Earliest update ever, I felt bad for how short the other one was that I gave you an equally short one as an apology. Next one will be better, in fact next one is actually the pack's reaction. I'm babysitting and the kid's asleep so I had time to write real quick and wanted to get out the two packs actually having to meet. I love drama.
Anon we sell Brett's for $5.50 or anything of equal price range. I'm actually really glad I'm getting positive feedback on my OCPack, I thought they'd be hated. You guys are great. Thanks to my reviewers(Anon, touchcloud). Hope I didn't keep you all waiting too long. If there's anything you need or want to see seriously PM, review I'll try and see what I can do with it.
Enjoy the chapter. All mistakes are mine own.
They are scared and you can't blame them. They spent years with Stiles as their Alpha's mate. Stiles found a way into all of their hearts. The way he'd cuddle with them when they were upset of sad, the way he wouldn't back down from a fight, the way he'd tease them and make them feel important. They can't lose them, they love him, they need him. He completes their pack. Brett's pack looks up to the Hale's house and pause in their movements. Brett looks towards his pack.
"Do not fight with them, we're here to save Stiles not to make enemies." He tells them sternly, knowing what they are feeling. That was the man he loved dying in his childhood house due to a stupid pack that left him. Brett loved Stiles and would never ask him to change but all he wants right now is to protect the younger man, no matter what that meant they had to do. The pack nods as they walked towards the Hale house. Knocking on the door Brett stands awkwardly.
"What do you want?" Derek growls, opening the door and glaring. Aleysha bites back her own growl as the pack glare back, Brett holds up a hand stopping them.
"I know this is going to sound awful but do you remember the hunters that attacked you guys." Derek goes stone faced and they see the pack behind him go jagged looking at Issac and Scott. Issac and Scott look confused and hurt. Brett understands this is a rough thing to remember but if it means saving Stiles he doesn't care about their feelings. Not that they deserve to have feelings where Stiles is involved anymore, they lost that right.
"No." Derek grits out before going to shut the door. Aleysha slaps a clawed hand against the door and pushes it back open, growling and glaring.
"Aleysha." Her eyes are yellow and her fangs are sharp, lips twitching over them. Brett's warning goes unheard as Derek growls back.
"Don't lie to us." She growls to him, pushing him back and causing him to roar. "You have done ENOUGH to hurt Stiles, don't you think? He came here to help you pathetic assholes and if he dies because of that, I'll come back and you'll have to do a lot more than growl to scare me." Her threat is strong and causes panic amongst the room but her pack doesn't stop her. Brett looks to each of the members of both pack.
"Dies?" Erica looks to them, eyes panicked and worried. Aleysha looks to her and nods, a little glad at the sting her words cause the pack.
"He is laying in bed right now, dying because of you and if you don't let us fix this…" She's cut off, the faces shocked, horrified.
"Aleysha!" Brett yells and Dominic growls.
"No, they're lying to us!" His yellow eyes fall on Derek. "Are you in on it? Did you know he was going to die?" He's screaming and Derek's shaking his head.
"Enough!" The two betas bowed their head at the red eyes that dull back to calm blue ones, the angered face slowly following. He understands they are hurt and worried, he is too but they had to reign it in just a tad. They had to control it. "Can you help us find them or not?" The blue eyes look to the group, who swallow and nod.
"Scott, call Allison, see if she knows about them." Derek tells him and Brett's pack all but sigh in relief, he was going to be okay. He was going to be okay.
Derek's pack look towards Brett's pack as they lounge around, waiting for Allison's return. There's an awkward silence over them, unsure of what they should say and how they should say it. No one wants to speak, jealousy and anger fill the room, creating a tension so strong it felt almost painful.
"How uh…how did you and Stiles meet?" Erica asks, Brett smiles, mentally counting all the times he had to tell the story. To his siblings, to his co-workers and employees. They were all always so curious.
"I work at a Starbucks that he stopped by religiously." Jackson scoffs and crosses his arms causing Brett to raise an eyebrow. "Is there a problem with that?"
"You support him on a paycheck from Starbucks." Jackson tells him, almost accusingly. As if Brett wasn't supporting Stiles enough, or taking care of him enough, which honestly shouldn't be an issue right now. Brett shakes his head.
"My family owns a law firm up in New York, very popular one. I went to law school with intents of joining the family business as a lawyer and worked at Starbuck's, my siblings supported my decision to form a pack and work a normal hour job. I get paid for my share of the law firm." Jackson bows his head and frowns, his hopes killed. Brett frowns lightly, there's a part of him that wonders if he would act the same way if the roles were reversed. What if he had lost Stiles and someone had taken him away?
"When did you two…uh…" Erica motions with her hands to gesture getting together and he smiles.
"He was attacked by a wendigo. Funniest thing I've ever seen actually. Smart mouth he had. He uh…he wasn't scared of me because of you and we hit off amazingly. It all came down to how he treated my pack but I think my pack loves him just as much as I do."
"I love him more than anyone in the world." Aleysha interrupts, correcting her Alpha with a smile. "Stiles is my best friend." She can feel Scott's pain but brushes it off, Stiles was her brother, her best friend. "I owe him my life, like you do." She looks to Issac who looks down and nods.
"Is he…" Scott swallows. "Is he happy?" The whole pack perk up. The worry that he wouldn't be, that even if he did get over them, replace him he wouldn't be was fresh. But there was a selfish part of them that hoped he wasn't happy just content, that they'd be able to get him back. Have him return home and stay and never leave again, never leave them again.
"Well, I think so. When he first started coming into Starbucks he reeked of depression and pain…heartbreak, loneliness." Brett frowns, recalling it. Stiles had this look in eyes back then, one he never wants to see again. He remembers after they got together and curled together at night and talked about it in the park, hidden from pack, from people, almost like a secret love affair, he had understood. Losing everything, he had understood.
"Now he smells like pack." Dominic says, grabbing Telisa by the shoulders, who smiles lightly, placing her hands over Dominic's. "Like family. Stiles." He explains and smiles. "He's great to all of us." The pack swallows.
"Yeah." Erica bites her lip and leans into her mate, the rubs an arm up her shoulder, trying to comfort her. She had been close to Stiles, they all had, they loved Stiles like Stiles loved them. They still do, to hear how easy it was for him, well, maybe it was difficult but he did it. They didn't, couldn't.
"Sorry, I know how upsetting it is." Andre confesses, standing. "I'd been an omega before Stiles came around. I know how it feels to lose a pack mate."
"Don't apologize." Derek says as he enters the room, handing a drink to the other Alpha who smiles greatly, accepting the offered drink. "It was our own fault he left." His pack frowns to him, wondering.
"As true as that is…it still hurts." Andre replies.
"It's not our fault." Scott whispers, but part of his still doesn't believe that. Stiles would've stayed if someone talked to him. But Stiles didn't have to leave Beacon Hills and run away, he could've stayed and waited for them.
"Yes, it is Scott. You heard them, we broke his heart." 'I broke his heart' Derek isn't shy about it. He knows what he did was wrong even if it were for the right reason. Seeing Brett…he was just glad he didn't have to see Brett and Stiles together again, he knows he can't handle that. Stiles was his, once upon a time, and deep down Stiles is still his. He still loves Stiles, there's a part of him that fears he always will. Brett eyes Derek for a moment before sipping his drink.
"Still, he would've forgiven you." Brett tells them with a nod, when he places the mug on the table. "At any point in time, in fact I'd put money on it that he'd forgive you now, he just wouldn't come back." Brett makes a point in informing Derek of that, of telling that pack they had fucked up and he was not losing his mate because they felt guilty. He trusts Stiles and Stiles loves him but he knows how it feels, he understands. The talks they have he knows Stiles would fall back if they cried to him, if they made him feel like he needed to be there and Brett wouldn't allow this pack to hurt his love ever again.
So what did you think? I'm trying to get in some history of the past few years that's missed since Stiles left. There might be more flashbacks, I got positive feedback on that too.