✓ | battle wounds, scott m.

chapter fourty four.

Void!Stiles and dark!Ella watched as Noshiko made her way downstairs and to the broken wall, taking two pieces of the 'five' that had once been on the wall. She put them together. "Why that kanji?" Void asked, "Why 'self'?" "To signify that he died as himself. Because Rhys wasn't a monster," Noshiko turned and stood with the dagger in hand, "Not like you." "If I'm such a monster, why'd you call off the oni? What happened to the woman who called out for chaos, strife and pain to descend upon everyone and everything?" Void asked Ashe stepped closer to her, using Dark!Ella's eyes for light, "What happened?" "I don't want that anymore," Noshiko shook her head. "I do," Void said in a husky voice, gripping Noshiko's wrist, "Did you bring this here thinking you could hide it from me? Bad idea." Void then took the dagger and stuck it inside himself.

"What have you done?" Noshiko asked. This time, Dark!Ella stepped forward. "Chaos is come again." Then thousands of flies flew out of the cut on Stiles's body, whizzing around Noshiko's body before they disappeared. And when Noshiko looked where Void had once been, both he and Dark!Ella were gone.

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Scott and Kira walked into Scott's room, "Thanks for letting me stay. I just didn't want to go home yet. I feel like I don't even know them anymore." Scott looked at his drawers, "I can loan you a T-shirt Ella left here if you want." "I'm okay," Kira nodded. Scott nodded, "Take the bed. I'll sleep in the chair." Kira sat on Scott's bed, kicking off her shoes then crawling up and laying down. "You okay?" Scott asked, Kira replying with a nod. "Scott?" Kira asked. "Hmm?" Scott hummed. "I don't want you to sleep in the chair. I feel bad," Kira frowned. "I've woken up plenty of times in this thing. Especially when Ella and I got into arguments and I thought that she didn't want to be around me, so I slept in this chair. And when Ella was too focused on 'Switched At Birth' which is her favorite show, I would pretend to have conversations with the chair to show Ella that she wasn't paying attention to me and I was losing my mind. She would say that I was crazy then switched to her other side on the bed then say that I could sleep on the bed. Then there was this one time in our sophomore year. Stiles dragged both me and her out in the middle of the night to find a half of a dead body. That was the night that I got bitten," Scott paused for a moment, "Stiles got caught, but Ella and I didn't. And instead of making her walk home in the rain, I made her come home with me. I let her borrow some sweats and a t-shirt then let her get the bed and I sat down in this chair."

"She told me that she felt bad that I was sleeping in the chair, just like you did, then she got up and took some blankets and pillows from the closet and made a small bed for me on the floor. She said that since I was bitten by a sort of a dog, that I could act like own too. So to make her smile I crawled up like a dog would and barked quietly a couple times, but I had to be really quiet because I knew my mom would've killed me if I sounded like an actual dog and she thought I brought one home. Anyways, the next morning Stiles was blowing up her phone. Asking where she was, Why she wasn't at home, and if she was okay. Stiles has always cared for Ella more than he cared about himself. His own health, problems, social life, everything. He's an amazing brother and she's an amazing sister. They've never left each others side. Ella always wanted to be with Stiles and Stiles always wanted to be with Ella. That's how it's always been," Scott finished.

Kira smiled softly then asked, "Is Daniella Ella's real name? Like how Stiles is just a nickname for his real name." Scott shook his head, "No, Daniella is not Ella's real name. But she won't tell me it. Or anyone, it. I think Lydia knows, I'm not sure." "Do you know Stiles's real name?" Kira asked. Scott shook his head, "He's too embarrassed to ever tell anyone." "Why doesn't Ella say her real name?" Kira asked. Scott shrugged, "Don't know. Before their mom passed, their mom told me that Ella's real name was beautiful. But Daniella's real name is also pretty complicated to say, like Stiles's, from what I've heard." Kira nodded and not long after, fell asleep, and so did Scott.