Set after Season Two
Lydia was sitting at her desk on her laptop working on an essay that was due in a few days but she couldn't concentrate with all the Jackson transforming into a wolf and the situation with Derek's evil uncle. She groaned while she bit her lip and closed her laptop, she rubbed her face and stood up from her seat and walked over to her bed and sat down putting her head in her hands. Why did things get so difficult? That question kept repeating itself over and over again in her head. She couldn't cope with all the drama, even though Peter Hale was gone she still had to deal with Jackson which she didn't know how to handle as she didn't know what was going on between her and Jackson, one minute he kissed her in Scott's house before turning into the kanima and then the next day at school he totally ignored her. She stood up and she heard a car pull into the driveway. She whisked herself out of her room and ran downstairs to answer the door. She looked at herself in the mirror first before opening the door. Once she opened the door Jackson appeared. Great just what she needs right now.
"What?" She asked as she didn't look pleased to see him.
"Can I come in?" Jackson asked.
"No" Lydia went to shut the door but Jackson blocked it with his werewolf strength. She sighed "What do you want Jackson?" She asked as she folded her arms and leaned against the door waiting for his answer.
He sighed "I thought I'd come here to talk, if that's okay with you?"
Lydia took a few seconds before making her mind, she knew he wouldn't leave until she invited him in so she nodded her head and moved out the way to let Jackson walk in before shutting the door. "Just go through to the living room" she said as she let Jackson lead the way with her following right behind him.
He sat down on the couch and looked up at Lydia who was standing awkwardly with her arms folded. "You can sit down you know, I won't hurt"
"Never know remember you did try to kill me the other night" She said as she sat on the couch opposite him, she wanted to keep her distance from him as she didn't want to have another near death experience.
Jackson groaned "Lydia that wasn't me, it was Gerard he was controlling me, whatever he told me to do I obliged, I wasn't myself and you know it"
She gave him that but she still wasn't convinced, he must of had some sense of control. "You saved me Lyd and I can never stop thanking you"
"Don't mention it, I'm sure you would of done the same" She rolled her eyes and played her nails. She knew Jackson wouldn't save her if she was close to death, he only thinks about himself and himself only, he couldn't give a toss about anything else expect from himself. "Is that all you came for? To tell me thank you?"
"I wanted to talk about us"
"The last time I remember you broke up with me and you used the exact words I want nothing to do with you"
"I wasn't thinking straight Lydia, your the best thing that happened to me" she rolled her eyes again, she can see right through his bullshit, to her all she was to Jackson was a booty call, he didn't feel anything towards her expect from lust.
"Jackson you don't care about me, all you care about is yourself, I was nothing to you and now that I've realised that, I feel nothing for you" she said coldly. She didn't regret saying that because why should she be in love with a guy who treats her like shit and doesn't give a crap about her.
"You never said that a few nights ago"
"What do you mean?"
"As I got stabbed by Derek and Peter you ran towards me and caught me and I asked if you still love me and you said you do still love me" Lydia thought for a second and got a flash back of her saying that to him.
"Things have changed since then, just because I said I still love you doesn't mean I want to get back together with you, I love you as a friend Jackson and nothing else, we are better off as friends, I hope you can understand that"
She could see the anger in his eyes "Well I don't want you to be your friend" he said bluntly and stood up and walked out the door, slamming it behind him. Suit yourself, she thought, she thought that he actually matured after what happened but she could of never of been so wrong, she was still the same childish, rude Jackson that she always knew. She was glad he left she was starting to feel awkward with the conversation but she wasn't going to let herself get worked up over him. She switched off her living room lights and walked upstairs to get ready for bed.
The next morning, Lydia was finishing typing up her essay for English. As she typed her name on the document she smiled as she was glad to be done with her essay, she woke up an hour earlier than she'd usually do to get the essay done so she was hoping for an A+. She looked at the time on her phone and it read 7:30 she had thirty minutes to get ready before she had to leave for school. She got up from her bed and walked into the bathroom to wash then she got changed into a white blazer, a vest top, denim jeans and black heels. After she got changed she sat down at her desk and started apply light makeup on her face as she decided to go for the natural look. She then put her fingers through her hair to mess it up a bit as she went for the natural waves. As it was a new semester she was worried in case everyone still thought she was the towns whack job. Before she was Lydia Martin, queen bee of BHHS and everyone envied her but no instead of envying her or fearing her the people at school seemed to pity her.
Even if they still thought hat about her she wasn't going to let that bother her, she thought to herself new semester, new me.
She looked at her phone which read 8:00 which means Allison was going to be here any minute. As she was sitting downstairs in the living room she heard a car approach. She stood up and looked out the window and wasn't Allison's car, it was Derek Hale's Camaro. She watched him as he stepped outside his car and came up to the door dressed in his usual attire. She opened the door with a confused look on her face.
"Your not Allison" her statement made Derek laugh a little.
"Not Allison, it's Derek here" he said looking at her blankly.
She got onto her tip toes and looked over Derek's head to see if she could see Allison's car in sight "Where is she, we are going to be late if she doesn't hurry her ass along" she mumbled to herself but with Derek wolf senses he could hear her.
"Yeah Allison is not coming, change in plans her car broke down on the way to yours so her car is now at the garage and she's getting a ride from Scott so now I am your driver for this morning" he smirked.
Lydia didn't protest at all, she was late as it was, she picked up her bag and tossed her strawberry blonde over her shoulder. "Let's go" she climbed into the passenger seat as he climbed into drivers seat and they took off. Most of the car ride was quite until Derek spoke up.
"So how are you feeling" he asked as he glanced at her before looking back at the road.
"I'm okay I guess, just everything that's happened recently it's just hard to process"
He nodded as he understood how she was feeling "Look Lydia I didn't mean to try and kill your boyfriend, I knew when we impaled him with our claws he would eventually turn into a wolf"
"Ex actually" she corrected him "Yeah he came over last night thanking me for saving him"
"Oh really and how did that go?" He asked while he kept his eyes on the road.
"Not good, I told him that I only cared for him as a friend and he never took it that well, he said he didn't want to be friends and then with that he stormed out the door not heard of him since, so he's probably still upset with me I guess" she shrugged as she looked at her phone while messaging Allison to save her a seat.
"Don't blame him" with that Lydia looked up from her phone and focused all her attention to Derek "You're a beautiful, intelligent girl I'd be gutted if you told me you just wanted to be friends"
Lydia smirked "Oh so your saying that you want to be more than friends huh" she said playfully as she saw a smile form on Derek's face.
He chucked "I didn't say that, I said I would be gutted if I was in Jacksons place"
"Yeah yeah" she teased as they both laughed. As they arrived to Beacon Hills High School, she sat for a few minutes before debating when to go in. She faced Derek and thanked him for the ride, she grabbed her bag and opened the car door but before stepping out she leaned forward and gave Derek a kiss on the cheek. Her and Derek said their goodbyes and she walked off into the school. He waited a couple minutes to make sure she got into the school safely before driving off.