For those of you guys that don't know or didn't notice, I posted two chapters at once, so make sure you read the one before this. Thank you. I do not own Teen Wolf or any of its characters.

Stiles was able to convince Derek that they should move all of their stuff into his house since they all live there anyway. He was waiting for sunset to come while he was sitting in his jeep at the parking lot next to the lake. Stiles really did not want to risk a run-in with Silver Bullet before the hunt reached its daily time-out. Eventually, with it being Stiles, he got bored and decided to walk around the jeep for a little bit before he jumped back in. As he closed the car door, Stiles saw Derek walk up to him still fully wolfed out.

Stiles loved to see Derek fully wolfed out. He was just a little bigger than a King Shepard with a full beautiful black coat that shone wonderfully against the sun. Derek, as a human and a wolf, walks with a certain grace that can never be truly mimicked. His strides are full confidence and yet he never seems conceited. Somehow he just exudes certainty.

Derek walked up to Chlodulf, keeping his red eyes in contact with Stiles honey ones, while slowly changing out of his wolf form back into his very naked human form.

Stiles tried very hard to keep in strict eye contact with Derek and not look below the neck, no matter how bad he wanted to. It was a very trying task, but luckily for him Derek made it easier when Stiles caught the smirk that quickly flashed his face when he noticed Stiles' eyes twitching to look lower. There was no way he was giving him the satisfaction of a win.

Derek stopped less than a foot away from Chlodulf, where the two had a small staring contest to see who would call uncle first. It seemed like Stiles would lose, but then Derek asked, "Do you have my clothes?"

Stiles smiled at the small victory before he directed Derek to the back seat. Stiles may be the weaker of the two in nearly every way possible, but no one can deny that California can be cold at night, especially when you are bare-ass naked.

As Derek was getting dressed in the back, Stiles hopped back into the car and started driving towards the Hale house. In order to get to the road for the Hale house, Stiles has to drive off the preserve, onto the main road, and then take a fenced-off road that only Derek has the key to.

On the way to the main road, it seemed as if Stiles brain to mouth filter was broken again when he asked, "Why did you offer them the bite?"

"What?" Unsurprisingly, the question surprised Derek.

Keeping his eyes on the road, Stiles clarified, "Erica, Boyd, and Isaac, why did you give them the bite?"

Derek sighed in forbearance, trying to figure out the right answer, the right way, to answer his question. When he finished getting dressed, Derek crawled up to the front passenger seat and stared out the side window.

"Erica was going to commit suicide when I first met her."

After hearing that, Stiles served hard in shock before he snapped back to the present and corrected himself. Obviously that was not the best way to start.

"She just had another bad seizure a few days before, and unfortunately this was at the gas station down the road from her house. Some snot-nosed brat saw her and decided to record it. She found the video online two days later. It probably wouldn't have been so bad for her if her mom didn't decide not long after that she had enough trying to care for a daughter with severe epilepsy.

"When I met her, she was holding onto a tree that was too close to the edge of the cliff. I called out to her and she slipped. She was about to fall over the edge when I caught her and pulled her away from the edge. I yelled at her asking if she had a death wish. I was surprised when she answered that she did. I got her to tell me why she wanted to do it and I couldn't help but empathize with her. I told her that I could take away her epilepsy, but she would have to leave behind everything she knew. She asked if she could ever see her father again and I told her that the price she would have to pay for her cure would be to never see him again. She still loves her father very much, but she hated her condition more."

Stiles could not believe that the happy Erica he knew was ready to give up her life just seconds before meeting Derek. Looking at her now, he never would have guessed that would be her story.

Shortly afterwards, Stiles took the turn he needed to end up on the main road. He started thinking about the other newer betas and hoped that their story was not the same as Erica's.

"Wait, what about Boyd and Isaac," Stiles asked, "did they want to kill themselves before you offered the bite?"

Derek shook his head before answering, "Erica was the only one, but Boyd was knocking on death's door when I met him. The hunter had spotted Boyd hiking and decided he wanted to make sure that he couldn't find out about the wolf he was hunting, so he shot him. He eventually told me that he just wanted to go for a hike and pick a couple mushrooms for this herbology book his little sister was working on.

"Right before I gave him the bite, I apologized for not holding the hunter's attention long enough for Boyd to just ignorantly walk away. I told him that I would save his life as retribution, but he can't see his family again. He had vaguely whispered something about his sister and how he couldn't leave her alone. I told him that he could see her, but she can never see him again. I know it's not what he actually wanted, but he accepted it for what it was."

Stiles could feel a part of him dying with the end of the story. That explains where Boyd goes when he just disappears. With as close as he is to her, Stiles couldn't help but wonder if Boyd has ever told Erica where he goes when he is not by her side and if she resents Derek for allowing Boyd to see his family.

"Was Isaac hurt too badly when you met him?"

Derek was not surprised by Chlodulf's question. He shook his head no again before telling Isaac's story.

"His dad had another outburst and Isaac was hiding out in the preserve to wait out his father to drink himself blind. Isaac was unlucky enough to walk right into one of the traps that the hunter set up. It was a simple covered pit trap with the added bonus of wolfsbane tipped spikes at the bottom. I grabbed him before he could get hurt, but I quickly let him go when I heard him hiss in pain. I immediately apologized for hurting him when he assured me that it wasn't me. That's when he showed me the bruise on his side. I punched a tree and started to demand that he tell me who did that to him. Instead of looking at me in fear, he seemed amazed and asked if I could teach him how to break a tree just like I did. I didn't even realize I was so angry until I saw the tree was in half. He told me that he wanted to stop living in fear in his own home and knew that he had to get stronger for him to get what he wants. I told him that I could make him strong and that he would never have to see the man that hurt him ever again. Isaac then told me he would do it. His exact words were, 'I have nothing to lose.'"

Stiles contemplated what Derek said. He was glad that the alpha found Isaac when he did.

The duo reached the gate that Derek had to unlock for them to finish the drive to the Hale house. Stiles watched Derek get out of the care, unlock the gate, and get back in while thinking about the last part of the story of how the pack came to be. Stiles had heard from his father what the Sheriff's Department has found out about what went on inside the Lahey house, and none of those things sounded wholesome and safe.

"So those were the only ones you ever offered the bite too?"

Derek sighed before he answered, "There was one before I met Erica. He saw me as a wolf at first and he was downwind from me, so I didn't see him. I turned back into my human form right in front of him, and that was when he made himself known. He demanded to know what I was. I tried to tell him that he was seeing things, but he didn't buy it. He told me that if I didn't give him the bite then he would go to town and tell people about me, so I bite him."

Stiles quickly turned to Derek before looking back at the road and asked, "Why haven't I met him yet?"

Derek dropped his head a little and then said, "I didn't see him again for a couple days after that and I was worried that he would or already did attack someone when he found me and commanded that I tell him why he wasn't a werewolf. The bite didn't take. Usually, when the bite gets rejected, the person dies, but he didn't. I told him that he was probably immune to it and he better thank his stars that he didn't die from it. He didn't like what I had to say, but I haven't seen him since."

Stiles wanted to ask Derek why he gave the other three the bite if it could have killed them, but then he thought about how Erica had wanted to die, Boyd was dying, and how Isaac would have probably been killed soon. Maybe it was best that Derek gave them the bite, despite the risk.

They finally made it to the house and the two went inside to grab the rest of the bags. In the few trips Derek had made to the house before and after sunrise and sunset, he had packed all of the pack's possessions a little at a time. They were going to rent a moving van in a few days to move the few furniture they had to a storage unit until Derek was able to rebuild the house.

Derek had mixed feelings when he saw the last three bags left by the front door. He knew that as soon as he put those bags into the car then they would officially be moved out of his childhood home. The house had seen better years and there were some sad memories tied to the home, but he spent his childhood here and there were a lot of good memories that went to the house as well.

Derek felt Chlodulf's hand on his shoulder before he heard him say, "You know this is only temporary. This is just until the hunter stops going after you guys and you are able to get a contractor to rebuild this place."

Derek didn't say anything, but he nodded his head before picking up the bags and walking with him back to the car.

Derek didn't have a chance to try to deal with his emotions when he smelled something odd in the air. He knew what a lizard and wolf smelled like, but this seemed to be an odd combination of the two mixed with something else.

Derek stopped walking and listened while he tried to place that scent. Stiles walked a couple more steps before he noticed Derek not moving. He was about to say something when Derek turned to him and raised his pointer finger against his mouth in the universal sign of hush.

He honestly tried not to say anything or move, but he was only able to go a few minutes before Stiles' ADD couldn't take it anymore. He was about to ask what was going on when they heard some rustling in the trees above them.

Derek looked up to see if he could spot it. He quickly dropped the bags he was holding and rolled to the side as a giant lizard landed right where he was just seconds before.

Derek turned his head to Chlodulf and told him, "Run, get in the car now."

Stiles was about to protest when the lizard being tried to scratch at Derek's chest with its huge claws.

He turned his head again to Stiles and yelled, "Now!"

Stiles didn't need to be told again, he ran to the jeep, hopped in, and watched as Derek fought the creature from the black lagoon.

Stiles noticed that the monster, a term that he does not use loosely, looked like a giant lizard the size of a grown man with grey skin. It reminded him a lot of a the lizard antagonist from Spider-Man, except Stiles doubted that he was as smart and he was definitely not as buff. The lizard creature was all lean muscle and speed with, what seemed to be, blind instinct.

Derek had been dodging left and right as the lizard creature was trying to get one scratch in. It looked like Derek was going to tire him out soon when he felt gravel break away from where he placed his foot. He turned around to see that he was lead to the edge of the cliff that wrapped around the lake. What a rookie mistake.

Derek suddenly felt a prick at the back of his neck. He would have smacked the bug that he thought bit him, but he couldn't raise his arm. Turning his back on the fight: another mistake. Derek felt himself sway a little before he fell forward down the edge of the cliff into the lake. As Derek was falling he saw Stiles dive over the edge and aim himself to Derek.

Derek landed into the water and Chlodulf splashed next to him. Derek tried to hold his breath, but he didn't think he could last. That was when he felt arms wrap around him and get pushed up to the top of the water.

Stiles and Derek coughed after they broke through and were able to breathe air again. Stiles held on tightly to Derek as he waded the water.

"I thought I told you to wait in the car," Derek growled to Chlodulf.

Stiles answered back, "I did, but then you guys moved from my line of sight and I started to follow you two since you were so focused on each other. It was a good thing too, or else I wouldn't have seen you fall. How paralyzed are you?"

Derek tried to move everything he could, but it all felt a little numb.

"Nothing from the neck down."

"Damn."

The two stayed in the center of the lake, waiting for the lizard to show itself or for Derek to no longer be paralyzed.

I honestly feel really bad that it took me as long as it did for me to post another chapter up. On the bright side, I was able to put up two instead of one. I know that in cannon, that was not how Derek gave them the bite, but I figured that since I already changed so much, why not just do it all AU-ish. Tell me what you thought about these chapters in a PM, or just send in a review.