Hey everyone! So here you have it! Chapter 2! I loved this chapter; this is Derek's life before he meets the pack!
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Chapter #2: Oh Great I'm tri-polar!
Derek's POV
I seriously, can't believe I'm doing this…
"Darling, are you sure you want to do this? You know we love you and we don't care if you stay here with us." my grandma said.
"Grandma, it's OK. This is something that I want, no, need to do." I answered intently.
"But, sweetie..."
Agh! I hate it when she calls me that.
"Grams, it's not like I'm never coming back!" I said.
I needed to be alone for a minute. I was starting to freak out, and I really don't want to phase right now.
"Please just leave me for a minute, I need to think." I said pleadingly.
"OK, honey, I'll leave you for a minute. I love you." she said dejectedly, closing the door behind her.
I sat at on the floor next to my bed, frustrated with myself. I know I was hurting my grandma and grandpa by leaving, but, now that I knew that I was not alone in this world; I couldn't stay here.
You must be wondering, why I'm leaving the only place I can call home… Well, it all started 10 years ago:
I was seriously, getting tired of being left alone in the house. My parents were in a Medical Convention in Los Angeles Country Club; they were both, the best surgeons in LA and they were the guest of honor for this stupid convention. I mean, who in their right mind, would let their 19 year old son, alone on a Friday night, in his house, in Beverly Hills? Well, I guess I have to make the best of it!
I got my phone from the counter and dialed Mark's phone number.
"Yo, Derek! What's up, man? I haven't heard from you since Stacy's party last night." Mark said a bit too enthusiastic; he must be already high or something.
"What have you been having, Mark?" I asked.
"Nothing, man! I'm at my house, just chilling with Tom." he said.
Yeah, I was sure they were both very high.
"Well, you don't have to smoke alone in your house anymore, bro. My parents are in a convention, I'm sure they are not getting home tonight, soooo..." I said.
"Party at your house!" he shouted. "This is gonna be great, man! Tom has his brother's fake ID! So we're bringing the booze! See you soon, bro!" he said, before he hung up.
Well, that was easy!
"So, booz," CHECKED!
"Food," I said, as I went to the kitchen, and BINGO! I had enough chips, dips and drinks to feed an army.
"Music," I said, going to the TV room and turning the television on the MTV channel, cranking up the speakers. CHECKED!
"Well, let's get this party started!" I said excitedly, texting all my friends on my Blackberry contact list and… I got myself a party!
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It was 1 AM, and the party was still rocking! Mark and Tom arrived with enough alcohol to kill an elephant and everyone was dancing to the rhythm of Flo-Rida. I got to make out with a smoking hot college girl, who I didn't even know, but she was really something! I thought that I was in love!
At 2 AM, she was already getting ready to go into my room. I really didn't have any problem with that! The house was pretty full and... Well, let's just say, that I was hoping that the rest of the people had a designated driver to pick them up! Because, there was no way in hell, that I would be able to drive! But like always, all good things have to come to an end...
"Derek Ateara! What the hell do you think you're doing?" Wow, I never saw so many people leave a house so quickly!
"Hi, mom and dad… how was the convention?" I asked in my sweetest and innocent tone.
"How was the convention?" my father asked furiously. "I'll tell you how the convention was; Mr. Thompson called us, saying that there were underage kids drinking and dancing on your mother's backyard and people throwing themselves in the pool. And you want to know something?" he asked, he looked like he was turning purple.
I nodded.
"We didn't have our cell phones with us! So he called the Club and asked to speak with us… everyone that was at the convention had to hear that our only son threw a freaking party while his parents weren't at home!" he said, in full shouting mode now.
I winced, knowing what was coming; house arrest, no TV, no cell phone, no parties, and the list goes on and on.
"I'm sorry, dad! I know I shouldn't have done it, I just invited a few friends over and it got a little bit out of control" I explained. Yeah right, like he was going to believe that!
"Oh, baby, we forgive you! But you should have called us. Something bad could have happened." my mom said, coming to hug me but my dad stopped her.
"Lisa, are you seriously going to believe what Derek says?" my dad asked in disbelieve.
"Well, Jhon, what do you want me to do? Parties sometimes get out of hand! I'm sure Derek didn't mean for it to end like this." my mom answered, looking at me for confirmation, I just nodded.
"Whatever! No phone, no TV, no more parties for you young man!" he said with finality. "For a month!"
"A month?!" I asked half shouting.
"Two months then! Want to make it three?" He asked smirking.
"No, sir" I said.
"Good, now start by cleaning this mess. I can't believe you would do something like this! Look at the house! They've ruined your mother's paintings and broke the loft chairs!" he said, taking a deep breath.
"Some friends you have…" he said, turning around to exit the room with my mom, when the most beautiful woman appeared on the top of the stair.
She had burgundy hair, pale, almost white skin, but the most terrifying red eyes. Suddenly, she disappeared in a flash, appearing in front of my mother with a wicked grin. Unexpectedly, her scent hit me like a ton of bricks. It was like pouring bleach though my nose and I started to tremble. I couldn't move, I was frozen, petrified to the spot. My entire body started to convulse and my sight became hazy, then everything went black.
The next morning, I woke up with a killer headache, but when I opened my eyes everything looked perfect. I could see dust particles floating in the air. My sight was amazing, but when I inhaled, everything that happened the previous night came flashing back in my mind: the party, my parents and the woman. I got to my feet as quickly as I could, but when I started to stand up I noticed that I was not on my two feet, I was in all fours! I was as tall as a horse and when I looked down I saw two giant white paws. PAWS! What the Hell?! Did someone knocked me out and placed me in a giant dog costume? I started walking past the living room, when I saw the most horrible sight I had ever seen. My parents were on the floor; their bodies dried of blood. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. This was a nightmare! It had to be a nightmare! This wasn't possible, my parents; my perfect and loving parents couldn't be dead!
Then I did the only thing that I could do. I ran towards the forest, no one could see me there. I ran in circles for hours, giant tears falling down my enormous eyes. After a few hours, I stopped at a clearing. There was a small river with fishes swimming freely. That's when I stared at my reflection for the first time. I saw myself; I was a giant white wolf. I couldn't believe what had happened to me! This had to be a nightmare. Suddenly, I started to recall my dad telling me stories about the Quileute Legends and how people turned into wolves, to protect the tribe from the cold ones: vampires. Was a vampire the thing that attacked my parents? My dad was a pure Quileute descendant. Grandpa Quil always sent me pictures of my family back in the La Push reservation in Washington.
Maybe that's what happened? The legends say that the Quileute phases when there were vampires near. Yesterday, I was really close to one, which must have triggered the gene. My thoughts were racing 100 miles per hour. I couldn't think straight; this was just too much for me. That's when everything came crashing down on me. My parents were dead. Vampires existed and I was a werewolf that was supposed to protect people from vampires! I just couldn't handle this, my body was feeling numb. I couldn't feel the air around me, and tears were falling down my face…muzzle? And my body started to shift again, every bone in my body was contracting against my will, and I became a man; a naked man. I stood up and started walking towards my house. Every part of my body hurt, I felt sick to my stomach. I still felt like this didn't happen that I was going to get home and my parents were going to be there, waiting for me… But that never happened.
I moved with my maternal grandparents after everything happened. Linda and Lucas were the most caring people in the world. They took me in and healed me. They helped me in my darkest times, supporting me in my decision to become a doctor. They were always there for me, but I never told them I was werewolf. I continued to phase, afraid that the vampire would come back. I needed to protect the people I loved the most and nothing bad would ever happen to them, as long as I was here.
Ten years have passed since the night that my life changed. I stopped hanging out with my old friends. I feared that I would lose my temper around them. I just went to parties, drank all I wanted and I never got drunk, anymore. I had a constant temperature of 108° that helped burn all the alcohol before I could even feel dizzy. I tried everything I could, but nothing happened.
I went out with the girls, but I never fell for any of them. I just had fun. I was a man after all! I was what you could call a Casanova: every girl I wanted, I got. After all, they were just after my body and money. You could say that I was rich; my parents left me all their money. I could live three times the lifetime of a man. The money my parents left me would still be there, constantly increasing with interests, and that worked for me; seeing that I don't age. I was 29 years old, but looked like I was 24. My grandparents never noticed, they blamed it on the good genes I inherited from my mother. Pfft, if they knew.
But that's not the important thing right now… I was leaving. I was leaving sunny LA. I was leaving the only people I could really call family. And all because of a voice that I heard in my mind, I'm not crazy!
Everything happened a month ago. I was staring at the last pictures my grandpa Quil sent me before he died a year ago. It was a picture of a huge family; they were all at the beach. There was a big guy with short black hair, with his arm around a woman with 3 large scars, running down her face. She was carrying a small baby boy and at their feet, were a boy and a girl playing in the sand. Next to them, were two couples.
Two guys that could easily pass as brothers, each had their arms wrapped around two girls. One of the girls was petite, with brown hair, staring shyly at her husband, while hugging a little boy that looked just like his dad. At their feet were two identical girls playing with two identical boys. They looked to be around the same age. The other woman was tall, but not as tall as her husband and had straight black hair and perfect white teeth. She gazed at her husband with so much love, that it made me longed for something like that.
Then there was a big guy, which I assume was Quil, from other pictures I've seen, carrying a little girl that looked like she was 9. Next to them were 2 boys carrying on their shoulders two blond girls, one with blue eyes and the other with green eyes. Then there was a really tall boy looking and smiling at a red haired girl. He was making her blush and a bronze haired girl was hugging the tallest of all the boys.
They were laughing at each other and then my heart stopped, as I stared at the end of the picture. There was a boy trying to carry a girl, but she wouldn't bulge, her face was covered by her long black locks; suddenly, I had the urge to phase. Without a word, I got out of the house and ran into the forest. I felt like something was pulling me to phase.
When I phased, I started hearing voices in my head…
"Jake, you don't have to be nervous about the wedding. Nessie loves ya! She's your imprint, the only one for you. So man up and go talk to her! She must think that you're getting cold feet!" a voice said. I could see images of the forest he was passing in my mind.
"OK, Quil, I'll talk to her…" the second voice said, cutting him off.
"What the hell?" I shouted in my mind. "Is this some freaky thing that werewolves have? Am I bipolar or something? Well, more like tri-polar, since I'm hearing three fucking voices in my head, great I'm tri-polar! WTF?..." I was cut off by a strong voice.
"Shut up! Who are you? And why can we hear you?" the voice said with authority. I couldn't even think about what he said; I immediately was saying my name…
"I'm Derek Ateara. Who are you?" I asked, a little pissed off. No one told me what to do!
"Wait! Derek Ateara? As in my cousin, Derek Ateara, from California?" said the first voice I heard earlier.
"What the hell? How do you know who I am? Who are you?" I asked suspiciously.
"I'm Quil, Quil Ateara. I'm you cousin from La Push. Oh, my God, man! When did you phase? I didn't know you did?! And why can we hear him Jake, isn't he supposed to enter Jared's pack first?" Quil asked excitedly.
"Well, I guess it's because he is your cousin or something. I really have no idea…" Jake, I suppose, said in a confused tone.
"Wait, are you telling me that I'm not the only werewolf around here and that my cousin is a werewolf too and I can talk to him from the other side of the state with my mind?" I asked in disbelieve
"Well, just when we are in wolf form" Quil answered in a cherry tone.
God, I'm most be dreaming. Yeah, that's it! I'm dreaming! This is all just a silly dream and I'm gonna wake up in a minute or two.
"You're not dreaming kid. I'm Jacob Black, alpha of this pack and I guess you're now in this pack, too"
Kid? Who is he calling a kid? I'm probably older than him!
"Chill out man. Everything is OK. Now, tell us, how long have you been a werewolf, a month?" Quil asked calmly.
"Ten years" I said shortly.
"What? How come we never heard you before? How could we've lived without knowing for so long?"
And that's when I told them everything that had happened in my life, since that awful day of the party until today. We talked every day in our wolf forms. They were keeping me a secret. After two weeks, I knew everything about their lives; imprinting, the Cullens, Nessie, Claire, Embry, the other pack, and a girl named Leah, but they didn't talk much about her.
I thought that the imprinting thing was bull and I was grateful that I was very far away from WA. Quil and Jacob almost killed me with their thoughts, just by thinking about them. I mean, it's cute stuff, love at first site and all that shit, but come on! I want to have my own decision about who would I love for an eternity. No one needs to tell me what to do, and if I imprinted, which was very unlikely, I would continue on with my life.
On the third week, I felt like I knew them as if they were my own brothers. I felt like I belonged. That's when I decided that I wanted to leave I wanted to be officially in Jake's pack. I wanted to meet the half-vamp/half-human girl, the "friendly vegetarian" vamps and everyone!
Jake talked with a guy named Edward and told him about me. He also talked to a guy named Carlisle and he said that I could stay with them. Quil didn't have space in his house, since he already lived with Embry. But I really didn't want to wear out my welcoming. I could easily buy my own house. Hell, I could buy a whole building if I wanted. But they told me that we should stay together, and I accepted it. I bought a plane ticket, first class, of course, with my 6 feet 4 inches stature; economy seats were a problem. I also told my grandparents that I was leaving.
Today was the day I would be leaving. I had sent all my personal things the previous day, to WA, even my beautiful Lamborghini. A girl named Alice was doing all the necessary arrangements. From what I have heard, the Cullens were good people. They lived in the mansion, which I would be staying in. Edward and Bella Cullen lived in a cottage nearby the mansion, the same with that Leah girl and Quil and Embry lived together in La Push and had an auto repair shop. I was going to help them out when I got to La Push. Seth (Leah's little brother) was living in his college housing, just like his imprint. Jake and Renesmee were going to be living in a cottage that a woman named Esme was building. The cottage was going to be completed before Jake and Renesmee came back from their honeymoon.
My grandparents weren't that happy about my decision, but they knew that I wanted this. That's why they supported me. Grandpa didn't say much, but grandma, well, she was grandma! She didn't want her "little boy" to leave the "nest" as she called it. I mean, I was a 29 year old werewolf! I think I had enough of the "nest".
I promised that I would called them at least 3 times a week and that I was going to send them pictures every month, of my "foreign family" as they called them and of me.
Quil and Jacob were the only ones of the pack that knew I was coming today. The vamps also knew and they were OK with it. I was nervous, what if they didn't like me? I couldn't come back to LA. Well, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
I stuffed my laptop, credit cards, cash, passport, plane ticket and the ticket stub to get my Lamborghini back for when I arrive to Seattle Tacoma International Airport, inside my backpack. I decided to go to Forks by myself. I really didn't want to impose on anyone. I waited for the taxi that would take me to LA Int. Airport. I kissed and hugged my grandparents, saying my last goodbyes, before I got inside the taxi.
When I got to the airport, I checked in and got in the plane. Wow, these first class seats were really comfy! I relaxed in my seat, but couldn't fight the feeling of longing and nervousness… Nervous? I never got nervous! I ruled the land of self-confidence! I pushed the thought out of my mind. I still had 2 and a half hour, until I got to Seattle and an hour and a half ride to Forks. I let myself relax and give in to a deep slumber… This was going to be an interesting experience.
So this is Derek! I hope you liked him; this was most of all a filler of his life before he meets a certain werewolf…
Tell me what you thought of Derek, did you like him? What would you like to see on the next chapter?
Do you think he should meet Leah next chapter or do you want him to wait till chapter 4?
-Laura
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