An: I love you guys : ) reviews for the last chapter really got me back to write this next chapter.
Chapter four: Alpha Battle
Scott started to come out of a dream and felt the warm body underneath him. He smiled and snuggled more into that body' heat. The more he awoke, the more he noticed the reality of what happened last night, and his position.
When they fell asleep last night Scott had his head on Derek's chest with his body pressed up against the other. Sometime throughout the night they moved. When this happened he had no clue, but he did know that it was comfortable.
Scott's body was now half on Derek's and their legs were tangled up with the sheets as well. One of Scott's hands was on Derek's chest and the other was around his neck. Derek's arms were wrapped around his back holding him close to his body possessively.
He was slightly embarrassed, but he didn't move. He was content with how they were. There was a sense of protectiveness when he was in Derek's arms that Scott couldn't get enough of.. "I know your awake," Scott felt the chest underneath him move as Derek spoke. "It's almost time to meet up with the pack."
Scott groaned, "I don't wanna. I just want to stay like this for a little longer." He said still sleepily. He held the other a little tighter to prevent him from moving.
Derek sighed sadly, "I would love to stay with you like this, but unfortunately we have to get up. I need to take shower."
Scott huffed, "Fine leave me to take your shower." He pouted and moved off the other. "Wake me up when you get out." He sighed as tried to snuggle up in the sheets instead of the other's body.
Derek shook his head at Scott's actions. He came up behind the other and wrapped his arms around his hips. "Don't act like that. That won't be the only time we get to sleep together." Scott smiled a bit at the information, as he felt Derek move away from his body and go to the bathroom. Scott didn't fall asleep but found himself happy just listening to the water from Derek's shower. It was soothing to him to know where the other was.
It was only a few minutes until he head the water turning off. Scott heard the door open and felt the steam from the bathroom as it started to fill the room. Scott bit his lip as a promising idea came to his mind. Should he look? He debated for a few seconds before his curiosity got the best of him.
He slowly opened one of his eyes and saw Derek right after he put his boxer briefs on. He blushed as he found out that he was super close to seeing him butt naked. As though Derek felt Scott's eyes on him, he turned around and grinned. "Like what you see?"
Scott was instantly embarrassed as he realized he was caught sneaking a peak. Scott pulled the blankets over his face and hid underneath the sheets. "I didn't see anything."
Derek chuckled before moving over and sitting on the bed next to him, "I was just joking with you." Derek reached out and touched Scott's arm from under the sheets and gave it a little rub. "It's ok to be curious."
"Don't say it like that." Scott muttered with a bright red blush across his face. He was never going to live this down.
"Come out of the sheets so we can talk about this." Scott shook his head and the blankets followed his movements. "Scott," He used a more serious voice, but Scott ignored him. "Do you want me to come in there?"
Scott froze, "You wouldn't."
Derek raised his eye brows. "Oh I would, and is that a challenge?" Derek waited a few more seconds and shrugged his shoulders, "Alright you asked for it." He said back before he lifted up the sheets and ended up being under the covers with him.
Scott laughed, he couldn't remember having this much fun with someone is such a long time. They weren't being serious about anything, and Scott knew that. It's been a long time since he was able to have this kind of carefree fun. "Oh no Derek came under the sheets. What ever will I do? The alpha has me now."
"Damn right." Derek said back with a grin on his face, as he leaned over to give Scott a kiss. Scott closed his eyes waiting for kiss, but it didn't come.
Scott opened his eyes and saw Derek watching him with a smirk on his face. "You are so mean!" He exclaimed as he went to push the older off him.
"Take a shower and I might give you a kiss." Scott stuck his tongue out, "Don't stick that unless you plan to use it."
Scott instantly put it back into his mouth and blushed. "Pervert," This time when he pushed the other Derek moved to get off him. He got out of the blankets as he sat up. "I'm up, ok."
Derek laughed and handed him a towel, "I'll put some cloths out on the bed." Scott nodded before running off to the bathroom with the towel in his hands.
Stiles awoke to the sound of his alarm clock. He groggy leaned over and pushed the snooze button before he crawled underneath the covers to sleep for the extra ten minutes in between alarms. This process went on a few more times before he finally decided to get up.
Stiles looked over at his phone and saw that Scott still didn't call. What was going on? Did something happen to his best friend?
Scott walked out of the bathroom after the dried off and saw a pair of pants, socks, underwear, and a black shirt sitting out for him on the bed. He smiled at the gesture before grabbing the cloths and running back into the bathroom to get dressed. He threw the cloths on and raced down the stairs where he knew Derek would be. Isaac stood in in the kitchen going through the fridge as he sang and danced to a random song.
Scott held back his laughter as he watched him take out a carton of eggs and milk. Isaac danced and sang over to the counter and started to prepare breakfast. He turned around forgetting butter when he saw Scott and froze.
Silence filled the room as Isaac stood there rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. He laughed a bit trying to blow of his embarrassment, "How long have you been standing there?"
"Oh I don't know," Scott said back with a smirk, "long enough for me to see you dance across the room and then some."
"Yea…" he paused for a moment, "Let's not tell the rest of the pack about this."
"Tell the rest of the pack what?" Derek asked as he walked in. Scott instantly started to laugh at the situation as Isaac stood there not knowing what to say. Derek looked between the two of them, "What's going on?"
"I've gotta tell him."
"No! He's going to tell everyone." Isaac said embarrassed.
"It wasn't that bad." Scott said still giggling.
"Really?" He asked sarcastically
Scott giggled, "Of course not."
"Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?" Derek asked as he watched the two of them communicate, feeling out of the conversation.
Scott turned to Derek, "I walked down here thinking you would be in kitchen, but then I saw Isaac in the kitchen. He was getting out some food, while he sang and danced to… what was it?" He asked as he turned back to Isaac.
"Big time rush." He said ashamed. Derek and Scott both busted out laughing. "Ok I get it," He said blushing at the situation. He gaze landed on the floor.
Scott walked over to Isaac and pulled him into a little hug, "We love you just the way you are." Isaac smiled at the comment and the two of them went over to start cooking, after Isaac picked up the butter.
Derek stood back watching the two of them cook and laugh together with a smile on his face. They were already becoming a family right in front of his eyes. Peter walked down the stairs and over to Derek, "Are we going to do this?" He asked.
Derek nodded and the two of them slipped out of the house to take care of some business.
Scott looked over as he heard the door shut. "Hey, where did Derek go?" Scott asked.
"He probably went to take care of the business. He's always going out and checking the boundaries to make sure the alpha pack isn't moving in on us." He said back as though it was normal. Scott couldn't help but feel like that wasn't it.
He felt nervous and knew something was about to happen. "Hey where is Peter?" Scott asked as he sniffed the air and noticed he wasn't in the house.
"Maybe to hunt?" Isaac comment, "I haven't seen him hunt at all."
"No, he refuses to until they battle for alpha…." Scott froze at the realization, "Holly shit." He dropped what he was doing and went to the door.
"Scott!" Isaac turned off the stove and ran as fast as he could to catch up with Scott. "What do you mean?"
"They are battling for the alpha right now." Scott stopped and sniffed the air.
"Should we get involved in that?" Isaac asked confused.
"No, but I need to be there." He said back as he found their scents. "Are you coming?" He asked Isaac.
"I don't know…" He looked over at Scott and saw him pouting with a sad look on his face. "Alright alright, I'm coming." They took off in the direction of the wolves. Scott had a bad feeling about the whole thing.
Derek and Peter stood on two different sides of an open area in the woods. They stared each other down as a form of who was dominate over the other, neither wanted to give up the advantage. They stood there for a few minutes. Peter was getting antsy, and Derek could tell. He smirked and waited a little longer until Peter looked away.
The next step was to change. With the advantage Derek already had, he planned to take the other quickly. They changed and he allowed the wolf to take over, before they got to fight though Derek felt two of the pups coming over. He growled as he noticed one was Scott and the other was Isaac.
Peter smirked knowing that he now had an advantage. Derek would still be worried about his mate the whole time and wouldn't fight to his potential.
Scott and Isaac froze as they heard the loud growl of Derek. "I don't think he wants us to come any closer."
"I don't care." Scott said as he took another step.
"Scott I know you care about Derek, but I don't think we should get any closer. He was warning us." Scott huffed at the logic. "Think about it, this is an alpha battle between the two of them. If we were to go and Peter was to attack us, I think it would cause a problem."
Scott nodded, "I just want to make sure he's ok." Scott said a bit worried.
Isaac nodded, "Alright we will get just close enough to see them." Scott smiled and the two of them made their way a little closer to see what was going on.
Derek and Peter circled each other growling and snapping their teeth. Derek was determined to stay alpha; this was the only way to ensure his position. Peter made the first move and jumped towards Derek. Derek jumped back a bit and watched as Peter landed right where he once was. He took the opportunity to nip at Peter's leg before backing off. As he did, Peter swung his paw and scratched Derek on the back deeply.
Derek growled at the pain, but they went back to circling each other. They were matched and Derek knew he would have to find his weakness, but currently he had yet to find it. This time around, Derek took the first move and landed a bite to Peter's back.
Peter howled at the pain, but bucked the other wolf off him. Derek went flying through the air and landed up against a tree. Peter laughed, this was easier then he originally thought it would be. He advanced, while Derek sat there not moving. Once he got close enough, Derek jumped out and grabbed him.
He picked the other up and hit him hard enough to send him flying through the air. Peter gained his balance and got up immediately. Once he did, he saw Derek right as he got scratched in the nose, cutting off a valuable sense. He screamed at the pain, while Derek got ready for another attack.
Scott and Isaac raced through the woods and ended up on the edge of the battle field. They saw Peter crying out in pain, while Derek circled the other. Scott smiled happy that the other was ok.
Derek looked over and saw Scott. In wolf form he wanted to go and protect his mate. That moment of distraction allowed Peter to have the advantage. Peter jumped and pinned Derek on the ground.
Derek growled out and tried to get him off. He used his legs and kicked Peter in the stomach knocking the wind out of him, and forcing him to fall back.
Derek shook his head, trying to get Scott out of his mind and tried to focus on the battle. Why did he have to come?
The two of them went back to circling each other. Peter smirked as he saw Scott and Isaac. Derek noticed his eyes move over to them. Derek growled out telling him to keep them out of the fight. Peter waited a little bit, before making a dash to the younger wolves.
Scott and Isaac saw what was happening and backed up more into the woods. "We can't fight." Isaac said.
"Why not?" Scott asked.
"That means we are interfering with the battle. Peter would win automatically." Scott growled at the information.
The closer Peter got, the more the wolf itched to get out. Peter was a foot away from him when out of nowhere Derek took the other out. Derek was now pure rage. Once he had Peter pinned, he bit Peter's neck. It's a sign of dominance, and Peter whimpered out knowing that if he moved Derek could bite down and could easily kill him.
He changed back to his human form. "I submit!" Peter called out painfully. He wasn't happy to lose to Derek.
Boyd and Erica walked through the woods together as they came up to the house. "Where is everyone at?" Erica asked as she noticed they weren't here.
Boyd sniffed the air, "This way." He called out and followed the sent. They heard growling and sped up their running to see what was going on. They showed up as Peter called out submitting. "What did we just miss?" Boyd asked as he saw Isaac and Scott.
"A huge fight," Isaac answered back, "Peter and Derek fought for alpha."
"And we missed it?" Erica asked a bit let down at the information.
"No one should have witnessed it." Derek called out shutting the pack up to look over him. His eyes were bright red. "Go back to the house; I want to talk to Scott."
The pack all looked over at Scott sadly, before leaving. Peter even got up and slowly started to walk away from the two of them. "I so don't want to be around this conversation." He said already knowing how this was going to play out.
Scott stood there awkwardly waiting for Derek to say something. Derek was silent as he stared at Scott. Scott tried to look up at him, but eventually he looked down in submission. "What were you thinking?" He asked clearly mad.
Scott looked up at Derek, "I was scared out of my mind!" He shouted, "You were there then you just left. I wondered where you went when I noticed Peter was out. You told me about that whole alpha fight between you and him and I was worried." He said as water collected behind his eyes." I didn't know what was going to happen. What if you got hurt?"
"I told you this is the burden of the alpha." Derek said back with a huff.
"Did you not just listen to what I said?" Scott asked back angrily. "I was worried about you!"
Derek growled, "No Scott you don't seem to understand. Peter was about to use you as bait for me. You came here, which made you fair game in his eyes."
Scott frowned, "I thought it was just between the two of you."
"It is, but he knew that attacking you would get to me." He huffed angrily. "You don't know what flashed through my mind when I realized that he was going to attack you."
Scott looked down at the ground again ashamed. "I'm sorry."
"What?"
"I said I'm sorry." There was silence between the two of them. "Just… tell me when you're going off to do something like this again. I was so worried that something bad would happen to you."
Derek nodded before walking over to Scott and wrapping his arms around Scott. Scott leaned his head into the other's chest and sighed. He felt something sticky on his hands and moved back to see a bunch of blood on his hand. "What the hell." He went behind Derek and saw three large scratches that ran down his back. "Your hurt… and they are really deep."
"I'll be fine."
Scott shook his head, "They are really deep Derek. I can see the bone right now." He said before looking away. "Are you sure you're ok?"
"Yes, I just need a few hours to recover." Scott frowned, but grabbed onto Derek and helped him back to the house. "What are you doing?"
Scott looked over at Derek confused, "I'm your mate right," Derek nodded his head, "A mate wouldn't leave his mate out in the wilderness to walk back with a huge gash on his back." He turned his head forward as kept his eyes on where they were going.
Derek smiled, "Thank you." Scott blushed, but kept going on the long walk to the house.
Jackson rolled out of bed with Lydia curled up with his arms around her. He smiled before looking over at the clock. Oh crap he was late. He quickly ran into the bathroom and jumped into the shower.
Lydia awoke to the sound of the shower and smiled. Last night after she left Stiles' house, she went to Jackson's. They went out to the movies, watched a movie and came back to his place. She smiled and sat up in bed. She was in a tank top and one of Jackson's pairs of boxers.
A few minutes later, Jackson came out of the bathroom in a towel and raced to his dresser. "Hey, where are you going?"
"Pack meeting." He groaned out.
"It's not that bad." She smiled at him, "Think of it as a way to make new friends."
He looked over at her with a raised eye brow. "You apparently haven't been to one of these before. It's basically training."
"Which is good for you," She said back as she came up behind him and gave him a kiss on his cheek. "What time will you be back?"
"No clue. I'll call you though." He said as he turned around and put a shirt on. He looked her body up and down, "I swear I could just eat you up right now." He said as he picked her up and placed her on the bed.
"I thought you had somewhere to go." She said mockingly.
"They can wait a few minutes." He said as they started to kiss. His hands searched her body, and she let out moan at the feeling. Ever since he changed, something changed about the two of them. He always had a wall up around her, but now it was like it finally came down. It made her happy.
His hands went to pull her panties off and Lydia stopped him knowing that they were going to get out of control. He wouldn't ever make it to the pack meeting if they kept this up. "You need to go." He groaned out, "I'll be right here for you when you get back."
Derek and Scott made their way to the house where the rest of the pack stood waiting. Derek was already healing up, but he was tired now. "I'm going to take a nap, afterwards we will train." He said as he made his way into the house. The rest of the pack sat down together on his front porch.
"So how did that talk go?" Isaac asked.
"We just talked about some things." Scott answered back not sure if he should share what happened with the pack.
"Is everything alright between the two of you?" Boyd asked.
"Yea, maybe even better," He said with a smile.
"So what happened when you slept over?" Erica asked wanting all the details.
"Nothing," Scott said back "we just started out relationship."
"They slept in the same bed." Isaac said in which they went 'awe' to.
Scott blushed, "All we did was sleep." Erica nodded and gave the other a wink. "I swear that's all we did." He huffed and went into the house, "I'm going to check up on Derek."
"Right, checkup." Isaac added, Scott chose to ignore the comment and make his way to the other.
Derek made his way to the bed and lay down on his stomach exhausted from the fight. He knew that fighting with Peter would be hard, but not as close as it had been. As he thought about the fight he smiled.
Even though Scott had almost gotten hurt, that is what pushed him over the edge to take down Peter. He fear that ran through him as he saw Peter try to hurt his mate made him to jump into action especially in wolf form. As he thought a bit more on the topic, he failed to hear his bedroom door open and close.
He felt to bed move and snapped out of his thoughts. A familiar scent filled his nose and he smirked as he moved his face to Scott's. "How are you doing?" Scott asked as he moved his hand across Derek's back around, but not touching, the gash.
"I'll be fine." Derek answered back like earlier. Scott frowned, and lifted Derek's shirt off to see the gash. It wasn't healing as fast as it normally would. He frowned, what would his mother do? He was not qualified for stiches, if that would even work, so he thought about his childhood. Whenever he would fall down and hurt himself, his mother would put ointment on it to help the healing. What did she use? He wondered for a moment.
Scott suddenly moved from his spot on the bed and went to the bathroom. "What are you doing?" Derek called out as he tried to glance over to the bathroom. He didn't have the energy to sit up anymore.
Scott ignored his comment, and opened up the cabinets looking for Neosporin. He reached up to the mirror and opened that up to find a lot of different items, and luckily exactly what he was looking for. He smiled, closed the mirror cabinet and went over to Derek. He sat back down; however, he sat on top of Derek's lower back with the ointment in his hand. Derek looked behind him with a confused face, "Now what do you think you're doing?"
Scott smiled, "Being helpful, my mom used to do this for me whenever I got a cut." He said as he opened the bottle and applied it to his hand. "This might hurt a bit, but it should help with the healing."
"I'm a werewolf I'll heal in a few hours." Derek said back defensibly. Scott chose yet again to ignore him. He put his hand full of Neosporin onto the cut. "Shit!" Derek yelled out as the pain in his lower back came back tenfold. Scott moved his hand over the cut with a frown at his reaction. Already he could see the wound looking better. Derek jolted trying to get up and away from the pain, but Scott kept him down. He was still weak from the battle and couldn't put up much of a fight anyway. Derek put his head into the pillow and growled.
"Stop being dramatic," Scott commented back as he put more of it onto his hand and spread over the cut repeating what he had done before. Derek growled again, but took the pain that came without a fuss.
Scott rolled his eyes and eventually spread the ointment around to the outer edges of the cut. Derek relaxed after Scott repeated the procedure a few times. Derek's body seemed to take the ointment into the cut and use that to help speed up the healing process. "Look at that, it did help." Scott said triumphal at the success.
Scott waited for a smart reply back, but was surprised when he didn't hear one. Scott got off the older, and looked at him. He had his face to the side of the pillow so Scott could see half his face. His eyes were closed and lightly flickering as he dreamed. Scott smiled and went to leave, but a hand wrapped itself around his. "Don't leave."
Scott froze and looked back up at his face. He hadn't seemed to awakened. His body rose and fell in an even pattern. He went to remove the hand, but it seemed to get tighter. "Please," He muttered out.
Scott smiled a bit. In his sleep he didn't want him to leave. A part of him wondered how much of that was the wolf, but gladly accepted a little more sleep. He laid down next to the sleeping alpha and turned so he was facing Derek's face. "I promise." He answered back, and the tightness of the hand lessened. He curled up as much as he could to the other wolf and fell asleep.
Jackson pulled up the Hall house and was surprised to see everyone in the pack outside, everyone except the alpha and Scott. He took his keys out of the ignition, got out of his car and went to the pack. "What's going on?" he asked as he felt something different in the air.
"This morning Peter and Derek had an alpha fight." Boyd answered from his sitting spot on the steps outside.
"What's that?" Jackson asked confused on the terminology.
"Peter was the past alpha and his wolf side didn't want to accept that he was no longer the top dog, so they fought it out." Erica answered from sitting down leaning with her back up against the outside wall.
"so let me get this straight, wolves fight to prove who's the alpha?"
"It's a little different for them, but yes. Any wolf can challenge him at any time for the title." Isaac said from a chair outside on the porch.
Jackson looked up at the house, "So what happened?"
"He won, but they now have to recuperate." Erica said with a sigh.
"Scott's with Derek?"
"Yep," Isaac said with a sigh. "They spend a lot of time together now."
"Don't tell me your feeling left out?" Boyd questioned the other with an eye brow raised.
"It's not that." He quickly said with a huff. "I guess that I just can't wait to find a mate myself. It must be amazing."
They all nodded in understanding, "At least he found someone though." Erica finally said breaking the silence. "He's calmed down a lot now."
"I wonder how he felt." Boyd wondered out loud. "He had to hold everything in while watching him go to Alison."
"No wonder why he was always pissed off." Isaac said, and the four of them laughed.
"That or Scott is the one person that calms him down." Jackson said surprising himself. For as he said it in reference to Scott and Derek, deep down he was really thinking about a certain someone in his bed at the moment.
Erica looked over at Jackson with a confused face. "Who are you thinking about over there?"
Jackson snapped out of his thinking and turned to her, "Nothing."
Erica rolled her eyes, "I'm a girl you know, a werewolf girl at that. I know there is something going on over there."
"Don't worry about it." Jackson said with a roll of his eyes, "Wanna go check on the love birds up there?" They all smiled at each other person running into the house.
An: another chapter, sorry if the alpha fight isn't as detailed as it could be. I can never find myself making quick action scenes any good. Lol more on the way soon! Thank you for reading.