Hey there ladies and gents! :) Here's the next chapter of Family is Everything, I hope you all enjoy it very much! So far this story has gotten a pretty great turn out and I couldn't be happier so thank you everyone for reading it and enjoying it! R&R! :D

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Family is Everything

Chapter 2

~Derek's POV~

I was following Jennifer into the school and I think she could tell someone was close. I got into her room before she did so when she closed the door behind her and let out a shriek upon seeing me, I wasn't surprised. She picked up a pointing stick to arm herself with and I was somewhat amused but I didn't let that show on my face.

"What do you want, to threaten me? Tell me that no one's gonna believe me? Try to scare me? Kill me?" Wow now I feel a little bit like a douche after hearing all the things she thought I would do to her.

"I was gonna see… if you were okay." I simply answered.

"Physically or emotionally? Though I guess that pre-supposed that I was emotionally okay before any of this and according to my therapist, it's been debatable for a very long time." She rambled on and it was admittedly adorable. I smirked and stepped closer to her while trying to push the pointer down.

"I think you're gonna be okay." I reassured her. I took the pointer away now and she gave it up willingly.

"Obviously you've never taught high school, in 20 minutes I have to start two dozen teenagers on the crucible and I honestly have no idea what I'm gonna say." She let out with a sigh.

"Well, why don't you start by telling them it's an allegory for McCarthyism?" I suggested.

"Is that a subtle way of suggesting that I shouldn't say anything because I won't." She said shaking her head. I gave her her pointer back and made my way to the door. "Who are you?" She asked before my hand even hit the knob.

"I'm Derek." I answered.

"Jennifer." She added although I already knew that. I walked away, closing the door behind me feeling somewhat content. I walked down the hall but was stopped by my younger sister.

"Is that how you flirt?" Raven asked, mocking me and revealing that she listened in on my conversation. She had that annoying, playful smirk that we both shared and I could feel the light blush creep up my neck at being caught. "Oh my God, you're blushing. Derek Hale is seriously blushing and crushing on my new English teacher. I can't tell if I should be disturbed or happy for you." She continued.

"Explain how she's your new English teacher." I asked, praying we'd move on from this subject.

"You, my amazing brother, will be signing me up for high school cuz I sort of need to graduate and all. Plus your loft is kind of boring and Cora is going on a workout rampage." She explained and granted me with my wish of a subject change.

"Okay but does this sudden urge to seek knowledge have anything to do with Isaac?" I asked. She faked shock and placed her hand over her heart.

"Now Derek, how could you think such a thing? I am truly appalled, appalled I say." She over exaggerated and I found it quite amusing.

"Just follow me so I can go register you, by the way nice acting." I complemented.

"Thanks, I try. You should see my gymnastic skills, they're impressive." She added.

"I wouldn't expect anything less from you Rae." I said while wrapping my arm around her shoulders and making our way to the principal's office. It was a new feeling going there for a good talk instead of being reprimanded.

I found Cora just as Raven had said, working out to the extreme. "Stop, you're not done healing." I said trying to reason with her.

"Yeah, well I'm done lying around." She spat at me while beginning to do pushups.

"Then sit." I spat back sarcastically.

"God you sound like Raven." She mumbled bringing a small smile to my face which left when she spoke again. "Are you gonna help me go after them?" She asked me more seriously now, still ignoring my orders. I walked up behind her and kicked her arm out from under her. She jumped up and tried fighting me but I just defended all of her attempts. "Come on fight back!" She shouted at me. "Raven and I came back for this? I can't believe I got my ass thrown in a vault for three months for you. All those rumors we heard, a powerful new Alpha, one of the Hale's building a pack. Do you know how long we waited to hear something like that? Do you have any idea how it felt to find out you were alive?" She continued while in the process making me feel like shit.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you." I answered when the alarm went off.

"What's that?" Cora asked.

"Trouble." I answered as one of the Alpha's was throwing my door open. He growled and Cora growled back, both running to face each other off. "Wait!" I yelled after her but she ignored me. The Alpha picked her up by her throat and slammed her to the ground in a chokehold.

"Ready for a rematch?" He dared asked. I stepped up when I turned to see the barefooted one walking in, I'm so glad Raven was at school now but I wished Cora was with her. She growled at me and I ran at her while she tried to kick at me repeatedly. I finally caught her leg and threw across the room, but she landed on her feet and hands. The growling continued and then she grabbed a piece of pipe that was above her head. She hit me across the face and dropped me to the ground ultimately stabbing me in the back with the god damn pipe.

"Everybody done?" Deucalion asked as he came in the room. "Because just listening to that was exhausting." He stopped right in front of me. "So… let's chat." He said while crouching down in front of me.

~Raven's POV~

I saw the whole show that Ethan and Aiden pulled by beating Ethan to a pulp and leaving Isaac there for the blame. I was a little impressed, I just didn't like the fact that Isaac would get in trouble for this but it wouldn't be good for me to show my face yet. Separation is key. Aiden was walking towards where I was now and I think I'd be safe from him starting a scene. He turned the corner and saw me and he began getting ready to start something.

"Ah, ah, ah wouldn't want Mr. Harris to see you out here Aiden. I have to say, I'm a little bit disappointed." I said with a smirk on my lips.

"Hmm, I don't really care." He stated about to walk away from me but I just followed closely at his side. "Why are you following me?" He asked.

"Know your enemy, you're my enemy and I'm trying to get to know you. I see you've taken an interest in the red head, what's her name? Oh right, Lydia. And of course Ethan found Danny, what's with the search for love?" I asked firmly.

"We're lonely." He answered shortly.

"So get a puppy." I joked, then moved out of the way of his thrown fist just in time. He tried to hit me again but I dodged every strike finally punching him square in the jaw. I heard some cracking and felt proud of myself, extremely proud. He fell to the ground, hand on jaw snapping it back in place, he got up ready to attack again when the bell rang and students came rushing out of classrooms. "It was nice speaking with you Aiden." I stated in a jolly, singsong tone and walked away.

I found Isaac and Scott at Isaac's locker discussing the twins. "Hey guys." I greeted, especially happy to be seeing Isaac.

"Hey Raven." Isaac greeted with a shy yet confident smile that sent those familiar tingles all through my body.

"Hey Raven." Scott greeted then jumped back into their original conversation. "What I was saying is that they are just trying to get to you man." Scott announced.

"It's not just me." Isaac said, smile gone and nodding towards Aiden, who just caught up to Lydia. He definitely works fast, he glared at me then went back to Lydia, flirting with her openly. I looked towards Scott and he was focusing closely on the two. Once Lydia shot him down and walked away, Aiden looked back over at us with a smirk that quickly vanished when he landed his view on me and he walked away.

"What?" Scott asked angered.

"And now they're getting to you." Isaac announced. "Raven why did he glare at you before he left?" He asked me now.

"I may have broken his jaw after he beat down on his little brother and got you in trouble." I confessed with a smirk. He let out an amused huff and began walking ahead waiting for me. I turned back to Scott quickly, "Lighten up Scott, don't let them get to you," I said mimicking him and followed after Isaac. "Hey there hugging buddy." I greeted again with a childish smile.

"Hi there Raven. Didn't we do this already?" He asked not bothered by the nickname I gave him. I actually giggled at his question. He made me giggle! "I like it when you giggle. You have a very cute giggle." He continued making me blush. All he could do was smile that huge smile of his that was soon becoming my favorite thing to look at. "I like you when you blush too." He said now closer to my face.

"I like your smile. And your eyes and… I should probably stop talking." I said trying to save myself from saying how much I was beginning to love his pouty lips that made me love his smile even more. I was definitely smitten.

"I'd love to stay and keep talking but I have lunch detention, I'll see you later." He said but he didn't leave his spot.

"Bye Isaac." I said not moving either.

"Bye Raven." He said again and this time he actually started walking away. I turned the other way and ran into Aiden, awesome.

"What was that little Rae?" He asked using my nickname, which I didn't appreciate.

"I was taking my own advice and getting myself a puppy." I said walking away. I turned the corner and ran into Boyd. I just kept running into people but I liked this person so it was okay. "Boyd, hey, how are you feeling?" I asked him, actually glad to see him again in a public environment.

"Hey Rae, I'm fine, still adjusting but I'll live. When did you start going to school?" He said as we started walking down the hall side by side.

"I started today actually and I've got to say seeing a friend is always refreshing. I keep getting hit on by random guys and don't even get me started on the far too eager freshman." I joked.

"So I'm your friend?" He asked. We stopped walking and I turned to him giving him a welcoming smile.

"Of course dude, I don't let just anybody call me Rae, that's especially reserved for family and friends. You, Boyd, are my friend so get used to it." I joked lightening up the mood and we were on our way outside to nowhere really. It was lunch for me and I had nowhere to be. We walked in a comfortable silence and I took in my surroundings, focused on the sounds and smells around me.

I could hear struggling, not just anyone but Isaac and I heard him growl but Boyd didn't seem to notice it. "Hey, I'll catch up to you later Boyd." I said with a small smile and turned back to the school. When I was out of sight I ran to Isaac and found Scott holding him down.

"Isaac!" He shouted at him and Isaac stopped and curled into a ball on the floor up against one of the walls. I ran to him and made sure he was okay, bringing him into my open arms and running my hands through his hair, which soothed him while Scott was tending to Allison.

"I'm sorry, I, I, didn't mean to do that." He jumbled out and I just looked at Allison and Scott with a questioning look.

"It's okay." She reassured him.

"I'm so sorry." He continued and I just took his hands in mine and tried soothing his nerves.

"It's okay Isaac, I'm here, its okay." I whispered in his ear calming him down while the other two were talking.

"It's not his fault." Allison added.

"I know." Scott answered. "At least now we know they wanna do more than just get us angry. They wanna get someone hurt." He continued.

"So are we gonna do something?" Isaac asked now that he was calmer.

"I'm down to kick their asses." I stated strongly.

"No, I'm gonna get them angry, really angry." Scott declared.

"How long is this gonna take?" Isaac asked as Allison finished getting Aiden's bike started.

"I'll meet you there Isaac, I wanna see this." I said and took off after he nodded. He gave me a head start before I heard him following my path. By now Scott was parading motorcycle parts to the twins to get them pissed off. I waited in the hall for everything to unravel. I could hear Scott inside and out came Aiden when right behind me Isaac was driving down the hallway to us.

"Get off my bike!" Aiden shouted.

"No problem." Isaac answered and gracefully jumped off the bike and took his spot next to me. The hall began filling with people and Scott and Allison finally joined us.

"You have got to be kidding me." Derek's new crush started and the look on Aiden's face was Kodak worthy.

"Priceless." I whispered.

"You realize this is gonna result in a suspension." She reprimanded him. All four of us just tried to contain our laughter while both twins connected the dots. Aiden looked towards us and Scott wiggled his eyebrows at him and I winked, truly priceless.

"Well that was amusing." I concluded.

"Everyone back to class." Ms. Blake announced.

"Well, about that Ms. Blake, sorry I'm late but I'm new and still finding my way around. Silly me, I haven't even introduced myself, Raven Hale. I think you might have heard of my brother Derek Hale." I filled her in while the halls were finally clearing up. To say that she was shocked would be an understatement.

"Right well come in, I'll introduce you to the class and get you settled once I deal with Aiden." She instructed.

"Perfect." I joked somewhat to myself since she didn't understand my reason to be overly happy, and waved goodbye to Aiden while he practically fumed in his own pit of anger and rage.

"Honey I'm home." I called out for Derek or Cora and was hit with a strong wave of bleach. "What the hell?" I asked. "Derek, Cora, are you here?" I called out.

Cora came running out and pulled me in a strong embrace. "Thank God, you are okay! They came and threatened Derek." She informed me and her grip on me tightened.

"WHAT!?" I more or less growled out.

"He wants me to kill my pack. Each one and then join him. I'm glad you're here, I'm kicking Isaac out." He informed me. Now Cora was practically holding me down when I tried to get out of her hold.

"Be kind and rewind, what the hell did you just say?" I asked unsure of what I just heard.

"They're gonna try and make me kill my pack, do you not understand? I need Isaac to stay far away from me so I have to kick him out! No questions asked, when he gets here I don't need you getting in the way and going against my orders, understood?" He growled flashing his red eyes at me, I mean the nerve.

"Understood!" I growled back and I felt Cora's hold loosen but her arms were still around me, trying to make me feel better. Derek's look turned softer and so did his tone now.

"I don't suppose you are gonna let me hug you or congratulate you on your first day of high school here, right?" He asked.

"You supposed right." I growled, pushing of Cora's arms and making my way to the spare room that was in this damn loft. I stayed here working out for the better part of my night and then I heard it, Derek throwing Isaac out. He didn't understand at first and was hurt. Then I assume Derek threw a glass cup at the wall from the shattering I could hear.

I walked out to find Cora hiding behind a pillar, I assumed that Isaac left so I ran outside in the rain to catch up to him before he left.

"Isaac!" I shouted as I stepped into the rain. He stopped and turned to me and I could have sworn I saw a tear fall from his eye but I'll just blame it on the rain for now. "Please wait." I practically begged.

"Wait for what!? He kicked me out!" He shouted at me and then shook his head regretting it immediately. I just stood quietly taking it but I knew he was feeling guilty. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't blame you." He apologized.

"It's okay Isaac. I just, before you go, here's my number." I said slipping him a slip of paper that I had prewritten long before. "Just text me when you can so I know you're safe and so we can talk since you won't just be down the hall and…" He stopped me by placing a gentle kiss on my lips. Can I just say, that is most definitely the best way to shut a person up ever!

"I'll text you, don't worry. I'll figure it out and everything will be okay, I promise. Now if I heard right someone joined the cross country team today and we have a meet coming up, go rest Rae." He assured me. He placed on last kiss, a much longer kiss, on my lips that escalated causing him to drop his bag. He lifted me up by my ass and I wrapped my legs around his waist as our tongues fought for dominance while the rain fell down on us.

Soon our kiss came to its end and Isaac placed me on my feet
gently and then bent down to grab his bag from the floor. One last peck to the lips and a shiny Isaac like smile and he was gone. I walked back inside the loft, soaking wet and turned to Derek. "You still hate me right?" He asked me.

"Just a bit yeah, good night Derek. I hate you." I said while walking away with a bright smile on my face and replaying what just happened in my head.

"I love you too, Rae. Sweet dreams." He called after me and I appreciated it. I just couldn't stop thinking about how good Isaac's lips felt against mine. My phone vibrated and I found a message from Isaac.

'Hey, it's me Isaac. :D'