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I'm not sure if I should bring Aunt Lauren into the story or if I should say she died in some accident. I'll let you guys decide. Some of Angel's POV is from Kelley's website. I have no intention of stealing her work, it was the only way to make the next chapter work.
I do not own Darkest Powers, all that is belongs to the wonderful Kelly Armstrong.
Chloe's POV
I can't believe Simon saw us. I was also mad at him for interrupting. I like Derek, not him. Just as we were about to kiss too. I swear I am going to knee him in the balls the moment he starts to flirt with me. (Thanks for the idea suzi1811.)
I head downstairs for breakfast. I see Simon and Mr. Bae sitting at the table. "Morning Mr. Bae. Morning Simon." I say.
I don't expect Simon to answer me but he surprises me by saying, "Good Morning, Chloe." he says in a super sweet voice. I narrow my eyes at him. He's planning something.
I see Derek come in the kitchen, I heart gives a flutter. He tenses up when he sees Simon.
Simon says to him, "Morning bro."
"Morning." Derek says gruffly. He gives me a 'what the hell' look. I shrug my shoulders at him. I had no idea what Simon was planning, why he had a sudden change of heart.
I looked at Mr. Bae, he was glaring at Simon. Simon was just sitting down eating cereal.. I looked back at Derek, he shrugged his shoulders. I walked to the fridge while saying, "Mr. Bae, do you want some orange juice?"
"Chloe you can call me Kit and yes I would like some." Kit said.
"Simon?" I asked.
"Yes please." He replied.
"Derek?"
"Yea." Derek was making eggs, bacon, sausage, and toast. I gave him my best puppy dog eyes. He smiles at me and cracks two more eggs into the pan. Memories of last night started flashing through my mind.
I opened the fridge to hide my blush. I got out the orange juice and poured four glasses. I took two off them for Kit and Simon.
Derek had finished cooking our breakfast and was now sliding them on to our plates. I grabbed our drinks and Derek grabbed our plates. As I was about to sit down, Derek pulled out my chair.
I looked up at him, he winked. I winked back and sat down. He pushed me in and set my plate in front of me. Our chairs were so close that on more than one occasion our hands would brush together or our elbows would bump into each other.
After I finished I got up to put my plate and glass in the sink, Simon got up and followed me.
"So Chloe," he said. "You must be pretty tired."
I turned around and said, "Why?"
"Because you've been running around in my head all night."
Kit started choking on his food, Derek was pounding him on his back while glaring at Simon. If looks could kill.
Staying true to my word, I walk towards him. Simon smirks, expecting something different, and meets me halfway. I brought my knee up and it made impact with his groin. Simon groaned, he grabs his twig and berries and falls to his knees to the floor. (Again thanks for the idea suzi1811.)
I look at Kit and Derek, their expressions blank but I see the approval in their eyes. Especially Derek.
Tori chooses that moment to walk in the kitchen. She went into her purse and pulled out her camera. I heard the click of the camera as she took a picture. She lowered the camera while saying, "I am going to end up with an album dedicated to Simon on Facebook if he keeps this up."
I walked out of the kitchen, someone was following me. I didn't turn around to see who it was, I knew it was Derek. I continued to walk out of the house, into the woods and into the clearing where Derek fought with Ramon.
I turned around to face Derek but he was nowhere to be found. Then I was lifted into the air and spun around. I heard Derek laughing, I joined in with his laughter.
Derek put me down on the ground and pulled me to his chest. I reached up to his nose now, so I laid my head on his shoulder.
"Thank you," he said and leaned down to kiss my head just as I turned my head up.
Our lips connected.
Derek's POV
I froze. I wasn't ready for this, but apparently she was because she started kissing me. I thawed out and started kissing her back.
The wind picked up and I smelt Simon close by. I opened my eyes and saw Simon spying on us through the bushes. I smiled into the kiss, and grabbed Chloe's hips and pulled her closer. I heard him break a stick.
I chuckled. Chloe pulled pack. "What?" she said with a smirk.
I nodded in the direction of Simon. Chloe looked, Simon saw us watching him and he bolted.
Chloe laughed. I leaned in to kiss her again but she quickly turned her head so I kissed her cheek.
"Tease." I said to her. She laughed again, grabbed my hand and we started walking back to the house. It took twice as long as it should have because we made more than a few stops on the way.
She opened her mouth to say something then closed it. This happened five times before I said, "Just spit it out."
"A-are w-w-we b-boyfriend and g-g-girlfriend now?" she said
"If you want us to be."
She leaned in to kiss me. It turned out soft but soon it became hard and desperate. We broke away to breathe. Stupid air.
"I take that as a yes." I said.
Her entire smile lit up her face. We walked back into the house. We went into the living room, in the middle of the floor were for backpacks filled with school supplies. Oh please no.
Dad and Andrew were smiling nervously at us. Dad stepped up and said, "We are going to be staying here for a little while, so we didn't want you guys to lose your education. Derek your schedule has been modified to fit your level."
"How," I said calmly, "in the hell is Chloe going to school? She still has half a million dollars on her head."
Dad silently held up a box of red hair dye.
"I picked out a color that will actually match Chloe's eyes and skin tone." Tori said while looking at me.
I ignored her and continued to stare at the box of red hair dye. I was trying to picture Chloe with that color hair. Whatever Rafe saw, he was getting excited.
"How is Derek supposed to go to school? The people still think he's my supposed kidnapper." Chloe said.
"There's an easy solution to that," Dad said amused. "Derek gets a haircut."
Everybody looked at me. "Fine." I grumbled. "When?"
"Tonight. You start school tomorrow. Chloe you also have to dye your hair tonight."
"Okay," she said. "Let's start with your haircut right now. Your wounds should be healed up now too."
I let her drag me to the bathroom. I took off my shirt and discarded it somewhere in the bathroom.
"Keep your clothes on, wolf boy." I heard Tori yell.
"I am going to kill her one of these days." I said to Chloe.
"Be nice." she said to me. She started unwrapping the bandage from around my chest. She took the clothe and threw it in the garbage. I looked down, there were three faint pick scars left. They will be gone by this afternoon. Chloe took the strip off of my temple. I looked in the mirror, there was nothing there.
"Okay, you're all healed up." Chloe said. "Why don't you sit on the bathtub and I'll start giving you your haircut."
"Whatever you say." While she was giving me my haircut, my mind started wondering to when I was talking with the Alphas. I never knew my parents, but the way Angel was talking, she made it sound like my parents might possibly be alive. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the life I have now. My dad had come back into my life. Simon and I weren't on speaking terms at the moment, but oh well. I was pretty sure I would have never met Chloe if I hadn't been adopted. Hell, I'm even happy that Tori is in my life. How screwed up is that? Still, that doesn't mean I never wondered about my real parents. Angel had said she would be back. I was debating on whether to follow her trail and talk to her again, or if I should stay here and wait for her to come again.
My thoughts had now started to wonder to Chloe, who was almost finished cutting my hair. She was actually doing a pretty good job. She styled my so it stood up about an inch. The back of my head wasn't completely shaved, just enough so my head was covered. She had evened out my sideburns, so now they were only half an inch.
"Do you like it?" she asked some what nervously.
I smiled at her to reassure her. "I love it." I said, and I meant it. I don't have to brush it out of my face anymore.
She draped her arms around my neck and leaned against my back and put her chin on top of my head. "What are you thinking about?"
It was no use lying to her so I said, "I was thinking about what the Alphas said."
"You never really told me what they said."
"Nothing much, they asked me how I killed Liam and they told me my parents might possibly be alive."
She met my eyes in the mirror. "They told you your parents might be alive?"
"Indirectly. I was thinking of tracking them tomorrow."
"You can't. We start school tomorrow, remember."
I hung my head. "Shit that's right. If I go on Friday, their scent might be there. Depends if it rains during the week."
"It's spring."
I sigh. "I know."
"Chloe? Derek? Can you come here for a second?" I heard Dad yell.
I stand up, Chloe doesn't let go, instead she wraps her legs around my hips.
I walk down the stairs and into the living room. Dad turns around and smiles at our current position and says, "Okay, first of all. Are you two together?"
"Yes." We both chorus.
"Good. Now the reason I called you down here is because you will need an excuse as to why you are all living together. Derek, you and Simon already have an excuse. Tori will be Simon's twin sister, since they look like each other. And Chloe you are Derek's girlfriend living with him. Let's just hope they accept it.
"So Derek and I can make our relationship public?" Chloe asked excited.
Dad chuckled. "Yes you can."
Chloe squealed and hugged me tighter. Rafe was getting excited, and again he started sending me mental images not fit for public consumption.
"You two can go now." said Dad.
We headed upstairs.
Angel's POV
I walked into the house and sat next to Thomas. Our boss was late, as usual.
I sigh. "Where the hell is he?"
"you know he's always late. He's going to yell at us."
As if on cue here comes our boss, Parker, and he does not look happy.
"It was a simple order," Parker yelled. "A simple order, I told you two mutts to get information on Derek Souza, and I told you not to make contact. Yet you do the opposite."
"Actually, we did get information on him. You yelled we did the opposite of what you said, but we inly made contact." i said.
Thomas elbowed me. "Don't be a smartass." he whispered.
"Well," Parker said, his voice going beck to normal, "at least you did something right."
"Surprisingly." came a new voice. I looked over at the door, there stood Brandon, Dalton, and Tyler.
"Howdy, boys." I said to them. "What are you doing here?"
"To prove that this guy you are tracking is not a Cain. First of all, Parker just said his last name is Souza not Cain." said Brandon.
"Well maybe this will change your mind." I slapped down a picture of the pup. They came forward to look at the picture. Dalton glared at me. "Aunt Jackie has lighter hair."
"Yeah," said Parker, his eyes softening. "but he has the same green eyes as her. He also has his father's hair color and same scowl."
"He's not easy on the eyes." said Tyler. He was right, the picture I have was taken when he lived at the Lyle house. His hair was long and hung in his eyes, which was okay giving the state his face was in.
"He looks different now," Thomas said. "His face is cleared up and he's had his hair cut. This photo was taken today." In the picture, the pup was sitting on a bathtub with his girlfriend.
"Are you sure he's still gonna be there if we try to get him back?" Parker said.
"Trust us," I said. I put down a better picture of the girl. "Wherever this girl goes, he follows."
"Let me guess," said Brandon. "He has a crush on her."
"No actually she is his girlfriend as of today. They are actually mates, but she doesn't know that. He does."
They looked surprised at that. A perky blonde with red highlights mated with an anti-social nerdy werewolf.
Tyler still looked skeptical. "Are you absolutely positive that he is a Cain? I can't picture Aunt Jackie being part of some experiment."
"I didn't." Speak of the devil. "I fell in love with Gage and well you know what happened after that." Jackie and Gage stepped into the room.
"I didn't know they were experimenting on Supernaturals until it was too late." said Gage
Jackie picked up the photo of Derek. She smiled softly and motioned Gage forward. "Our son." was all she said.
"Can he change," said Gage. "Nothing worse than a werewolf who can't change. It happened to a cousin of mine. It teared him apart. All that probing they did could have done something."
"He's already changing." said Thomas.
"At sixteen?" said Dalton. Jackie, Gage, and Parker looked impressed. Changing at the age of sixteen wasn't unheard of, but it was rare.
"Doesn't matter," said Tyler. "He's still just a pup."
I smiled at him, he was really going to hate this. "Have you ever heard of a guy named Liam? Ran with a guy named Ramon?"
There was silence in the room. "No? Well they were hired to find him and I guess their strategy didn't work to well. They decided to tease his mate. That didn't fly with him and it provoked him enough to start fighting. His first challenge and he took down an experienced werewolf and made another one think he didn't want the job anymore. We tracked down Ramon and he helped us track down the pup. Ramon actually did damage to him thanks to Thomas and I's strategy."
Now Jackie, Gage, and Parker were practically beaming.
"That's not all," said Thomas. "The tinkering around in him made him into some sort of super genius."
"That's nothing," said Tyler. "That's just book smart."
Only it did, the Cains weren't known for their their brains or their looks. They were known for their numbers and muscle. This kid had it all. Strength, brains, and looks. He was a deluxe package.
"What," Jackie growled, "kind of damage did this Ramon fellow do to my son?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "Just a couple of bruises and cuts. Nothing he couldn't handle."
Gage picked up the photo of the girl. "What is her name?"
"Chloe Saunders. She's an extremely powerful necromancer. They experimented on her too." Thomas said.
"And this is Derek's mate?" said Jackie.
I nodded. Jackie turned to Parker. "Then she will be a part of this pack. Isn't that right, Dad?"
Everybody looked at Parker. He looked nervous. "But she isn't a werewolf."
Jackie grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "I think you might wanna rephrase that."
Parker gulped. "What am I saying? Of course she will. Anything for my grandson."
"That's more like it." Jackie said smoothing out his collar.
"Where is he staying right now?" asked Gage.
"He is currently staying at a house with his foster father and brother. His mate, some other supernatural, and a friend of his foster dad's in Oswego, Illinois."
"So in other words he's halfway across the continent." said Parker.
"That isn't going to be a problem now is it?" said Gage.
"No not at all." Parker said somewhat nervously. "Thank you for the information. You may go back to your own Pack now. We will inform you if we ever need your services again."
"I doubt it." Brandon muttered under his breath.
Jackie and Gage looked happy at the thought of seeing their long lost son soon.
"Goodbye." I said.
With that Thomas and I left.
Chloe's POV
I was so happy. Derek and I could make our relationship public. I am going to have to keep an eye on him. What with his looks, no doubt he will attract half of the female student body. I was in my room trying to pick out an outfit for my first day of school tomorrow. I couldn't decide on anything, so I yelled, "Tori!"
She came in. "What?"
I waved to my closet. "I need your help."
She smiled. "I thought you would never ask."
I laughed. Since we escaped from the Lyle house, Tori and I have become really good friends. She still has her moments every now and then. She picked out a pair of faded blue short shorts with a hole on the top of the right thigh and a black tank top.
"Simple yet sexy." she said.
"Thanks." I said
I look at my watch, almost 2 o'clock. "I guess I should dye my hair now."
Tori nods. "I'm gonna go and pick out my own outfit."
We head in separate directions. I open the bathroom door and lock it. I read the directions on the box. It was pretty much the same as the hair dye Derek got me when we were on the run. I applied the hair dye and waited 25 minutes. After it was finished I rinsed it out then blew dried my hair. I avoided looking in the mirror.
After I was done, I took a deep breath and looked in the mirror. I blinked a couple of times and rubbed my eyes. I looked hot!
I smiled, wait until Derek saw me.
I walked down the hall towards Derek's room. I knocked on the door. "Yeah, come in Chloe."
I opened the door. Derek turned around and he froze with his mouth open.
"See something you like?" I said to him.
He unfroze and flashed him canine teeth. Yep, definitely going have to keep my eyes on him at all cost.
Derek took two giant steps toward me, cradled my head in his hands and kissed me.
I didn't think much after that.
Sorry to leave it as a cliff hanger. I hate cliff hangers, don't you? Anyway, please please review.
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