thepicketfencecliche | canon au } { post-606: ghosted

Malia: [makes her way in and plops in one of the nearby chairs, clearly frustrated and angry, with lingering touches of guilt and sadness that didn't go away with leaving Canaan. she's really mostly here because the pack is actually entertaining the idea of letting Theo help them (regardless of how that worked out last time) and she is not going to be helpful to that extent. Hi Peter. You can ignore her if you want]

Peter: [he's riding the fun morphine train as he's trying to heal, but he can smell all that anxiety and he will eventually crack open his eyes] What's wrong?

Malia: [glances over at him, and he's in such a pathetic state that she can't] Don't worry about it. [it'll just make him mad.]

Peter: I'm your father. Won't stop me.

Malia: You won't be happy about it and there's nothing you can do about it right now. So ... don't worry about it. [yeah, because that will work. good job Malia]

Peter: I'd rather be prepared than blindsided.

Malia: [makes a face because she doesn't want to actually talk about this, she just wants to punch him] Theo's back.

Peter: [snorts] No one stays dead in this town.

Malia: He was never dead. He just got sucked down into a hell dimension by the skinwalkers. But apparently while we were in Canaan Liam got the bright idea to bring him back. Thinks he can help with the Ghost Riders.

Peter: How? Passing messages back and forth from dimensions? [which would be painful. Very painful]

Malia: Apparently the Dread Doctors told him about the hunt.

Peter: And let me guess, he is holding back information to make himself useful.

Malia: He remembers Stiles.

Peter: [that gets his attention and he goes to try and sit up, but ow, ow no, no his body isn't liking that] How?

Malia: No idea. Maybe because he wasn't actually in this world, he didn't get all memory wiped?

Peter: That would make sense. Perhaps he can figure out who else may be missing.

Malia: How do we know he's not leaving people out?

Peter: You don't. Unless you know another person who's memory isn't affected.

Malia: [she makes a face. and then she sits up] We do. I think. I don't know how helpful he'll be because he's not from here, but he's been around.

Peter: Ask him. It won't hurt to ask.

Malia: He just can't come here. Because we think he's probably next to get taken. Gwen remembered when the rest of her family was taken because she was a target.

Peter: [thinks] The Winchester Boy.

Malia: [she nods] He's the only one who remembers his sister and his cousin. I don't know if anyone's asked him about Stiles.

Peter: Send someone out to where he is to ask him then.

Malia: [nods before going to her phone to text Scott before Liam drags him into doing something stupider]

Peter: And make sure Theo is locked up when he is not being useful.

Malia: [nods and adds that to the text too]

Peter: [and he goes to shift and a spike of pain hits him, making him grit his teeth to hold back a scream, unable to resist the urge to curl up into himself which really only makes it worse]

Malia: [sighs before she gets up and reaches for his hand, pulling whatever pain she can take] Stop moving if you don't have to.

Peter: You try doing that when it hurts to even breathe.

Malia: Do you want me to get Willow back? Maybe she can witch something.

Peter: Nothing she has come up with has worked against this. My healing factor is the only thing keeping me alive at this point. [and his stubborness.]

Malia: [she frowns] Are you making any progress at all?

Peter: No. When I think I am, it just burns all over again from the inside out.

Malia: [ponders for a minute] Melissa found something to fix Argent. Maybe there's a way for her to fix you too.

Peter: No offense to Melissa, but I highly doubt saving me is a high priority.

Malia: Then maybe she can tell it to someone who does want to save you. Like Willow and Buffy.

Peter: [and he just takes a deep breath, because nope, he hasn't really told Buffy what's going on. He knows she knows, but he hasn't said the words]

Malia: [GLARES] Do you want to live or do you just want to suffer?

Peter: [his eyes shut, pushing back against the pain] I'd prefer the first.

Malia: Good. Then I'll ask Melissa for you. [because Melissa likes her, so hopefully she'll have a little traction]

Peter: Okay. [and he's carefully trying to shift back onto his back]

Malia: [and she will slowly help him, before letting him go and going to up his pain meds. not that it will help him for long but it's a start]

Peter: [the short term is good for right now] Thank you.

Malia: [nods] I'll go see if I can find her.

Peter: [and he goes to hold her hand a moment, looking up at her] If she can't... we'll figure something else out.

Malia: [nods, before giving his hand a small painless squeeze and heading back into the hospital]