Stiles Stilinski-Gilbert

Chapter 28

When Stiles wakes up the next morning, he goes on his normal morning run where he gets more and more acquainted with his magic. He's getting better at manipulating his magic so that he isn't using all of his magic at once and is instead using a little bit at a time.

After getting home, Stiles heads to his room to have a shower. When he heads back into his bedroom, he finds a box on his desk. Jenna must have placed it there. He walks forwards and opens it to find a glass jar filled with a black powder.

This must be the mountain ash I ordered; Stiles thinks.

He pulls the jar out of the box, swipes the box to the side before placing the jar back onto his desk. He studies the substance in the jar and can't help but be a little disbelieving that this could trap supernatural creatures.

Stiles pulls open the lid of the jar and pours some of the ash into his hand to get a feel for it. It feels rough, not like a powder but more like ground up bark. Which makes sense when he thinks about it considering that mountain ash comes from rowan trees. He pours it from one hand to the other, marvelling slightly at the fact that none of the ash sticks to his hands like it has some sort of attachment to itself that keeps it all in one place.

A thought comes to him, and he pours the ash onto the desk in front of him while imagining a circle. When he looks at where he poured the ash, he doesn't find it. it's like it just disappeared. Stiles remembers reading the properties of mountain ash and none of it said that it could turn invisible. He looks at the jar to see if the ash went back to itself but finds the jar still a quarter empty.

Weird, he thinks.

Stiles moves backwards a step to try and get a better perspective when he feels a course feeling against his bare foot. Looking down, Stiles sees it, an ash circle on the floor, sitting around him protectively. He laughs a little hysterically as he takes it in, spinning around.

He pauses when a thought comes to him. "How do I get you off of the carpet?" Stiles mutters to himself.

Stiles thinks for a second and wonders, if I can make a perfect circle with my magic then that means I can manipulate it and move it with magic so...

Stiles picks up the jar, mostly filled with mountain ash and believes that the jar will once again be full. When he opens his eyes, he finds the jar full...and the mountain ash circle still standing strong around him. What the fuck?

Okay then, apparently, he can magically create more mountain ash, at least he won't have to continue buying the stuff, it is surprisingly expensive. He looks at the circle of ash around him and comes up with an idea.

Stiles heads down into the kitchen and grabs an empty jar that was in the recycling before heading back up to his room. Stiles closes his eyes and imagines the ash circle floating and entering the small jar, then he believes. When he opens his eyes again the jar in his hand is full??? And the mountain ash circle is gone. There was not enough ash on the floor to fill up the whole jar.

Stiles decides that he's just not going to question it. That way leads to insanity.

He hears noise coming from the rest of the house as their alarm clocks go off, so he quickly places one jar of mountain ash in his hiding space and the other in his school bag. Never know when he may need it, plus he needs to test the ashes' ability to trap the supernatural.

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Stiles drives Jeremy to school that morning on account of Elena having to go to the Salvatore boarding house to meet with Damon and Stefan. Which means that he gets front row seats on his brothers crush on their local witch.

"Here I got it." Jeremy states as he picks up a book that Bonnie dropped.

"Thanks. Where's Elena?" Bonnie inquires, looking around for her best friend.