This story will get dark but I promise that it will not stay that way throughout the whole story. The story starts at the pool scene in the episode Abomination and will go AU from there. Instead of Stiles being dragged to the pool by Erica, he's still in Gerard's office when he gets a feeling that he should go to the pool and investigate.
Stiles was just about to leave the pool and go back to Gerard's office when something at the bottom of the pool caught his eye. Looking closer, Stiles realized that it was Derek at the bottom of the pool. Without even thinking, Stiles jumped into the pool to bring Derek up to the surface.
After finally hulling Derek's heavy ass out of the pool, Stiles leaned down to see if he was breathing or not. After finding out that he wasn't Stiles started doing CPR. It was times like this that made him thankful that his dad and Melissa made Scott and himself take CPR classes when they were younger at the hospital. Since Melissa worked at the hospital the classes had been free that they offered there.
"Come on breath!" Stiles shouted starting to get desperate when Derek still wasn't breathing after what seemed like five minutes.
The last thing Derek remembered was loosing all feeling from his neck down and falling into the pool. The next thing he knew he was lying on the floor still in the pool area. Stiles didn't realize that Derek was coming to, so he was leaning down to blow more air into Derek's mouth. That's when Derek himself came up making their lips meet half way before pulling away so he could cough up the water in his lungs.
Coughing "What do you think you're doing?" Derek asked once he got his breathing back under control.
"Keeping your wolf ass alive," Stiles said leaning back on his haunches.
"How did you know I was here?" Derek asked.
"I didn't really. I just got this feeling to come check the pool area out and saw your ass at the bottom of the pool. What happened by the way?" Stiles asked.
"Where's Erica?" Derek asked looking around for Erica from his sitting position while also ignoring Stiles' question.
"You're welcome," Stiles said in a sarcastic voice.
"Where is Erica?" Derek asked again trying to get up to look for his beta but ended up back on his ass.
"Here let me help you," Stiles said when Derek ended back on his ass.
"Move your hand or I'll break it," Derek said when Stiles stuck out his hand to help him up.
"Be that way Sour wolf," Stiles mumbled to himself or tried to at least.
"What did you just call me?" Derek asked after finally being able to get his ass off the cement.
"Nothing," Stiles said out loud.
Instead of trying to figure out what Stiles had called him, Derek looked for the source of the moaning that he had heard coming from his left.
"Hey can you stand?" Derek asked helping Erica to sit up.
"I think so," Erica said still groggy from being knocked out.
"Here let me help you," Derek said helping his beta stand up.
"So what I don't even get a thank you for saving your wolf ass?" Stiles asked again as Derek and Erica walked out of the swimming pool area.
Later that night found Derek wide awake. For some fucked up reason that he couldn't explain to himself he couldn't get the way Stiles' lips felt on his own out of his mind. He didn't know why he kept thinking of Stiles' lips when he wasn't even attracted to the guy! Hell most days he could barely stand him!
(Bold is Derek's inner voice talking, regular is him talking to himself)
'You do too like Stiles, you just don't want to admit to yourself that since meeting him you've worried about his safety. No, I worry about my betas and Scott; I do not worry about Stilinski and his safety. Oh yes you do, why don't you just admit what I already know? And what exactly do you think you know? That you like Stiles and may actually be falling in love with the teenager. First off I'm not gay, second who could love Stiles and all his hyper activeness? You,'
As much as Derek didn't want to admit it to himself, his inner voice maybe telling somewhat of a truth. Not that he loved Stiles but he maybe liked the teen a little more then he wanted to outright admit.
On the other side of town Stiles wasn't having very much luck in the sleep department either. As where Derek wouldn't admit that he liked Stiles that way, Stiles himself could admit that he thought the Alpha was quite good looking. Not that he didn't think Derek a jerk at times; he still found that he had the hots for the guy. And now that he knew what Derek's lips felt like, he wanted to see what they would feel like when kissing him.
A week later Derek still couldn't get Stiles' lips out of his mind which he knew that he should since A. nothing good could come of it and B. he had more important things to worry about like stopping Jackson from hurting anyone else.
Everything came to a head when two weeks later Derek got a call at one in the morning.
"It better be important McCall it's one in the morning," Derek said or at least tried to say seeing that he'd just been awoken from a dead sleep.
"Have you seen Stiles?" Scott asked.
"No, why would I have seen him?" Derek asked ready to hang up and go back to bed.
"He's not at home and he texted his dad that we were going to hang out, but I was hanging out with Allison," Scott said.
"Why are you calling me with this at one in the morning?' Derek asked.
"I thought maybe he had gone over to your place or something," Scott said.
"I haven't seen him in two weeks," Derek said.
"Are you sure?" Scott asked.
"Yes, I'm sure. Besides how do you know that he didn't just decide not to go home?" Derek asked just wanting to go back to bed.
"I know Stiles, he wouldn't do something like that to his father," Scott said.
"Maybe he's just off with Lydia somewhere," Derek said not quite understanding why that made his blood boil the way it did.
"It would be pretty hard to be off with Lydia anywhere seeing as she's standing right here next to me," Scott said.
"Where exactly are you?" Derek asked wondering why Lydia would be with Scott at one in the morning.
"In Stiles' bedroom," Scott said.
"Why is Lydia with you in Stiles' bedroom at one in the morning?" Derek asked.
"That's a long story; will you please just come over here and help us find him?" Scott asked desperately.
"I'll be over as soon as I get the other three up," Derek said.
"Thank you," Scott said hanging up with Derek.
Stiles' house
"Why are they here?" John asked seeing Derek and the others coming up to his front door.
"I asked them to help us find Stiles," Scott said.
"You think they can find Stiles any faster then we can?" John asked.
John wouldn't tell you that he out right hated Derek but there was something off about the kid that just didn't sit well with John.
'Yes seeing as he is also a werewolf,' Scott thought to himself.
"Well six people are better then three," Scott said out loud.
"Fine, let's get going," John said walking out the door.
"Here," Scott said shoving one of Stiles' shirts into Derek's hands so that he would have his scent before getting into Lydia's car with her while John jumped into his cruiser.
By seven am the next morning there was no sight of Stiles anywhere. John didn't want to give up the search but he had to go to work and he knew that Scott and Lydia needed to be in school.
"Screw school, Stiles is still missing!" Scott said frustrated that John wanted to call off their search party for something as mundane as school.
"I don't want to, but I can't help Stiles any if I get fired. And your mother would have my ass if I made you miss school," John said over the phone to Scott.
"Fine," Scott said not liking it one bit but knowing that John was right, his mother wouldn't be at all happy with neither of them if he missed school.
"Thank you," John said.
"But we'll start right away again after school, right?" Scott asked not liking the thought of his best friend out there and not knowing where he was.
"I won't be able to, I have to work late tonight," John said not liking not being able to find his son. Like he told Scott, he was no use to Stiles if he got fired.
"Fine then Derek and I'll go looking," Scott said.
"Fine but if you hear anything you let me know right away ok?" John asked.
"Of course," Scott said.
"Thank you and I'll talk to you later," John said hanging up the phone without a reply from Scott.
"So where to now?" Derek asked.
Shortly after leaving the Sheriff's house, Scott had called Derek so that he could ride with him and his betas. Lydia had gone home after two hours of searching saying that she needed her beauty sleep with if she was going to be any help to anyone in the morning. It wasn't that she didn't like Stiles and didn't want to find him. She did want to find him, but knew that she wasn't any good to anyone if she was in the hospital hurt because she crashed her car while being tired.
"My house so I can get my stuff and go to school," Scott said.
"Ok," Derek said.
"Will you help look after school?" Scott asked as he was getting dropped off at his house.
"Yes, I'm going to drop them off at school and then I'm going home to get some sleep. But I'll pick all four of you up after school," Derek said.
"Thanks," Scott said shutting the door before hearing a reply.
"I don't get why we have to go look for Stiles, it's not like he's our problem," Erica said trying to hide the fact that she'd had crush on Stiles and was worried about his well being.
"Because Scott is like family and Stiles is family to Scott," Derek said.
"Fine," Erica said knowing when she was beat.
As Derek was crawling back into bed for a few hours of shut eye, little did he know where exactly they would end up finding Stiles. Nor the chain of events that it would be set into motion. No all Derek knew at that moment was that he needed to get some sleep if he was going to be able to help find Stiles and bring him home to his father and friends.