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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍
𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦: 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴
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𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬
I WARN EVERYONE TO stay away from me and get their things into their rooms, ignoring the looks I am getting from the entire Pack and my family. They don't know what's going through my head, or what is happening to me. They're never going to know. None of them can know. Never. They would try to stop me from doing what I have to do.
"What are you muttering about?" a deep voice asks, making me spin around. "You're making no sense, Stiles. What's going on?"
I narrow my eyes at the now Alpha. "What are you doing here, Derek? I told you to stay away."
"You're freaking the Pack out more. I need to make sure you're alright. So does Lydia and those Vampires that keep following you around."
"Kol is my descendant and Kai is my best friend. Don't ever call them Vampires in that tone again. They are more my family than the Pack ever was. They've been by my side for centuries, Derek, and you guys have barely been here for me over the past four years. I'd choose them in a heartbeat over you. There's no choice really."
"Do we mean that little to you?"
"In the big scheme of things, yes. Yes you do. I'm sorry if that hurts you, but it's the truth."
His eyes flash at my words. "It does hurt, Stiles. You are Pack. You know that. Can you feel the Pack Bond?"
I close my eyes and a series of brightly coloured strings appear on my closed eyelids. I smile and pluck at the threads, watching them vibrate and grow stronger under my watch. The colours grow brighter and my stomach warms at the sensation of the Pack Bond growing between us, and at the addition of my family.
Erica's brilliant gold thread is tightly joined to everyone, but is thicker and stronger with Boyd. Boyd's light blue thread is the same as Erica's and where their threads meet there is a bright white section. The smallness of the white section makes me roll my eyes and pluck at it, feeling the shock roll through Erica and Boyd at the sensation.
Allison's pale pink thread is connected strongly with Isaac's lime green thread, and the white section is covering half of their threads - meaning they have completed the marking part of being Mates. Both of their threads are slightly stronger than the usual Pack Bond thread where they connect to Scott - showing that there was once a relationship there. Scott's vibrant orange thread is connected to Kira's saffron thread the strongest and is slowly weakening between everyone else - a result of not being an Alpha any longer.
Liam's sea green thread is the same as Allison and Isaac's threads, but with Hayden's strangely coral thread. Aiden and Ethan have a strong bond between themselves and their Mates. Their similarly coloured threads - Ethan's being violet and Aiden's being lilac strangely enough - are strong with Danny's cream thread and Malia's earthy green thread with the same white areas as Liam's and Hayden's threads.
Malia's thread is slightly stronger connected to Theo's yellow thread. Theo's, Jackson's and Cora's threads are surprisingly all connected to each other like Mates. Jackson's speckled green and black thread - representing his Kanima past - and Cora's grey thread - showing her close call with death a few years back - are melded with Theo's. Corey's almost invisible thread is connected to Mason's smoking thread, the Mate Bond obvious.
Parrish's rippling fire thread is weakly connected to everyone, but it is slightly stronger where it connects to Lydia's brilliant red thread. From Lydia there was a strong connection to Peter, Derek and myself. Peter's pitch black thread is connected to everyone, but lacks a Mate Bond. Derek's bronze thread is strongly connected to everyone - showing that he is the Alpha - and is also strongly connected to Lydia's and mine.
My family's threads are connected to everyone, but remain strongest with myself, each other and their Mates. Davina's and Kol's have the brightest white connection of them all, and then Kai's connection to all his siblings within him is almost too bright to look at, but his Mate Bond astounded me - he is Mated to my witch friend, Allana.
The threads from everyone shoot to me and I jolt at the impact, my pure silver threads shooting out and connecting to the many coloured threads. The ones joining Derek, Lydia and myself are almost Mate Bonds, but aren't thick enough and only have the smallest amount of white - even less than Boyd and Erica's Mate Bond.
"You have no idea what this feels like, sourwolf," I say softly. "You can't see how amazing this is, and I wish you all could."
"You can share it," Kai says, the grin obvious in his voice. "You know what to do. Push it into their minds and past their extremely weak defences. You can do it."
I open my eyes and they flare multiple colours, every colour they can possibly be. The keep changing until they stay pure silver, a grin on my face. I push out my mental abilities and force my way past everyone's mental defences. They try to push me out, but to no avail. I force the image of the Pack Bonds into their minds, and their shock reverberates through me as they see how intimately connected we all are.
"There is so much dependency in this Pack. This is how a Pack is meant to be. All these connections - Pack Bonds and Mate Bonds alike - are what makes a Pack a Pack. There is no doubt that we are the strongest Pack to ever walk the earth since my Pack of Kitsune all those millennia ago."
None of them make a sound, all in awe of our connection.
My eyes fly shut and my head falls back, a sensation rushing through me that makes my stomach churn. Fire flies through my body and my eyes fly open, flashing a dangerous shade of black and red. My presence in their minds fade and I fall to my hands and knees, my body almost spasming. I snarl and clench my hands, my claws digging into my palm and black blood pooling under my hands.
