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Once Sophia and Derek had gotten into Derek's car and he started the engine reversing out of the parking lot, Sophia's mood completely changed. It went from shocked and scared to sad and angry within minutes. Sophia was literally blaming this situation on herself.
Derek could sense the feelings Sophia was giving off in the car and it definitely wasn't helping his mood either. He was pissed at his uncle's stupid behaviour and how he didn't even try to stop him from doing what he did. Also he was confused as to why he didn't smell the blood before they had even entered the school. He knew something had changed since Kate stole the original colour of his eyes but he didn't think that he would lose a sense as well. He felt useless and helpless.
Turning his attention from off the road for a split second, Derek glanced at Sophia was had her head laying against the car window her elbow resting on the inside of car door and her lips were slightly pouted like she was sulking. "You'll get a stiff neck sitting like that"
"I don't care" Sophia mumbled shrugging her shoulders as she did so not even looking at Derek.
Derek sighed slowing down the car as they came to a red light and he turned his full attention to Sophia now "Sophia, it's okay you know, you didn't get hurt, you're fine"
"But you didn't see what I saw!" Sophia snapped at him turning her head round to face him an angry look on her face.
"Of course I did, moments before you arrived I was fighting off the axe murderer" he replied defensively confused as to why she was so upset when she hadn't even been in danger by this guy.
"No Derek" Sophia sighed sitting up more on her seat "Something happened at the party"
Derek's frowned at her words, the traffic lights changed to green and Derek turned his head back onto the road and began accelerating away from the lights. "What do you mean something happened at the party? Is that why Peter picked you up?"
"Yeah because you couldn't pick me up like you had promised!" Sophia retorted at Derek her voice still full of anger.
"Just tell me what happened, Sophia" Derek ignored her attempts to have a go at him not even in the mood to argue back with her.
"Some delivery man who happened to be a werewolf got strangled and his head literally rolled off his body right in front of my eyes"
"What do you mean right in front of your eyes? Did anyone else see this?"
"No just me. I went outside to get some air my friends were acting crazy drunk and I heard someone so I went over to some bushes and peered over them and I saw the whole thing happen, let's just say I'm going to have nightmares for at least month from what I have witnessed tonight"
"That means that even though the axe murderer is dead there's still people working for someone, but why would they go after a werewolf? What did the person look like who killed him?" Derek continued asking questions trying to understand whatever the hell was going on and get Sophia to speak out about what she had seen as it would help.
"This girl goes to my school, she was at the party and she's a couple of years younger than me, brown hair, brown eyes, average height, dark skin" Sophia tried to tell him as much as she could still feeling a bit shook up about it.
He nodded back at her as he turned down into her street and headed down to her house, he could still sense the upset feelings Sophia was having so decided to ask her "I thought you said you'd seen some of this supernatural crap before so why do you seem so upset?"
"It's nothing" Sophia muttered looking away from Derek and back out of the window not wanting to have to go into this when she was probably just being stupid.
"Sophia, you're giving off this vibe that you're the one who killed someone, which I don't think is true, so tell me what's up?" Derek pressed pulling up outside her house and turning off the engine before glancing at her.
"It's just my sister!" she sighed taking off her seatbelt and picking up her clutch bag "What about if she has something to do with all of this? I knew she was hiding something from me when her boyfriend died but what about if she is helping to kill people?"
"That's a bit of a crazy assumption to make don't you think" Derek replied back raising one of his eyebrows up at the girl who sighed again even louder this time.
"You're right, I'm just being silly" Sophia murmured dropping her head and fighting back the tears what we're willing to fall.
"Do you want me to walk you inside?" he offered placing a hand on her shoulder comfortingly but she just brushed him away grabbing hold of the car door.
"Nah I'd rather be alone and away from this" she spat back at him opening up the car door, stepping out and slamming it loudly without Derek even trying to stop her, it was just like the other day when he had dropped her home and she pushed him away just like that.
Sophia bit down on her bottom lip as she hurried up to the front path up to the front door not even bothering to turn around and look at Derek. She knew that he was just trying to help her but what if she was just making things worse by adding something into his life that he needed to protect. She didn't want to be a burden to him. Peter's words from earlier were still circling around in her brain that she was just a little bit of fun to Derek, when deep down she knew she wanted to be more than that to him. He was the first guy in years to take full notice of her and put her needs before their own.
Entering the house, she flicked on the hallway light and closed the door behind herself locking it as she did so. Putting her hands over her face, she exhaled loudly in the quiet house before sliding her body down the door and collapsing on her bum where she wrapped her arms around her legs and buried her head between them.
Tonight had just been too much for her to handle.
The next morning with a fresher head, in somewhat of a calmer mood and having avoided his Uncle all morning, Derek finally left his loft and began heading to his destination. Despite what happened last night, Derek still had to keep in contact with Scott about the benefactor and the corresponding assassins trying to take down the supernatural creatures in Beacon Hills. He had only found this out last night when he had gotten back from the school and dropping Sophia off. This meant that himself, Scott and his friends and other creatures were also in danger. Some of their names were on some dead pool and the lists could be broken by a special key code.
This type of thing he wanted to keep Sophia out of but he gathered she had already made the decision for that herself last night after pushing him away. He knew that type of thing would freak anyone out if they weren't exactly used to it. But he knew that Sophia was lost without her sister there, with all these murderers going on and her sister's ex-boyfriend dead. It was like a vicious circle for her.
Derek just wanted to know she was ok after last night. He had never meant for her to get upset or frightened. He actually wanted to protect and help her. Not the opposite. However wrong it was to get involved with her in the first place, he couldn't help himself. They hadn't really spoken about what they were or even if they were anything. It was obvious there was an attraction. But was it too much for her to handle all of this? And could Derek even put his trust into another girl after the past?
After fifteen minutes of driving, Derek pulled up in his car outside the school and somehow managed to find his way inside the school by blending in with the other students who were on their break which meant they were flooding the hallways, the cafeteria, outside areas and any other facilities the school offered students.
Scott had call him earlier this morning to update him but also for help with Liam, the freshman guy who he had to bite the night at the hospital to save him from following off the hospital roof. This being Scott's beta he was finding it hard to get through to Liam seeing as he had some anger issues, so that's where he asked for Derek's expertise even though he hadn't exactly been Alpha of the year when he was the alpha not long ago.
Sneaking into the boy's locker room like Scott had suggested meeting him, Derek decided to play a little prank of his own on Liam, knowing he hadn't exactly been fair to Scott. Hiding behind a row of lockers with Liam's lacrosse stick in his hands, he waited until the freshman entered the locker room and began frantically looking around for his stick.
"What the hell, where's my stick?" Liam spoke out madly as Derek took this as his chance to spice things up a little in his prank already knowing Liam was angry.
He began sliding the end of the lacrosse stick against the metal of the lockers meaning that the room was now filled with a loud metal clanking type noise and of course to Liam it was much louder. Liam used his senses to follow the noise making his way down the row of lockers and turning a corner where his path met with Derek's.
Derek spun the stick slowly around with his fingers eyeing up the object as Liam crept closer to him "Is this yours?" he asked the boy looking back at him now.
Not even letting Liam answer, Derek snapped the stick in half with force causing Liam to jump a little and Derek chucked the broken stick towards him, the pieces landing a few inches away from his feet. This made Liam really angry and due to his new wolf powers he couldn't help but begin to shift right in front of Derek.
He's eyes turned the beta yellow colour and he began growling at Derek making Derek raise his eyebrows and tilt his head at how mad this boy really could get and the lack of control Scott had taught him. Liam fiercely charged at him but due to Derek's experience and strength he grabbed Liam by the collar and pinned him up against some lockers.
Liam growled and struggled against Derek's firm grip and Derek even admitted to himself that Liam was strong already for a beta, maybe too strong in fact.
"Liam" Scott called to him now coming into the room and over to the two of them, Liam's head snapping towards Scott and he began to calm down, his fangs and yellow eyes vanishing.
"You're right" Derek said looking between Scott and Liam "He is angry"
Derek let Liam go and he jumped down to stand on his two feet again breathing heavily as Scott threw him back his actual stick talking to him "This one's yours"
Liam caught it turning his head back round to face Derek's just as the school bell rang signalling that break was over. "Get to class Liam" Scott told him as he looked between the pair of them, anger still coming off of him before he followed Scott's words and exited the locker room his bag and stick in toe.
Scott rolled his eyes clearly stressed about what had been happening recently and took a look at Derek who was grinning madly at the teenager. "What are you smiling about?"
"You're gonna be good at this" Derek grinned more nodding his head as he did so.
"Are you kidding? I'm totally unprepared! Remember how you said you could teach me a few things, I think right now I could use a full on training manual" Scott answered him coming closer to him not believing a word Derek was saying, he had no idea how to deal with this.
"I'll tell you one thing" he smirked "the anger he's got, it'll make him strong"
"And dangerous" Scott added.
"Very" Derek nodded back.
Scott sat down on a bench and sighed "This was supposed to be a semester where I focused on school again" Derek took a seat down beside him as he continued "case pack and I've got a beta and there's a dead pool"
"If all are names are on that list then that is what we should be focused on" Derek told him "Do you think Lydia can get the second key?"
"She's working on it" Scott replied and Derek nodded standing back up on his feet.
"Do you know where I could find Sophia Turner?" he questioned Scott from out of the blue making Scott frown and smirk at him.
"What is your involvement with this girl? I could smell her all over you the other day" Scott informed him and Derek shrugged his shoulders trying to fight the smile what was tugging on the corners of his mouth.
"It's complicated, do you think I'll be able to catch her before she gets to class?"
"Uh yeah maybe, most of the juniors have math class next which is literally just down the hall from here"
"Thanks" Derek thanked him as they both headed out of the locker room and into the hallway where students were still heading off to their classrooms.
Saying goodbye to Scott, Derek wondered through the crowds of students and turned a corner and that's where he saw the girl he was looking for. Her gold blonde hair was down and straight rather than wavy; she was dressed in an oversized smock daisy print short dress with elbow length sleeves, a black pair of her favourite Chelsea boots were on her feet and her black fringe shoulder bag sat upon her shoulder. He watched as she smiled back at the two girls she was with and began talking to them. She looked so innocent.
And it drove him crazy.
