Hello to anyone reading.
I just finished watching Teen wolf season 1 to 4. My favourite character in the show is Derek Hale. I feel that there is so much in his character unexplored but since it is teen wolf we cant expect the show to do that. But I think there is soooo much history to the character that Derek Hale deserves a spin off.!
The possibilities are endless with Derek Hale when it comes to fiction. The time he spent in new york, his relationship with Laura, his friends in NY and past friends in BH, what the hell he did while in NY and so on. I expect to explore some of these things in my fiction. Sorry there was no authors note on first chapter but thats because I'm inexperienced at this. Also English isn't my first language so bear with me. I really hope anybody who read this will leave a review so I could know how I am doing.
CHAPTER 03 - Just four bullets.
Derek woke up to his phone ringing in the middle of the night and immediately picked up when he saw it was Melissa. It could only be only one thing; something is wrong with Darya or Scott.
"Derek, I'm extremely sorry for calling you at this hour, but is Scott with you? He is not picking up his phone" she said her voice laced with fear.
Derek immediately stood up alert, any sign of sleepyness now gone.
"No, he isn't with me, where did he said he was going?"
"He said something about sensing a rabid in the rereserve. There is a test at the school tomorrow so he didn't call up others but it's been 3 hours and no sign of him. I didn't call anybody else..."
"No, no don't call the others yet. I'll check this out first and call you immediately. I'm sure its nothing, don't worry." Derek said getting in to his jeans.
He waisted no time and jumped in to his cruiser to head to the forest reserve. Once in the forest he started sensing for scott or anyother wolf's scent. When he couldn't get one he climbed on to a hill cliff and hawled. As he listened carefully filtering all other noices his ears picked up on someting he least expected; Lydias' yell. A partial yell to be exact. It sounded like she was forced to stop it before it evolved in to her signature banshee yell. Derek started running towards the sound. As he neared the area he slowed down and started walking making the minimum noise possible. He reached a road that laid across the forest and was rarely used by anyone except forrest guards and caught on to the scents of both Scott and Lydia. It was probably not a good idea to walk on the road so he stayd by the tree line as he tracked their scents.
After about 100 meters he heard voices and the sounds of what could be a struggle. Then he felt something else and he felt all his strenght evaporate. He fell on his knees unable to properly breath. He had no physical damages but something was killing him. Then he very clearly heard Scotts words.
"It's a trap, Go back" he yelled.
Scott clearly knew Derek was nearby. He must have picked up his scent. If this is a trap it must be the reason why Derek couldn't summon the strength to even stand up. But he knew one thing. He wasn't turning back. He had to take Scott and Lydia home...what ever is happening right now.
Derek grabbed a tree nearby and took one step after the other. Then he saw a prison van parked on the road. The rear doors were open and from far Derek could see Lydia already inside the van, bound and mouth tightly taped and hence the muffled yell. He saw two other people struggling with something. They were struggling with Scott.! Realisation dawned upone Derek and he leapt forward. Two hawls erupted and Derek knew he was fighting with two more warewolves. He let his wolf take over and felt a bit more stronger than in his human form. Landing himself on one wolf He pinned him to the ground. The other jumped on to him leaving Scott. As the one over him started strangling his neck he felt out of breath. He knew he could easily fight off the rabids under normal surcumstances but he felt drained out of his strength. From the corner of his eyes he saw Scott releasing Lydia and he tried to keep both rabids on him a little longer. But he was getting weaker and the one pinned under him stood up in a woosh dropping both Derek and the other rabid. As he fell he saw how Scott had crouched on the ground, his hands grabbed his head and he seemed to be in the same if not much higher pain as Derek. Derek stood up instantly, only the fear of loosing Scott and Lydia giving him strength. He threw a blow to the rabid warewolf that came back at him from the earlier strangle which he successfully dodged. Derek felt his vision blurr but saw a glimpse of Now free Lydia running to the fron of the van. He went for a second blow to the wolf but the other one gave him a blow from behind. He was trapped between two seemingly defeatable rabid warewolves but something was stopping him from fully utilising his strength.
Then all of a sudden it all came clear. Lydia came runnig at them with a triumphant glow on her face. Derek felt like a buzz went off and clearly recognised the feeling from when the deadpool list incident happened and Scott, Malia and Liam was about to be set on fire by weakening them with a sound wave that played along the music, only the music was missing. Scott also stood up and charged at a rabid wolf in a super fast blow. Derek heard a click behing him and as he turned he saw the shot gun on the hands of the other wolf. Derek has been shot before , repeatedly, but never by the gun on the hands of another wolf. This was a first. But he knew the drill. Before he shut his eyes in acceptance of the excruciating pain that is to come he noticed the gun wasn't aimed at him but at Lydia who was running towards them from the front of the van. She must have switched off the sound wave that weakened the wolves. But it wasn't affecting the rabids and this was the first time Derek saw a wolf who preffered a gun over its own claws.
"You bitch...you turned it off " it yelled and the other rabid escaped Scotts grasp while he was disturbed.
" we need her alive, remember"? It shouted while jumping to lead the other wolf away. But he was too late, four shots escaped the gun before it realised what it was doing. Derek anticipated the shots the moments he saw the rabid eye Lydia and he put himself in the trajectory and stayed in it taking in the shock that was powerfull enough to knock him backwards, untill the shooting stopped. Lydias yell echoed through his head as he finally fell to the groung. He heard the prison van engine fade in to the thin air as he felt Lydias cold hands wrapped around him and took his upperbody on to her lap. She pressed on to his wounds histerycally because it is what should be done to a human beign untill the doctors take over. She pressed on to him as his worm blood covered her cotton white dress and she wished she had four hands. There were four gaping openings on Dereks' abs.
"'..ake the bullets out" He whispered to her using the last bit of strength. As he felt Scotts struggle to sweep him up off the ground, he gave in to the darkness that was creeping in his eyes.
Derek woke up to a phone ringing for the second time on that day. He fluttered his eyes to clear the vision .When he saw the pale white ceiling he knew he was in the animal clinic. He tried to remember what happened and sat straight on the metal table. It was then he saw Lydia sitting asleep on a stool as her head rested on her own shoulder in an awkward way. He looked around and saw the other 'kids'; Stiles, Malia, Kira and scott fast asleep. The events of the last night came to him and he was glad to see everyone okay.
"You seem okay for someone who took four bullets"
Derek turned around to see Darya on the doorway to the room. How long has she been standing there.?
"Dar...you are here too" he said in a hoars voice. His throar dry.
She reached him with a glass of water and he thankfully gulped it down.
"I'm sorry the phone went off and you woke up. It was Melissa. She wanted to wake up the school goers because they have an important test today. How are you feeling?
"I'm fine" he said looking around for his henley. "Where is my t shirt"
"I'm sorry I cut it open in a hurry to dig out the bullets"
"That was one I treasured, it was from Laura"
Darya looked at him in apology. "sorry"
"Hey, it's alright" Derek said as he took her firmly by the arms to reassure her. Still looking around for something to wear.
"We should have a wardroab stash here, you guys end up too often on the operation table" Lydia spoke up who was observing the two since she woke up a minuit ago. Derek turned back to see her.
"Lydia" he said now the important things other than a t shirt coming to his mind. He sat opposit her. "Are you alright? What the hell happened last night"
"I was alone home last night. Didn't have a clue untill they grabed me and put something on my nose and I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I woke up to see a fight between Scott and those two rabids. Then you came in. Scott cut my ropes and asked me to switch off the device. I didn't know what he was talking about untill I saw the frequency trasmitter on the front seat. It was making you guys weak, wasn't it."
"It did" Derek wondered. " but the rabids didn't"
"They were wearing some ear plug thing, I saw them "
" but why? I remember they said they wanted you alive"
"They said 'they' wanted me alive, they were speaking of a third party"
Both Derek and Lydia lost in their own thoughts when the others were woken up by Darya who promptly reminded them of the test as leverage to shake them off their sleep. They surrounded Derek to see if he was okay the first thing.
"You scared us last night" Malia voiced her thoughts."your skin healed so quickly and the bullets were dancing inside while we moved you"
"Yeah, Darya used a dog x ray machine on you" added stiles." a dog x ray on a wolf" he said chuckling and eyebrows dancing.
"Whats wrong with that, we all run on our fours" Malia questioned without taking the hint and stiles decided to shut up.
"You guys should go, not much time left for school" Derek reminded them.
"We should discuss what the hell last night was about" Scott said.
"Later, go to your homes, do some last minuit revision and run to school" Darya said as she pulled them away from Derek.
They watched as the kids crammed in to stiless' Jeep and rode off. Darya handed him a pile of something." Found this on Deaton's locker."
Derek wore what she gave him uuncomfortably. The shirt wasn't fitting him well but was enough. Darya collected her things and locked the clinic door and got in to Derek's fj cruiser. His back seat was full of his own blood.
"Sorry I was so tired after I cleaned the clinic off your blood I didn't even realise there could be blood on you back seat."
"Thanks dar, you saved my life last night" Derek said as the engine roared in to life. "Last thing I want from you is cleaning up my backseat"
"You were pretty bad last night. You were concious when they took you to the clinic but you don't remember it do you? Must be from the shock. The bullets had wreck havoc inside because they moved you and your skin healed over the wounds I didn't even know where to cut"
" hence the Dog x ray" Derek said chuckling.
Darya grinned. " stiles is a crazy kid" she said. "He is like...I don't know, he can't stay still for a second if his life depended on it could he"
"He would be very proud of himself if he heard that," Derek said as he turned around the corner to the McCall house."but the kid is one stong for a human kid, when I first met him he couldn't stand the sight of blood, look at him now"
"He helped me set up the x ray and stitch you up"
"You had to stitch me?
"I told you, too much damage, I had to help the healing so you wont bleed out before you are healed." Sighed Darya remembering the images of the unpleasent experience she had last night. Her first hiatus with the wolves.
"It wasn't pleasant , was it" Derek asked rather stated the fact.
"Just don't say I told you so, please" Darya protested." I know what I'm getting in to. And I've seen enough gun wounds and operated on them too, but it was you on the table. I know in my bones now why doctors are not allowed to work on their relatives. My hands shook when I cut in to you. A surgeons hands should never shake"
Derek stealed a glance at her in appreciation. He had to concentrate on the road. "But I'm alive now, you made it"
"It's not just me, I wondered how the kids are so resilliant. They are so used to it that they have forgotton thay are still kids"
"They are seventeen, almost not kids"
"I know ,but still...I don't know"
"You feel protective over them, don't you. "Derek asked knowing the feeling too well. "One reason I decided to stay here in BH"
"I can understand" she agreed ."about the bullets, I had plenty of time to inspect the bullets yesterday, they are modified to slow down and stay inside the body, do the maximum damage possible before your body start healing. So that you will bleed out and die before you are healed."
"They were warewolves, and they needed the banshee" Derek added. Scott and Lydia should be able to add more facts. We should discuss in the evening. When will Deaton be back. "
"Tomorrow, but I phoned him just before you woke up and he is cutting his trip to come back, will be back by evening. "
"Fine, 6 pm then, in my loft?" Derek asked stopping the vehicle on the drive way of Scotts house.
"Okay, will you tell the kids? She demended giving him her trademark goodbye peck on his cheek. Derek loved the softness of it and demanded himself to stop thinking about the ...what? Softness of her lips? When did he started that?
Darya was already out the vehicle."just remember I am an oncall doctor." she said as she closed the door.
Melissa opened the door and gave him a nod that was her 'thank you' and Derek noded back in acceptance.