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When Derek woke the next morning nothing was spinning and he was finally able to see straight, but gaining enough strength to get out of bed and go for a run would be a whole other idea. Just a few miles. I skipped a workout yesterday, I can't skip today, too. The wolf sat up in his bed and rolled his head on his shoulders a few times and stretched his arms above his head. He all but jumped out of his skin when he saw Isaac sheepishly standing in the doorway to his bedroom. "Good morning, Isaac. Is everything okay?", asked Derek as he slipped on a pair of jeans, soon followed by a tight black shirt. "Yeah. Everything's fine, Derek. Um. I just wanted to check on you, see if you were awake.", explained the Beta as he walked in the room a little bit more. "You're not telling me everything. Are you, Isaac?", asked the Alpha as he put on his running sneakers instead of his boots. The Beta in question took a seat beside his Alpha, gently rubbing his cheek against the older wolf's shoulder, before doing the same to the older wolf's cheek. Isaac froze momentarily when he heard his Alpha purring, rubbing his cheek against his Beta's in return to combine their scent.
"Come on. I think Stiles is trying to man the kitchen again.", explained Isaac as he walked to the door of the bedroom. Derek bit his lip and tightened his grip on the bed before slowly rising from it, keeping his legs locked for a few minutes to make sure that he remained standing. "I'm just going to go for a run this morning. I'll eat later on.", explained Derek as he walked to the door of his bedroom, following the younger wolf down the stairs and into the kitchen where the rest of the pack were waiting. By the time the Alpha reached the back door, and arm wrapped around his waist and dragged him back into the kitchen. "Oh no you don't.", said Peter as he gently pulled his nephew back into the room before he had the chance to walk out the back door. "I was just going to go for a run, Peter. It wasn't even going to be long. Only a few miles.", explained the younger wolf quickly as he backed out of his Uncle's grasp. "You're still recovering from yesterday, you're nowhere ready for a run. You need to take it easy. I'll allow a walk as long as you take somebody along with you so you don't overdue it.", explained Peter as he looked his nephew straight in the eye.
The Alpha looked away from his Uncle's eyes before he nodded his head, reaching over to gently tug on Stiles shirt. "I'll take Stiles with me, before he burns down the remainder of the house that we haven't started remodeling yet.", explained Derek as he flashed a teasing smile to the teen, who mockingly looked offended. "I'm an amazing cook and you know it!", said Stiles as he slapped the wolf on his shoulder playfully. "Isaac, you might want to man the stove while he's gone. The pack looks like they're about to devour anything that moves.", explained the Alpha as he walked to the door with Stiles at his side. "Don't let him go too far, Stiles.", ordered the former Alpha as he watched Isaac take over where the other teen left off. The wolf started to mix the pancake batter again as he watched his Alpha and Stiles walk out the back door and off into the woods. Stiles tried not to look at the wolf too much during their walk but felt himself being drawn to look at him.
"What is it, Stiles? I can feel the curiosity coming off of you in waves.", asked Derek in his own curiosity as he walked through the woods, catching the teen before he fell over a tree root. "How do you do it, Derek? You manage to hide the fact that you're literally in pain and starving yourself, while trying to run a pack of teenage werewolves. How the hell do you do it?", asked the teen as they continued through the woods, stopping the wolf when the teen leaned against a tree. "I've learned how to do it. The pain from hunger can easily be hidden by just drinking a glass of water or coffee. Putting on a mask works even more than that, you put all your walls up without letting anything get to you at all. It never falls down, cracks, or breaks.", explained Derek as he leaned against the tree across from the teen. "What caused you to start losing weight?", asked the teen as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Let's just say during my 12 years of school, I was at the bottom of the food chain. I was basically like the Omega in a pack. But this was like being an Omega to all the upper class men.", explained the wolf as he shuddered at the memory of being in school.
"How could you be at the bottom of the food chain? That doesn't even seem possible.", asked Stiles as he gaped over at the wolf in shock. "When I was in school I kept to myself and kept my head down. I knew where I stood when it came to the pecking order and it was always maintained. You tried to mess with it or rise up to a higher standard, you were brutally put back in your place. Trash-canned, beat up, harassed, shoved into lockers.", explained the wolf as he crossed his own arms over his chest as if he never wanted to remember any of that again. "And nobody did anything?", asked the teen in shock as his jaw practically hit the floor. "Not once.", replied Derek with a low laugh as he leaned back against the tree, looking up at the blue sky above them. "And that's when this began?", asked Stiles softly and gently, praying that he wasn't pushing too far. "That's when it all started. I had it set in my mind that if I looked better and lost a little weight, I would finally get recognized and not have to worry about whatever was laying around the hall corner.", explained the wolf as he kept his eyes on the sky.