11. The Deitys Grief (1/2)

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she could feel death moving from behind her and grab her. he laid her on the ground, and quickly looked into her eyes, concerned. the sleepiness quickly started to win her over, making her seem drunk. she smiled absent-mindedly as she noticed him turn worried. aw. he's sweet. she raised her right hand and put it on his cheek, still smiling.

the last thing ellie remembered before giving in to the sweet blackness, were the concerned chocolate-coloured eyes looking in hers.

white

ight light.

that was all ellie could see. only agonizing

ight white light.

it seemed to blind her, rip out her eyes. she felt as if her sight was slowly and painfully disappearing.

she suddenly inhaled deeply, sitting up from a stone floor? panting, she looked around.

she was in a huge – no, gigantic white room. it seemed to stretch on for forever. luckily she wasn't alone. scott, allison and stiles were sitting in their bathtubs, gasping. they seemed not to notice her. wonder why's that?

ellie stood up, no, floated up - i guess it's because i am only shadowing them in the spirit world – and slowly flew towards the three who were getting out of their baths. they looked around in shock.

she swallowed as she saw what laid behind them. a huge old tree stump just was sitting there.

the teenagers slowly turned around, and noticed what she had as well. exchanging looks, they knew. this was it. that was the nemeton, they just knew it. slowly and steadily, the trio started to walk to it. gulping, ellie followed them.

she was starting to shiver. somehow they were nearing the stump faster than they should. the only sounds were the sploshes of water under the others' feet and their

eathing.

as they were right beside it, scott out of nowhere pulled up his right shirt sleeve, and glanced between the centre of the nemeton and his tattoo. he had noticed the familiarity between the two.

he slowly took a step forward, and put his palm on the nemeton. he suddenly inhaled deeply, and the white room vanished from their vision.

ellie however had hold onto scott, and had appeared in the forest of beacon hills. her

eath caught in her throat as she noticed the dark shadows immediately trying to get into scott, trying to darken him, trying to get him under their control.

she swiped her hands at them,

ight balls of light flying towards the spirits. they quickly fled. smiling in success, she turned her attention back to scott, ignoring the feeling of cold.

he looked around before seeing something he would never see, him but a younger version of him. he stared at the non-werewolf-him in shock who seemed not to notice him.

flying next to him but still invisible as it seemed, ellie glanced between the two. it seemed that scott was seeing the happenings of the past.

she watched the younger search for something with the light of his phone across the leaves and grass. he yelped and backed as he saw the corpse of a young woman. stumbling backwards, he fell over something and tumbled down a hill.

the two bystanders moved closer to him, and stared as he quickly got up before freezing. gulping, he looked behind his shoulder at a wolf. it growled, and jumped onto him. it bit him before running away.

the older scott stumbled back as he saw himself being bitten, and hit something with his feet. his slowly looked at the object. his eyes widened.

it was the nemeton.

ellie's

eath caught as she was pulled away from him. when she finally stopped, she swayed in air before finding balance. looking around, she saw stiles, like scott watching his younger self with a younger scott strolling in the woods and talking about nothing happening in this town and bla bla bla.

she gently tapped the older stiles on the shoulder who seemed not to notice it or the huge

ight bubble-like shield around him. the coldness in her worsened. while trying to warm up, she didn't notice the one slowly darkening spot on the shield around stiles' hand.

she furrowed her

ows as something hit her. was it like it for allison as well? will the huntress see a younger herself along with ellie? will spirits also want to take her?

the older stiles quickly walked towards the younger pair which had seemed to separate. he followed stiles who suddenly walked into the police and their dogs who growled at him. his

eath caught as he saw his dad take him away from the others.

staggering backwards, he as well walked onto something. stiles slowly turned around. he recognised it immediately.

ellie sighed. it was again, the nemeton.

she inhaled sharply as she was again taken away from one and pulled to another, this time to allison. she immediately twirled her finger at the huntress, making a huge ball of light appear above her. it exploded into bits like a firework, making the spirits go. ellie smiled despite the bitter cold, and looked back at allison. the corners of her mouth lowered into a frown.

the argent was standing barefoot in the middle of the forest, and staring at the inhaler her dead mother had thrown in her direction. her younger self was there as well but was ushered back to the road by her mother.

allison looked away from the inhaler, her dead mom and her younger self to her right… at the nemeton. ellie almost laughed out loud. if the spirit world was this easy, she would visit it every day.

however, her line of thought disappeared as she woke up,

eathing in sharply. she looked around. she was in the hold of death who was calmly sleeping on the ground, leaning onto the wall. smiling, she gently patted his cheek. his eyes fluttered open, and smiled at her as he noticed her awake. his eyes widened. death grinned, and quickly wrapped his arms around her, shocking her.

he muttered into her ear, "i thought you were never going to wake." ellie smiled, "i would never leave you or teddy."

they turned around, as they heard splashes from the tubs. scott, allison and stiles had woken up as well, and were now quickly climbing out of the tubs. the others – deaton, isaac and lydia – quickly rushed into the room.

scott panted before speaking to them, "i saw it. i know where it is."

stiles continued, "we passed it. there is this, there's a stump, a huge tree. well, it's not huge anymore. it was cut down. but it's still big, though, very big."