[ Peter and the nogitsune can say what they want, about his status as a beta. It could be true-- Derek is just a beta, barely tucked in Scott's pack but there regardless, and at the surface he's no longer as powerful as he'd been as an alpha. Even with only Cora directly in his pack, with Scott and Isaac at the edges, Peter lurking at every corner, he'd been technically stronger.
But it doesn't change tenacity. Doesn't change that, certainly, he's suffered enough to sustain a nogitsune for a long, long time but he's gotten up time and again. Has fought just to buy time, even if it meant that he could've died. And even if his jaw clenches as his face is gripped by familiar fingers, ones that have held him up to keep him alive, pulled him back to his feet, made him safe for but a moment, his eyes stay hard and focused on his face. ]
You'll die. [ Simple as that, even if it means that Derek will die with the fox in the boy's skin. Because Stiles is important to Scott, important to him, and he's not about to let the nogitsune get away with possessing him.
He thinks of Kira, how little she knows about herself, what she is. Thinks about how easy it would be for the nogitsune to kill a kitsune that's still learning, barely more than a kit to something old like this. ] Stiles? Stiles won't. Not if he can find that thread, somewhere in you. The piece of you that used to be a kitsune.
If he can't find it, she will. And she'll rip you out of him by it, and I'll tear you apart. Until there's nothing left.
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But it doesn't change tenacity. Doesn't change that, certainly, he's suffered enough to sustain a nogitsune for a long, long time but he's gotten up time and again. Has fought just to buy time, even if it meant that he could've died. And even if his jaw clenches as his face is gripped by familiar fingers, ones that have held him up to keep him alive, pulled him back to his feet, made him safe for but a moment, his eyes stay hard and focused on his face. ]
You'll die. [ Simple as that, even if it means that Derek will die with the fox in the boy's skin. Because Stiles is important to Scott, important to him, and he's not about to let the nogitsune get away with possessing him.
He thinks of Kira, how little she knows about herself, what she is. Thinks about how easy it would be for the nogitsune to kill a kitsune that's still learning, barely more than a kit to something old like this. ] Stiles? Stiles won't. Not if he can find that thread, somewhere in you. The piece of you that used to be a kitsune.
If he can't find it, she will. And she'll rip you out of him by it, and I'll tear you apart. Until there's nothing left.