I thought it would be interesting to tell this story from multiple points of view, so the first two chapters are from Stiles' POV, chapters 3 and 4 are from Derek's POV and the epilogue is in third person. Enjoy!
It was supposed to be a date. It was supposed to be a nice little get together in the woods. All of our dates were in the woods, so we could hide the fact that we were dating. I was fine with the rest of them knowing, but Derek was always a little touchy about it. All of the Hales are weird like that. They all seem so lonely. Maybe that's why Derek wanted to hide us, so he can protect his reputation as a loner, bad boy, sourwolf. I doubt that's it though.
Anyway, we were walking through the woods, just going about our business, when an arrow whizzed past our heads.
"Oh my god!" I yelled involuntarily. Derek dropped my hand to see where the arrow had come from.
"Hunters," Derek said, a serious tone in his voice. He got that look on his face he always gets when he think I'm in danger. A mix of an unamused scowl and a look of rage in his eyes.
"No duh," I replied and was about to add more sarcasm but Derek put a hand over my mouth and pulled me closer to him so the both of us could hide behind a tree.
He was behind me, so he leaned his head forward a little to display a finger in front of his lips. He then removed his hand from my mouth and pointed to a group of threatening-looking people with crossbows and assault rifles. What scared me the most though, was that it wasn't our usual gang of assault rifle carrying nutjobs.
"They aren't Argents," Derek whispers in my ear. "I've never seen any of them before,"
I gulped, suddenly realizing just how serious this was.
"Derek, if they're new, how do they know where you are, or even what you are?" I asked quietly.
"Shh..." Derek shushes me as they come closer.
"That Argent guy said that there would be two, an Alpha and a Beta." one of the hunters said to another.
"Well where did they go? I swear I hit one of em'" the other hunter said.
I felt Derek tense behind me. "What? What's wrong?" I said softly, turning slightly towards Derek.
He looked like he was about to be sick. "They think you're the Beta."
"You mean..."
"They think you're a werewolf."
I swallowed hard again, now scared out of my wits.
"Isn't it against the code for them to shoot humans?"
Derek nods behind me.
"And the chances of them believing me if I tell them I'm not your Beta are pretty slim, right?" I whisper, my voice cracking as I speak.
I feel him nod again. I find myself receding farther into Derek's chest. I always hated playing the helpless one, but I didn't really know what else to do.
The hunters are now walking farther away from us, still searching the area.
"Should we run for it?" I whisper.
"Aw, look how cute this is." A loud voice says from behind us. We turn to find a man with an assault rifle and five men behind him carrying a variation of crossbows, rifles, and pistols. They're all armed to the teeth and it occurs to me that this may seem like a bit much for two wolves. "The Alpha trying to protect his precious Beta,"
Derek and my eyes connect for a split second before he's pushing me forward and were both running as fast as we can. I can hear the hunters right behind us and every once and a while I glance back to make sure Derek is still okay. I'm sure he can hear my heart pounding inside my chest so fast it's staring to worry me. But I can't focus on that now. Man, why can't I date someone who doesn't have a team of psycho killers after him all the time?
The other group of hunters appear before me and suddenly were surrounded and suddenly I can't see Derek anymore and suddenly I'm so scared that my fear is actually subsiding and it's all happening too fast, way too fast, and my heart..my heart won't calm down, won't stop beating beating beating. Stop. A shot is fired and my life is in slow motion. Derek's right beside me, a bullet flying towards him as I jump, lean, fly, fall. Fall into dirty leaves on the ground as a bullet rips through my chest. I don't even have time to scream.