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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7f3a6c30debbbdf5c131dae12a105280""Um," Liam stepped back before he could, "I think I did..." Theo stepped closer./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="82d6e74faf0900f9cf32b0ac7a25f603""I, uh, I think..." he felt too embarrassed to say it./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="55c5371066463c1ddd79e871909f8839"Derek knew this, yet it still ached. "Well I'm not." His own tone surprised him. It wasn't as stern as he thought it'd be./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7fa1586bc88f432442452e378353afe3"Stiles was blushing, his eyes wide. "What are you saying?" Stiles was looking at him strange now./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="fa164ce556d9731ee4c7aecbd7037cc8"Stiles slid down to where his mouth met Derek's groin./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="8a4c0f18b4fddab2b6e449219281d564"When Stiles came back up, Derek kissed him roughly and hugged him close, letting his fingers stroke his back tenderly./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6f534ee36912cf6b367214071478a22a"Liam looked over and saw Hayden staring at him. He smirked and launched a ball into the goal. Almost simultaneously she kicked a ball into the soccer goal. So that was how she wanted to play./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="bf7147e502c4ebc4253ab07f9652fd95"He launched another one even faster. She countered with an even more powerful kick. He was getting heated. He launched another one. She kicked even better./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="d94ffc282bb78088956da0d8175f4a33"Liam's heart ached to see his best friend like this. "No," he rubbed his eyes, "no, Mason. It's just-"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="7e772aae1efda2d5def2a9f272b2a28f""Just what?" Mason cut him off, "What is so importan that you can't tell me?" He was hurt./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="3520d37daafbbddfb2a2b5a329eef141"Mason was watching him. "Fine," he gave up, "don't tell me. As a matter of fact, don't tell me anything." Mason disappeared out the door of the locker room./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="734944205362f9ce1791eecc6ab8782c"Derek was hugging him close to his chest in a spooning position. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="aa3cd9ccb406d3eb09d59476785069dd"Stiles tried to slide out of his grip but he hugged him tighter. This isn't good. It's one thing if his dad walks in and sees Derek on the floor. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"That/em can be explained. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"This/em could not. He wiggled but Derek buried his face in the nape of his neck, tickling his skin with his beard. Stiles relaxed a little, he felt calm suddenly. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="aeb6238b23d631169a833ba53a42b63e"He hugged Derek's arms and let his face bury into them. Smelling his skin. It smelled smoky and elegant. /p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="10b65c054f8179146677e4cab844dcab"His phone started to ring, causing Derek to let go and roll over, freeing Stiles. Stile jumped up and grabbed his phone. em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Deaton./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c95b20da7d366310e9092a1f80ddf878""Hello?" Stiles mumbled trying not to wake Derek./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ca27b68ee3801ff1b65fcf1df6a39cf7""Stiles," Deaton began, "I'm calling in regards about Malia."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="1484bbbbd71d85b281dfe76a1097c95c""Yeah, yeah. Is she okay?" Stiles looked out the window as he got dressed./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="67f92baf65a1477462b627a8ed100325""She finally healed last night but now she seems to be in a deep coma." He could hear Deaton rustling through papers. "Something else I found interesting is the wounds caused by Derek's fangs."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f151fe1ba09446e6faacb3586ea62c55"Stiles looked over at Derek. "Yeah?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="4a9b18a4b7e3b23e9c2303700e5a2b56""It seems his saliva has traces of mercury in it. Which may explain why Malia was having trouble healing. Not only that, the bite marks are unnaturally deep. Do you remember Scott's bite?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="90c53cafc0f26c0c61e67f516c2658db""Yeah it was pretty deep. Like almost an inch."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="78066aaf0d2b68553879e24dc84ee72f""Well, Malia's wound was almost 3 inches deep."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="dcd387c62222308fa4deee7d9fba63a9"Stiles froze. "Is she okay?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="23f578f3eaedb1e1ed081acf319aa039""She's fine. But that's an abnormal length for any werewolf, not a single Alpha or True Alpha in history has been recorded with that fang length."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="579dd73e38c9ef1874b9a077a1938642""What does that mean?" Stiles felt an emptyness opening in his stomach./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="05f7242210b6ca6cef5b08e21a0cac10""It means," Deaton paused, "that Derek is either going to be in trouble," another pause, "or he already is."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="182537b8120c092f059168d45f213876"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"End of Chapter 3/span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="82d6e74faf0900f9cf32b0ac7a25f603""I, uh, I think..." he felt too embarrassed to say it./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="6f534ee36912cf6b367214071478a22a"Liam looked over and saw Hayden staring at him. He smirked and launched a ball into the goal. Almost simultaneously she kicked a ball into the soccer goal. So that was how she wanted to play./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="734944205362f9ce1791eecc6ab8782c"Derek was hugging him close to his chest in a spooning position. /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c95b20da7d366310e9092a1f80ddf878""Hello?" Stiles mumbled trying not to wake Derek./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ca27b68ee3801ff1b65fcf1df6a39cf7""Stiles," Deaton began, "I'm calling in regards about Malia."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="67f92baf65a1477462b627a8ed100325""She finally healed last night but now she seems to be in a deep coma." He could hear Deaton rustling through papers. "Something else I found interesting is the wounds caused by Derek's fangs."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f151fe1ba09446e6faacb3586ea62c55"Stiles looked over at Derek. "Yeah?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="4a9b18a4b7e3b23e9c2303700e5a2b56""It seems his saliva has traces of mercury in it. Which may explain why Malia was having trouble healing. Not only that, the bite marks are unnaturally deep. Do you remember Scott's bite?"/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="90c53cafc0f26c0c61e67f516c2658db""Yeah it was pretty deep. Like almost an inch."/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="dcd387c62222308fa4deee7d9fba63a9"Stiles froze. "Is she okay?"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="579dd73e38c9ef1874b9a077a1938642""What does that mean?" Stiles felt an emptyness opening in his stomach./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="05f7242210b6ca6cef5b08e21a0cac10""It means," Deaton paused, "that Derek is either going to be in trouble," another pause, "or he already is."/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="182537b8120c092f059168d45f213876"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"End of Chapter 3/span/p
