Chapter Eight: Anything Goes

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When Stiles opened his eyes again he was standing behind Derek. Derek's back was to him, his hand wrapped around Stiles limp one.

"Stiles..please, please wake up." He heard Derek say through tears. "Please don't leave me here alone."

Stiles walked up and put a hand on Derek's shoulder, tears running down his own cheeks as he watched Derek start to sob. Once he finally calmed down he was able to explain things a little better.

"Stiles, I know it's selfish of me to ask you to stay. You want to be with your family and that's fine. Scott kisses Allison, he wishes she was here just as much as I wish you were here. I don't want to tell you what you should choose because it's your decision. I'm just asking that you give me a chance. I love you. I'll move in with you, hell I'll marry you just please don't leave me." He took Stiles hand and squeezes it tightly.

"Scott said maybe you want to go. And that's okay if you do. But if you want to come back, I understand if you don't want to be with me, I understand if you want to leave me and this place behind and go to NYU. Just as long as you stay. I can't loose you this way."

The door opened and Stiles turned to see his friend Scott walk slowly into the room. Stiles could see Scott's eyes were red from crying over Allison. Scott walked up behind Derek and put a hand on his shoulder. "Derek we have to go."

Derek shook his head and tightened his hand around Stiles limp one, his fingers barely holding on. "I'm not leaving him, I can't."

Scott shook his head and grabbed Derek's arm, "Derek listen to me, he isn't dead. But he has to choose if he's going to stay or not. Don't get too attached, he loved his family, he wouldn't want to leave them. You need to be ready to let him go."

Derek slumped over defeated.He looked at Stiles limp body, tubes coming out of him everwhere and machines beeping around him. "He shouldn't have to wake up like this..." He leaned forward to whisper in his ear as Stiles watched from behind. "Stiles.." Derek began. Stiles covered his mouth as tears began to fall. "Stay and i'll leave you alone. I'll let you live your life you can do anything you want. I'll lose you that way but I can't lose you like this." 

He kissed Stiles on his forehead and stood, walking out of the room. 

Stiles slowley walked over to his body the tears still silently falling. How am I supposed to do this? He asked himself. Derek was in pain seeing Stiles in the hospital and that's not what Stiles wanted, but Stiles didn't want to lose his family either. 

If I stay, if I go it's up to me. He thought. If I want to live I can choose to do so. If I want to be with my family I can choose to do so. 

He turned and pushed open his room door and ran after Derek, his heart saying one thing and his head saying another. 

-

Stiles spent a week lingering around Derek. He watched him eat, sleep, and try to live his life normal without Stiles by his side. 

Derek's life had taken a turn for the worst, and so had Scott's. Both had secluded themselves from people, they just hung around each other. Scott had lost the love of his life, his beautiful girlfriend Allison, Derek's boyfriend was on the verge of dying, barely holding on by a thread. Both boys were broken hearted. 

"Derek.." Stiles whipsered one night as he watched his boyfriend toss and turn in his sleep. He'd been doing it for weeks, Stlies didn't know what Derek was dreaming about, but he knew he was  hurting and Stiles couldn't do anything to stop it. 

"I love you so much." 

Stiles eyes moved to a picture of himself and Derek at the beach for Stiles 18th birthday. They'd spent the entire day together, laughing and having a good time. Stiles could feel his heart breaking into peices, knowing he couldn't continue to hurt Derek any longer. 

          

He had to make a choice. 

Stiles ran out of Derek's house, tears running down his face. He ran to the back yard and looked up at the night sky with rage. 

"I'm done!" He shouted. "I can't choose! I can't leave my family and I can't leave my boyfriend!" 

"You can." 

Stiles whireled around and saw Allison standing in the middle of the back yard. "You can and you have to." She said as she walked over. 

Stiles shook his head and backed away. "How dare you. Why would you break my heart like this? I can't choose between my family and Derek. I can't hurt anyone else."

"Stiles, stop acting like you have to make the world a better place. You've always been thinking about other people. You need to start thinking for yourself. You need to make your choices based on you not someone else." 

Stiles shook his head and sighed. "Allison this isn't just a choice of where to eat or what to wear. This is if I stay of if I go. This is, do I break more people or do I think selfishly." 

She smiled and walked forward, she took Stiles hand and sighed. 

"Stiles Stilinski. Flip a coin." 

She turned and walked away, Stiles opened his hadn and a quarter was sittin gin the palm of his hand. 

"Flip a coin." He muttered under his breath with a smile. "If you say so." 

He sighed, he couldn't just decide. He couldn't flip a coin and hope that all of his problems were gone. But he would have to try.

He closed his eyes and tossed the coin in the air. 

It worked. 

It wasn't that he knew what he wanted from the beginning, but his heart did. In that one moment while the coin was in the air turning, Stiles knew what he wanted to choose. 

The coin hit the floor and the tail end of it faced up at him. Stiles smiled and closed his eyes tightly. 

"I want to go home." 

The room startedt o spin and Stiles felt his heart grow heavy inside his chest. He felt the ground disappear under his feet, but he didn't scream as he fell, instead he was at peace. 

For the first time in his life, Stiles knew he had made the right choice. 

-

Derek was being kicked out of the room as the doctors and nurses rushed in. 

It had all happened so fast. 

The room was quiet and then suddenly Stiles heart monotor went flat. 

Stiles was dying. 

Derek and Scott watched in horror as he flat lined. People were running around frantic and Derek could feel the tears fall down his face. 

"No please no.." Derek whispered as Scott rubbed his back. 

For three hours Derek and Scott waited for word of Stiles condition. They hadn't been allowed into the room and they were worried. Finally, a doctor walked out of the room and turned to both of them. Derek held his breath and took Scott's hand and squeezed it tightly. 

"He's alive. He's fine, he's breathing." He turned to Derek and smiled. "He should be fine now." 

Derek let out his breath and looked over at Scott who nodded. Derek walked into the room and Scott stayed in the hall with the doctor. He sat down next ot Stiles and put his hand on his arm. 

-

Scott looked into the room through the doorway and he leaned against the wall as he put his head in his hands. He could feel Derek's heart breaking as he watched Stiles body lie there in the hospital bed, the same way Scott's heart had broken when he heard that Allison was gone. 

Please. Scott thought. I already lost Allison. I can't lose Derek too. Derek doesn't deserve this, he's a sweet guy. C'mon Stiles you gotta pull through. You have to live.

He was startled out of his plea to Stiles by Derek who was running out of the room into the hall. 

"Doctor! Doctor!" Derek shouted. 

A doctor ran down the hall and he and Scott ran over to Derek quickly. "What's going on?" Scott asked. 

"Is something wrong with the patient?" The doctor asked. 

Derek shook his head, his eyes wide and a smile across his face. "He's awake." 

"Stiles is awake." 

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