A World In Need

Chapter Twelve

Isaac's POV

I woke up with a pounding headache. Did someone drop a bus on me or something?

Then it all came rushing back to me. I had taken Stiles to the command center for training. Or let's not even call it that. That's not what master Gaylor called it when him and I talked about doing it in the first place.

He wanted to see how powerful Stiles was. If he was someone that he could trust to have on the team, or if he would have to contain him, or even worse put him down. That sounds crazy but people like Stiles can get so powerful that they become hard to keep in check. Now he's one of my best friend, but as the leader of this team and as someone who's supposed to be a protector. I have to do my job and protect. If that means we'd have to lose Stiles in the process then that would be horrible, but it would have to be done.

I still didn't want to have a strain on our friendship because of this though. I mean if he doesn't become a threat then I won't have to do anything to stop him.

Okay back to what I remember.

Stiles had waited too long to do anything so he got blasted by something. I thought this was funny so I did what people usually do when they find something funny. I laughed. Big shocker. But then he got defensive and blasted me. Danger sign number one if you ask me.

But the thing is I would've ignored it, I should've ignored it, but something in me took over and I just started strangling him. He was grabbing at my wrists practically begging me to let go, but I wasn't listening. I was trying to kill him. I wanted to kill him.

And I would've. If Master Gaylor hadn't blasted me off of him. And that's all I remember from yesterday.

Stiles probably won't want to talk to me. Wait actually he's one of the most forgiving people I've ever met. Especially if it's with people he trusts. He should forgive me, but if he told anyone about it then they definitely won't forgive me, and they'll probably try to keep him away from me the best they can.  I know this because it's exactly what I would do if I were in their shoes.

This is really going to effect the team's ability to do anything on missions so I'm really hoping that he didn't tell anyone.

I walked out of my bedroom and was instantly slammed into a wall by Erica.

"You better have a good explanation for what you did Isaac or I swear to god I will kill you right here." She was totally full on wolfed out.

"He could be a potential threat Erica. My reasons were valid, but I know he's not now."

To say she looked completely shocked at my answer would be an understatement. She could completely baffled at all of it.

"Stiles? Stiles Stilinski? The blue guy on our team? You thought he was a threat. He legit won't even kill a fly." Okay that statement really was true. Stiles won't kill insects.

"His magic Erica. His magic is too powerful and what if one day he just decides to turn a spell on us huh? He's unpredictable with that amount of magic in him so I very much do think that my head was in the right place. Now is Stiles one of my best friends? Yes. Would I trust him with my life in his hands? I'm not too sure anymore." Now instead of surprised she looked a mix of shocked and angry.

She did let me go though even though now her anger was fading into kind of disappointed. 

"I think you let being the leader go to your head Isaac. We're your friends. Not subjects you try to control." With that she left down the stairs.

When I went down. Everyone was there but Stiles.

"Before you ask. He's out with Sophia."

Dang. How much time does he need to spend with his new girlfriend. It wouldn't kill him to spend some time here.

"Actually it might. Judging how you live here." Erica said blatantly. I was about to yell when I noticed that Lydia was asleep on the table and Jackson was starting to doze off but kept waking himself up in the end.

"What's wrong with you guys?" I asked as I shook Lydia gently.

"Stiles was having nightmares all night about something. He kept saying I'm sorry and don't kill me I promise I'll do better. I have no idea what it was about but Lydia and I were up all night with him trying to calm him down."

And that moment is when I realized I went to far. I really hurt him. We moved here to help Stiles get away from the people that were making him miserable. Turns out that I turned into one of those people as soon as we left.

I'm just as bad as Scott which is honestly pretty hard to say judging on how horrible Scott was to Stiles in the last year or so.

Erica was right. I shouldn't try to control them, and Stiles does not need to be put down. All he needs is to learn a little more control over his abilities. Even though his control is already pretty good for how long he's had his powers.

I've been a horrible leader to my team. Gaylor trusts me to lead this team though. Leading a team isn't about making them all hate you. Being a leader shouldn't mean that everyone hates you. I shouldn't be scaring my friends into accepting me as their leader. They already do and I didn't even notice it.

I almost killed Stiles and I didn't even give it a second though in the moment.

I have to apologize to him as soon as he gets back. Or maybe I'll just go find him.

Yup. I'm going to go find him and apologize to him.

There has to be a way to make this right.