Chapter Seven

Unavoidable Annoyance

*Derek

Derek sat in the driver's seat of the jeep a lot longer than he needed to. He was dreading going back up to the loft and seeing Josie. After everything she did his first instinct was still just to rip out her throat, though lucky for her she had a mountain ash circle protecting her. So for now at least she was safe from his wrath, not that he could do anything anyway. Not when her death meant Stiles was going to die as well, revenge really wasn't worth that. Even with the knowledge that what she said about Cora was true, that she really had killed his sister.

Derek let out a slow soft sigh before pulling the keys out of the ignition and finally climbed out of the jeep. He trudged up the stairs to the loft with only one thing on his mind, getting this all thing over with. This wasn't going to take weeks like all their other baddies. They were just going to get it finished so Josie could go back to Echin House where she belonged.

Walking into the loft was the easy part looking at Josie knowing he couldn't do anything was the hard part. "I'd rather not talk in that's okay with you" he said with a small forced smile before heading over to the desk, wanting to just get to work already. "For this to work you won't talk unless spoken to, understand" he said and glanced at her before opening his laptop, wanting to see if he could find out anything about this Nigel guy.

"Oh yes of course Sir. I mean I assume you want me to call you Sir as well. That is how you address a dictator right" Josie said with a smirk. "Emphase on Dic of course" she said, her smirk only growing.

Derek let out a slow sigh and deciding not to respond knowing it would only make things worse. Luckily he had a lot of practice in the ignoring sarcastic comments, dating Stiles in all. Instead he decided to move on and ask her about his guy that was supposedly after her. "What more can you tell me about Nigel?" he asked, though still didn't look up at her. He couldn't stand to look at her right now, or probably ever for that matter. "Any weaknesses he might have?" he asked.

Josie was a bit bummed he didn't take the bait but decided to move on as well. "I really don't know much, not about his weaknesses anyway. We dated for over a year, but neither of us trusted enough to give up those sort of things" she said and sighed softly. "We mostly just had sex all the time" she said with a small chuckle as she thought back for a moment. If they were good at anything that was definitely it.

Derek shook his head slightly, "And I really don't want to hear about that, so let's just move on." he said with a smile before finally looking up at her, nothing but disdain and disgust in his expression.

Josie sighed, "Fine" she said before pushing herself up into a standing position. She crossed her arms over her chest and let out another sigh as she tried to think of something that could help them against Nigel. "I know where most of his properties are, but I'm sure he's got rid of those and gotten knew ones already. Though you should probably still check them out, just in case" she said with a small shrug.

Derek nodded slightly "Yeah okay, I'll have you write them all down later" he said and looked back down at his computer intent on going back to ignoring her for the time being. Besides if her were being honest he was to worry about Stiles right now to do any investigating for himself.

Josie studied Derek for a moment before once again finding herself smiling. "Something keeping you down Derek" she asked, easily able to play concerned. "We both may have changed monumentally but I can still tell when you're up set, and well you're being transparent." she said.

Derek couldn't help but but laugh at that one, "Right sorry, will try and be less obvious next time" he said and rolled his eyes.

"You do that" Josie said with a snort "But for now why don't you tell me why you got your brooding brows on" she said.

Derek gave her the glare that brought on Stiles' terrible nickname "No thanks" he said and flashed a smile before standing up and walking towards the spiral staircase. Just because he had to be around to protect her didn't mean he actually had to be in the same room as her.

"Oh come on Derek. If we're going to be working together we're going to have to learn to be in the same room with each other, without it ending in a death match" she called, before he could start ascending the stairs.

Derek growled, "So what I'm just supposed to get over the fact that you had my family burned and then finished what little family I had left" he snapped before whirling around to face her.

"No, but don't forget that you killed my mother too, self defense or not you did it. Then you abandoned me left me alone. Omegas rarely ever make it but I did, no help from you" Josie growled.

"I didn't remember you. It's not my fault my mother took away my memory. It's not my fault you became psychotic" Derek yelled.

"Yeah and if you had really loved me maybe it never really would have worked. You never planned on meeting up with me did you. You always planned on abandoning me. Leaving me for dead" Josie screamed, getting out all the anger and hurt she's felt over the years, because like him all the love she'd ever felt for him turned to pure hate.

Derek snorted, "Not that it even matters but I was going to leave my family for you" he said his tone softening, for a moment remembering back to how he felt as a teenage boy. "I really did love you, more than I've ever loved anyone before, or since" he said mentally filling in that he loved Stiles more than he could have ever loved her, not quite ready to admit that yet. "But now, Whenever I even think about you all I feel is hate. You ruined whatever we had the moment you spoke to Kate. If you really loved me you would have tried talking to me, try and figure out what had happened. But you were exactly like your mother. Your first instinct is murder and revenge, and honestly you deserve whatever is coming to you. If it weren't for Stiles you'd already. So count your blessing and shut up" he said, his voice hardening as his speech went on. He then just turned around and jogged up the stairs to the second floor.

Josie growled more than a little tempted to launch at him, luckily she remembered the mountain ash before doing so. She glared at his leaving form before slumping down onto the floor, since there really wasn't much else she could do.

After a moment a small smile graced her lips as she remembered something she always used to do that annoyed the hell of out Derek. And since she knew he could still hear her she went ahead and did it. She started singing, loudly and completely out of tune, one of his least favorite songs. Well if she remembered right it was anyway.

Derek didn't hear it at first but the sound of Josies terrible singing soon drifted upstairs. He hated that she still knew how to annoy him, though now he definitely wasn't going to give her the satisfaction of seeing exactly how much. He slowly and quietly climbed out the window and scaled down the side of the building. Since the bitch was singing so loudly he was sure that she wouldn't be able to hear any of it. Not that it mattered, all it would do was give her gloating rights.

Unfortunately Derek still couldn't actually leave so he just climbed back into the jeep. With his hearing he could still hear Josie, but it was a lot easier to tone her out now. Besides he actually felt more relaxed in Stiles' jeep, and not just because he was away from Josie. It was easy to believe that Stiles was safe while sitting in the jeep, though he really couldn't tell you why.

Derek closed his eyes and just took in Stiles' scent for a moment, the jeep was covered in it. That was really the most relaxing part, it almost felt as if Stiles was sitting right next to him. Or at least it smelt like it. After a while he realized how ridiculous he was being and just climbed back out the jeep and stood outside for a while. He really did not intend to go back inside anytime soon, and would probably just stay out here until Stiles was back. He really didn't want to have to deal with Josie by himself, didn't want to rehash their past again, and he definitely didn't want to hear her terrible singing.


*Stiles

Stiles climbed back over the fence, nearly landing on his face when he tried jumping to the ground. He had gotten roughed up by a feel orderlies that had found them in the basement but luckily one of the doctors stopped them when Stiles was finally able to drop Deaton's name. The name took them down into the underground facility where they really needed to be and they learned basically everything they needed to know, and it honestly wasn't good news.

Lydia and Stiles had to go out the way they came, mostly because the doctor didn't want it to get out that he was showing civilians around in the middle of the night. Which was why Stiles was bruised and struggling to climbed back over the damned fence, and why he nearly fell on his face, making his bruises worse than they already were. "Think it would have been easier if he just let us go out the front door" he grumbled as she pushed himself back up to his feet. "Especially after his goons attacked us" he said still grumbling as he dusted off a bit of dust from his pants.

Lydia shook her head, "Stop complaining Stiles, this was your idea anyway" she said with a small chuckle as she strode over to her car. She had kind of missed all of this monster and mystery stuff, her life has been so dull and normal since she left Beacon Hills for college. Though maybe she just missed hanging out with Stiles.

Stiles sighed and nodded slightly, "True, but really not the point" he said before following her over to the car. He climbed into the passenger's seat before pulling a few files out of his bag to look at them a bit more closely. "Either way though what we found out in there isn't good" he said with another sigh. "And I'm really not looking forward to telling Derek about all of things that Nigel let out of that place. Probably in exchange for their help" he said before looking over at her. "Could probably use the help of a banshee if you're up for it" he said with a small smile.

Lydia nodded slightly, "Would love to help, though i'm not really sure how much help I'll actually be" she said honestly. She hadn't had anything involving being a banshee happen since she left for college. Not that she was complaining, she had grown tired of feeling like she was losing her mind.

Stiles smiled, "Great" he said with a small nod before going to reading through the file in his hand. It was all interesting that was for sure, but kind of scary, knowing what all these people, or creatures that were let out did. A lot of terrible things.