Disclaimer: I don't own DP. Sorry for the boring chapter, I just needed to explain some stuff for future reference. Um here's the chapter.
DPOV
I woke up in the morning before everyone, although someone was cooking. I tried to go back to sleep, but my stomach growled, so I showered and dressed quickly, and went downstairs. Mason was sitting on the couch watching TV and waved a greeting without taking his eyes off the screen. I slipped into the kitchen, and saw Zara with her back to me making breakfast.
"Morning, Derek." She turned around to face me and set a plate piled high with food in front of me.
"How-?"
"Part werewolf, remember? Also, mindreading, I can see the future, sense of hearing and smell of all the animals I can shapeshift into, need I go on?" Zara said, going back to cooking.
"Oh. Why are you up so early?"
She snorted. "Well, I don't exactly have to sleep. I only have to sleep once a month if I don't use my powers much, once a week if I use them a lot. I can sleep every night, and build up my energy if I wanted to, but I don't. Like if I slept every night for a couple weeks, I wouldn't have to sleep again for a year. Same for Mason, except he needs to sleep a little more."
"Wow." That was interesting. So we had a 24/7 guard on the house. If anyone came to the safehouse, she would hear them, and wake us up. I started eating. Well, she could cook. Her powers kind of scared me, though. But I was glad if she was on our side, because I knew she could protect us.
"Protect Chloe, you mean," she smirked.
"Wha-"
"Mindreading. And normally, I give people privacy, and don't look into their minds, but when you guys are practically yelling about how great each other is, it's hard to ignore. Why haven't you told her you love her yet?" Zara turned to me, arms folded, a frown on her face.
"Erm-"
"Oh, you're scared she doesn't feel the same way. Men. She obviously loves you, it's all she ever thinks about. And she's worried you don't feel the same way because you haven't said it yet. Well, not in so many words. Anyway, tell her, before you regret not getting the chance to." Zara turned back around, and her voice wavered nearly imperceptibly at the end of her rant.
"Wait, regret not getting the chance to?"
"Nothing," she replied, not looking at me.
"Liar. Tell me."
She sighed. "Remember, I told you that after I burnt down the building we were in, I killed the rest of their group because I was mad?"
"Yeah…"
" Well, I had a really good friend, a shapeshifter, at one of the experimental buildings. We would talk through my mindreading skills. We became best friends, and I loved him but was too scared to tell him. In the end, the doctors killed him. When we got to the building to save him, I found out that he was terminated, and I lost control of my powers. I literally went on a killing rampage throughout England, and destroyed their group. When I calmed down and got back to my siblings, they had found a security camera tape. W-when they killed him, he-he-he screamed that he l-loved me," she finished in a whisper, eyes wide and shiny, staring at a spot on the floor, "and that's why I want you to tell her that you l-love her. It w-was too late f-for us, but not f-for you." She looked up, her voice cracking. "I haven't been able to call him up as a ghost, because it would hurt both of us too much." She turned back to her cooking. "Tell her, Derek."
An awkward silence lasted a few minutes. Just then, Jacob walked in.
"Mmm, that smells lovely, Zara. Hey, you're the werewolf dude, aren't you?"
"Yeah." I grunted.
Zara snorted. "Derek's not one for talking. What do you want for breakfast?"
"Actually I think I'll wait for Ethan and go hunting. Kay?" Ethan entered at that moment, and looked to Zara.
"Yeah, let me extend the protection spell," she said, closing her eyes for a moment, "there, that should do it. Derek, if you ever want to go hunting as a wolf, you should tell me and I'll extend the spell. Other than that, you can go anywhere within two miles of the house. With an extended spell, it's about ten miles." She was back to her normal cheerful self. Odd. "There, tell anyone who comes in here that food's in the oven. I'm going hunting, too." She walked to the door, turning into a sleek black wolf before reaching the door and trotting out after Ethan and Jacob, kicking the door closed behind her. She was one heck of a girl. But she wasn't quite right. I did love Chloe, but I wasn't sure if I was in love with her. And I doubted she loved me, she was always getting cozy with Simon, and she would rather talk to him than to me. Chloe and Zara's siblings came in a few minutes later.
"Hey, Derek, where'd you get the food?" asked a platinum blonde girl. Ani, I think her name was.
"Oven," I grunted, refilling my plate. Wow, Zara put a lot of food in there. Probably enough to feed a pack of werewolves. The wolf trotted back in and turned into Zara. How come her clothes reappeared? No fair. I walked back to one of the chairs surrounding the long, empty countertop, which was used as a dining table.
"Considering I have twelve teenage boys, twelve teenage girls, and three adults in the house, I have to make a lot of food," she smiled, "not to mention, that one is a werewolf, one is a werebear, one is a vampire, and two, including myself, have powers which include werewolves, werebears, shapeshifting, and so on, so we eat a lot, too," she finished.
CPOV
When I reached the kitchen, Zara came in and changed from a wolf back into a human, explaining why she had to make so much food. She was really young but you could tell that she was older, and had seen more stuff than a girl of sixteen should have seen. Her eyes were intelligent, wise, piercing, and yet mischievous and fun. We sat and ate for a bit and a slow stream of people walked in to eat. Two boys, Jacob and Ethan, I think, came in from outside. When everyone was sitting around the big countertop, eating, Zara spoke.
"Practice in 20 minutes guys! Usual groups! Derek, you probably should go with Jacob, Ethan and Mason, I might join you later. Chloe, you should go with Brooke, Ani and Aqua can come with you for protection, I might join you as well. Simon, you, Andrew, and Kit can go with Lauren, and Sam, since we don't really have any sorcerers here, Mason might join you later. Tori, go with Ella and Claire, bring Spark and Clay with you for protection. That's about it, and stay within two miles of the safehouse if possible, that's where the protection charm fades. Okay?"
"Mmhmm," everyone mumbled around mouthfuls of food. People slowly got up and put their plates and silverware in the dishwasher. They left in groups. When Brooke finished, she joined Ani, Aqua and me outside to train. Aqua took charge.
"So, Chloe, we should know your limits first. How many human corpses can you raise at one time, and how many animal corpses?"
"Uh… about eight h-humans, and f-fifteen animals."
"Okay, so you're a little stronger than Brooke was at your experience level, but now you're about the same." Aqua smiled at me, while Brooke glared. Great, I really needed another enemy.
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Lots of love - Cari