Stiles Stilinski

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“Hey, I tried.” Stiles said defensively remembering those times when he tried to compliment her and she walked right past him without even a blink. Heey Lydia you look....like you´re gonna ignore me. Yep those golden times when Stiles was nothing more than a dirt on her very expensive shoes. Scott making the co-captain changed the way she looked at him but at Stiles? He had nothing and basically all that changed about him was his slightly grown hair. Still, after numerous close-death situations they were now actually friends. Stiles was still amazed at the transition. Friends with Lydia Martin. He liked the sound of that finally realizing that he was objectifying Lydia a lot before.  Now though, he could see their relationship in a whole new light with all their differences and faults.

Matt smiled and he chuckled a little. “Yeah, I guess going down fighting makes you a hero instead of a coward, right?” He cocked his head a little and stared at the boy in front of him. It was clear that even though Matt had stopped playing football, he was still having his old shape. “In that case, better make sure you know how to run.” Matt nodded once again and he licked his lips. “And I’m sure we can found something that will do a lot more damage to monsters than to you.” Matt shrugged his shoulders. “Mostly it’s about weakening that superspeed so you have the actual time to hide.”

“I would like to call it a....strategically advantageous retreat? Nothing cowardly about that.” Stiles laughed even when usually, it was a life or death situation and nothing funny. “I play lacrosse, I know how to run....well, usually I´m a benchwarmer but...theoretically, I know how to run.”He tilted his head thinking about other things than weapons that could potentially do some damage. “I can work with wolfsbane.” He said after a moment.

A new club in New Orleans had everyone buzzing, apart from Scott. Well he did however feel interested to have a night out with his best friends. He was sure when Stiles had text him to come he couldn’t say no to it. Putting one of his world famous jackets and black jeans he made his way out to the club. As Melissa was driving him over to the club it only hit Scott now about how popular the venue was. People pushing in the line to get in, everyone dressed so nice and party like-and then he saw Stiles. Nicely dressed and standing not to far away from the entrance.

A new club in New Orleans? Of course Lydia was one of the first people to hear about it, she had heard a few people around town speak of a new place opening. As she saw how great it looked she got the word out to anyone on her contact list. Dressed in her dark blue dress she was already inside taking a look for anyone she knew. It was hard to see many faces but she could only hope someone would attempt to come and speak to her, but she enjoyed studying the drink menu they had. Her plan was to start with the small drinks then get to the strong ones, eventually someone would come over and offer to take her home when she was ready. And if she was then she would accept, many of her focuses were just on making sure everyone new Lydia Martin was in a hot new club everyone would be talking about.

“Yeah I know, right? It looks like the whole town is right here.” Stiles grinned even wider before putting his arm around Scott and shaking him.”My dear boy, tonight we´re going to party because seriously I need to let out some steam from the studying and the whole supernatural shenanigans, right?” He held out his hand making a sweeping motion in front of them. “Just imagine...” He let go of Scott turning to the club and watching the mass moving on the dancefloor.

Matt cocked his head and he nodded. “Yeah, I’m just kinda afraid that sarcasm might create more trouble than it solves in this town.” He thought about all the Originals Stiles could piss off or what about the other vampires and witches. Sarcasm wasn’t gonna keep them from killing him and it wasn’t gonna do much physical damage either. “There are a lot of weapons and I’m sure we can find something that works for you.” Matt frowned his eyebrows. Maybe Stiles wasn’t good with guns and bows, but there were other stuff. What about knifes? Maybe they’d work for him. “And the first thing I’m gonna teach you is how to run and hide, because let’s face it, that’s the best defense thing as a human.” He smiled back at Stiles. “Training it is.”

“Yeah but when you go down, you go down with style?” Stiles chuckled with a small shrug of his shoulders. “It´s not like I have great brain to mouth filter anyways so it´s really hard to stay quiet when someone is going overdramatic movie villain on you.” He said thinking for a moment about the weapons.”Are any of them babyproof?” He asked after a moment.”Well, run and hide is great only if the opponents don´t have supernatural speed....or strength. But yeah. we need to start at something don´t we? I´m great at running away from things.”

“You’re welcome.” Matt stared at Stiles for a moment and he wondered how he was keeping himself up in a city like this. Stiles knew that he was surrounded by vampires and werewolves and monsters. He knew what was lurking in the dark and what could attack any minute. But just like Matt he was still breathing. 

“Man, my only weapon is sarcasm. I once almost shot Scott with a crossbow..... If it wereńt for Scott´s reflexes he would be dead.” However, the truth was that he actually thought about picking up a weapon more than once. “Uh....I´m not so sure I would be any good with that...” He hesitated for a moment. “I mean, my dad´s a sheriff and It doesn´t look like I inherited any talents for handling a gun.” He bit his lip thinking about it.

“Yeah but I would like to keep the job. And dude, let me tell you nothing is more scary than the soccer moms in full rage.” He said, grinning at his brother. “Except maybe for that one wampire I spilled my coffee one a few days ago. I thought she would rip my throat out in the middle of the shop.” He added quietly so he wouldn´t get weird looks from the people around.

“You’d like to keep this job? This job? They must be paying you very well then I am guessing. And god I need to get you to see more scary supernatural beings” Scott said with a chuckle towards his brother. “Well vampires can be quite scary when they’re threatening you I agree-however, I will tell you that they would never harm you in public. Reason for that is I am sure they wouldn’t want to waste their time compelling the 20000 other people who were forced to watch the whole thing” he said lowering his voice to meet Stiles, he didn’t want to be dealing with odd looks and questions. 

“Hey it´s not like there are people lining up to offer me some CEO positions at Wayne Industries.” Stiles said defensively. He still didn´t even know why he got this one but he needed the money and people were (usually) nice.

“You know, for a human, if your heartbeat wasn’t wildly uncontrollable, your lack of skill in the art of spying would be quite telling.” Klaus nearly eye-rolled himself into his grave as he heard the beat of a young boys’ heart from behind his shoulder. 

“Uhm...ehm...” Stiles cleared his throat. “No idea what you´re talking about. Just taking a walk. Beautiful day....night...whatever for a....walk.”

Matt smiled and he placed a hand on the boy’s back. “I’ve seen busboy doing a way crappier Job than you’re doing. So you’re fine.” He encouraged Stiles a little. They weren’t close friends or something, but Matt knew that just like him Stiles was in the middle of this supernatural mess. And just like him, Stiles was only human.

Stiles wasn´t used to someone being actually comforting and friendly like this other than Scott or his dad and he couldn´t say that he minded.  It was nice to know that someone could be so understanding. “I....thank you.” He said not knowing how to react at all.