AN: Update, I have nothing to say, the sadness.
Maddelynn: Well I've got one show down, now I shall spend the next few…weeks? Watching Arrow and Grimm, loving it. YES! Totally engaged here (I'm so glad I never have to propose, I was waiting for rejection). Tests are gross, you graduate only to take more and then you go to college…who's bright ideas are there? Good luck on yours though. Sterek or….Briles? Stret? StrOC? OCiles? The war continues now…on The Bold…and The Alpha's Spark.
There's a small little scene you might hate me for but it was by popular demand since I started this…Enjoy?
Aleysha, Dominic, Boyd and Erica went to the scene in order to see if it was the hunters they had let go. Brett went down to the remaining group in order to discuss what was going on with Stiles and the hunters, everything he knows. Scott runs up to help Stiles and sits on the bed while Stiles starts up the beta's computer. Stiles flips out his phone and looks at the name Aberro, he frowns at it and stares. He looks to the computer and types in Mitch Aberro. Stiles stares at the computer for a long time, his finger tapping on the keyboard every so often.
"Find anything?" Scott asks from his place on the bed, looking to him innocently. Stiles bites the inside of his lip and furrows his brows before facing Scott.
"Yeah, sadly…I think I did…" Stiles admits, staring at Scott with an expression that tells Scott there's more to the story than anyone's known. Scott waits a few minutes as Stiles glances away.
"Well?" Stiles turns his attention back to Scott. "What did you find?"
"You're not gonna like this." Stiles tells his friend who sits up. There was something deeper here, something that was hidden and it was serious and it was bad.
"So, we just have to go look for those hunters right? I mean, it's not like there's no way to save him…right? Right?" Jefferson asks, eyes wide and scared. "He's gonna be fine, right…?" He looks to Brett and then to the rest of the group none of which are willing to confirm this to the young boy when they weren't too sure of it themselves.
"No," Telisa says. "Jeff's right, Stiles is going to be fine." She stands up and Brett frowns at her as her teary eyes meet his. "Because you and Stiles always save each other, and this is the first time where we've had a close call. So, you're going to save him." She says, crossing her arms and glaring. Jordan stands and puts a hand on Telisa's shoulder, pushing her to sit back down.
"Honey, we're all going to do our best to help Stiles but there's no way we can be certain of it. We don't know what this is…only the guy who made it will know and we don't know where he is." Telisa purses her lips close together, trying to hold back tears that she felt burning in her eyes. She looks up to Jordan, eyes big.
"But Stiles has always been there, we can't do this without him." A painful quiet settles over the room as the emissary looks down on her, heartbroken by the words.
"Yeah," Jefferson whispers. "He's done everything for us." He looks to everyone, in his pack and in Derek's. "For all of us and…I don't think any of us can do this without knowing he's alive." Issac looks away from the boy's eyes and to the ground, Jackson pulls Lydia closer to him and Andre looks to the ground.
"Yes we can." Brett tells Jeff. "And we will…because that's what he wants us to do." The wolves all nod and Derek looks over to the other Alpha. There's the sound of feet coming down the stairs and everyone looks up, expecting to see Stiles. Issac smiles when he sees his lover instead but Scott looks to his Alpha.
"Stiles needs to talk to you, or maybe you need to talk to him." Scott tells Derek, who raises his brows, tilting his head slightly.
"What's going on?" Brett asks. "Is he okay?"
"He's fine, actually I think he has a lead on this whole crazy hunter thing…he doesn't." Scott admits and Derek nods, walking past him. Brett's eyes follow the Alpha until the man in out of sight. He turns his attention back to Jordan who looks at him pointedly and he just rolls his eyes back.
"What does he know?" Karen questions the beta, who smiles at her while sitting between Issac and Jefferson.
"I'm not completely sure but they are from New York." Brett and Jordan nod, having already known this prior. "And Stiles is pretty sure he knew them." Brett's head snaps to look at Scott.
"What?" He asks and Scott nods as Brett's heart pounds heavily in his chest.
"Yeah, he's pretty sure he knows them and on a personal level not a…I've encountered these before although, you said it happened before so obviously you have encountered them before." Scott says and Jordan nods.
"We're pretty sure we have." She says "In New York."
Derek makes his way to the room to see Stiles lost in thought. He smiles lightly at it, memories of walking into his room and seeing Stiles like this taking over his mind. He used to love it when Stiles would sit on his bed and do research, he'd leave the room for a second and when he came back there was Stiles, lost in his own thoughts. He still does actually, it's cute. He slowly makes his way over and Stiles' eyes focus on him.
"Hey, Scott says you found something."
"Yeah…Steven Aberro…he was my boss." Derek stares at Stiles in shock as he. "Yeah," Stiles lets out a laugh. "In fact the year we got attacked in New York his brother Mitch showed up at the office and…he didn't like me much."
"So, did he offer you the job?" Stiles bites his lip and shifts on the bed so he's sitting on the edge right in front of Derek.
"Not exactly…I um…" Stiles sighs. "When I left…when we broke up, I knew I had to get out of town, especially after everyone…you know, so I went to a friend who hooked me up with a flight, an apartment and a job." Derek looks to him and Stiles purses his lips together tightly. "I uh…also went to see this person after our fight to get Jordan here." Stiles licks his lips.
"Who?" Derek asks him, confusion filling him. Stiles didn't know anybody who was still in town and alive that would do that for him. Stiles makes a face and hesitates to answer.
"Peter."
"My uncle?" Derek questions, staring at Stiles like the kid lost his mind.
"Look, we let him in on everything when we needed his help and I needed his help. Plus, would he really go to the lengths of teaming up with obviously psychotic hunters?"
"Yeah, probably. Stiles you weren't just my boyfriend…" Stiles glances down for a second before looking back to Derek. "You were everything to me and he knew that, and he probably figured you'd come running back the second I called…" Derek pauses for a second, realizing Stiles did just that. "On top of that you're a spark. You're a threat to him. With you out of the way he'd have no problem in taking me down."
"Well why didn't he when I was in New York?"
"Did you see how you reacted when Scott called and said Issac was hurt?" Derek all but yells at Stiles who closes his eyes. "Stiles, you said very clearly we had to tell you if one of us was dying…" Stiles looks up to him and his lips part slightly. "You said we'd meet again. You think he didn't know that? You'd have been back before he'd have been able to take down more than one of the betas." Stiles shakes his head and Derek grabs his cheeks, forcing it back to his face. "Yes, you would've and he knew that."
"Then why'd it take so long?" Derek lets him go and sits next to him, staring at the door.
"I don't know. Maybe he told them to be sure of it, he wanted to make sure there was no chance of you coming back." Stiles turns to face Derek and Derek looks at him.
"Okay but…he'd be dead before he'd be able to hurt you with my pack here." Derek shakes his head.
"Maybe he thought we wouldn't find out who they were or that you couldn't piece it together because you'd be sick. See," Derek says. "I told you. I fucking told you something like this would happen because of me…because of us…I told you." Stiles stares at Derek and bites his lip. "You didn't believe me and you go and you fucking put yourself back in a position to get killed for fucks sake, Stiles." Stiles swallows and looks down before looking back up at Derek who glares down at him. "You're gonna get yourself killed because of me, it's gonna be all my fault!"
"It's not your fault Derek." Stiles mutters but doesn't yell back. He decides Derek needs to get it all out.
"See, it wasn't all for nothing. You're fucking dying because I love you, do you understand that? Do you believe me now, Stiles? Is this what it takes to get you to leave?"
"I still wouldn't leave." Derek stares down at him and Stiles swallows but doesn't back down. Derek's eyes dart between his and Stiles feels his heart pound just a tad bit harder in his chest. "I'm not gonna leave." Stiles says and Derek does the one thing he's not sure he regrets. He dives down and captures Stiles lips, pushing the younger man onto the bed and placing his hands by Stiles' head. Stiles' eyes shut and Derek kisses him, for all he's worth.
"It was them." Aleysha confirms on the phone. Brett nods and tells the others who look at each other, wondering what happened. "And it was definitely done by a werewolf, its stink is all over the place. We figured we could do a three way split again. We need to track down the remaining hunters and we need to find this werewolf that's killing people."
"Well, it's killing hunters, for all we know the wolf did it because it was him or them." Brett tells her.
"Point but what if he didn't, Brett, we can't just wait for some innocent fool to fall victim to a wolf. We've never done that. We should just imagine we didn't know they were hunters and figure out who's at fault."
"Alright, head back and we'll talk about it with Stiles and Derek." Brett hangs up with her agreement for return and looks to the group. "They said it was definitely the hunters and done by a werewolf. Do you know of any in the area?"
"No, the Argents do a good job at making sure there are no other wolves in the area." Scott tells the Alpha who nods.
"Well, there is one." The Beacon Hill pack members look to Jordan confused. "I wasn't supposed to tell you about it but the person who got me here, Peter, he was a wolf. Stiles stayed at his house while he waited for me to show up."
"Peter Hale as in, crazy Uncle Peter?" Scott asks. "We thought he left Beacon Hills."
"Crazy Uncle Peter?" Brett questions.
"Yeah, he's the one who bit me and then after that we set him on fire and Derek slit his throat. Then Lydia revived him and he was always up to something, we never really knew what. The Argents didn't like him either and eventually he just disappeared."
"Not exactly." Stiles mutters as he made his way into the room. "He moved up town and got a nice little loft. He uh…he's the one that got me a job in New York, under Steven Aberro." He looks to Jordan who's lips part.
"Mitch's brother?" Stiles nods and the entire room begins to put it together. Derek shuffles past Stiles to the other side of the room. Scott, Brett, and Jordan all follow the Alpha with suspicious and curious eyes before Brett turns them back to Stiles.
"You've worked under Mitch's brother for ten years, while they were plotting to kill you?" Stiles nods and shuffles his feet, causing Brett to tilt his head and narrow his eyes.
"Yeah, pretty much. We should go look for Peter, I think he's the reason I'm sick again." Brett shakes his head before nodding.
"Aleysha the other three betas are heading back now, we're going to head off to find the other four hunters and make sure they aren't dead and maybe they'll have another cure and I'm assuming, may be wrong, that Peter is the wolf who killed the other two." Stiles nods and looks to his husband then to the floor, he looks up to Derek and then to Jordan even faster. Scott looks between the two Alpha's and the spark, knowing something was off, wondering what it was. Derek looks straight across the room and out the window while leaning against the wall, eyebrows furrowed. "You feeling okay?" Stiles looks to his husband.
"Yeah, fine enough to go with you guys."
"What? No. Are you crazy? We just found out you're a definite target and you want to go out." Stiles raises a brow to Issac.
"As opposed to being the easiest target? That's not gonna stop me, I'm going out." The betas agree and Jordan looks at Stiles, trying to read his body language and figure out if something is worse than he's letting out. Stiles looks over to his husband and frowns causing Brett to raise a questioning eyebrow but Stiles just shakes his head. Scott turns to look at Derek, who's looking at Stiles. Jordan glances to Derek before looking down at Scott who meets her eyes as both of their eyes go wide. Jefferson looks from Issac to Scott and frowns, wondering what his Alpha's emissary and his friend are looking at each other about. He's seen that look once, it was exchanged between Aleysha and Jordan when Jordan found out Brett had slept with Stiles before telling anyone they were dating. He hates being the last to know secrets.
OMFG! You guys, Derek kissed Stiles! (Don't worry, we're coming back to that) It's caused awkward tension. Is Brett gonna find out? How did Stiles react? Do Jordan and Scott actually know what's going on? Is Peter really behind all this? Is there an even bigger history behind the Aberro brother's and Stiles? (of course). Is Stiles going to die? Most of these will be answered in the next chapter. Find out than.
Fun fact: When I searched the meaning of Mitch's name I discovered Mitch meant (like) God. So (in the spirit of horrible story telling) I made his last name Aberro (which is a real last name) which in Latin means 'to lose one's way' or 'strayed'. The research I did just to make his mean 'Strayed God' is ridiculous. But it made me giggle so it was worth it.
More fun facts to come.
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