212 Of Gods and Wolves [#2]

[This story contains spoilers for Son of the Night]

"So~" The taller, about 6'8 feet tall man stood before the broken and burned home, awkwardly staring at the dark aura of pain and death that surrounded this place- "Is this your home?" Bruno Astérie Begoni, son of Enychta Astérie and Pruno Begoni, as well as Luke Castellan (who isn't his biological dad, but is one of his dads) stood before the broken and burned Hale House as his- hopefully- future Mate stood there at the entrance, staring at it with deep dread and pain behind his eyes, Bruno knew there was something else behind his pain because due to his Divinities of [Wolf], [Endless Darkness], and [Terror], he could feel the emotions of the more animalistic side of Derek, as well as the pain inside his heart that was deeply rooted on the terror of his mind.

But like his dad said- slower is better.

"Yeah... It was." Derek's voice was filled with a sense of forlorn that made Bruno's heart twist in a knot of a desire to protect this poor puppy from the world around him: "Well, uhm, it doesn't have much..." Looking around, there were many things missing from this place, broken and burnt walls, charcoal-like marks on the wood, and the ever-present smell of ash and soot: 'Okay. First things first... Get him out of this house is my priority now.' He knew a few things, learned them from his fathers and mother, how the mind is sometimes self destructive for some dumb reason - And Derek's mind is clearly wanting to punish him for something he has no fault in, Bruno already pieces together a few things seeing that Derek's family must've died and that he feels guilty for that, and he also killed his uncle a few days ago or something similar to that: "Well... We can..." His brain started to work fast- what did he need to have and do to get Derek out of here? He needed the Alpha's trust, a place he can feel safe, money, and more- For now he needs money! 'Okay, i can do this.' Derek did not see it, bt Bruno's shadow moved, leaving his body and darting out of the house and moving faster than the speed of light by diving into the shadows and teleporting through the world.

It was surprisingly easy to steal money from several banks across the world at the same time and keep them on his shadow- Like that, money was not an issue anymore, now he needs documents and a few others things! An identity, but for now he can use his magic and shadows to make a physical illusion of what he wants to have, just like his dad Luke taught him! "Wanna go grab a lunch or something?" Bruno felt bashful for a second, his whole body was enveloped into the shadows before a casual white shirt, tight pants, a deep dark brown leather jacket and black shoes because he was not really thinking about what he should wear that moment but rather focusing on Derek, who was just... Staring: "Derek? Wanna go out with me?"

Unsure what to say, and honestly confused, Derek just blinked and said: "Uh... Sure."

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His eyes could not believe what he was seeing.

His brain could not process what was happening before him.

He could not even blink as he watched Derek Hale, sitting in a table at the diner, smiling and laughing at something! Derek Hale!? Smiling!? Stiles Stilinski could not believe it, this is some magic bullshit! "Stiles?" He flinched when Scott's hand touched his shoulder, he shaked his head and walked right in as Derek looked at him, his scowl returned and he looked like a grumpy cat, but there was still that little tilt on the corner of his lips as he looked at Stiles, it made him shiver for some unknown reason and he had to think of Lydia Martins to get Derek Hale out of his mind, that was until he just saw who he was talking to- a tall guy, really tall, taller than Derek! He had this stupid grin on his face and a glint on his- pink eyes? A rare condition maybe? No, they're too bright, almost like its contact lenses: "Hey Derek!" Because Stiles had no sense of self-preservation, he decided to approach him even when Scott frowned at his decision: "Stiles." Ah, classic Derek, a frown on his handsome face and a growl on his voice-

"Who's that...?" Scotty Boy, Stiles knew his sense of self-preservation was bad but even he knew that just being plainly rude to an Alpha Werewolf is not a great idea! "Me?" The big guy looked down upon them, quite literally seeing as he was big- Did he mention that the guy was huge, because he sure was! "I'm Bruno, nice to meet you-" The guy now named Bruno stared at him, and Stiles felt nervous as he was being stared by, he saw he way Derek tensed for a second before his eyes flashed red for a second: "And you..." his hand was caught by the Bruno guy, he swayed him to his side with that ridiculous smirk on his face as he lowered his face and whispered on his ear: "Must be Mieczislaw Genim Stilinski..." D-did he just say his name? In a perfect Polish pronunciation!? His shock must've been visible on his face because the other guy pulled him to sit beside between him and Derek as he got up and gave the other part of the seats to Scott, who was... Just looking between them and sniffing the air. "Derek told me about you... how you helped him, how you're... Amazing, even though you're just a mortal human."

Scott sat down in front of them, Stiles could tell how Derek tensed for a moment as he got close, but relaxed once the Bruno guy let out a sound that he could only describe as a cat-like purr from his chest, where his head was really close- this was strange, but cute? Kinda, because Derek was just avoiding looking at them as his ears were slightly red, he remembered the time Derek threw him against the wall before walking away and how his ears were red after, which made him curious and also... Shy? Weird: "So, Mica, can i call you that or would you rather have me calling you Stiles?" That strange purring sound came back as the man spoke seductively- Wait what? "Uh... Stiles' fine." The man nodded as his hand slowly lowered through his back and rested there on his back, making his skin tingle with a sort of electricity while Derek had this look of longing? Fear? He couldn't understand it very well: "Look Stiles, I think we need to talk privately, y'know, you, me and Der-Bear here."

"Der-Bear?" Oh right, Scott was here wasn't he? "Oh, right, the Omega." The man had this look of disgust on his face as he growled, his eyes glowing a golden color, different from the yellow glow a beta werewolf would have, stronger and somehow brighter than an Alpha's glow itself! "So, puppy-" Scott scoffed and growled, which made Derek growl back with his eyes glowing red and Stiles felt the headache coming, somehow his brain brought back the word Pain over and over again, he has been thinking of that the whole day! ADHD, this word keeps fucking coming bac- "I see you don't want to be a werewolf... Maybe i can help you with that, i can take that wolf out of you, free him from your cruel and abusive hands and get him to safety by his God's side." Okay- This is weird and Derek has been to silent, he looked over at him only to see that he was staring at Scott, his finger touching Stiles' fingers, almost intimately? "Okay, what the fuck's going on?"

Instantly, the dense atmosphere around them broke as both Derek and Bruno turned to look at him, Scott also did so but he had this look of 'help me' he always had whenever he did something bad. "Oh, right, forgot to introduce myself... I'm Bruno Astérie Begoni, I'm the God of Wolves, Eternal Darkness, and Terror."

...

What?

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"Gods are real, you know?"

"Okay, so like, Zeus? Thor? Amaterasu? Those Gods!?"

"Pretty much, they exist in this universe."

"Wait, THIS universe?"

"Uhm, yeah? Never heard of the Multiverse? In There's Planets, Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, Universes, Multiverses, Omniverses, and Omniclusters."

"I understood all thise words separately."

"All you cute little mortal mind needs to understand is that... there's a lot more than just werewolves in this world, like, magic, banshees, druids, witches, hags, and all that shit! And I'm only one of the Gods of this world that my dads sent me to."

"Okay, but I have so many questions to ask."

"And i have so many answers to give."

To say Stiles and Bruno got along was an understatement- Derek watched from the sideline, wondering if he deserved it, a Mate that is, the happiness his wolf craved and desired from the deepest pits of his soul. 'Do i deserve it?' Was the only echoing whisper thag turned into a cacophony of sounds inside his mind, he felt it bouncing within as he felt worse and worse, until he was broken of thag vicious cycle by the excited Stiles that looked at him with his bright honey eyes, such purity made Derek's poor cold heart jump in motion before: "Hey Derek, i have so many questions to you and to him, but that can wait for a few minutes while you tell me what the fuck's going on with me- i feel like, weird? Yeah, weird, like, connection? Connected to shit."

"Stiles i don't fucking know what the shit you're going through." Ah, there it is, his usual asshole self! Always deflecting to not deal with it: "Okay asshole, don't need to be so rude... I'll ask Bruno then, our resident God of Beacon Hills, like, fuck!" He smiled brightly and Derek's wolf turned into a puppy, and by the look he received from Bruno he knew it too, his connection to his wolf was as strong as it ever were- maybe stronger, so much his wolf's emotions were becoming his emotions too so he just... smiled, silly, stupidly looking at the boy who began to ramble: "So, like, y'know Aztec Mythology right, so have you met like- Any other God?" Bruno sat down on the ground, the were back at the Stilinski residence after Bruno made Scott leave with only a single look from his golden eyes, Stiles was by bed while Derek stood on the corner close to the darkness: "Well, I've met only my family... Like my Grandmother Nyx, and my grandfather Lucifer- And before you ask, yes, the Devil, Satan himself is my grandfather... Or at least a version of him that is."

From that Derek listened as Stiles made questions, casually asking his own and learning more about the God before them, like how big his family home was- He showed them a portion of what he could do, and even answered Stiles ridiculous questions seriously, which encouraged the boy to ask even more stupid questions, and as time went on, Stiles and Bruno were on the bed too, Derek stood by the side of the bed while listening: "And then, Dad showed me how to kill it, y'know? They taught me everything i know about things... I miss them sometimes, even though i know they are literally everywhere."

"What do you mean by that?" Derek felt... Safe by his side, not caring as he felt one of those big hands touching his head: "Y'know... Gods have some aspects of their Divinities that they can't exactly control... Lucifer can know what you desire the most, Dad Eny can stop time by simply being in the presence of it, and driving mortals and weak gods insase... Cause y'know, Eldritch God and all thag jazz." He chuckled, as if he was laughing at an internal joke he didn't know about: "Mother Pruno can make thousands of plants bloom and wither just by being in a place, he could probably reverse global warming by just... Existing somewhere. Dad Luke can see and be e everywhere light exists and doesn't exist- Omnipresence, y'know, he's here but at the same time isn't. Like i also have one of those aspects-"

He paused for a moment: "My sibling Angel can see your dreams, my sister knows what to do to make you mad, and i? I can see your biggest fear, or you greatest terror." Both Derek and Stiles froze under his touch, but Bruno just said: "I can take it away, y'know? The pain, the fear, the emotions tied to the memory of losing them."

There was a pause.

"If yoh want to."

"No." Derek harshly sighed, out of breath: "I... I deserve it."

"I do too." Stiles whispered from the side, leaning a little against Bruno, who just groaned: "Okay. But if i deem it necessary, I'll take it away. i promise it."

And he would take their pain, emotional and physical.