12: Damnatio Memoriae

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SHE'S WEARING LEGGINGS WITH THE DRESS!!

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SHE'S WEARING LEGGINGS WITH THE DRESS!!

Mattera's P.O.V

I can't even go near Stiles after what happened. I mean, we're all ignoring each other, and I hate it, but it's Theo's fault, and I will kill him. I said before, if Theo breaks Scott and Stiles' friendship, I will kill him. I feel my head start to pound, and I wipe the blood off my nose and I close my eyes and I was at the hospital and I saw Stilinski in the morgue looking at a body, and I see Stiles walk in, and of course he didn't see me "The story Theo told me about the library. That's how it happened. Except it didn't happen to him." Stilinski told him, Theo lied to him too?! Well, he lied about it happening to him

"Yeah." Stiles said

"Stiles, I can't protect you if I don't know the truth. Did you really feel like you couldn't tell me?" Stilinski told him

"I couldn't tell anyone." Stiles said

"Did you think that I wouldn't believe that it was self-defense?" Stilinski asked

"What if it wasn't? What if I told you I wanted him dead?" Stiles asked Huh, I wanted him dead too

"I'd believe you. I also believe that wanting someone dead and murdering them are two very different things." Stilinski told him

"Yeah, but what if the judge didn't think so?" Stiles asked Oh shit I didn't think about the judge

"Then to hell with the judge. Stiles, it was self-defense, and I would destroy every shred of evidence to protect you if I had to. I would burn the whole sheriff's station to the ground." Stilinski told him, Is Stiles going to tell him he saved me?

"What about upholding the law? What about Kira?" Stiles asked

"Kira was a mistake. I guess I'm learning how to bend." Stilinski said, and I feel like I'm gonna break down and cry, I don't know why, I just am

"So, what, it just goes away?" Stiles asked him

"Not for you. The problem now is how to bear this burden. This kind of thing is not at all uncommon in law enforcement. A fatal mistake. A partner who dies. Or one who gets paralyzed. Stiles, you carry that with you. Sometimes it doesn't truly feel okay again until there's a kind of counterbalance." Stilinski told him

"Like what?" Stiles asked

"Like instead of taking a life, you manage to save one. Something like that can help, but maybe only for a moment. But the real conflict you're having now is between your head and your heart. Your head. Your head knows that the only crime you committed was surviving. But your heart? Your heart still thinks it was murder. So I guess you, uh... You gotta get your heart to catch up to your head." Stilinski said and I feel tears well up in my eyes and I see a tear go down Stiles' face

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