A/N:
I'm so so sorry for the delay! And so sorry for what this chapter turned into!
That's the last chapter I'm afraid. I had so many things I wanted for this fic but I just can't do it RN!
I have a major block, everything I write just turns into shit in my opinion and just can't make it better. I'm trying for, idk, 2 months maybe...
So I sent part of the chapter to my brother-in-law and to a friend. So they could help me or something, and then I decided that this would be the last chapter.
However, I do plan a sequel, IF someone wants it...
I have even a plot in my head but I need time to formulate without the pressure that is having to update another chapter.
It might work to get my block out, idk.
I hope so because I'm in love with writing and I have so many ideas for this and others stories.
So again, I'm so Sorry guys! Thank you for sticking out with me till now and well, let me know if it doesn't suck as bad as I think this chapter sucks!
*Edit: 7/4/18 - I was writing the next part and then I totally realized that I wrote some wrong shit here! *Laughs sterically*
So I had to change it, if you noticed, sorry! LOL If you didn't, great, let's move on! :D*
After Stiles finished the books he had picked up and the one Derek had just handed him. Derek got a few more books from the archives that he thought Stiles would want to read. The boy excitedly asked if he could read everything else not only about humans and mates. "You're the Alpha's mate there's a lot you can do now." Derek had said as showed his mate some books regarding witches since the boy's mother was one herself.
They stayed in the office for a while longer, just reading and talking to each other. Stiles asked more about the link, wanted to know if he would be able to feel Derek as well, disappointed, Derek answered he didn't think Stiles would. Because although he wholeheartedly wished his mate would share that part of the mate bond with him -and by the look on his mate's face, Stiles wanted as well- Derek was almost sure that that wouldn't happen. Reading more about the mating ceremony, the boy got excited about the ability the mated couple would get after, which Derek didn't have it in him to tell his mate that Stiles probably wouldn't get any since the boy wasn't a supernatural being. Hell, he wasn't feeling the link between them, even with the bond strengthening.
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Stiles was disappointed, he wanted to feel the link too. Not that Stiles was in fact concerned about his mate's feelings towards him, but would appreciate if he could feel, exactly what Derek was feeling as well, especially when Stiles had told the man that loved him. Did Derek felt that Stiles was going too fast? That he should have waited a while longer, maybe Derek was uncomfortable with it. He couldn't ask Derek without making the man remember about his ex's.
If only Stiles were a witch like his mother, he wondered, now that Stiles knew how strong the pull and the bond would be if he had born a witch too. Stiles was envisioning a whole different world for them all. Cause if he was a witch maybe the two of them would have known years ago, and maybe Derek wouldn't even have lost his family and Talia would still be the Alpha. He sighed. Derek was dragging him towards the woods, saying it was time for the next surprise. His mate was very excited, so he pushed his thoughts aside, not wanting to let his feelings ruin the surprise. Stiles wondered where were they going and why but Derek just said he had to show him.
He watched the house fading away, hands tightly wrapped on Derek's. "Are you making me walk too much again? Cause I'm still tired from yesterday." He teased.
A little further but not too far away from the house his mate stopped and begun to take his clothes off, the man took off his shoes and shirt, Stiles mind went right back to the day before, when Derek was all over him, his mate's hot body pressing into him.
Derek stopped midway on taking off his pants and flashed his red eyes at him. "Stiles."
"Yes, well, you're getting naked in front of me, of course I'll get horny! It's not my fault my mate is hot as hell! Is yours actually, you know! Maybe, if you didn't work out so much and…" He trailed off waving his hands all over Derek's body. "Wait, why are you taking your clothes off?" Derek looked at him irritated and got back to his fly. Stiles wondered if it was possible that Derek was going to show him the full-shift. He had read about it earlier but thought it only happened after they truly bonded or after the ceremony. Could their bond be that strong already? "Can you do the full-shift already?"
"You can't just wait and see, can you?" The man chuckled.
"This is amazing Der! Wait!" Stiles said and started to look around to the ground, walking in the little space between the trees, looking for something to play with Derek.
"What are you doing?" His mate asked frowning.
"Grabbing a stick to play with your wolfy self!" The boy said, grinning.
"No! No way I'm gonna run after a stick, you're out of your mind."
"You're gonna like it Der!" He singsonged.
"No." Derek said, flatly.
"Come on Derek, Pleease?" Stiles said, eyes like a little kid.
His mate didn't even dignify it with an answer, just glared with folded arms.
"I always wanted a dog, Der. My dad never let me have one!" He pouted, crossing his arms.
"I am not a dog!" Derek said, scowling.
"Well, you do have a knot, though." He smirked.
"Shut up. I am not going to play fetch with you." Stiles could see Derek trying not to laugh.
"Are you sure? I mean, I can make worth it later! On my bed or yours, doesn't matter. I can sneak up at night, or maybe you can climb up my window." He said with a wicked smile, pulling his mate close by the waistband. With his eyebrows knit together, looking into Derek's eyes, Stiles saw his mate considering it for a moment but it vanished in a second.
"That might have worked if your father hadn't threatened to arrest me."
"God, I'll have to have a talk with my father, this isn't working out for me." He deadpanned.
Derek snorted stepping back then took his pants off. Stiles observed the man arching down slowly while simultaneously shifting. Derek's skin morphed into fur, his face lengthened, revealing a muzzle and an enormous wolf with thick black fur and bright red eyes stared back at Stiles. The animal was so big that Stiles was pretty sure that, if it could walk on two legs would be way taller than him.
The creature -Derek- approached Stiles and sniffed his right hand nudging it as to ensure he could touch and as it came closer Stiles saw Derek's triskelion right in the same spot of human Derek, but as a white fur pattern on the wolf. Stiles was mesmerized, Derek's wolf was the most beautiful one he ever saw, well maybe he was a little biased but whatever. He caressed his mate's head, then scratched behind his ear and smiled when Derek leaned into his hand closing his eyes.
"You like being petted, huh? See, you're gonna like the game too, just like a puppy." He said chuckling, the man-wolf- snarled and backed away a little bit. "Ooh come on, don't be like that sourwolf, I'm not gonna tell, it will be our little secret, babe." He smirked.
Stiles didn't know how Derek managed in his wolf form, but his mate looked at him with a disbelief expression turning and walking away but not before looking back so Stiles would follow him.
The two walked through the forest for a bit with Stiles talking to Derek. It was getting a little dark, and the stars were appearing in the sky, the air was getting cold as the night crept in. At the clearing, close to the house, Stiles sat down on the grass holding his knees on his chest to get a little warm, as in cue, Derek laid down behind Stiles, curling up around his frame. The heat of Derek's wolfy body was so strong that Stiles could release his knees to get more comfortable. They stayed laying there, watching the stars arising above them, Stiles telling Derek about the constellations and the wolf hearing mindfully, glancing at Stiles and the sky as to show he was listening to his mate.
After that, the days went by smoothly, Stiles and Derek settled into a routine. They would see each other at Stiles house some days of the week and at the Hale house the others days, including the weekend. On the weekdays they spent time together even when they had things to do separately, the two would seat together at Stiles' desk, and while Derek took care of paper works, Stiles did his summer reading or just used his laptop. They stayed in silence not to disturb one another, but their legs were tangled together the whole time, especially because the only moment when the Sheriff allowed them in the bedroom alone was when Derek arrived at his house with work to do. When at the Hale house the couple couldn't be alone as well, they had to pretend nothing was happening between them and obviously, the pack was always around. The pack would watch movies, play all sorts of games, sometimes, the wolves trained and Stiles watched them with Allison (the girl was always there as well). She and Stiles were friends before, but with Allison in the pack too they're having more time together and doing so, their friendship strengthened.
So when Allison began talking all about Lydia with him, felt normal for them. The girl was crazy missing her best friend and told Stiles why Lydia didn't come back with her. He was surprised to know that Lydia didn't go to France to enjoy her summer. Of course, she was also enjoying herself in France, but the main reason was that her mother wanted her to study with her aunt. Lydia's family had a long line of Emissary witches, and she was next in line since her mother came to beacon hills to be with her human husband, away from their pack. Not every human could integrate into the supernatural world, especially when said human wasn't his partner's mate. Lydia was learning several languages for years, and Stiles didn't even know before. At France, she was going to learn how to be impartial and give advice, understand the nature of each supernatural creature and study all of their histories. With Stiles' frown and suspicious face, Allison assured him that Lydia wanted to go and was updating her all about the studies every day. The girl showed him a few messages that Lydia had sent to her, talking all about her aunt and the training, there was even a picture. In the photo, Lydia was in the middle of piles of books and grinning from ear to ear. He wasn't much of a friend with Lydia, but he missed her too.
With his time with the pack and the training, Stiles learned that, of the younger wolves; Erica and Cora were the best trackers, Isaac was the strongest, and Scott and Malia were the fastest. Peter was the stronger and faster of them all, apart from Derek of course, who had Alpha powers strengthening his own. He didn't know about Talia. His mate's mother hadn't graced them with her presence on training yet. Derek had tried, but his mother always said she had something to do. His mate would display a hurt face but didn't force her. The man had told Stiles that she avoided it because his father always watched her too, just like he did with Derek.
The firsts days, Malia avoided him at all cost and Stiles gave her time, he knew she was going to come around, they were pack and friends after all. After a while, he began getting close to her to see if she would allow him. At first, she flinched at his proximity but slowly permitted herself be around him, and talk to him. Stiles had missed Malia and said as much, the girl smiled and hugged him, telling that missed him too. He noticed that Malia still had feelings for him and blushed a little, but she was okay with their friendship all the same.
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Is not that Derek hadn't thought about how would it be as a real wolf, but when his mother told him about it, he didn't imagine it was going to be that intense, in fact, he believed that he would be more animal than man. Just like in his human form, however, he and the wolf were one. The only difference was that, in his full shift, Derek was more liaising with his instincts, and felt more in control of his wolf. The beast was in peace, and the human was reining without even trying, the freedom of that was thrilling.
The first time he changed, he felt the connection with the land, "His land" along with the earth and the animals. Even though it was a marvelous experience, the second time was even better. He wasn't in a rush like before, and on top of that, he had his mate by his side. Derek felt as if every time he was with Stiles, he got stronger, more powerful and more in touch with everything around him.
Stiles' face had lit up when Derek looked up at his mate with his bright red eyes and his long muzzle. Derek felt more than saw that his mate wanted to touch him, so he reached out and nudged the boy's hand to encourage him.
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As his and Stiles' routine started to integrate the rest of the pack -when they weren't at Stiles' house-, Derek could see that the hesitation the pack had, to be around his mother, did not apply to him. It felt like he was doing something right, because a pack should be close, and the Alpha is the anchor of the pack, the one who holds them together, and the former Alpha had lost part of it when Derek's father died.
Derek had told his pack mates that whatever they wanted to do, they could do it in the Hale house and propriety. Well, if it wasn't illegal anyway. He wanted all of them to feel at home there and hoped one day he could fill up the empty rooms in the enormous house with them. When Derek was a little kid, his mother was trying to do just that. Back then Peter lived in the main house too, with his sisters -Talia and Isaac's mother- and their families, and of course, Laura hadn't moved out yet. Talia was trying -along with Claudia and Deaton- to get John and Melissa to join the pack, so they would live there as well, since both of them were humans, by the time they started to feel like pack and consider to move in, Kate happened, everything fell apart and they never spoke about it again.
With every passing day, the pack was getting closer to their Alpha, as well as to each other. Derek was always near someone, scent marking them, and trying to get them all in the same place, mainly the Hale house, but sometimes they also went out. He had a few issues with Peter and Malia at first, his uncle because was so closed of, and the girl because she was still in love with Stiles, but the Alpha knew how to get to them. Peter always enjoyed beating the shit out of him and Isaac in training when they were younger, and that's how Derek managed to take his uncle out of his shell, letting him beat the betas while helping them to get better in their fighting skills, mutually beneficial. Malia had been a little more tricky he hadn't known the girl so well, what with his own training for the past seven years and all. He had to get closer to her by himself, which was the easiest part, his little cousin was very open to his proximity and his care to her. Derek suspected it was because she was used to her father taking care of her all the time. He had noticed that Peter kept watching and heeding to Malia's every move, but relaxed when the Alpha showed he could do it as well. It was like his uncle had lost the constant tension on his shoulders, unmistakably afraid of losing his little girl just like he lost his wife.
Over time, Derek observed that as he and Malia got closer, she began to get comfortable when Stiles tried to get back to their friendship. He knew she hadn't lost her feelings for Stiles and in a way, he felt jealous when his mate hugged her. But he didn't let it show to any of them, even though sometimes he just wanted to grab his mate and take him away from Malia because Derek and Stiles were still hiding their relationship from her. Fortunately, the pack was always smelling like their Alpha, so she didn't read anything into them stinking like each other, although the girl looked at them suspiciously often, especially Stiles since Malia could smell the emotions coming from Derek's mate.
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A few weeks had gone by since Derek and Stiles started dating. Derek was so content everything was so great, he was becoming a good Alpha for their pack, had a mate who loved him and whom he loved back even though he hadn't said it yet. He could see Malia and Stiles' friendship strengthening and her feelings for his mate dissipating. Which soon would be enough for them to stop hiding their romance. Derek would finally be able to tell everyone that he found his mate and Derek was ecstatic about it. After the fire he thought never would be that happy again, he sure didn't deserve it.
Derek was sitting in his place at the kitchen table, waiting for his breakfast that Isaac was doing. When the rest of the Hales -including Peter and Malia- showed up at the kitchen to eat with them. They didn't usually eat together very often, apart from the Sunday' pack dinner that is. The girls often ate with Malia at his uncle's house, Talia usually wakes up before everybody else and ate alone, Derek and Isaac always ate together. Derek did think his cousin always waited for him to get from his run so they could eat together, he never voiced it though, knowing Isaac probably did that to fill the space his mother left when she died since Isaac was so attached to Derek's late aunt. Even though he appreciated this tradition of theirs, he wanted nothing more than every single one of them to eat together every day, not only his family but all members of the pack as well.
Isaac's face was pure happiness as he made the meal for everyone along with Derek's mother. They chattered away through breakfast, loud laughter and raised voices in tandem. Derek couldn't hide his smiley face at his family all comfortably together, eating as if they did it every day, he hoped that became a thing for them. And that someday he could have every pack member there and his mate by his side as it should be.