Thank you guys for the support!
And another note, remember that Derek (probably) isn't as "dark" as he is in the first episode and on because he still has his sister. So, I decided to make Derek a little more open and stuff. And another thing, this IS NOT a Derek/OC love story. Well, I take that back. But it's a different kind of love, you'll see :)
"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. Let me get this freak-train straight." I stopped the man midsentence, my mind whirling.
He let me talk.
"So I was bitten by a werewolf, who don't exist, and now I'm turning into one, and I'll be even twice as dangerous since I'm a girl werewolf? DID I MENTION WEREWOLVES DON'T EXIST? Where am I, a mental hospital?" I started yelling, overwhelmed. Like I was going to believe this load of bullcrap.
The man looked at me with an annoyed glance, but the woman spoke this time, "This isn't a game. We are telling you the truth. We've been sitting here for like, an hour explaining this." She said, sighing.
"Prove it, then!" I yelled. The man and woman exchanged a mischievous glance.
"Heh, alright then." The man said. Before my very eyes fangs grew from his teeth, and hair grew around his face. He held up a hand, in where claws were growing.
I was pretty much paralyzed with shock, but that wasn't the end.
"And since I'm a girl…" The woman smirked, before shifting into a full-bodied pitch black wolf with red eyes. Her clothes were still awkwardly twisted around her, but she shrugged them off.
My mouth wouldn't work for a good ten minutes while they went back human again and the wolf-form woman went into the bathroom, which was the door straight ahead of me. If I wasn't in a shock, I would have thought, Sweet, my own bathroom, but… I was freaking out.
"Anyway," The man came back in, "My name is Derek, and this is my sister, Laura. I'm a beta of the pack and she's the alpha, or the highest. If you didn't know, betas are just below alphas. There are also omegas, the lowest." He explained, trying to sound as understandable as possible as the woman named Laura came back in.
"Yes, and your powers vary between the ranks. Your expression tells me everything… Hmmm… Well, the omegas are the weakest so the extent of their powers is their eye color changes and they get good hearing, but no transformation powers. Betas get to transform right between human and full werewolf, but that's for guys. Girls like you and me can go full-wolf as betas, too, but beta girls are usually smaller. Alpha males turn into a huge werewolf beast, while females like me turn into like a great-Dane-sized wolf, usually smaller, though." Laura explained. My head whirled again.
"S-so what am I?" I didn't fully believe them yet, so I thought I would "play along" with their game until I could get away.
"You're a beta, I believe." Derek said, and Laura nodded.
"Yes, but the bite won't take full effect for a few days. Can you stand up?" She asked.
Painfully, I tried to fully sit up, succeeding even though my shoulder was on fire with pain. I tried to find the strength to stand up. Derek lent me a hand and for what seemed a long time, I stood up. I was a little wobbly at first but standing up actually made the pain in my shoulder lessen.
"Thanks." I said, walking around the room. I saw my backpack in the corner and rushed over to it. Everything was still in there.
"You still didn't tell us anything about you." Derek said, crossing his arms waiting for a response.
I took a deep breath and said solemnly, "You don't need to know anything." I kept my voice quiet, but I knew they could hear me with their super-hearing.
"Ah, actually, we do. We need to know whether you have a home or if you're staying here." He said firmly. Yes, like I was going to stay with these two lunatics.
However I stopped and explained, "My foster father was abusive so he handed me my paperwork and threw me out. My name is Jet." I didn't want to give away too many details to them since I just met them.
"That's it? How long were you living with him, er, Jet?" Laura asked, a little baffled by my weird name.
"A month or so…"
"What about your real parents?" Derek asked.
"… They died in a car crash." I said, my voice cracked at the end. Why all the questions?
Derek and Laura exchanged a glance as if to say 'enough questions'.
"Alright, well, we'll leave you alone for a little while. Come out when you're ready to explain everything to us, okay?" Derek said, letting Laura out and he followed.
I sat down and thoroughly thought about my situation for a good two hours. Yeah, I tend to just wander off in my thoughts for a very long time. It's one of the reasons I sometimes can't sleep at night.
So, these "werewolves" seemed real… but what if this was some kind of sick practical joke? I thought it over. They both did change into pretty convincing er, creatures. But if I believed them, what would happen? The Derek guy said I was bitten which meant I was to become one of them… Were they in some weirdo cult or something and biting someone was some rite of passage? No, that creature attacking me was too real, it couldn't have been a dream especially if I have a bite mark to prove it. Speaking of which, I didn't feel any pain from it anymore.
I checked my shoulder and to my sheer surprise, it was completely gone. What the hell? Wait… that's it. Those freaks are maybe some sort of magician that… that is playing a horrible joke on a lost 14 year old girl? No, that's not right either.
I leaned back on the floor, sighing deeply. What if they are telling the truth?
There was only one way to find out, and that was to get straight up answers from them. I summoned my courage and opened the right hand door into the hallway.
Well, I guess what was left of a hallway. Parts of it were charred and I looked down the hallway opposite the staircase and all I saw was a sheer burnt-away drop to the basement. That was one more question to add to the list.
Like they said, they were waiting for me downstairs and the what-was-left living room.
/ LAURA POV /
I leaned back in the old blue sofa, waiting patiently for the new girl with the strange name "Jet" to come downstairs. Derek sat in the opposite side of the room leaning back in a moth-eaten armchair watching football on the old TV set we still had. He never liked new TV's because he thought the old ones lasted longer. Well, they did. We've had this one since before the…fire.
I shifted position, but while I did so I heard a door open upstairs. Derek turned the television off and looked up at the staircase.
"Well? Do you believe us yet?" He asked. Jet looked a little taken aback.
"No. Not fully, at least. I just… I need some time. But I want answers." She said. I could hear her heart pounding with nervousness.
"There's no need to be nervous. We won't hurt you… unless you do something stupid." I smiled reassuringly, but then her heart pounded even harder. That didn't help…
"I want to know… why did you make me this? Is this some sort of… of joke?" She said, looking hurt.
Derek sighed, "No, it's just that Laura lost control the other night for some reason and bit you. I should be up in Washington right now but the other night was the Wolf Moon, it occurs in January and makes us more "out of control" than usual. Laura and I were born like this so we can control it better. I don't know what happened though…" He looked at me and I looked away, ashamed.
Even I didn't know what happened. I just kind of lost it… I lost my head every year at the Wolf's moon for some reason. Derek never looses his head once a year. He's younger than me and more in control than I am, mainly because I have more powers than him werewolf-wise. Who knows.
"So… it was an accident I got bitten? And all this is… real?" Jet asked, looking around sheepishly.
"Yes. But we can teach you how to control the shifts and such so you don't become out of control. Well, Laura better be your teacher because I'm leaving for my job tomorrow morning." Derek explained.
Derek worked for a high-paying business in Washington. I think it has something to do with the government because he never goes into detail about what he does up there. All I know is that he brings in a lot of money. I don't work because I have to make sure that everyone in Beacon Hills thinks that everything is okay, and there aren't both werewolves and hunters prowling the forest.
Jet looked at me with an unreadable expression, "So… I have to live here?" She asked.
"Well unless you have another home?" I wondered.
"No." She almost whispered. Why was she holding back her secrets?
"Well, that settles it. I'll teach you what I know, and you live here with me, okay?" I said cheerfully.
Jet didn't say anything. I walked over to her.
"Look, I know it's a lot to take in, but how about you get something to eat? Let's see…" I could hear her stomach rumbling at the mention of food and I smirked, going into the kitchen and opening the fridge, "We have some… oh! Here, leftover spaghetti and here's some sauce."
I prepared her some spaghetti in the microwave, while Derek was watching TV, but I knew Derek was thinking deeply and using the TV to not weird-out Jet. Whenever Derek went into deep thought he stared at a point in space for god knows how long. I put the plate in front of her and she dug right in.
"Hungry much?" I giggled.
"I 'aven't eaten in a day." She said, her mouth full. But at least I saw her smile for the first time. That was a plus, right?
Later that night, Derek and I had a talk about Jet while I got her comfortable with the television downstairs. Derek didn't really like the idea of her being here, but I convinced him it was the only choice.
"But what about her schooling? And her foster father? We can't like… adopt her or anything." Derek said while he packed his clothes in a suitcase to get ready to leave tomorrow.
"I know… I didn't think about that…" I said, "But what if we just 'convinced' her foster father to take care of her schooling papers and such and make the child services think she still living with him but she's actually here?" I wondered.
He thought it over for a bit, "Might work. Might not. By 'convincing' you mean threaten him with his life, don't you?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Mayyybeee…." I smirked.
"Well let's just give her time to adjust and on my way out tomorrow I'll go to her foster father's house and straighten things out." Derek said.
"Aww cmon this guy sounds like a nut-job and I want to beat him up!" Laura begged.
"No, no. I've got it." He said packing the rest of his stuff and shutting the case.
"Ugh, fine. But I'm gonna teach her some major karate and judo while you're gone and then you'll be sorry!" I smiled.
"Yes because I'm afraid of a 14 year old girl."
"A 14 year old girl werewolf."
Derek gave me one of his rare smiles, "Well, I'll probably be gone when you wake up, so I'll see you later."
"Bye Derek. Bring home some money!" I kissed him on the cheek and went to the couch downstairs.
"Hey Jet, you can have my room for tonight. I'll sleep on the couch." I offered. She looked to tired to argue.
"Okay. 'Night then."
"Goodnight."
Grrr! Sorry for the insane boredom that this chapter has brought… UGH! Well, it was needed. Next chapter shall be better, I promise n
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