Dangerous Grounds

Chapter 1:

~Chloe's POV~

I was happy, I knew that I shouldn't be with us still being on the run from the St Clouds. But I was still happy. We had put an end to the Edison Group, rescued Simon and Derek's dad, reunited with Aunt Lauren, and I had finally gotten together with Derek. Sure we had to move from one cheap motel to another, but at least we were all together now.

Mr. Bae, he insisted that I call him Kit, said that one of his connections ran a safe house for any supernaturals seeking a haven. Derek and I were hesitant about the safe house, we didn't want it to end up like the last one where Andrew turned us in to the Edison Group. We knew to be hesitant due to the fact that Derek and I were the main targets of our enemies. However, Derek and I have been making it through the obstacles. We had survived this far.

Ever since the two of us got together we had been spending more time together without Simon and Tori. I still accompanied Derek when he had to change which wasn't as frequent as before since he has already completed the change. But we enjoyed all the alone time that we could get. Aunt Lauren didn't like it much when we were together, but I wouldn't allow her to separate us. Derek and I had crossed the line in which we wouldn't survive without the other. We kept each other safe and much more importantly, sane.

At the moment I was lying down with my head on top of Derek's bare chest, my hand tracing circles on his skin while his hand rubbed my exposed skin. We were alone since the others had gone out to buy supplies. Derek and I weren't to go out in public as often since there was still a half a million bounty on my head with Derek as my supposed kidnapper. While the others were gone we tended to take advantage of the time alone we got.

"What are you thinking about?" Derek asked.

"Just that, even knowing about the situation we're in, with us being on the run, I'm still happy." I replied.

Derek grunted.

"Think about it. We took down the Edison Group, reunited with Kit and Aunt Lauren, Tori and I are actually friends, and we're together now. How can I not be happy?" I argued.

"Well, we move from one dingy motel to the next, uncertain if we'll be caught by the St Clouds the next day or not. If you ask me I would just like to be safe for once and find a place for us to be together without your Aunt thinking that I'll corrupt or even eat you." He responded.

"Well I think that you've corrupted me enough." I laughed. "I mean, just look at us now!"

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But seriously if your aunt were to see us now, I think she would kill me." Derek responded.

"You know I wouldn't let that happen." I say sitting up to look at him. "No matter what happens I won't let Aunt Lauren separate us. You mean too much to me to let her try and drive us apart. I know that she just wants me to be safe, but I feel safest when I'm with you."

"I know, Chloe. I know and I won't let her separate us either." Derek says seriously. He looks into my eyes and caresses the side of my face. I lean into his hand, taking comfort from his touch. "Whatever trials we face, we face together okay?"

I nod and give Derek a small smile.

"Come on, let's get dressed. Everyone will be back soon and I'd rather not let them see this." Derek removes himself from the bed and starts to put on his clothes that was scattered across the room. I blush as I see him put his boxers back on. We had taken that step into the next part of our relationship some time ago, but no matter how long it's been Derek will always be able to make me blush in embarrassment. Derek turns and catches me staring at him and smirks. I blush even more when our eyes meet and I'm sure that my face is a deep crimson red. He throws my clothes at me and tells me to get dressed.

I quickly get dressed and we made our way into the living room of our current safe house. Derek sits down on the couch and turns the TV on flipping through the channels searching for something decent to watch. I plopped down on the other side of the couch and rest my legs on his lap. I wince as I stretch my legs, feeling a little sore.

"You okay?" Derek asks worried.

"Yeah, just a little sore." I respond blushing yet again. It had been a while since the last time we were left alone together.

"Come here." Derek pulls me over and has me lie down in his lap and he slowly strokes my back. "Better?"

I nod happily, reveling in Derek's touch. Whenever we are alone, he lets down all his walls and is completely himself, but when other people are around him he puts those barriers back up.

"I'm sorry Chloe. I know that it's been a while since we were together last and yet I rushed everything." Derek apologizes.

"No, you didn't rush anything. I didn't do anything I didn't want to." I reassured. "Hey Derek?"

"Hmm?" he grunts.

"Do you ever think about what the future has in store for us?" I ask.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean do you think we'll always be on the run? What if after we defeat the St Clouds something else comes after us? Some other evil organizations whose sole purpose is to get rid of the failed experiments? Will we ever get to settle down and maybe one day have a family without worrying about our lives?" I explain.

Derek is silent. I know that what I said has affected him. Maybe he has thought about this. About our lives in the future. Finally, after what seems like forever, Derek speaks up. "I have thought about it. I would like to believe that all of this will end soon. That soon we'll be able to live relatively normal- well as normal as supernatural can get- lives. That sometime in the future we will settle down with a family where we won't have to worry about our children going through what we've been through."

"Do you think that our children will have our powers?"

"Most likely they'd either be a werewolf or a necromancer, but not a combination of both. Usually supernaturals cannot cross breed and make a child that is more than one supernatural type. That changed during the Genesis II Project. When Diane Enright crossed her genes with my dad's they created the only supernatural crossbreed, Tori. So it's highly unlikely that our enhanced genes would naturally create a child with both the genes of a werewolf and a necromancer." Derek explained.

"I see. So what about Tori? If she were ever to have kids what would happen to them? Would they be both a witch and sorcerer like her? Or would they be one or the other?" I asked.

"Well that depends on who the father or her child is. For one the guy would have to be brave if he was willing to reproduce with someone like Tori. But we also need to take into account whether he's a supernatural or not. Let's say for example, this guy is a Volo half-demon like Liz was. His and Tori's child could be either a Volo, a witch, or a sorcerer. However, the child could also exactly like Tori and be a cross between a witch and sorcerer, but cannot be a mix with the Volo since those genes were not originally crossbred. To add to that there is also a chance that there could be too much genetic variation and the supernatural genes cancel each other out altogether making the kid normal and without any supernatural powers at all." He replied.

The sound of the door opening halted our conversation and I sat up to see Kit walking into the house, arms full of groceries. "A little help?" he asks.

I hop up from the couch and relieve Kit from the groceries and taking them into the kitchen. Derek follows Kit back outside to help Aunt Lauren and Simon bring in the remaining bags. I start to put everything away that was already brought in to try and clear up some space as more bags came in. Aunt Lauren and Tori set a bag down next to me and began to put things away as the boys brought in the last of the groceries.

"This is a lot of stuff you guys bought." I say.

"Well, we have to feed four growing teenagers, two of which are boys with black holes for stomachs." Kit laughed.

"True, but even this is way too much for Simon and I." Derek comments. He helps to place some of the food into the top shelves, knowing that I could never reach it with my height of five-foot-nothing. "How long do we plan on staying?"

"For as long as we can." Aunt Lauren replied.

"If we stay in one place too long the St Clouds will find us!" I exclaim.

"Chloe's right. By staying in one place for too long, we give the St Clouds more time to track us down. If we keep moving, they have less of a chance of finding us." Tori agreed. I looked to her and gave a small smile. I was glad that Tori and I had become friends. We needed each other to stay semi sane when on the run with boys. Sure Aunt Lauren was nice to be around, but she couldn't understand what this was like for us no matter how hard she might try. She wasn't genetically altered and didn't have to go through life thinking that something was wrong with her. Tori and I understood what the other had gone through. So we had come to the decision to put our differences behind and be the support that we knew we needed.

"I agree. Staying put isn't safe. It isn't ideal to always be on the move, but it's safer that way. We can't give them the chance to track us." Derek answered.

"I know, that you kids think that we should move, but we are safe for now. We don't need to give up this safe house until we know that we've been compromised." Aunt Lauren replied.

"By the time we know that we've been compromised it'll be too late!" Tori shouted.

"Victoria Enright! You will not raise your voice at me! I am the adult and I say that we will stay in this safe house for as long as we can!" Aunt Lauren yelled back.

"You are not my mother and I will raise my voice as much as I want! Besides you aren't the only adult here!" Tori stormed out of the kitchen and stomped up the stairs, slamming the door to her room.

Aunt Lauren sighed. "Kit and I have discussed this. We have come to an agreement that we will stay for at least a month. After a month, whether or not we have been compromised or not, we will leave and find another safe place to live until it's time to move again. We decided not to stay in any given place for more than a month. Not until we know for sure that we will be safe."

"I'll go talk to Tori. See if I can calm her down. But I think you were out of line when you yelled at her." I say before leaving the kitchen and going after Tori. I stopped in front of her door and knocked three times. "Tori? It's me Chloe. I'm sorry about Aunt Lauren. She was completely out of line."

I wait a second and see the door open with Tori at the door.

"Can I come in?" I ask. She sighs and nods letting me into her room. She sits on her bed and I go over and plop down next to her. "Aunt Lauren shouldn't have done that. She's just trying to find a place within our group. I guess that she was so used to taking care of me after my mother died and my father was always gone on his business trips that she pictures herself as our make shift mother."

"I just don't have good experience with a mother figure." Tori replies.

"I don't blame you. Diane didn't treat you the way you should've been treated so your reaction was completely understandable. I told Aunt Lauren that what she did was unreasonable, she had no right to lecture you like that. Not after what you've been through, what we all have been through." I say.

"Thanks Chloe." Tori smiles to me.

"Your welcome. Oh and one more thing, apparently Aunt Lauren and Kit have come up with some plan. We stay here for a month and then move on. We never stay longer than a month in any given place. We keep moving until we find a safe place that we can settle down in." I explain.

Tori sighs and rubs her temples. "Alright. I guess that's better than staying for an indefinite amount of time, just waiting for us to be discovered."

"We can make it through this, Tori." I reassured.

"Yeah, yeah." Tori mumbled.

~Time Skip: One month Derek's POV~

There was something wrong with Chloe. Lately she had been more tired and constantly had a greenish tint to her already pale skin. Whenever I asked her if she was okay she would always say that she was fine. Plus she's been hanging around with Tori a lot more than she usually did. I mean I knew that they were friends now, but lately she has been spending more time with Tori than she did with me. Not that I wasn't okay being alone for a while. I was used to being alone. But the strange thing was that Tori was being weirdly overprotective of Chloe.

I looked up the stairs, knowing that the two girls were holed up in one of their rooms. They've been up there since breakfast and it was already late in the afternoon, almost dinnertime. Tori had come out momentarily to grab lunch for her and Chloe, then immediately went back up to the room. I had no problem with them spending time together, but this was getting too suspicious.

I stealthily made my way up the stairs and stood outside Tori's door. I could make out bits and pieces of the girls' conversation with my enhanced hearing.

"Chloe you have to tell. He's going to find out sooner or later. Soon his wolf senses will know that there's-'' the rest of Tori's words were cut off.

"I know. I-I just d-d-don't know h-how to tell him." Chloe stuttered.

"Take a deep breath. You need to tell him soon. Rather he finds out from you than other ways." Tori said trying to calm the necromancer down.

I heard Chloe take a deep breath. "Alright. I'll tell him tonight. Any later and he'll find out on his own and I want to be the one to tell him."

"Good. I'll be by your side when you tell him if you want me to." Tori offered. Chloe didn't respond so I assumed that she just nodded.

I went back downstairs and sat down on the couch. Not long after I sat down, dad called all of us to the kitchen for dinner. I get up and make my way to the kitchen table and sat down in my usual seat next to Simon, who was already at the table. My ears pick up whispering and I turn to see Tori and Chloe walk in. when Chloe's eyes meet with mine I raise my eyebrow, mentally asking if she was alright. She gives me a nervous smile and sits down across from me. Dad and Lauren finish placing the food on the table and we dig in. We sat in silence for a couple minutes, the only sound coming from silverware hitting plates, until dad clears his throat.

"So for the past month, we have been hidden from the St Clouds, but as you have been told before we will not stay longer than this. At the end of the week we will be moving on to another location. Unfortunately, until my contacts can find another safe house for us we will be motel jumping for a while." Dad says.

"We also got information as to why the St Clouds are interested in the four of you." Lauren adds. "Apparently when the Edison Group was still active, they had contacted the St Clouds. Before they wanted to, um, take care of you, they had asked the St Clouds if they were interested in handling you four."

"At first, the St Clouds refused when they heard that you were failures from the Genesis II Project, but after learning of your individual capabilities and what you did to the Edison Group, their interest had been piqued." Dad continued. "While we try to protect the four of you, some of my other contacts are rallying up other supernaturals to fight against the St Clouds."

"So that's it then? We just hide while others are risking their lives to protect a group of kids they don't even know?" Tori asked.

"They're doing this to free all supernaturals from the St Clouds, Tori. The St Clouds are notorious for the way they treat supernaturals inhumanely and as slaves to do their dirty work. They think of us as trophies. By protecting you and fighting against them, they help to free themselves from the fear of the St Clouds." Dad replied.

"That's enough of that for now. Let's just finish our dinners and rest for the remainder of the night." Lauren said interrupting their conversation. We finished dinner silently then went our separate ways for the night. Simon was pulled into helping dad with the dishes and I went up to my room, waiting for when Chloe would tell me what was bothering her. I heard Chloe and Tori's footsteps on the stairs and quickly laid back on my bed, pulling out a random physics book that dad had got me a while back. There was a light knock on my door and I grunted, letting them know it was okay to enter. The door slowly opened revealing Chloe with Tori right behind her.

"Chloe? What's wrong?" I ask, setting the bool down on the nightstand next to my bed.

Chloe turns and shares a look with Tori. They both walk into the room and Tori shuts the door behind her.

"First things first. Don't you dare get made at Chloe for what she's about to tell her. This has been extremely hard on her and is as much your fault as it is hers." Tori warned.

"Okay…" I respond hesitantly. I look to Chloe and see her fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.

"W-Well t-t-the thing is…w-we weren't as careful as we t-t-thought we were." Chloe stutters. Tori steps up behind her and rubs her back gently. I can hear her whisper to Chloe telling her to breathe and take her time.

"What do you mean that we weren't careful?" I ask, eyeing the blonde in front of me.

Chloe takes a deep breath and looks like she has decided to come right out and say what was wrong.

"I'm pregnant, Derek."