A Broken Full Moon

Ch.5 A Hero Can Save Us Pt.2/2

(Hero-Nickelback) 5.0 The Tell

Then:

My birthday was tomorrow and I'd officially be eighteen. Rome decided we should have ice cream, cake, and go somewhere. It's funny how Allison's birthday is today and mine was tomorrow. Although I told no one but Rome, Scott, and Stiles. My thoughts were interrupted by Stiles who came in the Jeep with wide eyes, I raised an eyebrow and he said "well, it's official our lives suck."

Now:

I asked "what do you mean this is not good?" He said "Lydia thinks it's a mountain lion. She recorded it and it was the alpha." I asked "did she see it?" This couldn't be happening; it was just problems piling up one after another. Stiles placed a hand on my shoulder and said "no, Alex. She's loopy from some drugs she was prescribed. So I sent the video to my phone and deleted it from her's. We're in the clear." I sighed in relief and said "send me the video; I'm going to show Derek." He nodded and sent it to me.

"Where to now?" Stiles asked me. I said "Gloria's then Derek's." He nodded and asked "how are you getting to the conference?" I replied "with mom. Hopefully Scott is back by then." He nodded and I said "so…anything interesting happen with Lydia?" He looked at me and said "nope, nothing at all."

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After slipping Rome in the back Stiles headed to Derek's. "Where we going mommy?" I answered "you'll see pumpkin." Ever since last Halloween when Rome went dressed as a pumpkin I kept it as a nickname. I didn't want Stiles to know Rome thought Derek was his dad. I looked over at Stiles and he was biting his lip and I asked "what Stiles?" He glanced at Rome and answered "it's just…are you sure you want to take Rome?" I sighed and answered "he may not be the nicest person on the planet but I doubt he'd hurt a little boy."

Stiles nodded and pulled up to Hale house. I grabbed Rome and pulled him out with me as I said "thanks for the ride Stiles, I'll see you later." He nodded and Rome said "bye Uncle Stiles." Stiles said "bye Romey, see you later Alex." With a wave he left. I turned to the house which once was beautiful and now had a haunting feeling to it. It had a gothic feeling to it, which I liked.

I timidly knocked but no one answered Rome asked "where are we?" I said "wait a little Rome." He nodded and I opened the door and stepped inside and closed it. I called out "Derek? You home?"

"Someone told me love would all save us,

But how can that be

Look what love gave us"

I didn't receive a response. I started walking around when I hear music coming from a room. I walk towards it and see a sight that stopped my breathing. Derek was shirtless and doing pull ups and push-ups. I stood staring and I felt the blood rush to my face. Why did he have to be so freaking sexy? Sexy? Did I just call Derek sexy? Uh, oh. He had a spiral tattoo on his back, funny how I didn't catch it before.

"Mommy?" Rome's voice brought me out of my trance and I looked away. Derek who heard it paused in his workout and looked at us. I robotically walked forward, feeling myself blushing. I said "I came"- My voice sounded strange so I cleared my throat.

I stepped directly in front of him and said "I came to tell you what Stiles found out about Lydia, Stiles found a video on her phone but erased it so no problem with her, here." I finished with a whisper. I showed him my phone and he watched the video, and handed me back the phone silently. I added "I also came...to…to apologize," he looked at me and said "sorry I didn't hear the last part," he smirked at me and I sighed. I said "I'm sorry for being a major"- I looked at Rome and said "for saying what I said, I should've been grateful but I took my anger out on you." He looked at me and I asked "so we're good?" He nodded and I said "oh, thank you. God that was awkward." He chuckled and said "hey Rome."

Rome squirmed so I gave him to Derek. I watched as they interacted and Rome told Derek to come with us to the park. Derek glanced up at me while I said "Rome, you know we can't. I have that conference thing at school with Scott, but I promise to take you if you want." Rome softly sighed in disappointment and Derek said "listen to your mom Rome, tomorrow"- he broke off as he handed me Rome and backed us up somewhere in his house.

He was hiding us. He said "no matter what you two hear, stay right there, I'll come and get you." We nodded and Derek turned to Rome "you got to be quiet Rome, okay? I'll be back soon." Rome nodded and Derek ruffled his hair and Rome pressed himself closer to me and rested his head in the crook of my neck. Derek turned to me and held my hands and placed them over Rome's ears. He said "when I come, jump on my back and I'll grab Rome." I looked at Derek and nodded and kept my hands pressed against Rome's ears as I hummed a low tune in his ear when I heard someone say "no one home." Derek pressed him closer to us and I felt my heart racing with fear and excitement.

I heard a female voice say "oh, he's here. He's just not feeling particularly hospitable." I gave Derek a look that showed how confused I was. He shook his head. "Maybe he's out burying a bone in the backyard." I rolled my eyes at this and Derek smirked. He placed his head in my neck like Rome and I felt my face heating up. I heard him inhale and wondered for a brief second if I smelled bad. "Really? A dog joke? We go in there and that's the best you got?" I hated how she sounded so full of herself. I felt Derek's arms encircle us. His stubble scratched my neck and I fought back the urge to giggle.

I knew he was doing it so they wouldn't see us. I heard her say "if you wanna provoke him say something like 'too bad your sister bit it before she had her first litter." I felt like punching her, how could someone be so cruel. I felt a growl rumble in his chest as his arms around me tightened. "Too bad she howled like a bitch when we cut her in half!" I felt Derek let go of me and looked up to see him in wolf mode as he ran towards them.

"A world full of killing and blood spilling,

That world never came"

My heart clenched painfully for him. Anger at the woman who I now realized was a hunter. I pressed myself and Rome against the wall when I heard his growls and loud crashes but I continued humming for Rome and crawled a little and peeked through a doorway at the scene.

"Wow, this one grew up in all the right places, I don't know whether to kill it or lick it." I felt anger bubble in me. After everything she said she was flirting! I wanted to run over and just grab Derek while socking her in the face. A voice in my head rang: you're jealous. I'm not jealous, I don't do jealous! Not with anyone or anything, but in the pit of my stomach something was brewing, anger at the woman and at myself for watching like a helpless person. But what could I do when a werewolf was taken down by this woman?

I looked up and connected eyes with Derek. His eyes read my desperate ones, and I read his pain filled one. He shook his head lightly at me and the woman's head turned in my direction, I whipped my head back and started to breath heavily as my heart raced and I crawled away some. "Who's there?" She called out. I stayed silent, and the woman laughed and turned to Derek, "are you hiding someone? Asking for help, huh?"

I gritted my teeth in anger, why couldn't she just leave him alone? I heard her say "well, let me deal with you first. Nine thousand volts. You never good with electricity, were you?" Derek didn't reply. My breathing turned heavy and I hoped the wicked witch hadn't hurt him too bad…"which is why I'm going to let you in on a little secret and well maybe we can help each other out." I held on to Rome and she continued "yes, your sister was severed into pieces and used as bait to try to catch you…" that bitch was taunting him talking about his sister. I saw Rome try to stand but I gripped him in my arms.

"…we didn't kill her." What? She answered my question "you think I'm lying?" Derek countered "w-wouldn't be the first time." What did he mean? His voice was shaking and I wondered if he was in pain. She said "tsk, sweetie. Why don't you listen to my heart and tell me if I am k?" Her heart. I strained my ears to hear her as she whispered "we…didn't…kill…your…sister. You hear that? There are no blips or upticks, just the steady beat of the cold hard truth." I gulped at that. She continued "found bite marks on your sister's body, Derek. What do you think did that? S mountain lion?" I stood up slowly and heard her say "why aren't we helping each other out? Might as well admit at what you've been guessing all along that the alpha killed your sister. And all you have to do is tell us who he is and we'll take care of it for you. Problem solved, everybody goes home happy. Oh, and a bonus I'll let whoever you're protecting leave unharmed." She wanted to kill me?

There was a moment of silence and I held my breath as she said "unless you don't know who he is either." She laughed and said "well guess you just became totally useless. Sorry about the friend you just cost them their life." I backed away as I heard gunshots loud and clear. Suddenly someone stepped in front of me grabbed Rome and hauled me onto their back. Derek was fine. I locked my legs around his waist and my arms on his shoulders.

One of his hands gripped my thigh. He was carrying Rome like a football player carried a football with one hand. He left running out of the house and took us into the forest. After about three minutes he stopped. He gently put Rome down and I tried to get down but he kept his hand on my thigh. "Derek," I said he let me down and I grabbed Rome in a hug. I asked "where are we?" Derek looked around and said "about thirty minutes from your house."

I nodded. I started walking with Rome in my arms but Derek called "Ale," I called back "yeah," while turning. He smirked and said "it's this way." He motioned his head in the other direction. "Oh," I mumbled and followed after him. I heard a yawn and saw Rome wanting to sleep. I smiled and said "everything's okay Rome, go to sleep." He nodded and slowly drifted off. After five minutes of silently falling into step with Derek and Rome sleeping he said "here," I turned to him and he gently grabbed Rome.

"So…" I said. Derek glanced at me and I asked "who was she?" He sighed and shifted Rome and answered "her name's Kate Argent." I asked "Argent? Like Allison and her dad?" He nodded and I asked "what did you mean by 'it wouldn't be the first time'?" He stayed silent and I said "it's not like I'm going to tell someone, Derek. You can trust me."

He contemplated this and answered "back when I was younger I had a relationship with her, it was based off of lies. All she wanted was information on my family; she wanted to kill us because we were werewolves." I asked "is that why you said that at the hospital?" He nodded and said "it was my fault. I was the one who introduced her to the family and told her about them. One day while Laura and I were in school she started the fire. They say they have a code but like I said some people in my family were humans."

I couldn't say anything; I mean what can I say? Sorry? Derek wouldn't want that. I made sure Rome was asleep before saying, "my mom and Rome's parents were best friends. Rome's dad, Victor, had been in the army. So he had miniature breakdowns from his time in it. They were always bad, I was thirteen and Rome was a year old but one day while I was at a friend's house before I babysat Rome, I babysat him every day since he was five month's old. Well, my mom and dad got called by Lily Rome's mom and she told them that he was having another breakdown. Victor ended up killing my parents, Lily and himself."

"He didn't kill Rome, no one knows why. So when I arrived that night to babysit Romeo like every night I found Rome crying in a corner and my parents including Rome's were dead. I didn't know what to do." I sucked in a breath as I tried hard not to cry.

"I just grabbed Rome in my arms and after a few minutes I called the police and they took us to the hospital where Melissa McCall looked after us and Rome was diagnosed with Conversion Disorder or Hysterical Neurosis which is where a person can have symptoms from a psychological disorder or in some cases a post-traumatic stress that can be helped by therapy but since Rome is blind there's not much to help him except give him attention and helping him. Neither of us had large families and no one wanted to take us in so we went to an orphanage. After a few months of being in the orphanage there were few people wanting to adopt me and I wouldn't leave unless they adopted both me and Rome until finally Melissa McCall came and adopted us both. "

"That's my story." I smiled at that. We came up to my driveway and I turned to him, "Everyone has a past Derek, and I know you blame yourself just like I do and think about what if's, but you got to let it go. Because if not it'll eat you alive, I learned from experience." I grabbed Rome and walked into my house to change for the conference thing.

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"Alright mom, let's go!" She ran down the steps and we got in the car. She asked "where's Scott?" I coughed and stared at my hands as she drove. I answered "I think he said he'd meet us there." I glanced at Rome who was listening to the radio. "I'm not going to hear anything bad right Alex?" I sighed and said "no, mom, not really."

She nodded and the ride was silent as I got lost in my thoughts, I had just revealed my whole past to Derek, when I hadn't told anyone but Stiles, and Scott, mom obviously knew already. "Mommy?" I turned to Rome and he said "can I go with Grams?" I said "oh, sure." Mom smiled at him and held his hand. As we walked in we decided that they'd go to Scott's classes first and then we'd meet up and go to my math class which is the only reason I came. I looked around and saw Eli with his parents. I ran up to him and said "hey, Eli! Hi, Mister and Misses Belen." Eli's mom said "oh, hello Alex. Please call us Elvira and Viktor. Mister and Misses makes me feel old. It's nice to see you." I smiled at them and Viktor said "Eli here hasn't stopped talking about you." I blushed as I looked at an embarrassed Eli. I said "well, were really good friends so I guess he would." Elvira smiled and said "we have to go to the conference, Alex but we'll see you afterwards." I nodded with a smile.

I called Scott but got his voicemail instead I left this message: "hey, Scott you better show up soon, mom is pissed as hell. You are going to be in so much trouble, I can't stall her forever, call me back." After playing Angry Birds on my phone for half an hour I silently walked inside the building and went to my math class. Mom had just arrived. She looked pissed, I smiled and grabbed Rome. Mr. Rector greeted us and I sat down with mom as he began, "Alex, I noticed lacks attention. She is pretty disruptive and I constantly have to set her straight." I raised an eyebrow at him, I never caused any problem, as did my mom and she said "all of her other teachers said she doing just fine and there was nothing about her behavior I just don't understand." Mr. Rector said "I don't either." Mom said "well maybe she just"- Mr. Rector cut her off "look I am aware of her…past. Maybe she decided to show out now, or maybe you aren't the indicated person to raise her." My mouth popped open as did my mom's. I mean I hated him but I never thought he hated me so much. My mom stood up and said "we are leaving now!" I followed her out, while Romeo held on to her hand.

"Mom? Don't listen to him, he hates everyone okay, there is no one better to have raised me." She nodded and gave me a hug. We walked outside and mom went to the Argents. Scott and Allison appeared shortly so I walked over and I heard mom say "where exactly have you been?" Scott answered "nowhere mom." I raised my eyebrows. Mom said "nowhere meaning not at school?" Scott answered "kind of." Allison said "it's not his fault. It was my birthday and we were just"- Huntsman interrupted "Allison get in the car."

And that's when screams ranged out. Everyone started shouting and shoving each other trying to get out of the way. I looked around and saw that Rome had gotten away. He was blindly walking. I ran after him when I heard a growl. I whipped around and started after it. I ran into the street without thinking and I heard growling. I grabbed Rome and pushed him behind me just in time to see a mountain lion jump in front of me. Rome yelled out as it growled.

"Now that the world is at ending,

It's love that I'm sending to you"

I pushed Rome behind me as it approached. I screamed as I fell but pushed Rome away and behind me.

"It isn't the love of a hero,

And that's why I fear it won't do"

It jumped but was stopped by a bullet. I looked up and sat that it was Chris Argent. Everyone crowded around me and Rome. As we all stared at the mountain lion.

{AN: Next updates Wednesday}