Stiles thought she should invite a few of her friends by person. So she called Danny first.
Stiles fell onto her bed and dialed Danny on her iPhone.
"Yeah?" he answers the phone.
"Dude, guess what," she said.
"You have a mate," Danny said. "Jackson told me."
"Of course that douche would tell you before me," she whines. "I didn't think he would."
"Don't underestimate his care for his little sister," Danny said.
Stiles rolls her eyes. "Like he cares about me but whatevs." She rolls onto her stomach.
"So tell me about this mate. I hear its Derek Hale."
"Yep, a hot piece of ass, I have to add," she joked. Stiles made not to check out her mate's ass to assure it. "But I think he's a little disappointed that he has a Stiles for a mate."
"You make it seem like you are a disease or something."
"Well, aren't I?" she glanced back at the door seeing both Isaac and Scott walking though. She nods in greeting to her two best buds. Scott leans against the wall keeping distance while Isaac sits at the desk next to her bed. "I also made best friends with his beta and third-in-command, as well."
"You do know that alphas can be possessive over their mates. Ethan for example?"
"Yeah, I dealt with that with JJ." She recalls.
"That's different. He's your older brother, your mate. He's gonna hate the idea of your friends being 99.9% dudes." Danny warns her.
"He might think I'm a slut." She said.
Both Scott and Danny snorts. Stiles laughs at that.
"Well maybe I am!"
"Yeah, you so are a slut," Danny said. "Aiden didn't take the news very well."
"Aiden will forget about me once he finds his mate, trust me," Stiles said. She still is stunned that she was able to get her first boyfriend who is as hot as Aiden without fate making them mates. It was a nice first fling in college but she had to end it sooner or later before one of them get really hurt. And Aiden was getting a bit too attached to her. "Well, I just called to invite you to the ceremony and Ethan as well. It's next Sunday so beware."
"Cool, need a present?"
"Just your fine self. Bye," she hangs up.
"Who was that?" Scott asked.
"My friend, Danny." She replies. "He's tres cool." She adds.
"So I heard that you caused quite the frenzy on your first day," Isaac said. "He thought you was kidnapped or something."
Stiles rolled her eyes. "What's the deal of me going out without asking for permission? And he was gone so I didn't want to just sit in the house with no good food in the fridge. And I hung out with one of the members, Garett. I think he won't be hanging out with me anytime soon."
"Its protocol when it comes to mates," Scott explained. "It's not like I am a control freak but I like to know where Allison is 24/7. It's our wolf that wants to know that our mates is safe. If we could listen to our wolf all the time, Allison and you would be locked in a concrete room and never let you out."
"Dude, then why don't I feel that with him?"
"It's a guy thing."
"Yep, that explains it," Stiles agreed.
"Tomorrow, me and Scott is going training," Isaac said. "Wanna hang?"
"Dude, I'll love to."
NEXT DAY
Stiles was ready to train. She had on the neon green Nike shirt saying, 'How does last place taste?" with the under amour spandex running shorts on. Her overgrown pixie cut hair was pulled back by a black hairband. And she was ready to run some miles in her new pair of Nike shoes.
"So what are we doing first?" she asked Isaac as they made their way to the kitchen. She grabbed an apple off the counter and took a big chunk of a bite out of it.
"Stretching first." Isaac said. "Jogging first in the gym with the treadmill to warm up. Lift weights. Kickboxing. Running this time outside. Then run…with the wolves." He grinned on the last part.
"I think I might die on the treadmill. Just warning you how out of shape I am…even if I am a wolf and all." She said as she followed Scott and Isaac down the stairs to the basement. As they gotten closer to the in-home gym, stiles could already hear someone working out. Grunts and growls from the person. Then as they made it to the door, Stiles's eyes widened. The smell already made her figure out who was in the gym.
Scott opened the door to reveal that Derek was bench-pressing whatever hell pounds they was (looks like a lot). He was wearing a stoic expression as he lifted the weights. To make the matters worse for Stiles, he was ripping out the huge biceps. She was glad that he wasn't shirtless instead wearing a sleeveless gray shirt that was drenched in his sweat. Stiles bit her lip keeping back a whimper. She would not get turned on in front of Scott and Isaac.
But that didn't keep her heart for beating right out of her chest. Isaac and Scott looked back at her and smirked hearing it. Derek heard it as well. He stopped for the moment and lifted himself up giving them a hard core look. His hazel green eyes flickered over to his mate who was watching him as well.
"If I see you at any gym I went to, I would have gone a long time ago," Stiles jokes breaking the silence.
Scott chuckles.
"What are you doing here?" he asked her ignoring her comment.
"I'm about to work out," she replied taking a step forward. "I'm in training." She said as she stretched out her arms. Derek rose up looking up and down at Stiles. She just smiles at Derek.
"Don't exert yourself," he said before grabbing his towel of the bench and exiting the gym. Stiles rolls her brown eyes.
"Don't plan on it," she yells back as she runs over the treadmill. "You guys have any music?"
"We have a Bluetooth speaker. Sync your music to it."
Stiles hate her life. Well, not her life but Isaac and Scott. Well, technically the person who came up with exercise. She hates how her body reacted when she ran around the area on foot. Even someone as supernatural as her cannot catch up with the boys. She was about a mile behind them and then they wanted to combat. At least in their wolf form she would be better matched.
"What are you doing?" Scott asked her as he peeled off his shirt and Isaac doing the same.
"Um, taking my shirt off?" Stiles said in a 'duh' tone. Scott instantly turned the other way being a mated wolf and all but Isaac couldn't help but stare. She had a tattoo. A very intricate one at that.
"What's with the tree?" Isaac points at her tattoo that began by the roots on her lower hip in the front that trailed up her back and finished on her shoulders.
"It's a nemeton," Stiles replies. "We have one where we lived but was chopped down by some hunters. It brought power to our pack and I thought back a few years ago that it would look awesome as a tattoo." She shrugs. "I was thinking about getting another one."
Stiles takes off her shorts and shifted into her wolf.
Unusually, one's wolf would be the same color as the human's hair. Isaac's wolf was a nice golden tint with strays of light brown over his long mane. Scott's was a deep brown that could be mistake be black. Them both being a beta and a third-in-command, their wolves had a large form that was twice as big as hers.
Stiles's didn't match her human hair. Somewhere in her lineage on her mother's side, there has been a few of the same in her position. A pure white thick coat. Her size was slightly smaller and slimmer than most wolves and female wolves since she hasn't shifted in a long time. Almost a year.
Before shifting she told them to show no mercy since she's the Luna of their pack.
And they obliged.
Isaac was the first to charge at her. He managed to pin her down in a matter of seconds but Stiles kicked him with her back paws throwing him off of her which shocked the hell out of her that she could do that. Scott pounced her thrusting her into a tree making her yelp in pain. Her eyes stung from the pain but that didn't stop her from trying to fight back. One thing that they should get use to when it comes to Stiles is that she never gives up.
And she doesn't.
Her claws went forward to him but Scott easily dodges and rips at her back making her howl in pain. She expected either Isaac or Scott to come at her again but they stopped. She noticed that they was whimpering. Stiles looked back at herself seeing the blood seeping through her white fur.
Her eyes closed shut trying to ignore the pain hoping for it to heal up but it doesn't.
What the fuck?
She wasn't healing. Stiles was no hyperventilating and scared to shift back to human form since she's not healing. She laid herself down into the grass and attempted to heal but it only made the blood gush out more. Stiles licked the wound and cringed at the piercing pain.
"Stiles," Scott was now naked…well she thought that for a moment until she seen the pants. But he is shirtless and sweating then Isaac made an appearance in the same look as well. "I am so sorry, dude," he lightly touched her gash which ended in him getting growled at by her. "Can you change back?" he asked.
Stiles nods her head but she didn't shift. She could care less about being stark naked in front of two men. She is use to it. But the fact that being human would slow down the healing process scared her shitless.
Stiles rested her fuzzy head onto Scott's lap as he puts it. Scott was ready to call for Derek until a roar through the forest stopped him in his tracks. Stiles thought it was omegas running loose. But when she seen the enormous black shadow stalking their way. Isaac recoiled back letting the figure by as Scott stayed but stiffened.
"Alpha," he bows his head not meeting his eyes.
Stiles could now see it. Of course this is Derek. He reeked of power. Red eyes looking at her state. He was just as big as her oldest alpha brother, JJ. Much bigger. His fur was a midnight black that could blend in with the night. Derek growled making her flinch back but he wasn't angry at her but at Scott noticing the blood on his hands.
"We was training," Scott said as if he could decipher his growls. "And she said don't hold back and so I didn't…" his voice shook.
"I don't think she wants to shift back since she is not healing as her wolf form," Isaac adds. "I don't think her wolf is allowing her too."
Isaac was right. And now that Derek is here she really doesn't want to shift into her naked self.
Derek did something she didn't expect him to do. He shifted into human form. Stiles couldn't help but gawk. Derek is Adonis the god. Perfect figure that she couldn't help but keep her eyes from wandering down his glorious body. Stiles figured that he would have such an amazing body since being the alpha and all. Abs…she was loving on the abs. And pecs…
Her gawking took her mind away from what is really going on in reality. Derek scooped her up easily in his arms making her heart pound even harder. "Leave us." He said with a scowl. He carries her out of the forest leading them back.
"You're an idiot," Derek said not looking for a reply. Stiles growls at that making him looking straight at her. "Saying that you have not shifted in a long amount of time over your years in Africa, you can't handle two full grown wolves." He shakes his head shaming her.
"Well, I was having fun," she didn't feel herself turning back but maybe it was how at ease she felt with Derek. Stiles kind of hoped that he felt the same. "I don't think. That's one trait you will have to love about me."
"You're my mate," he said looking out into the field. "I love everything about you," he said like it was easiest answer. Stiles couldn't help but blush. She bit back her lip so she won't say anything stupid. "How are you feeling?"
"Dandy—anyways I doubt you love everything about me," she said going back to the previous conversation. Derek scowled at her in reply. "Come on. I talk a lot; I eat a lot, and I have an obsession with everything Batman—well everything Marvel and DC comics related. I can totally come up with a list of all my flaws and shit."
"Don't doubt my feeling for my mate," was all he said.
"How did you get to me so fast? We was about ten miles away," she asked him. Stiles thought it would be better with her talking as he takes her back instead of full silence. She wonders what he's thinking as he carries her naked body.
"I was…close by," he sounded a bit embarrassed. Stiles couldn't help but laugh. "You was training with Scott something was bound to happen like this."
"So you knew I would get hurt?" she scoffs as she tries to playfully hit him but winced in pain of her side.
"No but—''
"You know, this is not how I imagined how you would see me naked for the first time," she deflected the conversation. Derek pursed his lips. He wondered if this was how his conversations would be with his mate. Always changing the subject. But that didn't keep his green eyes from wandering down her bleeding body. It was healing up nicely. Her right arm was covering her small chest which helped him so he wouldn't be aroused.
"How did you imagine it?" Derek found himself asking. He was welcomed to see a light blush run over her freckled cheeks. He tightened his grip around her soft skin which made her heartbeat pound through his.
"Something out of Fifty Shades of Grey?" she tried to earn a smile but all he did was roll his eyes. "A dominant alpha? Come on! You had to think of something like that?" she laughs causing her to wince once more.
"Before meeting me how did you imagine it?"
"Just like a guy to ask such a question," she said. "I never really thought about it, ya know? I didn't really have 'the talk' with my brothers since they thought I would always stay home but I know where babies come from. Have you thought about it?"
"Not as romantic as you would. It's normal for an alpha to want pups," he said mechanically. Stiles rolls her eyes.
"How soon do you want pups?" Stiles never thought about having babies. Not this early at least but since her mate is almost a decade older than her, he's thinking differently. Derek decides to ignore which urged her to talk more. "I have a master's English—for teaching it. I want to be a teacher but I hear stories from mated females how they had to give up everything. Do I have to give up teaching? I would love to become one." Derek was stunned how she easily asked such a question. "Are you going answer me or glare at me with those cute green eyes?"
"I wouldn't want you to give up what you love," he said slowly. Stiles smirked. "But my wolf want you close as possible."
"Do you have a job?"
"I inherited a few businesses," he said. Stiles waited. "A few restraunt that I let Peter run. A couple of fro-yos places and smoothie shops. I own a some stocks."
"So you don't work? Just own things?"
"Exactly," he said which made her laugh again at his bluntness.
"So can I work at the local schools?" Stiles thought it is now or never if she has to ask this question.
"Will you hate me if I said no?" Stiles thought it was cute that he would even ask that.
"You're my mate, I could never hate you. I would hate the answer but never you."
"Then no."
Stiles scoffs. "I can work with Lydia at the school. How could Peter let her go there but you won't let me?"
"Because they are not originally mates," he replies truthfully.
"Don't let Lydia hear you say that," Stiles warns him. "I would really appreciate it if I am not a housewife." Derek snorts at that. "That's what you want me to be? But I want a career. Please, don't make it feel like my degree was a waste of time and energy. Isn't one of your pack members a guidance counselor?"
"My emissary's sister," Derek said.
"I am asking but that doesn't mean if you say no I will listen," she said earning a growl from Derek. "Think about it? I'll give you two weeks since school is coming up in two months."
I am not changing my mind, he thought.
