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[occultatum]

i know. i saw the after effects. it's fine.

[ Well. Some of it is fine. Some of it is most definitely not fine, but that doesn't have anything to do with Reg. ]

he's really happy. which is why the next thing i'm going to ask you is going to sound really strange.

[calloused]

Sorry.

[ not sure why he's apologizing. but. ]

Shoot.

[occultatum]

why are you apologizing?

listen.

i brought something back with me. maybe. and reggie won't leave me, and i won't make him. i need him too. but if ask, i need you to take him. even if he doesn't want to go

[calloused]

Take him? You mean - as a sub? Or.
Are you asking me to fucking - keep him locked up in my basement to keep him away from you?

Wait.
Hold on. I'm gonna need more from you than this.
What did you bring back?

[ don't say an evil japanese trickster spirit because he is d o n e with those. ]

1/2

[occultatum]

not as a sub. and i would just need you to distract him for long enough that

this is complicated, okay?

i had to cast a spell, and it wasn't safe. it makes me possibly unsafe. i'm trying to find a way to neutralize it, with some other people from greendale.

[occultatum]

[Those three dots are going for a long time.]

its satan

[calloused]

Oh.

[ this sounds... frighteningly, starkly familiar. having to do something magical, something unsafe, something that makes yourself vulnerable to something dark. sure, satan might be a step or two above your run of the mill chaos demon, but - ]

I'll help you on one condition.

[occultatum]

what is it?

[calloused]

Tell Stiles what you're going through.
Same as you told me. You don't have to go into detail, if you don't want to. Just.
Let him know what's happening. What you did.
He can help you with this.
Mentally, if nothing else.
Tell him Derek said he can trust you.

If you do that, then. Okay.
I'll keep Reggie busy whenever you want.

[occultatum]

why?

I mean. i’ll do it, just why

[calloused]

Because I said so.

[occultatum]

what is it about being a wolf that makes you all so bossy??

[calloused]

Wait.

[ wait, wait. hold on. he never came clean about that. nick had his suspicions during their shared time with reggie, but derek doesn't know he had suspicions, so this feels kind of out of left field. also - very terrifying? does satan know he's a werewolf????? is he talking to satan right now???????????? ]

I never said I was a wolf.
Who said I was a wolf?

[occultatum]

[Knew it.]

i was raised by a werewolf, you know.

i’m not blind.

dont worry. i’m not telling anyone

[calloused]

Really hard to take solace in that when you're apparently possessed by the devil.
The force of all evil you're piggybacking around is probably not going to leave the big, scary monster known for having big scary claws and big scary bloodlust alone.
The alleged big, scary monster, I should say.

[ aaaa pause. ]

I didn't know that about you.
That you were raised by a werewolf.

[occultatum]

if the dark lord wakes up the least of your problems will be your particular breed of lycanthropy

yeah. after my parents died, until i went to school. she was with me since i was born, though

[He is not going to explain that Amalia was his familiar because there are some things that Derek does not need to know.]

[calloused]

You're so bad at reassuring people.

So...
Personal question.
Feel free not to answer.
If she was with you for that long - why didn't she ever bite you? You don't smell like a werewolf.
Was she not an Alpha? Do you even have that hierarchy where you're from? Alpha, Beta, Omega.

[occultatum]

Do you want me to lie to you, Derek? I can, but that won't help anyone.

I'm not a werewolf. I'm a warlock.

We can't be changed. We're not mortals.

[calloused]

No.
Actually - I'd rather have brutal honesty on this.
Tell me what would happen if he got loose. Specifically.
I mean, I imagine there'd be an apocalyptic hailstorm of brimstone and fire, but you've gotta know more than that.

That's... not how it works where I'm from. Not to my knowledge, at least. Interesting.
Also -
Really thought you were a druid for a while there. Warlock's better.

[occultatum]

Well. Optimistically speaking: He'll open a gate to Hell, and summon the Princes of Hell to bring their armies and kill most of the mortals. He'll enslave anyone who survives the initial purge. He'll remake this place in his image - essentially raise Hell up to Earth, and begin the desecration of anything touched by the False God.

At least that's how it would work back home.

Here?

He might just kill everyone in varying, torturing ways. Anyone with any semblance of magic might intrigue him enough for him to keep them alive.

[calloused]

[ there's a long, long pause before derek replies. he's... in two minds about how to handle this. there's the part of him that tried to kill jackson for being a danger and a threat to his town - the part of derek that wonders, briefly, if eliminating nick would save duplicity from something worse than one death.

there's also the part of him that stayed up for three days straight to keep an eye on someone who wanted to kill stiles for the same reason. so... more reason for nick to go to stiles. more reason for derek to keep reggie busy and safe. more options to help him figure this out. ]

Kinda sounds like you fucked up pretty bad.
Not judging.
Just saying.

[occultatum]

It was the only solution to the apocalypse we had, Derek.

It was that or he would kill and enslave all mankind and make my girlfriend the unwilling queen of Hell.

And it was me or her.

[calloused]

Like I said - not judging.
Bet the girlfriend thing is as complicated as the apocalyptic carrier of all evil thing.
You've got a lot going on.

But a deal's a deal. I'll take care of Reggie whenever you need me to.
Do you... have a contingency plan in case this gets worse?

[occultatum]

Not yet.

But I will.

Thanks. Reggie means a lot to me. The people from home, they wouldn't get it.

[calloused]

[ he's just guessing here, but - ]

Why?
Because he's human?