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With the couple gone, Derek and I made our way into the lounge room, the sight that greeted us was Tori and Chace in deep conversation with one another, we didn't stick around and interrupt them but I made sure to catch Toris eye and mouthing 'Girl Talk' behind Chace - it seemed Tori had a new interest.
In the backyard there was a few of them enjoying the nice weather- Paul was sitting under the trees while Simon and Olivia were practicing magic. I looked to Derek wondering where we were going to next when I caught him watching Olivia's every move - a foul taste filled my mouth, a sign of jealously that i had never really had for anyone else and it scared me to think he could easily pick Olivia over myself. Derek looked down at me suddenly, searching my face before leaning down to plant a kiss on my cheek. H moved to my ear and whispered, "I'm your knight and werewolf." Derek kissed me again and I smiled at the geeky words but took pleasure in the words any how.
We took a seat beside Paul, Derek sitting me on his lap as he got into a conversation while Olivia and Simon made their way in our direction as well- the conversation turned to life. Paul had a two brothers- a younger one and another above him, neither of them happen to have powers and the younger one only knew of Paul's abilities as he hadn't told the rest of his family and didn't know if he was ever going to. "What about you Olivia?" Paul quickly changed the topic about him, not wanting to get into anymore detail about his life.
"I dont know much about my mother, but my father is very involved." She seemed to be deciding whether or not to continued- I didn't blame her, we all have our twisted stories. "Andrew is my father." I didn't know what to say to that, I doubted anyone else did as the circle of us had fallen quiet.
Simon was the first to speak up, his expression seemed first and I could understand that with the relationship Derek and Simon had wit him. "Derek and I have known Andrew for years. He never said anything about having kids or a daughter."
"Andrew didn't find out about me until he was working for the Edison Group. They told about me and they wanted to bring me in, Andrew didn't like the idea of The Edison Group experimenting on children, so he left." I could tell it was default for her to say as her eyes stayed cast at the grass near her feet. "He didn't want people knowing he had a daughter for safety cautions. He made sure that after he left The Edison Group to clear my file, so no one would know I ever existed." I couldn't imagine having the disconnected relationship with my dad, he was one of the most important things to me.
"Are Vampire's real?" Everyone gave me their equal of a stupid expression- Paul was the one to actually answer me.
"Vampires are real, most mythical animals are. I thought you already knew, I mean your dating a werewolf, didn't you think about other supernatural being been true."
"I haven't thought about it lately." With been on the move and watching my back every corner. "I'm new to the whole Supernatural World."
"I guess I'm going to have to give you lessons."
"That would be awesome." I got up giving Paul a thankful hug only to hear the low gorwling behind me. Rolling my eyes I turned my attention to Derek as he threw a killa look at Paul. "Come on Derek, lets get some food." The end result in the kitchen ended me having two sandwiches while Derek at a plate of five in total.
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I had a few hours to spare with Derek in the shower and dinner a couple of hours away, I made my way up the stairs to Simons room- he sat on his bed with a pencil in hand. Knocking on the open door, Simon lifted his head smiling at me. "Hey, what you doing?" W At his greeting, I sat down next to him.
"Just wondering around thought I would stop by and have a chat. How is your comic book going?" Simon moved closer to me and put the book between us.
"Good so far, I've draw characters of Olivia, Paul, Dylan, Tiffany and Chace." He pointed to each one while saying it, the detail in each of them showed their personality and powers.
"What's Chace doing?" In the drawing, he was kneeing over a body and light was coming from his hand.
"Chace is a Shaman, which means he can heal people. That's what his doing there, healing someone." God I learn a new things about the Supernatural world all the time- it was mind spinning the secrets this world held.
"Does that bright light actually happen?"
"No, I added the light so people would get what's happening." I traced my fingers over the drawing, it seemed so realist- he could became a true artist, publisher.
"Why don't we look at the whole book? I haven't seen it since we were in one of the old abandon building." Simon closed the book and started at the beginning - we stopped on a picture that Simon draw of him and myself together, in that time we had a relationship. It seemed a life time away since there was an us and we needed to talk about it though the ideaa of fighting with Simon had stopped me from speaking out.
At the same time we both went to speak making a matching smie grace our lips, I nodded for him to go ahead though he seemed unreasure where to start. "You know Chloe, I'm happy for you and Derek. It's good that his finally found a girl and one that doesn't back down when he gets angry. Dad gave me the whole mate talk about Derek and I'm glad it's you, I would hate it to be someone like Tori. But I don't think I could really see anyone with Derek except you." He stared in front of us like he was trying to get his words right. "I realised the love for you is a little sister."
"I feel the same." Relief flowed off me, it was nothing like the outcome could have been. " Thanks for being understanding about Derek and I." Standing up, I gave him a hug as the tension I had prepared for slipped from my shoulder. It was peaceful between us for a matter of minutes until we heard someone clear their throat- Derek leaned in the doorway with an amused expression.
"I love that you two have sorted your problems out but I'm not sure about this whole hugging thing." I knew Derek was joking but I moved away from Simon anyway giving him a smile- I had learnt that no matter the male younger or old, Derek didn't have the best of patience with them.
"See ya Simon." I walked over to Derek as Simon picked up his pencil again taking a seat back on the bed. I grabbed Derek' hand, pulling him into the hallway only to turn around and see that sour look on his face. "What?"
"You smell like him." The line between his eyebrows was making it hard not to smile. With the smile still trying to creep onto my face, I pulled him into a kiss that made me savour the taste of him on my lips. "You still smell of him."
This time, I didn't stop the smile coming to my lips as I stood on my tippy toes. "Well Derek Souza, I think you better claim what's yours."
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Derek and I were nestled in the bean bags in the library, I sat with my legs on either side of him while his hands rubbed smoothing circled on my thighs. I felt at peace and utterly comfortable in the situation with the two of us together in such close approximately. I leaned down for another kiss when Paul walked into the room talking, he stopped mid sentence at the sight before him. I could feel multiple things like Derek tensing underneath me and Paul eyeing me and i came very aware that my top buttons had come undone showing the tops of breasts in the bra and the skirt that was high enough for Paul to see the edges of my ass cheeks. A growl sounded beneath me, the protective wolf coming out and I was half surprised he had hid me behind him- the other half wished that he had.
Without much warning Derek went to stand up before thinking better and pulling my body out of view against his own with another louder growl giving off a warning. Deciding now would be a fantastic time for Paul to leave, I found my voice clearing my throat to get their attention. "Paul, I think it's time you leave." I spoke calmly but made sure it held my weakness for him to think there was an opinion.
Paul moved his eyes from my body and to my face. "Umm...Andrew sent me to... tell you that dinner is ready..." He stood there a few seconds later, his eyes moving from my face once again.
"We'll be there soon." I tried giving Paul a hint, I could feel the muscles in Derek getting ready for a fight. "Paul, it's time to leave now."
"We could always share." He directed the question at Derek as if my opinion didn't matter.
"Paul-l-l, you-u-u should go." The stuttering came back as his words took me by surprise. The vicious growl that ripped through Derek stopped the both of us, I knew he wouldn't hurt me but Paul could end up on either side and he knew that from the expression on his face.
"Yeah, I'm going. Don't forget dinner." Paul quickly removed himself from the room while Derek continued to vibrate with growls. Gently I pushed Derek into the bean bags and ran my hands through his hair until the growls quieted. Derek pulled me against him, kissing my hair and neck as we sat there holding each other.
I continued to run my fingers through his hair as my thoughts shifted to the fast pass of our relationship. I didn't want to go slow, there was the chance that we could miss something as our lived were on edge of danger all the time with the Edison Group. Simply been in the presence of Derek helped forget the trouble that were held to our necks- he was a feeling of home. I pulled back to get a clear view of this man, his eyes held so much passion and yet I could sense something else in his eyes. "What's wrong?" Instead of answering, he turned his head away from me.
"It's nothing, let's go have dinner." Derek shifted me to the side of the bean bag and stood up- There was no way in hell I was letting him get away without answering me, call me stubborn. I leaned back on my elbows as Derek walked out the door to the hallway, like myself he was trying my make a point. I knew that any minute now he'll walk through the doorway again- 5...4...3...2...1...0. A second later he was leaning against the doorway with his arms crossed. Hormones, they came in handy with such things as the wolf craved to be close to its mate.
We both stood our ground, Derek's shoulder were tense and straight while his face showed my emotion but his eyes said otherwise- in due time. I was the complete opposite with my arms crossed and a smile came my lips, the knew the outcome but if there was one thing I had learnt about Derek, he didn't like going down easy.
Dinner was probably getting cold and my stomach was getting that empty feeling and i knew Derek had to be in the same state. I looked at Derek and raised an eyebrow, silently asking him to give it up. Derek's shoulders relaxed and he walked over to me, I didn't know whether it was his head or stomach one out as he was stood in front of me with his hands on my hips. "Did you really think I wouldn't get the answer?" He moved his head from side to side but didn't reply with words. "Why are you worried Derek?" Looking into his green eyes, I realized he wasn't just worried but something else.
He mumbled the answer."I'm not good enough for you. That you'll find someone like Paul and leave me. I'm not the best choice - I'm a monster." It surprised me as I didn't expect someone like Derek to think such thoughts and angered me that he would think so slow of himself.
"Derek, you're not a monster. If you're a monster than so am I." Derek went to argue with me which I knew would happen.
"Chloe, you're the most beautiful thing in the world, that isn't possible."
"And the same goes for you Derek. If you call yourself a monster again, you'll have to go a without us been together." I knew i probably couldn't keep my side of the deal if it came to it.
"Neither of us are monsters." He leaned down to my level, leaving me no room. "Now you can't leave." He sealed it with a kiss.
"I'm not going anywhere, I'm all yours." I gave him a kiss back. "You know the whole mate thing goes both ways."
Derek gave me another kiss that made my toes curl over before pulling away and whispering against my lips."I love you, Chloe." And kissed me again, until I couldn't breathe.
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We finally got away from the library and into the kitchen, Andrew was sitting at the dining table reading a book and the rest of the group was watching TV in the lounge. We grabbed our cold dinner and stuck it into the microwave, Derek leaned against kitchen door way while I stood waiting. "What made you kids miss dinner?" I hate it when he called us kids, I know were not eighteen years old yet but what we have done is more than most people our age.
"Just needed to sorted something out, nothing bad." I looked over at Derek to make sure I didn't say too much, I for one didnt like sharing my personal life with others. Not to mention he didn't trust Andrew hundred percent- Derek's line of trust went to Simon and me, maybe Tori. I didnt get an answer or a simple glance from Derek as he staring at Andrew.
"From what I heard, it was more than a fight. More like alone time?" Paul- I didn't know how to reply and Derek didn't bother helping. I didn't get a chance to speak as Andrew was already taking action. "Derek can you come talk with me in my office?" It didn't sound like a question as Andrew got up from the kitchen table and walked to his Office. I turned to Derek and raised my eyebrow wondering if he had an idea. Derek only shrugged his shoulders and followed Andrew to his office. I started to follow of course - Derek and I are a package deal, you ask for one and you get two but once we got to Andrews door, he let Derek in but not me.
"Andrew please?" He shock his head and started to close the door - I looked to Derek for help but all he did was shrug once again... Stupid Werewolf. The door closed in my face, hitting the tip of it and it was only successful in making more frustrated. "Ouch! Stupid Bloody Andrew! Stupid Werewolf!" I kicked the door with my foot which put me in more pain. "Stupid Door!" I gave up before injuring myself more and walked to the lounge where everyone was stilled seated.
Simon was talking to Paul and Olivia while Tori sat so close to Chace that you would think something was going on. Tiffany and Dylan were sitting in the love seat, watching the movie. I sat down on the floor between Tori and Dylan as the safest choice. Dylan looked over at me with a worried expression - God people need to stop giving me that look. Guess he heard what happen at Andrew's office, stupid Werewolves and their hearing. Wait that gives me an idea... "Hey Dylan, could you do something for me?" He looked hesitant and Tiffany was the one to answer.
"Sure, Dylan will do anything for you. Just ask." Dylan looked over at Tiffany giving her a look that clearly said the opposite.
I asked anyway, ignoring his expression once again."I would like you to ears drop on what Andrew and Derek are saying."
Dylan nodded his head slowly. "Sorry, I can't hear that far away." Liar.
"I know you can hear everything in this whole house because Derek can. Please Dylan."
"OK, hang on and let me figure out what their talking about." Dylan sat there with his head to the side, making him appear like a real wolf. I watched Dylan's face, waiting for a reply only to see Dylan's tan skin slowly started to turned whiter and whiter, then he started blushing - What the hell was going on?
"Dylan? What are they talking about?" Dylan looked down at me and blushed even harder.
"Don't think I should repeat anything, Derek will tell you." Before I could reply or beg for more detail, Dylan walked out the house and said he was going for a run. Tiffany and I gave shared a look - Nice to know I'm not the only confused person. With little opinion left to do in the house, I sat and watched the rest of the movie with Tiffany.
When it finished the time was around quarter to nine and I still didn't have any dinner, my mind was set on different things. It's being longer than an hour and Derek was still talking to Andrew - I was starting to feel an unfamiliar ache in my chest without his presence so I said goodnight to everyone and made my way to the bedrooms. Once in my room, I didn't bother showering and got into bed in my underwear, wrapping the blanket around me for comfort. 0Hoping that sleep would come soon, the tears came before the sleep.
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PUBLISHED: 06/10/2010
REVISED: 19/05/2013