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Chapter 3 – old friends

They haven't seen each other in over a decade. They were kids the last time. Alexa stayed with the Hale family for a whole summer to learn the ways of the werewolves. During her life she visited many supernatural beings to learn from them. Interesting was her time with the skin walkers, but that is a story for another time. They connect their foreheads and scent marked each other for a moment. Somehow the kids got in the middle of it.

The others in the room gave them some time. But still watch them curiously, what is happening here. They never have seen Derek in this way, at least not with anyone outside of the pack. That tells the others that she and the kids are important to him somehow.

The moment is broken as Scott asks. "So what is going on?" he really is curious, what problem they have now.

Without looking at him Derek answers. "We will talk at my loft later. Lexi" she has to smile at the nickname, he was the only one, whoever called her that and didn't was in trouble for it. "and the kids will stay with me." Derek sees that she wants to protest, but he didn't let her get a word in. "Not a word you are pack."

The protest dies on her lips with that. She doesn't know why, but it warms her heart that he still thinks of her as pack after all those years. Besides she wants to stay with someone she knows and trusts and she always trusted Derek. "Ok, but can we go now, I don't know, how long I can stay awake." she tells him.

All the others have the same thought; she must be really special to Derek that he invites her to live with him without any problems. "Good." Derek says satisfied, before he turns to Scott. "Be at the loft in three hours or so, ok. I will tell you everything I know." Scott simply answers with a nod, he trust his beta to tell him, when he is ready. With that nod Derek picks up Sarah like it was a natural thing for him as he gets up and holds out his hand for Lexi. She takes it and with his help gets up at the same time she brings her son with her into a standing position.

"Ok, let's go." she tells him, before she says to Deaton. "I will call you tomorrow to talk about my parents."

"Of course."

"Thank you for calling the pack." Even if she wasn't so happy about in the beginning it was looking up now. This way she found an old friend again. Someone she knows will keep her and the kids save.

With a knowing smile, like he wants to tell her, I-know-what-I-am-doing-after-all, he answers. "No problem."

Derek was already on his way out of the door with Sarah in his arms, David slowly, but unsecure follows him. Before she follows them as well she turns to the pack and says. "I am sorry for cutting this short. I am looking forward to get to know you. But for now I need some sleep. I hope that is ok."

"Yeah, no problem." Scott says.

"But we will learn, what's going on?!" Stiles finish his thought for him.

"Certainly." with that she turns around and follows the others. With a faster pace she reaches David and takes his hand to reassure him that she will not let him be alone. Together they silently follow Derek, who surprisingly walks directly to her rental car and waits at the door for the keys.

She opens the door and gives him the keys. Her glance was questionable. He simply laughs and answers. "Baby girl here told me that you arrived in this car." Alexa lets go of her son hand and takes Sarah from Derek to put her in her car seat. While she does that she watches David get in as well.

After she was done she wants to get in the driver seat, but the seat was already occupied. "What …"

But she didn't get far as he interrupts her with a soft smile. "Lexi you are dead on your feet. So get in and I drive us."

With a pout she follows his order, because she knows that he is right. In her current state she is a risk behind the wheel. Not a risk she wants to take with the kids in the car.

Derek watches her walk around the vehicle. She really is beautiful; she grew up and become an amazing woman. But some things never change and that is the little fire behind her eyes, should something not go her way. She always was a spitfire, one of the only people, who always could put Derek Hale in his place.

It is really interesting, how he missed her. She only was part of his family for three months but she grew on him. They had a nice time and were best friends in only two short weeks, even with four years between them. Back than she was a girl, but now she is a woman, a woman, who affects him more than any women before. But more importantly, who was the protector. Something he didn't know, but it explains so much about her and what happened at the time in his old family home.

The closing of the door brings him out of his thoughts, he starts the engine and a moment later they were on the way to his loft. Before he can say anything or better asks something to satisfy his curiosity, she says. "I am sorry about your family, Der." she reaches for his hand and squeezes it.

It still hurts, even after all those years, but it got better with his new pack. But having her here is like having a part of his old pack back. Especially with her calling him Der, only his family ever called him that, at least all besides Peter. "Thanks." he answers with a genuine smile on his face. He is fascinated by himself, he erected a hard and broody shell around himself, but she comes back in his live and it breaks open. He smiled as much in the last hour as he did in the last decade together. She really is something. She is important to him and he doesn't want to lose her again. But her statement that she will die doesn't sit right with him.

She hears that he is happy to have her back. She knows the feeling; she has missed him as well. At no other place she could establish a friendship like she did with Derek. He always was special to her and his smile, warmed her heart. He also isn't so bad to look at; he had grown into a handsome man. Where did that come from? She shakes her head perplexed; he is the first man to ever get her attention. But she tries to ignore it, for now at least. "Why aren't you the alpha?" she may know some of the things that happened in Beacon Hills, because of her connection with them and seeing it through their eyes, but that it just it, because she only ever saw, she didn't hear a thing.

"I was for a short time, but Cora got ill and Peter tricked me into giving up my alpha powers so that I can save her. I did it and I do it again in a heartbeat, the alpha status isn't as important as family." he tells her sincerely. Just like that they fall into the old pattern of telling each other everything. That is why he knows that she will answer his question about her statement later, when he will ask, because now with the kids that probably wasn't a good idea.

That reminded her of something, because she has seen that. "It was you." she says in a whisper, but with supernatural beings even mumbling something can be heard.

"What was I?" was his logical question.

Telling other people about her abilities normally doesn't feel right to her. But with Derek it feels natural and not forced as she explained. "As you already heard and saw - I can connect with other supernatural beings." she sees him nod, so she goes on. "I don't need physical contact for it. Hell I don't have to be on the same continent for it, to see what they see." she can see that he tries to formulate a question. "The connection with Sarah was different, because I connected on a deeper level. I looked at all the bonds she has established." she says before she adds. "Sorry for that by the way. I didn't want to put you in a position where you have to stay with us."

Because that is quite literally what it is? Sarah accepted him as her father, as her alpha male, even if he just is a beta. But Alexa can't fandom why that happened in a blink of an eye. That is way to fast for it.

It definitely wasn't on Derek's agenda for today to gain a daughter, but one glance at the beautiful little girl and he was a goner. No wonder with that mother. "No problem. I like her." he tells her sincerely as he takes a look at the little girl through the rearview. But one thing got him curious. "Where is her father?"

"Dead, killed by hunters. " She answers and Derek somehow anticipated that, but what she says next that took him of guard. "Just like her mother."

"But I thought you are her mother."

"I am, but not by blood. I found her after I subconsciously connected with her and saw what happened. She was all alone and I adopted her, she only was two years old at the time." she says with a fond smile as she looks at the now sleeping little girl. "She still has nightmares about that night." she says in a whisper and a small tear runs down her check. Out of character for him, he wants to comfort her, be there for her, to hold her. So he puts her hand on her knee and squeezes, to show her that he will have her back, always. She looks from his hand to his face and understands what he wants to tell her. That is the moment that she wants to tell him everything. "Partly that is my fault. I wasn't fast enough."

"What do you mean?" he wants to know.

"I saw as her mother told her that she shall hide and she run to the open playground, one that was fairly close to my home. So as soon as I was conscious I run to the playground, but as I arrived I heard a scream. It was David." she looks at her son, he was sleeping as well. A smile graces her face even with the exhausting last days. "He hid there after he run away from the orphanage and stumbled over a two year old distraught werewolf. Long story short, she bit him. He almost died, but I could save him."

He thought about what she said, before he concluded. "She is a beta and the bite only takes with alphas, even than the chance is 50/50. So how?" he wants know.

Like her parents that night, he wants know, how she could save him, but to be truthful she doesn't know, only that she willed it to work and it did. "I have no idea, but I learned to accept some things in my life without questioning them."

"What does it have to do with me?" he asks her to bring them back to their starting point.

The whole time she was looking at him, but now she looks away a little bit embarrassed, even if she doesn't know why she was embarrassed. "The thing is I know about everything or almost everything that happened here, because I saw it."

"Meaning?" he asks her, because she didn't elaborate further.

"I saw it through Scott's eyes, because he is a true alpha, the only one for the last four hundred years and as the protector, he would become my second in command if you want to call him that." was her answer.

Now, Derek was perplex, that she has such a connection with Scott. He doesn't know why but his wolf isn't thrilled about it. But ignoring is the best way to deal with it, at least for now. "But I thought that would be the guardian?" he asks her further. The concept of the protector always fascinated him during growing up, that is why he learned or read as many things about her as he could find. It was almost an obsession and to this day he doesn't know why.

Instead of answering directly to it, she asks a counter question. "How do you know about the guardian?" Not many do, she could only find two books with references to him. The rest she learned through her memories. It is a legend that is better hidden, then her own, a legend which is almost impossible to find.

A blush starts on his face, because telling her that he was obsessed with the story about the protector, a story that apparently is about her, a girl, who was his best friend, who is still a member of his pack and currently is interesting him on a different level, is a bit much. But he tries to hide it in a nonchalantly way. "I read." Keep it short and simply always the best way to hide something.

Surprisingly she bought it. During their summer she always called him out on his bullshit. Either they don't know each other that well any more or she simply is too exhausted to spot the lie. "Ok." was her short answer with a shrug in acceptance of it, before she explained further. "The guardian is more than a second in command, he would be my equal. The way I see it, is that he is the one, who catches me when I fall. He is the one who saves me, even from myself." By now Derek wasn't the only one with a blush on his face in the car.

Alexa doesn't talk about the guardian often, because it always makes her heart ache, because she decided a long time ago not to search for him. It would be an endless task in a world with more than 7 billion people, even if only a quarter tops is supernatural that still leaves many people. Not to forget that the guardian can be a woman or a man. So why search for something that you may never find. But here with him it gives her tingles to talk about that topic with him and she doesn't know why.

Another point of her explanation still interests him, just out of curiosity and not because he is a little bit jealous. "So Scott can't be the guardian at the same time?"

She actually laughs at that. "God, no. I think I am connected to him to learn from him and his mistakes … even a true alpha makes some."

"You still haven't explained what that has to do with me?" he asks her. They circle around each other at the moment without a clear picture in front of them.

"Sorry, I have the talent to let my mind wander in different directions while I explains things." She answers and takes a break, because somehow the question if Scott could be the guardian of her, leaded her to a path she never walked before and this connection made her mind work. It leaded to something she doesn't want to believe or even hope. So she ignores it and says with a deep breath. "I also have such a connection with you. Before you say something let me explain further." he nods as answer with a huge smile on his face, because that he has such a connection with her as well warms his heart. "While it is true that I can make such a connection with every supernatural being I like, it is different with those two connections. It is deeper and it feels to me like it became a part of my own mind. I almost always can see through Scotts or your eyes if I want. Believe me that leaded to some problematic events that I witnessed."

He hears and smells the embarrassment on her that made him curious. What did she see? "Such as?" he wants to know.

Her answer was simple, to the point and lets his smile die. "Porn." It doesn't sit right with him, that she could have seen him having sex with another woman. But she drives away his panic. "Not you, but Scott and believe me it was a bit awkward to look him in the eyes at the clinic." she says.

That made it better and so he laughs. But the thought still doesn't sit right with him. But to have a little fun at Scotts expense isn't bad. "Interesting." Not many know, but Derek can be a little prankster if he wants to be and he was currently thinking of ways to tease the alpha with this. The only thing that stops him, is, that Alexa would be part of the teasing and he doesn't want that.

"Tell me about it." with that she yawns.

"When was the last time you slept?" he asks her, even as a supernatural being with healing abilities, super strength and speed they still need energy to function, maybe more so than normal humans.

"I don't know … 48 hours ago or so." she answers as she stretches herself to stay awake a little bit longer, but her eyes flutter shut and she can't keep them open anymore. Finally the exhaustion won and is now collecting his prize.

It took her only a moment to be asleep and Derek with his supernatural hearing picked up as her breath evened out. Good that they are at the loft in 10 minutes so that she can sleep a little bit. If he can manage to carry her up to his apartment without waking her, it would be optimal. She really needs sleep. But for now he concentrates on driving to his home with his pack.

That brings a smile on his face. So without thinking about it he puts his hand on her knee to feel connected to her. For the first time in a long while Derek Hale is happy and all that was needed for it, was a beautiful girl, now woman, that always could make him smile, to come back into his life.

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