I updated the previous chapter to make a little more sense, I initially said Derek blacked out from his anger because I was trying to keep it simple and non-graphic for the younger readers. But I think my update still manages to be appropriate and make more sense.

Speaking of making things appropriate, I've put a lot of thought into a suggestion that was made a while back about making characters more intimate. What I'm going to do with the next chapter is post my normal one that's good for young readers and have a second version written that's available to readers who message me requesting to read it. Whenever I do two chapters like this (it won't be every single chapter obviously) (if it's requested enough, I won't write them if no one asks to read them), I will put an authors note at the beginning to let readers know.

Every time Derek stood up; Simon ordered him to sit back down. Simon thought Chloe would be fine on her own and come back when she wanted to. Derek didn't tell him why she was at the cemetery.

There was a knock at the door, Tori opened it. It was Matt, the adults must have gotten back.

"Hey," Matt said. "Can you guys come over so we can fill everyone in."

Tori nodded, "We'll be just a second."

Matt turned and went into the other motel room. Tori turned around and looked at Simon as the door swung shut.

"I think you should let him go get Chloe now. Before we get in trouble for people leaving the motel."

Simon turned to Derek and nodded. Derek didn't need to be told again, he was up and out the door in less than a second. Tori looked at Liz and Kyle.

"What?" Liz asked curiously.

"How are we going to explain you two?" Tori asked.

"The truth," Kyle said. "Lies lead to more problems, just rip the bandaide off now."

Simon smiled, "I'll say it again, I like him."

Kyle's smile was huge, he loved having a new friend.

They stepped across the hall and into the new room. Everyone was back but Simon noticed there was no sign of Jeremy.

"Where's Jeremy?" Simon asked.

Elijah raised an eyebrow, "He wasn't with you?"

Simon shook his head, "No we told him to come over to this room."

Tess interrupted, "Where's Chloe?"

"With Derek," Tori answered. "Derek's cooling off still."

At the mention of his son, Kit looked up from his phone. He noticed new faces that shouldn't be there standing behind Simon. Kit stood up.

"Who's that?"

"My names Kyle," Kyle spoke first, Liz seemed really nervous. "I guess you could say I'm an old friend of Chloe's."

Kit stared at Liz waiting for an answer.

"Liz," she squeaked out.

The names rang a bell. Where had he heard them before…?

"Good lord," he said when it clicked.

"What?" All the adults were asking.

"They're dead!" Kit exclaimed. His eyes landed on Simon and Tori. "What have you kids done?!"

"We helped them," Tori replied. "They're alive again."

Tess looked worried now, "Y'all were doing magic when we weren't here? What if you'd been caught?"

"We weren't," Simon said. "So it's ok."

"Ok?! Its not ok to bring back the dead! You two are not necromancers. Leave it that way."

Out at the cemetery

Derek rushed out to the cemetery and looked for the nearest mausoleum, the first one he found was locked. The next one he found was in ruins but had Chloe and Jeremy's scent around it. A growl rumbled through Derek's chest at the thought of Jeremy being alone with Chloe. He wasn't going to let him lay a hand on her again.

Derek followed their scents to the back of the cemetery. They crossed the wooden fence and then faded as they crossed into the parking lot of a strip mall. Too many cars had passed by and destroyed the scent trail.

Derek cursed to himself, this wasn't good. He tried walking around the edge of the parking lot but couldn't pick it up again.

He jogged back to the motel, as much as he hated it, he was going to have to tell them. Derek stepped inside and felt the anger rising in him again. Jeremy was a dead man if he ever saw him again. There was no way Chloe went with him willingly after what he did.

The door across the hall was slightly ajar, Derek could hear the voices coming from there so he stepped in.

"Where have you been?" Kit snapped at him. Something had set him off.

"Looking for Chloe," Derek answered. He dug his bloody knuckled hands into his pockets before his dad could see them.

"Where is she?" Tess asked worriedly.

Derek shrugged, "Jeremy took off with her."

Kit looked so angry he didn't know what to do with his body. His arms kept shifting as he paced.

"What in gods name did you kids do while we were gone?!"

"Now hold on," Elijah stepped in. "We can point fingers later. We need to find those two before they get too far."

Derek nodded, "Their scents disappeared at the strip mall parking lot."

"Alright, some of us are staying here in case they come back and some of us are going to go out looking. We'll start but going through the stores first."

Chloe's POV

I had climbed into the back of a semi-truck behind the strip mall and changed back to human. Jeremy had found me a t-shirt and a pair of pants from one of the boxes in here. Luckily, this semi must have been for the clothing store.

I sat breathing heavily, leaning against a cardboard box, small snowflakes floated down but I was radiating heat from changing.

"I'll never get used to watching that," Jeremy said softly.

I looked over at him, he was trying not to show that he was shivering. Jeremy was only in a t-shirt and old ruined jeans. The light showed more bruises on his arms than I saw earlier.

"Come here," I said.

Jeremy looked at me confused.

"Come here," I repeated.

Once he did, he felt the heat radiating from me and understood. Jeremy sat beside me and stopped shivering. My eyelids drooped for a second.

"You're exhausted," Jeremy said. "Get some rest."

I shook my head, "We need to go back."

"I'm not going back until Derek's cooled off," Jeremy stated.

Well at least that wasn't an 'I'm never going back,' I thought to myself.

"Can you blame him for being angry at what you did?" I asked.

"I didn't mean to. I don't know what came over me, I had no control."

"That's called instinct," I explained tiredly. "You need to keep it in check, instinct with free reign causes problems."

"I see that," Jeremy sighed.

"Please, let's go back."

Jeremy looked at me with a serious expression, "Why do you want to go back to a guy who's physically abusive?"

"Abusive?" I said shocked. "Derek's far from that."

Jeremy raised an eyebrow, "He's killed people Chloe. He's beaten the hell out of me and countless others. He's hurt you on occasion."

"Self-defense and accidents," I pointed out.

"At some point you can't make excuses for him anymore."

I glared at Jeremy, Derek was the furthest thing from abusive. He'd made mistakes in the past yeah, but which one of us hasn't? He was kind and caring and loved me and took care of me. I stood up shakily.

Jeremy shot up too, "What're you doing? You need to rest."

I turned to argue with Jeremy some more but the semi rumbled to life, knocking the strength out of my legs. I fell back down and wacked my head on the cold steel floor.

Jeremy quickly pulled me off the semi before it started to move and sat me on the ground. Everything was blurry and my forehead felt wet. I don't know if it was snow or blood.