For the first time in his life Derek was speechless as Stiles ran out the door after realising what he had just said. After a few minutes Derek snapped out of shock and ran after Stiles.
"Stiles wait come back" Derek shouted as he frantically looked for Stiles. After a minute or two he stopped and just listened. He could hear gentel sobbing from a clearing just to his right. Slowly he made his way towards the noise and spotted Stiles on the ground curled up in a ball rocking back and forth while crying. He hesitantly walked up to Stiles and crouched down in front of him.
"Hey why are you crying?" he asked soflty and Stiles looked up at him and said
"Because i told you that and i shouldn't have i just dont want you to leave. If you leave it will be torture, like you have ripped my heart out and took it with you. I know i shouldn't have said any of this because it will hurt so bad when you leave but i just had to say anything i could to try and stop you and if that failed i had the tell you the truth about how i felt before you left so you at least knew that someone here wIould miss you." Stiles put his head back down and started crying again. Derek was again lost for words as he thought about what he should do. After a long moment of deliberating of whether to follow his heart or his head Derek finally made up his mind.
"Hey look at me. Stiles, look at me, please. if you had said this earlier i would never have made plans to leave. You mean so much to me but with your dad being the sheriff and the fact that i thought you hated me i never had the guts to tell you how i felt and if you had not just said that back up at the house i would have just left and never told you how i felt because i never knew you felt the same way." At this Stiles lifted his head to look Derek straight in the eye just when Derek was saying "Stiles i love you and i am sorry for all the things i have done in the past i just didn't want to come to terms with what i was feeling because i knew that it would put you in danger and i never ever wanted that even though it might not have seemed like that. I care about you Stiles and i never wanted to see you hurt ever and i am really really sorry for what i did to you but i did it to try and keep you safe, and when you were put into the hospital because of me that's when i decided it was best if i left because that way i could never put you in danger like that again and knowing that next time it could be much worse and that it could be my fault. I didn't ever want to put you through that so the best option was to leave and make up some excuse about the hunters trying to catch me. When really Stiles i was going to leave because i didn't want to put you in danger." As Derek said this he himself started to cry at the painful memories of Stiles lying in the hospital bed passed out and covered in bruises and cuts with broken bones knowing that it was his fault. Without realising it Derek moved into the exact same position Stiles had been and now Stiles had to try and comfort Derek.
"Hey it's not your fault that i was in hospital."
"But it is"
"No it's not, you didn't slam me across the room and into the wall did you? No it was Gerard so don't blame yourself"
"But if i hadn't of told you told to bring Lydia you would never have been there so you wouldn't have been able to get hurt so it is my fault."
"You and i both know that i would have been there regardless of whether or not you told me to stay away, so please don't blame your self because if it was anyone's fault it was mine for getting in the way and not just leaving it to you."
Derek looked up at Stiles and could see the pain in his eyes because of Derek crying and blaming himself for everything bad that has happened in the past.
"It's all right for all the things thats happened in the past because now i know that you were only trying to protect me but if you leave, everything you have done to protect me will be pointless, because you won't be here with me and that i couldn't stand so please please dont leave. Stay and we can find some way to make this work because i don't want you to give up on us, if there wasn't even an us in the first place. Please please don't go, i am beging you with all my heart..."
Stiles was suddenly cut off by Derek lips crashing on to his. They stayed like this for a couple of minutes until they both neaded air and thats when Stiles asked "So you'll stay then?" the answer to Stiles' question was Derek pulling him in for another intense passionate kiss after which he replied "I suppose i could stick around." Once the words left Derek's mouth Stiles' face stretched into a genuine smile and Derek vowed to himself that he would do whatever it took to protect Stiles without hurting him and he would do whatever it took to see that smile on his face more often. They both stood up and started to head towards Derek's house where they would sit and cuddle and figure out how they were going to get this to work without his dad knowing, because he would most likely shoot Derek if he found out.