My Future
Derek Hale x OC
Samantha, Stiles and Scott are always joking about the impossible. Who wouldn't when your best friend's dad is the sheriff of Beacon Hills? All jokes stop when they realize the impossible is indeed possible.
Chapter 62: Desperation
Opening his eyes to a dimmed area, Stiles saw that he was in the waiting area of a train station. Sitting up, he saw two women and a lawyer next to him before glancing at the Arrivals and Departures board, taking note of the names of towns that were listed as well as a ticket booth.
He felt unsettled. Why was this place so…quiet? It was eerily quiet. He would've welcomed someone having a conversation, even if it was something he wasn't interested in.
Anything but the cold silence.
Stiles sat back in his seat, frowning as he dug into his pocket, his cold hand warming up to his pocketed keys.
He turned to the doctor. "Excuse me," he whispered, grimacing a bit as she slowly turned to him. "Sorry, where are we?"
"We're at the train station.", she said. He frowned.
"Right. Okay. Helpful.", Stiles nodded sarcastically, and cleared his throat. "Which train station exactly?"
She turned, looking at the Arrivals and Departures board. "Train station number 137."
Stiles looked at the board as well, then turned back to the lady. "Did you see me come in?", he asked.
"No.", the lady said. Weird.
"How long have you been here?", he asked.
"Maybe an hour?", she replied, nonchalantly.
On the other side of her, the lawyer spoke up, reading his newspaper. "We got here at the same time.", he said before glancing at Stiles. "It's been at least six hours."
Stiles' eyes widened a bit. "Six hours?", he asked. The man nodded, returning to his newspaper.
Stiles frowned. Six hours…? What train takes six hours to arrive and depart?
He shook his head before talking to the woman again. "Where are you goin'?"
The lady froze, unsure of her answer before patting herself down on her white coat. "Um. I-I had a ticket with me somewhere." She frowned as she continued searching. "Um…"
"You always travel in your work clothes?", Stiles asked.
"I must have been in a rush.", she said.
Stiles frowned and looked at the ticket booth before standing and walked over to it.
He looked at the dusty, dirty desk, shocked at how dirty it was. He slid his fingers on the desk, the pads of his fingers immediately collected the dust. "Do you know if anyone works here?", he asked.
Before he could get an official answer, a speaker came on, catching the attention of the passengers. "The following stops have been canceled. Hollatine, Batten, Bay Burry, Deer Ridge, Red Oak… Trenton, Anderson, King Springs."
People started standing up from their seats, walking over to the darkened tunnel. Stiles, interested, moved over to the readying passengers. "Excuse me, where are those trains going?", he asked.
No one answered. What the hell is wrong with these people…?
What was up with the trains?
Where were those places?
He continued searching for an answer and became impatient to the people who ignored him "Does anyone know where this train's going?!", he exclaimed.
He sighed, irritated as he looked up at a sign that said, "To Trains". A little hope sparked in Stiles as he was ready to leave the place and find his way back if he had to.
Wind began to blow and leaves picked up, being carried through the air. He frowned as he heard a horse neighing from the tunnel.
People started pushing back the others behind them, making way for the Ghost Riders and their horses. They hid down by the benches in fear.
Stiles, confused and worried, only backs away. A Ghost Rider rode up, holding his whip and assaulted a man's face with a crack, making him fall down.
The Stilinski boy could only watch as two more showed up, dropping off a man and saw as the rope around his hands and feet had disappeared in a puff of green smoke.
Once three more Ghost Riders arrive, Stiles finally moved away to hide before he was next, only to feel someone grab him, spun him around and pushed his back up against a pillar.
Groaning, he looked up at whoever was holding him to send a complaint, only to stop short in shock once he saw who it was.
The eldest Hale, however, couldn't return the same sentiment. "It just had to be you.", he said, annoyed.
The two watched as the horses neighed and guided their riders back down the tunnel, making each passenger sigh with relief, nonchalantly returning to their seats.
Peter followed suit, walking over to his bench with Stiles right behind him. "Peter? Peter, what are you doing here?", Stiles asked. Peter turned around to face him with a frown once he found his seat.
"How are you here?", Stiles asked.
"What do you mean, how am I here? I'm here. You're here. We are all here. Now, get the hell away from me, Stiles.", Peter grumbled, sitting down.
Stiles sighed and shook his head as he looked at the other passengers before looking at Peter who's expression matched the others in the room.
"Hey, Peter. Peter." He snapped his fingers. "Peter!" Peter's eyes stared up at the boy. "What are you doing?", Stiles asked.
"I'm waiting for my train.", Peter simply responded.
"Okay, did you not just see that?", Stiles asked.
"See what?", Peter asked, making Stiles frown in confusion. What the hell was happening? Did he not just save him?
"The horses, the hogtied businessman with the magically dissolving ropes?", Stiles listed, making Peter's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
Stiles, quickly frustrated, turns to the other passengers. "I'm sorry, did anyone just see that!?"
The others gave Stiles a weird look before returning to what they were doing, which wasn't much. It bothered him. Why was no one bothered by what just happened?
"Do you mind?", Peter asked the boy. "You're blocking the board." He nodded towards the Arrivals and Departures board. "I'd like a little warning before my train arrives."
Stiles frowned as he looked at the man. "Okay. So you're waiting for a train. How did you get here?"
"Pretty sure I took a cab.", Peter responded.
"Last time I saw, you were being locked away in Eichen House.", Stiles said. Peter frowned, blinking as he realized.
"I was in Eichen.", Peter muttered, looking up at him. "Thanks to you."
"Memory's good.", Stiles said. "Can you remember how you, uh, got out? They discharge you?"
"No, the power went out. And I ran like hell.", Peter explained.
Stiles eyebrows furrowed. "That's it? You just ran?"
"Yes, that's it. I literally just ran away from the insane asylum that was holding me hostage!", Peter said. "Until I came home with Derek and after the whole thing with Samantha's family, it was raining one day… and this horseman appeared in front of me."
The eldest Hale's eyes widened. "I got shot.", he recalled, making Stiles' eyes widen.
Peter suddenly got up, pacing back and forth. Stiles took his place on Peter's seat.
He glanced at the ticket booth, the Arrivals and Departures board, before looking at Peter again. "How long have I been here?", Peter asked him.
"We saw you three months ago.", Stiles said.
Peter nodded. "Yes, but I saw Samantha…after she and her father and brother met. She had a nosebleed and–" He suddenly gaped at Stiles. "I've been missing for three months and no one came for me?"
Stiles held his hands up in surrender. "We assumed you didn't want to be bothered with Sam's family mess.", he said, making the man frown. "But that's what the Ghost Riders do, they erase you."
"Ghost Riders?", Peter asked. "Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt?"
"Yeah, you know what I'm talking about?", Stiles asked, eyes wide.
Peter sighed, sitting down at the bench on the opposite side of Stiles. "Of course, I know what you're talking about. They ride the lightning. They are an unstoppable force of nature, but, I promise you, they don't make pit-stops in train stations."
He glanced over at the old lady that sat on Stiles's bench, watching as she gave him her best sultry smile.
Peter grimaced and shrugged before looking at Stiles. "I've escaped one prison only to land in another one. And this looks like the underground lair of a depressed bureaucrat.", he mumbled, glancing around.
"Come on, there's gotta be a way out of this place, right?" Stiles started up. "Have you tried looking around? Have you talked to anyone who knows anything?"
"If this is the Wild Hunt, there is no escape. You and I are doomed to ride the storm...forever.", Peter said.
"Yeah, we're not in the storm," Stiles stood up, walking towards him. "We're in a train station. But we can get out of a train station."
"We can't get out of here, Stiles. Because this place isn't real.", Peter countered.
Stiles looked at him in confusion. "What are you talking about?"
Peter huffed. "Beacon Hills doesn't have a train station."
Stiles frowned before looking at the doors that were locked over near the corner where the ticket booth stood.
Shaking his head, he walked over to the doors, immediately tugging at the locks. Peter got up, followed after him and watched him. "What are you doing?"
Stiles glanced back at him. "Little help, please?", he asked, frowning at the man.
Peter rolled his eyes and got up. As he moved to the door, he grabbed the lock, and yanked it, destroying the chains.
Stiles rolled his eyes. "Okay."
He opened the doors, and ran through, confused as he was transported from the door that was near the tunnel.
Peter noticed him, eyebrows furrowed in confusion as well. "What the hell?" Stiles mumbled to himself, running back through the door and did it again, and again.
Panting, he thought of doing it once more, frowning at Peter's slight amusement.
"No, no, no, keep going.", Peter nodded to him.
Stiles snapped at him. "I don't see you comin' up with anything."
"Stiles.", Peter frowned as he caught a sight from the corner of his eye. The entire time Stiles was running around, he'd noticed a boy staring at the two.
He whispered. "Left shoulder, against the pillar. Don't look.", Peter advised. Much to his disappointment, Stiles did the opposite, seeing a blurry boy. "I said don't look.", Peter sighed.
"Yeah.", Stiles mumbled.
Peter looked at Stiles. "He's watching us."
"Yeah, so?"
"So… every person in this station is either comatose or catatonic. He seems very interested in keeping an eye on us.", Peter informed and nodded his head in that direction.
Stiles turned his head, looking back at the boy who was still watching and stormed over to him. The boy ducked behind the pillar. "Hey!", Stiles called, going the other way.
The boy looked over to see Stiles, only to get stopped by Peter, startling Stiles. "Oh, my god!", Stiles choked, flinching and settled down knowing who it was.
"Why are you watching us?", Peter glared at the boy.
"You tried the doors.", he chuckled. "Nobody ever tries the doors."
"Sounds like you have.", Stiles said.
"The ones that I could open. I've tried everything else.", the boy replied.
"Not everything.", Peter said. "You're still here."
"Yeah, it seems like you got some kind of a plan.", Stiles said. "So why don't you tell us about it?"
The boy scoffed. "I can tell you. Doesn't mean you can do it."
Stiles chuckled, nodding. "Oh, we can do it." He paused, hinting at Peter. "He can, he can do it…"
"Well, it's right in front of your face." The boy explained and both Peter and Stiles faced the black void on the tunnel's archway. "You didn't see it, did you?"
"I saw it.", Stiles declared.
"Then why'd you waste so much time running through the doors?", the boy asked. "I'll tell you why. Because it's all part of the illusion. You're afraid. And they want you to be afraid."
"I'm not afraid.", Peter said and headed for the tunnel. He got closer until he started to slow down, hesitant.
The boy lightly smirked. "Can't do it, can you?" He glanced up and over at Stiles. "He can't do it."
"We really should kill him.", Peter said to Stiles.
"Or you can just walk through it.", Stiles suggested, walking towards him.
Peter let out a heavy breath, readying himself. 'Push me.", he tells Stiles.
"What did you say?", Stiles asked, eyebrows furrowed. "Push me!", Peter exclaimed.
Stiles, confused, held onto Peter's back, and shoved Peter through. Peter stumbled over his feet, but stopped and glanced around.
"Now you're gettin' it.", The boy smiled widely, heading off into the tunnel.
Peter glanced back at Stiles. "Stiles. Stiles, let's go.", Peter ordered.
Stiles didn't move. Instead, he stared into the dark tunnel and sighed. Peter frowned, and grabbed Stiles by the shirt and pulled him into the darkness with him.
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Groaning softly, Sam woke up to the sound of loud beeping. Looking up, she sees the ceiling of a car. Her eyes widened as she sat up from the reclined seat.
She was inside the jeep? How? Aside from that, she saw a man hooking a latch onto the Jeep's bumper and she quickly pressed the horn, scaring the man.
Once he saw Sam, he let out a relieved sigh. "Christ–"
"What're you doing to the Jeep?", Sam asked.
"Taking it to the Pound. What're you doing inside it?", he asked. Sam glared at the man, and pulled out a set of keys, hoping he'd take the hint.
Before the man could say anything, Lydia stormed up to the man. "Hey!", she called. "You can't tow this Jeep."
"Paperwork says I can.", the man said, glancing down at his clipboard. "It's reported as abandoned."
"Does it look abandoned to you?", Sam yelled, shocking Lydia.
Lydia placed her hand on the hood, turning to the man. "It's not."
He looked at her. "Oh, so this is your vehicle?"
Lydia tilted her head a bit. "Does it matter?"
He scoffed. "Sounds like a no."
Scott ran up, suddenly. He panted, walking over to the driver's side of the jeep. "It's mine. Uh, my Jeep. Thank you. I'll move it. Once I get the keys.", he glanced into the windshield at Sam with raised eyebrows.
The guy shrugged. "I'm sorry, once it's on the hook…"
"Please don't say, 'you're on the hook".", Lydia frowned, unamused.
"Well, I can't now." The man was about to leave and Sam frowned.
Scott stopped the guy. "O-Okay," He started. "Look, there's gotta be something that we can do. Sign something? Call someone?"
"Pay someone?", Lydia added, opening her purse. The man grinned. "Drop fee's a hundred and fifty. Cash."
Lydia pulled out her money and Scott's jaw dropped, sputtering in disbelief. "A hundred and fifty?"
He looked at the jeep. "This thing isn't even worth that much."
Sam frowned at the boy. "Watch it, McCall!" Scott's eyes widened at Sam. "Come on, Scott," Lydia fussed. "How much you got?"
His eyes widened at her. "Uh, how much have you got?", he asked, sticking his hand into his back pocket.
"Just give me your money.", she hissed. Scott sighed, and took out a small wad, counting it. "All I have is $50. And when I say 'all' I mean all."
Lydia took the money with her $100, handing it to the guy and he happily took it, unhooking the Jeep and headed up into his truck lifting up the platform in the back and finally left.
Scott glanced at Sam. "How the hell did you even get in?"
"Did… Did you sleep in the Jeep?", he asked, as she opened the door, keeping one door unlocked.
"I don't remember even getting in…", Sam said. Scott placed his hands on the girl's shoulders. "Why'd you save the Jeep?", Scott asked.
"Because it's not just a Jeep.", she said. "It's Roscoe."
"Roscoe?", Lydia asked.
"Yeah.", Sam nodded.
"Okay so, why save Roscoe the Jeep?", Scott asked.
"Because I remember it. And, I remember someone always taking care of it. Plus, it just appeared out of nowhere when I was just walking around.", Sam said.
"Made it appear? Made it appear…", Lydia whispered, her eyes widened in realization. "Like how Corey made the Library key card appear even though it was invisible?", she asked, making Scott look at her in realization as well. "And how he made the Ghost Rider at the party appear.", Scott added.
Sam looked at the jeep. "I don't know how, or what I did, but it's here.", she frowned. "I just was so upset and wanted to find Stiles. I felt like I was alone in this, so I did some pacing and found myself in front of it."
She looked at them. "I think I remember being tired, but I don't remember getting in the jeep."
"Okay, but why Roscoe?", Scott asked, finding the name weird.
"I don't know. I just know that that's what it was called.", Sam said.
She looks at them. "I think this is another relic."
However, on the underside of their world, Stiles, Peter and Trent walked further into the tunnel. It didn't make sense. If there wasn't a train for Beacon Hills, why were they there to begin with? Why them?
His thoughts paused as they came up into another part of a train station.
"Congratulations," Peter muttered. "You found another part of the phantom train station."
Stiles kept walking. "Is this the way out?"
"If it was, we would be leaving.", Peter said, annoyed. Trent stopped them. "Thanks for your input." He looked back at him.
"We're trying to get out here and go back to our home and people who need us. At least I am.", Stiles said.
"By that, you mean back to your ridiculous friends?", Peter asked. "This would be easier if Sam were here. She could probably detect us in the dark and bring us back.", Stiles muttered.
"Sam?", the boy asked. "Sam Wilson?", he asked, looking at Stiles who looked at him with furrowed eyebrows.
"So, you're Stiles.", he said.
"How do you know about her?", Stiles asked, frowning. "She's about this tall," Trent lifts his hand a little by his head, "Puffy hair?"
Stiles nodded. "I saw her.", the passenger said. "She can see the people in here. Most of them are already called for death. I'm pretty sure I'm on my way too."
Stiles and Peter looked at each other in shock before looking at the boy. "Where'd you see her?", Stiles asked. "In a house. She was with another girl. Lydia, is it?"
Stiles' eyes widened. They were still friends…. Thank God. "What house? Who else were they with?", he asked.
Trent shrugged. "Some woman. But she's dead. How Lydia was able to see her is beyond me.", he said, moving away from the tracks.
"You might want to stay off the tracks. 'Cause that's the way in and out." He pointed down at the end of the tunnel where it's doused in darkness. Stiles and Peter nodded, getting up on the platform.
"So, what, we're dying?", Stiles asked. "That's why we're in this station?"
"Yes.", the boy said. "Okay so, how were you able to be seen by Sam? D-Did you talk to her? Anything?", Stiles asked.
"I talked to her and I was actually able to speak, but–" Stiles cut him off. "What did you say?"
"I told her that whatever that she was looking for was right in front of her face.", he said. "And before I could get anything else, I got interrupted by a woman. A dead woman."
Stiles frowned, eyebrows furrowed. "A dead — a dead woman?"
The boy nodded. "What do you mean?", Stiles asked, watching as the boy's behavior suddenly got desperate.
"They're coming.", he says, making them aware of the horses' neighing.
Trent ran over behind a pillar to hide himself, making Stiles and Peter do the same as they watched at the end of the tunnel burst into green smoke.
In came a Ghost Rider with two more riding behind the first. The horses galloped down the tracks into the darkness of the other end of the track.
Sighing out of relief, the three moved from behind their pillars. "That's the way out?" Peter pointed to the entrance where the riders appeared. Trent gulped, nodding. "How in the hell are we supposed to do that?", Peter asked.
"We jump.", Trent said.
"Jump?", Peter looked at him with wide eyes.
"On the back of the riders as they go through.", Trent explained, quickly.
"Is that all?"
"I've been timing it.", Trent said, looking at Peter. "Look, we can jump from here just before they go out."
"I think you're confusing your pronouns. We aren't going to do anything.", Peter said, swinging a finger between Stiles and him. "But you should absolutely give that a shot."
"Do you not wanna get out of here?", Trent asked, frustrated. "We want to get out alive, okay? How do you know this works? Seems like a lot could go wrong.", Stiles said.
"Look, I can't stay here. I'm losing my mind in this place.", Trent's voice desperate.
"I think you have an excellent grasp of the situation. I say go for it.", Peter said.
Stiles frowned at the man. "Peter."
The horses neighed in the distance once more. Trent tapped Stiles's shoulder. "Hey, they're coming back."
Peter and Stiles got behind one pillar and Trent got behind another, waiting.
Peter looked around the corner and Stiles nudged him. "No, we can't let him do this, right?"
"What if he's right?", Peter asked.
"Hey, we'll figure something else out.", Stiles said.
He turned to Trent, sure that there was another way. It had to be… "Hey, look, there's gotta be another way out of this place."
"But there isn't.", Trent shook his head. "I've been looking for months. Are you comin' or not?"
"It's all you.", Peter said, stepping away as the Ghost Riders passed him and Stiles. Trent readied himself up just before Stiles tried to run for him only for Peter to stop Stiles, pulling him back. "Let him try.", Peter said.
They watched Trent take off running and jumped onto the back of the horse, struggling to stay onto the Ghost Rider as they kept on riding towards the invisible portal. "Come on, come on.", Peter whispered, nervous.
Trent was close enough until it was his and the other Ghost Rider's turn. The horse traveled through as well as the Ghost Rider did.
However, the portal reflected him off of the rider like a mountain ash barrier, throwing him on his back.
Before Peter or Stiles could say anything, Trent's pain-filled screams shocked them into silence as they watched him be swallowed by green like fire, burning his body into ash, only leaving behind a skeleton.
"Somehow I don't think that went the way that he was hoping.", Peter said letting out a soft breath.
"No, wait." Stiles shook his head, jumping off of the platform, and ran over to Trent's skeleton. "Stiles, he's dead. You see his face? Trust me, he's gone.", Peter emphasized.
Stiles said, frustrated. "You knew he'd die."
"I didn't know. I mean, I assumed.", Peter said with a shrug.
"Yeah," Stiles turned to Peter. "But you could have warned him."
"He was gonna do it anyway. Now, we know.", Peter said, exasperated.
"Know what?", Stiles asked.
"That we're stuck.", Peter declared, jumping down and walked towards Stiles. "It's over. We are trapped because that was our only way out."
"Or that's just what they want us to believe.", Stiles said, still feeling hopeful.
Peter looked at him as if he'd grown another head. "What?", Peter growled. "What is it with you teenagers? You think that you're so special? You think the rules don't apply to you? Do you get it? We are dead and buried."
Stiles watched as Peter dug into his pocket, grabbing his wallet. Peter opened it up, grabbing the few bills Stiles had in there. "Money? It's worthless." He let them drop to the floor before Stiles could reach for them.
"Driver's license? Credit cards?", Peter took them out, tossing them onto the tracks. Stiles tried to grab his things. "Give me my damn wallet back.", Stiles said under his breath, getting upset.
"It's all meaningless.", Peter said and threw the wallet onto the ground and saw Stiles's keys to his Jeep in his pocket, grabbing those. "Keys?"
"Give me my keys.", Stiles frowned, panting. Peter tossed them up onto the platform. Stiles glared at Peter, his eyes glossing.
What was up with Peter's defeat? If he wasn't persistent, he wasn't Peter. He knew that. Peter wasn't a liar. Deceiving, yes, but dishonest?
He must really feel defeated.
"What, did you think you were gonna drive us out of here? Is that what you thought? Do you get it? We don't exist. And we are already forgotten.", Peter said.
"Somebody's gonna remember me.", Stiles determined.
Peter frowned at him, pulling out a picture of the 5 teens sitting on a bench. "This? This was already gone. It's not going to matter.", he said, throwing the picture down.
Stiles scrambled to catch the picture, holding it in a tight hand.
"Lydia, or Scott, Malia, Sam. They're gonna find me, all right? They'll come for me.", he stood, glaring at Peter. "But who would ever come for you?"
Peter slowly nodded at him. "You give me a call when your high school sweethearts conjure up a plan to get out of here.", he said before storming off.
Stiles frowned, looking at the picture in his hand.
Looking at his forever growing adoration, his eyes glistened. He spent his last days in his jeep with her.
He had finally said 'I love you'. Not that he was in love with her, but a full on confession. Not just out of desperation and fear, but out of honesty. He wanted her to know. He always did.
He looked at his best friend. Though the two butted heads, that was his brother at the end of the day and he hoped Scott knew that. He wanted him to know that.
He looked at his previous lover, someone he'd help become docile. Human, once more. He believed in her. He wanted her to have a life outside of being a coyote and all though it took some time, it was worth it.
Though they didn't have the best ending, he still cared. He never stopped.
Lastly, his first friend. The girl that never failed to make him smile. The one that accepted all his shenanigans and even joined in them. He couldn't bear the thought of her forgetting him. Not after what she said.
She was the sister he never asked for, but welcomed all the same. She was his Mother Hen when her mom or Melissa wasn't able to be. He'd never ask for anything more if he could just hear her say how clumsy he was or how stupid he was to give up.
She'd fight to make sure everything was okay again.
And that's what he was gonna do. With or without Peter's help. He placed the picture into his plaid shirt's pocket, gathering his things before leaving the tracks.
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