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28-Pizza!
Ashlee's p.o.v
It had been a week since the whole Darach situation. Jackson had moved to London to work a couple days ago, leaving an upset but happy-for-him Lydia behind. It was my turn to take Lydia out to cheer her up.
"What are you doing today?" Scott asked from beside me. We were lounging around on his bed.
"I was thinking i'd take Lydia out to lunch, I think she needs some time out and about to get over Jackson" I tell Scott. "Maybe that little italian bar by the mall? I'm hungry for pizza" I said, rubbing my stomach.
"I love pizza" Scott states in that voice that tells you he wants to tag along.
"By golly Scotty, did yo' want to tag along?" I ask in a terrible accent. Scott laughs but nods. "Maybe i'll invite Malia as well, oh and maybe Stiles" I start rambling, thinking who would make Lydia feel better.
"Allison too?" Scott asks hopefully.
"Allison too" I confirm with a chuckle. I leave Scott in his room to get ready. I text the others and tell them to meet us the italian restuarant in an hour. I jump in the shower, quickly washing my hair. I decide on wearing a red and black aztec patterned play suit. I pull on my usual black combat boots and apply some light make-up, just mascara and lip gloss. Scott decides we'll take Mom's car instead of his bike. Mom is upstairs, fast asleep, finally getting a day off. Scott drives and just as we're pulling in, the others pull up. Scott greets Stiles with a manly handshake then moves to give Alli an innocent welcoming kiss on the cheek. I hug Lydia and wave to the others. We all pile inside, deciding to sit at the long, wooden table by the back window, it looks out over the river that flows through Beacon Hills. We all order a pizza or go halves. My phone goes off and I look down at it to see it's a text from Derek. Instead of opening it and reading it, I turn my phone off and put it back in my bag. We spend the next couple hours just eating, laughing, smiling, goofing about. I'm listening to Lydia joke about how she might have to run through the forest for 3 days naked in the freezing cold again just to lose all the weight she would have gained from these pizzas, she seems to be back to her old self again. I laugh along with the others until I hear that voice. I watch as the others all turn towards it, Lydia's eyes narrowing.
"Hey Ash" Jax says, standing behind me. God! I swear Beacon Hills isn't this small!
"Uh, hey" I say awkwardly. Lydia gives me a pointed look and I nod at her. "Can we talk? Like..outside?" I ask Jax, already getting up. He nods and follows me up the hallway and outside. We sit down on the only bench out the front of the restuarant. After I told, or was made to tell, Lydia about the night I spent with Jax, she agreed with me that he was a dick. He was rough and consistant. Lydia quickly apologised for 'forcing' me to take him home but I just brushed it off, it was my decision, I could have said no.
"I haven't heard from you" Jax states.
"No, you haven't..it's been a crazy week, family stuff" I tell him, cringing at how unbelivable I sounded. Well shit, when you actually spent the week fighting Darachs and psychotic alpha werewolves and stopping human sacrifices it was hard to lie..not to meantion mine and Scott's father is back.
"Family stuff?" he asks and I nod. "Stuff with Scott?" he pushes, I nod again. "Something you need to tell me?"
"I don't want to talk about my family domestics" I tell him harshly. He just nods but sucks his lip in, something you do when you're angry or you want to say something.
"Are you free later?" he asks, his voice soft again, sweet.
"I might be" I answer vaguely.
"I was thinking I could come over around 10 tonight and we could finish what we started-" Jax says cockily.
"What?"
"Or you can come to me" Jax says.
"I'm sorry if I led you on the other night, I was drunk and I was upset but I don't want their to be an 'us'.." I tell him, trailing off, waiting for his reaction. Sure, I wanted him that night, I wanted a distraction from Derek but I know that is wrong. It is the absolute worst reason to dive into a relationship.
"It's fine, I don't want their to be an 'us' either" Jax says.
"You don't?" his words stung but I can quickly get over that. I'm just glad he understands.
"Of course" he says. His hand rests on my bare leg. "But I do want something to keep me warm at night" Jax tries to seduce and runs his hand up my thigh. He did NOT understand.
"Uh.." I start, taking his hand off me. "That isn't what I meant"
"I know what you meant, you don't want a relationship, neither do I" Jax replies. His hand back on my thigh. "But we're both human, we both have needs" Jax whispers in my ear, his hand creeping to the inside of my thigh.
"I'm not gonna be your booty call" I bark in a hushed whisper, careful not to alert Scott and the others. I storm away from him, making my way back through the hallway to the dining room. Soon i'm pulled back and pushed up againist the wall. I come face to face with the angry eyes of Jax Hunnam.
"Come on baby, just another night" he says, running the back of his hand down my cheek. I bite my tounge, forcing my wolf back as she tries to get out.
"Get. Off. Me" I spit through clenched teeth. I push againist his chest but without using any wolf powers, he was unfortunately stronger than me. I couldn't let him see anything supernatural, so for the mean time, I was stuck as a weak human. I stop my shoving in shock when I feel Jax's lips smash into mine. His tounge forced into my mouth, I taste him and it makes me shiver in disgust. Then all of a sudden it's gone, he's not pressed againist me anymore. I stare wide-eyed at the scene in front of me.
"What the hell?!" Jax barks at Derek. Derek had ripped him off of me.
"She said no" Derek says, letting him go. Before Jax can reply, Derek smacks him across the face. Jax drops to the floor, spitting out blood as he does. "Are you okay?" Derek asks, turning to me. I can only nod, Derek starts to walk over. Jax pulls himself up off the ground and charges at Derek, tackling him from behind. Derek fumbles slightly but soon finds his bearings again. I jump forward, ready to take Jax out myself. "No, he's mine" Derek tells me and I slow to a stop. Derek swings him around, elbowing him in the face. Jax spits out more blood before glaring at Derek. "You stay the fuck away from her" Derek warns him.
"She didn't want me to stay away from her when she was grinding all over me at the rave" Jax taunted. I heard Derek growl, I could smell his wolf threatening to come out.
"Jax, that's enough!" I bark.
"What's the matter Ashlee? Don't want Derek to know about all the things we did in the dark?" Jax says, turning his gaze to me, thankfully the others hadn't heard what was going on.
"Shut your mouth" Derek warns him again. Jax wipes the blood that's dripping from his split lip with a chuckle.
"Why? I bet you'll love the stories Derek" Jax continues.
"Don't" I growl at him, keeping my own wolf back. She doesnt like seeing Derek angry and I don't like seeing Derek in any sort of dangerous situation.
"No, he'll enjoy them, he really will. Well, there was the night at the rave when I had my hands all over you-" I stepped forward this time.
"Jax" I growled lowly. When I looked over at Derek his nostrils were flared, his mouth set in a hard frown, he was pissed. Derek pushed past me, grabbing Jax's arm. "Derek, leave it" I tell him. I didn't want Derek getting in trouble over this, we're in public. "He isn't worth it" I say bitterly.
"Really?" Jax says sarcastically. "But I was worth it when I had my hand down your pants-" and that was it. Derek starting whaling on Jax, punch after punch after punch after punch.
"Derek, stop!" I yell. I can hear Scott running towards me. Derek doesn't stop. "DEREK!" I scream, he was going to kill this boy. Scott sees us, the pack behind him. He runs forwards and I do as well. "Get him out of here" I tell Scott, motioning to Jax. Scott pulls Jax away, Jax's nose is definitly broken. I pull away Derek as his eyes start to glow blue. I hear the workers running towards us, the loud noise attracting them. I drag Derek out of the restuarant and down the alley beside it, everyone following. "I got to get him out of here, you all need to leave, now!" I tell them. They all go for their cars.
"What do I do with him?" Scott asks, helping Jax stand.
"Get him out of my sight"I tell Scott, holding back Derek who looked ready to tear Jax's throat out.
"You're such a cock tease" Jax gets out and it's Scott's turn to growl.
"Don't give him the satisfaction" I tell Scott. I feel Derek start to calm in my arms. I look at him and his eyes are normal again. He lets out a breath and I let him go. "I'm fine. Thank you for standing up for me" I whisper to Derek.
"I see now, why you didn't want to be with me" Jax starts. Derek tenses beside me. "You're already his booty call" and he lets out a laugh. When Derek goes to attack him again, I turn to him with red alpha eyes, telling him to stay back. It's not Derek I have to worry about though, it's Scott. Scott shoves Jax into the wall, up againist the restuarant.
"Scott!" I say and grab his arm. He turns to me with alpha eyes of his own, teeth bared at me. He tries to turn back to Jax but I grab his arm again. "Stop it, he's had enough" Scott spins around and pushes me back, his claws scratching deep into my arm as he does. My back hits the other wall and I grunt in pain, my spine objecting on impact. Derek comes to my side, helping me. Scott's eyes return to normal, an apologetic look on his face. It was like it was when he first turned, he scratched me but he instantly felt sorry but what did I do? I ignored him for days, I wouldn't do that this time. I held one hand over my bleeding arm and walked over to Scott.
"Ash, i'm sorry" Scott says.
"Let's just go home" I tell Scott. Jax looks up at me. I storm over to him. "If you ever put your hands on me again, I won't need Derek and I won't need Scott..i'll kill you myself" I warn Jax darkly, mimicking Derek's words from awhile back. His eyes widen in shock. I walk back over, pick up my discarded handbag, pass my brother and Derek and out to Mom's car. I watch Derek and Scott follow without another glance at Jax, which I am thankful for. Scott gets in the driver's seat without a word and starts the car, taking us home. I pull my phone out from my bag. The screen's cracked, probably from dropping my bag. I turn it on anyways, the unread text from Derek is still there, I open it.
Haven't heard from you in awhile, are you okay? The text I got at lunch. I find a couple others, recieved after I turned my phone off.
It's been an hour, just checking to make sure you're alright. Then 20 minutes later.
I sent the first text 2 hours ago, i'm coming to find you.
I navigate through the cracks in the screen and send him back a text.
I'm okay now, thank you Derek. I'm glad you found me. I have a feeling there's more than one meaning behind the last part but I send it anyways. If Derek hadn't have come along, I would have had to shift to get him off me, I couldn't call for help without the staff getting involved and I didn't want that, I couldn't get into any trouble with the police. I just wanted to put this behind me, we had all been through enough this month. I could feel the guilt coming from Scott so I leant over and rubbed his shoulder.
"It's okay Scott, I should know better than to challenge my alpha" I try.
"It's not okay. I hurt you, AGAIN" Scott says. The rest of the car ride is silent.
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And all they wanted was pizza! Hopefully you got to see the protective side of Derek that we all know the brooding werewolf has. Read, review, favourite and follow please!
