Chapter 1

Hello everyone! This is my first Teen wolf Fic, I loved in 3x08 when we got to see Derek's past. I really wanted to read fics about Derek and Paige present day or back in high school, but there isn't a lot out there so I decided to write my own. All the main characters and where they are in life is set around season 3, HOWEVER, I am mixing up the time lines of character (deaths and exits) in the show to work with my story.

I really hope you all like it, I'm very excited for you to read it! :)

Chapter 1

"This is stupid."

"Get in the car."

This is how Derek and Paige were spending their Tuesday night, well considering that the sun was rising, it was Wednesday morning.

Paige was covered head to toe in mud, her shirt was ripped up the side, and Derek could still smell the blood that was drying around her wound.

But before we get into that I should probably catch you up on what you've missed.

No Paige didn't survive Ennis's bite and become a she wolf; in fact Paige didn't get bitten at all. It is 2014 in Beacon Hills and Scott, Stiles, Lydia and Malia were in their Jr year, just praying to make it to spring break so they could stop trying to balance school with their "extra circulars".

On the Paige and Derek front, they had been together since their freshmen year of high school, except for their 2 year long break between grade 11 and 12. Derek's family had been killed in a fire, the ones who weren't killed scattered, and Derek had been pray to Kate Argent at the time, unknowingly destroying his family and his relationship.

During those two years Derek was all over the place, he meet up with his sister Cora, who he thought had perished in the house fire with everyone else. The two of them tracked down a couple other family members but there were not many left. When those two years were up Derek made his way back to Beacon Hills, with only one person on his mind, Paige.

After Derek left, Paige had been pissed, she'd learned about his family's secret only a short few weeks before everything went to hell. He'd left her confused, in need of answers and feeling betrayed.

Then she started dating Tyler, they had attended the same classes in the same school since kindergarten, he was really the only guy who hadn't been scared off by Derek Hale.

Even when Derek came back to California a couple months shy of graduation, Tyler and Paige's relationship lasted longer than any of the school bets thought they would. They made it a couple weeks into summer until the night of the end of year carnival where Derek pulled a Noah from The notebook and got his Allie back.

Paige went on with her plans to go to Berkeley in the Fall, the University was only a couple hours from Beacon Hills and her and Derek made it work.

Now, being halfway through her second year of Uni Paige was excited to get back to Beacon hills for a couple of weeks and hang out with the pack. She knew last year was rough for them, the alpha pack had come into town and really messed everything up, but now it seemed like everyone was on good terms with each other, or at least that is what Derek had told her.

Being home for the break was going to do her good, how much trouble could she get herself into in just 3 weeks.

.

Paige had been late getting out of her last midterm and rushed to pack up the rest of her room. She was home for a full 3 weeks and knew that she'd end up wanting something she'd left behind, so just in case she was packing up almost everything.

"Shit." She muttered to herself.

Catching a glimpse of the clock on the wall she was 40 minutes behind schedule, Derek had text her the night before to see when she'd be getting on the road. He was always early where she always seemed to somehow fall behind schedule.

Grabbing the rest of her things Paige ran out the door, baggy sweater falling over her yoga shorts, wavy hair a mess. She had lucked out as a sophomore, getting a parking spot only a block away from her dorm.

When she burst through the doors to her building Paige stopped in her tracks, at the end of the long walkway was Derek Hale leaning against his black camaro.

"I thought I told you I was fine to drive myself." Paige spoke as if he were right in front of her, she knew he could hear her.

Black shades covered the alphas eyes, but Paige swore she saw them flash when he raised a single dark eyebrow.

Struggling, Paige shuffled forward with her arms full of supplies, standing in front of Derek she dropped the bags at his feet separating them.

"And I told you, I didn't like you driving through the mountains by yourself."

Paige crossed her arms, "I broke down one time."

"Because?" He was teasing her, knowing he'd won whatever battle they were having.

"It's mostly downhill; I thought I could just coast to the bottom."

Derek smirked; he'd never forget when she had called him up at 3:26 in the morning to tell him her car ran out of gas in the cliffs. He had asked her what had happened; it took a while before she finally admitted to him that she'd driven past a gas station knowing she was almost out of gas because she didn't want to stop in the dark.

He'd laughed at her though the speaker but quickly stopped to reprimand her, it wasn't safe to drive through the cliffs at night. Not just because of the 300 ft drops, but also because there are rouge wolves residing over that territory prowling around at night.

"You seriously didn't have to drive all the way out here; I know you're busy with Scott."

"He doesn't kiss at well as you."

Raising her eyebrow Paige leaned into Derek over her discarded duffle bags, "No but Stiles sure does."

Paige's lips met Derek's but their kiss only lasted three seconds before he pulled back, shaking his head at her comment.

"Just get your ass in the car."

Smiling Paige complied, Derek grabbing her bags and jammed them into the trunk.

"You forget to tell me your moving back or something?"

"I didn't want to forget anything, three weeks is a long time."

Putting his car in gear Derek pulled onto the main road toward home.

"SO what have I missed?"

The remainder of their trip they spent catching up, Paige had put herself on a strict no outside contact policy for the two weeks of her midterm exams. That didn't mean Derek hadn't forced her to break her silence by texting and threatening that if she didn't pick up the phone he'd "drive up there".

"Argent is back."

Paige froze, she really hated Alison and her family but Scott's girlfriend, well ex at the time, had died. When that had happened Paige couldn't help but feel sad for the group.

Kate argent and Alison's father, Chris Argent were a different story. When Kate had "stolen" and "warded" Derek against her back in high school, Kate didn't just help break her heart, she physically hurt her too.

Not that Derek needed any help hating Kate when he returned, but Paige had never told him what she had done to her.

(Flashback)

Paige was 17 at the time, Derek had been gone for half a year Kate disappearing along with him. She and Tyler had been dating for two months, Paige felt herself having small happy moments with him, but her thoughts always drifted to Derek, she wondered where he was and if he was with that bitch Argent.

She'd just finished helping Deaton give out one of the annual cat vaccinations, as you may have guessed Scott had taken Paige's stop when she'd gone to Uni. Her arms were covered in little scratches and all she wanted to do was get home and take a nice long sleep.

"I see you're rolling around with a different kind of animal these days."

Paige froze in the middle of crossing the street; if she was back did that mean he was too. Heart beating in her chest Paige turned toward the blonde, the smirk on her face was cruel.

"And you're the same old bitch you've always been, what do you want?"

"Derek."

Paige pursed her lips, "I don't know where he is."

"Oh I know, I had his trail for a while, but that sister of his knows a thing or two about keeping herself hidden. So that just leaves you."

"What about me?"

Kate came into the light then, it was easy to see the purple bruises under her eyes from lack of sleep. Her hair a little dishevelled but somehow she still managed to look better than Paige on her best day.

"He may have left but there is something I know about Hale, he's loyal." Paige rolled her eyes, "If he knew you were in trouble he'd come running back here to save you."

"Well you are out of luck cause-"

In that moment the hunter pulled out a trank gun from behind her back shooting Paige twice, once in the neck and once in the chest. Paige barely managed to raise her hand to pull the dart out before she was collapsing onto the yellow paint that divided the road.

The darts that Kate used were for taking down large animals, like a wolf, much to her displeasure Paige didn't wake until the next night.

"Finally!" Kate huffed, her patience had grown paper thin.

The Argents had a locked cellar where the elders torture any wolf who'd taken a human life. There hadn't been a wolf down there for ages so Kate knew she wouldn't be interrupted.

Paige felt the stiffness in her shoulders and the numb tingle of her limbs falling asleep, looking up she knew why. Kate had bound her wrist and ankles to some kind of chain link fence, cold metal keeping her from relieving her pain.

"Now this is creative."

Paige knew she wasn't as brave as she sounded, she just hoped she could fake it enough to convince Kate. Paige already knew the hunter was crazy but now she was starting to think she was certifiably insane!

"There are a lot of things you don't know about me."

Paige snorted. "I doubt that, you don't strike me as someone who has a whole lot of substance."

That got Kate angry, striking out she delivered a blow to Paige's cheek.

Fuck, Paige thought to herself, she'd been awake for less than five minutes and she was already bleeding.

"I don't think you're in a position to be throwing around insults, do you?"

Instead of responding, Paige answered Kate's question with a question.

"Do you really think Derek's coming back just because you have me tied up like some kinky torture porno?"

Kate smiled. "What makes you think he won't?"

"That fact that we are no longer dating should be enough indication."

The words tasted like poison on Kate's tongue, "I think your underestimating his feelings."

"I think you don't know him as well as you think you do." Paige spat back.

"Maybe not," Kate shrugged, "but you want to know what I do know? I know how to make time down here fly for me, you on the other hand will feel like you're in an eternal hell."

With a furrowed brow Paige started to ask what Kate meant by that when the hunter pulled out a battery pack, followed by a couple cabals.

Kate had Paige hidden away in that basement for over a week, as the young girl suspected Derek never showed. Her family had issued a search, Paige's photo was all over the local news, somewhere between the fifth day Kate got wind of Derek and took off leaving Paige chained in the basement; finally on the eighth day Chris made his way into the basement, noticing the door was left ajar he investigated.

He untied Paige, set her up in one of their guest bedrooms, you must be thinking that was really nice of him, well it wasn't. Paige was as much a prisoner in the comfy room as she was in the cold basement.

Argent feed her and nursed her back to health, when she looked less raged he drove her to a bus station two towns over and bought her a bus ticket back to Beacon Hills. He threatened her and come up with a cover story to tell the police.

Just wanting to get the hell away from the Argent family Paige complied; the driver had recognised her getting on the bus and notified the authorities.

As planned Paige told her parents that she and Tyler had a fight, that she went to meet up with Derek and spend the weekend that turned into a week. She told them she was sorry and that she was stupid for going up there, that she would never see him again.

They both held her to that promise, which is why when her and Derek got back together they were less than cordial toward him then they were before. When Derek had asked her why, Paige had chalked it up to normal parental behaviour disapproving of their young daughter's relationships.

Kate hadn't come back to Beacon Hills since, and the rest of the Argent family had left her alone. They moved on and so had Paige, telling Derek would bring nothing but bad things.

(End of Flashback)

Derek took his eyes off the road to take in Paige; she'd gone ridged in her seat even though she succeeded at keeping her face natural.

"I thought Chris moved away after Alison's death?"

Paige kept her eyes on the road, "I think he went to the desert his moms side of the family is out there, he got back to town a couple days ago-"

"And?"

Here it was, the other metaphorical shoe was about to drop.

"He brought his sister with him."

There is was! After four years Kate Argent had returned to Beacon Hills, just in time for spring break.

"She's the real reason you picked me up isn't she." Now Paige got it.

Protective was in Derek's nature, as a wolf and as a man, but this made a lot more sense. They had already talked about the rouge wolves and Paige had avoided the area except for a few cliff climbing adventures with some of her friends, which she'd neglected to tell him about.

He came to get her because he was avoiding Kate.

"No she's not the reason."

Paige knew that was bull, Derek was pissed that he'd let Kate manipulate him and he was going to avoid her at all costs to prevent himself from killing her, and in return avoiding the sting of Chris Argent's knife.

"You're such a scaredy wolf."

Derek rolled his eyes back to the road, his hand reaching out and turning up the radio; Chuckling under her break Paige relaxed back in her seat.

Spring break bitches, She should have gone to Miami with her friends, that would have been a lot less eventful than her break was about to be.

The land marks outside the car started looking more and more familiar, until they speed past a light blue sign that read 'WELCOM TO BEACON HILLS'.