When we got to the loft the cub was wrapped in a shirt I had on and I got another shirt from the bag in the back for emergencies. Jackson's Porsche, Scott's bike and Boyd's truck were in the parking lot and I surely I didn't need a wolfs sense of smell to know who they came with. I grabbed Gus and sauntered in the warehouse.
When I got to Derek's door to knock, the door was already open with a very happy blonde curled boy in front of me. Without thinking I tightened my grasp on the cub. Isaac moved out the doorway and I looked towards the kitchen to find Derek arms crossed leaning on the island with Cora right next to him both looking at me, both with one eyebrow cocked, a look that meant – what the hell are you doing-.
Brushing their looks off and I stood waiting for Isaac to come along but he hasn't moved since I entered the loft. I look towards him I lift one arm and gesture to him to come along. He shuts the door and slowly comes towards me, when he is right next to me he looks confused to the bundle of fur in my arms.
Gus is on a position that his head is under his paws so they can't see his face. I put my hand in his back and start petting him. Gus started purring and when I looked at Isaac he looked like a kicked puppy; his head down and his left arm was hugging his right arm.
I figured out that he might just feel jealous of the baby cub. I took his chin and made him look towards me with the hand that was petting Gus.
"Pup, I want you to meet Gus" I told Isaac and with the mention of his name Gus's head poked out of the shirt he was snuggling into. Isaac raised his hand for Gus to scent after a couple of sniffs Isaac started to scratch behind his hears and Gus moved with the groove.
Gus started wiggling from my grip and jumped towards Isaac. He landed in the middle of his chest and after the light shock from his jump Isaac kept petting him and stayed next to me.
I moved towards Derek who no longer had his bitch face but now with a very much look of appreciation. He wrapped an arm in my waist and I cuddled to his side.
"You said Gus right?" Derek told me and I hummed looking at him. "So you named a cub after a rat from Cinderella" he looked damn ready to snicker at me.
"Now, now you can come up with jokes or is this going to gradually increase in sarcasm too" I moved out of his hold on me and stared at Cora to see that she is holding off from laughing. "Are we going to start the meeting or you guys wanna resume the stare off" I looked at both Derek and those in the living room.
With that something triggered in Derek and Cora because from the bright atmosphere that started turned to that of a tense fight. No one moved and after awhile I noticed that there was total silence expect the light muttering in the living room.
Isaac now was in the floor playing with Gus. ~ Aw, that is fadorable, Dad has to see this~ I took the photo and while sending it to him I moved to show it off to Derek.
When I showed him the photo some of his tension seemed to fade. Cora had moved closer to Derek tip toed and hooked her jaw in his shoulder so she could see the photo. On her face there has a faint smile showing up in her face.
I looked towards the living room; they were no muttering now just complete silence. Lydia was next to Erica with Jackson in the armrest beside her and Boyd was next to Erica on hand holding his jaw with a full blown scowl. Erica and Lydia looked totally relaxed while Jackson was in his phone. Scott and Allison were in the loveseat right next to Boyd. Scott had his face down, his face buried in his hands while Allison was trying to soothe him.
Derek and Cora moved towards the living room they sat in the couch parallel to the one Erica and Lydia was sitting on. Isaac moved with them Gus in tow, Isaac moved towards the armrest on the right side next to Cora who was next to Derek. Gus turned he was looking around when his eyes found me he ran towards me. I bent down to pick him up from where I was leaning on the kitchen island.
"Stiles please come here" Derek told me while patting the seat next to him. I moved towards the seat and Gus prompted himself out of my lap and on the armrest to my right. He started looking around the room; I started petting him and scratching behind his ears.
"This meeting is to sort out why all of you expelled Stiles of the pack when clearly none of you are THE ALPHA of this PACK!" Derek's hands were in fist on top of his thighs. In the middle of him speaking Boyd and Scott started whimpering and lowered their heads while Erica and Lydia were non-chalant and Jackson's eyes were closed hands coming to rest on his face.
With the reaction the girls were displaying Derek rose from the couch and went towards them.
With an eerily and all scary ass smile he went towards them and sat down on the coffee table in front of Erica and Lydia. Lydia's hands started to tremble while Erica averted her gaze from him.
"Do you want me to guess?" he started to come closer to them hands on his thighs eyes pointedly at them. "I don't need to guess, I can smell your fear and trepidation from miles away" Both of them looked towards him eyes the size of saucers.
"See Lydia I don't need a banshee to tell me the future because I will rearrange it no matter what. I need a super sized bitch who thinks she's all that with the fright that she will be overthrown from a position she doesn't have. All the while she has the constant fear of not being good enough to be loved and to top it all off with atelophobia because her constant fear is that she's not good enough" Not only is her hands trembling but her whole body is shaking while she covers her mouth and lowers her head. Derek is crouching in front of her one hand in her leg and the other brushes her tears away.
"I don't blame you Lydia for being this way, or for having these ridiculous fears. You are a strong independent young woman who doesn't know what her powers can do or how her feelings may be manipulated and shattered." He strokes her hair and hugs her, for a moment you think she's in shock but not a second later and her arms hook on his shoulders before she's full out crying.
Everyone in the room has let out a breath that they might have unconsciously held. Isaac and Gus are no longer in the arm chairs but snuggled on top of me and Cora is right next to me. I hug them all even though my arms are crumpled in between them.
~ Holy shit, this dude is Peter 2.0 in the harsh area~ I keep my eyes on Derek trying to point out the ending of this meeting and that conversation.
Derek has now left Lydia with a reassuring squeeze and a kiss on the forehead. All eyes in the room are on Derek again. He is again in the coffee table but no longer in between both girls but parallel to Erica, his eyes are searching her never leaving her not even for the tinniest sound. The room is quiet, rarely seen even when sleeping.
"I know Lydia has not the one with the idea but she did find the perfect time to execute the plan, but who plans was it? Well that's not hard to figure out. Which pact member is the one most afraid of others, especially those who are human? Not Boyd he wants them, not Jackson he's to good for them" - that gets a snicker out of Cora- "not Allison or Scott they live and interact with dozens all day long, Isaac and Cora keep to themselves but they help others every day."
"That leaves you Erica, the girl that had seizures daily from even the smallest touch of others. People didn't even know you existed if it weren't for those pesky attacks and because of them it ruined everything right? You wanted to be alone, damn; you thrived from being alone didn't you? You could see everything, everybody's worst secret, fear and story because no one saw you." Erica had her claws out and she made her hands into fist while her face was full of recognition most likely of her past self. Her eyes were shut but some stray tears came out.
"Then came the bite, that gave you power, strength overall control of yourself. You made a new start one where you weren't bullied, scared or alone. Because you were constantly alone you became scared of that, you thought you would be forever alone and now that you made friends and someone likes you but you have this constant fear that you will be left alone and that no one would even notice." Derek was on his feet pacing the living room looking like he was solving a mystery.
~ This dude's a drama queen for sure; he's doing this out of fun. Peter would have been full on laughing if he was here even threatened by this~ Stiles ran his hand on his hair.
"That's why when everyone started hanging out with Stiles and talking more with him, you were scared that they would no longer acknowledge you. Then you wanted a way to take him out, you no longer wanted him in the pack you had the perfect plan but then I became more and more of an obstacle because I was always looking out for him and your anger became even greater. Then I left and the plan came into action."
He stopped his pacing in front of her but he no longer looked amused, he looked sharp, ferocious and raged with each word that came out a pointed glare would go deeper and deeper into Erica like he was stabbing her. It surely looked that way with how Erica seemed pale and cold sweat had started to fall from her forehead.
"You started by persuading everyone that Stiles was a liability something that would harm us more that he could help, that he would distract us and become a nuisance to the pack" With those final words he came face to face with her
"All because he was human"
"You played that card so well that even his most loyal friend, succumbed to your plan, all because you were afraid. Afraid of no longer being someone's favorite"
He rose and started walking towards me his hands where in front of me. I took his hand and he led me towards where all could see us.
"Rest assured Erica, Stiles was and never will be a nuisance to this pack, and He is more than an asset, researcher or technician. He is a Healer, Gift and Mate and he is MINE. This pack is MINE and the decisions are to have a final word which is MINE."
"Erica do you want to say something to counterpart what I said or do you agree with what I said?" Derek told her with a straight face and I was looking at him with eyebrows raised.
"I uh… I'm sorry Stiles. I was mad because, yeah, Isaac was my closest friend and then he started leaving me and going to you. Then the Alphas came not only did we have to fight but you'd come guns blazing and you'd come out like a rag doll. Then he'd blame us because we didn't protect you enough. So yeah, you are a liability and I didn't want to be blamed for your stupid-ness anymore."
"Do you feel better now getting that out? You did all this because I was human, see I don't think so?" I stood away from Derek. Erica backed away from me every steep I took towards her.
"You aren't only mad towards me, you're jealous of me. Because the first person that looked at you before you were bitten was Derek, the one that wanted you to become better was Derek and for that he offered you the bite. He took care of you gave you a new start, you thought you were something more to him then came Boyd and Isaac at first you thought that they were stealing your thunder. Then you came to love them but then I came along sarcastic quirky little me. Do I need to continue?" Erica had bumped and fell into the coffee table by the end of it. She looked more surprised than scared.
I came right up into her face.
"You see Erica I'm not entirely Human" With that I flashed my eyes They turned a silver white. I could feel the change in my aura, I changed spiritually if not they'd be another color- that's a story for another time-. " Certainly you didn't expect that did you?" Erica gasped and even fell of the coffee table.
