Derek stood there in front of her house as he leaned against his Camaro and waited. Once again, he felt the need to make sure Keira was safe and this was the only way he could do it and not look like a stalker. He could hear her moving around in her house as he waited for her. Every time she walked near the door he'd get excited that she was about to come out. Maybe he wanted to see her more than help her, although he wasn't sure why he'd want to see her.
She finally opened the door and walked down the stairs. Her hair was damp and he noticed that despite her being blind her clothes matched. It was obvious that she lived alone so he wondered how she put together matching clothes. She paused at the end of the walkway as if she felt like she wasn't alone.
"Hi Keira," Derek said and she frowned.
"Derek, what are you doing here?" Keira asked folding her arms across her chest and glaring in his direction.
"I figured you wouldn't mind if I walked you to the diner." He said and she cocked a brow at him.
"Why would you want to do that?" she asked almost as if she was a little angry.
"I figured we could be friends." Derek guessed he could let himself have at least one. Keira was quiet for a moment as if she was surprised that he would want to be friends with her.
"I remember saying something like that to you in high school." She muttered and then walked down the street.
"I don't remember that." He said walking next to her.
"Yeah, I saw that you were sitting alone at the lunch table my freshmen year and sat with you." She said and Derek watched as her pretty face turned into a scowl, "You gave me this look like you wanted to yell at me, but just asked me why I was sitting with you."
"I still don't remember it." Derek mumbled furrowing his brows and she sighed.
"After I said I wanted to be friends you laughed at me and said that you didn't want to be friends with someone as pathetic as me and left." She said and Derek flinched.
"I'm sorry." He mumbled.
"Prove it." She said smirking as she looked a head.
"Well, if I'm right it was around the time my family died, and I was pretty much pissed at the world then." Derek said softly and she nodded.
Derek could smell her annoyance at him being there turn into pity. It was strange that as quickly as he smelled pity on her it turned to jealousy. He couldn't begin to understand why she would be jealous of his family dying. She could've been thinking of something else that made her jealous as well though.
"I remember that Argent girl you used to talk about in class; she was the one behind the fire that killed your family, right?" She asked and he raised his brows at her in surprise.
"She was jealous of Kate?" Derek didn't know why she was jealous of her, but he answered her anyway, "Yeah."
"What a psycho." She said and Derek smiled a little.
"Yeah, she was totally nuts." He agreed nodding.
"That reminds me, I'm out of peanut butter." She said thinking out loud.
"I could walk you to the grocery store, or give you a ride." Derek offered and she was quiet for a moment.
"I think I'd like that." She told him, "But the grocery store doesn't open until seven."
"Well I guess we have some time to kill." He said and she smiled nodding.
"You can't find him." Stiles said into his cell phone, "How long ago did you see him…? It's only been – oh what's he do check in with you if he's running late?"
"Dude, who are you talking to." Scott asked as he got into the jeep.
"Isaac and Erica, they keep passing the phone back and forth, well more like fighting over the phone, but you know." Stiles said pressing the phone to his neck and hoping they didn't hear.
"Give me the phone." Scott said and then he put it on speaker.
"What's up guys we got the phone on speaker." Scott told them.
"I just set this to speaker so he'd stop taking it away from me." Erica growled at Isaac.
"It's my phone!" The two could hear him yell at her.
"Calm down you two and tell me what's going on." Scott said and then heard a sigh in the back ground as well as fighting.
"Derek went out this morning to eat breakfast like he always does and these two are having a panic attack because it's almost seven and he still hasn't come back." Boyd told them as the other two fought.
"Derek is a big werewolf I'm sure he can take care of himself." Stiles said sarcastically as usual.
"When did he leave for breakfast?" Scott asked him.
"Four in the morning," Boyd said unenthusiastically.
"That was almost three hours ago." Scott said with surprise, "We'll look around for him; you just keep those two from causing trouble."
"Hey, we don't cause that much trouble!" they could hear the other two shout before breaking out in another fight. They had a slight sibling rivalry going on, Derek had tried to put a stop to it, but whenever he wasn't around they were always fighting. Of course if you tired to fight the one of them the other would be there to back them up.
"Will do… or at least try to, anyway see you guys later." Boyd said and then hung up.
"Do we really have to look for Derek?" Stiles whined and Scott shot him a look.
"What if the hunters have him?" Scott said and Stiles sighed.
"Okay, I see your point." He mumbled and started the jeep.
Derek glanced up at the jeep in the parking space behind his Camaro. He walked down the stairs and up to Stiles' jeep as if they hadn't just seen him carrying groceries from his car into Keira Creek's house. Stiles and Scott both wondered if they had drunk Lydia's special Wolf's Bane spiked punch by accident and were hallucinating again. Derek didn't help sweet blind girls get groceries, but then again anyone that tried to help Keira was told to go away. She just wasn't the kind of person that accepted help, well, until now.
"Is something going on?" Derek asked when Scott rolled down the window.
"How the hell did you get her to let you help her with her groceries?" Stiles asked him in shock, "I tried to do that when I was fourteen and she told me no."
"I remember that, you ask again and she you to go the hell away, but I think that was mostly because you insulted her about being blind." Scott said and then looked at Derek, "What did you?"
"We went to high school together, but she was in the grade below mine." Derek said and they rolled their eyes at him.
"My mom is the only person I know that she willingly accepted help from." Scott said and Derek raised his brows, "And Keira still tells her she doesn't really need her help."
"So…" Derek said looking at them as if what they had to say meant nothing at all to him.
"Why are you helping her anyway?" Scott asked him.
"Yeah, you're not exactly well known for your people skills." Stiles added in.
"I… I just – I don't have to answer that." Derek growled at them.
"Hey, we were just asking!" Scott said holding up his hands in defense.
"Yeah, that and the rest of the pack also want to know why." Stiles said looking at his cell phone.
"She's my friend; I can have one of those can't I?" Derek grumbled at him.
"Hey Derek," Keira called from the porch, "You forgot the milk in the back seat."
"I'll get it in just a second." He said and she sighed.
"Fine I'll get it myself." She grumbled and for a moment Scott and Derek just watched her as she went down. It was like they all knew it was going to happen before it actually happened. She fell in slow motion and the before she could hit the ground Derek caught her.
"Are you okay?" Derek asked her and she blinked at him.
"What happened?" She asked after a few seconds.
"You took a step toward the stairs and just fell forward." Scott said since he was now squatting next to them as Stiles made his way over to them. They had moved fast although Derek was obviously the fastest.
"Oh…" she said and closed her eyes, "… I'm fine now."
"Did you… did you black out?" Stiles said squatting down next to Scott to see if she was okay. He wasn't sure how to word it since she was blind and he didn't want to insult her again.
"Yeah, happens all the time." She said and Derek sighed.
"You scared the hell out of me." Derek said and she turned in the direction of his voice.
"I can tell, I can feel and hear your heart pounding." She said poking him in the chest where it was pounding less than it had been.
"Maybe we should take her to the hospital." Stiles said and her eyes widened.
"No." she said squirming in Derek's arms.
"They're not taking you calm down." Derek said wondering why she was so panicked about the hospital, "Have you seen a doctor about your fainting?"
"I don't have to see a doctor; I'm fine." She said and Derek sighed at her.
"Okay, but I'm going to have Scott tell his mother about your fainting spells." Derek said and she snorted.
"Like that's going to do anything." She rolled her eyes at him.
"You are the most stubborn woman I know." Derek mumbled under his breath, but she still heard him.
"Thanks," she said smirking at what was obviously not a compliment.
"You're welcome," Derek said rolling his eyes before looking at Scott and Stiles, "Why are you two here again?"
"The pa – I mean, Isaac, Erica, and Boyd were concerned about why you hadn't come back for three hours." Stiles said and Derek sighed.
"Go tell them I'm on my way." He sighed and Stiles pulled his phone out, "I mean go to them I don't mean text."
"But –"
"Now," Derek barked at them and they sighed before doing as their Alpha told them.
"Can you put me down now?" Keira asked glaring in his direction, "Or are you going to carry me in?"
"I'll carry you 'cause I know it'll make you mad." He said and she frowned and then jumped a little when he stood up quickly. She gripped his shoulders as if she feared that he would drop her. "You don't have to dig your nails into me; I'm not going to drop you.
"Okay." She said, but barely loosened her grip as he walked up the stairs.
Derek decided that he'd eventually take her to the doctors even if he had to lie about where they were going. In the back of his mind he wondered if her passing out was the only reason why he felt he needed to be keep her safe. He felt that he had to watch out for her and he did, but tried not to neglect his pack at the same time.
Cut The Dotted Line: Yeah, I actually read through this one. There should be less mistakes, but it is 4 in the morning so... yeah. Oh I think I had an actual heart attack today so if all of my stories suddenly stop getting updates I died. Oh a brighter note I updated on this~! Also my cat is giving me lots of (unwanted) attention and she usually only gives my mom (Also unwanted) attention. So yeah... I hope I get more reviews. Your littlest 'I love this' or 'please update soon' and even 'Please keep going' really make me want to write more, but you know I also like it when you write really long ones to. So... yeah... Please review! Morana out~!
