AUTHOR'S NOTE: Uhhhh! Sorry for the long wait people. I don't like this chapter very much.

Also there might be some mistakes because my Beta/roomie and me got into a disagreement and so he decided the mature way of solving this was to disappear for awhile and ignore all my messages. I went over it and then had Wolvrick go over it too, and we both probably missed some things. So if you see any just point them out if you would.

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Derek knew Stiles would be home any minute so he decided to head over there. Thinking the fresh air would do him some good he chose to run there instead of driving. When he finally found himself in front of his mate's house, he could clearly hear the boy humming in the shower plesently.

Climbing silently up to his window he slid inside without a noise just as the boy came out of the bathroom to his dark room still humming.

"Are you seriously humming the 'Seven Wonders'? Isn't that a little before your time?" Derek asked gently and smothered his laugh as the boy jumped with a screech.

"Fuck! I'm gonna get you a collar with bells! And Stevie Nicks is awesome ok. God you're such a creepy stalker dude." Stiles said as he tightened his grip on the towel around his waist and clutched his chest with the other hand.

"I think you need to rethink that first part." Derek smirked and watched as a bright red blush stained the teens cheeks.

"Oh Gosh. You know what I meant asshole!" Stiles glared before turning to his dresser.

"Don't get dressed on my account." Derek said as he wrapped his arm around the slim waist and nuzzled into his mates neck. Growling in approval when said boy tilted his head to allow better access.

"Not that I'm complaining or anything, but was there an actual reason for sneaking into my room?" Stiles asked as he playful rolled his hips back into the older man.

"There was, but if you keep teasing me it will have to wait." Derek growled.

"Was it important? Because as far as I figure, everything can wait as long as I can have a piece of my Sourwolf." Stiles purred seductively.

"Mmm. You can have all of me... Later. Right now I want you to practice using your Spark." Derek said as he reluctantly released the slim waist and took a step back.

"How do you suggest I do that? Sparkie said that my mom had books to help me along, but I have no idea where they would be. They weren't in the attic with the rest of her things so I don't know where else they could be." Stiles sighed defeated as he slipped on a pair of pajama pants.

"Sparkie? Seriously Stiles?" Derek raised his eyebrow in fond annoyance.

"What? It fits, I can't just go around calling future or inner me, whatever, The Spark." Stiles shrugged. Derek rolled his eyes as he shook his head.

"Anyway, do you think your dad might know where her books are?" Derek asked gently.

"I doubt it. Without those I don't even know what I'm capable of."

"Use your instincts. It's worked for you so far." Derek suggested.

"But what if I do something I can't fix, or I can't control it, or nothing happens?" Stiles rambled nervously.

"Stiles, I'm right here. I'll make sure nothing bad happens."

"Fine. But just remember I didn't think this was a good idea." Stiles took a deep breath as he rolled his shoulders and shut his eyes.

He tried to picture his mind as a room with several doors, one's that lead to his memories, dreams, wishes, one door filled him with such dread and he gave it a wide berth. The last had a colorful glow surrounding it and Stiles guessed this one contained his Spark.

'Sparkie?' Stiles called subconciously.

'I'm not even gonna comment on that... What was it you needed Stiles?' Stiles jumped as his Spark appeared out of no where.

'Derek wants me to get a feel for all of these powers.' Stiles imformed the older looking him with a light glare.

'Ahh yes that would probably be wise. You don't want to go into this fight with no idea how to defeat Peter or Scott.' Sparkie nodded slowly as he looked around the large room.

'Ya. But I can't find my mom's books and I'm a little worried about just "practicing" without knowing what the effects or otherwise might be. Der says I should just use my instincts but I don't know.'

'I understand. Your mothers books will reveal themselves to you when you're ready. Derek is right to a point. Your powers and intinct are connected, they will protect you but they can also be dangerous. Your instincts will be to keep you alive no matter what, and desperation can make a Spark very powerful but it can also drain your energy with spells you aren't ready for.' Stiles listened but as Sparkie explained it only made the boy more hesitant.

'So what should I do?' Stiles asked slightly irritated.

'You already know the basics, all that information is just locked up in here with me. All you have to do is find it.' Sparkie's lips pulled up into a small grin he tried to hide behind his hand.

'Wouldn't it be easier if you just showed me?' Stiles' glare darkened as he dreaded what Sparkie said next.

'Yes. But I won't.' The Spark told him sarcastically.

'Wonderful.' Stiles looked around the room at the hundreds of boxes and sighed as his Spark just smirked before disapearing. 'Dick.' Stiles mumbled as he dragged his feet over to the first stack of boxes and carried it over to the large table in the middle of the room.

"Derek?" Stiles called, wondering if the older man could communicate with him even while he was searching his 'mind house'.

"Yeah?" Stiles heard a mumbled version of Derek's gruff voice.

"This may take awhile. Stick around for a bit?" Stiles asked hesitantly.

"Of course. Are you trying to do something? I mean theres only one rune showing but I don't know if that means your trying to do a spell or what." Derek's voice came out less muffled but still unfocused.

"No. Sparkie said I already knew all the basics, they are just locked up here in my brain. Wait. A rune? Where?" Stiles wondered as he sifted through a large stack of papers with different runes on the pages.

"So What? You just have to find them? Your left temple."

"Pretty much. I'm surrounded by hundreds of boxes and he wants me to sift through them till I find what I'm looking for. What does the rune look like?" Stiles asked as he skimmed over the different runes.

"That's gotta suck considering your thought process alone, is all over the place. Ummm. It looks like a-"

"Like a R?" Stiles interupted as he picked up the page with the rune for journey on it.

"Yea! How'd you know?" Derek asked curiously.

"Lots of info up here. What about anywhere else?" Stiles hurriedly asked.

"Nop- Wait! Your forehead! Looks like two P's facing eachother." The surprise was clear in Derek's voice. Stiles shuffled through the pages quickly before finding it.

"The rune for self. Self Journey! Makes sense I guess. Alright, well let me know if anymore show up alright?" Stiles said as he walked over to another box before carrying it over to the same table.

"Ya no problem. See you when your done I guess. Love you." Derek said and Stiles felt a brief brush against his ear as Derek seemingly brushed a tweaker hair behind it.

"Love you too Big Guy." Stiles smiled as he emptied the box's contents and read them over as quickly as he could, cataloging before saving for later if it didn't seem important.

What seemed like hours later, Stiles had gone through at least half the boxes before he came across a leather book covered in dust behind one of the boxes.

'Hey Sparkie?' Stiles called out and tried to prepare for the jumpscare but none came as his Spark actually opened a door he hadn't noticed in the far corner and walked up to him.

'Yes? Have you found what you were looking for?' The Spark asked with a raised eyebrow.

'I think so. Is this one of my mom's books you were talking about?' Stiles raised the leather book with shaking hands.

'It's one of them from the looks of it. Why don't you open it up?'

'This is going to change everything I thought I knew about my mom, excuse me for being a little hesitant.' Stiles glared as Sparkie rolled his eyes.

'It's also probably going to save your life.' The Spark told him impatiently.

'Alright! Get off my case!' Stiles growled before shakily unlatching the side and opening to the front page. The pages creaked and revealed the neat handwriting of his mother. As he just starred the letters seemed to glow and his mother appeared.

'Stiles. Sweetie, you've grown so much.' The ethreal vision of his mother shimmered a little and Stiles distantly felt tears fall from his eyes.

'I can't breathe.' Stiles whispered hoarsely as he starred at the soft features of his mothers face. Her long slightly, curly brown hair, her light brown eyes full of love, her pale lean but strong body. It brought back the memories of before she got sick, before she was frail and deathly looking.

'This is a lot to take in, I know. All of my grimoire's are enchanted to give you a vision of me to explain the uses to you. A part of me wished that you didn't have to go through all this, but the other part of me is so proud. You're so strong, you've always been brave even as a boy. I'm sorry I never got to explain all of this to you in person.' His mothers gentle and caring voice told him.

'Mom. If you were such a powerfull priestess, why did you get sick? I don't understand. I miss you so much. Dad was such a mess, but I took care of him like you asked.' Stiles couldn't wipe the tears away fast enough so he just let them waterfall.

'I think that's a story for another time. I knew you would baby, your all eachother has. I miss you too sweetie, I can't get over how much you've grown.' Stiles could see

'No! I need to know. Before I get any further, I NEED to know.' Stiles pleaded desperately. Claudia sighed as she looked at her sons tearful eyes.

'Your mate. Derek. When he was born he was weak. His heart wasn't strong enough and his wolf was fading. Practically an empty shell. I took energy from the Earth, his alpha, and myself. The combined energy was enough to get his wolf to settle and his will to live greater, but his heart was still weak. So I tied his heart to myself, ensuring that as long as I was healthy, so was he. All was fine, and when you were born I felt that tie disapate. I worried at the time that, that might mean Derek had been hurt or worse, but after he walked into the hospital room with Talia, I realized that his and I's connection hadn't ended, it was just transferred onto you.' Claudia saw her son trying to process this.

'Wait. So you mean me and Derek aren't actually soulmates? Your spell just rubbed off onto me?' Stiles asked devestated.

'No! No you are soulmates! That's why the spells tie moved to you. My magic saw your soul connection and moved to tie you both because it knew it would be more effective. It's hard to explain, but you are soulmates. Truemates.' Claudia hurried to explain and smiled as her son sighed in relief.

'Ok. That still doesn't explain how you got sick. I was 8 when you got sick, Derek woulda been 12. That's years later.' Stiles pointed out.

'Yes thats right. A year before I got sick I was doing a normal check up for the Hale's when I saw it for the first time since I was a child. The dark Kitsune. The Nogitsune. You should be familiar, it was the chaos demon that tried to possess you, thats why your Spark activated. The Nogitsune wanted my power, wanted to possess me and wipe out the town. It took nearly everything I had to resist and then I used what energy I had left to make sure it couldn't get to you or your father.'

'So the Nogitsune made you sick?' Stiles asked slowly as he recalled the month of chaos from searching for the chaos demon.

'Yes. I was weak, I used all the energy I had and the Nogitsune took advantage of it and possessed me. What it wasn't counting on was the willpower of a priestess. He was possessing me, but he never had full control. That obviously made him very angry and so he started targeting me since he couldn't target anyone else. He slowly made my body fail, every imaginable sickness destroyed my immune system. My body was a bomb waiting to detonate.' Claudia watched the rapid fire of emotions cross her sons young face before settling on rage.

'But we never found the Nogitsune.' Stiles said slowly.

'That's because he went after you and failed.' Claudia said proudly.

'What do you mean? He couldn't possess me so he just left?' Stiles asked sceptically.

'No. The Nogitsune possessed you. But only for a moment. When your Spark activated to fight him off, it fed off the power. You absorbed the Nogitsune. All the dark magic and chaos it had feed from, you took it all. A thousand years worth of evil couldn't beat the power of your Spark Stiles.' Claudia's voice held nothing but pride and wonder.

'But how? If you couldn't beat the Nogitsune, than how the hell did I?' Stiles asked as he ran a frustrated hand over his face and through his hair.

'I don't know for sure, but I think it might have something to do with having a TrueMate. Since your souls are connected, it would make sense to think of you and Derek being a single soul with your powers and skills combined.' Claudia shrugged and Stiles could feel a headache coming on.

'This is all so confusing. I think it's too much to take in. Can we just figure out how to get me ready to fight a rouge alpha and my best friend?' Stiles pleaded as he rubbed his temples roughly.

'Yes, that's fine. The basics are quite simple really. It will all come to you naturally, all you have to do is call upon your magic. Think of what you want that magic to do for you and try to visualize it as clearly as possible, and it will do as you wish.' Claudia explained simply.

'So I just have to Green Lantern this shit?' Stiles thought she made it sound to simple.

'I don't understand that reference. Just don't overthink it, let the magic control you and you will control the magic.'

'Uhhh. Fine. I need to get back, practice makes perfect right?' Stiles joked awkwardly.

'That's a good idea. Tell Derek I said hello. You can use this book to call upon me whenever you need to.' Claudia reminded him gently with a soft smile.

'Thanks mom. I love you so much.' Stiles wrapped her in a tight hug for a moment before releasing her gently.

'I love you too. I'm so proud of you Stiles. Take care of you and your mate, and be carefull.' Her voice drifted off as she slowly disappeared.

Stiles could feel a few tears gathering again but he brushed them away as he took a few deep breaths and gripped the grimoire tightly.

'I'll see ya later Sparkie!' He called out as he focused on just getting back to Derek. Derek's smell, his warmth, it all came flooding back to him as he felt like his head was about to explode and the world was tipping off its axis.

"-Iles? Stiles? Hey, can you hear me? C'mon look at me. Stiles!" Derek's voice filtered into focus as he slowly opened his eyes to a blurry silhouette.

"Derek? Ughh my head hurts like a motherfucker." Stiles groaned as his vision started to clear and he could clearly see the worry in his mates beautiful eyes.

"One minute you were sitting here and then you were standing suddenly, and then you were dropping like a rock all of the sudden. I barely caught you in time. Is that one of your mom's books? How'd it go? Are you alright?" Derek spoke quickly as he ran his hands all over the younger boy searching for injuries.

"Too many questions love. Just give me a moment." Stiles said while he sat up as he took a few calming breaths and watched as his surroundings stopped spinning and he could feel the pounding in his head start to settle before looking back at his mate. "Yes, this is one of the many grimoire's my mom made. I'm fine, I think. It was... Life changing to say the least, but the important part is I know how to control my Spark now I think." Stiles answered as he ran his fingers through his hair roughly.

Stiles didn't break eye contact with the older man, but he could feel his magic surge as he called upon it and manipulated it to his needs. In this case the floor, which he didn't remember them sitting down on, began to sprout a mix of Red Salvias, Heliotrope, Edelweiss, Holly, and Feverfew. Between the flowers vines grew and wrapped themselves gently around them both in a comforting manner.

Derek watched in fascination as Stiles beat the laws of nature around them. When the boys skin returned to its pale smoothness and his eyes returned to there normal amber color Derek surged foward for a passionate kiss.

"You are... Incredible. I love you." Derek whispered against his mates lips recieving a soft chuckle.

"Thanks. Your not so bad yourself." Stiles said as he pulled away slightly to look his mate in the eyes again. "I know how to protect everyone, this town, everthing. I know what to do. This is OUR land. The Hale territory belongs to you, Derek. Peter thinks its his, but I'll show him he had no right to even try to claim it." Stiles voice was stern and steady and Derek wondered if the boy knew what he was promising.

"You're an emissary." Derek said as it seemed to click for him.

"No. I'm your emissary." Stiles stated calmly. "We are going to beat Peter, and if Scott gets in our way, than so be it."

"I love you." Derek whispered softly as his watery eyes shined with nothing but pride and love.

"I love you too Derek." Stiles said with a soft smile as he wrapped his arms around his mate and held on tightly.

"2 days. Are you sure you want to do this? Because I would understand if you just want to walk away Stiles, I wouldn't be angry. It's not too late yet." Derek asked softly.

"It's shit like that, that makes me want to hit you. Of course I'm sure! If I walked away you would be an empty shell for the rest of your life Derek! Finding your mate and not having them will ruin you. Wolves mate for life, so I'm in this for life." Stiles told him determined and Derek could see the boys eyes flare for a moment.

"Good. Great. Fantastic." Derek blurted as a smile grew on his face.

"You sound like me more and more every day." Stiles told him with a laugh.

"After this is all over, you'll tell me everything that happened in that big head of yours right?" Derek asked cautiously.

"Yeah. Right now its a little too much to try to process, so I would prefer to just focus on whats coming than all of that." Stiles shrugged gently. "Topic change! What did you do all day while I was at school?"

"Alright I understand. I talked to a bunch of people about rebuilding the Hale house. Demolish whats left now, than rebuild it. With a few added perks here and there of course." Derek said softly as he lifted the teen up and sat them both on the bed.

"I can put protection seals in too. On the suppourt beams and in the walls and all that fun stuff. No one will burn this one down." Stiles reasured and smiled as he got a huffed laugh out of the older man.

"That would be perfect. I'm thinking ten rooms minimum, big wrap around porch, huge open kitchen. I haven't decided on two or three floors yet. A shed in the back for all the training equipment and normal tools. A basement. I might add a room where its safe to shift just for emergencies. A place for you to have all your Spark stuff." Stiles watched as Derek's eyes sparkled with anticipation and he made a promise to himself right then and there that he would make sure they both lived to see that house built.

"That sounds perfect Derek. When do we start?" Stiles asked lovingly.

"Soon. Once all this crap with Peter blows over and we are officially mated. I want to have it done as soon as possible so when I find my sisters, we can have a home to go back to again." Derek smiled sadly as he brushed his fingers through the youngers hair softly.

"I'll help in every way I can." Stiles said as he relaxed against the man he loved.

"I know you will. That's why you are perfect." Derek leaned over for a gentle kiss.

"Thanks Big Guy."

"Mmhhm. On another note, what are you going to do tomorrow?" Derek asked seriously.

"At school? Try to be invisible and act normal. I don't think Scott will be there, he isn't in control. Jackson might give me some trouble though I know I can take him. Basically just try to get through the day alive. Since its a Wednesday, I only have 5 classes and lacrosse practice." Stiles sighed heavily thinking about having to try to act normal when he has this ability now.

"Can I drop you off in the morning?" Derek asked hopefully.

"Yeah that would be nice." Stiles nodded as he let his eyes drift shut.

"Great. Goodnight Stiles, love you." Derek whispered as he settled into a more comfy position.

"Love ya." Stiles mumbled as he drifted off into dreamland.

They had 2 days. Well 1 and a half now. To get everything in order and ready to take the fight to Peter and Scott, and than complete the mating ritual...

No pressure or anything.

AUTHOR'S END NOTE: On a unrelated topic; why the hell did I ever chose to triple major? Was I in the middle of a severe mental break when I made this incredibly stupid and crazy decision?

In other words I am backed up and buried in assignments that make me want to cry. But worry not dear readers I am splitting time between writing, school, and work. So next chapter will be up, either end of this month or middle of next.

Holly- Good will, Defense; Domestic Happiness; Foresight

Edelweiss- courage and devotion

heliotrope- eternal love

Red Salvia- Forever mine

Feverfew — Meaning: Protection