I changed into something that I could be really damn comfortable, my phone buzzed, I picked it up, Derek had sent me a text telling me to meet him at the
abandoned subway. I smiled, got in my car and drove, I parked my car hidden, I felt my baby move a bit,
"seven week your active, like your daddy" I said as I walked downstairs. I saw Boyd, who looked at me, I patted his shoulder. I walked down the remainder of steps,
and leaned on a nearby beam. I watched as Isaac tried getting past my baby daddy, watching Derek's eyes moving along with Isaac's movements, over and over
again, till finally he gave up. Erica rubbed my back, then charged at Derek, who skillful dodged her attack. I hid, I want to surprise him.
"Does anyone wanna try not being completely predictable?" Derek asked as I maneuvered myself, I pounced on him, twisting my body carefully to not hurt the baby,
I slammed his back on the ground, and placed my foot on his throat. His green eyes landed on me, he was smirking, I took my foot up, he got up, kissing my lips and
carefully caressed my growing baby bump.
"Hi" I said smirking as I was impressed with myself,
"Hello to you too" He replied as he rubbed the bump lovingly. I looked over to Isaac to see him trying to sit up, "Are we done? I got about a hundred bones that need
a few hours to heal." He said as both Derek and I walked over to him, Derek knelt down and asked for his arm, Isaac reluctantly gave it to him. I watched as Derek
broke it, Isaac whimpered, I let out a slight growl.
"A hundred and one. You think I'm teaching you how to fight?" Derek said as he held him in a painful grip,
"Huh? Look at me! I'm teaching you how to survive!" Derek said growling and Isaac looked at him, so did the other pups. Derek looked at me, then let him go.
"If they wanted us dead why aren't they coming for us now? What are they waiting for?" Isaac asked Derek who looked at him,
"I don't know. " He replied frustrated,
"But they're planning something." I said as I unconsciously caressed my baby bump,
"And you, especially, know that's not our only problem. " Derek said continuing my statement,
"Whatever that thing is that killed Isaac's father, I think it killed someone else last night." I said as I walked to Derek and rubbed his back.
"Until I find out what it is, you all need to learn everything that I know. As fast as I can teach you." Derek said before I went to the cart with the mattress, I lied down
and yawned, tired. I felt the bed dip behind me, I turned around looking into those green eyes I fell in love so long ago. I caressed his lip as he placed his hand on my
belly.
"Hey are you ok" I asked as he sighed,
"I don't know" He replied as I watched a tear fall from his eyes. I sat up, pulling him up with me, watching his eyes as he let a few tears fall.
"Hey hey, shh Der, I'm here" I said as I pulled him into a hug, rubbing his back. He rarely let out emotion, but when he was with me, he let it all go. He gripped me
tight, but I knew he needed comfort, I pulled back,
"Baby what's going on, let me in" I said after I gave him a chastity kiss.
"I don't want to lose anyone, not you, not my betas, especially the baby" Derek said as I felt his hand on the round bump.
"Derek, Honey, where is this all coming from, did you have a nightmare last night" I asked as I caressed his stubble covered cheeks, last night he had tossed and
turned for a half hour, I fell back asleep after he finally stopped.
"Yeah"He said as I kept expelling calming pheromones to him,
"What about" I asked as I carefully pushed him down so he was at least be lying down a bit. I nuzzled my way to his side.
"I drempt that we we're walking Bacon Hills, then the hunters..." He said sniffling,
"Derek I'm here just continue when you're comfortable"I said as he was hyperventilating a bit, but soon he calmed down enough,
" the hunter kidnapped us, dragging the both of us deep into the preserve, making me watch as they tortured you, I was restrained as I watched them do things to
you that were so inhumane, they called you an animal, then...and then...then they ripped the baby out of you, killing you both" He said as I felt tears going down my
face, Derek just placed his hands on the bump, feeling the baby himself as he lifted my shirt up a bit to reveal the bump,
"I woke up in a silent sweat, when I turned to you, it was as if I had just woken from a coma and saw you for the first time" Derek said as I criss crossed my legs and
held him, lightly rubbing his back,
"You were on your side, facing me, and your hands were over the bump, even when your asleep your so protective of our cub. I calmed down enough to wrap my
arms around you and fell asleep again" He said making me kiss his temple, then he looked up at me with his hands over the bump still,
"I just don't need another good thing torn out of my life" He said as I kept calm,
"Derek, as long as you will have me, I'm not going anywhere, and neither is this baby" I smiled as I felt his hands on the baby bump, feeling the flutters again.
"I can hear it, what is that" He asked as he tilted his head confused, "I have been feeling fluttering like movements lately" I chuckled as he smiled. He caressed my
belly, I heard him humming slightly as he got down to my belly. Derek just kept his face near where I could feel the flutters,
"Time stands still, Beauty in all she is, I will be brave, I will not let anything take away, What's standing in front of me,Every breath, Every hour has come to this, One
step closer, I have died everyday waiting for you, Darling don't be afraid I have loved you,For a thousand years, I'll love you for a thousand more,And all along I
believed I would find you,Time has brought your heart to me, I have loved you for a thousand years,I'll love you for a thousand more...I'll love you for a thousand
more." He sang as he rubbed my belly, feeling the baby's fluttering movements against his hand, I rubbed his hair in my fingers, I decided to end the song,
"One step closer. I have died everyday waiting for you" I sang in a light soothing tone, Derek looked up at me with those green eyes, his eyes half closed as he
listened.
"Darling don't be afraid I have loved you, For a thousand years,I'll love you for a thousand more" I soon came to a slight stop, He smiled as I brought him up to my
lips for a loving kiss. We parted as I smiled, feeling happy tears fall down my cheeks. Derek looked at them, kissing the salty drops that fell.
"I love you so much, Lexi you have my heart" Derek said as he got up out of the bed, what is he up to?
"You have given me love, you understand me, you know all my secrets, you are giving me a family, I want to give you the world." Derek continued as I sat on the
bed's edge, he kissed my hand,
"I want to give you everything you deserved, I want to give you a life that has you protected, Lexi I love you" He said as he got down on one knee. I cupped my
hands over my mouth, omg he's proposing,
"Lexi, I asked your father for the hand of the most beautiful, caring and loving person who is his daughter to have her as the one I want to spend the rest of my life
with" Derek said as he pulled out a black velvet box from a shelf. He opened the box,
"Alexandra Raposo Vulpe, will you marry me?" Derek asked as he looked me in the eyes, I smiled, taking my hands down from my mouth, I nodded fast at him,
"Yes, Derek Micheal Hale, I'll marry you" I said as tears fell from my eyes, he smiled back at me. He carefully took the ring out and placed it on my ring finger. I
caressed his cheeks then kissed him.
"It was my mother's ring, she told me to give it to the woman who I want to spend the rest of my life with" Derek said as I brought him into a hug,
"I love you" I said as we parted, but our foreheads touched. It was late in the evening, I just looked at my finger, admiring the ring that flat out said 'I'm taken'.
"We have to get Stiles to tell us what he saw at the mechanical's garage" Derek said as he took my hand, lifting me up, and bringing me towards his body.
"Just don't hurt him too bad alright" I said as I rubbed my scent all over him, he groaned,
"You're going to get punished for that one later" He said smirking, I chuckled as I brought my lips to his. Derek drove Erica and I to the school, where they had a
game going,
"I'm gonna miss the game I played for what seems like an eternity" I said as Derek opened the door, I got out, then Erica was after me. Derek lead me to the pool, I
could smell the chemicals, so I just inhaled Derek's scent to make my inner fox purr,
"You are more of a cat then a fox" He said as I looked up at him confused.
"You purr when your happy" He said making me chuckle,
"Fuchsbau can purr, we do it when we are content, sad, injured, or happy when our imprints do something that makes us content" I said as he placed his hand on the
bump. I watched as Erica had Stiles gripped by the skin of his neck, like how a fox holds their kits by the scruff of their necks.
"Ah! Ah! Ah! " Stiles said feeling pain, I chuckled,
'Stiles." Derek said holding a basketball in hand, Erica got beside me.
"Derek Lexi." Stiles said as he rubbed the back of his neck,
"What did you see at the mechanics garage?" I asked as I made myself shift my balance on my feet,
"Uh, several alarming EPA violations that I'm seriously considering reporting." Stiles said giving me a slight smile, I groaned as I felt the baby move quickly, I felt
Erica rub my back, making the movement's still. I watched as Derek had his claws out, he drums the across the surface before plunging them into it, causing the ball
to deflate,
"Holy God." Stiles exclaims as he watches this happens,
"Let's try that again." Derek said looking at Stiles intimidatingly.
"All right, the thing was pretty slick looking. Um, skin was dark. Kind of patterned. Uh, I think I actually saw scales. Is that enough?" Stiles explained then stopped
"Okay, because I've somebody I really need to talk to" Stiles said as I looked at him as if saying 'more damn detail', He groaned then continued,
"All right, fine, eyes. Eyes are, um, yellowish. And slitted. Um, has a lot of teeth." Stiles said as I smelt something off, I looked around trying to find it,
"Oh. And it's got a tail, too." Stiles said as I noticed Derek looking up along with Erica, I looked up to see a huge bipedal reptile,
"Are we good? What? " Stiles asked as I made my eyes glow,
"Wait, have you seen it?" My eyes watching the creature on the rails above the boy,
"You have this look on your faces like you know exactly what I am talking about."Stiles said before I hear it hiss at us, I let out a defensive growl, Stiles looks up and
it screeches at jumps down, Erica gets in front of me, her wolf protecting the Alphas' pregnant mate overpowers her, it flips her towards the wall knocking her
unconscious, I let out a roar.
"Run!" Derek yells at Stiles, I watch as the creature's claws scratch the back of Derek's neck, I stride, growling at the creature as it looks at me, backing away. I turn
around, the scratch it left not healing,
"Derek, your neck!" I said as he feels it, Stiles helps him, Derek's muscles lock up as I help Stiles,
"Hey, come on. " I say as we walk the edge,
"Where is it? Can you see it? " Stiles asked as I look around
"I can smell it." I said growling,
"Please hurry. Call Scott! " I growl before Stiles lets my imprint go,
"Stiles you son of a bitch" Derek yells before he goes under the water, Stiles jumps in. I looked around, claws exposed, fangs out, I need to protect my baby, I see
Stiles and Derek surface, I keep looking around.
"Where did it go? Do you see it? " Stiles asked as I shake my head,
"Okay, maybe it took off." Stiles said as I heard the screech envelop my ears,
"Maybe not." Derek says as I continue looking around. It's been about fifteen minutes, my inner fox out, I was half shifted, my instincts take over,
'I am here to keep you safe along with our imprint and kit I watched as the creature circles the pool, I growl and let clicks exit my mouth, I keep my ground as
it stays away from me.
"You get me out of here before I drown." Derek's voice echos in my ears as I watch the creature,
"You're worried about drowning?" Stiles says as I let clicks leave my mouth again, the creature is aware of me, but doesn't attack,
"Did you notice the thing out there with multiple rows of razor sharp teeth." Stiles says as Derek looks at him,
"Did you notice I'm paralyzed from the neck down in eight feet of water?" Derek growls at him, the creature looks at me then at Derek, crawling towards the edge
"Okay. I don't see it." Stiles says as I let a warning worbbling click echo,
"Wait, wait, wait, stop, stop." Derek told him, he was aware of my clicks and what they meant, the creature then touches the water then hisses, backing away from it,
"What's it waiting for?" Stiles asked as I continue to keep my protective stance, letting out clicks and growls,
"What's wrong with Lexi?" Stiles asked as I let out another click, watching the creature circling the pool again.
"Her inner Fuchsbau took over, it's protecting her, my pup and us" Derek said as my eyes glow,
"What the hell is a Fuchsbau" Stiles asked as he kept swimming.
"It's a supernatural creature that basically is like a werewolf, but is a fox, you've seen her other forms, look it up" Derek said as I continued to let out clicks.
"Okay. Okay, I don't think I can do this much longer." Stiles said as I let out an annoyed click,
"No, no, no." Derek growled at him,
"Don't even think about it." I growled at Stiles, then I growled at the creature, it tried going near me, I let out a growl,it backed away again.
"Would you just trust me this once?" Stiles asked him, I let out a slight growl,
"No." Derek replied as I could smell the creature still here,
"I'm the one keeping you alive, okay, have you noticed that?" Stiles said as he tried staying above the water.
"Yeah. And when the paralysis wears off, who is gonna be able to fight that thing, you or me? You don't trust me I don't trust you. You need me to survive, which is
why you are not letting me go." Derek said before I watched Stiles do the stupidest thing ever, he let Derek go.
"Stiles!" Derek growled before sinking, I darted to another part of the pool's edge, worried about my imprint. Stiles let his phone go before, he dove to the bottom, I
watched as the two surface, Derek was breathing. I put my focus back on the creature,
"Tell me you got him." Derek asked as my eyes found his, I heard hissing behind me, I turned around and saw the creature staring back at me. I let out warning
growls, but it stayed in front of me, I took a step back. It took a single step forward, I let out growls and clicks, I heard Derek calling my name, but my instinct to
protect my baby and I was strong enough to drown his calls out. I watched as it lifted it's tail and slammed me into a wall, before I made contact, I wrapped my arms
around my belly, my back ended up hitting Erica, I let out a pain filled yelp. I watched as the creature crawled to me, sniffing my body, I listened as my baby's
heartbeat was still strong, still alive. I felt it place a scaled hand on my belly. I let out a growl, it backed away, and circled the pool.
"I can't stay up any longer, I need something to hold on to." Stiles' voice enveloped my ears, I sat up as I felt the baby's flutters, I stood up, I watched as Stiles
swam to the diving boards, I took a step to watch as both Derek and Stiles go under, I let out a roar, I saw Scott pulling both of them out. The creature tackled Scott,
who got up in a crouch position. It took it's tail to Scott's ankle and threw him to a mirror, which shatter when Scott made contact with it. Scott got up, grabbed a
large shard of the broken mirror, the creature crawled towards the beta, but stopped, it was confused by it's reflection. It then jumped towards the ceiling of the
room, and threw itself out of the glass skylight. It's a kanima,omg. I looked at Derek, who was soaked and breathing heavily. I dashed to him, feeling his arms
around me,
"Are you ok, are you hurt, is the baby" He said before I stopped him by kissing him.
"I'm ok and the baby's fine, heart's still beating strong, and fluttering hasn't stopped either." I said as he huffed, Erica woke up about five minutes after Derek got
feeling back. We walked over to see Scott and Stiles on a laptop,
"Is that even a language?" Stiles asked his best friend,
"How are we supposed to figure out what this thing is?" Scott asked as I took a step away from Derek,
"It's called a kanima."I said as I crossed my arms over my chest,
"You knew the whole time." Stiles asked me,
"No. Only when it was confused by its own reflection." Derek said as I got back to his side,
"It doesn't know what it is." Scott said as I nodded,
"Or who." I replied as Derek wrapped an arm around me.
"What else do you know?" Stiles asked as I chuckled, I knew a lot, but I ain't going to say anything,
" Just stories, rumors." Derek said speaking up,
"But it's like us?" Scott asked as I nodded to him,
"A shape - shifter, yes, but it's - it's not right. It's like a -"Derek said as he stammered,
"An abomination." Stiles said as I shook, Derek nuzzled my head, comforting me,
"Derek? We need to work together on this. Maybe even tell the Argents."Scott started but I let out an angered filled growl,
"You trust them?" I growled feeling my hands shake,
"You still fucking god damn trust them after they burnt down the Hale Manor and you still trust them after one of their own MURDERED MY FATHER, MY ONLY LIVING
BLOOD" I screamed feeling rage fill up my body, Derek then held me so I wouldn't attack Scott. I nuzzled my face in his neck, smelling his scent, it calmed me down
enough to think straight.
"Nobody trusts anyone! That's the problem. While we're here, arguing about who's on what side, there's something scarier, stronger and faster than any of us, and
it's killing people and we still don't even know anything about it." Scott said as I shook my head,
"I know one thing, when I find it? I'm gonna kill it!" Derek said as he lead me to the car, Erica got in first to the back, then I got in the passenger seat. I watched as
Derek got in the driver seat, I looked him in the eyes, tears falling down my face, I let sobs out, and Derek held me as I cried. After I cried for what seemed like
forever, Derek drove us away from the school.