Start of Time » Stiles Stilinski

23. Valkyrie

After everything that happened at the sheriff's station, the Argent hunters attacking and basically everything.. Well, after the horrific events that happened that night, the night ended with Matt dying. They found his body in the river not far from the station, by the bridge. He had drowned apparently, someone held his head as he drowned. Matt did awful things, he didn't deserve forgiveness...

But he was only just a kid.

We are the same age, he still had a life ahead of him, maybe not a long life if they'd given him the death penalty but still.. Who are we to play judge, jury, and executioner. The moment we start believing that we have the power ourselves to decide if someone lives or dies... We're no longer better than the bad guys.

Still, if i was given the chance... I'd like to believe I'd give Matt the chance to survive and face trials for his actions. But we are not always who we want to be. And he hurt me, hurt the people I love so I don't actually know what I'd do if I was given the chance to end his life.

I snapped out of my thoughts, hearing movement downstairs. I groaned, slowly sitting up in my bed. After the events at the police station, dad brought me home and told me to rest. And I did, cause I felt like hell and my head was still spinning from everything that happened. But I needed answers, and dad said he'd give them to me after I rested up. I slowly got out of bed, holding my side as I still felt sore from being wounded. I slowly lifted up my shirt, taking off the bandage as I noticed the bullet wound was healed. There was just a little bit of bruising from where I was shot and it hurt like hell still. But at least I wasn't bleeding out. I took a deep breath, slowly making my way downstairs to find my dad.

I walked throughout the house trying to find him; I looked in the living room, kitchen, training room. But I couldn't find him anywhere. Lastly, I looked for him in his study or office and I found him. He was sitting behind his desk, looking at a picture framed in his hands. I didn't need to see the picture to know it was of my mom. He kept her picture on his desk, in his wallet, everywhere.

She's been gone for over ten years now but my dad still loves her so much. It's my dad's love for my mom that I want for myself someday. To love someone so much, to never let that love fault or disappear or break or bend. I know I have that in Stiles because I've loved him since the first moment I saw him and I'll love him to my last. My love for him is one of the few things in this world that will never change.

I was about to enter my dad's study but stopped when I heard him talking to himself. I stood behind the wall, peaking in to see him staring at my mom's picture in his hands. "I tried Val..I tried my hardest to protect her-..keep her from this but like we always feared..it caught up." I heard dad sigh as he stared down at my mom's picture. "I hope you know how hard I tried and I kept my promise this entire time." It broke my heart to see my dad like this, he was the strongest person I know and right now.. He seemed defeated.

"God-..Not a day will go by where I won't miss and love you. I can't wait for the day we'll see each other again..Until then, I'll watch over our daughter and teach her to defend herself. To fight and be strong like you are. She looks just like you, I see you in her and I know you'd be proud of our daughter and who she's becoming." Dad sighed before setting the picture down on his desk. "I love you..Talk to you see Val.."

I took a deep breath, knocking on the open door to show dad that I was in the doorway. He offered me a kind smile, telling me to come in. I returned the smile, taking a seat across from him as I couldn't help but notice the still saddened look on his face. "How are you feeling? Are you healed?" Dad asked, trying to take head of the conversation before it goes to where it is going.