Chapter 4

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"When you knew Theo, what was he like?" Derek asked on their ride back to his place, he was still in business mode worrying about possible threats.

"I never knew him, I knew of his family and the accident. I think he was a young kid who suffered a loss, you know more than anyone how badly that can hurt. Why are you trying to make him out to be some kind of threat?"

"Because as much as I hate to admit it, Stiles theories, no matter how crazy, usually are something you want to pay attention too." Paige rolled her head along the headrest to look at Derek, she knew admitting Stiles had any sort of brain hurt him. "Nine time out of ten he's usually on to something."

"It's like he has his own spidy sense for the supernatural of Beacon Hills. I think we should wait it out regardless, we don't want to start jumping to conclusions."

Derek snorted, "Please on their way off the field I heard Stiles telling Scott they needed to stop at a store so he could pick up more red yarn."

Paige rubbed her temples. "Let him obsess, for now we have our own problems to worry about."

"Like?"

"Like my parents insisting that you come to the family BBQ this Thursday."

He groaned, "You mean the roast of Derek?" There was no way in hell he wanted to spend any time he didn't have to with her parents.

Derek had done the nice thing when he had gotten back to town, he'd always made sure Paige was home before she had to be and he always picked her up at the door. He even brought flowers when he was invited to a family dinner or two. But he knew her parents didn't like or trust him with their daughter, he guess he understood that but it always felt like he was missing something. Every time he brought the subject up to Paige she brushed it off as ex-boyfriend comes back to town and chases a boyfriend they really liked away to become boyfriend again.

"When I say family I mean everyone, cousins, aunts and uncles. We don't even have to stay for long and they aren't going to be anything but polite with my grandfather there."

"He's the only one who actually likes me."

"I like you." She smiled as they pulled into his driveway. "If it makes you feel any better, the rest of the pack was invited too."

Derek shot her a look. "Yeah that makes me feel so much better."

"In all that complaining I never heard a no." Paige walked into the apartment ahead of him, swaying her hips.

Running up behind her Derek grabbed her waist, tickling as he threw her over his shoulder.

"This is not the stone ages put me down!" Paige laughed her legs kicking out in surprise.

A voice neither one of them wanted to hear came from the alleyway beside them.

"Yeah Derek, put her down."

Derek immediately brought Paige down and stood slightly in front of her, his hand still on her waist to let him know where she was.

"Kate."

"Hi handsome, miss me?"

A quite growl rumbled in his chest. "What do you want?"

"I just want to have a little talk with your girlfriend; she's a hard one to track down, always chained up with one thing or another."

Paige glared at her over Derek's shoulder; the bitch was teasing her right out in the open, in front of him.

"I don't see that happening."

Kate looked at him from head to toe, Paige wished she was a wolf, if she were Kate would be missing a chunk out of her neck.

"Always so protective, although from the looks of her recent medical records you've been slacking."

Was she talking about what happened with Mitchell? Paige stiffened behind Derek, how the hell did she know about that. Paige was about to ask when Derek beat her too it.

"I told you once and I'm not going to tell you again Kate, keep her the hell out of whatever games you're playing."

Kate leaned again the side of the building. "I'm not the one who brought her into this Derek."

"Both of you need to stop talking about me like I'm not here." Paige snapped not liking being ignored.

"Go inside." Derek ordered without so much as a glance.

"It's fine; I'll just find her another time." Kate taunted, disappearing between the two buildings.

Derek didn't like threats and Kate being home had been threat enough to make him annoyed but now she was laying down a challenge. Bringing up Paige's safety and his inability to protect her was crossing a line.

Taking her wrist Derek pulled Paige into the building ahead of him, ears still pealed for Kate; thankfully it seemed like she had left them alone, for now.

"I'm going to shower." Paige muttered wanting some time to herself, seeing Kate had put her into a bad mood.

Moving toward the shower Paige was met with resistance, Derek's hand was still wrapped around her wrist.

"Hold on a second."

Paige allowed him to turn her around but she kept her eyes away from his.

"I'm tired I just want to shower and go to bed."

Derek brushed off her excuse. "It's not even 5:00."

"Can we not do this?"

His thumb rubbed the pressure point on the underside of her wrist. "I was listening to your heart beat while we were outside."

Of course he was, "Are you sure it wasn't Kate's." He raised his eye brow at her. "You should have let me go shower."

"I don't want you worrying about her."

"I'm not." She was being somewhat honest.

Derek sighed and waited for her eyes to meet his before continuing. "We never really talked about her before-"

"There is a reason for that, I don't want to talk about her Derek, I want to pretend she doesn't exist." She made to stand but didn't get far.

"We can't do that, she's a threat-"

"I know! You aren't the only one she likes to chain up in basements okay, you aren't the only one she's shot arrows into!"

"Paige-"

"I'm going to shower!" shutting the conversation down, she marched into the bathroom.

Derek felt bad that his teen digressions were affecting his and Paige's relationships four years later. He knew Kate got under her skin even if Paige tried to pretend she didn't. Derek remembered their first few weeks back together, they'd gone to an end of school beach bonfire, Paige still hadn't fully forgiven him, but he was doing everything he could to earn her trust back.

The some idiot from high school had to bring up the "sexy blonde" Derek had hooked up and run away with and since he was back with Paige could he get her number.

Paige had bit her lips looking down, the fire licking her bare legs.

Derek wanted to kill Garrett, Greg or maybe it was James; no matter his name Derek wanted to rip his throat out.

"Come on dude don't hog, you don't need both of them. Though if you want to keep the blonde I'd take Paige for a spin, I've seen her at the beach in that little black-"

That was it, Derek had sprung to his feet grabbing the front of the guys shirt and tossing him into the sand.

"Derek don't!" Paige yelled getting to her feet.

Everyone around them had already starting chanting "fight, fight!"

The guy he had tackled threw a punch that landed right on Derek's temple, shocked the wolf lost his grip and found himself face down in the sand. Unlucky for the other guy Derek recovered quickly getting back on top.

When everyone realized that Derek wasn't going to let up they tried to step in and got him to release his grip on what's his face. The only reason they were successful was cause Derek conceded, he raised his hands up to show he wasn't going to go after the guy anymore.

When he finally looked around himself he saw Paige had started to walk away, she's only made it a couple of feet when he caught up to her.

"Get away from me." Paige shrugged out of his grip.

"He was being a dick I had-"

"No you shouldn't have done anything, the only reason he made that stupid comment was because of you."

"I don't want you to have to listen to that crap."

Paige laughed dryly. "You think that this is the first time I've heard some crack about you and Kate? You dropped me for some home from college older women and skipped town with her-"

"I didn't skip town with her."

"-I listened to the whole school debit back and forth between who was hotter and who they'd rather bone. When I started dating Tyler all the talk started to die down, but then you came back and people started having an opinion again."

"I'm sorry." That was all Derek could think to say.

"I don't want anymore apologies from you."

"What do you want me to do? I'm doing everything I know to do, Kate was a mistake I let her manipulate me and I let her hurt you in the process-"

"You hurt me!"

He nodded, "But it's never going to happen again, she's gone and I'm not ever going to let her back into our lives."

Paige let her defensive stance drop, "Can we just get out of here? I've had enough goodbyes from these people."

That was the only time he and Paige had ever brought up Kate and now that she was back and Derek had already broken his promise.

Kate was back in town and she had already interfered with his and Paige's lives. You can be sure of one thing Derek was going to protect her from whatever backlash Kate was about to send their way.

"Derek!" He stood hearing Paige call for him.

The door to the bathroom was left unlocked, the loft had one of those standing glass showers in it, the glass was completely fogged up.

The door slid open slowly and Paige's hand stuck out, inviting him in. Stripping down, Derek accepted her hand walking into the steamy mist, his skin burned with the temperature of the water. Paige only took burning hot showers when she wanted to cleanse herself.

Her body was slick and Derek wasted no time at all bringing her into his arms, Paige rose up onto her toes to connect her lips to him; their chests slipped against one another earning a moan from both parties.

"You're bleeding." Derek said on her lips.

Paige nuzzled her forehead against his, looking off to the side to see her red arm.

"I may have looahed a little harder than necessary."

"I'm-" Before he could apologise Paige reclaimed his lips.

Derek kissed his way down her body till he was on his knees before her, taking one of her hands to help her keep balance, Derek brought both her knees onto his shoulders.

"Derek." She said nervously.

His kissed her thighs to let her know that she was safe in his hands. Paige relaxed back onto the foggy glass, her back arching off the cool surface on her overheated body pulling a chuckle from Derek, his hot breath hitting her center.

Paige gripped his hand tight as his tongue ran along her, her other hand running though his hair. Derek relentlessly Kissed, sucked and licked her until she was quivering on top of him; right before she came he pulled back helping her stand up.

"Such a tease." Paige groaned, her head falling back onto the glass.

Derek laughed kissing her neck before turning her to face away from him, pulling her back to his chest. Lining himself up he slipped inside her.