Monsters | Stiles Stilinski

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟓

THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME HERE was Melissa McCall.. and she wasn't even a thing. I was almost positive Melissa's shift ended at eleven o'clock last night yet she'd hung around throughout the night, checking on me every half hour as I laid awake trying to come to terms with what had happened. My mind was spinning, I couldn't focus on one single thing for the life of me.

The night had surprisingly flown over. The crash had happened just before seven, only minutes before I was due at the hospital for my appointment. It had taken fire and rescue a half hour to cut me out of Derek's car and I'd gotten to the hospital just before quarter to eight where everything started to go downhill. Melissa had told me the EMTs had already started CPR in the back of the ambulance and the doctors had shocked my heart a total of four times. It only went on for a matter of ten minutes or so but she had said to me it was quite possibly the scariest ten minutes of her life. After that I was on oxygen I didn't really need for two hours and I'd been laid awake ever since.

It was always Melissa and I that underwent traumatic events together. I felt horrible that I'd yet again given her the fear of me dying in front of her and I hoped it would never happen again.

Dr. Axel was yet to make an appearance to give me my medication and no other doctor or nurse thought to come in and administer it either which really confused Melissa and I. She decided to go through my records and the both of us were sitting reading it at five this morning but then we found my records started after the Hale fire. There was no record of my birth, nothing of when Melissa had said I'd broken my elbow when I was five playing with Scott and Stiles — nothing of that sort. It started from after the fire when I was nine and said;

'mild scarring on the lungs from inhalation and moderate levels of post traumatic stress disorder.'

There was another entry of the same day that said;

'transferred into Dr. Axel's care'

Then he'd written one entry that simply said;

'Unknown health condition, started on Aconitum intravenously for the foreseeable.'

Aconitum was what we later found out to be the scientific name for wolfsbane.

Melissa had disappeared after that, telling me she was going to find both Dr. Axel and my hospital record containing the information from my birth to just before the fire. That was almost an hour ago and ever since then the time had dragged. It was all starting to fall into place, no matter how much I wished it didn't. The truth my mom was telling me about was a truth I could've lived without knowing. I wasn't sure if I wanted this but it seemed at the minute I didn't have a choice.

In the time I'd spent alone I'd heard Scott and Stiles' voices outside, the latter begging his dad to see me but he refused every single time. The sheriff and I had sat down and had a chat after I'd pulled round last night and I'd told him everything that had happened from my perspective. I'd also told him I still couldn't face Stiles — not yet — and he respected that wholeheartedly, blocking his son from trying to see me this morning before he went to school.

I didn't know how I felt hearing other people's conversations. It wasn't hard to eavesdrop but it also wasn't hard to not. All I had to do was focus on what was passed the closed door and I heard the busy morning in the hospital.

Melissa arrived back to my side room an hour after she had left with a file in her hands and a sad smile on her face. She closed the door as she said, "Scott and Stiles are outside wanting to see you. The sheriff heard them asking me if they could go in and sent them away."