Author's Note;
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I shouldn't be taking as long to write chapters now because I have more of an opportunity now because some stuff changed around and due to the fact that I am going on holidays real soon, so yay for that!
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But anyway, this is a pretty long chapter and is more of a DerekxKayla romance chapter, but does follow the story line as will the next chapter which I am about to start writing RIGHT NOW.
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I felt a frown grow on my face but didn't feel any surprise or curiosity as we stopped in front of a burnt down, wooden house. From where we were standing I could clearly tell that at least half of the roof was missing. I thought about why Derek had brought me here, to this…it couldn't even be called a house, not really.
"This is the old Hale House" Derek aid as we stopped walking, I looked at him as he looked at the….well, ruined house.
"So….?"
"Yeah, this is where I pretty much grew up…and lived until I got the loft" Although it was interesting to get a look at Derek's past, I still didn't know why he had brought me here.
"You're the first person to not ask what I did when it rained" Derek's voice held a note of amusement and even though I didn't really feel I, I smiled.
"Well…" I began,
"Not you to!" Derek sighed, rolling his eyes,
"No, no I won't. Wouldn't want to be like everyone else now would I?"
"You'd never be like anyone else Kayla…" his voice had lost the light amusement and was now serious, I wasn't sure if it was a compliment or an insult either,
"Thank you…I think"
"What I meant is you could never be like anyone else because you're so true, you know who you are and you're not afraid to be yourself. You're brave and selfless, you'd never be like anyone else Kayla because you are you." The little speech made my heart beat a little faster, my pulse quickening slightly with the kind words.
I dropped Derek's hand, which I only just realised I'd been holding the entire time and pulled him into a hug, my arms wrapping behind his neck.
I could tell I had caught him by surprise because he stiffed under my touch, but within a few seconds he'd relaxed and now his arms were wrapped around my back.
My eyes were squeezed shut as we hugged, I wanted to remember this moment utterly and completely, even if I couldn't feel any emotion. Sealing it into my memory, I let go and stepped back, but held out my hand for him. Taking it after a moment's hesitation, Derek led the way into the 'house'.
I briefly noticed that the door was missing as well before I was standing in a word of scorched wood and shadows. A staircase led upwards to a second floor which looked slightly less charred than the ground level.
"What happened?" the words came out as I looked around,
"An Argent set fire to the place" Derek said it so simply, it sounded as if it almost wasn't true,
"As in Allison Argent, Argent?"
"Mhmm. It was Allison's aunt who did it"
"Wow…." Was all I could manage to say.
"So why did you bring me here?" I asked when Derek didn't reply,
"You said that you aren't feeling anything, that you think you should be freaking out about it but you aren't-"
"Can't" I interrupted him,
"Can't then. I want to show you that you don't have to freak out about that because your older, wiser mentor will make it all better" the way he said the word 'all' made me raise an eyebrow at him.
"You'll see what I mean" He dropped my hand and then shifted in front of me,
"You ready to feel emotion again?" I had no idea where this was going and what the hell Derek was doing, but I nodded anyway.
I then thanked whatever God was up there for all of my training as I flipped backwards as Derek's taloned hand swiped towards me.
As I stood, I let the change wash over me, a snarl escaping my throat.
Without hesitation Derek swiped at me again, his eyes glowing a vivid matching blue to mine, I easily deflected the swipe, backing away slowly, not wanting to fight back.
Despite my best efforts, it became difficult to not fight back and only defend and I could tell Derek knew I was struggling, I ended up swiping back at him half-heartedly, hissing in warning not that he paid any attention to my weak attempts.
Backing off again I remained on the defensive knowing that he was pushing me back, technically winning. I backed up the stairs, hoping to gain a height advantage, but it didn't work. I ended up backing up the stair getting push further and further back.
I almost stumbled as I reached the top, my foot slamming on the ground when it didn't meet a step.
As I defended we ended up turning around, like in one of those old fashioned fighting movies where the two fighters circle each other before going in for the kill. For a split second Derek had laid off on his attack and I thought that he was finally going to stop with whatever this was but then the world was spinning around me, literally.
My vision doubled as I came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs, my head pounding, I would of thanked whoever it was who had turned me for turning me, but I was too busy putting two and two together as my body speed-healed itself, my vision returning to normal.
A snarling Derek became my focus as I thought about what had happened, he'd pushed me down the stairs. Derek had seriously pushed me down the stairs.
At least it didn't hurt.
Wait. Yes it did…my head was still pounding slightly, what was happening?
"Come on Kayla that seriously all you got?" Derek's voice cut through the confusion and brought me back to reality, to the fact that he had pushed me down the stairs and that it had actually hurt like hell.
"God dammit Derek! Has no one ever told you to never push a girl down stairs?" I growled, my voice full to the brim with hostility,
I was then up the stairs, shoving Derek through a wall, yes through, dust and char falling everywhere around us.
I crashed down on top of him, quickly sitting up on top of him I pressed my claws to his throat, adrenaline pumping through my veins,
"That hurt like hell!" I nearly shouted at him, glaring at the slightly smug expression that was now crossing his face.
"Calm down Kayla" he shifted back, his eyes once more becoming silver,
"You pushed me down the stairs!" I hissed, the shock still present.
"And I'd do it again"
"What the he-" I didn't get to finish my sentence because once more I was spinning and then my back was pressed to the ground and then Derek was on top of me.
"I told you to calm down Kayla" the adrenaline pumping through me wouldn't allow anything of the sort to happen, so I just shook my head, twisting beneath him and trying to get free so I could push him down the stairs.
My arms were then pinned above my head and Derek's face was close to mine,
"Seriously Kayla. Calm. Down." I growled up at him, glaring once more, but I could feel that the adrenaline was wearing off, the situation no longer needing the extra boost of power. I stopped wriggling but kept glaring up at him, my heart still beating like crazy.
"That wasn't so hard was it?"
"Why'd you push me down the stairs?!"
"You got angry didn't you?"
"Of course I did you idiot! You push-"once more I was cut off.
"It made you angry. Anger is an emotion Kayla" what had happened finally suck in as soon as he said those words, I was feeling emotion again, I hadn't even realised. I thought about how that had happened and how the hell it had worked, but I came up blank.
"How the-"
"It doesn't matter. You do know that I hated pushing you down the stairs right? I know it hurts like hell" the words hit me harder than the stairs had when I'd bounced down them, true emotion rung behind each letter and I nodded, speechless really.
"Good" Derek mumbled, looking down at me as I looked back up at him,
"I think this has to be the weirdest situation to realise that you're in love with someone" I didn't know where those words came from but the made their way out of my mouth and into the world and then I felt my face go bright red and I looked away, not able to look the person who those words were about in the eye.