AN: So here is the official first chapter, some things will be pretty close to cannon in this one since we are just starting, with a few differences of course. If I don't mention it the scene happened just like in canon.

Ch 1

"Stiles what the hell are you doing?" Scott asked freaked out with the bat still in his hand
"Why do you have a bat?" Stiles asked
"I thought you were a predator." Scott responded
"A pre…never mind look I know it's late but you have to hear this I saw my dad leave about 20 mins ago, dispatch call, they're bringing in every officer from the department and even state police."
"For what?" Scott asked
"Two joggers found a body in the woods."" Stiles said then jumped down to the floor
"A dead body?" Scott asked
"No, a body of water, yes dumbass a dead body."
"Murdered?" Scott asked
"No one knows yet, just that it's a girl in her 20s." Stiles told him
"If they found the body what are they looking for?" Scott asked
"They only found half. We are going" Stiles said
""Why are we going?" Scott asked
"Laura has been missing for 2 days now I just need to know if it's her." Stiles said looking at his hands.
"Alright let's go."


"Do you really think it might be her?" Scott asked once they are almost at the Preserve
"I hope not but it's been 2 days since I saw her last, and she was acting all jumpy and shit." Stiles told him
"Maybe she went back to New York." Scott said
"Not without letting someone know." Stiles said
"Didn't you say that's what they did the first time? They just left without a word." Scott commented
"She wouldn't do that again." Stiles said
"Are you sure about that? Maybe it was a rush so she couldn't say anything." Scott mentioned
"Yes I'm sure, even if it was a rush it's been two days she would have called by now." Stiles said
"If you say so." Scott said
"We're here." Stiles said
"I can't believe we are doing this."
"You are the one always bitching about how nothing ever happens in this town."
"Well I was trying to get a good night's sleep before practice tomorrow."
"Because sitting on the bench is such a grueling effort."
"I'm playing this year in fact I'm making first line." Scott told him
"Sure you are buddy."
"I am!"
"It's good you think so, everyone should have a dream even a pathetically unrealistic one." Stiles joked
"Asshole, just out of curiosity which half are we looking for? And what if the killer is still out here?"
"I had not thought of that."
"So basically you planned this with your usual attention to detail, it's comforting really."
"Shut up I wasn't exactly thinking about those things just about Laura."
"I get that but I don't know maybe the severe asthmatic should be the one with the flashlight?" Scott asked as he took a whiff of his inhaler, then Stiles took off running leaving Scott trailing behind him. They ran for a bit until Stiles ran into a police dog.
"Hang on, this little delinquent belongs to me." the Sheriff told them
"Hey dad, how are you doing?" Stiles asked
"So do you listen in to all my phone calls?" His dad asked
"No, not the boring ones." Stiles told him
"Where is your usual partner in crime?" John asked
"Scott is back home he wanted to get a good night's sleep for school tomorrow, it's just me, in the woods, alone." Stiles lied
"Scott you out there? Scott?" John shouted when he got no response he turned to Stiles "well young man I'm walking you to your car, you're going to get in, go home and later we are talking about what the phrase invasion of privacy means."
"Alright okay, just one question." Stiles said
"What is it?" John asked
"You'd tell me if it was Laura right?" Stiles asked
"Oh Stiles."
"I'm just worried about her you know?" Stiles said
"I know I'm worried too, I promise to tell you if the body turns out to be Laura, Now go home."


"Man you should have seen coach's face it was like he couldn't be believe what he was seeing, you pissed Jackson off which was incredible and Lydia Martin cheered for you, Lydia Martin Scott!" Stiles exclaimed
"I know man it was so bizarre."
"How did you do it?" Stiles asked
"I don't know man it was like I had all the time in the world to catch the ball."
"Well forget what I said last night you are so making first line."
"That's not the only weird thing dude."
"It's not?" Stiles asked
"I can hear stuff I shouldn't be able to hear, smell things."
"Oh really you can smell things? Like what?"
"Mint Mojito Gum in your pocket."
"I don't have.." Stiles started to say before he felt the gum in his hand as he reached inside the pocket "So all this started with the bite."
"What if it's like an infection, and my body's flooding with adrenaline before I go into shock or something equally bad?" Scott asked
"I think I've heard of this, specific kind of infection called Lycanthropy."
"That sounds bad."
"It's the worst but only once a month, on the night of the full moon," He joked howling at the end of his sentence.
"Dude not funny."
"You're the one that heard the wolf howling."
"There could be something wrong with me. I could be dying."
"Or you're a werewolf." Stiles joked growling at Scott "Okay obviously I'm just kidding man."
"Yeah laugh it off."
"Well Friday is a full moon so then we'll know." Stiles said but Scott ignored him
"Damn it! I could have sworn it was here, I remember dropping my inhaler here."
"Maybe the killer moved the body."
"If he did I hope he left my inhaler those things are like 80 bucks and my mom would kill me." Scott complained, Stiles turned around and saw Derek Hale standing there. He looked very different from the last time Stiles saw him, then again it had been 6 years and people normally change in that timeframe. The resemblance between him and Laura was a lot more prominent than it was back then and not just because of the dark hair.
"Dude get up." Stiles said noticing Derek coming towards them
"What are you doing here? This is private property." Derek said demanding to know why they were there.
"Sorry man we didn't know." Stiles said
"Yeah we were just looking for something…but uhh forget it " Scott said with a bit of a tremor in his voice, Derek threw the inhaler at him; Scott caught it as Derek walked away.
"Alright man I have to get to work." Scott told Stiles
"Dude that was Derek Hale."
"Who?"
"Only like a few yrs older than us, Derek Hale, as in Laura Hale."
"That's Laura's brother?" Scott asked
"Yes!" Stiles exclaimed
"What is he doing back?" Scott asked
"I don't know man."
"Did Laura mention her brother coming back?" Scott
"No man we didn't really talk about families." Stiles said not mentioning the fact that Laura hadn't even mentioned her brother once in the time she was here. Other than asking Stiles not to ask about him of course, after that it was like she had forgotten she even had a brother. Stiles thought it was extremely weird, especially considering how close Laura and Derek were back then.
"Well can you give me a ride to work?" Scott asked pulling him out of his thoughts
"Of course dude."


Stiles couldn't believe he was doing this, but alas he needed answers and if that meant talking to Derek after 6 years of not hearing a thing from him then that's what he had to do. He parked at the bottom of the hill that lead to the Hale house, he had been here once or twice over the summer with Laura but it freaked her out so they stopped coming, or at least he stopped coming.
"This is private property." Derek stated
"I'm not Scott, you can't scare me off that easily."
"Leave Stiles." Derek told him
"Look I know you hate me okay? Just tell me what I what to know and I'll leave you alone." Stiles told him which caused Derek to turn around,
"You think I hate you?" Derek asked shocked
"Don't sound so shocked. I know you do." Stiles replied
"I don't hate you." Derek muttered
"Really? Because past experiences beg to differ."
"What are you talking about?"
"The last time we saw each other? You called me an immature, neurotic little idiot who doesn't know how to take no for an answer and what was it..Oh yeah I will never really amount to anything because I can't focus long enough to get something done, let alone get it done right. ¨ Stiles told him sitting down on the stairs of the house and looking at the ground.

Suddenly Derek remembered the day he had said those things to Stiles, it was about a few days before the fire and he was too involved in Kate to care about anyone else. Stiles had showed up wanting to talk to him right after he had gotten a text from Kate saying she couldn't see him that day, he had been so frustrated, so mad, that he had taken it out on Stiles. He knew the moment Stiles had left with tears in his eyes that he had screwed up but he hadn't been able to go after him because daddy dearest had called him in. He wanted to apologize later but before he knew it the fire happened, then the funeral and Laura waking him up to leave in the middle of the night.

"I didn't mean it." Derek muttered sitting down next to Stiles.
"What?" Stiles asked
"The things I said that day, I didn't mean them, I had been having the worst day, dad was on my ass about everything, you know I could never do anything right with him, coach had been on my ass about something I don't remember right now plus some other issues and I had gotten extremely frustrated and I took it out on you. That wasn't fair to you. I knew I had been wrong the moment you walked away but daddy dearest didn't let me go after you. After that everything went to hell so I couldn't say anything." Derek explained and they stayed in silence for a few moments before Stiles spoke again.
"Why did you leave?"
"We couldn't stay, it hurt too much." Derek told him
"I mean, why didn't you say goodbye? One day you were just gone and we never heard from you again except for a cryptic message from Laura saying you were okay."
"I wish I could give you an answer for that because I don't have one, Laura never talked about it and I didn't want to loose her too so after the first few times I didn't ask again. ¨
"Do you know what happened to her?" Stiles asked
"That's what I came to find out. I didn't get a message from her one day so I just headed this way."
"What happened between you 2?" Stiles asked
"It's getting late you should go home." Derek told him
"I'll find out sooner or later." Stiles told him
"Goodnight Stiles." Derek said heading back inside the house as Stiles went back to his jeep


Sure that move was incredible, it was out of this world and that was just the problem. There was no way Scott, his asthmatic best friend Scott, could make that move. He clearly remembered how a few days, not weeks, days, ago Scott still sucked at lacrosse a move like that would have clearly set off his asthma, and there's no way Scott got that athletic just out of nowhere. There was something just so off about his newfound abilities and Stiles was going to get to the bottom of this.

Before Stiles realized it he was already back home, time to go do what he did best, other than talking that is, research. The first thing he did as he got inside his room was get out his adrenal, he was going to need it. Okay think Stiles what started all this? The bite! Of course.

Scott swore he heard a wolf howling that night, he said he thought a wolf bit him so let's start from there. Even if the idea of there being wolves in California is completely crazy. Maybe they are not actual wolves, maybe they're. No that's even crazier than actual wolves in California. But, maybe? It wouldn't kill him to research it just in case.

He researches everything from the first wolf, to the theory of werewolves and how they came to be. What being a werewolf brings you, what wolfsbane is. Anything that was on this internet, he found it. Sadly it all pointed to being true, all the signs were there, the newfound abilities in lacrosse, the fact that he doesn't need his inhaler, not to mention the improvement in his hearing. Scott was a werewolf; there was no way around it.

Suddenly a knock on the door pulled him out of his thoughts, it was Scott.

"Get in here there's something you have to see. I've been up all night reading websites, books, anything I could find."
"How much adderall have you had today?" Scott asked
"A lot but that's not important here, what's important is something else."
"Is this about the body? Is it Laura?" Scott asked
"They don't know yet, they are in the processing of questioning people even Derek."
"Oh yeah Laura's brother right?"
"Yeah but you're not listening to me! I found out something really important."
"Okay geesh what is it?"
"Remember the joke I made the other day? It's not a joke anymore, the wolf, the bite, everything fits! Do you even know why a wolf howls?" Stiles said standing up
"Should I?"
"It's to signal its location to the rest of his pack. So when you heard a wolf howling that meant there were others nearby maybe an entire pack of them."
"A whole pack of wolves?" Scott asked
"No, werewolves."
"Seriously Stiles you've gone a little too far today, you know I'm picking Allison in an hr I can't deal right now."
"I saw you on the field Scott, You did an impossible move."
"So I made a good shot that means nothing."
"No you made an incredible shot, people don't get that good overnight, and then there's the improved senses and the fact that you don't need your damn inhaler."
"I can't talk right now okay, we'll talk tomorrow."
"Haven't you been listening! The full moon is tonight!"
"I just made first line, I have a date with a beautiful girl, everything is perfect, why are trying to ruin it."
"I'm just trying to help you, it's not just the physical changes the moon brings, and it's also when your bloodlust will be at its peak."
"Bloodlust." Scott said incredulously
"The urge to kill." Stiles explained
"I'm already feeling an urge to kill Stiles." Scott remarked
"The change can be caused by anger or anything that raises your pulses, like for example, Allison. You got to cancel everything, we're calling her right now." Stiles said grabbing the phone before all of the sudden he's pushed up against the wall.
"I'm sorry." Scott said realizing what he was doing "I have to get ready for the party. I'm sorry," he said again before he left the room.

This was not good he should have known Scott wouldn't listen to him, Stiles thought as he picked up the chair from the ground. There were 3 scratch marks on the back; this was not good, not good at all. This means he has to get ready to go a certain party.


He got to the party and couldn't find Scott, oh this isn't good, and he needed to find him. He thought he's seen Derek, but he wasn't sure. What would Derek be doing at a high school party? He was pulled out of his thoughts be Scott running past him.
"Scott you okay?" He asked but Scott just ran past him. Guess he has to go after him, set friend duties and all; he followed Scott outside to where Scott got in his car. Stiles was going to follow him when he noticed Allison standing alone, he was going to offer a ride home when Derek beat him to it.
"Allison, I'm a friend of Scott, my name is Derek." Derek said and Stiles couldn't hear the rest of the conversation but Derek didn't even know Scott that well, what was going on here? He'd think about that later now to go find Scott. A few minutes later he was pulling up in front of the McCall house. He got out at fast as he could and started pounding on Scott's door.
"Let me in, I can help you." Stiles said
"Listen you have to find Allison." Scott asked, and of course Allison is the first thing out of his mouth
"She's fine, I saw her get a ride from the party. She's totally fine"
"No I think I know who it is."
"Just let me in."
"It's Derek, Derek Hale is the werewolf, he's the one that bit me, and he's probably the one that killed the girl in the woods!" Scott exclaimed
"What? Derek's not a werewolf what are you talking about. I know him!" Stiles told him, Derek couldn't be a werewolf, and he just couldn't be. He wasn't even thinking about the fact that Scott thinks Derek killed someone because that was just not possible. Derek was not a killer.
'He was at the party tonight and he kept looking at me and I'm not lying to you Stiles he's a werewolf."
"Scott, Derek gave Allison a ride home from the party." Stiles told him as Scott closed the door.
"Scott." Stiles said pounding on the door. "Damn it!" he said running outside and getting his phone from the Jeep, please tell me I have Allison's number. He thought as he scrolled through his phone, He did! Scott had given it to him earlier just in case. 1 ring, 2 rings..
"Hello?" Allison said on the other line
"Allison?" Stiles asked
"Yeah who is this?" Allison asked
"It's Stiles, Scott's best friend."
"What do you want?" Allison asked
"I just wanted to make sure you got home okay, I'm sorry about Scott he got this really bad attack and he didn't want to get sick in front of you. He's a bit a shy about this things, he just didn't want you to think badly of him."
"He should have just told me."
"I know but he gets that way sometimes, it would be him calling except he is home in bed sleeping it off."
"Okay thanks for telling me Stiles good night."
"Night." Stiles said hanging up, okay that takes care of that, now to go after Scott. He needed to wait until the sun came up.

Derek was a werewolf. Derek Hale, who used to help his sister babysit him, who was only a few years older, liked pepperoni on his pizza and loved coffee ice cream. Derek who would help him with his homework and whom he got along better with than Laura, not that he would ever admit to that. Derek had been his best friend, even when Scott had finally moved back; Derek had still been his best friend. Then the fight had changed things and then the fire, and it had hurt that they had left without a goodbye. He had never said it out-loud but Derek leaving without a goodbye hurt more than Laura leaving with a goodbye, and both of them leaving had doubled the hurt. It hadn't only hurt him, but his mom as well. She had lost everything in that fire. She pretended like she had been okay but Stiles knew better.

Before he knew it, the sun was coming up and Stiles headed out to find Scott. He found him wandering the woods without a shirt on. The told Stiles what had happened and then he turned to Stiles and said.
"You know what worries me the most?"
"If you say Allison I'm going to punch you in the head."
"She probably hates me now."
"I doubt that, I called her last night told her you had gotten sick but felt shy about it around her, but when you see here give her a pretty amazing apology."
"Thanks Stiles."
"It's what I'm here for. Now can we just revel in the awesomeness of the fact that you're a fricking werewolf." Stiles commented but just got a glare in return "okay bad idea."
"Well get through this, if I have to I'll chain you up on the full moons and feed you live mice, I had a boa once I could do it." Stiles joked as they pulled up to the McCall house.
"Are you coming in?" Scott asked
"Nah man I need to go home." Stiles said
"Sure thing man." Scott said then Stiles pulled away from the McCall house, but he wasn't going home, no way. He had bigger fish to fry. He went back into the woods and pulled into the Hale house. He got out of the car, went up the hill and stood in front of the burned shell of a home.
"I know you're in there and I know you can hear me." Stiles said as Derek appeared from inside the house and came outside
"So were you ever going to tell me you're a werewolf?" Stiles asked

AN: So here is the official first chapter. Guys seriously, reviews help the chapters come faster, they are wonderful motivation =) *hint hint, wink wink*

*edited june18