/AN: And here's the updated, updated version of Chapter 3... I accidentally left something out of the other one... Anyway... Only one more! Yay! I hope you guys like it. :) PS. This chapter has been edited.
Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own it. Stop pestering me!/
Normal POV
Everyone was down in the kitchen the next morning, each having gotten themselves something to eat and was talking at the table.
"So did everyone have fun last night?" Kit asked, grabbing the syrup for his pancakes. There were mumbles of "uh huh" and "yes" from all around the table.
"Hey, where's Derek and Chloe? It's a quarter to ten, you'd think they'd be up already." Tori said, chomping on a strawberry.
"I'll go make sure Derek didn't eat Chloe." Simon said. He rose from his seat and headed towards the stairs.
"Um, why would Derek eat Chloe?" Tori didn't get the joke.
"It's a racist werewolf joke." Mason mumbled, slightly offended at the comment.
"Oh…"
x-x-x
Simon headed up the right staircase and up to Derek and Chloe's room. He decided to open the door to surprise them. Derek might get pissed but Chloe would probably get a kick out of it. Simon wasn't prepared for what he saw.
"Oh my god put a fucking sign on the door!" Derek and Chloe shot up in bed to see Simon standing in the doorway. On his face was a complete look of shock and disgust. Derek followed Simon's fixed gaze to Chloe's exposed chest.
Realizing what was going on, Chloe covered herself and hid her face. Derek shifted his focus back to Simon. "Out. Now." Derek growled. Simon ran, slamming the door behind him.
Derek looked back to Chloe, who still had her face buried in the covers. "Is he gone?" She asked.
"Yeah. Are you okay? How do you feel?" Derek asked as Chloe lay back down.
"Other than your brother getting an eyeful of my boobs, I hurt all over. In places I never knew I could hurt." Chloe uncovered her face, laying her head on the pillow.
"I'll go see where Marlee keeps the Tylenol. And I'll murder Simon while I'm at it." Derek kissed Chloe's forehead and got dressed before heading to the kitchen.
When he got there, everyone was already finished with breakfast and was talking amongst themselves. Simon froze upon spotting Derek. "Where's Chloe?" Lucy asked.
"Sick."
"Sore." Simon taunted.
Both boys spoke simultaneously. Derek glared. Everyone looked puzzled. "Go on. Tell everyone what happened last night between you two." Simon said.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, Simon." Derek replied, turning to Marlee who was leaning on the counter beside Kit, in her usual place.
"Derek got laid last night." Simon announced. The faint, ghost of a blush appeared on Derek's face.
"Okay, I'm outta here. I don't wanna hear about Wolfie's sex life. Later." Tori left for the pool.
Lucy fidgeted and Mason held in a laugh. Kit looked shocked and slightly appalled. Marlee looked Deadly and silent. "Is this true, Derek? Have you and Chloe been mated?"
It was Derek's turn to fidget. "Yeah." He replied softly. "Where's the Tylenol?" He asked quickly, wanting to leave the room as soon as possible.
Marlee dug an orange cylinder from her pocket. "I need to examine her. What was yesterday's date?"
Simon checked his watch. "October twenty fourth. Why?"
"October eleventh. This would set a date for July seventeenth." Marlee mumbled to herself.
"What is she talking about?" Simon asked. Derek shrugged, thoroughly confused, trying to find a patter to her thinking. He failed, epically.
"Mind your own business Simon. Kit, I need to talk to you in the lab." Marlee replied as Derek left back to his and Chloe's room. "Lucy meet me there in an hour."
Lucy nodded.
Marlee's POV
Kit had followed Marlee down to the makeshift lab, confused as she mumbled to herself. "You wanna tell me what's going through your deranged head?"
"If my guess is right, the first day of Chloe's last period was October eleventh. Based on a twenty eight day cycle. The date of intercourse and possible conception was last night. Based on a forty week gestation period, Chloe's due date would be set for July seventeenth of next year."
"So are you gonna do a pregnancy test when you examine her?" Kit asked, arms folded across his chest.
"I could. However, it would turn up negative. The embryo is still just a bundle of dividing cells. It won't be a baby until around eight weeks. We won't be able to do a pregnancy test for at least a week. But it'd be better to wait two weeks." Marlee replied.
"Why two weeks?"
Marlee gave Kit a skeptical look. "And you call yourself a doctor?" Marlee rolled her eyes. "The pregnancy hormone Chloe's body will make when it realizes there's a forming baby there, won't start forming until a week or so after conception. So even with a blood test now, it would still show up negative.
Give her a week. Chloe's breast will become sore, she'll have some light spotting, a headache or two, and that'll be it. We tell her she might be pregnant, she'll think we're crazy. Give her two weeks; she'll have morning sickness, fatigue and frequent urination. She might blow it off as stomach flu until later in the week when she misses her period. That's all I'm asking for is two weeks." Marlee replied.
"So then what are you examining her for?" Kit asked.
"To make sure that the werewolf gene isn't still killing her. And to make sure her body is healthy enough and ready for a pregnancy considering she's seventeen." Marlee replied. Kit nodded. I'm also moving the information in Chloe's medical file. If Derek gets suspicious enough, he might sneak down her and try to look at my notes."
"I wouldn't put it past him." Kit replied.
x-x-x
Half an hour later, Lucy strolled into the lab. She was shocked at how much equipment Marlee had in the basement. "How did you get all of this?" She asked.
Marlee smirked. "Years of practice." She replied.
Lucy nodded. "So, how are we going to do this?" She took a seat beside Marlee.
"Well, I'll need some blood. I need to look at your DNA compared to other werewolves." Marlee said, rummaging in a box.
"Do you have werewolf DNA?"
"Of course. It's in the freezer." Lucy's eyes went wide. "Oh, don't look so shocked." Marlee took out frozen slides from the mini freezer beside her desk. "While those defrost, I need a sample of your blood."
Lucy backed away. "I don't like needles." She said.
"Relax, we don't need any needles for this. Just a lancet. Like the ones used to check blood sugar. It'll be quick and painless, I promise." Lucy relaxed a bit and took her seat again. Marlee took her blood. Just as she said, it had been quick and easy. "Okay, I'll analyze these and if I come up with anything, I'll tell you. If not, don't ask. I'll come to you." Marlee said.
"Okay."
Derek's POV
After seeing how Marlee reacted to the news of what happened last night, I was determined to find out what was going on. When Chloe had take the pain meds, I laid beside her for a while, rubbing her back.
I had to get Mason to the lab to take a blood sample from both of us. If my theory was correct, Mason and Lucy were my half siblings. I'd have to take a blood sample from Mason to be sure. While we're down there, I'd take Chloe's file and sneak it up to our room to look through. I'd return it when Marlee and Kit were asleep.
As small snore interrupted my thoughts. Kissing Chloe's forehead, I got up and went to the living room. Simon was lying haphazardly on the couch. Mason was laying face down on the floor. Tori and Lucy was nowhere to be seen.
Normal POV
"Well isn't this an attractive sight?" Derek said, sarcastically. Simon held up his middle finger. Mason groaned. "What's up with you two?" He asked.
"We're bored. What does it look like?" Simon asked.
"We'll lucky for you, I have something for you to help me with." Derek replied, shutting the doors.
"What would that be?" Mason sat up, rubbing his eyes.
"I need your blood." Derek told him.
Simon looked shocked. "When did you get so blood thirsty?" he asked.
"I'm not blood thirsty, Simon. I'm doing a blood test." Derek explained.
Mason grabbed his wrist cautiously. "Are you certified to do that?"
"Would you rather trust Simon?" Mason glanced at Simon.
"No."
"Then don't complain."
Mason sighed. "Let's do it." He replied.
Together, the trio made their way across the main entrance hall to the entrance to the basement/lab. Derek led the way down the steps to Kit's work station. He dug through a plastic container, taking out two sterile tourniquets and two sterile syringes. Digging further, he found two unused vials.
Mason's face paled. "You sure you know how to do this?" He asked, his worried gaze going from the needles to Derek's face and back again. Once again, his right wrist had take refuge in his left hand.
"If I didn't, I wouldn't try." Derek said simply. "Sit."
Cautiously, Mason did as he was told, sitting in a seat in front of Derek. Derek took Mason's right arm, tying a tourniquet just above his elbow. Putting gloves on his hands, he gave Mason a ball to squeeze. Derek took a needle and uncapped it and used his index finger to find a vein. Mason had a horrified look in his eyes.
"You know, watching intensifies fear? Maybe you should look away." Simon suggested.
"And maybe you should back away." Mason let out a growl.
Finally finding a vein, Derek silently took the needle and hooked it up to the vial. Taking the needle, he inserted it into Mason's vein, swiftly and accurately as Mason broke into a nervous sweat.
As the vial began filling with blood, Derek noticed multiple burn and scratch marks across his arm. He decided not to question it, but figured it had something to do with the Edison Group and was probably what triggered his fear of needles. When the vial was filled, Derek removed the needle and tourniquet, placing a cotton ball on the needle prick. To finish, Derek took a sharpie and marked the vial with an "M" for Mason.
"So what are you doing this blood test for?" Simon asked.
"I have a theory." Simon gave him a blank look. "I think Mason is my younger brother. Which would in turn, make Lucy my younger sister." Derek explained. Simon nodded, as Derek followed the same procedure he did with Mason. When he was done, Derek labeled the vial with "D" for Derek.
"Alright, while I'm analyzing these, look in those cabinets for Chloe's file." Derek instructed, grabbing a microscope and some sterile slides. Simon nodded looking to the file cabinets.
Derek took a small baster and plopped a few drops of blood on the slides, as Mason and Simon looked through the file boxes.
After five minutes or so, Simon held up a file that said: "Saunders, Chloe." "I found it!" Simon said, stuffing it in his jacket." He looked back at Derek. "Are you done yet?" he asked him.
When Derek didn't say anything, Simon rolled his eyes. Finally, Derek paused, and smiled. "I was right. We have the same parents." Derek said turning to Mason. "Which would mean we're blood brothers. Not half, as I had originally thought. Which means I have some things to think over."
"What are you talking about?" Simon asked.
"You got your answer. You're not taking anymore of my blood." Mason backed away and he hid his arms.
"I don't need anymore blood, Mason. You can relax. What I'm saying is, you and Lucy grew up in an orphanage, right?" Derek asked.
"Little Bunny's Home for Children; yeah… what about it?" Mason looked as if the memories pained him. Derek thought back to the burns and scars on Mason's arm, but didn't say anything.
"I grew up in the institute with six other werewolf pups. The key question here is, why'd they keep me, but not you?" Derek paused and let that sink in. "You guys go find something do to. I'm going to think about this for a bit and I'll let you know what I come up with. For now, don't tell anyone about my findings yet. Not until I know more. That includes Lucy. I don't want her to know yet."
"You're right, it might confuse her. Or just piss her off. She isn't all sunshine and daisies when it comes to the Edison Group." Mason replied.
"Well, anyway, welcome to the family." Simon said as he turned to Derek. "Let's go back to my room to look at the file."
Tori's POV
"Are you sure we should disturb her? I mean she's been in bed all day—" Lucy began, as she and Tori stood in front of the door to Derek and Chloe's room.
"Oh relax; she'd do the same to us." Tori said, obnoxiously.
Suddenly, the door opened and a groggy looking Chloe stood n the entrance, fully clothed. "If you guys are going to argue about coming in, I might as well let you in." She said, opening the door further. Tori and Lucy blushed in embarrassment. As they walked inside, Chloe shut the door and eased herself onto the bed. "What do you want?" Chloe asked bluntly.
"We just wanted to see how you were doing after your big night with Wolfie." Tori said, making Chloe blush.
"He told you?"
"Simon did. Tori replied.
"So tell us what happened!" Lucy encouraged, a bright smile spreading across her face.
"And don't skip the hairy details." Tori said.
Chloe told them everything that had happened during the previous night. She paused when she caught Lucy fooling with her fingers. "What's wrong Luce?"
"Yeah, everyone knows you do the same stuff with Simon. And worse, you kinky horn dog." Tori replied. Lucy's face went as red as a tomato, Tori's comment making her squeak.
"No, that wasn't what I was thinking about." Lucy said softly. She looked to Chloe. "Did you two use… um… protection?"
"Jeeze, Lucy! You're such a prude! You have crazy, hot sex with Simon all the time, yet you can't talk about sex and contraceptives with out acting like some innocent school girl." Tori reprimanded.
Chloe's face went blank. "Holy fucking shit." Tori and Lucy paused in their bickering.
"What's going on? You okay?"
"We forgot the condoms." Chloe said simply.
Derek's POV
When we returned to the room, Simon took the file out of his jacket. How he fit that thing into his small jacket, I'll never know.
We gathered around Simon's floor, Simon on my right side, Mason on my left. "We just need to check Marlee's notes for Chloe's last couple of checkups. The secrecy just started recently." I said. Simon nodded, opening the file.
I inwardly groaned when I saw what was inside the file. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. There was a picture of Chloe, and her basic information, but all notes on previous checkups were gone. Marlee had recently cleaned out the files. "Dammit."
Marlee's POV
The exam was over. Marlee had been right about the werewolf venom… sort of. It had stopped poisoning Chloe's system. Now it was causing Chloe to have werewolf like symptoms. Over time, her hearing would increase as would her sight and agility. Then eventually, Chloe would complete the change, sometime within the next few months. Marlee sighed. This had just turned into a possible high risk pregnancy.
"You can sit up now, Chloe." Marlee said, helping Chloe up. "Brace yourself for what I'm about to tell you." Marlee paused, letting what she said sink in.
"I… I'm not pregnant, am I?" Chloe asked.
'Fuck. Does she know?' Marlee thought. "Not as far as I can tell." Marlee said. Well it wasn't a total lie. "The venom has stopped killing your body. Now instead of killing you, it's gradually making you like Derek. Over the next few months your hearing, eye sight and agility will increase."
"How long?"
"At the rate the venom is progressing, you will complete the change in approximately six to nine months." Marlee said slowly. Chloe stayed silent. "Are you okay?" Marlee asked.
"Is this normal? For werewolf/human mates?" Chloe lifted her eyes to meet Marlee's own.
"As far as I know, this process only happens once every couple hundred years, In case you're wondering, there is no way to stop this new process. Since Derek has gone through this before, the sooner you tell him the better." Marlee replied.
"Is there anything I should be worried about?" Chloe asked, looking at her feet.
"If you were to get pregnant during this time, I would classify it as a high-risk pregnancy. Simply because with the bones rearranging in your body during a change, I'd be worried about the end of a bone rupturing the extended uterus and possibly causing the baby harm." Marlee said.
"Great. I'll remember that. Thanks, Marlee."
x-x-x One week later x-x-x
Derek's POV
"Do we really have to do this?" I asked Chloe. I didn't want a party for my birthday, but as usual, Chloe insisted.
"Yes! It'll be fun, I promise!" Chloe said, smiling for the first time in days.
She had been hiding something for almost a week. The day Marlee check her, she avoided me until the next day. A few days later, we were making out on the couch and when I squeezed her breast, she winced as if I haven't felt her up before. I'd find out what was bothering her by the end of the night.
Chloe took my hand, bringing me out of my thoughts and into the backyard that was still covered in paint.
Lucy was forcing Simon into one of those cone shaped party hats, and Tori was talking Mason's ear off. Marlee was completely silent, leaving Kit to stand awkwardly to the side. The air was cool again and it was nearing closer to November. It was the twenty ninth so there were two days left.
Everyone greeted us as we sat down. "So we didn't have a whole lot of money for a present from each of us, so we all pitched in and bought a new pair of shoes for you." Kit said.
"Tori noticed yours were getting holes in them." Mason replied.
"Um… thanks Tori. You guys shouldn't have gotten me anything."
"Chloe insisted." Tori said, handing over a large, gray pair of DC's. "In fact, she picked them out."
I took the shoes from Tori. DC's were like a hundred bucks. They shouldn't have spent all the money. I turned to Chloe. "Thanks, babe."
Chloe nodded. I sighed. I was tired of this. I decided to ignore it for the time being and turned to the others. "So, last week I had a theory." This got everyone's attention. "And later on I tested that theory. Upon further research and a couple of blood tests, I found out that Mason and Lucy are my younger brother and sister. And I have a feeling, someone other than myself suspected so." My gaze shifted to meet Dad's eyes. I left out my concerns about why the Edison Group put us in different living situations in the first place. I still hadn't made any advance on a theory about it.
"You're a smart boy, Derek. I'm not surprised you figured it out on your own." Kit said. "Mason, Lucy, I'm proud to welcome you to our somewhat dysfunctional family." Lucy nodded, in shock. This was when I noticed Marlee eying Chloe.
After everyone had a piece of cake, we headed inside and I took Chloe to our room. "I'm gonna head to bed."
I grabbed her hand, and she turned to look at me. "We need to talk."
"Can it wait until morning?"
"No. You've been hiding something and I want to know what it is."
"I—I'm not hiding a—anything." Chloe stumbled over her words, her gaze cast at her feet.
"You're stuttering. You only stutter when you're lying. Tell me, Chloe." I said. Chloe took a big shuddering sigh. "What happened when Marlee examined you?" Chloe said nothing. "Did she… Are you…?" I couldn't finish the sentence. Damn my social abilities.
"No. I'm not pregnant." I felt myself relax, and signaled for her to continue. "Marlee took a blood sample. I turns out, that instead of the werewolf venom killing me, it's turning me into a werewolf. She said it's really rare for it to happen and I'll probably change for the first time sometime within the next six to nine months."
Normal POV
He didn't say anything. "Derek?" Chloe reached for his hand, only to have him pull away. A tear slid down her face. Derek turned and walked out the door, shutting it behind him.
/AN: Okie dokie. There's that chappie done. I'm so glad I got this one edited. I don't know about you guys but there were quite a few mistakes that were buggin' the crap outta me. As always, please leave a review. Thank! :) -Kit/