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"You could've carried some of these, you know?" Scott groaned as he carried our groceries, which was a grand total of just four bags. I rolled my eyes as his flare for the dramatics.
"Oh, come on. Those bags weigh like two pounds each, I think you can handle it. Also, we didn't park on this level." I replied as we walked out onto a level of the parking deck.
Scott stood there for a moment, looking at the cars before he huffed in annoyance.
"Damn it." He grumbled before we turned and walked back into the stairwell. I'll never understand why all parking decks don't have elevators, I mean lazy people like myself don't exactly enjoy stairs.
We walked out on the next level and out into the deck, looking for the car. I couldn't remember if we parked here or not so I just decided to keep quiet. When we didn't see the car Scott sat the bags down on the ground and reached into his pocket to retrieve the keys. He pressed the lock button to see where it beeped from and the both of us groaned when we heard it from the level above us.
"Oh, crap." Scott said as the milk fell out of a bag. I reached to try and grab it but it rolled under a car before I could reach it. A few seconds later the milk rolled back towards us, leaking from the side. Scott and I looked at each other in a panic at the sound of a low growl echoed through the garage. "Addie, run. Fast." Scott instructed as he took off.
I followed him, though not quite as fast as his werewolf speed. When he was human I could keep up with him fairly well since I ran cross country, and did track when they were in season. I kept my speed following Scott as quickly as I could until I was yanked back against someones body, an all too familiar scent flooding my nose. I spun around with wide eyes to see Derek holding me to him. I opened my mouth to say something but he placed a finger over my lips so I wouldn't. He leaned down close to my ear.
"Stay here, we'll be back." He whispered before he was off after Scott again. I sighed and walked over to a nearby wall and leaned against it, willing my heart to stop thumping so wildly in my chest. A few moments later I jumped in fear when car alarm after car alarm started to go off, catching me off guard. What was going on? It wasn't long before I saw Derek and Scott come around the corner, Scott angrily talking to him.
"What the hell was that?" Scott yelled at him.
"I said I was going to teach you. I didn't say when." Derek replied as the two finally reached me. I followed them to wherever they were going, letting them argue.
"You scared the crap out of me! You made me think something happened to her!" Scott exclaimed, pointing at me for added effect.
"Not yet." Derek said.
"Okay, but I was fast, right?" Scott asked.
"Not fast enough." Derek quipped.
"But the car alarm thing, that was smart, right?" Scott asked.
"Till your phone rang." Derek responded.
"Yeah, but that was… I mean… Would you just stop? Please? What happened the other night, Addie almost getting hit by that car, Stiles' dad actually getting hit and being hurt, that was my fault. I should have been there to do something. I need you to teach my how to control this." Scott pleaded with him. Derek glanced at me at the mention of me almost being hit, I hadn't told him that part and I knew I'd hear about that later.
"Look, I am what I am because of birth. You were bitten. Teaching someone who was bitten takes time. I don't even know if I can teach you." Derek explained to him.
"What do I have to do?" Scott asked him, exasperated.
"You have to get rid of distractions." He said, stepping froward and taking Scott phone and holding it up, a missed call from Allison lighting up the screen. "You see this? This is why I caught you. You want me to teach you? Get rid of her." Derek said, hitting a nerve with me. Was I a distraction for him? Did he mean that for himself as well as Scott? My eyes drifting down to the floor, not waning him to see that his statement had upset me, though I had a feeling he'd know anyway.
"What, just because of her family?" Scott asked. Instead of responding, Derek held up Scotts phone before whirling around and throwing it as hard as he could against the wall. "Wait, wait, wait… whoa!" Scott yelled in attempt to stop him, but it was too late. The phone hit the wall and smashed into a few different pieces. Welp, mom wasn't gonna be happy about that.
"You getting angry? That's your first lesson. You wanna know how to control this, how to shift, you do it through anger, by tapping into a primal animal rage, and you can't do that with her around." Derek told him, his voice rising.
"I can get angry." Scott said lowly.
"Not angry enough! This is the only way that I can teach you. Now, can you stay away from her? At least until after the full moon." Derek asked him.
"If that's what it takes." Scott said. Liar.
"Do you want to live? Do you want to protect your friends, your sister? Yes or no?" Derek asked.
"Yes. If you can teach me, I can stay away from her." Scott told him.
After that we all parted ways. Before leaving I locked eyes with Derek and he sent me a wink, making me blush. When we got back home we quickly put up the groceries and then Scott headed out again, most likely going to Allison's.
I made my way upstairs and took my nightly shower, throwing on a sports bra and a pair of spandex shorts. When I walked out of the bathroom and into my room I was startled to see Derek lounging on my bed. I grinned as I walked over and laid down beside him, laying my head on his chest. He wrapped his arms around me and held me to his body.
"Why didn't you tell me you almost got hit by a car?" He asked. I rolled my eyes.
"Because I didn't actually get hit and you like to overreact." I told him chuckling.
"I like to know that my girl is safe, is that a crime?" He asked. My eyes widened when he called me his girl. I lifted my head and looked at him with a grin.
"Your girl?" I asked.
"As far as I'm concerned you are. If you'll have me anyway." He said with a small smile.
"You should already know the answer to that." I said, laying my head back down. I felt him place a small kiss on the top of my head, the butterflies in my stomach fluttering, God, I was such a girl. "You know Scott is gonna freak when he finds out, right?" I added.
"Yeah, which is why we shouldn't hide it from him. The longer we wait the worse it'll be." Derek said, and I knew he was right. I mean, either way Scott wouldn't be happy but if he finds out we've been hiding it from him he'd be likely to blow a fuse.
I leaned up and pressed my lips against his, a rush of emotion flooding through me as our lips pressed together. I rolled over so I could reach him better as the kiss started to heat up. He brought one hand up and laced his fingers through my hair, bringing me closer, while keeping the other on my lower back. I raised myself up and pulled m body over his, legs on each side so that I was straddling him. I trailed my hands from their resting spot on his chest up so they were cupping his face. I felt his tongue caress my lips so I opened my mouth and let his tongue in, meeting my own. The hand that had been tangled in my hair softly trailed down my side until it rested on my hip, igniting goosebumps on my body.
I don't know how long we'd been making out for when all of a sudden he pulled away with his eyebrows furrowed.
"What is it?" I asked worriedly.
"Scott is almost here, and something is up. Come on." He said.
I rolled off of him and off of the bed, following him as he made his way into Scott's room. Derek sat down in the armchair in the corner while I crawled in his bed, leaning against the headboard. It was quiet until Scott barged in his room, locking his door behind him and running over to turn on his lamp. He jumped in for when he saw Derek sitting in the chair, and his eyes drifted to me for a second before switching back to Derek.
"You seriously need to stop doing that." Scott huffed.
"So what happened? Did he talk to you?" Derek asked. I felt my brows scrunch together in confusion, what was going on?
"Yeah. We had a nice conversation about the weather. No, he didn't talk!" Scott said sarcastically.
"Well, did you get anything off of him? An impression." Derek asked.
"What do you mean?" Scott asked.
"Remember, your other sensed are heightened. Communication doesn't have to be spoken. What kind of feeling did you get from him?" Derek responded as he pushed himself up out of the chair. It then clicked that they were talking about the Alpha.
"Anger." Scott responded after a moment.
"Focused on you?" Derek asked.
"No, not… Not me. But it was definitely anger. I could feel it. Especially when he drew the spiral." Scott told him.
"Wait, the what? What'd you just say?" Derek asked, his demeanor changing a little.
"He drew his spiral on the window of my car, in the condensation, you know? What? You have this look like you know what it means." Scott asked. I looked over at Derek and he looked a bit nervous.
"No, it's… It's nothing." He said as he started to walk away.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait a second. You can't do that. You can't ask me to trust you and then just keep things to yourself." Scott told him.
"It doesn't mean anything." Derek said, obviously lying. He reached up to unlock Scotts door and then went to open it.
"You buried your sister under a spiral. What does it mean?" Scott asked again. Derek sighed as he opened the door, placing a hand on Scott's shoulder.
"You don't want to know." Derek said before shooting me a look right before walking out. I stood up and headed to the door, deciding to give Scott one last bit of information to end his day.
"Oh yeah, Derek and I are dating. Gotta go." I told him right before I shut the door.
"What?" I heard him yell right before I got to my room. Just as I had expected, Derek was nowhere to be seen. He knew I'd question why he clammed up so bad when asked about the spiral so instead of staying he just left. I shrugged to myself and climbed in the bed, ready for this day to be over.
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The next morning, Scott had thankfully left the subject of Derek and I alone for the moment. The only thing he was saying actually was something about staying away from Allison. I was sitting with Stiles in class, where Scott had yet to arrive.
"You still mad at him?" I asked Stiles.
"Yup. I mean, he didn't even try." Stiles huffed right as Scott walked through the door, earning a serious glare from our friend.
He walked over and sat down behind Stiles, looking like a lost puppy.
"Still not talking to me? Scott asked, earning no response. "Can you at least tell me if your dad's okay? I mean, it's just a brush, right? Some soft tissue damage? Nothing that big? You know I feel really bad about it, right? Okay. What if I told you that I'm trying to figure this whole thing out, and… That I went to Derek for help." Scott said, after a few lame attempts of getting Stiles to answer him.
"If I was talking to you, I'd say that you're an idiot for trusting him. But obviously I'm not talking to you." Stiles said, keeping his eyes straight ahead. I rolled my eyes at the not trusting Derek part. Yeah, he wouldn't take the news about him and I very well either. I watched Stiles as he leaned up to write something on his paper, trying to keep his resolve on not talking to Scott, but it failed almost immediately. "What did he say?" Stiles asked as he spun around to look at Scott, who was now grinning like the Cheshire cat.
I tuned them out, seeing as how I heard all of this before and actually paid attention to the lesson we were having.
"He wants you to tap into your animal side and get angry?" Stiles asked after the bell rang and we were leaving class.
"Yeah." Scott agreed.
"All right, well, correct me if I'm wrong, but every time you do that, you try to kill someone. and that someone is usually me or your sister." Stiles said, not liking the idea.
"I know. That's what he means when he says he doesn't know if he can teach me. I have to be able to control it. Plus, I'm sure if I even thought about laying a finger on Addie, he'd rip me to shreds. Boyfriend duties and all." Scott said glaring at me at his last statement, dropping the bomb to Stiles. I smiled and shrugged at my brother.
"Well, how's he gonna teach you to do that?" Stiles asked, the boyfriend part apparently not clicking with him.
"I don't know. I don't think he does either." Scott replied.
"Okay. When are you seeing him again?" Stiles asked.
"Just told me not to talk about it. Just act normal and get through the day." Scott answered.
"When?" Stiles asked, thumping Scott on the chest.
"He's picking me up at the animal clinic after work." Scott told him.
"After work. All right, well, that gives me to the end of the school day then." Stiles sighed.
"To do what?" I asked.
"To teach him myself." Stiles answered before turning and walking away. He took a few steps and stopped, turning around with a look on his face. "Did you mention something about Derek and boyfriend duties because I don't know of anyone here who… You." Stiles asked, looking at me in disbelief, finally registering what Scott said earlier.
"Me." I said with a smile. Stiles blinked a few times trying to process the new information.
"But… but why Derek? Literally anyone else but him, Addie, come on." Stiles pleaded.
"Sorry kiddo." I said walking up and lightly tapping his cheek before walking to lunch.
I got my tray and walked over to sit with Lydia and Allison, not wanting to deal with Stiles' questions about why on earth I was with Derek.
"The what of who?" Lydia asked as I sat down. The two smiled at me, before Allison turned to Lydia, ready to explain whatever they were talking about.
"The beast of Gevaudan. Listen. 'A quadruped wold-like monster, prowling the Auvergne and South Dordogne areas of France during the year 1764 to 1767. La Bete killed over a hundred people, becoming so infamous that the King Louis XV(15th) sent one of his best hunters to try and kill it.'" Allison read from a book.
"Boring." Lydia said.
"'Even the church eventually declared the monster a messenger of Satan.'" Allison continued to read.
"Hmm. Still boring." Lydia repeated.
"I think it's interesting." I said, wanting to hear more, having a feeling it wasn't just 'wolflike' and that it was a werewolf.
"'Cryptozoologists believe it may have been a subspecies of hoofed predator, possibly a mesonychid.'" Allison read.
"Slipping into a coma bored." Lydia said.
"'While others believe it was a powerful sorcerer who could shape shift into a man-eating monster.'" Allison read, confirming my suspicions.
"Any of this have anything to do with your family?" Lydia asked. Ah, this must have to do with her history project she told us about.
"This. 'It is believed that La Bete was finally trapped and killed by a renowned hunter who claimed his wife and four children were the first to fall prey to the creature.' His name was Argent." Allison finished. Wow, so basically her entire line of family had been hunters, That's comforting.
"So your ancestors killed a big wolf. So what?" Lydia asked. Allison balanced for a moment before composing herself again.
"Not just a big wolf. Take a look at this picture. What does it look like to you?" Allison asked as she turned the book towards us so we could see, and she propped her chin on top of it. I leaned closer to take a look, my heart skipping a beat at the photo. It was almost as if someone had taken a picture of our Alpha and placed it in this centuries old book. I swallowed the lump in my throat, while exchanging a look with a panicked Lydia. She had seen the Alpha that night, but she was in serious denial.
"Lydia? Addie? Guys?" Allison asked, breaking our momentary silence.
"It looks like a big wolf. See you in History." Lydia said, grabbing her thing and getting away from the table as quick as she possibly could.
I drifted into my own thoughts as Allison went back to her reading.
"Scott. Scott, wait." Allison called after my brother, shaking me from my own little world. I followed her as she took off after him, curious to see how this would play out. "Hey, Scott! Scott.." She called out, right as he ran into the boys restroom. He looked and me and I shrugged, not knowing what I could really say to her at this point. She sighed and then walked off, I guess taking the hint.
I reached my hand up and hit the door with my fist.
"You can come out now, she's gone." I told him. He walked out with a sheepish look on his face.
"This is not going to be easy." He huffed.
Hi guys! I hope you like this chapter. Also, I have a question. What would you like Addie and Derek's ship name to be? Let me know. Anyway I love you all and hope to see you next time. Let me know what your thoughts on this chapter was! See you soon!