So two chapters in one day...probably the only time this will be happening. It is a short chapter because The Tell is mostly about Scott and Allison which Gaby doesn't really have anything to do with so it's shorter than normal. Don't worry next chapter will be back to normal.

Big thanks to Pokemonrul 432, and-then-they-died, Lycan Lover 411, and Brittany Blue 212 for your reviews. I hope you all like this chapter.

I only own Lisa and Gaby.

Enjoy!


Chapter 7

Gaby kissed her aunt on the cheek as she pulled up to Allison's house "Thanks for the lift Aunt Lisa."

"Tell Allison I said thank you for doing this," Lisa nodded.

"Will do. My car will be ready by tonight right?"

"Yup, so if you wanna go pick it up after school, you are more than welcome to. I put enough money in your account to cover the costs."

"Thank you, I'll see you sometime tonight."

The blonde hopped out of the car and rang the doorbell. Chris Argent smiled at the small blonde in the doorway "Hi Gaby, Allison is just upstairs finishing getting ready."

"Ok, thanks Mr. Argent."

Gaby walked up the stairs to Allison's room and knocked on the door. "Hey Gabs, I'm almost ready," Allison said opening the door.

"Before I forget," The blonde girl said before pulling out a wrapped box "Happy birthday!"

Allison's eyes went wide "How did you know?"

"Lydia. Well come on open it! Don't just stare at it."

The brunette carefully took the box and opened it up. She gasped at the pair of black boots sitting inside. "Wow, Gaby you didn't have to get me something like this," Allison said quickly putting them on.

"Of course I did. Part of the perks of being a good friend of mine…and a girl, you get free stuff from my aunt that hasn't been released yet. So you love them? Huh you love them…tell me how much you love them."

Allison smiled at the smaller girl "I love them Gaby they're so cute, and my size, how did you know."

"I have my ways…" Allison shot her a look "Your mom told me what size you wear."

Allison laughed and finished grabbing her stuff. The two heard a knock on the door and a woman walked into her room. She had light brown hair, looked to be in her late twenties, and was really pretty. "Hey listen, you know I feel totally horrible about my behavior the other night, right?" she said to Allison.

"Oh totally forgotten," Allison assured her.

"No, not forgotten by me. Come on call me a 'horrid bitch' or something."

"You were just…being protective."

"I was being a protective horrid bitch…who is…giving you your birthday present early so you'll forgive her." Allison smiled as she grabbed the box. The brunette gasped at the sight of the necklace. "Forgiven?" the woman asked.

"Completely, I love it."

"It's a family heirloom. And you know me I hate and loathe all sentimental crap, but that…Well look at the symbol in the middle of the pendant. See that?"

"Yeah."

"You ever wanna learn a little something about your family…look it up."

"You're going to make me work for it."

"Some mysteries," The woman said placing the necklace around Allison "Are worth the effort."

Allison chuckled before turning towards Gaby "I'm so incredibly rude. Gaby this is my aunt Kate and Kate this is one of my best friends Gabriella Myers."

The blonde smiled and held out her hand towards Kate. "Wow," Kate said shaking her hand.

"What?" Gaby asked.

"You have extremely gorgeous bright blue eyes."

"Oh…thanks," Gaby smiled.

"Have you ever met somebody with your eye color?"

"Not personally, but I'm sure somewhere out there someone has it…or something similar to it."

Kate nodded "That eye color must run in your family."

"Not my immediate family, no. But I think my grandmother had blue eyes."

"Huh…interesting," Kate said before giving the girl another once over. She smiled at the two girls "Well have a great day at school girls, see you later."

"Bye," the girls chorused after she left.

"Ready?" Allison asked walking out the door.

"Yeah," the blonde nodded still wary of what just happened with Kate.


Gaby smiled at Matt as she sat down in her seat for Chemistry. "Just a friendly reminder," Harris said to the class "Parent/teacher conferences are tonight. Students below a C average are required to attend. I won't name you because the shame and self-disgust should be more than punishment enough." He stopped in front of Stiles and asked "Has anyone seen Scott McCall?"

The door opened and Jackson walked in. Gaby was surprised to see him even here today. Lydia showed up to decorate Allison's locker then left. Scott told the blonde the night before that Lydia and Jackson had been attacked by the alpha at a movie store. She watched as Mr. Harris told Jackson that if he needed to leave or he needed something to let him know. Gaby rolled her eyes if she was attacked Harris would probably tell her to suck it up and give her extra homework. "Everyone, start reading chapter nine," he ordered the class "Mr. Stilinski, try putting the highlighter down between paragraphs. It's chemistry, not a coloring book." Gaby bit her lip to keep herself from laughing.


"Have you heard from Scott?" Gaby asked Stiles as they walked out of history.

"Yeah earlier, he said he'd deal with everything later. Where is he anyway?" Stiles asked her as the two made their way out of the building.

"Allison wasn't in her classes either…it doesn't take a genius to figure that out."

"Good point," Stiles sighed "I'm going to go check up on Lydia. You wanna come?"

"Not really, but will you drop me off at the mechanics? I need to pick up my car."

Stiles nodded and dropped her off at the mechanics before driving away. Gaby paid them, and drove away. She had half a mind to go home and do homework, but the other half was telling her to drive to Derek's to check up on him. Needless to say the other half won as she parked her car a little farther away from Derek's house. As she trekked through the woods she stopped several times to turn around, but then she shook her head and continued towards the burnt house.

She stopped at the porch but then rolled her eyes at herself, he's a werewolf he probably knew she was there already. Walking through the front door she noticed Derek was shirtless…again and doing pull-ups. "So I guess asking if the arm feels better, is a bit pointless," Gaby said shutting the door.

He dropped to the ground and looked at her "A bit."

Gaby nodded and looked around. She heard Derek walk up slowly behind her. When she turned around they were extremely close. "Hi," she said looking at him.

"What are you doing here?" he asked. He wasn't coming off as annoyed or frustrated, just curious.

"I wanted to make sure you were ok," the blonde shrugged.

He nodded "I'm fine."

Gaby smirked "I can see that, so now I can leave." Derek rolled his eyes when he realized she used his words against him. She walked towards the door but stopped when he grabbed her wrist. Gaby turned around and gave him a confused look "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah…I just…"

"What?"

"The mark is still there," He said shifting his weight.

Gaby chuckled "Well yeah, hickies are kinda hard to get rid of."

"Yeah I know, I was hoping it would be gone by now."

"Why?"

"So it doesn't have to be a reminder that I lost control with you."

Gaby leaned against the wall facing him "So don't think of it like that."

"How should I think of it?"

"Our almost first kiss…" she smiled.

"Wait what do you mean by almost?"

"You kissed my neck…I just stood there and let it happen," she laughed.

"You didn't stop it."

Gaby bit her lip and looked at the ground "I didn't want to."

When he didn't say anything the blonde looked up at him. "So if I put my hands here…" he said putting both hands on the wall on either side of her waist. "And leaned in like this," Derek whispered leaning towards her neck. "And did this," he placed one gently kiss on her neck before asking "What would you do?"

"Well," Gaby smirked and ran her hands up his chest and around his neck "I would do…" She started to say before Derek pulled away and looked towards the door keeping Gaby pinned to the wall. "What's wrong?" Gaby asked him looking towards the door.

The werewolf didn't answer he simply picked her up and ran farther into the house. "Stay here," he whispered "If you hear gunshots run straight back and hide in the woods."

"What's going on?" she whispered just as quietly.

"Hunters are here."

He moved to leave but Gaby grabbed his arm "Don't let's just go."

Derek kissed her forehead "I'll find you ok?"

She nodded allowed him to leave. After a few seconds she heard someone yell "When we cut her in half!" Derek growled in response and threw someone against a wall. After a few more thuds Gaby slowly moved towards the fighting. She needed to hear what was going on. Gaby heard an electrical buzzing sound and Derek groan in pain. Another zapping sound occurred and a growl from Derek was heard after it. The person laughed "900,000 volts. You never were good with electricity were you? Or fire." Gaby's eyes widened when she recognized the voice, Kate. Kate was the one hurting Derek. "Which is why I'm going to let you in on a little secret. And well, maybe we can help each other out. Yes your sister was severed into piece and used as bait to try to catch you. Unpleasant, and frankly a little to Texas Chainsaw Massacre for my taste, but quite true. Now here's the part that might really kick you in your balls…we didn't kill her." There was a pause before Kate asked "You think I'm lying?"

"Wouldn't be the first time," Derek said weakly.

"Tsk, sweetie…well why don't you just listen to my heart and tell me if I am, ok? We…didn't…kill…your…sister. You hear that? There's no blips or upticks…just the steady beat of the cold hard truth. Found bite marks on your sister's body Derek, what do you think did that? A mountain lion? Why aren't we helping each other out? You might as well admit what you've been guessing all along, which is…the alpha killed your sister. And all you have to do is tell us who he is, and we'll take care of it for you. Problem solved, everybody goes home happy." After a few seconds of silence Kate continued "Unless…you don't know who he is either. Well guess who just became totally useless."

Derek ran through the house. He saw Gaby standing there, picked her up, and ran before Kate began firing bullets. "I told you to wait there," Derek yelled putting her down when they were far enough away.

Gaby shook her head and let the tears fall that she had been holding in "I know…I'm sorry…I just…"

"Where's your car?"

"Over there," She pointed towards her black SUV.

"I need you to go home."

"Come with me."

Derek shook his head "I can't. It's too risky."

"I don't care."

"I DO! I'm don't be the one to put you in danger Gaby. I need you to be safe at home, ok?"

Gaby nodded and walked to her car. She drove home and quickly wiped away her tears when she saw her aunt in the driveway. "Where are you off to?" Gaby asked.

"Parent teacher conferences…should I be concerned?" Lisa asked.

The blonde smiled at her aunt "Nope."

"Good I'll bring home something to eat afterwards. Behave!"

Gaby waved as her aunt drove off. Just as she was about to walk into the house a voice was heard from behind. "I'm sorry I snapped," Derek said causing the girl to shriek and turn around.

"What are you doing here?" She asked the werewolf, who found a shirt.

"Apologizing…"

"Why do I get the feeling you don't do that very often?"

Derek shrugged "Because I don't."

Gaby nodded and pulled out her keys to enter her house. Derek moved so he was right behind her. "Is something wrong?" she asked turning to look up at him.

He shook his head "I wanna try something."

"Ok?"

"Don't move," he whispered leaning closer to her. He slowly closed the distance between them and kissed her lips. Gaby closed her eyes and allowed herself to get lost in the kiss. He pulled away before the kiss could intensify even more. Gaby fluttered her eyes open only to see an empty driveway and yard. She lightly touched her lips and smiled as she walked into her house completely unaware of the pair of eyes watching her.