Anchor

Chapter 2

"He's living with you now?" Yelled Stiles in an almost high pitched scream, turning his focus away from the Jeep and onto Scott.

"Eyes on the road, EYES ON THE ROAD!" Scott shouted back. Stiles turned his attention back to the road in front of him

"I don't get it Scott, your mom goes all mental with me for showing up at yours and I have a key, granted I wasn't given the key, I stole it out your bag and had a copy made, but I have a key non the less. So what, you have to be a wolf to gain access to the McCall house these days, have I got to go out and get myself bitten? Is that what its going to take?" Stiles ranted on, barley taking a breath as he did so.

Scott wasn't in the mood for an interrogation from his best friend, his head was wrecked from what had happened the night before or what hadn't happened. He kept asking himself the same question over and over again what the hell is going on?

"Scott? SCOTT?" Scott turned his attention away from starring out the window and back onto his best friend, who was now looking extremely aggravated by Scott's lack of caring.

"Sorry stiles I was miles away. What were you saying?"

Stiles sighed. "I was asking you if Isaac told you why Derek had thrown him out? There's got to be a reason? Did he call him a sour-wolf? I know he hates that!" He was smiling again, until he noticed how frustrated Scott was looking, "are you ok? You've been all 'head in the clouds'y since I picked you up!"

Scott's expression shifted again, almost like he had been caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. "No, nothing, why?" Stiles knew he had stumbled onto something here but he had always respected Scott, he had always been there for him, if something was wrong he would tell him in his own time. Scott returned to starring out the window, last night replaying through his head, wishing Isaac was still beside him. Why am I pining after him so much? None of this makes any sense, sure me and Isaac are close and we've gotten closer but.. his train of thought was cut short as Stiles pulled up outside Derek's apartment.

"I wondered how long it would be before you showed up" Derek spoke, as Scott and Stiles made their way into the room.

"I'm just here to get Isaac's things for him, you know, since you decided to throw him out of your house and out of the pack" Scott snapped back. Derek flung a duffel bag at Stiles filled with Isaac's possessions.

"Hey! Do I look like a bell-boy to you" Derek snarled at Stiles' remark "and this would be me leaving, I'm sure you two have a lot to talk about anyways" with that Stiles made a sharp exit back to his Jeep.

Scott walked over towards where Derek was stood so he could get closer and square off against him.

"How the hell could you do that to him Derek? He's completely destroyed at the minute thanks to you, he trusted you". Derek held his hand up to shut Scott up, which only aggravated Scott further, Scott pushed his arm away with anger filling his face.

"You don't know the full story Scott and I'm not in the mood to discuss it with you anyway" Derek began to walk away from Scott, he was still standing in the middle of the room, looking really pissed.

"Derek" he bellowed, "I want an answer and I want it now" Derek turned back around to face Scott, giving him a slight grin.

"We don't always get what we want though do we Scott? How is Allison by the way?"

This comment made the rage inside Scott boil over, his eyes glowed a fierce orange and his wolf claws shot from his fingers.

"What is your problem?" he growled. Derek didn't react to Scott's act of anger. He just stood still looking Scott up and down

"The Alphas want me to join them Scott, but first I have to kill my pack". Derek's voice sounded full of hurt, this made Scott see sense and relax into his normal state.

"You would never do that right though?" Scott's expression was now full of concern, he took a few steps towards Derek as if to maybe comfort him a little.

"Scott, Isaac is the only member of my pack left. Erica and Boyd had already decided to leave before the Alphas got them, that makes them Omega, like you". Derek's voice broke as he mentioned Erica's name, he knew the pain of her death was still effecting everyone.

"What about Kora and Peter?" Scott asked.

"Their family Scott, Isaac isn't, in all honesty he's safer with you right now than he ever was with me" Scott was shocked by what Derek had just revealed, he looked down at his feet, then back at Derek.

"I promise I'll do whatever I can to protect him"

Derek looked up at Scott with a curious look on his face, he smiled at him as he moved closer towards him.

"I know you will Scott, I'd go as far as to say you'd die for him right?" Scott looked puzzled by this, but the answer in his heart was screaming out YES. Derek took a deep breath in, "you have no idea what's going on either do you?" He asked Scott with a full blown smile on his face.

"W-What are you talking about?" he replied.

"No one ever told you about wolves and mates did they?" Scott gulped, he had a funny feeling that he was about to find out and that he wouldn't like where this was going.

"No" he answered with a quizzical look on his face

"When a wolf finds someone they trust unconditionally, it causes a primal feeling inside them, bonding the two of them together. They become each others mate, and nothing can tear them apart! It happened with Boyd and Erica, if you think we're in pain over her death, imagine how Boyd feels right now. He just lost, what will feel like to him, the only person in this world that will every truly get him".

"What are you trying to say?" Scott felt more confused now than he had ever felt in his life, but at the same time, it all made perfect sense.

"Your scents are mixed, that's how I could tell" Derek replied avoiding the obvious answer to Scott's question

"No" Scott took a few steps backwards away from Derek, he felt as though somebody had just punched him in the chest and knocked the wind out of him "I love Allison though, I've always loved Allison! She's my anchor and..." Scott voice trailed off, as Derek made his way over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Ask yourself this honestly Scott, in the last four months was it Allison you were focusing on during the full moon or was it something else?" Scott looked up at Derek, still full of shock, but a sudden realisation occurred to him, since Allison had told him it was over and Scott had promised to wait, he had broken that promise. He never waited, he had moved on without ever realising it, his anchor was no longer the love he felt between himself and Allison, it was his ambition to be better, to make his mum proud and to protect his friends.

"I-I have to go" Scott finally said, as he pulled away from Derek and headed towards the door.

"Scott" Derek called to him, he turned back around at the doorway, "fight this all you want but it will tear you apart if you do, you need to accept it".

"No. No I don't Derek, I told you once before, I'm Allison's, even if she needs some time to realise that, I promised her that I would wait and I will, I never asked for any of this" with that being said Scott left and made his way back outside to Stiles, he had been sat patiently in his Jeep waiting for him. Scott swung open the passengers side door, he looked annoyed with himself. Stiles was using his steering wheel as a drum, when Scott threw himself back against the seat and let out a wounded sigh.

"Everything ok there buddy?" Stiles asked, taking a moment to stop banging out a tune on the wheel to start the engine.

"Yeah, I think everything's going to be ok" Scott replied, even though he knew he was lying to himself. His thoughts on the drive back to his house instantly returned to what had happened the night before, how easy it felt to be so close to Isaac compared to the constant lying and sneaking around and the pain that had always filled his relationship with Allison. That's what love is though, he told himself, Pain.