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Rose could hear everything, the creaking of the house and the wind blowing through it. While it was a welcome sound, she didn't want to open her eyes because if she did it would mean her having to face everything she had done the night before.
She rolled over burying her face into the pillow as she recalled how she had acted to Derek, once they were alone, the embarrassment was nearly too much as she tried not to scream into the pillow.
Casting out her sense she could feel Derek still sound asleep down stairs. She moved slowly forgetting that her shoes were still in the back of his car. Moving slowly to the door she found it locked, using her magic she concentrated on the lock for a few seconds before finally hearing it click. She tried to open the door as quietly as possible but it's groaned loudly.
But it didn't seem to wake Derek, she slowly made her way down the stairs cringing every time they squeaked. She managed to make it down the stair and into the study to get her phone, bag and jacket. She cast a glance over to Derek who looked still sound sleep.
She gave a sigh of relief once she had finally made it out the door, looking over at the Camaro she didn't want to risk setting off the alarm. Heaving a sigh, she walked around the car and down the leaf covered driveway. Once she knew she was out of ear shot for Derek she quickly dialled Stiles number praying he would pick.
"Where the hell, are you?" Stiles screeched into the phone after the second ring.
"Not so loud" Rose pulled the phone away from her ear.
"You don't get it Rose, I saw Derek carry you out of the party and then he dropped off Allison and Scott went after him and was chased by hunters. One of them shot at him, the only thing he seems to be freaking out about is the fact that he had to ditch Allison at the party" Stiles rambled out a little disjointed.
"Stiles, do you think you could explained everything that happened to me when you come and pick me up please?" Rose asked as she came across the asphalt road leading to town.
"argh, yeh sure. Where are you?"
"At the end of the Hale Drive" she winced when she heard Stiles banging around like he's just fallen down.
"You stayed with him last night? Holy shit Rose, I'll be there in ten"
Stiles hung up without another word, leaving Rose standing there awkwardly beside the road until he got there. She fiddled with the hem of her dress, as she absentmindedly cast her senses out checking for any kind of danger but all she could feel were a few rabbits, a stray dog and a herd of deer.
She heard the jeep well before she saw it, being a quiet Sunday morning with not many people going for a drive out that side of town. Many believed that the woods surrounding the Hale house where haunted, so many opted out of going anywhere near them.
Stiles pulled the jeep to a stop just in front of her, opening the door. He looked her up and down noticing that she was still in the same clothes as the night before. She hopped into the jeeps cavern pulling the door shut. Stiles reached into the back grabbing a pair of his sweat pants and handing them to her.
"Thanks"
Once Rose had finished wriggling around in the seat getting the pants on and putting her seat belt on, Stiles made a U-turn and moved on into town.
"So, Scott's really a werewolf"
Stiles became annoyed at this, he swerved off the road pulling the jeep to a stop and killing the engine turning in his seat to look at her.
"You can't do that anymore" Stiles told her, Rose opened her mouth to speak but Stiles beat her to it. "You can't go around pretending that you don't know anything, Rose. You obviously know a lot more then you're letting on. I mean for Christ sake, you grew up with Derek Hale. You knew/know all about his family"
Rose looked down at her hands, "I can't tell you everything, you have to trust me that I will help Scott in any way I can, but there are things I can't tell you and there are things that if I tell you, you can't tell Scott"
"Can't tell Scott, Rose, Scott's turning into a werewolf he's going to need all the help that he can get" Stiles was getting more tense as he looked at her.
"Stiles, you have to understand. Those hunters aren't just here for Scott and Derek if those hunters find out about me, I'm as good as dead" Rose tried to explain, Stiles looked over to her in alarm. He hadn't expected to hear that.
"What do…. you mean you're as…. as good as dead?" Stiles stuttered out, looking at her wide eyed. "Why would you be? What are you if they would hunt you too?"
Rose looked down at her hands again, she knew she would be able to tell Stiles something and he wouldn't repeat it but she'd promised Derek she wouldn't.
"Don't you trust us enough to tell us this?" Stiles eyes were cast downward, his voice soft.
"I trust you. You have no idea how much I trust you Stiles. But knowing this…. Knowing this can be dangerous"
"I don't care about it being dangerous. You don't trust me enough to tell me what you are. That hurts more than anything. I thought I was your best friend, doesn't any of that mean anything?"
Tears started welling up in her eyes, "It means the world to me. You're like my brother Stiles, I don't know what I would do without you"
Stiles expression softened, he never liked to see her cry. "Don't, please. I'm sorry, I know you're like a sister to me too Rose. I just want to help"
Rose gave a shaky sigh as she looked over at Stiles, she looked down at her lap "I'm a witch" Rose spoke softly, Stiles head snapped up, his eyes wide.
"Why would they kill you if they found about you?" Stiles asked softly as he leaned forward.
"When I turn 17, I will inherit the powers of my family that came before, but normally my parents would slowly give me this but because they aren't alive anymore I'm going to inherit it all at once" Rose explained as she leaned back in the seat. "It's a lot of power in one night, the hunters see it as a risk. After the fire I received a letter, stating that if I'm not able to control it they will put me down"
"But they don't know who you are?"
"At the moment no, they know I still live in town but I guess I don't look much like I did when I was younger, Derek seems to think they don't have a clue who I am"
"So, what happened last night, the moon affects you differently than wolves?" Stiles asked, he had notice not just last night but for about a year before just how different she acted around the full moon.
"The moon for a witch, is like an aphrodisiac, last night was a really bad one and I don't know why" Rose tried thinking why it would have been.
"Maybe because there was a big bad wolf in town" Stiles was being sarcastic but Rose couldn't help but think that might be why. "Okay, let's get you home, shall we?".
Rose gave a nod as Stiles turned in the seat and started the jeep again. The rest of the drive Stiles asked her questions about her magic and she tried to answer them as best she could. Not having her mother around she didn't know half as much as she should have. Deaton tried teaching her what he could but even then, his knowledge was limited, most Covens kept to themselves.
Once Stiles had dropped her off, Deaton gave her a small smile as she came in dashing up to her room. He heard the shower running, he moved about the kitchen getting things ready for the lunch he was making.
Hearing the shower turn off, it was only a few minutes before Rose emerged into the kitchen dressed in a pair of track pants and a jumper. She started helping him around the kitchen, chopping up vegetables and putting them in the oven.
Once everything was cooking Rose went into the media room putting the T.V on to their Sunday ritual of movies. Deaton soon followed settling himself into his lounge chair.
"How was the party last night?" Deaton asked as the first movies title came up.
"It was okay, Derek Hale ended up crashing it though" Rose kept her eyes trained on the TV, she wasn't sure of how much Deaton actually know about the rumours about her, but she would rather keep him out of it.
"I did hear rumours that he was back in town. Should make things interesting" Deaton said, he never forced her to talk about anything. He knew that when she was ready she would willingly open up to him, as she had in the past.
The days passed slowly for Rose, there were rumours going around school about her and Derek Hale after everyone had seen him carrying her out of the party. By Friday she'd finally had enough, deciding it was best to play hooky for the day, after convincing Deaton she was sick, she planted herself on the lounge with junk food.
She had gone through three episodes of Jersey Shore, when she drifted off to sleep. It was a little while into the afternoon when she woke again but her groggy mind was trying to play catch up about what was happening.
She cast her sensors out coming to realise that the reason she had been awoken was someone knocking at the door. She pulled herself off the couch, she rubbed her tired eyes as she went to the door yawning as she pulled it open.
"Well isn't that attractive" Derek comment sarcastically as he took in Rose's just rolled out of bed look, which he had to admit he did enjoy looking at.
"Why are you here?" Rose snapped, pulling down her shirt which must have ridden up in her sleep. Derek pushed his way passed her into the house, she gave an annoyed groan as she closed the door. He stood looking around the entrance hall of the house.
"You weren't at school today" he told her as he finished taking in the home.
"I'm sick" Rose said as she gave a fake cough, before moving out of the entrance and back into the media room not really caring if he followed, when really, she knew he would anyway. She laid herself across the lounge.
"You really seem sick, anyone watching Jersey Shore would be" sarcasm dripped from his voice as he followed her, she merely rolled her eyes at him. He pushed her feet off the lounge sitting himself on the lounge and pulling her feet onto his lap.
She ignored his comment, "Why are you here Derek?".
His fingers where drawing patterns on legs, he was surprised at how relaxing it was to be like this with her, he nearly forgot what he was there for.
"I need your help with something" Derek say as he continued to draw patterns.
"With what?"
"I need a rope of wolfbane and I need you to make it in a spiral in the ground for me"
She looked at him puzzled, "That's oddly specific…... why?"
Derek gave a sigh as he pushed her feet off his lap and stood up. He started moving around the media room glancing at the DVD's.
"There's something I want to bury and protect it" Derek told her.
"Wolfbane rope in a spiral is used to bury a wolf in their natural form why would you ne…..." Rose' jaw dropped as she looked at Derek, "You've got the other half of Laura's body, don't you?"
Derek didn't say anything, he just kept looking around the room.
"Why do you have the rest of her body Derek? For god sake do you know how this is going to look for you?"
He stopped moving around and looked at her, his expression was unreadable but there were waves of guilt coming off him and Rose couldn't understand why.
"I'll find out who killed her, I can't do that if the police have the body. Are you going to help me or not?"
Rose gave an annoyed sigh as she got up from the lounge, she moved up to her bedroom with Derek following close behind her. She gave him an annoyed look as she walked over to her wardrobe and started getting changed.
Derek took in the room around him, she had a large double bed on the opposite wall to her bathroom and wardrobe. A desk next to her bedroom door and an old glory box at the end of her bed.
He pulled the chair out from her desk and took a seat, from where he sat he could see her getting changed, against his better judgement he couldn't take his eyes off her as he watched her change her clothes.
He raked his eyes along her body noticing how she had forgone a bra from earlier in the day as she started putting on a particularly lacy one. He watched as she pulled a top from a hanger before pulling a pair of jeans off a shelf. He glanced away as he seen her pulling her pants and panties down not daring to look up until after he heard the zipper of her pants.
Once Rose came out from her wardrobe, she moved to the glory box and started pulling out a few old books. She flicked through the books until she found what she needed. Derek peeked over her shoulder seeing that it was the same thing he had asked her to help him with.
Her fingers ran over the page as she took in everything she would need as well as any specific requirements she was going to need.
"Okay let's go" Rose said as she stood up straight pulling the book she needed with her, putting it into one of her bags.
They didn't really talk much as Derek drove her everywhere she told him. Once they had finished Derek drove them back to the Hale home. The awkwardness of everything that had happened Saturday night started coming back to Rose as they got closer.
"Are we going to talk about what happened?" Rose asked, her eyes down cast, Derek could smell the embarrassment coming from her.
"It doesn't matter, it was the moon affecting you, just like it affects me" Derek says, his knuckles had been white from the moment they had put the wolfbane in the trunk. She knew it was irritating him but it was a necessary evil. As they parked in front of the house and unloaded everything Rose made sure to grab the wolfbane. Once in the house Rose moved into the kitchen…. Or what was left of it.
Rose frowned as she looked at the once beautiful kitchen, one that she would have helped cook Sunday dinners in. Placing things on the burnt-out bench top, moving things to how she needed them.
She pulled out her phone playing some music as she set to work on the rope. It was one of the first bits of magic she had learnt, to nurture plants with her magic.
She held the main plant in her hand with the rope sitting under it. Channelling her magic into the palm of her hand she fed it into the plant encouraging the roots to attach to the rope before encouraging it to weave its branches.
Derek was leaning against the door frame watching her, he had always been fascinated when she would use magic. He could remember after having annoyed her once she had hovered the basketball over him before letting it drop heavily onto his head.
He subconsciously reached up rubbing his head as he thought about it. Half of him wondered if she had brought the ball down more forcefully then it naturally would have. He could hear her humming as started coaxing little purple flowers to sprout from the weaving vines.
While her humming was relaxing for him, he couldn't take the smell of the wolfbane any-longer, he headed for the study putting distance between the smell of wolfbane and himself. He sat himself on the worn chair, looking around the room realising he probably should have brought something to entertain himself with.
He smile to himself after a few minutes of staring at the ashen wall, when he finally heard Rose making her way towards him.
"Okay where's Laura's body?" Rose asked, she had the wolfbane still in her hand keeping it from starting to die.
"I buried her around the side of the house" Derek told her simply, he stood brushing dust off himself. Rose turned and headed out the front, Derek slowly followed not really wanted to head back out to his sisters grave.
Once he finally came outside he stood at the end of the veranda leaning against one of the post as he watched her start to draw out a spiral with her foot. Once she had finished, Rose put the main part of the wolfbane down at the end then twirled it back into the dirt mound, that Laura's body laid under.
Once Rose finished, she kneeled off to the side of the grave putting the last of the rope into the ground, her eyes started to burn with tears. It was more real now, knowing and feeling that Laura was no longer in this world with them. She clutched at the dirt that sat on top of Laura, tears started rolling down her cheeks.
"Rest Laura" She muttered softly as she stood wiping the tears away. They still didn't stop, if anything, more started coming. Derek opened his arms to her, bringing her tightly to his embrace. He could feel her tears wetting his shirt, he didn't offer any words of comfort because he had no comfort for himself.
"We'll make them pay for this Rose, I promise" Derek mumbled into the top of her head leaning his head on hers.
They stood for a few minutes, Rose finally stopped crying and moved out of Derek's arms. She gave him a small smile as she wiped her face mumbling something even Derek's hearing couldn't hear but he guessed it was a spell as her puffy red eyes changed back to normal. Now she didn't look as though she had been crying at all.
They moved back into the house, Rose headed straight into the kitchen using a small bit of magic to destroy the left over wolfbane and cleaning up dirt from the counter.
"It doesn't really matter" Derek told her as he leaned against the same door frame he had occupied earlier.
"Talia always hated the kitchen being dirty. I can't leave it like that even if it looks like this" Rose said as she gestures around.
Derek was going to say something about how the rest of the house looked like crap, then so should the kitchen but seeing her moving around cleaning made an unnerving feeling run through him.
He could see her in a few years standing in his kitchen in his apartment in New York cooking pancakes wearing one of his shirts and humming to her iPod as it played from a dock sitting on the bench.
His wolf started to become unsettled at the imagine, he moved unconsciously from the door frame and closer to her. His instincts were to be close to her, he moved up closer to her, now leaning against the bench as Rose kept cleaning.
Rose felt his change before she seen him move, as she watched him out of the corner of her eye. The aura around him went from his normal dark one to a more predator like one. When he was leaning beside her, she tried hard to concentrate on cleaning until she felt his hand against her cheek.
He tucked a stray hair behind her ear. She leaned into his hand, she could almost hear his smirk as he gave a little chuckle.
"You're so innocent you realise that?" Derek spoke softly into her ear as he breathed her in. "You're so tempting to me, like a temptress. You want me to break every bit of control I have"
"I'm just being me" Rose whispered back, turning to face him.
He hummed at her as he cupped her face in his hands, tilting her head up to him. "I prefer you like this, not smelling of alcohol, it masks your natural scent too much" Derek tilted her head off to the side bringing his face down to the crook of her neck taking in a deep breath.
"What are you doing Derek?" Rose questioned as she tried to move her head out of his grasp, his eyes flickered blue. He moved them too quickly for Rose to follow, she was no longer standing in front of the counter but instead was sitting on the edge of it with Derek standing between her legs.
His face was still buried into the side of her neck but his hands, had moved from around her neck and was now pressed against her lower back pulling her forward to where both their pelvises met.
"I like when you smell like this" he said as Rose felt his teeth graze her skin, "oh so innocent but oh so ready for me" his teeth clamped down a bit harder on her skin, she felt his canine's elongate piercing into the skin.
"What the hell are you doing Derek?!" Rose exclaimed, her eyes widening in surprise. This seemed to snap Derek back into control. He moved back quickly his eye slightly unfocused as he looked at her, his canines still bared with her blood.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me" Derek brought his hand up to his mouth, wiping away the blood that had dropped onto his lips.
Rose stared at him for a second before bringing her hand up to heal the mark but she didn't feel her magic flow into the wound, like it normally would, while she got the bleeding to stop, the wound was still there.
"Honestly Derek what the hell was that?" She grumbled as she hopped off the bench moving to her bag and grabbing her phone. Opening up the camera on it, she turning it to herself looking at the mark. She looked at the teeth marks that clearly stood out on her pale collar bone.
"Why didn't it heal?" Derek questioned, his voice somewhat alarmed as he looked at the mark.
"How the hell am I supposed to know, you're the one that bit me" Rose growled at him as she traced the mark, getting a funny sensation off it. Derek gazed at her for a moment longer before grabbing up the rest of the things she had laying around.
"I'm taking you home now" Derek nervously told her as he moved towards the front door.
"Oh for fuck sake Derek, what the hell was that?" Rose snarled as she followed after him.
Derek didn't answer her, he put her things in the back seat of his car. As he opened the driver side door waiting for her to come down to the car, Rose defiantly crossed her arms over her chest as she stood fast on the front steps.
"Explain it to me Derek" Rose demanded her eyes flickering bright green. "Explain it to me now or I'll find out myself and you know I can"
Derek banged his fist on the top of his car out of frustration.
"Just get in the goddamn car Rose"
Rose determinedly stood her ground, Derek annoyingly groaned, slamming the car door and storming back over towards her. He moved up behind her and put his hands on her back pushing her forward. Rose's heels dug sharply into the ground, which was still futile against Derek's advanced strength.
She finally huffed, giving in she moved her feet of her own accord, towards the passenger side. Once she was in the passenger seat, he took a breath, shaking his head to clear it. He honestly didn't have any idea what he had just done. It was never something his mother or any other family member explained to him. The overwhelming urge to bit her pale skin, to leave behind some kind of mark of him on her.
He looked down at her through the window, seeing several frown lines on her face, a clear sign of annoyance and that bite mark making a rush of pride come swarming in him. He bit down a smirk as it tried to make an appearance, moving to the driver side he quickly got it.
Once they were on the road, Derek turned on the radio, which was something he didn't often do but he didn't like the silence that lingered. He didn't want her to be angry with him but he didn't want to tell her until he knew what had just happened.
They were nearly into town when Rose received a call from her mechanic saying that her car was finally ready. Rose was about to ask Derek if he minded driving her to get her car but he had already started heading in that direction.
He parked in front of the garage, Rose leaned over grabbing her things from the back seat and went to get out, only to have Derek grab her arm.
He opened his mouth a couple of times, seeming to want to say something but wasn't able to get it out.
"I'll see you around" Derek muttered, he let go of her arm. She rolled her eyes at him and got out of the car, she squealed excitedly on seeing the deep blue of her Mustang sitting in front of the closed garage.
She slung the bag over her should and headed into the office, a smile bright on her face. She more than happily handed over her card to receptionist to pay, before thankfully shaking the hand of the mechanic and heading to out to her car.
She smiled as it purred to life, sounding a lot better than it had. She drove around town for a little while wanting to make sure that everything was in working order before heading home. When she arrived Deaton's, car was still absent from the drive way which she took as a good sign, he wouldn't have known she had left the house all afternoon.
Moving inside, she started cooking dinner, making an easy meal and letting it sit, heading up to her bedroom Rose changed back into her PJ's. For the rest of the evening, she just laid in front of the T.V until Deaton arrived home. After having dinner, she headed to her bedroom, to go over what she could have possibly missed that day at school. Spending most of her night surfing the internet before crashing on her bed a little after midnight.
The next morning Rose awoke to the sound of her phone going off with blurry eyes, she seen it was Stiles. She felt like not picking it up, letting it ring out, she tried to fall back to sleep but it started ringing again.
"What do you want Stiles?" Rose groaned into the phone.
"I lost Scott" Stiles said, his voice was panicked. Rose frowned sitting up.
"How did you manage to lose him?"
"We were at the Hale house last night and we found the other half of the body that the police have been looking for, but there was a spiral of wolfbane making it change into an actual wolf and I kept it. So, as we were driving back from the Hale house this morning it was still in my back pack and it set Scott off, he took off out of the jeep" Stiles rushed out.
"Stiles, what do you mean you were at the Hale house? Why where you there again?" Rose threw her legs over the side of the bed, stretching before standing.
"Well we told my dad where the other half of the body was and he's arrested Derek because he obviously killed her"
"Wait, wait you're telling me you got Derek arrest? Oh my god Stiles how stupid are you and Scott like honestly why would you do that?"
"Oh, I don't know Rose, when your werewolf friend, smells blood on the property, of the girl that the police are looking for, you kind of think it's your duty to report it" Stiles snarked into the phone, "This guy no matter what he used to be is bad news Rose, he killed someone"
"Honestly Stiles you don't know anything, you're just letting the hunters know that Derek is here, when they had no idea. Do you know how dangerous it just all become?" she had moved into her wardrobe pulling out a pair of skinny legged jeans.
"Rose, he had a freaking dead body in his front yard, he's a dangerous person" Stiles all but screeched into the phone.
"You don't know what the hell you are talking about Stiles" Rose said as she pulled on a shirt, as she went to grab her favourite jacket her eyes widened. Looking back into her room she couldn't see it anywhere, casting her memory back, the last place she had seen it was at Derek's. The realisation hit her, she'd left it at Derek's when she was there.
"Look, are you going to help me look for him or not? I mean he was like nearly full wolf, when I last seen him, his eyes were doing that freaky yellow thing" Stiles questioned after she had been silent for a few moments.
"Yeah, sure whatever, I'll meet you at the school and we'll start from there" Rose responded distractedly, her mind trying to make sure that Derek's was indeed the last place she had seen her jacket.
She hung up on Stiles before he could respond. "Shit, shit, shit" She muttered as she grabbed another jacket and quickly threw it on as she reached for her bedroom door handle she heard a car pull up in the drive way. She froze as she felt the familiar present of Sheriff Stilinski walking up to the front door.
Rose heard Deaton answer the door before he called out to her. She opened the door as quietly as possible, trying to hear what was being said before she came into view.
"What's this all about Sheriff?" Deaton asked as he moved to the stairs calling out to Rose again.
"Rose's jacket turned up at the scene where a dead body was found" Sheriff Stilinski informed him as he looked around the room. Rose swallowed hard, moving to the stairs putting on a fake smile.
"What's up Alan?" Rose asked as she walked towards them.
"Sheriff Stilinski, has a few questions for you" Deaton told, looking slightly worried.
"Oh of course Sheriff, what can I help you with?" Rose smiled brightly, he eyes her slightly.
"Actually Alan, I'm going to have to take Rose to the station for proper questioning, we have had several people tell us that they saw her and the person we arrested this morning, together yesterday" Sheriff Stilinski explained. Deaton plastered on his fake, 'I know nothing' smile.
"Of course, Rose will be happy to help. Shall we follow you down?" Alan asked as he grabbed his jacket.
Sheriff Stilinski looked conflicted for a few moments. "Alan, I need to take Rose in officially, I'm sorry. I thought it would be better if I came down, instead of sending someone else" Stilinski rubbed the back of his head.
"Oh of course, you have to do your job of course. I'll follow behind" Alan said, raising an eyebrow at Rose.
"Am I allowed to put on shoes first?" Rose asked as she looked at the two men.
"Go for it kiddo, I'm sorry, I know this is all a misunderstanding, but I have to follow the law" Sheriff Stilinski told her, as he put a hand on her back. She put on a pair of boots that sat at the front door, opening the front door and she headed out onto the porch.
Sheriff Stilinski gestured to the awaiting police car. A few of the neighbours watched on trying to get the latest gossip. Once she was in the back of the cruiser and Sheriff Stilinski was in the driver's seat they were off to the station.
Rose had a bad sense of déjà vu as Sheriff Stilinski kept looking back at her in the mirror. She tapped her hands nervously on the cruisers seat.
"Hope this won't take too long Sheriff, I promised Stiles I'd help him with something" Rose smiled as Sheriff Stilinski tensed slightly.
"That son of mine" Stilinski muttered causing Rose to smirk, she knew how much trouble Stiles often caused the Sheriff but she knew he loved his son deeply.
"Yeah, he rang me not long before you came to the door. Found the body on the Hale property a bit circumstantial isn't though, to arrest Derek for just living there" Rose commented seemingly absentmindedly.
Sheriff Stilinski merely raised an eyebrow at her, he turned into the police station. Rose waited patiently for him to open the door for her, before he escorted her into the station. The station was busier then she had seen it for a while, she guessed having the rest of the body, had a lot of people on edge.
He got her to sit on the bench in front of his office while they waited for Deaton to arrive, she received a couple of looks from people who were coming in and out of the station. Deaton arrived shortly after and they were escorted into one of the interrogation rooms.
They sat for a few moments, waiting for Sheriff Stilinski. Rose tapped her fingers on the table as she cast her senses out. She could feel waves of annoyance from Derek in one of the waiting cells, slight worry coming off Alan, which surprised her slightly. She moved in her seat to look at him giving him a wink trying to ease his worry.
"Sorry about the wait" Stilinski told them as he walked in with one of the deputies. They took the empty seats opposite them, pulling a few files and putting them on the table.
"Now Rose, this morning we were called to the Hale property as someone had found the other half of body we have been looking for" Stilinski pulled out a photo and placed it in front of her. "This is the man we have arrested; do you know this man?"
She looked down at Derek's DMV photo, she pushed it back towards them.
"It's Derek Hale" she told them as she held their gaze.
"Can you please explain your relationship to Mr Hale" Stilinski requested.
"I grew up with Derek, he, along with his Sister and Uncle where the only surviving members from the Hale Fire. The same fire that killed my mother" Rose explained.
"When we arrested Mr Hale this morning, we found your jacket inside the house. Can you explain why it was there?" The deputy asked, pulling a plastic bag up onto the table.
"I was with Derek yesterday and must have left my jacket, when he drove me to pick up my car" Rose lied without a second thought.
"Okay, Rose we are going to show you a photo, we need you to tell us if you know the person" Stilinski placed a photo in front of her again, this time it was the cold lifeless body of Laura Hale. Her eyes were closed and she looked peaceful but Rose knew she died anything but.
She knew they were looking for a response, she forced tears into her eyes and brought a hand up her mouth.
"Oh god" Rose tried to sound upset, "Oh god, its Laura Hale"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I had lunch with her about two weeks ago, Derek said she was why he came back to Beacon Hills, that she had stopped answering his phone calls" Rose pushed the photo back towards the officers
"Well you've given us more than the accused has" the deputy told her.
"Yeh well I guess with the way the fire was handled, he lost his trust in the police"
The deputy gave her an odd look, Rose couldn't help but find his face familiar brushing it off as him merely being at the station when she came in with Stiles one time or another
"Rose we know that you have a long history with the Hale's, I would like to ask you, do you think Derek did this?" Sheriff Stilinski asked as he leaned forward placing his arms on the table.
"No, Derek didn't do this" Rose knew that Derek was more than capable of killing, but she also knew he wasn't a murderer and from what she had seen of the body, it had to have been the alpha not that it was any good to tell the Sheriff this.
"Rose, I feel the need to stress to you that you need to be careful with how close you get to Mr Hale, if his sister has been murdered then, something dangerous is happening around him. The last thing any of us wish to see is you getting hurt" Sheriff Stilinski was soft and very fatherly like as he spoke but the only thing that was going through Rose's head was how much danger he didn't know that she was already in.
"Sheriff, you don't have to worry about me. I'm pretty good at taking care of myself and I also have Allan he can kick arse pretty well" Rose tried to give a reassuring smile.
"Well that's all the questions we have for you at the time being, but as this investigation continues we may have more questions" Sheriff turned it professional again. Allan gave a fake smile.
"Of course, Rose will be happy to help in any way that she can" Allan told him as he stood and offered Sheriff Stilinski his hand. Rose stood as well wanting nothing more than to head back to the holding cells of the police station to talk to Derek.
Sheriff Stilinski started explaining to Allan that there was a little bit of paperwork that needed to be signed before they were actually allowed to leave. Allan was more than happy to oblige, telling Rose she could head out to the car and wait for him there.
Rose took this as her opportunity, once she was outside the police station she cast a quick, see me not, spell on herself and waited for the next officer to walk through the door. She didn't have to wait long as a junior deputy walked up and in through the door, she followed closely behind knowing that even though the only people who would be able to see her right now would be Derek and Deaton.
She gave Deaton a quick look as she ducked passed indicating that she was heading to Derek, she moved slowly around the police station, being careful of where everyone was moving. One person knocking into her could cause the spell to wear off and expose herself to the entire station.
She darted quickly up the small corridor that lead towards the holding cells, knowing that it was more possible for her to bump into someone there. Once she was in the cell room she quickly tricked the cameras into ignoring her and the conversation that would be going on.
"Knew it was only a matter of time before you got yourself arrested, I mean you just have one of those faces" Rose told him as she smirked.
"You seem pretty confident that I didn't kill Laura" Derek muttered as he stood up from the cot in the corner of the cell and moved to the bar's.
"Losing a pack member is like losing a limb isn't it, plus I know you wouldn't do that. You act all uncaring and broody but you're actually a caring person. You wouldn't have come here looking for her if you weren't" Rose told him as she moves towards the bar's.
"How's your neck?" He asked softly, his eyes looking worriedly toward the spot where he had bitten her, almost subconsciously he reached through the bar towards the Mark.
"I completely forgot about it, are you really not going to tell me what it means at all?" Rose asked softly. Her hand skirting over the spot.
"Not right now, your guardian has finished signing the papers, you should go" Derek pulled away from the bar's taking his seat back on the cot.
"You're going to have to tell me eventually" Rose pouted as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Eventually but not today" Rose rolled her eyes at him, Derek knew he needed to tell her before she found it out for herself.
Rose quietly walked back outside, meeting Deaton back at the car, she was grateful that he had brought her car instead of his, making it easier to just drop him off at home and head straight to Stiles. She offered a wave to Deaton as she sped off, towards the school. Parking beside Stiles jeep which he was still sitting in.
"You're an idiot, I hope you know that" Rose hissed at him as she jumped into the jeep.
"Why am I the idiot?" Stiles tried to sound insulted but it was common for Rose to call him names.
"I just spent nearly an hour down at the police station, because you just had to report the body that you found. For one thing, Derek didn't kill the girl and two, it was Derek's sister, you idiot" Rose slapped him on the shoulder, hard.
"And three, getting me called into the police station, when they have a murder suspect in custody is just going to tell the Argents that I'm still in town. God Stiles, I wish you and Scott would think these things through"
Rose hit him again in the arm for good measure, plus it made her feel better, she wanted to do it a few more times, but thought better of it. Maybe Derek would let her punch him instead she wouldn't leave bruises on him like she would on Stiles.
"Look. Okay I'm sorry, Scott smelt the blood on the property. When he lost control of himself the other day at practice and Derek told him that he couldn't play lacrosse because he couldn't control himself, but Scott made first like Rose you know how much this means to him. Plus, Alison said she was coming so he wants to be able to impress her"
"I agree with Derek, it's too dangerous for all of us to have him playing tonight, he loses control on that field, we will all end up dead"
"He won't listen though, even if you try and tell him that maybe it wouldn't be I good idea"
Rose leaned back in her seat, letting out a sigh. "He's going to get us all killed, all because he wants to impress the daughter of the people who will kill him when they find out what he is"
"The irony is not lost on me Rose, trust me" Stiles said seriously, he started the jeep and pulled out of the carpark. They started weaving their way through the streets of Beacon Hills, keeping an eye out for anyone who remotely looked like Scott.
They dropped by his house startling Melissa as she was heading out the door.
"Hey, Melissa have you seen Scott?" Stiles questioned, slightly off balance as he had nearly run into her.
"The last I heard he was with you Stiles, so I don't know how you've managed to lose him" while Melissa came off snarky towards Stiles, Rose knew that the nurse always had a soft spot for the teen.
"Oh, he didn't lose him, Scott got upset about something and disappeared on us" Rose lied as she offered a smile.
"What upset him?"
"One of the dogs at work passed away and Scott was really fond of it" Rose again lied pretending to look upset.
"Oh well, I haven't seen him this morning but he has probably gone to the school to get ready for the game, which shouldn't you be going to Stiles?".
Stiles pulled out his phone and checked the time. Muttering a curse, he said a quick goodbye and headed towards the jeep. Rose smiled tiredly at Melissa before heading after him again.
Once they were back at the school, Rose headed for the field, while Stiles went into the school's change rooms, she was standing towards the back of the bleachers when she got a text from Stiles informing her that he had found Scott and he was okay.
Rose sat bored for the next twenty so minutes as the bleachers filled up with supporters from both teams. The space off to her left had stayed empty up until Alison Argent came and sat down.
"Hey Rose, here to support Scott and Stiles?" Alison questioned, Rose had to bite back a sarcastic retort, instead just politely smiling with a nod.
"Oh, dad this is Rose, we have a few classes together"
The man standing next to Alison extended his hand to Rose.
"Chris Argent" Rose hesitated for a few seconds before giving her hand to him.
"Rose Veller" she flinched as she felt his grip tighten on her hand. Rose clenched her teeth together in order to stop the wanting need to zap him with a bit of magic.
"Veller, quiet an interesting name isn't it, very old name as well" Chris said, he had yet to release her hand.
"It used to be one of the oldest but there aren't many of us left. People seem find it too much fun to go around killing us" Rose nearly snarled as she kept a fake pleasant smile on her face, Alison looked apprehensive at Rose's comment her eyes shifting between Rose and her father.
Chris gave a fake chuckle as he finally released Rose's hand, he put an arm around Alison's shoulders protectively as he looked down at her.
"I guess it would go with any family if you looked back through it far enough" His laugh was fake but it seemed to relax Alison, this caused Rose to quirk an eye brow at him realising that Alison had no idea about the real family business.
Lydia interrupted them before Rose could make a comment about the family business Alison's father was involved in. Lydia pulled Alison down a couple of rows in front of Rose, eyeing the blue haired girl slightly before sitting down. Chris' eyes lingered on Rose for a few moments longer before he took his seat down beside his daughter.
The game went faster than Rose really wanted, not that she was really paying attention she kept her eyes trained on Chris Argent who had made it a habit of looking back at her every couple of minutes.
When she heard the final whistle blow she tried to make it quickly down the bleachers to her car, as she was walking through the school out of sight of the others leaving the game a hand gripped her upper arm and pushed her back into the brick wall of one of the school buildings.
"Hey, what's your probl..." Her words were stopped by a hand pressing against her mouth. She starting willing magic into her hands but the smell coming from the hand was dissipating her magic before it could form strong enough.
"Listen here Veller" Chris' voice came, though it wasn't threatening it was more like a fatherly warning. "I'll keep your secret, as long as you don't tell Alison about any of this. She isn't ready to be brought into this world"
She stared up at him, her head was starting to spin from the smell. She nodded numbly her arms and legs starting to go weak. Chris released her letting her slide down the wall.
"I've never actually tried Eye of Newt before who knew it would be so effective" Chris commented as he moved back from her. "But then again your kind have never been affected by the normal things that most monsters are"
Chris dropped something on the ground beside her before walking off, Rose still didn't have any strength to get up and go after him. She let her head relax back against the wall her limbs where starting to tingle as Eye of Newt started to wear off.
When it had finally worn off, Rose pulled herself from the ground and headed for her car, which was one of the last ones left besides Stiles Jeep and Jacksons car. Once home she went straight up to her bedroom ignoring the worried looks from Deaton as she passed him.
She stared at her phone for a while deciding on whether she should tell Derek about the incident with or not. Deciding against it she switched her phone off and let sleep consume her, the Argents were a problem for another day.
