so much. Malia starts walking up the stairs, taking in the scent of Scott and his house, she smiles a little. "Did you get the house to yourself?" Malia asks him when they get upstairs. "Yeah" Scott says as he sits down on to his bed. "So, what have I missed?" Malia asks with a smile on her face as she's sitting next to Scott, placing her left leg under her. "Uh, lets see, Tracy and Hayden got married, Parrish proposed to Lydia, but he also left her at the altar, so there's that" Scott says. "And you? Anyone special in your life" Malia asks, with the most obvious face of wanting to hear the word 'no' roll off from his lips. "No, not really" Scott says nearly without any expression on his face as his eyes are like glued to stay open just to look at Malia. Scott had had some 'special someones' in his life throughout the five years Malia had been gone, but none of them led to anything serious, second date at the best. Maybe the reason nothing worked out was because everyone he met noticed that he was in love with someone else, or maybe Scott unconsciously sabotaged his chances with them for the hope of getting Malia. "Uhh, how about you?" Scott finally asks after a few minutes of them just staring at each other. "Eh, I did, but it didn't go so well, we broke up, about a year ago" Malia says, remembering exactly how the break up went. Dan - the guy Malia was dating, had one day almost out of the blue started shouting at Malia about there being someone else, of course Malia denied it because technically, there wasn't anyone, there was just Scott, still wandering in the depths of her mind, so they broke up. "Oh, why did you break up?" Scott asks the question Malia was afraid of. "Uh, m, well" Malia starts as she just stares at Scott and tells the reason to him through her eyes. Malia could swear she could see the stars shining in his eyes, she's lost at looking at him. "Want to hear something ridiculous?" Scott says as he takes his eyes off hers and sifts on the bed so he's lying on the bed with his arms crossed on his chest. Malia follows him in to lying down on the bed. "After you left..." Scott starts and turns his head to look at Malia. "I realized something" he continues. Malia turns her head to face him as she gives him a 'go on' kind of look. "I realized... I realized that I couldn't live without you, I realized the reason I felt like my stomach was upside down was because of you and not the underlying threats of the beast, dread doctors, or Theo, but you" he says as he turns his head to look at the ceiling. Malia doesn't say anything, her head is spinning from all of the thoughts, but at the top of her a thought she can't shake - the last time they had talked, the last time they layed on Scott's bed, the time Malia said she loved him, and he rejected her, she gets it though, they had just beaten the beast and everything else lurking in the shadows of beacon hills, he had a lot of things on his mind at the time and he just needed time to think out all of the thoughts. "This sounds like a horrible teenage love movie, but ever since that, Malia, I haven't been able to stop thinking about you" Scott says and turns his head to look at Malia's deep brown eyes. "I tried to tell you, but Kira wouldn't let me, I'm not angry at her, I understand why she wouldn't let me, so after a while I stopped trying to reach out, but I still couldn't stop " Scott says and stops for a while. "I'm in love with you, Malia" He says and right that second Malia sits up. "You're kidding" Malia says as she looks away. How dare he say this now? After 5 years, he says it now? How dare he say this now that Malia finally started to get over him? How dare he flip her whole life upside down again? "I'm not, Malia, I've been in love with you for forever, I just, hadn't noticed" Scott sits up and tries to take Malia's hand in his, but she won't let him. "No, no, you have no right to do this, to say that" Malia says holding back tears. Honestly, she had been waiting for forever to hear those words leave his mouth, but now, she isn't quite sure if what she even wants anymore. "Why? god knows you did the same to me, you said it to me and then you left, without another word, turned my life upside down and then just took off" Scott says staring her deep in the eyes. "I left because you said you didn't feel the same, don't act like the situation is the same" Malia says as she takes her eyes off his. "I know I'm sorry" Scott says regretting his burst out. "I just, why now Scott? You had five years? Why did you let Kira stop you? You knew that I was still in love with you" Malia says. "I was afraid" He says as he shrugs. "I was afraid, I thought you had gotten over me after Kira told me to go back, so I decided to let you be and try to get over you, but obviously I couldn't, I can't" Scott says. "I'm afraid too" Malia says now letting a tear fall down from her eye. "I'm afraid that if I tell you I feel the same, I'll wake up or you'll tell me this is some kind of joke, because that's what its been for me the last five years, having a dream where we have this conversation and then I wake up" she says wiping the tears from her eyes. "You're not dreaming Malia, this is real, all of this is real, I am in love with you" he says. And then she wakes up. [Hope you enjoyed it & that it didn't suck that much! English isn't my first language & I'm sort of a beginner at this writing stuff so I'm sorry for all the mistakes!! And to clear up the ending: Everything past the '-now-' was a dream, so Scott really does have feelings for her;) left room for a possible part 2, so y'all let me know if you want another chapter especially u Lana!!] (+ the title is based on Lewis Watson's stay that actually kind of fits the fic, so go listen to it!!)
