Insidious ✖ Theo Raeken

p r o l o g u e

My name is Silvie Stilinski, and I've been through a lot.

I became aware of the real life and creatures surrounding me when I was attacked by a Kanima, also known as Jackson Whittemore. Even now I can remember that paralyzing stiffness while I laid on the dank road, tears streaming down my face, fearing for my life. I was just walking home from my evening stroll when it attacked me, out of nowhere. I can thank Scott and Stiles that they showed up just in time and drew Kanima away. As I later found out, they have been searching for me that evening to warn me of danger roaming the streets, when they have just found out more about the supernatural creature then. It was almost too late.

Almost.

After that I had a serious conversation with them, about everything. It appeared that they hid the past events from me, such as Scott's metamorphosis into a Werewolf, murders, Hales, Argents and so on. I was shocked to find out that world wasn't exactly what I imagined it to be. Of course, I never thought of it as a full scientific creation, I knew that something unexplainable lingered in the shadows. But I never thought that it would turn out as something like this... It took some time for me to get used to everything, for I was basically clinging to my brother and his best friend, I wanted to know and experience everything they had.

If only I knew what was about to happen...

Kira Yukimura arrived, causing quite the commotion. We faced the Darach, Lydia became aware of her true nature as a Banshee. Also, we got acquainted with the ruthless Alpha Pack. During this whole craziness I became close with Derek, he constantly looked after me and Stiles was glad, though they didn't really get along, at least not immediately. I always knew that even though they despised each other in some way, they had some kind of bromance going on.

We learned the true reason for supernatural beings coming to the Beacon Hills - the Nemeton. It's a large sacred tree stump that Celtic druids picked for various rituals. The power of that tree is like a magnet that draws supernatural creatures to itself like a beacon. Scott, Alison and Stiles had to let themselves be drowned in order to find the Nemeton.

What followed later was crucial to me. The three started to experience hallucinations and nightmares after their temporary deaths. My brother wasn't even able to read for a while. They decided to solve the old police case, consequently discovering that the girl named Malia Tate was trapped into a form of a Coyote, making her Werecoyote. Later she became a big part of Stiles' life, and my close friend... Also, Kira turned out to be a creature called Kitsune.

However, the story doesn't end here. Some mysterious hooded figures appeared, turning out to be Oni, some kind of Japanese demons, connected to the Nogitsune. Stiles went missing only to be found later with his leg in a steel trap. I love my brother so deeply I couldn't bear these cruel things happening to him, as well as everyone else. I felt that I started to get worse, but kept silent, because my brother had more serious issues. He had to take an MRI scan to test for frontotemporal dementia, the same illness that caused our mother's death. It ended up Nogitsune taking over Stiles' body. He checked himself into the Eichen House, no matter how hard I protested. I knew he had some kind of blackouts before, but I didn't want to be apart from him. Thank God Stiles was freed from that vile creature Nogitsune eventually, but it wasn't a happy ending. Aiden and Allison had died.

Second semester of my freshman year was the time when I got even worse but kept my depressing state to myself. Our pack tried to integrate Malia into civilization with a following return of Kate Argent, also known as Werejaguar. Her surprising resurrection brought a new threat to Beacon Hills along with the emergence of another mysterious enemy The Benefactor. There was a Deadpool, a list of supernatural creatures of Beacon Hills and prices for killing them. Also, Scott made his first Beta, Liam Dunbar - a boy who suffered from I.E.D and who happened to be my newly transferred classmate from a Devenford Prep. We grew close, he's one of my closest friends and I couldn't bear the thought if something happened to him. He was aware of my depressive state and basically begged me to tell everyone else, but I couldn't. I couldn't turn the whole matter to me. I was aware that everyone liked and looked after me, for I was the youngest and the most vulnerable member of the pack - a mere 15 year old human girl.

Then, something majestic happened. I fell in love for the first time in my life. It was a guy named Garret. His golden hair and sparkling smile sent me head over heels in a meantime. Little did I know that he only used me to drop his suspicion of our pack, as I was Stiles' sister and Garret hoped that by his fake attraction to me my friends wouldn't suspect him being an Assassin for the Benefactor's list. The fact that he was a killer, known as The Orphan, revealed him to be older than everyone thought. At the start of our relationship I got much better, I was truly happy, but as soon as I found everything out I dropped down to the level much more excruciating than I ever was. He was my first everything and it ripped me apart to know the truth.

However, I knew that he loved me even so, in his own way. Even though he deceived me, I know he had some feelings for me, I just do. I could see it in every part of him. Scott was there when Garret got killed by Kate's Berserker, he told me that his last whisper was my name. Sometimes I remember him, and I smile, for it was the best time of my life when I felt love.

In the midst of supernatural creatures like Mutes, Berserkers, there was so much disarray, but everything unraveled, it always did one way or another, though always carrying certain repercussions.

So here I am now, somehow alive through all of these happenings, approaching the start of my sophomore year, a 16 year old broken girl, wondering what life had prepared for her now.