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Chapter 37
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Derek looked up, his body feeling drained and tired, at the sound of the door opening. He wasn't surprised to see Kate walking inside with that smug look on her face, but he felt his insides start with a growl when the man came in with a knocked out Laci in his arms. Her head was fallen back limp, her once perfect curls, were now a mess. As Kate studied Derek's horrified expression upon seeing the teenager, she knew that she was right. He did like this girl, and by the looks of it? He liked her a lot. "Oh, now this is rich. It really is like Beauty and the Beast with you and this girl, isn't it, sweetie? Now that's interesting." she taunted Derek as she watched the man as he laid Laci down on the dirty ground and chained up her arms above her head.
Kate could see the heart broke expression on Derek's tired face as he kept his eyes locked on the sleeping girl. He was truly hooked on this girl, and she had to wonder how far she could go before he snapped and told her exactly what she wanted him to. "Hm, I wonder how much it'll hurt her if I shock her?" Kate pondered out loud to him. She crossed the room and crouched down in front of her. "She really is a looker. A little young for you, though, don't you think, Derek? She's not . . . corrupted enough. Too innocent, but maybe that's why you want her so badly. You want to corrupt her, like I corrupted you. That's a thing with you, isn't it? History repeating." she taunted him as she reached down and brushed the brown curls out of Laci's face.
Derek lunged forward, only to be jerked back by his own chains, snarling and growling as much as he could. He wanted to badly to break free and tear her limb from limb just for touching Laci. "Don't touch her." he growled out to her, his voice low and threatening as the wolf pushed to be let out. He wanted to protect her, he needed to get to her. Kate didn't listen to him as she ran her thumb down Laci's cheek, pressing hard enough against her skin to draw blood. "I said don't you touch her!" he shouted as he tried to lung forward again. He pulled as hard as he could against his cuffs, but it was no use. He wasn't going anywhere.
Kate just laughed at his attempts to break free as she raised back up to her feet. She glanced down at Laci and smiled tauntingly at her. "Oh, don't worry, sweetie. I'm not going to touch her." she said out to Derek as she got ready to leave. She paused at the door and looked back at Derek with a crazy look in her eyes. "I never said that he wouldn't be the one to torture her, though." she laughed back to him before leaving and shutting the door behind her and the man. Derek could tell with his hearing that the man hadn't left like she was, though. He was sticking around for later.
Derek looked over at Laci with a nervous look. He needed for her to wake up, and she needed to do it now. He let his eyes roam down her laid out frame first. Even with her make up smudged and her hair messed up, she still looked breath taking. She looked absolutely beautiful, but it wasn't for him. It was for Isaac. She looked amazing for him, not Derek. She would never look nice for him again, and that was all his fault. If he hadn't pushed away so many times, he might still have his chance with her. "Laci." he called out to her. "Laci, wake up. Laci!" he kept trying, but still, nothing.
He stopped when he saw that him calling her wasn't doing anything productive. He sighed and looked around for anything. He didn't even know what he was looking for, just something that he could do help wake her up. Obviously just calling her name wasn't going to work, but what he if did it differently? "Laci, wake up, please? It's Derek, listen to me. You have to wake up." nothing. "Laci, you need to wake up. I can't protect you if you're not awake." still nothing. "Just open your eyes for me, please, Laci. Please." he begged her. For a moment nothing happened, but then he heard her heart beat. She was waking up.
She groaned out as she tried to toss around. Her heart beat was speeding up, she was starting to come to now. He just needed her to open her eyes, that was all. "That's it, Laci. Just open your eyes. You can do it, please." he continued on to try and coax her into opening her eyes for him. He waited on baited breath as her eyes finally fluttered open. It took her a minute to realize that she was in some kind of room. She shot up, only to be jolted back. She saw the cuffs around her wrists and trying pulling on them, but the only thing she succeeded in was hurting herself. "Laci, don't struggle. You'll only hurt your wrists." he said out to her.
She looked around to see that everything was so dark and dusty. She looked up and saw that she was chained to the wall. She felt weak, like her entire body was drained. Her head was killing her and she felt so cold. Her eyes moved around the room, landing on Derek. He was hanging up on some kind of metal wall. His feet were about a foot off the ground, and the chains were attached to his wrists. His shirt was removed, as well as his jacket, and there were all kinds of wires taped to his side. "Derek?" she asked out. Her voice was dry and her head was killing her. "What's going on?" she asked out to him as she winced and squinted to look around the dark room.
He wanted to give her an answer, but he didn't have one. He didn't even understand what was going on. Well, he did . . . sort of. He knew that Kate wanted to know who the alpha was, but he knew that that wasn't all. She wanted to rub it in his face that she killed his entire family, that she still had a power over him. He opened his mouth to give her some kind of answer, but he was cut off before he could. "I can answer that one for you, Miss." they both looked up to see the man that Kate had brought in to hurt him into giving her answers about the alpha and who the other beta was. "Derek, here, isn't being so nice with the answers that we need. Ergo, why you're here. Miss Argents seems to think because of Derek's attatchment to you, he'll be more . . . compromising, with giving us the answers we need." he explained to her as he moved more into the room.
Derek's eyes flickered over to Laci to see that she was scared. She didn't understand why they had taken her. She and Derek hardly saw each other since the attack at the school When he had last turned her away, that had been it for her. She had moved on, he just didn't want to believe that. He still didn't believe it, not when she still looked at him with those eyes, or when her heart raced just by seeing him or having him be so close to her. She still counted on him to help her brother, and to help her. She still needed him, just like he still needed her too. He wasn't about to let her be hurt by his mistake either. "If you touch her, I will kill you with my bare hands." Derek threatened, his voice as dry and tired as hers was. He didn't sound any less threatening, though.
The man chuckled as he crossed the room and stood in front of Laci. She looked up at him, her eyes pleading to just be let her go. Tears were staining her cheeks as her eyes shined as the water filled them. Her curls were a mess as they framed her face. She looked like a broken angel to Derek. She cringed when the man touched her wounded cheek, wiping the tears and dry blood away with his thumb. "How could I harm a pretty face like this? It's be a shame." he chuckled out to the two of them as he stood up straight. Without warning, he stomped on her ankle, causing her to scream out in pain. He only laughed when he heard the growl from Derek's throat. "Don't worry so much, Derek. I'm not gonna hurt her . . ." he paused as he went to leave the room again. He paused in the door way and grinned as he turned back and locked eyes with Derek. ". . . much." he said out with a chuckle before sliding the door shut behind him as he left.
The two sat in silence for a few minutes, not knowing what to say to the other. Derek had asked he if she was alright, in which she told him that she was fine, but that was about it for conversation. He wanted to tell her that he was going to get them out of here, but he couldn't even get himself free, let alone the both of them. "Were you going to kill him?" she asked out to him, her voice barely about a whisper. She was so quiet that he almost didn't even hear her. He looked back at her confused, not knowing what she was taking about. A spark of anger flashed through her eyes as she looked at him. How could he forget? "Were you going to kill him, Derek? Jackson, Derek! Were you going to kill him?" she asked her again, voice louder, more clear . . . angrier.
He didn't know what to tell her. He knew that she wanted him to say no, but if he did? He would be lying to her. Though, it wouldn't be the first time. He had wanted to rip the guy's throat out so badly. He had hurt her, and he wanted to kill him for doing it. He had taken his anger out on her, though. "Derek!" she snapped when he seemed to lost his train of thought on something else. His head snapped to her, his thoughts already forgotten. "Yes." he hissed out as his eyes lowered away from her.
Laci didn't know why she had asked that, but it had been bothering her. Yes, Jackson had tried to kiss her, and had grabbed her to keep her from leaving, but she had forgiven him for it. He made it up to her by coming back for her that night in the woods. He could have kept running, and he almost did too, but he had come back for her and carried her the rest of the way. "You don't need to save me from everyone, Derek. I can take care of myself at least one time. It doesn't win you points with my brother either when you go after one of our friends." she said back to him. Her voice wasn't as hostile towards him this time. It was more softer, if anything, though, he could still hear the small hint of bitterness in her voice.
He looked at her with a surprised look. She was making it seem as if he were doing it because he needed to use her to get to Scott. That wasn't the case anymore, and it hadn't been for a long while. "I don't watch out for you because of Scott, Laci. I do it . . ." he paused, stopping himself from saying something he wasn't sure that he meant. He looked over at her and saw that she was waiting on baited breath to see what he was going to say to her. He shook his head, getting rid of the nervous thoughts inside of his head. "I do it because . . . because if I don't, it'll drive me insane." he said out to her through gritted teeth.
She looked stunned by his confession. She suddenly blushed as he heard her heart beat start to race as she looked away from him. She bit her lip, trying to calm down her heart. Flashes of Isaac appeared in her head, reminding her of who she was with. It wasn't Derek, he had lost his chance with her. "Yo-you can't say things like that, Derek. I-I can't . . . don't, feel that way anymore. I love Isaac." she told him softly, though, she knew that he could hear her just perfectly fine.
He felt his heard clench at the words leaving her mouth. He didn't want to hear about Isaac and her's relationship. He especially didn't want to hear her lie about it to him. "You're not in love with him, Laci." he said out simply to her, trying to keep his voice calm. He couldn't get upset with her, but he was getting down to his last nerve. After the days, hours, of torture he'd gone through, it was finally getting to the point where he just wanted to snap on someone.
Laci felt something inside of her snap. She was so angry right now. Angry at herself for being captured. Angry with Scott for going out that night and getting bitten. Angry at Derek for getting her in the middle of this thing that he has going on with the hunters. Angry at Isaac even for letting her go off on her own. She was mostly angry at Derek, though, for deciding who she can and can not have feelings for. "I could have loved you, Derek, but you turned me away, remember? You didn't want me!" she snapped at him, breathing hard as she struggled to at least sit herself up.
Derek just shook his head, not wanting to listen to her any longer. She was wrong, she couldn't have ever loved him. She couldn't love a beast like him, and Scott was kidding himself if he thought that that Allison could any better then Laci could about all of this. "No, you can't! Alright?" he barked back, his voice suddenly filled with anger. He didn't know who he was mad at more, the situation, himself, or her? He just knew that she couldn't love him, she couldn't even think about loving him.
"Why not? Just tell me why not, Derek." she asked him, her voice now broken as her heart was. She didn't understand why he needed to make things so difficult.
"You're sixteen! You're a child." he told her, his voice cold and emotionless as he glared back at her. Her words died in her throat as she looked back at him with a hurt expression. If anything in these past two months proved anything, it was that she wasn't a child. She'd dealt with werewolves and hunters, and everything else in between. She was far from being a child. If anything, he was the child. He changed his mind every other second with her. He couldn't decide on what he wanted, but he had expected her to. He expected her to wait for him to finally decide that he wanted to be with her, but that wasn't how it worked.
She moved on when she couldn't wait for him to make up his mind. She had feelings for Isaac, and just because he didn't like that, it did not make a difference. She opened her mouth to say something as a retort to that reason, but he shushed her before she could even utter a sound. She paused, her mouth open to speak, and that was when she heard it. It was a wolf's howl, and she had a gut feeling that it belonged to her brother. "Cover your ears the best that you can." he said out to her. She nodded quickly, snapping her mouth shut as she wiggled her head in between her raised arms and pressed them into her head.
Once he was sure that she was as safe as she possibly could be from the noise, he let out a howl in return, telling Scott that they needed his help. Laci cringed as the noise hit her ears, but there was nothing more she could do. They really needed Scott's help, and this was the only way to get it. She relaxed when he finished and moved her head away from her arms the best that she could. Derek was breathing hard as they locked eyes. Now they just had to wait, and hope that her brother got here in time.