Okay guys this is a remake of the earlier chapter hope ya'll like it!

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(Derek's POV)

I rolled to the middle of the van as all the junk-painful, heavy junk (why is this stuff even in here? They're werewolves I got, I know we're...different, but really?) Rolled off me. I'm glad Chloe wasn't in the direction of that.....whatever it is.

"Ugh....." Chloe rolled next to me. I looked at her and she looked at me back, then a tear ran down her eye and her lips quivered. I've rarely seen Chloe cry- and when she did it was usually out of anger or.....worry. I shifted up and rapped my arms around her. I wanted to say something, but what? I'm sorry werewolves think you're my mate and want to kill me and hurt you? Ya that sounds really comforting. Or, it's okay? This was far from okay.

She started to shake, either of cold or fear; maybe both.

I pulled her closer into my chest. "I'm sorry," I mumbled. And I truly was. I was sorry she was in this situation. Sorry that she had to go through this. Sorry that I got her off that damn bus in Albany, to even put her in this mix. I was being selfish. I should have acted stronger. I should have left her with Simon; were she belongs. Not with me, not with a- with a monster. She would have been safe. I should have been more monsterish. More rude, more non-conversations, more harsh.

And yet, as I think of it now, I wouldn't have. I couldn't. In these few weeks I known her, the more I got into the plan of damsel in distress with Simon; the more I needed her to be near me. I don't know why, but it's been like a pull. An urge. I tried to be ruff, to fight with myself to get her out of my mind, but..... I don't know. I-I couldn't.

"Derek....."

I looked down, her head was tilted on my chest and her eyes locked with mine. She was finished even though I didn't hear her cry, she had two or three tears dotted on her face. I rested my hands on her check, trying to avoid her bruise (I coughed off a growl), and rubbed them away. She caught my wrist when I was done.

"Derek, please stop worrying about me. You-"

"Why? Why, do you do that?"

She stared up at me, studying my eyes, "What do you mean?"

"Why do you put me first?"

"Probably the same reason you do for me."

I swallowed, "And what reason would that be?"

(Chloe's POV)

I just looked at him. Struck by the question. Why did it madder so much to him?

"Derek, it's just that you are bleeding and you're more bruised than me! And-and-and you just need more attention!"

He grabbed my wrist, "There's nothing you could've done. I knew what I was getting myself into when I came after you," He paused and looked me over again, rested his eyes on my bruise and absentmindedly moved a strain of my hair, "You had no idea what you got yourself into."

His emerald eyes flickered toward mine while I studied him. My stomach started doing weird little flips when we locked gazes. I wanted to say something instead of just sitting there looking like an idiot, but my mouth was too clogged up by some feeling rushing through my veins.

It's weird. One second my body was shivering from fright of what was going on, but then it went warm with Derek's light touch with his hand still lying on my cheek. It felt right. It felt safe. I had a feeling like I was away from a home- which I am but this is different -and I finally made it to my home. Like in other words, I was very homesick and now I'm not any more because I finally made it home. Finally crawled under my warm covers and just sat there basking in it. I felt comfortable. It felt like I belonged.

I turned my face and eyes away, not sure of what I felt of the feeling. Derek's hands lowered toward my chin and pulled my face back toward his.

"Don't," Derek said his voice husky. Like he was exhausted from a long run.

I swallowed and spoke as best as I could, "D-don't what?"

"Don't look away from me. I love your eyes," His face heated up when he realized what he was saying," I-I mean-"

"I like your eyes, too." He looked back up toward my face. His eyes for once opened up the wall that I always felt when I looked at them. They weren't just the solid flashy green anymore. They turned liquid and smothered around his pupils. It was hard to explain but I knew I felt something familiar to what I felt ever since his second change.

"D-d-do y-you feel that too?" I asked trying to decipher what his unblocked eyes were telling me about this. About all of what is happening between us. This-this connection.
He looked a little struck by the question- well more like how or why I was asking it. Stupid, stupid, I thought. Why would he feel that? You're probably just imaging things.

Like when you thought you were imagining seeing ghost, my inner voice countered.

"Yeah," he whispered, barely audible, his breath barely just making my side bangs blow upward.

"What do you think it is?" I whispered back, inching closer so I could hear his response more clearly than the last one.

"T-to be hon-," Derek's face was bright red around the cheeks and not by acne which is barely even on his face any more. Strange, I mean before we left there was some traces of it but not like almost completely gone. Stress must be the workings.

He took a deep breath and closed his eyes for about five seconds. But during that time something happened, the magic- since I have no other words for it - just went away. Like poof. There. Gone. Just by moving his eyes away from mine. The feeling was like a band-aid being pulled away from a barely healed wound. I hated it. Didn't want it.

But then he opened his eyes again and the feeling returned making all the worries go away. Right now- somehow through all of this mess- it was just me and him. Derek to Chloe. Chloe to Derek. Necromancer to Werewolf. All the rest just a thing in the past, a distant memory. A thing that Derek only did by the flick of his gaze and his simple touch on cheek.

"I.... don't," he took a breath and let it out, "...know."

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Yah I was going to put this section in derek's POV but um yah..... just wait till next chapter. =D

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