Ello chaps! Welcome to the eighth installment of The moon and The Wolf. I was originally thinking of only doing ten chapters, but I might make it 15. Not entirely sure. Send me your feed back. Also I'm a little exhausted even though I slept till nine this morning and all I did today was lay on my bed and watch Supernatural. Any who on with the show!

I do not own anything Teen Wolf, if I did it would most definitely be Derek Hale.


"Welcome to the morning show, and today we're going to kick it off with 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger..." The music started to play and a hand came down to hit the snooze button. The joyous music stopped and throwing off her covers, Artemis got out of her covers. She slowly clambered out of bed, rubbing her eyes. She let out a breathe of air and headed toward the shower. The young Beta turned on the warm water and shedding her clothes, she stepped into the pouring water. She closed her eyes enjoying the feeling of the warm water cascading down her body. She was washing herself off with soap as she came across a small mosquito bite on her arm. She shrugged it off. And stepped out wrapping a towel around her. She looked at the calender on her wall. Tonight was the second full moon since she had gotten here. She got dressed, dried her hair, then headed to school.


Derek had an easy day planned for himself. Go on his run, eat breakfast, do his work out routine, and just lay around all day. It was around noon and he was just sitting on the couch, checking on emails. He had heard the car door slam and just assumed it was his downstairs neighbors, but when Stiles and Scott slid open his door he rolled his eyes. All they did was cause trouble.

"Come on Derek," Stiles said looking over at the older male. Derek looked over at stiles and rolled his eyes. They were down right crazy. They didn't honestly believe that he wanted to spend time with them did they? The two younger males looked at each other.

"We think you know a lot more than you're leading everyone on to believe. See that look you had on your face when you came in was the same look I use when I'm hiding something from Allison. So tell me, what are you keeping from us," Scott said looking at the Alpha. Derek looked over at the pair and set his laptop to the side. He closed it then looked at the pair. He reluctantly nodded and they came and sat down staring across from him.


Artemis opened her book to page three hundred ninety-four. She rolled her eyes and slowly began to read through the passage. Her eyes slowly drifted over the page not really taking in the information. She watched as another blonde came and sat next to her. Erica. She looked sad and desolate. Like she wouldn't ever be happy. Erica looked over at Artemis.

"Boyd and I are leaving town again. I know that's going to make Derek trust issues even bigger, but we can't stay here. Its not us," Erica said looking down at her paper then back at Artemis. "Will you tell him?" Erica asked the other beta. Her eyes were begging Artemis to do it. They couldn't face Derek. They couldn't betray him twice. Artemis nodded, "When are you leaving?" Erica looked at the clock and got up.

"Right now," and with that Erica and Boyd walked out of the classroom. Artemis watched them go. Was it bad that she was almost happy that they were gone? That she was happy to see them go. There was something off about the pair, something that didn't sit right.


"I know why the weare is going after Artemis and I." Derek said looking at the pair. Their interest was instantly peaked. They had just thought that he had come to terms that he liked Artemis. This was much better.

"And?" Stiles asked impatiently. Derek glared at him.

"Well you both know how there are true alphas? Well there are two true things. True alphas and True Mates. True Mates are werewolf mates that have found each other. Its extremely rare and only comes around once every century. They're even more rare then True Alphas. But the True Mates thing comes with a hitch. It brings a weare. Something to try and break them up. See the world decided that it they couldn't just be together, they had to prove they were true mates. You know all the usual stuff," Derek explained to the the two nitwits.

"Wait so who are the True Mates?" Scott asked thinking it was him. Because obviously everything revolved around Scott. How could it not? Derek looked over at Scott.

"Allison and you," Derek said sarcastically. He rolled his eyes, trying not to hurt Scott. "No you idiot," seeing the really look on Scott's face.

"Well then who is it?" Stiles asked anxious to get the answer out. Derek sighed, he really didn't want to say anything about this because he knew Scott or Stiles couldn't keep their mouth shut.

"Artemis and I."


"Oh Artemis!" The shrill voice of Lydia Martin rang out through the halls of Beacon Hills High. Artemis turned to see Lydia Martin scurrying down the hallway. Artemis smiled as the junior came over to her. "So I just heard from Allison that you don't have a dress for the Spring Dance! So we're going shopping for one right now! Allison is meeting us at my car," Lydia said grabbing her wrist and pulling her out to the parking lot. All Artemis did was shake her head.


They arrived at the dress store a little past 4. An overly cheerful saleswoman came up to them and told them all about their great prices. And with that, they were off. Allison and Lydia kept throwing dress after dress into her changing room. All dresses had to meet the approval of Allison and Lydia, and most of them were failing miserably. Purple made her look really red, and yellow made her look pudgy. They had found this particularly ugly dress that made her look almost like a ham. After a while Lydia and Allison were starting to lose hope.

"Guys can I come out and look for one? I mean its just the spring dance, its not like I'm getting married!" Artemis said stepping out of the room with several other no dresses. She walked past the pair shaking her head and searching through the racks of dresses. She felt the silky fabric, and smiled. She used to come to dress shops with her mom, until her mom got super busy. Artemis finally found one she liked. It was at the back of the rack, hiding from the normal gaze. She picked it up and took it to her dressing room. Twisting and turning to get into it she finally managed it and walked out to show Allison and Lydia. It was long and slimming. It was silver, reminding everyone of a moon and she loved it. It had an a-line and a small belt. It met both the approval of Allison and Lydia.

AFter that they all headed home. One of the girls wearing a particularly broad smile.


After Derek had sat through nearly an hour of laughing and teasing, he threw both boys out. He really wasn't in the mood for it. He sat back down on the couch and resumed checking his emails.

Clunk CLunk Clunk

Three knocks at the door and Derek got up. He slid open the door, "yes very funny now lea-" He was cut off mid sentence. It wasn't Scott or Stiles, It was Artemis. Long blonde hair Artemis. He watched as she walked in and grabbed an apple off the counter. She looked over at him as he raised an eyebrow. Derek sat down on the couch, thinking about messaging one of his friends who knew a lot on the history of wolves, and ask him how to get rid of werewolves, when he felt his laptop taken away, and replaced by something a bit heavier. He looked up to see Artemis straddling him.

"Get off of me now," Derek said and Artemis just smiled.

"Do you really want me to do that?" Artemis asked putting both her hands on his chest. She slowly trailed her nails up and down his stomach.

"Artemis get off of me now," The alpha said with a growl. He was pushed way to far into the couch for his own comfortableness.

"Would you prefer Paige?" And then suddenly it wasn't Artemis on top of him, but Paige. A full grown paige but a Paige non the less. "Or Kate?" Then it was Kate. Derek quickly shoved the thing off. "Don't you get it Derek? Everyone who you have ever loved it dead. And they were all your fault. Do you really want another death on your hands? If I were you I think It would just be better if you cut Artemis off. Save her, let her live a long happy life," the thing said who look an awfully lot like paige right now. "Face it Derek, you love making yourself miserable. But even more than that you deserve to be miserable," The thing said flittering to Artemis. It smiled then disappeared as Derek finally gained enough control of himself to try and stop the thing. He let out a growl and headed upstairs to his room.


Artemis laid in bed smiling to herself when she got a text. She picked up her old razor phone and looked at it. One message from Derek Hale. Well that was weird. She knew Derek preferred to call over text. She picked up the phone and flipped it open.

Look you were right I don't need you in my pack. So don't bother me anymore.


Bad Derek! THis chapter did not turn out right. Anywho. Please review and give me ideas. Oh ya question of the day:

How have you asked some one to a dance in a really cute way, and how did they reply? or vice versa.