Sink or swim (Sterek)

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[A/N: I know these are not the exact lines from the episode. I changed it a bit but it's still the same general thing.]

Stiles' POV

The Kanima slashed it's tail behind Derek and I saw a little cut appear on his neck.

"Derek, your neck.."

As the words left my lips I saw Derek begin to fall back. I ran to catch him just in time.

"The Kanima...It paralyzed me." Derek breathlessly explained. I tried to drag him fast but muscles are heavy!

The Kanima seemed to fear the water so I decided to jump in.

"Hold your breath!"

"Stiles! N-"

The cold water consumed us and I quickly swam up to catch my breath, holding Derek up as he gasped too.

"It's scared of the water!" I explained, spitting out water. "Stiles I'm slipping." Derek yelled in his raspy deep attractive voice.

"I got you." I reminded him, readjusting my grip. "And, you're worried about drowning? Have you noticed our current situation." I mocked, gesturing to the Kanima hissing at the edge of the pool.

"Have you noticed that I'm paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water?!" Derek snapped. "Yeah, that's why I've been holding you up!"

"I have an idea, you have to trust me." I offered. "No! No, no, no, no, no, no! You are not dropping me!" Derek instantly argued. "Could you just trust me this once?!" I yelled back. "I don't trust you, you don't trust me!" Derek shouted.

I looked at my phone at the edge of the pool and back to the slightly scared Derek. I really cared about him, I would never let him drown. I looked back at my phone. "Stiles. Stiles, don-" I dropped Derek and heard him sink to the bottom of the pool.

I swam over and quickly swam back holding phone above the water. I tried to phone Scott, he eventually answered but said that he was busy and hung up before I could speak.

Derek couldn't stay under much longer so I threw my phone and dove under to get him.

I saw him lying at the bottom of the pool, eyes closed, shirt lifted. He was beautiful. I grabbed him by the shirt and wrapped his arms around me. (Hey, if I'm saving his life I get to secretly hug him.)

I pushed him above water and he instantly gasped for air. Once he was breathing I told him what happened.

"Is this it, Derek?" I asked worry laced in my voice. "Possibly." Derek deadpanned.

"I can't die yet! I still need to do things!" I protested. "Like what?" Derek asked. I made sure he was facing me, now was the time. Come on Stiles your gonna die anyways. "Lots of things, like this."

I cupped Derek's face in my hands and kissed him. I tried to make the kiss as deep as I could considering he was paralyzed and couldn't really kiss back.

"Stiles?!" I heard Scott shout from down the hall. I broke away from Derek and shouted for Scott.

Scott scared the Kanima off with a mirror or something and helped us out.

Once I was out of the pool I bolted for the door. I heard Derek call my name a few times but I kept running.