Leverage

True Colors

 A/N: Chapter dedicated to claudia185 ! Thanks for all the votes and comments!

I lay in the same spot for hours. Days. I don't have any sense of time in this small room. My cell.

Since the incident with Ennis, I've only been visited one other time. Aiden had come in and brought me something to eat...or maybe it was Ethan...I don't know. I didn't eat it, though. No matter how much my stomach growled to be fed, I ignored it.

I don't have a death wish or anything. I don't want to die. Especially of starvation.

I just don't want to move. When I do, no matter how small it is, pain shoots through me. I will get up eventually. Just not right now.

...I've been having more nightmares. Every time I close my eyes and let sleep take me, hoping I'll feel better when I wake, one visits me. A nightmare. They are always different but they all result in the same thing...someone I care about dying...in my arms. And there is nothing I can do about it.

A knot forms in my throat as I remember my most recent one. I'm at school, wandering the halls for no reason in particular, when I turn around a corner. I see Ennis and Scott facing each other. Deucalion sitting in his chair and Kali at his side. I walk closer to them to hear my best friend arguing with them. Demanding to let me go.

They laugh in his face. I could see Scott getting angrier by the second, his face turning red. He swings his arm back, ready to attack them when Ennis grabs him by the throat and slams him into a wall, holding him there. He looks back at Deucalion as if asking for permission.

Deucalion nods his head and the next thing I know, Ennis is ripping out Scott's throat. I scream for him, running toward the scene, but no one acknowledges me. I drop to the floor by his side, but when I go to hold him in my arms, my hands pass right through him. They can't latch onto my best friend. It's as if I'm some sort of ghost.

Tears form in my eyes, because I can't comfort him in his last few seconds of life.

I watch him bleed out in front of me. I try to tell him that it will be ok. That he just needs to heal. But he doesn't know I'm there. He can't hear me. Can't see me.

As he took his last breath, I woke up.

I sob at the memory. A memory of a nightmare that I don't want.

The click of the door and glare of the light pull me from my thoughts. I stop crying and try to compose myself so that I wouldn't look any weaker than I feel. A few footsteps enter the room and the door shuts behind them.

I slowly open my eyes, allowing them time to adjust. My vision clears and I can see Deucalion sit down in his chair with Kali by his side. One of the twins moves towards me, grabbing me from my place of comfort and drop me in front of Deucalion.

I can barely stifle a yelp from the hurt that intensifies through me from finally moving. Every one of my muscles are seizing and it's taking all of my strength to not show them how broken I am.

"Nice..of you..to visit." I choke out between short, shaky breaths. "Sorry..I can't be..a better..host."

No one responds to me as I sit on the ground, trying to control myself from collapsing and just laying back down.

"Stiles." Deucalion begins. "I have no doubt that you are wondering what exactly we brought you here for."

"The thought..may have..crossed my mind." I retort.

He holds up a hand signaling for my silence. "Allow me to finish."

I am curious about what their intentions are but I don't think I want to hear it. Nevertheless, I keep silent. So that he may continue, and because I don't have much energy left to reply.

"As I was saying. The reason we brought you here was so you can convince Scott to join us."

"No!" I interrupt.

"Now, now. You haven't heard me all the way through." He continues. "You see, we told Scott. We told him everything. How we have you and roughed you up a little."

A little?

"We told Scott that if he didn't join us, you're punishments will continue and you will not receive anything else to eat. Not until he says yes...That if he said yes, we would release you immediately. Take you straight to a hospital if we had to. And we wouldn't bother anyone in Beacon Hills again. Nobody. Not a single person. Not you....not your father...."

My heart stops at the mention of my dad. The only family I have left. Scott wouldn't risk either of our lives just because he didn't want to be in Deucalion's pack.

"I promise you, Stiles. I tried to reason with him. I told him he wouldn't have to kill anyone. We would even allow his pack to live as long as they didn't bother us. It's a win for him no matter what really... But even after I gave him our proposal...even after I mentioned the guarantee of both you and your father's safety....do you know what Scott said?" He paused. "He still said no."

It's not true, I tell myself. Not true.

"He didn't care enough to join us to save your life. He didn't care that you were in pain. And as for your father? He said as long as his mother was safe, he. just. didn't. care....You see, I'm on your side, Stiles. I truly am. I fought for your life. Gave him every opportunity to save it...Every opportunity." He looked down, as if he felt some sort of sorrow. "But he only cared about himself. To be his own Alpha. Not apart of someone else's pack but to be the leader of his own. He only cared that his pack was safe."

That's not Scott. That's not him. He's making it up.

"I guess you aren't included in his pack."

I shake my head not wanting to listen anymore.

"After all, you're only human."

"Why are you telling me this?" I burst out. These are all lies, I know it. I don't know why he is able to get me so worked up.

"I feel you should know the true colors of your 'best friend'" He stood up, Kali taking his arm. "I'm really not the bad guy, Stiles. Please think about it. You have plenty of time to do so."

Without another word, the twin that grabbed me picked up the chair and they all left. Leaving me, once again, to my thoughts.

A/N: Another day, another chapter. I hope you all enjoyed! Next one will be up tomorrow morning! :)))))