ATONEMENT.
- i will atone
❝ something's made
your eyes go
cold. ❞
IN WHICH Nola Newcrest is desperate to atone for her sins and Stiles Stilinski is determined to take some of the weight from her shoulders.
[ of monsters and men: book i ]
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THE CHATTER IN THE GIRLS LOCKER ROOM FADED INTO BACKGROUND NOISE AS NOLA PUT ON HER SPORTSWEAR. She'd been lost in thought ever since waking up that morning. Last night the decision to help had been easy, but right now she felt more conflicted than she ever had before. She couldn't get the image of Derek seated on his knees, bloodied and bruised, out of her head. Along with Scott's eyes burning with determination to save as many lives as possible. And she just couldn't seem to figure out why their self sacrifice and compassion had shaken her so much. Maybe because their way of fighting required a kind of selflessness that Nola wasn't sure she was capable of.
She'd always been so sure she was doing the right thing by following her father. She'd been convinced that he only ever wanted to become stronger to protect them against their enemies. Never before did she think he would take such a dangerous risk of releasing two rabid Beta's into a town. Did that make her naive? Probably.
But mostly it just meant that this entire time, she'd been holding onto hope. Some tiny, fragile, sliver of hope that he wasn't really a monster. That some part of him was still the same man who read her bedtime stories and wanted to save the world. But last night proved that she couldn't afford to be naive anymore. Her hope, her inaction, had endangered innocent people. And that was a price she simply wasn't willing to pay. Not anymore.
However, Nola knew that if she were to say any of this out loud, she'd have the entire Alpha pack coming for her. Which was the reason she hadn't talked to Aiden. She had no idea where to even begin. She refused to apologize and knew that Aiden would too. But she feared talking through their differences wasn't an option either, not when he was still convinced their way was the only right way.
