About To Be Known [Book 3]

Overcoming Illusions

Notes:

This is the last chapter I'm updating today. I really, really, really like this chapter. If I didn't say it enough earlier. I really like the part where Stiles is in his mind or what he thinks is his mind at first. I'm going to play on that element more in the later chapters to come. I'm definitely going to talk about it more and about what exactly happened at this moment. But since I switched perspectives, Lydia wouldn't know what Stiles is thinking, obviously, so I have to touch upon that later. In another chapter.

This note is not going to make sense until after you read the chapters, so just ignore it for now. LOL

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Stiles POV:

I woke up all alone, still in the basement, though. Or at least I thought I was alone. Next to me was my wolf that I normally see that's in my mind and my fox on my other side.

At this point, I rationalized that I was not awake and that this was all happening in my head again. Because I only ever see them in my head, they don't really exist. They exist within me, but they don't exist where they could materialize outside of my body. So I reached The conclusion that I was still unconscious, and whatever was happening now was happening in my head.

The moment I woke up, in my head, I noticed that the wolf and the fox which were previously staring at me started growling and looking into the darkness ahead of me.

From what I remember briefly about the basement was it was a small room that I could see both ends of. Whatever I was seeing right now, it looked like I was staring into a black abyss where the other edge of the room should be.

After a few moments, something started to walk out of the darkness.

At first, I saw my father, and I quickly jumped up, and I was about to run over to him. He was standing at the edge of the darkness, still half-covered by it, but I could clearly see his face. Except when I went to go run, I felt a tugging on my pants leg, and the fox was preventing me from running. I was confused because my father was right there.

I tried to get the fox to let go, but he wouldn't let go. And by the time I looked back at my father, his face had changed.

I've never seen a creature like it.

But his face changed where his skin became similar to the texture of bark and where his eyes in his mouth used to be; they were just black holes.

I've never seen a creature like it.

And it scared me for a moment.

Because if this was all in my head, where the hell did that thing come from?

Unless if I wasn't in my own head.

If I had never seen that thing before then, there's no way I could've imagined it in my head.

But what if I wasn't in my own head.

Whenever I'm in my own head, I am in my room from my dad's house in Beacon Hills.

But I'm not in my room.

I'm in the basement.

So who's head am I in?

Damon POV:

I woke up in the basement, but I was alone this time.

Stiles was nowhere to be seen. Neither was the girl Lydia.

The man who Stiles said was his teacher is also not here. But he disappeared before we even came into the basement, so I'm not surprised that he's not here.